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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows revealed on Friday he has been dealing with mental health issues along with physical ailments and will not play again this season.
“This season has been an unfortunate struggle with a series of injuries and illness, from dealing with vertigo early on, then COVID, then bilateral tendinitis in my Achilles, and then having to go through the rehab process each time,” he posted on social media. “What I have told very few people is that I also have been struggling with my mental health in a way that has extended my time away from the game I love so much.”
Detroit manager A.J. Hinch has known of Meadows’ mental health issues for several weeks. Meadows addressed the subject with teammates on Friday.
“I’ve spent a lot of time with Austin in the last couple of weeks,” Hinch said. “We’ll offer him all the support we can, and we have been.”
Meadows has appeared in 36 games this season, batting .250 with no homers and 11 RBIs. He was acquired from Tampa Bay in a trade at the end of spring training to give the Tigers’ lineup an offensive boost. Meadows had 27 home runs and 106 RBIs last season for the Rays.
“He’s going to continue to be around the team when we’re home and continue to work with the people behind the scenes,” Hinch said. “He’s on a great path. He surrounded by a lot of great people. He’s got a ton of support and his statement speaks for itself.”
Meadows added in his statement that he hopes his decision to go public will encourage others dealing with mental health problems “to reach out to someone for help.”
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
137 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south Texas, including the following
counties, Duval and Jim Wells.
* WHEN...Until 230 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 137 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1.5 and 2.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Diego, Benavides, Rosita and San Jose.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Keep children away from storm drains, culverts, creeks and streams.
Water levels can rise rapidly and sweep children away.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the Artemis I launch scrub Saturday from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency will hold a media briefing no earlier than 4 p.m. EDT on Saturday Sept. 3, to discuss mission status. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson provided initial remarks following the scrub.
Artemis I is a flight test to launch NASA's Space Launch System rocket and an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon before the Artemis II mission with astronauts aboard.
The briefing will livestream on NASA Television and the agency's app. Watch on the agency's website at:
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, NASA's Artemis launch director, waived off the Artemis I launch attempt at approximately 11:17 a.m. Teams encountered a liquid hydrogen leak while loading the propellant into the rocket's core stage. Multiple troubleshooting efforts to address the area of the leak by reseating a seal in the quick disconnect where liquid hydrogen is fed into the rocket did not fix the issue. Engineers are continuing to gather additional data.
The following individuals are confirmed to participate in the news briefing at this time, with additional participants to be determined:
- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
- Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters
To participate by telephone, media must RSVP by the start of the call to: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars.
For updates, follow along on NASA's Artemis blog.
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Karen Wright: Taking on the British Bake Off challenge with delicious food
It is four years this week since I surprised my family and friends by appearing on the Great British Bake Off.
Karen Wright writes: The way I managed to get chosen for the show is one story but the things that I have got up to since then is quite another!
I find it quite remarkable how much I have evolved since then and how much more confidence I have now.
This pushes me to take on challenges and just have a go.
Earlier this year I was asked if I could put together a cooking demonstration using produce that can easily be grown in pots.
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The event was called ‘from pot to plate’ and was to be held at the Unitarian chapel on Westgate.
It went ahead last week but instead of using the lovely garden there, we had to move inside as it was pouring with rain.
It was wonderful. What a unique place to be cooking.
It was fabulous and once again I learned so much from the experience.
This has spurred me on to look for opportunities to do this sort of work elsewhere.
I cooked/prepared six dishes, pretty much at the same time.
It took about one and a half hours to complete.
During that time, I was chatting with the audience, and we had great conversations around food, produce and cooking tips.
The produce I used was primarily tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, French beans and aubergine.
I chopped peppers, courgette and aubergine into thick chunks.
I sizzled them for a few minutes in a bit of oil in a frying pan.
Then I put them into a shallow oven proof dish and added thickly sliced tomatoes and some slices of par cooked potatoes.
I add some chopped up garlic, salt and pepper and lots of oregano.
I drizzled a bit of oil on top and then covered the dish.
Then, I baked it in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes.
I then removed the cover and poured in some hot vegetable stock, about 500ml.
I added a handful of green beans and cooked it until the liquid had absorbed.
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At least eight migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days of heavy rains that had resulted in particularly swift currents. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered two others, according to a CBP statement.
The agency said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody. Officials on both sides of the border continue searching for any possible victims, the CBP said.
CPB did not say what country or countries the migrants were from and did not provide any additional information on the rescue or search. Local agencies in Texas that were involved did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.
The Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000.
The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them in families with young children. About 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector in July were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CPB said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
Surveys by the U.N. International Organization for Migration and others point to rising fatalities as the number of crossing attempts have soared. In the last three decades, thousands have died attempting to enter the United States from Mexico, often from dehydration or drowning.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
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Micky Dolenz, the last-surviving member of the 1960s band The Monkees, is suing the FBI to get any files and reports generated by the bureau over the years, pertaining to him, his deceased bandmates, or the band more generally.
In the complaint, Dolenz's attorneys say the musician submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request on June 14. After receiving an automate notice of receipt from the agency, he has received no further responses.
Under the law, all federal agencies are obligated to respond to a FOIA request within 20 business days. That does not include notifications of receipt. However, the Department of Justice website says there is a massive backlog of requests for the FBI and that "it simply cannot" respond within the specified time period.
Dolenz alleges that during the height of the band's fame, the group interacted with other musicians and artists who were known to be tracked by the FBI, including The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.
The FBI website does state that "references to the band appear in two places in FBI files: a 1967 Los Angeles Field Office memorandum on anti-Vietnam war activities and a second document redacted entirely."
The site includes a PDF of the latter documents, written on March 26, 1967, in reference to the band's tour in the U.S. The report states the band projected "subliminal messages" which mirrored "left wing" political leanings. These messages included "riots in Berkley, anti-U.S. messages on the war in Vietnam, racial riots in Selma, Alabama, and similar messages which had received unfavorable response from the audience."
The Justice Department declined to comment for this story. The FBI says it has no comment to offer on pending litigation.
The Monkees, was a band formed in 1966 Los Angeles and conceived for a television comedy series of the same name. It ran for two years, during which the band enjoyed several popular hits, including "I'm a Believer", and "Daydream Believer."
The four-man rock and pop band included Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones. They finally broke up in 1970.
In his complaint, Dolenz's lawyers state that whatever information is turned over from the FBI may be used in original work, including a film, book, or documentary.
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Local church group offers hope to families coping with Northside stabbing
By Shanteya Hudson, Christopher Fenton
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JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County (WLOS) — A local group finds ways to comfort families impacted by the fatal stabbing at Northside High School in Jacksonville—as they make their way back into the community for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thursday as some members of the Onslow’s Jehovah’s Witnesses set out to begin knocking on doors, they were shocked to be greeted by some students still shaken, and now hope they can help others in the community who want to find comfort in the Bible.
“It was a surprise to get those alerts and hear what’s going on from the news,” said Jonathan Ruffin
For the first time in 30 months members Jonathan and Allyson Ruffin from Onslow County’s Jehovah’s Witnesses set out door to door— as many families try to cope with the loss of one student after a stabbing at Northside High.
“One of the early doors that we talked to be a student; she was home because the school had sent everyone home, and she was actually still shaking and one of groups spoke to her,” says d Jonathan Ruffin.
The shaken student, an example of just how much the events affected so many.
“I’m feeling really sad for the community to have to deal with that tragedy—the community here in Jacksonville, they are feeling it; so it’s horrible for them to have to go through that and hard for us to see people suffering,” said Allyson Ruffin.”
But in those moments the words exchanged between the student, family and Kingdom Hall members were ones— Ruffin said helped provide comfort and hope.
“She was able to offer some comfort to the little girl—the scriptures they shared was comforting,” said Jonathan.
Allyson said it’s their way of helping others through tough times.
“I think that people are look for explanations about what’s going on why and where things are headed, and all that we try to do is let people know that can be provided in God’s word.”
And it’s this type of impact they said they hope to continue to provide to people in the area —who want it.
“That’s why we do what we do; that’s why we go door to door because we want people to feel comfortable to express their anxieties and then receive the comfort that we are trying to offer—it means a lot to be a part of that,” said Allyson.
The two say they hope they can continue to make an impact in the community and provide people a way to connect with their Kingdom Hall.
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TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT
Marine Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
151 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WATERS...
The areas affected include...
Waters from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas from 20 to 60 NM...
Waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship Channel from 20 to 60
NM...
At 148 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated strong thunderstorms, capable
of producing winds to around 25 knots and a brief waterspouts. These
thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 39 nm
southwest of Brazos A110 to 30 nm east of Malaquite Beach, moving
north at 10 knots.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Mariners can expect gusty winds to around 25 knots, locally higher
waves, and lightning strikes. Boaters should seek safe harbor
immediately until these storms pass.
LAT...LON 2710 9634 2718 9680 2744 9687 2751 9683
2763 9600 2739 9598 2735 9602 2711 9619
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
217 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge affecting Presidio
County.
.River cresting and will fall below flood stage late tonight.
Additional heavy rain will cause additional rises.
For the Rio Grande...including Presidio International Bridge,
Presidio 5SE...Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 1000 PM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge.
* WHEN...Until late tonight.
* IMPACTS...At 12.0 feet (3.7 meters), the river reaches bankfull,
after which the flood plain between the levees begins to flood.
No damage is expected.
At 15.5 feet (4.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage,
and flooding between the levees occurs. No damage to structures
is expected.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Friday the stage was 15.4 feet (4.7 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
Friday, September 02 to a crest of 16.2 feet (4.9 meters)
early this morning. It will then fall below flood stage early
this morning.
- Flood stage is 15.5 feet (4.7 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
25.8 feet (7.9 meters) on 09/30/1978.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Rio Grande
Presidio Internation 15.5 15.4 Fri 7pm 16.8 14.5 12.8 12.1
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio Internation 4.7 4.7 Fri 7pm 5.1 4.4 3.9 3.7
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Lubbock County in northwestern Texas...
Northwestern Lynn County in northwestern Texas...
Northeastern Terry County in northwestern Texas...
Southeastern Hockley County in northwestern Texas...
* Until 245 PM CDT.
* At 217 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles west of
Slide, or 12 miles southwest of Lubbock, moving southwest at 10
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Slide, Meadow, Ropesville and New Home.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring
with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of
nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are
close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southern Beauregard,
western Calcasieu and west central Allen Parishes, southwestern
Newton and northeastern Orange Counties through 300 PM CDT...
At 218 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Singer to near Gist. Movement was
southeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Orange, Vidor, West Orange, Vinton, Reeves, Deweyville, Starks,
Mauriceville, De Quincy, Ragley, Gist, Longville, Pinehurst, Lunita,
Buhler, Hartburg, Forest Heights, Toomey, Edgerly and Oretta.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 880 and 867.
Interstate 10 in Louisiana between mile markers 1 and 12.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3065 9335 3057 9298 3002 9376 3021 9406
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 294DEG 19KT 3059 9336 3023 9393
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Castolon.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet (4.0 meters), the river reaches bankfull,
and no significant damage is expected.
At 15.0 feet (4.6 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage,
and lowland flooding begins. The river begins to flood the road
between Santa Elena Canyon and Cottonwood Campground in Big Bend
National Park. The river begins to flood the parking lot at Santa
Elena Canyon, and cut off the nature trail into the canyon.
Campers in Cottonwood Campground need to prepare for possible
evacuations.
At 19.0 feet (5.8 meters), the river reaches moderate flood stage,
and begins flooding Cottonwood Campground. The river inundates
the restrooms upstream at Santa Elena Canyon parking lot. The
river begins to close all area roads.
- At 8:15 AM CDT Saturday the stage was 16.7 feet (5.1 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 8:15 AM CDT Saturday was 16.7 feet (5.1 meters).
- Forecast...The river will rise to 18.0 feet (5.5 meters) this
afternoon. It will then fall this evening. It will rise to
16.9 feet (5.2 meters) tomorrow morning. It will then fall
below flood stage tomorrow afternoon.
- Flood stage is 15.0 feet (4.6 meters).
24.7 feet (7.5 meters) on 09/27/1958.
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Castolon 15.0 16.7 Sat 8am 14.8 15.8 15.6 13.9
Castolon 4.6 5.1 Sat 8am 4.5 4.8 4.8 4.2
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If this is how exciting Lafayette College football is going to be in the John Troxell Era, plenty of blood pressure medication may be required.
The Leopards got their new coach a win in his debut at Fisher Stadium Saturday afternoon and the margin of victory was a mere inches.
Lafayette made a defensive stand in the final seconds, and held out Malik Grant mere inches from the end zone on the game’s final play to preserve a 6-0 nonleague victory over Sacred Heart.
Free safety Saiku White made the stop to make freshman quarterback Ryan Schuster’s 18-yard run with 10:12 left in the third quarter stand as the game-winning, and lone points of a defensive struggle.
Lafayette was limited to just 113 yards in total offense and a mere 8 yards passing, but it was enough thanks to a stout defense effort that recovered a pair of fumbles and held the defending Northeast Conference champs to 310 yards on offense.
It was the lowest point total in a Lafayette game since a 3-0 at Penn in 1980.
This is a developing story, more to come later.
Villanova 45, Lehigh 17
The good news is that the Lehigh football program didn’t have to wait until its seventh game to score a touchdown in 2022 as it did in 2021.
The bad news is that the Mountain Hawks struggled to stay with nationally-ranked Villanova in their season opener Friday night.
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The Wildcats, ranked No. 5 in one national FCS poll and No. 6 in another, scored the game’s first 24 points. Lehigh fought back to within 31-17 but fell 45-17. It was Lehigh’s 10th straight loss to Villanova and 12th consecutive defeat to a Colonial Athletic Association opponent.
Wildcat quarterback Connor Watkins completed 11-of-15 passes for 298 yards and three touchdowns to lead the way for Villanova.
Junior QB Dante Perri went 22-of-39 for 227 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for Lehigh. He spread the ball to nine different receivers. The Mountain Hawks also ran the ball better than they did at any point last year, rushing for 181 yards on 38 attempts. Sophomore Gaige Garcia led with 59 yards on 10 carries and carries. Junior Jack DiPietro added 53 yards on 12 attempts.
“I’m proud of how the offensive line played overall,” Lehigh coach Tom Gilmore said. “We had two freshmen that had to start because of some injuries that came up late in camp, but I thought they went out and competed. We can be better and I think that we’re going to get better, but the offensive line played really hard and did a lot of good things.”
The praise was more muted for Lehigh’s defense.
“Defensively we made some huge mistakes,” Gilmore said. “We came out of coverages on some scrambles. We got caught up on some RPOs that we see every day at practice. We left some guys wide open, which you never want to see as a coach.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday announced a more than $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan as U.S.-China tensions escalate over the status of the island.
The $1.09 billion sale includes $355 million for Harpoon air-to-sea missiles and $85 million for Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, the State Department said.
The largest portion of the sale, however, is a $655 million logistics support package for Taiwan’s surveillance radar program, which provides air defense warnings. Early warning air defense systems have become more important as China has stepped up military drills near Taiwan, which it regards as a renegade province.
The State Department said the equipment is necessary for Taiwan to “maintain a sufficient self-defense capability.” The administration notified Congress of the sale after close of business on Friday.
The administration said the deals comply with the U.S. one-China policy. It also urged Beijing ”to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan.”
Laura Rosenberger, the White House’s senior director for China and Taiwan, said late Friday that as China “continues to increase pressure on Taiwan — including through heightened military air and maritime presence around Taiwan — and engages in attempts to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, we’re providing Taiwan with what it needs to maintain its self-defense capabilities.”
The acrimony and strident rhetoric between the U.S. and China over Taiwan have increased sharply since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island last month. Since Pelosi’s trip to Taipei there have been at least two other congressional visits and several by governors of U.S. states, all of which China has condemned.
On Thursday, Taiwan’s military said it shot down a drone hovering over one of its island outposts just off the Chinese coast in an incident that underscored the heightened tensions. A day earlier, Taiwan said it had warned off drones hovering over three of the islands it occupies off the coast of the Chinese port city of Xiamen.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory, to be annexed by force if necessary. The sides split after a civil war in 1949 and have no official relations, with China cutting off even informal contacts following the election of independence-leaning Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in 2016.
Tsai’s administration has pushed for a strengthening of anti-drone defenses as part of a 12.9% increase in its Defense Ministry’s annual budget next year. That would boost defense spending by an additional 47.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($1.6 billion), for a total of 415.1 billion NTD ($13.8 billion).
The U.S. described Chinese drills last month as a severe overreaction and responded by sailing two guided missile cruisers through the Taiwan Strait, which China has declared to be its sovereign waters. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-us-to-ok-1b-arms-sale-to-taiwan-as-tensions-rise-with-china/ | 2022-09-03T20:09:54Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-us-to-ok-1b-arms-sale-to-taiwan-as-tensions-rise-with-china/ | false |
Dozens of ancient artifacts investigators believe were looted have been seized from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The office seized 27 artifacts from the Met using three search warrants. They will be repatriated to their countries of origin, a spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg told CNN.
“We have two repatriation ceremonies next week, one with Italy and one with Egypt,” the spokesperson told CNN. “Fifty-eight objects will go back to Italy, 21 from the Met. Sixteen to Egypt, six from the Met.”
Bragg’s office did not detail where the other artifacts were seized from, nor did it describe the artifacts seized.
“It should be no secret to collectors, art museums and auction houses that they may be in possession of pieces from known traffickers that were illegally looted,” Bragg said. “The investigations conducted by my office have clearly exposed these networks and put into the public domain a wealth of information the art world can proactively use to return antiquities to where they rightfully belong.”
“Our investigations, which have led to the repatriation of nearly 2,000 objects, will continue,” he added.
CNN has reached out to the Met for comment.
The effort to return cultural artifacts to their home countries after being illegally sold to private collectors or museums has been ongoing. In August, New York officials returned 30 antiquities to Cambodia, including a 10th-century Khmer sculptural “masterpiece.”
In 2021, the Met returned three African art objects, including a pair of 16th-century Benin brass plaques, to Nigeria. The move came after European museums began returning stolen African art to their native countries following mounting pressure to return the irreplaceable artifacts plundered during colonial times.
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Ndam, 23, joins the team from Red Bulls II, where he appeared in five matches this season.
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By JOHN HANNA
AP Political Writer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly wasted little time after a decisive victory in Kansas for abortion rights before sending out a national fundraising email warning that access to the procedure would be “on the chopping block” if her party did not win in the November elections.
But her message to voters at large as she heads into the fall campaign is dramatically different, even as Democrats in other states stress abortion access as an issue.
A few days after her abortion-related fundraising email, Kelly’s team suggested she would be focusing her reelection campaign on the state’s now-healthy finances, robust funding for public schools and high-profile promises by businesses to create jobs.
Democrats are split over whether it’s the best strategy in a tough race against Republican Derek Schmidt, the three-term state attorney general. Kelly still has to win over some independents and moderate Republicans in her solidly red state, and although abortion access can attract centrist voters and drive turnout, it’s the economy — and the pinch at the grocery store from inflation — that remains a big concern for them.
“She needs to pull people from all kinds of areas,” said Joan Wagnon, a former Topeka mayor, state lawmaker and Kansas Democratic Party chair. While Kelly can use abortion as an issue to her advantage, Wagnon said, “I don’t think it’s the centerpiece of her campaign.”
Voters on Aug. 2 overwhelmingly rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have removed protections for abortion rights. It was the first state referendum on abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
Kelly’s approach heading into the general election contrasts with how Democratic Govs. Tony Evers in Wisconsin and Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan have made support for abortion rights central to their reelection campaigns. In Ohio, Democratic nominee Nan Whaley is stressing the issue in her race against anti-abortion Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.
Some Democrats think Kelly is missing an opportunity if she doesn’t follow suit.
“The only way you inspire young voters, which is who Laura Kelly needs, is to make them feel like you understand the issues that they care about right now,” said Christopher Reeves, a suburban Kansas City activist, consultant and former Democratic National Committee member. “And the issue that they care about, especially young women voters, is abortion.”
In winning her first term in 2018 by about 5 percentage points, Kelly wooed independent and moderate Republican voters by pitching herself as a commonsense, bipartisan leader.
But she also was running in a good year for Democrats — they regained a U.S. House majority — and against conservative Kris Kobach, who advocated for tough immigration policies as a major supporter of then-President Donald Trump.
Kelly’s stance on abortion rights brought Stephan Simmons, a 25-year-old higher education recruiter, firmly into her camp for November. Once a conservative Republican turned unaffiliated voter, he became a Democrat shortly before the Aug. 2 election.
He made sure he returned to Kansas City from a business trip in time to drive to his hometown of Wichita to vote in person. Along the way, he picked up a friend, Hunter Picard, so that Picard could vote in Rose Hill, southeast of Wichita. Picard, a 25-year-old chemist working in Lawrence, is unaffiliated.
Both said they thought of their sisters before voting against the proposed amendment. But Picard said he hasn’t decided how he will vote in the governor’s race in November.
Mandi Hunter, a 46-year-old real estate attorney from the Kansas City suburb of Leawood, is a self-described GOP moderate who voted against the proposed constitutional amendment. She, too, said she is undecided about her vote in November, though she noted that there will be more than just abortion on the ballot.
“They can’t ignore the other issues,” Hunter said.
Some Republicans believe voters will remain far more focused on the economy than abortion. Kelly is campaigning as if she agrees, staging a “Prosperity on the Plains” tour to promote her administration’s business development efforts.
Kelly campaign spokesperson, Madison Andrus, pivoted to economic and education issues when asked for more details about the governor’s position on abortion. The campaign would not say whether Kelly wants more abortion access than what is allowed now, with the state banning most abortions at the 22nd week of pregnancy and imposing other requirements such as a 24-hour waiting period.
Kelly’s staff didn’t make the governor available to discuss her campaign but provided a statement on her behalf to The Associated Press.
“The August 2 vote shows that Kansans want their government focused on things like the economy and schools — and not intervening in private medical decisions. Now that voters have spoken clearly, Governor Kelly will remain focused on bringing both parties together to get results — a balanced budget, cutting taxes, fully funding schools, and attracting new businesses to the state,” said campaign spokesperson Lauren Fitzgerald.
Schmidt, who backed the proposed constitutional change, said in a postelection statement that he has never “advocated for a ban” on abortion. He said he supports allowing abortions to save a woman’s life, in cases of rape and incest and when a fetus has a condition “that makes it impossible to survive outside the womb.”
On Thursday, Schmidt said the outcome of the referendum has to be “respected” and that if elected governor, he would focus on enforcing abortion laws already on the books.
Some political operatives and pollsters argue for reading the Kansas vote narrowly, as opposition to a ban or a near-total ban rather than unconditional support for abortion in any circumstance.
An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll in July found that while a majority of people in the United States wanted Congress to pass a law guaranteeing access to abortion nationwide, only one-third said a state generally should allow abortions at 24 weeks. A little more than half would allow abortions at 15 weeks.
Charles Franklin, director of Marquette University’s Law School Poll, said Democrats should be running against severe abortion restrictions. “The challenge is,” he said, “how do you do that without seeming to be for unlimited abortion rights?”
Pat McPherron, a GOP pollster from Oklahoma City who works for U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said he expects abortion to fade as an issue.
“It’s one that voters think has been asked and answered,” he said. “Voters move on.”
Abortion rights supporters acknowledged that they’re still trying to figure out how to keep their voters energized until November.
“Frankly, it’s our job to make sure they don’t move on,” said Susan Osborne, one of the leaders of Women for Kansas, a nonpartisan advocacy group that opposed the proposed amendment. “This was the beginning of the journey for us.”
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Associated Press writers Sara Burnett in Chicago and Hannah Fingerhut in Washington contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to reflect that Schmidt, at a campaign event Thursday, did not specifically address whether he would advocate for tougher abortion restrictions if elected governor.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants a federal judge to throw out a free speech lawsuit filed by a Democratic prosecutor he suspended from office over statements about not pursuing criminal charges in abortion, transgender rights and certain low-level cases.
The Republican governor told U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle of Tallahassee in a filing late Friday that Andrew Warren — removed last month as elected state attorney in Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa — cannot claim First Amendment protection for his comments on how he would handle these hot-button political issues.
“Mr. Warren had no First Amendment right, as a public official, to declare that he would not perform his duties under Florida law,” state Solicitor General Henry C. Whitaker wrote in the 39-page filing for DeSantis.
Warren, first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020, claimed in his lawsuit filed Aug. 17 that the governor is overturning the will of the people who put him in office and that his suspension is based solely on his statements and not on any actual prosecutorial decisions.
Warren said the governor's dismissal motion misses the mark. His lawsuit ultimately seeks his reinstatement as state attorney.
“This is a poor defense of an indefensible abuse of power. The fact that taxpayers continue to foot the bill for this makes it even more shameful,” Warren said in an email statement.
Hinkle has scheduled a Sept. 19 hearing in Tallahassee to hear arguments in the Warren lawsuit. The GOP-dominated state Senate, which has authority to affirm or rescind the prosecutor's suspension, is holding off its proceedings until the court challenge is settled.
The case comes as DeSantis seeks re-election in November against Democrat Charlie Crist, who has made abortion rights a cornerstone of his campaign. DeSantis is also widely considered a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
When Warren was removed from office Aug. 4, DeSantis accused the prosecutor of incompetence and neglect of duty. The governor cited joint statements Warren signed with prosecutors across the country pledging not to prosecute people who seek, provide or support abortions or to criminalize gender-affirming health care or transgender people.
The governor also contended that Warren was improperly seeking to “pick and choose” which laws to enforce, such as a policy against going after some low-level crimes such those found when police stop a pedestrian or bicyclist — known locally as charges stemming from “biking while Black.”
In the dismissal motion, DeSantis argues that Warren has no justification to bring a free speech claim because he was not simply stating opinions but taking official prosecutorial positions — which Warren rejects — and that federal court is not the place to settle it.
“At bottom, this case does not warrant federal court intervention in a quintessentially state matter: the governor’s constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and the state’s constitutional process for removing wayward officials who refuse to faithfully execute those laws,” the governor's motion says.
DeSantis appointed former Hillsborough County Judge Susan Lopez to replace Warren as state attorney. She was previously appointed to the bench by DeSantis in 2021.
Warren has received support for his lawsuit through “friend of court” briefs filed by a number of legal scholars and by members of the state Constitution Revision Commission. | https://www.wptv.com/news/state/desantis-seeks-dismissal-of-suit-by-suspended-prosecutor | 2022-09-03T20:32:21Z | https://www.wptv.com/news/state/desantis-seeks-dismissal-of-suit-by-suspended-prosecutor | false |
TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT
Marine Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
151 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WATERS...
The areas affected include...
Waters from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas from 20 to 60 NM...
Waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship Channel from 20 to 60
NM...
At 148 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated strong thunderstorms, capable
of producing winds to around 25 knots and a brief waterspouts. These
thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 39 nm
southwest of Brazos A110 to 30 nm east of Malaquite Beach, moving
north at 10 knots.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Mariners can expect gusty winds to around 25 knots, locally higher
waves, and lightning strikes. Boaters should seek safe harbor
immediately until these storms pass.
LAT...LON 2710 9634 2718 9680 2744 9687 2751 9683
2763 9600 2739 9598 2735 9602 2711 9619
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
317 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Hockley
County through 345 PM CDT...
At 316 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northeast of Levelland, moving west at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Levelland, Smyer and Opdyke West.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3374 10214 3357 10209 3346 10246 3370 10254
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 076DEG 31KT 3363 10224
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south Texas, including the following
counties, Duval, Jim Wells and Kleberg.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 318 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1.5 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Premont, Rios, Palito Blanco, La Gloria, Ben Bolt and San
Jose.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Keep children away from storm drains, culverts, creeks and streams.
Water levels can rise rapidly and sweep children away.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Pet owners seek justice after dogs shot, killed by neighbor: ‘They were our family’
HONOLULU (KHNL/KGMB/Gray News) - A family in Hawaii is looking for justice after they say their dogs were shot and killed by a neighbor.
“Probably the most calm, gentlest Australian shepherds you’ve ever met,” said Tabitha Autele, the owner of the dogs.
Autele told KHNL/KGMB that her dogs, Bindi and Dutch, loved going to their ranch.
“They saw the truck come home from work, and they knew they were going to the ranch,” Autele said. “They happily jumped in the truck. That was their happy place and our happy place. But since this has happened, there’s no joy anymore.”
Autele and her husband, Elmer Acera, said their pups chased a mongoose onto a neighboring property in August while Acera was feeding their horses when the shooting happened.
“As I was walking down, I heard a gunshot and then a dog yell,” Acera said. “And then a few seconds later, I heard another gunshot and another dog yelp. And then I immediately thought, ‘oh no, I hope it’s not them.’”
Acera said he ran to the neighboring property to find his animals dead on the ground. He said his neighbor told him the dogs were messing with his horses, so he shot them.
“They have been around horses before, and their breed is not aggressive,” Autele said.
According to criminal defense lawyer Victor Bakke, people can defend themselves and their pets from other animals using reasonable force.
“They would be allowed to use force in a reasonable amount necessary to address the danger presented by the dogs,” Bakke said. “So they could hit them with a stick, kick them to get away. But pulling out a gun and shooting the dogs, unless there was a strong reason to believe that the dogs were likely to injure or kill the horse seriously, would be an abuse of force.”
The family said the man who shot their dogs is a parolee, and they were called to give a statement to the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
Documents showed that man was taken into custody the same day for violating his parole. However, the couple said they hope he would be charged for killing their family pets.
“I don’t want this case just shoved under a desk because they’re just dogs,” Acera said. “They’re not just dogs. They were our family.”
Bakke said the man could face a felony for unjustifiably shooting the dogs.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
9-8-9
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Border patrol: 9 migrants die crossing swift Texas river
Officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border searched for more victims Saturday after at least nine migrants died while trying to cross the rain-swollen Rio Grande river, a dangerous border-crossing attempt in an area where the water level had risen by more than 2 feet in a single day.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials discovered the victims near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday, following days of heavy rains. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered three, according to a CBP statement. It is one of the deadliest drownings on the U.S.-Mexico border in recent history.
The river, which was a little more than 3 feet deep at the start of the week, reached more than 5 feet on Thursday, and the water was flowing five times faster than usual, according to the National Weather Service.
"There was much more water in the river after that rain, and there was more rain upstream, which adds to the flow," said NWS meteorologist Bob Fogarty.
The CBP said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody.
CBP did not say what country or countries the migrants were from and did not provide any additional information on rescue and search operations. Local agencies in Texas that were involved have not responded to requests for information.
The Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000. Eagle Pass is about 140 miles southwest of San Antonio.
The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them families with young children. About six of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector in July were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua.
The sector, which extends 245 miles along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CBP said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
This year is on track to break last year's record for the most deaths on the U.S.-Mexico border since 2014, when the U.N. International Organization for Migration began keeping track. The organization has tallied more than 4,000 deaths on the border since 2014, based on news reports and other sources, including 728 last year and 412 during the first seven months of this year, often from dehydration or drowning. June was the fourth-deadliest month on record, with 138 fatalities.
The Border Patrol has not released official tallies since 2020.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest documented tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
Some of the busiest crossings on the border — including Eagle Pass and Yuma, Arizona — were relatively quiet two years ago and now largely draw migrants from outside Mexico and Central America's 'Northern Triangle' countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Mexico has agreed to take migrants from the 'Northern Triangle' countries, as well as its own nationals, if they are expelled from the United States under Title 42, the pandemic rule in effect since March 2020 that denies rights to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
People from other countries are likely to be released into the United States on humanitarian parole or with notices to appear in immigration court because the U.S. has difficulty flying them home due to costs, strained diplomatic relations or other considerations. In the Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, only one of every four stops in July were processed under the pandemic rule, compared to about half across the rest of the border, according to government figures.
Venezuelans were by far the most common nationality encountered by Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio sector in July, accounting for 14,120 of 49,563 stops, or nearly three in 10. They were followed by Cubans, who were stopped 10,275 times, and then by Mexicans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Colombians, in that order.
As more people crossed into South Texas in the 2010s, Brooks County became a death trap for many migrants who tried walking around a Border Patrol highway checkpoint in the town of Falfurrias, about 70 miles north of the border. Smugglers dropped them off before the checkpoint and made arrangements to pick them up on the other side, but some perished on the way from dehydration.
The Baboquivari Mountains in Arizona and ranches in Texas' Brooks County still draw Border Patrol agents and grief-stricken families hoping to rescue migrants or, if not, find corpses, but the deceptively strong currents around the Texas towns of Eagle Pass and Del Rio have become increasingly dangerous as the area has become one of the most popular spots to enter the United States illegally.
Not all victims are migrants. In April this year, the body of a Texas guardsman was recovered from the Rio Grande. He had jumped in to try to help a migrant who was struggling in the water.
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Wallace reported from Dallas and Murphy reported from Oklahoma City. Associated Press writer Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed. | https://www.wgal.com/article/migrants-die-crossing-texas-river/41072358 | 2022-09-03T20:42:32Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/migrants-die-crossing-texas-river/41072358 | true |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
212 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of south Texas, including the following
counties, Duval and Jim Wells.
* WHEN...Until 330 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 212 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Diego, Benavides, Rosita and San Jose.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Keep children away from storm drains, culverts, creeks and streams.
Water levels can rise rapidly and sweep children away.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE THIS TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE.
* WHEN...Until late tonight.
* IMPACTS...At 9.0 feet (2.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood
stage, and low lying areas begin to flood.
At 11.0 feet (3.4 meters), minor flooding continues along the
river. Irrigation pumps may need to be removed. No threats to
residences or other structures are known to occur.
- At 2:45 PM CDT Thursday, September 01 the stage was 2.0 feet
(0.6 meters).
- Forecast...The river will rise above flood stage Friday,
September 02 to 9.3 feet (2.8 meters) early this morning. It
will then fall below flood stage early this morning to 7.3
feet (2.2 meters) late this afternoon. It will rise to 7.6
feet (2.3 meters) late this evening. It will then fall again
and remain below flood stage.
- Flood stage is 9.0 feet (2.7 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
26.7 feet (8.1 meters) on 09/11/1904.
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Rio Grande
Presidio 5SE 9.0 2.0 Thu 2pm 10.6 9.2 7.8 6.8
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio 5SE 2.7 0.6 Thu 2pm 3.2 2.8 2.4 2.1
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(The Hill/NEXSTAR) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said rape victims in the state can prevent pregnancies by using emergency contraception pills such as Plan B, The Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
In Texas, abortions are banned. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.
Late last month, a so-called “trigger law” went into effect following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade earlier this year. The trigger law makes it a felony to perform an abortion in the state, with narrow exceptions when the pregnant person’s life is at risk.
“We want to support those victims, but also those victims can access health care immediately, as well as to report it,” Abbott told The Dallas Morning News and KXAS-TV’s “Lone Star Politics” in a segment obtained by the Morning News that will air on Sunday.
“By accessing health care immediately, they can get the Plan B pill that can prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place,” he added.
Plan B is an oral contraceptive that is taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex or a “contraceptive accident” to prevent pregnancy, according to the product’s website. The pill prevents an egg from being released from the ovary to prohibit fertilization.
The Republican governor also told “Lone Star Politics” that reporting a rape to law enforcement “will ensure that the rapist will be arrested and prosecuted.”
However, very few rape cases result in an arrest. While there were 13,327 reported rapes in Texas in 2020, there were only 1,828 arrests for rape, according to the state’s department of public safety.
Abbott’s Democratic opponent Beto O’Rourke responded to the governor’s statement on Twitter on Friday night, saying “We are going to end Greg Abbott’s career on November 8 and the women of Texas are going to lead the way.”
The Texas governor made national headlines just shy of a year ago for comments made after the implementation of State Bill 8, which was at that time the most restrictive abortion bill in the U.S. Under SB 8 — now superseded by the trigger law — abortions were banned after about six weeks, which is earlier than many people even realize they are pregnant.
During a press conference on the bill, Abbott was asked whether or not the bill was cruel to victims of rape. Abbott responded that the bill still gave victims six weeks to get an abortion, so it does not force victims to have their assaulter’s child.
Instead, Abbott posed a different solution to the issue of rape, saying, “Let’s be clear: rape is a crime. And Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.”
The comments were widely panned by detractors and advocates for victims of sexual violence.
Abbott, who has served as Texas governor since 2015, will face O’Rourke in November’s election. The former state representative has been a fierce critic of Abbott’s policies, particularly his handling of the state’s electrical management and gun regulations in the wake of the deadly mass shooting in Uvalde.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
217 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge affecting Presidio
County.
.River cresting and will fall below flood stage late tonight.
Additional heavy rain will cause additional rises.
For the Rio Grande...including Presidio International Bridge,
Presidio 5SE...Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 1000 PM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge.
* WHEN...Until late tonight.
* IMPACTS...At 12.0 feet (3.7 meters), the river reaches bankfull,
after which the flood plain between the levees begins to flood.
No damage is expected.
At 15.5 feet (4.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage,
and flooding between the levees occurs. No damage to structures
is expected.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Friday the stage was 15.4 feet (4.7 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
Friday, September 02 to a crest of 16.2 feet (4.9 meters)
early this morning. It will then fall below flood stage early
this morning.
- Flood stage is 15.5 feet (4.7 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
25.8 feet (7.9 meters) on 09/30/1978.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Rio Grande
Presidio Internation 15.5 15.4 Fri 7pm 16.8 14.5 12.8 12.1
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio Internation 4.7 4.7 Fri 7pm 5.1 4.4 3.9 3.7
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Lubbock County in northwestern Texas...
Northwestern Lynn County in northwestern Texas...
Northeastern Terry County in northwestern Texas...
Southeastern Hockley County in northwestern Texas...
* Until 245 PM CDT.
* At 217 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles west of
Slide, or 12 miles southwest of Lubbock, moving southwest at 10
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Slide, Meadow, Ropesville and New Home.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring
with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of
nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are
close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southern Beauregard,
western Calcasieu and west central Allen Parishes, southwestern
Newton and northeastern Orange Counties through 300 PM CDT...
At 218 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Singer to near Gist. Movement was
southeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Orange, Vidor, West Orange, Vinton, Reeves, Deweyville, Starks,
Mauriceville, De Quincy, Ragley, Gist, Longville, Pinehurst, Lunita,
Buhler, Hartburg, Forest Heights, Toomey, Edgerly and Oretta.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 880 and 867.
Interstate 10 in Louisiana between mile markers 1 and 12.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3065 9335 3057 9298 3002 9376 3021 9406
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 294DEG 19KT 3059 9336 3023 9393
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Castolon.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet (4.0 meters), the river reaches bankfull,
and no significant damage is expected.
At 15.0 feet (4.6 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage,
and lowland flooding begins. The river begins to flood the road
between Santa Elena Canyon and Cottonwood Campground in Big Bend
National Park. The river begins to flood the parking lot at Santa
Elena Canyon, and cut off the nature trail into the canyon.
Campers in Cottonwood Campground need to prepare for possible
evacuations.
At 19.0 feet (5.8 meters), the river reaches moderate flood stage,
and begins flooding Cottonwood Campground. The river inundates
the restrooms upstream at Santa Elena Canyon parking lot. The
river begins to close all area roads.
- At 8:15 AM CDT Saturday the stage was 16.7 feet (5.1 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 8:15 AM CDT Saturday was 16.7 feet (5.1 meters).
- Forecast...The river will rise to 18.0 feet (5.5 meters) this
afternoon. It will then fall this evening. It will rise to
16.9 feet (5.2 meters) tomorrow morning. It will then fall
below flood stage tomorrow afternoon.
- Flood stage is 15.0 feet (4.6 meters).
24.7 feet (7.5 meters) on 09/27/1958.
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Castolon 15.0 16.7 Sat 8am 14.8 15.8 15.6 13.9
Castolon 4.6 5.1 Sat 8am 4.5 4.8 4.8 4.2
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BURLINGTON — A 22-year-old Burlington man died Thursday after being struck by a car while crossing the road, police said Saturday.
Police officers and emergency personnel responded at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to the intersection of Chapel Hill Road and Tucker Street for a traffic crash, police said in a news release. They found that Nathaniel Navarro was hit by a 2016 Toyota Corolla driven by a 22-year-old Gibsonville woman.
The Corolla was headed west on Chapel Hill Road and had a green light at the intersection with Tucker Street when Navarro stepped into the car's path, police said.
Alamance County Emergency Medical Services pronounced him dead, police said.
Police said the preliminary investigation indicates neither speed nor impairment played a role in the crash.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is currently accepting applications for its 66th Texas Game Warden Cadet class.
“Texas Game Wardens have a long and proud tradition of protecting and conserving Texas’ valuable natural resources, including our waterways, landscapes and the wildlife we enjoy daily,” said Col. Chad Jones, TPWD Law Enforcement Director who stressed that the role of a game warden goes beyond the badge. “Not only are game wardens trained in a number of specialized fields like search and rescue and disaster response, but they’re also active members of the communities they serve. Game wardens are out in neighborhoods hosting fishing events, educating boaters and encouraging another generation of Texans to enjoy and preserve the outdoors.”
TPWD will accept applications through Sept 30. To apply, one must be 21 years old by the start date of the academy, with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college. For the full list of requirements, you can visit the Texas Game Warden recruitment webpage.
All cadets accepted to the program are required to live at the Game Warden Training Center near Hamilton, Texas for the duration of the 33-week training period, set to begin October 2023.
For more information, you can check the game warden career webpage or contact Texas Game Warden recruiter Chelsea Bailey at chelsea.bailey@tpwd.texas.gov. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/texas-game-wardens-now-accepting-applications/ | 2022-09-03T20:57:24Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/texas-game-wardens-now-accepting-applications/ | false |
APP_Noel 52 run (Hughes kick), 11:36.
UNC_J.Jones 23 pass from Maye (Burnette kick), 8:21.
APP_Pearson 22 pass from Brice (Hughes kick), 6:35.
APP_Wells 2 pass from Brice (Hughes kick), 14:18.
UNC_Paysour 14 pass from Maye (Burnette kick), 9:30.
UNC_Pettaway 21 run (Burnette kick), 4:08.
UNC_Nesbit 10 pass from Maye (Burnette kick), :01.
UNC_Maye 12 run (Burnette kick), 11:55.
UNC_FG Burnette 47, 2:21.
UNC_FG Burnette 44, :27.
APP_Noel 1 run (Hughes kick), 12:15.
APP_Gibbs 13 pass from Brice (Hughes kick), 10:37.
UNC_O.Hampton 2 run (Maye run), 9:25.
APP_Horn 31 pass from Brice (Hughes kick), 7:20.
APP_Peoples 38 run (Hughes kick), 4:00.
UNC_D.Jones 42 pass from Maye (Burnette kick), 2:50.
APP_D.Davis 28 pass from Brice (pass failed), :31.
UNC_Nesbit 54 kickoff return (Burnette kick), :28.
APP_Robinson 26 pass from Brice (run failed), :09.
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RUSHING_North Carolina, C.Hood 6-87, Maye 12-76, Pettaway 6-34, Hampton 8-17, D.Jones 2-3, (Team) 1-(minus 2). Appalachian St., Noel 14-116, Peoples 13-65, D.Harrington 5-48, Brice 8-36, D.Davis 1-20, Castle 1-2, Marshall 1-1.
PASSING_North Carolina, Maye 24-35-0-352. Appalachian St., Brice 25-40-1-361.
RECEIVING_North Carolina, Paysour 8-92, J.Jones 5-70, Nesbit 3-47, Morales 3-31, Pettaway 2-12, D.Jones 1-42, Blackwell 1-36, K.Hood 1-22. Appalachian St., D.Davis 6-72, Pearson 4-46, Horn 3-59, Robinson 2-48, Noel 2-17, Peoples 2-15, Stroman 1-41, Wilson 1-27, Hetzel 1-20, Gibbs 1-13, Wells 1-2, Page 1-1.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
328 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 330 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 330 PM CDT this afternoon for a
portion of south Texas, including the following counties, Duval and
Jim Wells.
The heavy rain has ended, however, low lying and poor drainage areas
could remain flooded for the next hour or two. Please continue to
heed remaining road closures.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
229 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LUBBOCK...NORTHWESTERN LYNN...NORTHEASTERN TERRY AND
SOUTHEASTERN HOCKLEY COUNTIES...
At 229 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles west of
Slide, or 14 miles southwest of Lubbock, moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Meadow, Ropesville and New Home.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
This is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION with tornado like wind
speeds expected. Mobile homes and high profile vehicles are
especially susceptible to winds of this magnitude and may be
overturned. For your protection move to an interior room on the
lowest floor of a building. This storm has the potential to cause
serious injury and significant property damage.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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(NewsNation) — A pilot in a plane circling over Tupelo, Mississippi, on Saturday morning — and who allegedly told police he would to crash into a Walmart — landed the aircraft “intact” in a field a few hours later, according to local authorities.
Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka said at a press conference that Cory Wayne Patterson stole a Beechcraft King Air C90A from the Tupelo Regional Airport, took off early Saturday, called 911 and then threatened to crash the aircraft.
Negotiators spoke to Patterson and convinced him not carry out the threat and to land at the airport. Patterson did not have the experience to land and another pilot attempted to coach him through it.
A negotiator re-established contact, and the plane landed safely.
Benton County Sheriff Dispatcher Connie Strickland said the suspect was in law enforcement custody, according to the Associated Press.
Patterson faces charges including grand larceny and making a terrorist threat, according to police. He did not have a pilot’s license, but did work at Tupelo Aviation and had some flight training.
An online flight tracking service showed the plane meandering in the sky before landing.
Citizens were asked to avoid the area during the incident in an abundance of caution.
In a post on social media, police said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated.
Gov. Tate Reeves tweeted Saturday a thank-you to law enforcement in addition to the news that the plane was “down” and no one was injured.
“Thank you most of all to local, state, and federal law enforcement who managed this situation with extreme professionalism,” Reeves tweeted.
Multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, were involved in the investigation and are working to discern a motive.
Quaka said Patterson, on his Facebook page, posted what was in essence a goodbye message at about 9:30 a.m.
“Sorry everyone. Never wanted to actually hurt anyone. I love my parents and sister this isn’t your fault. Goodbye,” the message read.
Tupelo Mayor Todd Jordan said he hopes Patterson “will get the help he needs” and didn’t intend to hurt himself or others in the hours after the initial threat.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Nolan Henderson threw a pair of touchdown passes and FCS-member Delaware beat Navy 14-7 on Saturday to give Ryan Carty a win in his debut as the Fightin’ Blue Hens’ coach.
Carty, a Delaware graduate and a member of the Blue Hens’ 2003 national championship team, came over from Sam Houston State where he was offensive coordinator.
It was Delaware’s first win over an FBS team and Navy’s first loss to an FCS team since the Blue Hens beat the Midshipmen in 2007.
Navy, which lost five fumbles all of last season, had three in the first half against Delaware. On Navy’s first play from scrimmage. Tai Lavatai fumbled and Delaware converted with Henderson’s 6-yard score to Bryce De Maille. Coming at 14:38, it was the quickest Delaware touchdown versus an FBS opponent since 2015.
Henderson found Chandler Harvin deep for a 51-yard score in the third quarter. Navy responded with its only points with Lavatai scoring from 2 yards out with under a minute left in the period.
A final Navy drive ended at the Delaware 9 on a fourth-down incomplete pass into the end zone.
Henderson was 20-of-32 passing with 189 yards. Navy didn’t have a player with 100 yards offense though it outgained Delaware 329-292. The Blue Hens had just 13 yards rushing.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — No. 13 North Carolina State topped East Carolina 21-20 on Saturday after Pirates kicker Owen Daffer missed an extra point with 2:58 left and a 41-yard field goal with 5 seconds to go.
“We’re not walking out of here with a loss to learn from,” Wolfpack quarterback Devin Leary said. “That’s my biggest takeaway.”
The Pirates (0-1) were in position to hand the Wolfpack a surprising loss when they got the ball back late down one, not to mention offer Daffer a shot at redemption after he pulled the tying PAT wide left after Rahjai Harris’ short touchdown run.
Holton Ahlers’ keeper set Daffer up with a makeable field goal in the final seconds, but he missed this one wide right to stun a once-rowdy crowd and leave many fans putting their hands on their heads in disbelief.
The Wolfpack (1-0) celebrated the miss, with Shyheim Battle emphatically waving that the kick was no good while coach Dave Doeren pumped his right fist.
Still, the moment appeared to be more about relief than jubilation for a team that had a long list of troubles in its latest bumpy trip to Greenville.
This time, at least, it all came in a win.
Leary, the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, threw for 211 yards and a touchdown, but he had a costly interception with about 5 minutes left that set up East Carolina’s late touchdown drive. The Wolfpack also came up empty on six goal-line plays in the fourth quarter, first with a goal-line fumble by Jordan Houston and then with talented youngster Demie Sumo-Karngbaye getting stuffed four straight times to end another drive.
In fact, the difference in this game – Duffer’s misses aside – came on a blocked punt by Jasiah Provillon deep in ECU’s end that Sean Brown recovered in the end zone late in the first quarter.
“Our preparation coming into this game, we were very confident this morning,” ECU coach Mike Houston said. “I know nobody outside of Greenville gave us much of a chance but those kids never doubted. We should’ve won the ballgame.”
Ahlers threw for 255 yards and two touchdowns to lead East Carolina, one going to C.J. Johnson and the other going to Shane Calhoun.
THE TAKEAWAY
N.C. State: Everything has been set up for the Wolfpack to make a big leap in Doeren’s 10th season, from Leary’s presence for a team regarded as a top ACC contender to the program matching its highest-ever preseason ranking in The Associated Press poll. And N.C. State appeared to be gradually taking control by leading 21-7 by halftime while starting the second half with the ball – only to see this one very nearly turn into yet another frustration in a stadium where the Wolfpack had lost four of five meetings.
ECU: Houston’s first three years had been a heavy rebuild of the ECU program, which has long had a reputation for thriving in matchups against power-conference schools at home backed by rowdy crowd. The Pirates spent much of the afternoon grinding against a Wolfpack defense that ranked among the nation’s best last season, but they kept hanging around before making a late move toward a big upset. That could provide confidence going forward for the American Athletic Conference program — or it could be a damaging blow considering how this one ended.
DEMIE’S PLAY
Sumo-Karngbaye ran for 79 yards and a score to lead the Wolfpack’s ground game, offering a physical and thud-delivering presence.
That included a 22-yard run to the 1 early in the fourth that had him keeping his legs churning, either bouncing off or running through roughly a half-dozen purple jerseys.
The second-year runner appeared in six games last season on special teams.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
N.C. State didn’t look sharp in this one, and that could cost the Wolfpack a bit with voters for the next AP Top 25.
UP NEXT
N.C. State: Charleston Southern of the Championship Subdivision visits the Wolfpack next Saturday.
ECU: The Pirates host Old Dominion — which beat Virginia Tech in its Friday opener — next Saturday.
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A lawsuit window for Pa. survivors of childhood sexual abuse could open as early as next May
This story originally appeared on WITF
State legislative leaders are pledging to vote early next year on a constitutional amendment giving adults who say they survived sexual abuse as children two years to sue their alleged abusers and any institution that sheltered them.
A 2018 Grand Jury report showed the statute of limitations may have closed for hundreds of Pennsylvanians who were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests as children decades ago. That report recommended lawmakers give all abuse survivors more time to sue.
Pennsylvania now lets anyone who says they were abused as a child come to court with a civil lawsuit before age 55, but some say they missed their opportunity when the time window was smaller.
Research shows social and psychological pressures can keep survivors from coming forward for far longer.
The issue has been a fixture of debate in Harrisburg for years. Bills that would have opened the statute of limitations window fizzled out in previous sessions. Even a state constitutional change, which won approval from both chambers, was derailed when the Department of State bungled its role in the approval process.
Gov. Tom Wolf apologized for the error in a statement Wednesday. The outgoing Democrat threatened to call a special session over the lawsuit window issue in April. Wolf said he’s reversing course now that he’s secured agreements from the four legislative leaders to “prioritize second passage of a constitutional amendment early next session.”
“I am grateful for this agreement so that survivors can seek a path forward toward justice,” Wolf said.
In Pennsylvania, the state constitution can be changed only if lawmakers approve an amendment twice in two consecutive sessions. The idea then has to be advertised in local newspapers for a set amount of time before appearing on the ballot during an election. Voters have the final say.
Rep. Jim Gregory (R-Blair County), who is sponsoring the latest lawsuit window proposal, said lawmakers already approved the idea this year – but must now re-approve it before the end of January.
That would give the Department of State enough time to advertise the proposal in newspapers and craft ballot language before the May 2023 primary.
“The most important thing we need to do is get it on the ballot and get people in Pennsylvania to understand why it’s important to pass it,” Gregory said. “This has everything to do with the victims who are still waiting for their civil justice.”
Survivor advocacy groups have voiced frustration with lawmakers for failing to approve a two-year window sooner. Gregory has pinned the blame on former Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar for failing to catch the procedural error that led to the latest delay.
But the Blair County lawmaker acknowledged his own role in an interview Thursday.
“I have to say that I’m sorry because I did not stay on this as closely as I could have,” Gregory said. “[But] those are just words, and our actions are what we are most concerned about.”
Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland), who has blocked votes on bills that would have opened the lawsuit window, says she supports a constitutional change.
“Without question, all victims of childhood sexual abuse should have the ability to face their abusers,” she said in a statement.
Ward added the Senate is “planning to take the next step” in the amendment process once the next legislative session starts in January. | https://whyy.org/articles/pa-legislation-lawsuit-window-survivors-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-could-open-may/ | 2022-09-03T21:05:33Z | https://whyy.org/articles/pa-legislation-lawsuit-window-survivors-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-could-open-may/ | true |
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football head coach Charles Huff leads in players and coaches during the Thunder Walk as fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
Marshall football head coach Charles Huff leads in players and coaches during the Thunder Walk as fans tailgate before the season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, outside Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.
HUNTINGTON — Saturday was nothing but fun in the sun for Marshall fans in Huntington looking to celebrate one thing — the Herd.
Thousands of Marshall fans made their first trek of the year to the Joan C. Edwards Stadium parking lot and surrounding areas, where tailgating and games took place as Marshall University took on Norfolk State on Saturday afternoon.
With Saturday’s competition being the first for Herd football in the Sun Belt Conference, the merrymakers had a lot to look forward to.
By noon, fans were opening their tailgates, putting up tents and getting back into the swing of tailgating. While it had been months since the last tailgates at the stadium, the fans set up their camps without missing a beat.
Familiar sights like grilled food, cornhole, music and footballs flying through the air returned to the campus at individual parking spaces and were joined by Thunder Street on 20th Street, which added music, food vendors, games and more. Fans could also watch football games live on a big-screen outdoor television.
Erica Ross, of Huntington, said it felt like being home.
“It’s like you’re kicking off the new year. It’s the end of summer,” she said. “This is when everyone comes back from vacations and we can all — family, friends or whatever — hang out and enjoy a common denominator we happen to enjoy together.”
As the Herd football team walked to the stadium, zig-zagging through the parking lot, fans cheered on their return and the future season.
Jason Crystal, of Milton, said he was excited for the future of the team under head coach Charles Huff.
“I think we have all the pieces of the puzzle. We just have to put them together,” he said. “I’m not worried right now, though. The sun is out. We are grilling. The reason I like tailgating is because at this moment, there’s nothing wrong.”
Courtney Hessler is a reporter for The Herald-Dispatch, primarily covering Marshall University. Follow her on Facebook.com/CHesslerHD and via Twitter @HesslerHD.
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Paulsboro legend Kevin Harvey takes over the football program, becoming the school’s first new football coach in 35 years after the retirement of Haddonfield coach Glenn Howard.
Harvey and the Red Raiders will face off against Group 2 regional champion Haddonfield in an old-school Colonial Conference matchup.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
248 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Deep South Texas, including the following
counties, Hidalgo and Starr.
* WHEN...Until 445 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 248 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Santa Catarina, La Gloria, San Isidro, La Reforma, Puerto
Rico and Delmita.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain.
Arroyos, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Blanco, Burnet, Hays, Travis and Williamson.
* WHEN...Until 600 PM CDT.
- At 249 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Marble Falls,
Dripping Springs, Round Mountain, Anderson Mill, Serenada,
Leander, Lakeway, Lago Vista, Bee Cave, Horseshoe Bay, Hudson
Bend, The Hills, Meadowlakes, Liberty Hill, Spicewood and
Smithwick.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
312 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Crosby
County through 345 PM CDT...
At 312 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Ralls, or 8 miles west of Crosbyton. This storm was nearly
stationary.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Crosbyton, Ralls and Lorenzo.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3379 10134 3363 10120 3351 10131 3347 10151
3368 10155
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 041DEG 3KT 3365 10139
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Harris, Liberty and Montgomery.
* WHEN...Until 415 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 313 PM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause
urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Humble, Tomball, Kingwood, Spring, Aldine, Greater
Greenspoint, The Woodlands, Splendora, Patton Village, Roman
Forest, Woodbranch, Plum Grove, Lake Houston, Porter Heights,
northern Atascocita, Bush Intercontinental Airport,
Splashtown, northwestern Acres Home, Hooks Airport and
Greater Inwood.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
340 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Waller
and northwestern Harris Counties through 415 PM CDT...
At 339 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hockley, or 11 miles southwest of Tomball, moving southwest at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Hockley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3008 9575 3000 9571 2988 9587 3002 9598
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 061DEG 17KT 3002 9579
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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TRI-CITIES, Tenn./Va. (WJHL) – This Labor Day weekend, an estimated 137 million Americans are expected to hit the road or airport, according to AAA.
Travelers from all over the country, and even the world made their way through the Tri-Cities this weekend. Canadian Daniel Sirard said he’s having an amazing Labor Day weekend in the United States.
“Traffic was fine,” Sirard said. “Traveling was fine, I mean vacation was great.”
Sirard, like so many others, has been embracing the ability to travel since pandemic restrictions have slowed. Mike DeRisso and his wife, Maria, said they had some hesitations about their own trip initially.
“I’ll tell you what, two months ago I was very concerned about the trip,” DeRisso said. “I figured we were going to have to put a lot more money aside for gas.”
Drivers said a slight gas price decrease is a relief this holiday weekend as they enjoy the last of their summer vacation time.
The Tri-Cities Airport was also a popular destination this holiday weekend, and luckily, travelers said more people haven’t caused more flight delays.
Ana Nunez said she started her journey at the Charlotte airport where things were a little more hectic.
“I mean this is a small airport, so it’s been pretty good so far,” Nunez said. “It wasn’t delayed or anything like that.”
There are a couple more days left of the Labor Day weekend, and travelers plan to make the most of it.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two officers in Louisiana's capital city face charges after one allegedly leaked details to drug dealers about an investigation in exchange for cash and the other allegedly sexually assaulted a woman, department officials said.
A third officer, who has since been fired, was charged in a shoplifting investigation in April.
Officer Richmond Barrow faces one count each of obstruction of justice and malfeasance in office. He's accused of sharing information about a narcotics investigation with people involved in drug trafficking in exchange for cash. Officer Wade Hill, meanwhile, faces charges of kidnapping, obscenity, malfeasance in office and misdemeanor sexual battery in the assault of a woman at his apartment, Deputy Chief Myron Daniels said during a news conference on Thursday.
“(This) should upset you,” Police Chief Murphy Paul said of the allegations. “This erodes the faith of our community, and that's why we must take corrective action and restore that trust. That's what we have done.”
Arrested Thursday, Barrow has resigned, news agencies reported. He had been with the department for four years.
Hill is on administrative leave pending a disciplinary hearing, Daniels said.
The department also shared details of another officer’s arrest in April after he was caught in a shoplifting investigation at a Denham Springs Walmart. Billy Mattingly is accused of entering the store and swapping stickers on products so he could buy them more cheaply than advertised, Daniels said.
A disciplinary hearing was held last week, and the 11-year police department veteran was fired.
It was unknown if any of the men has an attorney who could comment on their behalf.
The arrests are fruits of efforts to root out wrongdoing by a few officers in a department by and large populated by honest and hardworking officers, police officials said.
“Public trust is something that is paramount to our success as a police department as well as a city,” Daniels said. “The actions taken today are not easy. But they were necessary.” | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/3-Louisiana-officers-arrested-in-separate-cases-17417747.php | 2022-09-03T21:44:21Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/3-Louisiana-officers-arrested-in-separate-cases-17417747.php | true |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
328 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 330 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 330 PM CDT this afternoon for a
portion of south Texas, including the following counties, Duval and
Jim Wells.
The heavy rain has ended, however, low lying and poor drainage areas
could remain flooded for the next hour or two. Please continue to
heed remaining road closures.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
328 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 330 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 330 PM CDT this afternoon for a
portion of south Texas, including the following counties, Duval and
Jim Wells.
The heavy rain has ended, however, low lying and poor drainage areas
could remain flooded for the next hour or two. Please continue to
heed remaining road closures.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the setting for “National Treasure,” the movie in which Nicolas Cage’s character tries to steal the Declaration of Independence. It has long been among the most trafficked tourist destinations in the nation’s capital.
But what the National Archives and Records Administration has never been — until now — is the locus of a criminal investigation of a former president.
Yet that’s exactly where the agency finds itself after sending a referral to the FBI stating that 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home in January contained dozens of documents with classified markings.
“I don’t think Donald Trump has politicized the National Archives,” said Tim Naftali, the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. “I think what Donald Trump did was cross red lines that civil servants had to respond to.”
Those government workers operate out of the public eye, behind the marble façade of the Archives building in downtown Washington. It’s there, beyond the Hollywood plotlines, where a crucial component of the federal bureaucracy resides, with dozens of employees acting as the custodians of American history, preserving records that range from the mundane to the monumental.
A closer look at the National Archives, its history and how it ended up in the middle of a political maelstrom:
A MASSIVE COLLECTION
The mission of the National Archives, which was founded by Congress in 1934, sounds straightforward: to be the nation’s record-keeper. It’s a daunting task that has only grown more complex over time.
While the Archives safeguards precious national documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that’s only the public face of their sprawling collection, which spans 13 billion pages of text and 10 million maps, charts and drawings, as well as tens of millions of photographs, films and other records.
In addition to its work in Washington, the Archives oversees 13 presidential libraries and 14 regional archives across the country.
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ARCHIVIST FOR A NATION
The Archivist of the United States is responsible for running the agency. The last-Senate confirmed leader was David Ferriero, who stepped down in April after serving 12 years under three presidents.
Ferriero recalled in an April interview with The Washington Post how he watched from the windows of the Archives building on Jan. 6, 2021, as the crowd of Trump supporters marched past on their way to breach the Capitol. He called it the worst day of his life.
More than a year later he decided to retire, in part, because of fears about the nation’s political trajectory.
“It’s important to me, that this administration replace me,” he told the Post. “I’m concerned about what’s going to happen in 2024. I don’t want it left to … the unknowns of the presidential election.”
His deputy, Debra Steidel Wall, is serving as the acting archivist while President Joe Biden’s nominee, Colleen Joy Shogan, awaits a Senate confirmation process this fall. The archivist serves in the role until deciding to retire.
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‘NO SUCH THINGS AS MEMENTOS’
The Archives serves as the final resting spot for the work of every White House.
After the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation, Congress passed a law in 1978 to ensure that all presidential records — written, electronic material created by the president, the vice president, or any other member of the executive branch in an official capacity — are preserved and turned over to the Archives at the end of an administration. The law states that a president’s records are not his or her own, but are the property of the federal government and must be treated as such.
When a new administration begins, White House staff receive a brochure on the law and step-by-step instructions on how to preserve records. The preservation requirements cover a wide range of items, including presents and letters from foreign leaders. “There are no such things as mementos,” said Lee White, the executive director of the National Coalition for History.
In addition, the law requires that even while in office, the president or any member of that administration must first seek the advice of the archivist before destroying any record, a practice Trump and his aides reportedly ignored throughout his four years in office.
“Everything he writes down is essentially a presidential record. It’s not his property,” White said. “It is so basic to the whole concept of why the Presidential Records Act was created.”
“At noon on Inauguration Day, the custody transfers to the archivist. Period. There is no maybe. It’s the law,” he added.
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AN UNPRECEDENTED DECISION
The rules of the Presidential Records Act are central to the FBI’s investigation of Trump.
After Trump left office, the Archives discovered that records from his White House were missing. What followed was a yearlong back-and-forth between the Archives’ legal counsel and Trump’s lawyers that resulted in the voluntary return of 15 boxes of presidential records. Upon opening the boxes, the agency discovered that 14 of them contained classified documents and information.
Recognizing a potential crime, the agency made the unprecedented decision to refer the matter to the Justice Department. That move culminated in the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in August. FBI agents recovered more than 100 classified records, including some that were stashed in the former president’s office among personal items.
Since the Aug. 8 search, the Archives and its employees have been bombarded with threats and accusations. The acting archivist in an email to the agency’s staff noted their work is nonpartisan and urged them to hold steadfast to their mission.
“The National Archives has been the focus of intense scrutiny for months, this week especially, with many people ascribing political motivation to our actions,” Wall wrote in an Aug. 24 letter. “NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down.’”
“Neither is accurate or welcome,” she added.
Wall has worked for more than three decades at the Archives, starting as an archivist trainee and advancing to second in line. She said in her letter that despite the political storm surrounding the agency, staff must continue their work “without favor or fear, in the service of our democracy.”
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AN ARCHIVIST CONFIRMATION BATTLE?
Five days before the Mar-a-Lago search, Biden announced he was nominating Shogan, an executive at the White House Historical Association who previously spent a decade working at the Library of Congress, as the next archivist.
Nominees for the post are typically confirmed without controversy or fanfare. But that’s unlikely this time.
Shogan faces a charged confirmation process as Republicans demand answers about the Justice Department’s investigation and the Archives’ role in facilitating it. A confirmation hearing this fall has not yet been scheduled but could end up being unusually contentious.
Republicans in the House and Senate have pushed for more information about how the Archives made the decision to refer Trump’s case to federal investigators.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, sent a letter Thursday demanding that the Archives’ watchdog provide documents and communications about the case.
“Transparency is particularly important in the post-pandemic era when Americans are lacking trust in our institutions,” Comer wrote.
So far, the National Archives has denied requests from both Democrats and Republicans on the committees that oversee the agency, instead referring them to the Justice Department where the investigation is now unfolding.
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Ask DR KAYE: Why do foods such as lentils make me feel much calmer?
I suffer from anxiety and depression and have noticed that when I eat certain foods – pulses and lentils and some fermented drinks like kefir, I feel much calmer. What is going on and what else will boost my mood?
The gut is in constant communication with the brain via the nervous system and through the release of hormones and chemicals known as neurotransmitters. A good example is when you feel nervous before an exam or job interview. As well as anxious thoughts, people often lose their appetite, feel nauseous and even suffer diarrhoea.
An important part of this gut-brain axis is the microbiome – the billions of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other micro-organisms that live happily in our digestive tract. The microbiome also helps regulate the immune system and there is some early evidence that the health of our gut has an impact on many neurological and psychological conditions, and vice versa.
I suffer from anxiety and depression and have noticed that when I eat certain foods – pulses and lentils and some fermented drinks like kefir, I feel much calmer. What is going on and what else will boost my mood?
We know stress is linked to changes in the diversity of the microbes in the gut – although why this is isn’t clear.
It’s important to note, no food or diet alone can treat depression or anxiety. But some small-scale studies suggest that eating a healthy, balanced diet and limiting refined and processed foods such as sweets, is linked to an improvement in mood in depressed patients. And there’s also some limited evidence that consuming a lot of caffeine might worsen anxious thoughts.
This might not be due to the food itself, of course – we know that just taking better care of yourself and sleeping better can be an important step in tackling mental health problems.
Foods like kefir – a fermented yogurt – pulses and lentils are all known to help support a healthy and diverse microbiome. If a patient tells me consuming foods like these also helps their mood, I would encourage it.
A word of warning: fermented and high fibre foods, such as lentils, can be harder to digest and cause bloating and other digestive symptoms, so it’s important not to eat too much, too soon. Start slowly. If anyone is struggling with mental health, it’s important to tell a doctor – there’s much support we can offer.
I am having a knee replacement and the thought terrifies me. I had a blood clot in my lung several years ago and I’m on blood thinners for life. Would an operation be very risky?
Almost all medical interventions carry a level of risk. This has to be weighed up against the benefits of that treatment in each case to decide the best and safest action.
In the case of knee replacement, the operation can have a life-changing effect, ending knee pain and restoring movement.
The risks of surgery include bleeding, infection and of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), when a blood clot forms in a deep vein, most often in the leg, which can then travel up into the lungs.
I am having a knee replacement and the thought terrifies me. I had a blood clot in my lung several years ago and I’m on blood thinners for life. Would an operation be very risky?
Clots can develop as patients often stay in bed, or move far less for long periods of time during your recovery. The lack of movement means blood flows slower in the veins, increasing the risk of a clot developing. It’s vital anyone with a medical history of clots inform their medical team prior to an op, as this will help them better manage that risk.
There are also things patients can do: smoking increases the risk of a DVT, so quit if you can, and maintain a healthy weight.
Patients are given compression stockings to wear after surgery – these lower the risk of DVT. Getting mobile as soon as possible and moving the feet and ankles even when lying in bed helps, too.
I have to pee up five times a night, disturbing my sleep. I’ve tried avoiding caffeine, not eating or drinking anything after 6pm. I had a hysterectomy about 30 years ago.
Nocturia is the medical term for waking up multiple times in the night to pass urine – and it can be a symptom of many things. In men it can be related to an enlarged prostate. In women, after the menopause, it is common to suffer urinary urgency and recurrent urinary tract infections – and this can be treated with topical vaginal oestrogen. This is safe for most and does not have the risks of HRT – in fact it is now an over-the-counter treatment.
Oxybutynin is given for an overactive bladder, but it can cause side effects, such as a dry mouth. Avoiding caffeine, which is a diuretic, should help, and I would also advise avoiding alcohol. However drinking less may not be a good idea. If you have an overactive bladder, it contracts even when not full. The less you drink the more concentrated the urine becomes, so even a small amount will irritate the bladder, worsening the contractions.
If your GP feels you have an overactive bladder they may advise bladder training, which aims to stretch the bladder so it can hold more urine. This means holding on for a few minutes when you need to go, gradually increasing over time.
Sexism in medicine has to end
Thousands of women have missed out on treatment for heart attacks due to ‘sexism in medicine’, a study has concluded.
Women often suffer different heart attack symptoms to men: along with chest pain, they can become dizzy, tired, sick or have indigestion or shortness of breath.
Researchers at Imperial College London examined data from 420,000 cases between 2005 and 2017 and found that one in 20 women having heart attacks had been wrongly classified as not being at high risk of death. Some are simply told they’ve had ‘a funny turn’, the researchers found – with tragic consequences.
Historically, women have been excluded from medical research – scientists were reluctant to test drugs on women because of their monthly hormone fluctuations or they might become pregnant.
It’s clear that extrapolating data from men-only trials isn’t sufficient. Just because we’re different to men, doesn’t make it OK to ignore our health.
Are you still struggling to get your HRT drugs?
The Government’s HRT tsar is stepping down after just four months in the role. Madelaine McTernan was given the job to tackle widespread shortages of some hormone replacement therapy drugs, but from my position as a GP I can’t see that the situation has improved.
Women are still struggling to get the hormone medications they desperately need and, if anything, the shortages now apply to a much wider range of products than before.
The Government’s HRT tsar is stepping down after just four months in the role. Madelaine McTernan was given the job to tackle widespread shortages of some hormone replacement therapy drugs
Patients are being given prescriptions for HRT only to find chemists have run out, meaning they have to get another GP appointment for an alternative to be prescribed, which can take weeks. New rules brought in under McTernan’s watch mean pharmacists can prescribe an equivalent product if the one on the prescription is not available, but many don’t seem to know about this. There’s certainly a lot more work to be done. Have you been struggling to get HRT? Let us know. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11177023/Ask-DR-KAYE-foods-lentils-make-feel-calmer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-03T21:48:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11177023/Ask-DR-KAYE-foods-lentils-make-feel-calmer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Unexploded ordnance detonated Saturday in southern Afghanistan killing four children and injuring three others after the kids brought it inside their school, police and a doctor said.
The incident in Helmand province happened when the children discovered an unexploded shell and brought it inside their religious school and started playing with it, according a statement from the provincial police chief’s office.
The children were ages 7 to 14 and at least three others were injured, according to the police statement.
Afghanistan has suffered from decades of war and remains highly dangerous for children, who often collect scrap metal to sell to support their families. Many are killed or maimed when they come across unexploded ordinance.
Three of the children in Saturday’s explosion were killed immediately and a girl later died from her wounds at the hospital in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, according to a doctor there. The physician spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to address the media. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-4-afghan-kids-playing-with-unexploded-shell-killed-in-school/ | 2022-09-03T21:49:09Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-4-afghan-kids-playing-with-unexploded-shell-killed-in-school/ | false |
Uvalde children grapple with trauma after school massacre
UVALDE, Texas - One girl runs and hides when she sees thin people with long hair similar to the gunman who stormed into her Uvalde school and killed 21 people. One boy stopped making friends and playing with animals. A third child feels her heart race when she’s reminded of the May 24 massacre that killed a close friend — once at such a dangerous pace that she had to be rushed to a hospital, where she stayed for weeks.
The 11-year-old girl has been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She and her family spoke to The Associated Press on condition her name not be used to protect her identity.
"I never lost someone before," she said, adding that her friend who was among the 19 students and two teachers killed in the United States’ deadliest school massacre in a decade would encourage her through hard times. "She was a very strong person."
As students get ready to return to school in Uvalde on Tuesday for the first time since the massacre at Robb Elementary, PTSD symptoms are starting to show. Parents are finding themselves unable to help, and experts worry because communities of color such as the largely Hispanic city of Uvalde face disparities in access to mental health care. For low-income families, it can be even harder, as access to limited resources requires long waits for referrals through medical assistance programs such as Medicaid.
UVALDE COVERAGE
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"It’s hard hearing what these kids are going through at such a young age," said Yuri Castro, a mother of two boys in Uvalde, whose cousin was killed in the shooting and whose sons were once taught by the two slain teachers. Castro knows of children so traumatized they have stopped speaking.
School shootings dramatically upend survivors’ lives. For some, symptoms linger for years and high-quality treatment can be difficult to find.
In recent years, Texas lawmakers have focused on spending money on mental health services, devoting more than $2.5 billion during the current fiscal year.
But according to the 11-year-old girl’s family — lifelong residents of Uvalde — the only mental health center in the area — just blocks from Robb Elementary — was seldom used or discussed, raising worries about the lack of awareness regarding signs and symptoms of mental illness and the stigma surrounding seeking help.
The mother of the 11-year-old girl whose racing heart led to her hospitalization says open conversations about mental health were previously taboo in the heavily Latino community, where culturally, mental health is brushed off as feeling lazy, bored or throwing a tantrum.
"I remember growing up it was like, ‘Go over there, you are just being chiflada,’" the mother said, using a Spanish word that means "acting spoiled."
Now, she said, the town is waking up to the reality of mental health even as some people still ask why survivors like her daughter need help.
Members of the community have been supporting one another by checking in with extended family and friends and taking advantage of community resources that have been set up, including counseling by the Red Cross and emotional support from the churches. The parents of one of the children who was killed started an organization that will be putting together wilderness retreats for victims’ families and survivors. Residents also have social media groups where they can share mental health resources and express their grief.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracted with organizations to create a mental health hotline that in six weeks responded to nearly 400 calls.
Martha Rodriguez, who coordinated efforts to help students recover after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said officials need to visit the community to make sure the right resources are available. She said addressing stigmas and sending providers who understand the families’ language and values are key.
PARKLAND COVERAGE
- Parkland school shooter trial: Prosecution rests after 3 weeks of graphic images, painful testimony
- Parkland penalty trial jurors to visit school building where shooter killed 17 people
- Parkland shooter trial a rare, graphic look into one of the worst mass shootings in the U.S.
"Some families may not feel comfortable sharing distress and needs," she said.
Many families impacted by the shooting are Roman Catholic. The mother of a girl who survived the attack said her daughter has only been able to open up to a priest in Houston — 280 miles away — whom the family goes to see when they visit relatives.
"This is going to be a long journey. This is not going to be something that we can just do some work and fix it," said San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller.
Julie Kaplow, director of the trauma and grief centers at the Texas Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital New Orleans, said many students who survived the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting that killed 10 in suburban Houston did not exhibit symptoms for six months.
"I am anticipating that we will see some similarities," said Kaplow, who has been training clinicians and others who are treating families in Uvalde. "Part of the reason is those symptoms haven’t manifested yet and will start to manifest when they are reminded of the event itself. Or the caregiver starts to recognize, ‘Wait a minute my child is still not eating, is still not sleeping.’"
SANTA FE COVERAGE
- Explosive devices found at Santa Fe High School and off campus after school shooting
- Ten victims identified who were killed in Santa Fe High School shooting
- Santa Fe HS student and dad talk about coping in the aftermath of Santa Fe HS shooting
The length of treatment varies depending on the severity of symptoms. For some, it can last up to two to three years.
Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, was the lead adviser to public schools in Newtown, Connecticut, after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. She said officials need to make sure that families can get services at school. They also need to create spaces that feel friendlier, such as community meals, rather than clinics.
SANDY HOOK COVERAGE
- Sandy Hook group begins violence warning-signs campaign
- Sandy Hook families agree to $73M settlement with gun maker Remington
- Sandy Hook Promise releases chilling back-to school PSA to bring awareness to 'horrific new normal'
Parents of the incoming fifth-grader who is struggling with symptoms chose to home-school her this year so she can continue going to appointments more easily. She is also getting a service dog who will alert her if her heart rate rises.
But she worries about her brothers returning to the classroom and gets anxious thinking others will judge her because of how she has been affected by the massacre when she wasn’t shot, her mother said. She is awakened daily by night terrors.
"We don’t sleep. ... We don’t even know what that is anymore since this has happened," the mother said. "I am going to have to deal with that for however long it takes for her to heal." | https://www.fox29.com/news/uvalde-texas-mass-shooting-child-trauma | 2022-09-03T21:49:30Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/uvalde-texas-mass-shooting-child-trauma | false |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russians who came for a last look at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday mourned both the man and his policies that gave them hope. President Vladimir Putin claimed to be too busy to attend.
Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at age 91, launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War. But he also precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, which Putin had called the 20th century’s “greatest geopolitical catastrophe.”
The farewell viewing of his body in an ostentatious hall near the Kremlin was shadowed by the awareness that the openness Gorbachev championed has been stifled under Putin.
“I want to thank him for my childhood of freedom, which we don’t have today,” said mourner Ilya, a financial services worker in his early 30s who declined to give his last name.
“I am a son of perestroika,” he said, using the Russian word for Gorbachev’s reform, or reconstruction, initiatives.
“I’d like us to have more people like him in our history,” said another mourner, Yulia Prividennaya. “We need such politicians to settle the situation in the world when it’s on the verge of World War III.”
After the viewing, Gorbachev’s body was buried next to his wife Raisa in Novodevichy cemetery, where many prominent Russians lie, including the post-Soviet country’s first president, Boris Yeltsin, whose struggle for power with Gorbachev sped up the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The procession that carried the coffin into the cemetery was led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, editor of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, Russia’s last major Kremlin-critical news outlet before it suspended operations in March. Gorbachev used funds from his own Nobel prize to help start the paper.
The Kremlin refusal to formally declare a state funeral reflected its uneasiness about the legacy of Gorbachev, who has been venerated worldwide for bringing down the Iron Curtain but reviled by many at home for the Soviet collapse and the ensuing economic meltdown that plunged millions into poverty.
On Thursday, Putin privately laid flowers at Gorbachev’s coffin at a Moscow hospital where he died. The Kremlin said the president’s busy schedule would prevent him from attending the funeral.
Asked what specific business would keep Putin busy on Saturday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the president was scheduled to have a series of working meetings, an international phone call and needs to prepare for a business forum in Russia’s Far East that he’s due to attend next week.
Gorbachev’s body was displayed for public viewing at the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions, an opulent 18th-century mansion near the Kremlin that has served as the venue for state funerals since Soviet times.
Mourners passed by Gorbachev’s open casket flanked by honorary guards, laying flowers as solemn music played. Gorbachev’s daughter, Irina, and his two granddaughters sat beside the coffin.
The grand, chandeliered hall lined by columns hosted balls for the nobility under the czars and served as a venue for high-level meetings and congresses along with state funerals during Soviet times. Upon entering the building, mourners saw honor guards flanking a large photo of Gorbachev standing with a broad smile, a reminder of the cheerful vigor he brought to the Soviet leadership after a series of dour, ailing predecessors.
The turnout was large enough that the viewing was extended for two more hours beyond the stated two hours.
Despite the choice of the prestigious site for the farewell ceremony, the Kremlin stopped short of calling it a state funeral, with Peskov saying the ceremony will have “elements” of one, such as honorary guards, and the government’s assistance in organizing it. He wouldn’t describe how it will differ from a full-fledged state funeral.
Saturday’s ceremony had all the trappings befitting a state funeral except the name, including the national flag draping Gorbachev’s coffin. with goose-stepping guards firing shots in the air and a small band playing the Russian anthem, which uses the same melody as the Soviet anthem.
But officially declaring a state funeral for Gorbachev would have obliged Putin to attend it and would have required Moscow to invite foreign leaders, something that it was apparently reluctant to do amid soaring tensions with the West after Russia sent troops to Ukraine.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council chaired by Putin who served as Russia’s president in 2008-2012, showed up at the farewell ceremony. He then released a post on a messaging app channel, referring to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and accusing the U.S. and its allies of trying to engineer Russia’s breakup, a policy he described as a “chess game with Death.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who often has been critical of the Western sanctions against Russia, was the only foreign leader who attended the farewell on Saturday. The U.S., British, German and other Western ambassadors also attended.
The relatively modest ceremony contrasted with a lavish 2007 state funeral given to Yeltsin, who anointed Putin as his preferred successor and set the stage for him to win the presidency by stepping down.
Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the liberal Yabloko party who worked on economic reform plans under Gorbachev, hailed him for “offering people an opportunity to say what they thought – something that Russia never had before.”
Putin has avoided explicit personal criticism of Gorbachev, but has repeatedly blamed him for failing to secure written commitments from the West that would rule out NATO’s expansion eastward. The issue has marred Russia-West relations for decades and fomented tensions that exploded when the Russian leader sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
In a carefully phrased letter of condolence released Wednesday avoiding explicit praise or criticism, Putin described Gorbachev as a man who left “an enormous impact on the course of world history.”
“He led the country during difficult and dramatic changes, amid large-scale foreign policy, economic and society challenges,” Putin said. “He deeply realized that reforms were necessary and tried to offer his solutions for the acute problems.”
The Kremlin’s ambivalence about Gorbachev was reflected in state television broadcasts, which described his worldwide acclaim and grand expectations generated by his reforms, but held him responsible for plunging the country into political turmoil and economic woes and failing to properly defend the country’s interests in talks with the West.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 4, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
348 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...The National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio TX has issued
a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Texas...
Devils River At Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock affecting Val
Verde County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
To escape rising water, take the shortest path to higher ground.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 400 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO LATE TOMORROW
MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Devils River At Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock.
* WHEN...From this afternoon to late tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 6.0 feet, (1.8 meters), Minor lowland flooding
extends into low areas of the flood plain with no significant
impact.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 3:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 6.0 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 6.5
feet late this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage
late this evening.
- Flood stage is 6.0 feet.
- Flood History...No available flood history.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (4 pm CDT)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Sun Mon Tue
Devils River
Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comst 6.0 6.0 Sat 3 pm CDT 4.8 3.9 3.6
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
county, Galveston.
* WHEN...Until 545 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Overflowing poor drainage areas.
- At 349 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Galveston Causeway, Galveston Island West End, Galveston Pier
21, Jamaica Beach, Galveston State Park, Scholes Field,
Schlitterbahn, Offatts Bayou, Moody Gardens, Galveston
Pleasure Pier, The Strand, Pelican Island and San Luis Pass.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
404 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Harris, Liberty and Montgomery.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 404 PM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause
urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Humble, Tomball, Kingwood, Spring, Aldine, Greater
Greenspoint, The Woodlands, Splendora, Patton Village, Roman
Forest, Woodbranch, Plum Grove, Lake Houston, Porter Heights,
northern Atascocita, Bush Intercontinental Airport,
Splashtown, northwestern Acres Home, Hooks Airport and
Greater Inwood.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
429 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Harris
County through 500 PM CDT...
At 429 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
East Houston, or near Jacinto City, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Northwestern Pasadena, Galena Park, Jacinto City, Greater Fifth Ward,
Cloverleaf, Downtown Houston, Second Ward, Greater Eastwood, Midtown
Houston, Greater Third Ward, Near Northside Houston, Channelview,
Magnolia Park, Northshore, Houston Ship Channel, Hunterwood, Clinton
Park Tri-Community, El Dorado / Oates Prairie, Settegast and Houston
Gardens.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2991 9529 2990 9515 2972 9516 2974 9537
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 012DEG 14KT 2983 9525
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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NEW YORK (AP) — “National Cinema Day” on Saturday brought the big screen to moviegoers for a small price — no more than $3 — as American theaters looked to fill seats during the late summer lull.
The one-day nationwide promotion was being offered on more than 30,000 screens in more than 3,000 theaters, including the major chains of AMC and Regal Cinemas. The Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, announced the plan Aug. 28 and said all major film studios also were participating.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters.
National Cinema Day is intended to flood theaters with moviegoers and prompt them to return in the fall, inspired by 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 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.
But that trails 2019 totals by about 20% as exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in confirming recent discussions of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing.
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.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in an Aug. 28 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.”
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Drug bust: Officers seize $4.2 million in cocaine at U.S.-Mexico border
LAREDO, Texas (Gray News) - Officers at the U.S.-Mexico border say they busted another large cocaine shipment attempting to enter the country this week.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, field operation officers at a port of entry in Laredo seized cocaine valued at $4.2 million within a tractor-trailer on Tuesday.
“Our frontline officers have displayed an unparalleled commitment to CBP’s priority border security mission, seizing a fourth significant cocaine load in the cargo environment this week,” said Laredo Port of Entry Director Alberto Flores.
Authorities said Tuesday’s bust was at the World Trade Bridge and involved a tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of plastic ethylene sheets. Officers referred the tractor-trailer for a secondary inspection, where 209 packages containing 545 pounds of alleged cocaine were discovered.
The agency said the narcotics had an estimated street value of $4.2 million.
“These seizures illustrate the gravity of the narcotics threat we are facing and the effective application of CBP officer inspections experience, resources and technology,” Flores said.
The narcotics were seized and officials said the incident was under further investigation.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Opposition politicians languishing in prison. Journalists and government critics harassed and arrested. Public meetings banned.
Zimbabwe’s general election is several months away but many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to the iron-fisted rule of Robert Mugabe, the former president who died in 2019.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is responding with force to opposition to his rule, stoked by worsening economic conditions including inflation at more than 250% and the emergence of a popular new party.
Among those suffering from the government’s dragnet is opposition member of parliament Job Sikhala, who has been detained in the harsh Chikurubi prison near the capital, Harare, for close to three months on accusations of inciting violence.
The fiery 50-year-old Sikhala has been arrested more than 65 times in his two-decade political career but has never been convicted of any crime, say his lawyers.
Most recently Sikhala was arrested in June with more than two dozen other activists of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, known as the CCC, and accused of fanning violence after skirmishes with ruling party supporters. Repeated attempts to get bail for him and the others have failed.
“The reason they have not been given bail is because they (prosecutors) know they will not get convicted. The idea is to make them serve,” said lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa.
“They know they don’t have the evidence to prove the cases,” said Mtetwa, saying the government’s legal tactics are “lawfare” to weaken political opponents.
Criticism of Mnangagwa’s government has been stoked by Zimbabwe’s inflation, currently estimated to be one of the world’s highest and rising numbers of people pushed into informal trade such as street vending. More than two-thirds of Zimbabweans eke out a living in the informal sector, one of the highest rates in the world, according to the IMF.
Few of Zimbabwe’s poor believe the recent introduction of gold coins as legal tender will improve their day-to-day hardships.
The CCC party, launched in January and led by Nelson Chamisa, 44, has attracted considerable attention and followers. In response, police in Harare and other cities have been banning the party’s meetings, as well as gatherings of civic organizations and church groups perceived as government critics.
Dozens of people — including opposition supporters, political activists, journalists, church leaders, trade union members and student leaders — have been arrested and appear in court on various charges that legal experts say are harassment.
Mnangagwa’s strategy to stay in power appears to be to use the police, military, and security forces to keep the opposition in turmoil until elections are held next year, say analysts.
“The current environment has worrying indicators of the possibility of yet another violent and contested electoral period,” noted the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum in a statement in August.
Zimbabwe is facing “a breakdown in the rule of law and constitutionalism; overt militarization of government, security sector brutality, political polarization, exclusion and violence, shrinking civic space and widespread human rights violations,” said the group.
In recent weeks Mnangagwa has called for peace while at the same time lambasting the opposition and accusing it of being sponsored by Western powers.
It’s similar to the ways of Mugabe, who in his 37 years in power used harsh repression against all opposition. Although Mugabe was forced to resign in 2017, the same party remains in power.
ZANU-PF fought a bitter and bloody war throughout the 1970s, with backing from China, against the white-minority regime of Rhodesia. The guerilla movement won elections in 1980 and has ruled the country ever since, with a strong distrust of the West and multiparty politics.
“The complexities of Zimbabwe politics remain one where there was never a genuine transformation of the liberation movement of ZANU-PF into a political party suiting democratic dictates of the 21st century,” said Alexander Rusero, a Harare-based academic and political commentator.
“Liberation politics is informed by skepticism and binary characterization of citizens as either friends or enemies,” he said. “ZANU-PF continues to classify opposition parties and civil society activists as stooges of the West. It will continue to use its power to crush them, just like what happened during Mugabe’s time.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-zimbabwe-government-harasses-opposition-with-arrests-jail/ | 2022-09-03T22:21:09Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-zimbabwe-government-harasses-opposition-with-arrests-jail/ | true |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 4, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
348 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...The National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio TX has issued
a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Texas...
Devils River At Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock affecting Val
Verde County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
To escape rising water, take the shortest path to higher ground.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 400 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO LATE TOMORROW
MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Devils River At Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comstock.
* WHEN...From this afternoon to late tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 6.0 feet, (1.8 meters), Minor lowland flooding
extends into low areas of the flood plain with no significant
impact.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 3:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 6.0 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 6.5
feet late this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage
late this evening.
- Flood stage is 6.0 feet.
- Flood History...No available flood history.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (4 pm CDT)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Sun Mon Tue
Devils River
Bakers Crossing 19N Of Comst 6.0 6.0 Sat 3 pm CDT 4.8 3.9 3.6
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
county, Galveston.
* WHEN...Until 545 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Overflowing poor drainage areas.
- At 349 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Galveston Causeway, Galveston Island West End, Galveston Pier
21, Jamaica Beach, Galveston State Park, Scholes Field,
Schlitterbahn, Offatts Bayou, Moody Gardens, Galveston
Pleasure Pier, The Strand, Pelican Island and San Luis Pass.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Pharmacies in greater Richmond have begun offering new omicron-targeted COVID-19 boosters, and the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts will begin distributing the shots on Sept. 14.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave its approval of the new shots Thursday, greenlighting them for mass distribution. The updated vaccines are known as bivalent because they target both the original version of the virus and the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
CVS and Walgreens locations in the Richmond area began offering appointments Saturday.
Everyone 12 years and older is eligible for the Pfizer booster, and everyone 18 years and older is eligible for the Moderna booster. In the past two years, COVID cases have increased in the fall as people increasingly gather indoors.
Until now, vaccines were designed to treat the original strain of COVID. According to studies, antibody levels peak about two months after receiving a first shot. In a study by the University of Virginia, Pfizer recipients saw their antibody level decrease 40% in the months following their inoculation. Moderna recipients experienced a slightly lower drop. It’s unclear how many antibodies are needed to prevent infection or severe disease.
When the omicron variant exploded in the U.S. in late 2021, it showed an ability to evade vaccines in a way previous variants had not. People who were vaccinated still had protection against serious disease, even though they could develop infection.
The new shots are designed to fight both the original variant of COVID and the subvariants of omicron.
“Similar to how we update the flu vaccine each year to provide the most protection possible, these tweaks to our existing COVID-19 vaccines will give our communities a safe, effective tool to stay healthy this fall,” said Dr. Melissa Viray, deputy director of the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the CDC, voted 13-1 in favor of recommending the reformulated shot. Pablo Sanchez, a professor of pediatrics at Ohio State University-Nationwide Children’s Hospital, voted against the recommendation.
He had concerns over the lack of data from testing the new shots in people. The Food and Drug Administration approved the shots without waiting for the results of clinical trials. New trials weren’t necessary, some experts said, because the new shots are simply updates of old ones.
It’s unclear if the reformulated vaccine will prevent infection or only ward off serious disease. Some health experts recommend not receiving a shot immediately after infection. Waiting a month could provide a higher level of immunity.
The FDA no longer authorizes the monovalent boosters that were designed for the original variant, meaning all booster shots now offered will be the new versions.
In Virginia, 72% of residents are considered fully vaccinated, which is defined as having one shot of Johnson & Johnson or two shots of Pfizer, Moderna or Novavax. About 44% of Virginians have gotten one or more boosters.
Baby vaccines, which were approved earlier this summer, remain the least popular version of the shot. In Virginia, just 9% of infants and toddlers 4 years and younger have received a vaccine.
A subset of Americans aren’t interested in COVID vaccination. According to Morning Consult, 21% of U.S. residents say they are unwilling to get vaccinated, a number that is unchanged from the spring of 2021.
“The new bivalent COVID-19 boosters are yet another important tool in our growing COVID-19 toolbox,” said Dr. Elaine Perry, director of the Richmond and Henrico districts.
Leslie Luck, shown in a drone photo taken Tuesday, is director of operations for the Historic Polegreen Church Foundation. “Historic Polegreen Church is known as the cradle of religious freedom,” Luck said of the Hanover County site. Samuel Davies, who inspired a young Patrick Henry, was Virginia’s first licensed non-Anglican minister there from 1748 to 1759. The original church structure was burned down during the Civil War, and the current white steel beam structure, designed by Carlton Abbott, was erected at the site. Other than the historical importance and symbolism for religious freedom, Historic Polegreen Church is a popular wedding venue and was made even more popular since guitarist Jason Mraz, a Mechanicsville native, was married here in 2015.
Visitors took in the views of the valley, about 1,000 feet below, and the mountains beyond at a scenic spot on Rockfish Gap Turnpike near Afton on July 31.
This drone photo was taken from the scenic overlook on Interstate 64.
Flying the drone is not allowed at nearby Shenandoah National Park; however, there are scenic overlooks, including McCormick Gap, Calf Mountain and Sawmill Run.
Visitors can also find three historical markers at the I-64 overlook: the Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District, the Flight of Richard C. duPont and the Rockfish Gap Meeting.
There are many beautiful spots in the Hampton Roads area for photographers, such as beaches, rivers and state and national parks. But there are not many places available for drone photography because of the many restricted airspaces due to military bases, airports, and state and national parks.
Gloucester Point in Gloucester County is one of the exceptions, with a popular public fishing pier, a small beach and views of the Coleman Memorial Bridge and Yorktown. With the right timing and cooperation from Mother Nature, visitors are rewarded with a beautiful sunset over the bridge and a view of Yorktown’s waterfront.
The Times-Dispatch covered Alvis Farms a few years ago when the Goochland County farm started the Sunflower Festival.
The imagery stayed with me, and I thought it would be a cool place to fly a drone and capture images of a 50-acre sunflower field. I learned that timing is crucial, as the flowers fully bloom for only a few weeks in the middle of summer.
I coordinated with Rachel Henley of Alvis Farms to find the best time to photograph them. Once I visited the field with a drone, showing perspective of the sunflower farm became the challenge, as again it is 50 acres brimming with sunflowers.
Hannah Molnar of Alvis Farms had a cow, Memphis, at the field as she and others were preparing for the opening of the festival.
I was able to capture Hannah and Memphis with the flowers in full bloom, with the drone showing the scale of the farm.
Leslie Luck, shown in a drone photo taken Tuesday, is director of operations for the Historic Polegreen Church Foundation. “Historic Polegreen Church is known as the cradle of religious freedom,” Luck said of the Hanover County site. Samuel Davies, who inspired a young Patrick Henry, was Virginia’s first licensed non-Anglican minister there from 1748 to 1759. The original church structure was burned down during the Civil War, and the current white steel beam structure, designed by Carlton Abbott, was erected at the site. Other than the historical importance and symbolism for religious freedom, Historic Polegreen Church is a popular wedding venue and was made even more popular since guitarist Jason Mraz, a Mechanicsville native, was married here in 2015.
Visitors took in the views of the valley, about 1,000 feet below, and the mountains beyond at a scenic spot on Rockfish Gap Turnpike near Afton on July 31.
This drone photo was taken from the scenic overlook on Interstate 64.
Flying the drone is not allowed at nearby Shenandoah National Park; however, there are scenic overlooks, including McCormick Gap, Calf Mountain and Sawmill Run.
Visitors can also find three historical markers at the I-64 overlook: the Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District, the Flight of Richard C. duPont and the Rockfish Gap Meeting.
There are many beautiful spots in the Hampton Roads area for photographers, such as beaches, rivers and state and national parks. But there are not many places available for drone photography because of the many restricted airspaces due to military bases, airports, and state and national parks.
Gloucester Point in Gloucester County is one of the exceptions, with a popular public fishing pier, a small beach and views of the Coleman Memorial Bridge and Yorktown. With the right timing and cooperation from Mother Nature, visitors are rewarded with a beautiful sunset over the bridge and a view of Yorktown’s waterfront.
The Times-Dispatch covered Alvis Farms a few years ago when the Goochland County farm started the Sunflower Festival.
The imagery stayed with me, and I thought it would be a cool place to fly a drone and capture images of a 50-acre sunflower field. I learned that timing is crucial, as the flowers fully bloom for only a few weeks in the middle of summer.
I coordinated with Rachel Henley of Alvis Farms to find the best time to photograph them. Once I visited the field with a drone, showing perspective of the sunflower farm became the challenge, as again it is 50 acres brimming with sunflowers.
Hannah Molnar of Alvis Farms had a cow, Memphis, at the field as she and others were preparing for the opening of the festival.
I was able to capture Hannah and Memphis with the flowers in full bloom, with the drone showing the scale of the farm.
Eric Kolenich writes about higher education, health systems and more for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He joined the newspaper in 2009 and spent 11 years in the Sports section.
(804) 649-6109
UVA's study, published in "Frontiers in Immunology," builds on previous research that indicates the Moderna vaccine is slightly more effective than Pfizer. | https://richmond.com/news/local/omicron-specific-covid-booster-shots-have-arrived-in-richmond/article_e3ba4569-dd51-5dd4-a84f-910c58f4f3fa.html | 2022-09-03T22:25:20Z | https://richmond.com/news/local/omicron-specific-covid-booster-shots-have-arrived-in-richmond/article_e3ba4569-dd51-5dd4-a84f-910c58f4f3fa.html | false |
Eileen Fisher, a leader in slow fashion, ends a chapter Published September 3, 2022 at 3:29 PM MDT Facebook Twitter Email Listen • 10:16 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with fashion designer and entrepreneur Eileen Fisher about her career ahead of her stepping down as CEO of her company. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/2022-09-03/eileen-fisher-a-leader-in-slow-fashion-ends-a-chapter | 2022-09-03T22:27:01Z | https://www.kunm.org/2022-09-03/eileen-fisher-a-leader-in-slow-fashion-ends-a-chapter | true |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in San Diego has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Riverside County in southern California...
East central Orange County in southwestern California...
* Until 300 PM PDT.
* At 201 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lake
Elsinore, moving west at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Southwestern Lake Elsinore, Rancho Santa Margarita, Ortega Highway,
Trabuco Canyon, Las Flores, Temescal Valley, Trabuco Highlands,
Lakeland Village and Coto De Caza.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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A goal from Joshua Kimmich was too little for Bayern Munich on Saturday, as the German champions were held to a draw for the second week in a row at Union Berlin and knocked off top spot in the Bundesliga.
Union battled to a well-earned point at home to Bayern, allowing fellow high-fliers Freiburg to leapfrog their way into first after they beat Bayer Leverkusen in a five-goal thriller.
After their impressive start to the season, Union had begun the day hot on Bayern's heels with only goal difference separating the two teams.
They showed why early in the first half, taking the lead through Sheraldo Becker with a brilliantly worked free-kick to stun the champions and send the home crowd into ecstasy.
Their celebrations were cut short a few minutes later as Bayern immediately turned the screws and Kimmich levelled the scores with a fizzing, first-time finish from the edge of the area.
Bayern were repeatedly thwarted by Danish goalkeeper Frederik Ronnow as both sides had chances to win the game in a thrilling battle after the break. | https://www.beinsports.com/en/football/video/union-berlin-1-bayern-munich-1-highlights/1943975 | 2022-09-03T22:28:25Z | https://www.beinsports.com/en/football/video/union-berlin-1-bayern-munich-1-highlights/1943975 | true |
CHANDLER, Ariz. — The crisis in Ukraine is far from over as Russia refuses to pull back, that threat is leaving so many civilians desperate for everyday needs including healthcare. Now, a Valley physician along with a small team of medical staff is heading to the ravaged country to render aide, hoping to make a fraction of a difference to those living in fear of their safety.
Doctor Andrew Villa is making a return trip to Ukraine with a solid mission.
"We just have the heart to go there and serve and provide for their needs. They're going to have follow ups and understand that we're going to continue to help provide for their needs," he explained.
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He and his wife along with their team ensuring to the Ukrainian people, that primary care is their priority even as escalating violence wreaks havoc in multiple cities across Ukraine.
"As you know, areas have been completely devastated by the war, supply chains have been cut off, people have poor access to food, their medical facilities have been bombed, they have very little medical care and just basic needs aren't met and they're just suffering," Dr. Villa said.
With the help of "Global Care Force" a nonprofit connecting volunteers like Dr. Villa to partners serving people in need, getting meaningful care to Ukraine is a realistic medical mission for them.
"We're going to set up primary care and urgent care clinics and we're going to be there for about two weeks, then every month they plan on sending other teams to similar areas, to follow up and provide that on-going care," he added.
While mission trips to foreign countries aren't new to Dr. Villa, seeing the devastation can be daunting which makes the mission all the more important.
"We're hoping to make a small difference in a lot of lives and again, sometimes it's just showing people that you care."
The Chandler couple leaves on September 10 as part of the Global Care Force mission.
Those interested in volunteering with the Global Care Force Mission can click here to learn more.
Conflict in Ukraine
For the latest updates on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia stay with 12News online and on our YouTube channel. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/chandler-valley-doctor-traveling-to-ukraine-september-2022/75-5fff8ce8-dbfc-497a-a204-db4951a83cc0 | 2022-09-03T22:29:32Z | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/chandler-valley-doctor-traveling-to-ukraine-september-2022/75-5fff8ce8-dbfc-497a-a204-db4951a83cc0 | true |
Companies report getting overwhelmed with student loan refund requests
(CNN) - Student loan service companies are being overwhelmed with refund requests after President Joe Biden’s forgiveness program.
Despite the pandemic pause, many borrowers continued to make student loan payments and are wondering if they can get that money back.
The answer for many is “yes.”
While most of the 42 million people covered by the pause did not make payments, about 9 million kept paying.
It’s not clear how much of the U.S. Department of Education’s $1.6 trillion portfolio of loans would be affected. But many borrowers should be able to get refunds of up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt.
And for Pell grant recipients, the total climbs to 20,000 if they make less than $125,000 a year. The income limit for a married couple is even higher, at a combined total of $250,000 a year.
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WEDNESDAY CRASH
A 4:09 p.m. crash involving a semitrailer and a Jeep occurred on 88th Avenue and 104th Street in Pleasant Prairie Wednesday. According Sgt. Sean Flahive of the Pleasant Prairie Police Department, the collision involved minor damage to the front bumper of the Jeep and no injuries were reported. He said officers were interviewing witnesses Wednesday night and the crash remained under investigation.
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For the drive home in Kenosha: Considerable clouds early. Some decrease in clouds late. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low around 65F. Winds NNE at 10 to 20 mph. Kenosha will see warm temperatures this Sunday. It looks like it will be a comfortable 71 degrees. 64 degrees is tomorrow's low. Models are showing a 24% chance of rain tomorrow. Keep an umbrella handy, just in case! The Kenosha area should see a light breeze, with forecast showing winds from northeast, clocking in at 14 mph. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Stay in the know. Visit kenoshanews.com for local news and weather.
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Some rain around this morning, but as a cold front works over us this afternoon, scattered storms are expected and a few could produce hail and damaging wind. Full details in our latest forecast.
Isolated showers and storms Friday, but a better chance of rain Saturday with a cold front. Track the rain and see what will happen to our temperatures in our complete Labor Day weekend forecast.
Sunny with above normal temperatures today. Foggy conditions expected late tonight and Thursday morning. See how long the fog will stick around and when there's a chance for showers and storms here.
Windy this afternoon, but otherwise a very pleasant day. Temperatures are going up for Wednesday. When's our next chance of rain? Find out in our updated forecast.
Temperatures will continue to rise today. Cloud cover will also be increasing with isolated showers and storms expected for Friday. Find out when and where rain is most likely in our updated forecast.
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PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — First responders in Placer County are responding to a home that caught fire surrounded by vegetation, Cal Fire officials said.
Just before 2:40 p.m., Saturday officials with Cal Fire's Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit sent out a Tweet saying that crews were responding to the blaze with an extension to the surrounding vegetation.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The home is located on Mosquito Ridge Road and Foresthill Road.
Watch More from ABC10: 24-hour shift | California firefighters on how they handle extreme heat | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/cal-fire-structure-fire-placer-county/103-53be7892-bca2-41a0-9a74-89e42d655123 | 2022-09-03T22:37:17Z | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/cal-fire-structure-fire-placer-county/103-53be7892-bca2-41a0-9a74-89e42d655123 | false |
NEW YORK – Much like for so many other folks, Serena Williams' last match at the U.S. Open was must-see TV for players still in the tournament, so Jessica Pegula and Petra Kvitova tuned in from their hotel rooms the night before their victories led off Saturday's schedule and set up a fourth-round showdown.
“Of course I watched Serena. I'm like everyone else,” said Pegula, a 28-year-old American who is seeded No. 8 at Flushing Meadows and beat qualifier Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-0. “You feel kind of sad that’s how it ends. But, I don’t know, like I got a little, like, sentimental, too, watching her, how emotional she was getting.”
Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion from the Czech Republic, credited Williams' last stand — the owner of 23 Grand Slam titles fended off five match points before bowing out in three sets against Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday night in what is expected to be her final contest — with offering inspiration.
“It was very special. She didn’t want to leave the court, for sure. That was the same case with me today, actually. I didn’t want to go out of this tournament, so I was just there hanging (in), somehow,” said Kvitova, who erased deficit after deficit, including a pair of match points, to edge Garbiñe Muguruza 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (12-10).
“That's what Serena showed last night,” said Kvitova, who dropped her racket and covered her face with her ends when what she called a “nightmare” of a tiebreaker was over. “It was nice to see her yesterday, fighting until the end.”
Yes, Williams is gone, leaving the year's last major tournament — and, in some ways, the sport as a whole — without its biggest star and storyline. Still, the show must go on.
So there was Kvitova, undaunted as ever, despite dropping the first set, despite trailing 5-2 in the third, despite being a point from defeat twice at 6-5.
Here’s how close this one was: Kvitova won 109 total points, Muguruza 108.
“Left everything on the court today,” said No. 9 Muguruza, a two-time Slam winner whose departure means the bracket was without six of the top 10 women before the third round was even done.
Two other were on the schedule later Saturday: No. 1 Iga Swiatek and No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka.
The night session in Ashe featured 22-time major champ Rafael Nadal against Richard Gasquet, followed by Australian Open runner-up Danielle Collins against Caroline Garcia.
It was going to be tough for either of those matches to live up to the sort attention Williams drew, or the atmosphere she helped create, during her three-match run in Ashe.
“I just can’t believe the ‘era of Serena’ on the tennis court is over,” Pegula said. “I mean, it’s just hard to picture tennis without her.”
In other action Saturday, two-time Australian Open champion Viktoria Azarenka was a 6-3, 6-0 winner against Petra Martic; No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz, a 19-year-old Spaniard, defeated unseeded Jenson Brooksby, a 21-year-old Californian, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3; No. 7 Cam Norrie beat No. 28 Holger Rune 7-5, 6-4, 6-1 in the men's draw; and No. 9 Andrey Rublev got past No. 19 Denis Shapovalov 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (10-7). Norrie and Rublev play each other next.
As for Kvitova-Muguruza, Rublev-Shapovalov required the new final-set tiebreaker format to determine the winner. The four Grand Slam tournaments agreed to adopt a uniform system this year, with the third sets of women’s matches and fifth sets of men’s decided by a first-to-10, win-by-two formula; the U.S. Open used to have the more traditional first-to-seven setup.
Pegula's domination of her last set made that sort of thing entirely unnecessary. She had wasted a chance to close out the victory a half-hour earlier when she wasn't able to convert her match point, but quickly regrouped.
Pegula started her Grand Slam career by going 3-8. She’s gone 22-7 since, including runs to quarterfinals at the Australian Open each of the past two years and the French Open this year.
The 28-year-old American, whose parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, came into Saturday with an 0-2 record in third-round matches at Flushing Meadows, including a loss to Kvitova in 2020.
Pegula gets another shot at her Monday.
“Petra is so hard to play. I feel like when she’s on, she blows you off the court. And then sometimes she can be off. .. She's a fighter. When it clicks, it’s really difficult,” Pegula said, then was sure to add: “I think I’m a much better player now than I was when I played her last time.”
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Wigan boss Leam Richardson always retained the belief his side could come out on top at Kenilworth Road as they triumphed 2-1 despite trailing with just 10 minutes to go.
Carlton Morris’s first-half header had put Town in front, but the Latics drew level as Hatters defender Tom Lockyer turned Callum Lang’s low shot into his own net before substitute Thelo Aasgaard curled home from 20 yards with two minutes to play.
Richardson said: “You’ve always got to have belief, we had enough goals on the pitch to make something happen.
“I thought the momentum was quite strong in our favour, we do finish games strongly, but with the week that we’ve had with Burnley, West Brom and coming away to Luton, they’re really healthy challenges.
“You’ll always be respectful of the opposition and Luton have done very well.
“I’ve got to compliment the players, when you come to Luton at Kenilworth Road, you know what to expect.
“You’ve got to match the fight, got to match the output, the intensity, the crowd, because they ask a lot of questions of you.
“First half they asked questions, although we’re probably disappointed ourselves, we must respect the ball a lot more.
“Give a team like that the ball back, they’ll service the box, put numbers in there, so that was disappointing at half time.
“The lads were just as disappointed as I was and I thought second half we were really worthy of the result.”
A quiet first half came to life half an hour in when Luke Freeman’s 22-yard drive was brilliantly tipped over by Ben Amos.
Luton then had the lead on 39 minutes as a clever shot corner routine saw James Bree’s cross headed in by Morris for his third goal in four games.
After the break, Town could not find a second goal, Gabe Osho curling inches wide, as Wigan made them pay.
First Amari’i Bell’s clearance rebounded back to the visitors and Lang’s cross-shot hit Lockyer giving Town stopper Ethan Horvath no chance.
Then with two to go, the Hatters didn’t get back in time, substitute Aasgaard, beating Horvath from outside the box to seal victory.
A disappointed Luton boss Nathan Jones added: “We weren’t at our best today in terms of energy levels, but I thought we did enough to win the game comfortably.
“First half I thought we were excellent, right on top, had enough situations, enough opportunities, enough set-plays to have been further ahead, but we weren’t and then I just didn’t see that coming.
“They didn’t really get anywhere near our goal, really didn’t have a shot on target in the whole game.
“Then suddenly we mess about, give them the ball back in our own corner flag, they go through and without even getting a shot on target, they’re 1-1.
“We made changes to be athletic, to go and try and win the game and we got caught on the counter attack.
“We said at half time, the only way we can see them scoring is a counter attack.
“Yes they’re a big side, but we’re good set-plays wise.
“We said don’t be open and we were, then the recovery run, such a poor goal to concede, but it’s one of those things, I’m really disappointed.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3660016/leam-richardson-always-confident-wigan-could-come-away-with-victory/ | 2022-09-03T22:37:27Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3660016/leam-richardson-always-confident-wigan-could-come-away-with-victory/ | false |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Juliana Macedo do Nascimento signed up for an Obama-era program to shield immigrants who came to the country as young children from deportation, she enrolled at California State University, Los Angeles, transitioning from jobs in housekeeping, child care, auto repair and a construction company.
Now, a decade later at age 36, graduate studies at Princeton University are behind her and she works in Washington as deputy director of advocacy for United We Dream, a national group.
“Dreamers” like Macedo do Nascimento, long a symbol of immigrant youth, are increasingly easing into middle age as eligibility requirements have been frozen since 2012, when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was introduced.
The oldest recipients were in their early 30s when DACA began and are in their early 40s today. At the same time, fewer people turning 16 can meet a requirement to have been in the United States continuously since June 2007.
The average age of a DACA recipient was 28.2 years in March, up from 23.8 in September 2017, according to the Migration Policy Institute. About 40% are 30 or older, according to fwd.us, a group that supports DACA.
As fewer are eligible and new enrollments have been closed since July 2021 under court order, the number of DACA recipients fell to just above 600,000 at the end of March, according to government figures.
Beneficiaries have become homeowners and married. Many have U.S. citizen children.
“DACA is not for young people,” Macedo do Nascimento said. “They’re not even eligible for it anymore. We are well into middle age.”
Born out of President Barack Obama’s frustration with Congress’ failure to reach an agreement on immigration reform, DACA was meant to be a temporary solution and many saw it as imperfect from the start. Immigration advocates were disappointed the policy didn’t include a pathway to citizenship and warned the program’s need to be renewed every two years would leave many feeling in limbo. Opponents, including many Republicans, saw the policy a legal overreach on Obama’s part and criticized it as rewarding people who hadn’t followed immigration law.
In a move intended to insulate DACA from legal challenge, the Biden administration released a 453-page rule on Aug. 24 that sticks closely to DACA as it was introduced in 2012. It codified DACA as a regulation by subjecting it to potential changes after extensive public comment.
DACA advocates welcomed the regulation but were disappointed that age eligibility was unchanged.
The rule was “a missed opportunity,” said Karen Tumlin, an attorney and director of Justice Action Center. DACA, she said, was “locked in time, like a fossil preserved in amber.”
The administration weighed expanding age eligibility but decided against it, said Ur Jaddou, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which administers the program.
“The president told us, ‘How do we preserve and fortify DACA? How do we ensure the security of the program and how best to do that?’ and this was the determination that was made after a lot of thought and careful consideration,” Jaddou said Monday in Los Angeles.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considering a challenge to DACA from Texas and eight other states, asked both sides to explain how the new rule affects the program’s legal standing.
Texas, in a court filing Thursday, said the rule can’t save DACA. The states conceded that it’s similar to the 2012 memo that created the program but that they “share many of the same defects.”
The executive branch has “neither the authority to decide the major questions that DACA addresses, nor the power to confer substantive immigration benefits,” the states wrote.
The Justice Department argued the new rule — “substantively identical” to the original program — renders moot the argument that the administration failed to follow federal rule-making procedures.
DACA has been closed to new enrollees since July 2021 while the case winds its way through the New Orleans-based appeals court but two-year renewals are allowed.
Uncertainty surrounding DACA has caused anxiety and frustration among aging recipients.
Pamela Chomba, 32, arrived with her family from Peru at age 11 and settled in New Jersey. She worries about losing her job and missing mortgage payments if DACA is ruled illegal. She put off becoming a mother because she doesn’t know if she can stay in the U.S. and doesn’t want to be a “burden” on her children.
“We’re people with lives and plans, and we really just want to make sure that we can feel safe,” said Chomba, director of state immigration campaigns for fwd.us.
Macedo do Nascimento was 14 when she arrived with her family from Brazil in 2001. She has not seen a brother who returned to Brazil just before DACA was announced in 10 years. International travel under DACA is highly restricted.
Like Biden and many DACA advocates, she believes legislation is the answer.
“Congress is the ultimate solution here,” she said. “(Both parties) keep passing the ball between each other.
The uncertainty has affected her, the eldest of three siblings.
“The fear of being deported has come back,” Macedo do Nascimento said, because “you never know when this policy is going to end.”
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SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — Lucy Li played with a lead for the first time on the LPGA Tour and the 19-year-old was up to the task Saturday, recovering from a sluggish start for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead in the Dana Open.
Li was 2 over through seven holes and quickly fading from the picture at Highland Meadows when she responded with five birdies over the next 10 holes to regain the lead and set up a final round filled with possibilities.
Lexi Thompson ran off three straight birdies late in the round for a 65, while Caroline Masson of Germany also had a 65. They were one shot behind.
Six other players were three shots back, including Lydia Ko, a two-time tournament winner who had the low round of the day at 64.
“I was probably a little nervous. It wasn’t anything crazy, but haven’t felt nervous in a long time,” Li said. “Actually making those bogeys might have helped a little, just getting that out of the way and knowing that I could just freewheel it out there a little.”
Li was at 14-under 199, and the final group offers a pair of prodigies.
Thompson was 12 when she first qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles. Seven years later, Li broke her record when she qualified for the 2014 Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2.
“It’ll be great,” Thompson said. “I played with her a little bit — not so much out here. But I think everybody knows how amazing of a player she is. Just speaks wonders to the amount of work that she’s put into her game, just the amount of talent she has.”
Li recalls playing a practice round with Thompson in the ‘14 Women’s Open.
“She outdrove me by like 60 yards. She probably still outdrives me by 20 yards,” Li said. “I haven’t spent that much time on the LPGA, so I haven’t really gotten to know her that well. She’s a lot — quite a bit older than me.”
Thompson is 27.
This week already has felt like a bonus for the California teen. Li secured her LPGA Tour card for next year with two wins and a runner-up finish on the Epson Tour, which offers LPGA cards to its leading 10 players.
Li received a sponsor’s invitation in Canada last week and tied for ninth in the CP Women’s Open, which got her into the field in Ohio. Now she has a chance to win and join the LPGA Tour for its final two months of the season.
But it will require navigating through a traffic jam of key players, a list that includes four major champions. Also in the mix is Nasa Hataoka, the defending champion, who had a 67 and was part of the big group at 11-under 202.
Equally daunting is Ko, who won at Highland Meadows in 2014 and 2016 and had a great chance in 2020 until a bogey on the par-5 closing hole.
Ko started on the back nine and after a bogey on the 11th, she holed out for eagle on No. 12 and ran off a series of birdies. She had a chance to go even lower on her final hole, the reachable par-4 ninth. But her chip from right of the green didn’t get up the hill, she chipped strong and missed the par putt.
“They moved the tee forward a little on 12 and I was just, ‘Hit driver off the tee.’ I only a gap wedge,” she said. “It’s not the greatest finish. … I did what I needed to do.”
For Thompson, the No. 7 player in the women’s world ranking, it’s another chance to end more than three years without winning.
“I go into every tournament wanting to win. Yeah, it has not worked out the way I want it to in a few events, but that’s golf,” Thompson said. “I think you never lose; you’re always learning. There is always something to build on and learn from those days.
“It’s golf. I mean, it’s a crazy game. It can be with you one day and not the next.”
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s defense came up with two second-half safeties, and the Hawkeyes opened the season with a 7-3 win over South Dakota State on Saturday.
Neither team could do much offensively. Iowa finished with 166 yards of offense, while South Dakota State had 120. The two teams combined for more punts (21) than first downs (16).
“Obviously a very unusual scoring line,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. “You’ve got 3 (in the first quarter), 2 (in the third quarter), 2 in the fourth. I’ve never been around a game like that. But we’ll take it today.”
Iowa ranked seventh nationally with four defensive touchdowns last season, so the Hawkeyes are used to getting points from that side of the ball. And they needed them on a day when the offense struggled.
“The standard’s been set,” said linebacker Jack Campbell, who recorded one of the safeties and finished with 12 tackles.
The first safety came after Iowa’s Tory Taylor had his punt downed at the South Dakota State 1-yard line in the third quarter. One play later, Campbell grabbed running back Isaiah Davis after he took the handoff and brought him down one yard short of getting out of the end zone.
The second safety came in the fourth, when Iowa’s Joe Evans sacked quarterback Mark Gronowski in the end zone on a second-and-11 play.
“We’re trying to score as much as we can on the defensive side, however we can do it” said Iowa safety Quinn Schulte.
The Hawkeyes kept South Dakota State pinned in its own territory for most of the game. Ten of Taylor’s punts were downed inside the Jackrabbits’ 20-yard line, including one at the 2 and the one at the 1.
“Tory did a great job,” Ferentz said. “I don’t think if I’ve ever seen a punter so involved in a game either.”
Taylor averaged 47.9 yards per punt.
“Field position was really tough for us,” South Dakota State coach John Stiegelmeier said. “It’s tough to go out there and mentally think we’ve got to go 98 yards against this defense.”
Iowa took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter on Aaron Blom’s 46-yard field goal. The only points for South Dakota State came on Hunter Dustman’s 44-yard field goal with 20 seconds left before halftime.
Iowa quarterback Spencer Petras completed 11 of 25 passes for 109 yards. Leshon Williams had 72 rushing yards.
Gronowski was 10 of 26 passing for 87 yards. Davis had 18 carries for 50 yards.
INJURY REPORT
Iowa was without three offensive starters — wide receivers Keagan Johnson and Nico Ragaini, and running back Gavin Williams. All three missed time in preseason camp because of undisclosed injuries. Starting linebacker Jestin Jacobs left the game in the second quarter with an injury and did not return.
South Dakota State tight end Tucker Kraft, a second-team Associated Press FCS All-American last season, was injured after catching a pass in the first quarter and did not return.
THE TAKEAWAY
Iowa had one of the worst offenses in the nation last year despite a 10-win season, finishing 99th in scoring offense and 121st in total offense. Petras’ struggles led to plenty of boos from the sellout crowd at Kinnick Stadium, and with in-state rival Iowa State coming in next Saturday, there will be plenty of questions for Ferentz to answer. “I’ve still got a lot of confidence in him,” Ferentz said. “I think the noise on the outside is probably a lot louder than it is on the inside.”
South Dakota State, which fell to 2-10 all time against FBS teams, struggled to move the ball against Iowa’s defense, which was one of the best in the nation last season.
UP NEXT
South Dakota State: Hosts UC Davis next Saturday.
Iowa: Hosts Iowa State next Saturday.
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'The Glazers treat Manchester United like a cash machine, creaming off money while the team are in disarray and the ground is rusting. It's clear they have to go': Gary Neville’s damning verdict in the first extracts from his brilliant new book
- GARY NEVILLE outlines his plans to reform and modernise football
- The Glazer family were smart in buying Manchester United when they did
- But initial warning signs were covered up by the club's glory on the pitch
- My first serious doubts about the character of the owners was in 2014
- The final straw was when they supported the introduction of the Super League
- It’s clear to me they should sell the club, they need to hand it over to new owners
I have no qualms at all about Roman Abramovich being kicked out of this country and out of English football. The shame is that it took a war and the death of thousands of innocent people in Ukraine to expose 19 years of Russian money sloshing into the Premier League. No one cared at the time.
I wasn’t calling for Abramovich to be ejected from the game a year ago. Though Chelsea became a pain in my playing days, disrupting Manchester United’s dominance, as a pundit I enjoyed their rise and the journey under Abramovich. Almost all of us were guilty of turning a blind eye and not seeing the danger of what might come.
And here’s the irony. I’d love to say that I wouldn’t have wanted him at Manchester United. But if, in 2003, with the gift of foresight, you were offered the choice of Abramovich or the Glazers as owners, who would you take?
Gary Neville has delivered a damning verdict in the first extracts from his brilliant new book
The Glazers’ takeover at United was as different to Abramovich’s at Chelsea as it was possible to be. They saw something no one else in US sports business could see in 2003, that their world of American football and basketball franchises was limited to North America and that the world was much bigger than that. Football, as the world’s most popular sport, and Manchester United, as arguably the biggest club, along with Real Madrid and Barcelona (clubs that weren’t for sale), was the perfect gateway to the revenues this new era of globalisation would bring.
As someone who is a capitalist and now a businessman, who lives in that world and who has debt in certain areas of his life and mortgages, I don’t think I can look at the Glazers and say they’ve done anything wrong in buying Manchester United. I wish they weren’t the owners. I wish United had better owners who were putting every penny back into the club and not taking dividends out or leveraging the club with debt. But they’ve not done anything that’s outside of the rules. In the last few years I’ve now eventually become convinced they’re not fit to own the club.
As players at the time, we were aware of the JP McManus–John Magnier and Glazer camps building up their stakes to about 29 per cent. But these were different times. We were aware in a passive way. It was very clear to us that we didn’t get involved in the business side of the club and what happens in the boardroom. That was a line you didn’t cross in Sir Alex Ferguson’s club.
Neville has no qualms at all about Roman Abramovich being kicked out of this country
In the year after the Glazers took full control, we signed Patrice Evra, Park Ji-sung, Nemanja Vidic and Edwin van der Sar. The following summer we signed Michael Carrick. We would win three successive Premier League titles from 2007 to 2009 and the Champions League in 2008 with the great Tevez, Ronaldo, Rooney team. We were back in charge of English football and everything seemed fine.
But there were warning signs that this might not be good. David Gill, the chief executive, had initially come out against the Glazers, saying we shouldn’t be putting all that debt on the club. Some fans were outraged and protested vehemently against the family and their model. Looking back, they were right. We’d met the challenge of Chelsea head on, had seen off Arsenal, who were in decline, and were back in charge. How bad could the owners really be?
I can sit here now and wish I had lived in different world, where social media had existed and players spoke up more; that I had paid more attention and not just dismissed it. After all, I had been a United fan since childhood and owners had always been unpopular with the fans, even when we were winning, whether it was Martin Edwards or later the plc board. It didn’t seem new to me or particularly worrisome that the fans didn’t like the owners. I just thought that was football.
Playing under Sir Alex Ferguson, United dominated until the manager's departure
And the truth is I didn’t have it in me to speak out. Footballers now have much more character and presence about them. We harp back to characters of old. But there’s more to character than playing on with a bloodied bandage around your head.
I maintain that players today are stronger willed and have more personality than players of 25 years ago. They consistently stand up for issues beyond football, as we’ve seen with Marcus Rashford on child poverty, Raheem Sterling and Tyrone Mings on racism. I was a strong-willed footballer, sometimes referred to as Red Nev. I was the union rep and had some basic business understanding at that young age. I was willing to take on the FA and threaten a strike. But at United, you didn’t cross the boundary into off-the-field issues. None of the strong personalities questioned it. And I could justify the Glazers’ game plan in my head. I believe in a free society, in capitalism, that you can buy something, that we have listed companies that can be bought and sold. I believe in debt, borrowing to grow.
I have debts, mortgages and loans. Loans aren’t necessarily bad. My biggest problem is lack of attention to the club and United’s decline under the Glazers’ ownership. I always knew that Sir Alex was a phenomenon, a genius. What I didn’t properly appreciate was that his presence covered up for the ineptitude of the Glazers. When Sir Alex left in 2013, David Gill, the chief executive, left at the same time and Ed Woodward became executive vice chairman with David Moyes as manager.
My first serious doubts about the character of the owners was really in 2014, when they sacked David Moyes after 10 months.
Neville believes the Glazer family should sell the club and need to hand over to new owners
But some personal encounters at that time, I thought, showed the Glazers to be petty and small-minded. I had retired in 2011 and had immediately begun developing some business plans. I was working to open our hotel, Hotel Football, which is opposite Old Trafford and was a project backed by myself, my brother Phil, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Nicky Butt.
We had planning permission to build offices, but it didn’t make sense so we decided to make it a hospitality venue, namely a hotel, and applied to have the planning permission changed. I always attend planning meetings to present my case and when I turned up on this day in 2012, Manchester United were at the meeting. Not just an official, but Michael Bolingbroke, the chief operating officer, the second most important executive, who had been sent along to object. At the time Ryan and Paul were still playing for the club and Nicky was on the coaching staff. I thought that was incredible.
Asking someone of Michael’s status to attend a planning meeting where they were always going to fail with their objection was cowardly and unimpressive.
The decision to object must have been sanctioned from the top and, at United, that is Joel Glazer. Their argument was that our hotel didn’t fit their vision for the area. Which, judging by what they have achieved in the 10 years since, seems to have been to maintain the environment as an industrial wasteland.
His first serious doubts about the character of the owners came when David Moyes got sacked
Despite the fans having been against the Glazers for 10 years previously, it only really sank in around 2014 just how bad the situation was. Even so, I never called for their heads. I would criticise their football decision making. But I kept my personal issues with them quiet.
The final straw was when they seemed willing to destroy English football with the Super League. That’s when I knew I couldn’t hold back any longer. Their greed and poverty of vision was just scandalous to me.
The idea that you could just cut off the rest of English football and create something that, while it may suit America, is an act of cultural vandalism appeared an extraordinary testament to how little they have learned about England in the 19 years they have been invested in the club. There are many things I don’t especially criticise them for. I understand business far better now than I did then. And there has been investment in the team.
They have trebled the income since they took over. According to Kieran Maguire, who lectures in football finance at Liverpool University, they have spent £830million paying interest loans. And yet, since 2016, the club have paid annual dividends to shareholders, worth £154m. Another £11m was paid out in dividends in June 2022, most of which goes to the Glazer family, and that’s after the club lost £23m in 2020 and £92m in 2021 and won no trophies.
The Glazer family objected planning permission for Hotel Football back in 2012
This might well be allowable under company law but as Jim O’Neill, a lifelong United fan and former partner in Goldman Sachs, says, it seems that, basically, Manchester United has been reduced to being a cash machine for the Glazer family. There are directors on the board, such as Edward Glazer, Darcie Glazer Kassewitz and Kevin Glazer, who appear to have zero interest in the club but sit there anyway and are paid for the trouble. Avram, and especially Joel, might be more involved as co-chairmen, but essentially it’s seemingly all about taking money out. No other major European club is run this way; not Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich. Not even Liverpool, who have American owners. And we’re told Todd Boehly at Chelsea won’t run things this way.
I have no problem with dividends being paid out by clubs that are successful, in great shape, with a plan and a stadium in fantastic condition and a training ground as good as it can be, with the team going well and investment set aside for the future. If all that is in place and there is spare cash, then there is no problem with owners, who put the money in and took the risk, benefiting. Clubs like Burnley did that for years under their previous owners and no one batted an eyelid because they were well run. But United aren’t in my view.
What should never happen is that the owner is creaming off money, even if it’s allowed under the rules, while staff are struggling and the club needs investment. You can’t take millions a year out when the ground is rusting, the training ground needs refurbishing and the team is in disarray.
My problem with dividends is when the stands aren’t painted, the facilities are below par, the hospitality is second rate. Equally, not all debt is bad but imagine if that £830m in interest payments could have been spent on building a stadium like Tottenham’s?
Manchester United fans have been calling on the Glazer family to sell the club for over 10 years
Not only would the club be in a much better state, but it would be worth more money. So the Glazers would get their money eventually. It could be a win-win for everyone. Instead, the only people winning are the Glazers. The team certainly aren’t.
It’s clear to me they should sell the club. They need to hand it over to new owners and to do so responsibly, making sure the club passes into good hands, debt-free. But if they’re going to keep the club, I would say the following are essential:
They stop taking dividends out for an initial period and they rebuild or refurbish Old Trafford to become the best stadium in the world.
They pay off the debt by selling shares in the club to fans and make the club debt free.
They rebuild the stadium.
They redevelop the training ground into a world-class facility.
They present a new sporting plan for the next five years and allow it to be scrutinised.
If the Glazers are to keep the club, they must do a number of things like rebuilding Old Trafford
I may be completely wide of the mark, as this is just a gut feeling. However, I do feel that the Glazers are either going to have to sell for a huge profit or dilute by a significant percentage by bringing investment in, in the next year or two.
The cost of the five points above that I’ve listed are, if done properly, substantial. There is no way I can see them raising further debt at the level required. They’ve committed to a new plan and stadium redevelopment.
The timing, I feel, is right with the significant spend needed, revenues dipping, lending becoming increasingly more difficult with the economy and Chelsea having set a precedent for a bumper price.
I personally feel the window is quite narrow for the Glazer family to sell. Fingers crossed that we are seeing the end of the Glazer reign at Manchester United. The only question then is, where is the suitable successor with the money, vision and sporting principles that United require.
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NEW YORK — After all of the many tributes to Serena Williams were done, the celebratory words and the video montages, the standing ovations and the shouts of her name, it seemed appropriate that she herself would provide the defining look at her legacy.
So the last question at the news conference after her last match of the U.S. Open — and, it seems clear, of her career — offered Williams the chance to say how she’d most like to be remembered.
“I feel like I really brought something, and bring something, to tennis. The different looks. The fist pumps. The just crazy intensity. … ‘Passion,’ I think, is a really good word. Just continuing through ups and downs,” she responded Friday night. “I could go on and on. But I just honestly am so grateful that I had this moment — and that I’m Serena.”
That captures so much about her so well.
And to think: Williams, who turns 41 this month, did not even mention anything about being an elite athlete or any of the statistics that help define what she did with a racket in her hand.
The 23 championships at the Grand Slam tournaments that have come to define success in her sport. Another 50 singles titles elsewhere. The 14 majors in doubles with her sister, Venus. The 319 weeks at No. 1. The four Olympic gold medals.
So, sure, it’s impossible to assess Williams without considering her place in the pantheon of superstars, as worthy as anyone — woman or man, this generation or any other, this sport or any other — of the honorific “Greatest of All Time” (one clever spectator at Williams’ 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 loss to Ajla Tomljanovic held up a poster with, simply, a drawing of a goat).
“She is an all-time great. Obviously, that’s an understatement,” said Martina Navratilova, an 18-time major winner who certainly is part of that whole conversation.
But Williams is also about a lot more than that.
No Black woman had won a Slam title since Althea Gibson in the 1950s until Williams came along and collected her first at the 1999 U.S. Open at age 17. Over the more than two decades since, Williams and Venus, who earned seven major singles trophies of her own, get credit for inspiring Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka and countless of others to play tennis, yes, but also for pushing plenty of others to change their views about what can be done and what can’t.
“She embodies that no dream is too big,” Tomljanovic said. “You can do anything if you believe in yourself, you love what you do and you have an incredible support system around you.”
There’s more.
She won a Grand Slam title while pregnant, went through scary health complications after giving birth to her daughter, Olympia, in 2017, and would return to the tour and reach four more major finals.
She has a venture capital firm that raised more than $100 million.
“Everyone looks at her and tries to be like Serena,” said Caroline Garcia, a Frenchwoman seeded 17th and into the fourth round at the U.S. Open. “And I’m sure that’s going to be for years to come.”
Williams wore what she wanted on a tennis court. She reacted how she wanted, during and away from her matches. She said what she wanted, sometimes addressing social issues, sometimes not, but there always was a sense that she was the one who decided.
There were those who criticized her, of course. Those who wondered whether she was doing things the right way. Just as there were those who thought it was a mistake for her father, Richard, to keep his young daughters away from the junior tennis circuit.
Um, seems as if that worked out, huh?
“I will definitely (be) missing her on the courts,” Tomljanovic said, surely echoing the thoughts of many. “It will not be the same.”
No, tennis most definitely will not be the same without Williams. Not even close.
That’s OK, though. It’s time, as Williams famously wrote, for her to be “evolving” away from her days as a player. It’s time for her to devote extra energy to being a mom and a businesswomen and whatever else life brings her way.
As Williams observed after hitting one last shot: “I have such a bright future ahead of me.”
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TRENTON — The Trenton High football team wanted to christen its brand new turf field inside Bill Harvin Memorial Stadium with a win,.
Hightstown had other ideas from the very first play of the game.
Devron Lewis returned the opening kickoff 84 yards for a touchdown — the first of his two scores — and the Rams spoiled the grand opening with a 35-12 victory over the Tornadoes on Saturday afternoon.
“It was amazing,” Lewis said of scoring a touchdown on the team’s first play of the season. “On the sideline, it was just like Ram Country, let’s ride. We had to start it off like that. All I saw was green and I didn’t see any black (jerseys). I just saw open space and knew I could take my speed to the next level and take it back.”
Lewis didn’t touch the ball often, but he made it count when he did. He also hauled in a 39-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Schamper with 7:15 left in the third quarter to give Hightstown (1-0) some breathing room.
“We’ve been working on that pass all practice because we watched Trenton’s game against Old Bridge and thought it would be open,” Lewis said. “All thanks to Coach Fullen, he drew that play up for me and we ran it and it worked.”
From that point the defense took over.
The Rams turned Trenton mistakes into six points.
Chase Montgomery scampered 12 yards for a touchdown one play after a fumble — the first of three Tornado turnovers — to give the visitors a 21-6 lead with six minutes to play in the third quarter. Joseph Opoku’s fumble recovery at the 1-yard line after a sack followed and Cole Vinson capped that off with a touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter. Yusif Elhossiei’s interception set up Opoku for a 26-yard touchdown run to round out the Hightstown scoring.
The Rams were also solid on special teams. In addition to Lewis’ return, kicker Brianna Saragih was 5-for-5 on extra points. Meanwhile, the Tornadoes (0-2) had two botched snaps on punts and had an extra point blocked.
“Special team is big because if you can’t kick it off right, kick return right or get good punts … it’s really important,” Lewis said. “I think people don’t take that into consideration how much that matters in a football game.”
Keyshawn Wharthen scored both of Trenton’s touchdowns. The sophomore ended up with 100 yards rushing and 25 receiving. His 22-yard scoring catch on a pass from Leo Sanders pulled the Tornadoes to within 7-6 in the second quarter.
Hightstown, however, seized control of the game in the second half.
The Rams were a playoff team a year ago and are hoping to build on that.
“Coach worked us extra hard this week because we’re not trying to play any games, we’re a playoff-based team,” Opoku said. “Last year set the tone for us, so now we have to live the dream. We have a shirt that says ‘The Standard is the Standard,’ and we set that standard last year, so we’re trying to continue that.”
Hightstown (1-0) 7 0 14 21 — 35
Trenton (0-2) 0 6 0 6 — 12
1st Quarter
H- Lewis 84 kick return (Saragih kick)
2nd Quarter
T- Wharthen 22 pass from Sanders (kick blocked)
3rd Quarter
H- Lewis 39 pass from Schamper (Saragih kick)
H- Montgomery 12 run (Saragih kick)
4th Quarter
H- C. Vinson 1 run (Saragih kick)
H- Opoku 26 run (Saragih kick)
T- Wharthen 68 run (run failed)
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Companies report getting overwhelmed with student loan refund requests
(CNN) - Student loan service companies are being overwhelmed with refund requests after President Joe Biden’s forgiveness program.
Despite the pandemic pause, many borrowers continued to make student loan payments and are wondering if they can get that money back.
The answer for many is “yes.”
While most of the 42 million people covered by the pause did not make payments, about 9 million kept paying.
It’s not clear how much of the U.S. Department of Education’s $1.6 trillion portfolio of loans would be affected. But many borrowers should be able to get refunds of up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt.
And for Pell grant recipients, the total climbs to 20,000 if they make less than $125,000 a year. The income limit for a married couple is even higher, at a combined total of $250,000 a year.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
449 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Bastrop, Caldwell and Hays.
* WHEN...Until 800 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Some low-water crossings may become
impassable. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring
or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 449 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Marcos, Kyle, Lockhart, Martindale, Uhland, Mustang
Ridge, Niederwald, Mendoza, Maxwell, Lytton Springs,
Reedville, Dale, San Marcos Regional Airport, St John Colony,
Taylorsville, Bateman and Red Rock.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Dallas
County through 530 PM CDT...
At 449 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Highland Park, moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Dallas, Irving, Grand Prairie, and surrounding areas.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3279 9668 3261 9687 3279 9704 3284 9704
3289 9703 3294 9681
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 051DEG 8KT 3283 9682
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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GRANTVILLE, Pa. (WHTM) – Sitting there on a secluded park bench on the lap of his person, you almost wouldn’t know he’s now a global celebrity.
But you would certainly recognize he’s an alligator.
Wally — the world’s only emotional support alligator, according to Joseph Henney — is already well-known around central Pennsylvania. Nexstar’s WHTM first profiled him back in 2019, following Wally and Henney to a nursing home where residents took delight in petting the gator.
Other times, Wally is visiting sick children at local hospitals, wearing a red vest that identifies him as an emotional support animal.
Ah, but then came last week. Henney and Wally were in Philadelphia for a local TV appearance about the fact that Wally is a finalist in the America’s Favorite Pet competition. With him were Mary Johnson, whom Henney describes as his best friend, and her two children, Eddie, 11, and Emmy, 7.
It was a hot day. The five of them — the four humans and Wally — went to a local splash pad. As tends to happen when Wally shows up, people started calling their friends.
“And they were coming from like a mile, or two miles away, to come get a picture or a hug and kiss from Wally,” Henney said. (That’s right: Wally not only likes — but demands — kisses on the lips.)
Henney and his friends posted a TikTok video from the splash pad. Other folks posted their own. And pretty soon, people from a lot farther than a mile or two were interested.
“Television networks from all over the world: Ireland, Australia, Africa, England, Italy,” Henney said. “They’re all calling, doing Zooms and stuff like that. It’s just, everybody loves Wally. Everybody loves Wally for what he stands for.”
But what is it that he stands for?
“He helps needy people. He puts … smiles on people’s faces,” Henney said, getting choked up.
Henney also hoped that fans take a lesson from Wally, and “try putting a smile on somebody’s face today,” he said. “Tell ’em you love ’em.”
For all the joy Wally now seems to bring to the world, the first person Wally took care of was Henney himself.
“I lost three family members and four lifelong friends,” Henney said. “That all happened in two weeks, and my doctor wanted to give me antidepressants. I refused,” he said.
Instead, Henney adopted a rescue gator from Florida.
“He was just doing things I had never seen alligators do,” said Henney, who runs a reptile rescue organization.
Recued gators can’t be safely returned to the wild; other gators Henney has rescued have gone to zoos or wildlife refuge parks. But Wally, he kept for himself.
“If I’d lay there and fall asleep, he’d cuddle up beside me, put his head on my shoulder, his arm around me, which I really thought was extremely weird,” Henney said. “And he followed me around like a puppy.”
Henney later registered Wally as an emotional-support animal, figuring that Wally supported him through some of his most difficult times.
Wally’s legend grew, and Henney uses Wally’s charm to raise money for expenses — vet bills, food, and so forth — even though the money doesn’t completely cover the expenses.
You don’t get rich rescuing reptiles, Henney said, “but at least we save their lives.”
Henney and Wally also help other nearby organizations, including the Capital Area Therapeutic Riding Association (CATRA), which provides therapeutic horseback riding, and Cocoa Packs, which fights childhood hunger.
In retrospect, hard as it was to believe, Henney knew Wally was special before the two even met based on what he’d heard from Disney officials in Florida who found Wally and other gators — including two others Henney took in — were coming a little too close to humans. The folks who captured him also told Henney something interesting.
“He was the only one who really didn’t try to bite somebody” during the capture, Henney said. “And they couldn’t understand that, which I doubted that myself.”
But then Henney and Wally got to know either other.
“He just he never attempted to bite, and we didn’t understand that,” Henney said. With most gators, “anything you touch inside their mouth is an automatic slam shut.”
But Wally? “I can put my hand and rub his tongue, and he will refuse to bite,” Henney said. “He’ll actually open his mouth wider and move away. He will not close his mouth. He won’t kill anything to eat.”
Really. Henney has tried.
“He just made friends with — he’d swim around with the rats in the pond,” Henney said.
Wally’s story also caught the eye of the production team for the Disney+ series “Loki,” about the fictional Marvel character played by Tom Hiddleston. Michael Waldron, the show’s head writer, told Marvel in July 2021 that he had already come up with an idea to incorporate an alligator into the show — a character which soon came to be known as “Alligator Loki.” But when it came time to choose a real-world animal for the VFX team to model the character after, “Loki” writer Eric Martin confirmed they looked to Wally, ComicBook.com reported.
“While #AlligatorLoki is wholly a creation of @michaelwaldron’s weird mind, we did have a real world visual reference for him,” Martin tweeted in July 2021, along with a video of Wally and his owner. “Meet Wally.”
Lest anyone get any ideas about getting their own emotional-support alligator, Henney reminds the world that the reason Wally gets so much attention is precisely because of how unusual he is.
“Wally is the first in all history,” Henney said. Even the other gators born with and raised alongside Wally turned out like typical alligators.
“And I feel honored with that. But I don’t push that. Do alligators make good pets? Not really,” Henney admitted.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
344 PM MDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT/745 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and southwest Texas,
including the following counties, in southeast New Mexico, Eddy.
In southwest Texas, Culberson.
* WHEN...Until 645 PM MDT /745 PM CDT/.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 344 PM MDT /444 PM CDT/, Doppler radar indicated heavy
rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5
and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Malaga.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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'Get basics right and promote better standards': Stark orders for new head of Metropolitan Police
Priti Patel also tells the new commissioner she expects him to make sure the Met meets its target of recruiting 4,557 new officers - and sets an example to forces across the country.
Sunday 4 September 2022 00:03, UK
The home secretary has spelled out to the new Scotland Yard commissioner the vast improvements she is demanding in his force's culture and performance.
Priti Patel writes in a letter to Sir Mark Rowley: 'It is absolutely vital that trust and confidence is restored and that visible, responsive policing which cuts crime is at the forefront.
"I expect the Metropolitan Police under your leadership to get the basics right and provide the first-class service expected of it."
Sir Mark starts his job in a week's time after the controversial departure of his predecessor Dame Cressida Dick, who quit after clashing with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, though she was supported in a recent independent report on her resignation.
The home secretary writes: "I also expect you, as commissioner, to promote better leadership and higher standards at every level throughout the force."
Under Dame Cressida, the Metropolitan police force was castigated over a series of scandals that led to questions over its culture and standards; the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by off-duty PC Wayne Couzens, the taking and sharing of photographs of two murdered sisters by officers, the racist and misogynist text message-sharing by officers at Charing Cross police station and the strip-searching of a young black schoolgirl.
The force is one of six put into special measures by the police watchdog Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services which recently condemned policing in England and Wales for poor performance, especially over burglary, robbery and other acquisitive crime.
'Failing'
Ms Patel writes: "That report found that on too many occasions the Met, as a force, is failing to get the basics right when dealing with these crimes, which cause immense distress to the public.
"It is deeply disappointing and unacceptable that many police forces are falling short.
"You know my view that there is an essential requirement across policing to raise the bar on standards and to get the basics right.
"As the largest force in the country, it is right for the Met to set an example in how to deal with crimes of this kind and also to beat crime down."
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Third Metropolitan Police child strip-search case under investigation, watchdog says
Who is Sir Mark Rowley?
Ms Patel also tells the new commissioner she expects him to make sure the Met meets its target of 4,557 new officer recruits and boosts non-police staff by March next year.
She adds in her letter: 'It will no doubt be a challenging time for the force, but I have every confidence that under your leadership these challenges can be overcome."
Sir Mark retired from Scotland Yard in 2017 as an assistant commissioner after leading the Counter Terror Command and after being beaten to the top job by Dame Cressida.
He was appointed in July and said at the time: "Our mission is to lead the renewal of policing by consent, which has been so heavily dented in recent years as trust and confidence have fallen.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
546 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
county, Bexar.
* WHEN...Until 845 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Some low-water crossings may become
impassable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 545 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Up to 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1.5 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Antonio, Live Oak, Selma, San Antonio Int Airport,
Helotes, Shavano Park, Hollywood Park, Cross Mountain,
Timberwood Park, Government Canyon State Natural Area, Castle
Hills, Hill Country Village, Grey Forest, Fiesta Texas and
San Geronimo.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Wheeler
County through 615 PM CDT...
At 546 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles west of Sweetwater, or 20 miles northeast of Shamrock, moving
southwest at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Wheeler and Twitty.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3521 10013 3540 10036 3562 10005 3562 10000
3536 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 045DEG 14KT 3547 10006
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
449 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Bastrop, Caldwell and Hays.
* WHEN...Until 800 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Some low-water crossings may become
impassable. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring
or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 449 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Marcos, Kyle, Lockhart, Martindale, Uhland, Mustang
Ridge, Niederwald, Mendoza, Maxwell, Lytton Springs,
Reedville, Dale, San Marcos Regional Airport, St John Colony,
Taylorsville, Bateman and Red Rock.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Dallas
County through 530 PM CDT...
At 449 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Highland Park, moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Dallas, Irving, Grand Prairie, and surrounding areas.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3279 9668 3261 9687 3279 9704 3284 9704
3289 9703 3294 9681
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 051DEG 8KT 3283 9682
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Mixed Martial Arts-Gane demolishes Tuivasa as UFC makes French debut
PARIS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - France's Ciryl Gane pulled off an electrifying knockout win over Australian Tai Tuivasa in front of a home crowd at the Accor Arena on the banks of the River Seine in the promotion's first major event in the country since the sport was legalised there in 2020.
Spurred on by a lusty first-round rendition of "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem, the two heavyweights put on a barn-burner of a fight in the main event that made the long wait for the sport's regulation worth it for the French fans.
Australian Tuivasa sent Gane crashing to the canvas with a sledgehammer right hand in the second round, but Gane roared back with a series of brutal blows to the body that almost ended the fight.
Two minutes into the third Gane stunned Tuivasa with a kick to the head, and though the teak-tough Aussie initially refused to go down, Gane piled on the pressure.
A right uppercut marked the beginning of the end, and Gane stalked his man down, landing thunderous blows with both hands to secure the KO with 37 seconds left in the frame.
"If anyone had any doubts about how good the French crowd are, there are no more doubts anymore," Gane said before thanking them repeatedly and calling for a title shot.
In the co-main event, former middleweight title-holder Robert Whittaker put on a slick striking performance to out-point Marvin Vettori that may put him in contention for another shot at the belt, despite losing a title fight to current champion Israel Adesanya back in February.
With the red, white and blue of the French flag projected on the octagon floor between bouts, the six-fight main card got off to a slow start for the energetic home fans as English fighter Nathaniel Wood defeated Frenchman Charles Jourdain by unanimous decision.
Parisian William Gomis soon gave them something to cheer, as he escaped a dangerous late submission attempt from Jarno Errens before winning on the judges' scorecards.
"I heard the crowd and I thought no, I can't give up now --I'd rather die in here than give up. I'm gonna die rather than give up," a jubilant Gomis said in a post-fight interview as the fans roared their approval. (Reporting by Philip O'Connor Editing by Toby Davis) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11177353/Mixed-Martial-Arts-Gane-demolishes-Tuivasa-UFC-makes-French-debut.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-03T23:27:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11177353/Mixed-Martial-Arts-Gane-demolishes-Tuivasa-UFC-makes-French-debut.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Germany pledges $199 mln in aid for displaced people in Ukraine - minister
BERLIN, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Germany will provide Ukraine with an additional 200 million euros ($199.02 million) to fund aid programs for those internally displaced as a result of Russia's invasion, Development Minister Svenja Schulze told Funke Media group.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal will visit Berlin on Monday where he will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
"I will speak to Prime Minister Shmyhal about how we can continue to support the Ukrainian government in caring for the displaced people," Schulze said.
"The money is intended to help the displaced people in Ukraine to continue to be able to provide for themselves with the essentials," he added.
As of August 23, some 7 million people have been internally displaced in Ukraine since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion, data by the United Nations' International Organization for Migration showed.
Last month, a German government official said the European Union intended to put together a financing package for Ukraine worth around 8 billion euros by September, to which Germany would contribute.
($1 = 1.0049 euros) (Reporting by Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Mike Harrison) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11177383/Germany-pledges-199-mln-aid-displaced-people-Ukraine--minister.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-03T23:27:10Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11177383/Germany-pledges-199-mln-aid-displaced-people-Ukraine--minister.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
(The Conversation) – One in three people in need of abortion will consider doing something on their own to end the pregnancy if they are unable to get an abortion at a clinic. These are the findings of a study I recently published after surveying over 700 people seeking abortions in three states across the U.S.: Illinois, California and New Mexico.
The one-in-three figure is even higher among those who have a difficult time affording the cost of their abortion, have no health insurance or are seeking an abortion because of concerns about their own physical or mental health.
These findings offer a clear snapshot of what lies ahead as states move to ban abortion outright or severely restrict access.
Why it matters
Research over the past two decades has shown that pregnant people who face obstacles to getting to an abortion clinic or who have a desire for a more natural or private abortion experience will try to end a pregnancy on their own. This might include turning to self-sourced abortion pills, alcohol or drugs, herbs or physical methods.
My own research in 2017 found that 7% of U.S. women of reproductive age will use one of these methods in their lifetime to try to end a pregnancy outside of the formal health care system.
What has changed recently – and dramatically – is access to clinic-based abortion. With the Supreme Court’s decision overturning federal protections on abortion access, as of Aug. 30, 2022, 14 states have already implemented bans on abortion; an additional 12 are projected to do so in the coming months.
These restricted-abortion states are home to just over one-half of U.S. women of reproductive age. Putting these numbers together with data on who seeks abortion in the U.S., researchers estimate that over 100,000 pregnant people per year will soon face insurmountable travel distances to their nearest abortion provider and be unable to get an abortion at a clinic.
If people do as they project in our study, around 33,000 pregnant people per year will consider doing something on their own to end a pregnancy.
What still isn’t known
One yet unanswered question is how many of those in need of abortion and unable to get to a clinic will be able to end a pregnancy on their own with a safe and effective method such as the FDA-approved medications mifepristone and misoprostol, or misoprostol alone – versus how many will turn to other, likely less effective, methods with potentially harmful outcomes.
Researchers now have clear evidence that telehealth and mail-order models enabling access to medication abortion without the need for an in-person visit with a health care provider – models accelerated in part by the COVID-19 pandemic – are safe, effective and satisfactory to patients.
However, these models will remain out of reach for some. This is especially true for those who are further along in their pregnancy, cannot afford the cost, live in one of the 19 states that ban telehealth provision of medication abortion or don’t have a safe place to receive and use the pills.
What is also unknown is how many pregnant people will face legal repercussions for doing something to try to end a pregnancy. Although public support for criminalizing a pregnant person for self-managing an abortion is low, state legislators are actively proposing such policies. Between 2000 and 2020, more than 61 people were investigated or arrested for such attempts.
What’s next
In the coming months, my colleagues and I will document the magnitude of any increase in self-managed abortion by repeating a nationally representative survey that we fielded in 2017 and 2021.
Our research underscores that even when abortion is restricted, people will move forward with abortion on their own. Having access to abortion pills is critical so that when people need to self-manage an abortion, the health, medical and advocacy community is supporting them to do so safely and effectively. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/when-abortion-at-a-clinic-is-not-available-1-in-3-pregnant-people-say-they-will-do-something-on-their-own-to-end-the-pregnancy/ | 2022-09-03T23:28:39Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/when-abortion-at-a-clinic-is-not-available-1-in-3-pregnant-people-say-they-will-do-something-on-their-own-to-end-the-pregnancy/ | true |
NEW ORLEANS — Sister Suellen Tennyson has always served her community. As a Marianite nun she was a teacher and school principal, before becoming a missionary in West Africa, but on the night of April 4th this year, while on a mission trip armed men kidnapped her. Until tonight, her whereabouts and condition were unknown. Tuesday, a Mariante congregational leader says Sr. Suellen is alive and in US custody.
Sister Suellen travelled to the small West African country of Burkina Faso in 2014, where she established a church and medical clinic. At the time she was kidnapped, the U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites, told Eyewitness News there were five people in the house when men ransacked the home and torched their truck. Sister Suellen was the only one taken.
Armed groups, some with extremist ties have overrun large parts of the territory where sister Suellen's mission was located.
Five-months ago, Eyewitness News spoke to Sister Ann and Sister Renee Daigle, at the time they said, "They believed that there were more than 10 men, we know that they were armed. We know that sister Suellen was in her room, probably sleeping and that she was taken and blind-folded, without shoes, without her cell phone.”
The Marinates of Holy Cross confirming 83-year-old sister Suellen is safe and in U.S. Custody, but would not comment further, to protect her safety.
WWL political analyst Clancy Dubos and Sister Suellen sat on the board of directors of Holy Cross High School together, saying, “I remember her as someone who was very engaged and very concerned a very active board member.”
He went on to say, “She was just a terrific person to know. We really were just so distraught when she was kidnapped… everyone is very thrilled to hear this news that she is safe.”
Sr. Ann Lacour told the Clarion Herald Newspaper that she had spoken to Sister Suellen by telephone. Sister Ann says Sister Suellen is worn out, but alive and safe, and that is all that matters.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Miguel and Carlos Cevallos made a living by drawing posters for neighborhood nightclubs, taco trucks and restaurants in Queens, painting in the businesses’ basements or on their tables and attracting clients by word of mouth.
Until an Instagram account changed a lot of that.
Now, hip Brooklyn ice cream shops and Manhattan retro diners wait their turn to get one of the brothers’ colorful signs. They’re in demand in San Francisco music stores, national restaurant chains, bars in Belgium and bakeries in South Korea.
It doesn’t matter that the brothers are more than 80 years old or that the two, born in Ecuador and raised in Colombia, speak limited English. They have embraced their new customers and draw all day in the Manhattan apartment they have shared for nearly 20 years.
“Destiny is like this. Sometimes one finds success later in life,” Carlos Cevallos said recently, while sipping a tea in an empty Manhattan diner. Dressed in suits and ties, as they are every day, the brothers shared a muffin.
Recent commissions have come from a bagel shop in Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood, a newsstand in Manhattan’s West Village, an Oregon-based restaurant chain and a Los Angeles pop-up veggie burger shop. NYCgo, the city’s official guide for tourists and New Yorkers, recently asked the brothers to draw Queens’ iconic Unisphere, the giant metal globe built for the 1964 World’s Fair.
“They have a special touch, so nice and colorful,” said Marina Cortes, manager of the West Village diner La Bonbonniere. The brothers’ “Breakfast All Day!” sign is displayed on the restaurant’s terrace.
“A Life Without Anything Good, Is Bad” reads a poster the brothers drew for Van Leeuwen Ice Cream. “Daily Special. Pick Any Two Sandwiches and Pay For Both!” reads another they did for Regina’s Grocery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Done with acrylic paints, the Cevallos brothers’ playful, childlike posters have big letters and a nostalgic look. Miguel does the drawings and Carlos the coloring, together crafting about six posters per week.
The brothers field five to 20 requests weekly for their work.
The family moved from Ecuador to Colombia to follow an uncle who was a Catholic priest and worked in Bogota. Used to drawing since they were kids, Carlos, Miguel and their oldest brother, Victor, opened an art studio and poster shop in Bogota’s Chapinero neighborhood.
Victor moved to New York in 1969, and Carlos joined him in 1974. For years, they worked at a studio in Times Square until rent increases prompted a shift to Queens.
In the 1980s, they drew posters that announced performances at a Queens club called La Esmeralda.
“They would pay so little per poster. It was sad,” Carlos said. The posters featured such artists as Mexican singer Armando Manzanero and Chilean Lucho Gatica.
Miguel, meanwhile, took care of their mother until she died at age 101. He moved to New York in 2005 to join his siblings. Victor, a mentor to his younger brothers, died in 2012.
Eventually, Aviram Cohen, who builds and installs audiovisual art at museums, saw the brothers’ posters in Queens and tracked them down to request one for his wife’s new yoga studio. In 2018, he opened their Instagram account, @cevallos_bros, which became a lifeline for the brothers after the coronavirus pandemic hit.
“I did it out of admiration for their work, and after meeting them, I understood that it would all disappear. Most of the businesses would throw away the posters,” said Cohen, 42. “I felt strongly that different kinds of people and subcultures could enjoy their art.”
He was right. The account now has more than 25,000 followers and has become an archive of their work, as well as a source of orders.
“I just love their story,” said Happy David, who manages the Instagram accounts of La Bonbonniere and Casa Magazines, a Manhattan newsstand for which she has also commissioned the brothers’ work. It reminds her of signs seen in her native Philippines.
In a digital world, “a lot of people are going back to craft,” David said. “We want to connect, and we want to feel that there are hands that made these.”
When asked whether they plan to retire soon, the Cevallos brothers answer with a quick “no.”
Where do they get their energy from?
“We eat healthy,” they respond with a smile. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-octogenarian-brothers-make-popular-hand-drawn-posters/ | 2022-09-03T23:30:51Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-octogenarian-brothers-make-popular-hand-drawn-posters/ | false |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
449 PM CDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Bastrop, Caldwell and Hays.
* WHEN...Until 800 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Some low-water crossings may become
impassable. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring
or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 449 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
San Marcos, Kyle, Lockhart, Martindale, Uhland, Mustang
Ridge, Niederwald, Mendoza, Maxwell, Lytton Springs,
Reedville, Dale, San Marcos Regional Airport, St John Colony,
Taylorsville, Bateman and Red Rock.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Dallas
County through 530 PM CDT...
At 449 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Highland Park, moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Dallas, Irving, Grand Prairie, and surrounding areas.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3279 9668 3261 9687 3279 9704 3284 9704
3289 9703 3294 9681
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 051DEG 8KT 3283 9682
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Here’s a roundup of college football games from around the state Saturday:
Division II
Bowie State 27, New Haven 20: Dion Golatt (Morgan State) completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to Kwincy Hall with nine seconds left and scored the 2-point conversion to lift host Bulldogs to victory in the season opener.
The Bulldogs (1-0), playing their first game under interim coach Kyle Jackson after Damon Wilson left for Morgan State, put together a 20-3 rally in the fourth quarter to win. Golatt finished with three touchdown passes for Bowie State, the three-time defending Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association champions.
The Chargers (0-1) made a 29-yard field goal to take a 20-19 lead with 1:27 left in the game.
Division III
Stevenson 25, St. Vincent 21: Brandon Walker had 16 carries for 53 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Mustangs (0-1) over the Bearcats (0-1) in the season opener.
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Stevenson broke a 7-7 tie with a 12-yard touchdown run by Maurice Hammond with 14:54 left in the first half. The Mustangs took a 19-7 lead with 12:39 left in the third quarter. Matt Goetz completed a 4-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smothers (Franklin).
St. Vincent put together two scoring drives to cut Stevenson’s lead to 21-19 before Walker scored his second touchdown with less than five minutes left.
Johns Hopkins 54, Case Western 14: The visiting Blue Jays (1-0) held the Spartans (0-1) scoreless for the first three quarters to secure a season-opening victory.
Ryan Stevens completed 27 of 34 passes for 314 yards and five touchdowns. Artie Collins made seven catches for 103 yards and two touchdowns and Quinn Revere had seven catches for 59 yards and two scores. Bay Harvey completed all four of his passes for 70 yards and one touchdown for Hopkins.
The Blue Jays have won 11 straight season openers. Hopkins travels to Ursinus on Saturday at 1p.m.
Catholic 37, McDaniel 27: The visiting Cardinals (1-0) beat the Green Terror (0-1). McDaniel travels to Juniata on Saturday at 1 p.m.
This article will be updated. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/college/bs-sp-state-college-football-roundup-sept-3-20220903-ofjs2jidxnf4zox7iaysd35kvi-story.html | 2022-09-03T23:39:15Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/college/bs-sp-state-college-football-roundup-sept-3-20220903-ofjs2jidxnf4zox7iaysd35kvi-story.html | true |
UVALDE, Texas — Sports are a beautiful thing, sometimes, and it's playing out in front of our eyes in Uvalde, Texas.
Scarred by the tragic loss of 19 students and two of their teachers in May, the Uvalde community rallied around its football team on Friday night in its first home game since the elementary school shooting.
In front of a packed crowd repping "Uvalde strong" shirts at Honey Bowl Stadium, Uvalde held a prayer and 21 seconds of silence before the game, commemorating the 21 victims killed, according to ABC News.
Uvalde entered their first home game 1-0 after winning on the road against Carrizo Springs Wildcats in week one scoring ... 21 points.
"It was just a sign that the 21 angels are looking down at this community, and saying that they're here, that they're still present, and that they will remain present. So that was a pretty, pretty special moment," Eluterio Rendon told ABC News.
RELATED: 'The perfect guy': Meet the Uvalde athlete who will wear 21 on the football field this season
Rendon's son, Justyn Rendon, is a senior for Uvalde High School and was voted to have the honor of wearing No. 21 this season. Justyn Rendon told ABC News that now football "like a therapy" and he's excited to "bring the joy back to this town."
Well, the team did just that on Friday night.
The storybook start of Uvalde's season continued with a miraculous 34-28 win that came down to the wire. A miraculous 51-yard run with 36 seconds to go then led to a go-ahead, one-handed touchdown catch with 12 seconds left. You can hear the crowd roar as Jonathan Jimenez reverses field and takes off down the right sideline to set up the game-winning catch on the next play.
You can watch it all unfold here:
"It took us a while to be able to smile again without feeling guilty," Eluterio Rendon, Justyn's dad, said. "I believe that football will hopefully bring the community out ... find a reason to smile, by enjoying watching our kids do what they love to do."
Goosebumps. How can you not be romantic about sports?
Uvalde High School is now 2-0 to start the 2022 season and will take on Poteet next on Sept. 9.
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Mad River Brewery takes home beer wins
Mad River Brewery announced a series of wins this week at the United States Beer Tasting Championship in the summer 2022 event.
The brewery took first in four categories with Steelhead Extra Pale Ale (Golden Ale/Kolsch); Historic State Park IPA (Pale Ale); Jamaica Red Ale (Amber/Red Ale); and Slammin’ Salmon (Imperial IPA/Red Ale).
Less than a year ago, in the Winter 2021-2022 competition, Mad River Brewery received recognition in four categories as well.
New conflict resolution business opens locally
David Troxel opened Higher Ground Community Mediation in Humboldt County, serving Eureka, Arcata, and the surrounding areas.
Higher Ground offers a wide variety of dispute resolution and group facilitation services to individuals, families, neighborhood groups and HOAs, community and commercial organizations, and public agencies.
Conflict resolution services include:
- Individual and group conflict coaching/consultation;
- Family and group dialogue facilitation;
- Divorce, custody and parenting plans;
- Eldercare and caregiver support mediation (including guardianships and conservatorships);
- Neighborhood dispute resolution (noise, barking dogs, landlord/tenant issues, HOA, and more);
- Public deliberation process facilitation.
David Troxel holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution from the University of Denver.
David Troxel and Higher Ground Community Mediation can be reached at 707-499-6606, higherground333@gmail.com or at hgcommunitymediation.com.
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The National Book Festival returned to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center after a two-year coronavirus hiatus, drawing thousands of attendees and a flurry of tote bags on Saturday.
This year, more than 90 author talks and literary sessions were held in-person throughout the day, many of them also streamed online, as people bustled and buzzed inside the convention hall. Sessions were held on racism, climate change, how to invest, the Bald Eagle, women leaders of the Civil Rights movement, the Mexican revolution, and there was even a wistful reading celebrating 75 years of the bedtime classic “Goodnight Moon.”
Historians and poets were bookended by sessions that delved into civics and media literacy, including a talk called “Know Your Rights” on how to navigate an online constitution annotated with Supreme Court decisions, and a session titled “Who Do You Trust?: Conspiracies in America.” In the latter session, authors explained how conspiracy theorists have long exploited some of the most traumatic events in U.S. history, including 9/11, the Sandy Hook massacre, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and the American Revolution itself.
The writer Geraldine Brooks, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2005 novel “March,” talked about her new novel “Horse,” which is set across intersecting timelines from 1850 to 2019. A reviewer for The Post called the new novel “a reminder of the simple, primal power an author can summon by creating characters readers care about.”
Actor Nick Offerman, who played the outdoorsman-slash-office manager Ron Swanson on “Parks and Recreation,” took questions onstage from a U.S. Park Ranger about his new book, “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside.”
“We greedily destroy what we think we don’t need, only to discover we could have used that knowledge,” he said, to applause.
Offerman encouraged attendees to “invest” themselves in a patch of land, however big or small. He said he wakes up energized wondering how his potatoes and other crops are coming along; talked about the joy he gets from woodworking; and encouraged attendees to vote and to learn to make something with their hands. “It’s a superpower we all have,” Offerman said.
Afterward, Offerman autographed books and then got the C-SPAN treatment, appearing on Book-TV on a set in the middle of the festival.
Lillie Hornung, 22, who was wearing a T-shirt of a horse from “Parks and Recreation” called Li’l Sebastian, said she had been looking forward to the book festival all summer, and not just for Offerman. But she said Offerman has an appealing message because he mixes humor with important insights about the risks of climate change and the benefits of more sustainable living.
“It puts it in a different perspective,” Hornung said. “He’s not making light of it,” just reminding readers that sustainable living is joyful as well, Hornung said.
“If we don’t get depressed,” added Elisabeth Staal, 28, as she and Hornung waited in line for an autograph.
Elizabeth Eby, a volunteer at the festival from the District, said she was surprised by some attendees who showed up just as the doors opened, seemingly in withdrawal after missing the in-person festival for two years. Three elder women showed up, and one was “holding up a map and stabbing it,” Eby said. They were looking for a science fiction author’s talk, Eby said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/03/national-book-festival-dc/ | 2022-09-03T23:58:47Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/03/national-book-festival-dc/ | true |
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Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner 'will face fresh sex assault charges within weeks' - but German prosecutor warns 'there's no end in sight for the Maddie probe'
- Hans Christian Wolters will announce five sex cases linked to Brueckner, 45
- Brueckner is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
- He is currently in jail in Germany for the rape of a US national in 2005
Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner will face fresh sex assault charges within weeks, it has been reported.
However, Hans Christian Wolters, the German prosecutor investigating Maddie's disappearance, warned there's no end in sight for the three-year-old's probe.
Brueckner, 45, was named by police as the prime suspect in the toddler's disappearance two years ago in the hopes that it would lead them to evidence that would allow them to formally charge him.
Wolters, who is leading the case, told The Mirror that he will announce five sex cases linked to Brueckner.
Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner will face fresh sex assault charges within weeks, it has been reported
Brueckner, 45, was named by police as the prime suspect in the toddler's disappearance two years ago in the hopes that it would lead them to evidence that would allow them to formally charge him
He said: 'The investigation into Maddie is still ongoing. A conclusion is not in sight.
'I really can’t say how long the investigation will take. It is also not certain whether an indictment can be made in the end.'
'Regarding all allegations except Maddie, we will issue a press release in about 2-3 weeks,' he added. 'It may well go in the direction of an indictment.'
Madeleine disappeared from the family apartment where she was staying with her family while on holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
She was sleeping in a bedroom alongside her brother and sister - twins - while parents Kate and Jerry ate dinner with friends in a nearby restaurant on the evening of May 3.
Around 10pm, Kate went to check on the children as part of a rota system devised between the group and found Madeleine was missing.
Hans Christian Wolters, the German prosecutor investigating Maddie's disappearance, warned there's no end in sight for the three-year-old's probe
Madeleine went missing from this apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz, Portugal, while on holiday there with her family in 2007
The disappearance sparked a huge police operation that spanned Europe but failed to find any trace of the girl, and she remains missing to this day.
In 2020, police decided to name Brueckner as their suspect - an unusual move that they hoped would lead people to come forward and help with the investigation.
Brueckner is a convicted drug dealer with a history of sexual offences who is currently serving time in a German jail for the rape of an American pensioner at the Praia da Luz resort two years before Madeleine went missing.
Police say phone records show that Brueckner took a call in the area around Praia da Luz around two hours before Maddie went missing.
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Jamaat’s women’s wing seeks President’s intervention in Bilkis Bano convicts’ remission
They have urged her to call an urgent meeting of the Prime Minister, Governor of Gujarat and other legal experts
Bilkis Bano has got some belated support from Muslim women’s bodies. The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s women’s wing has sought President’s “intervention” in the remission of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case and murder of 14 of her family members. Demanding that the convicts recently released be sent back to jail at the earliest, the women’s wing has written to President Droupadi Murmu, requesting her to intervene in the matter by calling “an urgent meeting of the Prime Minister, Governor of Gujarat and other legal experts”. The support of the Muslim body’s women’s wing comes on the heels of many secular women’s bodies criticising the remission.
Speaking to The Hindu, Atiya Siddiqua, national secretary, JIH women’s wing, said the move to grant remission is aimed at garnering electoral dividends in the forthcoming elections in Gujarat. “The release of her tormentors on August 15 makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s assurance to the nation regarding protecting the dignity of women. Releasing the rape convicts is an attempt to appease members of a particular community. It is meant to reap political dividends, and is highly objectionable. At a time when the Prime Minister talks of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, what signal does it send to other women fighting for justice after a crime? And what signal does it send to Ms. Bilkis who has shown immense faith and fortitude in fighting for justice since 2002?”
She disclosed that the body has sent a letter to the President, requesting her to give “directions to the Gujarat Government through the Prime Minister and the Home Minister to reverse the decision”.
“Madam President, as a woman, you can understand the pain and trauma that Bilkis Bano underwent when she was gang-raped and members of her family were killed before her eyes. The premature and unjustified release of her tormentors destroys any semblance of justice. We appeal to you to intervene in the matter by calling an urgent meeting of the Prime Minister, Governor of Gujarat and other legal experts to see how this grave injustice can be stopped,” the letter stated.
With the vice-president of JIH, Salim Engineer by her side, Ms. Siddiqua hoped that the Supreme Court where a petition has been filed will “reverse the grave injustice carried out under the guise of official government policy”. “The remission policy should be applied to those languishing in jails for petty crimes, not for heinous ones like gang rape and mass murder,” she stated, adding, “The move is bound to embolden criminals as they would be confident of being bailed out sooner rather than later even for heinous crimes. It is bound to shake a woman’s faith in the system.”
The women’s wing also lambasted the felicitation and garlanding of the convicts, calling it “reprehensible”. The women asked, “What kind of people treat rapists to sweets? What kind of society welcomes murderers with garlands? ”The Jamaat’s women have also sought a meeting with the President to press for cancellation of remission.”
Earlier, the Jamaat also expressed concern over the Supreme Court closing all the proceedings arising out of the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the 2002 Godhra anti-Muslim riot cases. A Supreme Court Bench said that it was unfortunate that the contempt petition pertaining to the Babri Masjid demolition was not taken up. Prof. Engineer asked who was responsible for not hearing these cases. “Now the Supreme Court says that much time has passed and hence, there is no need to hear them. Whose job is it to hear the cases in the court? The judicial system is failing to deliver justice to the people. People are losing faith in the judiciary,” he rued.
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Explained | How will UGC’s cluster college plan impact students?
What are the National Education Policy recommendations for higher education institutes? Who will fund the new move?
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The story so far: On September 2, the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued new guidelines for transforming colleges and universities into multi-disciplinary institutions. The guidelines prescribe three approaches, which include clustering of institutions located in proximity so that they can collaborate with each other to offer innovative programmes in offline, online or distance learning mode. The other two strategies recommended by the UGC include merger of single-stream institutions with other multi-disciplinary institutions under the same management or different managements and strengthening of existing establishments by setting up of new departments.
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Who is likely to benefit from the move?
Colleges with poor enrolment and fewer resources may benefit by forming clusters with other institutions and help students access better facilities as well as avail innovative courses, according to the guidelines. The member colleges in a cluster will continue to function as affiliated colleges under the university in the initial phase during which they will share their resources to offer multi-disciplinary programmes and guide student research projects. Subsequently, the affiliating university may affiliate the cluster of colleges as a single unit which will be given autonomy in a graded manner before turning into an autonomous degree-granting cluster of colleges. These can later turn into research and teaching-intensive universities.
The partnership plan must include infrastructure expansion, number of students, departments involved, administrative and academic functions and research activities. Member colleges will also have to design their timetable so that students don’t face scheduling clashes. UGC chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar told The Hindu: “When multiple small institutions come together and transform into a degree granting institution, they will have more opportunities for growth. It will ultimately help the higher education system to grow and be accessible to a large number of students.”
Why the emphasis on multi-disciplinary institutions now?
More multi-disciplinary institutions in the country is one of the recommendations for higher education in the National Education Policy 2020. The policy document has set a target of 2030 for all higher education institutions (HEIs) to become multi-disciplinary, and thereafter, increase student enrolments “preferably in the thousands” by 2040. The goal is to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education including vocational education from 26.3% (2018) to 50% by 2035. The NEP proposes that though a number of new institutions may be developed to attain these goals, a large part of the capacity creation will be achieved by expanding and improving existing HEIs.
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What is the response of the sector to the guidelines?
While the emphasis on multi-disciplinary education is welcome, many wonder where the financial resources will come from. The UGC chairman said State governments will provide the required funds for functioning of State-run multi-disciplinary institutions.
“By suggesting clustering and merging of colleges, the intent is to build upon existing infrastructure to attain the goal of higher Gross Enrolment Ratio without any additional funding. Already institutions are running on their optimum thresholds as there have been no teacher recruitments for the past several years at Central and State Universities,” said an official with a State government’s Higher Education Council. He, however, welcomed the room provided for institutions to collaborate with each other to offer additional programmes.
“The UGC is evading its responsibility in providing funds. The latest guidelines seek to implement the NEP, which is not acceptable to us in toto because it is partisan and emphasises on centralisation and commercialisation,” said Kerala’s Minister for Higher Education, R. Bindu. “It says colleges must become autonomous degree granting institutions— what will happen to small colleges in remote areas, which will simply be obliterated? Backward sections of our society will be deprived of higher education,” she added.
Others have said that there should be regulations instead of guidelines so that they are adopted by State governments.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali state media and residents say the extremist group al-Shabab killed at least 20 people and burned seven vehicles transporting food in the Hiran region Saturday morning, and the government’s drought envoy called it “devastating” for communities in the grip of a severe drought.
Residents said the attack was in retaliation for a local mobilization against the al-Qaida-affiliated group that holds significant parts of central and southern Somalia. The extremist group’s presence complicates an already challenging response to the drought that has killed thousands of people. Some areas are on the brink of famine.
Drought envoy Abdirahman Abdishakur noted that al-Shabab also had blown up wells for water in Hiran in recent days.
“The victims were drivers and passengers transporting food supplies from Beletweyne to Mahas and a total of seven trucks carrying food and vehicles used by the passengers were set ablaze,” resident Hassan Abdulle told The Associated Press by phone.
The attack came a day after government forces destroyed landmines that al-Shabab had planted on the busy road connecting Beletweyne and Mataban with the intent to target travelers.
Al-Shabab confirmed the attack and claimed to have killed 20 locally mobilized militia members.
The Somali government has condemned the “barbaric” attack and reiterated its support for local mobilization against the extremist group. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-al-shabab-extremists-kill-at-least-20-travelers-in-somalia/ | 2022-09-04T00:11:26Z | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-al-shabab-extremists-kill-at-least-20-travelers-in-somalia/ | true |
The scummy green film often seen atop the water at Fountain Lake in William Byrd Park has made it hard for Melissa Logsdon to be proud of living by what she thinks should be recognized more widely as Richmond’s crown jewel.
The lake nestled between Arthur Ashe Boulevard and South Robinson Street in the approximately 275-acre park remains a major attraction for the city. Logsdon and some of her neighbors, however, say that the city in recent years has failed to adequately maintain the lake, as algae blooms turn the water an ugly green color and sometimes produce a rancid odor.
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“The absolute neglect is just mind-boggling,” said Logsdon, 58, who lives nearby in the Fountain Lake Condominiums. “The algae has been there way too long.”
Though the city has performed spot dredging and treatments in recent years, officials and neighborhood advocates say a more long-term solution to address the algae is on the way, potentially as soon as this fall.
“We are working with lake management firms to determine the best course of treatment that is most protective of aquatic life and water quality,” said Tamara Jenkins, a spokesperson for the Parks and Recreation department. “Recommendations are to treat the nutrient levels in the lake to prevent continued algae growth and remove the algae via environmentally sustainable chemical treatment as well as hydro-raking.”
Algal blooms and cyanobacteria, microscopic organisms also known as blue-green algae, usually form in warm, shallow and nutrient-rich bodies of water. They are not always harmful, but certain types produce toxins that are dangerous to fish, animals and people who are exposed to it by direct skin contact or by breathing in airborne water droplets, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jenkins said consultants typically will advise if the algae reach a toxic level. She said “currently, this is not an issue,” but the odor and unsightly appearance have unsettled residents and visitors.
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“Algae in Fountain Lake is certainly a perennial issue that hits hard each summer,” said Conor Shapiro, president of the Friends of William Byrd Park, a community group that volunteers time and money to helping the city maintain the park and all three of its lakes: Fountain, Shields and Swan.
Fountain Lake is over a century old, originally designed when the city first started building what is now known as Byrd Park in 1874 to create a new reservoir.
According to the nomination form that was submitted to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources to add the park to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, Fountain Lake was originally excavated to provide fill for the earthen construction of the reservoir. The city then filled it to create the park’s first lake.
The fountain in the lake was built about 50 years later when, in 1925, a group of citizens donated it so that it could be placed in the center of the lake.
Marion King, one of Logsdon’s neighbors, has lived in Fountain Lake Condominiums for 33 years. She said the algae in the lake wasn’t a major issue through most of that period and that it’s become a more troubling issue in the community only in the past decade or so.
“It’s disgusting to look at,” she said of the algae.
King, 77, said it wasn’t always that way, and she still thinks about how stunning the lights in the fountain looked when she would visit the park when her family first moved to the Richmond area from the Eastern Shore when she was about 8.
She said algae have been a problem before but that the city had been able to address it more substantially in the past, including one time when the lake was emptied.
“I’m just disappointed that nobody seems to be too worried about it,” she said. “It would be nice if they could just do that again and clean the place up.”
‘Feet to the fire’
Fifth District Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch, whose district includes the Byrd Park area, said she has constituents who often share concerns about the lake. Lynch said the City Council two years ago allocated an additional $500,000 to improve maintenance of the lakes at Byrd Park, but she and Shapiro said the city has struggled to sign a contract with a firm to perform the work.
“Like with a lot of our projects, it got caught up in procurement. There were delays in getting a contract going,” Lynch said. “I think we’ll see some action soon. I think Melissa and the rest of the community did a good job of coming together and drawing attention to this issue.”
Shapiro shared similar sentiments and said he was encouraged that “a plan is now firmly in place” to clean up the algae.
“We’ve been working with P&R for years to dredge the lake to mitigate the algae’s impact, but the responses to [the city’s request for proposals] were astronomic, and the disposal of collected debris posed a major challenge,” he said. “I believe we have the right P&R staff in place who are working hard now to rectify the issue.
“It is our job to hold their feet to the fire in that task.”
Logsdon said she is pleased that the city is planning to perform a more thorough cleaning of the lake soon but still contends with bad feelings about how it got to this point.
“I’ve been programmed for the past three years to talk negatively about it,” she said. “I’m tired. ... But they committed to doing it this fall, and that’s what counts.” | https://richmond.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/richmond-planning-to-clean-algae-buildup-in-fountain-lake/article_83e625cf-6070-5450-8d8c-d00f16005a09.html | 2022-09-04T00:18:38Z | https://richmond.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/richmond-planning-to-clean-algae-buildup-in-fountain-lake/article_83e625cf-6070-5450-8d8c-d00f16005a09.html | true |
The Red Sox are on pace to hit 153 home runs this season, which would be their fewest in a full season since connecting for 123 in 2014.
That was the year the Sox had a massive World Series hangover and traded as many players as they could in July. Prior to that you have to go back to 1993 when they had 114.
The lack of firepower helps explain why the Sox have won only three games when trailing after six innings. They don’t get many game-changing swings. Generating office doesn’t come easily for this team.
Underperformance is the biggest issue.
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J.D. Martinez, who averaged 35 homers in his previous six full seasons, arrived at Fenway Park for Saturday’s game against the Texas Rangers with only 11.
He’s been a victim of some bad luck. Based on how hard and how far he has hit balls this season, Martinez should have 15 home runs this season, per Statcast data,
But even 15 would be well below what the Sox expected. More thump was needed from a player who is now a full-time designated hitter. He doesn’t get the ball in the air like he once did.
“It’s been a grind,” said Martinez, who never misses a chance to take extra hitting before games. “I haven’t figured it out.”
Xander Bogaerts, who had 23 homers a year ago, has 12. Trevor Story, who missed 37 games with a fractured right wrist, has 15.
Christian Vazquez hit eight for the Sox before he was traded to the Houston Astros on Aug. 2. That’s as many as Alex Verdugo.
Rafael Devers has 25, 13 fewer than last season with 28 games to play.
Devers, Bogaerts, and Story went into Saturday’s action having only one more homer combined than Yankees star Aaron Judge had by himself.
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Manager Alex Cora has been surprised. The Red Sox are usually a team with plenty of power threats and this year it has been sporadic.
“I wish I knew [why]. We’d have fixed it a while ago,” he said. “It just happens.”
Cora wonders if the new structure built behind the right field bleachers at Fenway Park has affected the flight of the ball for righthanded hitters going the other way.
“We have to see if there’s something going on in the stadium,” he said.
That doesn’t seem to be the case. There has been an average of 2.22 home runs per game at Fenway this season. The average was 2.43 from 2018-21, discounting the shortened 2020 season.
The other factor for the Sox were two decisions made in the offseason.
Hunter Renfroe, who hit 31 homers last season, was traded to Milwaukee for Jackie Bradley Jr. and two prospects. Renfroe has 23 homers with the Brewers. Bradley had three for the Sox before being released.
Kyle Schwarber, who hit 32 home runs last season for the Nationals and Red Sox, left as a free agent and has since hit 36 for Philadelphia.
Retaining Schwarber to play left field or first base would have meant more power. The Sox instead showed faith in Bobby Dalbec, who had a good second half last season and finished with 25 homers and a .792 OPS.
That dipped to 11 homers and a .644 OPS this year.
With Bogaerts and Martinez going into free agency, adding power to the 2023 roster should be a priority for the Sox. Whether it’s by trade or free agency, the Sox need some oomph in their lineup.
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Retaining Bogaerts would be a good first step. Trey Mancini, whose swing would be perfect for Fenway, feels like a good fit. So does outfielder Mitch Haniger.
Triple A first baseman Triston Casas will help, but he’s more of a doubles hitter.
However it works out, the Sox need some power.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. — John Hoyland kicked a 30-yard field goal in the second overtime to lift Wyoming over Tulsa 40-37 in a wild finish on Saturday.
With seven seconds left in regulation, Hoyland's potential game-winning 44-yard field goal hit the top of the right upright and bounced out. He made a career-best 55-yarder to tie the game 34-34 with 6:19 remaining.
Each team turned the ball over inside the final two minutes of regulation. Wyoming’s Titus Swen fumbled the ball five yards from scoring with 1:45 to play. Davis Brin later threw a strike to Keylon Stokes, who broke loose for 33 yards but was blindsided near midfield and fumbled the ball with 25 seconds left.
Wyoming’s Andrew Peasley finished with 256 yards passing and two touchdowns.
Brin completed 30 of 52 passes for a career-high 460 yards with three touchdown passes and no interceptions. Keylon Stokes, Malachai Jones, and JuanCarlos Santana each had over 100 yards receiving and a scoring catch. Stokes led the trio with 11 catches for 136 yards.
The Wyoming defense accounted for two touchdowns. Ryan Marquez blocked a punt attempt and the ball was batted around and bounced back to him at the 9. He scooped it up and ran untouched into the end zone for a 24-20 lead early in the third. Brin was sacked near the Tulsa 28 and the ball rolled into the end zone where Easton Gibbs recovered on the game’s second play from scrimmage.
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Investments proposals worth ₹2,750.55 crore cleared
The State-Level Single Window Clearance Committee (SLSWCC), headed by Large and Medium Industries Minister Murugesh R. Nirani on Saturday cleared a total of 53 investment proposals worth ₹2,750.55 crore, promising 8,619 jobs.
In the 134th SLSWCC meeting held at the Karnataka Udyog Mitra office, nine investment proposals above ₹50 crore were approved and these proposals would invest around ₹1,670.69 crore with 4,308 employment opportunities.
Mr. Nirani said 41 investment proposals had promised to invest over ₹1,062 crore with 4,311 jobs.
Major investment proposals cleared were Ukem Agri Infra Ltd. (₹497.95 crore), Sundari Sugars Ltd. (₹402.24 crore), Everest Industries (₹187 crore), Koppal Toys Moulding Co. Pvt. Ltd. (₹131.94 crore), Aequs Consumer Products (₹118.27 crore), and KRBL Ltd. (₹110.25 crore), Aequs Toys (₹72.58 crore), Hella Infra Market (₹71.66 crore), and Savitri Plyboard (₹49.86 crore).
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