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The Artemis 1 moon mission has been delayed, not once, not twice, but now three times.
The launch was scheduled for Tuesday, but NASA announced on Saturday that it had decided to postpone the mission in response to Tropical Storm Ian, which threatens to hit Florida next week as a hurricane. The Kennedy Space Center is located on Florida's east coast.
The space agency said the decision was made to protect its employees and the needs of their families while also maintaining a possible future opportunity if weather predictions improve.
The launch was originally scheduled for Aug. 29 and then again on Sept. 3 but continued to be postponed because of rocket malfunctions.
During the first effort, one of the spaceship's four engines didn't seem to cool down to the proper temperature of about minus-420 degrees Fahrenheit.
After evaluating the problem further, officials said the engine was in good condition. Rather, it was a sensor that was malfunctioning and simply giving a false temperature reading.
A few days later, crews working to fuel up the rocket detected a liquid hydrogen leak. Despite multiple attempts, they could not repair the leak in time for the launch.
The moon mission comes nearly 50 years after the last moon landing, Apollo 17. The name of the new exploration program comes from the Greek goddess and twin sister of Apollo. The space agency has vowed to eventually put the first woman and first person of color on the moon through the Artemis program.
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Officials in the Caribbean and Florida are warning residents to prepare for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ian, an intensifying storm that's expected to grow into a hurricane over the weekend.
The weather system currently churning southeast of Jamaica was declared a tropical storm Friday night and is projected to hit populated areas with heavy rains and high winds starting Sunday.
Jamaica is under a tropical storm watch and the Cayman Islands, which sit directly in Ian's projected path, are under a hurricane watch, according to the National Hurricane Center.
A number of hurricane shelters were open on the Cayman Islands, and Premier Wayne Panton told residents to expect heavy rainfall, flooding and potential power outages.
"I ask that you remain calm. Preparation and caution are key to remaining safe," Panton said in a statement. "Please conclude your preparations as quickly as possible and plan to be safely sheltered by Sunday afternoon."
A storm surge could also cause coastal water levels on the Cayman Islands to rise 1 to 3 feet above typical tide heights.
The tropical storm is then expected to move toward western Cuba on Monday before continuing north over the Florida Keys and the peninsula. NASA on Saturday announced a delay in its planned launch of the Artemis 1 uncrewed moon mission, which had been set for Tuesday, because of the approaching storm.
The National Weather Service said there was "increasing confidence" that Ian would produce life-threatening conditions, including storm surge, hurricane-force winds and rainfall flooding.
Up to 12 inches of rain could fall in some areas, with flash flooding and mudslides possible in Jamaica and Cuba.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 24 counties in Florida — putting the Florida National Guard on standby — and 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."
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TIJUANA, Mexico — My parents had never heard of the American dream when they came to the United States from Mexico in the early '80s, but they wanted what it supposedly offered. They were after a better life with more work opportunities.
Four decades later, they are intimately familiar with the concept and say they attained their version of the dream. My dad says he has a family, a home and a better life than he could have had in Mexico.
My sisters and I benefited from our parents' aspirations, too. In Spanglish, my mom says, "Ustedes vinieron a succeed, no para sobrevivir." In other words, we are here to succeed, not to survive.
There are migrants today seeking a similar dream, but with less say in how that happens. Last week, migrants were flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, saying they were promised jobs that never existed and that they were lied to about their destination.
The so-called American dream remains a compelling tale among migrants south of the border, but the objective has shifted. For many, simply trying to stay alive is what's driving them towards the United States.
Migrants are waiting longer and face instant rejection by the U.S.
In a cramped shelter with a tin roof and rows of tents lined up side-to-side, Jesús Ariel puts on his shoes to start the day while his seven-year-old son blows bubbles and tries to keep them afloat.
"We left our home to try to realize that dream," he says.
The pair is staying at Movimiento Juventud 2000 — one of about 20 migrant shelters in Tijuana — while they wait for their chance to enter the U.S. to ask for asylum. They fled here from Honduras after Jesús Ariel was attacked by gang members.
"Honestly, things are very dangerous there. But thank God, I am here," he says. "We came with the dream to accomplish something, at least have a little house."
The shelter they currently call home is in Tijuana's Zona Norte red light district — a section of the city where prostitution is legal and cartels are known to operate. Still, Jesús Ariel says he feels comfortable here because he and his son sleep together in their own tent. While they've only been at this shelter for a few days, they have been in Mexico for more than a year.
This is not unusual, says Rafael Fernández de Castro, the director at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego.
"In the past, shelters were for migrants to stay three or four or five days and then come across to the U.S.," he says. "Now it's different. In the shelters, migrants are staying months, even years."
The reasons are varied. Some people are waiting on legal appointments, while others have applied for asylum in the U.S. and that process can now drag out for months. Tijuana has become one of the main hubs for migrants to wait.
Many have already tried to cross the border but have been turned back because of Title 42. The pandemic public health order invoked under President Trump — and still in place under President Biden — prevents migrants from asking for asylum at the border, and instead allows border agents to swiftly expel them from the U.S. without hearing their claim.
There were nearly 1.8 million expulsions of migrants during the first two years of the policy. The recidivism rate of those trying to cross increased from 7% in 2019 to 27% in 2021.
Jesús Ariel and his son are among those recidivists who have tried to cross more than once. For them, there's too much on the line to give up now.
Migrants across Tijuana often speak of gang violence, death threats or extortion as their reason for leaving their homes, and why they fear going back. It's hard to calculate how many migrants are currently living in Tijuana, since they are constantly moving, but Fernández de Castro estimates there are about 35,000 migrants here hoping to be granted asylum in the U.S.
"It's very difficult to separate the fear from the economic need," he says of their motivation. "I will say both of them come together."
But the American dream won't become a reality for everyone.
There were more than 280,000 applications for asylum filed in the U.S. in 2020, the latest year with data. Fewer than 32,000 individuals were granted it.
It's a perilous journey that can end in a mass grave
Not everyone buys into the American dream. Lourdes Lizardi believes it is a lie. The migrant activist has spent the past 28 years helping people find refuge in Tijuana, and she has seen hopes fade when confronted with a sometimes cruel reality.
"They come looking for that famous American dream that sometimes turns into a hellish dream," she says.
Lizardi says the situation has become increasingly dangerous for migrants over the past 15 years, particularly as the cartels have grown in power and influence.
Before, she says, migrants would occasionally fall victim to crime in Tijuana. Now, they are the target, as cartels see them as easy prey for drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping. Four shelters in Tijuana have recently installed panic buttons that migrants can press to warn of danger nearby.
Lizardi has seen people die on their journey to the U.S. and doesn't believe the pursuit is worth the risk. Just this month, eight migrants were found dead as they attempted to cross near Eagle Pass, TX.
Those who die in the state of Baja California end up in Dr. Cesar Raúl González Vaca's medical lab. He is the director of the forensic service in the state, which receives about 1,600 bodies each year found in Tijuana, Mexicali and Tecate.
"These are border cities where we frequently find bodies that have a link to migration, and who die trying to cross or due to other violent causes," Vaca says.
Most often the bodies belong to people from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and central Mexico. When they aren't claimed by family and friends, they end up in mass graves. In Tijuana, 10 bodies are buried together in a single grave, and about 120 graves are added every year.
In recent years, Vaca's lab has begun keeping better records of where bodies are buried in the event that someone does come looking for their loved one's remains.
But for those who can't be identified, their journey from faraway places across Central and South America ends with their anonymous bodies dropped into mass graves in a dusty field on the outskirts of Tijuana, with no trace for their families to ever find.
Parents are making impossible decisions
Inside the Embajadores de Jesús shelter at the end of a bumpy dirt road in Tijuana, kids are playing loudly. On top of sleeping cots, they smile and dance to rhythmic beats blasting out of loudspeakers. Outside, others shoot marbles on the dirt road, game faces on.
They're all in their own world. That is, until they have to decide what shoes they're going to take with them on the journey to the U.S.
That's what Daniel Gutierrez's seven-year-old daughter had to consider one morning: Would her shoes, which fit a little loose, be comfortable enough to continue walking up and down hills?
"And it hit us really hard that morning, because we didn't imagine she would be thinking about that, feeling that anxiety that we would be trying to cross again," he says.
The family is preparing for their third attempt asking for asylum, but Gutierrez says he and his wife never anticipated the psychological trauma their children would take on.
Gutierrez and his family are also escaping gang violence. Their business was being extorted back home in Guatemala, and after a gang didn't get their way, they received death threats. They are seeking safety but no longer want to compromise their children's mental health. Gutierrez and his wife have promised their kids this will be their final attempt to get into the United States.
"We're not looking for anything luxurious," Gutierrez says. "All we really want is to give our kids a better education."
While they would like to make this reality come true in the U.S., they will settle for Tijuana as their new home.
Back at the Movimiento Juventud 2000 shelter, Sarai Raudales is also concerned about her children.
She escaped Honduras with her husband and two small children after facing threats on two fronts: her husband's mechanic shop was facing extortion by a local gang, and her children received death threats after her ex-husband killed a police officer.
Raudales had less than four hours to leave her home after they received the death threats. They grabbed what they could and took the first bus headed towards Mexico. On such little notice, Raudales says she couldn't afford bus tickets for the whole family, and she feared her 12-year-old daughter would be kidnapped or forced into sex trafficking along the way — so the decision was made to leave her behind with family. "I'm afraid I won't get the chance to see her again," Raudales says. "I'm afraid they'll also retaliate against her because I left with the little ones."
Raudales is determined to do whatever it takes to keep her children safe, even if that means giving them up.
"If I wasn't able to cross, I'd let the [United States] government keep my kids so it could take care of them," she says. "Because in Honduras [the gangs] are going to kill them. So, as a mother, I just want them to be safe."
"Most of us come because we're fleeing. Because we're all in difficult situations. In other words, nobody wants to leave their home."
Raudales wishes Americans understood that it's not an easy choice.
"Many of you feel safe at home where you grew up, where you were born," she says. "When we left, I left my mother, my brothers, everyone. And I don't know if I can see them again."
There are some offering a Mexican dream
American life has been imperfect, but my parents say they chose the right dream for themselves. Others, like Daniel Gutierrez's family, might have that decision made for them, and instead have to create a new life south of the border.
Lourdes Lizardi, the migrant activist, says this might not be the worst thing.
"The whole world is still chasing the American dream," she says, "When there are Mexican dreams, Canadian dreams, Chinese dreams, all these other dreams."
Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero Ramírez also encourages migrants to choose her city as the place to call home, and tries to assure them that she can maintain peace and safety.
"[The American dream] has been romanticized a lot," she says. "We need to tell the citizens of the world that these dreams can be built wherever you are."
"I think Tijuana is a safe city. We do not have the peace that we would like in the whole country, I would be lying to you if I said that, but we are going for stability."
For some, Tijuana may offer enough safety and stability to build a content life. But others will keep trying, no matter what, to reach that famous American dream.
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ROME — If polling is correct, Italians will elect their country's most right-wing government since the end of World War II on Sunday. That's no small matter in a country that has had 69 governments since 1946.
Leading the coalition that looks likely to secure a majority of seats in Italy's parliament is Giorgia Meloni, leader of Fratelli d'Italia, the Brothers of Italy party.
If her coalition does win, she will also make history by becoming Italy's first female prime minister.
Meloni, 45, grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Rome that's better known for cultivating leftist activists than producing fiery hard-right politicians. Her party has roots in the neo-fascist movement that emerged out of the ruins of World War II.
Symbols point to the party's connection to that past too. The party flag includes a tricolor flame that was a symbol of fascism in the early 20th century. Meloni has refused to remove the flame from the party's logo.
And many party members have shown an affinity for fascism and fascist leaders of the past. Just this week, the party suspended a member running for parliament after an Italian newspaper revealed he had posted comments supporting Adolf Hitler in the past.
Meloni has spent considerable time and energy trying to convince Italians and Europeans that the party is not fascist. When not on the radio or TV, she is on the road, creating videos she streams live and posts to all her social media platforms.
Meloni's Twitter feed is full of dozens of scenes that look nearly identical. They all show her as she takes the stage in various Italian cities, to the adoring cheers of supporters holding Brothers of Italy flags.
Meloni's opposition to immigration has animated her and her base
In August, Meloni posted a video on social media saying she would introduce a naval blockade to patrol the Mediterranean, to interdict people whom she called "illegal immigrants" from North Africa.
"What is important in the campaign is not the policy itself. It's the message — 'we will stop them at any cost,'" says historian Lorenzo Castellani, a professor at Rome's LUISS University. "She is proposing herself as a sort of defender of the borders, a very Trumpian approach from this point of view," Castellani says, referring to former President Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and policies.
Even as she spends energy trying to dispense with the fascism label, Meloni also serves up red meat to the party faithful. At a recent event, she was yelling about the years of shame many have felt for holding what she often calls "anti-woke" opinions.
"I have a dream of a nation in which people who have had to put their heads down for so many years ... can now say what they think and not lose their jobs because of it," Meloni said.
A conservative in a moderate's clothing?
Some Italians fear a Meloni-led government would move to outlaw abortion, legal in Italy since 1978. Meloni says she will not.
Meloni has long been a Euroskeptic — and in the past has talked about taking Italy out of the common currency, the euro, and even of leaving the European Union. But she has repeatedly promised she'll work with the EU and can be trusted to manage the 200 billion euros ($194 billion) Italy has received in European pandemic recovery funds.
That assurance was called into question on Thursday, when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned there could be consequences for Italy, the EU's third-largest economy, if it moves in an anti-democratic direction after the election.
Meloni has long insisted that she has no plans to go soft on Russia and has supported Ukraine since war broke out in February. But one of her coalition partners, Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has a long friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and appeared on an Italian talk show Thursday, saying Putin invaded Ukraine to put "decent people" in power in Kyiv.
It's not clear if this could damage Meloni's coalition's prospects at this late hour, but her opponent, former Prime Minister Enrico Letta, the head of Italy's center-left Democratic Party, has repeatedly said on the campaign trail, "If the right wins, the first person to be happy will be Vladimir Putin."
An astute political operative
With Italians facing spiraling energy costs, inflation and a lackluster economy, Meloni, whose party only won 4% of the vote in the last election, has positioned herself as an outsider who will shake things up.
Political writer Federico Fubini, a Meloni critic, says she was astute to sit out of the national unity government that just collapsed. It created a big opening.
"The main reason why she's leading in the polls is because she's perceived as the one that was not in power for the last 10 years," he says.
If Meloni's coalition does win and she is named prime minister, she'll take office almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini took power in Rome. She insists his ideology is in the past. Many Italians and Europeans hope she'll stick to her word.
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ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts.
But this is a lithium mine.
The pools are filled with salty groundwater that contains lithium. It's a key component in the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, solar panels and other green technologies.
"It's really, really a beautiful place," says Marcelo Valdebenito, a public relations officer for Albemarle Corp., the Charlotte, N.C.-based chemical company that operates the mine. "This is the lithium that powers the world."
Indeed, the world is hungry for the silvery-white metal. The International Energy Agency is projecting a more than 40-fold increase in demand for lithium by 2040. Lithium prices have hit record highs this year.
Despite growing concerns about the environmental impact of lithium extraction, skyrocketing demand is good news for mining companies in Chile. The South American country is the second-largest lithium producer after Australia. And Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are known as the "lithium triangle," together holding more than half of the world's proven lithium reserves.
Annual production at the Albemarle mine has increased from 22,000 tons to 84,000 tons since 2016, says Ignacio Mehech, the company's country manager in Chile.
"We are growing as the demand is growing and today we are a much bigger company," Mehech told NPR, adding that the company now has 1,000 employees in Chile, up from 250 five years ago.
South America could power up
Even so, the region's lithium output is just a fraction of what it could be, leading to fears of an eventual bottleneck in world supplies.
Bolivian President Luis Arce has pledged to make his country "the world capital of lithium" and supply 40% of global demand for the metal by 2030. But due to technological challenges and community resistance, as well as heavy state intervention in the economy, the industry has been slow to develop. Production in Bolivia remains negligible.
Economic turmoil has kept Argentina from opening more mines.
Meanwhile, Chile has high taxes and strict mining regulations, says Mehech. The red tape for production permits involves securing approval from the nation's nuclear energy commission since the metal can be used in nuclear power and weapons.
"It is very difficult and that's why you don't see more lithium companies in Chile," Mehech says of Albemarle, which he says is one of just two companies producing lithium in Chile.
Mining raises environmental concerns
But some Chileans prefer a go-slow approach.
They include microbiologist Cristina Dorador, who has spent years studying the salt flats of the Atacama Desert. She says lithium mines extract huge amounts of groundwater. Ten-times saltier than seawater, this brine is then placed in enormous evaporation pools. After 18 months, the resulting 6% lithium solution is then turned into a white lithium powder and exported for use in batteries.
Dorador says removing so much groundwater will inevitably make the Atacama Desert — home to Chile's lithium mines — hotter and drier. She recently co-authored an investigation linking lithium mining to an 11% reduction in the local flamingo population over the past decade.
"With so much pressure from the world to produce more lithium," she says, "the price is going to be paid by Chile's environment."
Why not make the batteries, too?
Another critic is Andrés Díaz, who directs the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at Diego Portales University in Santiago, the Chilean capital. Instead of just lithium, he thinks Chile should produce and export higher-valued lithium-ion batteries that the country currently imports from Asia at a steep cost.
To move in that direction, Albemarle signed an agreement with the Chilean government to spend $300 million on research and development here by 2043.
"For us, it doesn't make any sense to export lithium and then buy from other countries batteries with a material that we produced at the very beginning," Díaz says.
Mehech acknowledges that lithium mining uses a lot of groundwater but claims the tradeoff is worth it. He points out that the amount of water required to produce enough lithium for an electric car battery is about the same amount needed to produce a half pound of beef or 11 avocados.
The avocados, he says, will last for just a few days, "but a lithium battery lasts for 10 years and then you can recycle it."
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Pharoah Sanders, the revered and influential tenor saxophonist who explored and extended the boundaries of his instrument, notably alongside John Coltrane in the 1960s, died on Saturday morning in Los Angeles. His death was announced in a post on social media by the record label Luaka Bop, which had released his celebrated 2021 album Promises and confirmed by a publicist who worked on the release. Sanders was 81 years old.
Spirit was the overwhelming force in Sanders' music: It emanated from his tenor and soprano saxophones in fiery blasts or a murmuring flicker, and it suffused his ensembles, which featured several generations of improvisers equally willing to dig in or soar free. "Sanders has consistently had bands that could not only create a lyrical near-mystical Afro-Eastern world," wrote one champion, the poet-critic Amiri Baraka, "but [also] sweat hot fire music in continuing display of the so-called 'energy music' of the '60s."
That combination of traits characterized Sanders' defining solo work of the '70s on Impulse! Records, which had been Coltrane's label home, and was still a welcoming harbor for experimentalism. Among these albums are Black Unity, consisting of one album-length improvisation, and Thembi, which nudges a post-Coltrane language into the realm of Afrocentric groove.
Sanders' single best-known piece of music is "The Creator Has a Master Plan," an expansive performance from 1969 that peaks in wailing cacophony but ends with a buoyant, soulful vocal refrain. Originally split across two sides of the 1969 LP Karma, the track was later issued on CD as a single track, nearly 33 minutes long.
Pharoah was born Ferrell Sanders on Oct. 13, 1940, in Little Rock, Ark. His love of music began at home, through his choir-leading grandfather. After high school — and a switch from the clarinet to the alto saxophone, before finally settling into the tenor sax — Sanders moved to the West Coast around 1959, attending Oakland Junior College, expanding his musical palette and pursuing the horizon, sitting in with avant-garde saxophonists like Sonny Simmons and Dewey Redman. While there, Sanders first met and befriended John Coltrane, though they wouldn't work together until many years later.
In 1961, Sanders relocated to New York, looking to join the city's fecund jazz scene, where Coltrane was a reigning figure. Sanders' landing in New York was rocky, however, resulting in intermittent homelessness as he practiced, sporadically, with Sun Ra and his Arkestra. (Sun Ra, it's said, was the one who encouraged him to take the name Pharoah.) Eventually, he was forced to pawn his horn.
Sanders' fortunes in New York slowly but surely turned around as he established a solo career, and by 1965 he was a member of what would be Coltrane's final quartet. Ascension, recorded in 1965 and released the following year, was a late-in-life turning point for Coltrane and, by extension, Sanders, who would become known for using his instrument in novel — anarchic and atonal — ways. Last year, Impulse! released the archival recording A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, recorded a few months after Ascension; it features Sanders as a vital addition to Coltrane's quartet, expanding on his most heralded musical statement. (Live in Seattle, a separate album recorded during the same engagement, had long been a touchstone for an avant-garde left to forge the path ahead after Coltrane's death in '67.)
Even given his pioneering work, Sanders downplayed his technical achievements in favor of the emotional resonance he was seeking. "I'm not so much of a technical player myself," Sanders explained in a 1995 interview. "I'm probably not that much of an intellectual player, as some other musicians. What I do is... express. That's what I do."
Sanders' stature grew beyond the jazz avant-garde space as he became something of a spiritual elder, and his expressiveness survived in new contexts. In 2021, he released the album Promises in collaboration with the electronic musician Sam Shepherd, who records as Floating Points, and the London Symphony Orchestra that was widely and immediately hailed as one of the year's best. A patient and meditative album, it sometimes feels like a structure built for the sole purpose of allowing Sanders' voice and saxophone to levitate.
For many years, the jazz establishment lagged behind the African American community in appreciating Sanders' work, especially apart from his affiliation with Coltrane. But the power of his example and the sweep of his music helped set the framework for an ascendant class of artists like tenor saxophonists Kamasi Washington, James Brandon Lewis and Nubya Garcia, and multi-reedist Shabaka Hutchings.
"I find it difficult to regard Pharoah Sanders as an individual," wrote Hutchings in an appreciation of Black Unity for The Vinyl Factory. "I intuitively consider him as representational of a creative principle that centers communalism as the driving force from which spirit is manifested through sound."
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The ninth named tropical storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season has formed across the central Caribbean Sea, and is forecast to turn into a hurricane before hitting Florida. If it does, it will be the first major hurricane to impact the state since 2018.
Tropical Storm Ian was located about 270 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, as of 11 a.m. Saturday and moving west at about 15 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The forecast shows Ian "as a major hurricane over the eastern Gulf when it is approaching the west coast of Florida," after briefly passing over Cuba, the center said Friday. Much of the Gulf Coast of Florida, including the eastern Panhandle, could be at risk.
Forecast models on Saturday morning vary on where Ian may make landfall on Florida's coast. The European model shows landfall near Fort Myers on Wednesday afternoon, while the American model shows landfall near the Big Bend region of the state early Friday morning.
The official hurricane center track splits the difference between the models, showing landfall near Tampa on Wednesday night.
Tropical storm-force winds could begin to affect southwest Florida early Tuesday, with landfall possible on Wednesday.
After strengthening overnight, the storm -- earlier known as Tropical Depression Nine -- has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) and is forecast to reach hurricane status within the next two days as it approaches the Cayman Islands by early Monday. Further strengthening is anticipated as the system approaches and crosses western Cuba by Monday evening.
As it reemerges into the warm waters of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, it is possible that the storm reaches major hurricane status with winds at or above 111 mph (178 km/h).
"Ian is likely to be near major hurricane intensity when it approaches western Cuba," the hurricane center said. "Since Ian is not expected to remain over Cuba long, little weakening is expected due to that land interaction."
If it strengthens to a Category 3 or higher before reaching Florida, it would be the first major hurricane to make landfall there since Hurricane Michael in 2018, which was a monster Category 5 storm when it collided with the Florida panhandle. Michael also underwent rapid intensification before it made landfall, a phenomenon which has been made more likely as ocean temperatures warm due to the climate crisis.
A hurricane watch has been issued for the Cayman Islands, including Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac by the government of the Cayman Islands. The government of Jamaica has issued a tropical storm watch.
An NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate Ian and provide additional data later Saturday, according to the center.
As the forecasts intensify, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday requested federal emergency assistance in anticipation of the threat and also declared a state of emergency for 24 counties. Under the state-level emergency order, members of the Florida National Guard will be activated and on standby awaiting orders.
The governor urged those in the potential path of the storm to prepare.
"This storm has the potential to strengthen into a major hurricane and we encourage all Floridians to make their preparations," DeSantis said in a news release. "We are coordinating with all state and local government partners to track potential impacts of this storm."
Forecasters urge for residents to prepare
It has been a slow start to what was forecast to be an above-average hurricane season. Only one storm has made landfall in a US territory, and no hurricane has made landfall or threatened the contiguous states.
Now, a week past the peak of hurricane season, the tropics seem to have woken up, and forecasters are concerned people have let down their guard.
"After a slow start, the Atlantic hurricane season has ratcheted up quickly," Phil Klotzbach, research scientist at Colorado State University, tweeted.
"People tend to lower their guard and think, oh, yeah, we're out of the woods," Maria Torres, hurricane center spokesperson, told CNN. "But in reality, the season continues. We are still in September; we still have October to go. Anything that forms over either the Atlantic or the Caribbean is something that we need to keep monitoring very closely."
The Atlantic hurricane season ends November 30.
No matter what, if you live in the Caribbean, Florida and other states along the Gulf Coast, pay attention to the updated forecasts this weekend into early next week.
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A Texas city has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Black mother after she and her daughter were wrestled to the ground and arrested by a white police officer following a dispute with a neighbor.
Jacqueline Craig and one of her daughters were wrestled to the ground and had a stun gun pointed at them by Fort Worth officer William Martin in December 2016. Another of Craig's daughters, who filmed the incident on her cellphone, was also arrested.
Charges against all three were later dropped. Martin served a 10-day suspension for violating departmental policies.
The city agreed to settle the lawsuit for $150,000, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Friday. The settlement is pending City Council approval.
As part of the settlement, the city admits no other fault and there are no other requirements, a Fort Worth spokesperson said.
Craig has alleged the neighbor grabbed and choked her young son after seeing him litter. Craig and the neighbor both called police.
Video of the arrests, which was posted on Facebook and viewed more than a million times, raised accusations of racism.
Mayor Pro Tem Gyna Bivens told the newspaper she was glad the lawsuit was settled.
"This put a big weight on her. It put a big weight on the city, and I hope the settlement is enough for everyone to feel refreshed and ready to move forward," Bivens said. | https://6abc.com/jacqueline-craig-william-martin-texas-lawsuit-settled-civil-rights/12260357/ | 2022-09-24T16:22:52 | en | 0.991516 |
Four days after Aam Aadmi Party Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held an interaction with parents and teachers at the Preet Party plot in Vadodara, the encroachment removal team of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) reached the venue on Saturday to “demolish” an “illegal construction” on the plot.
Terming the move as “political vengeance” by the BJP, AAP party workers obstructed the bulldozers from razing the structure.
તાનાશાહ ભ્રષ્ટ ભાજપના રાજમાં લોકશાહીનું પતન!
સંસ્કારી નગરી વડોદરા ખાતે @ArvindKejriwal ની સભા માટે પાર્ટી પ્લોટ આપવા ભાજપના ગુંડા નેતાઓની ધમકીઓથી ન ડરનારા નવનીતકાકાના પાર્ટીપ્લોટ પર ભાજપે વગર નોટિસે બુલડોઝર મોકલ્યા!ભાજપના આ રાવણરાજનો જવાબ હવે ગુજરાતની જનતા આપશે. pic.twitter.com/DhhWjT8RXT
— AAP Gujarat | Mission2022 (@AAPGujarat) September 24, 2022
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The VMC claimed that it had served a notice to the owner, Navneet Patel, who had leased the plot to AAP for the town hall event on education. At the event, Kejriwal had felicitated Patel for the “courage and honesty” for allowing AAP to hold the event at his venue after 13 other bookings had been cancelled at the behest of the BJP, AAP had alleged.
After the protest from AAP and an altercation with the owners, the VMC handed over a notice, dated September 22, 2022, to the owners, directing that the “illegal structure in the parking area”, should be razed immediately.
The VMC has also served the Patel family notices for two other properties named Navneet and Prasang Party Plot, located close by. The notices also state that the sprawling lawn in the premises is “illegal”, and actually only parking space.
AAP workers Saturday laid in front of the bulldozers in support of Patel and chanted anti-BJP slogans.
Viren Rami of AAP Vadodara said, “The BJP had forced 13 other venues to cancel the booking made by AAP for Arvind Kejriwal’s September 20 event. When they realized that Navneet kaka was not willing to back off after leasing it out, they turned vengeful… They have sent bulldozers in the pretext of razing illegal construction without serving notice.”
According to Patel, the “illegal construction” was temporary toilets made for labourers working on the plot.
Patel told The Sunday Express, “I have constructed a kaccha toilet with just a tin roof and unplastered bricks for the labourers. It is true that I did not take permission for it… We have started bringing it down, but the VMC wanted to arm-twist me because I had not paid heed to their top leaders when they offered me Rs 10 lakh to withdraw my venue from AAP event.”
ભાજપના માજી બુટલેગર પ્રદેશપ્રમુખને ચડ્યો સત્તાનો નશો!
ભ્રષ્ટ ભાજપની આ તાનાશાહીનો આવનારી વિધાનસભા ચૂંટણીમાં ગુજરાતની જાગૃત જનતા મજબૂત જવાબ આપશે! pic.twitter.com/3NNqlLN7xZ
— AAP Gujarat | Mission2022 (@AAPGujarat) September 24, 2022
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Both party plots and the lawns have been preferred for events by all political parties so far.
“I personally do not manage the bookings but my plot is always booked for political events by all parties… AAP made a booking and paid Rs 2.5 lakh. The BJP, for all these years, has been using my plot for its own events too. They have never paid me even after assuring that they would,” Patel added.
Ronak Patel, Navneet Patel’s son, gave an undertaking to the VMC in writing that the owners would “assess the illegal construction and bring it down”.
Even as the VMC Town Development Officer and Encroachment Removal officer remained unavailable for comments, Mayor Keyur Rokadia took to Twitter and said, “AAP has revealed its true face as it interfered in the work of the Encroachment removal team of the VMC…”
Denying allegations of political vengeance, Mayor Rokadia said, “The fact is that they (Patels) have created lawns in the parking area of the plots and are charging rent for the same. It is illegal. This is not the only drive against encroachment that the VMC has undertaken… In the case of Navneet party plot, the complaint came to the VMC about two weeks back from the adjacent residential colony regarding the illegal construction of the toilets.”
When asked about the timing of the action and the time given to the owners after serving the notice dated September 22, Rokadia said, “When the VMC serves a notice for encroachment removal, the time given is about 24 hours only to remove belongings… After that, the VMC department can arrive and take action.” | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/gandhinagar/bjp-run-vmc-sends-bulldozers-to-aap-townhall-event-venue-8170738/ | 2022-09-24T16:23:25 | en | 0.946601 |
BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Saturday claimed that 21 TMC MLAs of West Bengal are in touch with him.
Addressing a press conference, the Bollywood star who joined the BJP ahead of last year’s assembly elections said he stood by what he said in July — 38 MLAs of the ruling TMC are in touch with the opposition party, and of them, 21 are directly in contact with him.
“I stand by what I had said in July. Still 21 TMC MLAs are directly in touch with me. Please wait for some time, and you will get to know everything,” he said.
With state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar by his side, Chakraborty said he is well aware of objections within the party to inducting TMC leaders.
“I am well aware of the objections. But, I would like to say that I am not a fool, and the same mistakes won’t be repeated,” he said.
Earlier, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the TMC government in West Bengal would not be able to complete its five-year term, and will be ousted by 2024. Hitting back, the TMC said its MLAs are not up for sale.
“Such statements are an attempt to fool the people. There is no relation with reality. I think such comments would further fuel infighting within the BJP. TMC MLAs are not up for sale like BJP leaders,” TMC’s state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/21-tmc-mlas-in-touch-bjp-mithun-chakraborty-8170793/ | 2022-09-24T16:23:31 | en | 0.986381 |
Saturday, Sep 24, 2022
Two non-local labourers were shot at in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said.
“#Terrorists fired upon & injured 2 outside labourers at Kharpora Ratnipora in #Pulwama,” Kashmir Zone Police said in a tweet.
The police said the two were shifted to hospital where their condition is stated to be stable.
They were identified as Shamshad and Faizan Qasri, residents of Batya Zila, Bihar, the police said. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/srinagar/two-non-local-labourers-shot-at-in-j-ks-pulwama-8170795/ | 2022-09-24T16:23:37 | en | 0.988571 |
(This letter is part of a series by The Indian Express where we bring to you the experiences of students at different foreign universities. From scholarships and loans to food and cultural experiences — students tell us how life is different in those countries and things they are learning other than academics)
— Kriti Sharma
I am Kriti Sharma and I am pursuing a Master’s degree in public relations from York University in Toronto, Canada. While working for three years in India as a sub-editor and content writer, I felt the need to upskill myself. Blame it on the pandemic but, like all my peers, I stayed indoors for almost one-and-a-half-year and attended online classes. So I was keen to attend offline classes and, therefore, decided to go abroad for higher studies. But why a foreign university? That’s because studying abroad not only makes an individual a more responsible person but also exposes them to a new culture.
It has been over a month since I joined York University. Before this, I was pursuing a Master’s degree in Brand Management from Seneca College in Toronto. I pursued two courses because an individual is required to do either two separate courses or a single two-year course to get a three-year work permit in Canada. There are different types of work permits available in the North American country. I opted for a Post Graduate work permit.
If the institution has mentioned the duration of the course and it is two years or longer, you are eligible for a three-year work permit.
I completed my graduation in Political Science from Delhi University and then pursued a Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication from the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. While I have studied at the most prestigious colleges in India, I chose Canada for my higher education as not only is it more affordable than the United States of America or the United Kingdom, but the job market is also comparatively better compared to other countries.
I enrolled myself in another course this year, for which I need to attend classes in person. For the amount of money we have invested, physical classes make sense because it is the experience we are paying for and not just the Zoom calls.
Talking of academics, in India, while most educational institutions follow a theoretical approach, a practical approach is followed in Canada. The focus is on real-life case studies, and the course content is updated and industry-relevant.
I missed the deadline to apply for scholarships. So my suggestion for others would be: Do complete research on the universities and the scholarships they offer to international students before you decide to apply.
It took a little time to get used to the currency here, but I am learning fast. I always end up converting everything to INR and get worried every time I go out shopping. To cover my expenses and be independent, I have also taken up a part-time job at a pizza place. Striking a balance between college and a job and still finding time for yourself is trickier than you think. But the experience is worth it.
My experience so far has been a mixed bag. Life over here is exciting and fast-paced. While some days test your patience, there are days when I miss my family and home-cooked food.
For students who are planning to study abroad, I would suggest learning basic life skills like cooking, cleaning, etc. Unlike India, where you get domestic help, in Canada you have to do everything on your own as labour here is expensive.
Thanks to sitcoms, I knew that people in Canada are polite, but experiencing it firsthand is different. The crowd is more diverse as you meet people from across the world. Being a girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, the experience for me is not just exciting but also helps me understand different cultures.
I was told that the Canadian winter can be extremely cold and intimidating. The temperature here is seven degrees right now, which locals say is good weather, but for me, it’s a bit chilly. Initially, I found it difficult to adjust but since everything — the buses, the buildings, the subways, the streetcars — is centrally heated, it became tolerable. It is just when you are walking on the streets that I feel cold.
— As told to Agrima Srivastava | https://indianexpress.com/article/education/study-abroad/life-in-a-foreign-university-a-letter-from-student-juggling-between-masters-degree-part-time-job-and-life-in-canada-8169898/ | 2022-09-24T16:23:43 | en | 0.970435 |
Actor Govinda aced the hook step of the popular song ‘Saami, during the promotions of the upcoming film Goodbye, on the dance show DID SuperMoms. The actor appears on the show as a judge, along with actor Bhagyashree and choreographer Remo D’Souza. Actor Rashmika Mandanna, who is making her Hindi debut with Goodbye, was on the show to promote the film.
In a video by Zee TV on Twitter, Rashmika danced with Govinda on the popular song ‘Saami’. The track is from pan-Indian blockbuster Pushpa: The Rise, which starredAllu Arjun and Rashmika.
Govinda aced the hook step of the song, as his co-judges Bhagyashree and Remo D’Souza cheered for him from the judge’s panel. The channel captioned the promo video, “Nahi hata paayenge aap bhi apni ankhiyaan, jab manch par saami, saami karenge #RashmikaMandanna aur #Govinda! 🔥👯Dekhiye #DIDSuperMoms, kal, raat 9 baje, sirf #ZeeTV par aur kahin bhi, kabhi bhi #ZEE5 App par.”
Check out the video –
Nahi hata paayenge aap bhi apni ankhiyaan, jab manch par saami, saami karenge #RashmikaMandanna aur #Govinda! 🔥👯Dekhiye #DIDSuperMoms, kal, raat 9 baje, sirf #ZeeTV par aur kahin bhi, kabhi bhi #ZEE5 App par.#HarMomSuperMom #SapnonKaGrandFinale #Promo pic.twitter.com/CgsJKuXwdE
— ZeeTV (@ZeeTV) September 24, 2022
Besides Rashmika, Goodbye also stars Amitabh Bachchan and Neena Gupta. The film is an emotional family drama, which tells the story of love and loss. Rashmika also has the Hindi film Mission Majnu slated for release. The movie stars Rashmika and Sidharth Malhotra in the lead roles. During the promotions of Goodbye, Rashmika has often been asked about the sequel to Pushpa: The Rise. Titled Pushpa: The Rule, the sequel will also be directed by Sukumar. The film is expected to be released by December 2023. | https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/govinda-adds-his-infectious-energy-to-the-track-saami-as-he-shakes-a-leg-with-rashmika-mandanna-8170694/ | 2022-09-24T16:23:49 | en | 0.906875 |
By Chirag Daruwalla
Number 1: (People born on 1, 10, 19, and 28 of any month)
Ganesha says the beginning of this week will have a positive impact on your health in many ways. You will feel better and more confident during this time. People whose financial condition will stagger this week will get the support of their relatives. Improve your relations with your relatives and friends; a wrong step taken by you can make the family environment tenser. So avoid doing anything wrong on your part. Talking excessively at the workplace can cost you dearly this week. Take special care while speaking and also avoid speaking excessively. Your prestige in the family will also increase. Also, with the blessings of the elders of the house, you can achieve something related to education, for which you were waiting a long time.
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Number 2: (People born on 2, 11, 20, and 29 of any month)
Ganesha says you can use this week to fulfil one of your hobbies, which you have wanted to do for a long time like dancing, singing, going on a trip, painting, etc. Not only will you enjoy doing these things, you will also be able to keep yourself fresh. This week, you will get many such opportunities with your hard work and dedication, from which you can earn money. This week, your family’s full attention will be on the auspicious program to be held at a relative’s house. Along with this, it is also possible that during this time some good news from a distant relative may bring happiness to your entire family. But, you will need to focus on your work as your work capacity and creativity will expand. Take advantage of every opportunity and take steps to improve your career. If you are having trouble understanding any subject, you will have to work harder to achieve the goal this week.
Number 3: (People born on 3, 12, 21, and 30 of any month)
Ganesha says regular exercise will play an important role in keeping you fit this week. During this time, many good changes are being seen in your health. Time will be good for those people who have obesity problems, because at this time, they will get rid of some of their problems forever. At the beginning of this week, the Moon will be situated in the fifth house, due to which there is a possibility of completing some auspicious work in your family. This will create a festive atmosphere and will make all the family members happy. This auspicious event at home could be a birth anniversary or one’s marriage or having a child. Ganesha says this week traders will have to avoid sharing anything related to their business with everyone, because they can get into big trouble. Those who are preparing for competitive exams may find it difficult to believe in themselves this week. The middle part of the week will bring many negative thoughts about education.
Number 4: (People born on 4, 13, 22, and 31 of any month)
Ganesha says you will experience mental turmoil and trouble this week due to increased pressure at the workplace. Because of this, irritability will also come into your nature. In such a situation, keep calm and think about getting out of these troubles, otherwise, you may suffer health wise. Eating out with family members or watching a movie will keep you relaxed and cheerful this week. Despite the heap of work, amazing energy can be seen inside you. You may, however, be unable to complete all your work ahead of time. People of your zodiac will get good results in matters related to education. But despite this, you will confine yourself in your comfort zone in such a way that even facing small challenges will seem like a big task to you. So, it would be better for you to try to focus on your studies while taking yourself out of your comfort zone as soon as possible.
Number 5: (People born on 5, 14, and 23 of any month)
Ganesha says due to better health this week, you will take special care of the health of your family members, too. Eat a balanced diet, avoid eating cold things. Looking at the needs of the house, this week you can spend money shopping for valuables for the house with proper planning. Due to this, your financial condition may become a little tight; your stress may also increase. You should spend some time with kids at home, even if you have to do something special for it, because only by doing this you will be able to understand what is going on in their mind and improve your relationship with them. Employed people may have to face many problems at the workplace because of inadvertent mistakes, due to which you may get scolded by your superiors.
Number 6: (People born on 6, 15, and 24 of any month)
Ganesha says this week you will not have to work hard to keep yourself fit. During this time, you will be supported by luck, due to which you will be able to keep yourself healthy even if you make fewer efforts. If you are a parent, you may have to spend a lot of money on your child’s education. You will face a financial crisis, so instead of solving this matter alone, talk to your partner. There is every scope for a positive change in your father’s health, so you may be spending time with him. Not only will this help you improve your relationship with your father, but he will also be able to support you. Businessmen working in a partnership will need to show their cleverness while working with their partners, otherwise, they can swindle you. Those who are preparing for competitive exams may find it difficult to believe in their hard work this week. The middle part of the week will bring many negative thoughts about education.
Number 7 (People born on 7, 16, and 25 of any month)
Ganesha says in terms of health, the circumstances this week will be completely in your favour, due to which you will be happy. Elders will get relief from problems related to knees and hands. You will be able to spend some relaxing moments with family members. During this time, you will get a chance to meet old acquaintances from your parents or hear something new and important about them. This week, you will get a chance to talk directly to your superiors and find answers to all your questions, which may give you an idea as to why your boss talks to you so rudely. As soon as you come to know the real reason, your mind will be relieved. But, use your words very carefully while talking to anyone. This week, many students may face some confusion regarding their career; their heart and mind may be running in totally opposite directions. In such a situation, follow the heart.
Number 8: (People born on 8, 17, and 26 of any month)
Ganesha says your health will be good this week. During this time you will be full of energy and will also try to complete all your work with efficiency. You have to stop yourself from paying attention to unnecessary things. All types of property-related transactions done by you in the past are likely to be completed this week, which will benefit you, as well as you will be able to secure your future to a great extent. Chances are, the advice of a member of the household will help you earn extra money. Your enemies will be active this week and take advantage of your weaknesses. With this, you will not be able to advance yourself in your career. Also, you can get into some big trouble. Whatever topics you could not understand last week, you will completely grasp this week. It would be better for you to concentrate and keep studying.
Number 9: (People born on 9, 18, and 27 of any month)
Ganesha says for the betterment of your health, this week you will need to improve your diet. Otherwise, you will find yourself suffering from many serious diseases. This week, you have to tread very carefully in the field of economics. You will gain money from an old investment, but you may lose a lot of your money while meeting the non-essential demands of others. Saying no to others would be the most important thing that you need to learn at this time. Talking about family life, this week is very good for your zodiac sign as you will attract everyone’s attention. This week, you are instructed to choose your words wisely while talking to others at the workplace. Do not say anything that will negatively impact your image. The middle of the week will be very good for students who are thinking of pursuing higher education.
Chirag Daruwalla is the son of astrologer Bejan Daruwalla. He is known for his detailed astrological predictions on career, health, love, finance, and business. You can visit their website bejandaruwalla.com for guidance on problems related to your life.
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Late into the match tiebreaker in the final match of his career, playing doubles alongside Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer produced one of the many moments that have made him one of the most revered athletes of his generation.
The Swiss maestro arched at a ferocious ground stroke, blunted the pace with a perfectly timed volley, and placed it to perfection — vintage Federer. The 17,500 fans in attendance at the O2 Arena in London gave it the biggest cheer of the night, and Novak Djokovic, at the event as Federer’s teammate to give him a grand send-off, leapt to his feet with his jaw dropped in disbelief.
A few moments later, as Federer served for the match — one he and Nadal eventually lost to Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock 6-4, 6-7, 11-9 at the Laver Cup — Djokovic, who got the better of Federer on more occasions than any other player, stood on the couch where his team was meant to be seated and jeered the crowd to make as much noise as possible. It was an acknowledgment of greatness, from one of his fiercest and at times, most contentious rivals.
Team World triumphs in the doubles.
The moment @JackSock92 and @FTiafoe defeat Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.#LaverCup pic.twitter.com/aHLDM4GCij
— Laver Cup (@LaverCup) September 23, 2022
On Friday night in London, the spotlight of Federer’s retirement party was stolen by the distinct outpouring of emotion, admiration, love, and respect that his rivals had for him as he played his last. The highlight image from the night was that of Nadal, who sobbed – at one moment more inconsolably and uncontrollably than Federer – at the thought of the departure of his greatest rival.
“When Roger leaves the tour, yeah, an important part of my life is leaving too because all the moments he has been next or in front me in important moments of my life,” Nadal said per Reuters in the post-match press conference. “Very proud to be part of his career in some way. But even happier to finish our career like friends after everything we shared on court like rivals.”
An emotional final farewell.#LaverCup | @rogerfederer pic.twitter.com/lSZb9KfvbN
— Laver Cup (@LaverCup) September 23, 2022
The images and videos of Nadal bawling his eyes out while holding Federer’s hand summarise how personal a loss Federer’s retirement is for Nadal better than words possibly could. When Nadal burst onto the scene, Federer was the World No. 1, and untouchable at the summit of men’s tennis. Nadal had to defeat him to win five of his first six Grand Slams – including the incredible five-set Wimbledon 2008 final, considered by many as the greatest tennis match in the history of the game.
For Federer, Nadal was a consistent thorn in his side, challenging him to the highest level at a time when nobody could touch him. But he brought out the best in him, considered virtually impossible at the time, as their rivalry evolved into one of the most cherished in professional sport. Its euphoric popularity came to define an entire generation of men’s tennis and played a massive role in the development of the game seen today.
About last night.#LaverCup pic.twitter.com/at1CHWMxbI
— Laver Cup (@LaverCup) September 24, 2022
Without Federer, Nadal may never have been the 22-time Grand Slam champion he is today, and it is safe to say the same for Federer. It was therefore fitting that he hand-picked the Spaniard to be alongside him as he played his last ever match, and even more so that his great rival and friend duly obliged.
A thought for Djokovic, who arrived later to form one of the most enthralling trios in sports history, must be spared too. Nadal and Federer seemed to have an instant bond ever since their rivalry kicked off, and the friendship that has now evolved between them may be unique, but not entirely unexpected. For Djokovic and Federer though, there was always heat in between the indifferent handshakes at the net, and the subtly spiteful comments in the press. Their families and fans would feud, and their matches would often be combative. Both, in their own way, clashed to be the for the title of the greatest.
On Friday, however, Djokovic showed how much Federer meant to him and the game. The Serb played no part in the pageantry, but was enthusiastically seen and heard in the background.
He cheered on his greatest rivals, took out his phone to record the memorable moments, passed on astute strategic and tactical advice during the changeovers, and was first in line when the rest of the field decided to lift him on their shoulders. Having held it together with a smile on his face for much of the occasion, the tears began to flow when he saw his rival take in the moment with his family, a most genuine display of emotion.
Shirts off for Fedal. #LaverCup | @usopen | @cameroncheers pic.twitter.com/D8NGhBiP7E
— Laver Cup (@LaverCup) September 23, 2022
It is safe to say Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic – along with Andy Murray who beat the Swiss 11 times, and between 2012 and 2016, turned the ‘Big Three’ into the ‘Big Four’ – changed tennis forever. Any sport’s most memorable moments are produced when its greatest athletes clash, and for the grand trio to have met an astonishing 149 times in total, as the best players in the world playing on the grandest stage, defined a generation.
For Federer, there is not much left to say that has not already been said in the outpouring of love he has received in the week since he announced his retirement. His success transformed a sport that had niche viewership in America and Europe into a global powerhouse, and his absence will leave a crater that will not be filled anytime soon.
As far as send-offs go, Federer perhaps got the greatest that one could in professional sports. There was a teary-eyed ceremony, a tribute video from some of the game’s greatest, and plenty of fanfare. But for an athlete, to say goodbye to his stage as his greatest rivals came together in celebration of his greatness and shed tears at the thought of his loss, it could not get any better. | https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/tennis/for-roger-federer-the-most-enduring-testament-to-his-greatness-will-be-the-love-his-rivals-had-for-him-8170767/ | 2022-09-24T16:24:01 | en | 0.982252 |
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DeSantis declares emergency as storm expected to hit Florida
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 strength.
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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AP reporter Julie Walker contributed to this report from New York.
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The Artemis 1 moon mission has been delayed, not once, not twice, but now three times.
The launch was scheduled for Tuesday, but NASA announced on Saturday that it had decided to postpone the mission in response to Tropical Storm Ian, which threatens to hit Florida next week as a hurricane. The Kennedy Space Center is located on Florida's east coast.
The space agency said the decision was made to protect its employees and the needs of their families while also maintaining a possible future opportunity if weather predictions improve.
The launch was originally scheduled for Aug. 29 and then again on Sept. 3 but continued to be postponed because of rocket malfunctions.
During the first effort, one of the spaceship's four engines didn't seem to cool down to the proper temperature of about minus-420 degrees Fahrenheit.
After evaluating the problem further, officials said the engine was in good condition. Rather, it was a sensor that was malfunctioning and simply giving a false temperature reading.
A few days later, crews working to fuel up the rocket detected a liquid hydrogen leak. Despite multiple attempts, they could not repair the leak in time for the launch.
The moon mission comes nearly 50 years after the last moon landing, Apollo 17. The name of the new exploration program comes from the Greek goddess and twin sister of Apollo. The space agency has vowed to eventually put the first woman and first person of color on the moon through the Artemis program.
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Officials in the Caribbean and Florida are warning residents to prepare for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ian, an intensifying storm that's expected to grow into a hurricane over the weekend.
The weather system currently churning southeast of Jamaica was declared a tropical storm Friday night and is projected to hit populated areas with heavy rains and high winds starting Sunday.
Jamaica is under a tropical storm watch and the Cayman Islands, which sit directly in Ian's projected path, are under a hurricane watch, according to the National Hurricane Center.
A number of hurricane shelters were open on the Cayman Islands, and Premier Wayne Panton told residents to expect heavy rainfall, flooding and potential power outages.
"I ask that you remain calm. Preparation and caution are key to remaining safe," Panton said in a statement. "Please conclude your preparations as quickly as possible and plan to be safely sheltered by Sunday afternoon."
A storm surge could also cause coastal water levels on the Cayman Islands to rise 1 to 3 feet above typical tide heights.
The tropical storm is then expected to move toward western Cuba on Monday before continuing north over the Florida Keys and the peninsula. NASA on Saturday announced a delay in its planned launch of the Artemis 1 uncrewed moon mission, which had been set for Tuesday, because of the approaching storm.
The National Weather Service said there was "increasing confidence" that Ian would produce life-threatening conditions, including storm surge, hurricane-force winds and rainfall flooding.
Up to 12 inches of rain could fall in some areas, with flash flooding and mudslides possible in Jamaica and Cuba.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 24 counties in Florida — putting the Florida National Guard on standby — and 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."
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TIJUANA, Mexico — My parents had never heard of the American dream when they came to the United States from Mexico in the early '80s, but they wanted what it supposedly offered. They were after a better life with more work opportunities.
Four decades later, they are intimately familiar with the concept and say they attained their version of the dream. My dad says he has a family, a home and a better life than he could have had in Mexico.
My sisters and I benefited from our parents' aspirations, too. In Spanglish, my mom says, "Ustedes vinieron a succeed, no para sobrevivir." In other words, we are here to succeed, not to survive.
There are migrants today seeking a similar dream, but with less say in how that happens. Last week, migrants were flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, saying they were promised jobs that never existed and that they were lied to about their destination.
The so-called American dream remains a compelling tale among migrants south of the border, but the objective has shifted. For many, simply trying to stay alive is what's driving them towards the United States.
Migrants are waiting longer and face instant rejection by the U.S.
In a cramped shelter with a tin roof and rows of tents lined up side-to-side, Jesús Ariel puts on his shoes to start the day while his seven-year-old son blows bubbles and tries to keep them afloat.
"We left our home to try to realize that dream," he says.
The pair is staying at Movimiento Juventud 2000 — one of about 20 migrant shelters in Tijuana — while they wait for their chance to enter the U.S. to ask for asylum. They fled here from Honduras after Jesús Ariel was attacked by gang members.
"Honestly, things are very dangerous there. But thank God, I am here," he says. "We came with the dream to accomplish something, at least have a little house."
The shelter they currently call home is in Tijuana's Zona Norte red light district — a section of the city where prostitution is legal and cartels are known to operate. Still, Jesús Ariel says he feels comfortable here because he and his son sleep together in their own tent. While they've only been at this shelter for a few days, they have been in Mexico for more than a year.
This is not unusual, says Rafael Fernández de Castro, the director at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego.
"In the past, shelters were for migrants to stay three or four or five days and then come across to the U.S.," he says. "Now it's different. In the shelters, migrants are staying months, even years."
The reasons are varied. Some people are waiting on legal appointments, while others have applied for asylum in the U.S. and that process can now drag out for months. Tijuana has become one of the main hubs for migrants to wait.
Many have already tried to cross the border but have been turned back because of Title 42. The pandemic public health order invoked under President Trump — and still in place under President Biden — prevents migrants from asking for asylum at the border, and instead allows border agents to swiftly expel them from the U.S. without hearing their claim.
There were nearly 1.8 million expulsions of migrants during the first two years of the policy. The recidivism rate of those trying to cross increased from 7% in 2019 to 27% in 2021.
Jesús Ariel and his son are among those recidivists who have tried to cross more than once. For them, there's too much on the line to give up now.
Migrants across Tijuana often speak of gang violence, death threats or extortion as their reason for leaving their homes, and why they fear going back. It's hard to calculate how many migrants are currently living in Tijuana, since they are constantly moving, but Fernández de Castro estimates there are about 35,000 migrants here hoping to be granted asylum in the U.S.
"It's very difficult to separate the fear from the economic need," he says of their motivation. "I will say both of them come together."
But the American dream won't become a reality for everyone.
There were more than 280,000 applications for asylum filed in the U.S. in 2020, the latest year with data. Fewer than 32,000 individuals were granted it.
It's a perilous journey that can end in a mass grave
Not everyone buys into the American dream. Lourdes Lizardi believes it is a lie. The migrant activist has spent the past 28 years helping people find refuge in Tijuana, and she has seen hopes fade when confronted with a sometimes cruel reality.
"They come looking for that famous American dream that sometimes turns into a hellish dream," she says.
Lizardi says the situation has become increasingly dangerous for migrants over the past 15 years, particularly as the cartels have grown in power and influence.
Before, she says, migrants would occasionally fall victim to crime in Tijuana. Now, they are the target, as cartels see them as easy prey for drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping. Four shelters in Tijuana have recently installed panic buttons that migrants can press to warn of danger nearby.
Lizardi has seen people die on their journey to the U.S. and doesn't believe the pursuit is worth the risk. Just this month, eight migrants were found dead as they attempted to cross near Eagle Pass, TX.
Those who die in the state of Baja California end up in Dr. Cesar Raúl González Vaca's medical lab. He is the director of the forensic service in the state, which receives about 1,600 bodies each year found in Tijuana, Mexicali and Tecate.
"These are border cities where we frequently find bodies that have a link to migration, and who die trying to cross or due to other violent causes," Vaca says.
Most often the bodies belong to people from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and central Mexico. When they aren't claimed by family and friends, they end up in mass graves. In Tijuana, 10 bodies are buried together in a single grave, and about 120 graves are added every year.
In recent years, Vaca's lab has begun keeping better records of where bodies are buried in the event that someone does come looking for their loved one's remains.
But for those who can't be identified, their journey from faraway places across Central and South America ends with their anonymous bodies dropped into mass graves in a dusty field on the outskirts of Tijuana, with no trace for their families to ever find.
Parents are making impossible decisions
Inside the Embajadores de Jesús shelter at the end of a bumpy dirt road in Tijuana, kids are playing loudly. On top of sleeping cots, they smile and dance to rhythmic beats blasting out of loudspeakers. Outside, others shoot marbles on the dirt road, game faces on.
They're all in their own world. That is, until they have to decide what shoes they're going to take with them on the journey to the U.S.
That's what Daniel Gutierrez's seven-year-old daughter had to consider one morning: Would her shoes, which fit a little loose, be comfortable enough to continue walking up and down hills?
"And it hit us really hard that morning, because we didn't imagine she would be thinking about that, feeling that anxiety that we would be trying to cross again," he says.
The family is preparing for their third attempt asking for asylum, but Gutierrez says he and his wife never anticipated the psychological trauma their children would take on.
Gutierrez and his family are also escaping gang violence. Their business was being extorted back home in Guatemala, and after a gang didn't get their way, they received death threats. They are seeking safety but no longer want to compromise their children's mental health. Gutierrez and his wife have promised their kids this will be their final attempt to get into the United States.
"We're not looking for anything luxurious," Gutierrez says. "All we really want is to give our kids a better education."
While they would like to make this reality come true in the U.S., they will settle for Tijuana as their new home.
Back at the Movimiento Juventud 2000 shelter, Sarai Raudales is also concerned about her children.
She escaped Honduras with her husband and two small children after facing threats on two fronts: her husband's mechanic shop was facing extortion by a local gang, and her children received death threats after her ex-husband killed a police officer.
Raudales had less than four hours to leave her home after they received the death threats. They grabbed what they could and took the first bus headed towards Mexico. On such little notice, Raudales says she couldn't afford bus tickets for the whole family, and she feared her 12-year-old daughter would be kidnapped or forced into sex trafficking along the way — so the decision was made to leave her behind with family. "I'm afraid I won't get the chance to see her again," Raudales says. "I'm afraid they'll also retaliate against her because I left with the little ones."
Raudales is determined to do whatever it takes to keep her children safe, even if that means giving them up.
"If I wasn't able to cross, I'd let the [United States] government keep my kids so it could take care of them," she says. "Because in Honduras [the gangs] are going to kill them. So, as a mother, I just want them to be safe."
"Most of us come because we're fleeing. Because we're all in difficult situations. In other words, nobody wants to leave their home."
Raudales wishes Americans understood that it's not an easy choice.
"Many of you feel safe at home where you grew up, where you were born," she says. "When we left, I left my mother, my brothers, everyone. And I don't know if I can see them again."
There are some offering a Mexican dream
American life has been imperfect, but my parents say they chose the right dream for themselves. Others, like Daniel Gutierrez's family, might have that decision made for them, and instead have to create a new life south of the border.
Lourdes Lizardi, the migrant activist, says this might not be the worst thing.
"The whole world is still chasing the American dream," she says, "When there are Mexican dreams, Canadian dreams, Chinese dreams, all these other dreams."
Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero Ramírez also encourages migrants to choose her city as the place to call home, and tries to assure them that she can maintain peace and safety.
"[The American dream] has been romanticized a lot," she says. "We need to tell the citizens of the world that these dreams can be built wherever you are."
"I think Tijuana is a safe city. We do not have the peace that we would like in the whole country, I would be lying to you if I said that, but we are going for stability."
For some, Tijuana may offer enough safety and stability to build a content life. But others will keep trying, no matter what, to reach that famous American dream.
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ROME — If polling is correct, Italians will elect their country's most right-wing government since the end of World War II on Sunday. That's no small matter in a country that has had 69 governments since 1946.
Leading the coalition that looks likely to secure a majority of seats in Italy's parliament is Giorgia Meloni, leader of Fratelli d'Italia, the Brothers of Italy party.
If her coalition does win, she will also make history by becoming Italy's first female prime minister.
Meloni, 45, grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Rome that's better known for cultivating leftist activists than producing fiery hard-right politicians. Her party has roots in the neo-fascist movement that emerged out of the ruins of World War II.
Symbols point to the party's connection to that past too. The party flag includes a tricolor flame that was a symbol of fascism in the early 20th century. Meloni has refused to remove the flame from the party's logo.
And many party members have shown an affinity for fascism and fascist leaders of the past. Just this week, the party suspended a member running for parliament after an Italian newspaper revealed he had posted comments supporting Adolf Hitler in the past.
Meloni has spent considerable time and energy trying to convince Italians and Europeans that the party is not fascist. When not on the radio or TV, she is on the road, creating videos she streams live and posts to all her social media platforms.
Meloni's Twitter feed is full of dozens of scenes that look nearly identical. They all show her as she takes the stage in various Italian cities, to the adoring cheers of supporters holding Brothers of Italy flags.
Meloni's opposition to immigration has animated her and her base
In August, Meloni posted a video on social media saying she would introduce a naval blockade to patrol the Mediterranean, to interdict people whom she called "illegal immigrants" from North Africa.
"What is important in the campaign is not the policy itself. It's the message — 'we will stop them at any cost,'" says historian Lorenzo Castellani, a professor at Rome's LUISS University. "She is proposing herself as a sort of defender of the borders, a very Trumpian approach from this point of view," Castellani says, referring to former President Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and policies.
Even as she spends energy trying to dispense with the fascism label, Meloni also serves up red meat to the party faithful. At a recent event, she was yelling about the years of shame many have felt for holding what she often calls "anti-woke" opinions.
"I have a dream of a nation in which people who have had to put their heads down for so many years ... can now say what they think and not lose their jobs because of it," Meloni said.
A conservative in a moderate's clothing?
Some Italians fear a Meloni-led government would move to outlaw abortion, legal in Italy since 1978. Meloni says she will not.
Meloni has long been a Euroskeptic — and in the past has talked about taking Italy out of the common currency, the euro, and even of leaving the European Union. But she has repeatedly promised she'll work with the EU and can be trusted to manage the 200 billion euros ($194 billion) Italy has received in European pandemic recovery funds.
That assurance was called into question on Thursday, when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned there could be consequences for Italy, the EU's third-largest economy, if it moves in an anti-democratic direction after the election.
Meloni has long insisted that she has no plans to go soft on Russia and has supported Ukraine since war broke out in February. But one of her coalition partners, Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has a long friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and appeared on an Italian talk show Thursday, saying Putin invaded Ukraine to put "decent people" in power in Kyiv.
It's not clear if this could damage Meloni's coalition's prospects at this late hour, but her opponent, former Prime Minister Enrico Letta, the head of Italy's center-left Democratic Party, has repeatedly said on the campaign trail, "If the right wins, the first person to be happy will be Vladimir Putin."
An astute political operative
With Italians facing spiraling energy costs, inflation and a lackluster economy, Meloni, whose party only won 4% of the vote in the last election, has positioned herself as an outsider who will shake things up.
Political writer Federico Fubini, a Meloni critic, says she was astute to sit out of the national unity government that just collapsed. It created a big opening.
"The main reason why she's leading in the polls is because she's perceived as the one that was not in power for the last 10 years," he says.
If Meloni's coalition does win and she is named prime minister, she'll take office almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini took power in Rome. She insists his ideology is in the past. Many Italians and Europeans hope she'll stick to her word.
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ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts.
But this is a lithium mine.
The pools are filled with salty groundwater that contains lithium. It's a key component in the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, solar panels and other green technologies.
"It's really, really a beautiful place," says Marcelo Valdebenito, a public relations officer for Albemarle Corp., the Charlotte, N.C.-based chemical company that operates the mine. "This is the lithium that powers the world."
Indeed, the world is hungry for the silvery-white metal. The International Energy Agency is projecting a more than 40-fold increase in demand for lithium by 2040. Lithium prices have hit record highs this year.
Despite growing concerns about the environmental impact of lithium extraction, skyrocketing demand is good news for mining companies in Chile. The South American country is the second-largest lithium producer after Australia. And Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are known as the "lithium triangle," together holding more than half of the world's proven lithium reserves.
Annual production at the Albemarle mine has increased from 22,000 tons to 84,000 tons since 2016, says Ignacio Mehech, the company's country manager in Chile.
"We are growing as the demand is growing and today we are a much bigger company," Mehech told NPR, adding that the company now has 1,000 employees in Chile, up from 250 five years ago.
South America could power up
Even so, the region's lithium output is just a fraction of what it could be, leading to fears of an eventual bottleneck in world supplies.
Bolivian President Luis Arce has pledged to make his country "the world capital of lithium" and supply 40% of global demand for the metal by 2030. But due to technological challenges and community resistance, as well as heavy state intervention in the economy, the industry has been slow to develop. Production in Bolivia remains negligible.
Economic turmoil has kept Argentina from opening more mines.
Meanwhile, Chile has high taxes and strict mining regulations, says Mehech. The red tape for production permits involves securing approval from the nation's nuclear energy commission since the metal can be used in nuclear power and weapons.
"It is very difficult and that's why you don't see more lithium companies in Chile," Mehech says of Albemarle, which he says is one of just two companies producing lithium in Chile.
Mining raises environmental concerns
But some Chileans prefer a go-slow approach.
They include microbiologist Cristina Dorador, who has spent years studying the salt flats of the Atacama Desert. She says lithium mines extract huge amounts of groundwater. Ten-times saltier than seawater, this brine is then placed in enormous evaporation pools. After 18 months, the resulting 6% lithium solution is then turned into a white lithium powder and exported for use in batteries.
Dorador says removing so much groundwater will inevitably make the Atacama Desert — home to Chile's lithium mines — hotter and drier. She recently co-authored an investigation linking lithium mining to an 11% reduction in the local flamingo population over the past decade.
"With so much pressure from the world to produce more lithium," she says, "the price is going to be paid by Chile's environment."
Why not make the batteries, too?
Another critic is Andrés Díaz, who directs the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at Diego Portales University in Santiago, the Chilean capital. Instead of just lithium, he thinks Chile should produce and export higher-valued lithium-ion batteries that the country currently imports from Asia at a steep cost.
To move in that direction, Albemarle signed an agreement with the Chilean government to spend $300 million on research and development here by 2043.
"For us, it doesn't make any sense to export lithium and then buy from other countries batteries with a material that we produced at the very beginning," Díaz says.
Mehech acknowledges that lithium mining uses a lot of groundwater but claims the tradeoff is worth it. He points out that the amount of water required to produce enough lithium for an electric car battery is about the same amount needed to produce a half pound of beef or 11 avocados.
The avocados, he says, will last for just a few days, "but a lithium battery lasts for 10 years and then you can recycle it."
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Pharoah Sanders, the revered and influential tenor saxophonist who explored and extended the boundaries of his instrument, notably alongside John Coltrane in the 1960s, died on Saturday morning in Los Angeles. His death was announced in a post on social media by the record label Luaka Bop, which had released his celebrated 2021 album Promises and confirmed by a publicist who worked on the release. Sanders was 81 years old.
Spirit was the overwhelming force in Sanders' music: It emanated from his tenor and soprano saxophones in fiery blasts or a murmuring flicker, and it suffused his ensembles, which featured several generations of improvisers equally willing to dig in or soar free. "Sanders has consistently had bands that could not only create a lyrical near-mystical Afro-Eastern world," wrote one champion, the poet-critic Amiri Baraka, "but [also] sweat hot fire music in continuing display of the so-called 'energy music' of the '60s."
That combination of traits characterized Sanders' defining solo work of the '70s on Impulse! Records, which had been Coltrane's label home, and was still a welcoming harbor for experimentalism. Among these albums are Black Unity, consisting of one album-length improvisation, and Thembi, which nudges a post-Coltrane language into the realm of Afrocentric groove.
Sanders' single best-known piece of music is "The Creator Has a Master Plan," an expansive performance from 1969 that peaks in wailing cacophony but ends with a buoyant, soulful vocal refrain. Originally split across two sides of the 1969 LP Karma, the track was later issued on CD as a single track, nearly 33 minutes long.
Pharoah was born Ferrell Sanders on Oct. 13, 1940, in Little Rock, Ark. His love of music began at home, through his choir-leading grandfather. After high school — and a switch from the clarinet to the alto saxophone, before finally settling into the tenor sax — Sanders moved to the West Coast around 1959, attending Oakland Junior College, expanding his musical palette and pursuing the horizon, sitting in with avant-garde saxophonists like Sonny Simmons and Dewey Redman. While there, Sanders first met and befriended John Coltrane, though they wouldn't work together until many years later.
In 1961, Sanders relocated to New York, looking to join the city's fecund jazz scene, where Coltrane was a reigning figure. Sanders' landing in New York was rocky, however, resulting in intermittent homelessness as he practiced, sporadically, with Sun Ra and his Arkestra. (Sun Ra, it's said, was the one who encouraged him to take the name Pharoah.) Eventually, he was forced to pawn his horn.
Sanders' fortunes in New York slowly but surely turned around as he established a solo career, and by 1965 he was a member of what would be Coltrane's final quartet. Ascension, recorded in 1965 and released the following year, was a late-in-life turning point for Coltrane and, by extension, Sanders, who would become known for using his instrument in novel — anarchic and atonal — ways. Last year, Impulse! released the archival recording A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, recorded a few months after Ascension; it features Sanders as a vital addition to Coltrane's quartet, expanding on his most heralded musical statement. (Live in Seattle, a separate album recorded during the same engagement, had long been a touchstone for an avant-garde left to forge the path ahead after Coltrane's death in '67.)
Even given his pioneering work, Sanders downplayed his technical achievements in favor of the emotional resonance he was seeking. "I'm not so much of a technical player myself," Sanders explained in a 1995 interview. "I'm probably not that much of an intellectual player, as some other musicians. What I do is... express. That's what I do."
Sanders' stature grew beyond the jazz avant-garde space as he became something of a spiritual elder, and his expressiveness survived in new contexts. In 2021, he released the album Promises in collaboration with the electronic musician Sam Shepherd, who records as Floating Points, and the London Symphony Orchestra that was widely and immediately hailed as one of the year's best. A patient and meditative album, it sometimes feels like a structure built for the sole purpose of allowing Sanders' voice and saxophone to levitate.
For many years, the jazz establishment lagged behind the African American community in appreciating Sanders' work, especially apart from his affiliation with Coltrane. But the power of his example and the sweep of his music helped set the framework for an ascendant class of artists like tenor saxophonists Kamasi Washington, James Brandon Lewis and Nubya Garcia, and multi-reedist Shabaka Hutchings.
"I find it difficult to regard Pharoah Sanders as an individual," wrote Hutchings in an appreciation of Black Unity for The Vinyl Factory. "I intuitively consider him as representational of a creative principle that centers communalism as the driving force from which spirit is manifested through sound."
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PORTLAND, Maine — Maine is one of the least diverse states in the nation, and the fishermen in its famed lobster industry reflect that demographic reality. But this summer, a small group of Black young men started to learn the trade.
At 15, Cristiano Silva thought he might spend the summer working at a McDonald's near his home on the outskirts of Portland, Maine, and help with household expenses.
Instead, he found himself on a lobster boat called the Sea Smoke, out among Casco Bay's rocky islands. One breezy day on the boat last month, Cris scrunched his nose and placed a fist-size mesh bait bag full of smelly herring inside a wire lobster trap.
"I like it, I like it. The only thing I can't stand is the smell of the fish," he says. "I'm not going to lie. That's what's kind of kicked my butt. I can't handle it right now."
Cris was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and he was still a toddler when his mother emigrated here a decade ago. This spring he and three other Black teens were recruited from area high schools to learn how to lobster in a new program called "Lift All Boats."
Guided by experienced volunteers, the young men started from scratch. They spent their first day painting foam buoys in distinctive bright colors, tying them to traps and then heading out into the bay and dropping them to the seafloor.
Every week after, they went back out to haul up the traps to see what they caught.
"The whole thing that's a little tricky is getting the, what's called the buoy out of the water," Cris says, as he angles a hooked pole off the boat's side to catch a buoy line. "'Cause sometimes, right, it's a weird angle and you kind of miss it."
Luke's Lobster co-founder shows them the ropes
Capt. Jeff Holden, a volunteer with the program, shows the students how, once they get ahold of the buoy lines, they can thread them into an electric pulley that helps to bring the attached lobster traps up from the sea.
"Don't get your fingers caught between here and the hauler, 'cause it'll pull your hand right into the hauler," he warns. "You can actually cut a finger off if you're not careful."
Holden is a longtime fisherman and lobster dealer who with his son Luke and partner Ben Conniff founded the Luke's Lobster company in 2009.
Conniff says that Maine's seafood packing plants are some of the most diverse places in the state, with many immigrant workers from Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.
"But when you think about that most-prized job in the industry — getting to go out and catch those lobsters yourself, you don't see any diversity," Conniff says. "You see a sea of white."
Conniff says that's not been driven by deliberate racism, but by the geographic isolation of Maine's coastal communities and by conservation policies that limit available commercial lobstering licenses to discourage overfishing.
There are more than 6,500 licenses issued, although the number of boats actively fishing is far fewer. Many lobstermen in the year-round fishery hold onto their licenses even when they aren't actively harvesting.
Lobstering can be a lucrative trade to learn
Lobster populations appear to be dropping off from historic highs a few years ago, and the industry is under pressure from conservationists and federal regulators to radically reduce the use of trap rope that can entangle critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
Still, in a good year it can be a very lucrative enterprise: In 2021, when pandemic-driven market trends were driving up seafood prices in general, Maine harvesters landed lobster worth a record $725 million.
The only way to avoid years on the state's waiting list for a commercial license is to start an apprenticeship by the age of 18, logging 1,000 hours on the water.
That usually means a kid from a coastal lobstering community, where a father, aunt, or friend of the family is an active lobsterman and willing to make a place on their boat.
"There just is not access for someone who's not already an industry insider," Conniff says.
That's where Conniff and his company are trying to play a new role, by putting a boat and gear and fishing expertise specifically at the service of young Mainers of color.
They worked with schoolteachers like Halima Noor to recruit the program's first class.
"I had never heard of a lobsterman that was a person of color," she says.
Noor, who was born in Somalia, says the doors of opportunity don't always swing wide for young Black people in Maine — although she's not expecting the lobstering program to change the world.
"But if they're just like, 'We got to do something that no other kid of color in Maine got to do and this was great, guys,' I'd be like 'Thank you, that's all I wanted for you to get,' " Noor says
The oldest of the apprentice lobstermen, 17-year-old Joshua Lamour, is a promising football player who's excited about college recruiters who've been turning up lately. But he says the lobstering experience is also opening new ways to think about his future.
"And also just being alone out on the ocean sometimes, just doing your job and getting work done and you're really focused on nothing else," he says. "You can leave everything else behind. It's good. It's very therapeutic, I think."
Josh and Cris both emphasize that a key part of their decision to join the program was the prospect of getting paid for their share of the catch.
Although, it's actually been a tough year that way. The price that harvesters got at the dock remained stubbornly low this season. Cris notes that the price can seesaw pretty wildly.
"Now it's like $5 per pound, so it's like a little disappointing," he said that day at sea in August. "So it really depends on how lucky you get. ... Last time I was pretty lucky. I got some good ones. I made some good money."
On that particular day, there was still some fishing luck in the offing. As they hauled glistening lobster traps up from the sea, Josh, Cris and the other students were frequently rewarded by the sight of keeper-size lobster scrabbling around inside.
"Ooh, this one's so heavy, I caught so many lobsters," Cris says.
"Ohhh, big catch here, baby" Josh observes.
Cris and Josh say they will encourage siblings and schoolmates to join the program next summer. They plan to attend again, too, and they are even talking about getting a small boat and going into business together.
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Annual Festival Brings Together Farmers, Advocates and Artists Working to Build a Resilient and Sustainable Food System
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Against the backdrop of an urgent climate crisis, Farm Aid 2022 highlighted both the ways that family farmers in North Carolina, the Southeast and across the country are impacted by this crisis and the positive ways in which they are addressing it―sequestering carbon and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.
At the sold-out festival at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, North Carolina, Farm Aid President and Founder Willie Nelson praised family farmers for displaying tenacity and grit in the midst of mounting climate-related obstacles.
"By bringing Farm Aid back to North Carolina we can showcase what family farmers do to benefit everyone, thanks to their on-farm practices," said Nelson. "Family farmers have an intimate relationship with the earth's soil and water. By investing in the long-term health of our soil, water and climate, farmers give back to the land that brings good food to all of us."
Joining Nelson on stage were Farm Aid board members John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews (performing with Tim Reynolds) and Margo Price, as well as Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Allison Russell, Charley Crockett, Brittney Spencer, Particle Kid, the Wisdom Indian Dancers, and the Red Clay Singers, who all donated their time and talent for the 10-hour show.
The daylong festival kicked off with a conversation between artists and farmers about climate change and the future of farms and food. At the morning press event, a diverse group of farmers and food producers shared their stories of how unpredictable and devastating weather patterns, exacerbated by climate change, put their land and crops at risk. Yet despite the hardships, each farmer described the ways they use regenerative agricultural practices, like pasturing livestock, farming organically and increasing biodiversity on their farms, to help lessen the impact of climate change on their own farms and across our country.
"Farmers stand on the frontlines of climate change and are all too familiar with its consequences," said Farm Aid Executive Director Carolyn Mugar. "At the same time, family farmers are the best resources we have to minimize the toll of climate change. All of us need to support proactive farm and food policies that support climate-resilient family farmers and ranchers as they steward our soil and strengthen our food system."
On Thursday, Farm Aid gathered farmers, climate and environmental justice advocates, activists and policymakers to dig into the challenges farmers face as a result of our urgent climate crisis, as well as the solutions they bring to fight climate change. The event was hosted at historic Raleigh City Market Hall, built in 1914 as Raleigh's First Farmer's Market. On Friday, Farm Aid hosted two farm tours to Raleigh- and Durham-area farms and a screening of "The Smell of Money," a documentary film that illuminates the impact of industrial hog farms on North Carolina communities.
On Friday, Farm Aid community members were honored with the Spirit of Farm Aid award for their dedication to the organization and family farmers. Awardees included long-time Farm Aid show producer Charlie Hernandez and his wife and co-conspirator Andrea Fulkerson; artist Tim Reynolds who has performed with Dave Matthews each year since 2007; volunteer Adam Baker; Fairmont, North Carolina farmer Craig Watts; and farmer advocate Savi Horn of the Land Loss Prevention Project.
Farm Aid's HOMEGROWN Village featured hands-on activities to celebrate agriculture and give festivalgoers a chance to meet farmers in person and learn how they enrich our soil, protect our water, grow our economy and bring us good food for good health. Local and national organizations participated, and attendees learned about gleaning and re-localizing food systems to prevent avoidable food waste; discovered North Carolina local farms, markets and farm products; and tested their food and farm knowledge in games, while learning about the dangers of corporate consolidation.
Throughout the day, artists and farmers joined together on the FarmYard stage to discuss challenges and opportunities in agriculture, including climate change, farmer mental health, food policy and Native agriculture.
Farm Aid's HOMEGROWN Concessions® presented menu items made with ingredients that meet Farm Aid's HOMEGROWN criteria: (1) produced by family farmers, (2) utilizing ecological practices and (3) with farmers receiving a fair price for their products. Food choices included North Carolina pasture-raised beef burgers, hot dogs pulled pork and links; local dairy soft serve, heritage Motherland Okra in a grains, beans and greens bowl; heirloom tomato sandwiches on bread from North Carolina-grown organic wheat; shrimp and grits, North Carolina-caught fish; and organic red beans and Charleston Gold brown rice salad. Youth from two local FFA chapters and the National Grange staffed a HOMEGROWN Youthmarket to sell local apples, peaches and muscadine grapes to festivalgoers.
Festivalgoers and fans tuning in at home can catch the whole show live on FarmAid.org, Farm Aid's YouTube channel and DISH's Facebook page beginning at 11 a.m. ET with―for the first time―the Farm Aid press event.
"Farm Aid 2022" will air on Circle Network at 7 p.m. ET, as well as on its Facebook, Twitter and TikTok pages. SiriusXM subscribers are also able to listen to Farm Aid 2022 on Willie's Roadhouse (channel 59) and Dave Matthews Band Radio (channel 30) via SiriusXM radios and on the SXM App. The coverage also featured a behind-the-scenes look at the Farm Aid festival in Raleigh and the organization's year-round work to strengthen family farm agriculture.
Sponsors of Farm Aid 2022 included DISH Network, Patagonia Workwear, Coastal Credit Union Foundation, Moink, Spindrift, Frontier Co-Op, Institute for Emerging Issues and Deep River Brewing Company.
Farm Aid will continue to offer rare and unique artist-signed and other memorabilia items, including guitars, albums and prints, with proceeds to benefit Farm Aid. The silent auction will run online at farmaid.org/auction through Oct. 7.
Farm Aid's mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price host an annual festival to raise funds to support Farm Aid's work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. Since 1985, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised more than $64 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.
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TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Van Rensselaer Manor is a 362-bed senior nursing and rehabilitation facility. They currently serve 270 Capital Region residents, 80 are long-term care memory patients.
Saturday morning, they conducted a missing resident drill in collaboration with Rensselaer County law enforcement agencies and K-9s from the Rensselaer County Search and Rescue Team. “If this was an actual missing person, we’d have fire, we’d have state police, drones, we would have everything going including multiple dogs, it would be all hands on deck,” Steve McLaughlin, Rensselaer County Executive, said. “You have to keep your skills sharp no matter what.”
The bloodhound followed the scent of a volunteer staff member, tracing them to the wooded area neighboring the senior center and locating them before bringing them back to command inside the building. The drill helps facility staff prepare for real-life scenarios. John Wasielewski, Assistant Administrator for Van Rensselaer Manor, said patients who go missing can pose a serious danger to themselves.
“They’re often not properly dressed for the environment,” Wasielewski said. “Underclothed be it hot weather, cold weather, or rain, they often want to seek their former homes, they don’t know where those homes are but they want to get there.”
The center has additional preparations in place if a search takes longer than 24 hours. Wasielewski said collaboration between the senior center and law enforcement agency is crucial to successfully find missing residents. “We have additional resources we can count on such as volunteer fire departments, state police, aviation drones that are available to us in case this did become a larger situation,” Wasielewski said. | https://www.news10.com/news/van-rensselaer-manor-holds-missing-resident-search-drill/ | 2022-09-24T16:29:16 | en | 0.96226 |
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