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CIRCLING THE SQUARE: ARCHITECTURE AND REVOLUTION IN CAIRO
When millions of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo this winter, they were linked as much by communications technologies as by the sheer spaces that surrounded them. Indeed, if the revolutionary movements sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa have been framed largely in terms of texts and tweets, the protesters' momentous actions are no less inseparable from the very sites through which they moved and in which they assembled. Tahrir Square, in particular, is a densely layered territory in which the modern meets the Mamluk, Haussmannian vistas meet cold-war brutalism, and networked paths meet the open agora. The facades and structures of the square's built environment carry an intense political and cultural charge. Artforum asked renowned architectural historian and critic Nasser Rabbat to shed light on this extraordinary public arena, its historic energies, and its spaces of possibility.
Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 18, 2011. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images.
"EGYPT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF" is the slogan Al Jazeera chose for its continuous coverage of the popular revolution that took over the streets of every Egyptian city in January and February. And Egypt, for those of us who have been listening, has not spoken about itself so powerfully, so confidently, or so defiantly in decades. The millions of voices that roared in demonstrations all over the country were loud and clear: The protesters wanted freedom from dictatorship, a more accountable and responsive government, and a decent life. To people in most Western liberal democracies, these demands are rights guaranteed by constitutions and laws (or so we blithely think). But to people in the Arab world, these rights have been absent from public discourse for much of the twentieth century. They were first robbed from the political arena in Egypt after the Free Officers' "revolution" of 1952, which spawned three consecutive autocratic military rulers: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar al-Sadat, and finally Hosni Mubarak. The restoration of such liberties to the region may have begun after the successful Tunisian uprising this January. But in Egypt, it still seemed too idealistic to expect an unarmed and socially networked youth movement to dislodge a brutal, corrupt, and fully armed regime, which has been hard at work dismantling and dissipating all political expression in the country. Indeed, the crackdowns in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere in the region point to what one might have expected in Egypt as well, for some of those regimes came to power in coups inspired precisely by the "revolution" of 1952 and have consciously followed the Egyptian model of government.
The Egyptian youth, however, succeeded in forcing the dictator Mubarak to step down, after eighteen days of peaceful demonstrations. Despite the attacks by the regime's thugs and the indifference, if not complacency, of the army, the protesters changed neither their peaceful tactics nor their fundamental demands. They stood in Tahrir Square in Cairo (and other squares in every city), hoisting their banners and chanting their slogans demanding the departure of Mubarak and his regime. Their actions, their deployment, and their speech were fundamentally shaped by the public space that Tahrir Square offered them. The square effectively became their home, their operation room, and our window onto their revolution. It morphed into the place where they ate, slept, prayed, socialized, and demonstrated. Many lost their lives defending it, and their burgeoning revolution therein, against the attacks of the so-called Mubarak supporters. Others found meaning in their lives in finally breaking the chain of fear and revolting against the regime that had dehumanized them for so long. Still others seized the occasion and inscribed their own fates onto that of their country, as when Ahmad Zaafan and Oula Abdul Hamid held their wedding in the square on February 6 with thousands of protesters witnessing their commitment.
Tahrir Square—literally, "Liberation Square"—has come to frame the youth revolution and to represent its simultaneous exuberance and anguish. To a world that watched in wonder, the site has acquired the same mystique that other squares of revolution had gained before—the Place de la Bastille in Paris, Red Square in Moscow, Azadi Square in Tehran, and, perhaps most famous given our short-term memory, Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Unlike them, however, Tahrir Square was not planned as a central square in the city: It grew out of the accumulation of leftover spaces that coalesced over time to form its huge trapezoidal contours. An urban-planning failure of sorts, Tahrir Square holds in its unwieldy open span and its hodgepodge of built edges a key to understanding the modern history of Cairo—and, by extension, of Egypt, with its successive episodes of struggle between a people yearning for its freedom and its right to a decent life, and a series of regimes that either withheld those rights or monopolized their administration.
Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 13, 2011. Photo: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP.
THROUGHOUT ITS MODERN HISTORY, Egypt has been mostly spoken for. Pashas, khedives, sultans, kings, colonial proconsuls, colonels, and generals have taken turns ruling it autocratically and ruthlessly. This began with a cruel colonial farce when Napoléon Bonaparte landed with his occupation army in Alexandria in July 1798 and promised the Egyptians liberation from their oppressors. His vacuous declaration notwithstanding, it took more than seventy years for a more genuine call for freedom to resound across the country with the uprising of Colonel Ahmed Urabi and the Egyptian Army in 1879; less than three years later, this development was dashed by the British Occupation of 1882. A massive uprising against the British in 1919 then galvanized the population around Sa'd Zaghlul, nicknamed the "Father of Egyptians," and his Wafd Party, which was pressing for independence from Britain. But that popular and unifying movement was, again, a fleeting moment. Incomplete independence from and festering problems with the British, in addition to the failure of Arab armies to stand up to the Zionist expansion in Palestine in 1948, were among the primary causes behind the Free Officers' "revolution" in 1952, which has been the legitimizing leitmotif of all subsequent regimes until the beginning of 2011. Promising a lot and delivering little, the architects of the "revolution" reneged on their pledge of granting political freedom to all, and Egypt went through a protracted age of military dictatorship, from whose rotten grip it is now finally struggling to emerge.
The revolution of January 25, however, took everyone by surprise. Analysts had long concluded that no popular uprising in Egypt was possible, given the brutality of the regime and the lassitude of a people crushed under spiraling economic problems. The youth of the so-called Facebook generation defied that verdict and took to the streets. They were joined by the much less affluent squatter youth and ultimately by representatives of all other classes, professions, and age groups in the equalizing space of the square. The uprising was also misunderstood or, to put it more accurately, misrepresented—sometimes deliberately. The Egyptian regime erratically dubbed it either an agitation of youth misguided by "external" enemies or one of Islamic fundamentalists. It was plainly neither. Opportunists in the meager opposition parties tried to ride it to potential political gain, and some may well yet succeed. Western governments and media vacillated between praising it for the great popular revolt that it was and cautioning against the repercussions of the fall of Mubarak's regime for the region, but especially for Israel's interests, the true concern of the West. The Arab regimes were deafeningly silent, undoubtedly with visions of their own eventual downfall tying their tongues. The most brazen among them, however, expressed support for Mubarak. Saudi Arabia even went a step further, its grand sheikh declaring the uprisings fitan (disorders), which are "worse than assassination," according to a hadith (prophetic saying) regularly brandished by all Arab theocracies to deter any popular unrest. The youth, meanwhile, kept up and pressed on. Their successful reterritorialization of their city and their creation of a highly effective oppositional public sphere are testaments to the complex and astonishing ways in which seemingly enframed urban spaces can be both overcome and appropriated. Tahrir Square sits at the nexus of those powerful expressions of discontent.
That was the intention of neither the square's first planner nor its successive rebuilders. The site began as Qasr al-Nil Square, an open space left between a series of royal palaces along the eastern bank of the Nile and a new district designed à la française in the late 1860s by Isma'il Pasha (r. 1863–79), the impatient modernizer who wanted to turn Egypt into a part of Europe despite all adverse circumstances. His passion for Europeanization was exemplified by this grand urban project, which extended from the medieval city westward toward the Nile along a north-south axis, with tree-lined avenues radiating from central squares to form star patterns modeled after the imperial Paris of Baron Haussmann. Planned in haste by the premier Egyptian reformer and a Haussmannian designer imported from France—Ali Pasha Mubarak (no relation to the deposed president) and Pierre Grand Bey, respectively—the new city was meant to impress Isma'il's guests, the European monarchs, who had been invited to Egypt for the inauguration of the Suez Canal in 1869.
That the long-term aims of Haussmannization, so emblematic of modern Western urbanism, were on the mind of Isma'il and his minister Ali Mubarak is evident in their oft-expressed desire to modernize Egypt and to instill a new order in its social and urban structures. It is less clear, however, whether they were also aware of the security features of the new planning apparatus, with its creation of wide, straight boulevards that enabled surveillance, military movement, and crowd control. The cutting of two new boulevards in the medieval city's fabric, al-Sikka al-Gadida (the New Street) and Muhammad Ali Street, does indeed indicate an intention to enact a system of spatial control and surveillance. But the plan of reshaping the old city with diagonal and peripheral boulevards that would have created a Panopticon-like scheme was never completed. Having borrowed heavily from rapacious European banks to fund his flamboyant projects, Isma'il ended by bankrupting the country and was deposed in 1879 before the completion of either his interventions in the old city or his Parisian-style, posh residential district of al-Isma'iliyya. Three years later, the British occupied Egypt, ostensibly to straighten the country's finances and to secure the repayment of its heavy debts—but they ended up staying for seventy-two years.
Vintage postcard of Tahrir Square, the Nile Hilton, and the headquarters of the Arab League, Cairo, ca. 1960.
One of the first British colonial acts was to requisition the main royal barracks on the northwestern tip of al-Isma'iliyya district, Qasr al-Nil, to become the headquarters of their Occupation Army. This quickly became a location of confrontation. British soldiers used the court between the barracks and the square to the east as a daily parade ground. Egyptians demonstrated against the British in front of the barracks. Clashes ensued, and the square saw its first martyrs for freedom around the turn of the twentieth century, with a peak during the revolution of 1919, when numerous demonstrations against the British occupation converged on the square that by then had acquired the name of its district: Isma'iliyya Square.
But the square would not simply remain a zone divided between the British army and the Egyptian aristocracy living in palaces around it. At the turn of the century, the area acquired its first major cultural institution: the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum, completed in 1902 north of the barracks to house the unique Egyptian collection of pharaonic antiquities. A neoclassical structure dreamed up by a French Egyptologist, Mariette Pasha; designed by a French architect, Marcel Dourgnon; and built by an Italian construction company, Garozzo & Zaffarani, the museum was planted in Egypt for practical reasons but was in fact meant to celebrate a heritage that Europeans had already appropriated as their own. The building was long the domain of Western Egyptologists and historians, the first place to visit for Western tourists, and it served as a memorial to the late-nineteenth-century generation of European explorers and Egyptologists. Despite changes in recent decades that Egyptianized the staff and made entry affordable to all classes of Egyptian people, neither the museum nor the heritage it shelters has ever been fully integrated into the cultural consciousness of the city or the country. The new, ultraslick Grand Egyptian Museum, currently being constructed on the Pyramids Plateau about twenty miles east of the present-day square, will doubtless steal the limelight from the museum today. But it will probably suffer the same alienation from local culture unless ancient Egypt is reclaimed as the source and basis of Egypt's history, heritage, and national pride in both scholarly and popular discourses.
Not only did the barracks of Qasr al-Nil and the Egyptian Museum demarcate the northern boundary of Isma'iliyya Square, they also visually symbolized the interdependence between military colonialism and cultural imperialism—a reciprocity famously revealed by the late Edward Saïd in a series of biting critiques. But we did not have to wait for postcolonial studies to discern that relationship. The pioneering American Egyptologist James Henry Breasted was already well aware of it when, in 1926, he presented a project for a New Egyptian Museum and Research Institute in Cairo to the Egyptian government. Designed in a neo-pharaonic pastiche of styles by the American Neoclassicist architect William Welles Bosworth and funded by the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., the new museum was to be located on the site of the barracks and was to replace the French-dominated and French-staffed Egyptian Museum as the main center for Egyptological research. This double-pronged usurpation of the presence of the two colonial powers—Great Britain and France—in the main square of Cairo by the American imperial newcomer was not lost on any of the protagonists. The project was strongly opposed by both the British and the French, before it was totally rejected by the Egyptian government of Ahmad Ziwar Pasha after protracted negotiations with the Americans. In a principled nationalist stand rebuffed by Breasted, the government declared the project's proposal "unacceptable" and an infringement "upon the sovereignty of Egypt," because it postulated that Egyptians would have to surrender all proprietary rights of the museum's artifacts to a Western-dominated board in return for American funding of the museum.
COLONIALISM, HOWEVER INDIRECTLY, continued to be the driving force behind the evolution and changing meaning of the square in the early twentieth century. Colonially based economic growth and preferential legal codes privileging non-Egyptians attracted large numbers of European and Levantine (the Egyptians call them Shawwam, meaning Christians and Jews from Greater Syria) merchants, investors, and adventurers, who settled in the city and sought their fortunes there. As a palpable sign of their financial success, members of this new bourgeois colonial class bought the huge palaces built in the late nineteenth century around Isma'iliyya Square by members of the royal family and land-owning nobility; they then parceled them out into smart Art Deco apartments. A number of these buildings—with names that recall the ethnic mix of the bourgeois colonial class—still stand at the eastern side of the square today as reminders of a bygone belle-epoque era. But of the older aristocratic palaces, only three escaped demolition. The first, the magnificent palace of Prince Said Halim, who became the prime minister of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul at the beginning of World War I, is truncated, deserted, and ruined today. The other two have played important roles in the modern political and cultural history of Egypt. The neo-Baroque Qasr Kamal al-Din was until recently the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Built by the prolific Slovenian architect Anton Laščak (who also designed the palace of Said Halim) for Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein, the unfortunate son of the only modern Egyptian sultan, the palace's classical facades still cut an imposing profile at the western tip of the square. The other surviving palace is that of Ahmed Khairy Pasha, built in 1874 for this minister of Isma'il in a neo-Mamluk style. It successively housed a Greek cigarette factory for thirty-six years, the Egyptian University (today Cairo University) for ten, and the American University in Cairo (AUC) for more than eighty. Established in 1919 as an American-style school, the AUC soon became a symbol of American culture, derided and admired at the same time, and also one of Egypt's finest institutions of higher education, which offered an intellectual haven in the square for visitors and Egyptians alike until its relocation in 2008 to New Cairo, thirty miles away from downtown Cairo.
Protesters with list of demands share pedestal with the statue of Omar Makram in Tahrir Square, Cairo, January 31, 2011. Photo: Ahmed Saad.
The one structure that has come to be universally associated with the labyrinthine and gargantuan Egyptian bureaucracy is the behemoth al-Mogamma' (literally, "the Collective"), built on the southwestern end of the square to house most government agencies. Initially a gift from the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Egypt, the Mogamma' was not inaugurated until after the "revolution" of 1952. It thus became a symbol of all that was statist, authoritarian, and ineffective in Abdel Nasser's republic. The building, designed by Egyptian architect Kamal Ismail, recalls Soviet-style compounds, but its facades also display unmistakable references to those of the mosque of Sultan Hasan (r. 1356–61), the most monumental Mamluk structure in Cairo and the most "modern" avant la lettre. No Egyptian or visitor can escape the Mogamma': Birth certificates, passports, drivers' licenses, residency visas, and many other official papers can be obtained only there. People burn their nerves through interminable hours of pushing papers from one office to the other in its endless corridors, trying to satisfy the whims of apathetic civil servants. No wonder the building became the butt of jokes about all that is wrong with the Egyptian government. The popular frustration with everything the building symbolizes came to a boil on February 7, with the demonstrators in Tahrir Square blocking all three entrances to the Mogamma' and leaving thousands of perplexed civil servants waiting outside.
If the Mogamma' stood for the ubiquitous presence of government in every aspect of Egyptian life, the name of the square it commanded evolved to reflect the changing political ideology of that same government after the 1952 "revolution." Trying to erase all traces of the long-ruling royal family, Abdel Nasser changed the names of many streets and squares in Cairo. "Isma'iliyya Square," of course, had to go. Instead it became Maydan al-Hurriya (Freedom Square) in August 1952 and was then rechristened Tahrir (Liberation) Square in September 1954—in reference to the success of the Free Officers in negotiating a termination of the presence of the British in Egypt, and hence the liberation of the country from the last vestiges of colonial occupation.
Revealing the impulses of a new regime searching for its bearings, Abdel Nasser then added two major buildings to Tahrir Square on the site of what used to be the British barracks of Qasr al-Nil. The first was the flamboyant Nile Hilton, built by the Los Angeles–based architect Welton Becket in 1959 immediately to the southwest of the Egyptian Museum and overlooking the Nile. This swanky five-star hotel complacently projected all that America wanted to represent at the beginning of the cold war: modernity, luxury, efficiency, and comfort. The hotel succeeded spectacularly and became the premier hospitality destination in Cairo, but its propaganda message failed, and Abdel Nasser's Egypt continued to move away from the West in the direction of strategic friendship with the Soviet Union. The second building was the drab yet functional modernist Headquarters of the Arab League, built between 1958 and 1960 by the Egyptian architect Mahmoud Riad on a site south of the Nile Hilton. The structure marks the moment in which Abdel Nasser was riding high on the wave of Pan-Arabism sweeping across the Arab world—a crest that began with the founding of the league in 1945 and resulted in the toppling of several regimes, as well as the establishment of the short-lived United Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria. Although the building is today squeezed between two symbols of American economic and cultural dominance—the InterContinental and the Nile Hilton (lately the Ritz-Carlton) hotels—and although the Arab League mostly failed in its political missions, there is no denying the clear rekindling of Arab solidarity, expressed by the youth of the January 25 revolution and by their supporters across the Arab world.
BEFORE THE 1952 "REVOLUTION," a round granite pedestal stood in the center of Isma'iliyya Square, waiting for its statue. The king had intended to place a sculpture of Isma'il Pasha there, a late recognition of his legacy. The situation obviously changed after the "revolution"; Abdel Nasser and his admirers sought to place his own statue there instead. But Egypt's tragic defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967 drastically diminished the likelihood of granting him such an honor in Cairo's symbolic center. The pedestal remained empty until it was removed altogether with the excavation of the square in the 1980s, in preparation for the construction of the new Cairo metro. Tahrir Square was officially renamed Sadat Square after the leader's assassination in 1981, and it is possible that some cronies of the dead president may have contemplated installing his statue there. But the new name fast faded away and was displaced to the first metro station under Tahrir Square. The square returned to its revolutionary designation, perhaps in anticipation of its revolutionary reawakening—but most probably because the new and still insecure Mubarak regime was uneasy about consecrating the main square of the city to the memory of its slain predecessor.
Demonstrators in Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 27, 2011. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images.
Ciphers of spiritual authority were no less subject to politics. The sole religious building in Tahrir Square is a relative latecomer. The small and elegant mosque of Omar Makram was built north of the Mogamma' at the end of the royal era by the Italian architect Mario Rossi, the chief architect of the Waqf Ministry, in a neo-Mamluk style all his own. Having only one mosque in such a large public space is unusual in Cairo, affectionately known as the "city of thousand minarets," in reference to its abundance of mosques. But this could be indicative of the largely civic role of the square in modern Egyptian life—especially during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the aristocratic class identified with Western lifestyles, and during the rule of Abdel Nasser, marked by a statist form of socialism with a tilt toward secular appearances. The Makram mosque seems to confirm this reading, for, unlike regular mosques everywhere in the city, it appears to have transcended its straightforward religious function from the outset to become the funerary mosque of choice for the Cairene elite. Not a day passes without one or two memorial services for a politician, a high officer, an artist, or a member of the intelligentsia being held there.
In 2003, the open space in front of the mosque acquired the one and only statue in Tahrir Square, a statue of Makram, as part of a move to create foci of remembrance in the city in the form of statues of the nation's heroes. And Makram was indeed a hero: An Azhar-educated sheikh and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, he led the uprising against the French in 1800, providing Muhammad 'Ali with the popular support he needed in his struggle to rule Egypt, but turned against him when the latter showed his real autocratic intentions. Makram was ultimately exiled to Damietta and then Tanta, where he died. The slogans painted on the statue's pedestal and on canvases hanging from its body this past winter, shown in widely circulated news photos, suggest that the youth of 2011 may be looking up to their forerunner in their revolutionary struggle.
Surrounded by architectural reminders of all the forces that want to lay claim to their identity and garner their loyalty—a fantastic ancient heritage and a graceful belle epoque, a powerful yet convoluted government, a dream of regional unity, multiple markers of religion, education, and resistance, and unaffordable temptations of luxurious American consumerism—the Egyptian protesters chose to plot an entirely new path on January 25. They poured into the square from the various boulevards connecting it to its venerable surrounding neighborhoods—Garden City, Wast al-Balad (downtown), Bab al-Louq, Bulaq, and Zamalek across the Qasr al-Nil Bridge—thus repurposing the Haussmannian axes as a network of active linkages. They reclaimed the huge open space of the square as their own stage and used the extraordinary diversity of buildings around it—Neoclassical, neo-Mamluk, historicist, modernist, totalitarian, and bureaucratic—as the backdrop to their forward-looking, digitally organized and recorded revolution. Mindful of the history that has unfolded in the square and on its built edges, the demonstrators vindicated the sacrifices of all the protests that had ignited there before their uprising. They finally validated the square's designation as Tahrir Square, fifty-seven years after a band of rebellious officers gave it the name but failed to fulfill its promise of liberation.
Nasser Rabbat is Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture at MIT.


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2 Survivors of the Canadian Ice Hockey Team Bus Crash Tragedy Suit Up and Return to the Rink
September 12, 2018 at 10:26 pm Comments disabled
Five months after their bus crashed into a tractor-trailer and killed 16 team members of the Humboldt Broncos, two of the survivors returned to the ice.
Brayden Camrud and Derek Patter suited up on Wednesday night for the season opener of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, according to the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. The Broncos played the Nipawin Hawks in the first game of the season but fell short to their competitors, losing 2-1.
"It's exciting," Camrud said to the local publication prior to the game's start. "At the same time, it's scary, it's overwhelming, it's going to be sad — we're paying tribute to the boys."
A day ahead of the season opener, TSN released an original 12-minute film where they spoke to Camrud and Patter about the unimaginable tragedy and their return to hockey alongside many new team members.
"I'm just going to play for the guys that can't play hockey anymore," Patter told TSN. "To represent those 29 families, 29 people that were on that bus."
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Camrud and Patter were onboard the 28-passenger bus in April when it collided with a tractor-trailer in western Canada's Saskatchewan province. The team, made up of athletes aged 16 to 20, was on its way to a playoff game in the town of Nipawin — the same town that the Broncos opened their 2018 season against.
Of the 29 people who were on the bus at the time of the crash, including team members, coaches, support staff, and the bus driver, 16 people were killed — 10 of them being players — while 13 others were injured. Camrud and Patter are the only two players to survive the crash and return to the sport.
"I thought it was important to the community of Humboldt that I don't bail on them," Camrud told TSN.
Prior to Wednesday's game, community members showed their support to the Broncos by leaving hockey sticks outside of their front doors. Many shared photos on social media, paying tribute to the team with #HumboldtStrong and acknowledged how the community will "never forget" the unimaginable tragedy.
My old Beauty is back out on the front porch to honour the @HumboldtBroncos season opener at home. #HumboldtBroncos #HumboldtStrong #sticksout We won't ever forget. Good luck tonight men pic.twitter.com/nP6JKTI6aX
— Dwayne Walker (@DwayneWalker99) September 12, 2018
Ahead of the 6:45 p.m. start, a press conference reportedly occurred with players and their family members who spoke out about the accident. Former player and crash survivor Kaleb Dahlgren told reporters, "I think it means, honestly, everything for this team to be playing hockey again."
As the sold-out crowd began to roll in, members of the original team gathered for an emotional moment prior to puck-drop. Though Camrud and Patter were the only two players suited up, their other surviving teammates — one of who is currently in a wheelchair — made an appearance and lined up next to each other on the ice during the National Anthem.
Outside the rink, Humboldt's Spotlight business sold T-shirts, where already more than 15,000 of them were purchased following the bus crash in April. Of those proceeds, $300,000 have gone directly towards the Humboldt Strong Community Foundation, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix reports.
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Following the game, a Banner Tribute ceremony took place, honoring those who died in the crash. Each banner that was revealed featured the name of the fallen player, as well as their number. During the ceremony, the 150 plus first responders who were on the scene of the crash were also honored.
Evan Thomas #HumboldtBroncos #HumboldtStrong pic.twitter.com/iAY4qRZTXv
— Sean Previl (@SeanPrevil) September 13, 2018
A huge thank you to the more than 150 first responders that came to the rescue on April 6th. pic.twitter.com/KyKKWcF1id
— Humboldt Broncos (@HumboldtBroncos) September 13, 2018
Though the team reportedly had no captain for this year's season (as a way to pay respect to the late Logan Schatz who held that position last season, but didn't get to complete it) the returners are embracing their leadership role while also remembering their fallen teammates.
"I think about a little bit of it every single day, whether it be the accident itself, or how guys are doing, how my parents might be feeling," Camrud told the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. "At the end of the day, you've got to make sure everybody's doing well. You've got to check in, and be a great human."
Added the 20-year-old athlete: "This year, my responsibility is to be a leader for these new guys we brought into our team, and I'm going to be the best guy I can."
Cardi B Slams Nicki Minaj Again After Being Accused of Buying Her Way Into the Charts
Cardi B is clapping back at Nicki Minaj with more proof that she was popular without having to pay to get radio play.
On Wednesday, the 25-year-old "Be Careful" rapper shared an Instagram of her debut album Invasion of Privacy holding the number three spot on 2018's Top 10 Best Selling Hip-Hop Albums.
"NUMBERS DONT F—– LIE," Cardi captioned the post. The breakout star, who recently gave birth to her first child– daughter Kulture Kiari with husband Offset in July, then uploaded a video from a concert she gave in 2016.
"7/29/2016! NO LABEL, NO RADIO PLAY, FRESH OUT OF LOVE AND HIP HOP, ONLY 200K IN MY BANK ACCOUNT, MY FIRST TOUR !!! nobody can make you feel like you cheated yourself or you don't deserve to be where you at when you KNOW YOU WORKED YOURSELF TO THE TOP !!! THANK YOU BARDIGANG !YOU BEEN HERE SINCE THE GET GO!" Cardi wrote.
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Cardi's fiery responses follow behind the accusations Nicki, 35, made on her Apple Music Beats 1 show Queen Radio on Monday.
"You knew that when that footage came out, you were about to look dumb," Nicki said in reference to their altercation at the Harper's Bazaar ICONS party during New York Fashion Week Friday.
"So your team, they hurry up and put out a statement. I didn't stop anyone's bags. She had to say that because she has built her career of sympathy and payola," Nicki added, referring to the practice of paying radio stations to play a song.
7/29/2016! NO LABEL ,NO RADIO PLAY,FRESH OUT OF LOVE AND HIP HOP,ONLY 200K IN MY BANK ACCOUNT ,MY FIRST TOUR !!!nobody can make you feel like you cheated yourself or you don't deserve to be where you at when you KNOW YOU WORKED YOURSELF TO THE TOP !!! THANK YOU BARDIGANG !YOU BEEN HERE SINCE THE GET GO!
Cardi previously addressed Nicki's "payola" claim on Monday by posting a video of fans shouting the lyrics to "Bodak Yellow" at Beyonce and Jay-Z's OTRII. "On the run 2 tour!! REAL LIFE, REAL LOVE," Cardi wrote.
Also on Queen Radio, Nicki went into further detail about their fight. "The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon people who have their life together."
"I was in a Gaultier gown — off the motherf—— runway– and I could not believe how humiliated we all felt."
Moments before the fight, "Cardi walked towards Nicki and all of sudden Cardi started screaming something about her child. She was yelling, 'Bitch you feisty. Bitch don't talk s— about my child' at Nicki," a source previously told PEOPLE.
Cardi later "threw her shoe because she couldn't get through" to Nicki. Cardi was then escorted out of the building. In photographs, the young artist was seen walking barefoot with a welt on her forehead.
"Nothing seemed to start the fight other than Cardi seeing Nicki up close," an eyewitness explained. "It definitely seems to stem from deeply rooted issues."
That same night, Cardi explained her reason for fighting on Instagram. "I've let a lot of s— slide! I let you sneak diss me, I let you lie on me, I let you attempt to stop my bags, f— up the way I eat!"
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"But when you mention my child, you choose to like comments about me as a mother, make comments about my abilities to take care of my daughter is when all bets are f—– off!!"
However, Nicki denies she ever mentioned Cardi's daughter. "I just want people to know that Onika Tanya Maraj has never, will never… speak ill on anyone's child. I am not a clown. That's clown s—."
Pregnant Mother of 4 Killed in Crash with Allegedly Intoxicated Boxer Who Live-Streamed Aftermath
September 12, 2018 at 9:40 pm Comments disabled
A pregnant mother of four has died after a suspected drunk driver crashed into her Chrysler minivan in California.
Professional boxer Marcos Forestal, 28, was allegedly intoxicated when his BMW plowed head-on into expectant mom Krystil Kincaid in Hemet on Sunday around 8.30pm, the Helmet Police Department said in a statement.
Arriving on scene shortly after the crash, police found Kincaid's car "partially on fire" with the 8 months pregnant woman trapped, police said. Emergency responders were able to extinguish the blaze and the 29-year-old woman was airlifted to a nearby hospital.
Her unborn baby died and Kincaid was put on life support, however, doctors pronounced her dead the following day, a GoFundMe set up for the family said.
Officers found Forestal, who is the World Boxing Federation International Super Bantamweight champion, walking near his vehicle on the scene, authorities said.
"Forestal displayed symptoms of alcohol intoxication and was arrested," the Helmet Police Department continued.
The boxer live streamed the aftermath of the crash on Facebook Live. The since-deleted video was recorded by some social media users and shared online and by the El Nuevo Herald.
In the video, Forestal, who sustained only minor injuries, shows viewers his totaled car while saying, "Look what happened to me, guys."
"A car crossed in front of me and look what happened to my car," the Cuban boxer, who currently resides in Burbank in Los Angeles, says in Spanish in the video.
Heartbreakingly, Kincaid was on the phone with her husband Zach during the time of the crash, according to KTLA.
Zach, who was married to Kincaid for 12 years, told the outlet he heard his wife scream before the impact. He also heard the firefighters trying to pull her from the vehicle.
The heartbroken father of four told friends and family about the tragic incident on Facebook. "My life has been full of adversity, but today I experienced the hardest thing i have ever done."
"I told my 2 daughters and my 2 sons that a drunk driver killed their mom. The pain and anger I feel within my soul is immeasurable, my heart is broken. Until we meet again Raven…Krystil Kincaid."
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Zach told KTLA that his children — his daughter, 14, from a previous relationship and the couple's three children, their 11-year-old daughter and two sons, aged 8 and 4 — arrived at the hospital thinking the baby had arrived early.
"They thought they had a baby sister here," Zach told the station. "They got the worst news of their life. They were told that they don't have a mom, or a baby sister, anymore."
According to The Press-Enterprise, the couple planned to name the baby Avalynn Onix.
The father of four told the publication he was willing to forgive the alleged drunk driver until he saw the Facebook Live video.
"It wasn't until I saw that, that I was upset with his lack of humanity and compassion," he told the paper. "It seems to be the kind of person he was. At that moment, I came to the realization that he just killed my wife and my child, and that he only cares for himself. Hopefully, some prison time will allow him to reflect and be a better person when he comes out."
Forestal was intially arrested for suspicion of driving while intoxicated and causing a collision that resulted in major injuries. Following Kincaid's passing, the boxer's charge was upgraded to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
Forestal faced court Wednesday and plead not guilty according to The Press-Enterprise. It was not immediately clear if he had legal representation.
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LeeAnne Locken Warns D'Andra Simmons About Getting Close to Brandi Redmond: 'I Don't Trust Her'
D'Andra Simmons and Brandi Redmond appear to have put their troubles behind them and forged a fast new friendship, one that isn't really sitting right with LeeAnne Locken.
On Wednesday's all-new episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, Locken had a heart-to-heart with her longtime friend Simmons and warned her about getting too close to Redmond, explaining, "I don't trust her."
If Locken seems extra-cautious, that's because she's been betrayed by Redmond in the past. Like with Simmons, Locken and Redmond got off to a rocky start, butting heads throughout RHOD's first season. They put that animosity behind them in season 2 and became close. But when Locken let her guard down, Redmond turned on Locken and called her "a f—— liar and f—— bitch."
So far in season 3, they've had a truce, staying on good terms. And while it appears Locken has forgiven Redmond, she hasn't forgotten. "I can sweep everything under the rug and still be cautious," Locken told Simmons while warning her about Redmond.
"I know what she's capable of. I've been the victim of her. My heart has been hurt and shredded by her," Locken added.
Locken went on to say that she was worried Redmond was using Simmons to hurt her.
"I wasn't going to say something to you because I don't want you to be like, 'You just don't want Brandi and I to be friends,' which is not the case. I just don't want you to think I have ulterior motives," Locken said. "But she knows that you and I have deep foundations and she's going to go to use that foundation to get to me. And that's what scares me with her."
For what it's worth, Simmons wasn't swayed. "I guess we have to see what unfolds. As my grandmother always says, 'The proof is in the pudding,' " she said.
"I'm a big girl and you need to let me have my experience with Brandi. We had a great time together and we made a breakthrough," Simmons continued. "I hear what you say, I'm keeping it in the back of my mind. Proceed with caution."
Simmons didn't seem to be too cautious when she hung out with Redmond next, at a rodeo they went to with Locken and Kameron Westcott. There, Simmons — she was was celebrating her 49th birthday — opened up about the pressures of being raised in Dallas society.
"Growing up D'Andra Simmons, anything I did was judged as to whether or not it was acceptable in Dallas society," she said. "My appearance, my behavior, my attitude, I'm really sick of it. I don't care anymore, I don't want to be a part of it. I want to move on to the next phase in my life and do what makes me happy."
"This is my year to figure things out," Simmons added. "I'm at a big crossroads with my mom and my business and my friendships. It's okay if I don't make everyone happy, or my family happy."
She had Redmond's support. "If somebody doesn't want to accept her for who she is, than f— them," Redmond said. "At the end of the day, she needs to be happy and she needs to be who she is."
"I want to be your friend and I love who you are when you're fun and you don't care what other people think," Redmond added. "It makes me sad that you feel the need to apologize for who you are."
Her words meant a lot to Simmons. "Brandi has been successful at being herself her entire life," Simmons confessed. "I'm at the point in my life where that's where I aspire to be as well. So having a friend in Brandi is really important to me because I have somebody who understands and celebrates the fact that I want to be who I really am."
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Later, Simmons told Redmond just how much she appreciated that they've been able to connect. But she also let Redmond know that Locken had concerns.
"I didn't expect to like you so much," Simmons said. "I talked to LeeAnne and she said, 'Brandi is never going to be your friend. You're going to get hurt.' And I said, 'I understand that you think you're protecting me, but I have to make my own decision about a friend.' You and I have to figure out our own path."
Hearing that upset Redmond.
"LeeAnne, I thought you were moving forward? So why are you encouraging other people not to be friends with me," Redmond asked audiences. "That's such a slap in the face. … I'm starting to think that LeeAnne might be a little jealous of my friendship with D'Andra."
"If that's the way she feels, I can't be friends with her," Redmond said of Locken before episode's end.
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It's been a while since Lena Dunham has done anything to warrant the attention of us slavering hellhounds in the gossip-sphere.
It could have to do with the fact that she's adopted a more low-key lifestyle these days and turned her attention to, in her words, "pursuing slow meaningful spiritual progress."
Of course, it's equally possible that we all simultaneously decided to stop regularly checking her social media accounts for any number of valid reasons.
(Public interest in her personal life has been on the decline ever since Girls ended; she seems to google herself constantly despite being cursed with very thin skin; Lena-related gossip frequently centers around "hard pass" subject matter like vaginas crammed full of pebbles, etc.)
Whatever the case, there's less Lena in your life these days, and we don't need a focus group to know that you're probably okay with that.
But the never-reliable Star magazine decided to dip its toe back in the Lena pond this week, and despite the high probability that this story is total BS (again, Star magazine) we decided it's amusing enough to share with you.
As you may recall, back in January, Lena and Jack Antonoff broke up after six years of dating.
By all accounts, the split was mutual and amicable, but it seems Lena misses more about the relationship than just quipping "I hope you bought Anton a drink first!" every time someone said her boyfriend's full name.
An "insider" tells Star that Lena is still hung up on Jack in a big way, and her obsession is beginning to take a toll on his new relationship.
"She calls Jack at least five times a day, all in the name of 'friendship' – and she always talks to him right before she goes to bed," says the anonymous friend.
"She'll text him photos of her private parts at like 1 a.m. At that point, he just turns the phone off."
Not surprisingly, the source also claims that Jack's new girlfriend, Carlotta Kohl, is less than thrilled with the situation.
"Half the time she spent with him, he was on the phone with his ex!" says the tipster of a recent date between Jack and Carlotta.
We figure September is a good time to get around to our New Year's resolution of trying something new every day, so we're actually gonna defend Lena instead of making a bunch of easy jokes at her expense.
Here goes nothing:
Lena Dunham is probably not sending unsolicited vadge pics to her ex-boyfriend, and the only way this source could sound more made-up is if it called the situation "steamy," or used some other word that's only ever been used by tabloid writers.
Now if you'll excuse us, this small act of decency has made us feel all out of sorts.
We're gonna go kick a puppy or vote Republican or something to balance ourselves out.
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I have never drank out of an actual coconut before, and at this point I do not think I ever will. That is a decision that I am making for myself, and not one that someone else is making for me. I am an adult now and can make my own decisions, Mom.
The reason I do not want to drink from one is because the act has been so built up in my mind, I do not think that there is any way the real thing can live up to my own imaginings. Every paradise setting in fiction has a character drinking out of a coconut, making it seem like pure bliss, but I have never experienced that kind of emotion from a drink that did not include exorbitant amounts of alcohol.
I have had coconut milk before, but it was not the pure stuff. It had all sorts of additives, so I am sure it is way better than the real thing. Added sugar always makes things taste better. And what happens to the meat inside the coconut? Does that get thrown away, or do they crack it open and give you a spoon? If they throw it away it seems like a great waste of resources that I cannot be partnered to.
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Katie Holmes, Victoria Justice, Charlotte McKinney, and More Lighting Up NYFW
New York Fashion Week is one of those times when even the most apathetic towards fashion among us prick up our ears and pay attention. It's a pretty sexy time to be alive whenever fashion week rolls around, and I couldn't be happier that we're right in the midst of it.
This year there were lots of hotties strutting their stuff. First up is Victoria Justice, who always looks radiant, but really sparkles in a blue ensemble. Charlotte McKinney was red hot in red and black, and gave me some Les Mis flashbacks.
Then you've got Katie Holmes looking great in white. That color suits her well, as it does Alisha Marie, who was also looking virginal in white. Finally there's Karrueche Tran, doing her thing and turning heads while doing it.
I could care less about fashion most days of the year, and I still kinda could care less about fashion as I write this sentence. Rest assured, however, that so long as unbelievably hot women like Victoria Justice, Charlotte McKinney, Katie Holmes, Alisha Marie, and Karrueche Tran are out there advocating for it, we're all paying attention!
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Jessie James Decker Responds to Mommy Shaming Over Her Drinking While Breastfeeding
Jessie James Decker has all the confidence in the world regarding her parenting prowess.
In a chat with PEOPLE at her debut New York Fashion Week Show for her brand Kittenish on Monday, the 30-year-old singer and fashion designer shared how she has combated the backlash she received after breastfeeding her son Forrest Bradley, 5 months, while drinking a glass of wine.
"I honestly feel like I'm the voice of all the moms," said Decker. "I definitely feel like they get heat for certain things. I know I'm a great mother, there's not one doubt in my mind. I know that I take care of my babies, I know that they feel loved and they feel happy. I don't have nannies; I take care of my children."
"So if I want to have a cocktail to celebrate my husband doing something great in his work, I'm going to, and I can still breastfeed," added Decker, whose new book Just Jessie: My Guide to Love, Life, Family and Food is out Oct. 2.
"I feel like I want to be a voice for those moms that feel heat from others, or feel judgment because this is a hard job, and if you want to enjoy yourself you do it."
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The Eric & Jessie: Game On star explained to PEOPLE that she has a "we're all in this together" mindset when it comes to supporting her fellow mothers.
"I'll talk to random moms that I meet at Gymboree and I'm like, 'Hey, what's going on with that? How do you do that?' I'm always asking questions," she revealed.
"And the same with me, girls asking questions," added Decker, who is also mom to son Eric "Bubby" Thomas Jr., 3, and daughter Vivianne "Vivi" Rose, 4. "I just want all of us to feel like we're in the same boat."
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"He just goes with the flow," she told PEOPLE of Forrest. "After three children, you kind of know what to expect and he's been super easy and just chill and the kids love him. And Vivi trying to change his diaper and pick him up, and I'm like 'Ahh!' But it's good."
Does that mean more kids could be in her and husband Eric Decker's future? "He wants more kids. Oh, my lord," Decker said. "But no, he's going to be doing some special things. There's some things in the works and we're excited about it."
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Though their last film—2016's Hail Caesar—wasn't exactly another home run, The Coen Brothers always manage to draw interest to their films thanks to their uniqueness. The Brothers now embark on their first film for Netflix with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, set to debut on the streaming platform in November.
Originally envisioned as a six-part miniseries, the material has been condensed into a single film following the character of Buster Scruggs (O Brother's Tim Blake Nelson) as he interacts with a number of supremely strange characters in their latest Western. It's funny that my biggest gripe with Hail Caesar is that it felt like it should have been expanded into a much longer miniseries type thing as every storyline got short shrift in a two hour movie.
I can't imagine this film, which actually began life as a miniseries, is going to overcome that same issue. However, if anyone can make it work, it's The Coen Brothers. Check out the synopses for each segment of the film below, and tune in when The Ballad of Buster Scruggs debuts on Netflix and in select theaters on November 16.
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"Meal Ticket"
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"All Gold Canyon"
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Zoe Kazan (Alice Longabaugh)
Grainger Hines (Mr. Arthur)
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"The Mortal Remains"
Brendan Gleeson (Irishman)
Tyne Daly (Lady)
Jonjo O'Neill (Englishman)
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Happy Birthday: Your Annual Reminder that Emmy Rossum is Sex On Two Legs
Nothing against the one-legged women of the world, but Emmy Rossum is sex on two legs. I sincerely hope that no one takes offense at that, because it was meant as a compliment, not an insult by exclusion.
Look, let's start over. It was originally titled …Emmy Rossum is Sex on Legs. That, to me, felt like a potential insult to anyone or anything without legs. Better to exclude the one-legged folks than the no-legged folks, I suppose.
This isn't going well. I've tried reworking this whole thing with Emmy Rossum and Sex and Legs a couple of times now and it's not working out. I feel like no matter what sort of combination of those words I use, I end up excluding someone, and that sort of thing just isn't my bag, baby.
I was quoting Austin Powers, damn it. I'm not demeaning anyone through my use of the word baby. I was using a dated reference as a means of making a joke and it obviously backfired in spectacular fashion. Maybe a Borat joke would've been more tasteful.
You know what, I'm done here. Enjoy Emmy Rossum's sexiest pics in honor of her 32nd birthday!
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September 12, 2018 at 11:28 am Comments disabled
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Limp Bizkit Frontman Fred Durst Files for Divorce from Kseniya Beryazina: Report
Fred Durst is facing the music.
The Limp Bizkit frontman has filed for divorce from Kseniya Beryazina Durst, his wife of about six years, TMZ reported.
News surfaced in 2015 that Durst, 48, and Kseniya, a Ukrainian makeup artist, had been married since 2012, according to TMZ. The couple, who do not have children together, reportedly wed at an estate in San Diego.
A rep for Durst did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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Durst was previously married to Rachel Tergesen from 1990 to 1993 and to Ester Nazarov in 2009, according to The Daily Mail. In 2006, he announced that he was engaged to Krista Salvatore.
Durst and Tergesen share daughter Adriana, 27, while the rocker shares 12-year-old son Dallas with ex-girlfriend Jennifer Thayer.
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In 2003, Durst claimed to have a fling with Britney Spears that she denied.
"I just guess at the time it was taboo for a guy like me to be associated with a gal like her," he told MTV News in 2009.
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"It just became a fiasco of madness," Durst added. " I always stay true to my heart and true to everything I did and my intentions, and I am in no way a liar."
Spears told the British Glamour in 2003, "He's said some pretty amazing things about me. But, um, I think he leaped in too deep, too quick."
Celebrity Big Brother Star Natalie Nunn Stunning Bikini Body In Spain
September 12, 2018 at 9:30 am Comments disabled
For me, it's real easy to say I love reality television. I know some people really don't like it or they look down on those who do, but when you have someone as hot as Natalie Nunn on your TV screen, I really don't know you don't tune in every week.
I know it's fake so, that probably makes easier for me to watch. Well, that and seeing Natalie Nunn once a week is the best reason, you can see why. Seeing her in this bikini really makes me wonder why there isn't some kind of bikini reality show. Some network should really get all hotties from every single reality show and see if they want to compete in some kind of bikini contest. The winner could get like a bikini modeling contract for some retailer or something. I don't know, I'm just spit-balling here because I want more chances to see Natalie Nunn in a bikini. I don't think she's going anywhere and she's probably traveling to a few more warm places so, we probably won't run low on Natalie Nunn pics, still, a TV show would be pretty great.
Think of reality TV as wrestling, just tune in for the fun parts, but instead of body slams and double crosses it's Natalie Nunn's cleavage and Natalie Nunn's super sexy bikini body.
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Karlie Kloss doesn't have to be accepting of the Trumps just because she's marrying a Kushner.
The notoriously private supermodel, 26, spoke subtly about her relationship with Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and the White House in an interview with Vogue published on Tuesday. Kloss is engaged to Joshua Kushner, the younger brother of the White House senior adviser, who's married to the president's daughter. After Kloss announced the news on social media, Trump, 36, commented, calling Kloss her "sister."
"At the end of the day, I've had to make decisions based on my own moral compass—forget what the public says, forget social media," Kloss told the magazine. "I've chosen to be with the man I love despite the complications. It's frustrating, to be honest, that the spotlight is always shifted away from my career toward my relationship. I don't think the same happens in conversations with men."
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The Kode with Klossy founder also talked more explicitly about her and her fiancé's political views: "Josh and I share a lot of the same liberal values that guide our lives and the things we stand for." She added, "We've really grown together personally and professionally. Josh knows that I'm just a nerdy, curious human being. I think that's why he loves me. We have each other's back."
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After dating for six years, Kloss and Kushner got engaged earlier this summer during a romantic weekend in Upstate New York, a source told PEOPLE at the time. "They're both overjoyed and happily celebrating. Their hearts are full and they're excited to build their future together," the source said.
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Kloss also confirmed on Instagram, posting a sunset selfie of her new fiancé. "I love you more than I have words to express," she wrote. "Josh, you're my best friend and my soulmate. I can't wait for forever together. Yes a million times over "
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Mac Miller: Medical Examiner Says Cause of Death Is a Mystery …
Last week, fans were stunned to learn that Mac Miller had passed away at the age of 26.
Though it was reported as an apparent drug overdose, police did not really find evidence of that when they searched the late rapper's home.
And now his death certificate has come back ... with no real answers for his fans and loved ones.
TMZ reports that the L.A. County medical examiner's report has come back on Mac Miller, but it's not giving people the closure that they seek.
Right now, Miller's cause of death is "deferred."
That means that the medical examiner is still unprepared to rule on his official cause of death.
Naturally, the office is awaiting the results of Miller's toxicology panel. We imagine that they will leave no stone unturned as they test for substances.
Unfortunately, that may take a while. TMZ notes that toxicology results tend to take 4 to 6 weeks to come back.
So the world will have to wait until October, most likely, for confirmation of Miller's cause of death and that much needed closure.
But issuing a death certificate before the toxicology results come back is no fool's errand -- it has a purpose.
TMZ notes that the release of this document means that Miller's family can obtain the body and make plans to bury, cremate, or otherwise lay him to rest.
It also means that the medical examiner probably did not find anything suspicion during the examination -- no odd fractures or ligature marks that might indicate that Miller's death was merely staged to resemble an overdose.
While the toxicology results will hopefully bring the family a degree of closure, the certificate will allow them to honor his memory and his death.
As we mentioned, police searched Miller's home, but did not find what you'd expect to see in the home of a man with a substance abuse problem.
Police found only a small amount of white powder, but did not find drugs, pill bottles, or drug paraphernalia.
Reaching the natural conclusion that Miller did not clean his house, then overdose, they came to believe that someone purged Miller's home of all drugs before police had the chance to do a sweep.
It seems most likely that a well-intentioned friend of Miller's hoped to avoid awkwardness or embarrassment for Miller's family and memory.
But, in general, it's best to let investigators see as much evidence as possible when someone has died.
Miller was last seen alive on the night of Thursday, Septeber 6. He had friends at his home.
He was scheduled for a video shoot on Friday, but was found unresponsive that day, resulting in a 9-1-1 call at around noon.
Emergency responders arrived, but pronounced him dead at the scene.
It is unclear exactly when he may have passed away, but so far, no one has come forward to claim that they saw him alive after Thursday night.
This is heartbreaking for his fans, his friends, and most of all, for his closest loved ones.
Unfortunately, some people had the sheer audacity to blame Ariana Grande for Mac Miller's death.
These awful trolls claimed that if Ariana had simply continued to date him as some sort of human emotional support blanket, he would still be alive.
Ariana's responsibility is to live her own life. She dated Miller for two years, but ultimately his substance abuse problems played a huge role in their breakup.
The fact that she moved on and found happiness with Pete Davidson does not in any way make her responsible for Miller's death.
Miller wasn't the victim of a breakup. He was the victim of addiction.
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Ihi'ihilauakea Bridge is located along Kalanianaole Highway on the East side of O'ahu. It is a reinforced concrete open spandrel arch bridge, built in 1931, and while not currently listed on the Historic Bridge Inventory, the bridge was deemed eligible for listing. Therefore, standards for historic preservation were considered during the design. As prime consultant and structural engineer, NOEI performed field investigations and provided construction documents and specifications for the emergency repair of this bridge.
The design included repairs to widespread concrete spall damages on the deck slab soffit, concrete beams, columns, and arch-shaped concrete girders. After the spalls were repaired, the concrete members were wrapped with a high-strength fabric material (fiberwrap) to strengthen and preserve the bridge. The finished surface over the fiberwrap material was then painted to match the concrete color of the existing bridge.
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ROSSITER, PA — A Pennsylvania Amish teen is charged with driving his buggy drunk. The driver and passengers were also cited with underage drinking.
The charges, announced this week are the result of an incident in Indiana County on July 8th. A State Trooper spotted an Amish buggy with two people riding on the roof.
The driver of the buggy, 18-year-old Robert Miller, appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, according the the police report.
During the traffic stop 20 unopened bottles and cans of beer were seized from inside the buggy along with two open cans of beer.
According to the police report the trooper spoke with Miller and his four friends, and all admitted to consuming alcoholic beverages.
All four passengers of the buggy (that was designed to transport two passengers safely) were under the age of 21.
Miller was placed under arrest for suspicion of DUI and consented to a blood draw that resulted in a .065% BAC, which is above the .02% limit for a minor.


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Commons: 13 July 2016
Farming Sector
Volume 613: debated on Wednesday 13 July 2016
7. What recent assessment he has made of the contribution of the farming sector to the economy in Wales. (905789)
Caroline Nokes
(Romsey and Southampton North) (Con)
11. What recent assessment he has made of the contribution of the farming sector to the economy in Wales. (905794)
The farming sector is the economic backbone of the Welsh rural economy. The total income from farming in Wales is estimated at more than £175 million, but more important is the contribution that Welsh agriculture makes to our rural communities. It is crucial and this Government will continue to support it. [Interruption.]
Order. The voice of Montgomeryshire must be heard.
Does the Minister share my concerns and those of the Welsh farming unions about the administration of the single farm payment scheme in Wales, particularly in relation to cross-border issues? Will he agree to meet the farming unions at the Royal Welsh show next week to discuss this serious issue?
I agree completely with my hon. Friend that any delays in payments to the farming community are problematic. This issue is devolved to the Welsh Government and it is one I have already discussed with farming unions. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will be at the Royal Welsh next week, subject to the decisions of the next Prime Minister, and meetings have been arranged with farming unions at that event, which is undoubtedly the premier farming event of the whole United Kingdom.
Welsh, and indeed British, farmers are responsible for producing some of the finest food in the world. Now that we are to leave the EU, what effort is my hon. Friend making to make sure that the Department ensures that all of the UK's fantastic home-grown produce is promoted to international markets?
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that the quality of food produced in Wales is second to none. We produce the best lamb in the entire world, and the contribution of such produce to the economy is crucial. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have already met business leaders, including food producers, to give them confidence that they can still access international markets following the EU referendum result.
The Royal Welsh show next week in Builth Wells will indeed show the very best of Welsh agriculture. When the Secretary of State goes there, he will get the same question that I have received in the past few weeks, since 23 June: what guarantees are there that the support for the family farm at its current level will remain in the future to sustain the essential rural economy, in west Wales and more generally?
The hon. Gentleman is a champion of the agricultural sector—there is no doubt about that. I can assure him, once again, that the Wales Office has already had meetings with the farming unions. We can certainly offer the guarantee that the current funding arrangements will be in place until at least 2018, but the ongoing support for Welsh farming will be subject to agreements involving this Government, the way in which we exit the European Union and the decisions taken by the future Prime Minister.
Given that the common agricultural policy and rural development programme contribute hundreds of millions of pounds to the Welsh rural economy, what UK exit scenario could possibly best serve Wales?
As the hon. Lady knows, I argued for Wales and the UK to stay within the EU, but the reality is that Wales voted to leave. It is therefore crucial that we support the industries that are dependent on exporting to the EU. We have a quality product offered by Welsh agriculture, so it is imperative that we talk up that market and support the sector to the best of our abilities. Again, I give assurance to the farming unions that the current funding situation is in place until 2018.
Does the Minister agree that leaving the European Union offers a golden opportunity to assess the level of subsidy paid to farming in Wales to see whether that money can be more effectively and efficiently spent in other areas?
We need to look at the way in which Government spend money. If there is to be a funding mechanism in the future for Welsh agriculture, it must be looked at in the totality of Government spending. However, it is pretty important to state that more than 60,000 jobs in Wales are dependent on the agriculture sector, and it would be short-sighted in the extreme for any Government to turn their back on a sector that puts Wales on the international map.


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Phytosanitary Certificate for Export of Plant Products - Australian Government
You will require this permit if you intend to export certain plant or plant products from Australia.
A phytosanitary certificate is issued by the Australian government for the benefit of the government of the importing country, testifying to the plant health status of the certified product.
The certificate guarantees that Australian plants or plant products:
have been inspected and tested using appropriate procedures
are considered to be free from quarantine pests and practically free from other injurious pests
conform to current phytosanitary regulations of the importing country.
Please consult the Contact Officer for more information.
A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.
A Phytosanitary Certificate is issued by an authorised officer after all pre-export requirements have been satisfied.
The pre-export requirements will depend on the type of produce being exported.
Please consult the Contact Officer for more information regarding eligibility requirements.
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The wazoo story
Q: Do you have any idea about the origin of "up the wazoo"? I've been telling people that "wazoo" is Ukrainian for "lazy river," but I don't think I'll get away with that much longer.
A: No, "wazoo" does not mean "lazy river," at least not in any language we know. As you probably suspect, it's a slang term for the buttocks or the anus, according to no less an authority than the Oxford English Dictionary.
This is a subject we've written about before on the blog. But that was in March 2008, and the OED has since updated its entry for "wazoo." We figure it's our duty to update our entry as well!
As we said earlier, the OED dates the term to 1961, when the California Pelican, a humor magazine at the University of California at Berkeley, declared on its back cover: "Run it up yer ol' wazoo!"
All in good time, the term went mainstream.
A Wall Street Journal article in 1971 ventured to say, "Golf itself is quite safe, the greatest risk being the possibility of a long drive plunking some poor fellow in the wazoo."
And in 1975 a San Francisco Chronicle writer euphemistically said: "Dating is a real pain in the wazoo."
The following decade ushered in an important chapter in the life of "wazoo." As the OED explains, the phrase "up (also out) the wazoo" came to mean "in great quantities, in abundance, to excess."
The OED's first citation for the three-word expression is from the Syracuse (NY) Herald-Journal (1981): "There comes a time in performing when you just do it. You can have theory up the wazoo."
As for the "out" version of the phrase, here's a citation from Tom Dietz's novel Soulsmith (1991): "I know for a fact that he's well provided for and insured out the wazoo."
The Cassell's Dictionary of Slang suggests that "wazoo" as a euphemism might be a variation on "gazoo" and "kazoo," which had been put to similar uses in the 1960s.
The OED also notes the similarities between the terms, and has citations for this slang usage of both "gazoo" (1965) and "kazoo" (1973).
Here's an example of the latter, from the Lima (Ohio) News: "We get inflicted with GAO audits up the kazoo."
The OED says etymologists have also suggested another possible connection: a link, via Louisiana Creole, with oiseau, the French word for bird.
And that gives us an excuse to end this item with the expression "flip the bird," which Cassell's dates to the 1960s and defines as "to make an obscene gesture."
Why is the one-finger salute referred to as flipping or giving the bird? Perhaps because "the bird" has been a slang term for the penis since the late 19th century.
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It doesn't matter whether you're just getting started with email or you've been communicating online for years; for most of us, email has become a way of life. For that reason alone, it's important to keep your email skills and practices current. Picking up where we left off in Part 2, we'll continue with Part 3 of "Everything You Need to Know about Using Email: The New Netiquette."
21. Do not type in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. This is an oldie-but-goodie email rule that has withstood the test of time. Typing in all caps is considered shouting and should be avoided. It's fine to occasionally include a word in all caps for emphasis, like shouting "CONGRATULATIONS" to somebody, but use it sparingly. It's also more difficult to read a message written in capital letters than it is reading a message typed in upper and lower case. Perhaps most significantly, typing in all caps places the recipient on notice that you're an email novice, something you might want to avoid, particularly in a business or professional environment.
22. Invoke the 12-hour, cool-down rule. Never send an email written in anger. If you're upset, go ahead and write your email, pound the keyboard, stomp your feet -- vent your spleen to your heart's content, but do not send it. After you've spewed your digital venom, save the email and review it a minimum of 12 hours later. Chances are you'll be very glad you didn't send it in the heat of the moment -- a phenomenon called "dodging a digital bullet."
23. Insert the recipient's address last. Emails sent accidentally or prematurely can destroy business and personal relationships. Remove the email address from a reply or don't address an email you're composing – particularly one written while angry – until you're ready to send it. There is no more helpless, sinking feeling than accidentally clicking the Send button when you intend to hit the Close or Save button. Don't take any chances. The relationship you save may be your own.
24. Do not attempt to retrieve a message. If you make a mistake, don't ask recipients to send back your email. Chances are that your message has already been read, anyway. Instead, send another email advising recipients that you made a mistake and provide the correct or updated information. It's a much less intrusive approach and your honesty will be appreciated.
25. Do not overuse the "Reply to All" option. Just because a sender may have copied a number of people on an email to you doesn't mean you need to reply to everybody. Use discretion. Ask yourself if there is truly any benefit to be derived by multiple recipients receiving your response. If not, click Reply instead of Reply to All and respond to the sender only.
26. Use the Bcc field. When sending an email to multiple recipients, place email addresses in the Bcc (Blind Carbon or Blind Cyber Copy) to hide them, unless you specifically want each recipient to know who else received the email. It is an electronic faux pax to publish all recipient email addresses, making them available to all other recipients, nor is it fair to the individuals on your list who did not give you permission to share their email address with others.
27. Limit the use of online abbreviations and emoticons. Humor, irony, sarcasm, etc. are easy to miss when contained in an email message. Sometimes it helps to add an emoticon or "smiley face" to let the reader know you're just kidding. Example: "Ask Mr. Modem! He knows everything!" J It's fine to use an occasional L8R or TTFN, but don't overdue it. A good rule of thumb is: "When in doubt, don't."
28. Kutesy isn't always kewl. It's fine to include "fun" phrases and goofy SpElLiNGs on occasion, but it gets old in a big hurry. No matter how clever you think something is, it's probably not new and chances are your intended recipient has seen it before. And enough with the "Windoze" already. I'm beggin' you.
29. Don't overuse punctuation!!!!! Need I say more?
30. Tidy up before forwarding. Take the time to clean up your email by cutting and pasting forwarded emails and/or attachments into a new email. If your email program permits editing of received messages, delete extraneous material such lists of email recipients or clean up any formatting issues such as >>>>> forwarding marks. Web sites such as Mr. Ed's Email Stripper can help.


This brooch is a floral composition of silver plated ribbons and glittering rhinestones. The brooch features a star pattern at its center, crafted with five rhinestones. Ideal for your modern wedding or event. The piece measures 2-1/4".


'Bark in the Park' organized by K's Path - Kuwait Society for the Protection of Animals and their Habitat, at the Al Ahmadi South Public Park. Fun day for families and pets on Saturday 8th November. From 11am to 3pm.
Email events@kspath.org or Telephone: 6700-1622.


The first conversation with a mortgage lender should include calculating the loan amount, evaluation of the various available loan programs, and identify the cash-out or cash-access options. Discussions of total closing costs and loan qualifications should happen at this time, as well.
A loan application for a HECM cannot occur until loan counseling has been done. There are dozens and dozens of different companies, local and national, who are authorized to offer this class. It can be done in person or over the phone, covers everything one could ever need or want to know about reverse mortgages, typically taked 60 to 90 minutes, and usually costs between $125 and $175.
Your mortgage lender can refer you multiple different options in your area, none of which have a connection with any mortgage company.
This step is identical to every other kind of mortgage and includes providing all required asset, debt, and income disclosures and documentation. Even though there is no payment required on a reverse mortgage, there are still income requirements, as the lender has to show that the borrower still has sufficient income to pay their home and living expenses.
Processing loan application occurs when the lender evaluates all the supplied documents and prepares them for submission to the underwriter. The requirements for a HECM are very straightforward and are exactly the same for every lender – the processor checks, double-checks, and then checks again to make sure nothing is incorrect, missing, or out of order.
Then the underwriter goes over everything again, in order to make certain that the loan application meets or exceeds are the various guidelines. If successfully approved, the loan is then ready for closing. If not, it's very common that there will be additional requests for more documentation or clarification on what has already been provided.
After the loan is approved, loan documents will be drawn-up for signature. Once signed, the escrow company will request funds from the lender, pay off the existing mortgage and any loan-related expenses, and forward funds to the borrower.
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In the past month or so, our farm has had three great things happen: 1) We were selected as the Wright County Outstanding Conservationists by the Soil & Water Conservation District. Mariénne's dad, Willard, won this same award 30 years ago, and he's quite please that it's come around again. We get to go to the statewide conservation conference in December for a formal ceremony. 2) We're Organic! We finally completed all the work and received our organic certification, and we couldn't be more pleased. 3) Jerry did an interview with the MN Farm Network that seems to be getting some airplay (people keep saying they've heard it). There's a 1-minute version out there, but you can listen to the whole thing here.