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Unique lanterns along Sidmouth seafront had been at risk of having to be changed completely to make them more energy efficient, but it has been confirmed that a way has been found to sympathetically upgrade them. The streetlights along the Esplanade were fitted in 2004 to replace the old wooden columns and the lighting columns themselves are unique to Sidmouth, being made specifically for the town.
Devon County Council will be replacing the lights with more energy efficient LED lights as part of a countywide programme of streetlighting upgrades which is reducing the authority’s carbon emissions and energy bills. The same company that manufactured the lanterns 18 years ago has designed and manufactured the new LED versions of the lanterns, as the existing structures could not easily be retro-fitted.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council cabinet member for Highway Management and county councillor for Sidmouth, said: “The lights along the esplanade need to be upgraded to be more energy efficient as we look to meet carbon reduction targets in Devon. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as just replacing a bulb but we wanted to make sure we retain the unique style of the existing lanterns rather than changing them completely.
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"I’m pleased that these replacement lights tick all of the boxes and the columns are also getting a fresh lick of paint, which will give the Esplanade a real lift.”
The new lanterns will be connected to the county council’s central system which provides greater monitoring and control of the streetlights, such as remote operation and dimming. The lighting columns will also be repainted, funded through the county council’s Highway Community Enhancement Fund.
The upgrade scheme, which will be carried out by Devon County Council's streetlighting contractor Enerveo, is weather dependent and is expected to take up to three weeks.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is skipping next week’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that’s expected to become a major hurricane.
It’s the third delay in the past month for the lunar-orbiting test flight featuring mannequins but no astronauts, a follow-up to NASA's Apollo moon-landing program of a half-century ago. Hydrogen fuel leaks and other technical issues caused the previous scrubs.
Currently churning in the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Ian is expected to become a hurricane by Monday and slam into Florida’s Gulf coast by Thursday. The entire state, however, is in the cone showing the probable path of the storm's center — including NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Given the forecast uncertainties, NASA decided Saturday to forgo Tuesday’s planned launch attempt and instead prepare the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket for a possible return to its hangar. Managers will decide Sunday whether to haul it off the launch pad.
If the rocket remains at the pad, NASA could try for an Oct. 2 launch attempt, the last opportunity before a two-week blackout period. But a rollback late Sunday or early Monday likely would mean a lengthy delay for the test flight, possibly pushing it into November.
The Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. Assuming its first test flight goes well, astronauts would climb aboard for the next mission in 2024, leading to a two-person moon landing in 2025.
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ICYMI: Lego Masters Season Three Premiere Recap for 9/21/2022: Ready to Launch
Season three of Lego Masters on Fox opens with a Lego show with host Will Arnett as a Lego, a Brad Pitt Lego and a bunch of other Legos going ‘Hollywood.’
Jamie and Amy are back as judges.
This week’s theme is SPACE! They need to build something original to show everyone who they are….with a space twist.
Stephen and Stephen–Firefighters: They plan on making the Maltese cross, which is found on firefighter uniforms.
Emily and Liam–Mother and Son: They are making a Garden of the Galaxy project, which will represent their love of travel and the outdoors.
Drew and Miranda–Brother and Sister: Their bottle rocket represents them going out driving and being teens.
Austin and Justin–Pediatric Doctors: Their project represents things found in their doctor bags.
Kerry and Patrick–Grandpappies: Their theme is a Space Party Shuttle, which will represent that they are still young at heart….especially since they work in the party industry.
John and Xavier–Friends: They are making a ‘Millennium Mango’ with the Filipino flag in the middle.
Nick and Stacey–Live-streamers: Their project will represent their Lego themed live stream show.
Christine and Michelle–Friends: Their theme is Hot Mess Mama, with a music theme mixed in.
Asiza and Eddie–Siblings: Their theme is smiles and positivity.
Brendan and Greg–Brothers: They are building the USS IG Phoenix.
Dave and Emily–Canadian Siblings: They are making Twin Pod Space Ships.
Liz and Erin–Moms: Their theme is Rockstar Tour Ship, which represents their love of music.
Astronaut Jessica Meir is in the house! She says the winner of this challenge will have their project displayed at the Kennedy Space Center.
The judges and Will walk around, making commentary on each team and looking at their progress.
As they work, Dr. Thomas Marshburn gives them a message via space to wish them luck.
Will jokes around with the teams, including Drew and Miranda, who he thinks could be in a teen drama. He even makes them do a commercial spoof for a show called The Potato.
Before long, time is up and it is time foe each team to show off their work. The judges and Will give each teams the pros and cons of their projects.
The winner of this challenge is Stephen and Stephen!
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OAK FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The names of three people found shot outside a suburban Chicago home and the man believed to have killed them before fatally shooting himself have been released.
They were identified Friday by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Carlos Gomez, 44; Lupe Gomez, 43; Briana Rodriguez, 22; and Emilio Rodriguez, 20.
Autopsies were expected to be performed Saturday on the bodies. Police have not said specifically who did the shooting but indicated it was the person found inside the house.
Police responding to reports of gunfire early Friday found three of the victims on the ground outside the house in Oak Forest, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Chicago.
At the time, the suspect was believed to be inside the home. Officers surrounded the house before a child came outside. Smoke then was seen coming from the house and flames appeared in a front window, police said.
The body of the fourth person was found inside the home after firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Video on a neighbor’s doorbell camera appeared to show a man shooting three people outside while a fourth person runs away, WLS-TV reported.
The man then can be seen going inside the home, according to the television station. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Names-of-victims-in-suburban-Chicago-shooting-17464107.php | 2022-09-24T16:07:57 | en | 0.977314 |
Exeter City bounced back from their back-to-back defeats in style as they cruised to a 4-0 win away to Forest Green Rovers. In front of the Sky TV cameras, the result was never in doubt from the moment Sam Nombe broke the deadlock inside the first six minutes.
Jevani Brown made that goal – and he added three for himself for a first hat-trick for the Grecians. Two came from the penalty spot, with the third finishing off a beautiful team move.
City came to the New Lawn under an injury crisis, with four teenagers among the substitutes, and once again, Josh Key forced to play in the back three. But you wouldn’t have known as they produced a commanding performance against their fellow newly promoted outfit and with the win jumped back into the top six, although only for a couple of hours.
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Exeter’s win made it 14 points from the first ten games, while Forest Green remained in the bottom four as the tough start to life in League One continued. And after last week’s disappointing loss to Burton Albion, assistant manager Wayne Carlisle said that the team were excellent and were fully deserving of what was a first away win in the league this season – and a biggest one in the third tier for more than 40 years.
“We called for a reaction after the last two results and they showed they can bounce back from the negative results we have had,” Carlisle, doing post-match press duties so Matt Taylor could shoot off to watch Bristol Rovers, who City play next week, said.
“It was a different type of game. The recent ones have been more physical, and Forest Green like to play the ball. We worked to counter that and put them on the backfoot with the early goal and then carried it on from there.
“They worked their socks off and the clean sheet was everyone’s. We didn’t go and chase the game after the break and carried the work through. They did a fantastic shift out of possession and in possession we took the chances.
“We controlled the midfield and when we had the chance to play it, they did. We made sure what happened at Shrewsbury didn’t happen again and came up with a plan and then pushed on and scored again. We were stubborn and made sure we won the second half as well.”
Following the 2-0 defeat to Burton Albion last weekend, Taylor made two changes to the starting eleven. One was enforced, with Jonathan Grounds out with a calf injury, so Jack Sparkes was recalled, with Josh Key dropping into the back three.
Nombe returned upfront as well, with skipper Matt Jay dropping to a bench consisting of four teenagers, plus goalkeeping coach Scott Brown and Harry Smith, as Harry Kite missed out with a groin injury picked up in training. Sonny Cox, Harrison King, Kegs Chauke and Pedro Borges made up the numbers.
With six minutes on the clock, the bright start City had was rewarded. Oliver Casey gave the ball away as he tried to play out from the back, Brown picked it up and had a choice of either Jay Stansfield or Nombe to find. He picked out the latter, who from the angle, drilled through the legs of the keeper for his fifth of the season, ending an eight game goal drought.
The second came on 26 minutes. Sparkes’ cross was palmed into the danger zone by Luke McGee, and as Rekeem Harper, who should have already doubled the lead, arrived on the follow-up, was kicked in the head by Stevenson. Referee Ben Speedie took his time, before pointing to the spot, and booking the midfielder. Up stepped Brown, and the Jamaican squeezed the penalty home despite McGee getting a hand to it to make it 2-0 and for his fourth of the campaign.
Jamal Blackman made a brilliant double save to deny Connor Wickham and Dom Bernard in what was about the only action he was forced into all afternoon, before the third came. Following some brilliant work down the left by Stansfield who chased a long ball, and then skinned a defender, the Fulham loanee slid the ball across the goal. Brown arrived perfectly and from the penalty spot area, swept coolly into the bottom corner to make it 3-0.
It took until the final five minutes before the fourth came to seal it. Key, Archie Collins and Nombe combined on the break before the ball was spread to Sparkes and as he drove into the box, he was clipped by a defender. Brown again took the penalty and put it in the same spot as the first for his hat-trick.
It is six goals for the season for the attacker – and his third career hat-trick – and Carlisle praised his performance. “Jevani deserved it,” he said.
“He wasn’t right up top today but behind the front two, and took up the mantle well. The dynamic in midfield and then linking it upfront worked.”
With Tuesday’s Papa John’s Trophy tie against Southampton U21s now postponed for a week, Exeter City are next in action on Saturday when they host Bristol Rovers at St James Park, and that is another game City are targeting.
Carlisle added: “That the manager has gone to watch them shows we are taking it that seriously. Will be a tough game, and we have a good week and a clear week of work, and we will look forward to it with confidence.”
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BOSTON (AP) — A soldier from Massachusetts who went missing during the Korean war and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp has been accounted for using modern scientific techniques, military officials said.
The remains of Army Cpl. Joseph J. Puopolo, 19, of East Boston, will be buried in Malden at a date to be determined according to a statement Friday from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
He was accounted for in August, but his family was only recently briefed, the agency said.
Puopolo, an artilleryman with the 8th Army, was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, after his unit attempted to withdraw from Kunu-ri, North Korea following the Battle of Ch’ongch’on, according to the military. Four former POWs reported in 1953 that Puopolo had died at a POW camp in February 1951.
After the war, the sides exchanged remains, but not all could be identified and those were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, the agency said.
A set of previously unidentified remains were disinterred in December 2019, and identified as being those of Puopolo through dental and anthropological analysis, mitochondrial DNA analysis and circumstantial evidence, the agency said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Soldier-who-went-missing-during-Korean-War-17464109.php | 2022-09-24T16:08:03 | en | 0.988361 |
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that they were beaten and abused for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region this month.
Recounting their ordeal to reporters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, one of the seven Sri Lankans said he was shot in the foot; another had his toenail ripped off and was slammed in the head with the butt of a rifle.
Ukrainian officials described their treatment as torture.
“Every day we were cleaning toilets and bathrooms,” Dilukshan Robertclive, one of the former captives, said in English. “Some days Russians came and beat our people, our Sri Lanka people.”
Four of the seven were medical students in the city of Kupiansk and three were working there when Russian forces poured across the border in late February and occupied large swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The group said they were captured at the first checkpoint out of Kupiansk and then taken to Vovchansk, near the border with Russia, where they were held in the factory with around 20 Ukrainians.
“They took our passports, other documents, phones, clothes, and locked us up in a room," said Sharujan Gianeswaran, speaking in Tamil to an Associated Press journalist by phone. "There were also Ukrainian people with us, and they were questioned and sent away in 10 days, 15 days or one month. With us they never spoke, because they could not understand our language.”
Police said the factory housed a Russian “torture center” — one of 18 in the Kharkiv region.
“They were bound and blindfolded. After that they were captured and then taken to the city of Vovchansk,” said Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the National Police in Kharkiv.
Six among the group said they were held in a large upstairs room. The seventh, the only woman, was kept in a dark cell by herself, her companions said. The woman wept silently and did not speak as the group told their story Saturday.
One man said he was shot in the foot by the Russian captors. Another had a toenail ripped off after the soldiers repeatedly bashed it with the butt of a rifle. The men showed their injuries to journalists.
“Most of the time we could not understand what they told us and we were beaten for that,” Gianeswaran said.
It dawned upon the Sri Lankans that the battle lines were shifting only when Russian soldiers ordered them to help load trucks with food and weapons.
As the last trucks raced away, the group asked fruitlessly for their passports and papers back, knowing that to move around without them would be impossible in a country filled with checkpoints.
Russian troops captured several cities and towns in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region early in the war. Ukrainian troops retook the area during a swift counteroffensive earlier this month.
When the Sri Lankans realized the Russians were gone, on Sept. 10, the group left the factory and started walking toward the city of Kharkiv, having no real idea how to get to the regional capital which had remained in Ukrainian hands.
“We walked on that road for two days and were exhausted and hungry. We had no food or money to buy food,” Gianeswaran said.
They slept on the side of the road and walked until they reached a river. But with so many bridges in the region destroyed by one side or the other in months of fighting, they could find no way to cross.
Finally someone noticed their plight, gave them shelter and called for a ride from security forces.
Police said the group was picked up in the Chuhuiv area, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from where they started. They are in Kharkiv now, with no idea of what the future holds. Robertclive said they are psychologically damaged by their months in captivity.
But the men smiled when asked how they felt when they realized the worst of their ordeal was at an end.
“They (Ukrainians) have given us food and clothing,” Gianeswaran said. “We thought we were going to die but we are saved and are being well looked after.”
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Hat-trick hero Jevani Brown couldn’t hide his delight at grabbing his first Grecians treble. The attacker scored three times in Exeter City’s convincing 4-0 win over Forest Green Rovers in front of the Sky TV cameras.
The Grecians flew out of the traps and were deservedly ahead inside six minutes, pouncing on a defensive error, before Sam Nombe drilled home the opener. Brown then doubled the lead from the spot midway through the first half, before making it three just before half-time.
The fourth of a very comfortable afternoon came late on, and again from a penalty. The Jamaican put both spot-kicks into the bottom corner and past the dive of Luke McGee to take his tally to six for the season.
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It was the third time in his career the 27-year-old has taken home the match ball. But the first for Matt Taylor’s men, and were his first goals since mid-August.
“Personally I am buzzing,” he said. “Luckily I am on pens so got two chances. But from the start it was a brilliant all round team performance.
“I am delighted with the hat-trick, but the most important thing after the back-to-back defeats was to get the three points. I want to get more goals in general and have got six now and only seven last season. Throughout my career I am known for assists, but I am trying to get more goals.
“I have no-one but teammates to thank for getting the goals. It has been a good start and I feel like there is some positivity. It is important as after the little blip, getting the result was the main thing and great to get the three.”
With six minutes on the clock, the bright start City had was rewarded. Oliver Casey gave the ball away as he tried to play out from the back, Brown picked it up and found Nombe, who from the angle, drilled through the legs of the keeper for his fifth of the season, ending an eight game goal drought.
The second and the first of the penalties came when Rekeem Harper was kicked in the head by Ben Stevenson. Up stepped Brown, and the Jamaican squeezed the penalty home despite McGee getting a hand to it to make it 2-0 and for his fourth of the campaign.
Jay Stansfield made the third as he chased a long ball, and then skinned a defender, the Fulham loanee slid the ball across the goal. Brown arrived perfectly and from the penalty spot area, swept coolly into the bottom corner to make it 3-0.
It took until the final five minutes before the fourth came to seal it. Key, Archie Collins and Nombe combined on the break before the ball was spread to Jack Sparkes and as he drove into the box, he was clipped by a defender. Brown again took the penalty and put it in the same spot as the first for his hat-trick.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The agent for Buffalo Bills safety Micah Hyde announced Saturday that the team plans to place the starter on season-ending injured reserve because of a neck injury.
Jack Bechta added in a message posted on his Twitter account that he expects Hyde to be healthy in returning for next season.
Hyde already had been ruled out for Sunday's game against Miami. He was carted off the sideline in the second half of Buffalo’s 41-7 win over Tennessee on Monday night.
Coach Sean McDermott said Tuesday that the Bills sent Hyde to the hospital to have his injury further evaluated.
The injury represents a big blow for the Bills, who are off to a 2-0 start.
Hyde and Jordan Poyer have established themselves as one of the NFL’s top safety tandems since both signed with the Bills in 2017. The two were tied with a team-leading five interceptions last season.
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An Exeter artist's vibrant and colourful designs have recently popped up on murals in Exeter - and he simply wants to make people smile with his wonderful creations.
For Scotty Gillespie, it is all about the social impact of his work. “I’m passionate about community. I love the idea of people coming together and creating something special. It might sometimes have my name on the wall, but it’s not my art, it’s theirs. They have helped create it. I have just observed their area. It’s a reflection on them.”
Last week, we featured the painting of a new mural on the walkway between Sidwell Street and Exeter bus station, plus a gallery of images of the artwork and volunteers and staff who painted it.
We interviewed Scotty, 36, an artist, illustrator and ceramicist who moved from Manchester around 12 years ago, via Zoom, talking from his studio in his house in Exeter.
With the unusual site of a pottery kiln next to his front window, he shows us an old-fashioned gumball machine which he takes to art shows to dispense playful ceramic gumballs. Most recently though, he has been kept busy with his other work. Projects he has worked on have included collaborations with Microsoft, the Vagina Museum, Exeter Phoenix arts centre, and more.
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Scotty jumped at the chance to help brighten up the city at Sidwell Street. He says: "They are my neighbours!" He enjoys the diversity and thrives off the multicultural aspect of the road. “I think Sidwell street is actually a really nice area and I wanted to highlight that.”
Elevating the mundanity of everyday life is a key part of Scotty's work. When designing the mural, he spent some time on the street and observing life. It could be people buying apples, grabbing a drink at a local cafe or walking their dog. “I’m inspired by things around me. Could be my dog, garden or just the toast I had in the morning. I get enjoyment out of illustrating things that are seemingly mundane,” he says.
The satisfaction of helping create a public work comes from enjoying the reactions of people. “People use it as the backdrop for their Tinder profiles, which happens quite alot and is really funny. I like the reaction of the people when they see it and the transformation of how it was before," he says.
When creating an artwork, Scotty tries to concentrate on what he enjoys or would want to buy, and then hope someone else likes it. He thinks if he tries to concentrate on what people want, art can become contrived. “If I’m smiling when I am walking past my artwork, I just hope it makes someone else do the same. I know it sound so cheesy, but I guess that’s my purpose, making people smile,” he says.
Relatability of artwork is something that is important to Scotty. “I want someone to have a relationship with the imagery. Everyone loves eating toast, everyone likes an apple. People like walking the dog. I just wanted to pinpoint images anyone can relate to.”
The simplicity, colour and vibrancy of the artwork reflects some of Scotty's character: "In some ways I am a big child. I create this colourful, playfu,l kinda childish world that I get joy from.”
Some comments on his work have included members of the public saying: "My child could do that". Scotty isn't offended by such comments, in fact, he is inspired by the imagination an creativity of children's artwork. “I would invite their children to help because that’s the point! That is not insulting to me at all. I look at children’s drawings and I’m so inspired by them.”
In the case of the archway at Sidwell Street, it was essential that the design was relatively simple because it was volunteers who were painting it. “It needed to be simplified as much as possible without losing any of its magic. I was just creating a huge wall colouring book that anyone could paint in. That was the idea of it,” Scotty says.
Inspiration for Scotty's artwork has also come from cartoons of his childhood such as Rugrats, Pingu, and his favourite: Poddington Peas. The latter was the first time he saw 'anthropomorphism', that is to say making something that is not human have human characteristics. Scotty has since used this in his artwork. A piece of a toast with a smiley face jumping for joy being one such example on the mural at Sidwell Street. "Peas, you eat them, they don’t have eyes and mouth and a conscious! I love that idea. Just two dots and a line [smiley face] makes a character,” he says.
For now, this is Scotty's style and he loves it. "I really like naivety in illustrative works. I can’t draw super realistic. I mean, I can, but I don’t get a lot of enjoyment out of it. What I really like is when things are stripped back to a line or a single colour. Something really simple and really impactful. My style is just that: bold, colourful and vibrant.”
When deciding who to work with, Scotty obviously has to pay the bills, but he really gets a kick from clients who are trying to make a difference. “I work with anyone that aligns with my personal ethos. It could be a political stance, for example. I’m more interested where the thing could help somebody or something or create community and have a positive impact. I prefer that to just someone who wants me to draw something for their website and then they actually don’t care for the environment. I wouldn’t say I am an eco-warrior, but anyone who aligns themselves with protecting the environment always perks me up a bit!” he says.
He recently ticked off something from his bucket list after working with Microsoft. He was tasked with illustration and animation for their involvement in the London Pride Festival. “It was just the most seamless process. They really understood what Pride was and they understood the position they are in, being a big company and that it could look like they are just buying their way in.”
More locally, like many artists, Scotty has a second job at Exeter Phoenix arts centre. He has worked there as a receptionist / front of house manager since he moved to Exeter.
“I’ve always been sort of an undercover artist that no one ever really knew! People would just assume I am a receptionist. Now they’ll be like ‘Scotty has done a mural!’"
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 24, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
852 AM PDT Sat Sep 24 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM PDT THIS MORNING...
While patchy dense fog may linger through mid-morning around the
Monterey Bay Region, conditions will begin to improve as surface
temperatures warm and the fog bank lifts. Motorist are urged to
drive with caution while experiencing fog and/or reduced
visibility through the morning.
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Artemis I launch attempt called off due to Tropical Storm Ian
The Artemis launch attempt planned for Sept. 27 has been called off due to Tropical Storm Ian, which is forecast to hit Florida as a major hurricane next week.
NASA announced the move Saturday, saying that crews are preparing for rollback. The final decision will be made on Sunday "to allow for additional data gathering and analysis," NASA said.
The 322-foot rocket can withstand gusts of 85 mph at the pad, but only 46 mph once it’s on the move.
NASA said the agency is continuing to watch the latest from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Space Force, and the National Hurricane Center.
If they decide that the Artemis 1 SLS stack needs to be rolled back into the vehicle assembly building, it’ll take three days.
Two launch attempts of the moon rocket have recently been scrubbed due to a leaking issue while tanking.
NASA has just one last chance to launch the rocket on Oct. 2 before a two-week blackout period begins. The next launch period would open Oct. 17.
Astronauts would climb aboard for the second test flight around the moon in 2024. The third mission, targeted for 2025, would see a pair of astronauts landing on the moon.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 25, 2022
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RIP CURRENT STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service New York NY
1048 AM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY
EVENING...
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southwest Suffolk, Southeast
Suffolk, Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties.
* WHEN...Through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all
people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches
should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the
best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with
you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax
and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in
a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face
the shore and yell or wave for help.
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After hundreds of hours this weapon is beautifully detailed and looks really amazing.
We have previously highlighted the good work of some artists in Final Fantasy IX through digital creation, but it is also surprising what they can do true professionals. Now we’re talking about what an entire artist has done with an item from the Warcraft universe. In the video you can see the jeweler’s dedication in leaving a perfect product.
The jeweler has used gold and silver to recreate this sword in great detail after dedicating 700 hoursA professional jeweler has uploaded to his YouTube channel how he dedicates 700 hours to recreate the sword of Frostmourne from Warcraft to real life. An aspect that denotes the quality of the product is the use of gold and silver. Both metals are melted so that the professional can give them the shape he wants so that the weapon contains great detail.
Currently he only has one video on the YouTube channel, but everything points to will continue doing works of this caliber. Likewise, the jeweler has a web page that is one more demonstration of the quality of their products. Moreover, in the comments the professional thanks for the support that the video has had and request ideas for your next masterpiece.
In regards to this universe, Warcraft 3: Reforged prepares to break the silence and will announce news very soon. The initial product was a nightmare for the developers. As for World of Warcraft, we know that Blizzard has canceled a mobile WOW MMORPG, according to Bloomberg.
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Javier Álvarez Zamora, 68, was relieved at four in the afternoon on September 14 when he crossed the southern border of Nicaragua and arrived in Costa Rica. For several days before, he had been fleeing relentless persecution by the Nicaraguan dictatorship. “It was a hunt against me”, says this man who assures that his only “crime” is being an opponent.
At nine o’clock at night, a disproportionate deployment of patrols and police arrived looking for him at the home of his daughter, Ana Carolina Álvarez Horvilleur, 43 years old. They did not find him or his daughter, who at that time was visiting his parents’ house. Who was at home was Félix Roiz Sotomayor, 53 years old, husband of Ana Carolina. They took him into custody.
The police operation then moved to the Javier Álvarez Zamora house, in Managua, where he was not present either because, warned of his possible arrest, he was moving around security houses to avoid capture. The police arrested Jeannine Horvilleur Cuadra, 63, Álvarez’s wife, and their daughter, Ana Carolina.
“There is a new pattern of repression,” says Gonzalo Carrión, a human rights defender from the Nunca Más collective.We are processing 50 precautionary measures in favor of politically persecuted people and we have stories of cases in which the wife has been arrested, to get to the husband; they have detained parents, to get to the son; children have been arrested to capture the father. Generally they are detentions for hours or one day, but these are already 12 days old and it was for the entire family: the wife, the daughter and the son-in-law. That has a grotesque dimension.
When Álvarez crossed the border, he still did not know of his family’s arrest because, to avoid being located, he destroyed the chip and turned off his mobile phone. Already in Costa Rica, he activated his cell phone and the messages that he had not read began to arrive. One of the first was from his wife: “They take me and my daughter prisoner”.
The world came to him. Shortly after, she regained her calm with another message from her daughter’s phone: “We are being released right now. We are fine”. It was a trap. The cell phones of the prisoners were in the possession of the Police.
“There is no process against the three of them. None have received legal assistance. They have been in complete isolation. They are supposed to be in El Chipote (prison). The Police have not released official information and have not asked for the famous and unconstitutional 90 days (to expand the investigation). They should have put them at the order of the competent judge. We know that appeals for illegal detention are being processed, but we do not know what the courts have pronounced,” Carrión details.
“What does my wife have to do with me not being at home? This is absurd. It’s a barbarity! What is my wife’s crime? Be my wife? My daughter?”, asks Javier Álvarez, already in Costa Rica, in an interview with the journalist Lucía Pineda, from channel 100 por Cent Noticias.
To the journalist’s question about why he thinks the regime is persecuting him, Álvarez answers: “Because I am an opponent. Because I think differently from the regime. Because I do not agree that a single person decides what is going to happen in this country.”
For the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), what happens to the Álvarez Horvilleur family has a name: “kidnapping for ransom”.
“This criminal behavior is unprecedented in history, it is not characteristic of any dictatorship, it has the outlines of a kidnapping where the kidnapper seizes innocent victims, takes them as hostages to capture the person he wants to kidnap.”, indicates the human rights organization in a statement that it disseminated through the media.
In another case, Dulce Porras, the exiled and leader of the opposition Democratic Renovating Union (Unamos), denounced that the Police of the Daniel Ortega regime captured her brother, Freddy Porras, on the night of September 15, in the city of Jinotepe .
The opponent assured that her brother is a medical representative and is not involved in political activity, for which she linked his imprisonment to a reprisal against her. “I feel that the new wave of arrests of the Nicaraguan regime is against relatives of those of us who are here, in exile”, he declared to the Confidencial platform.
Human rights defender Gonzalo Carrión explains that the practice of “kidnapping for ransom” by the regime was already taking place, but on many occasions relatives ask that their cases not be made public for fear of further reprisals.
Among the cases they have dealt with, says Carrión, is that of a former political prisoner who in his testimony recounted that his interrogators told him: “We know that you have nothing to do with it, but it is your father that we love.”
“The Ortega Murillo tyranny is the sum and summary of all the evils and they always surprise us. They have an ability to reap evil”, he points out.
Starting in August, the imprisonment of Nicaraguans for political reasons intensified, says Carrión, who estimates that in August and September at least 24 people were captured, several of them priests, religious and even a bishop.
“In these last September raids they fell into a house where the person they were looking for was not even there. The son was pressured and he located the place where the father was. You can imagine the levels of pressure they are subjected to, ”he adds.
“Another person they were looking for, they captured the mother for 28 hours, to capture her who was an active, organized person,” he says. “It is happening often, with silence because there are people deprived of their liberty who remain anonymous.”
Javier Álvarez Zamora says that in his search the Nicaraguan police have raided the houses of all his relatives. “I tell them, I am no longer in Nicaragua, stop looking for me in Nicaragua,” he stated in the interview with 100 por Cent Noticias.
He adds that his relatives finally located his wife, his daughter and his son-in-law who would be held incommunicado in El Chipote prison, where the Ortega regime usually sends the majority of political prisoners in the last two years.
The policemen who assisted the relatives proposed to release the imprisoned family if Javier Álvarez turned himself in, according to the statements of the persecuted opponent himself.
“I am not going to return to Nicaragua. My life is in danger if I return to Nicaragua. The police deployment, the hunt they have mounted against me makes me indicate that there is a special hatred against me that I do not know where it comes from, “he said.
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The arrival of the Windows 11 22H2 update has brought a good handful of news. Also in the gaming section, where Microsoft adds multiple options to its operating system that improve performance in games and apply Auto HDR to more titles. Along with these novelties, the company has also launched a new tool to calibrate the HDR of our monitor in a very simple way.
With the ‘Windows HDR Calibration’ tool it is possible adjust our monitor to get an accurate image in Windows 11 when using high dynamic range. The only thing we have to do is follow the steps of the application, which will show us a series of patterns to configure the different parameters of our monitor.
From Microsoft they have already expressed their desire to offer an application similar to the one that exists on Xbox consoles to calibrate the HDR of the screen. That is why they have recently launched this app compatible with windows 11.
How to download and use the app to calibrate the screen
The first thing we have to do before being able to use the application is to find out if we meet the requirements. To make use of the tool it is necessary Have a monitor that has HDR on a Windows 11 system, since the app is only available for this version of the operating system. However, if what you want is to adjust the HDR of your monitor with Windows 10, you also have another alternative, as explained by Microsoft.
Once we have made sure that we meet the requirements, we download the application through this link from the Microsoft Store. The app is approximately 99 MB in size and is very easy to use.
When we have downloaded it, we open the application, and we will see that they inform us that the app will show us a series of reference patterns that we will have to use to configure the different parameters of our monitor.
On the one hand we have the maximum luminance, a test that determines the brightness level of the screen. Here what we have to do is move the bar below until the gray squares are unnoticeableas indicated on the right.
This test is split into two, so we’ll need to do the exact same thing in the next image where there’s just a blank box.
Finally, we have the color saturation test. This test depends on the personal preferences of each one. All we have to do is move the bottom bar to determine how the SDR and HDR content looks on our monitor. According to Microsoft, this determines how all the content we see appears through the HDR screen.
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Even celebrity hairdressers like Gregory Patterson have had their fair share of bad hair days. The kind that has you running to Sally Beauty in a freight of panic. During a recent interview with WrapWomen, Patterson recalled a time during beauty school when he dyed his hair into an ombré effect of red, orange and yellow. “I looked like a match — it wasn’t cute,” he said with a laugh.
Patterson – after a few attempts – finally passed the state board test and received his hairdressing license. He landed a job at a salon with several celebrity clients, where made connections with agents and Hollywood heavyweights alike. Most importantly, he was able to develop his own “signature style” which became “big, expensive, luxe-looking hair.” Patterson was now the go-to guy for re-creating this look.
Patterson went on to become the lead stylist on Heidi Klum’s “Project Runway” and eventually Tim Gunn’s “Under the Gun” series. Over the years, Patterson has worked with clients including Anne Hathaway, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Julianne Moore – just to name a few.
As we enter the fall season, Gregory says the ‘90s are back, baby, and “the Rachel haircut” from “Friends” – yes, the one stylist Chris McMillan made famous on Jennifer Aniston – is going to make a return, but with a modern-day twist.
“I want to see [the Rachel hair] come back a little bit stronger, but I want to see it changed a little bit. Not so hardcore,” Patterson said. “I do love those face-framing layers. I think they’re so incredibly flattering on so many face shapes, and the texture that we’re playing with now totally has changed. It’s a lot softer, although we are getting into the bigger, hair like volume.”
For more hair tips and style updates from Patterson check him out on Sally Beauty’s DIY University, where he is a member of the Sally Beauty Crew, where he helps regular folks – like myself – become beauty experts right inside their home.
View the full interview with Patterson up top.
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The name of Lady Di made history in all kinds of social sphere, because her time in the most popular royal family in the world placed her in the public eye, of which even after her sensitive death 25 years ago, she continues to be an object of interest, being her close friendship with Elton John one of the most popular but controversial stories, that more than one still wants to know how it was.
Who would think that a British princess and a popstar they cannot form one of the strongest dumbbells because they are from different worlds -musical and political- they will have to know this story, because Diana of Wales and the artist who belongs to the select group of the best sellers in history managed to combine thanks to his great love for fashion, philanthropy, the LGBT+ communitythe cordial and later controversial relationship with the recently ended kingdom of Queen isabel IIas well as for breaking the stereotypes that society dictated in its different times.
As unattainable or unthinkable as the fact that a queen has admiration for third parties that are not even part of her close nucleus of public relations, in the case of the British monarch who lasted the longest in the power of the royal crown, , the stigma for not mixing with other types of professions was somewhat bent by publicly confessing his admiration for the country singer.
Elton John’s relationship with the British royal family It has a long and long history, specifically since the decade of 1970. The Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth II of England were great admirers of the singer’s music, who despite going against all stereotypes about how to be a man, how the male sex dresses and even who men should love -sexuality- managed to be to the liking of the royalty of his nation.
This link allowed the artist to attend various events with the monarch and her sister and to strengthen the relationship with them. So much so, that the artist was invited to the wedding of Sarah Ferguson and the Prince Andrewas he assures Harper’s Bazaarbeing something unusual that in past reigns would not have happened, because although the world of entertainment has always been hand in hand with the politician, relationships have functioned as subordinations in favor of entertaining and not relating.
The great friendship began many years after the debut of the interpreter of musical classics such as I’m Still Standing, Can You Feel the Love Tonight y Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart, being in the year of 1981 when everything began. Lady Di and the musician met on Prince Andrew’s birthday, which was celebrated at Windsor Castle, being one of the anecdotes that he remembers with fondness and nostalgia: “When I arrived, there was only the music band and the Princess Diana. We immediately join in dancing Charleston alone on the dance floor”, assured the singer in the newspaper Vancouver Sun.
It is in the public domain that after her presentation, Diana of Wales sent a letter of thanks to the singer, however the content of this has been extremely private despite the fact that the interpreter has narrated on more than one occasion in great detail everything about of your friendship. From that moment began a mutual loyalty that even reached the last days of her life.
Her love for haute couture was not only reflected in each of her outfits, even when she followed dress codes and he broke stereotypes of the “straight man”, which is why his diplomatic relations with renowned designers of the firms constantly most expensive and prestigious of the time, served as a common theme between the two to continue developing their friendship.
Their relationship went through great ups and downs due to scandalous publications made by the singer, sufficient reasons why the friendship was even about to end, even when international media assured that due to its strangeness it would be very difficult for it to end abruptly.
The two didn’t speak to each other for months after a book John published with the designer. Gianni Versace. And it is that Lady Di’s main fear was not because of her person, but because of what the monarch would come to think about her individual acts and friendships outside of her reign. “The images of some members of the Family Real were posted in the middle of some pages featuring half-naked modelsand Diana was afraid that it might upset the Queen,” Tina Brown wrote in Vanity Fair.
His version was published in the British autobiography, Yo: Elton John, where he mentions how and why they stopped talking. According to him, the princess decided not to get involved with a charity book that the singer was doing.
“She was a very dear friend for years, and then completely unexpectedly we parted ways”, he expressed. The disgust was for the book Rock and Royalty by Gianni Versace, which contained a collection of photographs of celebrities dressed in the late designer’s clothing.
Everything pointed to the Princess of Wales he was asked to write the foreword to the bookwhose profits would go to the AIDS Foundation. It is said that Diana did not participate because the book contained many photos of half-naked men, but according to her, she had no idea what she was about.
“I wrote to her again, I called her and yelled at her, I told her that that book had cost the AIDS Foundation a lot of money, I reminded her that she had already seen it,” said the musician. However, Diana chose to respond coldly in a letter to her friend “she was very formal and severe: ‘Dear Mr. John…’. And that seemed to be the end of everything”.
In July 1997, the world fashion industry experienced one of the most scandalous and controversial episodes in its history: Versace was shot dead in front of his Miami Beach home. Given this, when his murder was reported in the press, Diana called her old friend by phone.
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“He asked me how I was, if I had talked to Donatella and then he said, ‘I’m so sorry. It was a stupid estrangement. let’s be friends again‘”, recalled the singer of Rocket Man, his biographical film.
This is how they resumed their friendship, until another bad news hit Elton John: lThe tragic death of her great friend Diana. At his funeral, the singer performed the song Candle in the Windin which he named Marilyn Monroe, but changed the lyrics to sing to his late friend, the most beloved princess in the history of England and possibly the world.
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New COVID-like virus found in bat could spread to humans, resist vaccines
A newly discovered virus similar to the virus that causes COVID-19 has been found in a Russian bat and could spread to humans, researchers at Washington State University say.
According to WSU, a team led by researchers at the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health found spike proteins from the bat virus, named Khosta-2, can infect human cells and is resistant to both the monoclonal antibodies and serum from people who’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19.
Khosta-2 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, belong to the same sub-category of coronaviruses called sarbecoviruses.
"Our research further demonstrates that [viruses] circulating in wildlife outside of Asia – even in places like western Russia where the Khosta-2 virus was found – also pose a threat to global health and ongoing vaccine campaigns against SARS-CoV-2," said Michael Letko, WSU virologist and an author of the study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.
Letko said the discovery of Khosta-2 highlights the need for universal vaccines to protect against this subcategory of coronaviruses in general, rather than just against known variants of SARS-CoV-2.
"Right now, there are groups trying to come up with a vaccine that doesn’t just protect against the next variant of SARS-2 but actually protects us against the sarbecoviruses in general," Letko said. "Unfortunately, many of our current vaccines are designed to specific viruses we know infect human cells or those that seem to pose the biggest risk to infect us. But that is a list that’s everchanging. We need to broaden the design of these vaccines to protect against all sarbecoviruses."
Researchers said hundreds of sarbecoviruses have been discovered in recent years, predominantly in bats in Asia, but the majority are not capable of infecting human cells. The Khosta-1 and Khosta-2 viruses were discovered in Russian bats in late 2020, and it initially appeared they were not a threat to humans.
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"Genetically, these weird Russian viruses looked like some of the others that had been discovered elsewhere around the world, but because they did not look like SARS-CoV-2, no one thought they were really anything to get too excited about," Letko said. "But when we looked at them more, we were really surprised to find they could infect human cells. That changes a little bit of our understanding of these viruses, where they come from and what regions are concerning."
Letko and other WSU virologists studied the viruses further and determined that Khosta-1 posed low risk to humans, but Khosta-2 showed "some troubling traits."
Like SARS-CoV-2, Khosta-2 can use its spike protein to infect cells by attaching to a receptor protein found throughout human cells.
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Using serum derived from people vaccinated for COVID-19, the team saw that Khosta-2 was not neutralized by current vaccines. They also tested serum from people who were infected with the omicron variant, but those antibodies were also ineffective.
Fortunately, Letko said, the new virus is lacking some of the genes believed to be involved in spreading to humans. There is a risk, however, of Khosta-2 recombining with a second virus like SARS-CoV-2.
"When you see SARS-2 has this ability to spill back from humans and into wildlife, and then there are other viruses like Khosta-2 waiting in those animals with these properties we really don’t want them to have, it sets up this scenario where you keep rolling the dice until they combine to make a potentially riskier virus," Letko said. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/khosta-2-new-virus-found-bat-could-spread-humans-resist-vaccines | 2022-09-24T16:09:56 | en | 0.976451 |
The Pope Francisco assured this Saturday, before nearly a thousand young economists and businessmen from 100 countries of the world gathered in Assisi (central Italy), which is necessary”question the development model” current because “the earth burns today” and asked that work be fair for everyone, “the great challenge of our time”.
The pontiff, who flew by helicopter to participate in the conference “Francis’ economy”, an idea of the Pope himself to promote a process of inclusive dialogue and global change towards a new economy, signed a declaration with the young participants in which they commit to creating this new, fairer economic system.
After listening to numerous and emotional testimonies from some young people, such as that of an Italian prisoner who had “restored his dignity” by working in a prison cooperative, Francis asked them to be united to “do great things, even change a huge and complex system like the world economy.”.
He then referred to the world’s inability to “guard the planet and peace”, and before this “ordinary house falling apart”, it is vital”transform an economy that kills into an economy of life”, con “a new vision of the environment and the earth”.
“There are many people, companies and institutions that are doing an ecological conversion. We must move forward along this path, and do more (…) it is not enough to make up, we must question the development model” Francis assured, emphasizing: “The earth burns today, and it is today when we must change”.
For the pontiff, “if we talk about ecological transition but we remain within the economic paradigm of the 20th century, which plundered natural resources and the land, what we do will always be insufficient” and emphasized: “It is time for a new courage to abandon fossil energy sources, to accelerate the development of sources with zero or positive impact”.
Sustainability, he added, is a reality with several dimensions, such as social, because “the pollution that kills is not only carbon dioxide, inequality also mortally pollutes our planet”.
Relations also need to be improved, particularly in the West, where “are increasingly fragile and fragmented” for a “cconsumerism that seeks to fill that void”, and recover spirituality.
In the city of San Francisco, the saint of the poor, the pope wanted to place poverty at “the center” of this new economy that must “look at the world” from the fragile and vulnerable: “An economy of Francis cannot limited to working for or with the poor. As long as our system produces waste and we function according to this system, we will be complicit in an economy that kills”.
He also gave three instructions: “Look at the world through the eyes of the poorest (…) and that your daily choices do not produce waste”, “do not forget the workers (…) while you create goods and services, don’t forget to create work, good work, work for all”, which he considered “the great challenge of our time and of the future”, and, lastly, turn “bright” ideas into works.
And he concluded with a prayer: “Father, we ask your forgiveness for having seriously hurt the earth, for not respecting indigenous cultures, for not esteeming and loving the poorest, for creating wealth without communion” and “bless (…) to these young people, with the will to spend their lives for a great ideal.”
Of the event Nearly 1,000 young people from six continents participated. 3% come from North America and Oceania, 8% from Asia, 10% from Africa, 31% from Latin America and the rest from European countries.
“During the meeting they were divided into 12 Villages or Commissions where I had the honor to participate in the Justice and Agriculture Commission where I felt deeply moved by the testimonies of young people from the African continent who carried out sustainability projects with drinking water in their villages, being their only drinking water source,” he said. Andrew Prietoone of the guests at the event who explained that “Francisco’s economy” is a multicultural space made up of young people from all over the world with the aim of guaranteeing structural transformation processes that change people’s lives.
The three-day event has also had the support of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, CAL, led by Dr. Emilce Cuda, who helped to convene a consistent group of young Latin Americans who will be in Assisi.
(With information from EFE)
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Louise Fletcher, Oscar-winning actor who played Nurse Ratched, dies
Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88.
Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse, France, her agent David Shaul told The Associated Press on Friday. No cause was given.
After putting her career on hold for years to raise her children, Fletcher was in her early 40s and little known when chosen for the role opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1975 film by director Milos Forman, who had admired her work the year before in director Robert Altman’s "Thieves Like Us." At the time, she didn’t know that many other prominent stars, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury, had turned it down.
"I was the last person cast," she recalled in a 2004 interview. "It wasn’t until we were halfway through shooting that I realized the part had been offered to other actresses who didn’t want to appear so horrible on the screen."
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" went on to become the first film since 1934′s "It Happened One Night" to win best picture, best director, best actor, best actress and best screenplay.
American actress Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', directed by Milos Forman, 1975. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
Clutching her Oscar at the 1976 ceremony, Fletcher told the audience, "It looks as though you all hated me."
She then addressed her deaf parents in Birmingham, Alabama, talking and using sign language: "I want to thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true."
A moment of silence was followed by thunderous applause.
Later that night, Forman made the wry comment to Fletcher and her co-star, Jack Nicholson: "Now we all will make tremendous flops."
In the short run, at least, he was right.
Forman next directed "Hair," the movie version of the hit Broadway musical that failed to capture the appeal of the stage version. Nicholson directed and starred in "Goin’ South," generally regarded as one of his worst films. Fletcher signed on for "Exorcist II: The Heretic," a misconceived sequel to the landmark original.
Far more than her male peers, Fletcher was hampered by her age in finding major roles in Hollywood. Still, she worked continuously for most of the rest of her life. Her post-"Cuckoo’s Nest" films included "Mama Dracula," "Dead Kids" and "The Boy Who Could Fly."
She was nominated for Emmys for her guest roles on the TV series "Joan of Arcadia" and "Picket Fences," and had a recurring role as Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn Adami in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." She played the mother of musical duo Carpenters in 1989's "The Karen Carpenter Story."
Fletcher’s career was also hampered by her height. At 5-feet-10, she would often be dismissed from an audition immediately because she was taller than her leading man.
Fletcher had moved to Los Angeles to launch her acting career soon after graduating from North Carolina State University.
Working as a doctor’s receptionist by day and studying at night with noted actor and teacher Jeff Corey, she began getting one-day jobs on such TV series as "Wagon Train," "77 Sunset Strip" and "The Untouchables."
Actress Louise Fletcher and date Morgan Mason attend the Sixth Annual American Film Institute (AFI) Lifetime Achievement Award Salute to Henry Fonda on March 1, 1978 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Gale
Fletcher married producer Jerry Bick in the early 1960s and gave birth to two sons in quick succession. She decided to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home mother and didn’t work for 11 years.
"I made the choice to stop working, but I didn’t see it as a choice," she said in the 2004 interview. "I felt compelled to stay at home."
She divorced Bick in 1977 and he died in 2004.
In "Cuckoo’s Nest," based on the novel Ken Kesey wrote while taking part in an experimental LSD program, Nicholson’s character, R.P. McMurphy, is a swaggering, small-time criminal who feigns insanity to get transferred from prison to a mental institution where he won’t have to work so hard.
Once institutionalized, McMurphy discovers his mental ward is run by Fletcher's cold, imposing Nurse Mildred Ratched, who keeps her patients tightly under her thumb. As the two clash, McMurphy all but takes over the ward with his bravado, leading to stiff punishment from Ratched and the institution, where she restores order.
The character was so memorable she would become the basis for a Netflix series, "Ratched," 45 years later.
Estelle Louise Fletcher was born the second of four children on July 22, 1934, in Birmingham. Her mother was born deaf and her father was a traveling Episcopal minister who lost his hearing when struck by lightning at age 4.
Los Angeles, California: Louise Fletcher, who won the Best Actress award for her role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, acknowledges her Oscar on stage at the Music Center here and in these four views she is almost in tears as she offers a special
"It was like having parents who are immigrants who don’t speak your language," she said in 1982.
The Fletcher children were helped by their aunt, with whom they lived in Bryant, Texas, for a year. She taught them reading, writing and speaking, as well as how to sing and dance.
It was those latter studies that convinced Fletcher she wanted to act. She was further inspired, she once said, when she saw the movie "Lady in the Dark" with Ginger Rogers.
That and other films, Fletcher said, taught her "your dream could become real life if you wanted it bad enough."
"I knew from the movies," she would say, "that I wouldn’t have to stay in Birmingham and be like everyone else."
Fletcher's death was first reported by Deadline.
She is survived by her two sons, John and Andrew Bick. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/louise-fletcher-nurse-ratched-dies | 2022-09-24T16:10:02 | en | 0.989044 |
NASA's Artemis l moon rocket launch called off due to Tropical Storm Ian
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA officials have called off the launch of its Artemis l moon rocket as Tropical Storm Ian approaches Florida.
The space agency tweeted the update on Saturday.
"NASA is foregoing a launch opportunity Tuesday, Sept. 27, and preparing for rollback, while continuing to watch the weather forecast associated with Tropical Storm Ian."
During a meeting Saturday morning, teams decided to stand down on preparing for the Tuesday launch date to allow them to configure systems for rolling back the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
"Engineers deferred a final decision about the roll to Sunday, Sept. 25, to allow for additional data gathering and analysis. If Artemis I managers elect to roll back, it would begin late Sunday night or early Monday morning," NASA said.
Tropical Storm Ian is moving toward Florida and could become a major hurricane.
Managers on Friday declared that the rocket is now ready to blast off on its first test flight, after overcoming more hydrogen leaks during a fueling test earlier in the week. It will be the first time a crew capsule orbits the moon in 50 years; the spacecraft will carry mannequins but no astronauts.
It takes three days of preparations to get the rocket back into Kennedy Space Center’s mammoth Vehicle Assembly Building, a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) trip lasting several hours.
"I don’t think we’re cutting it close," Whitmeyer told reporters. "We’re just taking it a step at a time."
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This would've been the third launch attempt for the Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. Fuel leaks and other technical problems scrapped the first two tries, in late August and early September.
Although hydrogen fuel seeped past newly installed seals during Wednesday’s dress rehearsal, the launch team got the leakage down to acceptable levels by slowing the flow and reducing the pressure in the lines. That gave the launch team the confidence to proceed with a Tuesday launch attempt, officials said.
Managers said that the 30-year space shuttle program also saw plenty of hydrogen fuel leaks and hurricane-related rollbacks. The moon rocket’s main engines are actually upgraded versions of what flew on shuttles.
Also, the Space Force has extended the certification of on-board batteries that are part of the flight safety system — at least through the beginning of October.
NASA has just one more chance to launch the rocket — Oct. 2 — before a two-week blackout period begins. The next launch period would open Oct. 17.
Astronauts would climb aboard for the second test flight around the moon in 2024. The third mission, targeted for 2025, would see a pair of astronauts landing on the moon.
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Royal family releases picture of King Charles at work
LONDON - King Charles III has been pictured taking up his new state duties in Buckingham Palace for the first time.
In the image the monarch is seen looking into his official red box which contains documents from the British Government and the Commonwealth.
In a sign of royal continuity, the picture is taken in front of a photo of his late parents, Elizabeth and Philip, which the pair had gifted to King George VI in 1951 — the year before Elizabeth became queen.
During her own reign, Queen Elizabeth II was also regularly pictured with her official red box, which each monarch receives from their private secretary.
READ MORE: Queen Elizabeth II's funeral: World gives final farewell to British monarch
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Waffle House Index: How it measures the severity of a hurricane
ORLANDO, Fla. - As Tropical Storm Ian threatens to make landfall in Florida as a major Category 3 hurricane in the coming days, the Waffle House Index is on standby ready to be used to determine the storm's impact on the state.
But what is the Waffle House Index?
FEMA has been using the Waffle House Indicator to measure the severity of a storm. It started in 2004 after Hurricane Charley, assigning color codes to measure the impact a natural disaster has on an area. The measure is based on the reputation of Waffle House for staying open during extreme weather and for reopening quickly after severe weather events such as tornadoes or hurricanes.
It goes like this:
- GREEN: full menu- restaurant has power and damage is limited or no damage at all
- YELLOW: limited menu- no power or only power from a generator, or food supplies may be low
- RED: the restaurant is closed- indicating severe damage or severe flooding
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"Waffle House became almost like a rough guidepost," former FEMA director Craig Fugate, the creator of the index, told FOX Business. "If it was open and had a full menu we probably weren't in the worst-hit areas yet."
"We actually have a storm playbook that every restaurant has. We revise it each year as needed. And it tells the management team what to do in the event of an emergency," said Njeri Boss, Vice President of Public Relations for Waffle House.
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The restaurants have menus for the times they are without water, electricity, and even gas. The menus are limited and do not offer all of the options. This combination means the Waffle House Index rarely reaches the red level.
If a Waffle House closes before a storm, it is a sign that they expect extremely severe weather and that people in the area should also evacuate.
Waffle House has over 2,000 locations across the U.S. with more than 100 in Florida.
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Ferocious Fiona batters Canada with hurricane-force winds, heavy rain
Fiona transitioned into a post-tropical cyclone Friday evening as it slammed into the Canadian Maritimes with hurricane-force winds, torrential rainfall and significant storm surge.
The threat of the powerful storm prompted Hurricane and Tropical Storm Warnings to be issued for hundreds of miles of coastline from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and eastern Quebec.
Fiona was the strongest hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic basin season and at one point was a Category 4 with sustained winds around 140 mph.
The National Hurricane Center said the storm system had sustained winds of around 105 mph and a pressure of 933 millibars, making it one of the strongest cyclones to ever impact the eastern parts of the country.
Tracking Hurricane Fiona.(FOX Weather)
Where is Post-Tropical Cyclone Fiona?
As of Saturday morning, Hurricane Fiona was centered around 200 miles northeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
With winds at 85 mph, the cyclone is racing northward around 23 mph, a track that will take the system into the North Atlantic on Saturday.
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Wind gusts as high as 93 mph were clocked in Bermuda on Friday morning as Fiona passed by to the west.
Where are watches and warnings in effect?
The Canadian Hurricane Centre has issued various Hurricane Warnings, Tropical Storm Warnings and Tropical Storm Watches across Atlantic Canada. These warnings and watches include parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and eastern Quebec.
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A Hurricane Warning means sustained winds of 74 mph or higher are expected within the warning area and is typically issued 36 hours before the anticipated first occurrence of tropical-storm-force winds (39-plus mph). These high winds are likely to be accompanied by storm surge, coastal flooding and/or river flooding.
A Tropical Storm Warning means sustained winds of 39 mph or higher are expected within the warning area within 36 hours.
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Hurricane Warnings, Tropical Storm Warnings and Tropical Storm Watches are in effect for various parts of Atlantic Canada.(FOX Weather)
What are the expected impacts of Post-Tropical Cyclone Fiona in Atlantic Canada?
According to the FOX Forecast Center, Fiona is forecast to move toward the north or north-northeast and slam into Nova Scotia this weekend as a powerful post-tropical cyclone.
Tropical downpours could begin to arrive in Atlantic Canada on Friday before the peak rain and wind impacts spread across the region from Friday night into Saturday. Some rain and gusty winds could linger into Sunday as well.
FOX Weather meteorologist Jason Frazer noted that Hurricane Fiona's wind field is expected to expand as it approaches Atlantic Canada.
"It doubles in size to about 1,200 miles," Frazer said. "By 2 a.m., we could see some winds gusting up near 100 mph across Newfoundland, as well as Halifax, and this is going to be hanging out for at least about 10 to about 12 hours."
The projected path and intensity of Hurricane Fiona.(FOX Weather)
The FOX Forecast Center warns that areas from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and eastern Quebec will have threats of damaging winds, flooding rainfall and storm surge as Fiona crashes ashore in Nova Scotia.
"This storm will be a severe event for Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec," the Canadian Hurricane Centre wrote in a statement Friday morning. "Numerous weather models continue to indicate that Fiona will transition into a very powerful post-tropical storm as it makes landfall in eastern Nova Scotia early Saturday morning. This storm will produce very heavy rainfall and severe winds."
Wind gust forecast in Atlantic Canada.(FOX Weather)
Widespread, potentially prolonged power outages, numerous downed trees, structural damage, washed-out roads and significant coastal erosion due to battering waves and storm surge are all potential impacts of Fiona in Atlantic Canada, regardless of whether it has transitioned to a post-tropical cyclone or if it's still a hurricane.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, there could even be high winds capable of scattered power outages and downed trees as far west as eastern Maine and New Brunswick and as far north as Labrador and eastern Quebec.
Between 3 and 6 inches of rain, with localized amounts up to 10 inches, is predicted across Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and western Newfoundland. This rainfall could result in areas of flooding, some of which might be significant.
Two to 5 inches of rain is forecast for eastern Quebec and Newfoundland, while 1 to 3 inches is expected in eastern New Brunswick.
Rainfall forecast in Atlantic Canada.(FOX Weather)
The U.S. East Coast will be spared these significant wind and rain impacts, but there will be a continued risk of high surf and life-threatening rip currents along the Atlantic coastline through Saturday.
Fiona could be one of Canada's strongest storms on record
Computer forecast models indicate that Fiona has the potential to challenge September low-pressure records in portions of Nova Scotia on Saturday, according to David Roth, a senior branch forecaster at NOAA's Weather Prediction Center.
It's not out of the question that Fiona's central pressure could even approach Canada's all-time lowest pressure, which currently stands at 940.2 millibars set on Jan. 20, 1977, in St. Anthony, Newfoundland.
In fact, according to Roth, most of the country's low-pressure records were set during intense winter storms rather than tropical or post-tropical cyclones.
But Atlantic Canada is also no stranger to hurricanes or their remnants.
Since 1951, the Canadian Hurricane Centre said the country has seen around two-dozen hurricanes or post-tropical cyclones that have made landfall along its Atlantic coast.
HURRICANE FIONA'S POTENTIAL PATH TO CANADA IS NOT COUNTRY'S FIRST HURRICANE IMPACT
The names of recent tropical cyclones to impact the expansive coastline include Larry in 2021 and both Teddy and Isaias in 2020.
Hurricane Juan of 2003 is considered to be the most destructive in recent history. The Category 2 hurricane made landfall with winds of around 100 mph on Sept. 29.
Recent tropical strikes in Canada. (FOX Weather)
Juan's winds were strong enough to knock over trees, trigger thousands of power outages, damage homes and sink boats.
Some of the hardest-hit regions were Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
What are the impacts to the US East Coast?
Even though Fiona stayed hundreds of miles off the U.S. East Coast, its indirect impacts will be felt along the Atlantic beaches from Florida to Maine.
Swells from the hurricane will continue to spread westward toward the Eastern Seaboard through Saturday.
The rough waters will increase the risk of life-threatening rip currents along beaches, and lifeguards caution less-skilled swimmers to never venture into the rough waters.
WATER FROM HURRICANES, TROPICAL STORMS KILLS MORE IN U.S. THAN WIND
Forecast wave heights off the U.S. East Coast.(FOX Weather)
Hurricane Fiona's impacts in the Caribbean
Fiona made two landfalls as a Category 1 hurricane, the first one Sunday afternoon along the extreme southwestern coast of Puerto Rico and the second one early Monday morning in the eastern Dominican Republic.
In Puerto Rico, the city of Ponce clocked a 103-mph wind gust, while in the Dominican Republic, a gust of 98 mph was recorded in Samana at El Catey International Airport. The high winds plunged all of Puerto Rico into a blackout on Sunday as catastrophic flooding unfolded across the U.S. territory.
DEATH TOLL RISES TO AT LEAST 8 AFTER POWERFUL HURRICANE FIONA LASHES CARIBBEAN
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden declared Puerto Rico a major disaster area to help with recovery efforts.
Hurricane Fiona made its first landfall in southwestern Puerto Rico on Sunday, Sept. 18, followed by a second landfall in the eastern Dominican Republic on Monday, Sept. 19.(FOX Weather)
FEROCIOUS HURRICANE FIONA BATTERS TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS WITH STRONG WINDS, TORRENTIAL RAIN
Hurricane Fiona battered the Turks and Caicos on Tuesday as high winds and heavy rain spread across the islands after the hurricane had already turned deadly in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/weather/fiona-batters-canada-hurricane-force-winds-heavy-rain | 2022-09-24T16:10:26 | en | 0.950845 |
Tropical Storm Ian: Lake County Emergency Information - evacuations, sandbags, shelters, school closings
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. - As Tropical Storm Ian continues its ways across the Caribbean, it is expected to strengthen into a powerful hurricane. Florida is now within the so-called "cone of uncertainty."
As Floridians continue to prepare for a possible tropical system, here is the emergency information to know in Lake County, including evacuations, road closures, school closings, and where to get sand and sandbags. As additional information comes into the FOX 35 newsroom, we will update this page.
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- FOX 35 STORM TEAM HURRICANE CENTER (Cone, models, pathway)
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- FOX 35 TRACKING THE TROPICS FORECAST
LAKE COUNTY SANDBAGS
No sandbag distribution locations announced yet.
LAKE COUNTY EVACUATIONS
No evacuations ordered.
LAKE COUNTY EMERGENCY SHELTERS
No shelters opened yet.
LAKE COUNTY SCHOOL CLOSURES
No school closures currently reported.
CONTACT LAKE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
- Special needs information: 352-742-4850
- 352-343-9420
- Sign up for alerts
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Tropical Storm Ian: Volusia County Emergency Information - evacuations, sandbags, shelters, school closings
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - As Tropical Storm Ian continues its ways across the Caribbean, it is expected to strengthen into a powerful hurricane. Florida is now within the so-called "cone of uncertainty."
As Floridians continue to prepare for a possible tropical system, here is the emergency information to know in Volusia County, including evacuations, road closures, school closings, and where to get sand and sandbags. As additional information comes into the FOX 35 newsroom, we will update this page.
LATEST STORM UPDATES
- FOX 35 STORM TEAM HURRICANE CENTER (Cone, models, pathway)
- FOX 35 STORM TEAM COVERAGE
- FOX 35 TRACKING THE TROPICS FORECAST
VOLUSIA COUNTY SANDBAGS
Proof of residency required.
Saturday, Sept. 24
Daytona Beach Shores City Council, 2990 S. Atlantic Avenue
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Limit of 10 bags.
Sunday, Sept. 25
Volusia County Correctional Facility parking lot, 1354 Indian Lake Rd., Daytona Beach, FL 32124
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Daytona Beach Shores Community Center, 3000 Bellemead Drive
9 a.m - 5 p.m. Limit of 10 bags.
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 24 & 25
DeBary City Hall, 16 Colomba Road
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Limit of 10 bags per household. Not for commercial businesses. Residents asked to bring their own shovel.
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 24 & 25
Festival Park, 191 Howland Blvd. Proof of residency required.
Monday, Sept. 26
Parking lot near Orange Avenue and Jean Street in Daytona Beach. Residents asked to bring their own shovel. Limit of 10 bags per vehicle.
Edgewater - 3 locations, open 24/7. Residents should bring their own shovels and bags.
- Fire Station 57, 2628 Hibiscus Drive
- Mango Tree Lake, 901 Mango Tree Drive
- Airport staging area, 1898 Airpark Road
Monday, Sept. 26 & Sept. 27
New Smyrna Beach Sports Complex Stadium, 2335 Sunset Drive
Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Choice of 10 pre-filled bags at stadium, or up to 15 self-serve bags. Proof of residency and a shovel is required.
Monday, Sept. 26 - Sunday, Oct. 2
Monday - Saturday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Limit of 10 bags. Bring a shovel.
Opens Monday, Sept. 26; 9 a.m.
Port Orange. Limit of 10 bags.
- Coraci Sports Complex, 5200 Coraci Blvd.
- Spruce Creek Recreational Facility, 6040 Central Park Blvd.
- Airport Road Park, 6751 Airport Road
- Port Orange Adult Center, 4790 Ridgewood Ave.
Saturday, Sept. 24
Reed Canal Park, 2871 S. Nova Road, South Daytona. Limit of 25 bags. Proof of residency required.
VOLUSIA COUNTY EVACUATIONS
No evacuations ordered.
VOLUSIA COUNTY EMERGENCY SHELTERS
No shelters opened yet.
VOLUSIA COUNTY SCHOOL CLOSURES
No school closures currently reported.
CONTACT VOLUSIA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
- Volusia County: 866-345-0345
- www.volusia.org
- Sign up for alerts
- Download Volusia County app
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(CNN)In front of the largest-ever crowd for a Women's Super League match, Arsenal defeated its archrival Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 on a historic day for women's football in England.
The attendance record was another significant development in a record-breaking year for women's football, with attendance records also broken at the Women's European Championships and women's Champions League.
Arsenal put on a show from the very start for all 47, 367 fans packed inside the Emirates Stadium, with a goal for Beth Mead after just five minutes, before Vivianne Miedema added another two goals either side of Raffaele Souza's header to complete the rout.
"First of all thank you to the fans for coming. We put on a show and I hope they enjoyed it," Arsenal's captain Kim Little told the BBC.
"You're so aware of it, you can hear it now. It makes a big difference and in the summer the England girls felt it. I'm just happy we were able to put on a performance."
Little had helped engineer Arsenal's first goal, finding Mead unmarked on the edge of the penalty box.
Though her first effort ricocheted back to her, the Euros Golden Boot winner made no mistake with her second attempt.
Arsenal's power kept Tottenham stranded in its own half for much of the first half and Spurs could not convert a rare opportunity on 38 minutes with Celin Bizet Ildhusoy unable to deceive the Gunners' goalkeeper Manuela Zinsberger.
In just five minutes, Arsenal doubled its lead as Spurs conceded possession just outside its own box to the delight of Miedema who pounced on the loose ball and fired it past the backpedaling goalkeeper Becky Spencer.
The Gunners' dominance continued after halftime with Souza capitalizing on a corner to head the ball into the net.
Once again, the red and white flags either side of the goal unfurled, waving from side to side as if conducting the crowd in its celebrations.
The next cheer came from off the pitch as the record-breaking attendance was officially announced, smashing the previous best of 38, 262 set in 2019 at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
And there was still time for more festivities as Miedema headed in her second goal of the afternoon from Steph Catley's cross into the box.
With these four goals, Arsenal sealed its tenth consecutive WSL win and continued its record of keeping a clean sheet in the WSL since March 6. | https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/24/football/arsenal-tottenham-womens-super-league-spt-intl/index.html | 2022-09-24T16:11:25 | en | 0.971536 |
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Kids 1st, Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), and City Lax Albany are putting together a full day of interactive youth activities across 11 different sports. The event will take place on October 1, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Afrim’s Sports Complex at 969 Watervliet Shaker Road.
The event is designed for kids four to fourteen where each child will receive full access to all event activities, an annual membership to the AAU, an event t-shirt, and a box lunch. Registration for kids and adults is free. All attending kids must be accompanied by an adult. For those needing transportation, the CDTA will provide transportation support. Schedule for CDTA to be announced.
The event will include individual booths and scheduled demonstrations for each participating sport including Track & Field, Basketball, Street Hockey, Baseball, Taekwondo, Lacrosse, Flag Football, Pickleball, Volleyball, Soccer, and Karate. There will be featured presentations related to sports performance, education, discipline, behavior, and how student-athletes can help positively shape their lives through participation in athletic activities. Each sport will offer two presentations, 15 minutes per presentation.
Schedule
- Track & Field 9:15 p.m., 12:30 p.m., Open
- Basketball 9:30 a.m., 12:45 p.m., Open
- Street Hockey 9:45 a.m., 1 p.m., Open
- Baseball 10 a.m., 1:15 p.m., Open
- Taekwondo 10:15 a.m., 1:30 p.m., Open
- Lacrosse 10:30 a.m., 1:45 p.m., Open
- Flag Football 10:45 a.m., 2 p.m., Open
- Pickleball 11 a.m., 2:15 p.m., Open
- Volleyball 11:15 a.m., 2:30 p.m., Open
- Soccer 11:30 a.m., 2:45 p.m., Open
- Sports Performance 11:45 a.m., 3 p.m., Open
- Karate Demo 12 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m.
- Speeches
- End Time 12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5 p.m.
Kids 1st were created two years ago with the mission of using sports as a vehicle for kids to become productive adults. For more information contact Frank Rogers, allamericansportsrecreation@gmail.com. | https://www.news10.com/news/albany-county/kids-1st-and-aau-host-youth-sports-festival/ | 2022-09-24T16:11:32 | en | 0.89444 |
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A bargain hunter who went to an estate sale in Maine to find a KitchenAid mixer, a bookshelf or vintage clothing walked away with a 700-year-old treasure.
Instead of a kitchen appliance, Will Sideri stumbled upon a framed document hanging on a wall. It had elaborate script in Latin, along with musical notes and gold flourishes. A sticker said 1285 AD. Based on what he’d seen in a manuscripts class at Colby College, the document looked downright medieval.
And it was a bargain at $75.
Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal, used in the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and dated to the late 13th century. It was used about 700 years ago in Roman Catholic worship, they said.
An expert on manuscripts said the document, first reported by the Maine Monitor, could be worth as much as $10,000.
After spying the unusual manuscript, Sideri contacted his former Colby College professor, who was familiar with it because there’s another page in the college collection. The professor reached out to another academic who’d researched the document. They quickly confirmed the authenticity.
The parchment was part of a prayer book and priests’ liturgy, said Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and a professor of manuscript studies at Simmons University in Boston.
The full missal was once owned by William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher, before being sold in the 1940s and, much to the consternation of today’s academics, was divvied up into individual pages, she said.
The practice was common in the early 20th century. “Thousands of unique manuscripts were destroyed and scattered this way,” Davis said.
Davis has painstakingly researched The Beauvais Missal, and has tracked down more than 100 individual pages across the country. All told, the missal numbered 309 pages in its original form.
The page purchased by Sideri is of particular interest to scholars. It’s a treasure both because of its age and condition, which is far better than the other page in the Colby collection, said Megan Cook, Sideri’s former professor, who teaches medieval literature at Colby.
The parchment is worth upward of $10,000, according to Davis. But Sideri said he has no intention of selling it. He said he likes the history and beauty of the parchment — and the story of how he stumbled upon it.
“This is something, at the end of the day, that I know is cool,” he said. “I didn’t buy this expecting to sell it.” | https://www.news10.com/news/national/bargain-hunter-finds-700-year-old-medieval-manuscript-at-estate-sale/ | 2022-09-24T16:11:38 | en | 0.978281 |
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(The Hill) – President Biden honored Sir Elton John with the National Humanities Medal Friday following a performance from the musician on the south lawn of the White House.
“It’s my great honor, and I mean this sincerely, to present the National Humanities Medal to Sir Elton John,” Biden said to a visibly shocked John and cheers from the audience.
The honor was given to the British music icon “for moving our souls with his powerful voice and one of the defining song books of all time. An enduring icon and advocate with absolute courage, who found purpose to challenge convention, shatter stigma and advance the simple truth — that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect,” according to the citation.
John, who teared up as the president placed the medal around his neck, said, “I’m never flabbergasted, but I’m flabbergasted and humbled and honored by this incredible award from the United States of America.”
“America’s kindness to me as a musician is second to none, but in the war against AIDS and HIV it’s even bigger,” the musician said before choking up and adding, “I’m really emotional about this.”
John had been invited to perform at the White House for a concert titled “A Night When Hope and History Rhyme” due to his advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The performer earned standing ovations after playing a number of his hits, including “Your Song,” “Rocket Man” and “Tiny Dancer.”
Among the 2,000 guests present at the concert were Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. | https://www.news10.com/news/national/biden-surprises-elton-john-with-national-humanities-medal/ | 2022-09-24T16:11:46 | en | 0.973332 |
(NewsNation) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is firing back at comments the CEO of McDonald’s made last week about crime in the city causing businesses to leave.
On Sept. 14, the chief executive of the world’s largest fast-food chain claimed crime had gotten so bad that employees were scared to return to the office at the company’s headquarters.
“Everywhere I go, I’m confronted by the same question: ‘What’s going on in Chicago?’” Chris Kempczinski said during an event at the Economic Club of Chicago. “While it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis.”
Despite his criticism, Kempczinski said McDonald’s is “doubling down” and staying put in the city.
Lightfoot, however, said the CEO should have “educated himself” before making those comments.
She cited a letter from Michael Fassnacht, whom she picked to head World Business Chicago, an organization that helps promote economic development and tout business gains in the city, The Chicago Tribune reported.
Fassnacht wrote in the letter that while the departures of companies such as Citadel and Boeing are disappointing, there have been 112 other companies who have moved to or opened their doors in Chicago over the last 18 months.
“These 112 company relocations or new market entrants created over 19,000 direct and indirect jobs. Additionally, the (Bureau of Labor Statistics) business establishment data shows there are 7,400 more businesses today in the Chicago metro area than pre-COVID,” Fassnacht wrote, according to the Tribune.
Looking at crime statistics, there is reason to question some of Kempczinski’s claims.
Some crime is actually down this year compared to when McDonald’s decided to come to the city.
McDonald’s announced it was moving its headquarters from the suburb of Oak Brook to downtown Chicago in 2016. The move actually happened in 2018.
Back in 2016, there were 762 homicides in Chicago, The Associated Press reported — a two-decade high. Comparatively, police data shows Chicago can expect to see more than 600 homicides in 2022, according to WTTW-TV. That’s still down more than 10% compared to each of the last two years, WTTW said.
Robberies are also down. In 2018, there were 9,684 robberies, police data shows. Meanwhile, in 2021, there were 7,925 robberies — an almost 20% decrease from when McDonald’s headquarters opened in the West Loop.
Another problem with Kempczinski sentiments? He cited Boeing and Caterpillar as two companies that moved out of Chicago — but that’s only part of the story.
Caterpillar was never based in the city — its global headquarters were in Deerfield, a northern suburb, before it left for Texas.
And Boeing didn’t cite crime as its reason for leaving Chicago. The company’s chief executive said in a statement that the company relocated to the Washington, D.C., area because of its proximity to their customers and stakeholders, according to The Associated Press. Going to Arlington, Virginia, means Boeing, which is concentrating on the defense industry, is closer to Pentagon leaders, and that company executives would be near the Federal Aviation Administration, the AP said in May.
Their rival defense contractors, including General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, are also already based in the Washington area as well.
Statistics aside, many Chicagoans — like folks in most parts of the country — remain concerned about crime. Throughout Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s time in office, polls show crime has ranked as the No. 1 issue for Chicago voters, NewsNation previously reported.
Lightfoot, meanwhile, has said the city is addressing these concerns.
“Progress on violence can be slow, and at times can be frustrating. But we’re working on it day in and day out,” Lightfoot said. “And we’re seeing the fruits of those labors.”
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(NerdWallet) – It takes an emotional and physical toll when you experience pregnancy loss — and it can also bring an unexpected financial burden.
Even with insurance, surgical treatment for a miscarriage can add up to more than $4,300 on average, according to FAIR Health — a national, independent nonprofit that uses health care claims data to provide cost estimates to consumers.
How much of that you pay depends on your insurance plan.
What is a miscarriage?
Miscarriage is the most common form of pregnancy loss, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. A miscarriage occurs when there is a spontaneous loss of the embryo or fetus in the womb during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Studies indicate roughly 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, with the majority occurring during the first trimester.
After a miscarriage, the body needs to shed the contents of the uterus. This may happen naturally and last a few weeks. But it also could require taking medication or undergoing minor surgery called dilation and curettage, or D&C, to ensure all the remaining tissue is removed.
The Cleveland Clinic provides more detail on the signs and types of miscarriage. If you’re pregnant and experience any of the symptoms described, contact your physician.
Miscarriage and the cost of a D&C procedure
Costs really go up when a person needs a D&C after a miscarriage. FAIR Health data shows the average cost of a D&C during the first trimester is $4,307 with insurance; a D&C used to treat a second-trimester miscarriage is $5,301 on average. These costs include outpatient facility and physician fees, which may be higher or lower depending on where you’re treated.
Your share of the bill would be determined by your plan’s coinsurance or copayment policies, as well as your deductible and out-of-pocket maximums.
For someone who isn’t insured, FAIR Health data shows the cost almost doubles to $8,445 for a first-trimester procedure and to $9,742 during the second trimester.
State Medicaid programs also cover treatment for miscarriage. Medicaid provides coverage to people who are pregnant and who meet eligibility requirements. Pregnancy-related care provided under Medicaid includes services needed to care for the pregnant person and their unborn baby. This includes medical services that become necessary because the person was pregnant, like a D&C. The national program pays for roughly 40% of births in the U.S., according to KFF, a health research group.
A person who qualifies for Medicaid because they are pregnant remains eligible for at least 60 days after the pregnancy ends, allowing for continued care during the postpartum period, including after pregnancy loss. And under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, state Medicaid programs can extend the postpartum coverage period to 12 months. As of last month, 34 states had implemented or planned to implement that extension.
Contact your state Medicaid office to determine what is covered where you live.
Miscarriage and the cost of medication
A surgical procedure may not be necessary in all cases of miscarriage, with medication being a less invasive and cheaper option. The most likely drug to be prescribed is misoprostol. Studies show adding a second medication — mifepristone, which is taken before misoprostol — can be more effective than taking misoprostol alone. This would make it less likely that a person who has experienced a miscarriage would require additional medical intervention like a D&C.
Since pregnancy care is an essential health benefit under the Affordable Care Act, most insurance plans and Medicaid are required to cover medication used to treat a miscarriage. However, mifepristone and misoprostol also are used in abortions, which has impacted access in some states.
On average, treating a miscarriage with medication costs just under $700, whether you take one or both drugs, according to a 2018 study published by the American Medical Association.
How the recent Roe v. Wade decision impacts miscarriage
The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to enact laws banning or severely restricting abortion. These state laws can also impact people experiencing pregnancy loss since treatment for miscarriage often depends on the same medications and the same surgical procedures that are used to induce an abortion and clear tissue from the uterus.
The impact could be felt through insurance coverage as well as access to care.
A Texas abortion law enacted in 2021 allows civil actions to be brought against anyone who assists with ending a pregnancy after six weeks, resulting in at least a $10,000 fine. As a result, there have been reports detailing stories of patients who struggle to get care after a miscarriage because doctors or pharmacists are trying to avoid any appearance of assisting an abortion.
Access challenges could impact cost if patients are forced to pay for services themselves, either because coverage is denied or they’re forced to seek care at facilities outside their insurance plan’s network. Delays in administering medication after a miscarriage could also result in the need for additional medical care.
This July, the Biden administration warned pharmacists that they can’t refuse to fill prescriptions for medications used in abortions because those drugs have other approved uses. | https://www.news10.com/news/national/miscarriage-is-devastating-and-then-the-bill-comes/ | 2022-09-24T16:11:48 | en | 0.955206 |
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CYPRESS HILLS, Brooklyn (WPIX) — It was a gruesome discovery, and now, after a woman’s dismembered body was found in suitcases in her apartment in Brooklyn, police investigators are searching for at least one person of interest in connection with the crime.
The incident is also reminding local residents of a similar murder from earlier this year, which also involved a dismembered body discovered nearby. That case is unrelated, but the proximity and similarity have left some neighbors disturbed.
In the most recent case, a woman in her early 20s was found dismembered in her home in the Cypress Hills neighborhood.
On Thursday, NYPD crime scene technicians and detectives were in and out of the building, removing bags of evidence related to the grisly scene that was discovered the day before.
Around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the building’s super, who’d received complaints of a foul odor coming from an apartment, let police in to check on a woman in her early 20s. They entered and found parts of her body cut up and left in two suitcases, according to police.
A neighbor who lives on the same floor, a few doors down, who did not want to give his name, said that the woman and her boyfriend had long had a contentious relationship.
“You’d hear arguing, banging, loud stuff,” he said about arguments in the woman’s apartment that many neighbors couldn’t avoid.
“If you tried to break it up,” he continued, “you’re just putting yourself in a problem you can’t solve.”
He said that there was often evidence that the fights between the woman and her boyfriend got very physical.
“Somebody gets hit very hard in the mouth, right?” he said. “The blood trail will lead from the door to the elevator. They stood in the elevator obviously to the first floor, came back out to the front of the building. The blood trail stops there, and you’d see them both arguing in front of the building.”
The boyfriend is being sought in the case, according to neighbors and police sources.
Some other residents of the building said that the disturbing scene was just too close to home.
“I want to move,” said one resident, a mother who was returning home after picking up her child from school. “I’m annoyed, and I’m shocked,” she said. She declined to give her name.
Another resident, Noël, was also returning home from school with his children on Thursday afternoon.
“I never thought I’d see something like that coming out of this building,” he said.
Others in the neighborhood said that while the case is disturbing, they’re not surprised.
Samantha Wren said she lived her whole life in the neighborhood until moving recently to Texas. She’d returned to help her mother settle the affairs of her recently deceased father.
“Now, this is the second time in this neighborhood that something like this has happened,” Wren said. “Not that they’re linked — it’s just that it’s unfortunate.”
Wren was referring to a case from six months ago, when the torso of a missing woman, Susan Leyden, was found in a bag in a shopping cart about 15 blocks away. Days later, other remains were found. Alleged serial killer Harvey Marcelin ended up being charged with the murder. He has pleaded not guilty in the case, and his trial is pending.
But no suspect has been apprehended in this latest case. Investigators gathered evidence on Wednesday afternoon and continued through early in the evening on Thursday, hoping to put together a clearer picture of the crime.
Police sources and neighbors indicated that investigators are seeking the victim’s boyfriend, and possibly an accomplice. | https://www.news10.com/news/national/nypd-finds-womans-dismembered-body-parts-in-suitcases-search-is-on-for-boyfriend-according-to-police-sources/ | 2022-09-24T16:11:52 | en | 0.985684 |
(KXAN) — You may have noticed a sticky, clear substance clinging to your vehicle and outdoor furniture this summer — but what is it?
“It’s just a sticky, yuckiness,” said Wizzie Brown, an entomologist with Texas A&M’s Agrilife Extension.
If your car looks like it’s covered with clear sticky droplets — you’ve probably got honeydew.
“If you’re standing under the tree and you feel like it’s raining on you — you’re actually being, I guess, peed or pooped on,” added Brown. Gross, yes, but scientifically accurate.
What is honeydew?
This honeydew is a sugary waste product of aphid insects called “phloem feeders” that are basically eating from broadleaf trees, like pecans, to get the “tree juice.”
“There’s a whole bunch of different hoppers like leaf hoppers, treehoppers, plant hoppers, all of those are phloem-feeding insects and are capable of producing honeydew,” Brown said.
Summer droughts can stress trees, making them more vulnerable to these insects.
How do I get rid of honeydew?
Using a hose to wash your trees helps reduce the insect population, and a simple hosing of water should “melt the sugar” off whatever it’s sticking to.
But don’t wait to wash it off, the honeydew will harden if left alone — making it more difficult to clean.
The honeydew also attracts ants who love to eat it and while we wouldn’t suggest you do the same.
According to Brown, “the Greeks and Romans and stuff. They used to feed on honeydew because it was a sugary, sweet substance and kind of nectar of the gods because it’s falling from the sky.”
That’s one way to look at it. | https://www.news10.com/news/national/sticky-stuff-on-your-car-heres-what-it-is/ | 2022-09-24T16:12:12 | en | 0.939984 |
KINGSTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The COVID-19 Commemoration Commission has begun accepting design proposals from artists for a sculpture that will become the centerpiece of a memorial garden in Ulster County. The request for artist designs is open through November 15.
The sculpture and memorial garden at the fairgrounds will commemorate the sacrifices and strength of the community during the pandemic. The project, planned for a spring installation at the Ulster County Fairground complex, is to be a space for rest and reflection with interpretive signage linked to a comprehensive website that will feature the stories of front-line workers and other members of the community.
Ulster County Legislative Chair Tracey Bartels states, “Art can inspire and comfort us. Art also helps us express gratitude during difficult times,” “The Legislature joins with the Executive to ask our local artists and students to share their vision for a memorial that will honor the lives lost in our communities and the heroic efforts of frontline workers who protected and served our most vulnerable residents during the pandemic.” Chair Bartels adds, “We hope this memorial will not only be a place of solace and healing but will also celebrate how we cared for one another during a worldwide health emergency.”
The commission, made up of front-line workers ranging from nurses, EMS responders, and teachers, to food service, police officers, and other essential workers, was established in March of 2022 by former County Executive Pat Ryan. Estela Woych of NYSNA commented, “This is in memory and dedicated to the best among us in Ulster County, the front line workers who lost their lives to COVID-19 working in selfless service to all.”
Designs can be submitted by mail or in person to the Office of the Ulster County Executive at 244 Fair Street, Kingston NY 12401, or through the Ulster County COVID-19 website. For more information, call 845-340-3800. | https://www.news10.com/news/ulster-county-news/artist-submissions-needed-for-covid-19-memorial/ | 2022-09-24T16:12:18 | en | 0.961354 |
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Saugerties Police responded to a complaint of a suspicious female rifling through cars outside of Formisano Bakery in mid-July. Subsequent to the investigation, female Kristen Jones, 27 was taken into custody.
On July 27, police responded to a complaint of a female going through cars outside of Formisano Bakery on Old Stage Road in Saugerties. The report states that Jones had gone through several cars in the parking lot and personal items were missing. On September 23, an officer on routine motor patrol found Jones and took her into custody.
Charges
- Petit Larceny
Jones was processed and then released on a police appearance ticket returnable to the Town of Saugerties Justice Court on October 5, to answer her charge. | https://www.news10.com/news/ulster-county-news/saugerties-pd-find-thief-from-mid-summer-crime/ | 2022-09-24T16:12:24 | en | 0.984601 |
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers in Atlantic Canada Saturday, damaging homes with strong winds and rain as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone.
Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late Friday, but meteorologists cautioned that it still could have hurricane-strength winds and would bring drenching rains and huge waves.
More than 415,000 Nova Scotia Power customers — about 80% of the province of almost 1 million — were affected by outages Saturday morning. Over 82,000 customers in the province of Prince Edward Island were also without power, while NB Power in New Brunswick reported 44,329 were without electricity.
The fast-moving Fiona made Nova Scotia landfall before dawn Saturday, with its power down from the Category 4 strength it had early Friday when passing by Bermuda, though officials there reported no serious damage.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted early Saturday that Fiona has the lowest pressure ever recorded for a storm making landfall in Canada. Forecasters had warned it could be the one of the most powerful storms to hit the country.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Newfoundland said the town of Port aux Basques, in Newfoundland is in a state of emergency as authorities deal with with multiple electrical fires and residential flooding. Port aux Basques Mayor Brian Button said some houses have been washed away amid high winds and surging seas.
A state of local emergency has been declared by the mayor and council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality amid widespread power outages, road closures and damage to homes.
“There are homes that have been significantly damaged due to downed trees, big old trees falling down and causing significant damage. We’re also seeing houses that their roofs have completely torn off, windows breaking in. There is a huge amount of debris in the roadways,” Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, told The Associated Press.
“There is a lot of damage to belongings and structures but no injuries to people as of this point. Again we’re still in the midst of this,” she said. “It’s still terrifying. I’m just sitting here in my living room and it feels like the patio doors are going to break in with those big gusts. It’s loud and it is shocking.”
McDougall said the shelter they opened was full overnight and they will look to open more.
The federal Public Safety ministry advised against all non-essential travel by car.
A hurricane watch was issued for coastal expanses of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to delay his trip to Japan for the funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“We of course hope there won’t be much needed, but we feel there probably will be,” Trudeau said. “Listen to the instructions of local authorities and hang in there for the next 24 hours.”
The U.S. hurricane center said Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph) Saturday. It was moving across eastern Canada.
Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 175 miles (280 kilometers) from the center and tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 405 miles (650 kilometers).
Hurricanes in Canada are somewhat rare, in part because once the storms reach colder waters, they lose their main source of energy. But post-tropical cyclones still can have hurricane-strength winds, although they have a cold core and no visible eye. They also often lose their symmetric form and more resemble a comma.
“Just an incredibly strong storm as it made landfall. And even as it moves away it is continuing to affect the region for several more hours today,” said Ian Hubbard, meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, said Saturday morning.
Hubbard said he lost power at his house and had to drive the long way to work because bridges have been closed. He said there are downed trees and signs in the Halifax area but other areas of province have it worse.
In Sydney, Nova Scotia, the largest city in Cape Breton, about 20 people have taken refuge at the Centre 200 sports and entertainment facility in Sydney, said Christina Lamey, a spokeswoman for the region.
“The key message from that is for people to stay at home,” she said. “The first responders are really stretched right now. We want people to stay off the roads. Most of the roads have hazards on them, with power lines down and trees down as well.”
Bob Robichaud, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre, said Fiona was shaping up to be a bigger storm system than Hurricane Juan, which caused extensive damage to the Halifax area in 2003.
He added that Fiona is about the same size as post-tropical storm Dorian in 2019. “But it is stronger than Dorian was,” he said. “It’s certainly going to be an historic, extreme event for eastern Canada.”
Authorities in Nova Scotia also sent an emergency alert to phones warning of Fiona’s arrival and urging people to say inside, avoid the shore, charge devices and have enough supplies for at least 72 hours.
Fiona so far has been blamed for at least five deaths — two in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in the French island of Guadeloupe.
Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center said newly formed Tropical Storm Ian in the Caribbean was expected to keep strengthening and hit Cuba early Tuesday as a hurricane and then hit southern Florida early Wednesday.
It was centered about 315 miles (519 kilometers) southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. It had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 14 mph (22 kph). A hurricane watch was issued for the Cayman Islands.
Associated Press writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fiona-knocks-out-power-with-hurricane-strength-winds-in-atlantic-canada_n_632f191ee4b0695c1d82a276 | 2022-09-24T16:13:04 | en | 0.974133 |
A far-right activist group known for its flimsy ethics must pay $120,000 to a Democratic consulting firm after it lost a lawsuit over wiretapping and misrepresentation.
On Thursday, a federal jury in Washington found Project Veritas liable for targeting Democracy Partners, Reuters reported. The group is known for engaging in hidden recordings and other deceptive “sting operation” like tactics.
Democracy Partners said in its suit that a Project Veritas operative named Allison Maass infiltrated the firm during the 2016 presidential campaign by lying about her name and background to get an internship. While working there, Maass secretly recorded video and audio of Democracy Partners members to embarrass the firm, according to the complaint.
Democracy Partners, along with co-founder Robert Creamer, said Project Veritas used “heavily edited” footage in videos that falsely suggested the Democratic firm conspired to incite violence and schemed to promote voter fraud.
The firm said in a statement that the jury verdict will help discourage Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe “and others from conducting these kind of political spy operations ― and publishing selectively edited, misleading videos,” according to Reuters.
Project Veritas lost a separate legal battle in March after a federal judge tossed out a defamation lawsuit it filed against CNN.
O’Keefe said in a statement that Project Veritas plans to appeal Thursday’s verdict. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/project-veritas-found-liable-for-wiretapping-must-pay-120000_n_632f1902e4b0695c1d82a254 | 2022-09-24T16:13:10 | en | 0.938059 |
A police officer in Platteville, Colorado, is on paid leave after a train hit a cop car containing a handcuffed woman, with footage released Friday showing the moment of the crash.
The officer — whose name has yet to be released — pulled over Yareni Rios-Gonzalez on Sept. 16 after police in nearby Fort Lupton received a report of a road rage incident involving a gun, according to The Denver Post.
Rios-Gonzalez parked her car past a set of the railroad tracks while the officer stopped his vehicle directly on the tracks, according to the newspaper. Two Fort Lupton officers also arrived as backup.
Video from the Fort Lupton Police Department shows officers asking the woman to put her hands up and turn around as they stand on the tracks.
Rios-Gonzalez asked what was going on and said that she was “so confused” as police handcuffed her and placed her in the patrol vehicle.
The footage then shows a train blare its horn as it approaches, with one officer shouting, “Stay back!” just before the collision.
An attorney for Rios-Gonzalez said that the woman suffered multiple broken ribs, a broken arm, a fractured sternum and a number of head injuries but added that she is expected to survive, according to local NBC affiliate 9News.
You can watch the dramatic crash, starting at the 5:22 mark, below.
The attorney, Paul Wilkinson, told 9News that the doors were locked on the police vehicle.
“She was frantically trying to get out,” he said.
“She’s definitely upset about what happened. She doesn’t understand why she was left in the car. She was yelling to get their attention and could see the train coming.”
Wilkinson said it’s “unbelievable” that a cop would park on the tracks, according to The Denver Post.
Keith Millhouse, a rail safety consultant, told 9News that the collision could’ve been avoided.
“Never park a car on a set of train tracks for any amount of time, even if you think it’s abandoned,” Millhouse said, calling the incident “mind-boggling.”
The Denver Post reported Monday that the Platteville Police Department had put its officer on administrative leave. The Colorado State Patrol and Colorado Bureau of Investigation are reportedly investigating the crash, while Fort Lupton police are looking into the alleged road rage incident. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/train-rams-cop-car-handcuffed-woman_n_632eb0cde4b00e36d1afc359 | 2022-09-24T16:13:16 | en | 0.980814 |
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San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle ‘pretty happy’ to be making season debut Sunday night
“I’m pretty happy,” Kittle said Thursday. “Just had a breath of fresh air, honestly. It feels great to be back on the football field with the boys. I love our performance staff. They do a fantastic job of getting us back together but I’d be OK with not really seeing them for the rest of the season. So, just really happy to be back out there catching the football, actually getting to put pads on, hit people.”
“I know one prediction I’d like to have back. I predicted Jason Poe would start at left guard by the end of the season. It was couched in an appreciation for Poe and was firmly defined the hot take category, but it doesn’t look like anyone’s replacing Banks right now.
His athleticism allows him to be sloppy with his hand placement at times, but to say his technique is poor would be a mischaracterization; he just has a bit of room for error. His ability to adjust, especially handing off difficult stunts with Trent Williams, was eye-opening.
In my book, he has been the clear second-best lineman behind Williams.”
Jimmy Garoppolo, Trey Lance, and the 49ers’ Long-Term Quarterback Dilemma
“We can hold two things in our mind at once. The Lance trade might still yield Super Bowls for San Francisco. But it is also probably painful for 49ers fans to realize their team could have just taken Parsons in 2021, paired him with defensive end Nick Bosa, and perhaps be the Super Bowl favorites in the NFC right now—and could have beaten the Rams in the NFC championship game last year, too.
The 49ers are back to where they were before the Lance trade—all in on Jimmy Garoppolo to win now. But the entire idea behind the Lance trade was for the 49ers to strike the balance between short- and long-term success. In trying to do both, the 49ers may have ended up serving neither.”
49ers vs. Broncos: Can Aaron Banks, Spencer Burford keep shining in prime time? (paywall)
“While we’re on the topic of run-stuffing defensive tackles: Jones now wears No. 97. That actually initially threw off Banks, who grew used to Jones’ old No. 93 with the 49ers.
“I saw the 97 and I was like, ‘Whoa, D.J. grew a couple inches and lost a couple pounds,’” Banks said, laughing.”
Eager to attack, 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo might get his wish vs. Broncos (paywall)
“It sounds as if Garoppolo would like to be less programmed in the 49ers’ offense. However, Shanahan said he didn’t know what Garoppolo meant in his uncharacteristically candid comments to reporters.”
Kyle Shanahan provides updates on George Kittle, others on KNBR
“No news. Hopefully [Arik Armstead will] get in a little bit today,” Shanahan said. “Hasn’t been able to go this week yet, so I’m not sure, but still early today on Friday. So I’m hoping when he gets in here he’s good enough to get in a little today in practice, but it’s usually half speed today anyway, especially for the D-linemen. The only full-speed period we do is 7-on-7 on a Friday. But if he’s out there, I know that’s a better sign than him not being able to go.”
49ers coach Johnny Holland, three years into cancer fight, sees sunshine (paywall)
“Three years ago this week, Holland, 57, the San Francisco 49ers’ linebackers coach, met team physician Dr. Tim McAdams in an office at Levi’s Stadium. He was expecting to hear that his strained rib muscle and pain in his back and left shoulder had a benign cause.
Instead, McAdams closed the door. Holland was told his CAT scan from the previous day revealed that he probably had multiple myeloma, a cancer that starts in abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow that form tumors. The results from Holland’s blood work the following day provided confirmation — he was Stage III. The typical life expectancy: between five and 10 years.”
AROUND THE NFL: In an ever-changing NFL, what does modern pass defense look like? (paywall)
“49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans offers a perfect example of a defense rotating in the opposite direction. His 4-3 base scheme looks to hide its true colors with two high safeties and wide edge rushers (San Francisco ranked sixth in quarters coverage snaps against the pass in 2021). With the seams protected and corners playing over the top of vertical routes on the sidelines, offenses want to attack by isolating the middle linebacker underneath, throwing into the flats or running posts into open airspace.
Ryans solves this problem by rolling his weak-side safety down and playing Cover 3 to flood the middle of the field again. This approach is what I’d call a “weak-side rotation,” where the weak safety plays a major role in the breadth of a defense’s coverage menu.” | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/24/23369547/49ers-news-sunday-night-dj-jones-trey-lance-george-kittle-cleared-to-play-preview-matchup-wilson | 2022-09-24T16:15:52 | en | 0.970957 |
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Adding raisins to your diet is very beneficial, especially to better your liver health. It helps certain biochemical processes in the liver, which help it force the poisons out of your bloodstream.
It is advised to eat raisins in the morning to take better care of your heart, get rid of bad cholesterol, lower your triglyceride levels, and stop constipation or an upset stomach. Raisins have a lot of vitamins and minerals, and they help you, even more, when you drink the water, they are soaked in. It is also an excellent medicinal cure for your liver.
Natural source of antioxidants- Raisins are one of the best sources of, antioxidants. This is because they’re dried grapes, which are fruits that are full of bioflavonoids that help keep the body safe from free radicals and sickness.
Liver disease- Raisins and raisin water have been used for many years to stop different heart and liver diseases.
Helps detox the body- The liver and the kidneys are important organs. They help clean your blood by taking out the poisons and heavy metals that can pile up and make you sick. But sometimes the liver and kidneys can be slowed by bad diet choices, eating too many fatty foods, and bad daily habits.
Aids in digestion- Drinking raisin water can help to clean the bloodstream and keep the liver working properly. It also helps to better digestion, making the stomach acids separate, and helps you break down your food and take in the nutrients. You’ll start to see the difference around 2 days after you start drinking the raisin water.
How do you make raisin water?
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of water (400 ml)
- 150 grams of raisins Preparation
Heat the water to a boil. Add the raisins and then let them bubble for 20 minutes. Then leave them to soak overnight.
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An employee at the Uttarakhand resort where Ankita Bhandari, a 19-year-old receptionist, used to work has made some alarming claims in connection with the murder case invoving a BJP leader's son.
The staffer claimed that he received a call from Ankit Arya, the brother of alleged culprit Pulkit Arya, saying that he would take the food to the victim's room.
“I got a call from Ankit Arya at 8pm to prepare dinner for 4 people. Around 10:45pm he came and told us that he'll take dinner to Ankita's room, to which I said our service boy will do that, but he didn't agree,” news agency ANI quoted resort staffer Manveer Chauhan as saying.
#WATCH | #AnkitaBhandari murder case: I got a call from Ankit Arya at 8pm to prepare dinner for 4 people. Around 10:45pm he came & told us that he'll take dinner to Ankita's room, to which I said our service boy will do that, but he didn't agree: Resort staffer Manveer Chauhan pic.twitter.com/Bnw55cfOTI — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 24, 2022
“The next day we saw Ankita was missing from her room. Her bag, money, and food were left in the room,” he added.
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Ritu Khanduri Bhushan wrote to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, urging that the revenue police system be abolished immediately and that ordinary police stations and outposts be established.
#AnkitaBhandari murder case: Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Ritu Khanduri Bhushan wrote to CM Pushkar Singh Dhami requesting him to end the system of revenue police with immediate effect and to set up police stations/outposts of the general police force instead of revenue police pic.twitter.com/6dohzK9WVX
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 24, 2022
Earlier, the BJP had expelled accused Pulkit Arya’s father Vinod Arya and brother Ankit Arya. Outrage over the murder of the 19-year-old woman spilled onto the streets as locals protested and jammed the Pauri bus station. The District Magistrate’s office in Pauri was also gheraoed.
Ankita Bhandari was reported missing by her parents on Monday at the revenue police station. The case was cracked on Friday by the regular police, a day after it was transferred to the department. After initially misleading the police, the accused Pulkit (owner of the resort) and two of his employees had confessed to murdering Ankita and dumping her body in the Chilla canal in Rishikesh.
An SIT was formed to probe the case by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. The body of Ankita was recovered on Saturday morning. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-ankita-bhandari-murder-case-resort-staff-shares-details-of-night-before-receptionist-went-missing-2987738 | 2022-09-24T16:16:43 | en | 0.972999 |
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7th Pay Commission latest news: As per a recent notification from the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the minimum qualifying service required for promotion has been revised for central government as per the rules under the 7th Pay Commission.
In a letter dated September 20, 2022, the DoPT said, “…in consultation with the UPSC and with the approval of the competent authority it has been decided to revise the norms prescribing minimum eligibility service required for promotion, as per 7th CPC Pay Matrix and Pay Levels.”
The notification requested all Ministries and Departments to incorporate the “revised norms prescribing minimum eligibility service required for promotion” in the “Recruitment Rules/Service Rules by making suitable amendments” and “effect necessary amendments” after following due procedure.
The notifications also mention that “suitable 'protection clause' may be incorporated in the proposed amendment wherever required by ministries and departments “providing for retention of existing eligibility service for existing incumbents holding the feeder posts on regular basis.”
As per the revised norms, the minimum eligibility service for promotion for central government employees as per their level is as below:
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The September 26 NASA DART asteroid collision has the whole scientific community both thrilled and scared. It's the first time humanity's defences will be put to the test against an oncoming threat.
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NASA researchers don't want to miss a minute of the action, so they're watching a Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) live. That's why they'll be using both the seasoned Hubble Space Telescope and the rising star James Webb Space Telescope to watch the show as it happens.
NASA's DART asteroid mission is a trial run for Earth's potential usage of planetary defence measures in the event of an asteroid hit. The goal of this operation is to destroy the Dimorphos asteroid by crashing a spaceship against it. According to experts, the asteroid's path will be altered as a result of the impact. This test flight will teach NASA a number of important things, including how much deflection is possible and how fast an object must be moving in order to achieve that deflection.
"This is a unique opportunity and a unique moment to take all the resources that we possibly can to maximize what we've learned”, Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Baltimore and DART's coordination lead, stated during a media briefing, according Space.com.
NASA will gather data in different methods. The incident will be recorded by a cubesat aboard the spaceship. Three minutes after impact, it will sends photos. ESA will deploy a spacecraft in 2026 to analyse the impact. Several ground-based telescopes will also live broadcast. NASA needs Hubble and Webb telescopes, however.
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Khatron Ke Khiladi 12 grand finale: After entertaining audiences for over two months, the popular stunt reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi 12 has reached its grand finale stage. Host Rohit Shetty and his team of daredevils have entertained you with their death-defying stunts. Now, one out of six finalists will be crowned the champion of the season.
Talking about the grand finale, the event will take place for two days, from September 24, Saturday to September 25, Sunday. To make the finale more dynamic, Rohit's favourite actor Ranveer Singh graced the show. Rohit has invited his upcoming movie Cirkus, lead pair, Singh with Pooja Hegde, and together, they added more fireworks. Ranveer performed with Rubina, and they sizzled the screen with their chemistry.
Watch Ranveer having fun with KKK contestants
Later, Ranveer poked fun at Mohit Malik's flirtatious nature. He said, "Bahar sher, ghar mein billi." Ranveer even mimicked Rubina Dilaik and recalled her funny gestures during the stunts. Rohit and Pooja realised that Singh has followed the show rigorously. Shetty further added that he is 'Pammi aunty of Bollywood.' He has the juiciest gossip and knows everything about others. Ranveer boast about it, and said, "Pammi sab jaanti hai."
Talking about the grand finale, Rubina Dilaik, Jannat Zubair, Faisal Shaikh, Mohit Malik, Kanika Mann and Tushar Kalia are the finalists, and one of them will be the winner of the show. The first episode of the show was telecast on July 2, 2023. The winner of the show will be announced on September 25, Sunday. | https://www.dnaindia.com/television/report-khatron-ke-khiladi-12-ranveer-singh-mimics-rubina-dilaik-rohit-shetty-calls-actor-pammi-aunty-of-bollywood-2987741 | 2022-09-24T16:17:01 | en | 0.962597 |
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When it comes to developing budget living approaches, Indians are quite creative. Many of these "jugaad" hacks have become popular because they creatively use innovation to make life simpler in certain ways. Another such "desi jugaad" that has just gone viral has started scuffle among Twitter users.
— Awanish Sharan (@AwanishSharan) September 23, 2022
A cattle is seen walking on a device that resembles a treadmill in a video that is going viral. The machine is connected to a pump that is spraying water into the fields for irrigation, as shown in the viral video. The pump that is used to irrigate the fields is connected to the treadmill. Later in the video, numerous such devices are seen being run by cattle.
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IAS officer Awanish Sharan posted the video to Twitter with the caption that reads, “RURAL INDIA Innovation. It’s Amazing!!” Since it was uploaded, the viral video has reached over 2 lakh views on social media along with more than 12,000 likes.
The unique method has received a variety of responses from people. While employing animals was strongly opposed by some, it was supported by others. "Animal exploitation in the name of innovation," one user said. While another said, “If cattle are used in every possible way , it will be saved from going to slaughter house as coat of feeding them won’t be high and it’s environmentally non polluting.”
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Climate change is here, but are we ready to adapt to the impact of changing and more extreme weather events?
That is the question politicians continue to grapple with, but for the Okanagan Basin Water Board debating the realities of climate change is no longer an issue, but rather how will Okanagan Valley communities be prepared and respond to intense weather events.
“We are not really ready for it,” said Anna Warwick Sears, executive director of the OBWB, speaking at its annual general meeting earlier this month.
“We take so much for granted…But climate change is here and it is a clear and present problem.”
Over the last decade, Warwick Sears said the Okanagan has felt the wildfire and flooding impact of extreme weather events, and it becoming more evident globally.
She points to the flooding in Pakistan that has impacted 33 million people, and the pressures on the declining Colorado River system in the U.S. which is a main water source for many southwest states.
“We never imagined that we would ever run out of water and now we are talking about millions of people impacted by extreme weather conditions,”she said.
“And we saw some of the worst flooding in recent memory here in B.C., which was really disturbing with what happened to highways infrastructure being broken, and the flooding in Princeton and Merritt.
“These problems are not going to go away and we need work on how to manage them.”
Warwick Sears said the cost from flood damage over the last 30 years across Canada has reached $139 billion. The OKWB is pursuing objectives in several directions to help prepare the Okanagan watershed for climate change and help alleviate or minimize potential damage.
One step is infrared flood mapping, which identifies potential areas vulnerable to flooding, and inventories what is left of natural floodplains, more than 80 per cent of which has been lost to lakefront development.
Another is a comprehensive overview of the regulatory procedures and infrastructure for Okanagan Lake, comprised of 18 separate studies, some of which are already underway, to reach a final solution on how to more effectively manage the lake level in the future.
The key aspect of that will be the inevitable need to replace the outdated Penticton dam, built in the 1970s, which controls water levels for the north and south ends of the Okanagan Lake watershed.
The dam is incapable of adjusting quickly to water level changes caused by weather events due to its structural limitations, while at the same time conflicts between the fish needs south of Penticton and flood potential protection of community infrastructure and people’s lakefront homes north of Penticton pose a challenge.
“It’s complicated but these are issues we need to address and come up with solutions over the next decade,” Warwick Sears said.
Hydrology studies are also ongoing focused on analyzing mitigation efforts needed for streams and tributaries feeding into Okanagan Lake.
And wetland revitalization efforts are ongoing to off-set the loss of 84 per cent of floodplain wetlands lost to development, with the first significant effort by the South Okanagan Regional District to revive a lost wetlands along the Okanagan River.
“That wetland project that has been a concept 10 years in the making. If we could reduce the timeframe for those projects and get them done sooner, with the adequate funding we could do a lot more,” Warwick Sears said.
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The little rain we had filled up some of my rain barrels which had stood empty for weeks. Nice to have nature water the whole garden for you although it doesn’t last very long. Back to watering again.
It is getting chilly in the early morning. Sunday morning, the thermometer registered five degrees Celsius. Some of the figs are softening a bit so there is still a good chance that I might have a few that will ripen this year.
This year I am cleaning up the garden early. I always wait hoping for a longer harvest time and then I get caught in the cold and rainy days and early frost. I already started getting some beds ready for next spring. The next thing to do will be to plant garlic. I plant my garlic at the end of September or early October. Fall planting is recommended for most gardeners. Garlic roots develop during the fall and winter—before the ground freezes—and by early spring, they start producing foliage. The aim is to allow a long enough period before the ground freezes for the plant to develop good roots, but not enough time for it to form top growth before freezing temperatures set in. Just mulch the bed.
Squash: Winter squash will be ready for harvest when the skin is extremely hard, about 80 to 115 days after planting depending upon variety. Delay the harvest of winter squash until just before the first hard frost. A light frost or two will change starch to sugar and enhance flavour. Cut winter squash from the vine leaving a 2inch (5cm) stem on the squash. Allow it to cure in the sun for a week or more, then store in a cool, dry place over the winter.
Pumpkin: Harvest pumpkins when the leaves die and the fruit becomes a rich orange, about four months after sowing; the sheen of the skin will have faded. For storing, cut pumpkins from the vine at full maturity just before the first fall frosts. Cut pumpkins from the vine with pruning shears, leaving about 3 inches (7cm) of stem on the fruit; pumpkins decay quickly if the stems are broken rather than cut. After harvesting, set pumpkins in the sun for one to two weeks to harden the outer skin, then store them in a cool dry place.
Bring your plants indoors before the first frost. Check your geraniums closely for signs of insects or disease. Dig and pot up healthy plants with good potting soil and prune them back by about half their size. It may seem harsh, but it will help them adjust in the long run. Give them a good dose of water when you first bring them in, then allow the soil to dry out between watering. Geraniums seem to like a little drought stress; it keeps them blooming more frequently. Keep an eye out for the usual indoor pests like aphids, spider mites and fungus gnats or scales. I will treat mine with insecticidal soap. If your geranium is happy, it will continue to grow and bloom, although not as well as it does outdoors in summer. If it looks like it’s struggling to stay alive, consider letting it go dormant until spring. A cool, unheated basement is ideal for storing dormant geraniums. And this is one time when a slightly damp basement is a plus. You want a storage spot where the geraniums will stay cold, but above freezing, where they’ll remain in the dark and where they won’t dry out completely.
Still time to transplant peonies, which need a sunny location. They will bloom in medium soil but respond to well-prepared soil. Prepare the holes in advance and if possible in a new location. The lower 12 inches (30 cm) of the hole should be filled with friable soil well mixed with perfectly rotted manure or compost. Bone meal in the hole will benefit the roots later when they can reach into it. Tramp this layer of soil well and soak it several days before planting. Prepare the top soil with more compost and good soil. Bury the crown one inch (2.5 cm). Deeper might not bloom.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The agent for Buffalo Bills safety Micah Hyde announced Saturday that the team plans to place the starter on season-ending injured reserve because of a neck injury.
Jack Bechta added in a message posted on Twitter that he expects Hyde to be healthy in returning for next season.
Hyde already had been ruled out for Sunday's game against Miami. He was carted off the sideline in the second half of Buffalo’s 41-7 win over Tennessee on Monday night.
Coach Sean McDermott said Tuesday that the Bills sent Hyde to the hospital to have his injury further evaluated.
The injury represents a big blow for the Bills, who are off to a 2-0 start.
Hyde and Jordan Poyer have established themselves as one of the NFL’s top safety tandems since both signed with the Bills in 2017. The two were tied with a team-leading five interceptions last season.
Buffalo will be without at least four defensive regulars for their AFC East showdown against the Dolphins.
Cornerback Dane Jackson, tackle Ed Oliver and backup tackle Jordan Phillips also were ruled out Friday. Poyer and tackle Tim Settle were among five players listed as questionable after practicing on a limited basis.
Rookie cornerbacks Christian Benford and Kaiir Elam are in line to start against a Tua Tagovailoa-led Dolphins offense which leads the NFL through two games with 703 yards passing. Benford and Elam opened the season sharing snaps at the the cornerback spot opposite Jackson.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 24 counties as Tropical Storm Ian gathers strength over the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rain and hurricane-force winds to the state next week.
DeSantis issued the order Friday encouraging residents and local governments to make preparations as the storm moves toward the state. He has also requested a federal pre-landfall emergency declaration.
“This storm has the potential to strengthen into a major hurricane and we encourage all Floridians to make their preparations,” DeSantis said in a statement. “We are coordinating with all state and local government partners to track potential impacts of this storm.”
The National Hurricane Center said Ian is forecast to rapidly strengthen in the coming days before moving over western Cuba and approach Florida next week with major hurricane force.
John Cangialosi, a senior hurricane specialist with National Hurricane Center in Miami, said it is currently unclear where Ian will hit hardest in Florida and said residents should begin preparing for the storm, including gathering supplies for potential power outages.
“Too soon to say if it's going to be a southeast Florida problem or a central Florida problem or just the entire state,” he said. “So at this point really the right message for those living in Florida is that you have to watch forecasts and get ready and prepare yourself for potential impact from this tropical system.”
The governor's declaration applies to Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota and St. Lucie counties.
Meanwhile, strong rain and winds are lashing the Atlantic Canada region as a powerful post-tropical cyclone made landfall there, with forecasters warning it could be one of the most severe storms in the county's history. Fiona made landfall in Nova Scotia before dawn Saturday.
More than 500,000 customers in Atlantic Canada have been affected by outages. Ocean waves pounded the town of Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii grand jury on Friday indicted a former deputy Nevada attorney general on charges of second-degree murder in connection with the 50-year-old cold case of a Honolulu woman killed in 1972.
Tudor Chirila, 77, is in custody in Reno, Nevada, where he is fighting extradition to Hawaii, saying his rights were violated when he was arrested last week.
Honolulu police said new DNA evidence linked Chirila to the crime scene at Nancy Anderson's apartment in Waikiki, where she had been stabbed more than 60 times. She had recently moved to Hawaii from Bay City, Michigan, and was working at a McDonald's restaurant.
A criminal complaint filed in Honolulu said police had reopened the cold case multiple times since the 1972 killing and received a tip in December that Chirila could be a suspect.
In March, police obtained a DNA sample from Chirila’s son that identified him as the biological child of a DNA sample found at the crime scene, according to the criminal complaint. Police then served a search warrant and obtained a DNA sample from Chirila at his Reno apartment on Sept. 6, court records said.
Anderson's family issued a statement Friday through the Honolulu prosecutor’s office thanking law enforcement for their work on the case.
“Despite the many hurdles, we (Nancy’s nine siblings) never gave up hope that justice would be served. We always had strong faith that all things would be resolved in God’s time,” the statement said.
Chirila said he's fighting extradition because police forced him to provide saliva for the DNA sample in September and he believes his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested.
Chirila has an Oct. 17 hearing in Reno, which was rescheduled from Oct. 3.
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LONDON (AP) — Filling in for the retired Roger Federer at the Laver Cup, 2021 Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini put Team Europe back in front by edging Team World's Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (11), 4-6, 10-7 on Saturday.
Federer closed his career at the team event founded by his management company on Friday night. The 20-time Grand Slam champion's last match came in doubles alongside longtime rival Rafael Nadal, a loss to Team World's Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock.
Federer stuck around, though, and helped Berrettini by offering coaching advance during Saturday's opening singles match.
Berrettini, a 26-year-old from Italy, originally was listed as an alternate on Team Europe, and it was clear he would step in for Federer, who said he ran his plan to bow out after doubles past the ATP and the team captains, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.
Like Federer, Nadal withdrew from the three-day competition following their doubles contest.
Nadal's wife is supposed to give birth to their first child soon.
Nadal, who holds the men's record of 22 major titles, also has been dealing with injuries all season, including a torn abdominal muscle, but said he wanted to take part in Federer's farewell.
“For me, it was important, because I knew it was important to him,” said Nadal, who cried along with Federer after their doubles match Friday.
Berrettini's victory put Team Europe ahead 4-2, before Nadal's replacement, Cam Norrie, faced Taylor Fritz in the second singles match on Day 2.
The most-anticipated matches were to follow during the night session, with the return to competition of Novak Djokovic, who has not played since winning Wimbledon in July for his 21st Grand Slam trophy.
Djokovic, a 35-year-old from Serbia, could not enter the U.S. Open because he was not allowed to fly to the United States as a foreign citizen who has not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Djokovic was slated to do double duty Saturday, facing U.S. Open semifinalist Tiafoe in singles, before partnering with Berrettini against Sock and Alex de Minaur in doubles.
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Houses have been washed into the sea, roofs have been torn off and Fiona knocked out power to almost all of one Atlantic Canadian province and 80 percent of another Saturday, as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone.
Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late Friday, but it still had hurricane-strength winds and brought drenching rains and huge waves.
Ocean waves pounded the town of Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea. Mayor Brian Button said Saturday over social media that people were being evacuated to high ground as winds knocked down power lines.
“We’ve already had houses … that are washed away,” he said.
Button said anybody who has been told to leave their home needs to leave. “It is just a pure mess out there,” he said.
The Royal Canadian Police said the town of 4,000 is in a state of emergency as authorities deal with multiple electrical fires and residential flooding.
More than 415,000 Nova Scotia Power customers — about 80% of the province of almost 1 million — were affected by outages Saturday morning. Over 82,000 customers in the province of Prince Edward Island were also without power, while NB Power in New Brunswick reported 44,329 were without electricity.
The fast-moving Fiona made Nova Scotia landfall before dawn Saturday, with its power down from the Category 4 strength it had early Friday when passing by Bermuda, though officials there reported no serious damage.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted early Saturday that Fiona has the lowest pressure ever recorded for a storm making landfall in Canada. Forecasters had warned it could be the one of the most powerful storms to hit the country.
A state of local emergency has also been declared by the mayor and council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality amid widespread power outages, road closures and damage to homes.
“There are homes that have been significantly damaged due to downed trees, big old trees falling down and causing significant damage. We’re also seeing houses that their roofs have completely torn off, windows breaking in. There is a huge amount of debris in the roadways," Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, told The Associated Press
“There is a lot of damage to belongings and structures but no injuries to people as of this point. Again we’re still in the midst of this,” she said. “It’s still terrifying. I’m just sitting here in my living room and it feels like the patio doors are going to break in with those big gusts.”
McDougall said the shelter they opened was full overnight and they will look to open more.
The federal Public Safety ministry advised against all non-essential travel by car.
A hurricane watch was issued for coastal expanses of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to delay his trip to Japan for the funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“We of course hope there won’t be much needed, but we feel there probably will be," Trudeau said. "Listen to the instructions of local authorities and hang in there for the next 24 hours.”
The U.S. hurricane center said Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph) Saturday. It was moving across the Golf of St. Lawrence.
Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 115 miles (185 kilometers) from the center and tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 405 miles (650 kilometers).
Hurricanes in Canada are somewhat rare, in part because once the storms reach colder waters, they lose their main source of energy. But post-tropical cyclones still can have hurricane-strength winds, although they have a cold core and no visible eye. They also often lose their symmetric form and more resemble a comma.
“Just an incredibly strong storm as it made landfall. And even as it moves away it is continuing to affect the region for several more hours today,” said Ian Hubbard, meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, said Saturday morning.
Hubbard said he lost power at his house and had to drive the long way to work because bridges have been closed. He said there are downed trees and signs in the Halifax area but other areas of Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada have it worse.
In Sydney, Nova Scotia, the largest city in Cape Breton, about 20 people have taken refuge at the Centre 200 sports and entertainment facility, said Christina Lamey, a spokeswoman for the region.
Arlene and Robert Grafilo fled to Centre 200 with their children after a massive tree fell on their duplex apartment.
“We heard a lot of noise outside and then we realized that there are a lot of cracks in the house and we looked outside and saw the tree had fallen,” said Arlene Grafilo, 43, as her children — ages 3 and 10 — played in a waiting area set up by the Red Cross.
“We were trapped and we couldn’t open the doors and the windows, so that’s when we decided to call 911. The children were scared,” she said, adding firefighters eventually rescued them.
Bob Robichaud, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre, said Fiona was shaping up to be a bigger storm system than Hurricane Juan, which caused extensive damage to the Halifax area in 2003.
He added that Fiona is about the same size as post-tropical storm Dorian in 2019. “But it is stronger than Dorian was,” he said. “It’s certainly going to be an historic, extreme event for eastern Canada.”
Authorities in Nova Scotia also sent an emergency alert to phones warning of Fiona’s arrival and urging people to say inside, avoid the shore, charge devices and have enough supplies for at least 72 hours.
Fiona so far has been blamed for at least five deaths — two in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in the French island of Guadeloupe.
Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center said newly formed Tropical Storm Ian in the Caribbean was expected to keep strengthening and hit Cuba early Tuesday as a hurricane and then hit southern Florida early Wednesday.
It was centered about 270 miles (435 kilometers) southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. It had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 15 mph (24 kph). A hurricane watch was issued for the Cayman Islands.
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Associated Press writer Rob Gillies in Toronto and Morgan Lee in Ventura, California contributed to this report.
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Mali’s prime minister lashed out Saturday at former colonizer France, the U.N. secretary-general and many people in between, saying that the tumultuous country had been “stabbed in the back" by the French military withdrawal. In the same remarks, Abdoulaye Maiga praised the “exemplary and fruitful cooperation between Mali and Russia.”
In his speech to the General Assembly, Maiga slammed what he called France’s “unilateral decision” to relocate its remaining troops to neighboring Niger amid deteriorating relations with Mali's two-time coup leader, Col. Assimi Goita.
While it was Goita and his allies who overthrew a democratically elected president by military force two years ago, Mali's prime minister repeatedly referred to a “French junta” throughout his speech Saturday.
“Move on from the colonial past and hear the anger, the frustration, the rejection that is coming up from the African cities and countryside, and understand that this movement is inexorable,” Maiga said. “Your intimidations and subversive actions have only swelled the ranks of Africans concerned with preserving their dignity.”
France intervened militarily in 2013, leading an effort to oust Islamic extremists from control of the northern Malian towns they had overtaken. Over the past nine years, France had continued its presence in a bid to stabilize the country amid repeated attacks by insurgents. The French departure has raised new concerns about whether those militants will again regain territory with security responsibilities now falling to the Malian military and U.N. peacekeepers.
Maiga spoke for more than 30 minutes on a Saturday morning in a speech that referenced everything from Victor Hugo to the Rwandan genocide. The Malian prime minister also offered a grim assessment of the U.N. peacekeeping mission known as MINUSMA, while openly praising the influence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group who have been accused of carrying out human rights abuses.
“We must recognize that nearly 10 years after its establishment, the objectives for which MINUSMA was deployed in Mali have not been achieved,” Maiga said. “This is despite numerous Security Council resolutions.”
The Malian prime minister had particularly sharp words as well for the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, criticizing his recent comments on the standoff between Mali and Ivory Coast over 46 detained Ivorian soldiers.
Maiga reiterated claims before the U.N. General Assembly Saturday that the soldiers were sent to Mali as mercenaries, which the Ivorian government has vigorously denied. Ivory Coast says the soldiers were to provide security for a company contracted by the United Nations, but Maiga maintained Saturday that there is “no link between the 46 and the United Nations.”
Three female Ivorian soldiers already have been released as a “humanitarian gesture,” but there have been no updates about the others.
“Since friendship is based on sincerity, I would like to express my deep disagreement with your recent media appearance, in which you took a position and expressed yourself on the case of the 46 Ivorian mercenaries," he said in comments aimed at Guterres.
The nature of the offenses in the case “does not fall within the remit of the secretary-general of the United Nations," he added.
Maiga, a government spokesman, was dispatched to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly instead of Goita. The coup leader instead attended celebrations marking Mali's independence from France in 1960.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is skipping next week’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that’s expected to become a major hurricane.
It’s the third delay in the past month for the lunar-orbiting test flight featuring mannequins but no astronauts, a follow-up to NASA's Apollo moon-landing program of a half-century ago. Hydrogen fuel leaks and other technical issues caused the previous scrubs.
Currently churning in the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Ian is expected to become a hurricane by Monday and slam into Florida’s Gulf coast by Thursday. The entire state, however, is in the cone showing the probable path of the storm's center — including NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Given the forecast uncertainties, NASA decided Saturday to forgo Tuesday’s planned launch attempt and instead prepare the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket for a possible return to its hangar. Managers will decide Sunday whether to haul it off the launch pad.
If the rocket remains at the pad, NASA could try for an Oct. 2 launch attempt, the last opportunity before a two-week blackout period. But a rollback late Sunday or early Monday likely would mean a lengthy delay for the test flight, possibly pushing it into November.
The Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. Assuming its first test flight goes well, astronauts would climb aboard for the next mission in 2024, leading to a two-person moon landing in 2025.
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KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that they were beaten and abused for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region this month.
Recounting their ordeal to reporters in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, one of the seven Sri Lankans said he was shot in the foot; another had his toenail ripped off and was slammed in the head with the butt of a rifle.
Ukrainian officials described their treatment as torture.
“Every day we were cleaning toilets and bathrooms,” Dilukshan Robertclive, one of the former captives, said in English. “Some days Russians came and beat our people, our Sri Lanka people.”
Four of the seven were medical students in the city of Kupiansk and three were working there when Russian forces poured across the border in late February and occupied large swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The group said they were captured at the first checkpoint out of Kupiansk and then taken to Vovchansk, near the border with Russia, where they were held in the factory with around 20 Ukrainians.
“They took our passports, other documents, phones, clothes, and locked us up in a room," said Sharujan Gianeswaran, speaking in Tamil to an Associated Press journalist by phone. "There were also Ukrainian people with us, and they were questioned and sent away in 10 days, 15 days or one month. With us they never spoke, because they could not understand our language.”
Police said the factory housed a Russian "torture center" — one of 18 in the Kharkiv region.
“They were bound and blindfolded. After that they were captured and then taken to the city of Vovchansk,” said Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the National Police in Kharkiv.
Six among the group said they were held in a large upstairs room. The seventh, the only woman, was kept in a dark cell by herself, her companions said. The woman wept silently and did not speak as the group told their story Saturday.
One man said he was shot in the foot by the Russian captors. Another had a toenail ripped off after the soldiers repeatedly bashed it with the butt of a rifle. The men showed their injuries to journalists.
“Most of the time we could not understand what they told us and we were beaten for that,” Gianeswaran said.
It dawned upon the Sri Lankans that the battle lines were shifting only when Russian soldiers ordered them to help load trucks with food and weapons.
As the last trucks raced away, the group asked fruitlessly for their passports and papers back, knowing that to move around without them would be impossible in a country filled with checkpoints.
Russian troops captured several cities and towns in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region early in the war. Ukrainian troops retook the area during a swift counteroffensive earlier this month.
When the Sri Lankans realized the Russians were gone, on Sept. 10, the group left the factory and started walking toward the city of Kharkiv, having no real idea how to get to the regional capital which had remained in Ukrainian hands.
“We walked on that road for two days and were exhausted and hungry. We had no food or money to buy food,” Gianeswaran said.
They slept on the side of the road and walked until they reached a river. But with so many bridges in the region destroyed by one side or the other in months of fighting, they could find no way to cross.
Finally someone noticed their plight, gave them shelter and called for a ride from security forces.
Police said the group was picked up in the Chuhuiv area, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from where they started. They are in Kharkiv now, with no idea of what the future holds. Robertclive said they are psychologically damaged by their months in captivity.
But the men smiled when asked how they felt when they realized the worst of their ordeal was at an end.
“They (Ukrainians) have given us food and clothing,” Gianeswaran said. “We thought we were going to die but we are saved and are being well looked after.”
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A smelly 'phallic-shaped' fungus - along with other weird and wonder wildlife - could be found on Dartmoor. Details about the unusual fungus has been shared by The Woodland Trust as it calls for action to protect the habitat.
Although the unusual fungus, which was once attacked by embarrassed Victorians, may make some people squirm, The Woodland Trust has shared its details for good reason. A list different fungus species has been published after a recent report from the charity showed that woodland wildlife is declining and only 7% of woodlands in the country are in good ecological condition.
They range from a smelly, phallic-shaped fungus that some Victorians attacked with cudgels as they were embarrassed by it, to ducks that nest in trees, and a cranefly that uses a “wasp” disguise.
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Alastair Hotchkiss, conservation adviser at the Woodland Trust, said: “Now more than ever before, with the climate change and biodiversity crises, do we need to protect and restore the UK’s natural environments. These 10 species are just the tip of the iceberg – or the mushroom poking up from the soil’s vast mycelial web – of secrets that our woodland habitats hold. Every species can tell us a story, everything has a role to play, and we have so much still to learn. We must do our best to make sure we don’t lose them.”
The 10 examples of weird and wonderful woodland wildlife are:
– Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus): This pungent fungus is usually smelt before it is seen, but its phallic shape so embarrassed some Victorians that they attacked it with cudgels. It was used in medieval times as a cure for gout and a love potion, while more recent scientific evidence points to potential medicinal use for venous thrombosis.
– Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula): A duck that nests in natural cavities or old woodpecker nests up in trees, mainly around the Cairngorms in Scotland. Its nesting strategy means day-old chicks have to hurl themselves – like James Bond’s leap off the dam in the opening scene of the film Goldeneye – from as high as 30ft up the tree while their mother calls encouragement.
– String-of-sausages lichen (Usnea articulata): This lichen resembles a miniature string of sausages, and has anti-cancer properties.
As it is extremely sensitive to air pollution, it is mainly restricted to cleaner areas such as Dartmoor in Devon and south-west Wales, where “fairy butcher shops” are draped over the branches of trees.
– The beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica): This woodland fungus has the appearance of a raw cut of meat, and even oozes a blood-like substance when cut. The fungus is an “ecosystem engineer”, hollowing out ancient trees and leaving the rot inside to provide food to bugs and fungi, and holes for nesting birds.
– Knothole yoke-moss (Zygodon forsteri): This globally rare moss only survives at three sites in Britain, living in the water-filled rot holes of old living trees such as ancient beech pollards in the New Forest, Epping and Burnham Beeches near London. The Woodland Trust says the moss is a good example of how protecting ancient and veteran trees supports a host of other wildlife.
– Hazel pot beetle (Cryptocephalus coryli): This is one of the UK’s rarest insects and Sherwood Forest, the legendary home of Robin Hood, is one of the only known remaining sites for the once widespread beetle. It creates a pot or cocoon to lay eggs and keep larvae in that it has created using its own faeces.
– Eagle’s claw lichen (Anaptychia ciliaris): This lichen, which looks like the talons of an eagle clinging to a tree trunk, was hit by the loss of elms to Dutch elm disease, as well as air pollution. It now faces the loss of trees to ash dieback, and is restricted to just a few spots mainly in south-west England and the Welsh borders.
– Wasp banded comb horn (Ctenophora flaveolata): This harmless species of cranefly mimics something more like a wasp that could bring a nasty sting and is found in old wooded landscapes where its larvae live in the decaying wood in big, old trees. It is scarce in England and even rarer in Wales, where it is a priority for conservation action.
– Lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros): This bat likes the cover and the abundance of its prey – small moths, midges and mosquitos – in woods. But unlike many bats which roost inside trees, horseshoes mainly roost in caves, mines and stately homes in well-wooded landscapes, hanging Dracula-style with their wings wrapped around their bodies.
– Deceptive featherwort (Pseudomarsupidium decipiens): This shiny liverwort grows in loose cushions on the side of rocks in very humid or boulder-strewn woodlands in western Britain and Ireland. The British localities of the species – which is also found in the tropics – are its most northerly sites, found in our rare temperate rainforests which are under a multitude of threats, from air pollution to invasive rhododendron.
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