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POWER All eight transmission towers that deliver power into the New Orleans area are currently out of service Entergy is working to assess damage and identify a path forward to restore power Unknown when power will be restored. Could be weeks. WATER S&WB says they are currently maintaining water pressure in the city of New Orleans, meaning no precautionary boil water advisories Both 52-WATER and backup phone lines are down, so there is no way for customers to reach S&WB Despite losing Entergy power, the S&WB turbines continue to churn out power for the city's 96 operational drainage pumps Sewer...

Taliban showing off their kill.

(snip) For Joe, though, the truth would be inconvenient. Admitting that his newfound partner, international terrorist Khalil Haqqani had just blown up a bunch of Americans, might prompt calls for a swift and forceful response. Somebody might even suggest that since we now knew where Khalil was and that he had yet again killed Americans it might be a good time to take him out.

Hate crimes in the U.S. in 2020 reached their highest level in the last 12 years, with Black and Asian victims seeing a surge in assaults, according to FBI data. There were 7,759 total hate crimes reported in 2020, a 6 percent increase from 2019. Hate crimes against Black people rose from 1,972 to 2,755 in 2020, while the number of attacks toward Asians rose from 161 in 2019 to 274 in 2020, according to FBI data.

TWENTY-SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 4:16-30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus begins his Galilean ministry with a prophetic message in the synagogue at Nazareth: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord." The moment has arrived, the privileged time, the kairos; something that human beings have been longing for and striving after and hoping to see...

Apple's newest iPhone will offer technology that lets it connect to satellites, allowing users to make calls and send messages when they're out of range from a 4G or 5G network, according to a new analyst report. TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the new device will feature a customized Qualcomm chip that allows for low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite communications, effectively making the next iPhone a satellite phone, according to a report seen by MacRumors. The analyst said Qualcomm is teaming up with Globalstar on the chip, a customized version of Qualcomm X60 baseband chip. In this case, a customer...

Gov. to call special session to address expiring ban after Supreme Court voided federal moratorium. House Democrats representing the five boroughs are pressing Gov. Kathy Hochul to extend the state’s eviction moratorium. The newly sworn-in governor received a letter Saturday by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and co-signed by a dozen lawmakers, including Reps. Nydia Velazquez, Carolyn Maloney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jerry Nadler, urging her to prolong the state-level ban, which is set to expire Tuesday.

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Defence analysts have argued that the removal of air support for Afghan forces was a critical error that signficiantly increased the speed at which the Taliban were able to take over the country. The claims were made in the latest episode of the popular defence podcast whiched discussed the fall of Afghanistan, the failures in the US and NATO responses and the implications for the future. ... So you just have this situation where the media environment was very unreliable, but there was this general idea among Taliban fighters and ANA forces that once the US is gone, it’s over....

Call your family and friends and mark your calendars for eastern North Carolina's biggest, baddest, fastest and loudest outdoor event September 25-26, 2021! The commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point invites you to visit the Marine Corps' largest air base for the 2021 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show, featuring the world's top aviation aerobatic team, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. Saturday and Sunday will both have full day shows featuring a dizzying variety of military and civilian aerobatic demonstrations including performances by Aftershock, RJ Gritter, Tom Larkin, Steve Covington and Hubie Tolson. You and your family will...

An Afghan folk singer has been executed by the Taliban just days after the Islamic fundamentalist group declared that “music is forbidden in Islam,” according to his family. Fawad Andarabi’s family told the Associated Press that he was shot dead Friday when enforcers returned to his home after earlier searching it and even drinking tea with him. “They shot him in the head on the farm,” his son, Jawad, said of the killing in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named. “He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,” the grieving son said of his dad, who...

There were rumors in the summer of 2018 that an audiotape was circulating that would send shockwaves through the think tanks of Washington and the conservative intellectual movement in particular. A top Google executive had been recorded telling his fellow employees that Google generously donated to conservative think tanks and magazines to dampen criticism of their anti-conservative bias. In essence, Google was buying off Conservatism Inc. and the GOP establishment to stay silent while Google monitored, harassed, and excluded Trump supporters. If true, the tape sounded like a smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence of the corruption and double-dealing of Conservatism Inc....

(Singapore) Enforcement of the rule requiring diners to clear used crockery and table litter at coffee shops and food courts has been pushed back to January next year. To help diners adjust, there will be another advisory period, of two months, before enforcement begins at these eateries. However, enforcement of the table clearing rule begins at hawker centres as scheduled on Wednesday (Sept 1), after a three-month advisory period. It had been announced in May that enforcement at coffee shops and foodcourts would also be introduced progressively in the fourth quarter of this year. During the coming advisory period, from...

In the past month, four emergency room nurses ... have quit at the Eureka hospital where Matt Miele works. Around California — and the nation — nurses are trading in high-pressure jobs for a career change, early retirement or less demanding assignments, leading to staffing shortages in many hospitals. But burnout isn’t the only thing compounding California’s nursing shortage: The state’s new vaccine mandate for health care workers is already causing headaches for understaffed hospitals before it is even implemented. Some traveling nurses — who are in high demand nationwide — are turning down California assignments because they don’t want...

Dr Elena Bishop is a medically qualified doctor, a pathologist living and working in the North Island of New Zealand.I've seen this video posted on other sites, but couldn't find it was ever posted on FR. Forgive me if I am wrong.

[H/T Fractal Trader]KBirb on Twitter: Tweets 1 - 16 [READ THRU END, #16] … @richardursomd @PierreKory @drsimonegold https://t.co/EcYjRQ4ksk" / TwitterKBirb @birb_k·Aug 27 1) AFRICA & IVE*MECTIN According to study (in thread), 31 countries (I marked in blue) have had regular dispensing/access to Ive*mectin. The others have not. A dramatic difference. Starting with daily deaths/100k. [READ THRU END, #15] … @richardursomd@PierreKory@drsimonegold KBirb @birb_k·Aug 27 2) AFRICA & IVE*MECTIN. …and the case curves. … KBirb @birb_k·Aug 27 3) AFRICA & IVE*MECTIN. Ive*mectin group: 31 countries, total pop 972.5 million. Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo...

The head of the L.A. teachers’ union is ambitious, audacious, and uncompromising. But critics blast her as a demagogue whose gamesmanship during the pandemic took a toll on the kids she claims to fight for. Cecily Myart-Cruz rarely sits for interviews. When she wants to communicate with the media, which is infrequently, she usually does so through a press release or, if the situation demands, a prerecorded video. For the most part, the famously contentious head of L.A.’s most powerful union—United Teachers Los Angeles—remains unapproachable, ensconced inside UTLA’s Wilshire Center headquarters where she controls the levers and dials of the...

A Butler County judge has ordered a hospital to treat a COVID-19 patient with the anti-parasite drug Ivermectin, a drug known to be used to treat or prevent parasites in animals, despite the CDC warning against it. Judge Gregory Howard issued the order last week after a complaint was made by a woman named Julie Smith, on behalf of her 51-year-old husband, Jeffrey Smith, who has been in the ICU at West Chester Hospital battling COVID-19. In the complaint, Julie stated that her husband had been on a ventilator for 19 days after attempts to use treatments like Remdesivir, plasma...

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, the pioneering reggae artist, producer and songwriter, has died at the age of 85. Jamaican media outlets reported the musician passed away in hospital in Lucea, a town located on the northwest part of the island. In a series of tweets, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness remembered the reggae icon. "Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s' development of dub music with his early adoption of studio effects to create new instrumentals of existing reggae tracks,” Holness noted. “He has worked with and produced for various artistes, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Congos, Adrian Sherwood,...