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Carlsbad honors late World War Alejandro Ruiz with new senior center named in his honor
The City of Carlsbad officially dedicated the new Alejandro Ruiz Senior Center Friday with speeches and a ribbon cutting.
Ruiz received the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor directly from President Harry S. Truman in 1945 during the battle of Okinawa in World War Two. His military service continued through the Korean War, said Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway.
“We’re honored to name our senior center after him as a way of recognizing his personal contributions as well as the contributions of all of our veterans,” Janway said.
Carla Ruiz, his daughter, was the keynote speaker during the dedication ceremony.
Alejandro Ruiz, a Loving native, died in 2009 and was inducted into the Carlsbad Hall of Fame in 2017.
Carlsbad Municipal Schools donated the former Pate Elementary School to the City of Carlsbad. The New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) approved the donation and transfer in 2018.
The City of Carlsbad moved senior citizens operations from the former San Jose Senior Center more than three months ago to the center at 120 Kircher Street.
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Check out this week’s nominees for the Huntsville area football player of the week and vote in the fan poll below.
Coaches and statisticians can submit game reports to preps@al.com on game night to have a player nominated.
Voting is open until Wednesday morning. The winner will be announced on AL.com on Thursday. Remember to hit the “finish survey” button after you make your choice.
Here are the Week 2 candidates:
Caden Burnett, Falkville: Threw for 175 yards and four touchdowns and ran for a TD in a 41-15 win over Danville.
Armond Caldwell, Hazel Green: Ran for 146 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries in a 23-0 win over Grissom.
Ellis Dickman, Decatur: Threw three touchdown passes in a 28-14 win over Austin.
Jalen Fletcher, West Morgan: Ran for 108 yards and four touchdowns on 10 carries and caught six passes for 65 yards in a 49-0 win over Ardmore.
Drake Franklin, Arab: Ran for 209 yards and three touchdowns on 23 carries in a 35-0 win over Brewer.
Jonathan Fountaine, Douglas: Ran for 156 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries, returned a kickoff 85 yards for a score and caught a 28-yard TD pass in a 56-7 win over DAR.
Xavier Gaines, Priceville: Ran for 108 yards and a touchdown on five carries, caught two passes for 107 yards and a score and returned a kickoff 79 yards for a TD in a 54-47 win over Fairview.
Thomas Harmon, Whitesburg Christian: Caught three touchdown passes in a 27-20 win over Victory Christian.
Andy Howard, Albertville: Completed 14 of 21 passes for 317 yards and four touchdowns in a 41-30 win over Boaz.
Alex Mason, East Limestone: Tallied four rushing touchdowns in a 35-32 win over Central-Florence.
Easton Smith, West Limestone: Ran for 203 yards and three touchdowns on seven carries in a 56-20 win over Clements.
Nic Strong, Randolph: Ran for 47 yards and four touchdowns and caught five passes for 148 yards and two TDs in a 46-33 win over Madison Academy.
Nash Thomas, Decatur Heritage: Recorded a touchdown catch, fumble recovery and interception in a 26-16 win over Carbon Hill.
LeShaun Vann, Lee-Huntsville: Ran for 100 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries and threw a TD pass in a 20-13 win over Madison County.
Josh Ward, Sparkman: Completed 16 of 25 passes for 267 yards and three touchdowns and scored a rushing TD in a 42-0 win over Huffman.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.
The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.
Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years, if this six-week test flight goes well. NASA officials caution, however, that the risks are high and the flight could be cut short.
In lieu of astronauts, three test dummies are strapped into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration and radiation, one of the biggest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.
Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor capsule suffered any damage during Saturday's thunderstorm; ground equipment also was unaffected. Five lightning strikes were confirmed, hitting the 600-foot towers surrounding the rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The strikes weren't strong enough to warrant major retesting.
“Clearly, the system worked as designed,” said Jeff Spaulding, NASA's senior test director.
More storms were expected. Although forecasters gave 80 percent odds of acceptable weather Monday morning, conditions were expected to deteriorate during the two-hour launch window.
On the technical side, Spaulding said the team did its best over the past several months to eliminate any lingering fuel leaks. A pair of countdown tests earlier this year prompted repairs to leaking valves and other faulty equipment; engineers won't know if all the fixes are good until just a few hours before the planned liftoff.
After so many years of delays and setbacks, the launch team was thrilled to finally be so close to the inaugural flight of the Artemis moon-exploration program, named after Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology.
“We're within 24 hours of launch right now, which is pretty amazing for where we've been on this journey,” Spaulding told reporters.
The follow-on Artemis flight, as early as 2024, would see four astronauts flying around the moon. A landing could follow in 2025. NASA is targeting the moon's unexplored south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold ice that could be used by future crews.
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Noida is a suburb on the outskirts of India's national capital, New Delhi, and within a matter of seconds, it has witnessed the demolition of 2 skyscrapers, the Supertech twin towers. The towers were reduced to rubble today with help of 3700 kg explosives. | https://www.wionews.com/videos/indias-twin-towers-demolition-plumes-of-dust-envelop-demolition-site-510920 | 2022-08-28T15:54:04Z | https://www.wionews.com/videos/indias-twin-towers-demolition-plumes-of-dust-envelop-demolition-site-510920 | true |
MIAMI — For the USA Basketball World Cup qualifying team, there was no time to celebrate after moving into first place in their group.
A loss wouldn’t doom hopes, but would make the task of qualifying a bit more challenging.
“We know what’s at stake,” U.S. qualifying coach Jim Boylen said after Thursday’s 105-71 over Uruguay in Las Vegas, before he and the team rushed out for a red-eye flight to Miami and then a connection to Colombia. “I think this group will enjoy playing on the road. It’s something that matters to them.”
There are 12 teams left in qualifying from the FIBA Americas Region, split into two six-nation groups. Of those, seven will make the World Cup field -- the top three finishers in each group, and the best fourth-place team.
At 6-1 and sitting alone in Group F, one game ahead of Brazil (5-2) and two games clear of Puerto Rico, Mexico and Uruguay (all 4-3), the Americans are in an ideal position. But Colombia (3-4) has little margin for error, plus has the emotional lift of coming back from 20 points down to win at Mexico on Thursday night -- essentially keeping its hopes alive.
The Americans know they’ll be facing a hostile environment.
“Playing the USA is the biggest situation for every team playing us,” U.S. guard Mac McClung said.
MONDAY’S GAMES
In Group F, Mexico plays at Brazil, Puerto Rico goes to Uruguay and the U.S. plays at Colombia.
In Group E, the other six-nation field in Americas qualifying, the Dominican Republic (5-2) plays at Venezuela (6-1), the Bahamas (2-5) goes to Argentina (5-2) and Canada — at 7-0, the last unbeaten team in the Americas region — plays at Panama (2-5).
It’s basically win-or-else time for the Bahamas and Panama.
NEXT ROUND
The next window of World Cup qualifying games is in November. The U.S. will play home games against Brazil (Nov. 11) and Colombia (Nov. 14) at a yet-to-be-announced site.
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Love for the Supreme One
Whenever the Azhvars thought of the exploits of Lord Narayana during His various avatars, it did not seem to them as if these events had happened a long time ago. It seemed as if they were happening in their time. So great was their love for the Lord, that every time they thought of the dangers the Lord had faced in an avatara of His, they shuddered. They were like a mother in this attitude towards the Lord, said M.A. Venkatakrishnan, in a discourse.
Suppose a small child shakes off its mother’s hand, and runs to the middle of the road, with a car speeding towards it, imagine the mother’s horror. She is afraid she may not be able to save the child. Luckily, the driver of the car applies the brakes in time and no harm comes to the child. But every time the mother thinks of this incident, the fear comes back to her, as if the whole scene is being repeated.
This was how the Azhvars felt when they thought of the hurdles in the Lord’s path. Kulasekhara Azhvar showed his concern for Rama. Periyazhvar had maternal concern for Krishna. Periyazhvar imagined himself to be Yasoda, bathing Krishna, feeding the child, and watching its growing years in delight. Krishna is referred to as the One in the middle — Idaiyan. The Supreme One gave to Himself the task of protecting and in this role He positioned Himself as Vishnu, between Brahma the creator and Siva the destroyer. Parasara Bhatta in his Sri Rangaraja Stava, refers to Vishnu, the middle One, as His first avatara. Although the Lord thus assumed a position of His choice, His Paratva is not hidden, points out Bhatta. Just as Vishnu is the protector, the Supreme One, in His avatara as Krishna, was in the midst of cowherds, who are also protectors. They protect, and nurture cows, which give us nourishing milk.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — From fire departments to governments, from school districts to corporations, from local utilities to grassroots organizers around the world, Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently, directly.
It's also a constant risk-and-reward calculation.
A recent bombshell whistleblower report from Twitter’s former head of security alleges that the social media company has been negligently lax on cybersecurity and privacy protections for its users for years. While worrisome for anyone on Twitter, the revelations could be especially concerning for those who use it to reach constituencies, get news out about emergencies and for political dissidents and activists in the crosshairs of hackers or their own governments.
“We tend to look at these companies as large, well-resourced entities who know what they’re doing — but you realize that a lot of their actions are ad hoc and reactive, driven by crises,” said Prateek Waghre, policy director at the Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights nonprofit in India. "Essentially, they’re often held together by cello tape or chewing gum.”
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the complaints last month with federal U.S. authorities, alleging that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation. Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
Waghre said the allegations in the complaint about India — that Twitter knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its agents on the company payroll where they had “direct unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data” — were particularly worrisome. He also pointed to an incident earlier this month where a former Twitter employee was found guilty of passing along sensitive user data to royal family members in Saudi Arabia in exchange for bribes.
The consequences of privacy and security lapses can range from inconvenience and embarrassment — such as when an Indiana State Police account was hacked and tweeted “poo-poo head" earlier this year — to much worse. In October 2021, a Saudi humanitarian aid worker was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of an anonymous, satirical Twitter account that the kingdom says he ran. It's possible that the case is linked with the men accused of spying on behalf of the kingdom while working at Twitter.
As an advocate for dissidents and others detained in Saudi Arabia, Bethany Al-Haidari has been concerned for years about Twitter’s user privacy safeguards. The new whistleblower allegations make her all the more worried.
“Given what we know about how social media is used around the world, that is incredibly problematic,” said Al-Haidari, who works for The Freedom Initiative, a U.S.-based human rights group. The possibility of hackers or governments exploiting the alleged cybersecurity lapses at Twitter to get users’ identities, private messages or other personal information “is quite disturbing to me,” she said.
Chinese-Australian artist and activist Badiucao, who regularly publishes art that criticizes the Chinese Communist Party, expressed concern about the whistleblower’s allegations, noting that many users provide their phone numbers and emails to Twitter.
“Once that personal information is leaked, it could be used to trace your identity,” he said. Badiucao said he regularly receives death threats and propaganda from what appears to be bot or spam accounts.
But the artist plans to keep using Twitter, saying it's probably the best option Chinese-speaking activists and artists have for a "shelter for free speech.”
Twitter says the whistleblower claims present a “false narrative” about the company and its privacy and data security practices, and that the claims lack context. “Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be,” the company said in a statement.
Despite the heightened concerns sparked by Zatko's claims, none of the groups The Associated Press spoke to this week plan to stop using Twitter. Security experts say while the whistleblower's claims are alarming, there's no reason for individual users to delete their accounts.
High-profile Twitter users and world governments may be at greater risk than average users, experts say. In 2020, for instance, Twitter suffered an embarrassing hack by a teenager who accessed the accounts of then-President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Musk is currently embroiled in a battle with Twitter as he tries to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company.
Yet another security incident raised alarms for Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor who follows Twitter closely. In 2017, a Twitter customer support worker deactivated then-President Donald Trump’s account for a few minutes during their last day on the job. While the account was restored quickly, Grygiel said, the incident showed how vulnerable Twitter was when it comes to governments, heads of state and military branches that use the platform.
“Am I surprised and shocked by the whistleblower’s allegations? I’m not,” said Trav Robertson, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, which uses Twitter to communicate with about 18,700 followers. But he argues that it's especially important for people not to assume that “the constant attacks on our emails, our databases, our Twitter accounts, our Facebooks” are the new normal. "When we become desensitized to it, we fail to be proactive,” he said.
At the City of Denver’s fire department, public information officer JD Chism acknowledges concern over security issues. But the department has to weight that risk against the way Twitter has become integral to communicating emergencies to the public. The department’s Twitter feed hosts real-time updates on fires and consequent road closures and injuries, alongside retweets from other agencies warning of dangers such as flash floods.
For now, the department will keep using Twitter as it always has, Chism said, “It’s good for taking care of people, and that’s what we are here for.”
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Associated Press Writers Krutika Pathi in New Delhi; Jesse Bedayn in Denver; Jennifer Peltz in New York; James Pollard in South Carolina; Zen Soo in Hong Kong; Margaret Stafford in Kansas City; Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia; Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Alabama; Amy Taxin in Orange County, California; Rebecca Santana in New Orleans; Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee; and Michael Goldberg in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this story. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Tape-or-chewing-gum-Twitter-s-lapses-echo-17403315.php | 2022-08-28T16:03:57Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Tape-or-chewing-gum-Twitter-s-lapses-echo-17403315.php | true |
Bilawal Will Not Abandon People During Painful Situation: Asif Zardari
Umer Jamshaid Published August 28, 2022 | 08:20 PM
KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Aug, 2022 ) :Former President of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, Asif Ali Zardari has said that it is a painful situation due to rains and floods.
He himself would have been present with the victims in such a situation if his health had permitted.
President Zardari in a statement said that Chairman PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will not leave the people alone. 'We believe in the Almighty Allah and will succeed in helping people emerge from this difficult situation.
The government will definitely fulfil the responsibility of rehabilitating the rain and flood victims.
President Zardari instructed all PPP ministers and assembly members to stay among the people of their Constituencies. The Benazir Income Support Program should be further expanded and all possible assistance should be given to the poor victims of floods.
He asked the government of Pakistan to help the poor by mobilizing Baitul-Mal. He said that the political paradise is under the feet of the people.
Asif Ali Zardari promised the victims of flood that the PPP will not rest until their rehabilitation. politics can wait as this is the time to serve the people, he added.
Universities- Relief Camps Sindh govt directs to establish flood relief camps in varsities Sindh Universities Minister Ismail Rahu has issued a letter to the Vice Chancellors of 27 universities while directing all the government and private universities of the province to set up flood relief camps to collect funds, clothes, food and required things for rain-fllood-affectees.
Ismail Rahu said that the funds, clothes, food and other goods collected from the universities should be distributed among the affectees, said a communique here on Saturday.
He further advised that if any Faculty member who wants to help the affectees can help them because It is our national duty to stand by our sisters and brothers in this trying time.
Ismail Rahu also advised to establish medical camps on the premises of universities, so that rain and flood affectees can be helped.
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Grandpa stops rape of 5-year-old girl, punches attacker: police
The grandfather thought it was 'weird' when he saw the girl sitting on the alleged perpetrator's lap
Graphic content warning: This story discusses alleged crimes against children.
The grandfather of a five-year-old girl punched his daughter's fiancé after discovering him molesting the child, according to police in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
The grandfather walked past his granddaughter's bedroom on Aug. 24 and saw her sitting on the lap of Aaron Cunagin, 22, which he thought "was weird," though initially thinking nothing more of it, court documents said.
When he noticed the girl's bedroom remained "too quiet," he returned to investigate and discovered Cunagin in the corner of the room between the bed and the crib, exposing himself to the five-year-old girl, who also had her pants down, the documents further explained.
The grandfather then intervened, punching his daughter's fiancé before yelling and calling the Middletown Borough Police Department, who arrived shortly afterward and arrested Cunagin.
GEORGIA COUPLE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY PRODUCING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL
The incident woke up a woman in the apartment, who said that Cunagin told her he had "blacked out" during the incident and was sorry, according to the affidavit.
He at first reportedly told police that his pants had fallen accidentally when he stood up, but later admitted that he pulled them down when he felt "numb" after the girl pulled hers down.
"It was just going through my head if should really do it or not," he said to authorities, according to the affidavit, which also noted that the girl claimed similar incidents occurred five times before, which Cunagin denied.
Cunagin was charged with rape of a child, indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors and indecent exposure, according to an Aug. 25 news release from the police.
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Bid to identify man found dead at Tillicoultry quarry
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A body has been found at a quarry in Clackmannanshire after police were called following concern for a man.
Officers have appealed for help to identify the man, who was found with serious injuries at the quarry near Tillicoultry at 16:20 on Saturday.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
He is described as white, of heavy build and about 50 to 60 years old.
He had blue eyes and a grey stubble beard. He was balding and was wearing blue shorts, a dark grey t-shirt with light grey sleeves and black Adidas trainers with white stripes.
He had no visible tattoos.
Insp Martin Morris said: "We do not believe there are any suspicious circumstances around this death, however we need to be able to identify him.
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(NewsNation) — Dating someone who might be your doppelganger is all fun and games until you realize they might be your relative.
This fact may have to be in the back of the minds of mingling singles, as new research in the Aug. 23 edition of the Cell Reports journal shows a strong correlation between facial similarities and genetic variants.
“Our study provides a rare insight into human likeness by showing that people with extreme look-alike faces share common genotypes, whereas they are discordant at the epigenome and microbiome levels,” senior author Manel Esteller, of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, said in a statement. “Genomics clusters them together, and the rest sets them apart.”
Esteller and his team were able to reach this conclusion by using the work of François Brunelle, a Canadian photographer who has been collecting pictures of look-alikes worldwide since 1999.
Using these pictures, they narrowed the group of 32 look-alike pairs to the closest-looking pair of 16 based on three different facial recognition algorithms. The new group was asked to fill out biometric and lifestyle questionnaires and produce saliva DNA for multi-omics analysis.
According to Esteller, these sets of tests reveal to what extent these biological factors — from our blood to our guts and how they all work together — go into how we look.
“This unique set of samples has allowed us to study how genomics, epigenomics and microbiomics can contribute to human resemblance,” Esteller explained to EurekAlert!
After narrowing the research pool to 16 couples as test subjects, it was determined that they shared similar genotypes overall, even though they do not share the same DNA sequence.
Furthermore, it was concluded that nine out of the 16 pairs whom artificial intelligence determined bore the closest resemblance had 19,277 genetic variations in common that included shared physical behavior and traits, such as height, weight and smoking habits.
As one research study on understanding human genetic variation explains, ”out of every 1,000 base pairs, about one will be different between any two individuals.”
To put this into context, individuals rarely have identical characteristics. The most common variation amongst people occurs once in every 300 bases of DNA, of which we all share the same four instructions, including adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (ACGT).
Because it’s hard to get a hold of “look-alike data,” as the study describes it, the sample size ended up being small, resulting in shortcomings such as skewed results. For example, any results from non-genetic data could relate to an underpowered study.
Furthermore, because the pictures are two-dimensional and in black and white, the study admits that “valuable” information, such as “subtle skin tones, and unique facial features” are lacking. | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/national-world/you-may-share-dna-with-your-look-alike-new-report/ | 2022-08-28T16:30:42Z | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/national-world/you-may-share-dna-with-your-look-alike-new-report/ | true |
'The S in ASM stands for SCREAMER': Fans go wild after Allan Saint-Maximin's 'sublime technique' for volleyed equaliser at the death as Newcastle snatch draw against Wolves
- Newcastle star Allan Saint-Maximin scores stunning volley to earn side point
- Goal came in the 90th minute after a bad clearance from Hwang Hee-chan
- Fans have praised the attacker for the technique he showed with his effort
- The goal was Saint-Maximin's first of the Premier League this season
Football fans have praised Newcastle star Allan Saint-Maximin for his brilliant volley against Wolves in the Premier League fixture.
The Frenchman's strike in the 90th minute of the game at the Molineux Stadium cancelled out Ruben Neves' earlier goal to earn the Magpies a point.
Saint-Maximin volleyed into the right-side of the goal from 25-yards past José Sá after the ball was hooked into the air by Wolves man Hwang Hee-chan.
Allan Saint-Maximin scored a brilliant volley in the 90th minute to equaliser for Newcastle
Saint-Maximin celebrates his goal for Newcastle against Wolves at the Molineux Stadium
The goal saw the game end in a draw which has seen Newcastle climb to seventh in the Premier League table and leave Wolves in the relegation zone in 19th.
Fans were quick to take to social media to celebrate Saint-Maximin's effort, even if they were Newcastle supporters.
Ben Jacobs, @JacobsBen, on Twitter suggested that the 'S' initial in Saint-Maximin's name stands for 'screamer' in relation to his goal, he tweeted: 'The S in ASM stands for SCREAMER'.
Fans have praised Saint-Maximin for his volley against Wolves which levelled the game late on
Another fan on Twitter, @mdeeks76, tweeted: 'What a goal ASM, one of the best goal this season. Mark my words.'
The goal was so good that another fan suggested that one of the 'big clubs' should try to sign him from the Magpies.
@AFCAMDEN, tweeted: 'What a goal ASM. He is a player - surely worth a gamble for one of the big clubs?'
One fan that saw the goal suggested that Saint-Maximin could be worth buying by a 'big club'
Fans have praised Saint-Maximin's goal on social media for the technique he showed
Some fans also were quick to praise the technique he used in order to guide the ball into the goal.
One tweeted: 'ASM the technique is crazy. What a goal.'
Another tweeted: 'What a goal by ASM to earn his team a point. That technique was sublime.'
Fans have pointed out the technique that Saint-Maximin used when volleying the ball
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NEW YORK (AP) — Serena and Venus Williams are getting their Sister Act back together for doubles at the U.S. Open.
The American siblings, who have won two of their 14 women’s doubles Grand Slam titles at Flushing Meadows, were given a wild-card entry by the U.S. Tennis Association on Saturday, making it their first tournament as a team in more than four years.
Serena announced this month that she is preparing to end her playing career and, while she did not explicitly say the U.S. Open would be her final event, she has indicated it will be.
Serena, who turns 41 next month, and Venus, who turned 42 in June, won women’s doubles championships at the U.S. Open in 1999 — the year Serena won her first major singles trophy at age 17 in New York — and 2009.
Their other Grand Slam triumphs in doubles: six at Wimbledon, four at the Australian Open and two at the French Open. The most recent came at the All England Club in 2016.
They’ve also won three doubles gold medals at the Olympics.
That’s all aside from their combined total of 30 major trophies in singles — 23 for Serena, and seven for Venus.
The sisters have not competed anywhere in doubles as a pairing since losing in the third round of the French Open in June 2018.
Since then, each Williams has entered two doubles events with other partners.
For Serena, one was with Caroline Wozniacki in January 2020, and the other with Ons Jabeur this June — that came in Eastbourne, England, in a grass-court tune-up ahead of Wimbledon. That marked Serena’s return to competition after nearly a full year away from the tour.
She has gone 1-3 in singles in 2022, including a first-round loss at Wimbledon in June, and said less than three weeks ago that “the countdown has begun” to the close of her time as a professional player so she can focus on having another child and on her business interests.
For Venus, the first doubles event since 2018 was with Harriet Dart in June 2019, and the other was with American teenager Coco Gauff at last year’s French Open. In singles, Venus was off the tour for nearly a year until returning at a tournament in Washington this month.
Other women’s doubles teams receiving wild cards from the USTA on Saturday were Sophie Chang and Angela Kulikov, Robin Montgomery and CoCo Vandeweghe, Katrina Scott and Elizabeth Mandlik, Peyton Stearns and Ashlyn Krueger, Hailey Baptiste and Whitney Osuigwe, and Clervie Ngounoue and Reese Brantmeier.
Men’s doubles wild cards went to Brandon Holt — who qualified in singles on Friday and whose mother, Tracy Austin, won singles titles at the U.S. Open in 1979 and 1981 — and Govind Nanda, NCAA champion Ben Shelton and Chris Eubanks, Nicholas Monroe and Keegan Smith, Max Schnur and Hunter Reese, Alex Michelsen and Sebastian Gorzny, Robert Galloway and Alex Lawson, and Nicholas Godsick and Ethan Quinn.
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The first group on Bramer’s list: The Aztec football team.
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Though it was not public knowledge at the time, a 17-year-old high school girl had accused five football players of raping her Oct. 16 at an off-campus Halloween house party. A lawsuit filed last week names three of the accused players, including Matt Araiza, an all-American punter who was drafted this year by the Buffalo Bills. He was benched Friday during the Bills’ final preseason game and then released from the team Saturday.
An attorney for Araiza denied the claims made against his client. “I 100% do not believe that Araiza raped this young lady,” Kerry Armstrong said Thursday.
In an interview earlier this month, Tracy told the Union-Tribune that when she came to speak to the university’s football team and coaches, she was unaware of the specific gang-rape allegations.
But “when I was on campus, I was told there was something going on,” she said.
In a lengthy statement provided by a university spokesperson, campus officials said Tracy’s visit was part of SDSU’s response to the allegations and aimed “to provide male sport student-athletes and coaches with education around sexual violence prevention and consent.”
The training sessions were mandatory, according to campus authorities.
“The university was doing what it could to reinforce expectations around conduct without undermining [the San Diego Police Department’s] investigation,” the statement read.
San Diego police were investigating the allegations at the time and had asked the university to stand down on opening its own inquiry. Police have since turned over the results of the investigation to the San Diego County district attorney’s office, which said this week it is still reviewing the case for potential criminal charges. The university did not launch its own investigation until earlier this month, deciding instead to heed the police department’s request.
Head football coach Brady Hoke was made aware of the criminal investigation around the same time SDSU’s athletic director and president were notified, according to school officials, who have said that notification happened Oct. 19. But Hoke said he wasn’t aware of the details and specific allegations until a June 3 story in the Los Angeles Times that broke the news of the alleged Halloween party incident.
According to The Times, at least one SDSU student-athlete mentioned Araiza in connection with the alleged rape in a message sent Oct. 26 through an anonymous campus reporting system. University officials did not answer questions about whether Hoke was told Araiza had been mentioned as being linked to the incident.
SDSU officials said they shared the information received through the anonymous reporting system with police, but detectives did not share information about their criminal investigation. “SDPD at that time had not — and has not to this day — confirmed for SDSU the names of any suspects in the criminal case,” the university said.
The civil suit alleges Araiza had sex with the intoxicated teen in a side yard of a College Area residence before bringing her into a bedroom where a group of men took turns raping her.
Football players Zavier Leonard and Nowlin “Pa’a” Ewaliko were also named in the lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court. Leonard, a redshirt freshman, was listed on the team website as the “co-starting left tackle” for the upcoming season, until being removed Saturday. Ewaliko has left the team and the university.
Ewaliko’s lawyer said in a statement that the filing of a civil action does not have any bearing on potential criminal charges and noted that no charges have been filed. An attorney for Leonard told The Times that the criminal investigation was ongoing and that as such, no conclusions about his client should be drawn.
Shortly after the alleged rape, rumors were swirling around the athletic department. According to The Times, one student-athlete sent a message Oct. 26 through an anonymous reporting system: “5 football players raped an unconscious girl at a football party two weeks ago.”
Bramer, the school’s Title IX deputy coordinator for athletics, reviewed the message and asked the anonymous tipster follow-up questions through the reporting system, according to The Times. That student-athlete, as well as another who reported the allegations anonymously, said rumors were spreading quickly among athletes at the university.
“99% of the football players are aware of the 5-person rape so the rest of the student-athletes are left wondering why nothing is being done,” the second student wrote, according to The Times.
The next week, on Nov. 5, Bramer emailed Tracy and her booking agent, copying SDSU Title IX Coordinator Gail Mendez and Danielle Kelly, an assistant athletic director and student-athlete development coordinator. The email offered no reasons for requesting Tracy’s services, but listed a pecking order of the groups Bramer was hoping Tracy would speak with:
- Football team
- Football coaches
- Remaining male student-athletes (basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, soccer)
- Female student-athletes
- Coaches and staff
- Nonstudent-athletes
Tracy told the Union-Tribune that Bramer’s request was not unusual. Tracy and her booking agent worked with Bramer to narrow the scope of her speaking engagement. According to the university statement, Tracy ended up giving two presentations at the school.
She spoke with the football team and its coaches Nov. 28, two days after the 25th ranked Aztecs beat Boise State in the regular season finale and as the team was preparing for its Dec. 4 Mountain West championship game, which it lost to Utah State.
She spoke Nov. 29 with the student-athletes and coaches from the university’s other men’s sports.
“These mandatory sessions were enhanced training sessions offered to reinforce the education and dialogue around the importance of maintaining a healthy and safe environment,” the university said Friday. “This was one of the many ways we looked to be active and proactive in response to the limited information we had, and that was consistent with SDPD’s request to stand down.”
Even though Tracy found out during her two-day visit that something was going on within the athletic department, she said she “didn’t get the impression I was being used for [public relations].”
Hoke told the Union-Tribune in July that Tracy’s presentation was “great.” Said Hoke: “I think the more education we can give, the more we move forward getting guys to understand and [grow] up.”
The coach said education on topics like sexual violence is “talked about from day one to all the way through.”
In its statement, the university said student-athletes begin receiving training as freshmen through a seminar course called “Aztecs Going Pro.” As freshmen, student-athletes receive 150 minutes of training over a three-week course provided by the Center for Community Solutions, a local rape crisis center, “which provides education and training with respect to relationship and sexual violence,” according to the university.
For sophomores, a two-week “ATHLETiquette” program for student-athletes reinforces and builds upon the earlier training, covering “various scenarios surrounding alcohol and other drugs and sexual violence that can exist on college campuses,” according to the university.
A spokesperson said the initial version of the “Aztecs Going Pro” program was launched in 2015. The seminar courses are not mandatory.
For Tracy, it’s not unusual to be brought in after some sort of alleged sexual impropriety has occurred. She said when university officials around the country bring her to their campuses to speak, more often than not — she estimated about 75% to 80% of the time — it’s because of a recent incident in the campus community.
“I wish that schools would be proactive in wanting to establish a culture of safety, transparency and accountability,” Tracy said. “Unfortunately, what usually happens is something happens on campus, and they call — it’s reactive.”
Tracy first shared the story of her gang rape in 2014 with the Oregonian. Late last year at SDSU, she shared those same intimate details of what happened to her in 1998, when she was 24 years old and attacked by four football players, including two who played for Oregon State University.
Tracy says she went to hang out with friends on a summer night, but ended up being gang raped, sodomized and robbed. She told investigators her attackers stood around, watching it happen and cheering the others on.
The two Oregon State football players who were involved were each suspended for one game. The Benton County district attorney’s office, despite having what appeared to be strong evidence and incriminating statements from the four suspects, declined to charge them. At the time, Tracy did not want to cooperate with investigators and prosecutors — she wanted to kill herself, she later told the Oregonian.
Tracy credits the emergency room nurse who conducted her rape-kit exam with changing her life and inspiring her to become a nurse. After going public with her story, she founded the nonprofit Set the Expectation. She now visits college campuses across the country to share her message: “Set the expectation that sexual assault and physical violence are never OK.”
According to Tracy, she shared the same message at SDSU that she always does: That 98% of sexual violence is committed by men; that 10% of men are the ones who commit such acts, leaving the other 90% of men responsible to speak up, especially in a tightknit community like a football team.
“I tell them silence is complicity,” Tracy said. “To the 90%t, I ask, ‘What is your role on this team, in this athletic department?’ It’s holding perpetrators accountable.”
Tracy said she teaches coaches and players that they have a choice: Be part of the solution, or part of the problem. She remembers having a “robust discussion” and “really good conversations” with the Aztec football team and coaches. She said she was “given more time than usual” with the football team, and went over topics including consent and victim blaming.
Tracy said she does not recall anything that occurred during her visit that makes her think differently about those sessions now that the allegations have become public. She acknowledged that it’s likely she spoke with at least some of the players accused in the alleged rape at the Halloween party.
“Being a gang-rape survivor myself, I’m kind of glad I didn’t know [the specific allegations] at the time,” Tracy said, adding she hoped such a sentiment didn’t sound cruel or insensitive to the victim. “Many things are triggering ... had I known that specifically, it would have been difficult for me.”
Even if she had known, “it doesn’t change my message,” Tracy said. And she said she felt Bramer and other athletic department staff “really wanted to help.”
Tracy sent a pair of tweets about her visit on Dec. 2. In one, she shared a photo of herself with nearly 100 football players and coaches, writing: “For almost 2 hours these guys were locked in as I shared my story & we went over topics that included victim blaming & false reports. Thank you for your time & attention San Diego State Football.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Browsing the shelves at your local grocery store or pit stop, the prices of just about everything have steadily ticked upwards since the 1990s. But at least one price has remained exactly the same: a 99-cent can of iced tea.
The prominent 99-cent price label was added to the colorful designs of AriZona’s 23-ounce drink cans in 1997, founder Don Vultaggio said. If the price were adjusted merely to keep up with inflation, it would have almost doubled by now.
On top of inflation, the past two years alone have brought supply chain disruptions, skyrocketing aluminum costs, freight delays, worker shortages and record-breaking expensive gas. So how is it remotely possible the price of the company’s iced tea hasn’t budged, not even by a cent?
Vultaggio says the company sometimes has to tighten its belt, and sometimes it’s had to get creative.
Take rising commodity prices, for example. The cost of aluminum (for cans), corn (for corn syrup) and oil (for freight) are all key for AriZona’s business. Vultaggio tracks them closely, but doesn’t let the week-to-week swings make him nervous.
“When you see things spiking, is it a long-term deal?” Vultaggio said he asks himself. “Is that where it’s gonna stay? Because if things stay there, then you’ve got to make some long-term decisions. But if it’s a spike, which typically these things are, over the years, things spike up and then come back down.”
Vultaggio gets to be steely-eyed about the rising cost of doing business, he noted, because he doesn’t have a board of directors breathing down his neck. “It’s an easier way to make decisions for me, but a lot of corporate America guys … they’re forced to do things that I’m not forced to.”
Instead of raising prices, Vultaggio said AriZona has found ways to cut back. Trucking was a huge cost for the company, Vultaggio said. (“We’re not shipping marshmallows,” he quipped.) Shifting a sizable amount of their transport to rail has helped eased some of those costs.
The company just built a new factory with high-speed equipment that can pump out 1,500 cans per minute. They’ve also made a change to their cans’ lids, using less aluminum and making them lighter. They’ve opened up more plants around the country so the product doesn’t have to be driven as far to stores and gas stations.
“Those are the kinds of things you do behind the scenes that don’t affect the consumer,” he said. “What manufacturers have to understand is what I’ve learned a long time ago: You deal with what you can fix. The things out of your control, we can’t help. But the ones you can control, shame on you if you’re not doing something about it.”
Will AriZona be able to keep the price steady much longer? Vultaggio says things are looking sunnier, not worse, than they were even a few months ago. Aluminum prices are down from their pandemic high prices, and fuel prices nationwide have started to drop in recent weeks.
“I’m not even considering raising the price now because some of the things that were really pressuring us have eased off,” he said.
By keeping the price of a can of iced tea the same, AriZona also gets to brag about how they’ve kept the price the same (and they do on the company’s website). The company doesn’t buy any advertising, so they need customers to take notice, and Vultaggio thinks they do.
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From left, Taylor Lymbery wears Ghostbuster cosplay, while his son, Elijah, wears Michael Myers cosplay during Saturday’s second annual Denton Comic Art Expo.
Taylor Lymbery wore his Ghostbuster cosplay, while his young son, Elijah, wore a Michael Myers cosplay. They walked around The Patterson-Appleton Art Center on Saturday during the second annual Denton Comic Art Expo to see what they could purchase.
“I wanted to support the local comic book artists here and also the local cosplayers,” Lymbery said. “So, for me, this is how I show my support to my community.”
Attendees of the second annual event browsed comics and illustrations and were treated to friendly interactions with the Denton Spider-Man and the Mandalorian. The expo drew illustrators and businesses from across North Texas. Visitors also had the chance to watch the cosplay contest, panel discussions and more. Like last year, attendance was free.
“We’ve seen so much support from all across the community already, and it’s just overwhelming how much Denton just embraces things like this,” said Bryan Kelly, founder and organizer of the expo.
Kelly, who is also a Denton-based artist, said many of the vendors are from the North Texas metroplex, and it’s a good opportunity for them to showcase their respective work.
Derek Villarreal, an employee for More Fun Comics and Games, said this was the second time the Denton-based comic shop had a vendor table. He said last year the shop only bought board games for the expo. This time, they had comics and board games for visitors.
Villarreal said the expo is an opportunity for the Denton community to see “the different artists around and also just the different businesses that have participated.”
Lymbery said he wanted his son to cosplay as a Ghostbuster, but the boy was more interested in cosplaying as Michael Myers since he is a horror fan. They both enjoy finding and shopping for vintage toys.
One of the vendors at the event was Artist Kristin Boyer, who had Japanese-inspired wall hangings and anime prints for sale. Boyer, a University of North Texas graduate student, owns KNB Print, and her artwork is inspired by Japanese culture.
More of her artwork sold at last year’s expo than on any day since, Boyer said.
Kelly said the expo wasn’t possible without Christine Sanders, Ashley Villers, Alexis Walther and Heather Smith, who spent the entire year planning the event.
Kelly said they are on track with last year’s attendance numbers, which nearly had 1,000 visitors.
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Congress will not survive a ‘puppet president‘, warns Prithviraj Chavan
Ex-Maharashtra CM welcomes decision to hold election
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While the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has finally decided to hold the election for the party’s full-time president following senior Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday said that the party would not survive if a “puppet president” was elected.
Mr. Chavan further said that if Congress leader Rahul Gandhi did not wish to become the party president, then alternative arrangements must be made and a new president be elected through elections.
“If Rahul Gandhi has said that neither he, nor anyone from his family will be Congress president, then why he should not be believed? If he does not wish to be president, then another alternative arrangement will have to be made,” he said.
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Mr. Chavan, who is the MLA from Karad South constituency in Satara district, welcomed the CWC’s decision to hold elections.
“Steps are needed to save the party and imposing a puppet president will not help. We need a vibrant democratic party to combat the BJP led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah which is taking the country towards dictatorship,” said the former Maharashtra CM, who is a member of the dissenting ‘G-23’ group of senior partymen who have hit out at the ‘coterie culture’ plaguing the party.
He further said that the party had been suffering successive electoral defeats as the party was not adhering to its internal constitution and demanded holding of elections at every level of the organization in the Congress.
“The Congress has a historic responsibility today to provide an alternative as a credible opposition party. But if we provide unsuccessful, then no one can stop Modi from returning to power,” Mr. Chavan said, while observing that despite the BJP gaining only around 35% votes, it remained triumphant because of the fragmentation of opposition votes.
Mr. Azad, in his letter to party president Sonia Gandhi, had sternly rebuked Rahul Gandhi and held him responsible for destroying the party’s consultative mechanism.
Speaking on Mr. Azad’s ‘shock resignation’, Mr. Chavan called it “extremely unfortunate” and that it had upset him personally.
Mr. Chavan further said that there had no serious introspection despite the party suffering successive Lok Sabha defeats (in 2014 and 2019) and setbacks in several states including Punjab and Goa.
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Noida’s Supertech twin towers turned into rubble
The demolition experts cried soon after the exercise
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At 2:29:50 p.m., Kelvin Martin from Jet Demolition started a countdown for demolishing the Twin towers in Noida. At 2:30 p.m., Hisar-based blaster Chetan Dutta pressed the button and a team of 6 members, at the blasting site built barely 70 metres away from the building, raised their heads to watch the show of disappearance of the Apex (32 storeys) and Ceyane (29 storeys) buildings. In 12 seconds, the illegal structure had disappeared from the land, where they had existed for over 10 years. Many present there burst into tears on seeing the massive exercise that was completed successfully.
This is how the twin towers which were over 100-metres-high—being taller than the Qutub Minar—left 85,000 kg of debris and a thick layer of dust around. The Edifice Engineering officials informed that the boundary wall of neighbouring ATS village towers had got damaged for about 10 metres due to the blast and the window panes of nearby buildings were also found broken, but the same was already accessed and communicated to the authorities concerned.
Read | Noida twin towers demolition: Timeline of key events
Soon after clouds of dust had settled on the ground, a team from Edifice Engineering and South Africa’s Jet Demolitions – the two companies that had carried out the task – along with officials of the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) and the Noida Authority began a structural audit of the adjoining buildings. A clean chit was given to the site later in the evening.
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“We have a 100 crore insurance for post -demolition damage and will put everything back to its own structure,” said Utkarsh Mehta, founder, Edifice Engineering.
The detonation expert and managing director of Jet Demolition, Joe Brinkman said that 9,642 holes were made in the twin towers, that had over 900 flats and shops in the span of 6 months which had helped in bringing the structure down. The firm applied waterfall mechanism in the demolition in which the debris had come down like a waterfall, or a house of playing cards, without damaging the adjacent buildings.
“The Controlled detonation of around 3,700 kg of explosion left the twin towers into rubbles. Also, with this exercise, India also joined the 100 metres club of demolition,” said Mr. Brinkman.
When asked if everything had gone as per plan, and also the reason for crying, Mr. Brinkman said, “It was too much of a pressure that one holds in the work of destruction. They were tears of happiness, success.”
“Vibration-monitoring systems placed”
Both Jet Demolition and Edifice Engineering have placed vibration-monitoring systems at the site along with a black-box which will help them study as to what had happened inside the buildings while they were turning into rubble. IIT-Chennai will also participate in the study.
In its first statement issued since SC’s demolition orders, the Supertech builders today said that the twin towers were conducted as per the building plan approved by Noida development authorities and no deviations were made.
About 5,000 people from the adjoining Emerald Court and ATS Village societies had left their homes, hours before the demolition. Nearly 3,000 vehicles and about 200 pets were also taken out of harm’s way.
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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — From Ralston to La Vista and all across Nebraska, Husker fans were out in full force Saturday celebrating the team's season opener.
“We're passionate, we love Nebraska football, everyone goes it's a huge party and it's so cool!” said Nebraska fan Chad Reelfs.
As the Huskers kicked off the season in Dublin, Ireland. Larry Jacobson cheered his team on from half a world away wearing a ring representing his own playing days from half a century ago.
“It's the national championship ring from 1971,” Jacobson said. “I've had it for 51 years!”
1971 was the same year Sheri Carter said she became a Nebraska football fan after watching a game against Oklahoma.
“Johnny Rodgers flew down the field. I said I've never seen anybody running where you can't see their legs!” She said. “I've been hooked ever since!”
Huskers have won over so many fans throughout the decades, and they say they stick with the team through thick and thin.
"It really takes grit,” said Nebraska fan Hannah Alohaid. “I'm hopeful for this season, I truly am.
While the Husker's first game may have ended in a loss in Dublin, fans aren't giving up already pumped for game two back home in Lincoln.
“I'll be rooting around a TV somewhere,” said Nebraska fan Stephanie LaPuma.
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(The Hill) – Republican worries of a midterm flop are growing heading into the critical post-Labor Day campaign season, with analysts who had previously predicted massive GOP gains shifting their forecasts toward Democrats.
Rick Tyler, a Republican strategist and analyst, said the environment looks “not even close” to a red wave election year.
“The enthusiasm is just not there,” Tyler said. “Last time Republicans had a good year, they were six points ahead in the generic poll. Now we’re barely two points ahead. So it’s definitely not going to happen.”
RealClearPolitics averages of polls measuring whether voters would prefer Republican or Democratic control of Congress show the GOP slipping from a 4.8-point advantage in late April to less than a point as of Friday. At around this point in 2010, when Republicans saw historic gains in Congress, generic polls showed a four- to-six-point advantage for the GOP.
Punctuating the narrowing polls was the result in a special election on Tuesday. New York’s 19th Congressional district — which includes suburban areas and went for former President Trump in 2016 but President Biden in 2020 — is representative of the kind of battleground districts that Republicans are hoping to flip across the country.
But while Republican Marc Molinaro stuck to the party’s points about inflation and the economy, topics that Republicans have repeatedly said are top-of-mind for voters, Democrat Pat Ryan narrowly won the seat after focusing heavily on abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this summer.
Former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) said on Newsmax Thursday that after the special election, “Republicans have to start paying attention.”
“The problem is, where Republicans have to pick up in order to win the Congress is in districts like that,” Santorum said. “If you look at the national polls, if you look at a lot of these races like in my home state of Pennsylvania — if this is a red wave year, the polls are not showing it right now.”
Democrats celebrating the win in New York also point to recent special House elections in Minnesota and Nebraska as evidence of enthusiasm. Candidates there overperformed historical trends in GOP-leaning districts, even though they ultimately lost those races.
And in wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and the controversy surrounding Trump over Jan. 6 and the FBI seizing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Democrats are aiming to emphasize negatives on Republicans rather than make the election a referendum on Biden or Democratic leadership.
“MAGA Republicans hope voters ignore their dangerous extremism, but NY-19 shows us that voters will reject their extreme agenda,” Democratic National Campaign Committee spokesperson Tommy Garcia said in a statement.
Top Republicans have already started tempering expectations of taking back the evenly divided Senate as GOP nominees who were boosted by Trump show signs struggling.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week that the House is more likely to flip control than the Senate, citing “candidate quality.”
Tyler blamed Trump for the shifting dynamic.
“Donald Trump has turned this campaign from a referendum on Joe Biden, inflation, high food prices, high gas prices and affordable housing into a referendum on him,” he said.
Weaknesses for GOP candidates along with results from recent elections have led election analysts at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the Cook Political Report to shift several forecasts for key congressional midterm races toward Democrats. Cook revised its expected GOP gain in the House from 15-30 seats to 10-20 seats, and its Senate outlook from Republicans having an edge to a toss-up.
That marks a stark contrast from nine months ago, when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) predicted that 2022 could be even more of a Republican wave than in 2010, when Republicans won a staggering 63 seats.
Republicans have since warned House members not to measure the drapes early and that the election will be tough, but GOP lawmakers are still largely operating on the assumption that they will win control of the chamber.
A Senate loss and only a small GOP majority in the House would “lead the media to say, ‘You know, this was a split decision,’” Tyler said. “No mandate, no red wave, no rejection of Biden’s policies. That’s a disaster for the Republican Party.”
Other GOP operatives downplay those fears, saying that the New York special election was an outlier case complicated by high Democratic turnout in primaries happening the same day, and noting that there are still months to go before the midterms.
“Anyone who thought retaking the majority was going to be easy needs to buck up,” National Republican Congressional Committee Communications Director Michael McAdams said in a statement. “Majorities are won in November not August and we look forward to prosecuting the case against Democrats’ failed one-party rule.”
Sarah Chamberlain, president and CEO of Republican Main Street Partnership, cautioned against looking at the New York special election as an indication for what may happen in November. Many voters did not even know the election was happening, she said, or were on vacation.
“I would not red flag it yet. We’re going to wait to see and do some more polling, but I think things are fine,” Chamberlain said.
Republicans have beat expectations before. Despite Democrats having more than a six-point edge on the generic ballot in 2020, Republicans gained House seats and squeezed Democrats into the slimmest majority in the lower chamber in a century.
Democrats are also spending millions on defending seats rather than being offensive in their House map, a GOP strategist noted, with the record number of Democratic House members retiring rather than running for reelection this year helping the GOP expand its pickup opportunities.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball, said that weaknesses in GOP Senate and gubernatorial candidates, as well as many Republicans’ position against abortion, has given Democrats the opportunity ”to make the election more of a choice than a referendum.” But he cautioned against fully reevaluating the midterm environment before Labor Day, and that Republicans could still flip both chambers even if they fall below expectations of a “red wave.”
“It is possible that the Democrats’ addition of more college-educated voters, at the expense of losing more non-college voters, has skewed some of these special elections, as the college cohort is a more reliable voting bloc,” Kondik said. “That said, if the GOP had some big enthusiasm edge over the Democrats — and if it was bringing a lot of lapsed GOP voters back into the fold — one would think they’d be doing better than they are.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/red-wave-hits-breaker-gop-midterm-worries-rise/ | 2022-08-28T17:09:08Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/red-wave-hits-breaker-gop-midterm-worries-rise/ | true |
Kyogo Furuhashi and Liel Abada both hit hat-tricks as Celtic thrashed Dundee United 9-0 to heap more pressure on the home team at Tannadice.
Jota, Josip Juranovic and Carl Starfelt were also on target as the cinch Premiership champions recorded their biggest win since defeating Mark McGhee’s Aberdeen by the same score in 2010.
Celtic cut United open time and again to leave Tannadice manager Jack Ross facing major questions with his side now conceding 23 goals in just four matches.
The victory was the biggest away win in Premiership history and put Celtic back on top after their fifth win from five games.
Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou made three changes. Starfelt and Abada were handed their first starts of the season while Reo Hatate was recalled. Giorgos Giakoumakis was absent.
Ross made four changes as he tried to halt a four-match losing streak. Tony Watt and Charlie Mulgrew were among those dropping out as Ross brought in Ross Graham to join a back three with Archie Meekison handed his first start of the season in midfield.
United actually started well and Glenn Middleton had a shot on the turn pushed away by Joe Hart, who beat Steven Fletcher to the rebound at the expense of an accidental boot to the head. Fletcher was belatedly booked by Steven McLean.
Hart was able to continue after lengthy treatment and a change of jersey and shorts, and Celtic soon took the lead in the 15th minute.
Abada sent Jota in behind and Furuhashi had kept himself ahead of the United defence to allow himself time to take a touch and slot home.
Carljohan Eriksson kept his side in the game with saves from Matt O’Riley, Hatate and Abada, and Middleton fired just wide from 20 yards after Scott McMann won the ball deep in the Celtic half.
The flurry of goals started in the 40th minute when Furuhashi swept the ball first time into the top corner from 22 yards after O’Riley robbed McMann.
Celtic went for the kill and scored a brilliant third in stoppage time. A first-time pass from Juranovic, a dummy from Hatate, and a first-time cross from O’Riley opened United up and Abada squared for Furuhashi to tap in. There was a suspicion of offside but it was too close to call.
The visiting fans were singing “piling on the agony, putting on the style”, a song about their 7-1 League Cup final win over Rangers, and it was clear their team were intent on following suit.
Celtic showed the urgency of a side chasing a last-minute equaliser as they searched for a fourth before the break and they duly got it. O’Riley’s touch sent Abada in behind and he crossed for Jota to net from close range. The Portuguese winger was several yards offside but the goal stood.
Half-time brought respite but no shift in momentum. Callum McGregor’s pass to Jota put United on the back foot and O’Riley squared for Abada to knock home in the 50th minute.
Juranovic drilled home five minutes later after O’Riley’s free-kick had hit the wall and, after Fletcher hit the post at the other end, number seven came just before the hour mark. Jota found Hatate’s run and the Japanese midfielder squared for Abada to knock home.
Postecoglou soon brought on four substitutes and there was a temporary lull in proceedings before Abada dinked the ball home after Daizen Maeda had helped on Aaron Mooy’s lofted ball in the 77th minute.
Starfelt headed David Turnbull’s corner in off the post four minutes later and the Celtic fans chanted: “We want 10”.
They came close on several occasions. Turnbull’s header appeared to bounce over the line and spin back, Starfelt had a header cleared off the line, McGregor swept a shot just wide, but United were spared the further embarrassment of conceding double figures. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3637834/celtic-set-premiership-away-record-in-sensational-thrashing-of-dundee-united/ | 2022-08-28T17:14:30Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3637834/celtic-set-premiership-away-record-in-sensational-thrashing-of-dundee-united/ | true |
New Jersey residents express concern over new Ocean Grove beach pier that will be shaped like a religious cross
- The original Ocean Grove beach pier was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy
- Now, it's being rebuilt and the proposed design is shaped liked a cross
- The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association group broke ground on the proposed $1.3 million, 500-foot-long, T-shaped pier on July 30
- The new pier is scheduled to open and be dedicated on December 7
Some Jersey Shore residents are not happy with the design of a new fishing pier that resembles a Christian cross being built on a public beach.
But the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association is defending their design decision, despite the backlash, saying the group makes 'no apology for that we love the fact that it looks like a cross.'
The original fishing pier in the Ocean Grove community, founded on religious beliefs, was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
Now, a new fishing pier - which will be open to the public - is being rebuilt with private funds, and it did not need to go through officials for approval, NJ.com reported.
But some residents who view the proposed $1.3 million, 500-foot-long, t-shaped structure design as 'Christian bullying' when it was unveiled at the groundbreaking last month have asked state and local officials to intervene.
The new pier is scheduled to open on December 7.
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association is defending their design for the pier, despite the backlash, saying they make 'no apology for that we love the fact that it looks like a cross'
Presbyterian Pastor Douglas Grote likened the rebuild and design of the pier to 'Christian bullying.'
'I fear that my faith's lovely cross may soon become as toxic as a Trojan horse for Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, and all of New Jersey,' Grote wrote in a guest column for NJ.com on Aug. 23.
In response to Grote's column, Camp Meeting Association COO Jamie Jackson told News 12 New Jersey: 'We make no apology for that, we love the fact that it looks like a cross.'
'This is a religious town founded as such in Ocean Grove and most people are excited we will be able to have this pier shaped this way for these purposes,' he said.
'We've added the extensions north and south to create opportunities for better life saving, weather stations, lightning detection.'
Ocean Grove is a seaside community just south of Asbury Park and has a population of 3,100. Found in 1869 as a Methodist summer camp, the Camp Meeting Association owns all the land in Ocean Grove, including the beach, boardwalk and the area where the pier will be built, the New York Post reported.
The original fishing pier in the Ocean Grove Camp community, founded on religious beliefs, was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy in 2012
Michael Badger, president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, told The Post, 'Our hope continues to be that people of varying points of view will enjoy the peace of a stroll out over the Atlantic on the new pier.'
Badger told The Post that the proposed design and plan was available online for the past three years and no complaints were ever received during the public comment time period.
'The Christian interpretation of the cross is that it is a symbol of God's love and forgiveness,' he added. 'It is disappointing that anyone would seek to block a sacred symbol on private property from public view regardless of whether you interpret the shape as a pier, a plus sign, or cross.'
Michael Badger, president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, said that the proposed design and plan was available online for the past three years and no complaints were ever received during the public comment time period
The cross design has north and south facing wings, similar to the pier at Coney Island.
Jackson said the design is better for many reasons.
'We've added the extensions north and south to create opportunities for better life saving, weather stations, lightning detection,' Jackson said.
Some residents are upset by the design, while others are just happy to have another structure back after the other one was destroyed by Sandy a decade ago.
'As long as it works well, I don't really care,' Oliver Stebich, of Scarsdale, New York, told News12.
'I'm just happy something's coming back. If it happens to be in the shape of a cross, fine, guess what will be a lot more fishing space, a lot more people will be out there to enjoy the water.'
But longtime Ocean Grove residents Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster thought otherwise: 'Ocean Grove is a diverse community including LGBTQ residents and people of various religious affiliations, who are never asked for input about the OGCMA projects that impact all of us. … The problem is not solely the pier in the shape of the cross, but the total lack of regard for their tenants.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11154431/New-Jersey-residents-express-concern-Ocean-Grove-beach-pier-shaped-like-cross.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T17:20:55Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11154431/New-Jersey-residents-express-concern-Ocean-Grove-beach-pier-shaped-like-cross.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
12 shot in coast-to-coast weekend mayhem; victims in New York, LA
6 shot on NY street, 6 shot at CA bar
Twelve people were shot in two separate shootings over the weekend, one on the east coast and one on the west coast.
Police in New York say six people were shot around 3 a.m. on Sunday in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Albany.
Officers responded to clear a large crowd on Hudson Avenue between Quail and Ontario Streets. Individuals in the crowd were fighting with each other and began to throw glass bottles at officers attempting to break up the fights and clear the street, a news release says.
Officers heard shots being fired over on Hamilton Street near Ontario Street while clearing the group. When they responded to the scene, officers located evidence consistent with gunshots and also discovered the following five victims who sustained gunshot wounds to various parts of the body including ankles, abdomens, shoulders, and backs. The victims' ages ranged from 19 to 29.
All five victims were taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital. The 20-year-old and 29-year-old were last listed in critical condition. The other three victims were last listed in stable condition.
Later on in the morning, a 17-year-old girl who went back home to Schenectady contacted police to inform them that she sustained a gunshot wound to her abdomen while on Hamilton Street in Albany.
She was also taken to Albany Medical Center with what appear to be non-life threatening injuries.
LA MAN ARRESTED IN BEATING DEATH OF TODDLER WHO SUFFERED HEAD, BRAIN INJURIES
One hour later, at 1 a.m. California time, a gunman opened fire into a crowd at a Los Angeles area bar, injuring at least six people. The suspect is in custody, the Los Angeles Police Department told FOX 11 Los Angeles.
"Police said an argument inside the bar resulted in the suspect shooting into the crowd. Other customers were able to detain the suspect until police arrived," the TV station reported.
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Three shooting victims were found inside the bar. They were all taken to the hospital in stable condition. An additional three people who had been shot went to the hospital on their own for treatment, police said.
The victims were four men and two women, all in their 20s.
A handgun was recovered on the scene, authorities said. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/twelve-shot-coast-coast-weekend-mayhem-victims-new-york-la | 2022-08-28T17:28:32Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/twelve-shot-coast-coast-weekend-mayhem-victims-new-york-la | false |
The Astros held Yordan Alvarez out of the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Orioles after he received treatment for his sore left hand, according to manager Dusty Baker.
Alvarez admitted after Saturday night’s game that he has been “battling” hand soreness for the last couple weeks. Right hand inflammation sent him to the injured list from July 10-21. But Baker said Sunday that Alvarez’s current problem is with his left hand, an injury which the manager intimated occurred from Alvarez favoring his previously hurt right hand.
Asked to clarify whether Alvarez’s right hand has improved, Baker said, “You keep asking this question. I keep telling you that when you hurt something, baseball is a daily game. You really don't have time to heal 100 percent until the wintertime.”
Baker said the Astros have not discussed putting Alvarez on the injured list. The Astros are off Monday, and Baker said he hoped to have Alvarez available on Tuesday to play the Rangers in Arlington.
Odds and ends
- Utility man Aledmys Díaz, on the IL with a groin injury since Aug. 17, said he “pushed a little more” while running on the field pregame Sunday and had no other updates about his status.
- Outfielder Chas McCormick’s right pinky finger is still swollen after he dislocated it on Wednesday, and Baker said he is unsure if McCormick will be available to play the Rangers on Tuesday.
- Closer Ryan Pressly, on the IL with neck spasms since Aug. 22, played catch on the field on Sunday. He is not eligible to return until Sept. 6. | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/astros/article/Astros-Yordan-Alvarez-out-of-lineup-Orioles-17403437.php | 2022-08-28T17:32:29Z | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/astros/article/Astros-Yordan-Alvarez-out-of-lineup-Orioles-17403437.php | true |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WGHP) — The University of South Carolina Gamecocks are renaming their longtime live mascot.
The live rooster, affectionately known as Sir Big Spur, is being forced to change its name due to a dispute between the bird’s former and current owners.
In summary, the dispute boils down to the old owners being upset with how the new owners are presenting the rooster. As explained in detail by The Post and Courier, the old owners used to trim the rooster’s comb — or the red protuberance on the top of its head — to make it look more like a bird bred for fighting (aka, a “gamecock”). The new owners say trimming the comb is unnecessary, and may have consequences for the rooster’s health.
The old owners, however, retain the rights to the name “Sir Big Spur” and now refuse to renew their contract, claiming that a rooster with an intact comb is not representative of a “gamecock.”
As a result, the rooster’s name will need to be changed. In the meantime, the official Twitter handle for the “live mascot of the University of South Carolina” has been changed simply to “uofscmascot.” There, fans can also find plenty of recent pictures of the mascot with its comb intact.
The State, a South Carolina newspaper, has since suggested several new names for the mascot, including “Cluck Norris,” “Brooster” and “Cock-a-doodle-dude,” among others.
It’s unclear if the university has weighed in on the suggestions. | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/university-of-south-carolina-changing-mascots-name-over-rooster-dispute/ | 2022-08-28T17:55:47Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/university-of-south-carolina-changing-mascots-name-over-rooster-dispute/ | true |
SNAP, EBT outages reported across the country
Published: Aug. 28, 2022 at 1:51 PM EDT|Updated: moments ago
(Gray News) - An outage affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has been reported across the country, according to Down Detector.
The program, known as SNAP, provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of low-income families so they can purchase healthy food. Electronic Benefits Transfer, known as EBT, is an electronic system similar to a debit card that allows a SNAP participant to pay for food using SNAP benefits.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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U.S. sails warships through Taiwan Strait in first since Pelosi visit
The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.
The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, the U.S. 7th Fleet said. The cruisers "transited through a corridor in the Strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal State," the statement said.
China conducted many military exercises in the strait as it sought to punish Taiwan after Pelosi visited the self-ruled island against Beijing's threats.
China has sent many warships sailing in the Taiwan Strait and waters surrounding Taiwan since Pelosi's visit, as well as sending warplanes and firing long-range missiles. It views the island as part of its national territory and opposes any visits by foreign governments as recognizing Taiwan as its own state.
China said it tracked the movement of the ships. "Troops of the (Eastern) Theater Command are on high alert and ready to foil any provocation at any time," said senior Col. Shi Yi, spokesperson for the People Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, speaking on CNN on Sunday, said the transit sent a "very clear message, very consistent message ... that the United States Navy, the United States military will sail, fly and operate wherever international law permits us to do so."
Kirby also noted the transit was "very consistent with our `One China' policy, very consistent with our desire to make sure that we can continue to work toward a free and open Indo-Pacific."
The U.S. regularly sends its ships through the Taiwan Strait as part of what it calls freedom of navigation maneuvers.
The 100 mile-wide (160 kilometre-wide) strait divides Taiwan from China.
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SNAP, EBT outages reported across the country
Published: Aug. 28, 2022 at 12:51 PM CDT|Updated: 10 minutes ago
(Gray News) - An outage affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has been reported across the country, according to Down Detector.
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This story is developing and will be updated.
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Willy Boly BOYCOTTS Wolves' draw with Newcastle - despite being selected by Bruno Lage - as the Ivorian defender tries to force a move away from Molineux before the transfer window shuts
- Wolves manager Bruno Lage revealed Willy Boly boycotted the Newcastle match
- Lage said the Ivorian defender was in his matchday squad, but opted out of it
- Last week, Wolves rejected a bid from Nottingham Forest for the 31-year-old
- Wolves drew 1-1 after a late screamer from Newcastle's Allan Saint-Maximin
Bruno Lage revealed Willy Boly sensationally chose to boycott Wolves’ draw with Newcastle, despite being selected for the matchday squad, in a bid to force a move away.
Wolves last week rejected a bid from Nottingham Forest for the 31-year-old but Lage made plain that Boly, who has been on the bench for the opening three league games, has no interest in remaining at Molineux with five days remaining of the transfer window.
‘He’s been a great professional but he’s trying to force something,’ Lage said.
‘Look, Boly was in the squad list but he didn’t come. He was in the squad.
Willy Boly opted out of the matchday squad for Wolves draw with Newcastle to force a transfer
‘I have a good relationship with him and he has a proposal in his hands and he wants to go.
‘He is being a top professional but I said, “look, I understand you want to move but understand I need a top player like you on the bench”. After that Boly took his own decision.’
Asked if the defender will face punishment for his no-show at Molinuex, Lage wouldn’t be drawn.
‘No, let’s see what happens,’ he added. ‘Things happen today but what is more important is this, he was in the squad list but he didn’t come.’
Manager Bruno Lage is frustrated the transfer window remains open, adding to the uncertainty
Lage hit out at the transfer window being open with the season underway due to the uncertainty it causes but remains hopeful a striker can be brought in between now and when it closes.
Wolves have managed just two goals from their opening four matches and here again was another painful reminder of the need to give more help to Raul Jimenez.
‘I have been waiting for the new striker since my first day here,’ he added.
‘When you talk about the squad and the good things in our squad, I think we have a lesson to learn. We were in good moments, playing very well but we drew the last two games (at home).
‘We are still looking for the best solution to bring competition to Raul and bring another solution.
'We can see (Aleksander) Mitrovic with four goals, (Erling) Haaland with six, we see it, we need at least two good strikers in our team and we are working so hard to find that player.
‘I have plenty of confidence the player will arrive.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11154575/Willy-Boly-BOYCOTTS-Wolves-1-1-draw-Newcastle-try-force-way-Molineux.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T18:04:40Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11154575/Willy-Boly-BOYCOTTS-Wolves-1-1-draw-Newcastle-try-force-way-Molineux.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
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Doug Canant saw just about everything a storm could bring during two decades as an engineer with Jefferson County Drainage District 6.
But when Tropical Storm Harvey hit Southeast Texas in 2017, he knew it was like nothing he ever experienced.
"Harvey, oh yeah, that was a different animal," said Canant, who retired in May as head engineer at DD6, which covers the northern part of the county. "There was just so much water."
Over a span of four days, Harvey dumped more than 40 inches of rainfall on Jefferson County. The National Hurricane Center called Harvey "the most significant tropical cyclone rainfall event in United States history."
Related: Then and now: Photos of Harvey
All that water had to go somewhere, and engineers throughout the county were tasked with finding ways to keep residents dry.
Now five years later, drainage districts around Jefferson County continue that duty as Harvey-related drainage projects persist. Grants provided from the state and federal governments have allowed for multiple repairs and upgrades across the country that help better protect residents from future storms.
"It's really a long process before you can start spending the money and competing these projects," Canant said. "Now you're starting to see some of that progress."
Most of the major drainage projects since Harvey have occurred in districts 6 and 7, according to Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick. Drainage District 3 did receive federal funds in 2019 to study and update watershed master plan.
Although Branick helps facilitate state and federal funds, the drainage districts are responsible for carrying out maintenance and special projects. The county is responsible for unincorporated areas.
DD6 includes areas in the northern part of Beaumont, Bevil Oaks, China, Nome and Fannett. This part of the country saw serious flooding during Harvey, and Canant was right in the middle of it.
The now-retired engineer recalls travelling by boat and helicopter from levee to levee inspecting the damage. He'll never forget coordinating with officials at DD7 to find large sand bags that kept Beaumont's water treatment plant from flooding at the last minute.
However, the work was just beginning for drainage engineers like Canant. DD6 has taken on several major Harvey-related projects since then and completed three of them.
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Drainage improvements at Byrd Gully near Bevil Oaks now keep residents from experiencing shallow flooding. The project, which was federally funded to the tune of $1.7 million, consisted of both channel and crossing improvements on the upstream end of Byrd Gully. In addition to enlarging the crossings, the channel side slopes were laid back and slightly deepened.
The Elinor Street project in central Beaumont also lies in DD6's area. This rehabilitation project will repair and improve approximately 500 feet of Ditch No. 110 located off Washington Boulevard. The failed concrete walls and ditch bottom of the existing drainage ditch were replaced with a pre-cast concrete box culvert. The $1.2 million necessary to complete the project came from federal grants.
DD6 has worked also on various other ditches in the district, including the biggest pricetag for a project landing in the city of China. It enhanced the drainage system's performance and reduced flooding in the area, costing $6.6 million to complete earlier this year.
Drainage District 7 has more than its fair share of projects, too. DD7 includes Port Arthur, Nederland, Groves and Port Neches -- all of which were hit hard by Harvey.
In 2017 when Harvey hit the area, fuel became an issue for pump stations in DD7, according to General Manager Phil Kelley. The Crane Bayou pump station in particular ran out of fuel despite being topped off before the storm. Water levels prevented trucks from getting fuel to the station, resulting in Groves residents being flooded for longer than most.
"It's like pouring water into a funnel," Kelley said. "Eventually it's going to run over."
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The district now has emergency fuel contractors in place to prevent a similar situation, but it's a different pump station where the biggest project in DD7 has taken place.
A new, $62 million pump station was completed last summer at Alligator Bayou. It can pump 1.5 million gallons of water from canals and ditches into the Intracoastal Waterway every minute, doubling the pace of the previous station that was used during Harvey.
Nearly 70% of the runoff Port Arthur and Mid-County finds its way to the pumps at Alligator Bayou.
"You turn them on and engage the pump within minutes," said Allen Sims, vice president for water resources at LJA Engineering, which was contracted to complete the project.
Harvey devastated areas throughout Southeast Texas, but in the years since, engineers in the region have worked to improve drainage and prevent flooding as much as possible.
There will certainly be more work to do, and storms don't seem to stop in Southeast Texas, but each new project keeps citizens a little big safer, Canant said.
"Harvey was such a terrible thing for so many people," he said. "With these projects, we tried to learn from it and create some good moving forward."
Photojournalist Kim Brent contributed.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-0-5
(eight, zero, five)
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It's been three months since Ray Liotta died, and his fiancée, Jacy Nittolo, found a way to pay tribute to him with a permanent reminder.
Nittolo took to Instagram on Saturday and shared a series of black and white photos, the first of which shows her sitting in a chair at a tattoo shop getting ready for the new ink. Another photo shows her smiling, and the last photo appears to show the final product on her right forearm, a feather.
"Yesterday marked 3 months," Nittolo captioned her post in part. "It only seemed appropriate to do something meaningful that will forever be with me."
The tattoo comes two months after she reflected on the Goodfellas star's death. In an Instagram post, Nittolo said, "It’s hard to believe a month has gone by. There are no words to properly describe what one goes through with this type of unexpected loss. I miss him every second of every day,” she wrote next to a set of photos."
She continued, "Each day my hint of some light is being with our children- Dax, Karsen, Chazz,Jade & Joey Through such deep pain I find so much love and laughter. Our lives right now are so fragile yet we are each holding each other up. It’s as if we are one big blended family that was predestined beyond our wildest imaginations."
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Liotta's daughter, Karsen, also penned a tribute to her late dad back in June.
"Those who knew him, loved him," she captioned a post that included a photo of her as a child being held by Liotta. "You are the best Dad anyone could ask for," Karsen captioned the post. "I love you. Thank you for everything ❤️."
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Laika Studios, the Hillsboro-based animation house, announced its star-studded voice cast for its upcoming animated film "Wildwood" via twitter Thursday morning.
The voice cast is set to include Oscar nominee Angela Bassett, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Waits and Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant.
Laika first announced the film's production in September 2021 with a message from the studio's president and CEO Travis Knight, son of Nike founder Phil Knight.
“With 'Wildwood,' I have the opportunity to tell a madly ambitious story of magic, wonder and danger set in the place I grew up. My very own Portland will join that pantheon of unforgettable fantasy realms, with a stirring epic that will kindle imaginations, lift spirits and break hearts," said Knight in a 2021 news release.
Previous animation films from Laika include "Coraline," "ParaNorman," "Kubo and the Two Strings," "The Boxtrolls" and "Missing Link" — all of which received Oscar nominations.
"Wildwood" is based on the bestselling novel by the Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy and will be the first fully animated feature film lensed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. Golden Globe-winning "Missing Link" producer Arianne Sutner and screenwriter Chris Butler will also be working on the film.
Below is Laika Studios' description of "Wildwood":
Beyond Portland’s city limits lies Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows into the forest's depths, and she – along with her hapless classmate Curtis – is going to get him back. Prue might think she’s too old for fairytales, but she’s just found herself at the center of one. One filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.
Wildwood is a tale of love, loss, sacrifice and secrets, and of the magic you can find on your doorstep, if you’re willing to look for it. | https://www.kgw.com/article/entertainment/laikas-wildwood-voice-cast-announced/283-78c1c97b-fa5a-44e2-a766-2457254d4694 | 2022-08-28T18:15:19Z | https://www.kgw.com/article/entertainment/laikas-wildwood-voice-cast-announced/283-78c1c97b-fa5a-44e2-a766-2457254d4694 | false |
SEASIDE, Ore. — The 40th running of the Hood to Coast Relay wrapped up on Saturday with thousands of runners crossing the finish line in Seaside.
Around 19,000 people were divided among 12-person teams tackling 36 legs of the 198-mile race. It takes guts and a heart with something to prove which is exactly what team Forrest Stump had.
“We're all a team of people with disabilities, various disabilities from all over the united states,” said runner Travis Ricks, who lost a leg as a teenager.
Another teammate Jamie Brown was born without a fibula. They have running prosthetics now but like so many kids today they couldn't afford one when they were younger.
Forrest Stump is starting a legislative effort called "So Kids Can Move" in hopes of changing that.
“Most insurance companies deem running prosthetics as a luxury item,” said Brown. “As we see them now it's more of a necessity or a lifestyle for us and we want to make sure that every kid has the opportunity to be given a running leg where insurance companies cover it like a regular walking leg, so as not to take any opportunity for a kid to be a kid.”
KGW News fielded its own Hood to Coast Team called "Running Footage". Participants included general manager Steve Carter and reporters Alma McCarty and Evan Watson.
“My legs need a day off!” said Watson, after finishing his third leg of the relay. “It was just really fun. It was a great time and it was cool to see all the comradery and just this encouraging spirit out here as well.”
KGW had help filling its team roster from sister station, KUSA in Denver. KUSA producer Ally Heath brought her running legs and a personal story that made her effort extra meaningful.
Heath's great grandmother summited Mt. Hood three times — twice before Timberline Lodge was even built. Sixteen years ago, Heath and her family scattered her great grandmother's ashes on Mt. Hood and in other areas between the mountain and Seaside. This was her first time back.
“I could see Mt. Hood pretty much the whole time I was running and it just kind of felt like she was there cheering me on which felt awesome,” said Heath. “She always said, ‘The one thing I can give you is courage and the strength to keep going on,’ and every time I felt like I was slowing down a little bit, I just looked over and there she was, up on Mt. Hood. It kind of felt like a little light shining down on me to keep going.”
The Hood to Coast Relay sells out just about every year but participants may find their way in through its annual lottery. The lottery for the 2023 relay opens on October 5. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/hood-to-coast-relay-40th-year-seaside/283-f895d25d-231b-4e56-8934-9ab7c438567b | 2022-08-28T18:17:08Z | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/hood-to-coast-relay-40th-year-seaside/283-f895d25d-231b-4e56-8934-9ab7c438567b | false |
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway was rained out Saturday night and rescheduled for Sunday.
The 400-mile race, the regular-season finale that will decide the last two playoff spots, will now begin at 10 a.m. EDT. It will air on CNBC. Weather forecasts call for 40% chance in the morning, increasing to 70% in the afternoon.
Fifteen drivers remain in the hunt for the postseason. Two spots are still open, although one of them will go to Ryan Blaney or Martin Truex Jr.
Aric Almirola, Chris Buescher, Harrison Burton, Cole Custer, Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Todd Gilliland, Justin Haley, Erik Jones, Brad Keselowski, Michael McDowell, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Bubba Wallace need to win to get into the 16-driver playoff field.
Blaney and Truex can advance without winning at Daytona. If Blaney or Truex wins at Daytona, the other automatically gets in on points. If one of the 14 drivers already locked into the postseason lands in victory lane, both Blaney and Truex would make it based on points. If there’s another new winner Sunday, whoever ends the race with more points between Blaney and Truex would advance.
This will be the third summer race at Daytona in recent years delayed a day. Events in 2014 and 2019 were postponed because of weather.
NASCAR officials moved the Daytona summer race from July to August in 2020 partly in hopes of avoid summer thunderstorms. The Xfinity race that started Friday night was delayed three hours before Jeremy Clements managed to avoid four late multicar crashed and reach victory lane for the first time since 2017 and second time in 421 races.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.
The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.
Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years, if this six-week test flight goes well. NASA officials caution, however, that the risks are high and the flight could be cut short.
In lieu of astronauts, three test dummies are strapped into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration and radiation, one of the biggest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.
Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor capsule suffered any damage during Saturday's thunderstorm; ground equipment also was unaffected. Five strikes were confirmed, hitting the 600-foot (183-meter) lightning-protection towers surrounding the rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The strikes weren't strong enough to warrant major retesting.
“Clearly, the system worked as designed,” said Jeff Spaulding, NASA's senior test director.
More storms were expected. Although forecasters gave 80% odds of acceptable weather Monday morning, conditions were expected to deteriorate during the two-hour launch window.
On the technical side, Spaulding said the team did its best over the past several months to eliminate any lingering fuel leaks. A pair of countdown tests earlier this year prompted repairs to leaking valves and other faulty equipment; engineers won't know if all the fixes are good until just a few hours before the planned liftoff. If Monday doesn't pan out, the next launch attempt would be Friday.
After so many years of delays and setbacks, the launch team was thrilled to finally be so close to the inaugural flight of the Artemis moon-exploration program, named after Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology.
“We're within 24 hours of launch right now, which is pretty amazing for where we've been on this journey,” Spaulding told reporters.
The follow-on Artemis flight, as early as 2024, would see four astronauts flying around the moon. A landing could follow in 2025. NASA is targeting the moon's unexplored south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold ice that could be used by future crews.
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SNAP, EBT outages reported across the country
Published: Aug. 28, 2022 at 12:51 PM CDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
(Gray News) - An outage affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has been reported across the country, according to Down Detector.
The program, known as SNAP, provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of low-income families so they can purchase healthy food. Electronic Benefits Transfer, known as EBT, is an electronic system similar to a debit card that allows a SNAP participant to pay for food using SNAP benefits.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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Updated August 28, 2022 at 1:11 PM ET
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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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. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national-news/3-dollar-movie-tickets-national-cinema-day-september-3-2022 | 2022-08-28T18:32:13Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national-news/3-dollar-movie-tickets-national-cinema-day-september-3-2022 | false |
No one is safe from the Giants’ injury bug.
Backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor left Sunday’s preseason finale on a cart after a major hit from Jets edge rusher Michael Clemons.
The team said Taylor had a back injury.
Taylor started the game, with Daniel Jones resting, and threw an early interception.
He was under constant duress playing behind an offensive line of mostly backups, with the exception of center Jon Feliciano.
Taylor was hurt with about two minutes left in the first quarter, rolling out to his right away from pressure. Clemons charged from Taylor’s left and clothesline tackled Taylor to the turf as the QB completed a 25-yard pass to tight end Daniel Bellinger.
Taylor was down on the ground for a long while being examined by trainers. He eventually jogged off the field under his own power.
But the second he reached the sideline, he dropped to the turf again. He struggled to walk into the blue medical tent. And eventually he was carted into the locker room.
GM Joe Schoen signed Taylor to a two-year, $11 million contract with $10.9 million guaranteed in free agency this spring. | https://www.mcall.com/sports/giants/ny-tyrod-taylor-back-injury-20220828-mjzcv67hyjhc3g3oelidopcluq-story.html | 2022-08-28T18:36:28Z | https://www.mcall.com/sports/giants/ny-tyrod-taylor-back-injury-20220828-mjzcv67hyjhc3g3oelidopcluq-story.html | true |
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. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/most-us-movie-theaters-agree-to-sell-3-tickets-for-1-day/ | 2022-08-28T18:36:57Z | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/most-us-movie-theaters-agree-to-sell-3-tickets-for-1-day/ | true |
Everything Kristjaan Speakman said about Alex Neil's contract with Sunderland boss set to join Stoke City
Sunderland’s sporting director Kristjaan Speakman says the club have offered Alex Neil new terms and doesn’t think they could have done much more to keep him.
The 41-year-old Scot left Wearside on Friday and is set to finalise his move to Stoke City to take over the vacant manager’s job at the bet365 Stadium.
Neil was on a rolling 12-month contract at Sunderland and was offered fresh terms before this week’s events.
Speaking to Sky Sports ahead of the Black Cats’ match against Norwich, Speakman was asked if more could have been done to keep Neil.
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“I don’t believe so,” he replied.
“We had a really, really well-structured contract for when he moved into the Championship and had the appropriate uplifts.
“We had a discussion in the summer because we wanted to reward him and provide a well done. That contract was redrawn up and discussed and that was only signed four weeks ago.
“Obviously on yesterday’s news, naturally on wanting to retain that coach and retain that person within our football club, we’ve made another move to offer another set of terms and just unfortunately it doesn’t appear that will be enough for him to stay.”
Neil’s first-team assistant Martin Canning is set to take charge of the side while Neil is in discussions with Stoke, which was confirmed by a Sunderland press release on Friday.
“At present it’s the same as last night with the press release,” added Speakman.
“All my focus has been around the game so I’m sure the club will be updating supporters and the general public in due course when that information changes.”
When asked why this had been allowed to happen, Speakman said: “I understand the question. And I understand the scrutiny that comes from supporters and the fact that they want to understand the context from it.
"I think it would be remiss of me at this moment to start delving into it when the process is still ongoing and not yet at a conclusion.
“What we would rather do is stay silent on that at present and then be transparent with the supporters after this has all settled down." | https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/everything-kristjaan-speakman-said-about-alex-neils-contract-with-sunderland-boss-set-to-join-stoke-city-3821840 | 2022-08-28T18:37:48Z | https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/everything-kristjaan-speakman-said-about-alex-neils-contract-with-sunderland-boss-set-to-join-stoke-city-3821840 | false |
ROME (AP) — Italian authorities scrambled on Sunday to relieve overcrowding in shelters after scores of boats carrying a total of about 1,000 migrants reached Italy’s southern shores and two of its tiny islands over the weekend.
Nearly 50 boats arrived between Friday night and Saturday on Lampedusa island off Sicily, according to state radio and other Italian media. Other boats carrying migrants reached Pantelleria, another tiny island favored by vacationers.
Hundreds of migrants stepped ashore from the virtual flotilla of smugglers’ vessels on those islands. Several of the vessels launched by migrant smugglers held as few as eight passengers. But others had around 100 passengers aboard, many of them from Tunisia, according to the reports.
Other boats reached the shores of the Italian mainland on Saturday, either unaided or assisted by Italian coast guard vessels.
The Italian news agency ANSA said that 92 migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, reached Puglia — the “heel” of the boot-shaped peninsula — in a sailboat on Saturday. Still other migrants sailed to Calabria in the “toe” of the peninsula, while other boats reached Sicily and Sardinia, Italy’s two biggest islands, in the last two days.
On Sardinia, Carabinieri paramilitary police spotted 29 migrants walking along a road, ANSA said.
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders tweeted that one of its rescue ships, Geo Barents, saved 25 migrants, including five minors, from a small boat in distress in international waters near Libya on Saturday night. Geo Barents already had other migrants abroad plucked to safety in other rescue operations, the group said.
With the disembarkation of hundreds of migrants from boats in the last days, the residence temporarily housing rescued migrants on Lampedusa quickly became overcrowded. Corriere della Sera said the residence housed 1,500 asylum-seekers, nearly four times its capacity.
Interior ministry authorities arranged for a commercial passenger ferry to sail from Sicily to Lampedusa, where it was expected to arrive on Sunday night, embark 250 migrants and take them to Sicilian migrant residences to lessen crowding on the tiny island’s facility.
While hundreds of thousands of migrants have set sail from Libyan shores aboard smugglers’ boats in the last decades, many also set out from Tunisia.
Italian media noted the Tunisian coast guard had thwarted at least a score of attempts by vessels filled with migrants to head toward Italy and rescued many others from boats in distress on Friday and Saturday.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Greek surface-to-air missiles locked on to Turkish F-16 fighter jets carrying out a reconnaissance mission in international airspace, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said Sunday.
The allegation is the latest claim from Turkey that its neighbor and fellow NATO member Greece has been targeting its aircraft above the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Seas.
The radar of a Greek S-300 missile system based on the island of Crete locked on to the Turkish jets on Aug. 23, Anadolu reported, citing Defense Ministry sources.
The F-16s were at an altitude of 10,000 feet to the west of Greece’s Rhodes island when the Russian-made S-300’s target tracking radar locked on, the report added. The Turkish planes completed their mission and returned to their bases “despite the hostile environment.”
It added that radar lock-ons are considered an act of hostility under NATO rules of engagement.
Calls to the Greek Embassy in Ankara went unanswered Sunday.
Last week, Turkey summoned the Greek military attache and filed a complaint with NATO after Greek F-16s allegedly harassed Turkish F-16s that were conducting a mission for the alliance.
Anadolu said the Greek pilots put Turkey’s aircraft under a radar lock over the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey “gave the necessary response” and forced the planes to leave the area, Anadolu said, without elaborating.
Greece rejected the Turkish version of events. The Defense Ministry said five Turkish jets appeared without prior notification to accompany a flight of U.S. B-52 bombers — which hadn’t been due to have a fighter escort — through an area subject to Greek flight control.
It said four Greek fighters were scrambled and chased off the Turkish planes, adding that Athens informed NATO and U.S. authorities of the incident.
Although both NATO members, Turkey and Greece have decades-old disputes over an array of issues, including territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and disputes over the airspace there. The disputes have brought them to the brink of war three times in the past half-century.
Tensions flared in 2020 over exploratory drilling rights in areas of the Mediterranean Sea where Greece and Cyprus claim exclusive economic zones, leading to a naval standoff.
Turkey has accused Greece of violating international agreements by militarizing islands in the Aegean Sea. Athens says it needs to defend the islands — many of which lie close to Turkey’s coast — against a potential attack from Turkey’s large fleet of military landing craft. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-turkey-says-greek-missiles-locked-on-its-fighters-over-med/ | 2022-08-28T18:39:22Z | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-turkey-says-greek-missiles-locked-on-its-fighters-over-med/ | true |
Barbie honors Madam C.J. Walker, nation’s first self-made female millionaire with new doll
The barbie doll collection pays tribute to women “who took risks and challenged the status quo”
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - A new doll from Barbie’s inspiring women series honors Madam C.J. Walker, whose hair-care business made her the first documented self-made female millionaire.
Walker is known for her beauty empire, in which she created haircare and makeup products made specifically for Black women.
But aside from her beauty empire, Walker was also known for her philanthropic and social justice efforts, including her contributions to the NAACP anti-lynching movement.
The barbie doll collection pays tribute to women “who took risks and challenged the status quo” in their lifetimes, setting new precedents for generations of girls, according to Mattel.
The doll that honors Walker is also dressed in some of her favorite colors, including shades of lavender, purple and turquoise, and even comes with a mini version of Walker’s famed Wonderful Hair Grower product, complete with a label and twist-off lid.
Walker’s collection doll will join a list of well-known figures in history that includes Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, Maya Angelou, and more.
The doll is available on Amazon and Walmart.com for $35.
#Barbie is proud to introduce Madam CJ Walker as the newest doll in the Inspiring Women line. With unflinching determination, Madam Walker was the nation’s first self-made female millionaire, creating a business that pioneered modern Black haircare. https://t.co/TlcCeZew7L pic.twitter.com/zUtHWCsrAK
— Barbie (@Barbie) August 24, 2022
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INDIANAPOLIS – Another preseason is behind the Indianapolis Colts. Now comes one of the more difficult phases of structuring a playoff contender.
Rosters must be trimmed to 53 by 4 p.m. Tuesday. That means roughly 860 personnel moves will flood the NFL landscape with talent that was deemed good enough to develop during the offseason and preseason, but either wasn’t good enough to take into the regular season or suffered some level of injury.
“Got some tough decisions ahead of us,’’ Frank Reich said after the 27-10 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Lucas Oil Stadium.
At the risk of looking foolish Tuesday evening, here’s our projection for Colts’ preseason roster.
We expect punter Rigoberto Sanchez (torn Achilles) and safety Armani Watts (ankle) to be placed on the season-ending injured reserve list.
We expect Shaquille Leonard to be removed from PUP and added to the 53. Leaving the All-Pro linebacker on PUP is a possibility, but would mean him missing at least the first four games of the season, probably more. The better option, if the medical staff clears him, is activating Leonard so he can at least practice. He might still would miss the first game or two, but his return wouldn’t be as protracted.
We also anticipate Chris Ballard being active on the waiver wire. Maybe an offensive lineman, a tight end, a linebacker or a safety.
We took a quick tally, and we’ve got nine rookies making the initial cut to 53.
OFFENSE (24) *x-denotes rookie
Quarterback (3): Matt Ryan, Nick Foles, Sam Ehlinger.
Comment: We struggled with this one because Ehlinger only steps on the field this season in a worst-case scenario. But Ballard and Reich really like his upside as a future backup, and probably won’t roll the dice by waiving him with the intent of bringing him back to the practice squad. Normally, we’d waive Elhinger and keep our fingers crossed. A reminder of his preseason productivity: 24-of-29, 10 yards per attempt, four TDs, a 147.8 rating. Oh yeah. Ehlinger was the Colts’ leading rusher with 71 yards on six attempts, including the 45-yard scramble/TD against the Bucs.
Wide receiver (6): Michael Pittman Jr. Parris Campbell, Alec Pierce-x, Mike Strachan, Keke Coutee.
Comment: We kept Coutee over Dezmon Patmon, even though Patmon led the team with nine catches, 171 yards and one TD. Coutee showed he could be a viable backup punt returner if the coaching staff piles offensive touches on Nyheim Hines as expected and lessens his special-teams role. If there’s a critical game or moment in a game, toss Hines back there. Also, Coutee would be a decent backup for Campbell working out of the slot.
Tight end (3): Mo Alie-Cox, Kylen Granson, Jelani Woods-x.
Comment: We prefer keeping four at the position, but Drew Ogletree’s season-ending knee injury altered the equation. Considering how Reich values the position, this could be an ideal spot for a waiver claim.
Offensive line (8): G Quenton Nelson, T Braden Smith, C Ryan Kelly, T Matt Pryor, G Danny Pinter, T Bernhard Raimann-x, G Will Fries, T Dennis Kelly.
Comment: Eight is not enough, and it might actually be seven. Kelly had a knee procedure during training camp and did not practice. Will he be ready for Sept. 11 at Houston? This is another ideal spot to add a discarded player or two.
DEFENSE (26)
Line (10): T DeForest Buckner, E Yannick Ngakoue, T Grover Stewart, E Kwity Paye, E/T Tyquan Lewis, E Dayo Odeyingbo, E Ifeadi Odenigbo, E Ben Banogu, T Curtis Brooks-x, R.J. McIntosh.
Comment: The front-line group potentially is among the best the Colts have fielded since the Freeney-Mathis days. And we like the initial depth with Lewis, Odeyingbo and Odenigbo (Just a warning: We promise we’ll mess up those names a time or three). The interior depth makes us nervous. Also, we’ll find out how the coaching staff views Banogu, the 2019 2nd-round pick who had a hard time getting on the field with ex-coordinator Matt Eberflus. Banogu’s three-year bottom line: 34 games 17 tackles, 2.5 sacks, six quarterback hits.
Linebacker (6): Shaquille Leonard, Bobby Okereke, Zaire Franklin, E.J. Speed, JoJo Domann-x, Sterling Weatherford-x.
Comment: The final two spots probably will be determined by which backup LBs are more productive on special teams. Coordinator Bubba Ventrone must retool a portion of his coverage units following the departures of George Odum, Matt Franklin and Jordan Glasgow. We gave you our explanation on why Leonard probably will be on the 53. Weatherford, a Hamilton Heights H.S. product, led the defense in total tackles (22) and solos (15). He also was third with three special teams tackles. That trailed rookie safety Trevor Denbow (six) and rookie linebacker James Skalski (five).
Cornerback (5): Stephon Gilmore, Kenny Moore II, Brandon Faycson, Isaiah Rodgers, Tony Brown.
Comment: We might prefer keeping a sixth corner and four safeties, but we’re not enamored with whom that sixth corner would be. So . . .
Safety (5): Julian Blackmon, Rodney McLeod, Nick Cross-x, Rodney Thomas II-x, Trevor Denbow-x.
Comment: We’re comfortable with Blackmon, McLeod and Cross, who probably starts ahead of McLeod. But Thomas and Denbow might be viewed more as special teams candidates. Maybe some team offers a better option on cut-down day.
SPECIAL TEAMS (3)
Kicker (1): Rodrigo Blankenship.
Comment: He easily won his training camp competition with Jake Verity and was perfect in preseason games. Blankenship converted 39, 46- and 24-yard field goals, and all four of his PATs. Now, he has to show that consistency when it matters.
Punter (1): Matt Haack.
Comment: The last-minute replacement for Sanchez. At least Haack made a good first impression. He punted five times against Tampa Bay and averaged 50.6 gross and 48.0 net.
Longsnapper (1): Luke Rhodes.
Comment: None needed for the 2021 first-team All-Pro, although at least one of his snaps against the Bucs was a tad high.
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Will Anderson Jr. glowers at the camera like it was an opposing quarterback on third-and-5. Standing next to him, Alabama’s Heisman Trophy -winning quarterbeack, Bryce Young, sports a beatific smile befitting football’s glamour position.
They’re on the same page when it comes to one pursuit: A national title.
Having arguably the best offensive and defensive player both back for their third (and final?) season in Tuscaloosa is an embarrassment of riches, even for coach Nick Saban and Alabama.
“To have two players that make such a significant impact on our team as those two guys, I don’t recall ever having a circumstance like that,” Saban said.
Alabama is banking on Anderson and Young to lead the team back to a national championship after a tantalizingly close call last season. Both are high on the lists of preseason Heisman Trophy candidates and potential No. 1 NFL draft picks.
Despite all that, and lucrative celebrity endorsement deals, Saban and their teammates say Anderson and Young just aren’t the types to get complacent.
“That’s why me and Bryce work so well together, because we are kind of wired the same,” Anderson said. “We both want to be great and want to improve every day, and we’re always looking for some way to get better.”
Last season would be hard to top statistically for the two.
Young set Alabama single-season passing marks with 4,872 yards and 47 touchdowns in his first season as starter. He was intercepted just seven times on his way to becoming the Tide’s second straight Heisman winner.
But instead of heading to Hawaii with his family, Young worked out twice a day with his trainer and threw most days during the semester break before returning to Tuscaloosa for the summer.
“He was ultimately, utterly committed to the season,” Young’s father, Craig, said.
Anderson led the nation with 17.5 sacks and 34.5 tackles for loss. He won the Bronco Nagurski Trophy as the nation’s top defensive player. Anderson finished fifth in the Heisman balloting, just missing out on finalist status and an invitation to the New York with his teammate.
Afterward, sister Shanice encouraged him to use that near-miss as motivation. “For him, I feel like as he gets more successful, it’s just fueling him to set new goals, reach new heights,” Shanice Anderson said.
The omission bothered him enough that the Heisman is now on the annual goal sheet Anderson keeps on the back of his phone. It’s a new addition to a list that he’s been compiling with Tide staffer Sal Sunseri before each season.
But Anderson says what drives him is a love of football and competition.
“Do what you do best, and that’s play football,” he said. “But also for me, I’m not saying I psyche myself up, but there’s a little voice like, ‘These people don’t respect you.’ It’s kind of like I’ve got to get my respect. I’ve got to go out there and do what I’ve got to do. I feel like that’s what keeps me going.”
Alabama’s coordinators give similar reports on their best players.
“He’s different from everybody else,” defensive coordinator Pete Golding said. “He doesn’t let the noise get to him. He’s trying to be the best football player he can be and he’s trying to bring people with him. And that’s a daily job for him that he looks forward to.”
Said offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien: “Bryce is always looking to improve. Every single day he comes in there. He’s somebody that goes out to the practice field and is really striving for perfection every day and that’s a great guy to coach.”
It’s hard to separate the intense, 6-foot-4, 243-pound passer harasser and the 6-foot, 194-pounder who is the one QB he can’t lay hands on from each other, or from Alabama’s fortunes this season. They arrived as prized recruits, and emerged as superstars, together.
They even had virtually the same class schedule as freshmen before Young changed majors. Their parents have become close, too.
“Their personalities are different,” Craig Young said. “The similarities I see are two people who have a lot of attention heaped on them, have a lot of accolades, have a lot of people praising them. And they have not allowed that to change who they are.
“They’re still humble. They’re still approachable, and neither of them feel like they’re above the team.”
To be sure, Young and Anderson aren’t the team. Alabama has plenty of other talented players. But they could well be the driving forces for Saban & Co. to finish the job they couldn’t last season.
“We always try to be on the same accord and always try to be on the same on the same page because we understand kind of our roles,” Young said.
In a way, that team photo shows they know their roles very well.
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AP College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo contributed to this report.
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(KTLA) – A man opened fire inside a crowded bar in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights early Sunday morning, leaving one person in critical condition and wounding five others.
The shooting occurred around 12:45 a.m. at the Holiday Bar located at 2471 Whittier Blvd.
Witnesses tell police a fight had broken out between several individuals when a man pulled out a gun and fired into the crowd.
“It is unknown who he was arguing with,” Lt. Letisia Ruiz with Los Angeles Police said. “When he produced the handgun he shot into the crowd and that’s when individuals got struck by gunfire.”
The chaos spilled onto the street as bar patrons ran for safety, witnesses said.
In total, six people, four men and two women, were wounded, including one victim who was in critical condition.
The suspect, said to be a 25-year-old man, was taken into custody. His name was not immediately released.
Whittier Boulevard between Soto Street and Fickett Street was closed Sunday morning due to the investigation. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/gunman-opens-fire-inside-crowded-los-angeles-bar-6-wounded/ | 2022-08-28T19:06:42Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/gunman-opens-fire-inside-crowded-los-angeles-bar-6-wounded/ | true |
Two days after Chief Justice of India N V Ramana retired, National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday alleged he "very conveniently kicked into the long grass" the petitions against the nullification of Article 370, which accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Mr Abdullah shared a news report on Twitter about CJI Ramana's comments in April this year that the Supreme Court would hear the petitions after the summer vacation, and said, "And then he retired without ever constituting the bench. He very conveniently kicked it into the long grass." "Some people wonder why faith in these institutions gets eroded. Perhaps it has something to do with the way serious issues are handled," the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister added.
The Centre on August 5, 2019 abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution -- which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir -- and bifurcated the state into Union territories.
Several mainstream parties, including Mr Abdullah's National Conference, challenged the move in the Supreme Court.
Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Saturday, succeeding Justice Ramana.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-5-6-1
(nine, five, six, one)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-5-6-1
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Best new features of Android 13
Google’s next major update to the Android operating system for smartphones — Android 13 — launched a few weeks ago. Among the biggest features is a function that lets you control your connected smart devices right from your lock screen — without having to unlock your phone. Next time you want to dim your lights, start your washing machine or change your thermostat’s temperature you can do it faster and easier.
In this article: Google Pixel 6 Pro, Google Nest Hub (Second Generation) and Google Nest Learning Thermostat.
How do I set up lock screen control?
This feature isn’t on by default, so you need to dive into your settings to turn it on.
- First, get to your settings by swiping down on your screen twice, then tapping the icon that looks like a cog.
- Secondly, scroll to the display section of your settings.
- Thirdly, in the display settings, there’s a section called “lock screen.” Access that.
- Finally, turn the “control from locked device” setting on.
However, enabling this setting is only half the battle. For your Android 13-running phone to control connected devices, you need to go into your to-be-controlled devices’ settings and turn on the ability for them to be controlled in this manner. Each device has a different settings structure so there’s no general guide for this. But, if you look through their settings long enough, you’ll find it eventually.
What else is new in Android 13?
There are many updates in Android 13, but some of the best are:
- Cross-app customization: Non-Google apps can automatically match your phone’s theme and colors.
- Multilingual: You can choose which language is used on a per-app basis rather than being stuck with one across your phone.
- Update media player: The visuals of your music and podcasts will be more true-to-form based on what you’re listening to.
- Updated Bedtime mode: Several updates have come to Bedtime mode, including being able to trigger dark mode and wallpaper dimming based on the time.
- Enhanced security: Security has improved in multiple ways, such as being able to only share specific photos with apps rather than your entire library and auto-clearing your clipboard if it has sensitive information.
- Improved connectivity: Android phones and tablets and Chromebook laptops now have a suite of improved connectivity features that make it easier to seamlessly shift from one device to the other.
What’s the best Google Pixel to buy?
This is Google’s current flagship phone, packed with all the best technology such as fast charging and 24-plus hours of battery life. It also has the largest 6.7-inch 4K and 120-hertz screen.
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The Google Pixel 6 takes only a small step down from the 6 Pro. It has the same fast charging and long-running battery, but with a smaller 6.4-inch HD and 90-hertz screen.
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The Google Pixel 6 is yet another step down, with a smaller 6.1-inch HD and 60-hertz screen. It also lacks support for wireless charging and isn’t as water resistant.
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The Google Pixel 5 has both better and worse specs than the 6a. Screen-wise, it’s almost identical with a 6-inch HD display, though it has a 90-hertz refresh rate. Battery-wise, it doesn’t last as long, but it supports wireless charging and can use its power to charge other devices.
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Again with the Google Pixel 5a comes specs that are better and worse than the 5. The screen is larger at 6.34 inches and its display is slightly higher quality, but it doesn’t have the 90-hertz refresh rate. Its battery lasts longer, but it can’t charge wirelessly or charge other devices.
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The Google Pixel 4a with 5G is the oldest current model of Pixel that can still take advantage of the current best data speeds, 5G. It has a 6.2-inch HD screen but its battery is the weakest and shortest lasting yet, plus it doesn’t have wireless charging.
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If you don’t need the fastest data speeds, then the 4a is your best bet. It has a 5.8-inch HD display with a solid camera and a fast-charging capable battery.
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If you don’t need the fastest data speeds but still want the best possible specs, consider the 4 XL. It has a larger 6.3-inch display with a quality between HD and 4K and a 90-hertz refresh rate. It also has a better battery with wireless charging capability.
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The Google Pixel 4 is the oldest model still supported by Google. Its specs aren’t good enough for more than basic calls, texts and web surfing, but it’s also practically free compared to most modern smartphones. If you just want the basics, it’s hard to do better.
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What’s the best Google smart home device to buy?
Google Nest Hub (Second Generation)
This is the ultimate Google-based smart home hub. It can play music, show you footage from your doorbell, play videos from streaming services and can even make video calls.
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This powerful speaker is built for music lovers. With Android 13 you can control the volume, skip between songs and scrub through your podcasts. It comes in five colors so it can blend on or become your new centerpiece.
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Google Nest Mini (Second Generation)
This is mostly meant to serve as an auxiliary speaker away from your main rooms, such as a bedroom or a bathroom. However, it’s still capable of outputting high-quality music and easily controlling all your smart devices.
Sold by Home Depot
Google Nest Learning Thermostat
This thermostat goes beyond just being able to change the temperature of your rooms by voice. It learns what temperatures you prefer and when you prefer them so it can automatically adjust, both for comfort and to maximize energy conservation.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Doorbell cameras have become practically a requirement in current times. Google’s version lets you easily access the feed anywhere at any time, plus it has backup protocols if your Wi-Fi goes down. It comes in battery-operated and wired forms.
Sold by Amazon, Dell, Home Depot, Kohl’s and Staples
Google Chromecast With Google TV
With all the streaming services available now, it can be difficult to keep track of them. This Chromecast puts them all under one controllable roof and lets you manipulate other aspects of your TV too, such as the power and volume.
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BEIJING, Aug. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Want to understand China's development over the past decade? CGTN and the CMG European and Latin American Languages Programming Center will provide global audiences a slate of productions focusing on "China in the New Era" across multi-language platforms in August 2022.
The programs reveal a clear picture of the true China, guiding viewers through a decade of development and change, the country's development path, and its diverse and inclusive culture.
Here's a preview of some of the highlights.
Everyone Matters: China in A Decade
To capture the changes that Chinese people have experienced over the past 10 years, "China in A Decade" explores the transformation of China in multiple areas – from high-quality development to governance, from building a cultural foundation to globally shared prosperity.
Via 36 stories told by ordinary individuals, the program reveals how everyone matters in China, and through their contributions, miracles can happen.
China Through a Global Lens
What does China look like from a global perspective? CGTN presents a variety of shows designed to give viewers from across the world a deeper insight into the realities of life in the country.
"My Account on China" and "On the Move" provides overseas audiences with authentic stories to understand China's changes and development.
"Latin Youth in Rural China" records three young Latin Americans' field trip to China's southwestern province of Sichuan to investigate the country's rural development model. The Argentine Ambassador to China also joined the trip and shared his thoughts on China's rural revitalization through his journal.
"The China Path: A Panoramic Decoding" gives viewers a comprehensive picture of China through world leaders' and global thinkers' insights on the country's governance.
"Classic Quotes by Xi Jinping" brings an entirely new avenue in five languages to discover the stories behind the classics and to discuss the cultural foundation of the Chinese people, in order to help viewers understand how Chinese wisdom helps underpin the governing of the evolving nation.
From Poverty to Prosperity: The Chinese Path to Modernization
Through a range of programming, CGTN seeks to explain how China has eliminated extreme poverty and pursued its path toward modernization.
From bustling metropolises to far-flung villages, the progress and challenges on China's modernization path have never stopped. "Modernization for 1.4 Billion"discusses the process and characteristics of China's unique path to modernization and brings together global experts to discuss its international significance.
Documentary "The Road to Common Prosperity" by Dr Robert Lawrence Kuhn showcase the transformations in China from various angles.
The 12-episode series "China by Numbers" builds on statistics and uses the numbers to showcase the transformations of China in a wide range of angles including economy, poverty alleviation, infrastructure, education, science and technology, culture, and sports.
Diverse and Inclusive: The Beauty of Chinese Culture
A number of new shows will take a deep dive into China's culture and history. They discuss the vital role of cultural exchanges in mutual learning and respect among nations.
"The Vibe" offers a refreshing perspective on the cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world.
"Foodwise" and "Why We Love Dunhuang" unroll the vibrant cultural tapestry of China, and take viewers on a journey to the essence of Chinese culture.
"The Song, Painted" decodes traditional Chinese aesthetics via the lifestyles depicted in Song Dynasty paintings using virtual art technology, while "Inheritors" shines a light on China's rich Intangible Cultural Heritage and the tales behind it.
CGTN also unveiled "China Box," an interactive video product which will come in October. China Box provides a new video watching experience by creating a virtual world, where users can choose the avatars they like and enjoy thousands of videos.
2022 China Documentary Festival in Africa
CGTN has launched the 2022 China Documentary Festival Global Screening in Africa, the first time the festival has featured a special event for a specific region, in the presence of the ambassadors to China of Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Senegal, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Thirty broadcasters and institutions from 20 African countries will join the festival to screen stories for African audiences.
Since the 2022 China Documentary Festival was launched in June, more than 50 documentaries produced by CGTN have been screened or streamed for global audiences. They include award-winning productions in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian.
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Higher education costs too much, and the often predatory structure of student loans can extend and compound those costs in painful and seemingly endless ways. Neither of those unfortunate truths will disappear with President Joe Biden’s move to forgive a portion of student loan debt for millions of borrowers.
Through executive action, Biden is forgiving up to $10,000 for Americans making less than $125,000 and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, who typically have qualified for those grants because of a demonstrated financial need for education.
We have a couple thoughts about this plan, and the reaction it has generated.
Let’s start with that reaction first. Many critics of Biden’s move have framed their argument around fairness. It goes something like this: Other people already paid their loans back, or didn’t pursue higher education, so it is unfair for them (and all taxpayers) to cover the costs of this loan forgiveness. This is a position that, frankly, continues to baffle us.
The notion that “I suffered, so someone else must suffer too” is both devoid of empathy and detached from how the allocation of collective resources through government works. As a country, through our elected representatives and government officials, we identify needs and direct resources to those needs. Sometimes our tax dollars support services for others, and sometimes others’ tax dollars support us.
As others have already pointed to, is it unfair that people in states like Maine help pay for disaster relief when a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast? We certainly don’t think so. If you ask us, this is part of the social contract we’re all party to as Americans.
Now, there should always be vigorous debate about how to allocate our collective resources, and whether something is a worthy and necessary investment. But if we’re going to apply a standard of fairness, we might need to bring a host of other public expenditures into the mix. Is it fair that massive oil and gas companies get billions of dollars in subsidies from taxpayers while those same taxpayers have been paying record prices? Is it fair that some of the largest companies don’t pay any federal corporate income tax?
During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Biden administration official Bharat Ramamurti, the deputy director of the National Economic Council, made a fairness-based comparison to the 2017 Republican tax cuts, pointing out that the majority of those cuts went to high-income Americans while most of the benefits of the student loan relief will go to those with more modest incomes.
These comments are helpful, not just because of the context about fairness, but also because it leads us to our next point.
It was very interesting to hear Ramamurti use the word “bill” in his discussion about this week’s announcement, given that Biden’s loan forgiveness action did not go through the legislative process. This was a unilateral executive action — a multi-billion dollar spending decision made without Congress. This may seem like a minute process detail to some, but to us it is a big question: Does Biden even have the authority to make such a move?
Well, if you had asked Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a year ago, the answer would have been no.
But now, the White House is hanging its legal authority to forgive this debt on a 2003 law that allows for debt relief in certain situations, like a national emergency. Both the Biden and Trump administrations have used authority under this law as the basis for repeatedly pausing student loan repayments during the pandemic. This newest use from Biden and his team, however, is more expansive and comes at the same time that they are arguing that the economy is strong and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relaxed COVID-19 guidance.
The pain felt by student loan borrowers, and the need for structural changes to bring the immediate and long-term costs of higher education down, are all very real. We don’t discount the positive impact that Biden’s action will have for many individuals in Maine and around the country — just look at the people BDN reporter Sawyer Loftus interviewed this week.
However, we can’t help but believe this is a policy and spending decision that should have congressional involvement and approval, which could have led to a plan that better targeted relief and addressed the ongoing problem of student loan interest rates. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/26/opinion/editorials/congress-higher-education-costs/ | 2022-08-28T19:21:12Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/26/opinion/editorials/congress-higher-education-costs/ | false |
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This controversial method of discipline is known as corporal punishment.
Corporal punishment is when a supervising adult inflicts pain upon a child with a hand, cane, paddle, or yardstick in response to unacceptable behavior, according to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Cassville Public Schools, a small district in the southwest corner of Missouri, announced it was bringing back the disciplinary method, McClatchy News reported. Under the district’s policy, a misbehaving student can now be swatted on the buttocks with a paddle with their parent’s permission, according to the district’s student handbook for 2022-2023.
Most school systems around the country have phased out corporal punishment and replaced it with strict suspension policies, but it is still legal in 19 states, including North Carolina, according to the AACAP.
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Here are the laws on corporal punishment in North Carolina, how often it’s used in the state, and what experts say about how effective it is.
According to state law, school districts in North Carolina can determine whether or not to allow corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is prohibited in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, according to the district’s Code of Student Conduct.
Corporal punishment cannot be administered in a classroom with other students present, and teachers can only give the punishment in front of another teacher or administrator after explaining their reasoning for the discipline, per state law.
Once students receive corporal punishment, state law requires schools to notify their parents or guardians with a written explanation of why their child was punished.
Parents can opt out of corporal punishment for their children if they submit a signed form at the beginning of the school year. If parents do not complete the form, then their child can receive corporal punishment at school, state law says.
During the 2020-21 school year, no school districts in North Carolina reported using corporal punishment, according to a report from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. It was the third consecutive year where zero uses of corporal punishment were reported.
There were 60 uses of corporal punishments by two school districts — Robeson County and Graham County — during the 2017-18 school year, according to another report from NCDPI.
NCDPI data show that 24 of the 60 instances of corporal punishment involved elementary school students, another seven involved middle school students, and 29 for high school students.
Corporal punishment was applied eight times to students with disabilities, including four with autism, two with a speech or language impairment, and one with a specific learning disability or intellectual disability, according to the report.
The most common reasons corporal punishment was used were aggressive behavior and skipping school, according to the report. Other reasons included disruptive behavior, inappropriate language and excessive tardiness. | https://greensboro.com/z-no-digital/yes-nc-grade-school-students-can-be-spanked-in-class-what-state-law-says-about/article_a4388970-2704-11ed-8713-37dd53513a56.html | 2022-08-28T19:28:25Z | https://greensboro.com/z-no-digital/yes-nc-grade-school-students-can-be-spanked-in-class-what-state-law-says-about/article_a4388970-2704-11ed-8713-37dd53513a56.html | true |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-0-5
(eight, zero, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-0-5
(eight, zero, five) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17403506.php | 2022-08-28T19:33:48Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17403506.php | false |
BJP worker loses money to men who promised an award
Central Crime Branch (CCB) officials are on the lookout for two men who cheated a city-based social activist and BJP worker by promising an award from the Governor of Karmataka.
The accused, identifying themselves as Gyan Prakash and Giridhar Jha and claiming to be from Indian Journalist Compendium, met social activist and BJP worker from Peenya K.R. Venkatesh and offered to get him an award from the Governor on the occasion of the 75th Independence Day.
Venkatesh agreed to the offer for which the duo asked him to pay a donation of ₹1 lakh to their association. The accused had even taken Venkatesh to the Governor’s house to discuss the award. The accused issued him a certificate and escaped with the cash.
The cheating came to light when Venkatesh discussed his award with his friends. He filed a complaint with the Vidhana Soudha police on August 16 which was referred to the CCB for a detailed probe.
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Barcelona 4-0 Real Valladolid: Xavi's side move to within two points of leaders Real Betis thanks to goals from Robert Lewandowski, Pedri and Sergi Roberto as Jules Kounde makes his debut
- Robert Lewandowski scored in the first and second half to ensure victory
- Pedri scored between the Pole's two goals with a tap in just before the break
- Jules Kounde made his much anticipated debut for the club starting at right back
Robert Lewandowsk, Pedri and Sergi Roberto were on the score sheet as Barcelona moved to within two points of early pace setters Real Betis in La Liga.
New arrival Lewandowski, one of five summer arrivals, notched two goals as Barcelona secured their first home win of the season.
The club's opening weekend fixture against Rayo Vallecano ended in a 0-0 draw with some questioning Lewandowski's form in that game but since then the Pole has put the doubts behind him, scoring four in his subsequent two appearances.
Robert Lewandowski scored his second brace of the season as Barcelona ran out 4-0 winners
Two of the goal scorers, Lewandowski and Pedri, are likely to be two key players for the side this season
Pedri's first goal of the season, a tap in after good work from Ousmane Dembele, all but confirmed the outcome of the game on the stroke of half time.
Significantly, Jules Kounde made his first run out for the club after a summer saga that had appeared to have drawn on since the first swallow was spotted in Catalonia and west London.
More follows.
Jules Kounde made his much anticipated debut for the club after an elongated summer saga | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11154773/Barcelona-4-0-Real-Valladolid-Xavis-two-points-leaders-Real-Betis.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T19:37:32Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11154773/Barcelona-4-0-Real-Valladolid-Xavis-two-points-leaders-Real-Betis.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Ashley Roberts sends temperatures soaring in a skimpy red bikini as she cools off in the shower in a racy clip from her sun-soaked Marbella break
She has recently been living it up on a Mediterranean vacation.
And Ashley Roberts is now enjoying the sights of Marbella as she shared a gorgeous reel of her travels to Instagram on Sunday.
The Pussycat Doll singer, 40, showcased her incredible physique in a skimpy red bikini as she cooled off at a poolside shower.
Stunner: Ashley Roberts sent temperatures soaring in a skimpy red bikini as she cooled off in the shower after a day of sunbathing in Marbella on Sunday
The stunner flaunted her newly sun-kissed skin while throwing back her wet blonde tresses and soaking herself under the bracing water.
Ashley confidently displayed her pert posterior in her skimpy thong bottoms as she playfully posed for the camera.
The chart-topper then joined pals for dinner while donning a figure hugging blue dress complete with eye-popping thigh-high split.
Strike a pose: The singer (left) then joined pals for dinner while donning a figure hugging blue dress complete with eye-popping thigh-high split
Hot stuff! The stunner flaunted her newly sun-kissed skin while throwing back her wet blonde tresses and soaking herself under the bracing water
The group posed up a storm in the grounds of the luxurious Bobo Club, the latest stop on their sun-soaked trip.
The radio host offered her 702,000 followers a tour of the swanky accommodation which included clear crystal swimming pools and stylish decor.
Making the most of the weather Ashley could then be seen in a stylish psychedelic cropped top which tied just beneath her ample assets.
Peachy keen: Ashley confidently displayed her pert posterior in her skimpy thong bottoms as she playfully posed for the camera
The blonde beauty beamed behind a pair of oversized shades and revealed her natural beauty by opting to go make-up free for the day of sun bathing.
However the television personality didn't neglect her daily workout as she headed to the hotel's fully equipped gym.
Ashley looked incredible in printed shorts and a matching crop top while working on her core with weights and squats before taking to the exercise bike.
Stylish: Making the most of the weather Ashley could then be seen in a stylish psychedelic cropped top which tied just beneath her ample assets
Evening glam: Ashley also stunned in a gorgeous cream dress as she headed for a evening on the ties
Ashley has previously explained how she works hard to stay in shape and uses exercise as much for her mental health as she does for her physical wellbeing.
She said in a past interview with Coach magazine: 'I love exercise; it's not only for my physical health but it's for my mental health so it's very important to me.
'Some people don't think of dancers as athletes but that's garbage. All-day sessions in the studio are hardcore total-body workouts.
Working hard: However the television personality didn't neglect her daily workout as she headed to the hotel's fully equipped gym
'I did ballet, tap, modern and lyrical – all different styles that tested my fitness and worked my muscles in different ways.'
Ashley relocated from Los Angeles to London nine years ago after the Pussycat Dolls went on hiatus in 2010.
She said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday's YOU magazine in 2019: 'If someone had told me 10 years ago that this would be my home and I'd be drinking tea and saying Brit things like loo and rubbish, I'd have been, like, 'No way!''
Squat! Donning skin tight shorts and matching cropped top the singer worked on her core with weight and squats before taking to the exercise bike
Ashley told how she realised the UK was home after her beloved father Pat passed away in March 2018.
She said: 'The passing of my dad made me see how many amazing friends I have over here, who tried to scoop me up.
'But I thought, "Why am I trying to fight this LA-London thing when everyone here is so supportive?"'
New home: Ashley relocated from Los Angeles to London nine years ago after the Pussycat Dolls went on hiatus in 2010 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11154605/Ashley-Roberts-sizzles-red-bikini-cools-shower-day-sun-bathing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T19:37:52Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11154605/Ashley-Roberts-sizzles-red-bikini-cools-shower-day-sun-bathing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
(The Hill) – The White House is rushing ahead to roll out a new COVID-19 booster shot campaign in early September, but is facing an uphill battle to ensure it is successful.
The vaccines being used in the campaign are the first ones that have been manufactured to specifically target the subvariants of omicron that are currently causing the most infections, and administration officials have indicated they’re preparing to start offering the shots shortly after Labor Day.
Immunity from the initial round of vaccines is waning and health officials said they want to ensure the public is protected as much as possible against another wave of infections in the fall and winter. Right now, close to 450 Americans are dying every day from the virus, and there’s concern the numbers could rise as people move indoors.
Both Pfizer and Moderna have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use authorization for booster shots that target the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants. Pfizer’s vaccine will be for everyone aged 12 and older, while Moderna’s will be meant just for adults aged 18 and older.
Administration officials say these new vaccines will be key to controlling a potential fall surge, but they will need to convince an increasingly checked-out public to get the shots.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha has been front and center trying to promote the reformulated boosters, saying recently that “all the data suggests [they] should be highly effective against the new variants.”
“The big picture bottom line is these are substantial upgrades in our vaccines in terms of their ability to prevent infection, to prevent transmission. Certainly to prevent serious illness. And so it’s going to be really important that people this fall and winter get the new shot.” Jha said during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on Aug. 16.
During an interview with the radio program “Conversations on Health Care,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said the administration wants to provide people with the broadest possible protection.
“So the strategy now is to tailor vaccine for giving us the largest breadth of response, ideally one that would have less waning over time,” Walensky said. “I believe it is best to use a vaccine that is tailored for the variant that we have right now.”
But despite the administration’s optimism, the effort is likely to face major hurdles. Chief among them is a lack of interest from the public. Only about two-thirds of the U.S. population have been vaccinated with a primary COVID-19 vaccine series, while less than half of that group has received even a first booster.
The vaccination rate among children is even lower. According to the CDC, less than 4 percent of eligible kids under the age of 2 have received at least one dose, and only 6 percent of kids between the ages of 2 and 4 have received a single dose.
Rupali Limaye, a vaccine expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said she doesn’t expect the retooled boosters will do much to convince the under-vaccinated population to get another shot.
The same people who rushed to get the initial vaccine series and then the first round of boosters will be the ones to receive the omicron-specific shots, she said, and mixed messages from health officials are partly to blame.
The most recent update to the CDC’s guidance emphasized living with the virus, and downplayed many of its previously recommended mitigation strategies. That doesn’t necessarily mesh with the idea that the public urgently needs to get an updated vaccine.
“I think for the most part, the majority of the public has sort of moved on, if you will. And the messaging has been that this is going to now be with us,” Limaye said. “Why do I need a new vaccine related to a virus that essentially my government has told me is no longer an issue?”
Rather than a broad rollout of the updated vaccines for the general public, Limaye and other scientists have suggested a more targeted approach, tailoring vaccine recommendations to the elderly and immunocompromised.
John Moore, a virologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, said it’s not clear how much extra protection the new shots would provide against infection, but predicted they won’t be much better than the first round of boosters.
The protection is likely “somewhere between mediocre and reasonable. I mean, we just don’t know,” Moore said. “A booster will give some additional protection against infection for, you know, a few months before it wanes again.”
Moore said it’s important that health officials provide the public with realistic messaging, and don’t oversell the benefits of the shots.
“It’s not like they’re a magic bullet that gives you super strong protection,” Moore said. “If the public thinks they’re getting something that is really, really against infection, then they might change their behavior and increase the risk of exposure. That’s counterproductive.”
The other concern among some scientists is that the government is moving too quickly to authorize the vaccines. Neither Moderna nor Pfizer has clinical trial data for the vaccine. Instead, their requests are based on data from a booster targeting an earlier version of omicron, as well as preclinical data from mice.
But health officials maintain they don’t need additional data, because vaccine manufacturers are essentially making a minor update to the existing vaccine, which has an established track record of success.
“There’s always a question here of being too slow versus too fast, and I think one of the challenges is if we wait for those data to emerge in human data, not just mice data, in human data, we will be using what I would consider to be a potentially outdated vaccine,” Walensky said. “I believe it is best to use a vaccine that is tailored for the variant that we have right now.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/white-house-effort-to-stave-off-fall-covid-surge-with-new-boosters-faces-uphill-battle/ | 2022-08-28T19:59:48Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/white-house-effort-to-stave-off-fall-covid-surge-with-new-boosters-faces-uphill-battle/ | false |
Tigers beat Keuchel and Rangers 11-2
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Javier Báez hit an RBI single in each of the first two innings and Jeimer Candelario connected for a two-run homer against Dallas Keuchel, helping the Detroit Tigers pound the Texas Rangers 11-2 on Saturday night.
Eric Haase hit a sacrifice fly off Keuchel, and then added a two-run homer during Detroit’s three-run ninth.
Eduardo Rodriguez (3-3) won his second consecutive start since his return to the Tigers after three months away because of a ribcage injury and time on the restricted list to deal with family issues. Six days after tossing five scoreless innings against the Los Angeles Angels in his first big league start since May 18, the left-hander limited Texas to one run and six hits over six innings.
"He had to battle a little bit. He wasn’t perfectly sharp, he wasn’t maybe at his best, but he did enough to keep us right where we were at," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. "And we kept scoring for him."
Rangers right fielder Adolis García extended his hitting streak to 23 games, the longest active streak in the majors and longest in the American League this season. García singled in the sixth and led off the ninth with his 21st homer.
Keuchel (2-8) allowed seven runs and 11 hits over 5 1/3 innings. The 34-year-old left-hander struck out one and walked one while throwing 69 of his 96 pitches for strikes.
"That was a tough one. I mean, physically, I felt great. And that was the main part coming in," Keuchel said. "It was kind of like a death by a thousand cuts. ... Getting some weak contact and stuff that I want to do."
The Rangers signed Keuchel to a minor league contract July 25, and the 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner was 1-0 with a 2.31 ERA in four starts for Triple-A Round Rock before joining the big league team this weekend. He made starts earlier this season for the Chicago White Sox and Arizona before getting released by both teams.
His first start for the Diamondbacks was also against Detroit, which had four runs and six hits off him over 4 1/3 innings two months ago. Keuchel and Hinch were together in Houston from 2015-18, including a World Series title in 2017.
"He threw a lot of strikes, which he usually is in and around the strike zone. He tries to get you to chase," Hinch said. "Early he was pumping strikes in there. We were pretty aggressive with him. ... His outing, it was dictated by us continuing to apply pressure."
Detroit went ahead to stay in the first when Báez singled in Victor Reyes and then scored on single by Willi Castro. It was 4-1 in the second inning after Reyes had a sacrifice fly and Báez, who had only two RBIs over his previous 16 games, had an infield single that drove in a run.
Candelario's 11th homer was a 418-foot drive to center for a 7-1 lead only two batters before Keuchel's exit. Candelario, one of eight Detroit batters with multiple hits, also had an RBI fielder's choice grounder in the ninth.
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GARCIA'S STREAK
Garcia is one short of matching the longest MLB hitting streak by a Cuban-born player. Rafael Palmeiro had a 24-game hitting streak with Baltimore in 1994. The only longer hitting streaks in the majors this season are by Trea Turner of the Los Angeles Dodgers (26) and Paul Goldschmidt for St. Louis (25). The Texas team record in 28 in 2000 by Gabe Kapler.
SHORT HOPS
Nathaniel Lowe drove in a run in the Texas first with the first of his two singles that pushed his MLB-best total to 52 hits over 36 games since the All-Star break. ... The Tigers had three sacrifice flies, the first time this season scoring multiple runs on flyball outs. After Reyes and Haase, Zack Short added a sac fly in the sixth.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: RHP Casey Mize, who underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow June 15, was with the team in Arlington. He had a checkup with Rangers team physician Dr. Keith Meister, who performed the surgery.
UP NEXT
Right-hander Drew Hutchinson, 1-4 with a 3.90 ERA in his 11 starts for the Tigers after 10 relief appearances, pitches the finale. Kohei Arihara makes only his third start for Texas, having gone 1-1 with a 2.31 ERA since getting called up from Triple-A Round Rock. | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/texas-rangers-detroit-tigers-august-27 | 2022-08-28T20:18:12Z | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/texas-rangers-detroit-tigers-august-27 | true |
Democrats: Abortion rulings may be 'a blessing in disguise'
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic candidates have decried North Carolina’s newly reinstated abortion restrictions in the week after a federal judge lifted an injunction on a state law banning nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. But some North Carolina Democrats say the ruling was the catalyst their party needed to reinvigorate its political prospects in what would have likely been a losing year. Republicans in the state legislature are just five seats shy of the supermajority they need to nullify the Democratic governor’s veto on future restrictions. In a swing state like North Carolina, outrage and uncertainty over diminishing abortion access could generate enough political power for Democrats to hold their ground in November.
Russia, Ukraine trade claims of nuclear plant attacks
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SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine have traded claims of attacks at or near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. These reports Sunday intensified fears that the fighting could damage the plant and cause a massive radiation leak. Ukrainian officials say Russian strikes hit areas across the Dnieper River from the power plant. Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant soon after the war began. The claims from both sides of more attacks on Sunday couldn’t be independently verified.
Army program gives poor-performing recruits a second chance
FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — There's a new Army program that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards. The program 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. According to estimates, just 23% of young people age 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. It's the military's academic and physical fitness requirements that the prep course will address.
NASA moon rocket on track for launch despite lightning hits
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's new moon rocket remains on track for a Monday liftoff, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad. Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor ground equipment suffered any damage. Five lightning strikes were confirmed Saturday, hitting the 600-foot towers surrounding the rocket at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The 322-foot rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It's poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA's Apollo program. Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years, if this six-week test flight goes well.
Police: Houston tenant kills 3 others, set fire to lure them
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police say a man evicted from an apartment building set fire to the house to lure out other tenants, then shot three dead and wounded two others. Officers fatally shot the gunman. The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police Chief Troy Finner says fire crews and police responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire. Finner said the man then opened fire on the crews fighting the fire, forcing them to take cover until police officers shot him dead. No firefighters or officers were wounded.
'Free Staters' roil New Hampshire politics in ski area spat
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A recent power struggle at a New Hampshire ski area illustrates the growing influence of a 20-year-old political experiment that promotes a mass migration of 20,000 libertarians to the state. Fewer than 6,500 have arrived so far, but they’ve made inroads everywhere from school boards to the statehouse. What that means for Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, the party and the state is uncertain. But one thing is clear. Members of the Free State Project, who are known as Free Staters, are shaking things up. Sununu, a former ski resort executive who's running for fourth term, recently called for the ouster of three Republican lawmakers over their handling of a county-owned ski area. Anti-government activists want to privatize it.
Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia soar
NEW YORK (AP) — A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books Sunday as the most expensive ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia. 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 controversial “Hand of God” goal in soccer’s 1986 World Cup. The escalating records are part of a growing market for sports memorabilia that has taken off as people cocooned themselves during the pandemic — one part nostalgia and one part financial opportunity.
'Tape or chewing gum:' Twitter's lapses echo worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently and directly, whether you're an activist or a local fire department. But it’s also a constant risk-and-reward calculation. A bombshell whistleblower report from Twitter’s former head of security alleges that the social media company has been negligently lax on cybersecurity and privacy protections for its users for years. The revelations could be especially concerning for those who use it to reach constituencies, get news out about emergencies as well as for political dissidents and activists in the crosshairs of hackers or other malicious actors.
Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A devastating earthquake in 2017 caused severe damage to Mexico City's historic Our Lady of the Angels church, which is home to a much-revered image of the Virgin Mary. It is considered miraculous for having survived both earthquakes and floods. But the image cannot be moved from the adobe wall, and its fate is thus tied to that of the church. After months of work to stabilize the structure, phase two has now begun on a restoration project. As the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 19 quake nears, parishioners still attending Mass on the street outside can rejoice in renewed efforts to heal the shattered church and protect the beloved Virgin.
US sails warships through Taiwan Strait in 1st since Pelosi
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy is sailing two warships through the Taiwan Strait in the first such transit publicized since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August. The U.S. 7th Fleet said the USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville were conducting a routine transit through the strait on Sunday. The cruisers are sailing the waterway at a time of tensions over Taiwan. China conducted many military exercises in the Strait earlier this month to punish Taiwan after Pelosi visited the self-ruled island against Beijing’s threats. The U.S. said the sailing route was beyond the territorial seas of any state. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-3-20-p-m-edt/article_a64c1e0c-8e0f-581f-bfe8-da90470e8de5.html | 2022-08-28T20:31:50Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-3-20-p-m-edt/article_a64c1e0c-8e0f-581f-bfe8-da90470e8de5.html | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Brady made a succinct, strong statement in his brief preseason debut.
He’s not rusty at all.
Five days after ending a planned, 11-day training camp break, Brady went 6 of 8 for 44 yards in the no-huddle offense and led the Buccaneers to a field goal on his first and only drive before watching the Indianapolis Colts’ backups rally for a 27-10 victory on Saturday night.
“I’ve played a lot of football in my day — a lot of practices, a lot of games, and a lot of seasons,” Brady said. “I’m ready to go.”
In his first interview since returning to practice Monday, Brady did not elaborate on why he needed time off. He used a profanity while saying there are many things he must deal with at age 45.
Still, football remains front and center for the seven-time Super Bowl champ and three-time MVP.
First-year coach Todd Bowles wanted to give Brady about 10 snaps. As usual, Brady surpassed expectations by running an 11-play, 66-yard drive almost flawlessly. He even converted a fourth down on the series, which had just one hiccup: settling for a 30-yard field goal.
It wasn’t just Brady under the microscope in this preseason finale.
Receivers Mike Evans and Julio Jones and running back Leonard Fournette all played, though they, like Brady, watched the final 55 minutes from the sideline.
“If you go up-tempo in the preseason, teams are less likely to pressure you,” Bowles said. “You’re able to get everybody involved early. We wanted everybody to get a good feel for the game and get in sync.”
Indy played most of its starters about one quarter and Matt Ryan, the 2016 MVP with Atlanta, led the Colts to the go-ahead score — a 1-yard TD run by Deon Jackson — on his final series before taking a seat in his first home appearance at Lucas Oil Stadium.
“Good finish to the preseason,” Indy coach Frank Reich said. “We wanted to come in here and accomplish some things. We saw some things we wanted to see, got guys out.”
Tampa Bay retook the lead on Ke’Shawn Vaughn’s 1-yard TD run.
Without Brady, though, the Bucs didn’t stay in front.
Phillip Lindsay’s 2-yard run gave Indy a 14-10 halftime lead and Sam Ehlinger’s nifty 45-yard TD run on the second play of the second half helped the Colts pull away as Brady and Ryan started contemplating the more challenging and meaningful matchups that now loom.
“I’ve known Tom for a long time and I’m always impressed with his consistency, his dedication to take care of himself, it’s amazing,” Ryan said. “He’s throwing it as good as he ever has and to me that’s incredibly impressive.”
LINE DANCE
Tampa Bay’s biggest concern heading into the regular season will be protecting the 45-year-old Brady after the offensive line took two more hits Saturday.
Center Robert Hainsey (left ankle) and guard Nick Leverett (shoulder) left early and did not return. Bowles said both would have X-rays in the next two days but declined to speculate how much time, if any, they might miss.
Hainsey started Saturday in place of injured Pro Bowler Ryan Jensen, who was carted off the practice field on the second day of training camp. The Bucs also need replacements for recently retired Pro Bowl guard Ali Marpet and guard Aaron Stinnie, who has a season-ending knee injury.
TOUGH BREAK
Backup safety Armani Watts looked as if he might win a spot on the Colts’ 53-man roster — until injuring his right ankle on Saturday’s opening kickoff. Watts was eventually carted off the field and did not return.
“It’s an ankle injury that’s going to keep him out for the year,” Reich said. “He’s going to have to have a procedure done. I don’t want to confirm all the details but it was a pretty significant injury.”
STAT PACK
Buccaneers: While Evans didn’t catch a pass, Jones had one reception for 20 yards. Fournette had two carries for 13 yards and one catch for 2 yards. … Vaughn had nine carries for 36 yards. … Blaine Gabbert was 5 of 7 for 46 yards.
Colts: Ryan was 5 of 7 for 59 yards and was sacked once. Backup Nick Foles finished 3 of 5 for 24 yards. … Michael Pittman Jr. caught three passes for 29 yards. … Indy’s top two running backs, Jonathan Taylor and Nyheim Hines, did not play.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: Open the regular season at Dallas on Sept. 11.
Colts: Visit Houston on Sept. 11.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 4, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
1156 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH
SUNDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures will
range from 100 to 105 in the Owens Valley...105 to 115 across
the Mojave Desert and Lake Mead areas...and 115 to 123 in Death
Valley.
* WHERE...In Arizona, Lake Mead National Recreation Area. In
California, Owens Valley, Death Valley National Park, Western
Mojave Desert and Eastern Mojave Desert. In Nevada, Northeast
Clark County, Western Clark and Southern Nye County, Las Vegas
Valley, Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Southern Clark
County.
* WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Overnight lows will remain elevated which,
compounded with above average afternoon temperatures will pose
a significant risk for heat related illness.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Be prepared to drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-
conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives
and neighbors.
Young children and pets should never be left unattended in
vehicles under any circumstances. This is especially true during
warm or hot weather when car interiors can reach lethal
temperatures in a matter of minutes.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions. Temperatures of 100 to 105
across central and southern Mohave county as well as the Morongo
Basin. Temperatures of 108 to 115 in the Colorado River Valley.
* WHERE...In Arizona, Lake Havasu and Fort Mohave and Northwest
Deserts. In California, Morongo Basin, Cadiz Basin and San
Bernardino County-Upper Colorado River Valley.
compounded with above average afternoon temperatures will pose a
significant risk for heat related illness.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — A major public backlash coupled with the graphic details contained in a lawsuit alleging Matt Araiza’s involvement in a gang rape of a teenager last fall, left Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane little choice but to release the team’s rookie punter on Saturday.
The decision to cut ties with the 22-year-old represents a major reversal for the Bills, coming two days after they backed the player based on the findings of what the team called its “thorough examination” of the allegations filed in the lawsuit.
And it comes less than a week after the Bills — while aware he was the target of a police investigation — cleared the way for Araiza to take over the punting duties by cutting returning veteran Matt Haack on Monday.
“The last 48 hours have been very difficult for a lot of people. It’s been tough. And we sympathize with this whole situation, all the parties involved, this young woman, what she went through,” Beane said during a 26-minute news conference, while seated alongside coach Sean McDermott.
“But at this time, we just think it’s the best move for everyone to move on from Matt and let him take care of this situation and focus on that. So, we’re gonna part ways there,” Beane added.
Beane said the Bills were not aware of the allegations made against Araiza at the time they selected him in the sixth round of the draft in April. And had they known, he said, they would have removed him from consideration.
Araiza’s release begins to ease a crisis which has shaken the two-time AFC East champions. McDermott was visibly upset while discussing the situation following a 21-0 preseason loss at Carolina on Friday night.
“I’m hurt,” McDermott said. “It’s not easy to to hear about some of the things that I’ve heard about over the last several hours say. Haven’t slept a lot to be honest with you.”
The Bills began distancing themselves from Araiza as early as Friday, when he was held out from playing. He instead watched the game from an undisclosed location in the stadium rather than from the sideline along with his teammates.
On Saturday, Araiza was not present for practice even though the Bills said he was on his roster, while at the same time his No. 19 jersey was no longer available for sale on the Bills’ online store after being listed earlier in the day.
Araiza’s only comment since the lawsuit was filed came in a statement released by his agent during the game Friday.
“The facts of the incident are not what they are portrayed in the lawsuit or in the press. I look forward to quickly setting the record straight,” Araiza said.
In a text to The Associated Press, Araiza’s lawyer, Kerry Armstrong, defended his client by writing: “I am sure he is very upset and disappointed that his career with the Bills ended not because he played poorly, but because of false allegations leveled against him by a young lady and her attorney. I hope he is back in the NFL soon.”
The victim’s lawyer Dan Gilleon issued his own statement by saying the Bills ignored concerns he raised about Araiza when contacting the team in late July.
“The Buffalo Bills had no choice but to cut their young punter after so badly botching their response to our claim,” Gilleon said. “They ignored us, (when) I warned them would happen could be avoided if they just kept their heads in the sand. This is what enablers do.”
Beane said the team did as much as it could in getting as many details as possible, while noting many of the allegations were unavailable because the results of the San Diego police investigation has not been released. He said the team decided not to “rush to judgment” based on the information it had, while noting Araiza never changed his version of what happened.
“You want to give everyone as much due process as you can. Again, we’re not a judge and a jury,” Beane said.
The lawsuit filed in San Diego County Superior Court accused Araiza and two San Diego State teammates of raping a then-17-year-old girl at a Halloween party at an off-campus home where Araiza had been living.
The results of the police investigation are in the hands of the district attorney, though there is no timeline as to when a decision will be made on whether or not to press charges.
Executives from two different teams told The Associated Press they became aware of Araiza’s involvement in an incident during the draft process, but neither person knew the extent of the allegations. Executives from three other teams said they had no knowledge of the allegations against Araiza before the draft and only learned of the incident Thursday. All the people spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Beane said it was unclear who — Araiza or the victim’s lawyer, Gilleon — first informed the team of the allegations. As for the decision to not contact Gilleon for more information, Beane said the team’s attorney, Kathryn D’Angelo, “had heard what he had to say, and that’s when we began our process.”
Beane said Araiza’s version of what happened never changed.
“We’re not perfect. But I can tell you, we just tried to do what was right,” Beane said. “In our heart of hearts, I can lay my head down at night knowing that I’ve tried to do what’s right.”
The Bills also informed the NFL of the incident once they were made aware of it, a person familiar with the situation told The AP. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the matter, wasn’t certain of the timeline.
The NFL declined to comment except to say it was aware of the matter.
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Associated Press writer Julie Watson and AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi contributed to this report.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway was rained out Saturday night and rescheduled for Sunday.
The 400-mile race, the regular-season finale that will decide the last two playoff spots, will now begin at 10 a.m. EDT. It will air on CNBC. Weather forecasts call for 40% chance in the morning, increasing to 70% in the afternoon.
Fifteen drivers remain in the hunt for the postseason. Two spots are still open, although one of them will go to Ryan Blaney or Martin Truex Jr.
Aric Almirola, Chris Buescher, Harrison Burton, Cole Custer, Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Todd Gilliland, Justin Haley, Erik Jones, Brad Keselowski, Michael McDowell, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Bubba Wallace need to win to get into the 16-driver playoff field.
Blaney and Truex can advance without winning at Daytona. If Blaney or Truex wins at Daytona, the other automatically gets in on points. If one of the 14 drivers already locked into the postseason lands in victory lane, both Blaney and Truex would make it based on points. If there’s another new winner Sunday, whoever ends the race with more points between Blaney and Truex would advance.
This will be the third summer race at Daytona in recent years delayed a day. Events in 2014 and 2019 were postponed because of weather.
NASCAR officials moved the Daytona summer race from July to August in 2020 partly in hopes of avoid summer thunderstorms. The Xfinity race that started Friday night was delayed three hours before Jeremy Clements managed to avoid four late multicar crashed and reach victory lane for the first time since 2017 and second time in 421 races.
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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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5 things we learned from the weekend’s Premier League action
By PA Staff published
Arsenal remain top of the Premier League table after making it four wins out of four to start the season, but this weekend belonged to others.
Liverpool shook off some early season rust, Erling Haaland’s hat-trick helped Manchester City come from behind (again) and Manchester United’s revival continued at Southampton.
Here, the PA news agency picks out five things we learned this weekend.
Crisis over
WHAT. A. HIT. 🎯— Liverpool FC (@LFC) August 28, 2022
Defeat to Manchester United on Monday night seemed unthinkable for Liverpool, yet when it came it left Jurgen Klopp’s side without a victory after three games and already worringly off the pace. They could hardly have had better opposition this weekend considering their history against Bournemouth, but those already impressive records were broken in a 9-0 rout that ended any talk of a crisis at Anfield. The only surprise was Mo Salah’s failure to register either a goal or an assist – if the Egyptian had brought his shooting boots Liverpool would surely have hit double figures.
Size doesn’t matter
When Manchester United splashed out just shy of £50million – not including add-ons – to sign Lisandro Martinez from Ajax, many questioned the wisdom of trying a 5ft 9in centre-half in the Premier League. But after a rough introduction Martinez is now showing why Eric ten Hag brought him with him from the Eredivisie. Against Southampton he won every duel, leaving his mark on more than one Saints player, and alongside Raphael Varane showed why Harry Maguire may need to get used to a seat on the bench.
Bernardo shows his value
Top reaction from everyone today@ManCity 🔵 pic.twitter.com/153H0e8MfI— Bernardo Silva (@BernardoCSilva) August 27, 2022
Speaking in midweek, Pep Guardiola had left the door open for Bernardo Silva to leave Manchester City this week if the right offer came in. On Friday, he closed it – insisting the Portugal international was going nowhere. And on Saturday afternoon, it became clear why. Haaland took the headlines as his first Etihad goals came in a flood – three in 20 minutes – but it was Bernardo who led the way in dragging City back from 2-0 down to beat Crystal Palace 4-2, getting the first goal early in the second half and then driving City forward with the relentless running which has made him such an important part of Guardiola’s squad.
Villa discontent
There were boos at the final whistle on Sunday as Aston Villa slipped to a 1-0 defeat at home to West Ham, who had arrived in the west midlands winless to start the campaign. The attacking verve that was injected by the arrival of Philippe Coutinho midway through last season has faded, and Villa have lost three of their opening four games this season, nine of their last 15 in the Premier League. With high-flying Arsenal and defending champions Manchester City up next, things could get worse before they get better.
Gross earnings
The loss of Neal Maupay to Everton has highlighted Brighton’s need for attacking reinforcements, but only on paper. On the pitch, all is well for Graham Potter’s side, who are unbeaten in their last nine in the top flight and sit only two points off the summit after Saturday’s 1-0 win over Leeds. Pascal Gross, scorer of two goals at Manchester United on the opening weekend, was again on target, meaning he has now scored more goals in the first four games of this season than he did all of last term. “Pascal is probably performing at the level of his career,” Potter said. “Certainly his level since I’ve been working with him.”
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Celtic hit a new high away from home – what we learned in Scotland this weekend
By PA Staff published
Celtic’s 9-0 thrashing of Dundee United was the biggest result of the weekend in the cinch Premiership and the heaviest away win in the competition’s history.
The champions went back to the top of the table after Rangers’ 4-0 win over Ross County the previous day. There were also victories for Kilmarnock, Aberdeen, St Mirren and Hearts.
Here are five things we learned from the weekend’s action.
Dundee United are at rock bottom
The Terrors suffered their biggest ever Tannadice defeat and their heaviest loss since a 12-1 defeat by Motherwell in 1954. Manager Jack Ross likened his players to mannequins at some of Celtic’s goals. United have now conceded 23 goals in just four matches and sit at the foot of the table with one point from five games. Even at this early stage of his reign, Ross looks like a manager who needs a result in Wednesday’s Premier Sports Cup tie at Livingston.
Celtic are a level up
#KYOGO ⚽️⚽️⚽️🅰️#ABADA ⚽️⚽️⚽️🅰️#DUFCCEL | #cinchPrem | #COYBIG 🍀 pic.twitter.com/KvIStpxTpZ— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) August 28, 2022
The Hoops recorded their biggest win since beating Aberdeen by the same scoreline in 2010 and the most resounding away victory in their history. They looked like a side who were desperate for goals throughout and cut United open time and time again. With five wins and 21 goals from five matches, Ange Postecoglou’s league leaders have set themselves up well for Saturday’s visit of Rangers.
Aberdeen take another step forward
⚽ Ross McCrorie capping off his MOTM display with a fine finish.#StandFree | @RossMcCrorie4pic.twitter.com/ArqUE3nIes— Aberdeen FC (@AberdeenFC) August 28, 2022
The Dons had not recorded back-to-back league wins in 2022 before following up the previous week’s victory over St Johnstone with a 5-0 thrashing of Livingston. Jim Goodwin’s side took full advantage of Jack Fitzwater’s first-half red card to record their biggest Premiership win since 2017.
VAR cannot come quickly enough for managers
🎥 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓-𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐘— Ross County FC (@RossCounty) August 27, 2022
Dubious decisions dominated the Scottish football debate the previous weekend and there was another major flashpoint early in the game at Ibrox. Rangers defender James Sands had been already booked for a foul on Jordy Hiwula when he appeared to grab the Staggies striker to prevent him getting a clear run on goal. Referee Don Robertson took no action, a decision that Malky Mackay described as “inexplicable” while Gers boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst, who replaced Sands with Leon King at the interval, admitted his player was lucky to escape red.
Hearts’ squad tested to the limit
Fighting spirit in Gorgie 😍— Heart of Midlothian FC (@JamTarts) August 28, 2022
Adapting to the demands of European group stage football was always going to test Hearts, but they are not being helped by a spate of early-season injuries and suspensions. Key duo Craig Halkett and Stephen Kingsley have been hindered by fitness problems, and against St Johnstone on Sunday – with Alex Cochrane and Toby Sibbick suspended – Kye Rowles and Liam Boyce both ended up on crutches after going off with potentially serious injuries, while Nathaniel Atkinson also hobbled off. A makeshift defence featuring two midfielders (Peter Haring and Andy Halliday) plus a young player making his first start (Lewis Neilson) saw out a hard-fought 3-2 win for a team down to the bare bones.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Scottie Scheffler returned to East Lake on Sunday morning looking every bit like the No. 1 player, pulling away with four birdies in six holes to complete the third round with a 4-under 66 that gave him a six-shot lead in the Tour Championship.
Scheffler was delivering a steady diet of pars that put him in a tight battle with Xander Schauffele until a second stoppage due to lightning in the area Saturday. At the time, he was one shot ahead.
And then he was gone.
Scheffler holed birdie putts from about 5 feet on the 13th and 15th holes. He stuffed his approach to 2 feet on the 17th and then made a superb escape from the left rough over the water that left him a long pitch he nearly holed on the par-5 18th.
He tapped in to reach 23-under par. That left him one round away from the $18 million prize for winning the FedEx Cup.
Rory McIlroy birdied his last two holes for a 63 and will be in the final group with Scheffler. He was at 17 under along with Schauffele, who also had good looks for birdie and didn’t make any of them Sunday morning.
Defending champion Patrick Cantlay (66) and Sungjae Im (66) were seven shots behind.
Scheffler is the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup and was rewarded with a two-shot lead at 10-under par before the tournament started. He is 13 under for his raw score, which is tied for McIlroy for the best this week. McIlroy, however, was the No. 7 seed and began six shots behind.
Schauffele missed an 8-foot birdie putt on the 13th hole when they resumed the round. He sent his next tee shot so far to the right that he had to hit a provisional in case it was out-of-bounds. He found it, but wound up missing a 10-foot par putt to fall three behind.
And then on the par-3 15th, Scheffler hit his tee shot to 5 feet to a front left pin over the water. Schauffele also hit a good one to 10 feet and missed again.
Scheffler already has won four times this year, including the Masters, to reach No. 1 in the world and is considered a shoo-in for PGA Tour player of the year.
He won just over $14 million in the regular season — already a record, and not surprising given the steady rise in prize money. He won a $4 million bonus from the “Comcast Business Tour Top 10” for leading the FedEx Cup in the regular season, along with a $1 million bonus for winning the Aon Risk-Reward Challenge.
A victory Sunday afternoon would equate to a $37 million year for the 26-year-old Texas grad.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-3-1
(four, three, one)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-3-1
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Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia prices soar
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.
“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.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Joe Flacco threw a pick-6 and the New York Jets' starting offense mostly struggled while playing into the second quarter against mainly Giants defensive backups in a 31-27 victory Sunday.
Flacco, likely to open the regular season at quarterback for the injured Zach Wilson, made his preseason debut and finished 7 of 12 for 76 yards and an interception returned for a touchdown by Austin Calitro in his four series.
Jets fourth-stringer Chris Streveler led his third straight fourth-quarter winning drive. He marched the Jets (3-0) down the field in the waning moments and found a wide-open Calvin Jackson Jr. for the go-ahead 5-yard touchdown with 22 seconds left.
Streveler, a former CFL quarterback who had three previous NFL stints, was 10 of 13 for 96 yards and two TDs.
Jets coach Robert Saleh opted to give his starters on offense and defense some action in the preseason finale, while the Giants' Brian Daboll went with about half his starters on defense and none of his skill players on offense.
Tyrod Taylor started at quarterback for the Giants (2-1) with starter Daniel Jones watching from the sideline, but was carted from the sideline in the first quarter with a back injury. Taylor completed a 25-yard pass to rookie tight end Daniel Bellinger, but took a big hit from Jets rookie defensive end Micheal Clemons.
Taylor was 2 of 4 for 29 yards and an interception and was replaced by Davis Webb, who led four scoring drives.
The 37-year-old Flacco had a strong training camp, especially since replacing Wilson as the QB1 after the second-year quarterback suffered a bone bruise and torn meniscus in the preseason opener at Philadelphia. Wilson is out a few weeks after having arthroscopic surgery and it's uncertain if he'll be ready for Week 1 against Baltimore.
If not, it'll likely be Flacco, who hadn't played in the preseason before Sunday — and it looked as much for him and the rest of the starters against the Giants.
The Jets' first series ended on a fumble by running back Michael Carter. They punted on their second possession and got a 49-yard field goal from Greg Zuerlein on their third.
On the fourth, Flacco rolled right to avoid heavy pressure and made a poor throw to Carter that was easily picked off by Calitro, who returned it 35 yards for a TD to give the Giants a 10-3 lead with 12:18 remaining in the second quarter.
And that was it for Flacco and the starters.
WHITE'S RIGHT
Mike White replaced Flacco and led the Jets on touchdown drives on two of his three possessions to end the first half.
With the Jets trailing 10-3, White threw short to Braxton Berrios, who zipped into the end zone for a 21-yard touchdown to tie it.
White, looking much sharper than he had in the first two preseason games, marched the Jets down the field again and threw a 19-yard strike to Jeff Smith to make it 17-10 with 26 seconds left before halftime.
White finished 13 of 17 for 170 yards and the two TDs before being replaced by Streveler with 11:49 left.
STEPPING IN
Webb played the rest of the game after replacing Taylor and finished 30 of 38 for 202 yards and a touchdown.
After Jashaun Corbin's 1-yard tied it at 17 for the Giants with 9:16 left in the third quarter, Webb put them ahead when he hit Austin Allen for an 18-yard touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter
It was the second straight solid preseason outing for Webb, who threw two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter against Cincinnati last week.
DENZEL DOES IT
Denzel Mims, who requested to be traded by the Jets earlier in the week, had a diving 29-yard touchdown catch from Streveler with 7:19 left — possibly raising his value — to tie it at 24.
Mims had seven catches for 102 yards and the score.
KICKING IT
Ryan Santoso kicked a 49-yarder field to put the Giants ahead 27-24 with 2:02 left. Santoso was signed earlier this week because regular kicker Graham Gano suffered a concussion last week against the Bengals.
INJURIES
The Giants' Bellinger and DL Jalyn Holmes were ruled out with concussions after halftime.
UP NEXT
Giants: Open the regular season at Tennessee to take on the Titans on Sept. 11.
Jets: Host the Baltimore Ravens in the regular-season opener on Sept. 11.
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Pirates first. Oneil Cruz triples to deep center field. Ke'Bryan Hayes singles to right field. Oneil Cruz scores. Bryan Reynolds strikes out on a foul tip. Michael Chavis walks. Rodolfo Castro singles to shallow infield. Michael Chavis to second. Tucupita Marcano pops out to Edmundo Sosa.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Pirates 1, Phillies 0.
Pirates fourth. Rodolfo Castro strikes out swinging. Tucupita Marcano triples to deep right field. Greg Allen out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Noah Syndergaard to Alec Bohm. Tucupita Marcano scores. Bligh Madris flies out to right center field to Nick Castellanos.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Pirates 2, Phillies 0.
Pirates sixth. Bryan Reynolds triples to deep right field. Michael Chavis singles to left field. Bryan Reynolds scores. Rodolfo Castro singles to right field. Michael Chavis to third. Tucupita Marcano reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Rodolfo Castro to second. Michael Chavis scores. Greg Allen reaches on a fielder's choice to first base. Tucupita Marcano out at second. Rodolfo Castro to third. Bligh Madris doubles to deep right field. Rodolfo Castro scores. Jason Delay pops out to Edmundo Sosa.
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Paula Reto claims first LPGA title at CP Women's Open
Paula Reto held off Nelly Korda to win her first LPGA Tour title at the CP Women's Open on Sunday in Ottawa, Ontario.
Reto shot a 4-under-par 67 in the final round to tie up a 19-under 265 for the week. The South African set the course record at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club on Thursday with a first-round 62, but she entered Sunday trailing rookies Hye-Jin Choi and Na Rin An of South Korea by a stroke.
Reto birdied the first, third, sixth, eighth and ninth holes to shoot ahead to 20 under for the tournament. She played the back nine in 1 over, but by that point she had enough of a cushion to see the win through.
Her tap-in par at the par-5 18th secured the milestone victory.
"I was so nervous, oh my gosh," Reto said on the CBS broadcast. "Coming to the last hole, I (told myself) `OK, just calm your nerves.'"
The 32-year-old has played on the LPGA Tour since 2014. Her previous best finish was a third-place mark at the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic in her rookie year.
"I'm really happy, and it's been such a long time," Reto said. "I was like, `I hope one day I'll win.' You know? But it came true. A dream come true for sure."
Korda, the world No. 3, made a late push after playing the front nine in even par. She birdied No. 11 before holing out for an eagle at the par-4 12th, jumping to 17 under at the time.
After a bogey and two more birdies, Korda couldn't hole a birdie putt at either of the last two holes to tie Reto at 19 under. She also carded a 67 and tied for second with Choi (69).
Lydia Ko of New Zealand, ranked fourth in the world, rolled in birdies at each of her last four holes to shoot an 8-under 63, tied for the low round of the day. She finished alone in fourth at 17 under. A Lim Kim of South Korea (67) was fifth at 16 under.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — New York Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman will be placed on the injured list after getting an infection in his leg from a recent tattoo.
Manager Aaron Boone said before Saturday’s game against the Oakland Athletics that Chapman felt irritation in the leg on Thursday after getting the tattoo earlier in the week. The seven-time All-Star stayed back at the team hotel Friday and Saturday receiving antibiotics and getting treatment.
“It’s still significant enough,” Boone said. “He got a pretty bad infection.”
Chapman hasn’t pitched since Aug. 19 when he allowed one run in one-third of an inning against Toronto. Boone said Chapman had been available to pitch until Thursday when the leg started bothering him just before the start of the series opener against the A’s.
Boone said he doesn’t expect this to be a long-term issue but needs to wait to get a better sense of how much time Chapman will miss.
“Hopefully he’s good in several days,” Boone said. “We just have to get our arms around it. It got a little bit worse over the last few days.”
Boone said he didn’t have a problem with Chapman getting a tattoo during the season.
“It’s hard for me. I don’t have tattoos. That’s a personal choice,” Boone said. “This is more of an unfortunate situation that turned into an infection. My focus is on trying to get him right.”
Chapman was shaky early this season and was replaced as the Yankees’ closer after missing nearly six weeks with tendinitis in his left Achilles. He is 2-1 with a 5.40 ERA in 19 appearances since returning in early July, with 20 strikeouts in 16 2/3 innings.
The veteran left-hander is 2-3 with a 4.70 ERA and nine saves in 36 appearances this year.
The Yankees didn’t make an immediate corresponding roster move because they couldn’t get anyone out to the West Coast by Saturday. Boone expects to add an additional player in the next day or two.
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Mookie Betts homers again as Dodgers beat Marlins 8-1
MIAMI (AP) — Mookie Betts homered for the third straight game, Julio Urías pitched six sparkling innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Miami Marlins 8-1 on Sunday.
Justin Turner and Max Muncy had three hits apiece for the NL West-leading Dodgers, who are 28-8 since the All-Star break.
Betts, who also doubled and singled, homered for the fourth time in the series. The six-time All-Star went deep twice in Friday’s 10-6 victory, and then connected again in Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Sandy Alcantara and Miami.
“It’s been a good couple of days, things are going well,” Betts said. “The pitches I’ve been getting to hit, I’m hitting them. Sometimes you’re going to swing out of the zone but that kind of comes with being aggressive so you just live with it.”
Urías (14-7) allowed one hit — Brian Anderson’s sixth homer in the fourth — struck out seven and walked four. The left-hander has won 11 of his last 12 decisions.
“I don’t like giving bases on balls and I gave up too many today,” Urías said. “I go out to give 100 percent effort. We know there’s tremendous talent offensively and they picked me up today.”
Brusdar Graterol, Chris Martin and Alex Vesia then finished the two-hitter for Los Angeles.
The Dodgers jumped in front on Betts’ 31st homer and Turner’s RBI single in the first.
Edward Cabrera’s string of 22 2/3 scoreless innings ended when Betts drove his third pitch over the wall in center for his 36th career leadoff shot.
“It was kind of a 9 (a.m.) kind of game for us so that kind of woke us up a little bit,” Betts said of his shot in the noon Eastern start. “Like I said, I do whatever I can to help us win.”
Betts is 8 of 15 in the first three games of the series, but Dodgers manager Dave Roberts plans to rest him in the finale Monday.
“Four days on the turf isn’t ideal,” Roberts said. “It seems like every swing he takes is center cut so I think the challenge for me is to recognize that but resist the urge to run him out there every single day.”
Trayce Thompson made it 3-0 when his leadoff drive in the second bounced off the foul pole in left for his seventh homer.
Los Angeles added three more runs with two out in the sixth. Austin Barnes hit a two-run single off Tommy Nance, and Betts singled home Thompson.
“Really the big hit for them was Barnes,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “We’re still in the game there and still have some innings there to score. If we can get an out there that would end up leading to three more runs because Mookie gets a hit to give them that extra run. The hill we’re trying to climb gets a lot steeper.”
Cabrera (4-2) was lifted after 5 2/3 innings. The rookie right-hander gave up six runs and five hits.
“I’m just learning that I can never let my guard down when you face a lineup like that, which is super aggressive,” Cabrera said.
SCARE FOR TURNER
Trea Turner was struck in the helmet by a 96-mph sinker from Cabrera in the fifth but stayed in the game. As soon as he reached first, Turner took off for second on Cabrera’s first pitch to Freddie Freeman and successfully stole his 21st base of the season.
“Anytime you’re missing up there it’s serious,” Roberts said. “He assured us that he’s fine.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: INF Gavin Lux (neck issue) started after a four-game absence and went hitless in four plate appearances. … RHP Blake Treinen (right shoulder discomfort) is slated to pitch again Sunday as he continues his minor league rehab stint. Treinen threw a scoreless inning with Triple-A Oklahoma City on Saturday.
Marlins: RHP Sixto Sánchez (right shoulder inflammation) will undergo an MRI on Monday. … OF Jorge Soler (low back spasms) hit in the cage Friday and showed no discomfort.
UP NEXT
Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin (16-1, 2.10 ERA) starts the finale of the four-game series on Monday night. Right-hander Pablo López (8-8, 3.66 ERA) pitches for the Marlins.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 28, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
North Central Brewster County in southwestern Texas...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 256 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
mainly rural areas of North Central Brewster County
This includes the following streams and drainages...
Burnt House Creek and Peña Colorado Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
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(NEXSTAR) – Millions of federal student loan borrowers will soon receive thousands in debt relief under a new plan revealed by the Biden administration on Wednesday.
While many aspects about the plan remain unclear, there are a few questions we can answer. One of those is whether forgiveness will be considered taxable income.
It’s a reasonable concern – the maximum relief available of $10,000 or $20,000 (depending on if you received a Pell Grant while in college) could be enough to move some borrowers into a different tax bracket if it’s considered taxable income.
Thankfully, according to the White House, any relief you receive won’t be treated as taxable income for federal income tax purposes.
This is due to the American Rescue Plan.
When Congress passed the American Rescue Plan shortly after President Biden took office in 2021, it eliminated taxes on loan forgiveness through 2025.
Here are three other things you should know about Biden’s plan to forgive millions of dollars in student loan debt.
Payment pause to end
If your entire loan balance won’t be erased – which is likely for some 23 million borrowers – President Biden has extended the payment pause through the end of the year.
But, come January 1, 2023, interest will begin accruing again, and regular payments will resume. He has indicated the pause will not be extended again.
Made payments? You can get a refund
If you’ve voluntarily made payments since March 2020, when payments were paused, you can request a refund for those payments, according to the Federal Office of Student Aid.
Contact your loan servicer to request a refund.
When will you see relief?
When and how student loan forgiveness will be distributed hasn’t yet been made clear.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, nearly 8 million borrowers may qualify for relief automatically based on the income data the department already has. If the Education Department doesn’t have your income data, or you’re unsure if the agency has it, there isn’t much to do right now.
Instead, you’ll need to wait for the Biden administration to launch an application process, which will be available “in the coming weeks.” The application will be available before the student loan repayment pause ends on December 31.
You can register to be notified when the application is available through the Department of Education by filling out this form.
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Autophagy, self eating, – it’s actually a thing.
All animals have to deal with food lack to some extent, because of changing food resources, or migration. The bar-tailed godwit, an arctic bird, can go for more than a week and fly 6000 miles without eating. (1)
One way to deal with lack of food is by slowing metabolism to burn fewer calories – hibernation. The black bear can hibernate for 5 months without eating and can convert urea in their urine to proteins to reduce muscle loss. Obviously olympically migrating birds are not hibernating but another way to survive food deprivation is to eat yourself for a while. That’s more than just burning fat stores. This ‘self-eating’ process to provide energy when nutrients are scarce also rids the cell of intracellular misfolded proteins or damaged organelles and can rejuvenate organs. Autophagy may make periods of fasting beneficial. Though depending on fat stores, most animals, including humans, can only go for a few months without eating.
Some eels however, can shrink by more than 50% and go for 4 years without eating. So they represent a good candidate for studying the genes and the action of those genes for autophagy. (2) Like salmon, eels can migrate from saltwater in the oceans into fresh water rivers. In eels the response to autophagy also controls their sex. Eel sex is not determined by chromosomes or manifest at birth. Another reason to study eels is that despite their amazing powers of self preservation, many species are going extinct. They have a panel of autophagy-related genes (atg) for maintenance and control of self eating during periods of fasting. Many of these genes are also widely found in the animal kingdom and even in yeast where they were first studied.
Understanding the dynamics and control of autophagy may offer a back door to weight loss in the treatment of obesity and also a way to increases longevity without hunger. But in the meantime there’s no substitute to avoid the pain of fasting, something we probably had to do often in the past but never do anymore. I wonder if Muslims who practice periodic fasting during the month of Ramadan live longer.
1. Stone D. Animal appetites. National Geographic 2014(May)p24.
2. Bolliet V, et al. Modeling of autophagy-related gene expression dynamics during long term fasting in European eel (Anguilla anguilla). Scientific Reports 7, Article no: 17896 (December, 2017) | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/opinion/79185/fat-science-eating-yourself | 2022-08-28T21:37:59Z | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/opinion/79185/fat-science-eating-yourself | true |
IRONTON – Ohio University Southern Art Gallery will feature an exhibition of Harold K. Edwards paintings beginning Monday, August 22, with a closing reception on September 15 at 5 p.m.
“In all the arts, it seems that the visual artist’s statements are the most grievous of attempts to mix means of expression,” Edwards said about his work.
This exhibition will feature a collection of paintings that will be on display in Dingus Technology Center located on OHIO Southern’s campus. Edwards’s paintings have been exhibited in various art galleries across the country, including the Main Art Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, and the Marion Parson Alden Gallery at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Most recently his paintings were showcased at the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center located in Portsmouth, Ohio.
“Creative people must choose a process in which they feel comfortable,” Edwards said. “It is my belief that a great number of visual artists have chosen their media because their skills in that field are stronger than their verbal skills. To ask a visual artist to explain verbally their works seems akin to fitting square pegs into round holes.”
Edward received a Bachelor of Arts in Education from West Virginia State University and a Master of Arts in Humanities from Marshall University. He began his career as a teacher, with positions at Kanawha County Schools and Lincoln County schools in West Virginia. As his career evolved, Edwards held multiple higher education level positions. He served as an interior architecture instructor at Ohio University, and an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Art.
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There is a montage in “ Me Time,” the new Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg Netflix comedy, where Hart’s character Sonny gets a day to himself for the first time in a long time. For years, he’s devoted himself as a stay-at-home dad to his two kids (the very cute Che Tafari and Amentii Sledge). It's a job he takes very, very seriously, making Instagram influencer-worthy lunches and managing the home while his wife Maya (Regina Hall) is working. She’s a successful architect, we’re told, but we’ll get to that later.
Sonny has a modest vision for his day off: He wants to golf. He wants to find an underground barbeque spot. And he wants to do a few other things in private. But nothing goes the way he hoped it would. Unfortunately, his underwhelming experience is similar to that of watching the film itself. “Me Time” somehow squanders a solid premise, a stacked cast and a seemingly unlimited budget. It didn’t need to be anything great in this movie comedy drought we seem to be in. But considering who was involved, it really should be better than it is.
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“Me Time” was written and directed by John Hamburg, who also did “I Love You, Man” and “Along Came Polly,” and it is as fine a premise as any to pair a standard straight man with a wild and crazy friend from his youth. In this case that friend is Huck (Wahlberg). We meet them celebrating Huck’s 29th birthday. His wild activity that year is BASE jumping, which provides a lively and promising start for the film that then comes to a complete halt. “Me Time” cuts to 15 years later and spends far too much time establishing Sonny’s home life instead of just getting him back with Huck as soon as possible.
As Huck, Wahlberg was clearly ready to go all out, including some nudity. He gets to be a high-rolling party fiend, which has its moments even though his character never really makes much sense. Hart, meanwhile, stays in his comfort zone as a slightly frazzled family man. It's something he's very good at, but also something we've seen many times before. Still, it's nice to see both try a different comedy partner out instead of their go-to co-stars. And though the two actors seem to be having fun together, the film never really finds its lane, frenetically jumping from half-baked bit to bit, too many of which involve someone sticking something down their pants.
There’s always a bit of fantasy involved when it comes to the financial realities of characters in big Hollywood comedies. It is often used to signal a middle to upper middle-class life that is comfortable without being flashy. It is relatable and slightly aspirational and something that is just supposed to be background. Perhaps it’s just a sign of the times, when so many are struggling and housing in big cities like Los Angeles is more expensive than ever, but in “Me Time,” the wealth on display is downright distracting.
Huck’s costly lifestyle and elaborate Kardashian-like parties turn into a bit of a plot point when a loan shark (Jimmy O. Yang) comes after him for $47,000 — which seems like a lot but also not enough for someone who shells out thousands of dollars to have a personal raw bar in the desert and a tour bus wrapped with pictures of himself. And then there’s the perplexing question of why Maya, who her billionaire client (Luis Gerardo Méndez) says is “the best architect in the world,” lives in a cookie cutter Sherman Oaks home that looks like it’s been lifted out of a 1990s sitcom. Maya is just one of the very underwritten characters at play here, and Hall definitely deserved better.
These are all quibbles that would be beside the point if this movie was consistently fun or funny, which is frustrating because you can see the possibilities here. “Me Time” just missed the mark.
“Me Time,” a Netflix release streaming Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for “brief drug use, some sexual material, language.” Running time: 104 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
MPA Definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. | https://www.nwitimes.com/in-me-time-wahlberg-and-hart-make-some-trouble/article_74d2bf5c-39a2-5d5f-9bfb-fa9637a50151.html | 2022-08-28T21:40:27Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/in-me-time-wahlberg-and-hart-make-some-trouble/article_74d2bf5c-39a2-5d5f-9bfb-fa9637a50151.html | true |
DUBLIN (AP) — In the postgame analysis, free beer at the Nebraska-Northwestern game in Ireland was the right call.
The freebies flowed for two hours during Northwestern’s 31-28 victory on Saturday, and the catering company for Aviva Stadium hailed its workers for keeping the refreshments coming.
Levy UK + Ireland said Sunday the problem was with its payment provider, and not with the stadium’s internet connection.
“Due to technical issues caused by our payment provider, SumUp, we were unable to process card transactions for two hours at Aviva Stadium,” the company said in a statement.
It said the problem “was solely down to the external network system which the payment provider operates on to process transactions. This was not a technical issue isolated to Aviva Stadium or indeed Ireland.” The stadium went cashless in 2021.
Levy, a sports and hospitality caterer whose other clients include English Premier League soccer clubs, did not give an estimate of lost revenue.
“Our team at Aviva Stadium were extremely quick to ensure that the fan experience was upheld and food and beverage kiosks were kept open serving customers for the entirety of this period,” it said. “We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this caused customers and would like to thank our employees at Aviva Stadium for the spirit they showed in keeping everything going.”
SumUp posted on its Twitter account minutes before kickoff that it was “experiencing issues with logins, payments, and other services.” Two hours later, it posted that the problem was resolved. It apologized to clients “for any disruption to your day.”
Ronan McGowan got “three or four” plastic cups of Guinness “but it took 40 minutes, I missed the game. It wasn’t good. In fairness, most people didn’t have cash. They did the right thing, under the circumstances.”
McGowan said people were also “ordering a lot of drinks,” which slowed everything.
Nebraska fan Elena Kuiper was already in line when she realized the beer was free. Afterward, she said “news traveled fast.” Her husband, Scott, said a man sitting next to him moved quickly.
“He took off right away and went up there to go get one,” he said Sunday at Dublin Airport.
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(The Car Connection) — More 2023 models roll into dealer lots, and automakers this week disclosed the pricing on new and carryover models. Without exception and as news to no one, prices are up year over year, ranging from only $500 on the 2023 Ford Ranger to more than $7,000 on the 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning.
GM followed up the launch of the redesigned 2023 Chevrolet Colorado last week with the launch of the related 2023 GMC Canyon this week, positioning it as GM’s off-road mid-size pickup truck. Here’s what else we covered.
The redesigned mid-size pickup separates itself from the Chevy Colorado with a 310-hp turbo-4, one crew cab and short bed configuration, and an off-road attitude.
The three-row SUV with seats for seven is best with the V-6, which helps it earn a TCC Rating of 6.5 out of 10.
Cadillac’s smallest crossover has good acceleration and a comfortable ride that overshadows a dull interior design to earn a TCC Rating of 6.2 out of 10.
The quirky Cooper rolls on in two-door, four-door, hard top, convertible, and electric versions, but trimmed availability limit its TCC Rating upside to 6.0 out of 10.
GMC’s take on the heavy duty pickup truck adds up to nicer finishes in the cabin, and other available features. It earns a TCC Rating of 7.0 out of 10.
2023 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD review
Chevy’s heavy duty pickup trucks can be had in multiple cab and bed configurations, and tow enough in diesel form to qualify as a commercial work horse. It earns a TCC Rating of 6.3 out of 10. | https://who13.com/automotive/2023-gmc-canyon-2023-cadillac-xt6-top-new-car-news-and-reviews/ | 2022-08-28T21:41:20Z | https://who13.com/automotive/2023-gmc-canyon-2023-cadillac-xt6-top-new-car-news-and-reviews/ | false |
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