If there's one thing celebrities like to do, it's make ridiculous purchases.
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So I thought it'd be fun to put together a list of ridiculous celebrity purchases, and throw in a handful of fake ones to throw you off the scent. Let's see how well you can do!
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Bullet Train has collected a decent $62.5 million (about Rs. 497 crore) at the global box office on its opening weekend. Out of that amount, $32.4 million (about Rs. 257 crore) were pulled in from 57 overseas markets, including India, which saw an early release on August 4, thanks to Sony Pictures. Meanwhile, Jurassic World Dominion overtook Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, becoming the second biggest worldwide grosser of 2022. The top spot is still held by Top Gun: Maverick, with a whopping $1.35 billion (about Rs. 10,743 crore) globally.
According to Deadline, the Brad Pitt-starrer saw the biggest international (minus US and Canada) opening for a non-franchise film since Christopher Nolan's Tenet, which was released in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Even with dinged reviews, Bullet Train is doing fairly well with the audience, who were expecting nothing short of a fun-filled summer action flick.
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On a regional basis, the overseas market for the film was led by the UK with a $3.5 million (about Rs. 27 crore) start, followed by France at $3.1 million (about Rs. 24 crore) and Mexico just short at $3 million (about Rs. 23 crore). The UAE and Taiwan releases added $1.3 million (about Rs. 10 crore) each, while Germany and Spain raised the bar slightly, with $1.5 million (about Rs. 11.9 crore) and $1.4 million (about Rs. 11.3 crore) respectively. Deadline notes that the IMAX collections are at $4.1 million (about Rs. 32 crore), and that the $32.4-million overseas record does not include some markets. Bullet Train is due to release in South Korea on August 24, Italy on August 25, and Japan on September 1 — weird considering the movie is based in Tokyo. Also, India is nowhere to be seen on the list.
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The final entry into the rebooted Jurassic World trilogy, Dominion, stands second on the worldwide box office list with $960 million (about Rs. 7,636 crore), though the numbers are aided by the China release. The Tom Cruise-led fight action film, Top Gun: Maverick, however, has managed to retain the first position, while not having a China release, crossing $1.35 billion. Even Taika Waititi's Thor: Love and Thunder — which flew past the $500-million mark last month — has collected an impressive $700 million (about Rs. 5,567 crore), without China.
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Additionally, Illumination's Minions: The Rise of Gru brought in $15.9 million (about Rs. 126 crore) over the weekend. The global total now stands at $757.9 million (about Rs. 6,028 crore). Furthermore, Warner Bros.' DC League of Super-Pets, released on August 5 in India, is now at a worldwide total of $83.4 million (about Rs. 663 crore).
“It’s one of the biggest and most important hospitals for women in Afghanistan,” she explained. The patients were female, of course, but so were nearly all the members of the medical staff. As we walked through the corridors, which smelled of disinfectant, she pointed out that they were clean and freshly painted — a drastic change from a year ago, when they were fetid with bodily fluids and waste. The hospital, too, had suffered from the corruption and dysfunction endemic to the republic. Much of the Civil Service stopped receiving salaries as early as April or May. The former government had been trying to switch to a new payroll system, while simultaneously burning through its cash reserves in a last-ditch attempt to fund anti-Taliban militias. At the hospital, the staff kept working for months without pay, and begged for donations of food and other supplies from local businesses. “It was heartbreaking to think that this was on the verge of collapsing,” Stocker said.
In the recovery room, the nurses were transferring a young patient from a gurney into her bed, her back arched in agony. Twenty-four years old, she was suffering from eclampsia, a complication from pregnancy that caused seizures so intense she’d lacerated her tongue and cracked her teeth; the doctors had performed an emergency abortion to save her life. Her gray-haired mother sat at her bedside, the relief apparent on her face. “She would have died,” she told me.
Now that fighting had stopped in the countryside, more patients were able to make it into the capital from remote areas, where women’s reproductive health, in particular, was often abysmal. As a result, the staff was struggling with very serious cases: women who, like this young patient with eclampsia, would have simply died at home. The economic crisis had gutted the private sector and ended medical tourism abroad, so public hospitals like Malalai, where treatment was free, had experienced a surge in admissions — in some, outpatient visits were up tenfold. The strain on the medical workers was evident, but at least — unlike much of Afghanistan’s public sector — they could expect regular salaries. But for how long?
In addition to its appeal for emergency aid, the U.N. was seeking funding for a $3.42 billion plan to provide basic services directly to the Afghan people, bypassing the Taliban government, what some call “humanitarian plus.” But as Stocker pointed out, the intervention of groups like the I.C.R.C. entrenched the very dependency that was the problem. “Our sense was that a national health care system needs a ministry holding it together,” Stocker said. “You need a state.”
As a teaching hospital, Malalai also helped to train the next generation of Afghan maternity specialists, nurses and midwives, women like Dr. Rana Afzali, whom I met in the neonatal ward, where a young mother sat in the corner, holding her newborn. Dressed in a white coat and colorful head scarf, Afzali was fresh out of her residency. It was a daunting time to be entering her profession, but she told me she was glad to be working, unlike many of her classmates who had fled abroad. “They’re sitting inside, depressed — I stayed,” Afzali said, and shrugged. “I’m a hopeful person.”
Himanta Biswa Sarma recently said that Assam has become a hotbed of "jihadi activities". (file)
Dhubri, Assam:
A woman has been arrested in Assam's Dhubri district for her alleged links with Bangladeshi proscribed outfit Ansarul Islam, the police said.
Jahura Khatun, whose husband Abu Tallah is also wanted for his alleged connection with the outfit, was apprehended from Naeralga Part II village on Sunday, Bilasipara Sub-divisional Police Officer Birinchi Bora told reporters.
She had been "trying to protect people having association with Ansarul Islam", Mr Bora stated.
"Two mobile phones were seized from her possession, one of which was burnt. We are trying to retrieve data from the burnt phone. As of now, we have gathered enough evidence from her interrogation and the other phone to establish the fact that she was in touch with the members of the outfit," Mr Bora said.
Ms Khatun was on Sunday produced before a judicial magistrate's court, which remanded her to judicial custody. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently said that Assam has become a hotbed of "jihadi activities" after five modules having links with the Bangladesh-based terror outfit were busted in the past five months.
The first module was busted in March with the arrest of five persons in Barpeta. Since then, over 30 people have been caught, with 11 in the months of March and April.
Two persons, including an Imam running a Madrasa, were held in Morigaon in July. The madrasa was subsequently demolished.
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Hibernian will review incidents of fan disorder during their 1-1 draw with Hearts in Sunday's Edinburgh derby.
Jambos left-back Alex Cochrane appeared to be struck by a cigarette lighter while preparing to take a throw-in in the second half of the 1-1 draw at Easter Road, while several home fans invaded the pitch after Martin Boyle's stoppage-time equaliser.
A statement released by Hibs after the match read: "Hibernian FC is aware of alleged incidents where objects appeared to have been thrown towards Hearts players, pyros being thrown, and pitch incursions.
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"These incidents will be reviewed again on the stadium CCTV and, if an incident can be detected and someone identified, appropriate action will be taken by the club.
"The club understands the passion that an Edinburgh derby brings, and believes it has some of the best supporters in Scotland, but remains committed to providing a safe environment for players, officials and supporters."
Kensell: Fans need to be better
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Hibernian chief executive Ben Kensell has condemned the behaviour of those fans who ran onto the pitch following the game against Hearts
Hibs chief executive Ben Kensell spoke to Sky Sports about the incidents.
"We can't condone it. But obviously sometimes the passion of what happens and the situation and how it unfolds dictates some of that.
"There are things we need to look at. We'd ask our fans to always act appropriately and there are a few incidents we will look at.
"But ultimately passion is what football is all about. So we have to address it, and internally we will. It's got to be a safe environment here at Easter Road and I believe it is."
Neilson: There must be action
Image: Hearts Manager Robbie Neilson wants action after objects were thrown during the Edinburgh derby
Hearts boss Robbie Neilson expects the authorities to take action over the incident involving Cochrane.
"It's not good enough at all," he said. "We need that stamped out of Scottish football, in any ground. I'm sure the authorities will come down heavy on it because you can't have people coming to their work and getting hit with things like that.
"It's not acceptable. I don't want the focus to be on that, it is all about the football, but you can't have that."
Aug. 3, 2022 – If you grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, chances are high you’re familiar with Go Ask Alice.
What was then said to be the real diary of a 15-year-old promising teen turned drug addict was released in 1971 as a cautionary tale and has since sold over 5 million copies. The diary was harrowing against the backdrop of the war on drugs and soon became both acclaimed and banned from classrooms across the country.
Schools citied “inappropriate” language that “borders on pornography” as grounds to prohibit teenagers from reading Alice’s story. But as much as the book’s vivid writing offended readers, it drew millions in with its profanity and graphic descriptions of sex, drugs, and mental health struggles.
At the time, TheNew York Times reviewed the book as “a strong, painfully honest, nakedly candid and true story … a document of horrifying reality,” but the popular diary was later found to be a ploy – a fake story written by a 54-year-old Mormon youth counselor named Beatrice Sparks.
Now, Sparks, who died in 2012, has been further exposed in radio personality Rick Emerson’s new book, Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries. Emerson published the exposé in July, years after he had the idea to investigate Sparks’s work in 2015. The book details Sparks’s background, her journey in creating Alice, and her quest to be recognized for the teen diary she had published as “Anonymous.”
“After 30 years of trying, Beatrice Sparks had changed the world. And nobody knew it,” Emerson told the New York Post.
In his work, Emerson also dives into the profound impact of the diary at a time when not as much research existed on teen mental health.
When the teenager whose diary inspired Sparks’s writing “died in March 1971, the very first true study of adolescent psychology had just barely come out,” Emerson said to Rolling Stone. “Mental health, especially for young people, was still very much on training wheels.”
According to Emerson, a lack of insight into mental health issues allowed Sparks’s description to go relatively unchallenged and for the book’s influence to spread despite its misinformation.
“It’s indisputable that large sections of ‘Go Ask Alice’ are just embellished and/or false,” he told the Post.
Then vs. Now
When Go Ask Alice was published, child psychiatry and psychology literature contained relatively few references to depression, confirming a 2021 analysis of academic literature on childhood and adolescent depression from 1970 to 2019.
This landscape is in stark contrast to today, where thousands of studies on the topic have been done, compared to the mere dozens in the 1970s.
Anxiety and depression in minors have increased over time, a trend worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the CDC. Studies have shown that reported drug use in teens has decreased over time, proving significant during the pandemic, according to the National Institutes of Health.
While Alice from Go Ask Alice has not existed in either, comparing the two periods can offer insight into teens' struggles in the 1970s vs. today and sheds light on how literature – fiction or faked fiction – can transform a nation.
Serving others has always been James Bors’ mission in life.
Bors attended the Naval Academy in the 1980s, served in the Navy for seven years after that and eventually became a father, husband, teacher and parishioner in Annapolis. When asked what motivates him to give so much of himself, Bors paraphrases Scripture: “And he who receives a lot, is able to give a lot.”
On June 18, Bors took the latest step in his lifetime of service. He was ordained by Archbishop William E. Lori at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore and assigned to St. Jane Frances De Chantal Church in Riviera Beach, a stone and brick Catholic parish a short walk from the Patapsco River.
“My whole life has been a great gift from God,” he said in an interview. “I’ve been blessed through my wife, through my sons, through my parish, through my country, through my brothers and sisters in Christ. How can I not just give it back?”
Despite receiving his new parish assignment more than a month ago, Bors’ office at St. Jane Frances still isn’t quite put together. Pictures of farm landscapes and churches are stacked on the floor by the desk waiting for a place on the white walls that are barren aside from a Navy clock left behind by the previous officeholder. Sitting on the desk is an open box with knickknacks and religious texts waiting to be placed on shelves.
Father Jim Bors at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (Brian Krista/Capital Gazette)
In the office, Bors, 61, reflected on his new position at a parish that sits only a few minutes from the Naval Academy where his spiritual journeybegan 40 years ago.
Back then, even though he was raised Catholic in Prince George’s County, Bors hadn’t examined the Bible as thoroughly as some of the othermidshipmen he met on the Yard, he said. Their shared interest in and love for God would prove to be extremely important to Bors’ life.
“By the time I graduated high school I had a relationship with the Lord, but it was just a sprout,” Bors said. “But all that changed when I met my brothers that would invite me to Bible study.”
After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1983, Bors served in the Navyfor seven years. He trained to work on submarines all over the country, from Florida to Idaho, where he met his future wife, to Groton, Connecticut, where he attended submarine school.
He spent another 3½ years in Hawaii on a fast attack nuclear submarine, the USS Birmingham.
Following that tour he got orders to return to Maryland to teach at the Naval Academy, where he retired in 1990.
Once Bors and his wife, Shirley, returned to Annapolis, it became clear that staying put was the only option. They raised two boys, Jeffrey and Michael, until Shirley’s untimely death in 2010.
“It really came out of nowhere. I was a single father in the blink of an eye to a 17- and 19-year-old,“ Bors said.
Bors cherished the time he and his boys had with his wife and said he feels very fortunate that he got to raise his family in Annapolis as his wife wanted. While Bors had multiple opportunities to move somewhere new for work, it was important for him and his wife to offer stability and consistency to their family, which Annapolis provided .
“My wife just loved Annapolis, he said with a grin. “I do too, it’s just got something to it. It’s on the water. It’s historic. We just really wanted to stay.”
Bors’ younger son, Jeffrey, now serves as an officer in the Coast Guard.
“It was cool growing up in Annapolis,” Jeffrey said. “Growing up in the same house, and still having close friends from school is something to cherish.”
They raised their family in the parish of St. Andrew by the Bay in Annapolis and Bors ran Bible study and other faith-sharing programs. It was this connection with his fellow parishioners that he and his family leaned on as they sought encouragement and support following Shirley’s death.
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That life-altering event could have stopped Bors, but instead, it intensified his need to serve, to continue helping the way he felt he had been helped by the congregation at St. Andrew by the Bay.
As time went on, he began feeling as if the priesthood was calling him. He was encouraged by those same parishioners who helped him while he was grieving. It was his sons who would have the final say and they supported their father wholeheartedly.
“When he originally proposed the idea that he would be a priest I admit thinking it was the last thing he would do,” said Michael, Bors’ eldest son, who is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from Catholic University. “Most kids don’t grow up to see their father become a priest so it was a remote possibility to me, but I know my dad as a man of great integrity so my brother and I knew we would support him in whatever made him happy.”
With his sons’ blessing, he began his journey to the priesthood by moving out to Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he studied for seven years. Bors described that time at the seminary as some of the best years of his life.
“I always wanted to help around the church but as a working man, as a husband and a father I was lucky to scratch out the time to lead a Bible study. But during my time preparing for priesthood, I was surrounded by people who were as excited to study and learn about the Scriptures,” he said. “It was like being soaked in a gentle rain then having sunshine every day in the most nutrient-rich soil.”
Borsfinished his time at the seminary earlier this year. He was assigned as an associate pastor to both Saint Jane Frances and Our Lady of the Chesapeake, in Pasadena.
“I prayed to God to place me where I was most needed and I ended up here,” Bors said. “I couldn’t be happier.”
At her wedding ceremony to Luis "Louie" Ruelas on Aug. 6, Teresa Giudice walked down the aisle in a custom strapless Mark Zunino Atelier pale blush mermaid gown, which featured a sweetheart neckline and over 300 yards of hand-draped English netting, the designer told Page Six.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star paired the look with a custom crystal tiara by Bridal Styles Couture and a Bridal Reflections cathedral-length veil. It spanned more than 100 inches long, featured crystal and pearl accents and was embroidered with three large hearts and the Italian phrase "Sempre Insieme" ("Always Together") in large letters on the bottom.
The words matches a tattoo she got in honor of her late mother, Antonia Gorga, who died in 2017, Mark Zunino told the outlet.
Teresa, 50, and Luis, 48, wed at the Park Chateau Estate in East Brunswick, NJ, with family, friends and co-stars in attendance. Bridesmaids included the bride and ex-husband Joe Giudice's daughters Gia, 21, Gabriella, 17, Milania, 16, and Audriana, 12, as well as co-stars Dolores Catania and Jennifer Aydin. They wore darker blush dresses, in different styles, from Cocos Chateau Gowns.
Hong Kong, that recently topped the list of the world's most crypto-ready nation on the Worldwide Crypto Readiness Report, is riddled with scammers eyeing the sector. In the first six months of 2022, Hong Kong saw an alarming 105 percent hike in crypto scams as compared to the same period in 2021. As per a South China Morning Post report, the crypto community of Hong Kong has collectively lost $50 million (roughly Rs. 400 crore) to conmen this year so far.
Out of the 10,613 cybercrimes that have been reported in Hong Kong so far this year, 798 made for crypto-related ones, the South China Morning Post said in its report.
The hike in crypto scams in Hong Kong is being linked to the popularity that the digital assets sector is garnering in the nation.
As per Triple-A statistics, Hong Kong contained over 245,000 cryptocurrency owners in 2021.
The government there is trying to frame the sensitive sector in laws so that investors are safeguarded against financial hazards.
In July this year, a new legislation came into existence in Hong Kong that mandated a licensing regime for crypto service providers operating in the country.
As per the Worldwide Crypto Readiness Report, Hong Kong scored 8.6 out of 10 in-terms of being lucrative for the crypto sector.
The study, that has rated nations out of ten in crypto-readiness, analysed several aspects before declaring Hong Kong as the most crypto-friendly country. These aspects included the number of crypto ATMs, the legislation and taxes surrounding cryptocurrencies as well as the number of blockchain start-ups flourishing in the ecosystems.
Hong Kong also emerged to be among the most nurturing countries in-terms of blockchain-related start-ups.
The US, that secured the second position on this index with a 7.7 score has also witnessed a rise in crypto scams as a by-product of the increasing number of activities around crypto that are penetrating in the daily activities of US citizens.
A recent report by BanklessTimes has claimed that Americans crypto investors lost $185 million (roughly Rs. 1,500 crore) between January 2021 and March 2022 to romance scams and over $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,000 crore) in total to other fraudulent activities.
Americans are also losing money to investment scams, and imposters pretending to be business consultants and government officials.
South Africa won the inaugural cricket gold medal in the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia in 1998
"A South African cyclist told me 'you cricketers are just here to booze and party'," Herschelle Gibbs said before breaking out into laughter. "He was right. But he didn't have an answer at the closing ceremony when I showed him my gold medal!"
In Malaysia 24 years ago, 16 nations slugged it out on ropey pitches in Kuala Lumpur, battling stinking heat for matches during the day and, for some players, brushes with the organisers for their antics off the pitch at night.
"It's not like in those days we were huge on fitness," former South Africa batter Gibbs, who played 90 Tests and 248 one-day internationals between 1996 and 2010, told BBC Sport.
"The rest of the athletes taking part were in mint condition to perform at their very best. We had a team of young pups, and were all there to enjoy ourselves."
While runners and swimmers were counting every calorie over their salads in the cafeteria at the athletes' village, the cricketers were lapping up third helpings of ice cream to stay cool, and quenching a thirst with something stronger in the evening.
The tournament pitted some enthusiastic amateur cricketers against some of the world's top players. Although not England. Unlike in 2022, England did not participate as it clashed with the climax of the County Championship.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had mooted the possibility of sending a weakened team but the English Commonwealth Games authorities insisted on a full-strength side or nothing. England's absence paved the way for Northern Ireland to make their one, and so far only, appearance at an international cricket tournament as a separate nation.
Northern Ireland cricket captain Allan Rutherford held the country's flag at the Games in 1998
"We were able to 'borrow' the all-Ireland one-day ranking to qualify," explained former skipper Allan Rutherford. "I even had the honour of carrying the Northern Irish flag at the opening ceremony. Viv Richards carried Antigua's so I was in good company."
A few of Northern Ireland's players were professionals but many had day jobs. Dekker Curry worked in an abattoir, Derek Heasley was a fireman, while Kyle McCallan was fresh out of university and selling used cars. "I'd describe the Northern Ireland cricket team which took part as a cross between Cool Runnings and the Dirty Dozen," joked ex-Northern Ireland seamer Paul McCrum.
Pitches from Mars, and netting in a car park
South Africa, captained by Shaun Pollock, were pitted against Northern Ireland in their opening group game at the Kelab Aman cricket ground.
Asked to bat first, Northern Ireland recovered from 33-4 to 89-5 before heavy rain lashed down. South Africa were set a Duckworth-Lewis target of 131 runs in 38 overs. Ryan Eagleson and Gordon Cooke shared the new ball.
"Gibbs edged one from me and departed for 11, Gordon bowled the other opener Mike Rindel, I got Derek Crookes caught behind then Andrew Hudson was run out," Eagleson recalled. "At 23-4 we could scarcely believe it." McCrum bagged the wicket of Jacques Kallis for 18 and at 57-5 South Africa were on the rack.
"Promoting cricket was the right thing for the Games but the pitches were maybe not up to the standard of players there," McCrum acknowledged. "They were red coloured like the soil on Mars - in fact, the pitches on Mars probably played slightly better!"
Northern Ireland's cricketers posed for pictures in their blazers before flying to Malaysia
Dale Benkenstein and Pollock came together to perform a rescue act for the Proteas.
"We were in big trouble," Benkenstein said. "The training facilities in Malaysia for cricket obviously weren't great - I remember having extra practice in a hotel car park. Maybe a few of our guys were caught cold on difficult wickets.
"But that was where Bob Woolmer was really good. He was one of the best international coaches and he drummed into the lads 'you just have get on with it. It doesn't matter.'
"The situation we got ourselves in was pretty dire and people were saying 'we don't even know who these guys are'. Playing in England, I've developed a huge amount of respect for Irish cricket. But back in 1998, I'll be honest, I wasn't sure who most of them were."
South Africa avoided an upset thanks to an unbeaten 44 from Benkenstein and 30 from Pollock, before more comfortable victories over Bangladesh and Barbados - the nations which make up the West Indies team took part separately - to set up a semi-final with Sri Lanka.
Waugh donned the face paint poolside
In one of the other groups, favourites Australia found life a little more easy going as they rolled Canada in their first match for 60.
One of the Canadian tailenders begged the Aussie quicks to go easy on him because he was back working in a pizza shop at home the following week. He was hit in the ribs, then lost his wicket soon after.
Play hard on and off the pitch was the Australian approach to the tournament. "We were at the bar every evening and generally the last to leave!" remembered spinner Brad Young.
"We were little bit more casual about the whole thing, as opposed to some of the athletes who had worked for four years. Although, there were high jinks from other teams. I remember some Canadian athletes got hold of this big slingshot and they were using it to pepper people with oranges and whatever else they could find."
Sachin Tendulkar managed just 28 runs in three innings for India in Kuala Lumpur
Australia skipper Steve Waugh, meanwhile, managed to bluff his way poolside to cheer on the country's swimmers, painting his face in green and gold.
On the cricket field, Waugh's men brushed aside an Antigua side featuring Richie Richardson and Curtly Ambrose before they faced India. The tournament clashed with the Friendship Cup - an ODI series between India and Pakistan in Toronto - so India controversially split their best players between the two events.
Waugh made a hundred in Australia's 255-5 but Sachin Tendulkar (four) and VVS Laxman (11) both failed as India were dismissed for 109. Australia would meet New Zealand in the semis.
'I got five wickets, then fainted on the boundary'
Scotland lost to New Zealand, Kenya in their group games and saw their match with Pakistan washed out - although they did get an early look at one of the world's quickest ever bowlers.
"The Aussies told us Pakistan had this floppy-haired rapid bowler who had just broken through," recalled ex-Scotland skipper George Salmond.
"The PA system wasn't working and when we saw the opening bowling and thought 'he's not that quick'. The next over we saw this guy coming off a massive run-up and he sent one of the stumps flying back over the wicketkeeper's head.
"I managed to keep out a few balls from Shoaib Akhtar then the heavens opened and the game was abandoned. I think to the relief of some players."
Northern Ireland, meanwhile, were determined to finish the tournament on a high in their final game against a Bangladesh side who were on the brink of becoming a Test nation.
On a sweltering day at the Royal Selangor Club, McCallan's 53 helped the Northern Irish post 177 before Eagleson and Cooke, their shirts drenched in sweat before taking the field, took the new ball.
"The hotel staff at the athletes' village weren't too happy with us because we kept cutting up the towels to make them into headbands which we dipped into the ice water to help keep us cool," said Eagleson, who removed both Bangladesh openers.
Ryan Eagleson, with a cut up hotel towel as a sweat band, is hugged by Gordon Cooke
Cooke, however, bowled out of his skin to run through the Tigers' middle order.
"It was seriously hot. Before going out to Malaysia we had to get on exercise bikes in steam rooms to help prepare for the heat but I still struggled," he recalled. "I bowled the best 10 overs of my career, got five wickets, then fainted on the boundary. I sat there with my head in a bucket of ice water to recover."
Bangladesh were dismissed for 63 to give Northern Ireland a thumping win."We walked off to shake hands with the Bangladesh players and not all of them came out," said Rutherford. "We were told some of the people back in Bangladesh would be burning effigies of them in the streets so perhaps their reaction was a little more understandable."
South Africa's golden dream
Australia strolled into the final. Spinner Young took the tournament's only hat-trick as Stephen Fleming's New Zealand were knocked over for a paltry 58 before Adam Gilchrist's unbeaten 42 got them home one down in 10.5 overs.
"We seemed to steamroller sides all the way through," Young said. "Myself and fellow spinner Gavin Robertson had a lot of success. If any bowler could roll up those wickets and take them round the world they would have because batting wasn't easy."
Benkenstein, though, bit his fingernails down to the quick as South Africa needed a nerve-shredding last-wicket stand of 35 between Alan Dawson and Nicky Boje to chase down 131 against Sri Lanka.
"When you win games like that - when the natural cause would be to have lost by 20 or 30 runs - you start thinking 'geez this could be our tournament'," he said.
Malaysia's king, Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Ja'afar, was among the 7,532 spectators for the final at the Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor Sports Complex.
South Africa's players had held a lengthy team meeting before the final where Pollock and Woolmer had hatched a plan to upset the Aussies.
Australia captain Steve Waugh made an unbeaten 90 in the final
"Everything we discussed in the team meeting, the opposite happened," Gibbs recalled.
Pollock and Woolmer planned to bat first, worried about Australia's spinners in the second innings, but as the Proteas skipper walked out, he stood on the pitch and changed his mind. He backed up the decision with 4-19 of his own, taking the wickets of Mark Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting and Darren Lehmann.
"We'd been through all the Australian batters on what our plans were to them. 'Gilchrist, don't bowl short to him' - he was out second or third ball caught with a short one that he pulled," Benkenstein said.
"Michael Bevan, we discussed what a brilliant runner he was between the wickets, then Andrew Hudson ran him out. There's a theme here isn't there?! We said 'don't bowl on the legs to Mark Waugh' and he was caught down the leg side."
Captain Steve Waugh's dogged unbeaten 90 helped Australia reach 183 all out, as a large troupe of Aussie athletes came down to the ground to support. Hudson and Rindel got South Africa off to a flying start..
Young said: "Rindel was a big left-handed guy who basically tried to smash everything. He was swinging and missing, nicking a few and hitting the odd one. He rode his luck. We just couldn't get him out before the damage was done."
Rindel made 67, Hudson got 36 before a diligent 44 from Kallis put South Africa on the brink of victory at 172-3. Lehmann bagged three quick wickets to cause a few butterflies before Mark Boucher and Benkenstein got South Africa home.
"I only got two runs in the final but they were the winning runs!" Benkenstein said. "Australia were absolutely devastated when they lost."
'Seeing Jonah Lomu eat lunch made it worthwhile!'
It is fair to say Australia coach Geoff Marsh and captain Steve Waugh did not take the defeat well. South Africa's players had lapped up the bonhomie in the athletes' village just as much as the Aussies, but the Proteas ended up with the gold medal.
At a dressing down the day after the final, Marsh and Waugh slammed a lack of professionalism and disrespect shown by Australia's players.
"One of the few occasions we weren't good enough in a big tournament, South Africa outplayed us in the gold medal game," future captain Ricky Ponting said in a tweet shortly before this year's Games, accompanied with a picture of his team tracksuit.
Although inevitably the march of time has softened the disappointment for others. Young, who would only play six ODIs for Australia, acknowledged it was a career highlight.
"I'm proud of that silver medal," he said. "It's only happened once and I was lucky that Shane Warne was injured because I'd have missed out if he was available. To get that opportunity was great, and a fantastic life experience."
Brad Young, third from the right on the back row, was part of a strong Australia team which had to settle for silver
Later in 1998 a talented crop of South Africa players - boosted by the return of senior players including Hansie Cronje, who skipped the Games - would win the inaugural ICC Champions Trophy (then known as the ICC KnockOut) on home soil.
"It's a collectors item, that gold medal, with cricket only appearing once at the Games, for the men at least," Gibbs said. "It gave us confidence. The medal I really wanted was the Cricket World Cup the following year. Although my mind has gone blank about what happened in that tournament…
"We had an amazing time in the athletes' village. It was worthwhile seeing how dedicated other athletes were, or in Jonah Lomu's case witnessing in person just how much he could eat at lunchtime!"
For team-mate Benkenstein, it changed the course of his life: "It was one of the highlights of my career going to the Commonwealth Games. I met my wife Jacqui, who was a hockey player, during the event so I've got to say it's a highlight of my career.
"The medal is tucked away safely in a box. Every now and then my children tend to get the box out and have a look at the things in there. A gold medal in the Commonwealths - not many people have done that, and even fewer cricketers."
South Africa's players show off their Commonwealth Games gold medals after a four-wicket win over Australia
International Cat Day is celebrated by International Cat Care, a British non-profit group.
Cats are among the most popular pets. They require the owners' care and pampering all through the year, but there is a special day dedicated to them. Celebrated on August 8, the International Cat Day is an occasion to remind people about how the adorable species contributes to the betterment of the planet. Having cats as pets leads to a positive effect on human health, even aiding in cognitive functionality. After a busy day, coming back to your cat and observing its cute antics helps calms nerves.
Cats have enjoyed human company for centuries. They were first domesticated by hunter-gatherers who used them as companions.
Cats are among the most highly specialised of the flesh-eating mammals. Their brains are large and well developed. They also have the ability to walk on their toes - this is called digitigrade.
The International Cat Day was started by International Fund for Animal Welfare to honour cats and protect them from abuse. Since 2020, the custodianship of International Cat Day has come to International Cat Care, a British non-profit group that has been working for the welfare of the cats since 1958.
Here are some fun facts about cats:
The average weight of the household cat varies from 2.7 to 4.5 kg (6 to 10 pounds). Average lengths are 71.1 cm (28 inches) for males and 50.8 cm (20 inches) for females.
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the skin of the cat, composed of dermis and epidermis, regenerates and fights off infection quickly.
They also have the ability to bristle due to tiny erector muscles attached to their hair follicles. This allows cats to frighten enemies by arching its back and hissing.
Unlike the dog and horse, the cat walks or runs by moving first the front and back legs on one side, then the front and back legs on the other side. Only the camel and the giraffe move in a similar way.
The cat's body has great elasticity. This is possible because the vertebrae of its spinal column are held together by muscles rather than by ligaments, as in humans. Thus, the cat can elongate or contract its back, curve it upward, or oscillate it along the vertebral line.
Cats have no flat-crowned crushing teeth and therefore cannot chew their food. Instead, they cut it up.
Cats are generally nocturnal in habit. The retina of the cat's eye is made extra sensitive to light by a layer of guanine, which causes the eye to shine at night in a strong light.
The sense of touch is acute in cats. The eyebrows, whiskers, hairs of the cheek, and fine tufts of hair on the ears are all extremely sensitive to vibratory stimulation.
Drew Barrymore came to the aid of Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina on Sunday as she bumped into them in New York on Sunday.
The married couple had been due to meet Drew for an interview, with the actress offering them a lift as they crossed paths on their way to the studio.
Idris, 49, and Sabrina, 33, looked loved-up on their stroll through the city, with the pair hand in hand as they walked past stunned onlookers.
SOS: Drew Barrymore came to the aid of Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina on Sunday as she bumped into them in New York on Sunday
Sabrina looked effortlessly chic on the outing as she slipped into a printed halterneck dress that she paired with strappy black heels.
Idris also looked stylish as he teamed a white and grey T-shirt with beige chinos.
Prior to getting in her car, Drew was spotted in a teal satin blouse that she paired with brown plaid trousers and platform heels.
On the move: The married couple had been due to meet Drew for an interview, with the actress offering them a lift as they crossed paths on their way to the studio
The actress was no doubt filming scenes for her chat show, The Drew Barrymore Show, which was recently renewed for a third season.
In celebrating the good news, Drew issued a statement that read, 'I am honored and grateful but I also want to take this show higher and continue to innovate and be a game changer in the daytime space.'
Part of that innovation is the way the popular talk show is being constructed.
In season three the program will be produced as two half-hour episodes and affiliates will have the option of running them back to back, or in two separate sequences with the first 30 minutes following local newscasts on all CBS stations.
Cute couple: Idris, 49, and Sabrina, 33, looked loved-up on their stroll through the city, with the pair hand in hand as they walked past stunned onlookers
The Charlie's Angels star added: 'Rising to the occasion of finding people in the diverse way they watch is what I want to challenge myself with.'
'Our show wants to be a bright spot not a blind spot and we just want to make people feel good. And I thank all the people who helped us get here.'
The Hollywood heavyweight began hosting her self-titled talk show back in 2020 and she has turned out to be a survivor in the tight daytime lineup.
The busy working mother already has big plans for the off-season. She is set to produce and direct the film Surrender Dorothy.
One to watch: The actress was no doubt filming scenes for her chat show, The Drew Barrymore Show, which was recently renewed for a third season
Former Gloucester and Leicester Tigers forward Ed Slater revealed he had been diagnosed with MND last month and announced his retirement from rugby union
Last Updated: 08/08/22 9:20am
Ed Slater revealed his MND diagnosis last month
Ed Slater believes living in the present is helping him face the challenge of his motor neurone disease diagnosis.
The 34-year-old revealed last month he had been diagnosed with the devastating degenerative condition that fellow former sports stars Doddie Weir, Rob Burrow and Len Johnrose are also battling.
Gloucester rugby union player Slater announced his retirement from the sport last month after receiving the news following months of tests.
"It was month after month, my arm got weaker and weaker, my grip became weaker, and I went to Oxford and was diagnosed with MND," Slater told the BBC.
"Part of me had prepared for that, partly because of the weakness and partly because of the symptoms.
"I know very close friends of mine who have lost a family member to it, was able to speak to them about his experiences and so I prepared myself."
Slater, who has three young children, has already begun recording his voice in anticipation of the condition affecting his speech.
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Nevertheless, the former forward, who also played for Leicester Tigers, is determined to stay positive.
"I'm not saying that makes it easier when you're diagnosed - it absolutely doesn't," Slater said.
"But in some ways, it had been 11 months of torment, different symptoms, not knowing, looking for different reasons, and to have definitive diagnosis - it sounds strange to say this - but at least it gave me an answer.
"Not an answer I wanted but I can't change it. My attitude is to get on with things. There are difficult things in life, not many things harder than that, but you have to face challenges head on.
"I don't think too far into the future, and I take each day as it comes. I find that's a peaceful place for me and keeps me in best spirits as I can."
NYC Health + Hospitals recently received a $3.9 million grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust to incorporate mental health services into ExpressCare, the health system’s virtual urgent care platform.
The health system launched ExpressCare in the fall of 2020, when the need to reduce in-person visits was dire. Erfan Karim, the executive director of ExpressCare, said in an interview that the telehealth platform operates on a “convenience care model designed to keep patients away from the ED.” More than 80,000 visits have been conducted on the platform to date.
With the support of Helmsley’s grant, NYC Health + Hospitals is now incorporating mental health services to be available 24/7 on ExpressCare, including treatment for psychiatric conditions and substance abuse.
“We recognize that there’s a silent pandemic going on and there’s a huge need for behavioral health services,” Karim said. “We want to bring ExpressCare’s model of easy, equitable access to patients for their behavioral health needs.”
Through ExpressCare, patients receive on-demand access to behavioral health professionals, including psychiatrists, social workers, addiction counselors and mental health nurse practitioners. For example, someone with acute anxiety can utilize the platform if they feel like they need to urgently talk to a mental health professional. Or someone who ran out of their medication and doesn’t have an appointment with their psychiatrist for a few days can log onto ExpressCare to obtain a prescription that can bridge that adherence gap.
NYC Health + Hospitals is also working with the New York City’s homeless services department to launch a version of its new tele-behavioral health services that is tailored to the city’s homeless residents. The health system is planning to roll out this version at 25 homeless shelters and six mobile street outreach clinics during the first year of Helmsely’s three-year grant.
The program will also test the efficacy of four strategies to engage vulnerable patients in behavioral healthcare. The first strategy seeks to educate the homeless population about ExpressCare by ensuring shelter system workers, who are credible messengers, spread awareness about the services. NYC Health + Hospitals will also collaborate with these community liaison workers to learn more about what the homeless population’s day-to-day activities look like and how its tele-behavioral health services can be better tailored to meet these patients’ needs.
For the second strategy it’s testing, NYC Health + Hospitals is seeking to improve access to tele-behavioral health services by taking on the cost-sharing portion of this care. The health system is also testing the efficacy of interventions to help patients to keep up with their clinical treatment regimens, such as sending medications directly to the shelter in which a patient is staying. The last strategy the health system is testing is street-based behavioral healthcare. Karim said this is intended to reach the city’s homeless population that does not stay in shelters, as they are often forgotten by the U.S. healthcare system.
Over the next three years, Karim and his team plan for ExpressCare to reach between 10,000 and 15,000 homeless individuals. They also want to create a model for virtual urgent mental healthcare that is sustainable, so that other health systems can eventually use it to roll out similar programs in their communities.
When Brandon Hyde whipped the hat off his head, it was almost as if he needed to let the steam out more easily. The Orioles manager had been standing on the top step of the dugout, waiting for a verdict on a play at the plate.
And after a conference between umpires resulted in the decision to overturn the original call, Hyde came out to appeal the play at the plate — which was a key turning point in an eventual 8-1 series-finale loss in which the Pittsburgh Pirates avoided a sweep and ended Baltimore’s winning streak at five games. Managers aren’t allowed to argue replay rulings and Hyde was quickly ejected.
It all began with two outs in the seventh inning, with Pirates outfielder Greg Allen on second base and infielder Kevin Newman batting. A sharply hit ground ball into the hole between third base and shortstop was knocked down by shortstop Jorge Mateo’s dive into the outfield grass, and when the ball skittered a few feet away, Allen rounded third and headed toward the plate.
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, left, was ejected for the third time this season after arguing a play at the plate in the seventh inning Sunday in an eventual 8-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. (Mitchell Layton / Getty Images)
Mateo’s throw home bounced twice before reaching catcher Robinson Chirinos, who had set up in front of the plate. The ball stuck in his glove, the tag was applied and Allen ran into him. The immediate reaction from Allen was to counter that Chirinos was blocking his path to the plate rather than allowing a lane for Allen.
While Allen was initially ruled out by home plate umpire Carlos Torres, the lengthy deliberation between umpires led to the reversal and Hyde’s ejection shortly thereafter. And once the Orioles retook the field, the Pirates quickly added on from there, scoring three more runs — including a two-run shot from third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes off right-hander Beau Sulser, who entered shortly after the ejection.
“For me, this is common sense,” Hyde said. “This was a common sense play. Throw’s from the left field line, and the throw beats him by seven feet, so I don’t know, as a catcher, what you’re supposed to do. Because I felt like Robbie was lined up correctly when Mateo released the ball. Now, the throw took Robbie into the plate, square in the middle of the plate, and then Robbie held his ground and the runner didn’t slide, and he never touched the plate on top of that. So there was a lot of things going on there.”
When Hyde came out of the dugout, he hoped to appeal whether Allen touched home plate. He wanted to ask for a rules check but was ejected instead.
Pirates left fielder Greg Allen, left, is tagged out by Orioles catcher Robinson Chirinos, second from left, in the seventh inning Sunday. Upon review, Allen was called safe, and soon after Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde was ejected for arguing with the umpires. (Terrance Williams/AP)
In a statement, MLB said the replay official “definitively determined that the catcher was in violation of the Home Plate Collision Rule. The catcher’s initial setup completely in foul territory was illegal and he maintained that position without possession of the ball.”
In a conversation with Torres after the inning, Chirinos asked the umpire whether he had to start completely in fair territory before stepping in front of the plate. But Chirinos said Torres told the catcher he had to give more space, whether he sets up initially in fair or foul ground. Hyde “felt like his right foot was on the line or on the foul side of the line, giving the runner a clear lane.”
“I know I start in the inside, but the rule don’t say where you have to start, you only have to give him some space to slide,” Chirinos added. “And I think I did. I think I did out there when I was on the field and also watching the replay. I mean, you can see the inside part of the plate was open, and Mateo threw the ball and it took the plate away because that ball was right on top of the plate. I don’t know what they want me to do right there.”
The Orioles (56-52) fell apart after the ruling and ejection. Instead of getting out of the seventh inning unscathed, four runs crossed. Instead of a three-run deficit with nine outs remaining, the difference ballooned to seven — far out of reach for a team that has a penchant for late-game drama. Baltimore has 24 comeback wins this season, and 10 of them have come when trailing after the sixth inning.
“That was the third out right there,” Chirinos said. “They scored four runs after that play, and the game went out of hand. Don’t know what could’ve happened if we end up coming back to the dugout 4-1. Probably have a shot to turn over that game. But thing happened. Probably have to give him more plate next time.”
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, right, was ejected for the third time this season after arguing a play at the plate in the seventh inning Sunday in an eventual 8-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. (Terrance Williams/AP)
Bench coach Fredi González became the Orioles’ acting manager with Hyde’s ejection. It marked Hyde’s third ejection of the season, the first coming April 21 in Oakland and the second on July 2 in Minnesota. It’s the Orioles manager’s ninth career ejection.
The four runs Pittsburgh scored in the seventh added to the four they plated off right-hander Spenser Watkins.
Before an infield single to third in the fourth inning, which Statcast credited with having a .060 expected batting average, Watkins had retired 13 straight Pirates on 48 pitches. Then came three more softly hit singles as part of a three-run fifth inning.
The four runs Watkins allowed in 5 1/3 innings marks the second most in any start this season. He struck out five and allowed four hits and one walk in what had been one of his best performances since returning from the injured list June 25 until an infield single opened a trickle he couldn’t stop.
“It’s super easy to focus on the negatives always; in this game, there’s a lot of failure,” Watkins said. “But in my growth, I feel like I’m able to start focusing on the positives, and that’s something we’ll attack tomorrow when we address everything. But yeah, a lot of positives to take out of this one.”
Orioles starting pitcher Spenser Watkins, right, is removed by manager Brandon Hyde in the sixth inning Sunday against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Watkins allowed four earned runs in 5 1/3 innings and took the loss in the 8-1 defeat. (Terrance Williams/AP)
There was little offensive support around either Watkins or the bullpen, with shortstop Jorge Mateo’s solo homer in the third inning representing one of four Orioles hits.
Entering Sunday, the Orioles’ .706 OPS in the seventh through ninth innings was the highest of any third of the game. They’ve made a habit of comebacks. But with a decisive ruling and a subsequent ejection, those comeback hopes vanished.
“Mateo with a big homer and we had four hits, so would that play at the plate change the game?” Hyde said. “I don’t know, but I would’ve liked to have stayed in it a little bit longer.”
While his answer meandered through various topics — including playing in Cuba — 85-year-old Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson’s words all came back to the same idea: He loves baseball.
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>> Outfielder Austin Hays continued his recovery Sunday by hitting in the cage and throwing on the field. He has missed four straight games and five of the last six with left oblique tightness.
>> Outfielder Anthony Santander has practiced first base before games for much of the season, and with the Orioles having traded Trey Mancini to the Houston Astros, Hyde said Santander might see some time at first at some point this season.
>> Rougned Odor received his first start of the season at third base. While he said in spring training playing third base for the New York Yankees last season was “uncomfortable,” Hyde said Odor was open to the idea of playing third if it helped the team. The move allowed rookie Terrin Vavra to play second base while keeping both left-handed bats in the order.
“The only reason you’ll ever need this is if you fall through the ice,” said Rachel Maddow, standing beside her pickup truck at an empty boat launch on a cloudy winter’s day. She tossed me something that looked like a cross between a bike lock and a telephone cord and told me to put it around my neck: safety picks. In a worst-case scenario, you’re supposed to pull apart the orange handle things, stab the ice in front of you, and claw your way back onto solid ground. “There’s 20 inches of ice out here, you’re not gonna fall through,” Maddow promised. “But just in case.”
It was a Monday in early February, on Maddow’s home turf of Western Massachusetts. We met up in the parking lot of a frozen lake rimmed by low-slung mountains, Maddow in buffalo plaid, a baseball cap emblazoned with the logo for YUM fishing baits, and tortoiseshell Coke-bottle glasses that the folks at home don’t get to see when she’s all made up for the cameras. The temperature had plunged to something like 12 degrees over the weekend, but now it was in the mid-30s, ideal for our piscatorial excursion: more than enough ice to minimize your risk of a frosty death, warm enough to keep your hands from falling off. Maddow lives for this stuff, even as someone who grew up in sunny Castro Valley, California. Before we set off, she showed me the cozy lakefront fixer-upper she’d purchased weeks earlier with her longtime partner, the photographer Susan Mikula, about 30 minutes from the couple’s 164-year-old farmhouse. We dropped by her go-to bait shop, in the garage of a home boasting tattered Trump flags, where Maddow stocked up on rosy red minnows and medium shiners. Then we squeezed into our snow pants, strapped medieval-looking spikes over our boots, and trekked out onto the lake with a sled full of gear. “It may be a little slushy,” she said, “but I promise it’s fine.”
One week earlier, Maddow had knocked the wind out of her 2.4 million viewers. “I am going to go on hiatus for a little bit,” she said, broadcasting on a laptop from home as opposed to her nearby studio because she’d just had a COVID-19 exposure. (It was to Mikula, who’d already had a frightening run-in with the disease in the fall of 2020.) Maddow said she had several projects in the pipeline outside of her nightly duties—including a Ben Stiller– and Lorne Michaels–helmed adaptation of her 2018 podcast series, Bag Man, about Spiro Agnew’s Nixon-era bribery scandal—and that she needed time and space to work on them. She said she’d pop back in with special coverage as warranted, like for the State of the Union or “other big news events.” (The largest European ground war since World War II, which would briefly disrupt Maddow’s hiatus, wasn’t what she had in mind.)
A few days later, on a Thursday, Maddow signed off from The Rachel Maddow Show for the last time until her planned return in mid-April. That Friday, she called me with an invitation to go ice fishing. And on Monday, out on the lake, as we drilled small holes and fiddled with our tip-up traps and Vexilar transducers—it’s a more high-tech sport than you’d think—it occurred to Maddow that this was the first Monday in 13 years that she wasn’t about to be live on air five nights a week, with no end in sight. “Today’s day one,” she said.
Maddow was embarking on a new chapter in her career, a foray into the wilds of our multiplatform media future, in which her success and influence would no longer be so neatly quantifiable. Over the next few months, we would talk a lot about what was at stake—for her health and well-being and career trajectory, for her continued cultural relevance, and for the network that has long depended on her massive nightly audience. But right now, there were fish to catch. We reeled in the first one before too long. “This,” said Maddow, holding up our trophy, “is a pickerel. This is, like, a typical-size, perfect pickerel.” She released it back into the hole. “Bye! See you! Ahh. That was great. God and country, thank you very much.”
Maddow’s highly rated 9 p.m. show—long the crown jewel of MSNBC prime time, if not the entire network—debuted on September 8, 2008, with a handoff from then superstar Keith Olbermann, whose subsequent defenestration elevated Maddow to queen bee status. The program, known as much for its historical wonkery and sweeping monologues as its lefty bona fides, was immediately successful. But it also proved to be a massive slog. Maddow is exceptionally hands-on, and the opening of each show—the “A-block,” in cable news parlance—requires an intensive level of preparation on a tight deadline. (Someone described it to me as being like “a bunch of people holed up studying for finals every night, like in a library, panic researching.”) Throughout the years, Maddow has usually written the A-block monologue herself, on the heels of a full day’s worth of research. In October 2010, after a particularly rollicking broadcast from a historic Delaware tavern, where the Maddow Show was covering a Senate showdown between Chris Coons and Christine O’Donnell (remember her?), an exhausted Maddow remarked to a colleague, “A person could only do this job for five years.”
As if. Maddow, at 49, has been behind the desk for almost a decade and a half. She’s been doing the job long enough that it supremely messed up her back, which now has seven herniated or bulging discs that she manages with physical therapy. Long enough that when she had a melanoma scare within months of Mikula ending up on death’s door with COVID, it sunk in that she didn’t want to be working 60 hours a week until she retires. Long enough that she had begun to worry, as she explained to me between nips from the pickerel down below, that she was “losing the ability to be able to sort of have the energy and the intellectual bandwidth to do other kinds of work.”
And so Maddow decided it was time for a change. Last fall, she negotiated a megadeal that left jaws on the floor—a reported $30 million annually not to be on the air five nights a week. Starting at some point in 2022, she’d get to do a lot less gabbing about the news cycle and a lot more premium long-form projects: podcasts, specials, documentaries, film adaptations, etc.
Such is the might of Rachel Maddow that it was better for the company to lose her four nights a week than not to have her at all. The industry chatter is that NBCUniversal gave Maddow an enormous raise only to cede her in the key prime-time block that remains incredibly vital to ratings, advertisers, and cable subscriptions. Words thrown around in my conversations with industry hotshots—most of whom think Maddow’s great, by the way—include “ridiculousness,” “so nuts,” and “stupidest deal ever.” NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde strongly disputes those characterizations, telling me in a phone interview, “We only do things that make sense for us strategically or financially. The primary focus for us was, how do we come up with a structure of what we need and want from Rachel, and also what she needs going forward.” Phil Griffin, the former longtime president of MSNBC, who remains one of Maddow’s closest advisers, acknowledged it was hard to lose her every night but said, “The way she works is so demanding, we were lucky to get 14 years out of her.”
After Maddow’s nine-week sabbatical, she returned to The Rachel Maddow Show on April 11 and made it official for her viewers: They’d have her four nights a week through the end of the month, and then, starting in May, “I’m going to be here weekly. I’m going to be here on Monday nights.” Thus began the next act of Rachel Maddow, whose power was undeniable even to her naysayers—of whom there are many. As Maddow critic Erik Wemple observed on his Washington Post blog, “Rachel Maddow can do whatever she pleases.”
It’s hard to overstate Maddow’s value to MSNBC over the past 14 years. In the wake of Olbermann’s firing, she became the face of the network’s prime-time roster, “the touchstone of everything we do,” as her colleague Joy Reid puts it. MSNBC’s other crown jewel, Morning Joe, is the network’s power center, commanding influence within the establishment corridors of New York and Washington. Maddow, you might say, sets the network’s ideological agenda, a signifier for the entire MSNBC brand. Her broad progressive appeal and singular approach to anchoring—story-driven monologues that run as long as 30 minutes, connecting dots you never knew existed and dragging viewers down any number of rabbit holes—have made her MSNBC’s number one celebrity and perennial ratings champ, the only figure in non-Murdochian cable news who can play in the same sandbox as the fire-breathers at Fox. She has at times eked out wins over rival Sean Hannity while keeping CNN’s rotating cast of 9 p.m. hosts in third place—often distantly—ever since The Rachel Maddow Show started to regularly trounce Larry King Live more than a decade ago. During the first week of her hiatus this past February, the 9 p.m. audience plummeted 26 percent and stayed down for weeks before soaring back above 2 million upon her April 11 return. According to data from MoffettNathanson, Maddow’s ratings share in 2021—11 percent of MSNBC’s total ratings—was higher than that of any other solo host in all of cable.
This popularity has, naturally, made her a target. On the extreme end of the spectrum, there’s the hate mail and death threats, which she says haven’t abated even though she’s no longer on TV as much. Then there are the requisite recriminations from the right, which regards her with the same contempt that liberals harbor for personalities like Hannity and Tucker Carlson. But even among non–enemy combatants, it’s not as if Maddow is universally beloved. Typical criticisms are that she can be snarky, obnoxious, pedantic. On a practical level, her thoroughly complex monologues simply aren’t for everyone, and the payoff doesn’t always justify the windup. In March 2017, Maddow took blowback for hyping what seemed like a holy grail–level scoop about Trump’s taxes, which she teased out in a suspenseful 20-minute opener. She finally revealed a single federal payment from two pages of Trump’s 2005 return, obtained by her guest that evening, the journalist David Cay Johnston. (The much-maligned segment, to be fair, was the spark that ignited a landmark New York Times investigation that did manage to unearth the mother lode of Trump’s tax returns, as Times reporter Susanne Craig explained during an appearance on Maddow’s show the following year.)
Whatever her detractors think, Maddow remains a sui generis star in the media firmament, which explains the breathless interest in her career machinations. Intrigue began swirling last summer with leaks that Maddow was thinking about leaving the network for new opportunities. Before long, news broke that Maddow, after months of discussions quarterbacked by her superagents at Endeavor, would be sticking with NBCUniversal after all. She’d secured a new multiyear contract to pursue projects in a wide range of formats, from documentaries and streaming specials to movies and books, all under the banner of her newly minted independent production company whose name I can now reveal: Surprise Inside. Maddow would conceive the projects and NBC would get first right of refusal. The Rachel Maddow Show would eventually go weekly and she would continue to do specials for the network, but she would have a lot more flexibility. It was the Daily Beast that pegged her annual compensation at $30 million.
Bitcoin held its footing above $23,000 (roughly Rs. 18.4 lakh) throughout the weekend after a fairly strong showing over the past couple of weeks. The value of Bitcoin witnessed a 1.77 percent rise in the last 24 hours with its price now closer to the $23,500 (roughly Rs. 18.7 lakh) mark across global exchanges while Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber values BTC at $24,317 (roughly Rs. 19.34 lakh), 0.41 percent lower in the past 24 hours. On global exchanges like CoinMarketCap, Coinbase, and Binance the price of Bitcoin stands at $23,341 (roughly Rs. 18.57 lakh) while CoinGecko data shows that BTC's value is currently exactly where it was last Monday.
Ether has also been doing well over the weekend. At the time of publishing, Ether is valued at $1,784 (roughly Rs. 1.42 lakh) on CoinSwitch Kuber while values on global exchanges see the crypto's value at $1,712 (roughly Rs. 1.36 lakh), where the cryptocurrency has risen by 2.11 percent over the past 24 hours.
Ether's positive showing over the weekend sees the cryptocurrency's value switch to green by close to 2.5 percent when compared to its value last Monday, as per CoinGecko data.
Gadgets 360's cryptocurrency price tracker reveals that most major altcoins held firm over the weekend with a positive showing over the last 24 hours — as the global crypto market capitalisation witnessed a 2.73 percent rise through Sunday and early Monday.
Uniswap, Solana, Polkadot, Cardano, Cosmos, Avalanche, and BNB saw minor upsides while TRON, and Litecoin all saw minor dips in value in the last 24 hours.
Memecoins Shiba Inu and Dogecoin also followed the altcoin mix with some dips to show for. Dogecoin is currently valued at $0.07 (roughly Rs. 5.84) after gaining some 1.07 percent in value over the last 24 hours, while, Shiba Inu is valued at $0.000012 (roughly Rs. 0.00095), up by 1.28 percent over the past day.
The wider market has seen encouragement by the latest initiatives involving large institutional investors. Asset manager Brevan Howard completed the largest crypto hedge fund launch ever, with more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,961 crore) in assets under management, and BlackRock formed a partnership with crypto exchange Coinbase to make crypto directly available to institutional investors.
"Block, a fintech company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, faced a 6.5 percent decline in its share price in the after-hours trade due to its recent financial results. Its Q2 revenues related to Bitcoin stood at 1.79 billion, 34 percent less than last quarterly earnings (Q2 2021). Also, the gross profit comes to be only $41 million (roughly Rs. 326 crore), 2 percent of Bitcoin revenue. In the shareholder letter, Block says there's been declining consumer demand for Bitcoin in recent months. Since October 2020, the company has invested almost $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,981 crore) in Bitcoin (approximately 8,027 Bitcoins) due to its future potential. However, the recent volatility in the crypto market is forcing Block to re-evaluate its investment strategy," says Edul Patel, CEO and co-founder of crypto investment firm Mudrex speaking to Gadgets 360.
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Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and BJP in Bihar appear to be heading for a crisis
Bihar:
Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda had assured Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar - despite his doubts - that he would remain the face of the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar in the 2024 national election and the state polls the year after that.
But that assurance has not done much to calm Mr Kumar and keep the Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), and the BJP alliance in Bihar humming smoothly.
Mr Shah's perceived grip on Bihar through the selection of ministers seen as close to him remains to be viewed as a threat by Mr Kumar.
The latest friction point, or apparently the tipping point, was the exit of former Union Minister RCP Singh from the JD(U) two days ago, with a parting shot aimed directly at the Chief Minister - "I'll just say that there's no cure to jealousy...Nitish Kumar will not become Prime Minister in any of his seven lives," Mr Singh had said as he bade his goodbyes to the JD(U).
Mr Kumar's party had denied another Rajya Sabha berth last month to Mr Singh, who had taken a spot in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet last year without consulting Mr Kumar.
Also in the list of irritants that the Chief Minister has often cited as a big question mark over the continuation of the alliance has been Mr Kumar's open contempt for the Bihar assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, whom the Chief Minister wants removed. Mr Kumar had lost his temper more than once at the Speaker, who Mr Kumar has accused of openly violating the Constitution by raising questions against his government.
Smarting under the continuous humiliation by Bihar BJP leaders, Mr Kumar has already opened a communication line with Rashtriya Janta Dal, or RJD, leader Tejaswi Yadav. The Chief Minister continues to skip all events - an unspoken boycott - called by PM Modi or Mr Shah.
Sources close to Mr Kumar said he is upset over the way he was being attacked by Bihar BJP leaders, while the central party leadership looked the other way.
Part of his anger is also linked to change of line-up in Bihar by the BJP. Former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi was moved out of Bihar and former state minister Nand Kishore Yadav was recalled from being a minister, in what was seen as act of sidelining them after the assembly elections in 2020.
The BJP appointed Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi as Deputy Chief Ministers and Sanjay Jaiswal as Bihar unit party chief. Mr Kumar sees them as leaders who have no ear to the ground and with limited administration skills. The BJP's own leaders have also complained the new appointees are not taken seriously and instead, the leaders have demanded more say in the state affairs.
All this was actually diminishing Mr Kumar's clout, he seems to have concluded, as most decisions were being taken by the BJP's central leadership, which he suspects has little priority for Bihar, unlike Gujarat or Maharashtra.
In the last one month alone, Mr Nitish first gave a miss to a meeting of all chief ministers called by the Law Ministry and the Chief Justice of India. He then avoided going to Delhi on an invitation by PM Modi for a farewell dinner for former President Ram Nath Kovind. He sent Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad at a meeting called by Mr Shah to finalise how to leverage hoisting the national flag as part of the "Har Ghar Tiranga" campaign. Mr Kumar also skipped the oath ceremony of President Droupadi Murmu and did not participate in a meeting of the government's think-tank NITI Aayog, where 23 Chief Ministers turned up.
LeAnn Rimes was spotted on a rare outing with her husband Eddie Cibrian in Malibu on Sunday afternoon.
The 39-year-old country singer and her 49-year-old actor husband cut casual looks while taking a leisurely stroll.
While they've been married for over a decade, the couple is rarely spotted out in public, though seemed comfortable walking around Malibu.
Rare afternoon outfit: LeAnn Rimes was spotted on a rare outing with her husband Eddie Cibrian Sunday
The singer-songwriter donned a white t-shirt and blue denim shorts that showed off her long, tan legs.
She pulled a dark green baseball cap low over her eyes, and her dark brown hair flared out at the sides.
She carried a silver water bottle and a gray purse in her left hand.
Casual outfit: The 39-year-old singer-songwriter donned a white t-shirt and blue denim shorts that showed off her long, tan legs
Her husband of more than a decade donned a black t-shirt and purple swim trunks that stopped above his knees.
He wore his trucker hat backward on his head.
Rimes and Cibrian started seeing each other in 2009 while Rimes was still technically married to dancer Dean Sheremet.
Happy together: The pair married two years later in 2011 and Rimes became stepmother to Cibrian's two children: 19-year-old Mason and 15-year-old Jake (pictured 2019)
The pair married two years later in 2011 and Rimes became stepmother to Cibrian's two children: 19-year-old Mason and 15-year-old Jake.
Their appearance out came a few weeks after Rimes revealed she was in a 'very, very dark place' when she checked into rehab for stress and anxiety.
The singer - who shot to fame when she was just 13 years old - checked into a treatment facility in August 2012, the day after she'd turned 30, because she needed to get out of her 'deep codependency' and learn how to be alone and to look after herself.
She told Insider: 'I was in a very, very dark place. I had never been alone. There was always someone around, whether it be a parent or a manager, an agent or a publicist, or a husband, or whatever it was.
Candid: LeAnn Rimes has revealed she was in a 'very, very dark place' when she checked into rehab for stress and anxiety
'It was just time. It was time for me to break away from my deep codependency and to figure out what was chemically going on to be able to take care of myself.'
The 39-year-old star admitted achieving success at such a young age and the stress that came with it had taken a toll on her mental health.
She said: 'Being in the public eye from the time I was very young and having to override my humanness I think was a huge part of my experience with anxiety and depression and what was triggering it.'
Treatment program: The singer - who shot to fame when she was just 13 years old - checked into a treatment facility in August 2012, the day after she'd turned 30 (pictured 2020)
India captain Rohit Sharma said that a change in approach and attitude was needed for the team in T20Is and the message was conveyed to the players after the 2021 World Cup exit.
India has done well in T20Is under Sharma's captaincy (Courtesy: AP)
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India has done well in T20Is under Sharma's captaincy
The India captain said that a change in approach and attitude was needed after the 2021 WC exit
Sharma also said that he wants to give the players as much freedom as possible
India captain Rohit Sharma has said that the team needed to have a change in their approach and attitude to playing T20Is and had conveyed this message after their 2021 World Cup exit.
Under Sharma, India has enjoyed a great amount of success in the shortest format of the game, losing just two matches since he took over as full-time captain.
The Indian captain has also led the team brilliantly in their recent assignments in England and West Indies. There was a clear change in the playing style adopted by the team, as they were more aggressive while batting. Now, Sharma has revealed that the change was needed and the message was conveyed after the World Cup in Dubai last year.
Speaking on the Star Sports show, Follow The Blues, as quoted by Hindustan Times, the India captain said that the change in attitude and approach was conveyed to the team after their disappointment in the World Cup.
"We made it very clear after the T20 World Cup in Dubai, where we didn't qualify for the finals - that we felt there needed to be a change in our attitude and approach in how we play our game," said Sharma.
He also said that if the message is clear from the captain and the coach about the direction of the team, then the players will follow suit. Sharma also said that he is trying to give the players as much freedom as possible.
"If the message is clear from the captain and the coach about where the team is trying to head, then the individuals will definitely try to do that. For that to happen they need freedom and clarity and that's what we are trying to do. We are trying to give them as much freedom as possible," said Sharma.
Aug. 3, 2022 – We tend to think a good night’s sleep should be uninterrupted, but surprising new research from the University of Copenhagen suggests just the opposite: Brief awakenings may be a sign you’ve slept well.
The study, done on mice, found that the stress transmitter noradrenaline wakes up the brain many times a night. These “microarousals” were linked to memory consolidation, meaning they help you remember the previous day’s events. In fact, the more “awake” you are during a microarousal, the better the memory boost, the research suggests.
“Every time I wake up in the middle of the night now, I think – ah, nice, I probably just had great memory-boosting sleep,” says study author Celia Kjaerby, PhD, an assistant professor at the university’s Center for Translational Neuromedicine.
The findings add insight to what happens in the brain during sleep and may help pave the way for new treatments for those who have sleep disorders.
Waves of Noradrenaline
Previous research has suggested that noradrenaline – a hormone that increases during stress but also helps you stay focused – is inactive during sleep. So, the researchers were surprised to see high levels of it in the brains of the sleeping rodents.
“I still remember seeing the first traces showing the brain activity of the norepinephrine stress system during sleep. We could not believe our eyes,” Kjaerby says. “Everyone had thought the system would be quiet. And now we have found out that it completely controls the microarchitecture of sleep.”
Those noradrenaline levels rise and fall like waves every 30 seconds during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. At each “peak” the brain is briefly awake, and at each “valley” it is asleep. Typically, these awakenings are so brief that the sleeping subject does not notice. But the higher the rise, the longer the awakening – and the more likely the sleeper may notice.
During the valleys, or when norepinephrine drops, so-called sleep spindles occur.
“These are short oscillatory bursts of brain activity linked to memory consolidation,” Kjaerby says. Occasionally there is a “deep valley,” lasting 3 to 5 minutes, leading to more sleep spindles. The mice with the most deep valleys also had the best memories, the researchers noted.
“We have shown that the amount of these super-boosts of sleep spindles, and not REM sleep, defines how well you remember the experiences you had prior to going to sleep,” says Kjaerby.
Deep valleys were followed by longer awakenings, the researchers observed. So, the longer the valley, the longer the awakening – and the better the memory boost. This means that, though restless sleep is not good, waking up briefly may be a natural part of memory-related sleep phases and may even mean you’ve slept well.
What Happens in Our Brains When We Sleep: Piecing It Together
The findings fit with previous clinical data that shows we wake up roughly 100-plus times a night, mostly during NREM sleep stage 2 (the spindle-rich sleep stage), Kjaerby says.
Still, more research on these small awakenings is needed, Kjaerby says. She notes that professor Maiken Nedergaard, MD, another author of this study, has found that the brain cleans up waste products through a rinsing fluid system.
“It remains a puzzle why the fluid system is so active when we sleep,” Kjaerby says. “We believe these short awakenings could potentially be the key to answering this question.”
A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing woman and her grandson who were last seen in Glen Oaks on Thursday evening, Baltimore Police said.
Marthann Davis, 72, and her grandson Ashton Davis, 4, were last seen at about 6:40 p.m. Thursday leaving the 1100 block of Ramblewood Road in North Baltimore in a red Kia Soul. The car’s license plate number is MD 8CT2557.
The two were reported missing at 9:45 p.m. Thursday and had not been found by Sunday night.
The red Kia Soul with a Maryland license plate of 8CT2557. (Baltimore Police)
Relatives believe their disappearance may be related to thunderstorms that downed trees and knocked out power in Northeast Baltimore on Thursday night or that Marthann Davis experienced a medical emergency, police said.
Blackpink are coming back better and pinker than ever. To celebrate the sixth anniversary of their debut, the massively successful K-pop girl group just teased their new single, "Pink Venom," on Instagram. The single will drop at 1 p.m. KST on August 19 ahead of their second studio album, "Born Pink."
Back in early July, the group — consisting of members Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa — confirmed that they were, indeed, preparing to drop new music, but fans had no idea their sophomore album was on its way so soon. On July 31, "Born Pink" was made official via an announcement video on the Blackpink YouTube channel, and now it turns out fans will be able to get their first taste of the album in just a few short weeks.
It's been a whirlwind of news for Blackpink followers across the globe, but although the group's full album is expected to debut sometime in September, an official date has yet to be confirmed. Still, YG Entertainment has said that Blackpink are already planning "the largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group," per Billboard, so fans can definitely hope to see the group perform in person at a city near them, starting in October.
While you anxiously wait for more details to be finalized, rest assured that new music is on its way, and it's coming quickly. Check out the announcement below to see what Blackpink have shared so far.
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