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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at a news conference Monday with a bandage in the middle of his forehead. A spokesperson for Trudeau says he bumped his head while he was playing with his kids over the weekend.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at a news conference Monday with a bandage in the middle of his forehead.
A spokesperson for Trudeau says he bumped his head while he was playing with his kids over the weekend.
Alison Murphy says the prime minister is fine, and is excited to be on the road connecting with Canadians this week.
Trudeau's itinerary for Sunday said he was taking some personal time in Ottawa.
His office wouldn't disclose what activity resulted in the bump.
Trudeau appeared with the circular bandage during a visit to Hamilton, where he announced spending of $64 million by the federal government and the city to build and repair 214 homes in the area.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 31, 2023.
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The Pattullo Bridge will be closed overnight ahead of the August long weekend to allow crews to work.
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The Pattullo Bridge will be closed overnight ahead of the August long weekend to allow crews to work.
The closure will be in effect from 10 p.m. Thursday until 5 a.m. Friday, according to an update from TransLink. Cyclists and pedestrians will still be able to use the bridge.
"Signage will indicate all traffic pattern changes and traffic control personnel will be on-site to direct traffic, pedestrians, and cyclists," a statement from TransLink says.
Drivers are being told to use the Port Mann or Alex Fraser bridges.
Transit users who need to take the N19 night bus or the 103 bus during the closure are being advised to plan for their trips to take approximately 30 extra minutes due to the routes being rerouted over different bridges.
The work planned is part of the large project of replacing the bridge entirely.
"When completed, the new bridge will provide important improvements – including wider lanes separated by a median barrier and separate walking and cycling lanes," the statement from the transit autohrity says.
The $1.3-billion Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project began in 2020 to replace the nearly 100-year-old crossing.
The new bridge was initially set to be ready by 2021, but the pandemic and supply chain issues pushed the new expected opening date to 2024
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You don't have to go far to find graffiti in downtown Sydney, N.S. – buildings, mailboxes, and other infrastructure have all been recently vandalized in the city.
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You don't have to go far to find graffiti in downtown Sydney, N.S. – buildings, mailboxes, and other infrastructure have all been recently vandalized in the city.
“It has been a bit of a growing problem over the last year or so, it's one of those things that it creeps up one by one and then all of a sudden it’s everywhere,” said Michelle Wilson, executive director of Downtown Sydney Development Association.
Wilson says it's not just areas with easy access that have been plastered with paint, roof tops and difficult to reach sides of buildings have also been tagged.
“They're leaning over the roof, and I can't help but worry about the person's safety that’s doing it,” she said.
The vandalism is happening as a multi-million dollar makeover of Sydney's downtown core is underway.
“When you see new infrastructure go in – lamp posts, garbage cans, benches – you're hoping they're going to be respected and appreciated. We're dealing with it as best we can,” said Eldon MacDonald, Cape Breton Regional Municipality Councillor.
A program has been launched to help businesses cover the costs of cleaning up the graffiti. The Sydney Downtown Development Association will take care of 50 per cent of the charge.
“We need buy-in from the business community to make it successful. There are a lot of private businesses, private buildings that are being tagged and the owners aren't doing anything about that graffiti. We want to work with those building owners,” said MacDonald
There are already a number of professional painted murals in Sydney. Wilson says there are plans underway to offer space so more people can showcase their talents respectfully.
“I'm not really sure the motive to putting graffiti in places, but if it’s an outlet that they want, it would be better if it was in a designated location,” said Wilson.
Cape Breton Regional Police says mischief charges for graffiti can come with a fine and up to 10 years in jail.
For more Nova Scotia news visit our dedicated provincial page.
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Niagara police have arrested the owner of the Euphoria Social Lounge after a stabbing incident
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Niagara police have arrested the owner of the Euphoria Social Lounge after a stabbing incident.
It happened July 23 when police found two males in the parking lot suffering from serious injuries.
Police say a disturbance inside the lounge escalated and became violent.
The victims continue to recover from their injuries.
Twenty-seven-year-old Sameer Channan of Niagara Falls is charged with two counts of aggravated assault.
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A Vancouver drug dealer who sexually assaulted two vulnerable Indigenous girls – one who was 12 years old and one who was 14 – after giving them "intoxicants" has been sentenced to five years in prison.
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Warning: This story includes details that may be disturbing to readers.
A Vancouver drug dealer who sexually assaulted two vulnerable Indigenous girls – one who was 12 years old and one who was 14 – after giving them "intoxicants" has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Da Wei Chen was convicted of two counts of sexual interference after a trial in April of this year and sentenced in June. The judge's sentencing decision was posted online last week.
"The sentence takes into account the seriousness of the offence and the harm suffered by the victims, the vulnerability of the victims, the fact Mr. Chen supplied the victims with intoxicants which increased their vulnerability and impacted their ability to resist, and the impact these offences have had on the girls," Justice Wendy A. Baker wrote.
THE CRIMES
Chen was 26 years old when he met the victims in 2021. He developed a relationship with them where they would call him and "ask him to help them get out of trouble" and he would arrange for transportation and, in at least one instance, a hotel room, according to the decision. He would buy the girls alcohol and supply them with drugs, drinking and using with them even though he knew they were minors.
"Mr. Chen knew they were young girls engaging in dangerous behaviour, out late at night, abusing drugs and alcohol. They were clearly extremely vulnerable," Baker said.
"While they were in a state of severe intoxication and vulnerability, Mr. Chen took advantage of them sexually for his own gratification."
The 12-year-old victim, identified by the initials S.B., only met Chen a few times when she was with a friend. On one occasion, when that friend went to the store to buy more pop to mix with the alcohol Chen had provided, he took S.B. into a "grassy area behind some bushes" where he forced her to perform oral sex, the judge said.
S.B. had consumed at least six ounces of liquor and had smoked meth provided by Chen and blacked out during the attack, but she tried to get away when she regained consciousness.
"But Mr. Chen pushed harder and was more forceful with her," the judge said.
The second victim, a 14-year-old identified by the initials N.G., had known Chen for about two months when he assaulted her. The court heard that Chen bought N.G. a cell phone specifically so she could contact him.
On "many occasions," according to the decision, Chen would send a taxi to pick N.G. up. The driver of that taxi was a friend of Chen's with whom he had an "arrangement" that included picking up underage girls when they called and, often, buying them alcohol.
N.G. was living in foster care in March of 2021 and called Chen one night because she "did not want to go home," according to the decision.
The taxi was sent to pick her up, the driver bought and provided the alcohol and she was dropped off at a hotel on Hastings Street where Chen met her. After he arrived, N.G. drank the alcohol and took nine Xanax that Chen gave her, the court heard.
N.G fell asleep and awoke to Chen removing her pants.
"She told him to stop. Because she had been drinking alcohol and had taken Xanax, she felt very lightheaded and dizzy, felt she could barely breathe, and she was not able to move. She was not able to stop Mr. Chen," the decision says, adding that N.G. blacked out during the subsequent sexual assault and when she woke up her "vagina hurt."
THE SENTENCE
One of the factors the judge considered aggravating in the case was the "profound harm" done to the victims.
N.G. submitted an impact statement to the court where she said that the assault had "changed her forever" and that reliving it by testifying about it had been deeply traumatic, but something she felt she had to do to "keep other kids safe," the decision says. As a result of the assault, N.G. says she no longer trusts people and does not like to be touched by anyone.
S.B. did not submit an impact statement but her mother did.
"Her mother said that when S.B. thought about having to do the victim impact statement, she almost fainted. S.B. no longer feels safe and can only be alone if she is at home in her own room," the judge's decision says, summarizing the statement.
Also aggravating were the ages of the victims, the seriousness of the assaults, the vulnerability of the victims and the use of drugs and alcohol.
Baker did not identify any mitigating factors in the case and noted that Chen did not express remorse and did not agree with the court finding him guilty.
Chen was sentenced to three years for each offence, to be served concurrently with the overall sentence reduced to five years in accordance with the totality principle. This was what was recommended by Crown, while Chen's lawyer was asking for a sentence of two years in prison, followed by two years of probation.
Chen will have to provide a DNA sample and will be on the sex offender registry for 20 years.
The decision also noted that Chen has pleaded guilty to five drug trafficking charges but had not yet been sentenced for those crimes.
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Date: Friday, August 18-Saturday, August 19
Oliver’s Annual Roots And Fruits Expo Is a fun-for-all-ages celebration of Oliver, its agriculture, history, and rich arts community.
The fun starts Friday evening with the third annual Rock & Roll Picnic . The Picnic features a rocking party atmosphere hyped by two bands. On top of great music, come for the food! They;ll have top local chefs transforming humble hotdogs into works of culinary art for your dining enjoyment.
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Peel police have charged a 29-year-old man with second-degree murder after a 21-year-old woman was found dead in her Mississauga, Ont. apartment earlier this month.
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The father of a 21-year-old woman who was found dead in her Mississauga, Ont. residence earlier this month says his family’s hearts are “broken.”
Jack Phaunpa told CTV News Toronto that he brought his family to Canada 19 years ago because he understood it to be “one of the safest in the world.”
“No words can describe how sad I am," Phaunpa, who lives in New Brunswick, wrote.
On July 20, Peel police officers were called to an apartment building in Port Credit, on Helene Street North, west of Hurontario Street, to check on the wellbeing of a female resident.
Phaunpa said he called authorities after losing contact with his daughter and had become increasingly concerned.
“I worried about her very much, so I called 911 from New Brunswick to check on her,” he said.
Responding officers located his daughter, Pitch, who was also known as Polly, dead inside her apartment, police said.
“Her death is being investigated as a homicide which is believed to have occurred between July 17 and July 18,” Peel Regional Police said in a news release on Sunday.
Pitch’s cause of death has not been released.
Phaunpa said he flew to Toronto immediately after calling the police and was met by investigators upon arrival at Toronto Pearson Airport who informed him of his daughter’s death.
“I do not know about the case and I do not want to talk about it much,” he said. “Our hearts are broken. She is my lovely, lovely daughter.”
On Monday, Peel police charged 29-year-old Jordan Saunders with second-degree murder. He remains in custody pending a bail hearing.
'OUR FAMILY LIFE WAS PERFECT'
Phaunpa said Pitch grew up in Georgetown, Ont. alongside two brothers and a sister. The family moved to Canada from Thailand in 2004, he said.
"As new immigrants, our family worked hard and made our way to becoming Canadian citizens," he shared.
Phaunpa said that Pitch moved to Mississauga about a year ago to attend Toronto Film School. He says Pitch had plans to join her family and move to New Brunswick at the end of August.
“Nineteen years in Canada, our family life [has been] perfect,” he said. “I [...] actively wrote about immigration to Canada in order to encourage Thai families to move here.”
“Unfortunately, [this tragedy] happened to my daughter.”
Peel police are asking anyone with information to contact homicide investigators at 905-453-2121, ext. 3205, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or peelcrimestoppers.ca.
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With a brand new train track looping around the property, the Evangeline mini-train is almost ready to welcome passengers at Trueman Blueberry Farm.
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At Trueman Blueberry Farms in Aulac, N.B., visitors don’t get around by foot, animal or even farm equipment. Instead, it’s soon to be all about train transportation.
The Evangeline, which sits on top of freshly laid tracks, is the farm’s newest attraction.
“We’re certainly happy that we took it on,” said Tom Trueman, owner of Trueman Blueberry Farms.
“No question, it’s a bigger project than maybe we naively anticipated, but it’s certainly a lot of fun and I think it’s going to be a great asset for the farm and for the local community.”
Over the last few months, the train and its carts have been parked at the farm for people to explore and enjoy before the railroad construction got underway.
The once again functional train came from Upper Clements Park in Nova Scotia, where Trueman says it ran from around 1989 to 2019.
“[The seller] was quite interested in having the train stay in Atlantic Canada where it kind of started out and hopefully the people who, you know, rode it as a kid could find it still running somewhere. So we’re happy to carry that legacy forward and look forward to another 30 years of it running here on our farm,” he said.
“We get contacted daily by people that have either visited the park and rode the train, or quite a number of people who worked at the park and actually drove the train or did the maintenance on the train.”
While the Evangeline will keep its original name, the farm has officially named its railroad company Trueman Mill Railroad, after the Trueman Mill Pond that is also on the property.
During the ride, visitors will get the chance to see the farm’s tulip patch in the spring, the sunflower maze in late August into September, and the wild blueberry bushes.
The hope is to construct a full train station and make the train a corner stone of activities, including possible themed rides down the road.
“Excitement. Excitement is really what I’m hoping for, the joy and excitement into what we’ve put a lot of hard work and labour into,” said Blair Spence, who has been a carpenter on the project.
Currently, it’s estimated around 400 to 500 man hours have gone into construction, with more still to go.
“It’s going to be, by the time we’re all done, it’s the best part of a half a million dollar investment to get this train in place and the station up and all the odds and ends that go with it,” said Trueman.
However, thoughts of the end product are keeping spirits high for everyone involved.
“It’s exciting. It’s exciting,” said Spence.
“The other day when we hooked the three cars on and Tom said ‘there, take the reins and away we go’ and around the track we went. I drove, and that was just real exciting… real exciting.”
Those involved say there’s at least another week or two of final adjustments before a provincial inspector comes down to give the green light to open the train up to the public.
The 10 to 15 minute ride is expected to be a crowd pleaser that will highlight both a piece of history and the future. However, Trueman says there is one thing the train is still missing.
“It was sitting idle at the park and the train whistle went missing. So if anybody out there in the Clements Port area or wherever knows where the train whistle went, we would dearly love to have it back to put it back to her original state,” he said.
The goal is to welcome everyone aboard the Evangeline Labour Day weekend.
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Vessel Prosthetics co-founders Sydney Robinson and Oleksiy Zaika are refining their design of an automatically adjustable socket for prosthetic legs.
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Vessel Prosthetics co-founders Sydney Robinson and Oleksiy Zaika are refining their design of an automatically adjustable socket for prosthetic legs.
"People with leg amputations right now, just like if you wear the wrong size pair of shoes. They have a socket that goes on to their leg that often doesn't fit well. And in the same way you get chafing and blisters, amputees experience that with their leg as well,” said Robinson. “The problem is that as their leg is shrinking or swelling from the heat or the cold or what you ate the day before. It doesn't fit inside of that socket that is a rigid bucket for a lack of a better phrase.”
They're hoping to get it on the market by next year.
"We are creating a socket that still has rigid panels on it. You want to have a nice even mix of panels that provide the rigidity and stability so that a person feels comfortable walking on it continuously and knows what to expect in terms of the feedback that they get when they put their weight on it, but at the same time it's comfortable. It is a solid looking shell with modular looking pieces on it that are adjusting as the limb needs it,” Zaika told CTV News.
The idea came to the Western University graduates after visiting a diabetes clinic.
"Diabetes is the leading cause of leg amputation. We met a lot of amputees. They were all struggling with this problem where their leg wasn't fitting inside of their socket,” explained Robinson.
The product aims to dramatically increase the quality of life for lower limb amputees, like Geoff Turner, one of Vessel Prosthetic’s consultants.
He said prosthetic legs can be extremely painful and most amputees opt for a wheelchair.
"I would try and wear an uncomfortable prosthetic and I would try and struggle through, but if it's uncomfortable it’s ill-fitting. If it's illfitting, I'll get an injury," said Turner.
Robinson and Zaika are trying to get the product covered by insurance.
"So that it is not only targeting a very niche demographic that can afford them so that the mass majority of people can get these devices and be able to use them," Zaika elaborated.
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Rekha, the veteran actress recently posed with young talents Janhvi Kapoor, Khushi Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra at a recent get together hosted by designer Manish Malhotra.
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Manish Malhotra, the senior fashion designer is currently on a high with the massive success of his Couture Show 2023, and the recently released film Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani. The celebrated designer launched his new collections with the Couture Show, which featured Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt as showstoppers. His stunning design for the romantic drama has also highly impressed fashion enthusiasts. Recently, Manish Malhotra hosted an intimate yet grand get-together for his close friends and colleagues from the film industry, to celebrate his recent successes.
Rekha poses with Janhvi Kapoor, Khushi Kapoor, and Parineeti Chopra
The senior fashion designer, who hosted a grand get-together for his friends at his Mumbai residence, recently took to his official Instagram handle and shared a lovely group picture. In his Instagram post, veteran actress Rekha, who is a close friend and frequent collaborator of Manish Malhotra, is seen posing with young actresses Janhvi Kapoor, Khushi Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, and a friend, for some lovely pictures. "Evenings like these at home after a long day at work are relaxing and fun and even more Special with #Rekhaji, @parineetichopra, @janhvikapoor, @khushi05k, Muskaan," Manish Malhotra captioned his post.
In the picture, Rekha looks stunning as always in a black co-ord set, which she paired with a black and white striped headwrap and statement sunglasses. Parineeti Chopra twinned with the legend in a black dress and a no-makeup look. Janhvi Kapoor, on the other, looked pretty in a white dress and simple make-up. Khushi Kapoor opted for a black crop top and a pair of blue denim trousers.
Check out Manish Malhotra's Instagram post, below:
Rekha's work front
As you may know, the veteran actress was last seen in a lead role in the 2014-released film Super Nani. Later, Rekha made cameo appearances in the 2015 film Shamitabh, which featured released Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush in the lead roles. Later, she shared the screen with the 2018-released Deol family film Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se. She made appearances on Television, in the popular Salman Khan show Bigg Boss 15 as Vishwasuntree, a talking tree, and as the narrator of Star Plus show Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin.
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Welcome back to the intriguing universe of Numerology! Again, a universe significantly influenced by numbers is preparing your life experiences, blessings, and challenges for August 2023. Based on your name, you can discover what this new month has in store for you.
Numerology is the ancient study of numbers, their combinations, and their frequencies, which attract either favorable or unfavorable circumstances in one's existence. Based on NPS (Numerology Positioning System), KPS (Karm Positioning System), and zero numerology, it is possible to explore the domain of numbers and their profound impact on our lives.
Number 1 (If the first letter of your name is A, I, J, Q, or Y)
Profession: Past efforts may lead to leadership. This full moon brings clarity and opportunities. Beware of deceptive collaborators. Set boundaries to avoid conflicts. Last-minute details overwhelm higher management. Artists may face setbacks.
Wealth: The full moon brings new income sources. Past deals yield positive results. Consult a financial advisor for real estate. Avoid loans for cash crunch. Prepare for unexpected expenses and risks. It is absolutely essential to plan for sudden emergencies. Insurance can be a great option to work as a shock absorber.
Relationship: Prioritize home and family. Repressed feelings affect relationships. Hidden secrets may surface for some couples. Singles may seek help in finding an ideal match.
Health: Simplify, de-stress, and recharge energy. Be cautious with diet changes for digestion and heart health. Adopting personalized meditation and self-care rituals based on date of birth and name would prove quite beneficial during the month.
Number 2 (If the first letter of your name is B, K, or R)
Profession: Negotiation skills lead to lucrative collaboration. Professionals gain projects and raises. Freelancers turn talents into profits. Beware inexperienced delegating; it burdens higher management. Proactive discussions prevent conflicts. New marketing ideas shine.
Wealth: Balance finances, invest in real estate for gains. Spouses contribute to income. Market investments yield returns. Avoid loans and hasty reselling. Watch for loan delays.
Relationship: Seek support, and maintain balance. Singles attract prospects. Couples address tensions and initiate changes. It is absolutely essential during the month to have transparent communication with your partner and keep in the loop and this will ensure your relationship sails smoothly.
Health: Prioritize rest, rejuvenate. Good health prevails. Beware later stress. It is essential to take proper sleep and, if needed, adopt sleep hygiene that recharges and revitalizes your mind, body, and soul every day.
Number 3 (If the first letter of your name is C, G, L, or S)
Profession: This month prompts career changes. Entrepreneurs must strengthen strategies to surpass competitors. Watch for conflicts with authorities or colleagues. A leadership role or prestigious position awaits. Freelancers expand via strategic partnerships.
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Wealth: Adjust to economic changes. Mind expenses and debts. Research quick-rich schemes. Expect delayed funds from past plans. Be cautious with money guarantees and loans.
Relationships: Assume starring roles among family and friends. Singles can manifest ideal partners, while couples overcome restrictions to formalize relationships.
Health: Beware of fever, stomach issues, and high blood pressure this month. Care for your mother's health to reduce stress.
Number 4 (If the first letter of your name is D, M, or T)
Profession: This month, assert yourself and communicate effectively for professional growth. Entrepreneurs expand networks; freelancers thrive through collaborations. Watch out for small mistakes risking success. Well-connected individuals may assist job seekers.
Wealth: Avoid impulsive spending and investments. Promised returns may be delayed. Beware of credit agreement errors, leading to wealth loss in the latter half of the month. Be cautious with loans and share market investments.
Relationship: Find solace in personal time, and avoid unnecessary drama. Women may undergo relationship transformations. Singles prioritize trust and long-term potential. Couples can overcome rough patches with composure.
Health: Prioritize moderation, eat lean protein and fresh veggies. Monitor blood pressure and heart health by not consuming junk and oily food. Avoid pushing limits to prevent migraines and stress later in the month.
Number 5 (If the first letter of your name is E, H, N, or X)
Profession: Expect unexpected opportunities and promotions this month. Artists can expand their reach through brand tweaks. Avoid partnerships or collaborations in the initial days. Be cautious of disputes with rivals. Rehearse dialogues to prevent conflicts with colleagues. Marketing projects and job-seeking efforts gain momentum.
Wealth: Anticipate unexpected gains and fruitful investments after the full moon. Watch out for speculations and lawsuits. Control expenses and carefully assess government schemes and bonds. Avoid risky real estate deals and shared market ventures. Be cautious with loans.
Relationship: Prioritize warmth and connection with loved ones. Singles may miss potential connections. Minimize friendships to avoid distractions for students. Be mindful of resentment that may cause friction with family. Couples may face challenges in understanding each other.
Health: Watch for stress and stomach issues affecting energy levels. You may exercise regularly and manage blood pressure. Be aware of migraines and eye-related problems. Start a workout schedule to monitor weight and health.
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Number 6 (If the first letter of your name is U, V, or W)
Profession: This month, review and finalize your goals. Expect chances for promotions and salary increases. Entrepreneurs receive beneficial venture offers. Bold moves can lead to success against rivals. Be prepared for delays and tension; job seekers may miss dream offers. Marketing projects may bring added workload and confusion.
Wealth: Trustworthy investments and previous schemes bring monetary gains, improving financial standing. The new moon brings additional funds. Seek expert financial advice for managing speculations and credit guarantees. Avoid overspending on luxuries.
Relationship: Maintain clear boundaries for a balanced mind. Singles should approach love prospects with caution. Warm conversations can mend bridges with family. Be selective about sharing secrets. Couples may face minor conflicts, but the month ends romantically.
Health: Establish rest intervals and monitor fitness. Manage cravings and sleep disorders. Consider a detox program. Consult a dietician to track and maintain your health. Adjusting sleeping habits may reduce stress levels.
Number 7 (If the first letter of your name is O or Z)
Profession: Stalled startup ideas gain momentum, attracting investors for entrepreneurs' expansions. Jobseekers receive groundbreaking work offers. Artists discover new ways to enhance popularity. Freelancers encounter unexpected collaborations. Marketing professionals invest in self-promotion and explore new opportunities.
Wealth: Expect financial success this month. Real estate investments bring gains. Siblings contribute to income growth. Explore passive income streams for significant opportunities. Positive results from stock investments. Manage expenses and legal matters diligently.
Relationship: Embrace a fresh start at home and with family. Couples share affection. Supportive brothers or friends assist women. Singles find lasting commitments. Dedicated students thrive. Reconnect with estranged loved ones.
Health: Prioritize self-care and find relief from recurring ailments. Resist temptations for better health. Manage sleep issues through timing adjustments or changes in bed or pillow.
Number 8 (If the first letter of your name is F or P)
Profession: Marketing professionals can form alliances for success this month. Freelancers may need minor adjustments. Office misunderstandings may lead to clashes. Entrepreneurs will gain recognition and opportunities through effective pitching. Job seekers may discover hidden job openings.
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Wealth: Review long-term finances and control expenses. Be cautious of speculations that may impact savings. Expect profits from multiple sources later on. Real estate earnings may increase, and siblings could offer financial support.
Relationship: Take a breather and address issues openly this month. Couples can strengthen their relationship. Singles will choose partners wisely. Short family getaways bring peace, and women receive appreciation at home.
Health: Seek immediate medical attention for serious spine, throat, or knee issues. Those with chronic diseases may see recovery later this month. Resume health goals for improved fitness.
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DIY Remedies For The Month
Practice silence daily for at least 11 Mins at a time of your comfort (fixed time daily preferably). This helps in gaining your hidden inner power.
Indulge yourself in journaling during the month; it will make sure to take care of your emotional well-being.
Do not burden yourself with work. Try to strike a balance between work and life so that both sail strongly.
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Every lunar cycle brings in a full moon with its astrological implications. But the upcoming month is turning out to be a unique one, as there are two full moons, both of which are supermoons — the sturgeon moon and an elusive blue moon. If you wish to catch a glimpse of this rare phenomenon, then read on to know how to watch the two supermoons in August 2023.
While each of them has its own impact on the zodiac signs, the two August supermoons make for dazzling cosmic theatrics against a dark night sky. Firstly, blue moons are infrequent events; adding to the blue moon is the occurrence of the sturgeon moon, making this calendar month a special one.
But before we delve into the timings of this celestial event, let us understand how they occur and what will the moon look like during this period.
What are supermoons?
A supermoon occurs when the full moon’s orbit brings it in the closest proximity to the Earth, known as perigee. The distance of the moon at perigee is around 3,63,300 km from the planet. Conversely, when the moon stands at its farthest point from the Earth, it is termed apogee. That is around 4,05,500 km away because of its elliptical orbit.
Also referred to as the ‘Perigean full moon’, the satellite appears bigger and brighter than the average-sized moon during this time. However, not all supermoons are the same. The unique sequence of the Earth, moon and the Sun gives these full moons their radiance and enigma. According to Earth.com, “This precise alignment creates a slightly larger and brighter moon, with increases of up to 14 per cent in apparent size and up to 30 per cent in brightness compared to a micro moon, the term for a full moon at apogee.”
Typically, supermoons occur around three to four times a year. However, this year’s supermoon cycle is particularly fascinating because, as it has four consecutive supermoons — it began on 3 July with the Buck Moon and will conclude with the final supermoon on 29 September known as the Harvest Moon.
What is a blue moon?
We all have used the term ‘blue moon’ in casual conversation to imply something that seldom happens. It takes cues from this unusual astrological event where a particular calendar month experiences two full moons.
The moon technically completes a revolution around the Earth in 29.5 days. But since the months on the planet are longer with 30 or 31 days, full moons can appear twice in the same calendar month, roughly every 2 to 2.5 years. This second full moon is the rare blue moon. The name might hint at a colour shift, but blue moons don’t essentially take on a bluish hue.
However, Farmer’s Almanac also states a seasonal blue moon, with four full moons in a single season instead of three.
Now that we are abreast of the primary two terms, let’s take a deeper look into the two August supermoons.
More about the sturgeon moon and blue moon of August 2023
What is the sturgeon moon and how to watch it?
The first full moon of August 2023 is given the moniker sturgeon moon. It marks the second supermoon of the year and is going to be the brightest of them all. Like most other full moons, the sturgeon moon gets its name from the Native American groups living around the Great Lakes region. August is traditionally their time to hunt for the giant Sturgeon, a prehistoric-looking fish that has been found for over 136 million years.
The sturgeon moon will take place on 1 August 2023, at 06:31 pm GMT (14:31 EDT or midnight IST on 1 August). This is also the time around which it will reach peak illumination. The Almanac states, “That evening, look toward the southeast after sunset to catch a glimpse of the sturgeon moon rising.” This supermoon will occur in the Capricornus constellation.
The day is astrologically significant, as it coincides with the Pagan Lammas celebration. Additionally, it also marks a halfway point between the July solstice and the September equinox, two events which are orbital milestones for the Earth.
Blue moon of August 2023 and how to watch it?
This particular blue moon is the closest supermoon of the year as well. It will be a sight of natural splendour as the sky will be illuminated in all its glory. As the second supermoon of August, it will be present in the Aquarius constellation.
The August 2023 blue moon will take place on the 31st at 01:35 GMT (7:05 am IST or 30 August, 21:35 EDT).
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Angus Cloud of Euphoria fame has tragically passed away at the age of 25, according to a statement released by his family. More info here.
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In a tragic turn of events, actor Angus Cloud, best known for his role as Fezco in the HBO coming-of-age drama Euphoria, has reportedly passed away. He was only 25 years old.
A statement was issued by his family on the matter with Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, confirming that the actor had suddenly passed on Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. The actor’s death comes not long after his own father’s recent passing a week prior, with his family mentioning that he had struggled ‘intensely’ over the loss.
Angus Cloud of Euphoria fame dies at 25
However at this point, no exact cause of death was mentioned by his family. Born Conor Angus Cloud Hickey on 10 July 1998, he was the oldest of four siblings and was a former classmate of fellow Euphoria star Zendaya at the School of Production Design at the Oakland School for The Arts.
His career would cross into the world of acting when he was scouted by casting scout Eléonore Hendricks while walking on the street in New York; at the time, Cloud had no formal acting training whatsoever. What’s more, he suspected that the offer had been a scam before a meeting was initiated with Jennifer Venditti, casting director of Euphoria. Cloud became a quick fan favourite upon taking on the role of high-school dropout and drug pusher Fezco.
Owing to the fame he garnered from his breakout role in Euphoria, Cloud was later tapped to star in a few other projects including the 2021 comedy-drama film North Hollywood, where he played the character of Walker, and this year’s college drama The Line as Robert DeWitt which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Additionally, he appeared in three other films which will be released posthumously.
Beyond the silver screen and television, he made a few appearances in music videos, most notably in Noah Cyrus’ All Three and Juice WRLD’s Cigarettes.
We extend our deepest condolences to his family during this trying time.
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Ceramic artist, Angel Oloshive, creates gradient rainbow pottery that absolutely dazzle (I think fondly of the ‘I wish I wish with all my heart’ stone from Dragon Tales)
Follow this writer for hard-hitting creative encouragement and motivation for your next project — I’ve been incredibly inspired by her for a long time.
Explore this green and earth-centered mountain retreat with walls of glass in Columbia
My favorite abstract-shaped mug in pastels for a more glorious cup of tea (pssst…use code jennaisfeeling for a discount)
Heading back to school? Shop Shorthand will give you the stationery/supplies of your Wes Anderson retro dreams
I found soft, water-resistant totes in a beautiful palette (with neons!) and they are perfect for a fall work bag refresh
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Welcome to a little preview of a new series for our supporting subscribers!
If you want to ensure access to every future lesson in Design School, make sure you are subscribed!
We will break down interior design principles in helpful, bite-sized references for everyday home-loving. The series will slowly populate like a colorful (cute) design reference dictionary for you.
Ever wonder what size rug fits with your couch? How high should art be hung above a piece of furniture? Or how to combine colors well?
The principles and basics are often (for whatever reason) hard to find. My hope is to create easy-to-understand resources for your reference as you make your space feel like sunshine.
P.S. I am both a designer and a teacher — so this is a passion intertwined!
P.S. P.S. Don’t forget to have fun and break the rules sometimes too!
How to Shop for & Hang Curtains
Let’s Talk Curtains:
To decide what size curtain rod you need: Measure the length of your window from one outer frame to the other, then add 4 inches to each side. Mark lightly with a pencil.
Where to hang the rod: Measure (at least) four inches up from the pencil markings.
How much material to order: Measure the FULL length of the curtain rod, and multiply it by one-half or two. If you want the heavily pleated look, go for two!
How long the curtains should be: (See the graphic below for reference) It depends on what style of curtain you are aiming for — but it is generally better to aim for longer, rather than shorter. You can always hem material that was too long. Many professionals recommend the curtains stop 3/4” to 1 1/4” above the floor. But you can get funky and do a pooled-up look instead!
Favorite spots for curtain shopping:
West Elm: Order curtains in custom fabrics. Their color palette is delicious — and velvet blackout curtains are incredible for the bedroom.
Amazon: Ordering without feeling the material can sometimes get you something you don’t like, but the ease of Amazon is typing in the exact measurements you need for your window. Also, incredibly cost-effective.
Pepper Home: For completely custom curtains. Coastal-looking patterns included.
Nicetown: For customizing EVERY aspect of the curtains
Tea of the Week : Sweet Dreams for a night of peace
Fresh Music : Jon Bellion covers my favorite song ever written
Shopping : Fruit pouches from Baggu
Artwork : Summer colors with avocado inspiration
Hot tip: Have you tried are.na for sourcing inspiration yet?
Mesmerizing grainy animations from Marine Buffard have had my heart for a while. I am so fascinated by the movements and palettes.
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If you forgot to put in for leave ahead of Baldur’s Gate 3, you might be thinking about getting a sick note for tomorrow. Not to fret, the very wise lawyers (marketing team, definitely not lawyers) at Larian Studios have a solution — give your boss a very convincing Cleric’s Note.
Obviously, this is not a real doctor’s note and is in no way legally binding (though it might actually work in Victoria. I’d expect Queensland to send it to the scrutineers and tell you to get back to work, however). The creation of a pretend doctor’s note is a time-honoured video game marketing strategy right out of the 90’s playbook where the Baldur’s Gate series began.
What I think is wild about this Baldur’s Gate 3 sick note is that it’s literally asking for leave to celebrate the game’s release. You’re never going to get away with that. You could have gone all in here, Larian. “There’s fucking Illithid on the loose, and my motley crew of extremely kissable friends are the only ones who can stop them. See you guys on Monday.” The Forgotten Realms are in existential peril. Let’s maybe ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
And you’ll probably need the time off. If Larian’s other games, like Divinity: Original Sin 2, are any indication, the total play time for Baldur’s Gate 3 is going to be somewhere between “500 hours” and “No one can be sure that it actually ends”. That’s to say nothing of the game’s six-year development time and the 23-year gap between Baldur’s Gate 2 and the newest instalment.
Anyway, a very happy Baldur’s Gate 3 release week to those who celebrate. We’ve waited a bloody long time for this. Any boss that makes you work this week is a bum.
Baldur’s Gate 3 launches on August 2 for Windows PC, Mac, and PlayStation 5.
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James Donaldson aka Mr. Beast, one of the most popular YouTube stars in the world, is suing the virtual kitchen company he partnered with after fans complained about poor-quality food being delivered to their homes. Mr. Beast says that the company sacrificed quality control in order to expand as quickly as possible.
In 2020, Mr. Beast partnered with Virtual Dining Concepts, a company that specializes in “ghost kitchen” restaurants that use other, established eateries—like Macaroni Grill or Brio Italian Garden—to produce branded items that are then sold via food delivery apps like Uber Eats or Door Dash. In December of 2020, Mr. Beast Burgers launched around the country, and I was tricked into ordering one. (And then the same thing happened to the wonderful and forever great Mike Fahey.) The burger I ordered was pretty bland, not great, and too expensive for what I got in the end. But at least it was cooked, and not raw beef slapped on a bun, which is what some fans seem to have received after placing their order for a Beast Burger.
As reported by Bloomberg, Mr. Beast has sued Virtual Dining, claiming in the lawsuit that his fans have been leaving negative reviews, calling the burgers “disgusting,” “revolting,” and “inedible.” In the lawsuit, the influencer states that he complained about the issues, but Virtual Dining Concepts didn’t seem to care.
Kotaku has contacted Virtual Dining Concepts about the lawsuit.
Mr. Beast and his legal team allege in the suit that Virtual Dining Concepts wasn’t concerned about quality issues or angry fans but instead was focused on rapidly expanding its company and using Mr. Beast Burgers as a way to pitch the idea to other famous actors and celebrities. Since the Beast Burger deal, Virtual Dining Concepts has created similar branded ghost kitchen offerings for NASCAR and Mariah Carey.
It’s also claimed by Mr. Beast that Virtual Dining Concepts used his image on social media without permission and even registered some trademarks related to his brand that were outside the scope of the contract. Mr. Beast is asking the court for the right to completely terminate the business deal.
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For Jenna Baird and Jacob Powsner, life on the farm doesn’t often slow down.
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BOOM! Studios has released a first-look preview for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #111, which marks the beginning of the 12-issue “Darkest Hour” storyline.
MMPR’s yearlong “Darkest Hour” arc kicks off next month from writer Melissa Flores, artist Simona Di Gianfelice, colorist Raúl Angulo, and letterer Ed Dukeshire. Revealed exclusively by IGN, the first look at Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #111 includes three lettered preview pages, not to mention a slew of covers. Taurin Clarke provides the main cover art. The issue will also ship with a number of variants from the likes of Clarke, Björn Barends, Goñi Montes, Keyla Valerio, Ariel Olivetti, Tyler Kirkham, and Eleonora Carlini.
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An official description for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #111 reads as follows: “Mistress Vile has won, or so it seems, with control of the Grid and Dark Specter’s infections spreading through the universe! As if an epic battle between Vile and the Vessel wasn’t enough, the separated and stranded Rangers receive help from the last team they’d expect, but it may not be the help they were hoping for … In the tradition of Shattered Grid and perfectly timed with the 30th anniversary of Power Rangers, writer Melissa Flores and Simona Di Gianfelice kick off the event they’ve been building to for the last year that will forever change the Power Rangers universe!”
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #111 goes on sale Wednesday, Aug. 23 from BOOM! Studios.
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On the day the Denver Broncos lost Tim Patrick for the season again, they also lost KJ Hamler.
On Monday it was reported that the Broncos will waive Hamler after the wide receiver revealed on his Instagram that he’s “taking a quick break” as he battles a heart condition.
Called pericarditis, Hamler’s issue is mild heart irritation. It is expected to keep him out weeks rather than months, hence him writing, “This is not a farewell, this is not a goodbye, this is a see you soon as I take a break for my health.”
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Hamler suffered missed offseason team work due to a torn pectoral muscle suffered earlier this offseason while working out. That followed a season in which a hamstring injury landed him on injured reserve to end the season. He began the year completing his rehab from a torn ACL and a dislocated hip suffered three games into the 2021 season.
Hamler has played in just 10 of a possible 34 games in the past two seasons and 23 of 50 for his career. Further, he faced a tight situation at wide receiver in the wake of the team using a second-round pick on Oklahoma wide receiver Marvin Mims Jr., along with the return of Tim Patrick from injured reserve and the addition of some potential special-teams contributors on the back end of the depth chart, particularly ex-Saints WR Marquez Callaway.
The Broncos did restructure his contract, making it easier to move on from him if he got hurt. Now injured, Denver is moving on for now from Hamler but may bring him back in the future.
In a few hours, Russell Wilson’s Broncos arguably lost their third and fourth wide receivers. It appears that all the chips are on Courtland Sutton and Jerry Jeudy heading into 2023.
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Nearly a year ago to the day, Tim Patrick went down with an ACL injury, ending his 2022 season before it ever started. Today, lightning struck again, as the Broncos wide receiver suffered a torn Achilles that is expected to end his season.
Broncos’ WR Tim Patrick is believed to have torn his Achilles, per sources. A season-ending injury. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 31, 2023
Last time around, the Broncos didn’t bring in any reinforcements. They counted on the players on the roster to fill the void left by Patrick’s absence.
They expected Jerry Jeudy and Courtland Sutton to emerge as legit starters. They figured K.J. Hamler could be the speed guy. Then, it was up to someone from a group that included Tyrie Cleveland, Kendall Hinton, Brandon Johnson, Jalen Virgil, Montrell Washington and Seth Williams to step up.
Things didn’t work out as planned.
Jeudy and Sutton had pedestrian seasons, with neither wide receiver eclipsing the 70-catch or 1,000-yard mark. They combined for just eight touchdowns.
Hamler appeared in just seven games before injuries derailed his season. That was nothing new, as he missed most of 2021 with an ACL.
Hinton led the remaining group of wideouts with 24 receptions. Cleveland, Johnson, Virgil and Washington combined for 14. Freddie Swain, an in-season addition, caught four passes.
It wasn’t a very productive group, providing one of the reasons why the Broncos had the NFL’s lowest-scoring offense. They simply couldn’t fill the hole left by Patrick’s absence.
In hindsight, the Broncos should’ve added a veteran wideout as soon as one of their top-three receivers went down. Still six weeks from the start of the season, Denver had plenty of time to get someone acclimated.
Instead, they stood pat. It was a bad gamble.
The Broncos can’t make the same mistake again. They need to make sure they replace a player they were counting on to be a big part of their offense. They can’t afford to sit on their hands again.
There will be some that think the Broncos can make up for the loss through players on the roster. They’ll contend that Denver’s “crowded wide receiver room” will produce a viable third option.
That might sound good, but it’s way too optimistic. If someone steps up, that’d be a bonus. The Broncos can’t count on that happening, however.
It certainly won’t be Hamler. Already sidelined after tearing a pec during offseason workouts, the speedster was released by the Broncos on Monday due to a heart condition.
It could be Marvin Mims, Jr. But he’s sidelined for a second time with a hamstring injury since being drafted by Denver. That’s a red flag.
Maybe it’s Marquez Callaway. The 25-year-old wideout spent the last three seasons in New Orleans, where he played two seasons under Sean Payton. He’s coming off a season in which he caught 16 passes in 14 games, however. It’ll be a leap for him to match Patrick’s anticipated production.
Same for Lil’Jordan Humphrey. He also has connections to Payton with the Saints, but has just 18 receptions during his four-year career.
Hinton, Johnson, Virgil and Washington are all still on the roster. The Broncos saw what their offense looked like last year, however, when those players had to play big roles; passing the football became an even bigger chore.
In other words, there’s no definitive solution. In case no one emerges as one, Denver needs some insurance.
Is that an option? The head coach left the door open on Monday.
“We have a lot of guys working right now,” Payton said. “It’s early. We’re just getting to know the guys who have been here, and then there are some guys who we have brought in. We kind of have those meetings at night where we talk about each position group. Yesterday, we met for two hours on the roster and kind of discussed that if we were bringing in an extra player, it would be this position right now or this position. That’s kind of how we approach it.”
George Paton needs to add a veteran wide receiver. He should’ve done it last season. He can’t make the same mistake twice.
There are some talented players still available. Kenny Golladay, Julio Jones and Jarvis Landry are the most-prominent names. N’Keal Harry, T.Y. Hilton and Sammy Watkins might be worth a look. Former Colorado State star Rashard Higgins is an interesting option.
Any would be more likely to be productive in 2023 than the other options currently on Denver’s roster. If one of the Broncos younger players step up, it’s always easy to move on from a late camp addition.
The Broncos have $9.3 million of available cap space. It’s time for Paton to put some of it to use.
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Frank Clark didn’t hold back.
“It was a football game between two teams,” said the free agent linebacker signee about the Denver Broncos against Kansas City Chiefs matchups.
He should know.
Spending his last four years in the NFL with the Chiefs, Clark went to three Pro Bowls, won four AFC titles, and has two Super Bowl rings.
Clark dismissed there was any rivalry whatsoever between AFC West foes Denver and KC.
The truth hurts.
As far as Clark is concerned, eight straight wins over the Broncos is pedestrian. Of course, he said all the right things afterward. He loves his coach, he loves his quarterback, he loves the Mile High City, he loves puppy dogs—you know.
But Broncos Country should appreciate his serious dollop of honesty. What have the Broncos done during this— the greatest time in Chiefs history?
Frankly (pun intended), why is Clark even here?!?
Pressed about what he has to prove, the 30-year-old looked sternly at the media corps and professed that he is as motivated as ever.
Uh…ok…I guess. Hey, if that’s true, cool. We are all just getting to know each other. Perhaps he has Wolverine Blood coursing through his veins, he is known as ‘The Shark’ after all. At the very least, he has a big personality and will be fun to be around for a year or two.
New running back Semaje Perine has the dulling personality of wood chips. Fellow defensive signing Zach Allen was a hulking monotone drone. Key offensive lineman pickup Ben Powers seems to get paid not to talk. No issues with these fellas being anonymous donors as requested by their garrulous head coach Sean Payton. It looks like the go-to guy this year with a quote and a laugh will be Frank Clark.
His championship pedigree will be appreciated—buoyed by his effervescent honesty—Clark will become an absolute key cog if the turnaround is finally coming this year.
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While it’s a tough time to be a fan of the Colorado Rockies, it’s an awesome time to root for their Triple-A team, the Albuquerque Isotopes.
On Sunday the ‘Topes had an unreal comeback from down 12-4 in the sixth and 16-11 in the ninth to walk-off winners and move just one game back of the Oklahoma City Dodgers for first in the Pacific Coast League’s East Division for the second half of the season. Albuquerque hasn’t made the playoffs since 2012 and is yet to have an above .500 season since becoming a Rockies affiliate nearly a decade ago.
The fun at Isotopes Park continues this week as not only Brendan Rodgers, who went 0-for-4 playing second base in that game, is on rehab assignment but Charlie Blackmon will join Albuquerque this week.
.@Chuck_Nazty is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment in Albuquerque this Tuesday and Wednesday! Grab your tickets now: https://t.co/YoPcIptLBy pic.twitter.com/y4aJLFXvQH — Albuquerque Isotopes (@ABQTopes) July 31, 2023
Sunday’s game was already Rodgers 10th game in the minors on his rehab which began at High-A Spokane after the All-Star Break. He’s got nine hits, three of them for extra bases including one homer since he returned to the diamond from a serious shoulder injury that he suffered in spring training.
Rodgers was the third overall draft pick in the 2015 Draft and finally had his breakout season in 2022. Injuries have been part of the story in his career, including a season-ending right shoulder surgery in 2019. Last year he spent time on the injured list with a hamstring strain.
Rodgers slashed .266/.325/.408 with 13 homers and 63 RBI last season. His total bWAR of 4.3 led the team last year. And while his bat wasn’t up to expectations last year, his glove exceeded them. His defensive WAR of 2.9 ranked third in the National League, even exceeding that of erstwhile Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado, now with the Cardinals. In doing so he became the eighth player in Rockies history to earn a Gold Glove.
Rodgers is active ahead of Monday’s Rockies game, set to make his season debut.
Meanwhile, Blackmon looks to join B-Rod out on the farm. The bearded one has been on the injured list since June 11 with a fractured right hand. The Rockies normal designated hitter and longest-tenured player, Blackmon, suffered a fracture of the fifth metacarpal. The 36-year-old is OPS’ing .769 OPS and had a nine-game hitting streak just before his injury.
The Rockies could use both their bats as they hope to avoid 100 losses, given Colorado sent away two of their more powerful offensive weapons Sunday night.
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For the second year in a row, Denver Broncos wide receiver Tim Patrick left a training camp practice on a cart.
Last year Patrick went down in the first week of August with a torn ACL in his right knee. On Monday’s practice to end July, Patrick went down in a heap of pain with what appeared to be a non-contact left leg injury. Trainers appeared to check his foot and ankle.
Monday’s Broncos practice was the first padded practice of the season and came on just the second play of the seven-on-seven period.
“We’re evaluating his left Achilles,” first-year Broncos coach Sean Payton said. “That’s what we think the injury is.”
Update: #Broncos fear WR Tim Patrick suffered an Achilles injury, per Sean Payton. Awful news if it's season ending like the torn ACL he suffered last year at camp. https://t.co/erErKTdesf pic.twitter.com/IW3VUC5yw2 — Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) July 31, 2023
Patrick last played in 2021, finishing a fourth productive season for Denver after going undrafted out of Utah. In 55 career games, he has 12 touchdowns, 11 of which came in his last two active seasons, where he caught 104 passes for 1,476 yards.
Patrick is yet to play with star quarterback Russell Wilson but the two seemed to have a connection in the limited practices they’ve had together. It may be up to Courtland Sutton and Jerry Jeudy this year in the wide out room, like last year. Or maybe, just maybe Patrick is okay.
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Ryan McMahon earned this week’s Smashburger “Smashed It” Play of the Week for his RBI double against the Athletics on Sunday.
With the Rockies leading Oakland 1-0 in the fifth inning, McMahon slapped a double into the left-centerfield gap, scoring Ezequiel Tovar and giving Colorado a 2-0 lead. The Rockies went on to win by that same score, avoiding what would’ve been a brutal sweep by the Athletics at Coors Field.
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For the second year in a row, the Denver Broncos will be without wide receiver Tim Patrick, who left a training camp practice on a cart.
After missing all of 2022, Patrick will miss all of 2023. ESPN’s Adam Schefter, a contributor to Denver Sports, reports that Patrick has suffered a torn Achilles.
Last year Patrick went down in the first week of August in a training camp practice with a torn ACL in his right knee. On Monday’s practice to end July, Patrick went down in a heap of pain with a non-contact left leg injury. That practice was the Broncos first padded practice of the season and came on just the second play of the seven-on-seven period.
Update: #Broncos fear WR Tim Patrick suffered an Achilles injury, per Sean Payton. Awful news if it's season ending like the torn ACL he suffered last year at camp. https://t.co/erErKTdesf pic.twitter.com/IW3VUC5yw2 — Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) July 31, 2023
Patrick last played in 2021, finishing a fourth productive season for Denver after going undrafted out of Utah. In 55 career games, he has 12 touchdowns, 11 of which came in his last two active seasons, where he caught 104 passes for 1,476 yards.
Patrick is yet to play with star quarterback Russell Wilson but the two seemed to have a connection in the limited practices they’ve had together. It will be up to Courtland Sutton and Jerry Jeudy this year again in the wide out room,.
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The Denver Broncos have been looking for a quarterback since Peyton Manning retired.
Last year they got the name, but his play didn’t follow and that’s why one of the year’s best quarterback ranking lists was not kind to Denver Broncos gunslinger Russell Wilson.
In Mike Sando’s 10th annual quarterback tier ranking, Wilson took the biggest drop in the history of the survey. The second-year Broncos quarterback went from an average of 1.72 in the 50 ballots cast to 2.82.
Voters, who are 50 league insiders— included eight general managers, 10 head coaches, 15 coordinators and more—are asked to put 30 veteran quarterbacks into five tiers, from best (Tier 1) to worst (Tier 5) and there are no rookies on the ballot. Quarterbacks are then ranked by average vote and placed into tiers based on vote distribution, beginning with Patrick Mahomes, whose 1.00 average vote reflected his status as a unanimous Tier 1 selection for the third time in the past four years as he’s racked up 199 of those 200 ballots.
The previous No. 1 to Mahomes on the survey and also the unanimous top choice? Wilson back in 2020.
Fellow AFC quarterbacks Joe Burrow and Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers and Justin Herbert round out the top five.
Meanwhile, Wilson is all the way down at 16 between Jared Goff and Tua Tagovailoa in tier three.
“I think he was out of shape, I think he was reading his own press clippings last year, I think they bent over backwards for him in the trade, and he had them by the short hairs, but I think Sean Payton is going to get the most out of him,” an offensive coordinator told Sando. “It would not surprise me if he plays well this year.”
Voters thought first-year Broncos coach and longtime NFL leader Sean Payton would be beneficial to Wilson but the voters did see a decline in athleticism and durability over the past few seasons, particularly in 2022.
Wilson’s 60.5% completion percentage, 84.4. passer rating and 36.7 QBR were all the worst of his career, all the while he was sacked more than anyone else in the NFL.
Wilson signed a massive contract extension with the Broncos after being traded by Seattle but before last season began.
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In This Episode: Cecil Lammey and Andrew Mason discuss the latest news and notes about Denver Broncos training camp. Topics Include – why EDGE Frank Clark just told the truth about the non-rivalry with the Chiefs, the improvements seen from QB Russell Wilson, why WR Brandon Johnson could make this team, plus more! Follow @CecilLammey
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Denver Nuggets fans knew for years that ESPN’s coverage of the now champs was lacking and apparently, the network has realized this error as well.
In ongoing shakeups at the four-letter network which saw longtime NBA color man Jeff Van Gundy ousted from the booth, his commentary partner Mark Jackson is on the way out too. According to the New York Post, ESPN is closing in on promoting Doris Burke to the A-team, while also hiring Doc Rivers to join her alongside play-by-play voice Mike Breen.
The report stated that ESPN tried Jackson on the “B” team alongside fellow Nuggets hater Mark Jones but that fell apart.
Van Gundy had been hyper-critical of the NBA and its officiating in the past and ESPN is expected to keep NBA rights in the next round of billion-dollar deals. The current contract is up in two years and the new Collective Bargaining Agreement is prepared for a massive number on that contract. Thus the shakeup of the historic crew of Van Gundy, Jackson and Breen for the new of Breen, Burke and Rivers.
Rivers coached the MVP this past season, Joel Embiid, but was fired after another early playoff exit.
Jackson, the sixth-leading assist-getter in NBA history was fired as the Golden State Warriors coach, a year before the dynasty began. Part of why he lost his job and has failed to secure another coaching gig is homophobic comments.
This past year, Jackson—as a broadcaster—was the lone MVP voter to completely leave Nikola Jokic off his ballot.
Jokic finished behind MVP voting, missing a third-straight win of the award.
Jackson’s big-time broadcasting career ended with his final game being Jokic’s first title on the Nuggets home floor while one of his fellow ESPN employees was boo’d by Nuggets fans.
If Jokic can throw 630 helpers a year—lower than the number he did in 2023—he’s 10 years away from ending up above Jackson on the all-time assists leaderboard.
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click to enlarge Max Bouvatte Bone Thugs-N-Harmony closed out the first night of Pig & Whiskey Festival, which was a scorcher.
MONDAY, JULY 24. Local grocer Fields Foods seems to be in deep trouble: Its Pagedale store, a much-lauded collab with a local nonprofit, has closed less than a year after launching, and across the city, shelves are empty. Owner Chris Goodson says he’s selling to an employee group — oh, and he needs massive tax breaks to redevelop Cleveland High School. This bodes well. Also, state Senator Andrew Koening (R-Manchester) is running for state treasurer, and we’re enjoying the idea of all the GOP candidates beginning a circular firing squad to rival the Democrats’.
TUESDAY, JULY 25. It’s super hot in St. Louis — and beyond. Water temps in southern Florida are at 100 and 102 degrees Fahrenheit. Is boiling to death our fate? Well, convicted child killer Johnny Johnson may get a reprieve; a three-court panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals issues a stay in his execution, which had been set for August 1. More problems with the city’s 911 dispatch system: KSDK reports a man died of a heart attack after playing baseball in Forest Park. His friends called 911 over and over again, to no avail. They note that the park also apparently lacks defibrillators, which just seems dumb.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26. A morning downpour does little to cut through the heat. In Delaware, a judge blocks Hunter Biden’s plea deal. In London, Kevin Spacey is found not guilty of sexual assault. And across the world, music lovers mourn Sinead O’Connor. Sinead, let this 45-year-old newspaper decree on behalf of all of Gen-X: Nothing compares 2 U.
THURSDAY, JULY 27. The U.S. Senate votes 61-37 to expand a federal program for survivors of nuclear radiation to include all the St. Louis-area residents poisoned by the waste the feds carelessly dumped here after the Manhattan Project — the subject of our cover story three weeks ago. We hate ever to credit that Hawley dipshit, but this is good. Really good. Meanwhile, security at City SC pepper sprays rowdy fans en route to the team losing 4-0. Now they’re out of the Leagues Cup, which we will pretend means something to us. Also, the Loop Trolley goes offline because it’s too hot. That clown car always was quick to throw in the towel.
FRIDAY, JULY 28. It’s still ridiculously hot, yet the Pig & Whiskey Festival is packed. No trolley-style quitting for Bone Thugs-n-Harmony! Alas, one music fan who isn’t in attendance: Robert “Beatle Bob” Matonis. His sister confirms he died July 27 after suffering from ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. RIP. In unrelated news, Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore charges a 34-year-old man with statutory sodomy and sexual misconduct after he allegedly snatched a child in St. Louis Hills and assaulted him behind a dumpster. The same guy is also accused of attacking a kid at Francis Park. Terrifying.
SATURDAY, JULY 29. A massive storm rolls through the metro area in the late afternoon, and in a frustratingly common occurrence this summer, tens of thousands are again without power. Powering along: The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which overrules the three-judge panel that granted convicted killer Johnny Johnson a reprieve earlier this week. His execution is now set after all for August 1, as long as the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t get involved. Meanwhile, the Archdiocese of St. Louis hosts a summit on gun violence. Says Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, "It's a human life issue, and it's a quality of life issue.” Hear, hear.
SUNDAY, JULY 30. It’s the final mass for the Catholic parishes ordered to close under the archdiocese’s All Things New plan, and it feels like the end of a (very flawed) era. It’s also incredibly hot yet again — but the trolley is supposedly back. To which we have to ask: Who cares, and is anyone even riding the damn thing? Meanwhile, the beleaguered Cardinals trade no fewer than three pitchers, and righthander Jordan Hicks posts a photo of his Imo’s order, purchased from the Hampton Avenue pizzeria earlier in the day. The Texas native even got the Provel bites before heading off to Toronto. We’re not crying, you’re crying!
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A north Alabama man who was convicted in April of child rape and incest was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors announced.
Lawson Miller Sr., 44, of Guntersville, continuously had sex with the child -- a female relative who was under his care -- when she was 10 through 13 years old, said Marshall County District Attorney Jennifer Bray.
Marshall County Judge Christopher F. Abel, who presided over Miller’s trial, sentenced the Guntersville man on Monday.
“My heart is grateful for Judge Abel’s sentence in this case, not only as a district attorney, but as a mom and member of this community,” Bray said in a statement.
The district attorney said she was proud of the victim’s courage in coming forward.
“Mr. Miller will die in prison, and that is honestly better than he deserves,” Bray said.
After a three-day trial, a Marshall County jury convicted Miller after just 40 minutes of deliberations on charges of first-degree rape of a child less than 12, first-degree rape by forcible compulsion and incest, the DA’s office said.
Abel sentenced Miller to the maximum on each count.
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A missing boy whose body was recovered from a spring-fed pool in south Alabama early Sunday evening has been identified.
Geneva County Coroner Don Atkinson told AL.com on Monday the child was 6-year-old Brantley Griffin.
Brantley, who was at a birthday party at a Coffee Springs campsite, was reported missing about 3 p.m. Sunday, Geneva County Sheriff Tony Helms told WDHN.
The child was last seen in a playground. His family began searching surrounding woods before expanding the search.
Divers found Brantley’s body in a spring-fed pool around 6 p.m. Sunday, Helms told WDHN.
The child had been seen with a flotation device before he disappeared but was not wearing the device when his body was discovered, the sheriff said.
Brantley’s body is being transported to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy.
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LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers will have the opportunity in 2023 to become the 13th SEC player with two 1,000-yard receiving seasons.
Two SEC players had 1,000 receiving yards in the 2022 season. After catching 67 passes for 1,267 yards and 15 touchdowns last season, Tennessee wide receiver Jalin Hyatt is in training camp with the NFL’s New York Giants. Nabors returns for LSU after having 72 receptions for 1,017 yards and three touchdowns in 2022.
If Nabers could accomplish the feat, he’d become the second LSU player with two 1,000-yard receiving seasons, joining Josh Reed, who did so in 2000 and 2001.
In the SEC’s 90 previous football seasons, there have been 83 1,000-yard receiving seasons accomplished by 71 players.
Last season was a return to normal after the SEC had a record seven 1,000-yard receivers in 2021. The SEC also had exactly two 1,000-yard receivers in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020 (with three in 2019).
Despite the concentration of 1,000-yard receivers in the most recent third of conference history and the record number in 2021, three SEC programs are at least 20 seasons removed from their most recent such performance. Auburn hasn’t had a 1,000-yard receiver since 1999, and Florida and Georgia haven’t had one since 2002.
All but eight of 83 1,000-yard performances occurred in the past 28 seasons. Since 1995, only in 2004 and 2008 did the SEC fail to produce at least one 1,000-yard receiver.
More recent pass-catchers have benefited from a scoring change by the NCAA. Before 2002, statistics from bowls were not included in a player’s official totals.
Does that make a difference?
Here’s an example: In 1987, Wendell Davis caught 72 passes for 993 yards as LSU compiled a 9-1-1 regular-season record and earned an invitation to the Gator Bowl. In the Tigers’ 30-13 victory over South Carolina in Jacksonville, Davis caught nine passes for 132 yards and three touchdowns.
But Davis’ 1987 season isn’t included among the SEC’s 1,000-yard receiving campaigns. His official total for the season is 993 receiving yards, not 1,125, which would be the case today. Instead of Davis owning the honor as the first SEC player with two 1,000-yard receiving seasons, Tennessee’s Joey Kent holds that distinction for his 1995 and 1996 seasons.
LSU’s Tony Moss in 1988 and Tennessee’s Tim McGee in 1985, Carl Pickens in 1990 and Peerless Price in 1998 would have been 1,000-yard receivers, too, if their bowl stats were part of their official records.
RELATED: SEC FOOTBALL BY THE NUMBERS: A RARE SEASON FOR RUSHERS
Here are the SEC players who have had 1,000 receiving yards in a season (using the official totals):
Alabama wide receiver John Metchie holds on to a touchdown reception against Georgia during the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 4, 2021, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Alabama: 13 1,000-yard seasons by nine players
1993: David Palmer 1,000 yards on 61 receptions
2006: DJ Hall 1,056 yards on 62 receptions
2007: DJ Hall 1,005 yards on 67 receptions
2010: Julio Jones 1,133 yards on 78 receptions
2012: Amari Cooper 1,000 yards on 59 receptions
2014: Amari Cooper 1,727 yards on 124 receptions
2015: Calvin Ridley 1,045 yards on 89 receptions
2018: Jerry Jeudy 1,315 yards on 68 receptions
2019: DeVonta Smith 1,256 yards on 68 receptions
2019: Jerry Jeudy 1,163 yards on 77 receptions
2020: DeVonta Smith 1,856 yards on 117 receptions
2021: Jameson Williams 1,572 yards on 79 receptions
2021: John Metchie 1,142 yards on 96 receptions
Arkansas wide receiver Treylon Burks carries the football during an SEC game against Missouri on Nov. 26, 2021, at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark.(AP Photo/Michael Woods, File)
Arkansas: Four 1,000-yard seasons by four players
1998: Anthony Lucas 1,004 yards on 43 receptions
2011: Jarius Wright 1,117 yards on 66 receptions
2012: Cobi Hamilton 1,335 yards on 90 receptions
2021: Treylon Burks 1,104 yards on 66 receptions
Auburn wide receiver Ronney Daniels catches a touchdown pass against Appalachian State on Sept. 4, 1999, in Auburn.(AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Auburn: Two 1,000-yard seasons by two players
1970: Terry Beasley 1,051 yards on 52 receptions
1999: Ronney Daniels 1,068 yards on 56 receptions
Florida wide receiver Taylor Jacobs catches a touchdown pass during an SEC game against LSU on Oct. 12, 2002, in Gainesville, Fla.(AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)
Florida: 11 1,000-yard seasons by 10 players
1969: Carlos Alvarez 1,329 yards on 88 receptions
1995: Chris Doering 1,045 yards on 70 receptions
1995: Ike Hilliard 1,008 yards on 57 receptions
1996: Reidel Anthony 1,293 yards on 72 receptions
1997: Jacquez Green 1,024 yards on 61 receptions
1998: Travis McGriff 1,357 yards on 70 receptions
1999: Darrell Jackson 1,156 yards on 67 receptions
2000: Jabar Gaffney 1,184 yards on 71 receptions
2001: Jabar Gaffney 1,191 yards on 67 receptions
2001: Reche Caldwell 1,059 yards on 65 receptions
2002: Taylor Jacobs 1,088 yards on 71 receptions
Georgia wide receiver Terrence Edwards makes a leaping catch during an SEC game against Tennessee on Oct. 12, 2002, in Athens, Ga.(AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Georgia: One 1,000-yard season
2002: Terrence Edwards 1,004 yards on 59 receptions
Kentucky wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson makes a reception during an SEC game against Tennessee on Nov. 6, 2021, in Lexington, Ky. (AP Photo/Michael Clubb)AP
Kentucky: Six 1,000-yard seasons by six players
1998: Craig Yeast 1,311 yards on 85 receptions
1999: James Whalen 1,019 yards on 90 receptions
2006: Keenan Burton 1,036 yards on 77 receptions
2007: Steve Johnson 1,041 yards on 60 receptions
2010: Randall Cobb 1,017 yards on 84 receptions
2021: Wan’dale Robinson 1,334 yards on 104 receptions
LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers runs after making a reception against New Mexico on Sept. 24, 2022, at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
LSU: 10 1,000-yard seasons by nine players
1983: Eric Martin 1,064 yards on 52 receptions
1986: Wendell Davis 1,244 yards on 80 receptions
2000: Josh Reed 1,127 yards on 65 receptions
2001: Josh Reed 1,740 yards on 94 receptions
2003: Michael Clayton 1,079 yards on 78 receptions
2013: Jarvis Landry 1,193 yards on 77 receptions
2013: Odell Beckham Jr. 1,152 yards on 49 receptions
2019: Ja’Marr Chase 1,780 yards on 84 receptions
2019: Justin Jefferson 1,540 yards on 111 receptions
2022: Malik Nabers 1,017 yards on 72 receptions
Mississippi State wide receiver Makai Polk catches a touchdown pass during an SEC game against Vanderbilt on Oct. 23, 2021, at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tenn.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Mississippi State: Three 1,000-yard seasons by three players
1978: Mardye McDole 1,035 yards on 48 receptions
2015: Fred Ross 1,007 yards on 88 receptions
2021: Makai Polk 1,046 yards on 105 receptions
Missouri wide receiver J’Mon Moore runs after making a reception against Connecticut on Oct, 28, 2017, in East Hartford, Conn.(AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Missouri: Three 1,000-yard seasons by two players
2014: Bud Sasser 1,003 yards on 77 receptions
2016: J’Mon Moore 1,012 yards on 62 receptions
2017: J’Mon Moore 1,082 yards on 65 receptions
Missouri’s list includes only those players who have had 1,000-yard receiving seasons since 2012, when the Tigers joined the SEC. Overall, Missouri has had nine 1,000-yard receiving seasons by seven players. The Tigers’ other 1,000-yard receivers have been Victor Bailey with 1,210 yards on 75 receptions in 1992, Justin Gage with 1,075 yards on 82 receptions in 2002, Jeremy Maclin with 1,055 yards on 80 receptions in 2007 and 1,260 yards on 102 receptions in 2008, Danario Alexander with 1,781 yards on 113 receptions in 2009 and T.J. Moe with 1,045 yards on 92 receptions in 2010.
Ole Miss wide receiver Dontario Drummond leaps ahead during an SEC game against Mississippi State on Nov. 25, 2021, at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Miss.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Ole Miss: Six 1,000-yard seasons by five players
2009: Shay Hodge 1,135 yards on 70 receptions
2015: Laquon Treadwell 1,153 yards on 82 receptions
2017: A.J. Brown with 1,252 yards on 75 receptions
2018: A.J. Brown with 1,310 yards on 85 receptions
2020: Elijah Moore with 1,193 yards on 86 receptions
2021: Dontario Drummond with 1,028 yards on 76 receptions
South Carolina wide receiver Pharoh Cooper catches a touchdown pass against The Citadel on Nov. 21, 2015, in Columbia, S.C.(AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
South Carolina: Four 1,000-yard seasons by three players
2005: Sidney Rice 1,143 yards on 70 receptions
2006: Sidney Rice 1,090 yards on 72 receptions
2010: Alshon Jeffery 1,517 yards on 88 receptions
2014: Pharoh Cooper 1,136 yards on 69 receptions
South Carolina’s list includes only those players who have had 1,000-yard receiving seasons since 1992, when the Gamecocks joined the SEC. Before its SEC era, South Carolina had one player reach 1,000 receiving yards in a season -- Sterling Sharpe with 1,106 yards on 74 receptions in 1986.
Tennessee wide receiver Jalin Hyatt catches a touchdown pass against UT Martin on Oct. 22, 2022, at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn.(AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Tennessee: 10 1,000-yard seasons by nine players
1995: Joey Kent 1,055 yards on 69 receptions
1996: Joey Kent 1,080 yards on 68 receptions
1997: Marcus Nash 1,170 yards on 76 receptions
2001: Kelley Washington 1,010 yards on 64 receptions
2006: Robert Meachem 1,298 yards on 71 receptions
2007: Lucas Taylor 1,000 yards on 73 receptions
2011: Da’Rick Rogers 1,040 yards on 67 receptions
2012: Justin Hunter 1,083 yards on 73 receptions
2021: Cedric Tillman 1,081 yards on 64 receptions
2022: Jalin Hyatt 1,267 yards on 67 receptions
Texas A&M wide receiver Josh Reynolds catches a touchdown pass during an SEC game against Ole Miss on Nov. 12, 2016, at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.(AP Photo/Sam Craft)
Texas A&M: Four 1,000-yard seasons by three players
2012: Mike Evans 1,105 yards on 82 receptions
2013: Mike Evans 1,394 yards on 69 receptions
2015: Christian Kirk 1,009 yards on 80 receptions
2016: Josh Reynolds 1,039 yards on 61 receptions
Texas A&M’s list includes only those players who have had 1,000-yard receiving seasons since 2012, when the Aggies joined the SEC. Before its SEC era, Texas A&M had two players reach 1,000 receiving yards in a season -- Jeff Fuller with 1,066 yards on 72 receptions in 2010 and Ryan Swope with 1,207 yards on 89 receptions in 2011.
Vanderbilt wide receiver Jordan Matthews catches a touchdown pass against Houston in the BBVA Compass Bowl on Jan. 4, 2014, at Legion Field in Birmingham.(AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Vanderbilt: Six 1,000-yard seasons by five players
1967: Bob Goodridge 1,114 yards on 79 receptions
1988: Boo Mitchell 1,213 yards on 78 receptions
2001: Dan Stricker 1,079 yards on 65 receptions
2006: Earl Bennett 1,146 yards on 82 receptions
2012: Jordan Matthews 1,323 yards on 94 receptions
2013: Jordan Matthews 1,477 yards on 112 receptions
FOR MORE OF AL.COM’S COVERAGE OF THE SEC, GO TO OUR SEC PAGE
Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.
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South Alabama picked up its third commitment of the day Monday from Will Loerzel, a tight end from Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans.
Loerzel (6-foot-4, 245 pounds) also has scholarship offers from Louisiana Tech, Army, Louisiana-Monroe and Southern Miss, among other schools. He joins Vigor’s Jerrian Graham and Athens’ JayShon Ridgle — both wide receivers — who committed to the Jaguars on Monday.
Loerzel announced his commitment via Twitter:
Loerzel hails from the same high school program that produced Texas quarterback Arch Manning (as well as his famous uncles, Peyton and Eli). His father, Jason, played linebacker at Purdue in the late 1990s.
South Alabama has 14 commitments for its 2024 class. The early signing period for high school seniors begins in late December.
South Alabama 2024 football commitments (14)
Will Felton, LB, 6-2, 215, Pelham/Pelham HS
Amarion Fortenberry, DB, 6-0, 170, Columbia, Miss./Columbia HS
Charles Gurley, CB, 6-2, 180, New Orleans, La./St. Augustine HS
Jerrian Graham, WR, 6-2, 190, Prichard/Vigor HS
Asher Hale, OL, 6-5, 300, Mobile/St. Paul’s Episcopal School
Jared Hollins, QB, 6-4, 185, Mobile/Mary G. Montgomery HS
Nathan Jennings, DE, 6-4, 240, Madison/James Clemens HS
Logan Joellenbeck, OL, 6-6, 330, Foley/Foley HS
Will Loerzel, TE, 6-4, 245, New Orleans/Isidore Newman HS
Jamauri McClure, RB, 5-10, 185, Goshen/Goshen HS
Kevin Norwood, DT, 6-3, 290, Mobile/Theodore HS
JayShon Ridgle, WR, 6-0, 200, Athens/Athens HS
Parker Shattuck, LB, 6-2, 215, LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange HS
Achilles Wood, DE, 6-4, 250, Decatur/Austin HS
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While it is known what the 2024 Major League Baseball game at Rickwood Field will not be called, Thursday is set to bring clarity on the name of the regular season contest between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants at the historic Birmingham stadium.
MLB officials are joining Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and guests including former MLB players Ryan Howard, Randy Winn and Ron “Papa Jack” Johnson,Negro Leagues preservationists and advocates and the general managers of the Birmingham Barons and the Montgomery Biscuits for the unveiling of the game’s name and logo.
The announcement is set for 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball park in America.
The Cardinals and Giants are scheduled to face each other on June 20, 2024.
The game will include activities saluting the Negro Leagues and Hall of Famer and Alabama native Willie Mays. The baseball legend is also a former Birmingham Black Baron who played at the historic ballpark.
Birmingham’s game takes the same format as the one played in Dyersville, Iowa at the site of the famed “Field of Dreams” movie set.
That series of games garnered instant notoriety from nostalgia of the 1989 film and was branded as the “MLB at Field of Dreams Game.”
But, Birmingham’s Rickwood Field sits in the Rising-West Princeton neighborhood, not in a cornfield, and MLB does not transfer brands for regular season games.
So, the Field of Dreams remains in Iowa and another name must be chosen for Birmingham.
Also joining Thursday’s festivities are MLB network analyst and former player Harold Reynolds, who will serve as the event’s emcee; Mike Hill, senior vice president of on-field operations for MLB; Gerald Watkins of Friends of Rickwood; Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick; and MLB field and stadium consultant Murray Cook.
Officials are also expected to provide updates on renovations to Rickwood to prepare the stadium for Major League action.
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British rock band Queen are returning to Japan with the band set to play the city of Sapporo, which they last visited more than 40 years ago.
The Rhapsody tour is coming to four cities in Japan, with the concert remaining a tribute to the legacy of lead singer Freddie Mercury who died in 1991 due to complications relating to Aids.
American artist Adam Lambert will lead vocals while Sir Brian May plays the guitar and Roger Taylor performs on the drums.
Teasing that this could be the band’s last tour in Japan, Taylor said: “We are so excited to be returning to Japan, the country that has always held a special and most honoured place in our hearts.
Brian May of Queen and Adam Lambert perform live on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival (PA Archive/David Jensen)
“This may be the last time… who knows? We promise to bring a very real spectacular for you to enjoy.”
In the autumn, the band will kick-start their 22-date North American tour, which will lead into the Japan tour, starting in February 2024.
The tour will begin on February 4 in Nagoya, with the band going on to perform in Osaka on February 7, Sapporo on February 10 and finishing with two shows at the Tokyo Dome on February 13-14.
The band last played at Sapporo, capital of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, during the Hot Space tour of 1982.
The country is a regular feature on Queen’s touring schedule and the band and Lambert returned to the country in 2020 to perform four sold-out shows.
We've got some additional dates for you! Tickets on sale now for the new #RhapsodyTour shows with @QueenWillRock ✨ Get yours at https://t.co/9TdzFPklHD 🎟️ pic.twitter.com/sIXgMhPgqe — ADAM LAMBERT (@adamlambert) April 7, 2023
Speaking about the performances, Lambert said: “The Japan shows back in 2020 were so much fun, the audience were incredible. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to come back. Can’t wait.”
Decorating the Rhapsody tour setlist is a back catalogue of hits which include We Will Rock You, Don’t Stop Me Now and Radio Ga Ga.
Alongside Lambert, May and Taylor, Spike Edney will perform on keys, with Neil Fairclough on bass guitar and Tyler Warren on percussion.
Tickets for the Rhapsody tour go on pre-sale for Japanese customers from August 10 at to October 6, with tickets awarded lottery-style.
Tickets for overseas customers go on pre-sale from October 7 to October 25.
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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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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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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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Card Kingdom Union members have accepted the contract put forth by leadership of the popular trading card game retailer.
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Workers comprising the Card Kingdom Union voted to approve the contract proposed by management of the popular trading card game reseller. Over a year since Card Kingdom operations employees won an election to unionise under United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 3000, management and ownership has proposed a contract that those same workers are willing to accept. A press release characterised the document as “a contract we are all proud of, and that is mutually beneficial” to both the employees and higher-ups within the Washington-based business, which sells trading card game singles and related products. “We’ve very proud and excited by the results of our negotiations with UFCW 3000. This has been a productive and collaborative process from day one, and our approach has remained simple — honor the union process and employee voices while not trading our customer expectations and cultural foundations that make us who we are,” said Bob Woods, vice president of Card Kingdom. “This Agreement is the embodiment of that balance and compromise. From market-defining inclusivity provisions to industry-leading wages, benefits and workplace experience programs, Card Kingdom was and remains a great place to work for all employees.” Card Kingdom workers told Dicebreaker last year that working conditions at Card Kingdom had created a frustrated and underpaid staff, unsafe conditions and a culture of crunch and burn that they asserted was unsustainable. That animus led many in the warehouse and operations side - those who fulfil online orders and sort cards for titles such as Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! - to unionise in hopes of gaining a voice at the same table as Card Kingdom’s management in hopes of improving pay, safety and a future within the company. With a contract in place, both the union and Card Kingdom leadership have a guideline of rules and demands that should ostensibly guide all future decisions, but making demands and seeing them met are often two different beasts. Dicebreaker has reached out to the union and Card Kingdom for comment and more information. Card Kingdom’s successful union efforts represent a growing wave and worker-led efforts in the tabletop industry. The United Paizo Union also recently secured a contract with management of the RPG publisher behind Pathfinder and Starfinder, while retailer peer TCGPlayer has revived its own unionisation efforts in the face of a buyout by eBay. Other recent union efforts, such as Noble Knight Games and Card Kingdom sister company Mox Boarding House , show the breadth of labour empowerment isn’t limited to any one side of the industry and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
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The digital adaptation of deckbuilding wargame Undaunted: Normandy has launched into Early Access on PC.
Undaunted: Normandy looks to be a faithful port of Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson’s first instalment in the acclaimed series, which melds together tactical troop placement across tile maps and deckbuilding gameplay as players use the cards in their hand to command their units. The game follows squads of American and German soldiers as they battle during a series of scenarios set during the D-Day landings.
Wheels plays Undaunted: north Africa with co-designer David Thompson
Since its release in 2019, Normandy has since been followed by standalone sequels following WWII campaigns in North Africa and Stalingrad, as well as an aerial spin-off in this year’s Battle of Britain.
Developer Bookmark Games’ digital adaptation of Normandy turns the WW2 board game’s tiles and tokens into 3D terrain and troops, but otherwise stays true to the tabletop experience in allowing two players to take command of the opposing sides. The video game also features the option for a single player to take on an AI opponent, with the game featuring an experimental computer player powered by machine learning alongside a more traditional AI spanning three difficulty levels.
Undaunted: Normandy’s Early Access version on Steam includes a tutorial and all of the scenarios from the board game, plus two additional scenarios made available after its original release.
While the scenarios can currently be tackled as standalone missions in single-player and local hotseat or online asynchronous multiplayer, the game’s campaign mode will be implemented in its full release planned for 2024. A mobile release for iPad is also planned, with a release date yet to be announced.
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Magic: The Gathering’s first set taking place after the defeat of Phyrexia, Wilds of Eldraine, has the onerous task of communicating the tone for the popular trading card game’s next era. Thanks to a panel at the recent Pro Tour Barcelona, we now know a bit more about our first return to a plane of knights, fairies and twins on the outs.
Wizards of the Coast Head Designer Mark Rosewater spoke to Gavin Verhey on an extended panel at the competitive MTG event over the weekend, taking a bit of time away from the head-to-head matches to explain some of the story and mechanical direction for Wilds of Eldraine. Still reeling from the devastation meted out by Phyerexians during the events of March of the Machine, Eldraine must pull double duty - cope with the trauma left by planar-wide war while also facing an entirely new threat known as the Wicked Slumber.
Created by the fairy sovereign Talion, the Kindly Lord and three witches, the Wicked Slumber was begrudgingly created to protect the denizens of Eldraine but now runs amok and threatens to leave the whole world under a magical sleep. Almost certainly unrelated, the nightmare-treading Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator has arrived on the plane to put some nefarious scheme into action. Former planeswalkers (but still current twins) Will and Rowan Kenrith find themselves at cross purposes regarding how to handle the current crisis, likely due to the death of their parents, the former king and queen, during the invasion.
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Speaking of planeswalkers, Rosewater notes that Ashiok will be the only planeswalker card to appear in this set. MTG’s R&D department “general intent” will be to include only one planeswalker per big release, according to Rosewater. Most of MTG’s in-universe planeswalkers were ‘desparked’ in the aftermath of Elesh Norn’s defeat, considerably flattening the power level brought to bear during these massive narrative conflicts.
Mechanically speaking, this means planeswalker cards will likely be more impactful on the baord and unique in their designs. All of the previously sparked heroes and villains will still show up, only now as legendary creature cards. Rosewater confirmed that more than a few previous planeswalkers will rear their heads in Wilds of Eldraines, sans planar powerjuice.
It also leaves more spotlight for the world itself, and Eldraine will have plenty to show off. Wilds of Eldraine will apparently focus heavily on enchantments - a neat fit with the fairy magic theme of the set. Additionally, the 10 dual-Mana colour draft archetypes in the limited environment will each pull inspiration from a different classic fairy tale. For example, Red+Green Mana follows the tale of Red Riding Hood, while White+Black emulates Snow White and the witch who created the charmed apple.
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Adventures will appropriately return, along with their gorgeous storybook frame treatment. Introduced in the first visit to this fantastical plane, Adventure card feature two ‘pages’ splitting the rules text box. A player can choose to play the Adventure on the left side for a different cost and effect or the creature as normal (though, the intended order is Adventure followed by creature for maximum value).
Food will also make an appearance, though don’t expect it to match the importance it had to the Hobbits in Tales of Middle-earth. Apparently the card designers have leaned heavier into more aggressive uses of the tasty little tokens, as exemplified in the Tough Cookie card. This gingerbread warrior can transform noncreature artefacts into 4/4 artefact creatures, putting that larder to work beating the snot out of your opponent.
Wilds of Eldraine will release to tabletop on September 8th following prerelease events beginning September 1st. MTG Arena will gain access to a digital version of the set on September 5th, while an Alchemy-related mini-set is planned for October 10th.
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Age of Sigmar’s skirmish sibling gets an introductory box at last, but the value here is poor.
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I had been meaning to try Warcry, Games Workshop’s skirmish game set in the Warhammer: Age of Sigmar universe, for ages. Several of my online wargaming pals are big proponents of the game and it’s only the lack of physical proximity that meant I hadn’t been dragged into a match or five. That meant I was very excited to check out Crypt of Blood, the forthcoming starter set for Warcry.
Warcry is to Age of Sigmar what Kill Team is to Warhammer 40,000, although they both have unique rulesets. Warbands of three to 15 fighters, usually around ten, have a good old scrap across a table densely packed with terrain. Originally themed around various Chaos warbands vying for glory, over the past year GW has focused on opening it up with representation for all the Grand Alliances of the Mortal Realms - plus there’s always the option to use a selection of your existing Age of Sigmar army to form a warband.
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Despite the low model count and ability to use models you already own, Warcry isn’t necessarily the easiest game to get started with. Like many skirmish games, the low model count is counterbalanced by the need for lots of terrain. Specifically pieces with platforms and walkways, as vertical movement is a big part of Warcry. Even if you have a sizable collection of fantasy terrain for your AoS games, it may not necessarily translate into a great Warcry experience.
Crypt of Blood is designed to provide a more affordable way to get a taste of Warcry. Unfortunately, the attempt isn’t entirely successful.
This means that dipping a toe in could be pretty tricky. While picking up one of Warcry’s £100+ big boxes was the best way to start playing the game, it’s not exactly cheap. Crypt of Blood is designed to fill that niche, providing a more affordable way to get a taste of Warcry. Unfortunately, the attempt isn’t entirely successful.
Crypt of Blood's box includes a battlemat, eight miniatures, terrain and everything else you need to play the scenarios in its rulebook - but not much more than that. | Image credit: Games Workshop
Cracking open the box, you’re greeted by some typically lovely miniatures. The warbands themselves aren’t new, having both been recycled from Warhammer Underworlds. The Crimson Court consists of four vampires of various shapes and sizes, while Xandire’s Truthseekers are a band of three Stormcast Eternals and, most importantly, their pet bird. Coming from Underworlds, they’re all push-fit models with no glue required (but since you still need glue for some of the terrain pieces, that’s a bit of a moot point). They can be used in games of AoS, but sadly not in Underworlds, unless you can obtain the required fighter cards separately.
The terrain sprue is completely new and consists of a number of vampire-themed pieces, mostly in the form of walls and fences. The highlights are an elaborate coffin, complete with blood bowl for convenient feeding of the inhabitant, and a bust of iconic vampire queen Neferata. These pieces all look great; I hope they herald the start of a new range of AoS/Warcry terrain, as the Gnarlwood sets from the past year haven’t really tickled my fancy.
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Other than the plastic, the box contains a battlemat (the flimsy paper kind, rather than nice, thick cardstock), some dice, instructions for building the miniatures, a sheet of tokens and the Crypt of Blood rulebook itself.
I absolutely love this style of “learn as you play” product, but the execution here is rather substandard.
If you’ve picked up a GW rulebook before, especially one in an introductory product, much of the contents will be familiar to you. There are sections introducing you to the Age of Sigmar setting, the specific factions and models in the box, and the painting and modelling aspects of the hobby. The core rules are included, but the main event is a series of seven battleplans designed to teach you the basics of the game while you play.
The minis in the set are lovely - but there just simply aren't enough of them to justify the price versus the likes of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. | Image credit: Games Workshop
I absolutely love this style of “learn as you play” product, but the execution here is rather substandard. Despite being presented as seven distinct battles for two players, the first four battleplans are effectively rules explanations that you read through while moving the minis on the battlefield as instructed. You’re even given the results of dice rolls, rather than being allowed to roll yourself. They’re also overly long and explain-y to the point of condescension, with the first battleplan taking six pages just to tell you how to take move actions. I understand that this is an introduction that doesn’t assume any tabletop gaming knowledge, but it could have been much more concise while still being suitable for complete newbies.
Battleplan six is the first one that lets you have something approaching an actual game, albeit with the previous scenario serving as setup instructions and some hand-holding through the first turn. Finally, battleplan seven is a proper punch-up between the included warbands. Hooray! My strong recommendation is for purchasers to work through the first four battleplans solo to get a grasp on the basics, before inviting a chum over to tackle the rest. Warcry’s basics aren’t complicated at all and you’ll be able to get down to having fun without reading pages of explanatory text out loud.
Warcry offers smaller, faster games than your typical Age of Sigmar matches. | Image credit: Games Workshop
So, once you’ve got a proper game under your belt, what’s next? Well, according to Crypt of Blood, the next step is to go and buy some more Warcry products. There’s no suggestion of further battles to be fought with the contents of the box, just the core rules and then a whole chapter advertising other Warcry books and miniatures. Sandwiched between the two is a section that explains that, while you can use the minis from Crypt of Blood in Warcry, they don’t constitute warbands on their own and you need more figures, actually.
Crypt of Blood is a rambling and incomplete introduction to Warcry that just isn’t worth the price of entry.
I described Warcry as the AoS equivalent of Kill Team. It’s in this comparison that Crypt of Blood comes off the worst. For the same asking price of £65, the excellent Kill Team starter set comes with 22 minis forming two complete kill teams that you can happily play full games with. Beef up your terrain collection a bit and you’re set. Crypt of Blood’s mere eight minis simply don’t cut it. For an equivalent experience, you’d need to buy two more warbands which retail at around £35 a pop. At that point, you’re spending more than you would for one of the big boxes (the current one being Nightmare Quest), which would get you a lot more terrain and other extra bits for your money.
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In what’s becoming a slightly worrying trend from Games Workshop, I can only recommend Warcry: Crypt of Blood if you definitely want all of the plastic in the box. Otherwise, it’s a rambling and incomplete introduction to Warcry that just isn’t worth the price of entry.
Warcry: Crypt of Blood is available to pre-order from the Games Workshop store, ahead of its August 5th release date.
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Pokémon collectors’ sought-after “waifu” Lillie fetches over $100,000 at auction.
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A Pokémon card that could only be obtained by winning a game of rock-paper-scissors against some of the TCG’s top players has sold for a record amount at auction - helped by a recent controversial trend.
The full-art Lillie card was offered as a promo card during the Extra Battle Day event held in Japan during October and November 2019.
To be in with a shot of winning the card, players were first ranked based on their performance across a number of matches, needing not only to win matches, but also to win with as great a difference between their prize cards and those of their opponents - which are lost whenever a Pokémon is defeated, with six spelling a total loss. Based on their performance over three games and head-to-head records, the players were then ranked.
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But skill alone wouldn’t get you the promo card. The Extra Battle Day event culminated in matches of rock-paper-scissors, with the winner taking home a booster pack of rare cards. Each pack included one of three full-art cards, with a chance - rather than a guarantee - to find the full-art Lillie illustrated by Naoki Saito. Lillie is claimed to be the rarest of the three, according to auction house PWCC.
PWCC notes that the combination of tournament performance and luck factors involved in obtaining Lillie - described as being the most sought-after of the Battle Day promos - makes the card one of the rarest Pokémon cards of recent years. The Extra Battle Day event was planned to be repeated in early 2020, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an even higher rarity.
A copy of the Lillie card rated at a Gem Mint 10 condition by grading specialist PSA sold on June 27th for a record $108,000, more than quadrupling the $26,000 paid for another PSA 10 copy of the card in November 2022.
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PWCC suggests that this leap in price could be down to what’s been dubbed the “Waifu Tax”, a recent trend of problematic origin (as explained by Kotaku) that has seen Pokémon cards featuring female characters drastically increase in value. “Waifu” is a slang term adopted from a certain subset of anime fans and online forum users who use the term to refer to characters they find attractive or desirable.
Like many of the characters in the kid-centric franchise, Lillie is a child. According to Pokémon wiki Bulbapedia, Lillie is described in video games Pokémon Sun and Moon as being roughly the same age of the main character, making her around 11 years old.
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Mirrorscape, the augmented reality virtual tabletop rival to the likes of Roll20 and D&D’s upcoming VTT, has launched into open beta on mobile.
In essence, Mirrorscape serves the same purpose as other virtual tabletops such as Roll20, allowing players to set up virtual environments for tabletop RPGs, move around miniatures and roll dice in a digital playspace.
The app’s unique hook is that it’s built around augmented reality, letting players view the digital elements layered on top of real life via their phone. The technology allows the virtual setup to be viewed from any angle, keeping track of the player’s position around the table.
A look at Mirrorscape's use of augmented reality
As well as supporting Dungeons & Dragons 5E, Mirrorscape recently announced official support for fantasy RPG Pathfinder and its sci-fi spin-off Starfinder, which are due to come to the platform later this summer.
However, the platform is touted as being fully open-licence, allowing any RPG or homebrew content to be played. A third-party marketplace for creators to sell custom miniatures, dice, terrain and other items is planned, joining digital recreations of physical products from accessories companies including Dwarven Forge, Fat Dragon Games, Reaper Minis and Norse Foundry.
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Mirrorscape co-founder Grant Anderson, who heads up a team including Critical Role guest star and celeb D&D fan Joe Manganiello as creative director, previously told Dicebreaker that the app hopes to make virtual tabletops as polished and user-friendly as Apple products like the iPhone.
“We want to make this all drop-dead easy for anyone to do,” Anderson said. “We want to be the Apple of VTTs.”
Following six months in closed beta testing, Mirrorscape’s open beta is available now on iOS and Android. As well as support for Pathfinder and Starfinder due to arrive later this summer, the app’s roadmap includes plans to add the ability to paint miniatures, utilise weather effects and offer third-party campaigns, maps and other content via its marketplace.
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Prepare to brigade your local Golden Arches because McDonald’s will host another Happy Meal promotion for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, according to leaks from enthusiast website Pokébeach.
Happy Meal boxes shaped like Pikachu’s head will slip a four-card booster pack alongside the fast food offerings, each containing three regular cards and one holographic pick from a pool of 15 total Pokémon on 2023’s list of critters.
Pokébeach’s leak says the McDonald’s promotion will hit Germany and Austria on July 27th, followed close behind by the UK on August 23rd. While a US date was not included on the list, the massive collaboration has not missed the states once in its three-year run - expect the craze to return short on the heels of other regions.
How safe is this holographic Charizard inside its protective case?
Happy Meal booster packs will apparently mostly comprise Pokémon card reprints from the TCG’s latest core set - Scarlet and Violet. The one exception is the Pikachu card from the recent Paldea Evolved expansion. Six different Pokémon - Sprigatito, Fuecoco, Quaxly, Cetitan, Pikachu, and Klawf - have a chance to crop up with a smart holo treatment that extends into the card’s border. That’s a special effect particular to 2023’s McDonald’s promotion.
Last year’s Match & Battle toy also makes a return, though it’s sporting a redesigned look. The minigame isn’t quite how the Pokémon TCG is played, but it does a serviceable job giving kids a framework for play - and for immediately putting ketchup-stained fingers all over their new cards.
Here’s a list of all the possible Pokémon pulls:
Sprigatito
Fuecoco
Quaxly
Cetoddle
Cetitan
Pikachu
Pawmi
Kilowattrel
Flittle
Sandaconda
Klawf
Blissey
Tandemaus
Cyclizar
Kirlia
In past years, McDonald’s Pokémon promotion has caused a rush of fans - and scalpers, unfortunately - to buy the meals normally meant for children, en masse. 2021 proved especially bad thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic-fueled, all-time popularity of trading card games. Streamers, celebrities and anyone with money to burn suddenly became very interested in speculating on the contents of booster packs, sometimes by the box full. While that frenzy has since waned, expect these yellow cardboard meals to fly out of drive-thru windows with alarming speed.
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After adventuring onto cinemas screens and seeing a digital release earlier this year, D&D movie Honor Among Thieves makes its way on DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD and 4K UHD today, July 31st. To celebrate, we’ve got a veritable Bag of Holding full of goodies to give away, including a copy of the film and a bundle of merch worth £200!
Set in Dungeons & Dragons’ world of the Forgotten Realms, Honor Among Thieves follows a rowdy band of adventurers - including Chris Pine’s bard Edgin, Michelle Rodriguez’ barbarian Holga, Sophia Lillis’ druid Doric and Justice Smith’s sorcerer Simon - as they try to avert the villainous plans of Sofina and the Red Wizards of Thay. Along the way, there’s plenty of nods to the tabletop RPG for D&D fans to spot, from familiar spells and feats to creatures straight out of the Monster Manual.
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Thanks to Paramount, Hasbro, Fanattik, Hasbro Toy, Nemesis, Pyramid and Hasbro Toy, we’re offering the chance to win a D&D Honor Among Thieves bundle featuring the following list of official merchandise. (It’s so long we need to make it its own bullet point list!)
Film poster
Film mug
Film badge pack
Player manual ingot
Waterdeep coin set
Goblet
Owlbear
Edgin figure
Holga figure
On top of all that, you’ll be able to grab a copy of the film in your format of choice: 4K UHD, DVD or Blu-ray.
All you need to do to be in with a shot of winning is to follow the instructions below and answer the question. You can also find the competition and full T&Cs here. You have until next Monday, August 7th to enter. After that, we’ll pull a winner and get their prizes on the way! Good luck!
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TCGPlayer's new union files an Unfair Labour Practice Charge against eBay for union-busting actions.
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TCGunion-CWA members met with New York Senator John Mannion today and held a press conference alleging parent company eBay carried out anti-union delay tactics in order to weaken workers’ position and continue a refusal to meet at the negotiation table.
Employees at trading card retailer and verifier TCGPlayer won their election in March of this year, and the 272 members became the first organised unit in eBay’s history as a company. TCGPlayer was purchased by the massive online auction platform in 2022, spurring workers to unionise before incorporation threatened their jobs, benefits and pay - standards that they allege were not acceptable to begin with.
According to a press release from TCGUnion-CWA, eBay and TCGPlayer management have flatly refused to bargain with the union. Instead, they allegedly are “engaging in various legal and illegal stalling techniques to silence organised workers.” This reportedly include sudden changes to employment clauses and workplace standards and attempting to layoff or reclassify workers involved with unionisation efforts, among other allegedly unlawful activities.
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Members of the union met with President Biden earlier this month to discuss what they see as efforts to sabotage the organised workers’ efforts to improve workplace conditions and “ignor[ing] their basic right to organise.”
TCGunion-CWA members will be filing an Unfair Labour Practice Charge with the US Federal Labor Relations Authority and against eBay for the alleged illegal delay tactics. Additionally, there will be a petition delivery action accompanying the press conference today, July 31st, that will attempt to foment offline action and pressure against eBay for its recalcitrant behaviour.
The press conference will summarise the actions eBay allegedly carried out as well as reiterating the union’s goal to improve working conditions, pay and benefits to workers of TCGPlayer, which has remained one of the most popular grading and trading card reseller for years amongst Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! players. Their ubiquity is no doubt what made them a juicy target for acquisition by eBay - the workers are attempting to hold on to that value and power as much as they can.
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This is the second time TCGPlayer has attempted to unionise, as their first organised action in March 2020, with Service Employees International Union (SEIU), collapsed days before the official vote. What exactly happened to erode support remains unclear, but this most recent push has been much more successful - until the union was stonewalled by eBay’s management.
TCGunion-CWA accused eBay of union busting back in march when the workers first voted to organise under the Communication Workers of America, when the company allegedly terminated a worker who was actively coordinating the nascent union. That allegation also went unanswered by their parent company. Dicebreaker reached out to eBay for comment but did not receive a reply prior to publication.
More information on TCGunion-CWA, including their formal statement and official asks, can be found on the union's official website
Update: A representative from eBay provided Dicebreaker the following statement by email:
"We are not aware of any Unfair Labor Practice charge being filed. TCGplayer’s priority is, and always has been, to build a workplace culture that gives team members a voice and opportunity to actively shape their future – and the future of the business. We are firmly aware of and committed to meeting any and all obligations we may have under the National Labor Relations Act. We will continue to follow the procedures of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
At the onset of this process, TCGplayer asked Region 3 of the NLRB to resolve the issue of whether our Operations Leads were supervisors and thus ineligible for representation by the CWA. The CWA pushed back on our request and Region 3 of the NLRB agreed to wait until after the vote to address the issue. Due to the CWA’s position and Region 3’s action, we now find ourselves with this core issue unresolved. We are equally frustrated by the delay in the process; however, we intend to abide by the legal process put forth by the NLRB."
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Empty Arabian Knight booster box set to fetch hundreds under the hammer.
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Even empty boxes for vintage Magic: The Gathering sets are due to fetch hundreds of pounds at auction on eBay as the trading card game’s ongoing collecting buzz continues to thrive.
Magic: The Gathering cards have sold for record prices in recent years, as rare MTG cards boomed in value in the wake of the pandemic lockdown and increasing interest in the trading card game driven by its 30th anniversary and crossovers with the likes of Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer 40,000 and Lord of the Rings.
“The new Lord of the Rings set [Tales of Middle-earth], I've never really seen anything like it in terms of demand,” Heimir Pálmason, director of trading card game outlet WeBuyAnyCard, told Dicebreaker. “It's incredibly deep. People want almost every single card from the set. Commons and uncommons are popular. Rares are incredibly popular.”
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While MTG’s holy grail card, the Black Lotus, has continued to lead the way in terms of value with multiple record-breaking sales for hundreds of thousands of dollars - some within mere days of each other - the other cards in its Power Nine, a series of nine powerful banned cards from the TCG’s very first sets, have also appeared more frequently at auction, raising more money than ever.
“Probably around 2020, 2021… boom, old-school cards really just exploded,” Pálmason recalled. “I remember selling a [Power Nine card] Timetwister for £1,200 pounds towards the beginning of 2020. And looking at the prices nine, 12 months later, it was over £3,000 pounds for the same card.”
While Pálmason believes that older Magic: The Gathering cards have cooled a little in terms of price from the peaks of celebrity musician Post Malone reportedly dropping a record $800,000 on an Alpha Black Lotus in 2022, demand for MTG cards as a whole continues to remain strong.
“Old-school Magic has fallen off a little bit in the last year. A lot of the prices have dropped a little bit from their highs,” Pálmason said. “Right now I would say Magic is more focused on the new releases.
“[But] there's no shortage of people buying expensive Magic cards even in this economic climate. We sell maybe four or five dual lands [land cards that produce two colours of mana, making them especially valuable - copies can sell for thousands] every week.”
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Pálmason believes some of that demand has shifted from spending thousands on original copies of sought-after cards in pristine condition to picking up modern reprints, which make older Magic: The Gathering cards more accessible for those on a smaller budget and hoping to actually play with them. While banned cards, such as the Black Lotus, remain expensive to acquire (even in unplayable, reprinted form), cards still legal for use in MTG’s most popular formats often make a return in the card game’s latest sets.
“It doesn't matter so much to new players now whether they're buying the original version of a card, or the reprint version of the card, because the demand comes from a healthy place,” Pálmason explained. “The demand is coming from [the fact] they want to play with the card. It doesn't matter what the set symbol on the card is if you just want to play with it and put it in your deck. The same goes for condition; people who just want to put their card in a deck, they don't care so much as long as it’s sleeve-playable, as long as it's not destroyed or ugly.”
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In some cases, it’s not even just actual Magic: The Gathering cards that are exciting fans. Pálmason’s eBay store currently has auctions live for multiple empty boxes from vintage Magic: The Gathering sets that are set to fetch up to hundreds of pounds alone.
One highlight is an empty box for Arabian Nights, Magic: the Gathering’s first expansion released in 1993. While a sealed box containing booster packs might go for around $250,000 under the hammer - on the rare chance one appears at all - an empty box is a still rare but more realistic way for collectors to celebrate their love of the game.
“It's a nice piece of history to have,” Pálmason said. “Also, there's only so many left in the world. A sealed box of Arabian Nights, I've never seen one; I think only a handful exist. But an open one is still pretty good. I don't know how many of those open ones might exist, probably fewer than 100. That's just speculation, but it's just a cool item from Magic history that not a lot of people have or can get their hands on.”
The lots also include an empty box for second MTG expansion Antiquities, released in 1994, bundled with original wrappers for some of the box’s boosters. Other empty boxes on offer include boxes for 1994 releases The Dark and Legends.
“The guy who owned them, he bought them in the ‘90s. They used to be sealed,” Pálmason explained. “Some of those were left over so he just brought us everything, and we included it in the lot. I have not the foggiest idea in the world what it's going to sell for. He had some expectations that the Arabian Nights box could go for somewhere in excess of £500. For me, it could be anywhere from £200 to £2,000.”
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Even with the ongoing demand for Magic: The Gathering cards - and their associated paraphernalia - continuing to fetch serious money, Pálmason offered a blunt taste of reality for anyone wondering if they have a fortune hidden in their attic.
“99% of old Magic cards have no value,” Pálmason stated. “But occasionally we find gems. Like last summer, there was a lady who was taking the contents of her loft to the charity shop and she found a sealed box of International Edition. We bought it for £12,000, she was able to take her family on a holiday to Disneyworld.”
Pálmason reiterated that the best approach to trading MTG cards remains the idea that the game was spawned around 30 years ago: collecting cards based on what you enjoy about the game, rather than their value.
“I fundamentally believe that demand needs to come from players,” Pálmason confirmed. “I would say the UK market is more player-driven rather than collector-driven, which I think is a healthier state of affairs.
“That's why I want to sell people cards: because they just liked the card.”
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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
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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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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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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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.
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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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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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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Another very warm and very dry day for most across the Panhandle. That’s a trend we’ll see carry into August.
Northwest winds flowing around a ridge of high pressure are one of the main factors influencing our weather over the next 24-36 hours. A burst of dry air funneled in from that flow pattern allowed for a dry day across the Florida Panhandle on Monday, with very similar conditions expected west of the Apalachicola River on Tuesday.
Tuesday will start off somewhat mild and humid, with a mix of lower-level clouds and sunshine until around 10 or 11 a.m. Gradually clearing will occur through lunchtime, and mostly sunny skies return for the afternoon.
With sunny and mostly cloud-free conditions Tuesday afternoon - alongside a broad sinking motion in our skies - temperatures can turn a degree or two hotter on the thermometer. Slightly decreased humidity, though, will allow for a similar peak in feels-like temperatures (Since the heat index is a calculation based largely on temperatures and dew points.) Highs on Tuesday will reach the low 90s at the coast, and upper 90s up near I10.
Heading into Wednesday, we’ll start to see dry air lose out to the tropical moisture in the Gulf, with a gradual return for moisture accompanying a slight increase in the chance of rain across our area. This trend continues through the rest of the work week, especially as the ridge above us flattens out, allowing for a return to a more typical summertime pattern with a 40-50% chance of rain each afternoon.
One large piece of uncertainty exists in the forecast over the next 3-4 days, with the northwest flow and the large ridge of our west indicating a potential for more “MCS” activity in our area. An “MCS” is a mesoscale convective system - a cluster of showers and thunderstorms in more simplified terms - that moves along the upper-level flow. These storm clusters often develop around a ridge of high pressure hundreds of miles away from us, and slowly slide into our area.
Although rain chances are currently 50% or less each day on our 7-day forecast, any MCS would provide an opportunity for far more of our area to see rainfall. With that in mind, the motion of these systems means you will still only be impacted by showers and storms for an hour or two at a time.
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A very hot and humid week is on the way, with Tuesday being the warmest of the next 7 days. Rain chances will gradually increase over the next 3 days, from 20% tomorrow to 40% Thursday, and then 50% from Friday into the weekend. Temperatures will gradually cool a few degrees as that happens, although increasing humidity will maintain feels-like temps in the triple digits. We’ll have to keep an eye out for storm clusters developing to our northwest this week, which could bring a round of widespread showers and thunderstorms to our area on any given evening. That aspect of the forecast remains highly uncertain.
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The donation drive will be on Saturday, August 5th, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from four different area Walmarts across Bay County. Including the Callaway, Lynn Haven, 23rd Street, and Pier Park Walmart.
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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - United Way is teaming up with Bay District Schools for a “Stuff The Bus” campaign. This will be the first time United Way of Northwest Florida has hosted the event since Hurricane Michael in 2018.
“It’s an important event that we’ve done year after year prior to Hurricane Michael. It means a lot to our school district. It means a lot to our teachers and students, and it’s a small thing we can do to make sure that our students have what they need for the school year,” the President and CEO of United Way NWF, Gina Littleton, said.
The donation drive will be on Saturday, August 5th, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from four different area Walmarts across Bay County, including the Callaway, Lynn Haven, 23rd Street, and Pier Park Walmart.
“We’re going to make it a fun kind of competition between the different high schools and feeder schools that are in those areas. Anyone can come to those Walmarts between 9:00 and 1:00, we’ll have Flyers of all the supplies. They can pop in while they’re doing their grocery shopping on a Saturday morning and grab some things for the students,” Littleton said.
Some of those supplies items include pencils, pens, notebooks, paper, and crayons. As well as non-traditional items like belts, socks, underwear, shoes, etc.
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HCA donated a bus filled with supplies to Bay District Schools on Monday.
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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Some local children will have the supplies they need when school starts next week. That’s in part thanks to the staff at HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital.
HCA donated a bus filled with supplies to Bay District Schools on Monday.
Each department was assigned a seat to fill with supplies, clothes, shoes, and more, bringing everyone together to help out the students in their community.
“You know this is an exciting time of the year when everybody is enjoying summer. But we are all starting to look forward to the start of school. We just wanted to make sure that the kids of Bay County knew that we supported them and that we are excited for them to start their school year, continuing their education. So for us, it was a really cool way a neat way. We appreciate Bay District Schools partnering with us and allowing us to support them,” CEO of HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital, Chase Christianson said.
Besides your typical pens and pencils, the staff donated tons of new shoes. Which district officials say are much needed for younger students.
”Shoes can’t always be passed down and shoes are in short supply and shoes are expensive. So these guys have really gone out of their way to make sure we have the things that we need. Especially for our little Kindergarteners and first graders to get off on a great start for the first day so we are very grateful,” Sharon Michalik, BDS Director of Communications, said.
The bus filled with supplies was delivered to the district office Monday afternoon. Principals from across the area will be stopping by over the next few days to get the supplies their students need.
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Corona Plaza is home to one of New York City's most celebrated street vendor markets, but on Friday, the City swept the plaza, forcing many unpermitted vendors to leave.
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After months of questions about what would happen to the widely celebrated, if largely unpermitted, street food haven at Corona Plaza in Queens, the Adams administration provided an answer: On Friday, armed Sanitation Department police officers launched an enforcement sweep, clearing out many of the vendors who lack permits.
Only a handful of the dozens of vendors who usually pack the plaza at 103rd Street remained on Friday afternoon after the crackdown.
Legal vendors were forced to remove canopies they had used for shade, leaving them to bake in 94 degree heat in the midst of a brutal heat wave.
Corona Plaza after the raid (Eric Durkin / Hell Gate)
Corona Plaza has become a popular destination for Latin American street food among local residents and visitors from around the city, with vendors hawking tacos, meat skewers and sandwiches. Its population exploded when the pandemic set in, as people in the neighborhood—one of the hardest hit by COVID—turned to vending to make ends meet.
"They were taking people's stuff who didn't have a permit," said Briget Pineda, whose family has sold fruit at the plaza for the last twenty years.
Pineda's stand was allowed to stay, but forced to take down a canopy that had covered their spot. They also had to remove some merchandise because authorities said they were taking up more space than allowed.
"That's really hard," Pineda said. "It's summer. There's going to be a lot of sun out. It’s going to be hard working out in the heat."
Sanitation police officers at Corona Plaza on Saturday (Erin Durkin / Hell Gate)
A spokesman for the Department of Sanitation said enforcement was necessary because of quality of life problems in the area.
"As part of the Adams Administration's commitment to the health, safety, accessibility and cleanliness of our streets, the Department of Sanitation engaged in vending inspections and limited enforcement in Corona Plaza over the last two days. This is a location where recent visits showed significant issues with cleanliness and pedestrian access," said spokesman Vincent Gragnani.
"Sanitation Police removed five vending setups that were abandoned, all of which have been vouchered and can be claimed by their owners, and issued one summons to a vendor for obstructing the sidewalk," he said. "We remind all vendors of their legal responsibilities not to leave trash or merchandise behind."
Corona Plaza after the raid (Erin Durkin / Hell Gate)
Rules prohibit vendors from using fixed canopies bolted into the ground, according to Sanitation. Four vendors were told to remove such canopies, but not fined. Regular umbrellas are allowed, and several of the vendors switched to umbrellas after canopies were removed.
Street vendors have been unable to get permits because of a strict cap on the number issued by the City. The City Council passed legislation in 2021 to add 4,000 permits over the course of a decade, on top of the 3,000 previously available, but the process has faced lengthy delays.
At Corona Plaza—which sprawls under the 7 train stop at 103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue—as many as 90 vendors sometimes turn out on busy days, most of them without permits. The plaza earned a spot on the New York Times' recent list of the 100 best restaurants in the city.
Besides cuisine from Mexico and Ecuador, some vendors sell clothes, crafts and household supplies. A few brick and mortar merchants have complained about mess and what they consider unfair competition.
Vendors banded together to form an association, the Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes de Corona Plaza, to create their own code of conduct, keep things clean and work out any disputes.
Crowds at the usually bustling market were sparse this weekend, as most of the vendors remained shut down.
Guadalupe Sen (Erin Durkin / Hell Gate)
Guadalupe Sen has a permit for her cart, Tlayudas Oaxaquenas SR San Pablo, but was required to remove a table she had set up for customers to eat. She said that, coupled with the lack of foot traffic, has hurt business.
"Many of us survive by working at carts, and eating at carts," she said in Spanish, noting street food is more affordable for a mostly immigrant clientele. "Some people, what they sell is what they live on. If they don’t sell, they can’t eat, they can’t pay rent."
Signs posted in the area warned of an impending enforcement blitz.
A notice posted around Corona Plaza on Friday (Erin Durkin / Hell Gate)
"You have been observed by NYC law enforcement personnel operating a street vending business at a time, location and/or manner that violates the NYC administrative code," a poster said. "You may be issued summonses and your merchandise and table, etc. may be subject to removal by enforcement personnel."
A police officer on the scene confirmed that unpermitted vendors had been evicted.
"That’s what we're here for," the officer said. "It's way cleaner," they added.
The NYPD was formally removed from street vendor enforcement two years ago, in favor of the Department of Worker and Consumer Protection, though cops never entirely stopped issuing tickets. Earlier this year, enforcement authority was moved once again to Sanitation.
Police officers linger in Corona Plaza after the sweep (Eric Durkin / Hell Gate)
Giselle Ramirez said business was slow at her family’s Ecuadorean food cart after the crackdown. "Business went down, because there's nobody" around, she said. "People are scared."
But she said she understood the enforcement, because the market had become too chaotic in recent years, despite the efforts of the vendor association.
"It was overcrowded. There was no more room. There were vendors on top of other vendors. There were already accidents," she said. "There are people that follow the rules, but if one person doesn’t follow it, everybody falls down together."
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By 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, most of the people occupying the police-approved press area had stopped sweating; it was 90 degrees and humid in Massapequa Park, but the strip of sidewalk where reporters were corralled across the street from alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann's house was shady, thank God.
That doesn't mean that we were comfortable behind the flimsy strip of crime scene tape, courtesy of the Nassau County Police Department, that marked the boundary between us and the squat, red building. The fluctuating cast of a dozen or so reporters, mostly local news veterans, was antsy and bored, feelings exacerbated by the blanket of July heat. We were all waiting for the same thing—a story, ideally an exclusive story—and after an hour and a half on the corner of First Avenue and Michigan Avenue, it felt increasingly clear that most of us would head home disappointed.
Outside of Heuermann's house, before we were banished across the street. (Hell Gate)
I trekked out to the murder house from my air-conditioned apartment in the hope of finding and speaking to true crime enthusiasts, moved to make a little pilgrimage to gawk at the home of the man arrested for a string of killings widely known as the Gilgo Beach murders. The New York Times talked to some of those murder tourists; so did the New York Post. It was a zoomed-out, jokey way to cover a serial killer story without dipping too far into the "What does it mean to want to know a lot of stuff about some horrible murders, for fun?" that all quasi-literary, self-aware true crime coverage usually gestures at.
But by the time I got there—exactly two weeks after Heuermann's arrest on July 13—those people had been driven away, at least for the moment. Local authorities, afraid of allowing another morbid attraction just a few miles from Amityville, brought the hammer down with threats of fines for loitering, jaywalking, and blocking traffic, and quickly erected a series of street signs designating brand new "No Standing, No Parking" zones along the blocks of green-lawned cookie cutter suburbia that surround Heuermann's property.
The crowd of onlookers I ended up joining were harder to shake; like me, they were press—professional gawkers. But unlike me, the other reporters had been drawn to the house after news spread that Heuermann's estranged wife, adult daughter and stepson, and their smiley black dog had returned to the home for the first time since his arrest. After chatting (and, honestly, eavesdropping) for a few minutes, I found out that only a few lucky outlets—Fox News, the Daily Mail, and the Post—made it to the scene in time to catch the family as they shuffled inside, in time to snag video clips and photos of the trio of tired, defeated-looking people. One video from the Post, taken before I made it out to Massapequa Park, shows Asa Ellerup, Heuermann's wife, yelling in response to a reporter's question as she paced around her front lawn: "Please, leave me alone, that's none of your business!" before she flips off the camera with both hands.
Watching Sheridan walk his dog. (Hell Gate)
The Gilgo Beach murders are an ugly story. The profile of the victims discovered initially in 2010—sex workers, some of whom had a history of substance use issues—colored both the initial police investigation and the initial press coverage, according to the victims' family members. Mari Gilbert, the woman whose search for her daughter sparked the 2010 discovery of the victims known as the Gilgo Beach Four, ended up being brutally killed by another daughter years before Heuermann was arrested. Even the way the cold case was finally cracked is grotesque—cops allegedly pulled the man's DNA from a discarded pizza crust and matched it up to material found on one of the victims.
Sitting outside of Heuermann's house, debating when and how we might get access to the people inside it, the ugliness drew on. Two Nassau County police vehicles parked at the scene—an SUV in front of the house, and an ancient-looking cruiser in front of our press zone—and four police officers from the same department eyed us from across the street to make sure cameras and bodies stayed behind the yellow tape. But those obstacles aside, even from across the street, it felt like we were on top of Heuermann's house in a way that staking out an apartment on a crowded city block couldn't, even if we were the same distance away. We could see everything happening from the front of the house, sift through it and try to determine if there was anything—a revelation, a quote that wasn't telling us to fuck off and stop asking questions—that we could jam into the canon around the Long Island Serial Killer, the latest American monster, being created in real-time.
But there was barely anything to see. The only moments of activity came when we rushed to capture footage of or hurl questions at the sole member of Heuermann's family I saw during my three hours outside of his home: his stepson, Chris Sheridan, who left the house a few times to run errands and walk the family dog and put the same wall up against his mother while reporters swarmed him: "Only pictures, thank you! I'm not talking! Nope!"
Sheridan heads inside. (Hell Gate)
Otherwise, we waited. We checked Slack or shot off emails, we jockeyed for a better view, we speculated and strategized about how to wring a story out of this morbid, mundane scene—barely a spectacle—in real time. Some of the assembled reporters were smart enough to bring their own tailgate-style folding chairs, and were quick to offer seats to each other; some plopped down on the curb or on patches of grass; one photographer set up his own stepladder to snag a better vantage point.
As the afternoon wore on, I started to pick up on the same air of camaraderie I feel in the city when I find myself in any inescapable, vaguely shitty situation—stuck on a laggy train, waiting on an obscene takeout line, entering or exiting a park bathroom—and I make eye contact or exchange a quick gripe with a stranger. But the camaraderie wasn't thick enough to convince any of the reporters who cover Long Island on a regular basis, or who make their living chasing scenes like this one, to speak with me on the record about their work on the unfolding story. And, fair enough—who knows more reasons not to talk to press than members of the press themselves?
As I resigned myself to going home, I was finally able to speak with a Brazilian freelance journalist named Luciana Rosa, reporting in Portuguese for a Brazilian news channel called RecordTV. Rosa was the only reporter I saw shoot her own stand-up on a phone and tripod. "I think serial killer stories are always interesting internationally around the world, especially here in America—it's a thing," she said. Like me, she had arrived at the scene on the day of the family's return by coincidence, but unlike the rest of the crowd, it wasn't the highlight of her workday. "This kind of thing happens when you come to the scene of the news, the story, no?" she asked.
"I don't need to be here and get everything, every detail of the story," she explained. "Brazilians, they have no idea, no clue about this story, so I came here to zoom out on the whole case."
For her purposes—and, really, for the world at large—the day's events were irrelevant.
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An urgent care company with no experience working in shelters wins a lucrative no-bid contract. Sound familiar?
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Remember "Ambulnz," the cringingly-named private ambulance and urgent care company that began showing up on city streets in the late 2010s? Well, like any good healthcare startup during the deep, dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company pivoted to lucrative government contracts for COVID-19 testing, and then used that pivot to rebrand and go public on the stock market under the name DocGo. (And that was only after the company was sued by medical contractors during the height of the pandemic for allegedly lying about pay and essentially keeping them imprisoned).
When government funding for pandemic-related services dried up, DocGo (just as cringe a name as "Ambulnz"), pivoted once again—this time to providing shelter for migrants in upstate New York. (If that sounds familiar, it's because another urgent care company, MedRite, did the same thing, with pretty disastrous results for migrants, as Hell Gate reported earlier this month.)
So how has DocGo done so far? Not great!
According to a New York Times report over the weekend, DocGo, whose president is a former contestant on "The Apprentice," (yes, everything is connected) was hired by City Hall in early May to help Mayor Eric Adams with his plan to bus migrants upstate to help alleviate the crowding in the city's shelter system. The company was given a no-bid contract worth as much as $432 million.
In exchange, DocGo and their counterparts in the administration reportedly lied to migrants about where their buses were going, misled them about their working status and their asylum cases, and confined them to their hotels.
"It’s fake," one asylum-seeker told the Times about a made-up DocGo document that the company touted as a residency permit. "It’s useless."
The company also didn't coordinate with local authorities, who were willing to lend assistance to the company. Security guards lorded over migrants, threatening them with violence, and restraining their ability to talk to the press. Similar accusations have been lodged against private security contractors in New York City's makeshift shelters.
It's unclear whether DocGo will earn the full amount of the $432 contract, because its terms haven't been released to the public. City Hall hasn't released any details about the contract, nor has it sent the contract to the Comptroller's office, as is standard practice for accounting for the city's spending.
Through all of this, Eric Adams has continued his support of DocGo. He even made an appearance at DocGo's investor conference in June.
"If you don’t have docs on the go, then you have a retro thinking of health care,” Adams told investors.
Read on for some more trouble our mayor has been getting into:
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First of all--congrats! Now it's time to plan all those gorgeous details. Here, let us help you with selecting a stunning venue in the Tyler area.
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Where are some of the absolute best places to get married in or near Tyler, Texas?
So, you or someone in your family has found the love of their life. First of all--congratulations! How wonderful!
And now begins the long, but often lovely, arduous process of planning. Whew, it can be overwhelming. There are just so many things to consider, aren't there?
There are the flowers, the colors, and types of flowers, the time of year you want to wed, whether will it be a sit-down dinner or light hors d'oeuvres... But wait, if I do that, does that mean the wedding needs to be in the afternoon?
Oy vey. ;)
And don't even get us started on finding the perfect wedding dress. And now the guys--there are so many more options nowadays. Good grief, is my fiancé gonna want to wear fishing lure-themed boutonnieres? (My advice? Let him.)
Photographers, caterers, number of people to invite...the list goes on and on. (Try to enjoy the process, as stressful as it can get. This is about you and the one you love. All of the rest is simply icing on the cake. OMG, the CAKE?! (Relax, it'll be fine.)
Will it be in a church or outside or somewhere else altogether? Hey, we can at least help you out when it comes to the venue.
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I've lived in East Texas since I was a wee lass. And yet, many of these places were completely new to me.
East Texas has so many gorgeous places for events--including weddings. Here, let's take a photographic journey through 21 of the most stunning places to tie the knot in or around Tyler.
21 Stunning Wedding Venues Around Tyler with Serious WOW Factor East Texas has many gorgeous places for events and weddings. Here, take a look at 21 of the most stunning places to tie the knot in or around Tyler.
Locals Share 11 of the Best Places for Baby Showers Near Tyler Planning a baby shower as you prepare for the new addition to your family? Here are some of the places recommended by Tyler residents.
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The $2 Billion Dollar Theme Park Will Be Roughly The Same Size As Disneyland And Its Not Gonna Be Too Far From Us In East Texas.
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The $2 Billion Dollar Theme Park Will Be Roughly The Same Size As Disneyland.
There's a new massive theme park that's being developed in Oklahoma that could give Six Flags and other theme parks a run for their money and the good thing for us is, its only going to be a days drive away from here in East Texas.
American Heartland Theme Park And Resort will be a 1,000-acre development with a 125-acre theme park.
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According to a press release, the park will feature an Americana-themed environment with a variety of entertaining rides, live shows, family attractions, waterways as well as restaurant-quality food and beverage offerings.
American Heartland Theme Park and Resort is a family-friendly park promising timeless fun and boundless adventure.
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The 125-acre theme park will feature a collection of six distinctly American lands to welcome guests on a journey through the best of the American story. Families will find thrilling rides and heartwarming shows as they discover Great Plains, Bayou Bay, BigTimber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis.
Located in northeast Oklahoma, just west of Grand Lake on Route 66 in Vinita, Oklahoma, the development will be built in phases starting with a large-scale RV park with cabins scheduled to open phase one in spring 2025 and a world-class theme park and resort scheduled to open in 2026.
The adjacent 320-acre Three Ponies RV Park and Campground, will be the largest campground in the central U.S.
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The RV Park and Campground will feature 750 RV spaces and 300 cabins plus amenities just a hop and skip away from the theme park itself. Let's take you on a preview of what they plan to do and how the parks are going to look like at the gallery below.
New Theme Park The Size Of Disneyland Coming To Oklahoma Take a look at plans to build a HUGE theme park just 5 hours away from East Texas called "American Heartland".
$215,500 in Combined Reward Money Offered for These 46 Texas Fugitives Men with warrants in Lufkin and Henderson County are among the 46 fugitives wanted by Texas Department of Public Safety.
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There's no reason you can't find some awesome new duds to wear for the new school year at reasonable prices--at least not here in East Texas.
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Whoa. As hard as it is to imagine, we are already thinking about Back-To-School in East Texas.
After all, many of our East Texas school districts will start the new academic year in a few weeks. And honestly, many an East Texan's budget is extra tight. And so, anywhere we can save a few extra bucks is most welcome and helpful.
At the same time, one of the most fun parts of Back-To-School is shopping for clothes! Although in full disclosure, I've never adored shopping for clothes. I spent quite a few afternoons as a tween weeping in fitting rooms with my poor, patient mother doing her best to console me. (I was a sensitive child, you see.)
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But for MOST people (lol), shopping for clothes is something they do in fact look forward to as the upcoming school year looms on the horizon.
And there's no reason that you can't find some awesome new duds to wear for the new school year at reasonable prices--at least not here in East Texas. We've got so many great options from which to choose.
From Upscale Cheapskate which has so many people raving to the clearance racks at Loft Outlet and Dillard's, to the trusty standbys for cute, affordable clothing, you have lots of fun options to choose from. And the best part? They won't break the budget.
Recently, Tylerites shared some of their very favorite places to shop for good-looking clothes that they love--without breaking the bank:
20 of the Best Places in Tyler to Save Money on Great Clothes There's no reason you can't find some awesome new duds at reasonable prices--at least not here in East Texas.
PHOTOS: A Look Inside the Stunning Home of Late ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill This nearly 20,000 square foot home was custom built for ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill back in 2003.
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I've got my faves, for sure. But despite having lived here so long, I realized I didn't know very many options for hosting larger groups. This was helpful.
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"Where are some of the best places in Tyler, Texas for hosting larger groups of people?"
What do we mean by "larger groups?" Really, this could include any number that would exceed the normal "walk-in" number. So any number over 12. Thinking more along the lines of 40 - 50 people.
But honestly, what it means to host "large groups" varies greatly from person to person and is quite dependent on the event. A couple of the venues mentioned could host up to 350 plus! Particularly those that tend to host weddings--which is the subject of future posts.
For now, we're just focusing primarily on casual-ish groups over 12 but under 100.
I have a few stock answers--places I love and with which I'm familiar. But anytime anyone asks that question, I realized I really didn't have as many answers for them as I should, given that I've lived here for so many years.
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But then, serendipitously, a member in one of the various Facebook groups of which I'm a member posed this same question yet again. I focused in as this is something I definitely want the answer to myself.
East Texans are just so helpful. Really. One more thing I love about living here. Response after response after response was added. Some of the responses? Definitely on my list of favorites. But some of the others, although I'm familiar with them, hadn't even entered my mind as a possibility for hosting larger groups.
I took notes so I could share them with you. Although many were mentioned, including offers from some of our talented East Texas caterers who will provide a meal for your large group at a home, these were the ten answers most commonly given to the lady's question (and please feel free to add any you think should be on this list):
Tyler Residents Reveal Their Favorite Holiday Spots For Hosting Larger Groups of People Whether you're looking for a place for 20 or 100, Tyler has several options I'd never known, despite having lived here for many years.
10 Unique, Super Fun Party Ideas Here in East Texas Your Kids Will Love We've dug in and done a bit of research on some of the best ideas for kids' parties or get-togethers that both kids (and probably) parents will enjoy.
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We are so excited for the owners and staff of Ruby's Mexican Restaurant as they continue to experience well-deserved success and growth here in East Texas.
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Lovers of Ruby's Mexican restaurant in Tyler, Texas (and there are many) have a huge reason to celebrate: In addition to their ever-increasing number of brick-and-mortar restaurants in Tyler, they've announced they now have a food truck!
Someone on their staff posted the announcement on their Facebook page last Friday, July 28 and we are so excited.
We love food in East Texas. We also REALLY love our locally-owned restaurants--especially when they are as consistently delicious as the food you can enjoy in any of their restaurants in Tyler, Texas. (Is it 3 or 4 now?)
However many there actually are at this point, we are so happy to hear that now we can visit their food truck when their regular restaurants are closed for the evening. Well, at least from Thursday through Sunday.
Where and when will the new Ruby's Mexican Restaurant food truck be open for business in Tyler, Texas?
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According to their recent Facebook post, the food truck will be up and running THIS week, starting on Thursday, August 3. You can enjoy those incredibly delicious Birria tacos, quesadillas, and aguas frescas in front of Ruby's Mexican Restaurant #1 at 2021 East Gentry Parkway in Tyler on Thursdays through Sundays from 8 p.m. until 3 a.m.
That means when you get one of those late-night cravings for Ruby's Mexican Restaurant, they'll be open and waiting for you. And in honor of the grand opening, according to a report from CBS 19, this Thursday there will be a DJ, mechanical bull riding, and of course GREAT food.
We are so excited for the owners and staff of Ruby's Mexican Restaurant as they continue to experience well-deserved success and growth here in East Texas.
(We are so excited for US, too. Bring on the doblados!)
Ruby's 3rd Location in Tyler, TX to Offer These NEW Amazing Menu Items Yes, some of our long-time faves will be there. But they're also adding some fan requests to the menu at the 3rd Tyler location--opening soon. Here's a preview.
Check Out Ruby's Second Location In Tyler They're open 7 days a week at 813 Lindsey St.
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Competitors sit with their bare feet in a square ring known as the toedium then lock big toes and attempt to wrestle the other person’s foot to the sideboard, writes Bishop of Derby, Rt Rev Libby Lane.
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At the World Toe-Wrestling Championships in Ashbourne this month, the fights will be ferocious, so perhaps you’re already deep in training to win this annual competition?
If toe-wrestling isn’t your thing, perhaps you’ve already enjoyed one of Derbyshire’s great
bookfests earlier in the year?
The Rt Rev Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby.
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It was a pleasure to celebrate the Buxton International Festival at St John’s Buxton earlier this month – maybe you were there and enjoyed some of the comedy, dance or film at the Fringe? Or if you’re more of a music lover, the line up at Y Not is great this year.
Festivals and events in Derbyshire are back with a bang, recovering from the cancellations caused by the pandemic and reminding us just what an important role they play in bringing us together for fun, creativity and shared endeavour.
There are lots of family-friendly events across our county. The variety is amazing and there really is something for everyone, from dance to theatre to music to crafts and much more.
Even better, many of our festivals feature local, independent food and drink producers so
‘For me, a vibrant culture to be proud of is one where we celebrate unique gifts of every person and give space for them to share those gifts with others,’ says Rt Rev Libby Lane.
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we can sample or buy the finest local ales, cheeses, pies, honey and more that Derbyshire has to offer.
These events bring people together to share a common love, whether that’s blues music, woodland crafts, contemporary dance or just the chance to watch and marvel at human inventiveness.
Not only do the performers and makers get to share their craft with each other, they share it all with us, the audience.
In the Church, we’re doing our bit too. Many of our parish churches support their local arts and cultural events, and host their own - from lunchtime concerts, creative writing workshops and painting exhibitions.
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Derby Cathedral has a vibrant arts programme and this summer, if the music of Queen, Abba or Fleetwood Mac is your thing, then look out for the tribute concerts by candlelight.
Thinking back over the past few years and reflecting on the impact of the pandemic on public gatherings like festivals and concerts, it’s almost unbelievable now to remember how much we missed that relaxed togetherness and joy of connecting with each other outside our homes.
There are many thousands who craft, sing or paint in their spare time or in retirement but there are also approximately 10,000 people employed in creative or digital industries in Derbyshire.
Arts enrich the lives of a huge number of people so I’d love to see even more. Some of those are part of the brilliant charities working to make the arts more inclusive – groups like Junction Arts who do so much to bring creative activities to those who normally find them out of reach.
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Not only does taking part in a creative activity improve your wellbeing, it can also build confidence and skills which can help us flourish across other areas of life.
For me, a vibrant culture to be proud of in Derbyshire is one where we celebrate unique gifts of every person and give space for them to share those gifts with others.
In the arts, this might be performing the song you’ve composed or exhibiting your lino-prints. It might be running a samba-drumming workshop for children or giving a talk about a local artist. It
could be designing video games, or digital spaces.
Or it could be singing in your church choir, making a patchwork quilt or repairing costumes for the annual pantomime.
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All of this adds up to make us who we are as a region, proud of our artistic heritage and generous in sharing our passions with others.
I might be a little too late now to get into title-fighting shape and challenge at this year’s World Toe-Wrestling Championships but don’t be surprised to see me out and about at some of Derbyshire’s other great festivals and events.
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As is the case every month, several shows and movies are leaving Netflix Canada and Prime Video in August.
It’s worth noting that the streaming services may only be removing certain shows and movies for a specific amount of time.
Below are all the shows and movies leaving Netflix and Prime Video in August:
Here’s what’s leaving Prime Video
Why Women Kill (August 2nd)
Boss Level (August 3rd)
Dietland (August 4th)
Gully (August 15th)
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (August 19th)
Hindi Medium (August 20th)
The O.C.: The Complete Series (August 22nd)
Magical Girl Site (August 23rd)
Breaking News in Yuba County (August 23rd)
Guns Akimbo (August 26th)
The Island (August 30th)
Italian Job (August 30th)
Jerome Commandeur: Tout en Douceur (August 30th)
Beatless (August 30th)
Fatman (August 30th)
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Ontario residents in seven communities will be able to try home internet over 5G thanks to new Xplore towers.
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Rural broadband provider Xplore announced it updated “a bunch” of its Ontario towers with 5G and will leverage the new technology to offer home internet with speeds of up to 100Mbps.
Xplore shared the information in a (tweet? xeet? post?) on the website formerly known as Twitter. The company shared seven Ontario communities that will benefit from the 5G launch and encouraged people living in those communities to call 1-866-841-6001 to learn more about the service.
Russell, ON
West of Kemptville, ON
Brewers Mills, ON
South of Madoc, ON
Yarker, ON
Harrow, ON
Moores Corners, ON
However, 5G service is just one way that Xplore will connect Canadians. The company also recently launched a JUPITER 3 satellite that it will use to provide internet in rural Canada. The JUPITER 3 satellite is the world’s largest communications satellite and was launched via a SpaceX rocket — SpaceX is also the company behind Starlink, another satellite internet service making waves in Canada.
Xplore plans to offer internet speeds of 100Mbps download and 10Mbps upload via satellite in the fall. Unlike Starlink, Xplore says it won’t charge for hardware to use its satellite internet (though it may charge a conversion fee or installation fee). Starlink hardware costs $759 but has been discounted to $199 in Canada since May.
Another core difference between the two is that Starlink uses low earth orbit (LEO) satellites while Xplore uses geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) — sometimes called geostationary — satellites. Starlink claims its LEO satellites provide much lower latency since there’s less distance for the signal to travel.
It’s not clear how much Xplore will charge for its service. Starlink costs $140/mo.
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The hugely popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp is testing a new change to help make it quicker and easier to add people to group chats.
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The hugely popular and Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp has started to test a new feature that will make it quicker and easier to add people to a group chat than ever before, but it's only in Beta right now.
Those with the latest WhatsApp for Android beta installed may see a new option to quickly add people to a group chat right from within the chat itself, although the WhatsApp watchers at WABetaInfo do note that this might only be available to some people, rather than all of those with the beta installed.
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Once that beta is installed opening a group chat will show a new "Add participants" button on devices whose accounts have been activated to see it. Tapping that button, just below the group chat's information, will allow users to quickly add new people to a group. However, this will only work if the group's admin settings allow the people tapping the new button to add people to that particular group.
It is of course fair to say that this new feature won't change the game, it will no doubt be a welcome addition for those who regularly have to add new people to WhatsApp group chats.
While this is only available in beta right now WhatsApp is normally pretty good at turning beta updates into ones that are available to all. With that in mind, we can only assume that it's little more than a matter of time before this new group chat option rolls out to those who install the normal version of WhatsApp via the App Store or Google Play Store.
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The Samsung Galaxy S24 lineup is months away but one phone already showed up in Geekbench results complete with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip.
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The Samsung Galaxy S24 lineup is months away but one phone already showed up in Geekbench results complete with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip.
The Samsung Galaxy S24 lineup isn't expected to debut until the first couple of months of 2024 but that apparently isn't stopping someone from putting a Galaxy S24+ through its paces. They've been doing that using Geekbench and, for some reason, uploaded the results. And those results tell us a lot.
It's still early days for this phone and it's important to remember that all of this information is liable to change before the phone goes on sale. But for now, here's what we have to hand.
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According to the specs shared via Geekbench we can expect the Galaxy S24+ to carry the US model number SM-S926U and be powered by Qualcomm's next flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. That chip will be paired with 8GB of RAM, too.
As for the makeup of that chip, we can expect one Cortex-X4 CPU at 3.3GHz, three Cortex-A720 CPU cores clocked at 3.15GHz, two Cortex-A720 CPU cores clocked at 2.96GHz, and two Cortex-A520 CPU cores clocked at 2.27GHz. All of those cores will have an Adreno 750 working alongside them, handling graphics tasks.
The benchmarks showed the Galaxy S24+ to be running Android 14 while it scored 2,233 points in the single-core test and 6,661 in the multi-core GPU test. Unfortunately, some reports suggest that this new Qualcomm chip will only be offered in some countries - with a Samsung Exynos one used in others.
Again, it's important not to read too much into these numbers for now because there's plenty of scope for things to change. But this is at least an indication that Samsung is well on the way to getting its next line of phones to market, even if someone probably shouldn't have uploaded these tests to Geekbench.
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Tesla appears to be working on adding AirPlay support to its iPhone app and cars, opening the possibility of streaming audio and video streaming.
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If you own a Tesla you're probably already very aware that you can't plug your iPhone in and use CarPlay like owners of cars from most other manufacturers. Tesla CEO Elon Musk hasn't given anyone hope that will change at any point soon, but a new report suggests that there might be something different in the works instead.
If that report is correct, Tesla appears to be getting ready to add a new AirPlay option to its cars that will allow drivers to wirelessly stream audio, and perhaps video, to their vehicles. That would work with more than iPhones as well, with iPads and Macs also supporting AirPlay.
The report comes courtesy of the @Tesla_iOS_App Twitter account that reports on changes to the Twitter for iPhone app. Based on references found in the latest Tesla app, that account believes that AirPlay support is on the way or at the very least being worked on. A string that references allowsAirPlayForMediaPlayback appears to suggest that there will be AriPlay support in the future.
Adding AirPlay to Teslas would allow for improved audio connections to iPhones without resorting to using the Bluetooth connection that is required right now. That could allow for an improved stability and audio quality that isn't currently available. However. it's important to remember that this isn't confirmed by Tesla yet and it's possible that the new AirPlay support could be months away or not ship at all, so don't go buying a new Tesla with the belief that you'll have AirPlay support soon.
The best-case scenario would of course be the addition of CarPlay, projecting the iPhone onto the large in-car display that Teslas are all blessed with. That now seems unlikely to happen any time soon, if at all.
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Google Chrome has been updated to allow iPhone owners to add web apps to their iOS 16.4 or later device's Home Screen for the first time.
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Google Chrome has been updated to allow iPhone owners to add web apps to their iOS 16.4 or later device's Home Screen for the first time.
People who use Google Chrome on their iPhones can now use the web browser to add web apps to their Home Screen for the first time. The new web app support comes after Google updated the company's Chrome app to add support for adding web apps.
Those who already have Google Chrome installed on their iPhones can now download the update. It's a free download and those who have automatic updates enabled might already have the new version of Chrome installed.
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Adding web apps to your Home Screen is something that is made possible thanks to an iOS 16.4 update that adds support for this new feature. That means that Chrome users will need to have updated their iPhones to iOS 16.4 or later in order to be able to take advantage of this feature.
Adding a web app to the iPhone's Home Screen can be a good way to get quick access to web pages for companies and services that don't have their own iPhone app, although those instances are few and far between now.
As for the Mac, Google's upcoming macOS Sonoma update is set to add Safari-based web apps to the Mac for the first time. That feature will allow websites to be added to the Dock and then act as if they were apps downloaded and installed from the App Store. That macOS Sonoma update isn't expected to be released to the public until this fall although public and developer betas are now available for download. New betas are likely to be released weekly until the update is made available to everyone this fall.
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Sara Ali Khan and Aditya Roy Kapur walked the ramp at the India Couture Week as muses and showstoppers for designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil.
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The India Couture Week is currently ongoing at the Taj Palace in Delhi. The fashion gala, hosting its 16th edition, has already seen several big banner fashion houses and designers showcase their latest lines. Adding their names to the eminent list are designers Shantanu and Nikhil for whom actors Sara Ali Khan and Aditya Roy Kapur walked the ramp.
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The India Couture Week is hosting its 16th edition organised by Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) and Hyundai Motor India.
The Shantanu and Nikhil show was held on July 31 at Durbar Hall in Taj Palace.
More recently, Disha Patani walked the ramp for Dolly J at India Couture Week.
Sara Ali Khan and Aditya Roy Kapur Walk the ramp for Shantanu and Nikhil
The latest designers to add their names to the list of India Couture Week shows are Shantanu and Nikhil. The designer duo chose Sara Ali Khan and Aditya Roy Kapur as their muses and showstoppers for the night. The colour palette opted for oscillated between cream and ivory tones making for regal yet classy ensembles.
Sara Ali Khan walked the ramp in a resplendent cream-hued lehenga with patterned ivory embellishments through its length. The ensemble featured a shimmery bustier choli paired with a paler sheer cape dupatta which also doubled as a sweeping train. The lehenga skirt was the standout detail in the ensemble featuring an embroidered lace overlay atop a cream pink base. Aditya Roy Kapur looked dapper in a cream bandhgala paired with white salwar. The standout detail in the bandhgala was the pocket extending into a pleated detail.
Showstoppers galore at India Couture Week
Not just Sara Ali Khan and Aditya Roy Kapur, Disha Patani too walked the ramp the same day for designer Dolly J. Patani was also dressed in a shimmery silver lehenga set with contemporary cut. The India Couture Week will continue till August 2.
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Partner In Charge: Bin Zhang
Project Architect: Yue Xu
Project Team: Xiaojun Zhu
Structure Consultant: AND Office for Architecture & Structure / Zhun Zhang
Wooden Structure Design: Shanghai SKF Construction Technology Co., Ltd. / Xiaojun Zhuang, Zili Yu, Yang Yang, Huihong Yang
Steel Structure Design: Shanghai Sanyao Construction Engineering Design Co., Ltd. / Jianbo Liao
Landscape Design: Shanghai General Institute of Garden Design and Research Co., Ltd. / Xiaoyan Liu, Chengyu Qian, Yuanwei Xu, Teng Zhao
M&E Consultant: Shanghai Zhisheng Architectural Decoration Design Co., Ltd. / Xiaoming Yu, Xin Fan, Bei Mao
Construction General Contractor: Shanghai Putuo Municipal Engineering Co., Ltd.
Design General Contractor: Shanghai General Institute of Garden Design and Research Co., Ltd.
Wood Steel Structure, M&E And Decoration Construction: Shanghai SKF Construction Technology Co., Ltd.
Weak Electricity Construction: Shanghai Zhiling Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Client: Shanghai Putuo District Municipal Administration Center
City: Putuo
Country: China
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Text description provided by the architects. The Service Station in Front of Putuo Park is one of the three citizen service stations which were first constructed for demonstration in the Project on Public Space Connection of Both Banks of Suzhou Creek, Putuo Section. It is located on the southeast side of the main gate of Putuo Park. The Putuo Section of Suzhou Creek has many bends, and both bank areas are one of the origins of China’s modern national industries. The Yaoshuilong (Chemical Lane) Peninsula across the river from Putuo Park was once one of the famous shanty towns where industrial workers lived in early Shanghai. Putuo Park, which was completed and opened in early 1954, is the first urban park built in Putuo District after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is adjacent to the elevated light rail line transformed from the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway to the north, and its southeast main gate opens to West Guangfu Road and is close to the north end of Yaoshuilong Bend of Suzhou Creek.
The main gate retreats from the road, and forms a small park front open area with the walls of the residential quarters on both sides. The western half of the site is a small pass-through park entrance square with hard pavement, which is often occupied by various types of vehicles; the eastern half is an event space with a raised floor, surrounded by flower beds, grass, and trees. It is mostly shaded with few people staying there. The service station in front of Putuo Park is aimed to explore how to revitalize urban space resources in the context of urban renewal. With the site of the service station as a link, the riverside greenbelt of Suzhou Creek and Putuo Park are connected to improve the environmental quality and space vitality, as well as shape the daily public space friendly towards the community.
As each site of Suzhou Creek Service Station is cramped and complex, it is impossible to set up a service station with a standardized form. We adopt a manual charging and componentized spatial configuration method. We regard the different functional spaces that constitute the service station, such as toilets, lounges, showrooms, small gardens, eaves galleries, etc. as relatively standard spatial components and modules of different specifications, and the way of assembly of components is adjusted and customized according to site conditions. Focusing on reintegrating the park entrance space, a pleasing cloister in front of the park's sliding door is arranged as a new park porch vestibule.
People can either walk through or take a rest under the west porch next to the flower bed. This cloister has also become a core space of the entire station. The service station extends to the irregular site on the east side of the corridor, where the lounge and the showroom are arranged in sequence. The lounge and the west and south sides of the showroom are surrounded by eaves galleries, and between them, there is a long and narrow courtyard garden, shaded by trees and rocks, called "Puyuan Garden". A citizen-friendly niche-style 24-hour service facility is arranged under the eaves of the showroom in the southeast corner, and non-motor vehicle parking spaces are set up along the road outside.
The service station also presents a continuous open horizontal eaves gallery to the road, and the rooms rise from behind the eaves gallery. The original park lodge on the north side between the entrance cloister and the lounge has also been renovated and connected with the service station. Since there is a public toilet nearby in the park, the public toilet in the service station has been reduced to the smallest cubicle and arranged in the irregular gap between the park lodge and the fence. The north side of the showroom is combined with reserved trees to form a small quiet backyard garden, and the surrounding wall is lined with a green plant wall as the background. People can either sit in the backyard looking across the eaves gallery to Puyuan Garden or overlook the park entrance vestibule through the lounge on the west side of Puyuan Garden.
As the flood control wall along the river is high, the view from the ground floor is obstructed, a roof garden is set on the lounge and showroom, which is reached by an outdoor steel ladder on the east side of the backyard close to the fence, and two roofs are connected by a small sky bridge over Puyuan Garden. On the roof lawn, there are irregularly staggered long square wooden steps. The roof of the northern half of the lounge is raised step by step to become a timber-paved roof star theater facing the river. Under the shade of the nearby tree canopy, people will find panoramic river bends all in sight on the riverbank. We designed the building in a proper place in order to keep all eight large trees with a diameter of more than 30cm at breast height on the west and south sides of the site and the backyard in the northeast. Also, we maintained continuous flower beds on the west and south sides and optimized the planting. As a result, the original site character of being basically covered by the shade of trees continues.
In order to reduce the construction difficulty in such a narrow site and ensure that the daily access to the park is not affected during the construction period, the whole building adopts a glued laminated timber construction system of hybrid wood-steel structure with a high assembly rate. The slender round steel columns of the cloister and eaves galleries are misaligned inside and outside, thus forming the characteristic rhythmic continuous cross-skew beams of the corridor roof. The vertical structure of the lounge and showroom adopts an asymmetrical arrangement to induce internal force transfer. On one side is all relatively thick square columns that are hidden on a bookshelf or wall. They can resist most of the horizontal force.
The other side is relatively slender round columns which maintain a similar structural scale to eaves columns. They are mainly subjected to vertical loads. The interior ceiling features exposed one-way ribbed beams combined with lighting. The north side of the lounge introduces a soft north-facing high-side skylight as the roof rises. The solid exterior walls of the lounge and showroom are covered with anodized aluminum slabs, and the exterior walls of the park lodge and toilets are covered with deep carbonized anti-corrosion SYP timber panels. The roofs on cloisters and eaves galleries are made of aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy sheeting with upright seams.
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A protracted slump in South Korea's factory activity eased in July as export orders rose for the first time in nearly 1-1/2 years, a private business survey showed on Tuesday, raising hopes for a more durable economic recovery.
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SEOUL, Aug 1 (Reuters) - A protracted slump in South Korea's factory activity eased in July as export orders rose for the first time in nearly 1-1/2 years, a private business survey showed on Tuesday, raising hopes for a more durable economic recovery.
The purchasing managers index (PMI) for South Korean manufacturers, compiled by S&P Global, rose to 49.4 in July from 47.8 in June on a seasonally adjusted basis.
The sub-50 reading suggested activity continued to contract for the 13th straight month, albeit at a much slower rate.
A sub-index for new export orders rose to 50.2, after 16 months below 50, with a rise in demand from key markets across the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, particularly for automotive goods and semiconductors, according to the survey.
That brought the decline in overall orders to the narrowest in 12 months, with the sub-index sharply up to 48.7 from 45.0, while output rose to 47.2 from 46.5.
"Concurrently, firms took this as a signal to prepare for a gradual improvement in demand by taking on additional staff and raising purchasing activity in July," said economist Usamah Bhatti at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Employment increased by the more in 17 months and the quantity of purchases rose for the first time in 12 months, while stocks of finished goods posted the sharpest drop in 18 months, corresponding sub-indexes showed.
Business conditions improved on the inflation front as well, with input prices falling for the first time since June 2020, accompanied by the steepest decline in output prices since August 2020.
A measure of manufacturers' optimism for future output jumped to 56.2 in July, from a six-month low of 52.4 in June.
South Korea's economy sped up faster than expected in the second quarter, flattered by headline improvements in trade, but weaker consumer and business spending added to the case for the central bank to loosen its restrictive monetary policy.
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Japan's factory activity contracted at a faster pace in July, a business survey showed on Tuesday, taking a hit from soft orders amid weakening global economic conditions.
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TOKYO, Aug 1 - Japan's factory activity contracted at a faster pace in July, a business survey showed on Tuesday, taking a hit from soft orders amid weakening global economic conditions.
The final au Jibun Bank Japan manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 49.6 in July, slightly higher than flash 49.4 but down from 49.8 in June.
The decline was largely due to a deterioration in new orders, given weak customer demand from domestic and overseas markets, said Usamah Bhatti at S&P Global Market Intelligence, which compiled the survey.
Output, another major component of the headline index, kept shrinking albeit at a slower rate than in June. Data on Monday showed Japan's factory output grew in June for the first time in two months thanks to solid auto production.
Subindexes gauging new orders and output both stayed in the sub-50 territory in June for a second month. A reading below the 50 line indicates a contraction.
Japan has to date weathered worsening global economic conditions relatively well thanks to robust domestic service activity and ultra-loose monetary policy. Export-reliant manufacturers, however, have suffered from slowing demand overseas.
On a brighter note, the S&P survey showed easing cost pressures for companies thanks to sliding fuel and commodity prices.
"There were sustained signs that inflationary pressures were easing in July, as signalled by the slowest rate of input cost inflation since February 2021 to a reading that was broadly similar to the long-run series average," Bhatti said.
Looking a year ahead, manufacturers' output expectations remained upbeat, with the subindex in line with June's reading, which was the strongest since October 2021.
Hopes for a sustained improvement in demand as well as the fading economic impact of the pandemic and inflationary pressures contributed to the positive outlook, the survey showed.
Editing by Sam Holmes
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Jaqueline Cristian of Romania took down Marie Bouzkova -- the No. 1 seed, defending champion and hometown favorite -- 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Monday in the first round of the Livesport Prague Open in the Czech Republic.
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August 1 - Jaqueline Cristian of Romania took down Marie Bouzkova -- the No. 1 seed, defending champion and hometown favorite -- 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Monday in the first round of the Livesport Prague Open in the Czech Republic.
Bouzkova was born and raised in Prague and won this tournament last year for her maiden WTA singles title. Those good feelings did not carry over into this week, as Cristian broke Bouzkova's serve eight times in 14 opportunities to control the match and win in two hours and 47 minutes.
Seventh seed Xinyu Wang of China also fell, as Viktoria Hruncakova of Slovakia rallied for a 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) win.
No. 8 seed Kateryna Baindl beat fellow Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, while No. 6 seed Alize Cornet of France led Czech foe Lucie Havlickova 6-2, 4-2 when their match was suspended. Japan's Nao Hibino and Germany's Tamara Korpatsch also won their matches.
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Lauren Davis outlasted Sloane Stephens 7-6 (8), 3-6, 6-1 in an all-American, first-round match in Washington.
Davis knocked off Stephens, the 2015 champion of the event, in two hours and 37 minutes in part by saving nine of 14 break points.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk saved three match points to complete a comeback win over Canada's Bianca Andreescu, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Andreescu had one match point while up 5-4 in the third set and double match point while up 6-5, but Kostyuk stayed alive and forced the tiebreaker, where she never trailed.
No. 6 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland advanced when Russian opponent Anastasia Potapova retired late in the first set. No. 8 seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia eased past American Danielle Collins 6-1, 6-3.
Two late matches in Washington pitted Belarusian Victoria Azarenka against Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, and fifth seed Daria Kasatkina of Russia against Belgium's Elise Mertens.
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The number of people crossing the treacherous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia hit an all-time high in the first seven months of the year, figures released on Monday showed, with July seeing a sharp jump despite recent efforts to curb the trend.
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PANAMA CITY, July 31 (Reuters) - The number of people crossing the treacherous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia hit an all-time high in the first seven months of the year, figures released on Monday showed, with July seeing a sharp jump despite recent efforts to curb the trend.
Official data showed 248,901 people walked through the jungle area between January and July, already surpassing the record of 248,284 recorded for the whole of 2022, with most aiming to reach the United States, according to data from Panama's Security Ministry.
Entries to Panama from Colombia through the jungle region have continued to rise despite a two-month program launched in April by the United States, Panama and Colombia to tackle undocumented immigration.
July recorded the most crossings, with 52,530 people taking part in the dangerous journey, up 77% from June, mostly from Venezuela, Haiti and Ecuador, according to the data.
The flow of migrants has skyrocketed from previous years, despite the start of the rainy season, Panama's Security Minister Juan Pino said earlier this month.
Some 20% of the people who have crossed the jungle this year are minors, 51% of whom are under five years old, migration official Maria Saravia said at a press conference where the new figures were presented.
The United Nations forecast in April the total number of crossings would surpass 400,000 this year, with the organization warning that migrants crossing through the jungle are exposed to disease, violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
Reporting by Elida Moreno; Writing by Valentine Hilaire; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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In a battle of Americans, Michael Mmoh won in straight sets over qualifier Bradley Klahn 6-3, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington.
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August 1 - In a battle of Americans, Michael Mmoh won in straight sets over qualifier Bradley Klahn 6-3, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington.
Mmoh doubled up Klahn in aces, 8-4, and did a better job of staying away from double faults, (two to five). Mmoh maxed out at 130 mph on his serves, to 97 for Klahn.
American Mackenzie McDonald topped Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-3, in 78 minutes for his first win in three attempts against the Argentine, all since 2022.
Alexander Shevchenko of Russia eliminated American Maxime Cressy 6-3, 7-6 (8) in the round of 64.
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Sixth seed Roberto Carballes Baena of Spain downed Argentina's Guido Pella 6-2, 6-4 in the round of 32 in Kitzbuhel, Austria.
Pella had more aces, 3-2, but more double faults, 3-0. Carballes Baena converted three of four break points, while Pella never got to that situation in a match that lasted 71 minutes.
Qualifier Guido Andreozzi of Argentina defeated wild card Filip Misolic of Austria 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. In a battle of unseeded players, Slovakia's Alex Molcan won in straight sets over Frenchman Luca Van Assche 6-4, 6-3. Argentina's Sebastian Baez eliminated qualifier Hamad Medjedovic of Serbia, 6-4, 6-2.
Daniel Elahi Galan of Colombia and Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain also advanced in straight sets.
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One of Donald Trump's main fundraising groups on Monday reported spending more than $21 million on legal expenses so far this year, a sign of the former president's mounting legal problems as he seeks to return to the White House.
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WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) - One of Donald Trump's main fundraising groups on Monday reported spending more than $21 million on legal expenses so far this year, a sign of the former president's mounting legal problems as he seeks to return to the White House.
However, the sum reported was much less than major media had expected.
The Save America group, which Trump founded in 2020 following his defeat in that year's presidential election, said in a filing to the Federal Election Commission that it spent about $30 million between January and June, with most of that going to legal expenses.
Save America is formally separate from Trump's 2024 election campaign, but it has been a major funder of another group that is spending heavily on ads supporting Trump.
Several large U.S. media organizations, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, had reported over the weekend, citing anonymous sources, that Save America's filing would show as much as $40 million in spending on legal expenses.
Save America had previously reported spending more than $16 million on legal expenses through 2022, though on Monday the group filed a number of amended reports on its finances for previous years.
A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the difference in the numbers reported over the weekend and those in Monday's filing.
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Australia's anti-doping authority has dropped its investigation into athlete Peter Bol in the lead-up to the world championships after finding his positive test for synthetic erythropoietin (EPO) was wrong.
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MELBOURNE, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Australia's anti-doping authority has dropped its investigation into athlete Peter Bol in the lead-up to the world championships after finding his positive test for synthetic erythropoietin (EPO) was wrong.
The middle distance runner, who finished fourth in the 800 metres at the Tokyo Olympics, was provisionally suspended in January after testing positive in an out-of-competition urine test last October.
The provisional suspension was lifted a month later after the 'B' sample of his test did not match its 'A' sample.
Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) continued its investigation, though, saying the 'B' sample was an "atypical finding" and not negative.
On Tuesday, SIA said it had investigated the results using a different laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and a WADA-recognised EPO expert and found Bol's A-sample was negative.
"As a result, Sport Integrity Australia has taken the decision not to progress an anti-doping rule violation for this sample. The investigation into this sample is finalised," it said.
Bol, who maintained his innocence throughout, said he had been exonerated.
"It was a false positive like I have said all along," he said in a statement.
"No one should ever experience what I have gone through this year."
Australia's athletics federation said Bol's case had exposed "several serious questions" about how EPO is analysed by WADA-accredited labs.
"Athletics Australia would like to express its full support of Peter and also its dismay that an innocent athlete has had his integrity put into question," the federation said.
"Peter Bol and every other high-performance athlete deserves clear and transparent answers to ensure this doesn't happen again. We encourage Sport Integrity Australia and WADA to provide those answers."
SIA said it had adhered to WADA's anti-doping code in its handling of the investigation but added that Bol's case had prompted the global body to review its EPO processes.
"Sport Integrity Australia will now await outcomes of the WADA review of the EPO review process," it said.
The world championships start in Budapest on Aug. 19.
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Niger, like many other African countries, is poverty-stricken: poor but rich in uranium. It is a landlocked country that lies in the Sahel, the arid region south of the Sahara that has faced growing insecurity amid the worsening effects of climate change.
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Niger, like many other African countries, is poverty-stricken: poor but rich in uranium. It is a landlocked country that lies in the Sahel, the arid region south of the Sahara that has faced growing insecurity amid the worsening effects of climate change.
It is likely that the military coup in Niger will put the Sahel region in the face of new storms of turmoil, especially since Niger is mediating hotbeds of crises, the most violent of which is the war raging in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in addition to the Libyan crisis, the crisis situation in Chad, and the turbulent situations in both Burkina Faso and Mali.
The country has been living in a complex security situation for more than a decade as a result of the permanent presence of armed groups, some of which are affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and others affiliated with the State organization.
During the announcement of General Amadou Abderrahman of the overthrow of France's favorite ally in the Sahel region, President Mohamed Bazoum, it was clear the coup was implemented by high ranks of the army and national security members.
The detention of the overthrown president, Muhammad Bazoum, was at the hands of the presidential guard. According to analysts, this indicates that the army, gendarmerie, and police joined the coup and harmonized with him. It is a clear consensus on the part of all military wires for the coup.
In a joint press release, Burkina Faso and Mali express their solidarity with Niger and warn that any military intervention against the country will be tantamount to a declaration of war between Burkina Faso and Mali .
Almost immediately after the joint statement, Guinea joins… pic.twitter.com/DZrzUkwXTF — Spriter Team (@SpriterTeam) July 31, 2023
Niger, like many other African country, is poverty-stricken: poor but rich in uranium. It is a landlocked country that lies in the Sahel, the arid region south of the Sahara that has faced growing insecurity amid the worsening effects of climate change.
It enjoys special foreign interest due to the raw materials under its soil, the most important one is uranium. Niger is one of the most prominent global exporters of this valuable material.
At the political arena there has been a chronic struggle within the ruling party in Niger, that is, the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), which the former president, Mahamadou Issoufou, remained in control of even after his departure from power and the election of his predecessor, Muhammad Bazoum. Issoufou continued his power and reduced the role of the overthrown president, Muhammad Bazoum. It has then become clear to observers that Issoufou controls the party’s apparatus, in addition to the loyalty of a number of high-ranking officers in the army who remained aligned to him, making up his strong ethnic power too.
Observers of the situation in Niger believe that there is a silent conflict that has been interacting between the former president, Issoufou, his predecessor, his foreign minister, and his comrade in politics, the ousted president, Bazoum. This appears in the fact that as soon as President Bazoum began to appoint political and military leaders loyal to him to high positions, whether in state agencies or in the military establishment, the rebellion against him started and the thought of overthrowing him began to take shape.
It is worth mentioning that the campaign manager of the overthrown president, Mohamed Bazoum, was none other than Sani Issoufou Mohamedou, son of the former president, Mohamedou Issoufou. This silent struggle for influence between a new president who wants to surround himself with his loyal personalities, and his ally, rival and predecessor who wants to keep his influence by holding control of various agencies have been the issues of the press in Niger over the past two years. Evidence for this is that Major General Salvo Modi, who may have the most important role in overthrowing President Bazoum, is considered one of the closest to the former president, Muhammadu Issoufou. He was even the commander of the Presidential Guard during the era of Issoufou. The dismissal of this officer and his appointment as ambassador to Abu Dhabi was only one of the reasons that precipitated the overthrow of President Bazoum.
Then we have the issue of ethnic disputes. Some analysts argue that the overthrown president, Barzim, who is from the Awlad Suleiman Arab tribe, which is few but influential due to wealth and presence in public affairs, does not have striking popular incubators, unlike his predecessor. Essofou belongs to the Hausa, who estimates to constitute more than 60% of the population. The members of the military council that overthrew Bazoum are all of the Hausa ethnicity. The general conviction of civil and military Hausa elite is that they are the ones who brought Muhammad Bazoum to power. They believe that had it not been for their constituents, he would not have been able to occupy the highest leadership position in the country. Therefore, they consider that most of the benefits and important jobs should remain in their hands.
There is no doubt that opinions and analyzes in social media platforms in Niger, which may sometimes come to be racist rhetoric, indicate that Bazoum has recently excluded the Hausa ethnicity, replacing it with elements of Arab and other ethnicities. This has been achieved with the aim to have these elements as his supporters on which it relies in the future.
On the other hand, social media platforms affiliated with Arab groups in Chad, Libya and Sudan reflected a kind of sympathy to and with President Bazoum.
This panorama in the Sahel region, reflects the historical background of exclusion, racism and sense of superiority from Arab tribes towards the African ones.
La junta militar golpista en Níger ha acusado este lunes a Francia de buscar "las vías y medios para intervenir militarmente" en el país africano para liberar al presidente depuesto Mohamed Bazoum, retenido desde el pasado miércoles por los militares.
From the external point of view, the situation in Niger also indicates the interest of the West in Africa, especially France. The European colonizer have huge business and companies in Niger. For this reason, it tries its best to get control of the political and economic situation.
The coup military junta in Niger accused France on Monday of seeking "ways and means to intervene militarily" in the African country to free deposed president Mohamed Bazoum, held since last Wednesday by the military.
In a statement read by Colonel Amadou Abdramane on public television, the military - organized in the National Council for the Safeguarding of the People (CNSP) - stressed that France is preparing its action "with the complicity" of some Nigeriens after a meeting in the General Staff of the National Guard
On Sunday, July 30, hundreds of people gathered to protest in front of the French Embassy in Niamey against the French presence in the country. The multitude tried to enter by force in the diplomatic headquarters.
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Thousands of Nigerians took to the streets on Sunday to demand the withdrawal of the French presence in the country.
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Thousands of Nigerians took to the streets on Sunday to demand the withdrawal of the French presence in the country.
Niger's military coup junta warned Monday that France is seeking to intervene militarily in the African country to restore Mohamed Bazoum to the presidency, which has been in the hands of the military since last week.
Colonel Amadou Abdramane said in a statement on public television that France is preparing its action together with some Nigerians after a meeting held at the General Staff of the National Guard of Niger. According to the colonel, the deposed foreign minister, Hassoumi Massaoudou, and the major colonel commander of the National Guard, Issa Guire, were present.
The international media organization Peoples Dispatch said that the European country "could intervene militarily with the authorization of the foreign minister of the overthrown government."
According to the media project, thousands of Nigerians have mobilized this Sunday in the streets to demand the withdrawal of the French presence in the country with slogans such as "Down with France," "Foreign bases out."
Une intervention militaire contre le Niger serait « une déclaration de guerre contre le Burkina Faso et le Mali » (Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga)
Le Mali et le Burkina Faso mettent en garde contre une éventuelle intervention militaire contre le Niger et assurent qu’elle serait… pic.twitter.com/3gF6GCqmOl — Anadolu Français (@aa_french) July 31, 2023
The tweet reads, "Military intervention against Niger would be "a declaration of war against Burkina Faso and Mali" (Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga). Mali and Burkina Faso warn against any military intervention against Niger, saying it would be considered a "declaration of war."
Demonstrators supporting the military takeover reportedly gathered at the French embassy headquarters and attempted to enter the building. They are said to have torn off the embassy's plaque in Niamey, the capital, and set fire to its door.
In the midst of the situation, the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has declared that it will "take all necessary measures," including the use of force to restore Bazoum to the presidency.
The head of the presidential guard, General Abdourahmane Tchiani, led a coup last July 26 in which Bazoum was taken prisoner and deposed. The military junta, has called itself the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP).
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FILE - Angus Cloud attends the 2021 GQ Men of the Year Party at The West Hollywood EDITION on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in West Hollywood, Calif. Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25. Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said McCloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.”
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “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.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.”
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “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.”
READ ALSO: Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70
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SOGI123 has been around for 6 years and has been adopted by all 60 school districts as an educational resource. (Black Press file)
The back-to-school countdown is on, and SOGI 123 program will be entering into its seventh year in B.C. classrooms – and so far been well received by not only educators but 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy groups.
“We know that each child expresses themselves in their own unique way and that 2SLGBTQIA+ students, staff and families still face discrimination in our education system,” Education Minister Rachna Singh said in a statement for Pride Month in June.
The government continues to try to ensure that every school is safe and that the families, students and staff can feel like they belong with no discrimination, according to Singh.
Six years ago, SOGI 123 was implemented as a set of resources that could be used by teachers, families and students to help educate on 2SLGBTQIA+ and the issues the queer community faces.
Overall, the resource has been very well received and adopted by the school districts, according to Clint Johnston, president of the B.C. Teachers Federation.
READ MORE: What really is the SOGI 123 resource in British Columbia schools?
“It has had across-the-board buy-in from education partners, us, the federation, CUPE and the ministry. So from our perception, it has done really well,” Johnson said.
Some districts are still working on delivering SOGI 123 in the way they’d like, but great progress has been made, according to Johnson.
All 60 school districts have sexual orientation and gender identity codes of conduct, along with resources like SOGI123, according to the province.
Victoria Pride Society also had a positive outlook on the curriculum, where it is going and the minor ways it might improve. All 60 school districts adopting the curriculum was a great step, according to Ace Mann, vice president and committee lead of the group.
“One of the things I liked is the fact that it was inclusive of everyone, even cis-gendered and heterosexual people, because all people have a sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Almost half of students witness or experience discrimination on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to Statistics Canada. Mann said they felt like this is why resources like SOGI 123 are so important, noting it gives representation and being represented matters.
A lot of the resources seem to be related to parents and staff, they said, and having a one-stop shop for children to access resources in one place would be a next positive step.
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Air crews reload their water tanks on Osoyoos Lake while fighting the Eagle Bluff Wildfire on July 30. The air tankers worked tireless on the fire as did many contributing firefighters on Sunday. The wildfire remained out of control on July 31, though many evacuation orders had been lifted. (Sandy Steck - Contributed) The residents in the Pinehurst neighbourhood were some of the lucky ones to be taken off evacuation orders but they came home to see how close the fire came. (Claudia Ryan Wood photo) The picture on the left is of Osoyoos on Monday with clear blue skies and the same vantage shot taken on Sunday, July 30 by Carmen Park who thanked the fire crews for so fiercely going after the wildfire. (Carmen Park Facebook)
Over 500 evacuated Osoyoos residents got to go home on Monday thanks to the efforts of B.C. Wildfire Service crews and local firefighters battling the Eagle Bluff Wildfire.
Currently, only 192 properties remain under order, down from 732 which were initially evacuated on July 29. Those previously under order will be under alert. There are now a total of 2,635 properties under alert.
The properties remaining under evacuation order include the Osoyoos Industrial Park in the Town of Osoyoos, all properties south of Highway 3 from the Town of Osoyoos boundaries to Nighhawk Road in Electoral Area “B” (Rural Osoyoos), Parts of Electoral Areas “A” (Cawston) and “B” including the Kilpoola and Spotted Lake areas south of Highway 3
Residents in the Pinehurst neighbourhood were allowed to go back home and got to see first hand how close the fire came to wiping out their properties.
Several residents commented about how grateful they are to the fire crews for saving their homes, including Claudia Ryan Wood.
“It’s good to be home,” she said.
As of Monday, July 31, the fire had swelled to over 1,450 hectares following its burst up across the border on Saturday night.
READ MORE: Osoyoos wildfire swells to over 1,400 hectares as homes remain under threat
Shaelee Stearns of the BC Wildfire Service said at the briefing that the fire grew to more than 14 square kilometres on the Canadian side, while authorities in Washington have said it measures more than 40 square kilometres on the U.S. side.
Stearns said 61 B.C. firefighting personnel, including night crews, are working to control the blaze, focusing on the eastern flank of the fire, “which is the side of the fire that’s closer in proximity to the city.”
Heavy equipment, structural protection crews and aerial resources are also working on the fire.
BC Wildfire Service is expecting to continue to see dry conditions, including a south-west flow of wind, however during the briefing to the public, they did note that because of the terrain, the direction of the wind is not consistent across the entire fire and capable of changing through the day.
Stearns said “good progress” has been made in combating the fire so far, but no rainfall is expected this week.
“We’re still looking at drier weather, hotter and dry weather for the rest of the week here and it’s something that we’ll continue to kind of monitor,” she said.
The western front of the fire has been showing a large amount of activity, and on the eastern front the winds blew the fire back onto ground that had already been scorched by the fire.
South across the border the fire has grown to over 4,100 hectares burned as of July 31, with four structures lost and 250 personnel on scene, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.
An incident management team from the BC Wildfire Service will be arriving to take over the fire from the Kamloops Fire Centre on Aug. 1. The BC Wildfire camp has been set up at in Okanagan Falls.
The town of Osoyoos has a population of about 5,000, but that is swollen in summer by visitors who come to enjoy the town’s lake and surroundings.
They included Vancouver real estate agent Walter Wells, who arrived at the Watermark Beach Resort with his wife on Friday, to celebrate their 25th anniversary. He said they thought the nearby fire might cause smoky skies, but didn’t foresee the terrifying night that unfolded Saturday.
“On the southernmost part of the hills, we saw, to our horror, a massive line of orange fire was cresting the hill. We couldn’t believe it and it was just massive,” he said in an interview Monday.
“We could see trees almost exploding. It would just catch a big tree and it would just burst up in flames.”
He said an emergency alert came through their phones around 11 p.m. Saturday and their hotel told them to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice.
“We were on alert, but we were extremely close to the fire and we were truly scared,” he said. “It’s one thing to watch it on TV, but the mountain was on fire right above us.”
He said he and his wife decided it wasn’t safe to leave Saturday, but on Sunday they packed up and left on a four-hour drive north to Wells’s brother’s cabin. By the time they left, the smoke in Osoyoos was “the most vile thing I’ve ever smelled … We just couldn’t take it anymore.”
“We’re lucky to be alive,” he said, adding that he was impressed by the speed at which firefighting efforts were mobilized.
“God bless those guys because I don’t know how a human being could fight that fire.”
With files from the Canadian Press
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The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. investigated a March 2021 incident in which a police dog seriously injured a suspect in Abbotsford, but the BC Prosecution Service has decided that charges are not warranted against the officer involved. (File photo)
The BC Prosection Service (BCPS) announced Monday (July 31) that charges will not be laid against an Abbotsford Police dog handler in connection with an arrest in which a man suffered serious bites.
“The BCPS is not able to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the officer committed any offence in relation to the incident,” a press release states.
The province’s independent Investigations Office (IIO), which looks into officer-related incidents that result in serious harm or death, was called in after a man was injured during an arrest on March 6, 2021 in the 3700 block of Davie Street.
The IIO concluded that the officer, who is not named in the report, might have committed a criminal offence and forwarded a report to the BCPS for the consideration of charges.
BCPS documents related to the case state that the incident stemmed from an incident Feb. 25, 2021 in which a resident reported that his minivan had been stolen.
The resident had left the unlocked vehicle running while he went into his home.
RELATED: IIO investigating after man seriously injured by police dog during Abbotsford arrest
Another person reported on March 5, 2021 that his wife’s purse had been stolen from her vehicle while she was checking the community mailbox. The vehicle involved in the theft matched the description of the previously stolen van, as did the partial licence plate provided by the victim.
Police were able to locate the stolen vehicle at a home in Abbotsford and placed a tracking device on it, according to the BCPS report.
On March 6, the tracking device indicated the mini van was being driven, and it was tracked driving slowly through several parking lots in Abbotsford, including by a police helicopter.
Three officers, including one with a police dog, concealed themselves in some trees nearby when the vehicle was returning to the area where it was initially located.
The helicopter crew informed the officers on the ground that the suspect had parked, got out of the vehicle and stepped into some bushes adjacent to a neighbour’s driveway.
This “elevated the risk assessment” because offenders often hide weapons in outdoor areas near their home, the report states.
As the suspect neared the officers’ location, the officer with the dog stepped out and yelled at the man to get on the ground.
“The (suspect) dropped his bags, stepped back and started turning sideways away from the police. The (suspect) put his hands in the air but did not lie on the ground,” the BCPS report states.
The officer deployed the dog, which bit the suspect on the back of his upper right thigh. After the man was placed in custody, he was taken to the hospital, where he received 20 to 25 stitches, according to the BCPS report.
The BCPS had to determine whether the level of force used in the case was excessive.
“Based on the totality of the circumstances, there is insufficient evidence to prove that the force used by the (officer) was unreasonable, disproportionate or unnecessary,” the report states.
“There were factors that made the arrest high-risk, and the available evidence shows a meaningful potential for violence and the involvement of weapons. The (officer) subjectively believed that the force used was necessary and the available evidence does not prove that his belief was objectively unreasonable.”
The BCPS concluded that the case did not have a “substantial likelihood of conviction” and did not approve charges against the officer.
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Country music lovers may just be shouting yee-haw this week as Laketown Ranch on Vancouver Island brings back Sunfest, their annual country music festival, from Aug. 3 to 6 with a lineup of talent that is sure to shine.
The thousands of enthusiasts of this music genre expected to flood the Cowichan Valley will have plenty to sing and dance about, and along to with four days of musical forces on multiple stages to be reckoned with. The first acts to get things shaking on Thursday, Aug. 3 are Salome Cullen taking the Lake Night stage at 6:15 p.m., while local favourite Lindsay Elzinga opens the Flats stage at 6:45 p.m. The first to grace the Main Stage on the Friday at 5:20 p.m. is Danielle Ryan, and closing it that night at 10:10 p.m. will be Lainey Wilson, known for her hits ‘Heart Like a Truck’ and ‘Watermelon Moonshine’ off her 2022 album Bell Bottom Country.
Attendees will be just as ‘Amazed’ by Saturday’s main stage performances which include Lonestar with one of the biggest hits being of the same name. Billy Currington will close the main stage on Saturday. Some fun facts about Currington include that he was married to Shania Twain from 1993 to 2008 and that he is the brother of the late great Kurt Cobain. Fans might expect to not only hear songs from his most recent 2021 album Intuition, but also some of his classics like ‘People Are Crazy’.
READ MORE: Blake Shelton announced as Sunfest headliner
Over the course of four days there are many fabulous acts to see, but top billing goes to Blake Shelton who has sold more than 10 million records worldwide. Shelton has been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards including Best Country Album, and Best Country Solo Performance. Shelton also found international stardom as a judge for 23 seasons on TV’s popular singing competition The Voice, until finally stepping down this past May.
Shelton started dating singing sensation Gwen Stefani in 2015 and the two were married in 2021. Some of his hits include ‘Boys Round Here’, and ‘Nobody But You’ a duet that he recorded with Stefani in 2020.
Whether you choose to set up camp for the whole festival, come out for the weekend, or just a day; wether you’re a newbie, or returning diehard, there are plenty of options on how to bask in the glow of Sunfest. Find the full list of performers at sunfestconcerts.com. Tickets can be purchased at sunfest.frontgatetickets.com
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The Battered Women’s Support Shelter is hosting the “Sweat to Support Survivors” Challenge
The Sweat To Support Survivors Challenge is raising funds to boost the Battered Women’s Support Service’s programs for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. The service’s logo portrays three women, symbolizing the stark reality that one in three women worldwide experiences physical or sexual violence, predominantly perpetrated by an intimate partner. (BWSS/Contributed to Black Press Media)
Angela Marie MacDougall has seen the tragedy that can amount from gender-based violence up close.
The now-executive director of the Battered Women’s Support Service pivoted her career after losing a high school friend in the 1980s.
“That was when I changed the trajectory of my work, and became in some way, politicized, about ending gender-based violence,” she told Black Press Media.
MacDougall said since 2020 there has been a significant uptick in the number of outreach attempts from survivors, and according to a news release from the organization there were 94,736 outreach attempts between March 2020 and March 2022 from individuals experiencing domestic or sexual violence.
“Whatever gender equity we thought we made leading up to 2020, we’ve lost ground,” MacDougall said.
This summer, the service is running the ‘Sweat to Support Survivors’ fundraiser that seeks to promote health and wellness alongside spreading awareness of gender-based violence.
This individualized challenge is to raise money to support the service’s programs that support survivors who reach out to them.
At the participant level, MacDougall said one of the main aims of the fundraiser is to start conversations foster a sense of community based in promoting self-empowerment.
“The financial assistance that’s needed for the entire breadth of what one survivor needs to go through in order to leave a relationship is astronomical,” Sarah Jamieson, a trauma and somatics specialist at the service said in an interview.
The service’s fundraising goal is $50,000, enough to put 2,000 women through one of the offered programs according to Jamieson.
The Battered Women’s Support Service takes what Jamieson called a “multi-faceted approach” to supporting those who reach out. Alongside the crisis line that has been active since 1979, the service also offers legal advocacy, employment support, and specialized “by-and-for” supports for Black, Indigenous, and Latin-descent individuals run by members of those communities with similar lived experiences.
READ MORE: Okanagan College raising the issue of gender-based violence
Anyone can register as a single participant or with a team, and all registrants must pick an activity and a duration.
Someone can register to run for a certain number of kilometres, or go on a multi-day hiking trip – as long as it involves physical activity, there are no limits. Participants must raise funds as part of their activity, and Jamieson said no matter the amount, donations are extremely helpful.
“Movement in any capacity has the ability to break down barriers,” Jamieson said.
The top three fundraisers can win prizes, and any person who raises more than $300 will receive a free challenge-branded sweatshirt.
“It’s a really flexible way to participate, and to participate in movement that makes sense for individuals. There’s nothing prescribed in how people need to move. It’s also a way for people to engage with the issue,” MacDougall said.
Registration is open until Aug. 14, and challenge donations are accepted until Aug. 31
The service’s crisis line can be reached at 604-687-1867, or toll-free at 1-855-687-1868.
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Pets can be great road trip companions, when we keep a few safety tips in mind.
By Blair Qualey
As hot weather takes hold, many of us will have the urge to take a road trip to our destination of choice – and for many, the temptation is to take your four-legged friend along for the ride. Our friends at ICBC, with the help of the BC SPCA, prepared some pointers and precautions on their newsroom page a few years ago urging drivers to be smart with their pets – and the subject matter remains just as relevant today.
Above all else, drivers are encouraged to use common sense, drive smart and consider the safety of your pets, if bringing them along for the ride. Key recommendations include the following:
NEVER leave any pets in a heated car. Every summer there are heartbreaking stories of animals left unattended in stuffy, overheated cars with the windows rolled up. When you take your pet to the beach and want to stop for coffee or lunch along the way, be sure to take it with you even if it’s “just for a minute.” Even with the windows cracked, temperatures in a hot car can multiply in just a few minutes – the same amount of time it would take for you to tie your pet’s leash up outside in a shady area.
Always use some form of safety restraint whenever travelling with a pet. Having your pet properly restrained can prevent them from escaping, flying forward in your vehicle, or being hurt in a crash.
If you’re using a crate, secure it with a seatbelt, cargo hooks, or by placing it by the rear seat. If unsecured, the crate can bounce around and even become a projectile. When you’re buying a crate for your dog, look for one that has been crash-tested.
As we all know, dogs love hanging their heads out the window and while it’s tempting to let them do it, it leaves them open the potential for corneal ulcers from flying debris – such as dust or sand.
ICBC discourages children younger than 12 from sitting in the front seat of vehicle, and the same safety risks of a deployed air bag can have devastating consequences for animals as well. To keep your furry family member safe, they should never sit in the front seat, but be secured in the back seat or cargo area of an SUV or van.
While your pup may be super entertaining, refrain from allowing your pet to sit on your lap, from reaching into the back seat to interact with them; and from feeding, playing or taking a photo of them while you’re driving.
The same caution applies if your travel companion is a cat, as they can crawl around your feet, and potentially interfere with gas or brake pedals. The BC SPCA recommends “airline type” (not cardboard) cat travel carriers and also suggests taking the time to help your cat learn to love their carrier before your first trip by offering treats, food, and a familiar blanket inside and gradually encouraging them to hang out in the carrier.
And finally, treat your four-legged friends like they are a member of the family, by bringing food, water, dishes, bedding and toys. If you’re taking a long trip, plan for a pit stop every few hours – it’s good for drivers and pets alike to stretch and get fresh air.
Have a safe and fun road trip this summer with your furry travel companions.
Blair Qualey is President and CEO of the New Car Dealers Association of BC. You can email him at bqualey@newcardealers.ca
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Despite expecting fentanyl, none was found in toxic drugs recently tested in Penticton. The drugs carry a high risk of overdose and a high risk of fatal overdoses. (Interior Health)
Interior Health has issued a toxic drug warning with a high risk of fatal overdoses that do not involve Fentanyl.
In a release, despite expecting the presence of fentanyl in the sample, the drugs instead contained Nitazene, a strong synthetic opioid.
The drugs carry with them a high risk of overdose and a high risk of fatal overdoses. Other symptoms include amnesia, sleepiness and nodding off for a long time.
The drugs appear as white, chunky and flaky substances that are being sold as down.
The alert is currently in place until Aug. 7.
READ MORE: Toxic drug alert issued for Penticton
To reduce the risk of overdose, Interior Health has made several suggestions:
• Get your drugs checked before use
• Avoid using different drugs at the same time or using drugs and alcohol together.
• Don’t use alone or ask someone to check on you
• Start with a small amount and work up
• Use at an overdose prevention site
• Know how to respond to overdose
• If you must use while alone, consider using the Lifeguard app which can connect you with 911 emergency responders if you overdose
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