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Super Falcons star, Toni Payne is optimistic about the team's chances at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
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Former Super Falcons skipper, Nkiru Okosieme has advised the Nigeria Football Federation to start investing in the indigenous coaches, just as the other leading countries in African football have demonstrated.
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The Seattle Mariners and San Francisco Giants reportedly have a deal in place that will send AJ Pollock and Mark Mathias to SF
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The Giants finalized a deal with the Seattle Mariners that adds veteran AJ Pollock to San Francisco’s outfield and DH mix, the team confirmed on Monday afternoon.
The deal also includes minor league utilityman Mark Mathias, a Bay Area native, coming to the Giants’ system. News that the trade was nearly finalized was first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
It isn’t immediately clear what the Giants are sending to the Mariners, but Seattle isn’t expected to receive a significant return. (According to MLB.com’s Daniel Kramer, the Giants will send a player to be named later to Seattle to complete the deal.) The Mariners entered the season as a trendy pick to win the AL West, but they appear to be in sell mode after also trading closer Paul Sewald to the Diamondbacks earlier Monday.
The Giants entered Monday night’s game against Arizona with a 58-48 record. They trail the Dodgers by two games in the NL West and are the current leaders for one of the three wild-card spots in the playoffs, although only six games separate seven teams in a still wide-open wild-card race.
The MLB trade deadline is Tuesday.
Pollock, 35, is a former All-Star and could potentially provide a much-needed right-handed power presence to the Giants lineup. But his most recent productive season was in 2021 with the Dodgers, when he hit 21 home runs with a slash line of .297/.355/.892. He does give the team immediate depth behind Michael Conforto, Austin Slater and Luis Matos. Mitch Haniger has been out since mid-June, and Mike Yastrzemski was placed on the 10-day IL with a sore hamstring when the deal with the Mariners was announced by the Giants.
The Mariners signed Pollock to a $7 million, one-year deal this winter that also included an additional $3 million in incentives, in hopes the right-handed swinger could provide Seattle more power against lefties. But Pollock is batted .173 with five home runs in 127 at-bas with the Mariners. He’s also struggled to stay active because of nagging injuries.
Pollock is on the IL because of a hamstring injury, but reportedly has been taking batting practice. He is eligible to be activated on Tuesday.
The Giants are very familiar with Pollock, who played his first seven seasons with the Diamondbacks and spent three seasons with the Dodgers before playing with the White Sox last season. They also might think Pollock figured something out before he got hurt. Pollock only in six games in July, but went 5-for-17 with a double, a home run, two RBIs and scored two runs.
Mathias, 28, appeared in 22 games with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was batting .345 in 16 games at Seattle’s Triple-A affiliate Tacoma after being claimed off waivers. Mathias, who was born in Santa Clara and went to Fremont’s Irvington High, also appeared in the majors with the Rangers and the Brewers after being selected by Cleveland in the third round of the 2015 draft.
Mathias has displayed the kind of versatility the Giants are known to covet. He has played every position except pitcher, catcher, shortstop and center field this season.
Mathias was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento.
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Two children were playing with nerf guns when one picked up a loaded rifle and shot the other, according to the Alaska State Troopers.
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A child was shot and killed in Mountain Village on July 30.
According to Alaska State Troopers, they were contacted by Mountain Village tribal police and village police officers about the dead child early on July 30.
Two children were playing with Nerf guns when one picked up a loaded rifle and shot the other, according to the troopers.
No criminal charges have been filed at this time, and the incident is still under investigation.
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A statewide grocery store chain is in talks to purchase an iconic local general store.
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Wasilla-based grocery store chain Three Bears is interested in taking over a popular general store in Unalaska.
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Alaska Ship Supply is a local landmark in the community, complete with iconic hoodies, coffee and groceries, a liquor store, and a large selection of fishing gear.
Larry Soriano is president of Western Pioneer, which owns Alaska Ship Supply. He says they’re considering selling the store, and Three Bears is the most recent potential buyer. Representatives for Three Bears visited the Unalaska store in late July.
The company has been in business for over forty years and is expanding. In May, the chain opened up a store in Saxman , near Ketchikan.
Three Bears marketing director Jim Kolb wasn’t immediately available for comment on this story.
Soriano confirms that there is no deal yet for Alaska Ship Supply and nothing has changed for store employees.
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Kiara delighted her fans by sharing a rare video featuring the duo on an exotic holiday, capturing the essence of their joyful bond. Watch below
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Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra sure know how to make birthdays unforgettable! The adorable couple celebrated Kiara’s 31st birthday in the most splendid way, and their recent Instagram post is all the proof we need. Kiara delighted her fans by sharing a rare video featuring the duo on an exotic holiday, capturing the essence of their joyful bond.
In the video, we see Kiara and Sidharth, both looking stunning, as they enjoy a fun-filled day on a yacht. Kiara donned swimwear, exuding beach vibes, while Sidharth sported cool shorts. The couple’s infectious energy is palpable as they jump into the ocean, sharing laughter and smiles. Their happiness is truly infectious, making it evident that they’re enjoying every moment of their special celebration.
The couple can be seen swimming together, reveling in each other’s company, and striking playful poses for the camera. Their camaraderie and love for each other shine brightly through the video, leaving their fans swooning over their adorable chemistry.
In her heartwarming note, Kiara expressed her gratitude and joy for the love she receives every day. With a heartfelt “Happy Birthdayyyy to meeeee,” Kiara thanked her fans and well-wishers for their blessings and affection.
Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra’s love story has been capturing hearts, and this delightful birthday celebration video only adds to the charm. Their fans are left in awe of their picture-perfect moments and are showering the couple with love and best wishes.
Indeed, this exotic holiday and the sweet birthday post are a testament to the love and happiness shared by Kiara and Sidharth. Their genuine bond and affectionate gestures continue to win hearts, making them one of the most beloved couples in the Bollywood industry. Happy birthday, Kiara! May your special day be filled with love, laughter, and countless cherished memories!
What do you say? Let us know in the comments below.
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Nia Sharma and her dazzling obsession with barbiecore fashion! Picture this: a sprinkle of fairy dust, a dash of unicorn magic, and a whole lot of sass – that's Nia's recipe for slaying the style game!
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Buckle up, fashionistas and fun-seekers, because we’re diving headfirst into the whimsical wonderland of Nia Sharma and her dazzling obsession with barbiecore fashion! Picture this: a sprinkle of fairy dust, a dash of unicorn magic, and a whole lot of sass – that’s Nia’s recipe for slaying the style game!
When Nia steps out, it’s like a parade of pastel perfection dancing on a rainbow. She struts in with confidence, turning heads faster than a spinning top. Pink, purple, mint green – she’s got a color palette more vibrant than a kid’s crayon box! Who needs subtlety when you can be a walking, talking human-sized candy shop, right?
But wait, there’s more to Nia’s barbiecore madness! She’s got a trick or two up her sleeves, and they’re as cheeky as they come. Mixing sweetness with a pinch of spice, she throws on some edgy accessories that say, “Hey, I’m cute, but I’m not to be messed with!” Combat boots with a frilly dress? Heck yes! She’s a fashion rebel with a cause – bringing the best of both worlds to the runway!
Owing to that, here we have shared some of her core barbiecore looks collected from her Instagram profile.
If there’s one thing Nia loves more than her sugary outfits, it’s her hair game! From bouncy curls that rival the bounce house at a carnival to braids that could tame a wild unicorn, she’s got hairstyles for days.
Nia’s barbiecore powers wouldn’t be complete without her makeup magic. Glitter, glitter everywhere – on her eyes, her cheeks, and probably even in her dreams! With each stroke of her brush, she transforms into the ultimate fairy princess, and we can’t help but wish we could raid her makeup stash too.
But it’s not just about the clothes or the makeup – it’s Nia’s personality that takes barbiecore to a whole new level. She radiates happiness and joy, infecting us all with her contagious energy. If she were a dessert, she’d be a sparkling, multi-layered cake topped with sprinkles of laughter!
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Rocking a stylish halter neck glam green attire, Tejasswi transformed into an enchanting emerald goddess. The dress clung to her curves like it was made just for her, and she wore it with a confidence that could rival the most seasoned fashion icon. Check out
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Oh, la la! Tejasswi Prakash is setting the fashion world on fire, proving that green is undeniably the hottest hue of the season! And she is all on point with her hotness once again! The actress left us all gasping for breath as she graced her Instagram handle with a series of pictures that can only be described as pure glam and glittery goodness.
Decoding Tejasswi’s look
Rocking a stylish halter neck glam green attire, Tejasswi transformed into an enchanting emerald goddess. The dress clung to her curves like it was made just for her, and she wore it with a confidence that could rival the most seasoned fashion icon. Green has never looked this good!
But the magic didn’t stop there – oh no! Tejasswi’s side-parted wavy long hair cascaded down her shoulders like a shimmering waterfall, adding an extra dose of allure to her already captivating look. It’s like she harnessed the power of the forest and made it her own!
And can we talk about her makeup game for a minute? All glowing to the core, she had us reaching for our sunglasses! With a dash of highlighter that could light up a stadium, the diva radiated nothing but grace and sophistication. Move over, sun – there’s a new shining star in town, and her name is Tejasswi Prakash!
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Now, let’s not forget the dazzling accessories that completed this green goddess ensemble. Tejasswi knew exactly how to complement her look without overpowering it. She chose a pair of stylish golden drop earrings that added a touch of luxury and elegance to the whole affair. It’s like she waved a magic wand and sprinkled stardust on her outfit! With each picture she shared, Tejasswi had us under her spell. It’s as if she stepped out of a fairy tale and landed right in the middle of the fashion universe, ready to conquer it all with her incredible style and charm.
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The bloc gave a week deadline for the coup leaders to reinstate the country's democratically elected president before they used force.
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Niger’s neighbors are also threatening armed intervention against the junta run by the head of the presidential guard.
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NIAMEY, Niger — Neighboring nations are levying economic sanctions over a coup last week that toppled one of the West's last democratic partners against West African extremists, and families in one of the world’s poorest nations could pay the price.
In the capital of Niger, many people live in makeshift shelters tied together with slats of wood, sheets and plastic tarps because they can’t pay rent. They scramble daily to make enough money to feed their children.
Salou Hassan and his family live in a two-room hut on the side of the road, along with some 140 people. The family sleeps on wooden slats close to the floor, with no electricity or running water, and they bathe in public showers.
“The most difficult part is finding food for my children,“ Hassan, whose sons are 5 and 6 years old, said Monday.
Hassan, 30, sells water door to door, earning about $6 a day when things go well. His wheelbarrow’s been broken and he doesn’t have the nearly $70 he needs to fix it. His wife sweeps stalls at the central market, making less than half what Hassan does.
Hassan has hardly been aware that the country's president was overthrown.
“I’m looking for money for food for my family," he said.
Meanwhile, Niger's neighbors are threatening armed intervention against the junta run by the head of the presidential guard, although analysts say there is only a slim chance of the regional body successfully sending troops.
Both the United States and France have sent forces and hundreds of millions of dollars of military and humanitarian aid in recent years to Niger, which was a French colony until 1960. The country was seen as the last major partner standing against extremism in a Francophone region where anti-French sentiment had opened the way for the Russian private military group Wagner.
After neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso ousted the French military, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Niger in March to strengthen ties and announce $150 million in direct assistance, calling the country “a model of democracy.”
Since the coup that ousted Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, however, people have been toting Russian flags and praising that country in pro-junta demonstrations.
The West African regional body known as ECOWAS announced travel and economic sanctions against Niger on Sunday over the coup, and said it would use force if the coup leaders don't reinstate Bazoum within one week.
Since the 1990s, the 15-nation bloc has tried to protect democracies against the threat of coups, with mixed success.
Niger relies heavily on foreign aid and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people. ECOWAS suspended all commercial and financial transactions between its member states and Niger, as well as freezing Nigerien assets held in regional central banks.
The sanctions could be disastrous and Niger needs to find a solution to avoid them, the country's Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou told French media outlet Radio France Internationale on Sunday.
“When people say there’s an embargo, land borders are closed, air borders are closed, it’s extremely difficult for people ... Niger is a country that relies heavily on the international community,” he said.
Four nations are run by military governments in West and Central Africa, where there have been nine successful or attempted coups since 2020.
In the 1990s, ECOWAS intervened in Liberia during its civil war, one of the bloodiest conflicts in Africa and one that left many wary of intervening in internal conflicts. In 2017, ECOWAS intervened in Gambia to prevent the new president’s predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, from disrupting the handover of power. Around 7,000 troops from Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal entered the country, according to the Global Observatory, which provides analysis on peace and security issues. The intervention was largely seen as accomplishing its mission.
If the regional bloc uses force, it could trigger violence not only between Niger and ECOWAS forces but also between civilians supporting the coup and those against it, Niger analysts say.
While unlikely, "the consequences on civilians of such an approach if putschists chose confrontation would be catastrophic," said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Morocco-based think tank.
Lyammouri does not see a “military intervention happening because of the violence that could trigger,” he said.
Blinken on Sunday commended the resolve of the ECOWAS leadership to “defend constitutional order in Niger” after the sanctions announcement, and joined the bloc in calling for the immediate release of Bazoum and his family.
The military junta, which seized power on Wednesday when members of the presidential guard surrounded Bazoum's house and detained him, is already cracking down on the government and civil liberties.
On Sunday evening it arrested four government officials, including the minister of petroleum and son of a former president; the minister of education; the minister of mines; and the president of the ruling party. The arrests were recounted to The Associated Press by a person close to the president, who was not authorized to speak about the situation, and a Nigerien analyst who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal.
Also Sunday, junta spokesman Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane banned the use of social media to put out messages he describe as harmful to state security. He also claimed without evidence that Bazoum’s government had authorized the French to carry out strikes to free Bazoum.
Observers believe Bazoum is being held at his house in the capital, Niamey. The first photos of him since the coup appeared Sunday evening, sitting on a couch smiling beside Chad's President Mahamat Deby, who had flown in to mediate between the government and the junta.
In anticipation of the ECOWAS decision Sunday, thousands of pro-junta supporters took to the streets in Niamey, denouncing France, waving Russian flags along with signs reading “Down with France” and supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin and telling the international community to stay away. There has been no clear explanation of the Russian symbols, but the country seems to have become a symbol of anti-Western feelings for demonstrators. Protesters also burned down a door and smashed windows of the French Embassy, before the Nigerien army dispersed them.
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Dozens of Amcor employees are refusing to return to work unless their wages are increased by two percent.
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In Des Moines, over 100 Amcor employees alongside Teamsters Local 238 have been striking since last Saturday.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — From UPS workers to Hollywood writers to Starbucks employees, it's been a summer full of labor strikes.
Workers in various industries across the country are making their way to the picket lines to fight for better pay and increased benefits, among other concerns.
In Des Moines, over 100 Amcor employees, alongside Teamsters Local 238, have been striking since last Saturday. They're refusing to return to work unless their wages are increased by two percent.
Andre Johnson, a business agent for Local 238, has been advocating for the union members and their demands.
"These employees are saying, 'We're done with getting things taken away and we deserve a fair and equitable contract,'" Johnson said. "You give us that and we'll be off this line, running the machines ... and feeding our families."
Amcor is a global packaging company with around $15 billion in sales during the 2022 fiscal year, according to the Amcor website.
Union workers believe that, despite working through the pandemic and being on the front lines, their contracts have not kept up with the company's growth.
"If we get that 2% increase in the wages, we're agreeable to everything else in the contracts," Johnson said. "We'll be ready to go back to work and get good product coming out of there."
The strike in Des Moines comes as thousands of workers across the country have staged similar strikes against their employers. This summer, UPS workers, Hollywood writers and Starbucks baristas have all walked out on the job.
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On Saturday, July 29, 2023, at 11:26 pm, officers were dispatched to the area of Politics, located at the 7400 block of S. Staples St., in reference to a disturbance involving a gun at a residence on the 5700 block of Aava Drive. When officers arrived, they were confronted by a male who produced a weapon. Officers backed off and set up a perimeter around the residence. Officers learned that there was an elderly female inside the house and officers began formulating a plan to get the female out of the house. Officers communicated with the males for about an hour-and-a-half in an effort to safely remove the female. While officers were out front, staged, the two brothers that live in the residence, exited the house and opened fire on the officers. Officers returned fire, striking both suspects and then provided first aid prior to medics transporting them to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Officers searched the inside of the house and found the elderly female deceased, with the cause of death as unknown at this time. The officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave at this time, in accordance with current department practice and policy. This is still an active and ongoing investigation. If you have any information pertaining to this incident, you are encouraged to call the Corpus Christi Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 361-886-2840. Anyone who would like to keep their identity secret and still provide information to Detectives should call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the tip online at https://www.p3tips.com/TipForm.aspx?ID=343&C=&T=
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The heat in Phoenix began to ease slightly last week with the city’s first major storm since the monsoon season began June 15.
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The historic heat began blasting the lower Southwest U.S. in late June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California’s desert.
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PHOENIX — A record string of daily highs over 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) in Phoenix ended Monday as the dangerous heat wave that suffocated the Southwest throughout July receded slightly with cooling monsoon rains.
The historic heat began blasting the region in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California’s desert. Phoenix and its suburbs sweltered more and longer than most, with several records including the 31 consecutive days of 110 degrees Fahrenheit-plus (43.4 degrees Celsius) weather. The previous record was 18 straight days, set in 1974.
The streak was finally broken Monday, when the high topped out at 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 Celsius) at 3:10 p.m.
“The high temperature for Phoenix today is 108 degrees,” Jessica Leffel, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said at 5 p.m. “I’m just getting ready to post it on our social media.”
Phoenix also sweated through a record 16 consecutive days when overnight lows didn’t dip below 90 degrees (32.2 degrees Celsius), making it hard for people to cool off after the sun went down.
The reprieve was expected to be brief, with the forecast calling for highs again above 110 for several days later in the week. And National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Hirsch said August could be even hotter than July.
In California, Death Valley, long considered the hottest place on Earth, flirted in July with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, reaching 125.6 degrees Fahrenheit (52.5 Celsius) on July 16 at the aptly named Furnace Creek.
The planet’s hottest recorded temperature ever was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records.
And in Nevada, also on July 16, Las Vegas briefly reached 116 degrees (46.6 degrees Celsius) to tie the record for that date set in 1998.
The heat in Phoenix began to ease slightly last week with the city’s first major storm since the monsoon season began June 15.
The Southwest heat wave was just one kind of extreme weather events that hit the U.S. in July. Fatal flash floods swept people and cars away in Pennsylvania, and days of flooding led to dangerous mudslides in the Northeast.
At several points during the month, as many as a third of Americans were under some type of heat advisory, watch or warning. While not as visually dramatic as other natural disasters, experts say heat waves are deadlier — heat in parts of the South and Midwest killed more than a dozen people in June.
Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous and home to Phoenix, reported 25 heat-related deaths this year as of July 21. Another 249 deaths are listed as under investigation, and results from toxicological tests that can take weeks or months after an autopsy could lead to many being confirmed as heat-related.
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Mali and Burkina Faso have threatened to withdraw their ECOWAS membership and rise up in support of Niger’s military government should the West African
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Mali and Burkina Faso have threatened to withdraw their ECOWAS membership and rise up in support of Niger’s military government should the West African bloc invade the country.
The two countries where soldiers had recently ceased power expressed their support for the military takeover of power in Niger earlier this month in a joint statement on Monday, vowing to “lend a hand to the people of Niger” to fight invaders.
Mali and Burkina Faso warned that “any military intervention against Niger would amount to a declaration of war against Burkina Faso and Mali,” the statement said.
They also said an invasion of Niger would see their immediate withdrawal from ECOWAS, as well as the adoption of self-defence measures in support of the armed forces and the people of Niger.
Berating ECOWAS and its leaders, Mali and Burkina Faso accused ECOWAS of hypocrisy.
“The Transitional Governments of Burkina Faso and Mali are deeply indignant and surprised by the imbalance observed between, on the one hand, the celerity and the adventurous attitude of certain political leaders in West Africa wishing to use force armed forces to restore constitutional order in a sovereign country, and on the other hand, the inaction, indifference and passive complicity of these organizations and political leaders in helping States and peoples who have been victims of terrorism for a decade and left to their fate,” the statement added.
It followed the weekend’s decision of ECOWAS to leave military options open for Niger should the coup plotters fail to relinquish power to democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum and return to their barracks. ECOWAS also threatened to block all trades, including banking and utility supply, with Niger, as well as blockade the country’s airspace.
Mr Bazoum was ousted from office on July 27. Soldiers immediately declared an indefinite curfew and closure of all borders,
Colonel Amadou Abdramane, who appeared to be among the leaders of the coup, addressed Mr Bazoum directly, saying the soldiers seized power to “put an end to the regime that you know due to the deteriorating security situation and bad governance.”
However, this development has been widely condemned by international communities, the United States of America, the United Nations and ECOWAS, which is led by President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria.
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President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ajuri Ngelale as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. The announcement was contained in a statement on Monday
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President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ajuri Ngelale as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.
The announcement was contained in a statement on Monday by the Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government, Willie Bassey.
He said the appointment takes effect from Monday.
Ngelale, who was Senior Special Assistant for Public Affairs in the Presidency in the immediate past government, worked in the office of ex-Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
“The President urges him to bring his wealth of experience to bear on the new assignment,” the statement said.
Ngelale’s appointment was announced on the eve of the exit of Dele Alake from the role following his appointment as a Minister.
Alake is expected to be among the nominees who would be screened by the senate on Tuesday.
Reacting to his appointment in a tweet on Monday night, Ngelale said he was “humbled and honoured”.
“I am most humbled and honoured by H.E. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recognition of the need for more hard work ahead as I have been appointed as his Official Spokesperson & Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity. I will give my best as always. I love you all,” he tweeted.
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A giant, glowing X no longer marks the spot on the San Francisco high-rise that is headquarters to Elon Musk’s messaging company X, formerly known as Twitter.
The city building department logged 24 complaints after a weekend of the big X, which on Friday was erected on the roof of the company’s downtown San Francisco headquarters, on Market Street, to the chagrin of neighbors who complained about intrusive lights.
The move followed a post from Musk, the enigmatic billionaire who acquired the company in October for $44 billion, announcing the newly named firm would remain in San Francisco despite what he termed the city’s recent “doom spiral, with one company after another left or leaving.”
“Beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend,” Musk wrote.
But the big X didn’t stay long.
“This morning, building inspectors observed the structure being dismantled,” a spokesperson from the city Department of Building Inspection said by email on Monday. “The property owner will be assessed fees for the unpermitted installation of the illuminated structure.”
X said the removal was voluntary.
Locals over the weekend recorded video of the giant X glowing, pulsing and strobing, with some criticizing its intrusive lights.
X user @itsmefrenchy123 said they would be “LIVID” over the bright logo, imagining it “right across from your bedroom.”
“I’m just astounded at the flagrant lack of consideration for anyone ever,” wrote X user @DollyMarlowe.
Over the weekend a Department of Building Inspection inspector wrote in a report that company representatives denied roof access, twice, to city officials seeking to inspect the logo.
The inspector noted one representative said the sign was temporary.
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At least six people, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, have been killed by a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.
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At least six people, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, have been killed by a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.
Ukraine’s interior minister said 69 others were injured when missiles slammed into a high-rise building and a university on Monday.
Regional governor Serhiy Lysak declared a day of mourning for those lost.
The home city of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kryvyi Rih has been a consistent target for Russian strikes.
In June, 11 people died and 28 others were injured in the city after Russia launched a “massive missile attack” on civilian buildings.
The latest attack saw dozens of people hospitalised, including children aged from four to 17-years-old.
President Zelensky, who grew up in the city of 600,000 people, said a pair of missiles smashed into the residential apartment block and a university building early on Monday morning.
Locals told the Reuters news agency that the attack took place shortly after 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT).
A video posted by President Zelensky showed that much of the high-rise building had been completely demolished by the strike, with a large scar running up the structure. But officials said around 150 people managed to escape the blast unharmed.
Writing on Telegram, the Ukrainian leader said more than 350 people were involved in rescue operations and Mr Lysak said later that another 30 people were rescued from the building by the emergency workers.
President Zelensky added that “dozens of people” had been left traumatised and injured by the attack, but vowed that “this terror will not frighten us or break us”.
In recent weeks, Russia has again been stepping up attacks on civilian targets, and Mykhailo Podolyak – a top adviser to Mr Zelensky – accused Moscow of launching “genocidal” attacks on Ukrainians.
“International law will never work if the aggressor does not see a real power behind it. The power begins with closing the Ukrainian skies with missile defence and air defence systems,” he wrote on Twitter.
Moscow has consistently denied that it seeks out civilian targets. But Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have accused Russia of frequently bombarding areas with “no military purpose”.
Earlier this month, the UN said there have been some 25,671 civilian casualties since Russian launched its invasion of Ukraine last year, but the true figure is likely to be far higher.
There will be no forgiveness! Never!” Mr Lysak wrote in a Telegram post on Monday. Russia would pay, he said, for “every innocent person killed” and “the suffering of our people”.
Elsewhere, in the southern region of Kherson, the head of President Zelensky’s office, Andriy Yermak, said four people were killed in what local officials called merciless Russian shelling.
The Kherson military administration said one of those killed was a 60-year-old utilities worker whose team had come under fire. Several others were injured in the blast.
And a drone attack has been reported in Russia’s border region of Bryansk – with Governor Alexander Bogomaz saying a police station was hit.
On Saturday, Russian officials said three Ukrainian drones were downed in Moscow – the latest in a series of drone assaults on the Russian capital.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin blamed Ukraine for the attack, in which two office blocks were damaged, although there were no casualties.
President Zelensky warned that war was coming back to Russia, and that attacks on Russian territory were an “inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process” of the war between the two countries.
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Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, has ordered federal universities to halt their “arbitrary increase in sundry fees payable” amid the hardship
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Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, has ordered federal universities to halt their “arbitrary increase in sundry fees payable” amid the hardship experienced by Nigerians due to fuel subsidy removal.
Dele Alake, special adviser to the president on communication and strategy, confirmed the president’s directive in a statement on Monday.
He said the development was in furtherance of the President’s desire to ease the burden of the fuel subsidy removal on students of higher institutions of learning,
SaharaReporters on Saturday reported that the University of Jos (UNIJOS) became the latest institution to hike fees when it announced the increase of school fees from the current N45,000 to N213,000 an increment of over 300 percent.
According to new school fees chat signed by the Registrar of the university, the N213,000 fee is for 100 and 200 level students while the 300 level students and above will now pay N160,000.
UNIJOS increment is coming a week after the University of Lagos (UNILAG) announced increment prompting parents and Nigerians in general to kick against the astronomical increase of school fees by universities in the country.
Meanwhile in a statement on Monday, the presidency said, “The desire of the President is to see that students can access their campuses without much difficulty as a result of higher transportation costs.
“The provision of the buses will also remove the burden of additional cost of daily commuting on parents and guardians.
“In line with his promise to ensure no Nigerian student abandons his or her educational pursuits as a result of lack of money and economic circumstances of their parents, President Tinubu has also approved the removal of all restrictions on the students’ loan to make it available to any student or household that may desire it,” the statement read
Alake added that the president also warned authorities of all federal institutions against “arbitrary” increase of fees.
“Similarly, President Tinubu has directed the authorities in all Federal Institutions of higher learning to avoid arbitrary increase in sundry fees payable and where possible defer further increase so that parents and students don’t face too many difficulties.”
“While it is important to reiterate that President Tinubu has directed release of over 200,000 Metric Tonnes of grains to families in 36 states and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the government is working to ensure that vulnerable students can also benefit from conditional cash transfers and food distribution.
“The Federal Government salutes the courage, wisdom and partnership of Nigerian Students as our country navigates this challenging time.
“President Tinubu will continue to prioritise education and the needs of the students, improve welfare of teaching and non-academic staff and invest in infrastructure to make our institutions of higher learning become more globally competitive.”
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U.S. stocks closed little changed on Monday, ending a strong July on upbeat company earnings and hopes of a soft landing for a resilient U.S. economy. All
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U.S. stocks closed little changed on Monday, ending a strong July on upbeat company earnings and hopes of a soft landing for a resilient U.S. economy.
All three major stock indexes ended with gains for the month, ahead of a busy week of earnings reports from companies including Amazon.com and Apple, plus U.S. economic data including the jobs report.
“Without any meaningful catalysts (today), you get a market that’s kind of in a holding pattern,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at Baird in Louisville, Kentucky, “and (that’s) probably because there’s so much on the near-term horizon.”
Second-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are estimated to have fallen 6.4% year-over-year, Refinitiv data through Friday showed. While still negative, the forecast is an improvement from the 7.9% drop estimated a week earlier.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street higher last week as megacap growth companies such as Alphabet, Meta Platforms as well as chipmakers Intel and Lam Research posted strong quarterly earnings.
Citigroup raised its 2023-end and mid-2024 S&P 500 targets to 4,600 and 5,000, respectively, to reflect a higher possibility of a soft landing.
The benchmark index is just under 5% away from its all-time intraday high hit on Jan. 4, 2022 while on course to gain for a fifth straight month.
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said the central bank was “walking the line pretty well” on bringing inflation down without causing a recession and will watch the data to judge if more monetary tightening may be appropriate in September.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 100.24 points, or 0.28%, to 35,559.53; the S&P 500 (.SPX) gained 6.73 points, or 0.15%, at 4,588.96; and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) added 29.37 points, or 0.21%, at 14,346.02.
Eight of the top 11 S&P 500 sectors posted gains, led by a 2% rise in energy stocks (.SPNY).
“The main thing is the strengthened oil. We’re above $80 a barrel …, back all the way from the decline that was precipitated by the banking crisis. And that’s really the big leader today by far,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors in New York.
Financial services provider SoFi Technologies added 19.9% after reporting better-than-expected quarterly revenue.
ON Semiconductor jumped 2.5% after the chipmaker forecast third-quarter revenue above market estimates.
Weighing on the Dow, Johnson & Johnson shed 4.0% after a U.S. judge shot down the drugmaker’s second attempt to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products.
Adobe advanced 3.3%, outperforming tech peers, after Morgan Stanley raised its rating to “overweight” on the photoshop maker.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.09 billion shares, compared with the 10.49 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by a 2.69-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.83-to-1 ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 27 new 52-week highs and one new low; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 95 new highs and 57 new lows.
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Democrats and Republicans are offering clashing interpretations of the significance of former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer’s closed-door testimony, which lawmakers said included assertions that Hunter Biden was selling the “illusion of access” to his father and that Hunter Biden sometimes put President Biden on speakerphone to talk to his business associates. The revelations […]
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Democrats and Republicans are offering clashing interpretations of the significance of former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer’s closed-door testimony, which lawmakers said included assertions that Hunter Biden was selling the “illusion of access” to his father and that Hunter Biden sometimes put President Biden on speakerphone to talk to his business associates.
The revelations are fueling Republican attempts to link the president to his son’s business dealings. Republicans, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (Ky.), say the testimony shows that President Biden “lied” when he made campaign trail statements that he had never talked to his son about his foreign business dealings.
But Democrats say Archer’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee on Monday actually shows the president was not involved in Hunter Biden’s foreign business affairs.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who attended the hours-long transcribed interview, said Archer testified that because Hunter Biden was under pressure from Ukrainian energy company Burisma, “he had to give the illusion — and he used that term, the illusion — of access to his father, and he tried to get credit for things that he — that Mr. Archer testified Hunter had nothing to do with, such as when Vice President Biden went to Ukraine on his own.”
Lawmakers clash over whether testimony implicates president
Archer was on the board of Burisma with Hunter Biden. Republicans have said then-Vice President Biden’s call to remove Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, whose office was investigating Burisma, was directly related to his son’s involvement with, and sizable payments from, the company.
But the investigation in Burisma had been opened before Shokin took the position, and Shokin was widely criticized for failure to prosecute corruption, with his ouster supported by numerous U.S. officials.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement that Archer testified that “President Biden was not involved in his son’s business affairs, and that President Biden was never asked to, nor did he, take any official actions in relation to those business matters.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last week that the president “was never in business with his son.”
On the other end of the partisan spectrum, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who also attended the transcribed interview, said he thought Archer’s testimony “implicate[s] the president.”
Reading from his notes of the transcribed interview, Biggs said Archer testified that “Burisma would have gone out of business sooner if the Biden brand had not been invoked. People would be intimidated to legally mess with Burisma because of the Biden family brand.”
According to Biggs, Archer said the Biden “brand” referred to President Biden. But Goldman later said that Archer clarified the “brand” was based on a “D.C. brand based on his own experience in lobbying” and “in conjunction with the fact that his last name was Biden.”
Burisma bribery allegations
Both Biggs and Goldman said that Archer had no knowledge of an alleged $5 million payment to Biden from Burisma, an allegation relayed by a confidential FBI source in a form released by Republicans earlier in June.
Goldman argued that Archer’s testimony undercut the premise of the Biden-Burisma bribery allegations.
“Even though it was perceived by Burisma that they had the Prosecutor General Shokin ‘under control,’ quote unquote, that Joe Biden advocated for his firing — which of course, was not coveted or desired by Burisma, and would potentially be bad for Burisma,” Goldman said.
Raskin said that Republicans appeared to be “chasing” the bribery allegations, and pointed to a recent letter to Comer from Lev Parnas, who was involved in an effort to dig up dirt about the Bidens in Ukraine ahead of the 2020 election, urging Comer to abandon efforts to chase the “conspiracy theories.”
Comer, on the other hand, took issue with Hunter Biden’s work with Burisma.
“When Burisma’s owner was facing pressure from the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company for corruption, Archer testified that Burisma executives asked Hunter to ‘call D.C.’ after a Burisma board meeting in Dubai,” he said in a statement, which a press release said raised concerns that Hunter Biden was in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Phone calls with the president
Archer’s testimony did appear to partially back up Comer’s statement to the New York Post last week that he expected Archer to discuss the times he witnessed Hunter Biden’s putting then-Vice President Biden on speakerphone with foreign business partners.
Democrats downplayed that concern.
“The witness indicated that Hunter spoke to his father every day, and approximately 20 times over the course of a 10-year relationship. Hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people, and they never once spoke about any business dealings,” Goldman said.
“As he described it, it was all casual conversation, niceties, the weather, ‘What’s going on?’” Goldman said, adding that “there wasn’t a single conversation about any of the business dealings that Hunter had.”
Democrats also stressed that there were especially frequent conversations between Hunter Biden and his father after his brother, Beau Biden, died from brain cancer in 2015.
Biggs pushed back on Goldman’s characterization.
“He probably forgot to tell you that Devon Archer himself said that was an implication of who the ‘big guy’ is,” Biggs said, referring to communications drawn from a laptop hard drive that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden.
The House Oversight GOP also said in a tweet that President Biden attended a 2014 dinner with Hunter Biden and some of his foreign business associates at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C.
White House slams GOP after ‘much-hyped witness’ testimony
Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, also argued that the Archer interview poked holes in the GOP attempts to directly link President Biden to his family’s foreign business dealings.
“It appears that the House Republicans’ own much-hyped witness today testified that he never heard of President Biden discussing business with his son or his son’s associates, or doing anything wrong,” Sams said. “House Republicans keep promising bombshell evidence to support their ridiculous attacks against the President, but time after time, they keep failing to produce any. In fact, even their own witnesses appear to be debunking their allegations.”
Raskin said that the Biden family investigation is a “desperate effort to distract everyone from former President Donald Trump’s mounting criminal indictments and deepening legal morass.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who was also in the interview, told reporters that Archer had revealed new information, but declined to elaborate further.
Abbe Lowell, counsel for Hunter Biden, said in a statement that House Republicans “keep swinging and keep striking out in their obsessive pursuit of the President through his son, Hunter.”
“Mr. Archer confirmed one more time that Hunter Biden did not involve his father in, nor did his father assist him in, his business. It’s well known that Hunter and his father speak daily, and what Mr. Archer confirmed today was that when those calls occurred during Hunter’s business meetings, if there was any interaction between his father and his business associates, it was simply to exchange small talk,” Lowell said.
“Like the relatives of Donald Trump, Senators Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz, Rep. Lauren Boebert, and many others, family members of elected representatives meet people and may get opportunities because of those connections,” he continued. “Congress would be busy investigating many of their own if that’s their idea of an offense.”
Archer did not answer shouted questions when entering or leaving the transcribed interview, and his attorney declined to take a side in the debate over his testimony.
“We are aware that all sides are claiming victory following Mr. Archer’s voluntary interview today. But all Devon Archer did was exactly what we said he would: show up and answer the questions put to him honestly and completely. Mr. Archer shared the truth with the Committee, and we will leave to them and others to decide what to do with it,” said Matthew L. Schwartz, a managing partner of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
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Social media has gone wild as people claim the government confirmed aliens exist. But the truth isn't that simple, even as Congress vows to investigate.
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(NewsNation) — As in decades past, the question of whether aliens exist continues to captivate Americans. Following Wednesday’s widely-watched Congressional hearing on UAPs and UFOs, people flocked to social media — many proclaiming the government confirmed aliens exist.
But that’s not actually what happened at the hearing. While witnesses and lawmakers discussed the issue of UFOs, the government has not issued any official confirmation of alien life and what was said at the hearing, by witnesses and even a lawmaker, remains unverified.
As lawmakers continue to probe the issue, join NewsNation’s Brian Entin at 9 p.m. ET Sunday night for a two-hour special report on the hearing, including analysis from UFO experts. Find out how to tune in to NewsNation on your local channel lineup.
Here’s what we do (and don’t) know after the hearing:
Whistleblower David Grusch largely recounted second-hand testimony and provided no evidence to support his claims. Grusch is a former member of the UAP Task Force.
Former Navy Commander and pilot David Fravor recounted a first-hand experience with the so-called Tic Tac UFO but said he was never briefed on the object or its potential origins.
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who founded the Americans for Safe Aerospace, also recounted an encounter he had with an object he described as a black sphere floating inside a clear cube. Graves indicated such encounters were extremely common among pilots. There was no evidence presented to support this claim.
While lawmakers seemed largely accepting of the witness testimony, only Rep. Matt Gaetz, R.-Fla., said he had seen any evidence of alien life firsthand.
Grusch was unable to answer a number of inquiries regarding specific evidence or proof in an open setting, though he indicated he would be willing to say more in a secure, classified briefing.
All three witnesses agreed these unidentified objects constituted a potential national security threat.
Official government bodies, including the White House, Pentagon, and NASA have all stated they have no reason to believe unexplained objects are extraterrestrial in nature.
National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said after the hearing there are “no hard and fast” answers to the question but that the administration is taking it seriously.
This wasn’t the first time the U.S. government undertook investigations to address the question of UFOs, nor is it the first time the official response was that there was nothing “alien” going on.
However, at the heart of Grusch’s whistleblower complaint is his claim that the government, specifically the Department of Defense, is operating programs to retrieve material from crashes that are extraterrestrial in nature and are keeping those programs secret from the public while also operating without appropriate Congressional oversight.
Grusch spoke exclusively to NewsNation regarding his experiences, which he said include the U.S. government recovering the “non-human” pilots of downed craft.
In light of his claims, lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee have vowed to continue to hold more hearings, including classified briefings where Grusch could speak more freely. Members have also vowed to seek the power to subpoena documents and images that Grusch says back up his claims.
Lawmakers have also called for a centralized reporting system for both military and civilian reports of UFOs, to better analyze and understand the possible threat.
There is also the possibility of the creation of a new committee to specifically investigate UAPs/UFOs. It’s not entirely clear how Congress could compel the DoD or military to release information on any secret programs, should they exist, though, in the past, lawmakers have attempted to work UFO reporting into funding requirements for the Pentagon.
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Dew points in the 50s, temperatures in the low 80s all at the end of July! Hard to believe the differences compared to just a few days back when Central Indiana saw the hottest temperatures of the year and the highest humidity levels in more than a decade. Thanks to a dip in the jet […]
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Dew points in the 50s, temperatures in the low 80s all at the end of July! Hard to believe the differences compared to just a few days back when Central Indiana saw the hottest temperatures of the year and the highest humidity levels in more than a decade. Thanks to a dip in the jet stream ushering in cooler northwest flow, we’ll have a few more days of this before we see some slight chances by the end of the work week.
Thanks to our skies remaining sunny, conditions will be ideal to view the flyover of the International Space Station! At 9:49 PM, the ISS will be viewable for six minutes in the WNW part of our skies as it moved SSE. The skies will remain clear. You can also give your air conditioners a well-deserved break as many communities will see overnight lows in the upper 50s or the lower 60s.
On Tuesday, you can expect a copy-and-paste day to open August. Temperatures in the lower 80s, mostly sunny skies and lower humidity levels will be around. However, expect a slight haze in the skies to also be around for parts of the Hoosier State thanks to Canadian wildfire smoke. It may have a slight impact on the air quality but it’s not expected to get as bad as prior bouts of smoke.
The cooler, northwest airflow will remain here through the middle of the week which will keep temperatures in the low-to-mid 80s. This will be the story to welcome August, a month that will see average temperatures start to dip along with more loss of day length.
Starting Thursday, the jet stream will retreat back into Canada and our winds will shift to come out of the south again. Not only will this increase our temperatures, but it will also increase our dew points slightly, too. Luckily, it won’t be even remotely as bad as last week. It will also introduce slight rain chances each day thanks to that ‘ring of fire’ pattern returning.
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PERU, Ind. — Indiana State Police stun-gunned and arrested a Peru man over the weekend after investigators say he brandished a handgun, made threats during an argument with a neighbor and refused to comply with officers. James Brown, a 50-year-old Peru man, was arrested Sunday night after ISP troopers and Miami County deputies were called […]
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PERU, Ind. — Indiana State Police stun-gunned and arrested a Peru man over the weekend after investigators say he brandished a handgun, made threats during an argument with a neighbor and refused to comply with officers.
James Brown, a 50-year-old Peru man, was arrested Sunday night after ISP troopers and Miami County deputies were called to a home on George Street to investigate an argument between neighbors.
ISP said the altercation, which happened around 11:30 p.m., started when Brown began verbally arguing with his neighbor for unidentified reasons.
During the verbal spat, ISP said Brown approached his neighbor and pulled out a firearm. The neighbor told troopers that they attempted to take the gun from Brown but they were unsuccessful.
Shortly after, ISP said officers arrived on scene and found Brown carrying a firearm. According to police on scene, Brown did not comply with any of the officers’ verbal commands which caused them to use a stun gun.
“An officer on the scene deployed their taser, which allowed other officers to safely take Brown into custody,” ISP said in a release Monday. “After Brown was taken into custody, officers on the scene located suspected marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and bullets on his person.”
While investigating, ISP said troopers were granted a search warrant for Brown’s motorcycle. A firearm was found inside the motorcycle, ISP said.
Brown was then arrested by ISP troopers and preliminarily charged with:
Battery – Committed with a Deadly Weapon – Level 5 Felony
Pointing a Firearm – Level 6 Felony
Criminal Recklessness with a Deadly Weapon – Level 6 Felony
Possession of a Firearm by a Domestic Batterer – Class A Misdemeanor
Resisting Law Enforcement – Class A Misdemeanor
Public Intoxication – Class B Misdemeanor
Disorderly Conduct – Class B Misdemeanor
Possession of Marijuana – Class B Misdemeanor
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class C Misdemeanor
Brown, ISP said, was subsequently booked into Miami County Jail.
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DENVER (KDVR) — Country artist Luke Bryan invited a Denver-area girl backstage after he heard her story.
Mary Stegmueller, 7, has been battling terminal brain cancer since she was 4 years old. She’s a serious Luke Bryan fan, and she really wanted to see his show in Denver on Saturday.
But she is immunocompromised and cannot stand for long durations, so her family thought the concert was off the table until an anonymous donor gave them a private suite for the show.
Her family said they’re unbelievably grateful to the anonymous donor.
Mary got a quick hug from the country star back in 2021 after a concert, but this time, she was hoping for another chance to have a conversation with him.
Country artist Luke Bryan invited a local girl backstage after he heard her story. (Kristin Stegmueller)
Country artist Luke Bryan invited a local girl backstage after he heard her story. (Kristin Stegmueller)
Country artist Luke Bryan invited a local girl backstage after he heard her story. (Kristin Stegmueller)
After Bryan saw FOX31’s story about her wanting to meet him, the family said he invited her backstage for a meet and greet before the show. Photos show Mary hanging out with her country idol, who gave her a hug as they posed for the camera.
Mary begins her 43rd round of radiation on Monday.
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FOUNTAIN COUNTY, Ind. — A Beech Grove man died in a fatal crash in western Indiana on US 41 Monday morning. Indiana State Police and Fountain County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded around 9:30 a.m. to a single-vehicle crash on US 41 near County Road 700 South. Initial investigations carried out by ISP revealed that a […]
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FOUNTAIN COUNTY, Ind. — A Beech Grove man died in a fatal crash in western Indiana on US 41 Monday morning.
Indiana State Police and Fountain County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded around 9:30 a.m. to a single-vehicle crash on US 41 near County Road 700 South.
Initial investigations carried out by ISP revealed that a 2020 Freightliner Box Truck was traveling southbound on US 41 when it approached County Road 700 South.
The Freightliner reportedly veered off the west side of US 41. ISP said the Freightliner was able to return to the roadway before it overcorrected and accidentally drove off the east side of the roadway, striking a utility pole and flipping over.
The deceased driver was identified as Mathew Ratzlaff, 22, from Beech Grove. The passenger was transported to a hospital in Danville, IL, with non-life-threatening injuries.
What led to the Freightliner running off the east side of US 41 remains under investigation, ISP said.
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Abbottabad - Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Javed Abbasi inaugurated various development projects on Monday, which included the
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Abbottabad - Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Javed Abbasi inaugurated various development projects on Monday, which included the provision of Sui gas and the opening of a Nadra office in Tehsil Lower Tanawal Sherwan.
During the inauguration ceremony, Murtaza Javed Abbasi emphasized the coalition government’s achievements, proudly stating that the country had successfully overcome its default status within their one-year tenure. He also addressed alleged conspiracies against the government by Israel and India, asserting that such efforts had proven unsuccessful.
Regarding development initiatives, the minister mentioned the revival of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, demonstrating China’s continued interest in investing in Pakistan’s progress.
He reiterated his loyalty to Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N).
Murtaza Abbasi acknowledged the failure to construct 29 schools and Basic Health Units (BHUs) in the district of Abbottabad, following the devastating earthquake of October 2005. He assured the residents that, if given the opportunity, he would prioritize the construction of these essential facilities to address the community’s needs.
Expressing gratitude to the people of Tanawal for their support and respect, the minister reflected on the benefits that the region had received in 2008 and 2013, underscoring the government’s commitment to continued progress.
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ISLAMABAD - The N15 Realigned Highway of CGGC Suki Kinari Hydropower Project in Pakistan is open, Gwadar Pro reported on Monday. This marks that
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ISLAMABAD - The N15 Realigned Highway of CGGC Suki Kinari Hydropower Project in Pakistan is open, Gwadar Pro reported on Monday.
This marks that the N15 Re-aligned Highway will replace the original N15 Highway and continue to play the mission of ensuring the local transportation and tourism industry’s livelihood.
The original N15 highway at the site of the project is important for traffic and tourism but is prone to be flooded after the project is put into production due to water storage in the reservoir area.
The completion of the N15 Realigned Highway will not only guarantee water storage in the reservoir in the future but also ensure smooth transportation.
Suki Kinari Hydropower Project, located on the Kunhar River in the Kaghan Valley of Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor’s “Early Harvest” projects.
Up to now, the project reached 90.73% completion.
Once getting functional, the project will annually generate some 3.21 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity, replacing 1.28 million tons of coal and reducing 2.52 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. It can provide affordable clean electricity to more than 1 million Pakistani households.
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KHYBER - The Koki Khel tribe has issued a warning that they will observe Independence Day as a “Black Day” unless their demands are
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KHYBER - The Koki Khel tribe has issued a warning that they will observe Independence Day as a “Black Day” unless their demands are met.
During a press conference held at the Jamrud Press Club on Monday, Malik Naseer Ahmad Koki Khel and others expressed their long-standing advocacy for initiating the second phase of repatriation for the displaced people of Tirah Valley. The dwellers of Rajgal, Koki Khel in Tirah Valley have suffered significantly in service to the country, and therefore, it is essential to compensate them appropriately and implement necessary measures to facilitate their early return to their hometowns.
Malik Naseer and his fellow tribesmen also mentioned a land dispute over the possession of Regi Lalma, which has arisen between the government and the Koki Khel tribes. They asserted that they had attempted peaceful resolutions, but unfortunately, their efforts were in vain, leading to injustice.
Additionally, they requested an uninterrupted supply of electricity for six hours daily to support their routine business activities. Despite organizing several protest sit-ins, demonstrations, and rallies, the concerned officials have not given proper attention to addressing their demands, leaving the Koki Khel tribe deeply disappointed.
As a consequence, they have issued a stern warning that if their demands are not met, they will commemorate August 14 as a black day. During this protest, black flags will be hoisted at their homes, and all Koki Khel tribesmen will wear black ribbons on their hands as a symbol of their protest.
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Peshawar - The Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Azam Khan on Monday paid a visit to the District Headquarter Hospital Khar in tribal
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Peshawar - The Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Azam Khan on Monday paid a visit to the District Headquarter Hospital Khar in tribal district Bajaur where he inquired about the health of injured persons of Bajaur bomb blast that claimed dozens of human lives and left many other injured.
The Chief Minister was accompanied by provincial caretaker cabinet members Matiullah Marwat, Hamid Shah and Dr Riaz Anwar, Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry and Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Gandapur.
The Chief Minister met the injured persons one by one and inquired about their health and treatment facilities being provided to them in the hospital. He directed the authorities concerned to leave no stone unturned in the treatment and said that he and his team are personally monitoring the whole treatment process.
Moreover, Azam Khan said that the provincial government stood by the bereaved families adding that he was deeply saddened to learn about the loss of precious human lives due to heartbreaking blast at Bajaur.
“Targeting peaceful citizens was a highly inhumane and heinous act that can’t be justified at all” he remarked. While paying tribute to the martyrs, the Chief Minister said that citizens of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially tribal people and our security forces, have rendered matchless sacrifices for reinstating and establishing peace in the region. We will not let those sacrifices go in vain, he said.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also met the elders of district Bajaur and heirs of the martyrs and expressed his heartfelt sympathies over the irreparable loss of human lives. He prayed for the higher ranks of martyrs and early recovery of the injured.
He made it clear that the purpose of his visits to district Bajaur and Dir Lower was to condole to the bereaved families and to inquire about the health of the injured persons adding that ever since this tragic incident was reported, not a single moment has passed in peace and contentment.
The Chief Minister also paid a short visit to district Dir Lower and inquired after the health of injured persons who are under treatment at Timergara Teaching Hospital.
He directed the hospital administration to pay special attention to the treatment of injured persons of Bajaur blast so that they can recover as early as possible.
Responding to a question during his brief media talk, the Chief Minister termed establishing sustainable peace as the top most priority and said that the caretaker provincial government has taken all possible steps to this end.
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MARDAN - The City Council of Mardan approved a surplus budget of more than 1 billion 71 crore and 6 lakhs rupees for the financial year 2023-24.
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MARDAN - The City Council of Mardan approved a surplus budget of more than 1 billion 71 crore and 6 lakhs rupees for the financial year 2023-24. The budget was presented by City Mayor Bakhtullah Mayar and was well-received by council members during a session chaired by Babar Khan.
At the beginning of the meeting, the House expressed condolences for the victims of a bomb blast at a political gathering in Bajaur. Council members Qari Junaid, Naveed Ahmed, Rahim Shah, Arsalan Khan, and Alamgir Khan praised the budget’s constructive nature and demanded an increase in funds for street light installation and repairs. They also advocated for equal distribution of the development fund among all councils and raised local issues needing attention.
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ISLAMABAD - The suicide attack that took place in Bajaur on Sunday, which killed around 44 people and left over 200 injured, has drawn strong
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ISLAMABAD - The suicide attack that took place in Bajaur on Sunday, which killed around 44 people and left over 200 injured, has drawn strong condemnations from across the Muslim world.
The leadership of the Muslim nations as well as the heads of the Muslim world bodies condemned the heinous crime and sympathised with the bereaved families.
At least 44 people were killed in a suicide blast at a Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) workers’ convention in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Sunday. The explosion occurred when more than 400 JUI-F members and supporters gathered under a tent in the town of Khar, near the border with Afghanistan.
Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha, in a statement, condemned the explosion in the strongest terms.
He offered his sincere condolences to the victims’ families and to the government and people of Pakistan wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.
The secretary-general reaffirmed the OIC’s solidarity with Pakistan in its efforts to combat extremism and terrorism.
In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry denounced the attack and reaffirmed the Kingdom’s rejection of violence and terrorism anywhere in the world, expressing that the Kingdom stood in full solidarity with Pakistan and its people.
The ministry offered condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims, the government, and the people of Pakistan, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.
Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf Jassim Muhammad Al-Budaiwi, also condemned the bombing and said that the position of the Cooperation Council was firm. He said the Council rejected all forms of violence, extremism and terrorism, which aimed to destabilise security and stability.
Similarly, in a statement, the UAE foreign ministry also strongly condemned the terrorist attack and reiterated its permanent rejection of all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at undermining security and stability in contravention of human values and principles.
The UAE ministry also expressed its sincere condolences and sympathy to the Pakistani government and people.
The State of Qatar also expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the explosion.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated Qatar’s firm position on rejecting violence and terrorism, regardless of the motives and reasons.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani strongly condemned the attack and offered condolences on behalf of the government and the people of Iran to the government and people of Pakistan.
Besides Kuwait, the state of Egypt also condemned the bombing and “renewed firm stance toward categorical rejection of all forms of violence.
“Egypt, government and people, expressed their sincere condolences and sympathy to the government and people of brotherly Pakistan in this painful affliction, and to the families of the victims, wishing a speedy recovery for all the injured,” the Egyptian foreign ministry said.
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ISLAMABAD - Education Attaché of Pakistani Embassy in China Afifa Shajia Awais has said that cooperation in the realm of education, be it
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ISLAMABAD - Education Attaché of Pakistani Embassy in China Afifa Shajia Awais has said that cooperation in the realm of education, be it university- to-university linkages, academia-industry collaboration or the number of Pakistani students studying in China, are all reflective of the confidence and stability of the unique ties between Pakistan and China.
While speaking at the 2023 “Shared Aspirations, Beyond Khunjerab Pass” Pakistan Theme Day China- Pakistan Education Cooperation Promotion Conference held by Pakistan China Centre at SCO Demonstration Area (SCODA) in Qingdao, Afifa noted that the growing economic ties between the two countries have laid the groundwork for partnerships in the education sector.
According to Gwadar Pro, the number of Pakistani students studying in China stands at a good 26,000 and 25 percent of them are recipients of different types of scholarships offered by the Chinese government.
These students are enrolled in a wide range of disciplines such as medicine, engineering, and information technology, and pursue sub-specialisations and hyper-specializations in specific domains.
Expressing her gratitude to the Chinese government for offering scholarships and facilitation to Pakistani students on a preferential basis, she stated that “the educational institutions are not only providing high-quality education, imparting useful skillset but also providing a unique cultural experience to our youth who will act as ambassadors of goodwill between the two countries in the future.”
The ministries of education of both countries are actively engaged with each other and bringing educational institutions into a network of collaborative paradigms.
Ms Afifa Shajia Awais stated that the recent establishment of the CPEC University Consortium Exchange Mechanism was tantamount to the opening of a new chapter in bilateral exchanges and cooperation.
“It has provided an organisational platform for positive and progressive cohesion of the education institutions. Under its umbrella, the last 5 years have seen surprising registration of more than 100 universities from both Pakistan and China.”
China’s economic prominence has grown globally, making it an important player in world politics. She underlined that Pakistan looks towards China to learn from its miraculous growth and development story as there are great lessons to be learned.
Zheng Shi, president of the SCO Economy and Trade Research Institute, noted that since the inauguration of the China-SCO Institute of Economy and Trade, 11,800 people from 43 SCO countries including Pakistan, and countries along the Belt and Road, have attended the training.
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ISLAMABAD - Education Attaché of Pakistani Embassy in China Afifa Shajia Awais has said that cooperation in the realm of education, be it university- to-university linkages, academia-industry collaboration or the number of Pakistani students studying in China, are all reflective of the confidence and stability of the unique ties between Pakistan and China.
While speaking at the 2023 “Shared Aspirations, Beyond Khunjerab Pass” Pakistan Theme Day China- Pakistan Education Cooperation Promotion Conference held by Pakistan China Centre at SCO Demonstration Area (SCODA) in Qingdao, Afifa noted that the growing economic ties between the two countries have laid the groundwork for partnerships in the education sector.
According to Gwadar Pro, the number of Pakistani students studying in China stands at a good 26,000 and 25 percent of them are recipients of different types of scholarships offered by the Chinese government.
These students are enrolled in a wide range of disciplines such as medicine, engineering, and information technology, and pursue sub-specialisations and hyper-specializations in specific domains.
Expressing her gratitude to the Chinese government for offering scholarships and facilitation to Pakistani students on a preferential basis, she stated that “the educational institutions are not only providing high-quality education, imparting useful skillset but also providing a unique cultural experience to our youth who will act as ambassadors of goodwill between the two countries in the future.”
The ministries of education of both countries are actively engaged with each other and bringing educational institutions into a network of collaborative paradigms.
Ms Afifa Shajia Awais stated that the recent establishment of the CPEC University Consortium Exchange Mechanism was tantamount to the opening of a new chapter in bilateral exchanges and cooperation.
“It has provided an organisational platform for positive and progressive cohesion of the education institutions. Under its umbrella, the last 5 years have seen surprising registration of more than 100 universities from both Pakistan and China.”
China’s economic prominence has grown globally, making it an important player in world politics. She underlined that Pakistan looks towards China to learn from its miraculous growth and development story as there are great lessons to be learned.
Zheng Shi, president of the SCO Economy and Trade Research Institute, noted that since the inauguration of the China-SCO Institute of Economy and Trade, 11,800 people from 43 SCO countries including Pakistan, and countries along the Belt and Road, have attended the training.
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PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) has launched a three-day registration drive in the province, beginning on August 1 and
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PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) has launched a three-day registration drive in the province, beginning on August 1 and ending on August 3, to assist taxpayers in the services sector. Directed by DG Shah Mahmood, KPRA teams have set up mobile registration camps and are conducting doorto- door visits for on-thespot registration. Shah Mahmood emphasized the prioritization of taxpayer facilitation.
During the drive, people can visit the mobile registration offices or contact KPRA through various means to seek help with business registration, sales tax on services payment, and monthly returns filing.
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Peshawar - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Information, Auqaf, Religious, and Minority Affairs, Barrister Feroz Jamal Shah Kakakhel, has stressed that the safety of people’s lives and property is the top priority for the provincial government. He conveyed this during a visit to the injured victims of the Bajaur blast at Lady Reading Hospital (LRH). He assured that the government is committed to eradicating terrorism by strengthening the police force and that a detailed report on the Bajaur incident will be released after completing the investigation.
According to Barrister Kakakhel, the Bajaur blast resulted in the loss of 44 lives and left around 200 civilians injured, with approximately 100 admitted to various hospitals. He mentioned that 17 seriously injured individuals were flown to CMH on the instructions of the Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Azam Khan. Unfortunately, three of the injured at CMH succumbed to their injuries.
The provincial minister strongly condemned the tragic incident and expressed condolences to the bereaved families. He assured that the Caretaker Chief Minister is personally overseeing the situation in Bajaur and updates on the investigation will be disclosed in the next few days.
Barrister Kakakhel reaffirmed the government’s determination to prioritize public safety and combat terrorism. He announced plans to establish seven new police stations and provide modern training to around eight thousand police personnel in merged districts.
In response to a question, he emphasized the need for SOPs for political gatherings, and the government has convened a meeting to address this. Earlier, Barrister Kakakhel visited CMH to meet the injured individually and extend support from the caretaker provincial government for their speedy recovery.
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Islamabad - Humak police on Monday slapped charges of attempted murder, punishment of shajjah, punishment for itlafi- udw and cruelty against the wife a
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Islamabad - Humak police on Monday slapped charges of attempted murder, punishment of shajjah, punishment for itlafi- udw and cruelty against the wife a judge who placed a 12-year old poor housemaid under severe torture at her house located in a private housing society along with GT Road last week.
The wife of civil judge Chaudhry Asim Hafeez identified as Somia Asim was accused of breaking ribs, teeth and injuring other body parts including skull of a poor housemaid namely Rizwana while detaining her in a room illegally.
Earlier, police had registered a case against Somia under sections 506/342 of Pakistani Penal Code (PPC) on complaint of Manga Khan, the father of the victim, triggered a storm of criticism against police and the government.
The latest twist in the case came after the medical board of doctors examined the girl carefully and suggested police to ensure a strong charge sheet against the accused.
The investigators of Humak Police Station, following directions of Inspector General of Police Islamabad Dr Akbar Nasir Khan and SP Legal, inserted more sections in the FIR in the light of medico legal report issued by the doctors after examining the victim girl.
According to a senior police officer, who is part of investigation team, the girl was too young to tolerate the inhuman torture. She was employed by Somia as maid against Rs10000 monthly wage.
The female landlord fractured almost each and every bone of her body besides developing deep cuts in her head with some sharp weapon while keeping her in illegal confinement in her house, he said.
This is why police added some new charges including attempted murder charge to the FIR. The accused was then booked under PPC sections 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement).
Now police investigators, he said, also slapped in FIR sections 324 (attempted murder); 328A (Cruelty to a Child) is of direct relevance to PHP, provisioning the punishment of “whoever wilfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or does an act” that results in harm or potential harm of a child; 337-A (Punishment of shajjah: Whoever, by doing any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to any person.
Whoever by doing any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to any person causes Itlaf-i-udw of any person, shall, in consultation with the authorised medical officer, be punished with qisas, and if the qisas is not executable keeping in view the principles of equality in accordance with the Injunctions of Islam, the offender shall be liable to arsh and may also be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years as ta’zir.
He said that the law will take its course without any fear and indiscrimination.
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The two collaborated on what became the director's debut feature, 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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What’s better than Pee-wee’s Big Adventure? Not much. Tim Burton’s feature debut is basically perfect cinema, absolutely lousy with great jokes concocted in part by co-writer/star Paul Reubens, who had rebranded a risqué character he’d been doing in night clubs and a Cheech and Chong movie for the kids. After news broke on Monday of Reuben’s passing at age 70, tributes inevitably poured in. One was from Burton himself.
Burton posted a picture on Instagram taken on the set of Big Adventure, showing Burton smiling at something off-screen while Reubens sat perched on his character’s beloved bicycle.
“Shocked and saddened,” Burton wrote in the caption. “I’ll never forget how Paul helped me at the beginning of my career. It would not have happened without his support. He was a great artist. I’ll miss him.”
At the time of filming, Burton was a former Disney animator breaking into live-action. He was supposed to direct a very dark comedy called After Hours, but he wound up turning it over to no less than Martin Scorsese when he expressed interest in making it. The result? Burton had a hit debut and two very different filmmakers each made one of their best films.
For Burton, Big Adventure’s box office success — and later cultdom on home video — paved the way for Beetlejuice, which paved the way for the 1989 Batman, etc. For Reubens, it led to one of the greatest, oddest children’s shows in history.
Reubens and Burton reunited twice. Reubens briefly played the Penguin’s father in Batman Returns and voiced the character Lock in the Burton-written The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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All those jokes featuring mushroom clouds are not going over well in the nation that was hit by atomic bombs.
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“Barbenheimer” fever has not only lit up the box office. It’s also lit up social media. For months, people simply couldn’t believe that two very different movies were being released on the same day — despite this once being a very, very common thing for decades and decades. But not everyone thinks all the memes are funny, and for a very good reason.
As per Deadline, Warner Bros. Japan issued a statement lamenting that the Barbie Twitter account, part of the Warner Bros. Discovery fold, has been reacting favorably to some of the Barbenheimer memes. One such memes finds Margot Robbie’s Barbie Photoshopped alongside Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer amidst an atomic bomb explosion. The Barbie account replied, “It’s going to be a summer to remember.”
It's going to be a summer to remember 😘💕 — Barbie Movie (@barbiethemovie) July 21, 2023
Those at Warner Bros. Japan (very understandably) don’t think jokes about mushroom clouds decimating Hiroshima and Nagasaki are very funny.
“We consider it extremely regrettable that the official account of the American headquarters for the movie ‘Barbie’ reacted to the social media postings of ‘Barbenheimer’ fans,” the translated statement reads. “We take this situation very seriously. We are asking the U.S. headquarters to take appropriate action. We apologize to those who were offended by this series of inconsiderate reactions. Warner Bros Japan.”
The statement went viral, as did the hashtag “#NoBarbenheimer.”
Oppenheimer has not yet been released in Japan, but if it does get a release date it may be a tricky sell. It should be noted that the latest from Christopher Nolan is by no means funny nor does it handle the issue lightly. Like most Nolan films, it contains no jokes. Nolan has not exactly shared in all the “Barbenheimer” revelry.
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This year's judges at Tales of the Cocktail announced their "best" whiskeys of 2023. Here are our tasting notes on every winner.
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Best Blended Whisky — B.H. James Distillers Burton James Uniquely American Whiskey Rookie Season: Batter Up ABV: 53.2% Average Price: $59 The Whiskey: This crafty Kentucky blend from B.H. James Distillers is made with a long list of Indiana whiskeys. 45.5% of the blend comes from a 7.7-year-old 21% rye Indiana bourbon. 30.6% is a 6.9-year-old 36% rye Indiana bourbon. 21.4% is from a 7.6-year-old 95/5 Indiana rye whiskey. Lastly, 2.5% of the blend comes from a 99% corn Indiana bourbon. Those whiskeys were batched and bottled at cask strength. Tasting Notes: Nose: The nose is sweet and dark with a rush of deep vanilla oils, moist holiday spice cakes, and wet brown sugar countered by fresh mint just kissed with tobacco and a hint of caraway and nutmeg.
Palate: The palate leans into the winter spices with a dry sense of mint rolled with dark rock candy and vanilla beans before a twinge of old cellar oak arrives with a hint of saddle leather and dry tobacco leaf — still kissed by the mint. Finish: That minty tobacco drives the finish through the old oak and hints of cedar bark, winter spice barks, and dried orange rinds. Bottom Line: This is a very solid American blend. There’s a clear line between the bourbon and rye that balances very well. I can see sipping this over some rocks or mixing it into a whiskey-forward cocktail easily.
Best Cask-Finished Bourbon — Rabbit Hole Dareringer Founder’s Collection Cask Strength Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in PX Sherry Casks Limited Edition ABV: 51.9% Average Price: $312 The Whiskey: This new Founder’s Collection release from Rabbit Hole is a doozy. The whiskey in the bottle is made from wheated bourbon that was aged in well-charred Pedro Ximenez sherry casks from Spain’s renowned Casknolia Cooperage. Just 15 barrels were selected for this tiny small batch offering and bottled 100% as-is. Tasting Notes: Nose: Thick vanilla custard and walnut cake drive the nose toward musty sherry oak still in the cellar next to dark raw sugar syrup over a spiced fruit cake.
Palate: The dark winter spices from the nut cakes drive the palate toward large stretches of cinnamon bark, old oak staves, and dark cherry with a hint of Meyer lemon and tart currants. Finish: Mulled wine and salted toffee round out the finish with a return to the walnut cake and plenty of sherry-soaked old oak. Bottom Line: This is an excellent sipping bourbon.
Best Cask-Strength Bourbon — Kings County Distillery Barrel Strength Bourbon ABV: Varies Average Price: $95 The Whiskey: This grain-to-glass New York whiskey is a little more dialed in than your standard crafty. The whiskey in the bottle is King County’s classic bourbon that’s a tad older and not touched with water. That means the barrels in this batch are a blend of four to seven-year-old King County bourbon that’s bottled 100% as-is at cask strength. Tasting Notes: Nose: Soft brown sugar and moist marzipan come through on the nose with a rush of vanilla malted crackers (almost lady fingers) and old dry oak that edges toward firewood with a hint of dark pepper in the background.
Palate: The spice leans toward clove-studded oranges and dark chocolate on the palate before a deep and dark cherry cake arrives with a hint of vanilla buttercream. Finish: That soft sweetness fades as winter spice barks, more marzipan, and old oak staves counter a soft sweet graininess that’s akin to raw grits covered in caramel. Bottom Line: This is a tasty sipper that really benefits from a rock or little water to calm it down and let it bloom in the glass.
Best Four Grain Bourbon — Redwood Empire Whiskey Cask Strength Pipe Dream Bourbon ABV: 58.4% Average Price: $70 The Whiskey: This uncut and unfiltered version of Redwood Empire’s beloved bourbon is a four-grain whiskey built from a blend of California, Kentucky, and Indiana whiskeys. The mash ends up being 74% corn, 20% raw rye, 4.5% malt barley, and a mere 1.5% wheat. The barrels in the final blend range from four to 12 years old with the older stuff coming from the Ohio Valley. Tasting Notes: Nose: There’s a soft sense of classic bourbon on the nose with dark cherry, vanilla pod, light caramel sauce, and pecan waffles with pancake syrup and cinnamon-brown sugar butter next to a whisper of old boot leather and a very distant echo of sweet grits.
Palate: The palate has a soft creamed honey sweetness with a twinge of Cherry Coke next to buttery toffee dipped in crushed roasted almonds with a hint of Mounds Bar and chewy caramel. A good dose of ABV heat kicks up on the mid-palate with a mulled wine spiciness and a touch of sour cherry. Finish: The end is nutty and full of dark cherry tobacco just kissed with dark chocolate and dark brown spices. Bottom Line: This is another great sipper over a rock. I’d also mix this into a whiskey-forward cocktail any day of the week.
Best High-Rye Bourbon — Blue Run Spirits High Rye Bourbon ABV: 55.5% Average Price: $79 The Whiskey: This whiskey contract-distilled at Castle & Key by Bourbon Hall of Famer Jim Rutledge is a subtle sipper. The whiskey in the bottle is rendered from a mash of 65% corn, 30% rye, and 5% malted barley. It’s aged until it’s ready and then batched and bottled with a drop of local water. Tasting Notes: Nose: Clove, anise, and nutmeg mingle on the nose with a sense of old cinnamon sticks soaked in mulled wine with a caramel base countered by a fleeting sense of old dill and caraway-encrusted rye bread.
Palate: That cinnamon gets woody as the caramel takes on some salt and veers toward toffee dipped in roasted almond before malted chocolate cake batter leans the palate toward more winter spice barks and old burnt orange. Finish: The almond toffee adds a lush finish feeling to the end as dill and nutmeg lead back to the woody winter spices, a touch of caramel malts, and old tobacco rolled with orange and cinnamon. Bottom Line: This is a good on the rocks whiskey that also makes a mean cocktail.
Best Bourbon Whiskey — Ironroot Republic Distilling Saints Alley Bourbon Herald Finished in Pineau de Charentes & Armagnac Casks Special Edition ABV: 53.5% Average Price: $75 The Whiskey: This Texas whiskey is a special one. The Texas bourbon whiskey is finished in Pineau de Charentes and Armagnac casks under the watchful eye of Ironroot Republic’s Jonathan Likarish and YouTuber Chris Trevino, host of “The Liquorhound”. Once ready, the barrels were batched and bottled with a touch of Texas water. Tasting Notes: Nose: Dates and figs lead the way on the nose with a sense of rich caramel and vanilla countered by dried herb bunches — think sage, rosemary, mint, and parsley mostly.
Palate: Stewed pears and blackberry crumble dominate the palate as brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon lead toward apple pie and brandy-soaked cherries with a dash of clove tobacco and burnt orange. Finish: The berries and pears break down into a stewed sauce with tons of winter spice and orange as the vanilla and cinnamon create holiday cookies with a light oaky and tobacco finish. Bottom Line: If you can get your hands on this, you’ll be in for a treat. Though, I’d probably save this one for the holidays and after a big meal.
Best Bottled in Bond Rye Whiskey — Doc Swinson’s Whiskey Bottled in Bond Rye Whiskey ABV: 50% Average Price: $60 The Whiskey: This special bottling from out in Washington highlights Indiana rye. The whiskey in the bottles is a seven-year-old 95/5 (rye/malted barley) MGP rye whiskey. The barrels were batched and just proofed with water before botted-in-bond bottling in Washington state. Tasting Notes: Nose: Sticky toffee pudding with a lot of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and black tea drives the nose toward moments of black licorice, figs, rum-soaked raisin, and soft dill with a sweet edge.
Palate: Those raisins open the palate with a spicy sweetness before lush vanilla and caramel lead back to woody spice barks, burnt orange, and nutshells with a hint of plummy tobacco. Finish: The end leans into the plumminess with a lush vibe that’s accented by old cedar kindling, smoldering smudging sage, and a sense of date and prune flesh. Bottom Line: This is a lovely sipper that makes one hell of a Manhattan.
Best Cask-Finished Rye Whiskey — Sweet Amber Distilling Co. BLACKENED X Willett Kentucky Straight Rye Finished in Madeira Casks ABV: 54.8% Average Price: $160 The Whiskey: This new release from Metallica’s BLACKENED is a masterful collaboration with Willett. The rye is a blend of whiskeys that were aged around six or seven years (with one barrel up to eight years old) that are vatted and then finished in Madeira casks. After an undisclosed amount of time mellowing in those casks, the whiskey is then bottled as-is at cask strength. Tasting Notes: Nose: Red berry sorbet explodes on the nose with a mix of ripe black cherry, raspberry, and blackberry with a hint of tart red currants, a touch of fresh mint, and maybe some woody cinnamon. Palate: The palate takes on a savory strawberry-rhubarb note that leans into vanilla and butter white wine. Finish: The end has a dark fruit leather vibe with a twinge of spiced cherry tobacco on the finish. Bottom Line: This is another really freaking good whiskey. You can’t go wrong using this as a sipper or cocktail base.
Best Cask-Strength Rye Whiskey — Grand Traverse Distillery Hand Selected Ole George Cask Strength Single Barrel ABV: 69.35% Average Price: Distillery Only The Whiskey: This is a Michigan grain-to-glass experience. The whiskey is made from a mash of 95% Northern Michigan raw rye and 5% Northern Michigan malted rye. That whiskey rests for four to five years before a single barrel is picked and bottled 100% as-is at cask strength. Tasting Notes: Nose: Caramel malts and old rye sourdough starter drive the nose toward vanilla pods, nut clusters, and plenty of winter spice with a hint of sourdough toast with blackberry jam.
Palate: There’s a light marmalade vibe on the palate that leads to more winter spice, burnt orange, salted caramel dipped in dark chocolate, and a touch of peppery tobacco. Finish: The vanilla creates a silky finish that leans into the sweetness of the caramel and softness of slowly cooked grains with a hint of nutty tobacco and old oak staves. Bottom Line: This has a bit of a crafty edge with those grains and bready notes. I’d lean more towards drinking this one over ice or if you’re looking to change the profile of a cocktail to be more grain-forward.
Best Single Barrel Rye Whiskey — Proof and Wood Tumblin’ Dice Single Barrel Straight Rye Whiskey Barrel Proof ABV: 58.68% Average Price: $79 The Whiskey: This sourced whiskey is made from classic MGP 95/5 (rye/malted barley) whiskey. The release is bottled from one barrel that was exactly seven years and three months old and bottled 100% as-is at cask strength. Tasting Notes: Nose: The nose is like walking through a herb garden with plenty of green, savory, and sweet notes countered by nasturtiums, pepper bark, and vanilla backbone with a twist of orange.
Palate: That orange turns into sugar-coated orange wedges on the palate as peach jam and apricot leather mix with marshmallow and old rye bread. Finish: That apricot leather and marshmallow lingers on the finish with a sense of huge dried floral notes, old herbs, and mint with a light sense of perfumed potpourri. Bottom Line: This isn’t for me, but I appreciate the craft. If you’re looking for a very floral rye whiskey experience, then this is going to be your jam.
Best Rye Whisky (Tie) — Pinhook Straight Rye Whiskey Vertical Series Rye Tiz Rye Time 7 Years Old ABV: 52.56% Average Price: $89 The Whiskey: This rye whiskey is an experiment in curating Indiana MGP rye barrels (95/5 rye/barley) in Kentucky. The latest release is a batch of 28 Kentucky-aged barrels that are all seven years old. The rye was batched and bottled as-is to highlight the whiskey that came out of the barrel. Tasting Notes: Nose: There’s a sense of black-tea-soaked and cinnamon-infused date-heavy sticky toffee pudding with a dollop of brandy butter that’s countered by a hint of grapefruit pith, soft suede, and Werther’s Originals.
Palate: The palate lets that leather get a little worn as the Werther’s get darker (almost burnt) and notes of black licorice ropes, clove buds, dry oak, and brandy-soaked raisins mingle. Finish: The finish has a bit of a dry straw by way of a black pepper vibe that lingers on your senses for just the right amount of time, leaving you with a final note of gingersnaps. Bottom Line: This is a lovely rye whiskey that makes one hell of a Sazerac, old fashioned, and Manhattan. It works perfectly well on a big ol’ rock in a tumbler too. It’s super easy to see how this was named “best rye” this year.
Best Rye Whisky (Tie) — Kings County Distillery Empire Rye Straight Rye Whiskey ABV: 51% Average Price: $109 The Whiskey: This New York rye is all about New York in the bottle. The whiskey is made from 80% New York-grown Danko rye and 20% English malted barley. That whiskey aged two years before batching, proofing, and bottling. Tasting Notes: Nose: The nose transports you to a green-grass backyard in the summer with a pile of maple bar doughnuts and nutmeg-cut rummy apple cider nearby.
Palate: The palate veers from the summer to the holidays with rich holiday nut cakes cut with plenty of cinnamon, clove, and allspice next to freshly baked rye sourdough with a whisper of caraway and fennel. Finish: There’s a salted butteriness on the finish that adds a nice lushness before the spiced holiday cakes add more spice, soft nuttiness, and a hint more of that rye bread herbal nature. Bottom Line: This is a classic rye sipper.
Best Light Whisky — Samson & Surrey F.E.W. American Straight Whiskey ABV: 46.5% Average Price: $49 The Whiskey: This award-winning whiskey from Illinois’ F.E.W. is a big blend. The whiskey combines bourbon, rye, and malt whiskeys. The latter was made with malts smoked with cherrywood, making it a cherry-smoked malt whiskey. That blend was then proofed before bottling. Tasting Notes: Nose: The malted crackers drive the nost with a deep sense of honey-soaked grits next to soft winter spices, hints of roasting herbs, and a touch of sourdough doughnuts iced in cinnamon and maple.
Palate: Black Forest cake leads the palate with a hint of smoked cherry compote before nutmeg and allspice lead to anise and smudging sage. Finish: The honeyed malts return on the soft finish with a sense of white pepper and clove that gives way to a light cedar bark and tobacco end. Bottom Line: This has a little bit of everything and ultimately feels like a malted whiskey by way of rye whiskey. If that sounds appetizing, then you know what to do.
Best Wheat Whisky — Heaven Hill Distillery Bernheim Original Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey ABV: 45% Average Price: $28 The Whiskey: While wheated bourbons are all the rage at the moment (Pappy and Weller being the most sought-after examples), wheat whiskies have not quite hit as resoundingly … yet. Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey flips the script on those bourbons and uses mostly winter wheat that’s supported by small doses of corn and malted barley. The whiskey is then aged for seven years in new oak. Tasting Notes: Nose: There’s a honey sweetness that works well with the grain and vanilla on the nose. Palate: The sip hits on notes of spice, bright berries, and buttery toffee with a velvet body. Finish: The end brings about round, toasted oakiness with a little more of the spice and buttery toffee as it fades across the senses. Bottom Line: This is an essential wheat whiskey. Awards aside, this is best used as a cocktail base for classic whiskey cocktails.
Best Flavored Whiskey — Wolves Rye Whiskey and Hop Flavored Whiskey ABV: 51.5% Average Price: $139 The Whiskey: This is a true outlier whiskey. It’s “flavored” in the sense that the distiller’s beer (a fermented grain mash) that was used to distill this whiskey was completely finished and hopped beer that was ready to bottle. Since that base was hopped, that makes this a “flavored” whiskey. Beyond that, the first whiskey is made from stout that was distilled and then aged in French oak for nine years. That was blended with a second whiskey made from a California pale ale that was distilled and then aged in French oak for seven years. Those whiskeys were then blended, proofed, and bottled. Tasting Notes: Nose: Summer wildflowers, cherries dipped in dark chocolate, vanilla cookies, and dank citrus hops dominate the nose. Palate: The dark chocolate merges with dark orange on the palate as nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon drive the taste toward more of those dank hops with a bright citrus vibe and a touch of an old oak stave. Finish: The end warms up and leans into the spices with a creamy vanilla edge cut with orange oils and more smooth dark chocolate. Bottom Line: If you’re a huge dank craft beer fan, then this is a must-try whiskey.
Best Smoked American Single Malt — Stoutridge Distillery & Winery Bottled In Bond Quartarium Root Single Malt Whiskey ABV: 50% Average Price: $99 The Whiskey: This is a New York grain-to-glass experience from a winery/distillery family farm. The whiskey is made with 100% New York barley that’s malted at the farm. After mashing, the juice is twice distilled in old pot stills before aging on the farm until it’s just right. Tasting Notes: Nose: There’s a light sense of malted vanilla wafers on the nose that leads to fresh bales of hay, old cellar floors, and apple orchards in the fall.
Palate: There’s a honeyed sense of malted cakes with a hint of nuttiness and dark fruit that leads back to the grassiness with a mild fall leaves vibe with some earthy woodiness. Finish: Mild winter spices and apple fritters with a touch of floral honey drive the finish toward a soft and mineral-filled end. Bottom Line: This is nice. It didn’t wow me but it may just take two or three experiences with it to really click in for my palate.
Best Blend of International Whiskies — O’Shaughnessy Distilling Co. Keeper’s Heart Irish + American ABV: 46% Average Price: $54 The Whiskey: The whiskey from former Irish Distillers Master Distiller Brian Nation marries American whiskey with Irish whiskey on the American prairie of Minnesota. The juice in the bottle is a combination of American bourbon with Irish grain whiskey and Irish pot still whiskey — all over four years old. The idea is to create the ultimate Irish-American whiskey drinking experience. Tasting Notes: Nose: This opens with a rich and moist bran muffin made with molasses next to warm leather, winter spices, and dark dried fruits with a hint of pecan.
Palate: The palate is malty for a moment before vanilla and mulled wine spices kick in, leading to a mix of roasted nuts and a vanilla-chocolate swirl soft serve cone. Finish: The end has a moment of woody spice before fading back toward chocolate malts. Bottom Line: This is a solid cocktail whiskey. It works well on the rocks, don’t get me wrong. But you’ll want to use it in your favorite cocktails.
Best Cask-Finished Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey — The Teeling Whiskey Company Wonders of Wood Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey Virgin Chinkapin Oak Finish ABV: 50% Average Price: $99 The Whiskey: The first installment of the Wonders of Wood series is a single pot still Irish whiskey. That means the mash mixes 50% malted and 50% unmalted barley. The hot spirit is then filled into new American “chinkapin” white oak barrels for an undisclosed amount of time. Those barrels are then blended into this whiskey and proofed down ever-so-slightly to 100 proof. Tasting Notes: Nose: This is very bourbon-esque on the nose, with clear notes of rich caramel, vanilla pods, almost raw leather, buttery biscuits, a hint of dried apple flowers, a whisper of wet oak, and a wink of fresh mint.
Palate: The palate, on the other hand, starts off with a malty spiciness that leads to hints of ginger snaps and cream soda with a slight yellow straw note on the mid-palate as a softness kicks in on the mouthfeel. Finish: The sweetness returns near the finish with dark cacao and winter spice that then veers toward a thin echo of cumin before unfiltered apple cider soda and green alder round out the finish. Bottom Line: This is a very solid sipper. It was made for the U.S. market, so you should still be able to get your hands on a bottle.
Best Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey — Royal Oak Distillery The Busker Irish Whiskey Single Pot Still ABV: 44.3% Average Price: $37 The Whiskey: This barley-based Irish whiskey is aged in a combo of ex-bourbon and sherry casks for an undisclosed amount of time. Those whiskeys are then blended and proofed down with local water. Tasting Notes: Nose: Hardcore notes of wet grains open this with a hint of milk chocolate and a clove/allspice on the nose. Palate: The taste leans into those sweet porridge grains toward dried fruits and green peppercorns. Finish: The mid-palate sweetens with butterscotch next to spicy stewed apples that feel like sticky apple sauce before fading out pretty fast. Bottom Line: This is a mixing whiskey for everyday cocktails.
Best Irish Whiskey & Best International Single Malt (peated) — The Teeling Whiskey Company Blackpitts Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey ABV: 46% Average Price: $70 The Whiskey: This is a peated Irish whiskey. After triple distilling in Dublin, the whiskey is left to rest in former Sauternes casks and first fill Bourbon barrels. The barrels are then vatted, the whiskey is proofed down, and it’s then bottled. Tasting Notes: Nose: The nose feels like walking through a meat smoker on a summer day with a counterpoint of fresh orange oils, clove, and toffee rounding things out.
Palate: Smoldering orchard wood and winter spice barks lead to grilled tropical fruits and smoked floral honey with a hint of vanilla creaminess underpinning it all. Finish: The end really amps up the fatty smoked meat factor while sweetening with salted caramel and vanilla cakes on the finish. Bottom Line: This is a great bottle to have on hand if you’re smoking meat in the backyard this summer. You might want to pour it over some ice though.
Best International Single Malt (un-peated) — O’Shaugnessy Distilling Co. Keeper’s Heart Aged 10 Years Single Malt Irish Whiskey Finished in Malaga Wine Casks ABV: 43% Average Price: $99 The Whiskey: This new release from Keeper’s Heart is a departure from the usual Irish-American whiskey blends. The whiskey is a 10-year-old Irish single malt that was aged in ex-bourbon barrels. Those barrels were sent to Minnesota where they were batched and proofed before bottling. Tasting Notes: Nose: Soft malted scones with apricot jam and vanilla buttercream lead the nose toward marzipan and soft floral honey. Palate: That honey drives the sweet palate toward a trail mix vibe with raisins, peanuts, and dried fruits/berries with a sense of malted chocolate balls in the background. Finish: That maltiness peaks on the finish with a sense of nutty honey, rum-raisin, and more of that apricot. Bottom Line: This is a very nice, standard single malt. I’d lean toward using it for cocktails.
Best American Single Malt, Best Single Malt, & Whisky of the Year 2023 — Balcones Distilling 1 Texas Single Malt Whisky ABV: 53% Average Price: $78 The Whisky: This whisky is made with a lot of care. The juice is 100% malted barley imported from Scotland, specifically Scottish Golden Promise Malted Barley. The spirit then ages in a combination of barrels ranging from new and used American, French, and Hungarian oak. After a few years under the hot Waco sun, the barrels are vatted and bottled with no fussing besides a touch of local water. Tasting Notes: Nose: There’s a good dose of pecan waffles, maple, and sharp sarsaparilla on the nose with a deep earthiness that’s part grain silo and part high desert scrub brush.
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22 Best Whiskeys From Tales Of The Cocktail Competition 2023
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An Astroworld victim's lawyer called out Travis Scott's 'Utopia' album lyrics for being: 'stunningly tone-deaf.'
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Last week, a Texas grand jury declined to indict Travis Scott on criminal charges for his role in the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy. But his legal battles regarding the event are far from over.
With the release of his new album, Utopia, Scott attempted to temporarily put the pending case behind him. However, one song references the incident, which has reopen the devastating wounds for one of the Astroworld victim’s family. According to TMZ, lawyer Bob Hilliard, representing the family of the late Ezra Blount called out Scott for being insensitive.
“For an artist making his living with music, these are stunningly tone-deaf comments about this preventable tragedy that took so many lives and injured so many,” Blount told the outlet.
The stanza in question appears in Scott’s song “My Eyes,” where Scott rapped, “I replay them nights, and right by my side, all I see is a sea of people that ride with me / If they just knew what Scotty would do to jump off the stage and save him a child.”
Blount’s family believes the line is an attempt by Scott to reframe the public’s view of him. In December 2021, Scott sat down for an interview with Charlamagne Tha God to discuss the tragedy. “I went through something, and I feel like fans went through something, and people’s parents went through something, and it really hurts,” he said. “It hurts the community. It hurts the city. There’s been a lot of thoughts, a lot of feelings, a lot of grieving, and just trying to wrap my head around it.”
Since then, Scott hasn’t released any other public statement related to the 2021 Astroworld Festival.
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Astroworld Victim's Lawyer Responds To Travis Scott's Album
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TMZ was first to report that 'Euphoria's Angus Cloud, who portrayed Fezco, has passed away at age 25.
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Stunning news has arrived from TMZ, which first reported that Angus Cloud, who portrayed drug-dealing Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on HBO’s critically-acclaimed and popular Euphoria, has died at age 25 in Oakland, CA. His cause of death has not been revealed, although TMZ published a family statement, which relays how the actor endured a rough time following his father’s death:
The actor’s family tells us … “It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways.” They continue, “Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
Variety followed up with more confirmation of the sad news while noting that Cloud, who broke into the public consciousness with the Emmy-winning Sam Levinson series (which also happened to be his first acting credit), had several projects in various stages of development at the time of his death. These include Freaky Tales, starring Pedro Pascal and Ben Mendelsohn, and an Untitled Monster Movie from Scream 6 and Ready Or Not directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett for Universal Pictures.
Previously, Cloud told GQ that he believed that an HBO representative was pulling his leg when he was scouted on a Manhattan street:
“I was confused and I didn’t want to give her my phone number,” he says. “I thought it was a scam.” But then, later, he later found himself in a nondescript room, filled with very serious people very seriously staring at him as he read lines from what would become Euphoria’s first episode. “I had to change it a little bit,” he says of the pages he was given. “To make it sound real, like how I would say it.”
HBO and the Euphoria production have tweeted twin statements: “We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud. He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud. He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time. pic.twitter.com/PLqkz5Rshc — euphoria (@euphoriaHBO) July 31, 2023
We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud. He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and Euphoria family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time. pic.twitter.com/G92zRWkbfH — HBO (@HBO) July 31, 2023
(Via TMZ & Variety)
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'Euphoria' Star Angus Cloud Reportedly Passed Away At Age 25
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Uproxx travel editor Steve Bramucci looks back at Lightning in a Bottle 2023 -- which he found to be wild and weird and oh so much fun.
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DoLab’s signature festival, Lightning in a Bottle, “has been on my list” for a long time now. Ever since Jade Moyano rumbled up to the fest in a camper van, in the early days of Uproxx Life, this Memorial Day weekend bacchanal has called to me. In the years since, we’ve run photo drop after photo drop from LiB and my anticipation has only grown. Especially after being thwarted back in 2021, when the festival was canceled altogether during the pandemic.
With that said, when I finally planned to go this summer, I didn’t really know what to expect. I’d heard that LiB was something akin to Burning Man, or at least influenced by it, but I didn’t know much about the music, the vibe, or the setting. I’d hardly even glanced at the lineup until I was in a rental car headed north.
That was ~ to some degree ~ by design. So much of travel is measuring your impressions against the impressions of others that the act of going anywhere is often relegated to seeing things and deciding if you agree or disagree with what you’ve heard about them. Traveling without any information allows me to make impressions for myself without vetting them against what I’ve been told. Besides, it’s a music festival next to a lake? It’s not like a lack of prep could really hurt much.
The lakeside location — and the chance to bask in the water at the heat of the day, rinse off a night of dancing first thing in the morning, and lounge on inflatables which were shared freely by all — turned out to be a huge perk. The most uncool thing about Burning Man is clearly all the dust and the general lack of water, so I’m always glad when Burn-inspired fests remedy that error. But while Buena Vista Lake, near Bakersfield, proved an ideal setting, what impressed me far more was the general approach and philosophy of the Lightning in a Bottle team, which I’ve tried to break down (as I see it) in bullets below:
My biggest conclusion about Lightning in a Bottle is that it’s tough to pin down. That’s also what I liked most about it. I know it’s my literal job to clarify travel experiences for others, but LiB was just so wiley that I struggle to encapsulate it. It was chaotic in a way that I’ve always loved. One minute you might be watching a Diplo set that was at once awesome and something of a known entity and then suddenly you break off from the crowds and you’re at a puppet theater. Or a full 80s-era living room installed in the middle of a junkyard where people sit on couches and stare at old busted TVs (I can confirm that with so much stimulus, this activity was quite alluring).
In the same vein, the whole vibe was anti-cookie cutter. Nothing was basic and, as a result, the flow of things was sort of hard to figure out. At Coachella, you very clearly know what is paid for by the festival (free once you’ve entered) and what is part of the festival’s economy (food, drinks, merch, etc.). Besides those two elements well… there’s really nothing else. But at LiB I really had no idea what was supplied by the festival, what was created by fellow festival-goers, what was commerce-related, and what was free. And I quickly learned not to care. Did the festival pay for a man to walk around the grounds putting on ornate bubble shows or was he simply eager to share this talent? It didn’t matter. If something cost money, people would tell you. Otherwise, it was best to assume it was all just free, good old-fashioned fun. I remember one night walking along at 4 am and passing a glow light vendor and there were literally hundreds of people practicing glow lights around the booth and for a second I thought “Wow, he’s a brilliant marketer to have all these people showing off his glow lights!” then I wondered if maybe they all had just purchased glow lights and gotten inspired to play with them. And then, finally, I realized that me thinking about it at all was cerebral in a way that wasted time and energy — so instead I just sat back and admired the glowing chaos around me. And that’s when I was able to actually savor how cool it looks when a hundred people play with glow lights next to each other.
I guess this sort of ladders up to the other bits I’ve mentioned, but the Lightning in a Bottle emphasis on user experience was really high. I remember seeing a slackline and a cornhole next to the main stage and thinking, “I love that with Diplo and Sofi Tukker and Toby Nwigwe, and so many others on the bill, someone was like ‘GUYS DON’T FORGET TO ADD SLACK LINES!'” The philosophy of LiB seems to be: “add anything that can offer one iota more enjoyment” and I love that. The very thought is intriguing and shows a tremendous amount of care for guests. Plus, late one night I saw a woman race up to the slack lines on a bike, leap off as if she was rushing to drag babies out of a burning building, and slackline alone for a few minutes. At which point, I thought “I’m so glad those slack lines were there!”
Okay, I guess all of those ideas sort of meld together. But they also sort of emphasize LiB’s frenetic, maximalist nature — which also made room, amidst all the clowns and chaos, for self-improvement. In the course of a few days, I attended yoga workshops, psychedelic speeches, and a “rose petal ceremony” that was 1) exactly what it sounds like, a very serious ceremony starring tens of thousands of rose petals, and 2) deeply emotionally affecting for reasons I can’t quite manage to explain. In short, Lightning in a Bottle was a cosmic gumbo. At one point I saw a dominatrix play a folk music set that sort of blended airy guitar tunes seamlessly with BDSM. Later that night, I came upon six or seven people performing improv comedy with puppets (as if improv comedy needed another layer added to make it slightly less accessible to viewers) and even though the show itself didn’t quite work, there was an energy present that I really liked. The puppeteers, who were playing to just a few people (and had been positioned against headlining acts) seemed to sense that they, too, were a necessary part of this festival which, as I mentioned, featured Diplo — one of the largest musical acts on earth.
That’s so cool to me — a creative tent with room for so much variety underneath. A festival that contains close to as many multitudes as its attendees.
“There’s been so many iterations of this, having evolved from some rave kids off in the woods, and it’s always evolving,” says DoLab/ LiB co-founder Dede Flemming when I speak to him at the festival about its Grand Canyon-wide expanse of programming. “So there’s never a feeling of coasting — we’re always pushing to find new experiences and curate new moments.”
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Lightning In A Bottle Was Too Wild For Labels & That's Good
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The singer attempted to let his inner dog out while he served them at Chicago’s famous Weiner Circle, but he was 'way too friendly.'
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Lana Del Rey isn’t the only musician on a quest to conquer the culinary arts. But instead of dropping into a popular chain restaurant like Waffle House or Texas Roundhouse, as Rey has, Ed Sheeran temporarily joined the staff of a local Chicago favorite.
On Saturday, July 29, before taking the stage for his The Mathematics Tour stop at Soldier Field, Sheeran traded his acoustic guitar for a greasy apron as he fed Windy City locals. Stepping into the role of a member of a cook crew, Sheeran served hungry fans at the city’s famous restaurant, The Weiner Circle. The eatery is known for its motto “hot dogs served with a side of abuse,” and Sheeran served their signature dish with a smile.
On The Weiner Circle’s social media page, they made a light-hearted joke about the matter, writing, “Our newest trainee @edsheeran has a lot to learn. He’s way too proper and friendly.”
Our newest trainee @edsheeran has a lot to learn, he’s way too proper and friendly pic.twitter.com/7IYOBZMZcW — The Wieners Circle (@TheWienerCircle) July 29, 2023
Locals reacted to the news with jokes of their own. “He’ll toughen up after working in Chicago for a bit,” wrote one person.
He'll toughen up after working in Chicago for a bit — Charles Carroll (@chuckles576) July 29, 2023
“I’m guessing he didn’t yell at the customers like he’s supposed to… 😂,” penned another.
I'm guessing he didn't yell at the customers like he's supposed to… 😂 — Jae-Ha Kim 김재하 (@GoAwayWithJae) July 30, 2023
Another asked, “Probably no one’s thrown anything at him yet?”
Probably no one's thrown anything at him yet. — Cobalt Stargazer (@StargazerCobalt) July 30, 2023
This isn’t Sheeran’s first time supporting a local establishment on tour. In May, he showed off his bartending skills while in Atlanta. Many major food cities are still on Sheeran’s tour schedule, so who knows where fans will spot him next.
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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Ed Sheeran Joined Chicago's Weiner Circle To Serve Hot Dogs
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Director Ridley Scott basically did a speed session after his lead actor told him he wasn't sure what do not long before shooting.
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Joaquin Phoenix has never been a typical actor. He’s an eccentric, and that eccentricity results in one rich, fascinating, unique performance after another — including that time he pretended to rebrand as a rapper, as a bit (and for a film). That does mean he has an unusual, potentially reckless way of prepping. Indeed, in the lead-up to shooting the forthcoming Napoleon, he shocked director Ridley Scott by being a little unprepared a little close to the first day of filming.
“He’ll come in, and you’re f*cking two weeks’ out, and he’ll say, ‘I don’t know what to do,’” Scott told Empire (as caught by Variety). “I’ll say, ‘What?!’ ‘I don’t know what to do.’ Oh God. I said, ‘Come in, sit down.’ We sat for 10 days, all day, talking scene by scene. In a sense, we rehearsed. Absolutely detail by detail.”
Was it worth it? Sounds like it. Scott dubbed him “the best player of damaged goods,” both for playing France’s most notorious emperor and for Gladiator, the last time they worked together. For that film, Phoenix earned his first Oscar nomination, playing the hissable, incestuous, daddy-killing, massive tongue-licking baddie who upends the life of Russell Crowe’s ripped general-turned-slave-turned-fighter Maximus.
In the same Empire piece, Phoenix gushed about reuniting with the ever-prolific Scott.
“The truth is, there was just a very nostalgic idea of working with Ridley again,” Phoenix explained. “I had such an incredible experience working with Ridley on Gladiator, and I was so young. It was my first big production. I really yearned for that experience again, or something similar. He’s approached me about other things in the past, but nothing that felt like it would be as demanding for both of us. And so I really liked the idea of jumping into something with Ridley that was going to be that.”
Alas, Phoenix, like Crowe, won’t be in Scott’s Gladiator 2, but at least there’s a good reason for that.
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Donald Trump has been crushing it in the polls, despite all the indictments he's racked up. Maybe that's what's helping him, some claim.
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Ron DeSantis has been polling way, way behind Donald Trump ever since he formally entered the race, and it somehow keeps getting even worse. On Monday, The New York Times published the results of a new poll, which found that the Florida governor — who’s typically been trailing in the 20s — is now down by 37. What is Trump’s secret? Maybe it’s all those indictments he’s been collecting like Beanie Babies, which has done the opposite of turn off many voters. Now a DeSantis ally thinks he should jump on that bandwagon.
As per Yahoo!, GOP representative Thomas Massie, an old pal of DeSantis, joked — or maybe not really? — that maybe DeSantis should commit some crimes to get in the good graces of the American people.
“I’ve said we gotta figure out, we got to find some judge in Florida that’ll indict DeSantis quick, to close this indictment gap,” Massie told McClatchyDC last week. “It’s a truism that anytime someone is being persecuted, their camp rallies to their defense.”
Massie has endorsed DeSantis for the Republican ticket, but he did say he feels “sympathy” for Trump amidst his various legal woes, which have caused him to beg his own, possibly cash-strapped supporters for money.
But Massie’s still Team Meatball Ron, who he argues is nimbly threading that needle between running against Trump but not being for throwing his butt in the clink.
“I think Ron’s taken the right path, which is to be sympathetic to the former president’s plight,” Massie said. But when asked what DeSantis can do to reclaim his lost momentum, he was a little vague.
“He’s made some changes,” Massie explained. “[He’s] on the ground a lot more in Iowa, it seems to me. And also he made the decision not to go in front of the legacy, mainstream media, and do the long-form open interviews on camera. But now he’s doing that. I think those are the right decisions.”
Over the weekend, DeSantis suffered what looked like a medium-sized brain fart when a reporter pointed out that he was down 30 points from Trump in the key state of Iowa. Little did he know Monday would bring even worse news. Maybe now’s the time to worm his way back into the hearts of GOP voters by mishandling some classified government documents.
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From Lockport to Lake Placid, the Empire State is littered with more than five hundred breweries -- here are 10 of our favorites.
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If you don’t know a lot about the State of New York, you might have a child-like image that it’s just one big, sprawling city. That’s okay. If you’ve never been there (or you’ve been to the state but not anywhere other than NYC) we don’t blame you. But the folks who live far to the west in Buffalo and those up north near Watertown might have something to say about all that. On top of being home to New York City, the state is home to the famed Finger Lakes Region, Central New York, the Adirondacks, and much more.
All very worthy of a trip this time of year. And also all loaded with craft breweries.
From Lockport to Lake Placid (and everywhere in between), the Empire State is littered with more than five hundred breweries. Yes, you read that right. There are five hundred (plus) beer-drenched reasons to visit this Northeastern state this summer and fall. And while there’s no way we could list all of the amazing, noteworthy breweries in the state, we tried our best two pick ten can’t-miss breweries not found in NYC. Keep scrolling to see them all.
Like many breweries, East Fishkill’s iconic Sloop Brewing Co. opened in a building that formerly held a different business. But instead of a train station or a historic hotel, Sloop opened in 2011 in a building that was originally built to house an IBM semiconductor plant. Now the site is home to wood-fired pizza, gourmet burgers, other pub fare, and of course tasty brews. Their “Bomb” series of hazy IPA is not to be missed. But they always make great lagers, sours, and stouts as well.
What To Drink:
While you can’t go wrong with any of Sloop’s beers, we think they really shine with their hazy IPAs, especially the year-round favorite Sloop Juice Bomb. This juicy, tropical fruit and citrus-filled New England-style IPA is worth the trip alone.
If you’ve never heard of Prison City, then you’re likely not paying very close attention to the brewing scene in New York State. Opened in 2014, Prison City is located in the town of Auburn which is home to the Auburn Correctional Facility (hence the name). The town is situated just north of Owasco Lake (one of the Finger Lakes) in the heart of Auburn and is well-known for its high-quality beers (especially its IPA) and delicious pub food.
What To Drink:
While the brewery makes a few memorable sour beers like Run Like An Apricot, no trip is complete without at least one pint of its award-winning Prison City Mass Riot. This New England-style IPA, brewed with Simcoe, Amarillo, and Citra hops is known for its balanced, juicy, fruity flavor profile.
Buffalo is home to more than just Josh Allen’s Bills and Tage Thompson’s Sabres, it’s also home to a big-time beer scene. One of the most notable breweries in this Western New York City is Big Ditch. Located in downtown Buffalo, Big Ditch is named for the Erie Canal that runs throughout New York State from Albany to Buffalo. Known for its high-quality, innovative beers, stop into the tap room for a burger and a flight of its award-winning beer.
What To Drink:
The brewery makes a few notable beers worth trying, but before you leave you need to try its flagship Hayburner. This American IPA is known for its citrusy, hoppy flavor thanks to the use of Warrior, CTZ, Cascade, Glacier, and Falconer’s Flight hops.
You might assume that Eli Fish is named for its founder. Well, it’s not. It’s actually named for a beer brewer and landowner who resided in the region in the early 1900s. Opened in 2018, this award-winning brewery pays homage to this local legend. Known for its envelope-pushing brews, the brewery even made a beer using maple syrup as its base instead of water called The Heavy Maple which won a Gold Medal at the New York State Craft Beer Competition. Visit for great food, brewery tours, and twenty-four draft lines featuring Eli Fish and other New York State beers.
What To Drink:
You can’t go wrong with any of its beers, but in the summer, we suggest a Señor Pescado, a lager made from locally sourced corn. It’s crisp, refreshing, and well-suited for summer drinking.
Avon’s Mortalis only opened in 2018, but since then, it’s received so much praise and gained so many fans that it has opened locations in nearby Rochester as well as Buffalo. Known for its eclectic mix of sour beers and barrel-aged stouts, it also makes IPAs, wheat beers, and other styles. Visit this Livingston County site for fresh brews and a rotating menu of food. Come in with an open mind and try something out of your comfort zone. You’ll be happy you did.
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Since it might be a hot day when you visit this summer, try its seasonal wheat ale called Salacia. Brewed with white wheat malts, Motueka hops, and conditioned with zested limes and Himalayan pine sea salt, it’s summer in a pint glass.
The idea for Equilibrium didn’t begin in a kitchen or a garage, it happened at MIT. Originally, its founders were studying ways to make clean drinking water. This eventually led to brewing beer. Its founders and brewers even use scientific principles learned at MIT to craft the beer. Clearly, it worked as Equilibrium is one of the highest-rated breweries in the state. Take a trip to Hudson Valley to visit Equilibrium Brewery’s Taproom, Beer Garden, and Bonfire Restaurant and try some tasty food and fresh beer.
What To Drink:
If you find yourself at Equilibrium, grab a bottle of Austin. This funky, yeasty, lightly tart farmhouse ale is about as summery as seasonal beers get. It also makes a fruited version with apricot and peach that can’t be missed.
Sure, Other Half is based in Brooklyn, New York. But if you find yourself in the Finger Lakes Region, you’d be remiss if you didn’t stop by its Western New York offshoot. Found 30 minutes from Rochester and right near the vacation town of Canandaigua, Other Half Finger Lakes is a farmhouse brewery situated on eight picturesque acres. A list of twenty rotating beers will greet you as well as a food truck or two on most days.
What To Drink:
Other Half is the type of brewery where you’ll be happy with everything you try. But you might as well sample its flagship beer: Green City. This Centennial, Citra, and Simcoe-hopped beer is known for its creamy mouthfeel and citrus and tropical-fruit-forward palate.
If you looked up “overnight success” in the dictionary you wouldn’t be surprised to see an image of Rochester’s Strange Bird Brewery. It only opened in 2021 but was named 2022 New York State Craft Brewery of the Year in only its second year. It’s the spot to be in Rochester for award-winning craft beers and locally sourced, made-from-scratch, delicious food. Its success shouldn’t be a surprise as its brewers come from such innovative breweries as Dogfish Head and New Belgium.
What To Drink:
Strange Bird has a rotating list of beers. All are exceptional so we suggest sampling a few and bringing home a four-pack. We enjoy What Herder, it’s bottle conditioned, barrel-fermented cream ale. Hopped with Chinook and Warrior hops and aged in oak barrels, it’s bready, fruity, oaky flavor profile.
When it comes to New York State breweries outside of New York City, it’s hard to top the appeal of Industrial Arts. The brewery is a mix of tradition and innovation as it’s located in a brick, pre-Civil Ware building prominently featuring a massive smokestack to draw in travelers from miles away. It features a brewery and a tap room featuring a slew of flagship IPAs as well as pale ales, lagers, and much more.
What To Drink:
While we suggest sampling all of its IPAs, you should start with its popular Wrench. This juice, hazy, New England-style IPA is brewed with Mosaic and Citra hops. It’s fruity and loaded with citrus and pine flavors.
While there are a lot of newer breweries producing innovative and exciting beers throughout the state, there are also a few classic breweries that have been around since the beginning of the craft beer boom. One of those is Syracuse’s Middle Ages Brewing. Founded in 1995, this Central New York Brewery prides itself on its “modern American and classic British” beers. The brewery features award-winning beers and many events including trivia nights and live music.
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Middle Ages is another brewery where your best bet is to enjoy a flight of different beers. This is the best way to enjoy more of the beers. But if you were to only drink one, we suggest the Cascade-hopped ImPaled Ale with its malt backbone and piney, lightly bitter flavor profile.
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I tell you, this past June and July reminds me of my Las Vegas summers… minus the Cirque du Soleil shows and watching tourists stumble around with yard long drinks.
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The Navarro College Board of Trustees are preparing for the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester, during the July meeting, last week. Trustees approved regular financial personnel and enrollment reports.
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Death Announcement of Ian Kimenyi Kabetu of Ottawa Canada: It is with very heavy hearts that the family of Ian Kimenyi Kabetu announce
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It is with very heavy hearts that the family of Ian Kimenyi Kabetu announce his passing on the 15th of July 2023. He will be deeply missed by his loving parents Ted (Joseph) and Julie Kabetu, his siblings Teti (Stacy) Kabetu, and Annie (Murray) Friesen, his nieces and nephew, and very many uncles, aunts and cousins.
Kim also shared a special bond with Bame and his family who will miss his unwavering friendship and love. He will be fondly remembered by all who knew him for his fun loving and caring nature, his penchant for pranks, his slick sense of style, and his unyielding and fearless zest for life. A resolute friend, he always brought his charm, easy smile, and counsel to anyone in need.
Kim was born on the 24th of November 1974 in the coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya. A natural athlete and competitor, Kim swam before he could walk, and in no time was competing in the Kenyan Junior National Swim Championships.
He was also an avid golfer and made a splash in the Thunder Bay junior golfing scene by winning the championship the year he immigrated to Canada. He was a rare combination of brain and brawn, a dedicated student; Kim graduated from Western University in 1998, and earned a post graduate certificate in Environmental Management from Niagara College.
He carved a niche for himself in quality and regulatory affairs, making a meaningful difference in the various places he worked around the world from the United States to Europe (Germany, Scotland, and Ireland) and Canada (Saskatoon, Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa).
At his last place of work (Ontario Medical Supply Inc.), his exceptional work ethic and his sense of responsibility quickly garnered him respect leading to his promotion to the position of Director of Quality Systems. He took pride in his work and always brought his very best to the table. As with all things, there were no half measures with Kim.
Kim’s family finds strength in knowing that he touched and made a positive difference in many lives. They are grateful to have had the joy and privilege of knowing and loving him for 48 years. Kim will be loved and remembered until they meet again on that beautiful shore.
The family expresses their heartfelt gratitude for the immense outpouring of love and support during this difficult time, and kindly ask that in lieu of flowers that a donation be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association in honor of Kim’ life.
Share your memories and condolences here-ian-kimenyi-kabetu/106743/Guestbook
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Jalang'o And Raila Share A Platform At A Birthday Party In Karen: Opposition leader Raila Odinga and Lang'ata MP Phelix Odiwuor alias
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga and Lang’ata MP Phelix Odiwuor alias Jalang’o shared a platform on Sunday, July 30 at a birthday party.
Raila and Jalang’o were attending the birthday party of Saboti Member of Parliament Caleb Amisi’s daughter held at his home in Karen.
Jalang’o is among the leaders who have vowed to work with the Kenya Kwanza government, going against the party’s position on key policies including the Finance Act.
“Delighted to host Raila Odinga accompanied by Eugene Wamalwa, Wycliffe Oparanya, Mwang Wairia, and David Pkosing as they graced my daughter’s birthday party in Karen after having a meeting with former President Uhuru Kenyatta,” Amisi stated.
“Thank you Honorable Caleb Amisi my brother for inviting me home for your daughter’s birthday, what an evening. May your home be blessed and may your daughter live to blow 1001 candles,” the Lang’ata MP wrote.
Some supporters have picked the moment, sharing different views over the meeting.
Jalang’o’s Rebellion
Odiwuor was part of a section of politicians from the opposition who went to meet President Ruto at the State House on February 7, 2023.
The move by the MPs elected under an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party was seen as rebelliousness and betrayal of the party leader.
After the meeting, Jalang’o shed light on claims that Ruto offered him Ksh50 million to dump the former Prime Minister.
“The President knows that I am a supporter of Raila and ODM. He even advised that I reveal details of our meeting as we were talking about development,” the MP revealed.
Following the unraveling of events, ODM called the defiant MPs for a disciplinary meeting.
In the recent past, Jalang’o has skipped events organised by the opposition and has been present at those hosted by the President and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua.
By-MAUREEN NJERI
Source-https://www.kenyans.co.ke/
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Diaspora County48 evacuates Kenyan patient stranded in Abu Dhabi: A Kenyan patient who had been stranded at a UAE hospital in Abu Dhabi has
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A Kenyan patient who had been stranded at a UAE hospital in Abu Dhabi has been evacuated. Fatuma Thoya had sought treatment at the hospital for Leukemia Cancer but her residence permit expired, effectively halting her right to treatment in Abu Dhabi.
“We raised this issue with the Principal Secretary State Department for Diaspora Affairs Roseline Njogu. Diaspora Insurance and Diaspora County48 Kenya have paid for the evacuation of this lady to Kenya where she will require a bone marrow transplant within the next 14 days,” Bernard Kavyu said in a statement.
He is the Director of Diaspora Insurance and chairman, of Diaspora County48 Kenya.
Kavyu said they have been working in partnership with the Kenyan government to provide Kenyans living abroad with Evacuation and Repatriation Insurance coverage.
“We presented a proposal for this Insurance policy cover to the government of Kenya on May 16, 2023, and we are still waiting for the government’s response to our proposal,” he said.
To avert the risk of finding themselves in the unfortunate position Fatuma found herself, Kavyu encouraged Kenyans living abroad to sign up for the Diaspora Insurance
“Diaspora Insurance and Diaspora County48 Kenya have paid for the evacuation of this lady to Kenya where she will require a bone marrow transplant within the next 14 days.”
Kavyu said Fatuma is scheduled to arrive in Kenya on Tuesday at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa at 12.30pm.
“Kindly highlight her case so well-wishers can assist her,” Kavyu said.
By EMMANUEL WANJALA
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Lack of Government Spokesperson Is Major Weakness in Ruto Administration: United Democratic Alliance Secretary General Cleophas Malala has
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United Democratic Alliance Secretary General Cleophas Malala has said the absence of a government spokesperson has dealt a huge blow to the Kenya Kwanza Government.
Addressing stakeholders during the ICT Ministry’s launch of One Years Status Report at Serena Hotel on Monday, Malala said the government has done a lot but the messaging has not been properly done.
He said the lack of a government spokesperson to articulate the issue has been the biggest blow in President William Ruyto’s government.
“The issue of dissemination of information regarding government policy and development project; Bwana CS there has been a gap in communicating what the government is doing. We have a lot of projects that the government is doing that have impacted positively society but communication has been missing.
“I think it is a result of you not taking that role of disseminating information not only in your ministry but also in other ministries. Bwana CS, I would like to urge you to expedite the recruitment of a government spokesperson because we don’t have one who will be disseminating that information to the masses,” Malala said.
Addressing the same function, ICT CS Eliud Owalo said the recruitment of Spokeseperon is at its tail end.
Owalo said the exercise is being undertaken by the Public Service Commission (PSC).
“I wish to report that in the next two weeks, we should be able to have a capable and meticulous person to do the work,” he said.
Owalo explained that delay was a result of a “technical hitch” which has since been addressed.
He said in an earlier exercise, the Commission failed to get a suitable person.
“We didn’t get someone who is competent to do the job on behalf of the government and we had to ask public service to conduct a fresh process,” he said.
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Reaction to the decision came fast and was sharply divided, as Colorado lawmakers praised it and Alabama officials slammed it as a political maneuver.
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President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama. The choice ended months of thorny deliberations, but an Alabama lawmaker vowed to fight on.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. Dickinson's view, however, was in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was the right move.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of Biden’s rationale for the decision.
In announcing the plans, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said the decision was based on an “objective and deliberate process informed by data and analysis.” He said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin supported the president’s decision.
Reaction to the decision came fast and was sharply divided, as Colorado lawmakers praised it and Alabama officials slammed it as a political maneuver. “This fight is far from over,” warned Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Biden, said the U.S. officials, believes that keeping the command in Colorado Springs would avoid a disruption in readiness that the move would cause, particularly as the U.S. races to compete with China in space. And they said Biden firmly believes that maintaining stability will help the military be better able to respond in space over the next decade. Those factors, they said, outweighed what the president believed would be any minor benefits of moving to Alabama.
Biden's decision enraged Alabama lawmakers and is sure to fuel accusations that abortion politics played a role in the choice. The location debate has become entangled in the ongoing battle between Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Defense Department over the move to provide travel for troops seeking reproductive health care. Tuberville opposed the policy is blocking hundreds of military promotions in protest.
The U.S. officials said the abortion issue had no effect at all on Biden's decision. And they said the president fully expected there would be different views on the matter within the Defense Department.
Tuberville, in a statement, said the top three choices for Space Command headquarters were all in Republican-leaning states — Alabama, Nebraska and Texas — and bypassing them “looks like blatant patronage politics.”
Formally created in August 2019, the command was temporarily based in Colorado, and Air Force and Space Force leaders initially recommended it stay there. In the final days of his presidency Donald Trump decided it should be based in Huntsville.
The change triggered a number of reviews.
Proponents of keeping the command in Colorado have argued that moving it to Huntsville and creating a new headquarters would set back its progress at a time it needs to move quickly to be positioned to match China’s military space rise. And Colorado Springs is also home to the Air Force Academy, which now graduates Space Force guardians, and more than 24 military space missions, including three Space Force bases.
Officials also argued that any new headquarters in Alabama would not be completed until sometime after 2030, forcing a lengthy transition.
Huntsville, however, scored higher than Colorado Springs in a Government Accountability Office assessment of potential locations and has long been a home to some of earliest missiles used in the nation’s space programs, including the Saturn V rocket. It is home to the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command.
According to officials, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who ordered his own review of the matter, leaned toward Huntsville, while Dickinson was staunchly in favor of staying put. The officials said Austin presented both options to Biden.
In a statement Monday, Kendall said the service will work to quickly implement Biden's decision, adding that keeping the command in Colorado will “avoid any disruption to its operational capability.”
The decision was hailed as a victory in Colorado lawmakers and condemned in Alabama.
“For two and a half years we’ve known any objective analysis of this basing decision would reach the same conclusion we did, that Peterson Space Force Base is the best home for Space Command," Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said in a statement. “Most importantly, this decision firmly rejects the idea that politics — instead of national security — should determine basing decisions central to our national security.”
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said the decision “restores integrity to the Pentagon’s basing process and sends a strong message that national security and the readiness of our Armed Forces drive our military decisions.”
Rogers, meanwhile, vowed that his committee will continue an investigation into the matter, calling it a “deliberate taxpayer-funded manipulation of the selection process.” He added, “It’s clear that far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision.”
Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt echoed his sentiment, saying it was irresponsible for Biden to “yank a military decision out of the Air Force’s hands in the name of partisan politics.” She said an Air Force evaluation of the potential locations ranked Huntsville first, adding that the decision ”should have remained in the Air Force’s purview.”
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Associated Press writer Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Ala., contributed to this report.
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A man from Long Island is recovering from hypothermia after treading water for about five hours in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday.
Police in Suffolk County said a 63-year-old from Copiague went for a swim at Cedar Beach in Babylon around 5 a.m. When he went out into the open water, police said, he was pulled out by the current.
For the next five hours, the swimmer fought to stay above water without a flotation device to assist him. The department said he managed to recover a broken fishing pole and tie his shirt to it in an effort to flag down any passing watercraft.
The swimmer was eventually spotted some 2.5 miles down the coast from where he got into the water, police said. Two men aboard a vessel spotted the 63-year-old, pulled him aboard, and called for assistance over the radio.
The police department's Marine Juliet vessel responded to the good Samaritans and recovered the swimmer, who they said was unable to stand and needed aid for hypothermia. Officers brought the man to shore, where he was treated by a medic from the U.S. Coast Guard and then taken to a hospital in West Islip.
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The family of a Manhattan architect charged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings is "enduring a profound and indescribable catastrophe," an attorney for his estranged wife said as she begged for privacy and "normalcy."
Macedonio & Duncan, the law firm representing Asa Ellerup in her divorce from Rex Heuermann, issued the statement in a news release on Friday. It also included a direct statement from Ellerup.
"On behalf of my family and especially my elderly neighbors, who have also had their lives turned upside down by the enormous police presence, in addition to the spectators, and news crews. They deserve to live peacefully; they should be able to walk their dogs and go to the grocery stores without cameras shoved in their faces," she said. "I am pleading with you all to give us space so that we may regain some normalcy in our neighborhood."
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(JTA) — I was just out of college when I got a freelance assignment from a small entertainment magazine to interview a rising comic named Pee-wee Herman.
Of course that wasn’t his real name, but the man-child persona — one part Howdy Doody, one part third-grade nerd, who spoke as if he just took a hit off a helium balloon — created by a comic and actor named Paul Reubens.
The publicist warned me that Reubens would be only talking to me as Pee-wee, but the voice at the other end of the call spoke in a flat, polite baritone. It was Reubens as Reubens, who had decided to drop the Pee-wee character, at least for our conversation.
I don’t remember what we talked about, but the conversation was disorienting: a peek behind the curtain at the real Wizard of Oz. And Pee-wee was sort of a wizard: In his brilliant Saturday morning “children’s” show, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” and in riotous films like “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and “Big Top Pee-wee,” the adult Reubens fully inhabited a child’s sensibility, simultaneously making his audience relive the innocence of being a kid and undermining it from an edgy adult distance.
Thirty years later I had another disorienting Pee-wee moment. I attended a screening of Nancy Spielberg’s 2014 documentary on American airmen who fought in Israel’s war of independence, “Above and Beyond.” Suddenly, there was Paul Reubens again, seated beside his mother and explaining how his father, Milton Rubenfeld, was an American pilot who volunteered in the fight for Israel. The film recounts how his father flew in a critical mission against the Iraqi army and was shot down over the Mediterranean (he survived).
“He was swaggering and macho, like Indiana Jones,” Reubens says. “He felt like it was his destiny.”
I hadn’t even considered until then that Reubens was Jewish. In “Why Harry Met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love” (2017), one of the few books about Jewish comedy in which Reubens appears, Joshua Louis Moss groups him with a cohort of Jewish comics whose acts were “nearly completely devoid of references to either their Jewish background or Jewish culture more generally.”
Paul Reubens died Monday at age 70; a publicist said he “privately fought cancer for years.” And even though his career was derailed by scandal — he was arrested for “exposing” himself at a porn theater in his hometown of Sarasota, Florida, in 1991 — it’s not a stretch to remember him as an heir to the masterful comics who mined Jewish comedy’s more anarchic vein. Like the Marx Brothers, Pee-wee — with a crewcut, a too-tight suit, a red bow tie and a hint of lipstick and rouge — was a costumed agent of chaos whenever he bumped against straight (in all senses of the word) characters. Like Jerry Lewis, his character seemed stuck in pre-adolescence, but with an adult libido. He could be as sexually ambiguous as Milton Berle in one of his cross-dressing bits. And you could even connect him to Baby Snooks, the little-girl character created by Fanny Brice of “Funny Girl” fame.
Paul Rubenfeld was born Aug. 27, 1952, in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in Sarasota. Milton and his wife Judy (Rosen) owned a lamp store. Milton Rubenfeld had been a top fighter pilot who served in the Royal Air Force, and then the U.S. Army Air Force, during World War II. He became one of five Jewish pilots who flew in smuggled fighter planes and helped establish the Israeli Air Force.
“When I was a youngster, they seemed like fish stories to me,” Reubens recalled in the Spielberg documentary. “I didn’t have any real perspective on it until Ezer Weizman [an Israeli Air Force general and seventh president of Israel], I believe was the first book that actually mentioned my dad by name. And all of a sudden all these stories I’d heard my whole life growing up were in this book. Once I actually knew he really did all those things, and then they weren’t things everyone else did, I just had a completely different view of [my father].”
After studying at Boston University and the California Institute for the Arts, Paul created the Pee-wee character in the late 1970s as a member of the Los Angeles improv troupe The Groundlings. HBO produced a successful special starring the character, and Pee-wee became a cult figure, appearing on talk shows and often confusing the hosts with his child-like delivery and pansexual (or perhaps pre-sexual) persona. (David Letterman had him on his show regularly but never seemed completely comfortable in his presence.)
His first feature film, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” (1985) was directed by Tim Burton (who would go on to direct “Beetlejuice” and one of the best of the “Batman” reboots) and was a financial and critical hit. A sequel, “Big Top Pee-wee” (1988), was less successful but had its moments.
From 1986 through 1990, Reubens starred in 45 episodes of the CBS Saturday-morning children’s program “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” It was both a children’s show and a send-up of a children’s show, featuring a recurring cast of characters that included a sea captain (Phil Hartman), a cowboy (Laurence Fishburne), a “mail lady” (S. Epatha Merkerson) and a talking chair. More than one critic noted Reubens’ debt to Soupy Sales, another Jewish comedian whose 1960s kids show also managed to appeal to children as well as adults who were in on the joke.
The indecent exposure arrest led to a media frenzy that made it impossible for Reubens to continue playing a children’s entertainer. He eventually emerged in a series of cameos and small roles in film and television shows – including a memorable term as a grotesquely inbred Hapsburg prince on “30 Rock,” and as a drunken Pee-wee opposite Andy Samberg in a 2011 “Saturday Night Live” video.
In 2010, he revived the character that made him famous on Broadway in “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” and in 2016, he co-wrote and starred in the Netflix original film “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday.”
Reubens kept his health issues private. ““Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” he said in a statement distributed by his publicist after his death. “I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
In a 1987 Rolling Stone interview, Reubens acknowledged those who said his act built on the Jewish comedians who came before him, including Eddie Cantor, the former vaudevillian who played a frenetic, wide-eyed innocent in a series of popular movie comedies of the 1930s.
“Jerry Lewis I saw when I was little,” he said. “Soupy Sales I probably saw when I was younger. I never knew who Eddie Cantor was until years later, when a lot of older people used to go [in an old Russian-Jewish furrier’s accent], ‘You’re like a young Eddie Cantor.’ I started to watch Eddie Cantor, and I could definitely see the resemblance. His movies are just incredible, very fantasy oriented and comedy oriented.”
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(JTA) — In 1961, Alan Sherman was working as a pharmacist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem when he saw an advertisement in the Jerusalem Post for English-speaking volunteers for the sixth Maccabiah Games, the international Jewish sports competition founded in 1932.
Sherman spent weeks driving the director of the event’s organizing committee to various ceremonies. His willingness to help was emblematic of his passion for sports and what would become a lifetime commitment to strengthening opportunities for Jewish athletes, particularly through U.S.-Israel relations.
Sherman would go on to co-found and lead the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and serve in numerous leadership roles with Maccabi USA and the global Maccabiah movement. Sherman died Saturday at his home in Potomac, Maryland, after a long battle with cancer. He was 87.
Jed Margolis, who now heads the hall of fame, called Sherman a “visionary.” The hall honored Sherman with a lifetime achievement award in 1997.
“He left an indelible mark on the hearts of so many, and we will miss him dearly,” Margolis told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Much of Sherman’s work in sports came with the Maccabiah movement.
From 1973 to 1989, Sherman served on the International Maccabiah Committee. He led several U.S. delegations to the quadrennial Maccabiah Games, spent decades in leadership with Maccabi USA, founded the North American Maccabi Youth Games (now known as the JCC Maccabi Games) and in 1985 helped introduce the Jewish-Israel orientation program for all American Maccabiah athletes.
Jeff Bukantz, the president of Maccabi USA, called Sherman a “larger-than-life leader” and a mentor.
“Alan was one of the pillars of the Maccabi Movement and he leaves a lasting legacy. May his memory be a blessing,” Bukantz said in a statement to JTA.
Sherman’s involvement with U.S.-Israeli sports partnerships extended beyond Maccabiah. In 1978, Sherman organized an Israel trip for the NBA champion Washington Bullets, who played (and lost) an exhibition game against Maccabi Tel Aviv. Sherman also arranged for Israeli professional teams to play games in the U.S.
Sherman’s other passion project was supporting athletes with disabilities, particularly through the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled.
On a local level, Sherman was involved in numerous D.C. Jewish organizations, including as chair of the physical education committee and a board member at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington. According to an online obituary of Sherman, during Israel’s Yom Kippur War in 1973, he launched the “swim a lap for Israel” initiative, raising thousands of dollars for the Rockville, Maryland, JCC and other community pools.
A licensed realtor and experienced pharmacist, Sherman also enjoyed a number of sports, including skiing, volleyball and golf. He is survived by his wife Claire Feldstein, whom he married in 1962, as well as their two children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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(JTA) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft participated in a panel conversation on fighting antisemitism and racism on Sunday during the annual NAACP convention in Boston.
Titled “Hate Has No Home: Racism, Anti-Semitism and Building Bridges to Fight All Hate,” the conversation was moderated by Fox Sports host Joy Taylor and featured NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Kraft and the rapper and activist Meek Mill.
Mill and Kraft have been friends since Kraft helped advocate for the rapper’s release from prison in 2018. They co-founded the nonprofit REFORM Alliance in January 2019 to advocate for criminal justice reform, alongside rapper Jay-Z and Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin, who is also Jewish.
Mill spoke about how meaningful it was when Kraft visited him in prison and compared the experience to his trip to Poland with Kraft for the March of the Living earlier this year. He said they each gained an understanding for the other’s community and their hardships.
“It was probably two years ago when Robert said, I’m going to get you to come to Poland with me,” Mill said during the conversation. “And I didn’t know the effects of how many friends I had that were Jewish, that had family members that were connected to what happened in Poland in Auschwitz.”
Earlier this year, Kraft launched a $25 million social media campaign called #StandUpToJewishHate through his Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, which aired ads during NFL games last year. He spoke on Sunday about the meaning of “tikkun olam,” or repairing the world, and the important partnership between the Black and Jewish communities.
“People are trying to put boulders between the Black community and the Jewish community,” Kraft said. “And we’ve always been uniquely tied together. And I want us to continue that, and any way we can build those ties, I want to be part of that.”
Kraft said he hopes his #StandUpToJewishHate campaign — with its signature blue pin, which each panelist wore on stage — would serve as “a symbol of unity and solidarity.”
Gates, who teaches at Harvard University and hosts the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” said that anti-Black racism and antisemitism are often tied together by white supremacy.
“I tell my students at Harvard that under the floorboards of Western culture run two streams: one is anti-Black racism and one is antisemitism,” Gates said. “And any time a demagogue wants to stir up people they just lift up the floorboards and dipper out all that hatred against our people and against our Jewish brothers and sisters.”
Gates also noted the famous friendship between activist Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. He added that he is working on a PBS series on Black-Jewish relations — which he said Kraft was the first to financially support.
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(JTA) — Police in Memphis shot and killed a man on Monday who they said attempted to attack a Jewish day school there.
The incident occurred around noon at Margolin Hebrew Academy Feinstone Yeshiva of the South, an Orthodox school on the city’s east side. A man fired shots outside the school but failed to gain entry and left the scene. He was killed after police apprehended him nearby, Memphis police officials said.
The suspect was a member of the Jewish community and the incident appeared personal in nature, according to a spokesperson for the Secure Community Network, an organization that coordinates security for Jewish institutions nationwide.
According to Michael Masters, CEO of the Secure Community Network, the suspect was a male in his 40s who tried to enter the school but was prevented from doing so due to a security system.
The Orthodox school, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through high school, sent an alert to its community.
“Please, be advised that we are currently in a developing active shooter situation. We can confirm that no one has been hurt in any way, and everyone is now safe, thank G-d,” the alert said. “Please look out for further communication with additional information to come. In the meantime, our campus is completely closed. We thank you for your understanding. May we all continue to merit Hashem’s protection.”
The school declined to provide additional comment to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The day school is still on summer break. But there were school personnel including construction workers during the shooting, and the building immediately went into lockdown, according to Masters. All schools in the Memphis-Shelby County Schools district were also put on a precautionary lockdown, which was lifted at 2 pm.
“He had made statements that he was targeting the facility for a specific reason,” said Masters, who added that the suspect was a “known offender.”
An executive at Jewish Community Partners, the local Jewish federation, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the federation has worked for years with Masters’ organization. The federation has worked to help local Jewish institutions set security policies and access government grants meant to make facilities more secure.
“This is a testament to the Federation, the community in Memphis, taking a comprehensive approach to security that ensures the protection of the whole community,” Masters said. “It’s another reminder that we’re not going to choose the time and place of the next incident but we can choose our preparation, and today that preparation paid off.”
Police officials, too, said during a press conference that the school’s security system had averted tragedy.
“Thankfully, that school had a great safety procedure and process in place and avoided anyone being harmed or injured at that scene,” said Dan Crow, an assistant police chief.
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TOKYO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab, a first-in-class investigational Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2)-targeted monoclonal antibody, for first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma whose tumors are CLDN18.2-positive. If approved, zolbetuximab would be the first CLDN18.2-targeted therapy available in China for these patients.
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Moitreyee Chatterjee-Kishore, PhD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Head of Immuno-Oncology Development, Astellas
"China accounts for nearly half of the world's new cases of gastric cancer, with more than 478,000 new cases diagnosed and more than 373,000 deaths in 2020. The CDE's acceptance of our BLA for zolbetuximab brings us one step closer to having a new therapy available for Chinese patients with advanced-stage disease and in need of treatment options."
The BLA is based on results from the Phase 3 GLOW and SPOTLIGHT clinical trials. The GLOW study evaluated zolbetuximab plus CAPOX (a combination chemotherapy regimen that includes capecitabine and oxaliplatin) compared to placebo plus CAPOX. In the GLOW study, 145 patients were randomized in mainland China. The SPOTLIGHT study evaluated zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 (a combination regimen that includes oxaliplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil) compared to placebo plus mFOLFOX6. In the SPOTLIGHT study, 36 patients were randomized in mainland China.
In both GLOW and SPOTLIGHT, approximately 38% of patients screened for the trials had tumors that were CLDN18.2-positive (≥75% of tumor cells with moderate-to-strong membranous CLDN18 staining intensity), as determined by a validated immunohistochemistry assay.1,2
Astellas has already reflected the impact from this acceptance in its financial forecast of the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.
About Locally Advanced Unresectable or Metastatic Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer
Gastric cancer, also commonly known as stomach cancer, is the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide.3 In China, gastric cancer ranks third among incidences of all cancer, with more than 478,000 cases diagnosed and more than 373,000 deaths in 2020.4 Signs and symptoms can include indigestion or heartburn, pain or discomfort in the abdomen, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, bloating of the stomach after meals, loss of appetite, and sensation of food getting stuck in the throat while eating.5 Signs of more advanced gastric cancer can include unexplained weight loss, weakness and fatigue and vomiting blood or having blood in the stool.6 Risk factors associated with gastric cancer can include older age, male gender, family history, H. pylori infection, smoking and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).5,7 Because early-stage gastric cancer symptoms frequently overlap with more common stomach-related conditions, gastric cancer is often diagnosed in the advanced or metastatic stage, or once it has spread from the tumor's origin to other body tissues or organs.5 The five-year relative survival rate for patients at the metastatic stage is 6.6%.8 Gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma is a cancer that starts at the area where the esophagus joins the stomach.9
About Zolbetuximab
Zolbetuximab is an investigational, first-in-class chimeric IgG1 monoclonal antibody (mAb) that targets and binds to Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2), a transmembrane protein. Zolbetuximab acts by binding to CLDN18.2 on the cancer cell surface of gastric epithelial cells. In pre-clinical studies, this binding interaction then induces cancer cell death by activating two distinct immune system pathways — antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC).10 Zolbetuximab has not been approved by any regulatory bodies for the treatment of patients with gastric and GEJ cancers, and there is no guarantee the agent will receive regulatory approval or become commercially available for the uses being investigated.
INVESTIGATIONAL STUDIES
About GLOW Phase 3 Clinical Trial
GLOW is a Phase 3, global, multi-center, double-blind, randomized study, assessing the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab (IMAB362) plus CAPOX (a combination chemotherapy regimen that includes capecitabine and oxaliplatin) compared to placebo plus CAPOX as a first-line treatment in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or GEJ adenocarcinoma whose tumors were CLDN18.2-positive. The study enrolled 507 patients at 166 study locations in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, South America and Asia, including China. The primary endpoint is progression-free survival (PFS) in participants treated with the combination of zolbetuximab plus CAPOX compared to those treated with placebo plus CAPOX. Secondary endpoints include overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), duration of response (DOR), safety and tolerability and quality-of-life parameters.
Data from the GLOW study were initially presented at the March 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Plenary Series with an updated oral presentation at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting on June 3.1
For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT03653507.
About SPOTLIGHT Phase 3 Clinical Trial
SPOTLIGHT is a Phase 3, global, multi-center, double-blind, randomized study, assessing the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab (IMAB362) plus mFOLFOX6 (a combination regimen that includes oxaliplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil) compared to placebo plus mFOLFOX6 as a first-line treatment in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or GEJ adenocarcinoma whose tumors were CLDN18.2-positive. The study enrolled 565 patients at 215 study locations in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia, including China. The primary endpoint is PFS in participants treated with the combination of zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 compared to those treated with placebo plus mFOLFOX6. Secondary endpoints include OS, ORR, DOR, safety and tolerability and quality-of-life parameters.
Data from the SPOTLIGHT clinical trial were presented during the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium in an oral presentation on January 19 and were subsequently published in The Lancet on April 14.2
For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT03504397.
Investigational Pipeline in CLDN18.2
An expanded Phase 2 trial in metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma is in progress. The trial is a randomized, multi-center, open-label study, evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational zolbetuximab in combination with gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel as a first-line treatment in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma with CLDN18.2-positive tumors (defined as ≥75% of tumor cells demonstrating moderate-to-strong membranous CLDN18 staining based on a validated immunohistochemistry assay). For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT03816163.
In addition to zolbetuximab, ASP2138 is under development in our Primary Focus Immuno-Oncology. ASP2138 is a bispecific monoclonal antibody that binds to CD3 and CLDN18.2, and it is currently in a Phase 1 trial for people with gastric, GEJ or pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The safety and efficacy of the agent under investigation have not been established for the uses being considered. For more information, please visit clinicaltrials.gov under Identifier NCT05365581.
There is no guarantee that the agent will receive regulatory approval and become commercially available for the uses being investigated.
About Astellas
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are promoting the Focus Area Approach that is designed to identify opportunities for the continuous creation of new drugs to address diseases with high unmet medical needs by focusing on Biology and Modality. Furthermore, we are also looking beyond our foundational Rx focus to create Rx+® healthcare solutions that combine our expertise and knowledge with cutting-edge technology in different fields of external partners. Through these efforts, Astellas stands on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
Cautionary Notes
In this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas' intellectual property rights by third parties.
Information about pharmaceutical products (including products currently in development) which is included in this press release is not intended to constitute an advertisement or medical advice.
References
1 Xu RH, Shitara K, Ajani JA, et al. Updates on Abstract 405736: Zolbetuximab + CAPOX in 1L claudin-18.2+ (CLDN18.2+)/HER2− locally advanced (LA) or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (mG/GEJ) adenocarcinoma: Primary phase 3 results from GLOW. Presented at: 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting. Abstract 405736.
2 Shitara K, et al. Zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 in patients with claudin-18 isoform 2-positive, HER2-negative, untreated, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastrooesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (SPOTLIGHT): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial. The Lancet. Published online April 14, 2023; S0140-6736(23)00620-7.
3 Sung H, et al. Global cancer statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2021;71(3):209-49.
4 World Health Organization. Cancer Today. Available at: https://gco.iarc.fr/today/. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
5 American Cancer Society. Signs and symptoms of stomach cancer (01-22-2021). Available at https://www.cancer.org/cancer/stomach-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/signs-symptoms.html. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
6 National Cancer Institute. Gastric cancer treatment (PDQ®): patient version (08-24-2021). Available at https://www.cancer.gov/types/stomach/patient/stomach-treatment-pdq. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
7 American Cancer Society. Esophageal cancer risk factors (06-09-2020). Available at https://www.cancer.org/cancer/esophagus-cancer/causes-risks-prevention/risk-factors.html. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
8 National Cancer Institute. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. Cancer stat facts: stomach cancer. Available at https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/stomach.html. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
9 American Cancer Society. About esophagus cancer (03-20-2020). Available at https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/CRC/PDF/Public/8614.00.pdf. Last accessed July 18, 2023.
10 Sahin U, et al. FAST: a randomised phase II study of zolbetuximab (IMAB362) plus EOX versus EOX alone for first-line treatment of advanced CLDN18.2-positive gastric and gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Ann Oncol. 2021;32(5):609-19.
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The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend. Complaints included concerns about its structural safety and illumination.
The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week. That work was temporarily paused because the company did not have the necessary permits. For a time, the “er” at the end of “Twitter” remained up due to the abrupt halt of the sign takedown.
The city of San Francisco had opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the giant “X” sign, which was installed Friday on top of the downtown building as Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
The chaotic rebrand of Twitter’s building signage is similar to the haphazard way in which the Twitter platform is being turned into X. While the X logo has replaced Twitter on many parts of the site and app, remnants of Twitter remain.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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HOUSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (NYSE: SCM) will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, after the close of the stock market.
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Stellus Capital Investment Corporation will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM, Central Time. The conference call will be led by Robert T. Ladd, Chief Executive Officer, and W. Todd Huskinson, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary.
Conference Call Details
Via Phone: Dial 888-506-0062 (domestic). Use passcode 810825. Starting approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call, a replay will be available through Thursday, August 24, 2023 by dialing 877-481-4010 and entering passcode 48865.
Via Live Webcast: Connect via the Public Company (SCIC) section of our website at www.stelluscapital.com, under the Events tab. A replay of the conference will be available on our website for approximately 90 days.
About Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
The Company is an externally-managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Company's investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in private middle-market companies (typically those with $5.0 million to $50.0 million of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)) through first lien, second lien, unitranche and mezzanine debt financing, and corresponding equity investments. The Company's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Stellus Capital Management, LLC. To learn more about Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, visit www.stelluscapital.com under the Stellus Capital Investment Corporation link.
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Statements included herein may contain "forward-looking statements" which relate to future performance or financial condition. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
Contacts
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MEXICO CITY, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, today announced that after having served as a member of the Technical Committee for the past years, Gimena Peña Malcampo, will step down as an independent member.
"We appreciate the time and effort that Gimena put on our Technical Committee meetings. Her perspective, in particular on the ESG initiatives, was highly valued," said Luis Gutiérrez, CEO, Prologis Property Mexico.
"Serving on the FIBRA Prologis Technical Committee has been a rewarding experience. I have always admired the company's commitment to innovation and sustainability, and I'm particularly proud of the progress that has been made toward advancing our sustainability-centered goals. It has been my privileged to serve as a board member of this impactful organization," said Mrs. Peña Malcampo.
FIBRA Prologis Manager will announce a replacement to Gimena Peña Malcampo as an independent member of the Technical Committee.
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of June 30, 2023, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 228 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 44.2 million square feet (4.1 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which FIBRA Prologis operates, management's beliefs and assumptions made by management. Such statements involve uncertainties that could significantly impact FIBRA Prologis financial results. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. All statements that address operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future — including statements relating to rent and occupancy growth, acquisition activity, development activity, disposition activity, general conditions in the geographic areas where we operate, our debt and financial position, are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained and therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that may affect outcomes and results include, but are not limited to: (i) national, international, regional and local economic climates, (ii) changes in financial markets, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, (iii) increased or unanticipated competition for our properties, (iv) risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and development of properties, (v) maintenance of real estate investment trust ("FIBRA") status and tax structuring, (vi) availability of financing and capital, the levels of debt that we maintain and our credit ratings, (vii) risks related to our investments (viii) environmental uncertainties, including risks of natural disasters, (ix) risks related to the coronavirus pandemic, and (x) those additional factors discussed in reports filed with the "Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores" and the Mexican Stock Exchange by FIBRA Prologis under the heading "Risk Factors." FIBRA Prologis undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements appearing in this release.
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Barbora Zdanska, 14, was last seen in the area of the 100th block of Boynton Boulevard in Daytona Beach.
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DAYTONA BEACH, FL. (Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for a 14-year-old who was last seen in Daytona Beach, Florida.
According to the alert, Barbora Zdanska, 14, was last seen in the area of the 100th block of Boynton Boulevard in Daytona Beach.
Zdanska is 5′5, weighs about 136 pounds, and has blonde hair and blue eyes.
She was last seen wearing a black Adidas sweatshirt with white stripes on the sleeves and black jean shorts.
According to the alert, Zdanska may be traveling in a 2014, blue Dodge Caravan with a Florida tag number CZ8613. The vehicle has a butterfly sticker in the top right rear window and a University of Florida “F” sticker in the top left rear window.
Zdanska may also be traveling with a companion who is unknown at this time.
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Esmeralda Santiago’s latest novel, Las Madres (Knopf) will be on the shelves tomorrow (August 1, 2023)! Cristina García (author of Vanishing Map) describes, “An emotionally vast and resonant new novel by the brilliant Esmeralda Santiago. Oscillating between two pivotal years decades apart, Las Madres is a deep-dive into the history of modern Puerto Rico and a number of its…
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Esmeralda Santiago’s latest novel, Las Madres (Knopf) will be on the shelves tomorrow (August 1, 2023)!
Cristina García (author of Vanishing Map) describes, “An emotionally vast and resonant new novel by the brilliant Esmeralda Santiago. Oscillating between two pivotal years decades apart, Las Madres is a deep-dive into the history of modern Puerto Rico and a number of its extraordinary women—their secrets, their tragedies, and the reclamations they share. A magnificent read.”
Description: From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together.
They refer to themselves as “las Madres,” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed in the crash. Now orphaned, Luz navigates the pressures of adolescence and copes with the aftershock of a brain injury, when two new friends enter her life, Ada and Shirley. Luz’s days are consumed with aches and pains, and her memory of the accident is wiped clean, but she suffers spells that send her mind to times and places she can’t share with others.
In 2017, in the Bronx, Luz’s adult daughter, Marysol, wishes she better understood her. But how can she when her mother barely remembers her own life? To help, Ada and Shirley’s daughter, Graciela, suggests a vacation in Puerto Rico for the extended group, as an opportunity for Luz to unearth long-buried memories and for Marysol to learn more about her mother’s early life. But despite all their careful planning, two hurricanes, back-to-back, disrupt their homecoming, and a secret is revealed that blows their lives wide open. In a voice that sings with warmth, humor, friendship, and pride, celebrated author Esmeralda Santiago unspools a story of women’s sexuality, shame, disability, and love within a community rocked by disaster.
ESMERALDA SANTIAGO is the author of the novel Conquistadora and the memoirs When I was Puerto Rican and Almost A Woman, which was adapted into a Peabody Award–winning movie for PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she lives with her husband, documentary filmmaker Frank Cantor, in New York, and Port Clyde, Maine.
For more information, see https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/222921/las-madres-by-esmeralda-santiago/
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Aug 01, 2023 | 336 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780307962614
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Huda Hassan on the legacy of Austin Clarke for CBC’s Against the Grain. Against the Grain is a monthly column by Huda Hassan examining popular culture and the arts through a Black feminist lens. Austin Clarke was living in a basement apartment north of Bloor Street and east of Sherbourne in Toronto in the late 1950s when he…
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Huda Hassan on the legacy of Austin Clarke for CBC’s Against the Grain. Against the Grain is a monthly column by Huda Hassan examining popular culture and the arts through a Black feminist lens.
Austin Clarke was living in a basement apartment north of Bloor Street and east of Sherbourne in Toronto in the late 1950s when he first worked for the CBC, as a stagehand. The neighbourhood, Rosedale, was affluent and white. He was poor, parenting two children, sneaking time in between work and caregiving to write into the late hours.
Despite some challenges — including living in a dark two-bedroom with damp ceiling pipes alongside his wife, Betty, and their babies, Janice and Loretta — he found his way to work on time. That was until November, as another bitter Toronto winter approached.
The restrictions and discrimination of city life were taking their toll. In a chapter titled “The CBC Stagehand” in his 2015 memoir, ‘Membering, he writes of the snowy metropolis, commutes through a white city, his unfavourable apartment, the “sweating beads” on the pipes, the grind of supporting a family on a small income. Surviving in Toronto as a low-income immigrant has always been arduous.
Clarke started getting warnings from his employer about his tardiness: he was late to work two days in November, five times in December, and on at least seven more occasions before he was fired.
The day after he was let go, he walked into a CBC studio, script in hand. He was hired as an actor. These were some of the precarious first steps Clarke took on his journey to becoming a seminal literary figure in Canada.
‘Canada’s angriest Black man’
The Barbadian-born writer later became a reporter for the Timmins Daily Press and the Globe and Mail. As his profile grew, he worked as a freelance radio broadcaster for his former employer, the CBC; this was a role he never rose above at the organization. But Clarke went on to publish 11 novels, six short-story collections, two books of poetry, three memoirs and a cookbook, as well as articles for Canadian outlets. In one 1968 essay he wrote for Maclean’s on racism in Canada, he was called “Canada’s angriest Black man” in a headline for the piece he did not approve before it was published.
He wrote intricate and intimate stories illustrating the communities and geography of Toronto. Many of his poems, stories and essays expose and dissect the racism of his new home. For the CBC, he spent some time in Harlem hoping to secure an interview with author James Baldwin. Instead, he landed a one-hour interview with Malcolm X. He was one of the few journalists to interview the civil rights leader for a Canadian broadcaster.
Aside from writing, Clarke worked in academia and politics. As a visiting lecturer at several schools — including Yale, Duke and the University of Texas in the 1960s and ’70s — he had a hand in developing their Black studies programs. He was a writer-in-residence at Concordia and Western University (then known as the University of Western Ontario). In 1977, he ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in Ontario’s general election but lost. This step away from the ideology inherent in his literary work showed some of his contradictions. One might say that for radicals, he was too Conservative, and for Conservatives, he was too radical.
But wherever he went, his infamous nickname followed. He wrote in his memoir about experiencing housing and other institutional racism he endured during his time in the country, which prevented him from accessing housing and work.
“The euphemism ‘Canada’s angriest Black man’ did not faze any thinking person,” Clarke wrote. “The hidden meaning was simply ‘Canada’s most anti-white Black man.'”
Caribbean arts movement
In a letter to Clarke, which he shared in ‘Membering, his mother wrote, “You was such a blasted fool … choosing Canada over England, by yourself, to live in that damn cold place, Canada, as if you is a real foolbert.” It came in a parcel with a bottle he’d requested — liquor, I assume — from Barbados. There was an emerging sense of Caribbean identity and community in London at the time — but Clarke had his own incentives for staying in Canada.
His writings about Black life in mid-20th century Canada were influenced by a global shift that began during his youth. The growth of the Black diaspora in London was fuelled by the British Nationality Act of 1948, an imperial move to keep the colonies and Commonwealth countries nationally tied to Britain after the Second World War. Shortly after, in 1955, Canada introduced the West Indian Domestic Scheme, increasing the country’s Caribbean diaspora. As these global communities grew, a small collective of artists and activists in London established the Caribbean Artists Movement, in 1966. The organization, which lasted until 1972, celebrated Caribbean identity and crafted a new esthetic in arts and political organizing. Members and associates included Althea McNish, C.L.R. James, Kamau Brathwaite, Samuel Selvon and George Lamming — many of whom Clarke was in conversation with his writings.
It was around this time that Toronto expanded with migrants from the Caribbean. Clarke examined this growing community in his Toronto Trilogy: The Meeting Point (1967), Storm of Fortune (1973) and The Bigger Light (1975). Through the fictional story of Bernice Leach — a domestic worker from Barbados — and her friends, employers, lovers and neighbours, Clarke dissects Black life, immigration and racial tensions. The feeling of being unsettled — through a lack of social mobility, citizenship status and shared community — swims through each book in the series. Many writers from Canada’s Black diaspora have cited Clarke as a major influence, including Rinaldo Walcott, David Chariandy, Katherine McKittrick and George Elliott Clarke.
Clarke is unequivocally an important writer in the Canadian literary canon. But despite finding some support, he was often discredited for his writing about whiteness, migration and nationhood. Institutional racism and the lack of a shared writing community during some stages of his career — “In those days of uncertainty, I was tormented by personal demons … with no one, no other writer with whom I could share these misapprehensions of writing that hugged me like a wet, cold shirt,” he wrote in ‘Membering — shaped his trajectory.
In spite of this, he persevered. CanLit’s sometimes frosty response to his literary contributions in the history of CanLit had much to do with the Black artists and critics Clarke was in conversation with in his writing: Kamau Brathwaite, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, Édouard Glissant and John Coltrane. In Canada’s incapacious literary climate, Clarke was rebellious and revolutionary, much like his peers in England and elsewhere in the diaspora.
But undeniably, Clarke is one of the most important postwar writers — and one of Canada’s most important writers of the last 60 years, entering CanLit as a contemporary of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood. He wrote in his memoir: “I have never held a Canadian writer as a model of my own work. I am alone, singular, peculiar and foreign to the establishment that governs and controls Canadian literature.” [. . .]
For full article, see https://www.cbc.ca/arts/membering-the-enduring-legacy-of-austin-clarke-1.6918926
[Photo by Kevin Frayer/The Canadian Press: Giller Prize winner Austin Clarke hoists a glass as he holds a copy of his book the Polished Hoe after winning the $25,000 literary prize at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, November 5, 2002.]
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The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the Penguin Random House Group present Esmeralda Santiago for the launch of her latest novel, Las Madres (Knopf, 1 August 2023). This event will take place at the headquarters of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, at…
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The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the Penguin Random House Group present Esmeralda Santiago for the launch of her latest novel, Las Madres (Knopf, 1 August 2023). This event will take place at the headquarters of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, at 6:30pm (EST). Free tickets to this event are available through https://thebookmarkpr.com/.
[Also see previous post https://repeatingislands.com/2023/07/31/new-book-las-madres/]
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Under the newly introduced income-driven repayment plan, many debtholders would pay $0 per month.
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FILE - The Capitol Dome and East Front of the of the House of Representatives is seen in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. This year's projected government budget deficit has jumped by $130 billion, due in part to a proposed change to student loan repayment plans and a series of bank rescues organized by federal regulators, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
In the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, student loan repayments are scheduled to start up again this fall. However, the Biden administration unveiled a new SAVE plan that’s aimed at making those repayments more affordable.
The court decision earlier this year blocked an attempt by President Joe Biden to wipe away $400 billion in federal student loan debt over the next 30 years.
The new Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan is taking an alternative approach, providing repayment plans based on a debtholder’s income and family size. Under the income-driven repayment plan, many debtholders would pay $0 per month.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, a single borrower who earns $38,000 could be eligible for $43 monthly repayments under the plan. A table of repayment estimates based on household size and income is as follows:
Income Family Size (1) Family Size (2) Family Size (3) Family Size (4) Family Size (5) $0-$30,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $40,000 $60 $0 $0 $0 $0 $50,000 $143 $47 $0 $0 $0 $60,000 $227 $130 $34 $0 $0
Furthermore, so long as borrowers make their monthly payments, their overall balance won’t increase — even if that payment is $0. This is meant to prevent interest from snowballing for low-income debtors.
In July 2024, more changes are set to take place, including a rule that caps undergraduate loans at 5% of discretionary income, as opposed to 10% currently. Those with graduate and undergraduate loans could expect to pay between 5% and 10% per month, depending on the initial balance.
That same month, borrowers with initial balances of $12,000 or less will get the remainder of their loans canceled after 10 years of repayment, with an additional year of payments for each $1,000 borrowed.
Supporters of the new plan say it will provide much-needed relief to debtholders struggling to catch up on their payments, though opponents say it passes the costs of student loans onto taxpayers, many of whom never went to college themselves.
The SAVE plan will replace the existing Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) plan, and borrowers on the REPAYE plan will automatically receive the benefits of the SAVE plan, according to the USDOE.
To apply for an income-driven repayment plan, visit the department’s website by clicking here. For more information about the plan, click here.
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Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Amir Coffey was arrested on a firearms misdemeanor in Hollywood.
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FILE - Los Angeles Clippers guard Amir Coffey looks on during overtime of an NBA basketball game Feb. 26, 2023, in Denver. Coffey was arrested early Sunday, July 30, 2023, on a firearms misdemeanor in Hollywood, authorities said. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Amir Coffey was arrested early Sunday on a firearms misdemeanor in Hollywood, authorities said.
Coffey, 26, was a passenger in a vehicle that police pulled over for speeding shortly before 2 a.m., according to Los Angeles Police Officer Tony Im, a department spokesperson.
Coffey was cited for carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, Im said. He was released on his own recognizance from a county jail on $10,000 bail.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 24, jail records show.
The driver was cited for speeding, and another passenger received a misdemeanor for possession of marijuana, Im said.
Coffey has been with the Clippers for four seasons.
“We're aware of a legal situation involving Amir Coffey and are looking into it,” the team said in a statement on Monday.
It’s possible that Coffey could face sanctions from the NBA. The league typically reviews all matters of personal and criminal conduct and can issue a fine or suspension when it deems appropriate.
The 6-foot-7 guard/forward has been primarily a bench player and is averaging 5.5 points per game.
He played in 50 games last season, including nine starts, and averaged 3.4 points per game. His best season came in 2021-22, when he played in 69 games with 30 starts and averaged 9.0 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.
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An Amber Alert was issued for a missing 14-year-old girl out of Volusia County on Monday evening, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – An Amber Alert was issued for a missing 14-year-old girl out of Volusia County on Monday evening, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Barbora Zdanska was last seen in the 100 block of Boynton Blvd. in Daytona Beach wearing a black Adidas sweatshirt with white strips on the sleeves and black jean shorts.
Zdanska is described as having blonde hair, blue eyes, standing 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing 136 pounds.
A post on Daytona Beach Police Department’s page said the teen may be in the company of a 14-year-old boy named “Carlos.”
According to Daytona Beach police, Zdanska was observed voluntarily getting into a vehicle early this morning. The vehicle is believed to belong to a boyfriend or a family member of a boyfriend.
Police said Zdanska was later able to get a message to a family member, indicating that she had been kidnapped.
The teen may be traveling in a 2014 blue Dodge Caravan with the tag number CZ8613, according to the FDLE.
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The vehicle has a butterfly sticker in the top right rear window and a University of Florida “F” sticker in the top left rear window.
If you have any information about Zdanska, please contact the FDLE or the Daytona Beach Police Department at 386-671-5100 or call 911.
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Health care providers in Alabama have filed lawsuits against state Attorney General Steve Marshall over threats to prosecute people who help women arrange abortions outside the state.
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FILE - Protesters for women's rights march to the Alabama Capitol to protest a law passed the week before making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. Health care providers and an abortion assistance fund in Alabama filed a lawsuit against state Attorney General Steve Marshall, Monday, July 31, 2023, over threats to prosecute people who help women arrange abortions outside the state. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Abortion rights advocates in Alabama — where abortion is almost entirely illegal — filed lawsuits Monday against the state’s attorney general seeking to prevent him from prosecuting people who help patients travel outside the state to end pregnancies.
The groups say Attorney General Steve Marshall has made statements suggesting that anti-conspiracy laws could be used to prosecute those who assist with appointments or finances. The two lawsuits seek a legal ruling clarifying that the state can’t use the statute for these prosecutions.
One lawsuit was filed by the Yellowhammer Fund, a group that stopped providing financial assistance to low-income abortions patients because of the prosecution concerns. The other was filed by an obstetrician and two former abortion clinics that continue to provide contraception and other health services.
“What the attorney general has tried to do via these threats is to effectively extend Alabama’s abortion ban outside of its borders for Alabama residents,” said Meagan Burrows, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the providers in the lawsuit.
In a separate case, advocacy groups and an attorney sued Idaho earlier this month over a law that makes it illegal to help minors travel to another state to get an abortion without their parents’ consent.
Marshall has not prosecuted anyone for providing abortion assistance, but he has made statements saying that his office would “look at” groups that provide help.
“Attorney General Marshall will continue to vigorously enforce Alabama laws protecting unborn life which include the Human Life Protection Act. That includes abortion providers conspiring to violate the Act,” Marshall’s office said in an emailed response to the lawsuit. His office did not respond to an email asking to clarify if actions such as providing financial assistance could be prosecuted.
The comments have had a “disturbing chilling effect” on abortion rights advocates and providers, who already feel like they live with a legal target on their back, said Kelsea McLain, deputy director of Yellowhammer. “We believe it’s our right and our freedom to support people in leaving the state if they need to because the state no longer takes care of their needs,” she said.
The provider suit was filed by the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, and Dr. Yashica Robinson, an obstetrician. Robinson said she once made referrals for patients seeking abortions, coordinating medically complex health histories, but no longer does so because of the fear of prosecution.
“Tragically, banning abortion in Alabama seems to not have been enough,” Robinson said in a statement. “Those in power want to muzzle providers like me to prevent us from sharing information with our pregnant patients about the options they have.”
The phone rings at least once a day at the former clinic in Tuscaloosa as women — sometimes crying and often desperate — try to find where they can go in other states to end an unwanted pregnancy, the clinic director said.
“We get a lot of the anger — and we know that it’s not us that they are angry at,” said Robin Marty, operations director for the West Alabama Women’s Center. “It’s the situation, but it is very, very hard for my staff. They want to be able to help them.”
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed authority on abortion law to the states, the Deep South quickly became an area of limited abortion access.
Alabama bans abortion at any stage of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape and incest. The only exemption is if it’s needed because pregnancy seriously threatens the pregnant patient's health. Nineteen states have enacted restrictions and many southern states have near complete bans. Marty said that means women often have to travel long distances to receive care, which can bring financial and logistical hardship.
Marty said most people who reach out to the clinic know “there is no abortion in Alabama. What they aren’t aware of is how far that extends.”
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General revenue collections continued to top expectations in June, as the Sunshine State closed out a fiscal year that saw a jump in tax dollars.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – General revenue collections continued to top expectations in June, as the state closed out a fiscal year that saw a jump in tax dollars.
A report posted Friday by the Legislature’s Office of Economic & Demographic Research said the state collected nearly $4.664 billion in general revenue in June, $432.4 million more than had been forecast. It said the state collected about $47.33 billion in general revenue during the 2022-2023 fiscal year, which ended June 30, up from $44 billion in the previous year.
General revenue, which includes money such as sales taxes, is closely watched because it plays a major role in funding education, health care and prisons. State economists update projections periodically during the year, with the most recent forecast issued in March.
The June monthly total was $432.4 million than had been projected in March. Also, the year-end total was $1.08 billion more than had been forecast in March. In June, for example, sales-tax collections were 11.1 percent higher than anticipated for the month
As has been repeatedly the case in recent months, economists fretted in Friday’s report about issues such as lagging consumer savings. The report said the personal savings rate in Florida “continues to be subpar at 4.3 percent.”
By comparison, in 2019, the last full year before the COVID-19 pandemic, the average personal savings rate stood at 7.9 percent. The rate jumped to 33.7 percent in April 2020 as federal money was distributed to help people during the early stages of the pandemic.
While Florida’s labor market remains robust and the U.S. economy expanded by 2.4 percent in the April-to-June period, parts of Florida continue to see higher inflation than the rest of the nation. Friday’s report noted that “persistent inflation conditions … ultimately suppress collections as consumers begin to spend more money on non-taxable necessities like food and health care.”
Meanwhile, sales taxes from tourism, auto sales and documentary-stamp tax collections on real-estate transactions topped the March forecast.
The Florida Department of Commerce said July 21 that the construction sector in June had a monthly increase in jobs for the first time in 2023. Construction job losses had been attributed to rising mortgage rates affecting demand for new housing, mostly in South Florida.
With a target of 2% inflation, the Federal Reserve last Wednesday approved an interest rate hike that put borrowing costs at their highest level in more than 22 years.
As it released housing data this month, the industry group Florida Realtors said the housing market “showed signs of continued stabilization of statewide median prices and improving inventory levels.”
“Florida’s economy and lifestyle continue to attract people who want to live and work in the Sunshine State --- about 1,218 people move here per day, according to Census data,” Florida Realtors President G. Mike McGraw said in a prepared statement. “The need for homeownership opportunities remains high, but increased borrowing costs, statewide inventory that is still below pre-pandemic levels and other factors continue to affect market activity.”
The industry report said closed sales of existing single-family homes statewide during the second quarter of 2023 were down 11.2 percent from the previous year and existing condo-townhouse sales were off 17.7 percent in the same time.
Florida Realtors Chief Economist Brad O’Connor pointed to the typical interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage going from about 5 percent in June 2022 to between 6.5 percent and 7 percent in June 2023.
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The Golf Today crew ranks the nine best shots from the week in the world of golf, including action from The Evian Championship and 3M Open.
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Notah Begay III joins the show to discuss his transition from broadcaster to playing a full schedule again, as he gets set to make his debut at The Senior Open Championship.
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We look at the workout and diet plan of actor Ryan Gosling that helped him transform into Ken from the Barbie movie.
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Margot Robbie’s doll-avatar in Barbie has surely captivated us all, but can we take a moment to laud Ryan Gosling’s Ken-tastic performance in the film? Gosling bowled us over with his ‘Kenergy’, going from being merely Barbie’s pretty accessory to a cult leader, only to realise that he doesn’t need any of this to be himself. We’re definitely channeling this Kenergy into our lives! While Gosling sure hit the mark with his acting chops, many of us couldn’t take our eyes off his drool-worthy physique. Guilty? Not at all! When Warner Bros released Ryan Gosling’s first look as Ken, it quickly broke the internet as many gushed over his oh-so-gorgeous looks. However, it also left some people wondering whether his fantastic-looking abs were a tad bit plastic? Let us assure you that Gosling’s chiselled physique is anything but photoshopped! Curious to find out what went behind building this Ken-like physique?
Ryan Gosling strictly adheres to his workout and diet plans that whip him into shape for all his heart-throb roles. After looking at the training schedule from Gosling’s trainer Arin Babaian (via FitnessVolt), we’re surely impressed (and intimated) by how hard he toiled to build those rock-hard abs. Ryan Gosling and all the other Kens also followed healthy eating plans and did a form of intermittent fasting based on their schedules.
So, do you want to try out Ryan Gosling’s Barbie workout? If yes, keep reading!
Turn into real-life Ken with Ryan Gosling’s ‘Barbie’ workout
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Gosling reportedly followed a traditional bodybuilding split workout, hitting the gym five days a week for an hour-and-a-half session each. He had two rest days – Wednesday as well as Sunday, for recuperation. The actor spent these days in active recovery, indulging in activities like hiking or simply playing basketball with his pals. Here’s what the star’s training week looked like:
Monday: Back and biceps
Back and biceps complement each other like peanut butter and jelly! Train the back and biceps together as both of them serve similar purposes in the body –pull objects towards you or lift your body up. Whether it’s moving heavy boxes around your house or doing pull-ups in the gym, working your back and biceps simultaneously makes everything easier.
Secondly, since back exercises require a lot of bicep movement and vice versa, splitting them on different days will only hamper your recovery process. Training the two together allows for maximum recovery as you won’t have to do double the work on them on different days. The back and biceps combo is proven and effective. Lastly, it adds more variety to your workout routine. How? Since there aren’t many ways to work your biceps, it’s better to add back exercises to spruce up your routine.
Here’s a blueprint of Gosling’s Monday routine:
Standing Dumbbell Bicep Curl : four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps Cable Lat Pull-Down : four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps Spider Curl: three sets of 12 reps
three sets of 12 reps Cable Seated Row : four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps One-Arm Dumbbell Row : three sets of 12 reps
: three sets of 12 reps One-Arm Concentration Curl: three sets of 10 reps
Tuesday: Lower body
If you’re overwhelmed by day one, let’s introduce you to a gruelling day two of Ryan Gosling’s Barbie workout! Hate it, despise it, loathe it but you can’t ignore an arduous leg day if want a body as fine as Ken’s. A strong lower body helps improve posture and lower the risk of injury in addition to making daily tasks like walking, running, and jumping easier. Interestingly, a well-formed lower body increases your resting metabolism, which means you’ll burn more calories even if you aren’t actively working out.
From squats, lunges, jumping jacks, butt kicks, lateral raises, hamstring curls or shin-to-the-ground kicks – lower body workouts come in many different forms, all focusing on ensuring that your legs operate efficiently.
Check out Ryan’s lower body workout:
Deadlift: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
Barbell Squat: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
Leg Curl: three sets of 12 reps
Leg Press: three sets of 12 reps
Dumbbell Lunge : three sets of 12 reps
Seated Calf Raise: three sets of 20 reps
Wednesday: Rest day
What more could you ask for after an exhausting leg day?
Thursday: Chest and triceps
If you want to kill two muscle groups in one day, chest and triceps are the best bet. Since both are ‘pushing’ movements, it’s ideal to pair them together and one won’t impede the development of the other. Chest and tricep workouts help build your upper body strength and mass. It’s nearly impossible to find a chest exercise that doesn’t heavily involve the back of your arms. So, it’s only sensible to team it with tricep exercises.
Working these complementary muscle groups makes your workout time efficient as you won’t have to warm up separately for each of them. Remember to first start with compound exercises like bench press before moving to isolated ones that use a singular muscle. Some compound chest exercises primarily focus on pectoral muscles, while triceps & shoulders come secondary. By starting off with these exercises, you would have already worked on your triceps a little by the time you’re done training your chest, leading to optimum results.
Take a look at Ryan Gosling’s Thursday routine:
Decline Barbell Bench Press : four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps Barbell Bench Press : four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps Incline Barbell Bench Press : three sets of 12 reps
: three sets of 12 reps Triceps Dips : three sets of 12 reps
: three sets of 12 reps Cable Pec Fly: three sets of 12 reps
three sets of 12 reps Triceps Cable Extension With Rope: three sets of 12 reps
Friday: Abs and core
If Ryan Gosling’s Barbie abs didn’t motivate you to get going, we don’t know what will! While building six-pack abs surely looks appealing on the outside, it’s so much more than that! A strong core translates into a more athletic lifestyle, providing stability to your spine which balances the whole body.
The core is the central part of your body, comprising the pelvis, lower back, hips as well as stomach. The stomach muscles are usually called abs. A strong core aids you in (almost) any sport or physical activity, prevents lower back pain, improves your posture, develops stronger breathing muscles and helps attain a slimmer waistline. With core exercises, you train your core muscles to work in harmony. Any exercise in which your stomach muscles and back muscles are used in coordination can be classified as a core exercise.
Here’s what Gosling practised on Friday:
Russian Twist with Plate or Ball: three sets of 12 reps
Hanging Leg Raise : three sets of 12 reps
Back Extension: three sets of 12 reps
Ab Crunch with Stability Ball : three sets of 12 reps
Oblique Dumbbell Side Bend: three sets of 12 reps
Saturday: Shoulders
When most of you were satiating your gluttony over the weekend, Ryan Gosling was sculpting his shoulders in the gym. While broad and bulky shoulders definitely alleviate your overall appeal, they’re even more important when it comes to bringing stability to the body. Strong shoulders lead to an improved posture, make your everyday tasks easier and build overall confidence by improving your appearance. You can either dedicate an entire workout session to your shoulders or pair it with back or leg exercises.
The Barbie actor abided by this shoulder exercise routine:
Rear Delt Raise: three sets of 12 reps
three sets of 12 reps Military Press: four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps
four sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 reps Dumbbell Lateral Raise : three sets of 12 reps
: three sets of 12 reps Barbell Shrug: three sets of 12 reps
three sets of 12 reps Single-Arm Shoulder Press: three sets of 12 reps
Sunday: Rest Day
Congratulations! You’ve completed Ryan Gosling’s Barbie workout!
Ryan Gosling’s diet plan for ‘Barbie’
A regular workout routine has to be complimented with a healthy diet to reap maximum results. Celebrity personal trainer David Higgins, who trained the Barbie cast, briefly spoke about the diet followed by Ryan and all other Kens including Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir and more. He told GQ that the main rule when it came to diet was ‘no processed food’ as well as intermittent fasting windows depending on the actor’s schedule for the day.
Rather than depriving the actors of carbs, Higgins wanted his actors to be fuelled because of their hectic shooting schedules. What’s more, they were provided with on-set health smoothies to keep the show going.
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Celebrity-owned brands aren’t a new thing, what with some of our favourite celebrities dominating the world of beauty and skincare. Think Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin and Kylie Jenner’s Kylie Cosmetics, just to name a few.
However, it’s not just female celebrities that are launching their own grooming brands. Gone are the days when beauty was considered a predominantly feminine domain. Over the last few years, an inspiring wave of male celebrities has embarked on a groundbreaking journey, leveraging their fame, influence and artistic vision to create their very own beauty brands.
Welcome back to Pleasing. Shroom Bloom, our second micro-collection, is arriving on the 15th of March. There are endless possibilities waiting for you. Discover more at https://t.co/ogzXEIBaFS pic.twitter.com/en1wcg8Erv — Pleasing (@Pleasing) March 7, 2022
From Harry Styles to Brad Pitt, male celebrities are now taking over the realm of grooming and skincare, and in the process, are challenging traditional gender norms and stereotypes. With a focus on inclusivity and wellness, these male celebrities are bringing their unique visions to create innovative and effective products for people of all genders.
The best beauty brands owned by male celebrities
From Harry Styles’ Pleasing and Machine Gun Kelly’s UN/DN LAQR to Brad Pitt’s Le Domaine, here are eight celebrity beauty brands that men must consider adding to their grooming kit.
Pleasing by Harry Styles
Harry Styles is known for breaking stereotypes with his fashion and has also been spotted with his nails covered in pop-coloured paints. So, it wasn’t really a surprise when the singer launched his own beauty brand, Pleasing, which focuses on nail paints and nail care.
Launched in November 2021, the initial release included four nail polishes along with eye, lip and face serums. Now, two years later, the brand has introduced multiple nail colours, accessories and apparel. Styles is often spotted wearing his own brand at his concerts, magazine covers and award shows.
Note: All the products are vegan and cruelty-free.
Le Domaine by Brad Pitt
Well, it seems like the secret to Brad Pitt’s non-ageing might be his own skincare brand Le Domaine. Taking inspiration from Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow, the actor has hopped on the trend of celebrity skincare ventures with a genderless skincare line.
Created in collaboration with the vintners of the Perrin family, Le Domaine utilises ingredients like grapes, renowned for their antioxidant properties, to formulate its products. The brand’s main aim is to embrace the natural cycles of the environment and convert them into beneficial products for the body.
Le Domaine currently offers three products – The Serum, The Cream, and The Cleansing Emulsion
Humanrace by Pharrell Williams
Other than being a well-established singer, songwriter, actor and producer, the Creative Director of Menswear at Louis Vuitton has also gotten into the beauty world with his skincare brand Humanrace.
Launched in November 2020, the brand focuses on providing clean, vegan and cruelty-free skincare products that cater to all skin types. The singer’s vision for Humanrace is to encourage a simple yet effective skincare routine that promotes healthy and glowing skin for everyone. The skincare line offers products like Rice Powder Cleanser, Lotus Enzyme Exfoliator and Humifying Face Cream. However, that’s not all as the brand has also expanded to the body care segment and offers bar soaps and body creams.
All Humanrace products are designed to be inclusive, promoting diversity and self-expression in the realm of skincare.
UN/DN LAQR by Machine Gun Kelly
Men wearing nail paints is hot and UN/DN LAQR by Machine Gun Kelly is a brand that understands that sentiment. The brand was launched in December 2021, almost a month after Styles launched Pleasing. This isn’t surprising since, like Styles, Machine Gun Kelly has also been spotted wearing nail paint at music gigs, award shows and concerts.
During its introductory release, the genderless brand unveiled an assortment of nine nail polish shades and five top coats, featuring a variety of soft pastels and vibrant neutrals. “When I do my nails, that’s me wearing my own thoughts and making a statement. To me, polish is not just a colour, it’s an intention. Every colour has a purpose,” Kelly said in a statement while explaining why he came up with the brand.
Barker Wellness by Travis Barker
Blink-182 drummer and musician Travis Barker is also the newest male celebrity to launch a beauty brand. His cannabis-infused skincare line, Barker Wellness, lays a strong focus on empowerment. During its initial release, the brand started off with five products infused with CDB, comprising a two-in-one face cleanser and face mask, a daily moisturiser, an eye serum, a face serum and a renewal balm.
Today, the brand has expanded to also offer bath soaks, bath flakes and organic gummies as well as a body care range with products such as body creams and body oils. With Barker Wellness, the musician’s ultimate goal is to break the stigma around cannabis and demonstrate that cannabinoids can contribute to the well-being of both the body and the mind.
Twentynine Palms by Jared Leto
Jared Leto made his debut in the world of celebrity beauty brands with Twentynine Palms. Launched in October 2022, the skincare brand has an extensive collection featuring up to 11 body and hair care products including gender-neutral skincare products like face cleansers, clay masks and eye creams. Some of these products include natural ingredients such as aloe vera, elderberry, amaranth and jojoba which are quite beneficial for your skin and hair.
Loved01 by John Legend
John Legend debuted his skincare brand Loved01 earlier this year. Pronounced ‘Loved One’, the brand offers a skincare line which comprises six dermatologist-approved products. These include a face-and-body wash, a face-and-body moisturiser, an exfoliating scrub, a toning mist, a face-and-body oil and a shaving cream. All of these products are created keeping in mind the needs of melanin-rich skin. “We created Loved01 with melanin-rich skin in mind because we believe our community deserves great skincare at an affordable price,” Legend mentions on the brand’s website.
S’Able Labs by Idris Elba
Founded by Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina Elba, S’Able Labs is another addition to the growing list of celebrity beauty brands. However, what sets S’Able Labs apart is the fact that it is a genderless skincare brand that offers products for everyone.
The power couple collaborated to bring a collection of three products – a cleanser, a toner and a moisturiser – that will help elevate the “feel good” aspect of skincare. The product lineup is straightforward yet effective, as each item is crafted with powerful ingredients, including those sourced from Africa. Some of these superfood ingredients like boabab, black seeds, rooibas and qasil, are hailed for their wonderous skincare properties.
(Hero and feature image credit: Courtesy Instagram/ Pleasing, Le Domaine and S’able Labs)
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Revellers will have another reason to celebrate in December besides Christmas. Electronic dance music festival ZoukOut will celebrate its 20th milestone edition on 2-3 December 2023 with a sunset-to-sunrise party for the first time in Singapore.
Global lifestyle company and nightlife pioneer Zouk announced earlier today (31 July) that their upcoming annual ZoukOut party will be the first-ever day-to-night festival. Held at Siloso Beach, Sentosa in Singapore, partygoers can rave to euphoric sounds played by international and local talents.
What to expect at ZoukOut 2023 Singapore
ZoukOut 2023, jointly presented by OCBC, will bear the theme ‘The Tribe of Tomorrow’. This theme pays homage to the new generation of partygoers ready to take the festivities to new heights following the strong return of the nightlife and entertainment industry.
Zouk is also partnering with AEG Presents, live-entertainment organisers and producers of famed US festival Coachella, to make this milestone 20th edition of ZoukOut its best one yet.
High-profile DJ names will anchor this forthcoming festival, as with ZoukOut’s previous editions. Former headliners include Zedd, Gryffin, Armin Van Buuren, and Galantis. Headliners for the ZoukOut 2023 have yet to be announced and will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Every ZoukOut is known to be highly energetic, with revellers immersing in the high-octane tunes and visual spectaculars. Regarding this year’s festival set-up, Zouk hinted that “a large mothership will be descending upon the tribe at the mainstage, bringing a cosmic realm from the far reaches of the universe filled with unique and intrinsic forms of harmony.”
Notably, ZoukOut went on a three-year hiatus in 2019 for a break and resumed last year in 2022.
Andrew Li, CEO of Zouk Group, says, “Being in entertainment nightlife for 32 years has not been an easy feat, and 20 years of bringing a community of people together through ZoukOut based on a shared love for music and dance is an even greater one. This has been the vision of Zouk Group since the very beginning, and we are pleased to see it continue on just as strongly two decades later. We are thrilled to be partnering with the world-renowned AEG again, who brings an incomparable international festival experience, which will enable us to elevate the ZoukOut experience to another level for many years to come.”
Adam Wilkes, AEG Presents Asia’s President & CEO added, “ZoukOut is a jewel in the crown of Singapore’s Live Entertainment scene. It has been a rite of passage for generations of Singaporeans and visitors from throughout the region and 2023 will be a wonderful celebration of 20 years of the event. Our team at AEG is working with Zouk to make ZoukOut 2023 an event not to be missed.”
Ticketing details for ZoukOut 2023
ZoukOut 2023 will happen on December 2 to 3 at Siloso Beach in Sentosa. OCBC Credit and Debit Cardmembers will enjoy a special priority presale for 72 hours from 4 August, 10am to 7 August, 9.59am. Early Bird tickets are priced at $268 for two-day passes. Get your tickets now at ZoukOut’s website.
Hero and featured image credit: Zouk Singapore
This story first appeared on Lifestyle Asia Singapore
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Deion Jones isn’t the only former NFC South foe flocking over to Spartanburg, S.C. on Monday.
Per his agent Sean Stellato, defensive lineman Nick Thurman is signing with the Carolina Panthers.
Thurman, a Dallas, Texas native, played his college ball at the University of Houston from 2014 to 2017. There, he amassed 93 total tackles (16.0 for a loss), 4.5 sacks, a pair of fumble recoveries and four passes defensed over 34 games.
The 6-foot-4, 305-pounder broke into the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Houston Texans in 2018. He was later waived prior to the start of the regular season on Sept. 1.
After a very brief offseason stop with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Thurman found a more stable home as a New England Patriot in 2019. He spent three years under head coach Bill Belichick, appearing in seven games during the 2020 campaign.
Thurman since picked up short stints with the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars.
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July 2023 by Marc Jacob
As investigators, examiners, and attorneys across the justice system face increasing pressure to remain one step ahead of criminal offenders, the need for confident, seamless end-to-end storage, management, and reporting of digital data has never been greater. The FBI, DOJ, state and local departments in every jurisdiction, and enterprise companies have long trusted Cellebrite to help them accelerate discovery, deliver just verdicts, and prevent false convictions.
To that end, Cellebrite has announced new capabilities for Cellebrite
Guardian, a leading evidence and workflow management solution for law
enforcement agencies of all sizes. Cellebrite Guardian securely and
transparently streamlines investigative digital forensic processes,
enabling greater efficiency for law enforcement and investigative teams
at scale, increasing case resolution and creating a verifiable chain of
custody for sharing digital evidence among examiners, investigators and
prosecutors.
Among the most impactful new advantages is “Simple Upload”, a
swift, intuitive, drag-and-drop uploader that allows investigators to
quickly upload and share evidence with any stakeholder in an easy
two-step process. The capability can significantly trim the
investigative process from potentially weeks with traditional methods to
mere minutes. Further leveraging "Smart Upload,” forensic teams can
also simultaneously load multiple, large files in one step.
The new “Quick Share” permissions save additional crucial time by
connecting new and existing stakeholders, securely and intuitively.
“Quick Share” also allows for inter-agency sharing, where users
across agencies can connect to the same portal.
The new Guardian features deliver faster time to evidence, by removing
the need for thumb drives or other physical media, to less than an hour
for uploading and sharing. Plus, the new features remove hardware costs
and duplication of data, maintaining the chain of custody and
transparency with a full audit trail, both for physical and digital
evidence.
In addition to enhancements in the sharing and review of evidence,
Guardian’s new features include the ability to:
* Tag events directly in the UFDR allowing users to view and manage
tags in support of collaborated and connected investigations.
* Generate and share relevant reports within the review process.
These features work together, alongside the entire Cellebrite
portfolio, to ensure secure, compliant, and scalable data management
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The near collapse of garbage removal in the four Harare Metropolitan councils caused President Mnangagwa to yesterday declare a “state of disaster” the poor waste management that has seen ever-growing piles of garbage going uncollected for months with mounds of rubbish becoming common in most shopping centres and residential areas.
The declaration overtakes the legal municipal independence for local services enjoyed by Harare and Chitungwiza, and the near independence by Epworth and Ruwa local boards, and thus allows the central Government to move in.
A similar declaration allowed the central Government to move in a while ago and take over road reconstruction and maintenance, again normally a pure local government function if the local authorities are even modestly efficient.
For the rubbish the was designated as the lead central government agency to co-ordinate and enforce efficient rubbish removal.
Harare Metropolitan Province is made up of Harare, Chitungwiza, Epworth and Ruwa, the first, third, fifth and seventh most populated urban centres in Zimbabwe.
The declaration was published in terms of the Civil Protection Act under Statutory Instrument 140 of 2023 cited as the Civil Protection (Declaration of State of Disaster: Emergency Solid Waste Management Harare Metropolitan Province) Notice, 2023.
According to SI 140, Government, “noted with great concern the deplorable state of cleanliness of the Harare Metropolitan Province, characterised among other things by litter and waste dumps accumulating in business and residential areas of the province, open burning of garbage and indiscriminate illegal dumping of solid waste and littering.”
The SI added that the local authorities in the province were unable to manage their waste due, among other reasons, to their failure to invest in waste management infrastructure, and the related equipment and human resources along with their inefficient collection practices and lack of environmental control systems.
“As a result of the failure to properly manage waste within the Harare Metropolitan Province, a state of disaster exists in that province with effect from the promulgation of this declaration,” the notice stated.
For the duration of the state of disaster, the Minister responsible for Environment will confer powers to the Environmental Management Agency to coordinate activities to manage waste within the province.
While the declaration is in force, the agency has a five-fold function to co-ordinate the efforts to the four local authorities, have the illegal dumps removed, have waste regularly collected from all premises, have the local authorities put in public bins in streets and public places, and run intensive education campaigns.
Going into detail on each function, the agency will “co-ordinate the use of materials and services made available by local authorities within the Harare Metropolitan Province during the state of disaster”.
The agency will then “endeavour to remove illegal solid waste dumps by means of a range of activities including mapping, quantification and clearing of illegal waste dumps and direct local authorities within the Harare Metropolitan Province to establish appropriately designed and designated waste transfer stations”.
It will “direct local authorities within the Harare Metropolitan Province, under its supervision, to undertake periodic refuse collection, consisting of street by street waste collection including sanitary lanes”.
The agency will “direct local authorities within the Harare Metropolitan Province, under its supervision, to install bins in streets and public places”. That should cut back on the piles of street rubbish that continually grows as people litter.
Finally the EMA must “undertake, together with local authorities within the Harare Metropolitan Province, awareness campaigns through roadshows, radio and television programmes and sector specific cluster meetings”. the SI further reads.
EMA’s cost of managing the waste during the subsistence of the declaration would come from the National Civil Protection Fund and from the local authorities concerned.
Ever since the opposition took over the running of the capital at the turn of the century general service delivery, including waste management, has deteriorated and with residents calling on Government to take action to reverse the rot.
In May this year, Harare mayor, Councillor Jacob Mafume conceded that refuse collection remained a major challenge with only half the 36 garbage trucks needed for the city being operational.
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Aspiring CCC candidate for Mabvuku Phibion Hakutizwi Munyaradzi has appeared in court for allegedly assaulting a Zanu PF member.
Munyaradzi (43), who appeared before Harare magistrate Apolonia Marutya, was granted free bail and was remanded to August 28 for trial.
The complainant is Moudy Mushavatu of Old Tafara, Harare.
It is the State’s case that on July 21 this year, the complainant was on her way to have a gas tank refilled and was wearing a Zanu PF wrap over, commonly known in local parlance as “zambia”.
She was approached by the accused person who allegedly ordered the complainant to remove her regalia.
The court heard that the accused person went on to forcibly remove the complainant’s regalia and started poking her several times on the forehead, threatening to further assault her.
It is alleged that the complainant was not medically examined and no injuries were sustained. Herald
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Opposition MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora yesterday launched his party manifesto promising to create a US$100 billion economy by 2040, offering free primary and secondary education as well as free health services.
Launching the manifesto at the party headquarters in Harare, MDC-T secretary-general Tapuwa Mashakada said the United States dollar will be introduced as the micro-economic stabilising currency for the first 100 days of an MDC-T government.
Secretary general Mashakada said their Government will have a trimmed Cabinet.
“Our Government will only have 15 Cabinet Ministers. It will be an efficient lean Cabinet. Our policy on education is very clear: free primary education, free secondary education to start with.
“We will also introduce Government grants for students who are learning in tertiary institutions. We must have people accessing health facilities for free, drugs, consultations for free, the money will be there,” he said.
Mr Mashakada said the money would be there and they intend to establish a national health system which is like the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) where every employer will contribute.
“Within the first 100 days of our Government we will retain the US dollar. Why are we going to introduce the dollar?
“It will give us time to plan and strengthen our currency so we are going to anchor our economy during the first 100 days on the US dollar,” he said.
MDC-T president Mr Mwonzora also said his party was against the harsh economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.
“The MDC-T through its manifesto is providing a pledge to the people of Zimbabwe. I shall not repeat everything that the secretary general has ably articulated, but the MDC-T Government will bring everlasting peace, tranquility and tolerance.
“It will end Zimbabwe’s international isolation. For the record the MDC-T does not support sanctions against Zimbabwe…,” he said.
Mr Mwonzora said his party, which is led by him, one of the drafters of the national Constitution, shall make sure that people’s rights are respected. The launch comes after the opposition outfit had Mwonzora postponed launching its election manifesto waiting for the High Court case, in which they were seeking to have their legislators permitted to contest. Herald
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Viewing of the body of the late Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Assembly Forward in Faith founding leader and National Hero Archbishop Ezekiel, will take place for three days to allow followers to pay their last respects before burial.
The church yesterday announced that the programme would start from Wednesday to Friday when Baba Guti’s body will be lying in state at the Ezekiel Guti International Convention Centre (AMFCC) for body viewing followed by an all-night prayer.
On Sunday people from across the globe are expected to fill the 60 000 seater national sports stadium for a special day of worship.
Prof Guti died at the age of 100 on July 5 in South Africa and his burial place will be communicated in due course. ZAOGA FIF secretary general Apostle Mishael Nyambo announced the programme in a circular referenced, “Programme for the grand celebration of the legacy and ministry of our father, Archbishop Professor Ezekiel H. Guti.”
“Kingdom greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. This letter serves to guide our preparations for the grand celebrations of the life, legacy and Ministry of our Father, Archbishop Professor Ezekiel H. Guti,” he said.
Apostle Nyambo said from Wednesday 2 August to Friday 4 August 2023 – the body of Archbishop Guti will lie in state at the Ezekiel Guti International Convention Centre (AMFCC) in the 8 000 seater auditorium.
“There will be no public gathering or services at AMFCC, but people will be free to come and pay their respects to our father (body viewing only). There will be ushers and security personnel to guide the proceedings.
“The programmes at AMFCC will only be held during the day. On Friday 4 August there will be an all night vigil at the City Sports Centre, beginning at 5:00pm,” he said.
Apostle Nyambo added: “Sunday 6 August — a special day of worship in the National Sports Stadium. We are kindly requesting believers from the Provinces outside Harare to arrive on Saturday 5 August 2023 to avoid accommodation and any other logistical challenges.” People from all walks of life have since expressed willingness to fill the national sports stadium to honour Prof Guti.
Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University graduate, Mrs Rumbidzai Mawonde said despite being an Anglican Church member, she benefited from the late national hero on the education front.
“I am forever grateful and proud to be a graduate from his University. If all goes well, I will attend Super Sunday to pay my last respects,” she said.
A ZAOGA member, Mr Tafadzwa Mugova was grateful that they had been given a chance to do body viewing for Baba Guti.
“It is a great honour to bid farewell to our great leader whose works will continue to live forever. He might be gone but his teachings are still alive,” he said.
Gogo Ruvimbo Makanaka who was once treated at Mbuya Dorcas Hospital in Waterfalls said the family and church had indeed given Baba Guti the recognition he deserves. Mrs Martha Negomo said she would fly from Australia to pay her last respects.
“I was taught to work hard by Baba and also to be a God fearing person. I cannot wait to be in Harare being part of the history of his last moments. Continue to rest in peace Baba,” she said.
Apart from evangelism, the ZAOGA FIF leader Archbishop Guti spearheaded the provision of social services by his church and sponsored the setting up of Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University in Bindura as well as Mbuya Dorcas Hospital in Waterfalls, Harare.
The church and family are currently observing a 30-day mourning period. Herald
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Bivšemu predsedniku republike Borutu Pahorju so ponoči vdrli v račun na družbenem omrežju Instagram, je tvitnil Pahor. Kasneje je prek Instagrama sporočil, da so s pomočjo ekipe podjetja Meta, ki upravlja z omenjenim družbenim omrežjem, profil ponovno uspeli vzpostaviti, vendar so nekatere objave žal izginile.
"Z Meto se trudimo še naprej, da bi problem rešili, za kar se jim res iskreno zahvaljujem," je poudaril Pahor in se ob tem za razumevanje in vse spodbude zahvalil tudi svojim 137.000 sledilkam in sledilcem na Instagramu.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend. Complaints included concerns about its structural safety and illumination.
The Elon Musk-owned company, which has been rebranded as X, had removed the Twitter sign and iconic blue bird logo from the building last week. That work was temporarily paused because the company did not have the necessary permits. For a time, the “er” at the end of “Twitter” remained up due to the abrupt halt of the sign takedown.
The city of San Francisco had opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the giant “X” sign, which was installed Friday on top of the downtown building as Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
The chaotic rebrand of Twitter’s building signage is similar to the haphazard way in which the Twitter platform is being turned into X. While the X logo has replaced Twitter on many parts of the site and app, remnants of Twitter remain.
Representatives for X did not immediately respond to a message for comment Monday.
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DAYTONA BEACH, FL. (Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for a 14-year-old who was last seen in Daytona Beach, Florida.
According to the alert, Barbora Zdanska, 14, was last seen in the area of the 100th block of Boynton Boulevard in Daytona Beach.
Zdanska is 5′5, weighs about 136 pounds, and has blonde hair and blue eyes.
She was last seen wearing a black Adidas sweatshirt with white stripes on the sleeves and black jean shorts.
According to the alert, Zdanska may be traveling in a 2014, blue Dodge Caravan with a Florida tag number CZ8613. The vehicle has a butterfly sticker in the top right rear window and a University of Florida “F” sticker in the top left rear window.
Zdanska may also be traveling with a companion who is unknown at this time.
Anyone who may have seen Zdanska should call 9-1-1.
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HOUSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (NYSE: SCM) will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, after the close of the stock market.
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Stellus Capital Investment Corporation will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM, Central Time. The conference call will be led by Robert T. Ladd, Chief Executive Officer, and W. Todd Huskinson, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary.
Conference Call Details
Via Phone: Dial 888-506-0062 (domestic). Use passcode 810825. Starting approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call, a replay will be available through Thursday, August 24, 2023 by dialing 877-481-4010 and entering passcode 48865.
Via Live Webcast: Connect via the Public Company (SCIC) section of our website at www.stelluscapital.com, under the Events tab. A replay of the conference will be available on our website for approximately 90 days.
About Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
The Company is an externally-managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Company's investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in private middle-market companies (typically those with $5.0 million to $50.0 million of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)) through first lien, second lien, unitranche and mezzanine debt financing, and corresponding equity investments. The Company's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Stellus Capital Management, LLC. To learn more about Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, visit www.stelluscapital.com under the Stellus Capital Investment Corporation link.
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Statements included herein may contain "forward-looking statements" which relate to future performance or financial condition. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The Aug. 4 through 6 weekend is a big one for back-to-school shopping. It’s time once again for Ohio’s tax-free weekend for school clothes and supplies.
The National Retail Federation predicts back-to-school spending will reach $41.5 billion this year, up from nearly $37 billion last year. The sales tax holiday is not only for in-person shopping but for online shopping, too.
“I’ve never heard of the tax-free weekend until you mentioned it,” Samuel Beck, a local resident said.
Aug. 4 will mark the fifth year of the sales tax holiday in Ohio. Lawmakers made this change with the goal of helping families prepare for the upcoming school year.
Not all items are on sale, however. Exempt items are one item of clothing priced at $75 or less and school supply items priced at $20 or less.
Families are expected to spend around $890 this year to prepare for back to school, so this may be a big help for many. Yet some don’t feel like this tax break is worth it.
“I kind of feel like you more or less break even if you take advantage. Because like right now, you can get a box of crayons for 50 cents and a box of markers for a dollar, and it seems like on that weekend those sales kind of disappear, so you might be paying your full price, but you’re getting your tax free,” another local resident said.
So whether you’re planning to shop for school supplies, or treating yourself to some new clothes or shoes, this tax-free weekend may help your pocketbook.
The sale is from midnight Thursday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday if you want to take advantage of the deal.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Fallen Timbers Fairways in Waterville will be hosting the 8th annual 5K on the Fairway Aug. 12.
5K on the Fairway is a fundraiser for Nature’s Nursery and Cancer Connection of Northwest Ohio. The event offers a 5K or 1-mile cross-country style route, taking participants through the golf course. Awards, raffles and more will be featured at the fundraiser.
Those who are interested in signing up for the event can do so online by clicking here. People can also sign up the morning of the race in person at Fallen Timbers Fairways.
The cost to register is $25 with an increase after Aug. 6. Run check-in begins Aug. 12 at 7 a.m.
People who wish to support but cannot attend can enter the raffles online. Raffles will include prizes such as tickets to Bash at the Bay, a Blackstone Grill, a bourbon bundle and more. To sign up for raffles, click here.
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SHANGHAI, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK, "Everest", or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative medicines and vaccines, announced today the completion of patient enrollment for the China open-label extension (cOLE) of the Phase 3 NefIgArd study. The cOLE study offers an additional 9 months of treatment with Nefecon® to all qualifying patients who have completed the NefIgArd study and will evaluate the efficacy and safety of extended and repeated Nefecon® treatment in patients with IgA Nephropathy (IgAN).
The Phase 3 NefIgArd clinical trial is a randomized, double-blind, multicenter study which assessed the efficacy and safety of Nefecon® versus placebo on a background of optimized RAS inhibitor therapy. The study met its primary endpoint, with Nefecon® demonstrating a highly statistically significant benefit over placebo (p value < 0.0001) in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) over the two-year period of 9-months of treatment with Nefecon® or placebo and 15-months of off drug follow-up. Patients in the cOLE study will continue on RAS inhibitor therapy (ACEs and/or ARBs) and be treated for 9 months with Nefecon® at 16mg/day. At the end of the treatment period, change in eGFR and urine protein to creatinine ratio (UPCR) will be evaluated.
"The results of the cOLE study will offer insight into the value of extended and repeated use of Nefecon® and provide very important guidance for doctors in clinical practice," said Rogers Yongqing Luo, Chief Executive Officer of Everest Medicines.
The China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) accepted Everest's New Drug Application (NDA) for Nefecon® for the treatment of IgAN in November 2022. The NMPA has also granted Nefecon® break-through therapy designation and NDA priority review. Nefecon® was the first non-oncology drug to receive break-through therapy designation in China.
About Nefecon®
Nefecon® is a patented oral, delayed release formulation of budesonide, a corticosteroid with potent glucocorticoid activity and weak mineralocorticoid activity that undergoes substantial first pass metabolism. The formulation is designed as a delayed release capsule that is enteric coated so that it remains intact until it releases budesonide to the distal ileum. Each capsule contains coated beads of budesonide that target mucosal B-cells present in the ileum where the disease originates, as per the predominant pathogenesis models.
In June 2019, Everest Medicines entered into an exclusive, royalty-bearing license agreement with Calliditas, which gives Everest Medicines exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Nefecon® in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Singapore. The agreement was extended in March 2022 to include South Korea as part of Everest Medicine's territories.
Nefecon® was approved in the United States under accelerated approval based on a reduction in proteinuria. Recently announced topline results from the global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial NefIgArd demonstrated a statistically significant benefit for Nefecon® over placebo in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a measure of renal function.
About Everest Medicines
Everest Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical products and vaccines that address critical unmet medical needs for patients in Asian markets. The management team of Everest Medicines has deep expertise and an extensive track record from both leading global pharmaceutical companies and local Chinese pharmaceutical companies in high-quality discovery, clinical development, regulatory affairs, CMC, business development and operations. Everest Medicines has built a portfolio of potentially global first-in-class or best-in-class molecules, many of which are in late-stage clinical development. The Company's therapeutic areas of interest include renal diseases, infectious diseases, mRNA platform and autoimmune disorders. For more information, please visit its website at www.everestmedicines.com.
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The Makers of WHOLLY® AVOCADO are Giving 10 Fans a Chance to Win One Year's Supply of products - and more - for National Avocado Day
America's No.1 refrigerated guacamole and avocado brand also taps beloved Olympian, Shawn Johnson East, to spotlight versatility and convenience of WHOLLY® AVOCADO products
ORANGE, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of National Avocado Day, the makers of WHOLLY® AVOCADO are celebrating by giving 10 lucky fans a year's supply of WHOLLY® AVOCADO products — made with real ingredients and hand-scooped Hass avocados — and a $350 gift card.
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"National Avocado Day is one of our fans' favorite times of the year, and we wanted to make it extra fun for people everywhere with this incredible giveaway that will have them celebrating all year long," said Chris Monahan, brand manager of WHOLLY® products. "Our refrigerated avocado products are always ripe and always ready, and they make everyday snacking simpler and more convenient for our valued fans."
To amp up the fun, the makers of WHOLLY® AVOCADO are partnering with Olympic gold medalist and mother of two Shawn Johnson East to spotlight the versatility and convenience of WHOLLY® AVOCADO products. Johnson East will be helping current and new brand aficionados get involved in the sweepstakes via content on her Instagram page.
Fans may register for one of 10 chances to win a year's supply of free WHOLLY® products and a $350 gift card by following the brand on Instagram (@eatWHOLLY), liking Shawn Johnson East's WHOLLY® AVOCADO reel, and tagging @eatwholly and @shawnjohnson in your own "not my hands" challenge attempts using WHOLLY® AVOCADO products. Contest rules and information here.
Finally, fans can indulge in a number of easy and tasty recipes while they're celebrating National Avocado Day. For example:
Avocado Sushi Roll : The perfect recipe for an at-home sushi night. This recipe is super easy, kid-friendly and a total crowd-pleaser.
Burrata Avocado Pizza : Who doesn't love an easy pizza recipe? This vegetarian pizza has avocado, burrata and tomatoes. Vegetarian lunch or dinner in just 20 minutes.
Avocado-Chickpea Mediterranean Salad : Fast, delicious and filled with robust flavor, this chickpea salad will have you buying the same ingredients every week.
Chicken-Avocado Rollups : These easy chicken-avocado rollups are fantastic for lunch, a midday snack or an appetizer for groups. With creamy avocado and a little bit of Greek yogurt and lime juice, they have the perfect balance of satisfying ingredients and zesty flavor.
Avocado Pudding : With less than five ingredients and in just five minutes, you can whip up this thick and creamy avocado pudding, a fun and delicious dessert you can even serve as an after-school snack.
Too busy to prep a dish? The WHOLLY® brand line features ready-to-serve avocado in three varieties: diced, smashed and chunky. All products are gluten-free, non-GMO, kosher, keto-friendly and contain no added preservatives. Available in 4-ounce trays, as well as convenient 2-ounce single-serve minis, WHOLLY® AVOCADO can be used as a salad topper, in poke bowls, on avocado toast, as a sandwich spread or as a dip.
WHOLLY® products are available at retailers throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.eatwholly.com.
ABOUT THE WHOLLY® BRAND
The WHOLLY® brand, leader in ready-to-eat avocado innovation, is best known for WHOLLY® GUACAMOLE, America's No. 1 refrigerated guacamole, and WHOLLY® AVOCADO. Known for food safety and quality, all WHOLLY® products are made with hand-scooped Hass avocados and are gluten free with no preservatives added. High-pressure technology (HPT) is used to help extend the shelf life of the products and maintain the avocado's delicious flavors and nutrients, while eliminating potentially harmful bacteria. The WHOLLY® brand is part of MegaMex Foods, one of the fastest growing Mexican food companies in the U.S. focused on re-imagining Mexican flavor. For more information and recipe ideas, visit www.eatwholly.com, and follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.
ABOUT MEGAMEX FOODS, LLC.
MegaMex Foods, one of the fastest growing Mexican food companies in the U.S., is focused on re-imagining Mexican flavor in restaurants and home kitchens across the country. MegaMex Foods is proudly committed to authentic ingredients and providing a real solution for achieving true Mexican flavors with trusted products, including WHOLLY®, LA VICTORIA®, HERDEZ®, EMBASA® , DOÑA MARÍA®, BÚFALO® and DON MIGUEL® brands. Founded by Herdez del Fuerte and Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL), MegaMex Foods is headquartered in Orange, California, with facilities in Texas and Mexico. MegaMex Foods has two operating plants, numerous manufacturing partners and over 4,000 employees. For more information, visit www.megamexfoods.com and www.mmxfoodservice.com.
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X owner Elon Musk and Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino will both oversee the trust and safety team at the company formerly known as Twitter, the social media concern said on Monday.
X's product and engineering team will report to Musk, while Yaccarino will oversee all other divisions, including human resources, legal, finance, sales and operations, X said.
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X owner Elon Musk and Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino will both oversee the trust and safety team at the company formerly known as Twitter, the social media concern said on Monday.
X's product and engineering team will report to Musk, while Yaccarino will oversee all other divisions, including human resources, legal, finance, sales and operations, X said.
The trust and safety team, which is responsible for content moderation, has been the focus of some criticism of the platform after Musk acquired the company last October. Researchers have accused X of relaxing content guard rails, leading to a spike in harmful posts. The company has said the majority of content views are of "healthy" posts.
In an email to X employees on Monday, which was shared with Reuters, Yaccarino said the company is searching for a new leader for brand safety and suitability.
The previous head of brand safety, A.J. Brown, who worked on efforts to prevent advertisements from appearing next to unsuitable content, left the company last month.
Yaccarino said in the email that three X leaders will oversee different responsibilities within trust and safety, including law enforcement operations and threat disruptions.
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The giant and illuminating ‘X’ sign atop former Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters was dismantled on Monday (July 31) morning days after it was installed, following complaints about its safety and lack of permit.
Over the weekend, the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection received 24 complaints about the sign including "concerns about its structural safety and illumination”.
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The giant and illuminating ‘X’ sign atop former Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters was dismantled on Monday (July 31) morning days after it was installed, following complaints about its safety and lack of permit.
Over the weekend, the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection received 24 complaints about the sign including "concerns about its structural safety and illumination”.
"I thought it was lightning, and I was very confused. I went to my window, I looked around, I didn't see anything. I thought it was maybe a police siren," resident Patricia Wallinga, who lives across the street, told CBS News.
After the rebranding announcement on July 23, the ‘X’ logo was hurriedly erected atop the building and was partly supported by sandbags.
Just over 48 hrs after a large "X" sign with pulsating bright lights was installed on the roof of the former @twitter hq, workers dismantled and took down the sign on Monday morning. The sign was being investigated by SF officials due to lack of permits and neighbor complaints. pic.twitter.com/llV7RUEKwN — Justin Sullivan (@sullyfoto) July 31, 2023 ×
Last week, the San Francisco police stopped workers from removing Twitter’s bird and vertical logo from the side of the building, saying they had not taped off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell.
On Friday, Musk installed a giant X, which emitted strong white light, on top of Twitter’s building, which according to nearby residents beamed into their apartments.
Later, the city opened a complaint and launched a probe on the day the sign went up after it deemed X “unsafe” because it was built without a safety permit.
“Any replacement letters or symbols would require a permit to ensure consistency with the historic nature of the building and to make sure additions are safely attached to the sign," a spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspection told The Associated Press.
Department of Building Inspection spokesperson Patrick Hannan said that a city inspector tried to get to the building's roof when the complaints started pouring in but he was denied access twice.
In an interview with The Verge, Hannan said that no permit is needed to take down the logo but, "due to safety concerns, the permit can be secured after the structure is taken down."
He said that the building’s owner would be fined for “building permits for the installation and removal of the structure” and to cover the department’s inspection and investigation costs.
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Google announced that Android phone users should expect to get unknown tracker alerts like iPhone users get when there is a tracker they don't know about near them.
The technology has already been a tool for iPhone users, who are alerted when a device like an Apple AirTag is tracking them.
SEE MORE: How to clear cookies from your smartphone
The move is a product of cooperative work done between Google and Apple and was announced at at 2023 Google conference. While the alerts will work only with AirTags at first, there are talks with other tracker companies like Tile and Chipolo to widen the field on which trackers will also be included.
Google said in a press release that users will be able to tap on the notification and learn more about the tracker and view it on a map. There will also be a feature to select "play sound" to make the tracker play a noise so users can find it.
Google said there will also be a manual scan feature to allow users to press a button and scan their surroundings for trackers even before they receive any notifications.
New find my device features are also expected to be unveiled and available on Android by this summer, the company said.
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Don't be fooled by the furry exterior: Some dogs aren't all what they seem. In fact, one isn't even a dog at all.
It's a conundrum making the rounds online after a Japanese man wearing a hyper-realistic Border Collie outfit took a stroll outdoors and posted a YouTube video of the excursion, garnering more than 4.6 million views in the 10 days it's been online.
The footage was filmed last year for an interview with a German TV station according to the video description, and the dog/man, identified only as Toco, released it to the public this month after getting permission to post it.
The video under the account name "I want to be an animal" shows Toco getting pets around town while walking on four legs in the costume.
In a video posted last year, Toco said he had "a vague dream of becoming an animal" ever since he was a child and that he chose to become a collie because it's his favorite breed and is larger in size, comparable to a human.
This childhood dream prompted him to spend around $14,000 to have specialist costume company Zeppet create the outfit in 2022. The Japanese company is known for creating models and suits for films and commercials, but this was a custom, personal order, according to its website.
Zeppet's site also lists personal comments Toco made during and after the 40-day building process.
"I suppose creating a four-legged model for a two-legged human is extremely tricky, as our skeletal structure is quite different from canines," Toco said upon completion of the project. "I was therefore naturally worried about how it would turn out. After various trials and errors of the studio, however, the final result was brilliant and very satisfactory."
But despite the long-lived goal and its online virality, Toco still hopes to remain anonymous behind his animal persona.
In an interview with the Mirror, he said, "I rarely tell my friends because I am afraid they will think I am weird. My friends and family seemed very surprised to learn I became an animal."
And comments on the recent YouTube video seem to echo his fears. While some users were curious and supportive, others were concerned, with one user saying "I've worked with animals for 15 years now and this is the creepiest animal related thing I've ever seen."
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It was a parent's worst nightmare, and a major mistake by the Frisco Police Department in North Texas. On July 23, an Arkansas family visiting the Dallas area for a basketball tournament was pulled over by the police.
Frisco police believed they had found a stolen vehicle — as a result they shut down the busy highway, pulled their guns and ordered the family out of the car. But one of their officers made an error — entering the wrong state from the license plate into their computer system.
The mother in the vehicle posted about the incident online saying seeing her child in cuffs "hurt me to my core."
"It’s not okay. And I thank god that we were not physically injured, but we have suffered a lot of mental and emotional trauma from this. I've cried so much today I don't know if I have any more tears to cry. Every time I see the video of my baby, I just can't believe it. I feel like this is a very bad dream," Demi Janale said on TikTok.
Police in Aurora, Colorado made a similar mistake in 2021, handcuffing 4 minors and laying them on the pavement for what police believed was a stolen vehicle.
While the Aurora police chief ultimately apologized for the incident, the family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit and one of the officers involved was suspended.
In a statement, Frisco police apologized for the July incident and said it planned to run an "incident review."
For now, no lawsuit has been filed by the family involved.
SEE MORE: NYC to settle $13M for George Floyd protest arrests, police beatings
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Yellow Corp., one of the largest freight companies in the U.S., said it was closing operations and filing for bankruptcy on Monday.
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One of the largest trucking companies in the country shut down over the weekend, leaving tens of thousands of people without jobs at the start of the work week.
The Teamsters Union said Monday that Yellow Corp. informed them the 99-year-old company was shuttering operations and filing for bankruptcy, despite receiving a $700 million pandemic loan just three years ago.
Scripps News reached out to Yellow to confirm but did not hear back. No bankruptcy filings have gone live yet.
Yellow employs 30,000 people nationwide including 22,000 union workers. But one worker in Nashville says he arrived at work without hearing anything about the status of his job.
"They haven't told us they're out of business yet, they haven't told us what they're doing, filing bankruptcy or whatever," said Danny Smallridge. "I'm in pretty good shape myself and I know I'll be taken care of but a lot of my union brothers and sisters — they're not in the same boat as I am and that's heartbreaking. Shame on the company."
Another worker went viral over the weekend after a video showed his emotional reaction to learning he'd leave Yellow with no pension despite spending 30 years on the job.
In a statement, Teamsters president Sean O'Brien called the news "unfortunate but not surprising." He added Yellow "has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government. This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry,”
SEE MORE: Lumber prices could surge again due to too few lumber workers
Yellow is the nation's third largest carrier of small freight, earning $5 billion in revenue a year, according to its website, serving major customers like Walmart and Home Depot.
But after a series of failed cost-cutting measures to stay afloat, Yellow saw customers leave in droves. According to the Associated Press, the company is now $1.5 billion in debt with $729.2 million owed to the federal government.
This, despite the government handing Yellow a $700 million pandemic loan just three years ago.
Mike Regan, the co-founder of TranzAct technologies, which helps companies manage their supply chains, says Yellow used most of that money to round out pension plans and extend the life of its equipment.
But in June, a congressional investigation found the Treasury and Defense departments "made missteps" in giving Yellow the loan, with auditors calling the handout "reactive at best" and saying it "may not be the best course of action to protect taxpayer funds."
Regan says Yellow's problems arose decades ago after the company acquired rival companies and put them under one roof.
"When they bought Roadway, it was like having the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears come together to form a football team. You had basically people that competed against each other, were enemies, then you brought them together and said 'we're going to play nice,'" he said. "If you don't have your culture synchronized, I don't care what your strategy is, it's not going to work because you have disparate parties."
SEE MORE: Wage and salary increases in the US slowed down
He added that problems worsened when Yellow tried to reduce its debt and eliminate financial redundancies by shutttering 24 of its 300 truck terminals.
Regan says that considering some of the locations were as valuable as $80 million, it could've helped the company with some of its money troubles. But Teamsters, which was angered by the course of action, said the move would lead to unnecessary job cuts.
Regan says Yellow's latest setback came from the threat of a union strike over health care benefits when the company missed a $50 million welfare and pension fund payment. Teamsters said they'd strike if Yellow didn't make the payment.
"That basically was the death knell for Yellow because if you're a shipper, one of the things that you don't want to do is have freight trapped in a system when the carrier's not operating," said Regan.
The shutdown could mean shipping delays for consumer because many shippers relied solely on Yellow's vast terminal network to move is products.
"In the LTL (Less-than-truckload) industry, your capacity is driven by your terminal network, the amount of doors that you have available to clear freight," said Regan. "The reason this is a big deal for shippers is because some shippers had Yellow [as their] one carrier. Well, they may take three or four carriers now to replace that Yellow volume because of the network."
Regan says more carriers sharing doors could mean greater delays, leading to price increases to make up for the gap.
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