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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-2-8, FIREBALL: 2
(one, two, eight; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-2-8, FIREBALL: 2
(one, two, eight; FIREBALL: two)
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Communal tension gripped a village here after a 20-year-old woman succumbed to injuries she suffered in an alleged attack on Monday by two men during a molestation attempt, police said. She died on Friday at her home, police added.
The woman was allegedly attacked by the two men, who belong to a different community, with sharp-edged weapons.
After her death, police added charges of culpable homicide to the original FIR, which was filed after the incident. A police outpost in-charge has been suspended for not heeding the family’s complaint, in which they alleged that the woman was molested.
“Section 324 of IPC (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and 304 of IPC (Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) have been added following the police investigations into the case and the woman’s death on Friday, and that the two accused have been arrested,” Kheri police said in a press statement on Saturday.
Police said they came to know about the “distortion” in the FIR after a video of the family members alleging so surfaced on the social media. “Through social media on Saturday, it came to their notice that the family members alleged distortion of their complaint, following which the concerned outpost in-charge has been suspended,” police said.
They said that the investigation of the case has been assigned to Additional Superintendent of Police Arun Kumar Singh.
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A former White House aide told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sought a pardon from former President Trump over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into sex trafficking allegations against him, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the testimony.
Former Trump aide Johnny McEntee said Gaetz told him he had asked former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for a preemptive pardon, the Post reported. McEntee told the committee that he understood the pardon to be in connection with the DOJ probe.
The Justice Department is investigating allegations that Gaetz paid for sex, paid for women to travel across state lines to have sex and had a sexual relationship with a minor. Gaetz denies the allegations.
The committee previously showed McEntee saying in a videotaped deposition that Gaetz told him he asked Meadows for a pardon during a June hearing.
It also presented testimony from other former Trump aides naming Gaetz as one of several Republican lawmakers who sought pardons from Trump. Gaetz and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) advocated for a “blanket pardon” for lawmakers who participated in a December 2020 meeting where efforts to overturn the election were discussed, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified. When asked by the committee if Gaetz was seeking a pardon, Eric Herschmann, a former Trump White House attorney, responded in a taped deposition that he believed so and that Gaetz’s pardon request was “for any and all things.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a member of the committee, also presented an email from Brooks in which the Alabama congressman requested presidential pardons for himself, Gaetz, and lawmakers who objected to the Electoral College vote for Arizona and Pennsylvania.
However, McEntee’s testimony as reported by the Post is the first to indicate that Gaetz sought a pardon in connection with the Justice Department’s investigation into the sex trafficking allegations, though there has been speculation.
The New York Times reported in April 2021 that Gaetz had sought a blanket pardon from Trump in the last weeks of his presidency, noting this came as the congressman was being investigated by the DOJ for allegedly violating sex trafficking laws. Trump denied the allegations that Gaetz had directly asked for a blanket pardon.
“Congressman Matt Gaetz discussed pardons for many other people publicly and privately at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term,” a spokesperson for Gaetz said in a statement. “As for himself, President Trump addressed this malicious rumor more than a year ago stating, ‘Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon.’ Rep. Gaetz continues to stand by President Trump’s statement.”
The Jan. 6 committee and Trump’s team did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Last week, a wild bear and its cub were spotted roaming in Srinagar localities, prompting police to ask residents to stay indoors. Wildlife officials later captured the animals in 21 hours. Rashid Naqash, regional wildlife warden, Kashmir, on how the department swings into action when they spot a wild animal in a residential area
It is quite common in our urban and suburban cities, towns and villages to spot bears. We often get reports of wild animals roaming around in residential areas.
The department is usually alerted through phone calls or a social media SOS. Sometimes, the police or the district administration gets the information and forwards it to the nearest wildlife control room.
As we get the information, our staff, equipped with physical and chemical restraint equipment, reaches the spot. Our first priority is to keep people away, which can be pretty challenging. There have been instances when the crowd overpowered our staff and the situation turned ugly.
If the animal is taking shelter in a human settlement and we know the exact location, we restrain the animal chemically under the guidance of a trained veterinarian. If an animal is not observable, we map its track signs and other evidence.
We regularly issue advisories through media on the measures that need to be taken and publicise the list and contact number of the control rooms.
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Once the animal is sedated and captured using chemical and physical restraints, it is taken to the nearest rescue centre to execute a rehabilitation plan. At an appropriate time later, the animal is released back to its natural setting.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Some of the most loyal of Disney enthusiasts say one specific thing is keeping them from visiting Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando more often — they even say it’s causing “the Happiest Place on Earth” to completely lose its magic.
It’s the cost.
A family vacation to Walt Disney World Resort is more expensive than ever and fans are noticing, according to a new poll. The gambling website time2play recently released a study based on data from 1,927 “self-described Disney World enthusiasts” about the rising costs to visit the park.
According to the study, 92.6% of those surveyed believed the cost of a Disney World vacation is out of reach for an average family. Additionally, 68.3% of people said increases made it feel like the theme park has lost all its magic.
As of Tuesday, the cost for a standard one-park day ticket on Friday, Sept. 16 is $134, though prices of tickets vary by date. Standard Walt Disney World tickets range between $139 and $154 through October, according to Disney World’s website.
Almost 50% of respondents said they postponed a Disney World trip in recent years due to price increases.
According to a study by “Koala“, a company based in Brooklyn that connects vacationers with timeshare owners online, a single-day ticket Walt Disney World could cost $253.20 in just nine years.
When Walt Disney World Resort opened in 1971, a ticket cost only $3.50. Adjusting for inflation, that would be $22.61 today. According to Koala calculations, there has been an average price increase of 7.4% each year since the park opened.
Meanwhile, the cost for standard one-park day tickets at Disneyland, Disney’s California park, cost about $149 for Sept. 16. Standard Disneyland tickets range between $135 and $165 through the month of October, per Disneyland’s website.
Disney enthusiasts polled by time2play also said by a large majority (66.9%) that they felt they wouldn’t get a true Disney World experience if they didn’t pay for upgrades like the Genie+ service, which offers “Lighting Lanes” — which lets users wait in shorter lines for rides. Genie+ service is an extra $15 per person each day (though prices may vary), in addition to admission cost. Genie service doesn’t come complete with all Lightning Lanes, however. Guests must purchase even more lanes within the Genie app for full lane skipping.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new law in California will help military service members who were discharged under “don't ask, don't tell" policies because of their sexual or gender identities to reestablish their eligibility for Veterans Affairs benefits, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday.
“For decades, our bravest heroes, men and women who wore the uniforms of the armed services had to hide who they really were, and many were other than honorably discharged if their sexuality was discovered,” Newsom said in a statement after announcing he had signed the bill.
Gays and lesbians were banned in the military until the 1993 approval of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which allowed them to serve only if they did not openly acknowledge their sexual orientation. Rather than helping, advocates say, the policy created more problems. In its entire history, the military dismissed more than 100,000 service members based on their sexual or gender identities — 14,000 of them during “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Repeal of the law was approved by Congress and then President Barack Obama in late 2010 and took effect nine months later, allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual people to serve openly.
The Department of Defense subsequently created a path for veterans who had been discharged under the policy to receive the full range of veterans’ benefits.
“But many veterans sadly don’t know or can’t even access this important process,” Newsom said, adding that some veterans trying to reclaim benefits have had to hire expensive legal counsel and other assistance to navigate the process. “We’re taking steps to fix this.”
The law will require the California Department of Veteran Affairs to establish the Veterans Discharge Upgrade Grant Program to help advise LGBTQ veterans who were discharged under “don’t ask, don’t tell” and to help those who qualify to update and correct their records and access veterans’ benefits.
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WHEN HE was younger, Vikas Kaushal, 39, who heads the health division at Save the Children, experienced the stigma attached with tuberculosis first-hand, when his father was diagnosed with ocular (eye) TB.
“He was undergoing treatment, but we didn’t tell anyone for fear of what people in the mohalla would say,” he recalled.
Save the Children is among the many individuals, corporates and organisations who have signed up for the ‘Ni-kshay (End-TB) Mitra’ programme – the government’s initiative to rope in community support for the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan.
Kaushal said the organisation has adopted 145 children in Gurugram. “If everyone starts supporting TB patients and gets involved, it will help reduce the stigma,” he said.
He said they first started supporting children affected with TB in Uttar Pradesh, and then joined the initiative in Gurugram too. The programme is in line with the organisation’s aim to stop deaths in children due to preventable causes by 2030, he said.
Under the ‘Ni-kshay Mitra’ programme, individuals, NGOs and corporates can “adopt” TB patients by committing support – providing them nutrition, support for diagnostics, and vocational training for their family members. The government has said that it has already received commitments of support for almost all the 9.57 lakh patients who have agreed to be adopted.
While the health ministry has developed basic vegetarian and non-vegetarian options for the monthly nutrition baskets, Dr Shyamli Varshney, 45, from the office of the Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Panchkula, said she likes to include treats for the 11-year-old girl she started supporting in May.
“For the first two months, I gave money to the TB cell. From the third month, however, I started making the kit myself. In addition to the suggested cereals etc, I ensure that I put in something to excite her every month, like Bournvita, fruit jam, cheese, or mayonnaise. The TB treatment affects her taste, so I want her to feel motivated to eat,” said Varshney.
She said the kit costs her Rs 700-800 per month. “That is not too much for me and if it can bring a smile to someone’s face, it is amazing. I will continue to stay in touch with her and will also support others when her treatment ends,” she said.
Her colleague, Dilbagh Singh, 51, said when he heard that his office was starting a drive to provide nutritional support to TB patients, he jumped at the opportunity. “I immediately walked into the office of our DGHS and signed up to adopt two children. I thought it was my duty. When I met the children, it felt good. I tried to encourage them, told them that they should take their medicines regularly and should not be scared,” he said.
Singh and his colleagues collect money at the beginning of the month and purchase the food items in bulk. They then make the nutrition baskets, and hold an event on the 13th of each month to give them away.
For Vivek Singh, 46, who runs a tuition centre in Mirzapur, it was an extension of his work during the pandemic. “When there was mass migration of people across the country during the lockdown, I was out on the road providing them food and water. So, when a person I know reached out to me about a programme where I could support a TB patient, I readily agreed. I have seen a close friend deal with extremely painful spinal TB,” he said.
He has adopted a 30-year-old TB patient who lives 6 kms away, and supplies a nutrition basket every month. “I am doing this for my people. We live in a very small place and everyone knows everyone,” said Singh, who has also decided to talk to students at his tuition centre to raise awareness about the disease.
Manmohan Sharma, 60, director at textile company Mittal International, said they have been supporting 40 patients from Panipat for two months now. “When the government reached out, we agreed to support the patients. Rs 600-700 per person is not a big amount, and if we can make a difference, why not? The thing with diseases like TB is that we cannot do anything without the government, but the government also cannot do anything without community support,” said Sharma.
He said he would also ask TB programme officials to train supervisors in his company, so that they can keep an eye on people who may show symptoms, and encourage them to get tested. “We see workers in our company suffering from TB, but there is so much stigma associated with it that people don’t want to talk about it. Our supervisors will be able to encourage them to seek help,” said Sharma.
The programme is aimed at eliminating TB by 2025. India detects 20-25 lakh TB cases every year, and nearly 4 lakh die of it. At present, 13.5 lakh are undergoing TB treatment, of whom over 9 lakh have consented to being “adopted” under the initiative.
Meanwhile, over 2 lakh people registered to donate blood on the first day of the Raktdaan Amrit Mahotsav on Saturday. The fortnight-long drive, launched on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, will end on October 2, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. The target is to collect India’s annual blood requirement of nearly 1.5 crore units.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Madaviya said a “new world record” was set on the first day – over 91,500 people donated blood on Saturday.
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Narendra Tiwari, 25, a lawyer from Prayagraj, said he realised the need to donate blood when his father suddenly fell ill during a work trip and needed three units of blood. “He fell very ill when he travelled to Moradabad for work last year, he was admitted to hospital and his haemoglobin level was very low. I reached out to people for blood donation, and many came forward to help. That’s when I realised the importance of blood donation,” he said.
He has donated blood twice since then, and will donate again on Sunday.
Harshey Kushwaha, 25, also from Prayagraj, said he donated blood for the first time last year when a person he knew needed it. “When I saw their face afterwards and the blessings I received, I wanted to keep doing it,” he said. He has also signed up for the programme.
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Union Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday suggested there is a need to rethink the collegium system to expedite the process of appointment in higher judiciary as there are concerns about the existing process.
He said appointments in higher judiciary are “pending”, but “not due to the law minister but due to the system”.
“There is a need to think about the collegium system so that appointments in higher judiciary can be accelerated,” he said, speaking as the chief guest at the inauguration of two-day Union of India Counsel (West Zone) Conference on ‘Emerging Legal Issues-2022’ at Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Later when reporters asked him about his remarks, he said, “The system which is in place is causing trouble and everyone knows it. Further discussion will be held about what and how it has to be done. I put my views in front of everyone where judges, law officers and invitees were there.”
Supreme Court judge Justice Ajay Rastogi, Rajasthan High Court acting Chief Justice MM Srivastava, Gujarat HC Chief Justice Arvind Kumar and Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta also expressed their views in the inaugural session of the workshop.
Rijiju said, “If such issues are taken up in such conferences then people present come to know what’s there in the mind of the law minister and what the government is thinking. I have expressed my views and I have also listened to their views.” He said he raised the issue in Udaipur as several “appointments in Rajasthan High Court have to be done and they are pending”.
“The appointments are pending not due to the law minister but due to the system and that’s why I have put forth (my views) in front of you,” he said.
Supreme Court judges in the recent past have raised the issue of “delay” in the government clearing the names suggested by the collegium for appointments in higher judiciary.
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One of the earliest stories of confidence trickery by serial conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar is from his early days in Bengaluru, where he grew up. Then a 17-year-old, he is known to have carried around with him a forged letter of the Bengaluru police commissioner declaring that the teenager was eligible to drive cars and bikes anywhere in Karnataka.
That was in 2006, around the time he dropped out of Class 10. Since then, the boy who liked fast cars has gone full throttle, pulling off a series of jaw-dropping frauds, impersonating everyone from the son of a former chief minister to CBI officers, senior police officers, officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and those in high-profile Union ministries, and even a Supreme Court judge. Many of his audacious acts of extortion have been carried out from jail — Sukesh has had a continuous jail stint since 2017, when he was arrested for allegedly taking money from AIADMK rebel T T V Dinakaran to bribe an Election Commission official.
Now, as he is entangled in a mesh of overlapping cases being probed by the Delhi Police and the Enforcement Directorate, Sukesh, who has at least 30 FIRs to his name, is again eliciting attention for the probe into how he splurged his allegedly ill-gotten wealth on a bevy of small-time Bollywood actors and celebrities, including Jacqueline Fernandes and Nora Fatehi, who are turning up for questioning in cases linked to him.
Sukesh alias Balaji alias Shekhar Reddy was 17 when he was first arrested by the Bangalore Police in August 2007, after he had claimed a friendship with the son of JD(S) leader and then chief minister H D Kumaraswamy to allegedly cheat a family friend, Subramani, 76, of Rs 1.14 crore while promising to retrieve a plot from the custody of the Bangalore Development Authority, the government-run planning body.
Police say he splashed the money on a house to host his parties, among other things. They also recovered a BMW, a Nissan, a Toyota Corolla, a Honda City, a Honda Accord, 12 high-end watches, six cellphones, including one that cost Rs 3.40 lakh, a 50-inch LCD television set, gold ornaments and designer clothes.
“The boy used to come in a Honda V-Tec and hang around the drag racers in Bengaluru,” says an acquaintance of Sukesh from his teenage days. “Once, at a coffee shop in south Bangalore, I heard him telling someone that he could ensure admissions in a certain school since he was the son of the owner of the school. I was shocked to hear this because my mother ran the school,” he says.
D Devaraja, a former deputy commissioner of police in Bengaluru who headed a team that nabbed Sukesh in April 2011 — in a case of allegedly cheating dozens of businessmen in Tamil Nadu by posing as a secretary to then Karnataka CM B S Yediyurappa and promising government contracts in return for bribes — says, “Sukesh Chandrasekhar has a fixation for high-end cars and a high life that can be traced to his school days.”
According to police sources, the fascination for cars and driving has its origins in Sukesh’s school days at a premier school in Bengaluru, where many of his schoolmates arrived in fancy cars while Chandrashekhar, who hailed from a lower middle-class family, was dropped off at school by his father, a contractor, part-time mechanic and sales man of automobile spare parts.
As many as eight luxury cars seized by Income Tax authorities during investigations linked to Sukesh’s activities have been lying on the premises of the Karnataka wing of the IT department since November 2017. The eight luxury cars (a Lamborghini, Porsche Cayenne, Bentley, Range Rover, Rolls Royce, BMW, Jaguar, a Toyota Land Cruiser) and a Ducati motorcycle, were seized following investigations into an alleged Rs 50-crore bribery deal. The case — the first that catapulted him to the big league of conmen — involved Sukesh, then in Tihar jail, allegedly striking a deal with a faction of the AIADMK, led by V K Sasikala and her nephew T T V Dhinakaran, by assuring them that he would influence Election Commission officials and get them the ‘two leaves’ symbol of the party ahead of the keenly contested R K Nagar by-polls in Chennai. The election was subsequently shelved and the investigation led to Sukesh’s door.
But by then, Sukesh had been arrested multiple times and released on bail, including in 2009, around the time he met Leena Maria Paul, later his wife and co-accused in several of his frauds.
Police say that when Sukesh was arrested in 2011 — in the case where he posed as a secretary to Yediyurappa — it was Leena who helped track him down. The arrest led to a temporary break-up, but the couple were soon back together and moved to Kochi. However, they were forced to leave the city in 2012 after a textile group filed a cheating case against him. Sukesh had taken Rs 20 lakh from the Kochi-based Emmanuel Silks, promising to bring actress Katrina Kaif for a promotional programme.
Sukesh’s parents Chandrashekhar and Mala too had been arrested with him in 2007 and 2011 in cheating cases.
Next, in 2013, Sukesh was arrested in Kolkata and Leena in Delhi for cheating a business couple and a branch of the Canara Bank in Chennai to the tune of Rs 19 crore after claiming to be officials from the Karnataka government interested in a sanitary napkin dispensation machine which the couple’s firm Future, Techniks Pvt Ltd, had pioneered.
Sukesh and Maria allegedly convinced the couple that they would be awarded a Rs-132 crore contract for dispensing sanitary napkins around Karnataka if they made an initial investment of Rs 19 crore. The Chennai couple obtained a loan from the Canara Bank and transferred the funds to private accounts indicated by Sukesh, who had been posing as a Karnataka-cadre IAS officer. The couple cleaned out Rs 12 crore before the fraud was detected.
However, the big unravelling of Sukesh happened in 2021, when former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Singh’s wife Aditi Singh lodged an FIR with the Delhi Police, alleging that she was cheated of Rs 200 crore by a man posing as the “law secretary”, who promised to help with her husband’s cases if she contribute to the “party fund”.
She also alleged the man again called from a landline — which the Truecaller app displayed as the number of a senior official of the Prime Minister’s Office — and asked her to visit the party office or North Block to meet the former law minister or the current Home Minister.
Even for someone who had pulled off the most audacious of stunts, this one hit Sukesh hard.
A case of extortion and impersonation was registered with the Special Cell and he was arrested from inside Rohini jail, where he was then lodged. Police later transferred the case to the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) and made more arrests, including of Rohini jail officials, and added sections of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
While he carried out this seemingly impossible stunt, Sukesh lived it up inside jail, allegedly paying Rs 1.5 crore every month for a separate barrack and getting to freely use mobile phones. Based on documents, facts and evidence collected during the probe, the Delhi Police concluded that the money was paid as bribe to all staff, irrespective of their duties, to ensure they remained silent. An FIR was registered against Sukesh and 82 jail staff, and eight jail officials were arrested.
A smooth talker, Sukesh is known to glide into conversations in any of the south Indian languages, Hindi and English.
Police officers in Tamil Nadu who have probed Sukesh describe him as a mild-mannered man. “Such a soft-spoken man. You won’t believe that he is into such crimes,” said a senior police officer who has investigated several cases involving Sukesh and Leena since 2012.
He has allegedly conned over 100 people, including poultry farmers, underwear manufacturers, pressure cooker makers, bank executives, parking systems makers, kitchen equipment makers and a dry fruits packaging firm by claiming to be a middleman for government contracts.
“He would rarely meet his targets in person,” says the former Bengaluru DCP Devaraj (who is now the SP of the Kolar district) about Sukesh’s modus operandi.
“He would look up government contracts and companies on the Internet and then make his approach over the telephone,” said a police official adding that Sukesh used spoofing, a technique that involves the masking of the caller’s phone number with a number of choice.
“Sukesh would push his victims into a corner, saying the contracts are set to be finalised by the end of the day. He would promise to fill in tender documents for a commission and approach the businessmen for larger amounts to deliver on the contracts. His girlfriend would call in between, pretending to be his secretary. Once money was transferred to specifically created bank accounts, they would vanish,” the official added.
A senior Enforcement Directorate official, who has been part of raids carried out at Chandrasekhar’s luxury beach-front mansion on East Coast Road in Chennai in August last year, says the team was stunned at what they saw.
“I have been to many palatial homes for searches, but this mansion was something else. The amount of money and attention that had gone into designing the interiors was unbelievable. We weren’t able to estimate the price of lights and lamps when we tried to trace them online later. Seemingly expensive artifacts such as paintings, sculptures and art works in brass and silver… There was a horse head made in copper, an installation of a racing car inside the house, and a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR with an engraving of ‘722’, a tribute to the iconic car that Sir Stirling Moss drove in his famous 1955 Mille Miglia race,” said an officer.
In the past, Sukesh has allegedly masqueraded as a grandson of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, as the son-in-law of former Union minister M K Alagiri, and as the son of several political leaders and bureaucrats such as former Union minister T R Baalu, former Tamil Nadu finance minister K Anbazhagan, former Karnataka minister Karunakara Reddy and former Karnataka chief secretary Sudhakar Rao, and as a nephew of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy.
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Since 2007, Sukesh’s crime graph has spanned the cities of Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.
“Sukesh Chandrashekhar has created a web through his devious mechanism. He is a master con man and with technology at his disposal he could execute to perfection his plan. He accessed a mobile phone, got it recharged, generated virtual numbers, downloaded apps to spoof calls, modulated his voice, even used technology to pretend that different personalities were calling the victim to weave a web of lies so as to ensure that the victim could not wriggle out. His knack was to gather information from all plausible sources, be it open sources, deep / dark web, family and his dalliances with the jail authorities to impress the victim and create a fear to extort money,” the ED stated in its first chargesheet against Chandrashekhar last year.
A senior police officer in Chennai said despite the staggering breadth of Sukesh’s frauds, he has never had to try too hard. “His skill, craft and success was all about his deep understanding about how Indian politics, governments and the judiciary work. He was someone with an eye for the vulnerabilities of the Indian system, be it corrupt politicians, ambitious celebrities or crony industrialists. He is not just a conman but someone with a deep understanding of how India works.”
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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A convicted felon in Missouri accused of livestreaming threats to bomb and kill people while he was dressed up as the Batman villain known as The Joker was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail, with credit for several months served after his arrest.
Jeremy Garnier, 51, of University City, was sentenced after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of making a terrorist threat. Prosecutors reduced the charge from a felony for the March 2020 incident.
Garnier told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he never intended to make a threat and pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor to avoid many more months in jail.
“I was talking like The Joker,” Garnier said Saturday in a telephone interview. “I was in character. Everybody knew that it was a joke and that I had no intentions of following through with a threat.”
Garnier told the Post-Dispatch he served more than 20 years in federal and state prison for robbing a credit union in the 1980s and for other felonies, in order to support his crack habit. He said he is now sober and wants to use his platform to raise awareness about the opioid epidemic.
He said he has learned another hard lesson.
“Think before you act,” he said. “Your actions have repercussions. No matter how trivial and joking I thought it was, people took it seriously.”
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Written by Appu Bhattathiri
Jump cuts. Breathless. Godard. This is the sequence with which I could process the man, Jean-Luc Godard. It might be because of the countless hours spent at the editing table that I remember the jump cuts in Godard’s Breathless rather than the French New Wave or other significant things the man is credited with. Though jump cuts could claim to exist much earlier, Jean-Luc, who decided to attempt the most unconventional way of cutting through shots at Jean-Pierre Melville’s suggestion in Breathless, makes it one of the most influential films made after Citizen Kane.
As fresh as yesterday in my mind is the image of Godard — holding a cigar in one hand and displaying his open palm at the camera — during last year’s International Film Festival of Kerala, where he delivered his Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech (on a video call.) This could also be the most vivid image of the man that many cinephiles in Kerala might have had in their minds until September 13. As news of Godard’s demise broke, the feeds of our social media handles were flooded with quotes, write-ups, pictures and videos, all signifying our love for a legend.
In that flood, one old interview of Jean-Luc Godard with Dick Cavett had my attention. In the video, the interviewer says to Godard, “There are no scripts for your movies.” To which Godard replies: “There are, but not the way you are doing it here.” Right after which, he takes out two tiny notepads and says those are the scripts for his next two films.
Proceeding to shoot a film without a tight-bound script, to write parts of the screenplay just hours before shooting and providing the lines to his actors only on the location: this might indeed have created some unease among a few of his cast and crew at least but the spontaneity and documentary-like quality to the narrative that Godard achieved here had to do almost entirely with this method. Maybe, all he was trying to do was create a genuine and honest image.
Godard has said that photography is truth, and that cinema is truth 24 times per second. He also told the world that every edit is a lie. This battle between truth and lies might be what we see in his films.
The peculiar voiceovers and the abstract imagery can also be attributed to the Godard I know. From black and white to colour, to film, digital and stereoscopic 3D, his language in cinema is hard to explain, though to feel and experience would be a treat. His segment in the anthology 3x3D and Goodbye to Language 3D uses the language of cinema like no one has dared. It remains an experience that could perhaps never be recreated by anyone, before or after. It works on the simplicity and sophistication all at the same time to a level where it is not the conventional plot that moves forward but images. Watching these films at the screenings of the different international film festivals held in India is in itself an exceptional feeling. Even today, I can recall sitting amidst generations of Godard film lovers and leaving with a shared experience.
After years of watching Godard films on DVD’s, DVDrips and film festivals, came a film by Michel Hazanavicius. Godard Mon Amour (Redoubtable), a film on the man himself based on the book written by Anne Wiazemsky, his ex-wife. It imitated the Godard-ian style of films from the late 60s in trend though the narrative held a comic twist. Godard, who was still going strong at the time, is heard to have called the film a “stupid, stupid idea”, which the makers of the film quoted on their poster. But what isn’t funny anymore is Louis Garrel, who played Jean-Luc Godard in Redoubtable, looking at the camera and saying “Godard is dead”.
To conclude this writing without mentioning another Godard that I know in person would be incomplete. He isn’t a filmmaker but a scientist whose father, T P Nazar, remains a devoted fan of Godard. His younger brother, who is also named after a celebrated filmmaker, is an up-and-coming Malayalam director, Fellini (who is a friend with whom I have collaborated with in making movies). There needn’t be more proof to how Godard has and will continue to influence the lives of people in places we live in, miles and miles away from 7th arrondissement.
The writer is an award-winning Malayalam film editor and director
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful storm traveling north through the Bering Strait on Saturday caused widespread flooding in several western Alaska coastal communities, knocking out power and sending residents fleeing for higher ground.
The force of the water moved some homes off their foundations, and one house in Nome was floating down a river until it got caught at a bridge.
The storm is what remains of Typhoon Merbok, a storm that is also influencing weather patterns as far away as California, where strong winds and a rare late-summer rainstorm were expected.
In Alaska, there have been no reports of injuries or deaths from the storm, said Jeremy Zidek, spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Officials had warned communities that some places could see the worst flooding in 50 years and water could take up to 14 hours to recede.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Saturday issued a disaster declaration for impacted communities.
Among the hardest hit was Golovin, where most of the village's 170 or so residents either took shelter at the school or in three buildings on a hillside. Winds in the area were gusting over 60 mph (95 kph) and the water level was 11 feet (3.35 meters) above the normal high tide line and was expected to rise another 2 feet (61 centimeters) Saturday before cresting.
“Most of the lower part of the community is all flooded with structures and buildings inundated,” said Ed Plumb, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks.
Clarabelle Lewis, the facility manager for the tribal government, the Chinik Eskimo Community, was among those who sought refuge on the hill overlooking Golovin. She and others were riding out the storm in the tribal office after securing items at their homes from the winds and helping their neighbors do the same.
“The winds were howling; it was noisy,” she said.
Lewis has never experienced a storm like this in the 20 years she’s lived in Golovin.
“We’ve had flooding in the past a few times, but it was never this severe,” she said. “We’ve never had homes moved from their foundations.”
There were also reports of flooding in Hooper Bay, St. Michael’s, Unalakleet and Shaktoolik, where waves broke over the berm in front of the community, Plumb said.
He said the storm will track through the Bering Strait on Saturday and then head into the Chukchi Sea.
“And then it’s going to kind of park and weaken just west of Point Hope,” he said of of the community on Alaska’s northwest coast.
He said there would be high water in the northern Bering Sea vicinity through Saturday night before starting to subside through Sunday. Rising water levels farther north, in the Chukchi Sea and Kotzebue Sound areas would persist into Sunday.
In Northern California, wind gusts up to 40 mph (64 kph) were forecast overnight Saturday and into Sunday morning along coastal areas from Sonoma County down to Santa Cruz and at higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada, the National Weather Service said.
Winds of that strength can bring down branches and drought-stressed trees and cause issues with power outages, said weather service meteorologist Ryan Walbrun.
Storms were expected to start Sunday morning and dump up to 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of rain in coastal areas of Sonoma County and a bit less as rains move southward to the San Francisco area and into the Santa Cruz mountains, Walbrun said.
“It’s a pretty significant rain for this early in the season,” he said, adding that the storms are forecast to last on-and-off through at least Monday and would make commutes to work wet with slick roads.
In the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of the state capital of Sacramento, fire crews have been fighting what has become the largest wildfire in that state so far this year. While rain was needed, the winds were a concern for crews battling the Mosquito Fire, which was 21% contained as of Saturday morning.
“The winds will definitely cause erratic fire behavior” that could ignite new hot spots, said Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean, but the rains will bring welcome moisture. “The rain is not going to put out the fire but it will help.”
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The words ‘the process has become the punishment’ became poignantly clear to me last week when I read a letter that the former student leader, Umar Khalid, wrote to a friend from jail. The correspondence was published in The Wire, and it is my sincere hope that the Supreme Court pays attention to it so that it takes suo motu action against this distortion of the natural laws of justice. No democracy can exist peacefully, leave alone prosper, if the process of justice is turned into a weapon to be used at the sweet will of our political leaders against those who show the smallest signs of dissent.
Khalid’s letter is a plea for justice and details eloquently the despair he feels about ever getting it. Khalid writes, “It is that time of day, just after sunset, when the ‘rehai parchas’ – the release orders – reach the jail authorities from the courts. Just as darkness descends and engulfs the jail compound, some prisoners are about to see the light of freedom. I see bliss, absolute bliss on their faces.” He adds that for two years he has waited and hoped that his name would be mentioned but now he is beginning to lose all hope and is not sure how long the dark tunnel is and if there is any light at the end of it at all.
Despair is normal when you are arrested under a law that could keep you in jail indefinitely without trial. The Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) is an old law that was meant to be used for the preventive detention of terrorists and traitors. In July 2019, weeks after Narendra Modi won his second term, it was amended to allow the Government of India to decide who was a terrorist without needing to prove this in a court of law. Since 2014, there have been more than 10,000 people arrested under this law of which less than half have faced trial. The Supreme Court recently observed that more than 90 per cent of prisoners in Indian jails remain undertrials.
The charges against Khalid are vague and bizarre. The Delhi Police arrested him for conspiring to organise the communal riots in the city in February 2020. As someone who has covered more communal riots than can be listed here, I can say with authority that a small group of ‘conspirators’ cannot organise riots unless there is spontaneous anger among the people who participate in the riots. The charges against Khalid will probably not stand in court but he could stay in jail indefinitely because despite the Supreme Court’s clear orders that ‘bail should be the rule and jail the exception’, this does not happen if the government strenuously opposes it.
Last week, the Supreme Court intervened to release the journalist, Siddique Kappan, who has also been in jail since 2020 because he tried to get to Hathras to tell the story of the Dalit teenager who was gangraped, murdered and then cremated by the police in the dead of night. The Dalit sisters who were raped and murdered last week and whose bodies were found hanging on a tree to make their awful murders seem like suicide will probably get justice because due process was followed and there were postmortems and arrests.
In the Hathras case, the rapists, named by the dying girl in a statement, will probably go free because all the evidence against them was cremated with the girl who was burned hastily by the police without last rites and rituals. So, there was every reason for Kappan to have been going to Hathras to tell this horror story. He was stopped en route and arrested because he was allegedly travelling with members of the Popular Front of India (PFI). The Yogi government believes they were planning to cause riots. If this is true, then it must be proved in a court of law. For a country that gave Ajmal Kasab a fair trial before hanging him for his proven role in the 26/11 attack on Mumbai, why have we reached so low a point that journalists and student leaders can be jailed for years without trial?
Narendra Modi’s media managers spend considerable energy attacking the western media for accusing him of turning India into an elected autocracy. They only need to look at ‘the process becoming the punishment’ to find out why this has happened. The Prime Minister himself has said more than once on his travels in foreign lands that India is ‘the mother of democracy’ which makes it more puzzling that he has not noticed that a fundamental principle of democracy is the right to justice. To deny someone bail, unless they are murderers, rapists, or terrorists, is to ensure that the process becomes the punishment. This is happening too often in the ‘new India’ for the world not to notice that although there are still fair elections regularly held, there are too many ways in which the instruments of the state are being misused to ensure that dissidence is crushed.
It does not help that most of the people who have been denied bail under the UAPA’s extraordinary powers of preventive detention are Muslims. An excellent start for redeeming India’s image could be made by releasing Umar Khalid and Siddique Kappan on bail. Neither of these two men deserved to be in jail in the first place.
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Queen Elizabeth Windsor, the longest-ruling monarch of Britain and possibly anywhere in the world, died on September 8. Elizabeth was 96 years old. She took over the reins of the British Crown on February 6, 1952. Her path towards the Crown was the result of extraordinary circumstances. She was third in the line of the Crown. Her becoming the Queen was a long shot since her father, the Duke of York, was King George V’s second son. Her uncle unexpectedly relinquished the entitlements to follow his heart and marry an American twice divorced. With no male siblings, Elizabeth became the leader of the British Empire, ruling the earth at the age of 25.
Elizabeth’s legacy is unsurprisingly complex. The royal family history in the UK consists of Norman invasions into the segregated island of Europe about a thousand years ago. Most of the British royalty have German heritage.
There is an interesting relationship that Britons share with their Queen. They embraced her as her own but did not necessarily own up to her fault lines. That means being an active participant in the Empire and its dirty work.
Many who are now tearing Elizabeth apart for her participation in colonial expansionism perhaps expect her to turn into a Robin Hood figure. The monarch is, by definition, exploitative and grifter in nature. There haven’t been benevolent stories of empires and emperors since Ashoka, who laid a foundation of morality – the Dhamma — as the law of the land.
Now there is a campaign in the UK led by a group, Republic, that advocates for the replacement of monarchy with a parliamentary republic run by a written constitution, which the UK government does not have. Their public campaign started to draw attention as soon as they appealed with a punchline: “Make Elizabeth the Last”. This soon received attention from within the UK and outside too. The formerly colonised countries still carry the scorn of British imperialism.
In India, the brutality of British colonisation does not arouse as much public anger as it did until a decade ago. That anger is now directed at the crown-incarnate Gandhi family. Indians loathe foreign invaders but love their monarchs. Many might sing praises without acknowledging the brutality of their past. Like imperialism, India’s 500-plus kingdoms are not bathed in innocence.
Social media reactions from the former colonies to Elizabeth’s passing demonstrate that memories of colonisation are beyond rhetoric. Colour-based society and rule of global elites have not allowed them to reconcile with the past. Economic inequality and political sycophancy have made the non-white public more intolerant of anything that would remotely glorify their current oppression. The Queen was more than an artifice of past rulers.
Two things concern me. What will happen to the tourism revenue that the Queen brought to the UK? The second is the orphanage of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and 12 more Asian-Pacific and Caribbean countries. The Royal Family is still adored by many in the UK and across the channels of the Commonwealth countries.
The British ruling family still has a supervisory status in these countries, and they are the constitutional heads even though colonisation has ended. This explains how the erstwhile Brits and fellow Europeans who plundered and colonised the lands of the natives and violated their lands of worship continue to remodel their tradition.
Most of these European settlers left their mother country as the subalterns and caught hell in the colonies while fattening the purse of their masters in London. Years later, their only connection to the motherland is via the royal families.
The protest against the Royal Family in the UK is gathering steam, but the believers in the Royal Family are unabated. They relish the colourful monarch waving from the balcony or chariot. They underscore the diplomatic influence the Royal Family has. However, the dominions of the British Empire hinted at leaving the monarchy. The latest in the episode was Barbados. Jamaica is not only planning to exit but also petitioned the British Crown for reparations. Australia and New Zealand favour displacing the foreign head of the state with their own.
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Though the head of the state is largely symbolic, its presence is still a topic of dynamic interactions.
Suraj Yengde, author of Caste Matters, curates the fortnightly ‘Dalitality’ column
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That the post-pandemic workplace has evolved to angrily question a globally accepted culture of overwork was made amply clear by the unflattering responses to two CEOs’ social media posts recently. “Stop whining and put in 18-hour days,” advised Harsimarbir Singh, founder of Pristyn Care, a health-tech startup valued at $1.4 billion. Singh also shared his “interview hacks” for employers to filter through CVs to find “Special Driven People”: conduct in-person interviews at 9 pm and schedule meetings on Sundays to identify those with “extraordinary commitment”. Outraged Indian millennials called Singh a slave driver, likening him to a “petty, ruthless, village landlord in a skyscraper”.
“Our hirings take just 48 hours disregarding traditional HR practices in MNCs where shortlisting candidates takes two months,” countered Singh on NDTV, adding, “We don’t track holidays, there is no system of clocking in, employees have full freedom to come and go as they please.”
Similarly, Bombay Shaving Company CEO Shantanu Deshpande was widely criticised for a LinkedIN post that seemed like he was poking fun at young executives who talk of “work-life balance, spending time with family, rejuvenation bla-bla”.
At this stage of my life, well into middle-age, I would prefer to shoot myself than work for either of these driven and wildly successful CEOs; but other than the somewhat mocking tone of Deshpande’s words, there are some unassailable truths in what he says.
Early-to-mid 20s and 30s is the time to make use of an education, skill up and gain experience in a chosen field. There’ll be plenty of time for navel gazing later. Whether it be law, medicine or an unconventional career in film, food or music, it takes patience and painstaking effort to become (confidently) excellent at something. Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good, it’s the thing you do that makes you good, noted Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers, where he propagated the 10,000-hour rule of relentless work to accrue the benefits of mastery. It stands to reason that unfettered youth is the ideal time to build muscle memory because you are free from other responsibilities. People from my generation were acutely aware that if they weren’t up to the task, there were plenty of others who’d bulldoze ahead, leaving them trailing behind. Perhaps it’s progress that the young can afford to take opportunity so much for granted except, post Covid, disillusioned youngsters are rejecting the idea of work is worship, the abiding mantra of middle-class India.
After decades of believing die-hard ambition and hustle culture was a worthy aim, quiet quitting, the trend of doing the bare minimum at work, and having a meaningful life (guilt -free) outside of it, is a mainstream choice.
The backlash to Singh and Deshpande’s work ethic is, more than anything else, indicative of the huge changes the pandemic has wrought on mindsets. Twenty two-year-olds expect to find work that’s “soul satisfying” and aligned with their values, not realising that it’s a meandering path, full of missteps, to discovering what that might be. The best bet to figuring out what you really want to do is by actively engaging in a variety of interests, before zeroing in on what finally fits. That means seizing every chance fate throws at you, and hopefully, you may stumble on “doing what you love”. Young people need to be meeting people and exchanging ideas, not sitting at home in front of a computer in pyjamas.
Socrates noted the unexamined life is not worth living but logically, the internal journey should only begin once there are enough experiences to examine. Besides, if finding yourself is a priority at 30, there’ll be alarmingly little to do at 60. Being excited by work is its own kind of high, it’s a pity that so many are determined to never know it.
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We all owe it to ourselves to being excited about what we do.
The writer is director, Hutkay Films
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — John Paddock threw for three touchdowns and Ball State beat Murray State 31-0 on Saturday for the Cardinals' first win of the season and their first shutout in 14 years.
Carson Steele added 151 yards on 25 carries, including a 1-yard score that made it 31-0. Paddock was 27-of-44 passing for 217 yards with an interception.
Ball State's first three scores came on Paddock passes to Brady Hunt, Tanner Koziol and Jayshon Jackson. The Cardinals (1-2) led 14-0 at halftime and 24-0 after three quarters.
The Cardinals outgained the Racers 476-155.
The Cardinals' last shutout came in 2008 against Toledo — also 31-0. In this one, Nic Jones had a pair of interceptions, the first Cardinal with two picks in a game since Amechi Uzodinma II had two versus Miami (Ohio) in 2019.
Isaac McNamee was just 7-of-22 passing for 57 yards and two interceptions for the Racers (0-3). Jawaun Northington rushed for 71 yards on 17 carries.
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Blue jays first. George Springer singles to left field. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singles to shallow infield. George Springer to second. Bo Bichette reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. out at second. George Springer to third. Matt Chapman out on a sacrifice fly to deep center field to Cedric Mullins. George Springer scores. Teoscar Hernandez singles to left field. Bo Bichette to second. Raimel Tapia grounds out to first base, Ryan Mountcastle to Kyle Bradish.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 1, Orioles 0.
Blue jays second. Danny Jansen grounds out to shallow infield, Gunnar Henderson to Jesus Aguilar. Cavan Biggio singles to deep left center field. Santiago Espinal singles to right field. Cavan Biggio to second. George Springer doubles to deep left center field. Santiago Espinal scores. Cavan Biggio scores. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. flies out to Anthony Santander. George Springer to third. Bo Bichette strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Blue jays 3, Orioles 0.
Orioles third. Cedric Mullins singles to right field. Adley Rutschman flies out to left field to Raimel Tapia. Anthony Santander doubles. Cedric Mullins to third. Jesus Aguilar reaches on catcher interference. Interference error by Danny Jansen. Gunnar Henderson singles to right field. Jesus Aguilar to third. Anthony Santander scores. Cedric Mullins scores. Terrin Vavra flies out to center field to George Springer. Rougned Odor grounds out to shallow right field, Santiago Espinal to Cavan Biggio.
2 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Blue jays 3, Orioles 2.
Blue jays fifth. George Springer grounds out to shallow infield, Kyle Bradish to Jesus Aguilar. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reaches on error. Throwing error by Ramon Urias. Bo Bichette lines out to deep center field to Cedric Mullins. Matt Chapman walks. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to second. Teoscar Hernandez walks. Matt Chapman to second. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to third. Raimel Tapia doubles to deep center field. Teoscar Hernandez scores. Matt Chapman scores. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. scores. Danny Jansen strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on. Blue jays 6, Orioles 2.
Orioles eighth. Jesus Aguilar strikes out swinging. Gunnar Henderson doubles to left field. Terrin Vavra singles to right field. Gunnar Henderson scores. Rougned Odor strikes out swinging. Ramon Urias strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Blue jays 6, Orioles 3.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Colorado Rockies made a Dunkin' Donuts run in the morning, then pulled out a rare road win. Clearly, as the old slogan goes, it was worth the trip.
Charlie Blackmon hit a tiebreaking triple and scored in a two-run ninth, and Colorado beat the Chicago Cubs 3-1 on Saturday.
Blackmon came into the game in a 5-for-41 slump. But the four-time All-Star delivered in a big spot.
He drove in pinch runner Garrett Hampson with a triple to the right-field corner against Adbert Alzolay (0-1) after C.J. Cron walked with one out. He scored on a single by Elias Díaz, making it 3-1, and the Rockies came away with the win despite a dominant outing by Cubs rookie Hayden Wesneski in his first major league start.
“There's been some ups and downs,” Blackmon said. “I feel like I've had some bad breaks.”
Jose Ureña threw six solid innings, and the Rockies won for just the fifth time time in their past 18 road games. Colorado is a big league-worst 23-48 away from home.
The Rockies had some fun before the game, sending mostly rookies in full uniform to the nearby Dunkin' Donuts. Blackmon said he got a “pretty classic” glazed donut and black coffee.
“I jokingly said, ‘Maybe we’ll have to do it again tomorrow,'” Blackmon said. “There's a lot of guys who did not really think that was a good idea. We probably won't do it tomorrow.”
Ureña allowed one run and seven hits. The right-hander, who signed a minor league deal in May after being released by Milwaukee, has mostly struggled since being called up by Colorado in July. But he has strung together back-to-back solid outings.
“He feels really comfortable here after a few months with this group,” manager Bud Black said. “I think that he's finally settling in.”
Dinelson Lamet and Carlos Estévez (4-4) each worked an inning.
Daniel Bard came on in the ninth for his 31st save in 34 chances. He gave up a one-out single to pinch-hitter Yan Gomes before retiring Zach McKinstry on a line drive and Ian Happ on a groundout.
The Cubs had won four straight and were looking to put themselves in position for their second straight sweep after taking three at the NL East-leading New York Mets.
ROOKIE DOMINATES
Wesneski tossed seven innings, allowing one run and three hits. The 24-year-old right-hander struck out seven and did not walk a batter in his third big-league appearance.
“Great outing for Hayden," manager David Ross said. "Nice, efficient. Worked quick. Similar to Stro yesterday. The only hits he gave up other than that first one was there wasn’t a whole lot of hard contact.”
Alzolay struck out all three in the eighth before running into trouble in the ninth. The right-hander had been sidelined all season because of a strained right shoulder.
TRANSACTIONS
The Cubs reinstated Alzolay from the 60-day injured list and placed outfielder Seiya Suzuki on the paternity list.
They also designated infielder Frank Schwindel and left-handed pitcher Sean Newcomb for assignment and selected infielder Esteban Quíroz's contract from Triple-A Iowa.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Rockies: Black said INF/OF Kris Bryant (plantar fasciitis in left foot) is “getting more confidence” each day. Bryant — out since July 31 — started running Friday and has been hitting in the cage and working out. “The progress has been pretty good the last week or so,” Black said.
Cubs: An MRI on SS Nico Hoerner (mild to moderate triceps strain) showed more damage than anticipated, though the Cubs have not ruled him out for the remainder of the season, Ross said. “He wants to get back,” Ross said. “He’s pretty disappointed with the news and information, but I don’t think he has anything left to prove to us this year." Hoerner had the MRI on Thursday. He has not played since Sept. 11. ... LHP Steven Brault (strained left shoulder strain) is likely headed for a rehab assignment with Triple-A Iowa after his most recent bullpen session went well. ... 2B Nick Madrigal (strained right groin) is progressing with agility and strength work.
UP NEXT
Rookie RHP Javier Assad (1-1, 2.53 ERA) opposes RHP Ryan Feltner (2-8, 6.12) as the Cubs close out their series against the Rockies. Assad went six innings Monday in beating the New York Mets for his first career win. Feltner is 0-5 with a 6.28 ERA in six starts since beating St. Louis on Aug. 9.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Doug Brumfield accounted for four touchdowns, Aidan Robbins rushed for 227 yards and three scores and UNLV defeated North Texas 58-27 on Saturday.
Brumfield was 21-of-27 passing for 211 yards and two scores and he rushed for 100 yards including two more scores for UNLV (2-1).
Robbins a graduate transfer from Louisville, has seven touchdowns — six rushing — through three games. His 227 yards Saturday ranks eighth in UNLV single-game history. The Rebels had 365 yards rushing and outgained the Mean Green 576-467.
UNLV led 23-20 at halftime. Brumfield ran 8 yards for a touchdown that gave the Rebels a 10-point lead midway through the third quarter before UNLV secured the win in the final quarter with Robbins' third touchdown, Brumfield's 9-yard pass to Ricky White that completed a 99-yard drive and Cameron Oliver's 20-yard pick-6.
Austin Aune was 17-of-29 passing for 305 yards, two scores and two interceptions for the Mean Green (2-2). Kaylon Horton had a 99-yard kickoff return for North Texas' first points.
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A former White House aide told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sought a pardon from former President Trump over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into sex trafficking allegations against him, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the testimony.
Former Trump aide Johnny McEntee said Gaetz told him he had asked former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for a preemptive pardon, the Post reported. McEntee told the committee that he understood the pardon to be in connection with the DOJ probe.
The Justice Department is investigating allegations that Gaetz paid for sex, paid for women to travel across state lines to have sex and had a sexual relationship with a minor. Gaetz denies the allegations.
The committee previously showed McEntee saying in a videotaped deposition that Gaetz told him he asked Meadows for a pardon during a June hearing.
It also presented testimony from other former Trump aides naming Gaetz as one of several Republican lawmakers who sought pardons from Trump. Gaetz and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) advocated for a “blanket pardon” for lawmakers who participated in a December 2020 meeting where efforts to overturn the election were discussed, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified. When asked by the committee if Gaetz was seeking a pardon, Eric Herschmann, a former Trump White House attorney, responded in a taped deposition that he believed so and that Gaetz’s pardon request was “for any and all things.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a member of the committee, also presented an email from Brooks in which the Alabama congressman requested presidential pardons for himself, Gaetz, and lawmakers who objected to the Electoral College vote for Arizona and Pennsylvania.
However, McEntee’s testimony as reported by the Post is the first to indicate that Gaetz sought a pardon in connection with the Justice Department’s investigation into the sex trafficking allegations, though there has been speculation.
The New York Times reported in April 2021 that Gaetz had sought a blanket pardon from Trump in the last weeks of his presidency, noting this came as the congressman was being investigated by the DOJ for allegedly violating sex trafficking laws. Trump denied the allegations that Gaetz had directly asked for a blanket pardon.
“Congressman Matt Gaetz discussed pardons for many other people publicly and privately at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term,” a spokesperson for Gaetz said in a statement. “As for himself, President Trump addressed this malicious rumor more than a year ago stating, ‘Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon.’ Rep. Gaetz continues to stand by President Trump’s statement.”
The Jan. 6 committee and Trump’s team did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Some of the most loyal of Disney enthusiasts say one specific thing is keeping them from visiting Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando more often — they even say it’s causing “the Happiest Place on Earth” to completely lose its magic.
It’s the cost.
A family vacation to Walt Disney World Resort is more expensive than ever and fans are noticing, according to a new poll. The gambling website time2play recently released a study based on data from 1,927 “self-described Disney World enthusiasts” about the rising costs to visit the park.
According to the study, 92.6% of those surveyed believed the cost of a Disney World vacation is out of reach for an average family. Additionally, 68.3% of people said increases made it feel like the theme park has lost all its magic.
As of Tuesday, the cost for a standard one-park day ticket on Friday, Sept. 16 is $134, though prices of tickets vary by date. Standard Walt Disney World tickets range between $139 and $154 through October, according to Disney World’s website.
Almost 50% of respondents said they postponed a Disney World trip in recent years due to price increases.
According to a study by “Koala“, a company based in Brooklyn that connects vacationers with timeshare owners online, a single-day ticket Walt Disney World could cost $253.20 in just nine years.
When Walt Disney World Resort opened in 1971, a ticket cost only $3.50. Adjusting for inflation, that would be $22.61 today. According to Koala calculations, there has been an average price increase of 7.4% each year since the park opened.
Meanwhile, the cost for standard one-park day tickets at Disneyland, Disney’s California park, cost about $149 for Sept. 16. Standard Disneyland tickets range between $135 and $165 through the month of October, per Disneyland’s website.
Disney enthusiasts polled by time2play also said by a large majority (66.9%) that they felt they wouldn’t get a true Disney World experience if they didn’t pay for upgrades like the Genie+ service, which offers “Lighting Lanes” — which lets users wait in shorter lines for rides. Genie+ service is an extra $15 per person each day (though prices may vary), in addition to admission cost. Genie service doesn’t come complete with all Lightning Lanes, however. Guests must purchase even more lanes within the Genie app for full lane skipping.
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LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Jameson Wang threw two touchdowns — both to William Enneking — and Cornell held off VMI's late rally for a 28-22 win on Saturday in the Big Red's season opener.
Cornell built a 21-2 lead at halftime and extended the margin to 26 points when Wang threw a 3-yarder to Enneking with 48 seconds left in the third.
Late in the fourth, however, the Keydets closed to 28-9 on Hunter Rice's 1-yard scoring run with 5:36 left. A little less than two minutes later, Collin Ironside threw a 3-yard pass to Chance Knox to make it 28-16. With five seconds to go, Ironside ran it in from the 6, but Cornell secured the kickoff to end it.
Cornell held the ball for two-thirds of the game in time of possession, yet was outgained by VMI, 356-266. The Big Red finished 10 for 18 on third-down conversions.
Ironside finished 16-for-18 passing for 275 yards, a touchdown and an interception.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Shelby Jordan, an offensive lineman who played for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Raiders, died earlier this month, the Patriots announced Friday.
Jordan, 70, died on Sept. 9, according to the announcement.
Jordan played in 95 games with 87 starts at right tackle during his eight seasons with the Patriots. With the Raiders, Jordan was able to win a ring as a member of the Super Bowl XVIII Championship team in 1983.
Prior to his NFL career, Jordan led Washington University’s Division III Bears in tackles for three consecutive seasons before being named a Kodak first-team All-American during his senior year.
The 1972 team captain and Bears MVP is considered the greatest defensive player in the history of the school, and in 1973, he was the first football player in university’s 150 year history to be drafted in the NFL.
He was initially a 7th-round draft pick by the Houston Oilers in 1973, but was dropped during training. He signed with the New England Patriots, eventually becoming a six-year starter at offensive tackle.
After retiring from the NFL in 1988, Jordan launched and directed a Los Angeles-based nonprofit economic-development corporation that provides affordable urban housing to help families and seniors.
In 2013, Jordan was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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FRISCO, TX (Silver Star Nation) – The Dallas Cowboys have a different look going into Sunday afternoon’s matchup with last year’s Super Bowl runner up Cincinnati Bengals.
With starting quarterback Dak Prescott among the five starters who are not active for Sunday, Cooper Rush will try to lead the Cowboys back from last week’s crushing defeat.
Cowboys insider Mickey Spagnola has his keys to the game.
The Cowboys and Bengals kick off at 3:25 p.m. CDT at AT&T Stadium.
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HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Nick Howard ran for a pair of touchdowns, Zack Bair had a career day on the ground and Dartmouth opened its season with a 35-13 victory over Valparaiso on Saturday.
The two-time defending Ivy League champions were a preseason pick with Harvard as co-favorites for this season. Dartmouth has won 12 straight season openers — the longest active streak in the FCS — and 20 nonconference games in a row.
Howard only had 85 yards passing as the Big Green stayed on the ground, rushing for 308 yards, led by Bair's 169 on 16 carries, including a score.
Dartmouth outgained the Beacons (1-2) 393-263. The 308 rushing yards marked the first time the Big Green went over 300 on the ground since 2018 when they rushed for 365 against Brown.
Howard had a pair of 1-yard scores in the first half when the Big Green took a 21-10 lead.
Mickey Appel threw for 189 yards for the Beacons.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Lucas Johnson threw for three touchdowns, running back Junior Bergen passed for another and Montana eased by Indiana State 49-14 on Saturday.
The Montana (3-0) defense got into the scoring column early in the first quarter when Kale Edwards picked up a fumble and ran untouched for a 20-yard touchdown. The defense also forced Indiana State into three straight three-and-out drives in the second half.
The Grizzlies went ahead for good on a trick play. Bergen made an acrobatic catch of a back pass from Johnson, and tossed it to a wide open Malik Flowers in the end zone. Flowers also broke Rob Schulte’s school record for career kick return yards.
Johnson connected with Ryan Simpson from 11-yards out on the first play of the fourth quarter for a 42-7 lead.
Indiana State (1-2) quarterback Gavin Screws was sacked four times and threw for 115 yards. Justin Dinka rushed for 87 yards and scored on a 54-yard run in the first quarter. The Sycamores were held to 219 total yards.
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Royals third. Hunter Dozier grounds out to second base, Christian Arroyo to Triston Casas. Nate Eaton singles to shallow infield. MJ Melendez singles to right field. Nate Eaton scores. Bobby Witt Jr. grounds out to shortstop, Yu Chang to Triston Casas. MJ Melendez to second. Salvador Perez singles to deep left center field. MJ Melendez scores. Vinnie Pasquantino strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 2, Red sox 0.
Royals fifth. Nate Eaton flies out to left field to Tommy Pham. MJ Melendez singles to deep right field. Bobby Witt Jr. singles to shallow left field. MJ Melendez scores. Salvador Perez flies out to left field to Tommy Pham. Vinnie Pasquantino doubles to right field. Bobby Witt Jr. scores. Michael A. Taylor strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 4, Red sox 0.
Royals sixth. Edward Olivares walks. Michael Massey singles to shallow right field. Edward Olivares to second. Hunter Dozier walks. Michael Massey to second. Edward Olivares to third. Nate Eaton singles to center field. Hunter Dozier to second. Michael Massey to third. Edward Olivares scores. MJ Melendez reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Nate Eaton out at second. Hunter Dozier to third. Michael Massey scores. Bobby Witt Jr. singles to shallow right field. MJ Melendez to second. Hunter Dozier scores. Salvador Perez pops out to Connor Wong. Vinnie Pasquantino singles to right field. Bobby Witt Jr. to third. MJ Melendez scores. Michael A. Taylor grounds out to shortstop, Yu Chang to Triston Casas.
4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Royals 8, Red sox 0.
Royals eighth. MJ Melendez doubles to left center field. Bobby Witt Jr. grounds out to shortstop, Yu Chang to Triston Casas. Salvador Perez grounds out to shortstop, Yu Chang to Triston Casas. Vinnie Pasquantino singles to right field. MJ Melendez scores. Michael A. Taylor flies out to shallow center field to Kike Hernandez.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 9, Red sox 0.
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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Grayson McCall threw three touchdowns, Coastal Carolina had a key special teams touchdown, and the Chanticleers rallied past Buffalo 38-26 on Saturday.
Coastal Carolina scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to erase what was earlier a 19-14 deficit. Jahmar Brown scooped a fumble by the Buffalo punter and returned it 21 yards for a touchdown to give the Chanticleers the lead at 24-19. McCall added two touchdown passes later in the fourth to help Coastal Carolina (3-0) put the game away.
The Chanticleers piled up 504 yards of offense and faced third down only eight times, converting three. Although Buffalo was 5-for-5 scoring in the red zone, the Bulls struggled on third down (8 of 20) and settled for four field goals by Alex McNulty. Buffalo had 337 yards of offense. Both teams had four turnovers.
Cole Snyder completed 29 of 48 passes with two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Bulls (0-3).
Coastal Carolina's Sam Pinckney caught five passes for 103 yards.
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Nationals first. Lane Thomas homers to center field. Alex Call grounds out to shortstop, Joey Wendle to Lewin Diaz. Joey Meneses strikes out swinging. Luke Voit walks. Ildemaro Vargas pops out to shallow infield to Jordan Groshans.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Nationals 1, Marlins 0.
Nationals second. Luis Garcia doubles. Riley Adams doubles to deep right field. Luis Garcia scores. Victor Robles strikes out swinging. CJ Abrams strikes out swinging. Lane Thomas walks. Alex Call strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Nationals 2, Marlins 0.
Marlins third. Lewin Diaz singles to deep right field. Charles Leblanc singles to center field. Lewin Diaz to second. Joey Wendle grounds out to shortstop. Charles Leblanc out at second. Lewin Diaz to third. Brian Anderson singles to right field. Lewin Diaz scores. Nick Fortes reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Brian Anderson out at second.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Nationals 2, Marlins 1.
Nationals third. Joey Meneses strikes out swinging. Luke Voit homers to center field. Ildemaro Vargas flies out to deep right field to Brian Anderson. Luis Garcia flies out to deep center field to JJ Bleday.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Nationals 3, Marlins 1.
Marlins fourth. JJ Bleday flies out to center field to Victor Robles. Jacob Stallings called out on strikes. Jordan Groshans singles to right field. Jerar Encarnacion homers to left field. Jordan Groshans scores. Lewin Diaz flies out to shallow center field to Victor Robles.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Marlins 3, Nationals 3.
Nationals fourth. Riley Adams lines out to deep left field to Jerar Encarnacion. Victor Robles homers to left field. CJ Abrams pops out to shallow infield to Jeff Brigham. Lane Thomas strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Nationals 4, Marlins 3.
Nationals fifth. Alex Call homers to left field. Joey Meneses walks. Luke Voit pops out to shallow infield to Jacob Stallings. Ildemaro Vargas hit by pitch. Joey Meneses to second. Luis Garcia strikes out swinging. Riley Adams strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Nationals 5, Marlins 3.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Jabriel Johnson and Alfonzo Graham ran for key third-quarter touchdowns, the Morgan State defense kept Sacred Heart out of the end zone until the fourth quarter, and the Bears defeated the Pioneers 24-9 on Saturday.
It was Damon Wilson's first victory as head coach of Morgan State (1-2).
The Morgan State defense set an early tone when Carl Decius intercepted Sacred Heart's Marquez McCray on the first play of the game. The Bears converted it into three points and never trailed.
Morgan State led 10-2 at halftime before Johnson ran 12 yards for one touchdown and Graham four yards for another to give Morgan State a 24-2 lead through three quarters.
Sacred Heart picked up two points in the second quarter when Tyreke Brown blocked a punt and Morgan State recovered in the end zone to keep the play to a safety. Sacred Heart's lone touchdown came on a 31-yard pass from McCray to Troy Holland early in the fourth quarter.
The Bears outgaining the Pioneers 279-235.
Graham had 74 yards rushing and Johnson finished with 40 yards on the ground for Morgan State.
McCray was 22 of 37 passing for 175 yards with the touchdown and two interceptions for Sacred Heart (1-2).
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aidan Sayin passed for 289 yards and two touchdowns, and Pennsylvania scored 22 unanswered second-half points in its season opener to beat Colgate 25-14 on Saturday.
Colgate took a 14-3 lead with 24 seconds left in the first half when Marquis Cooper returned an interception 68 yards, but the Raiders would not score again.
Penn scored 12 points in the third quarter — despite missing a point-after kick and getting stopped on a 2-point conversion — to take the lead with 6:40 left in the third quarter on Trey Flowers' 8-yard touchdown run.
Sayin's 10-yard touchdown pass to Jonathan Mulatu gave Penn a eight-point lead and Graham Gotlieb sealed it with a 24-yard field goal with 1:27 left.
Joshua Casilli led the receiving group for Penn (1-0) with 10 catches for 60 yards. Rory Starkey Jr. added 50 yards receiving and a score.
Michael Brescia completed just 13-of-29 passes for Colgate (1-2).
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Drew Pyne passed for two touchdowns and 150 yards in his first career start and Notre Dame overcame numerous mistakes to beat California 24-17 Saturday to give Irish coach Marcus Freeman his first victory.
The Irish (1-2) outscored Cal (2-1) 10-0 in the fourth quarter to avoid becoming just the third Notre Dame squad to start a season 0-3. The Irish (1-2), who started the season ranked No. 5, had blown leads three times, made sure there was no second-half letdown this time.
But it wasn’t over until the last play. On fourth-and-13 from the Notre Dame 35, Cal’s Jack Plummer threw the ball into the end zone. The ball bounced off several players and Bears receiver Jeremiah Hunter nearly pulled it in, but the ball landed on the grass.
The Irish opened a 24-17 lead with 9:16 remaining on a 6-yard pass from Pyne to Michael Mayer, just Mayer’s second catch of the day. The touchdown was set up when Pyne threw a short pass to tailback Audric Esitime, and he sprinted for a 36-yard gain before tripping at the 6-yard line.
The Bears drove to the Notre Dame 22 midway through the fourth quarter but couldn’t get any closer. Plummer threw three straight incompletions, then was sacked by Isaiah Foskey for a 10-yard loss with 6:30 left.
Cal got the ball again on their own 7-yard line, but on third-and-10 Jack Plummer was sacked for a 5-yard loss. It looked as though Notre Dame had put the game away when cornerback Clarence Lewis picked off a pass from Plummer, but the Bears got one more chance when J.D. Bertrant was called for targeting.
Pyne, playing because Tyler Buchner sustained a season-ending shoulder injury last week, was 17-of-23 passing. Chris Tyree rushed for 64 yards on 17 carries and had five catches for 44 yards.
Plummer was 16 of 37 for 184 yards passing.
Pyne struggled some early on. His first pass to Tyree was short, and he overthrew several receivers and had receivers drop some passes. A snap struck Pyne in the facemask, but he recovered and handed off to Estime for a 7-yard gain. On another play, he was signaling for a back to move when the ball was snapped.
The Irish were aided by a Cal mistake. On third-and-4 from the 28, Pyne’s pass to Lorenzo Style was incomplete. But Cal linebacker Blake Antzoulatos hit Pyne high after the pass and was ejected for targeting. The Irish ran the ball four straight times and Estime scored on a 1-yard run to take a 14-10 lead.
The Bears drove 75 yards on 10 plays, but the final yard was the hardest to get. After DeCarlos Brooks and Jadynb Ott were stopped for no gain on back-to-back runs, Plummer scored on a quarterback keeper up the middle. The drive was aided by an unnecessary roughness penalty on Irish safety D.J. Brown for pushing Ott after the whistle.
THE TAKEAWAY
Cal: Plummer, a transfer from Purdue who lost his starter’s job with the Boilermakers last season following a 27-13 loss to Notre Dame, showed the Bears he can make big plays, but not quite enough for the upset.
Notre Dame: The Irish need to cutdown on mistakes if they're going to be competitive. Receiver Braden Lenzy had a false start on third-and-1, leading to Pyne being sacked on the next play. Right tackle Blake Fisher also was called for a false start on third-and-3. Late in the second quarter, when the Irish drove into Cal territory, linemen Jarrett Patterson and Zeke Correll were called for false starts on back-to-back plays to stall out the drive.
NEXT UP
Cal: The Bears open the Pac-12 season on Saturday at home against Arizona.
Notre Dame: The Irish play at North Carolina on Saturday.
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BOSTON (AP) — Brady Singer pitched out of a bases-loaded, nobody out jam in the third and finished with six shutout innings on Saturday to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Boston Red Sox 9-0.
Pitching in Fenway Park for the first time, Singer (9-4) won his fifth straight decision, allowing five singles and a walk while striking out five. It was the second straight start without allowing a run for the 26-year-old College World Series champion from Florida.
MJ Melendez and Vinnie Pasquantino had three hits apiece for the Royals; Melendez scored four runs and Pasquantino drove in three. The first four batters in the Kansas City lineup went 10 for 20 with eight RBIs.
Rich Hill (7-7) gave up four runs on eight hits and a balk, striking out four.
The Red Sox loaded the bases on two singles and a walk with nobody out in the third inning and the top of the order coming up. But Singer got Tommy Pham to pop up in front of the mound, Rafael Devers was called out on strikes, and J.D. Martinez popped up to first base.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Red Sox right fielder Alex Verdugo lost a ball in the sun in the fifth inning when Pasquantino hit a liner directly at him. Verdugo stood helplessly until the ball bounced right in front of him and then off his right arm.
He picked it up and threw it in, but not before Bobby Witt Jr. had scored from first. The play originally was scored a single and an error, but then was changed to a double.
Center fielder Kiké Hernandez had more than the sun to contend with when he settled under Pasquantino’s high popup in the first inning. As Hernandez and Verdugo moved in to field the ball, a small flock of birds took off from where they were resting on the grass.
Hernandez managed to make the catch.
DEBUT
RHP Franklin German made his major league debut for Boston, coming in to start the sixth inning. It didn’t go well.
All four batters he faced reached -- on two singles and a pair of walks. He left with the bases loaded and one run in, and Eduard Bazardo allowed another run to score when Melendez grounded into a fielder’s choice. Witt and Pasquantino singled to score two more and give the Royals n 8-0 lead.
UP NEXT
The series finale will see Boston RHP Nick Pivetta (9-11) face Kansas City’s Kris Bubic (2-11).
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SUGAR GROVE, Ill. (AP) — Cameron Smith made a pair of 7-foot birdie putts to finish off his round of 4-under 68 and allow him to overtake Dustin Johnson going into the third and final day of the LIV Golf Invitational-Chicago.
As easy as Johnson made it look in the opening round, Saturday at Rich Harvest Farms was such a struggle that he shot over par for the first time in the 14 rounds he has played in the Saudi-funded series.
Johnson was lucky the deficit to Smith was only two shots. He came up well short of the green on the par-4 17th and had to make an 8-foot par putt, while Smith took the lead for the first time with his 7-foot birdie putt.
On their final hole at the par-5 18th, Johnson's approach took a hard hop over the green. After a free drop from the grandstand, he chipped weakly to 8 feet and missed his birdie putt. Smith was on the other side of the green, lagged a 60-footer to 7 feet and holed that for another birdie.
Smith was at 10-under 134.
They will be joined in the lead group Sunday by Peter Uihlein, the former U.S. Amateur champion who had the low round of the breezy day with a 66. That left Uihlein only three shots behind going into the last day.
Laurie Canter (68) and Charl Schwartzel (69), who won the first LIV Golf Invitational outside London, were four shots behind. The group five back included Lee Westwood, Charles Howell III and Bryson DeChambeau.
Smith won the British Open at St. Andrews and made $2.5 million. A victory Sunday would be worth at least $4 million.
“It was tricky out there today,” Smith said. “I got a couple of breaks and DJ didn't quite make the putts he usually does.”
Phil Mickelson looked as though he might get a round under par until he made three bogeys in a four-hole stretch and shot 74 to fall 12 shots behind.
Mickelson spoke Friday about the need for the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to work together. The PGA Tour has suspended players for playing in the Saudi-backed series without getting a conflicting-event release.
Mickelson is among seven players — along with LIV Golf — who has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
“The PGA Tour for the last 20 or 30 years have had all the best players in the world. That will never be the case again. LIV Golf is here to stay, and this type of divisive talk is doing nobody good,” Mickelson said. "The best solution is for us to come together.
“I think both are needed for the game of golf. Both are good for the game of golf. The inclusion of LIV Golf in the ecosystem of the golf world is necessary,” said Mickelson, a chief recruiter in the early stages for LIV Golf. “As soon as that happens and we all start working together, that’s going to be a really positive thing for everyone.”
In the team competition, Johnson's four-man squad had a one-shot lead over Smith's team, with Uihlein's great round helping put his team — Brooks Koepka is captain — two shots behind.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — New York Yankees right-hander Frankie Montas will undergo an MRI on his shoulder a day after lasting just 3 1/3 innings in a 7-6 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.
Montas has gone 1-3 with a 6.35 ERA in eight starts for the Yankees, who acquired him for four prospects in an Aug. 1 trade with the Oakland Athletics.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Montas mentioned the shoulder issue after Friday’s game. Montas struck out two, walked four and allowed four hits as the Yankees squandered an early 5-0 lead.
“I thought his fastball velocity was a little bit down in that second or third inning on a consistent standpoint,” Boone said Saturday. “Now, in hindsight, that could have been a sign.”
Montas averaged 95.1 mph for 30 fastballs, down 1 mph from his season average. His 14 sinkers averaged 94.6 mph, also down 1 mph.
Boone said he didn’t believe the shoulder issue was necessarily bothering Montas before Friday’s game.
“I think it could have had something to do with last night, but as far as I know, he’s been good and healthy into that,” Boone said. “Even last night, according to him, it was fairly minor.”
Boone acknowledged that he was “at least a little bit concerned" and said right-hander Domingo Germán likely would step into the rotation if Montas has to miss any time. Right-hander Luis Severino is scheduled to start Wednesday against Pittsburgh after recovering from a strained right lat that has sidelined him since July 13.
Montas was 4-9 with a 3.18 ERA in 19 games with Oakland before the Yankees acquired him. The 29-year-old had been dealing with shoulder inflammation in early July, as his July 21 start against Detroit was his first appearance since July 3.
Boone said the Yankees didn’t have any major concerns about Montas’ shoulder at the time they acquired him.
“Obviously we knew he was coming off an injury that only cost him 17 days,” Boone said. “But, yeah, everything would have suggested that he was healthy.”
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TORONTO (AP) — Raimel Tapia hit a three-run double, José Berríos pitched six innings to remain unbeaten against Baltimore, and the Toronto Blue Jays strengthened their position atop the AL wild card standings by beating the Orioles 6-3 Saturday.
George Springer had two hits and two RBIs, and Matt Chapman drove in a run and scored a run as Toronto (83-63) improved to 13-4 in September. The Blue Jays have won six of their last seven against Baltimore (75-69).
The Blue Jays lead the wild card race ahead of Seattle and Tampa Bay. Baltimore is five games back of the Rays, who played later Saturday, for the last wild card.
Berríos (11-5) allowed two runs and seven hits to win his third straight decision. He is 8-0 with a 3.04 ERA in 11 starts against the Orioles.
Tim Mayza worked the seventh, Yimi Garcia gave up an RBI single in the eighth and Jordan Romano finished for his 34th save in 38 chances.
Orioles right-hander Kyle Bradish (3-7) allowed five runs — three earned — and six hits in 4 2/3 innings, his second straight loss.
Baltimore reliever Bryan Baker, who sparked a benches-clearing confrontation after gesturing to Toronto’s Teoscar Hernández during a Sept. 6 game at Oriole Park, worked the seventh. Baker pitched around a pair of singles, striking out Hernández to end the inning.
Tapia cleared the bases with a two-out double to center in the fifth, giving the Blue Jays a four-run lead. He also made a sensational leaping catch at the top of the left field wall to retire Orioles leadoff batter Cedric Mullins in the first, wagging his finger in the air after coming down with the ball.
Orioles third baseman Ramón Urías made a throwing error on Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s one-out grounder in the fifth, leading to three unearned runs.
Chapman hit a sacrifice fly in the first inning and Springer made it 3-0 with a two-run double in the second.
Orioles rookie Gunnar Henderson cut the deficit to one run with a two-run, bases-loaded single in the third, but Berríos retired Terrin Vavra and Rougned Odor to end the rally.
Trailing 3-2 with runners at first and third and two out in the fourth, Baltimore tried to sneak the tying run home with a delayed double steal. Toronto caught Mullins in a rundown between third and home for the third out.
BUMPED AND BRUISED
After taking Tapia’s bad hop grounder off his chin on the final play of the first inning, Baltimore slugger Ryan Mountcastle took a Berríos fastball off the left elbow to begin the second. Mountcastle stayed in to run the bases following a lengthy visit from the trainer, but Jesús Aguilar came on to play first base in the bottom half. The Orioles said X-rays on Mountcastle’s elbow did not reveal a fracture.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: C Alejandro Kirk (left hip) sat for the fourth straight day but ran on the field before the game.
TRAFFIC ON THE BASES
With runners at second and third in the second, Odor hit a high pop up that came down almost right on top of second base, where Vavra was standing. Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette collided with Vavra as he tracked the ball but kept his footing and reached back to make the grab.
SPRINGER SOARS
Springer made a headfirst diving catch to retire Urías for the first out of the fourth.
UP NEXT
Orioles RHP Dean Kremer (7-5, 3.34 ERA) faces Blue Jays RHP Alek Manoah (14-7, 2.43 ERA) in Sunday’s series finale. Manoah is 3-1 with a 3.07 ERA in seven career games against Baltimore.
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PASSING_North Texas, Aune 17-29-2-305, (Team) 0-1-0-0. UNLV, Brumfield 21-27-0-211.
RECEIVING_North Texas, Burns 5-98, Shorter 4-90, Gumms 2-71, D.Ward 2-18, Adaway 2-7, I.Johnson 1-13, Roberts 1-8. UNLV, Ky.Williams 8-69, White 7-76, Ni.Williams 2-59, Weimer 2-3, Zeon 1-5, Robbins 1-(minus 1).
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Allen Smith scored the winning touchdown in the second overtime, Jake Willcox threw three touchdown passes and Brown, which trailed by 14 points in the fourth quarter, defeated Bryant 44-38 on Saturday.
Brown's thrilling season-opener was capped off after the Bears stuffed Ryan Clark on a fourth-and-1 attempt to open the second overtime. The Bears took possession, needing any score to win. Willcox scrambled for 23 yards on a third-and-long play, then Smith scored on a 4-yard run on second down.
Bryant (0-3) led 24-10 after three quarters before Willcox hit Hayes Sutton with a 40-yard scoring pass early in the fourth. A few minutes later, Willcox connected with Graham Walker on a 30-yard TD play, but the Bears trailed 24-23 after missing the PAT.
Clark's 1-yard run gave Bryant a 31-23 lead with 2:35 remaining, then Smith's 1-yard run and a two-point conversion tied it with 38 seconds remaining in regulation.
Willcox and Bryant's Zevi Eckhaus both threw TD passes in the first overtime.
Willcox completed 26 of 39 passes for 356 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions for Brown. Graham Walker caught eight passes for 116 yards with two touchdowns.
For Bryant, Eckhaus was 24-of-42 passing with three touchdowns and two interceptions. Landon Ruggieri had nine receptions for 119 yards.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 17, 2022
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What we learned from West Virginia’s win vs. Towson – The Gold and Blue Nation Podcast
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — For the Mountaineers, that 58-point win over Townson was just what the doctor ordered.
West Virginia cruised to a 65-7 victory over Towson Saturday, securing win No. 1 on the year, and generating some much-needed confidence heading into Virginia Tech week.
On the latest edition of The Gold and Blue Nation Podcast, presented by Pritt & Spano, we break down the action and share our takeaways from the victory.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It took a few weeks, but West Virginia football has earned a victory.
Head coach Neal Brown was in a much better mood after his team trounced Towson 65-7 on Saturday. The Mountaineers showed marked improvement on defense and scored on each of its 10 drives, while several of its young prospects got quality minutes of live action.
“These types of games are important. I know sometimes you’ll ask why play these types of games, but for the morale of your football team, they’re really important,” Brown said. “We were able to sub about three-quarters of the way into the second quarter. We were able to play a lot of guys. There’s probably some guys that showed up in that third or fourth quarter that put some stuff on film that may warrant more playing time.”
Here’s what Brown had to say after the victory:
On the bounce-back win…
WVU’s winless start produced a lot of backlash on social media.
That adversity and the subsequent response was tough for Brown and his staff to get over. The players, he said, can generally get over things in “about 48 hours” on the other hand.
Social media makes things a little different, though.
“I can tune out social media. They can’t. That’s how they live,” Brown said. “They see all the negativity earlier in the week. They understand. They have a job to do. We really stressed how to overcome things, and it’s about working.”
Brown said the staff made a point to teach the team about overcoming that kind of adversity.
“They put in the work, and they were able to reap the benefits tonight,” Brown said. “We have to continue to grow off of that, especially when we go down to Blacksburg.”
On the defense…
West Virginia’s defense was clearly marked for improvement after WVU’s loss to Kansas, and it came back on Saturday and pitched a shutout of the Tigers (save, of course, an early special teams touchdown.).
Brown was pleased with the “bounce back game” and said it was the product of a week’s worth of hard work.
“They played more up to the level that we’re expecting, not that we’ve arrived by any means,” Brown said. “It’s the level we played at against Pitt with the same determination, same grit, and resilience and all those types of things. They did a nice job there, and they got a takeaway which is something we needed to do.”
On the offense…
Beside the 65-point game, Brown was happy with one stat from his offense in particular.
“Offensively, zero turnovers are the main thing we’re looking for,” he said.
WVU got that type of performance and finished with a perfect game — 10 drives, 10 scores, zero punts.
The offense did that by committee. JT Daniels led the offense through the middle part of the second quarter before Garrett Greene took over for a couple of drives. Will “Goose” Crowder and Nicco Marchiol each led a series as well, punctuating them both with touchdown passes.
“[I’m] really pleased that we could get four guys in at quarterback,” Brown said. “[We’ve] been working
with Nicco a lot on developmental stuff so he’s had a ton of reps in the last three weeks since the season started.”
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The West Virginia University women’s soccer team completed its nonconference slate with a 2-0 loss to Georgetown at Shaw Field in Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon.
Despite a seemingly even final box score, the Hoyas (4-1-3) broke through in the 34th minute and then added a second score in the opening minutes of the second half to seal the win. The Mountaineers (3-3-3) had their chances, taking nine shots in the second frame, but couldn’t find the back of the net in the loss.
West Virginia’s best opportunities of the match came just before the 70-minute mark, as the offense fired off a series of shots that forced the Hoya defense to work hard to save the shutout. The Mountaineers dribbled the ball into the 18-yard box to draw the GU keeper off her line. Senior midfielder Maya McCutcheon saw an opportunity and put a ball on frame that had to be narrowly saved by a GU defender, awarding WVU a corner kick. Off the corner, junior midfielder Chloe Adler got a head on the ball, but her attempt sailed just high.
WVU narrowly outshot GU, 13-12, including a 9-8 edge in the second half, while the Mountaineers tallied four shots on goal compared to six for the Hoyas. West Virginia also held a 5-2 advantage in corner kicks. Senior forward/defender Julianne Vallerand paced WVU’s offensive efforts, taking four shots, while Adler placed a pair of strikes on goal.
Aside from an own goal on Sept. 8, senior goalkeeper Kayza Massey allowed a goal by the opposing team for the first time since Aug. 25. She made four saves in the match, while Hoya keeper Cara Martin also stopped four Mountaineer shots on frame.
With the loss, WVU’s all-time advantage in the series moves to 16-7-3, including 9-4 in games played in D.C.
West Virginia returns to the road next week to open Big 12 Conference play against Texas Tech on Thursday, Sept. 22. Kickoff at John Walker Soccer Complex in Lubbock, Texas, is tabbed for 8 p.m. ET.
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A former White House aide told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sought a pardon from former President Trump over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into sex trafficking allegations against him, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the testimony.
Former Trump aide Johnny McEntee said Gaetz told him he had asked former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for a preemptive pardon, the Post reported. McEntee told the committee that he understood the pardon to be in connection with the DOJ probe.
The Justice Department is investigating allegations that Gaetz paid for sex, paid for women to travel across state lines to have sex and had a sexual relationship with a minor. Gaetz denies the allegations.
The committee previously showed McEntee saying in a videotaped deposition that Gaetz told him he asked Meadows for a pardon during a June hearing.
It also presented testimony from other former Trump aides naming Gaetz as one of several Republican lawmakers who sought pardons from Trump. Gaetz and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) advocated for a “blanket pardon” for lawmakers who participated in a December 2020 meeting where efforts to overturn the election were discussed, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified. When asked by the committee if Gaetz was seeking a pardon, Eric Herschmann, a former Trump White House attorney, responded in a taped deposition that he believed so and that Gaetz’s pardon request was “for any and all things.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a member of the committee, also presented an email from Brooks in which the Alabama congressman requested presidential pardons for himself, Gaetz, and lawmakers who objected to the Electoral College vote for Arizona and Pennsylvania.
However, McEntee’s testimony as reported by the Post is the first to indicate that Gaetz sought a pardon in connection with the Justice Department’s investigation into the sex trafficking allegations, though there has been speculation.
The New York Times reported in April 2021 that Gaetz had sought a blanket pardon from Trump in the last weeks of his presidency, noting this came as the congressman was being investigated by the DOJ for allegedly violating sex trafficking laws. Trump denied the allegations that Gaetz had directly asked for a blanket pardon.
“Congressman Matt Gaetz discussed pardons for many other people publicly and privately at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term,” a spokesperson for Gaetz said in a statement. “As for himself, President Trump addressed this malicious rumor more than a year ago stating, ‘Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon.’ Rep. Gaetz continues to stand by President Trump’s statement.”
The Jan. 6 committee and Trump’s team did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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UPDATE (6:36 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17): The Cabell County Sheriff’s Department is searching for a suspect accused of stabbing another man in Lesage on Saturday afternoon.
Eric Johnson is accused of malicious wounding.
The sheriff’s office says Johnson was driving a smoke grey Ford Escape with Mississippi or Minnesota tags.
Anyone with information should call 911.
CABELL COUNTY, WV (WOWK)—One person was taken to the hospital after being stabbed in the Lesage area of Cabell County.
Cabell dispatch says that West Virginia State Police and the Cabell County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the stabbing that happened on the 200 block of Fraziers Lane in Lesage.
There is no word on the extent of the person’s injuries.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Some of the most loyal of Disney enthusiasts say one specific thing is keeping them from visiting Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando more often — they even say it’s causing “the Happiest Place on Earth” to completely lose its magic.
It’s the cost.
A family vacation to Walt Disney World Resort is more expensive than ever and fans are noticing, according to a new poll. The gambling website time2play recently released a study based on data from 1,927 “self-described Disney World enthusiasts” about the rising costs to visit the park.
According to the study, 92.6% of those surveyed believed the cost of a Disney World vacation is out of reach for an average family. Additionally, 68.3% of people said increases made it feel like the theme park has lost all its magic.
As of Tuesday, the cost for a standard one-park day ticket on Friday, Sept. 16 is $134, though prices of tickets vary by date. Standard Walt Disney World tickets range between $139 and $154 through October, according to Disney World’s website.
Almost 50% of respondents said they postponed a Disney World trip in recent years due to price increases.
According to a study by “Koala“, a company based in Brooklyn that connects vacationers with timeshare owners online, a single-day ticket Walt Disney World could cost $253.20 in just nine years.
When Walt Disney World Resort opened in 1971, a ticket cost only $3.50. Adjusting for inflation, that would be $22.61 today. According to Koala calculations, there has been an average price increase of 7.4% each year since the park opened.
Meanwhile, the cost for standard one-park day tickets at Disneyland, Disney’s California park, cost about $149 for Sept. 16. Standard Disneyland tickets range between $135 and $165 through the month of October, per Disneyland’s website.
Disney enthusiasts polled by time2play also said by a large majority (66.9%) that they felt they wouldn’t get a true Disney World experience if they didn’t pay for upgrades like the Genie+ service, which offers “Lighting Lanes” — which lets users wait in shorter lines for rides. Genie+ service is an extra $15 per person each day (though prices may vary), in addition to admission cost. Genie service doesn’t come complete with all Lightning Lanes, however. Guests must purchase even more lanes within the Genie app for full lane skipping.
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(The Conversation) – When I first started my job as a biologist at the University of South Florida, I drove my Jeep to a grassy field, dug up a mound of fire ants and shoveled it into a 5-gallon bucket. Immediately, thousands of ants swarmed out of the soil and up the walls of the bucket headed for freedom. Luckily I had a lid.
How do ants make climbing walls, ceilings and other surfaces look so easy? I’ve been studying ants for 30 years, and their climbing abilities never cease to amaze me.
Worker ants – who are all female – have an impressive toolbox of claws, spines, hairs and sticky pads on their feet that enable them to scale almost any surface.
Human hands vs. ant feet
To understand ant feet, it helps to compare them with human hands. Your hand has one broad segment, the palm. Sprouting from your palm are four fingers and an opposable thumb. Each finger has three segments, while your thumb has only two segments. A hard nail grows from the tips of your fingers and thumb.
Humans have two hands – ants have six feet. Ant feet are similar to your hands but are more complex, with an additional set of weird-looking parts that enhance them.
Ant feet have five jointed segments, with the end segment sporting a pair of claws. The claws are shaped like a cat’s and can grip irregularities on walls. Each foot segment also has thick and thin spines and hairs that provide additional traction by sticking into microscopic pits on textured surfaces like bark. Claws and spines have the added benefit of protecting ant feet from hot pavement and sharp objects, just as your feet are protected by shoes.
But the feature that truly separates human hands from ant feet are inflatable sticky pads, called arolia.
Sticky feet
Arolia are located between the claws at the tip of every ant foot. These balloonlike pads allow ants to defy gravity and crawl on ceilings or ultrahard surfaces like glass.
When an ant walks up a wall or across a ceiling, gravity causes its claws to swing wide and pull back. At the same time, its leg muscles pump fluids into the pads at the end of its feet, causing them to inflate. This body fluid is called hemolymph, which is a sticky fluid similar to your blood that circulates throughout an ant’s body.
After the hemolymph pumps up the pad, some of it leaks outside the pad, which is how ants can stick to a wall or a ceiling. But when an ant picks up its foot, its leg muscles contract and suck most of the fluid back into the pad and then back up the leg. This way an ant’s blood is reused over and over – pumped from the leg into the pad, then sucked back up the leg – so none is left behind.
Ants are feather-light, so six sticky pads are enough to hold them against the pull of gravity on any surface. In fact, at home in their underground chambers, ants use their sticky pads to sleep on the ceiling. By sleeping on the ceiling, ants avoid the rush-hour traffic of other ants on the chamber floors.
A unique gait
When you walk, your left and right feet alternate so one is on the ground while the other is in the air, moving forward. Ants also alternate their feet, with three on the surface and three in the air at a time.A computer simulation showing an ant’s special walk. Created by Shihui Guo.
The walking pattern of ants is unique among six-legged insects. In ants, the front and back left feet are on the ground with the middle right foot, while the front and back right feet and the middle left foot are in the air. Then they switch. It’s fun to try to copy this triangular pattern using three fingers on each hand.
The next time you see an ant crawling up a wall, look closely and you might witness some of these fascinating features at work.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.— It’s been a great week for the Chiefs superstar QB, as he gets to celebrate his birthday just a few days after their big win against division rival Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday Night Football.
In honor of Patrick Mahomes 27th birthday, his foundation, 15 and the Mahomies, is asking people to donate to their charity.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas basketball announced that the school will give away a piece of the National championship court from New Orleans to fans at their home opener.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. — After demolishing Missouri a week before, Tulane gives Kansas State their first loss of the season.
A 17-10 loss to the Green Wave in what was a close game throughout in Manhattan.
This is Tulane’s first Power 5 win since 2010 and they are 3-0 for the first time since 1998.
After being tied at 10 in the fourth quarter, Tulane scored with 4:27 left to take the lead. After a Wildcat drive stalled with 2:03 to go on 4th and 1, Tulane quarterback Nick Pratt fumbled a quarterback sneak on Tulane’s own 24-yard line but gathered the ball and got the first down to seal the win.
Pratt finished the game with 176 yards passing, one passing touchdown and a career-high 87 yards rushing.
K-State’s Adrian Martinez was 21 for 31 for 150 yards and one touchdown while rushing for 59 yards. Deuce Vaughn gained 81 yards on 20 rushes.
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PLAY FOOTBALL BACK AT KENNETT HIGH SCHOOL. BAILEY IS CONTINUING TO INSPIRE OTRSHE JONATHAN MARSHALL HAS HIS STORY. >> I JUST WA TNTO GIVE BACK TO EVERYONE, AND I FEEL LIKE BEING THE BEST I CAN WILL BE ABLE TO DO THAT. JONATHAN: CAMDEN BAILEY DOESN’T CONSIDER HIMSELF A HERO, BUT AFTER LEARNING ABOUT HIS STORY, YOU MAY FEEL OTHERWISE. HE WAS JUST AN 8TH GRADER WHEN DIAGNOSED WITH OSTEOSARCOMA IN HIS LEFT L. THANKS TO A SURGERY CALLED "ROTATIONPLASTY" WHICH PARTIALLY AMPUTATED HIS LEG, BAILEY WAS ABLE TO COME BACK AS THE STARTING JV QUARTEACRB >> THEY TOOK MY ANKLE D FLIPPED IT UPSIDE DOWN AND TURNED IT INTO MY KNEE JOINT. SO IT JUST MOVES LIKE A REGULAR KNEE JOINT. JONATHAN: NOW A SENIOR, BAILEY IS CONTINUING TO THRIVE. HE W TASHE STARTING VARSITY QB , AND IS THE NUMBER TWO PLAYER ON THE TENNIS TEAM. B>>EING ABLE TO PLAY SPORTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL IS SOMETHING I’D DRUMS OF AS A KID. IT REALLY MOTIVATED ME THROUGH ALL THE BAD TIMES. JONATHAN: THROUGH HIS INPSIRATIONAL JOURNEY TO BEING THE STARTING QUARTERBACK ON THE VARSITY AND THE NUMBER TWO PLAYER ON THE TENNIS TEAM BAILEY’S STORY HAS GIVEN THOSE , AROUND HIM AND HIMSELF A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ONIF LE. >> ALL THE HURDLES HE HAD TO GO OVER AND THEN TO ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO PERFORM ATHLETICALLY I PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. JONATHAN: BAILEY’S IMPACT ON HIS COMMUNITY WAS FURTHER CEMENT RECENTLY, WHEN HE WASAMED N THE CLASS SALUTATORIAN. >> I DON’T THINK I WOULD LLCA MYSELF A HERO. BUT PEOPLE DEFINITELY LOOK UP TO ME AND PEOPLE COME
Federer, Serena retire; tennis moves on to Alcaraz, Swiatek
Updated: 5:14 PM EDT Sep 17, 2022
The timing of it all hardly could be more symbolic: Within a span of two weeks, Serena Williams plays what is believed to be her last match at age 40, Roger Federer announces he’ll be retiring at 41, Iga Swiatek wins her third Grand Slam title at 21, and Carlos Alcaraz gets his first at 19.After so much handwringing in recent years about what would become of tennis once transcendent superstars such as Williams and Federer leave the game — he told the world Thursday he will exit after the Laver Cup next week; she made her plans public last month, then lost in the third round of the U.S. Open on Sept. 2 — the sport does seem to be in good hands as it prepares to move on.“They helped mold tennis into what it is today. We will miss them,” Nick Bollettieri, a Hall of Fame coach, said about Federer and Williams.“Having these youngsters being No. 1,” said Bollettieri, who worked with the Williams sisters, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova, among others, “is going to make a big difference for the tours.”First of all, let’s not forget: Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are still around — even if injuries, in Nadal’s case, and vaccination status, in Djokovic’s case, have limited their ability to compete at their best or always. They combined to win three of the year’s four Grand Slam titles, boosting Nadal’s total to 22, the most for a man, and Djokovic’s to 21.Williams has 23, and Federer 20, and both have dozens of other trophies, Olympic medals, hundreds of weeks at No. 1 in the rankings, and so on.They are standard-bearers not merely because of such statistics.Williams became a celebrity as much as a record-breaking athlete and someone who helped expand the sport’s audience while inspiring plenty of kids to take up tennis. She paid tribute to Federer on her Instagram account, saying “Welcome to the retirement club.”Federer became a widely respected ambassador of the game, attracting fans and new players from around the globe, too.Now some of those fresh faces are prepared to step into the space that will open up for new champions, new prime-time slots on TV, new sponsorship deals, new interest.One never knows how things will go in sports, of course, or what might happen in terms of injuries, say, or other potential roadblocks to a long and distinguished career, but Swiatek and Alcaraz sure do appear to be set up for success.From their athleticism and shot-making, to their on- and off-court demeanors, to the teams that surround them — both work with a sports psychologist, for example — they are preternaturally mature.Swiatek, No. 1 since Ash Barty’s retirement six months ago, is the first woman to win two Grand Slam titles in a single season since 2016.Alcaraz, No. 1 since Monday, is the youngest man to occupy that spot since the computerized rankings began in 1973. He’s also the first teenager to win the U.S. Open men’s championship since Pete Sampras in 1990 and to win any men’s major since Nadal at the 2005 French Open.Both turned to Twitter to remark on Federer’s impending departure.Swiatek’s message, in part: “I want to thank you for everything you’ve done and everything you are for our sport. It’s been a privilege to witness your career.”Alcaraz’s, in part: “Roger has been one of my idols and a source of inspiration! Thank you for everything you have done for our sport!”Because of his age — born two months before Federer’s first Grand Slam title and two years before Nadal’s first — Alcaraz grew up admiring both of those giants of the game.Similarly, Swiatek was 2 when Federer’s initial Slam arrived, 4 when Nadal’s did. She was yet to be born when Williams captured her first major trophy at the 1999 U.S. Open.Swiatek and Alcaraz learned tennis, learned what it takes to be champions, learned what success beyond the lines looks like, during as golden an era as their sport ever enjoyed.With those two at the forefront, and plenty of other talent around — Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff, Frances Tiafoe and Jannik Sinner, Casper Ruud and Ons Jabeur and so on — tennis just might be able to survive. Thrive? Could be.“Roger certainly had the era of Novak and Rafa, two of the most incredible athletes and tennis players ever. That’s what people know today. But there were other rivalries with Roger before them. And together, they understood, all of them, the importance of growing the game,” said Tony Godsick, Federer’s longtime agent. “Tennis is in such a good place. You look at this young kid, Alcaraz — he is coming. And there are other ones behind him. So tennis is in for a nice little pop here.”
The timing of it all hardly could be more symbolic: Within a span of two weeks, Serena Williams plays what is believed to be her last match at age 40, Roger Federer announces he’ll be retiring at 41, Iga Swiatek wins her third Grand Slam title at 21, and Carlos Alcaraz gets his first at 19.
After so much handwringing in recent years about what would become of tennis once transcendent superstars such as Williams and Federer leave the game — he told the world Thursday he will exit after the Laver Cup next week; she made her plans public last month, then lost in the third round of the U.S. Open on Sept. 2 — the sport does seem to be in good hands as it prepares to move on.
“They helped mold tennis into what it is today. We will miss them,” Nick Bollettieri, a Hall of Fame coach, said about Federer and Williams.
“Having these youngsters being No. 1,” said Bollettieri, who worked with the Williams sisters, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova, among others, “is going to make a big difference for the tours.”
First of all, let’s not forget: Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are still around — even if injuries, in Nadal’s case, and vaccination status, in Djokovic’s case, have limited their ability to compete at their best or always. They combined to win three of the year’s four Grand Slam titles, boosting Nadal’s total to 22, the most for a man, and Djokovic’s to 21.
Williams has 23, and Federer 20, and both have dozens of other trophies, Olympic medals, hundreds of weeks at No. 1 in the rankings, and so on.
They are standard-bearers not merely because of such statistics.
Williams became a celebrity as much as a record-breaking athlete and someone who helped expand the sport’s audience while inspiring plenty of kids to take up tennis. She paid tribute to Federer on her Instagram account, saying “Welcome to the retirement club.”
Federer became a widely respected ambassador of the game, attracting fans and new players from around the globe, too.
Now some of those fresh faces are prepared to step into the space that will open up for new champions, new prime-time slots on TV, new sponsorship deals, new interest.
One never knows how things will go in sports, of course, or what might happen in terms of injuries, say, or other potential roadblocks to a long and distinguished career, but Swiatek and Alcaraz sure do appear to be set up for success.
From their athleticism and shot-making, to their on- and off-court demeanors, to the teams that surround them — both work with a sports psychologist, for example — they are preternaturally mature.
Swiatek, No. 1 since Ash Barty’s retirement six months ago, is the first woman to win two Grand Slam titles in a single season since 2016.
Alcaraz, No. 1 since Monday, is the youngest man to occupy that spot since the computerized rankings began in 1973. He’s also the first teenager to win the U.S. Open men’s championship since Pete Sampras in 1990 and to win any men’s major since Nadal at the 2005 French Open.
Both turned to Twitter to remark on Federer’s impending departure.
Swiatek’s message, in part: “I want to thank you for everything you’ve done and everything you are for our sport. It’s been a privilege to witness your career.”
Alcaraz’s, in part: “Roger has been one of my idols and a source of inspiration! Thank you for everything you have done for our sport!”
Because of his age — born two months before Federer’s first Grand Slam title and two years before Nadal’s first — Alcaraz grew up admiring both of those giants of the game.
Similarly, Swiatek was 2 when Federer’s initial Slam arrived, 4 when Nadal’s did. She was yet to be born when Williams captured her first major trophy at the 1999 U.S. Open.
Swiatek and Alcaraz learned tennis, learned what it takes to be champions, learned what success beyond the lines looks like, during as golden an era as their sport ever enjoyed.
With those two at the forefront, and plenty of other talent around — Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff, Frances Tiafoe and Jannik Sinner, Casper Ruud and Ons Jabeur and so on — tennis just might be able to survive. Thrive? Could be.
“Roger certainly had the era of Novak and Rafa, two of the most incredible athletes and tennis players ever. That’s what people know today. But there were other rivalries with Roger before them. And together, they understood, all of them, the importance of growing the game,” said Tony Godsick, Federer’s longtime agent. “Tennis is in such a good place. You look at this young kid, Alcaraz — he is coming. And there are other ones behind him. So tennis is in for a nice little pop here.”
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If you love space and exploring the cosmos, there is no shortage of wonder right now.Scientists identified mysterious diamonds that likely originated from a dwarf planet that once existed in our solar system -- until it collided with a large asteroid 4.5 billion years ago.The rare space diamonds aren't the only find mesmerizing researchers. A "breathtaking" image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the secrets of star birth in the Orion Nebula. Expect to see more unprecedented Webb images in the coming weeks.Meanwhile, the Artemis I mission has a new launch date scheduled for September 27, with a 70-minute window that opens at 11:37 a.m. ET.And on Mars, inspiring discoveries are afoot as the Perseverance rover investigates an intriguing site.Video above: NASA reveals new image of Tarantula Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.Other worldsThe Perseverance rover has made its most exciting find on the red planet to date.Perseverance has finally collected samples from the site of an ancient river delta, which is full of rock layers that serve as a geological record of the Martian past. Some of the rocks include the highest concentration of organic matter found by the rover to date, according to NASA scientists.Among the organic matter are minerals that correlate with sulfates, which could preserve evidence of once potentially habitable sites on Mars and the microbial life that may have existed there.New photos show the promising rocks amid the delta's alien landscape. These important samples could answer the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe?We are familyModern humans and Neanderthals lived in tandem until our ancient relatives went extinct about 40,000 years ago. Now, researchers think they may have pinpointed something that gave Homo sapiens a cognitive edge over the Stone Age hominins.Scientists discovered a genetic mutation that may have allowed neurons to form faster in the modern human brain."We've identified a gene that contributes to making us human," said study author Wieland Huttner, professor and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.But some experts think more research is needed to ascertain the gene's true impact.TrailblazersWhat's good for the goose is good for the gander -- and these golden geese have provided some pretty significant benefits.Three teams of scientists won the 2022 Golden Goose Awards, prizes organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for pioneering breakthroughs.One of those includes the Foldscope, a microscope made from paper that costs $1.75 to make. Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash came up with the idea on a research trip in the Thai jungle more than a decade ago.The scientific instrument has traveled around the world, and researchers have even used it to identify a new type of cyanobacteria.Defying gravityMark your calendars: A NASA spacecraft will intentionally crash into a tiny asteroid on September 26.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, launched in November and is on its way to a rendezvous with Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting an asteroid called Didymos.The mission will nudge the asteroid, which poses no threat to Earth, to change its speed and path in a first-of-its-kind test of kinetic impact. If DART is successful, the mission could demonstrate future ways to protect Earth from space debris.The spacecraft recently got its first glimpse of Didymos from about 20 million miles away. On the day of the encounter, we'll see Dimorphos for the first time before DART collides with the space rock.ConsequencesThe Xerces blue butterfly, Floreana giant tortoise and Tasmanian tiger are just some of the species that the world has lost due to human-driven threats.Environmental and travel photographer Marc Schlossman has spent 15 years documenting extinct and endangered animal specimens in Chicago's Field Museum collection for his new book, "Extinction: Our Fragile Relationship With Life on Earth."Schlossman provides a glimmer of hope at a time when biodiversity loss is accelerating. Of the 82 species photographed for the book, 23 are extinct, he said.Thanks to conservation efforts, the rest have been brought back from the brink of disappearing or -- as in the case of the New Zealand kākāpo -- can recover with "robust" conservation work.
If you love space and exploring the cosmos, there is no shortage of wonder right now.
Scientists identified mysterious diamonds that likely originated from a dwarf planet that once existed in our solar system -- until it collided with a large asteroid 4.5 billion years ago.
The rare space diamonds aren't the only find mesmerizing researchers. A "breathtaking" image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the secrets of star birth in the Orion Nebula. Expect to see more unprecedented Webb images in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, the Artemis I mission has a new launch date scheduled for September 27, with a 70-minute window that opens at 11:37 a.m. ET.
And on Mars, inspiring discoveries are afoot as the Perseverance rover investigates an intriguing site.
Video above: NASA reveals new image of Tarantula Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Other worlds
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The Perseverance rover used its robotic arm to study a rock called Skinner Ridge on Mars.
The Perseverance rover has made its most exciting find on the red planet to date.
Perseverance has finally collected samples from the site of an ancient river delta, which is full of rock layers that serve as a geological record of the Martian past. Some of the rocks include the highest concentration of organic matter found by the rover to date, according to NASA scientists.
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Perseverance has finally collected samples from the site of an ancient river delta, which is full of rock layers that serve as a geological record of the Martian past.
Among the organic matter are minerals that correlate with sulfates, which could preserve evidence of once potentially habitable sites on Mars and the microbial life that may have existed there.
New photos show the promising rocks amid the delta's alien landscape. These important samples could answer the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe?
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The Perseverance rover used its robotic arm to study a rock called Skinner Ridge on Mars.
We are family
Modern humans and Neanderthals lived in tandem until our ancient relatives went extinct about 40,000 years ago. Now, researchers think they may have pinpointed something that gave Homo sapiens a cognitive edge over the Stone Age hominins.
Scientists discovered a genetic mutation that may have allowed neurons to form faster in the modern human brain.
"We've identified a gene that contributes to making us human," said study author Wieland Huttner, professor and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.
But some experts think more research is needed to ascertain the gene's true impact.
Trailblazers
What's good for the goose is good for the gander -- and these golden geese have provided some pretty significant benefits.
Three teams of scientists won the 2022 Golden Goose Awards, prizes organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for pioneering breakthroughs.
One of those includes the Foldscope, a microscope made from paper that costs $1.75 to make. Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash came up with the idea on a research trip in the Thai jungle more than a decade ago.
The scientific instrument has traveled around the world, and researchers have even used it to identify a new type of cyanobacteria.
Defying gravity
Mark your calendars: A NASA spacecraft will intentionally crash into a tiny asteroid on September 26.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, launched in November and is on its way to a rendezvous with Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting an asteroid called Didymos.
The mission will nudge the asteroid, which poses no threat to Earth, to change its speed and path in a first-of-its-kind test of kinetic impact. If DART is successful, the mission could demonstrate future ways to protect Earth from space debris.
The spacecraft recently got its first glimpse of Didymos from about 20 million miles away. On the day of the encounter, we'll see Dimorphos for the first time before DART collides with the space rock.
Consequences
The Xerces blue butterfly, Floreana giant tortoise and Tasmanian tiger are just some of the species that the world has lost due to human-driven threats.
Environmental and travel photographer Marc Schlossman has spent 15 years documenting extinct and endangered animal specimens in Chicago's Field Museum collection for his new book, "Extinction: Our Fragile Relationship With Life on Earth."
Schlossman provides a glimmer of hope at a time when biodiversity loss is accelerating. Of the 82 species photographed for the book, 23 are extinct, he said.
Thanks to conservation efforts, the rest have been brought back from the brink of disappearing or -- as in the case of the New Zealand kākāpo -- can recover with "robust" conservation work.
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The Square Enix title set a release date this week for PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch.
For many fans of the legendary saga, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion is one of the most outstanding releases of this year. The game of Square Enix set a release date with a trailer released this week, so we already know it’s coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on December 13, 2022.
It is published on December 13, 2022In order to see how it works on computers this remastering of the game originally released on PSP, it is good to take a look at the minimum and recommended requirements that have been confirmed through the game’s Steam page, which seem quite affordable at all levels, but especially in relation to the processor and graphics. We leave them below.
System Requirements
Minimum requirements
- Operating system: Windows 10 or Windows 11 de 64 bits
- Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel Core i3-3210
- Memory: 8 GB of RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 460 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
- DirectX: version 12
- Storage: 30 GB of available space
- Sound card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
- Works to: 30 FPS y 1280×720
Recommended Requirements
- Operating system: Windows 10 or Windows 11 de 64 bits
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i5-6500
- Memory: 8 GB of RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (VRAM 3GB)
- DirectX: version 12
- Storage: 30 GB of available space
- Sound card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
- Works to: 60 FPS y 1920×1280
To learn more about the game, we invite you to read the playable impressions of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion that our colleague Raquel Cervantes has carried out after have tested it in advance. In addition, Square Enix is likely to offer certain news during these days at the Tokyo Game Show 2022, which is currently taking place.
More about: Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion, Requirements, PC and Square Enix.
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