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LSU scientists join federal Genesis Mission

La. waits to see how Trump, Congress regulate AI Political pressure mounts over industry concerns

BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writer

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Louisiana Light Source, a specialized research site with the highly advanced ‘synchrotron’ particle accelerator machine, is joining the federal science initiative Genesis Mission.

Particle accelerator, nuclear reactor researchers collaborate in artificial intelligence push BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

A colorless industrial building sits off Jefferson Highway in Baton Rouge, easy to miss. Cars pass outside while, behind the nondescript walls, a vast network of wires, pipes and computer equipment hums lowly. In a massive ring overlooking and encircling the experiments taking place down below, electrons race just under the speed of light. They shoot out the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. The contraption is called a synchrotron, and it is helping discover how the universe works at the most essential level. “We have light that comes from God, I call it,” LSU physics professor Phillip Sprunger said. The light produced by this particle accelerator is used to study all manner of scientiﬁc

“black boxes.” How to detect cancer earlier, how to extract critical materials from U.S. soil — all those leaps in scientiﬁc discovery 10 years down the line can ﬁrst be seen here at LSU’s Louisiana Light Source, Sprunger explained. Now, Sprunger is thinking about how artificial intelligence can hasten and enhance those discoveries. Can it anticipate failures before they happen? Can it devise ideas of its own to stabilize the electron orbit and maximize the amount of light that comes out? Across the country, hundreds of scientists in laboratories and specialized research sites are asking similar questions about how to inject AI into their research. The federal government announced in July it had selected 278 projects and dedicated over

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During its recent legislative session, Louisiana parked many bipartisan bills regulating artificial intelligence after President Donald Trump’s administration urged states against passing them, arguing that it would be better to have a national regulatory framework. So far, Congress and the president — who also threatened states’ broadband funding to stop them from passing certain AI regulations — have taken a mostly hands-off approach. But as AI causes rising public concern across the political spectrum — and with midterm elections on the horizon — pressure is mounting on Congress to act. Though many politicians on both sides of the aisle say that at least some AI regulations are necessary, the exact nature of the laws Congress may pass remains murky. Top Republican members of Louisiana’s congressional delegation have offered few details on measures they would support, as have major candidates for Louisiana’s two wide-open congressional seats. And many politicians have argued that too many regulations would stifle innovation and hobble the United States in its race against China. “As we see abuses (of AI) we will make sure we address them, but you also don’t want to limit innovation,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, told the press on Aug. 7 after qualifying to run for reelection in November. “One thing government really likes to do a good job of is regulating to the point where they crush innovation, and you’ve seen that in a lot of industry,” he added. “Luckily the technology industry moves so fast that government hasn’t figured out how to regulate it into extermination, and it’s one of the reasons why it’s probably the fastest-growing industry in America, and one of the areas America dominates the world.” How Congress handles AI could influence Louisiana’s legislative session next year, as some state lawmakers, including Republicans and Democrats, have expressed interest in reconsidering some AI regulations if Congress does not step in. Over the past year, AI has grown ever more prevalent in American society, raising questions about how to responsibly use the technology, which impacts everything from healthcare, education

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Kushner has rare meeting with Hamas leader in Egypt Talks also set with Netanyahu

BY SAMY MAGDY, JULIA FRANKEL and CARA ANNA Associated Press

CAIRO — U.S. negotiator and President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner held a rare meeting with the Hamas chief on Sunday in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceaseﬁre. Kushner will meet on Monday with Israel’s prime minister, who

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is under pressure after rejecting the new 15-point, U.S.-backed road map. The talks aim to salvage the plan for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territory shattered by war. Kushner At stake are the lives of some 2 million people in Gaza and reconstruction of the crowded enclave now largely controlled by Israeli forces, more than

10 months since the ceasefire ended major military operations. A meeting between Kushner, fellow envoy Steve Witkoff and Hamas leaders in Egypt last year helped clinch the ceasefire, whose progress until now had been stalled over the key issue of Hamas’ disarmament. The more than two-hour meeting in Egypt with Hamas’ Khalil al-Hayya was confirmed by a regional official and a Hamas official, both speaking on condition

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Palestinians remove iron from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes during the war with Hamas to repair and recycle it for construction, building tents or selling it on Sunday in Gaza City. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JEHAD ALSHRAFI

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Trump orders Pentagon to scale back exercises

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said South Korea declined to help denuclearize Iran. Trump said in a social media post that the exercises slated to begin this week are costly and “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he said “has been unthreatening and respectful” while Trump has been in the White House. “Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises!” Trump wrote. The 11 days of exercises involving 18,000 South Korean soldiers were designed to beef up readiness against North Korean threats. U.S. and South Korean forces were expected to practice joint operations in complex scenarios, including a live-ﬁre exercise to test joint precision targeting and maneuver, a wet gap crossing, and distribution of prepositioned military equipment, according to the U.S. military.

Nearly 300 trying to reach Ceuta arrested CASABLANCA, Morocco — Hundreds of migrants trying to reach the Spanish exclave of Ceuta by land and sea were arrested by Moroccan security forces, Moroccan state television reported Sunday, as authorities tightened security along the border following calls for a new mass crossing. Moroccan state broadcaster Medi 1 TV said 294 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were arrested Saturday while attempting to enter Ceuta. Authorities also arrested 61 Moroccans accused of facilitating the migration attempts, the broadcaster reported. The attempted crossings followed a surge in social media posts calling on migrants to make their way to Ceuta, a Spanish city on Morocco’s northern coast. In response, Moroccan and Spanish authorities beefed up security presence and limited movement toward the area. The latest attempt comes two weeks after tens of thousands of would-be migrants, driven by poverty and misinformation, rushed toward Ceuta in one of the deadliest migration crises to hit the region. At least 90 people died on both sides of the border, according to ofﬁcial numbers, while human rights groups reported higher ﬁgures. A senior Moroccan diplomat previously said that more than 20,000 Moroccan security personnel are deployed along the border with Ceuta each day, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. The diplomat was not authorized to be publicly named speaking about the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Zimbabwe ferry disaster toll rises above 80 HARARE, Zimbabwe — Authorities on Sunday searched for more bodies from an over loaded ferry that capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe last week as the death toll in the disaster rose to more than 80 people. The ferry capsized in strong waves on Tuesday. Police on Sunday said the death toll had risen to 84, from 72 the previous day as more bodies were recovered. Zimbabwe’s disaster management agency has said 77 people were rescued. Estimates had put the number of passengers as high as 153 on a ferry authorized to carry 90 people, but the latest official figures now suggest the number of passengers could be even higher. The aging ferry was traveling from the town of Kariba to rural and fishing communities in the country’s northwest, where roads are damaged and public transportation is scarce. Among the dead are 18 children, with the youngest just 1 year old. According to police, 16 of the victims were aged 10 or younger. Kariba is the world’s largest manmade lake by volume, created by damming the mighty Zambezi River.

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Ukraine launches large aerial attack Hundreds of drones deployed across Russia, killing at least 6 By The Associated Press Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummeled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant. Those attacks have brought the war home to the Russian public nearly 41/2 years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine also came under Russian attack, with drone strikes destroying homes and torching Kyiv’s landmark book market. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of those destroyed over the Moscow region itself. An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local Gov. Andrey Vorobyov said. He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had

sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Podolsk. A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, killing ﬁve people, local Gov. Yury Slyusar said. The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest ﬁre.

Russian strikes kill 5 A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media Sunday. He also said that one more person had been killed in the city of Sumy. ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s largest steel producer, confirmed that one of its sites had been hit in a missile attack and that operations had been partially suspended. Elsewhere, a man and a woman died when their home was hit by a Russian strike in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, said Ivan Fedorov, the head of the local military administration. Russian attacks also sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, wounding six people. A blaze took hold at one of the city’s largest book markets, tearing through kiosks huddled close to the Pochaina

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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Sunday. metro station. Fireﬁghters fought back the flames, which sent plumes of black smoke across the capital, and picked their way through rubble where the market’s crowded pavilions once stood. “Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,” Zelenskyy said. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that it had targeted a metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih and several military-industrial sites in Kyiv, including a manufacturing facility for Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles. The domestically produced missiles are increasingly key to Ukraine’s long-

range attacks on Russia, with Zelenskyy announcing Saturday that Kyiv had used the weapons to attack a rocket research and production center in Samara approximately 560 miles from the Ukrainian border.

NATO jet downs drone Romania’s Ministry of National Defense said Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace. The drone’s entry into the NATO member’s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4:44 a.m., the ministry said, about 14.9 miles north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighbor-

ing Moldova. Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania. A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties “made radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,” the ministry said. The ministry later said that drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10 a.m. on Sunday, about 0.9 miles from the coastal city of Constanta. However, Moldova’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that its Army surveillance systems had detected a Geran-type Shahed drone in Moldovan airspace, which entered from Ukraine and exited toward Romania.

Rescuers in Indonesia recover 6 more bodies BY FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press

RUTENG, Indonesia — Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia recovered six more bodies Sunday, a day after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, raising the death toll to 53, authorities said, as thousands of displaced people spent the night outdoors in fear of aftershocks. Rescuers dug through debris looking for anyone buried beneath landslides triggered by the quake across six regencies on Flores, a predominantly Catholic island in the Muslim-majority country. They focused on three regencies that remained inaccessible: hardest-hit Manggarai, East Manggarai and Nagekeo. “We have cleared most landslides and reopened roads to previously isolated villages, although communication disruptions and power outages continue to hamper search efforts,” said Fathur Rahman, head of the searchand-rescue ofﬁce in Maumere, the capital of Sikka regency.

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A man checks his phone near a building collapsed because of an earthquake in Reok, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, on Sunday. More than 900 homes were destroyed and 450 more damaged in East Nusa Tenggara province, forcing about 5,000 people into temporary shelters. At least 241 homes were damaged in the Flores region alone, said Abdul Muhari, the National Disaster Management Agency’s chief for disaster prevention. The quake occurred at a depth of 6 miles shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Residents fled

in panic as tsunami warnings were issued and later lifted. Authorities have since recorded at least 995 aftershocks, but only 46 were felt by residents, said Abdul Muhari, the National Disaster Management Agency’s chief for disaster prevention, adding that 135 people were injured. Many residents at Labuan Bajo, the gateway to Komodo National Park, one of Indonesia’s best-

Police looking for additional people in Va. college shooting By The Associated Press ETTRICK, Va. — Authorities were seeking additional people who fired weapons during a shooting at Virginia State University that left five people wounded, police said Sunday, as a 19-year-old suspect remained in custody and investigators sought to unravel what happened. Investigators were trying to determine what led to Saturday’s shooting and if the others who fired did so in self-defense or if they were among the aggressors, said Lt. James Lamb, commander of the Chesterfield County Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit. He did not say how many others fired weapons. “We don’t have specific locations that we are looking (at) yet as we are working on identifying them,” Lamb said in an email response to questions from The Associated Press. The shooting, at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, prompted a campus lockdown and came as students were getting ready for the new school year. It happened near

the university’s Quad Annexes, where campus police and Chesterfield County officers found five people with gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories. A suspect was found in a dormitory closet and arrested more than 14 hours after the shooting — and several hours after university officials already had lifted a campus lockdown, saying that law enforcement did not believe there was an immediate threat. Camron Harris, 19, of Henrico, Virginia, was being held without bond in the Chesterfield County jail. He is due in state court Monday to face four counts of malicious wounding and four counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. It could not be immediately determined if Harris has an attorney who could speak on his behalf, and efforts to reach his family by phone were unsuccessful. The victims ranged in age from 17 to 23 and only one of them was a student at the university, according to police. Harris was not a student, police said.

known tourist destinations, spent the night outside because of the aftershocks. “The shaking was terrifying, so intense that my house nearly collapsed,” said Anastasia Imad, a farmer, speaking from a makeshift green tent beside her damaged home. “We feared the aftershocks would bring it down on us while we slept.” Landslides blocked sections of the Trans-Flores Highway, a roughly 435mile road linking communities across the mountainous island.

Meanwhile, relief workers distributed rice, readyto-eat meals, drinking water, blankets and medicine, while emergency shelters were set up for displaced residents. Authorities said restoring electricity and communications, as well as delivering aid to remote villages isolated by landslides, were among the biggest challenges. Associated Press writers Niniek Karmini and Edna Tarigan in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report.

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At least 7 have died in Indiana flooding BY PHILIP MARCELO and OBED LAMY Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Days of storms and flooding in Indiana left at least seven people dead as floodwaters receded in Indianapolis’ White River and rains eased in other parts of the state Sunday. Frank Gounder was among the Indianapolis residents assessing the damage Sunday, which also happened to be his 37th birthday. The furniture maker, who lives on the city’s hard-hit northside, less than a mile from the White River, had been at home as floodwaters crept up his driveway until they were about 2 feet deep in the house and his workshop. Now Gounder is left to pick through waterlogged materials and handmade furniture in various stages of completion to see what, if anything, could be salvaged. “It’s a lot. Before the water had actually gotten into my house and I saw that it was going to happen, I started freaking out, getting mad,” he said. “But after you realize you can’t do anything about it, you kind of just have to let go and just continue, or else you’re just going to be miserable.”

Storm victims mourned A 4-year-old boy, three men and three women were among those who had died since the storms began Aug. 11, said Liz Woods, a spokesperson for the state Department of Homeland Security.

Among the latest confirmed victims was a 31-year-old cyclist found dead early Sunday in a hole that opened up on a washed-out road in Henry County, east of Indianapolis. Henry County Coroner Brian Clark said the man, James Briar, appears to have gone around a barricade and fallen into the collapsed road. Ofﬁcials in Jennings County, in the southern end of the state, said the youngest victim reported so far was killed Tuesday when a tree crashed through his bedroom during strong winds. “This is obviously unexpected,” Cody Low, chief deputy at the Jennings County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce, told the local ABC affiliate. “There’s nothing we can say that is going to make it any better. We’re going to push through this as a community.” The other victims included a 19-year-old man whose body was recovered Saturday. Officials in Delaware County, east of Indianapolis, said Matthew Morey had jumped off a bridge into the rushing waters of the Mississinewa River with friends three days earlier. Family and friends gathered earlier in the week at the bridge to remember the recent high school graduate, who was headed to Purdue University, and warn of the dangers of swollen rivers. “There are no words that can ease the pain of losing a child,” Delaware County Sheriff Tony Skinner said in a statement on Sunday. “Our hearts are with Matthew’s family,

commissioners, said during a Sunday briefing. “It’s not raining, and the water is receding.” She said the county, located just north of Indianapolis, escaped without any loss of life, though officials were assessing whether a significant bridge damaged in the flooding could be repaired or if it needed to be completely replaced. Nearly 130,000 utility customers statewide remained without power as of late Sunday, down from a peak of around 300,000, according to the online utility tracker PowerOutage.us.

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Frank Gounder sits in his flooded backyard, where his woodshop was also damaged by floodwaters, Sunday in Indianapolis. friends, classmates, and everyone who knew and loved him.” Skinner’s office also confirmed Stephanie Sallee and her dog were found dead in a cornfield Friday, not far from Sallee’s car. They believe the 58-year-old had been driving on a flooded road when the vehicle was swept away. In social media posts, Sallee’s family remembered her as a sweet, kind and “spunky lady” who adored her grandchildren and other young relatives.

morning before receding, the city Department of Public Works said. The agency reopened city floodgates Sunday, though they urged residents to be cautious as they returned to flood-damaged neighborhoods. Emergency shelters remained open after hundreds of homes along the river and its canals were evacuated. First responders used boats to rescue people stranded by rapidly rising floodwaters. Recovery efforts were also underway elsewhere in the state. Recovery efforts are underway “I must admit it is a good mornIn Indianapolis, flooding from the ing,” Christine Altman, president White River peaked early Sunday of the Hamilton County board of

Heavy rains hammered Indiana over the past week, causing rivers to crest and setting records as roads and bridges were seriously damaged or washed out entirely by the rushing waters. The White River crested at more than 24 feet in the communities of Anderson and Noblesville, surpassing records set in 1913. Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the flooding was the worst the city has seen in more than 30 years. President Donald Trump on Saturday approved Braun’s request for federal disaster assistance to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. The drenching rains and destructive ﬂooding were among the impacts of severe storms that have wreaked havoc across the Midwest and beyond in recent days.

Wildfires rage in Belgium, Greece BY SYLVIE CORBET and AHMAD SEIR NASSIRI Associated Press

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Water levels rise under the Wainaku Street Bridge in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii on Saturday.

Lala a tropical storm again as it skirts Hawaii BY ALEXA ST. JOHN and ED WHITE Associated Press

Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday after its eyewall skirted Hawaii without making landfall, but it continued to punish the state with hurricane-force gusts and pounding rain, reaching a total of nearly 3 feet in places and sending raging torrents down mountainsides. A search and rescue mission including Civil Defense, the National Guard and a Coast Guard helicopter was launched after flash floods apparently swept several occupied homes off their foundations in the coastal communities of Na’alehu and Wai’ohinu, near the Big Island’s southern tip, authorities said. “What makes this very challenging is that there’s rushing water, there’s debris, and there’s boulders on the road and it’s dark,” Hawaii County Mayor Kimo Alameda said Sunday. At least one person died in a vehicle wreck in the South Point area of the Big Island, Gov. Josh Green said Saturday. Honolulu was bearing the brunt of Sunday morning’s weather as tropical storm conditions spread westward across the island chain. Honolulu Fire Department had launched dozens of weather-related responses by 2 a.m. Sunday, including 58 reports of downed trees, 39 blown roofs, 12 downed power lines, 12 arcing-wire situations and one swimmer rescue, according to a statement from the city. Much of the state remained under a ﬂash ﬂood warning, though the Big

Island was downgraded to a flood advisory Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy rain, mudslides, downed trees, active flooding and downed power lines were among the biggest threats, weather service meteorologist Stephen Parker said. “Basically, the best thing to do right now is just stay home for a bit longer,” he said. “The storm won’t last forever and once those kind of threats get cleaned up, it will be safe to be out and about again.” Fewer than 60,000 homes and businesses were without power by 9:30 a.m., down from more than 200,000 just a few hours earlier, according to the utility tracker poweroutage.us. At least three hospitals were operating on generator power, the governor said. Powerful waves pounded the Big Island’s coast as Lala slowly passed by. Just missing landfall, the eyewall didn’t weaken, and its winds pounded the mountainsides. Waterways swelled with fast-moving runoff as bands of rain blew nearly sideways. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau, raising the possibility of destructive flooding and even wildfires kicked up by strong winds on the drier sides of the islands. The heaviest rain Sunday morning was falling on Lanai, Moloka’i and Oahu, while the highest winds were gusts over 100 mph at the towering Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island, Parker said. Forecasters expect Lala to regain hurricane strength midweek.

BAELEN, Belgium — Firefighters battled a massive wildfire that scorched a nature reserve in eastern Belgium and another on a Greek island near Athens where two people were killed on Sunday as hot and dry conditions fueled fires across parts of Europe. A blaze in eastern Belgium burned about 12 square miles in the High Fens, a large nature reserve, in one of the country’s worst wildfires in recent history. About 600 residents in the nearby municipalities of Waimes and Bütgenbach, in Liège province near the German border, were told to evacuate on Saturday as winds shifted and smoke spread through the area. Authorities also advised tourists to leave, while a nearby gymnasium was opened to receive evacuees. Liège provincial governor Hervé Jamar said in a statement Sunday that more than 250 emergency personnel have been deployed, including over 100 Belgian and German firefighters, as well as police and military officers and civil protection staff. Firefighting helicopters operated by Belgium’s federal police and the Netherlands also helped.

The bodies were recovered in the village of Peristeria, where strong winds fueled the rapidly spreading blaze. A second blaze was reported in the Selini area. Firefighting and coast guard vessels evacuated some 500 beachgoers in the area. Some 260 firefighters were responding to the blazes, including 15 ground teams, 10 aircraft and eight helicopters. The island had been placed at high wildfire risk on Sunday, with near gale-force winds. “These conditions enabled the fire to quickly reach dangerous proportions and spread rapidly within seven minutes toward nearby residential areas,” said Fire Brigadier General Vasileios Vathrakogiannis.

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The blaze now torching Belgium has far surpassed a 2011 fire that burned nearly 5.4 square miles in the same area and was previously the country’s largest wildfire on record, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System. Nicolas Yernaux, a spokesperson for the Public Service of Wallonia, said conditions were much worse this time. “We’re dealing with something much deeper because we have very dry soil,” he said. René Dahmen, chief engineer at the Department of Nature and Forest, said 2 killed as fires break out on island the fire was still spreading Sunday in In Greece, two people were killed an area that was difficult for crews to in a wildfire Sunday on the island of reach. Interior Minister Bernard Quintin Salamina, west of Athens, Greek firesaid on X firefighters managed to keep fighters said.

the fire from spreading toward the west and toward the German town of Monschau. In Germany, local authorities warned Sunday that the ﬁre was just under a mile from the border. Belgium was hit by another spell of intense heat this week, with temperatures reaching about 98.6 in parts of the country Friday.

Wildfires burn in France and U.K. In France, firefighters battling a wildfire in a pine forest in the southwestern Landes region faced no major flare-ups overnight, Landes Prefect Gilles Clavreul said. Authorities estimated the total area burned at 6.6 square miles, while about 650 people had been evacuated from their homes. It was the third major wildfire in the vast pine forests of southwestern France this summer, following two others in late July. A massive wildfire in the neighboring Gironde department burned about 162 square miles and forced the evacuation of about 220,000 people as it spread toward the Atlantic coast and the Bordeaux area. In the U.K., emergency crews were fighting 14 wildfires in South Wales with the support of military personnel. Authorities warned that although the heat wave is easing, drought conditions mean the risk of wildfires remains high. Fires gutted more than a dozen homes in the West Midlands in central England this week as officials recorded the hottest day of the year on Thursday, when temperatures reached 100.6.

Liechtenstein to allow women to inherit the throne BY GEIR MOULSON

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, center, has said he supports national artificial intelligence guardrails to protect Americans but that the federal government should ‘regulate only where we must and pave the way for American dominance.’

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be a sign that regulations are ahead. That a Republican and a Democrat sponsored the Kill Switch bill shows “there is a path for this bill and other bills that focus on protecting Americans from loss of control incidents and other national security threats,” said Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of the Alliance for Secure AI, a nonproﬁt based in Washington, D.C., that aims to build bipartisan support for AI safeguards. Steinhauser also has worked as a Republican strategist.

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and journalism to political campaigns and warfare. AI is already being used to record and transcribe doctors’ visits and review health insurance claims. Accusations that AI systems are harvesting user data to help companies price items differently for individual shoppers have caused widespread concern. And observers worried about national security note that AI can create viruses and has ma- Response from politicians jor implications for modern The fate of AI regulations warfare. also depends on congressional leadership, the midterm The mood in D.C. elections and what stance In recent weeks, news Trump takes. For now, Louisiana has has surfaced that advanced AI systems for three of the two of Congress’ highestcountry’s leading AI firms ranking ofﬁcials in its delbroke out of their controls, egation: Scalise, the House went beyond human in- majority leader, and House structions and hacked other Speaker Mike Johnson. Both companies. The tech giants are Republicans. Spokespeople for Johnson involved in those incidents were Meta, Anthropic and and Scalise did not answer questions about whether the OpenAI. T h e b r e a c h e s h a v e congressmen would support sparked major cybersecu- the Kill Switch bill. Johnson’s spokesperson rity concerns and alarmed members of Congress from shared remarks the speaker both parties, prompting re- made earlier this year, in which he said he supported newed calls for regulation. Last month, U.S. Rep. national guardrails to proTed Lieu, a Democrat from tect Americans but that the California, and U.S. Rep. Na- federal government should thaniel Moran, a Republican “regulate only where we from Texas, introduced a must and pave the way for “Kill Switch” bill that would American dominance.” U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, who require developers to maintain ways to shut down AI is likely to be the only Louisystems to prevent them siana Democrat in Congress from causing catastrophic after the midterm elections, harm. also did not answer a quesIt would also authorize the tion about whether he supDepartment of Homeland ported the Kill Switch bill. Security to order the slow- He did, however, issue a down or shutdown of an AI statement saying he supsystem in order to prevent ports measures that would such harm. require AI chatbots to disThe bipartisan measure, close to children that they along with apparent chang- are not real human beings, es in the Trump administra- along with regulations that tion’s approach to AI, may would protect Americans

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The race for Congress AI is becoming a focal point in the midterm elections, especially as opposition to AI data centers crops up across the country. A Gallup poll recently found that 70% of Americans oppose the construction of such data centers in their local communities, and data center development has become a key issue in the Texas governor’s race. Louisiana has two wideopen congressional seats, both of which favor Republicans. Those seats are in the 5th and 6th districts; in the 5th, Meta’s plan to build a massive data center — and the power needs associated with that plan — has stoked controversy across the state. It is unclear how promi-

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work to protect children from harms associated with AI and to prevent utility costs from going up because of data centers. Lindsay Rubia Garcia, one of three Democrats vying for the 6th District seat, said she did not oppose AI but felt “we are going too fast without the regulational safeguards.” Garcia, a former teacher and recent law school graduate, won the Louisiana Democrats’ endorsement when she was running for the 5th District earlier this year, before the state delayed elections and redrew its congressional map. In a statement, Chauna Banks, another Democrat running in the 6th District, said she would support a bipartisan approach to AI that “protects the public, preserves constitutional rights, encourages American innovation, and holds bad actors accountable without creating unnecessary barriers.” Banks previously served on the Baton Rouge Metro Council. And Pat Forbes, a Democratic candidate who worked for the state for 20 years, mostly handling disaster recovery efforts, shared a concern that differed from those many of the other candidates expressed: He was worried AI would widen the wealth gap in the country. “How can we with good conscience not look at that and pass laws that make sure (AI) beneﬁts the country and the people of the country, and not just some billionaires?” he said. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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nently AI will feature in Louisiana’s congressional races. The fields are crowded, with nine candidates in the 5th District and 10 candidates in the 6th District; after qualifying for those races earlier this month, most candidates said there ought to be some national regulations on AI. In the 5th District, state Sen. Stewart Cathey, R-Monroe, and state Rep. Michael Echols, R-Monroe, both said AI needs guardrails — but that those guardrails should not be overly burdensome. State Rep. Gabe Firment, R-Pollock, said he was committed to putting a national framework in place to keep AI from being abused; and Misti Cordell, another Republican who chairs the Board of Regents, said she was concerned about how quickly AI was advancing; the country needs to find a way to manage it, she added. Those four Republicans have the best odds of winning the Fifth District race. State Rep. Pat Moore, DMonroe, who is the only major Democrat in the running, said AI was an important tool but that regulations were needed to minimize the harm it could cause. The 6th District’s biggest candidates are state Sen. Blake Miguez, R-New Iberia, and state Sen. Rick Edmonds, R-Baton Rouge. Edmonds said he would work hard to protect constituents while also ensuring Louisiana could reap the economic benefits of AI. Miguez called AI the “new space race” and said it was imperative that the United States stay ahead of China in that race, but that he would

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from AI abuse and from being deceived by AI-generated content. In previous statements, both Johnson and Scalise have expressed support for regulations that align with Trump’s plans. In March, the Trump administration released its AI policy agenda, which says Congress should block state AI laws that “impose undue burdens” in order to ensure “a minimally burdensome national standard” that promotes American dominance in the technology. But the framework endorses regulations that protect children, and it suggests there is also room for laws that protect consumers, prevent fraud and govern the placement of AI infrastructure. Throughout much of his term, Trump has been reluctant to curb the use of AI, arguing that restrictions would hinder U.S. innovation. The president has strong ties to tech billionaires, and tech companies donated millions of dollars to his reelection bid and inauguration. But Steinhauser said there are signs that the White House is shifting its approach — and he believes that concerns about AI from Trump’s base may push the president toward regulations. Trump recently issued an executive order establishing a national framework for the government to test advanced AI models before their release, though that testing is voluntary. And in June, the Trump administration temporarily halted the release of one of Anthropic’s

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Continued from page 1A of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. Kushner was one of a trio of envoys meeting with al-Hayya, with officials from mediating countries Egypt, Qatar and Turkey also there. Hamas in a statement later called on mediators and the U.S.-created Board of Peace overseeing the ceaseﬁre to “compel” Israel to approve the road map for next steps. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week rejected the 15-point plan in a rare public show of deﬁance against the Trump administration, Israel’s closest ally. Kushner, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Board of Peace director, Nickolay Mladenov, are to meet with Netanyahu on Monday, according to a source familiar with the plans and a diplomatic source. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a closed-door meeting. Several regional powers including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates issued a statement condemning Israel’s rejection of the

road map, saying that “Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing the efforts to bring peace in Gaza.” Other signers included Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia and the ceaseﬁre mediators. The foreign ministers’ statement called on the Board of Peace and the U.S. to take “immediate and concrete measures” to keep any party from obstructing the plan’s implementation. Kushner’s meeting with the Hamas leader aimed at ensuring the militant group’s commitment to the road map, particularly disarmament, before his meeting with Netanyahu, the regional ofﬁcial said. The Hamas official said the group is committed and waiting for mediators to start the 14-day negotiation period to work out a timetable for implementation. That period requires all parties’ approval of the road map to begin. The Hamas official also said the Hamas leader demanded that Israel halt its attacks on Gaza and withdraw to the so-called “yellow line” dividing the territory before beginning implementation. The yellow line was never precisely defined. Israeli forces have moved beyond it and now control about 60%

of Gaza. In May, Netanyahu said the next step was to move to 70% control, with Israel “tightening the grip” on Hamas “from every direction.” The White House referred questions about Kushner’s meetings to the Board of Peace, which did not immediately comment. The Tony Blair Institute did not comment. Under the road map, Hamas would hand over weapons to the Palestinian technocratic committee meant to oversee daily operations in the territory. The committee has not yet entered Gaza. But Hamas has linked the surrender of its heaviest weapons to the creation of a Palestinian state, something Israel’s current government rejects. The road map involves Hamas gradually giving up its weapons while Israeli forces halt attacks and begin withdrawing from Gaza. But Netanyahu says Israel will not retreat from any position in Gaza until Hamas has been completely disarmed. That stance leaves other elements of the ceaseﬁre, including reconstruction and the deployment of international forces to separate Israeli forces from committeecontrolled areas, on hold.

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A Palestinian vendor offers bottles of diesel for sale on Saturday in al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Netanyahu faces a challenging election on Oct. 27 as he tries to hold on to power with a coalition that includes ministers taking a harsh line on Gaza, and it’s not clear whether he will take decisive steps on the ceasefire before then. Also coming up is the anniversary of the Oct.

7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that sparked the war. Netanyahu’s Likud party on Sunday responded to the statement by regional powers by claiming that “Arab states want to topple” Netanyahu so that centrist challenger Gadi Eisenkot and

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AI agent will make suggestions related to the nuclear properties. A human will check the AI’s conclusions, training it to be more accurate and make researchinformed decisions, Blackmon said. “The human role in this is very important at this stage in the game,” Blackmon said. “We’ve seen this time and time again. You can’t just let it go off unsupervised — it will often lead you down the wrong path.”

Continued from page 1A $5 billion to the expansive Genesis Mission, an initiative launched by President Donald Trump last year to “harness AI for science.” Two LSU research teams were chosen as phase one projects for the Genesis Mission. “It is not like a typical science project,” said physics professor Jeffery Blackmon, who leads one of the research teams. “The government’s really pushing to make a big impact fast.”

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Next generation Sprunger’s project explores how AI can support the synchrotron, which must hold speeding electrons — in a beam about the size of a hair — in a stable orbit. He said AI will be able to see “nuances” in optimizing the electron orbit that humans cannot imagine. “Is it giving us information that I could eventually ﬁgure out?” Sprunger said. “The answer is no. It thinks beyond that. That’s what we’re most excited about.” Louisiana Light Source, which houses the synchrotron, is one of LSU’s core research facilities. Nearly two dozen departments use the machine, according to the facility’s website. The light from the synchrotron can be used to investigate the atomic and chemical structure of any material, Sprunger said. Research with the machine ranges from medicine to national security. One use is in developing advanced CT scans that can see far smaller structures than the technology in hospitals currently. Another

center-left party leader Yair Golan “will give them everything they want. That will not happen.” Frankel reported from Jerusalem and Anna from Lowville, New York. Collin Binkley in Washington and Sylvia Hui in London contributed.

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Louisiana Light Source explores how artificial intelligence can support the synchrotron, which must hold speeding electrons in a stable orbit. concerns how to extract critical materials from the industrial waste of alumina production down the road in Gramercy. “Our U.S. government is vitally interested in that, because most of that stuff comes from overseas,” Sprunger said. “We’re trying to ﬁnd ways to get it here. In these tailings of this stuff right here, there are remnants of these kinds of materials. Instead of digging them out of the ground, you know what? We might have already dug them out of the ground.” The applications of the synchrotron are endless, Sprunger said.

“I’m using light as a tool,” he said. “That tool of light gives me this information that I wouldn’t ever have gotten otherwise.”

Reactors, explosions Blackmon’s team delves into nuclear energy by focusing on ﬁssion fragments, which are lighter, radioactive nuclei produced when a heavy nucleus splits apart in a process known as nuclear fission. Nuclear reactors rely on fission to release large amounts of energy. A challenge in developing and harnessing nuclear energy capabilities is “decay heat,” the energy produced from the radioactive decay

of ﬁssion fragments, Blackmon said. Failing to control decay heat can lead to severe nuclear accidents, he said. “There’s a big push now to design better, next-generation nuclear reactors and smaller, more modular reactors,” Blackmon said. “Understanding where that energy goes and the decay process is really important for controlling the heat, so you don’t get a meltdown and the bad things that can happen.” The research also connects to some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, Blackmon explained. Star explosions and mergers in-

The federal government effort is led by the Department of Energy and joins academia, the private sector and 17 national labs to “accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development,” Trump’s executive order establishing the initiative said. The teams selected for the program are in a “proof of concept” phase with a rapid timeline, Blackmon said. A project that might normally take two to three years must be delivered in nine months, he said. The expectations align with a larger push from the federal government to make science “think differently,” he said. “If we can make progress faster, that’s better,” Blackmon said. “But science is usually a much more careful, more methodical process where getting things right is more important than doing things quickly. And in this case, we’re being pushed on that.”

volve the same radioactive nuclei, which created many of the elements found on Earth today, he said. “The data that we’re getting to study the nuclear reactions that are important in applications here on Earth also helps us inform the astrophysical scenarios that we observe,” Blackmon said. His project will implement AI in two different ways. First, a multidisciplinary group of researchers will use machine-learning techniques to analyze large sets of data to understand the properties of the ﬁssion Email Haley Miller at fragments. haley.miller@theadvocate. In the second phase, an com.

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Bricolage board doubles down on CEO Faculty complaint sparks warning from NOLA Public Schools

BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

After recent tensions between Bricolage Academy faculty and school leadership culminated in a warning letter from NOLA Public Schools, the school’s board has doubled down on its support for CEO Edward Brown. Norman Barnum, chair of Bricolage’s board of directors, said

the board met with NOLA Public Schools Superintendent Fateama Fulmore earlier this month to discuss the letter and said outside counsel is investigating the allegations for the school. “We have complied with every public meeting request, vetted and investigated through our outside counsel all allegations directed to the board,” Barnum said at a sparsely attended board meeting

Tuesday, “no matter how outlandish or trivial they may have been.” Bricolage, a C-rated school on Esplanade Avenue, enrolls about 1,000 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade. NOLA Public Schools sent Bricolage leadership a letter in June saying it was looking into complaints from staff members about the school’s leadership and allegations that the charter school violat-

ed open meetings laws. The complaints included concerns about the ﬁring of a veteran elementary school teacher and resignation of the school’s human resources director, leaving Brown in charge of HR duties. The district said the school did not respond to previous inquiries about Bricolage’s public meetings and “other concerns and allegations.” The letter warned that

if the school did not provide the requested information and post missing school board documents on its website by Aug. 14, it could face “escalated consequences.” Taslin Alfonzo, a spokesperson for NOLA Public Schools, said in an email that the district is “engaged in a pending accountability matter with Bricolage and cannot provide any additional information at this time.” At Tuesday’s meeting, Brown

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Riverfront work begins phase two Esplanade Street wharf will add 2.5 acres to park BY WILLIE SWETT

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The Audubon Nature Institute has started the design process for the next phase in its ambitious project to convert two historic French Quarter wharves into a downtown riverfront park. The first phase of the park opened in April at the site of the former Governor Nicholls Street wharf after a decade of planning. It cost $30 million to build the 6.3 acres of plazas, a playground and paths. The institute has begun holding meetings, the first one on Thursday, to garner feedback from the public as it begins the design process for the second phase, which will be at the site of the former Esplanade Street wharf. It will be 2.5 acres. Once the next phase of what has been named the Goldring Woldenberg Park is completed, the end result will be 2.25 miles of riverfront access, stretching from Crescent Park to Spanish Plaza. That is still a few years away, though. During the Thursday meeting at the Audubon Aquarium’s River Terrace, Christian Rodriguez, a principal at Eskew Dumez Ripple, the New Orleans-based architecture firm designing the project, said the design process for this next phase will run over the next 18 months. He said they aim to open the park in the first half of 2029. A group of over two dozen people showed up to express their views on what the park should look like, with many focusing on what potential activities, including commercial ones, will be built in the park. Commercial activity will be a key component of this next phase, as Audubon seeks to create revenue to help pay for maintenance of the park. The first phase costs $2 million annually to maintain, according to Michael Sawaya, president and CEO of the Audubon Nature Institute. “We’ve got to make sure that whatever we do, that it creates enough to sustain it to a high level,” Sawaya said in an interview Thursday. He said the institute was looking into conducting an economic impact analysis of the park. Sawaya said earlier this year this next phase of the project would cost an estimated $40 million. He did not have an update Thursday. Posterboards set up around the meeting space Thursday highlighted the potential for playgrounds and sports fields, as well as for restaurants, bars and concert spaces in parts of the existing 100,000-squarefoot warehouse at the wharf. Part of the warehouse will be taken down to make way for a park, Rodriguez said, but how much depends on the final design. He said historically the riverfront area was used as a portage by Indigenous people, and most recently held warehouses that were in use until 2022 or 2023. Nathan Chapman, the president of the Vieux Carré Property Owners, Residents and Associates, said he was hearing “cautiousness, but optimism” from members of his organization, which is dedicated to preservation of the French Quarter. “If they want to play volleyball that’s

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STAFF PHOTOS By ENAN CHEDIAK

KEEPING COOL ABOVE: Dom Maximo,

10, left, and his brother Nino Maximo, 7, ﬂoat at Stallings Gentilly Pool in New Orleans on Saturday. LEFT: Oscar Franke, 1, learns to swim with his father, Patrick.

Doctor pleads guilty YouTuber arrested exploring mall to accessory charge after Man posted video Kerry Sterling, 50, pleaded Man accused of trying guilty Aug. 10 to being an accessoafter the fact to manslaughter. to help sister remove ry Sterling entered the plea under Arankle monitor ticle 893, which allows defendants

to expunge their conviction if they complete the terms of their senStaff writer tence. Sterling’s sister, Kyana Traylor, A New Orleans doctor accused 39, was scheduled to stand trial of trying to help his sister remove Monday in the death of 32-year-old her ankle monitor before she was George Singleton, her boyfriend’s scheduled to stand trial in Jeffer- mentally disabled brother. But the trial date was canceled son Parish for manslaughter has pleaded guilty in the case, accordä See DOCTOR, page 2B ing to court records.

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

accused of entering the similarly abandoned Esplanade Mall and recording video that was posted online. Stephen Pamaran, 33, was booked Thursday on a felony count of unauthorized entry of a business BY MICHELLE HUNTER and misdemeanor count of Staff writer unlawful posting of crimiTwo days before a nal activity for notoriety 17-year-old boy fell to his or publicity, according to death while exploring the Kenner Police Chief Keith long-vacant Plaza Tower Conley. high rise in New Orleans, Investigators have Kenner police arrested a ä See MALL, page 2B Massachusetts YouTuber

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Documentary highlights music archive at UL Local, global artists featured in ‘Dry Bones’

BY JOANNA BROWN

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What happens when you set a bunch of musicians loose in the world’s largest archive of Cajun and Creole music and folklife recordings? You get moments when Louisiana music history becomes something new — like getting to see Nathan Williams’ family (of Nathan Williams and the Zydeco Cha Chas) re-record a song originally written by Williams’ uncle, Creole blues musician Harry Hyppolite. The filmmakers behind Louisiana music documentary “Roots of Fire” are premiering a new project this fall called “Dry Bones” — a documentary series that follows musicians from Louisiana, Canada, the United States and Europe as they uncover gems from the Cajun and Creole Folklore Archives at UL Lafayette’s Center for Louisiana Studies. “I was always fascinated, because you never knew what an artist was going to pick, or what they would find in the archives. It said a lot about their particular personalities and interests,” said filmmaker Jeremey Lavoi. The series has plenty of local connections. In the first episode, influential Louisiana artists Cedric Watson and Tiffany Lamson, of The Givers, bring their musical worlds together. Prominent artists like Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Kelli Jones and Megan Constantin, and Joel Savoy and Linzay Young feature in other episodes, digging through the archives and putting their own spin on what they find

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Paul ‘Bird’ Edwards, from left, Jourdan Thibodeaux, Tiffany ‘Teddy’ Lamson and Cedric Watson record for ‘Dry Bones.’ — but this series is also unique in who it brings in from the broader world. Swedish musician Thor Ahlgren is fascinated by the relationship between Cajun music and European folk traditions, and he explores those links in his episode of “Dry Bones.” In another episode, native ﬁddler Nokosee Fields, who is from Stillwater, Oklahoma, brings his celebrated traditional style to the recordings. The series is about uncovering what makes Louisiana roots music special, while bringing its contemporary resonance to life in surprising ways, according to filmmakers Jeremey Lavoi and Abby Berendt Lavoi. “In the Thor Ahlgren episode, it’s kind of a religious song,” Jeremey Lavoi said. “You could tell he was very interested in Christian folk history, and how that translates across different coun-

advocacy for the Louisiana Landmark Society, said she was a fan of what Audubon has done at the Governor Nicholls Street wharf but warned about congestion due to “over-commercialization” in the next phase. Rodriguez said his team is beginning work on the design and will be able to share details at the next community meeting, which is in October.

great, but we don’t want stadium lights,” Chapman said. Travis Kenny, 77, a retired doctor living on Esplanade, said he has put in $200,000 worth of sound insulation in his house and he hoped anything noisy went on the second floor of the warehouse, with windows facing Email Willie Swett at the river. willie.swett@theadvocate. Sandra Stokes, the chair of com.

Dennis Paul Williams, from left, Nathan Williams Sr. and Naylan Williams record a song for the ‘Dry Bones’ documentary that was originally recorded by Harry Hyppolite, a Creole blues musician and Nathan Williams’ uncle. tries and across an ocean. He gravitated to that. Each selection really said something about the artist.” The archive itself becomes a character in the series, with roughly 12,000 recordings and other materials dating to the 1920s. “A lot of it is in Louisiana French, like Cajun and Lou-

isiana Creole, but there’s also other kinds of music that was recorded and that existed in Louisiana over the years. Older French songs, older instrumental traditions, American string band music — that was here in Louisiana too,” said Email Joanna Brown Dr. Joshua Caffery with the at joanna.brown@ Center for Louisiana Stud- theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1B argued that the school’s ﬁnancial stability has signiﬁcantly improved since he took the helm last year, going from having 13 days of cash on hand to 64 days. Most national guidelines recommend schools have at least 45 days of cash savings. Brown said the school recently hired a new HR director and

“established clear expectations for employees and raised academic expectations for every student.” He also said he helped correct discipline practices that disproportionately impacted Black and Brown students but did not elaborate. “When systems change, expectations increase, and accountability becomes consistent, disagreement and resistance can follow,” he said. Bricolage’s board ap-

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Continued from page 1B obtained a warrant for a second YouTuber, known as RangerRickTV, who allegedly accompanied Pamaran and posted the video to his channel in September 2025, said Kenner Police Deputy Chief Mark McCormick. Police have not yet been able to locate him, McCormick said. Pamaran’s attorney, Barry Ranshi, declined to comment when reached by phone. An email to RangerRickTV had not been returned as of Sunday afternoon. According to their YouTube channels, Pamaran and RangerRickTV dabble in urban exploration, also known as “urbex,” entering and recording video at abandoned buildings, structures or facilities like military bases, churches or amusement parks. New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said the unidentiﬁed Belle Chasse teen who died early Saturday morning at Plaza Tower was also doing “a little urban exploring” with friends when he fell from an interior stairwell without railings. “It’s unfortunate that this happened,” Conley said Sunday. “Our biggest concern is that somebody would get hurt doing these explorations, which are encouraged by social media inﬂuencers.”

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The abandoned Esplanade Mall, which permanently closed its doors in 2021 after Hurricane Ida, shows signs of disrepair in Kenner on Sunday.

Illegal live streaming Kenner police received a tip in June about RangerRickTV’s recorded trip into the Esplanade Mall, according to McCormick. In the video, which runs about 1 hour and 13 minutes and had 317,000 views as of Sunday, RangerRickTV calls the building his “childhood mall” as he navigates through the empty storefronts and tries to avoid being seen by occupants of the open Target store next door. Detectives worked to identify the two men and obtained warrants, McCormick said. Pamaran, who is known as “Steve Ronin” on

YouTube with more than 1 million subscribers, turned himself in to police Thursday, according to authorities. He was booked under a Louisiana law amended in 2024 by state Rep. Dixon McMakin, R-Baton Rouge, that makes it illegal for a person to live-stream or post video of themselves committing criminal acts. McMakin introduced the amendment after seeing viral videos of people entering stores and recording themselves throwing milk jugs on the ground for online clout. “We don’t want people to try to become famous by becoming criminals,” said

ies, which produced “Dry Bones” with the Lavois. “A lot of the musicians that came in, we were able to say, ‘Hey, do you know that you’re in the archive? Why don’t we watch some of the videos we have of you playing?’ We’ve had students come in over the years who have worked with recordings of their grandparents. It’s like having an attic, where you can store things that you don’t necessarily have room for in the living room of mainstream everyday culture.” “Dry Bones” will premiere in Lafayette on Oct. 8 at Acadiana Center for the Arts, as part of the community programming leadup to Festivals Acadiens et Créoles on Oct. 9-11 in Girard Park.

McMakin, who believes one of the amended law’s ﬁrst uses involved the arrests of four people who posted video of themselves riding horses into a Baker Walmart. RangerRickTV and Pamaran’s video shows them illegally entering the Esplanade Mall, according to Kenner police. “It’s a business, and you can’t break into a business. That’s burglary,” McCormick said.

High-risk trend

proved a new open meetings policy at its meeting Tuesday but did not make the policy public or read it into the record. Barnum said it would be posted to the school’s website by Aug. 25. One parent at the meeting relayed concerns about recent news reports regarding the staff complaints and said some teachers he had spoken with are considering searching for other jobs.

dilapidated properties around the New Orleans area, including Charity Hospital and the former Six Flags in New Orleans East. “Urban exploring is a bit of trend ... but it’s a deadly one. It’s high risk,” Kirkpatrick said Saturday during a news conference about the Belle Chasse teen’s death. In 2023, an unnamed man also fell to his death at the Plaza Tower. And in 2022, 18-year-old Anthony Clawson died when he fell ﬁve stories inside the abandoned Market Street Power Plant in the Lower Garden District. New Orleans Deputy Mayor Michael Harrison warned against encouraging such explorations. “No one, kids or adults, no one should be entering into boarded up, abandoned buildings, especially when they’re secured,” he said. Conley called Esplanade Mall the biggest stain in Kenner when it comes to blight. The roof is collapsing in some sections, there’s a 4-foot sinkhole outside and at least one person was arrested for allegedly stripping hundreds of feet of copper from the structure, according to authorities. “It’s an attractive nuisance,” Conley said. “My concern is that, if it’s not abated, then you will have somebody who gets hurt or injured.”

RangerRickTV isn’t the ﬁrst person to ﬁlm an excursion into Esplanade Email Michelle Hunter at Mall. Urban explorers have mhunter@theadvocate. posted video from several com.

after the court ruled on Aug. 7 that Traylor was not mentally competent enough to proceed, Jefferson Parish court records said. Traylor is charged with allowing Singleton to slowly bleed to death from an accidental stab wound over the course of 12 hours in her Terrytown home, where Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce investigators say she starved and beat Singleton, keeping him in squalid conditions. She is also charged with insurance fraud, having taken out a $250,000 policy on Singleton, as well as abuses against Singleton’s disabled mother, according to court records. Traylor was originally scheduled to stand trial on March 17, 2025. But authorities allege she, with the help of her brother, schemed to avoid the court date. Sterling helped Traylor make bail about a week before trial, according to authorities. She then checked herself into a New Orleans hospital, complaining of stroke-like symptoms, according to Matt Dennis, of Assured Supervision Accountability Program, the company that owned the GPS ankle monitor Traylor was wearing while free on bond. Ofﬁcials at accountability program went to the hospital after receiving a call to remove Traylor’s ankle monitor so that she could get an MRI, Dennis said. An employee who removed the device spoke with a person wearing scrubs in Traylor’s room. Dennis has said he believes that person was actually Sterling posing as his sister’s doctor. When the accountability program employee returned to the hospital later that day, he found Traylor waiting for a ride in the lobby instead of receiving an MRI, Dennis said. They reattached the device and took her back to her room. The next day, accountability program received an alert that someone was trying to tamper with the strap on Traylor’s ankle monitor, according to Dennis. A bail bond agent tracked Traylor’s ankle bracelet to a street in the New Orleans Bywater neighborhood. The agent spotted Sterling using a soldering iron to cut off his sister’s monitor as she sat on the back seat of a vehicle, Dennis said. Traylor was immediately arrested, but Sterling fled the scene. He was taken into custody three days later while working at a hospital in Madison Parish, authorities said. After Sterling withdrew his not guilty plea, Judge E. Adrian Adams, of the 24th Judicial District Court, deferred a five-year prison sentence, court records said. Adams ordered Sterling to serve three years of active probation and complete 100 hours of community service. Traylor will be transported to the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health Hospital for treatment.

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Bonnie Bart Ermon, of New Orleans, Louisiana, passed away peacefully, surrounded by love, on August 11, 2026, at the age of 98. Bonnie was born on April 9, 1928, to Jesse Sherwood Bart, Sr. and Ruth Casey Bart in New Orleans, the city she called home her entire life. She was preceded in death by her husband Ivy "Bubby" R. Ermon, Jr., her sister Patricia Bart Randall, and her brother Jesse Sherwood Bart, Jr. She leaves behind two children she loved, Jackie Lynn Ermon and Ivy "Robear" Ermon, Jr. (Cheryl). She adored her two grandsons, Bart Charles Bacigalupi (Brandi) and Robert Michael Bacigalupi (Andrew), and cherished her great-grandchildren, Sophia and Graham. She is also survived by a wide circle of cousins, nieces, nephews, and dear friends who called her "Aunt Bonnie," a title she wore with pride. She grew up attending Sacred Heart of Jesus School. Together with her husband and her brother, she owned and operated a New Orleans institution, the original Bart's Restaurant on the lakefront, where her

warmth and hospitality became legendary. That same hospitality followed her everywhere, especially to her beloved second home on Sandy Hook Drive in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she spent countless happy years with family and friends. Anyone who knew Bonnie knew her door was always open — and that they would be greeted with a smile, a good meal, and more often than not, a cocktail. Her open house Christmas parties were an unforgettable tradition, complete with mini muffulettas, her famous pink slush and late-night mini grilled cheese sandwiches. She loved to cook, and she was always ready for a spirited game of cards with friends and family. She loved and supported St. Dominic Parish, both the church and the school, and cherished her place in that community. Later in life, she found new joy

working in the after-school program at St. Dominic, a fitting continuation of a life spent looking after others. Bonnie's warmth and generosity touched everyone around her, and she will be deeply missed by all who were lucky enough to be part of her life. A visitation will be held at St. Dominic Church, 775 Harrison Ave, on Friday, August 21, beginning at 11:30 a.m., followed by a Mass at 1:00 p.m. Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery. Arrangements by Jacob Schoen & Son. The family invites you to share thoughts, fond memories and condolences online at schoenfh.com.

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Do residents get any say in SpaceX? The proposed siting of a SpaceX launch facility in Vermilion Parish should raise alarms about the impacts of this project on residents, along with the vulnerable coastal landscape that the state of Louisiana has said for decades it wants to protect and restore. Vermilion Parish has seen shoreline erosion and land subsidence for decades, both exacerbated by measurable sea level rise underway. Those processes have not stopped. The subsidence reflects the long-known fact that Louisiana’s coastal land is deltaic soil, not limestone substrate like Cape Canaveral in Florida. There are also active coastal faults in the area. Public and private investments have been made to protect and enhance hunting, fishing and recreational opportunities at Pecan Island and surrounding marshes and waters, which lie in close proximity to White Lake, another important coastal resource. But additional concerns arise from the attempt of the FAA under the current administration to remove administrative and scientific assessments of environmental and health impacts of the SpaceX project. State officials have indicated that they will accede to this policy. The citizens and residents of Louisiana are being told that they have no choice about whether these projects move forward and no say on the future of their parish and their homes. Whether this is constitutional and legal is a fundamental question. Without the protection of the Constitution and the law, Louisiana’s future is in question.

MARYLEE ORR executive director, La. Environmental Action Network Baton Rouge

Brees belongs on a pedestal It’s time for New Orleans to rename the former Lee Circle for this city’s greatest champion: NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees. He is not only the NFL’s GOAT quarterback, but also a New Orleans Saints Super Bowl champion and MVP. He was a leader both on and off the ﬁeld. Drew was also a champion of the people of this city who needed him to be a winner as they rebuilt their homes, their lives and their spirit. And yes, put his statue on that now-empty column!

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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, heads to a closed-door Republican policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington in June.

Cassidy again just the latest lemming in line

So, after much reflection and deep thought, Sen. Bill Cassidy once again folded like an umbrella. (Regards for that metaphor to President Donald Trump and his U.S. Attorney General for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro.) Our outgoing senator, relishing his big moment in the political spotlight, rhapsodized on the Sunday news shows about how significant he knew his decision would be. And for the second time this year, he went along with the other spineless sycophants (senators) unable to make decisions that agreed with what they must truly believe internally. Instead of taking a stand, most Republican senators have chosen to get in line, and Cassidy simply became the last lemming in the lot. Cassidy first showed his lack of morality and character when he opted to vote for the appointment of Robert Kennedy Jr. That was a vote that violated everything he stood for

as a career doctor. In a second opportunity to “make a difference,” he proved to be just another good ol’ boy, devoid of any impregnable values or beliefs. In so doing, he will be remembered in history not as a champion, but as the quisling he proved to be. His votes were traitorous to his own moral and ethical values; he betrayed himself with each of these votes. How sad it is that this learned man never learned to take a stand, regardless of any consequences. I am old enough to recall a TV hero of the Wild West, Hopalong Cassidy. I never thought I’d see another Cassidy that would get me so emotional. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello — and goodbye — to Go-Along Cassidy!

MICHAEL B. RIEMER Jefferson

Cassidy, and the country, should heed M.L. King on conscience On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in Riverside Church to speak from his conscience about the Vietnam War. The timing was less than propitious. President Lyndon Johnson had done more to advance civil rights than his predecessors. It was not the time to tell Johnson that the Vietnam War was wrong. It was not the time to describe America as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” to declare, “we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” King said, “I cannot be silent ... my conscience leaves me no other choice.” As a constituent of Sen. Bill Cassidy, I recommend a reading of King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence,” to awaken conscience and courage. Upon announcing his decision to conﬁrm Todd Blanche as attorney ceneral, Cassidy offered a seemingly conciliatory message. “People of Louisiana can be assured that I

worked hard to understand the issue and to make the right decision,” he said. My offering is not a criticism of his work ethic, but instead his betrayal of conscience, what seemed to seep out in his emotional pause, reckoning with his words before taking his seat, sealing the victory for Blanche. Cassidy has only several months to serve Louisiana, but likely his reckoning will continue beyond this time. Cassidy and the country need to be reminded of King’s words: “Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”

RAQUEL ROBVAIS Baton Rouge

Let’s welcome SpaceX with its jobs and spending In response to Monica Keese’s letter, it is this way of thinking that puts this state last in all the good categories and ﬁrst in the bad ones (“State abandons land, rights to billionaire’s rocket ships”). Ask the folks in Vermilion Parish how they feel about the jobs, taxes and spending coming their way thanks to the proposed SpaceX project.

This state is so narrow-minded and blind to business that it makes a lot of people wonder what we are doing and if we know what we’re doing. As evidence, I submit Orlando, Florida — the beneﬁciary of Louisiana’s stupidity by running Walt Disney World away.

JAMES MUNN Zachary

The often antediluvian Cal Thomas has struck again in his recent commentary, “Fauci’s diary provides evidence of his egotism.” He attempts to offer a simple answer to a complex problem, but fails. Were egotism a crime, President Trump would have been in prison many decades ago, joined by much of Congress. Thomas accurately points out the starts and stops of medicine in the face of a new pandemic, with changing recommendations as new information became available. As a practicing physician, I truly never heard that “getting vaccinated would prevent everyone from getting the virus,” as quoted by Thomas, nor is there any literature evidence available. No one in medicine would say something like that, knowing it’s not true of any vaccination upon initial use. Mitigating the disease is the first goal; totally eliminating it, if possible, follows worldwide vaccination. The first COVID vaccines were available in January 2021, a remarkable event. Sadly, daily news conferences from the White House starred Trump either dissembling, or merely lying, about the utility of vaccinations vs. other treatment possibilities. This proved to be disastrously awful disinformation, given statistics of the Delta surge of COVID in August 2021. An 800-plus-bed hospital in New Orleans at that time reported hundreds of sick and dying patients, of whom 80-90% were unvaccinated, some nine months after the vaccination became available. Medical progress has always been akin to two steps forward and one step backward. Criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci for this is baseless and only tastes of political retribution, so common with the current U.S. administration. As Thomas has an affinity for biblical quotations, I offer John 8:7: “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” Cal, stop throwing stones.

DAVID ELIZARDI, M.D. Metairie

Loyola’s evocative new chapel reflects the talents of liturgical consultant I read with interest the article in the newspaper regarding the newly constructed Chapel of St. Ignatius at the Gayle and Tom Benson Center on the Loyola University campus in New Orleans. I appreciated hearing from the architects, Trey Trahan and Brad McWhirter. However, I was greatly disappointed that the writer, Bob Warren, made no mention of their colleague on this project, Dr. Marchita Mauck, a retired art history professor at LSU and the Catholic liturgist who served as the liturgical consultant for this project. Mauck was instrumental in securing the altar and the various art pieces for the project, and she made signiﬁcant contributions to the design of the chapel’s prayerful and evocative experience.

THE REV. TOM RANZINO Baton Rouge

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COMMENTARY Summertime political reruns When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit The Beatles for that lyric from “Help”), television networks would rerun programs that had originally been broadcast the previous fall and spring. A few still do, like “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy,” but those are syndicated shows. Still, it can be fun to watch programs you missed, or even ones you have seen, especially if you can impress someone with “Jeopardy” answers because you know them. Reruns that always annoy are the political Cal Thomas ads, which start before primaries and continue until the day before the November election. Only the names of the candidates change, not the attack lines. The opponent is a monster who will ruin the country. If elected, I promise to do this or that. Those promises are rarely kept. If some are kept, such as lowering taxes, the next person in office will want to raise them. No political ad I’ve seen promises to reduce or eliminate the national debt, now racing toward an unsustainable $40 trillion. An example of how even the most fervent promises to reduce spending never work is the now-disbanded DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, formerly headed by Elon Musk. DOGE was tasked with exposing and eliminating wasteful and unnecessary spending, including inefficient and redundant government agencies. Musk falsely claimed DOGE saved the taxpayers $110.3 billion — even if true, a drop in the spending bucket, but still something Musk bragged about. Credit DOGE, however, with reducing the size of the bloated federal workforce by hundreds of thousands of jobs. A new audit by the Government Accountability Office says DOGE took credit for spending cuts already in the pipeline, exaggerated some claims and couldn’t provide evidence for others. GAO reported 96% of DOGE’s claimed savings on federal grants can’t be verified. DOGE claimed it managed to get the Pentagon’s health agency to cancel a $1.7 billion technology contract, but GAO investigators said the contract was never cut or even reduced. “There were no savings,” reported the

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Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump in 2025. GAO. DOGE also claimed credit for ending 264 government leases. But 108 of them were already in the pipeline before the White House office was established. Failure is never a reason to stop politicians from making promises they know they can’t keep, mostly because consultants have found that focus groups respond well to certain words and attack lines. Democrat ads are full of “fight Trump” and “fight MAGA” lines. Too many Republican ads (and too much cable TV) focus on cultural issues, like transgender athletes in women’s sports, which affects the tiniest of minorities. Ads criticizing socialism and calling your opponent a communist might work for some older voters, but younger ones did not live through the Cold War, much less World War II, and most of the 20th century. They likely can’t define fascist and know little about countries that have embraced socialism. That’s because much of their information comes from social media and the internet. If their classes get around to these topics, they are usually taught from a

left-wing perspective. How do I know? Consider their comments against Israel, against Jews and in favor of socialism. They appear all-in on universal health care (“Medicare for all”). No reporter I’ve heard asks them how they would pay for it and why they have faith in government to manage health care when government does few things well. The candidates are never asked why none of the problems they cite have not been fully, or even partially, solved, when their party held all three branches of government. There is always the promise of “change,” but from what to what? The answers are almost always generalities. The real reason spending won’t be cut is that too many people are addicted to government. In his ﬁrst inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan said: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” That’s one rerun I am happy to hear again and again. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Peter Pan politics for sandbox revolutionaries Ronald Reagan was fond of an uncon- don’t pay a mortgage or have a landservative thought, Thomas Paine’s “We lord, because comfortable housing is a have it in our power to begin the world human right. Your retirement is pubover again.” Reagan had an excuse. licly funded. He thought Americans “Food, education, energy, medneeded a cheerfulness infuicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are sion after assassinations, urban common goods and utilities … riots, Vietnam, Watergate and what if you were free to spend stagflation. Today, Paine’s deluyour time how you like without sional sense of the possible has worrying about cost or dreadresurfaced in the enthusiasm of George many young people for socialing going back to work? What Will if you didn’t have to think about ism. paying rent or loans at the end It is a longing in search of a of the month, or saving for college, or definition. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, affording groceries?” Kamala Harris’ former running mate, In 1845-46, a philosopher not yet 30 has said socialism is “neighborliness.” sounded a similar trumpet. Socialism, Like taking a casserole to the family said Karl Marx, would allow each man that moved in next door? The “Interto “escape” from what capitalism has nationale,” socialism/communism’s “forced upon him.” Socialism would anthem since 1871, begins: “Arise ye prisoners of starvation.” But socialism end the division of labor, which Marx always means more, and less, than cas- called an “exclusive sphere of activity” and considered dehumanizing. seroles for all. Under capitalism, he wrote, man “is Zohran Mamdani’s election helped to a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or ignite 21st-century interest in sociala critical critic, and must remain so if ism, a 19th-century doctrine that had he does not want to lose his means of a deflating 20th century. Socialism, New York’s mayor says, prioritizes the livelihood.” But in communist society nobody will “working class.” But what is that? be so confined. Socialism will enable “I think,” he told the New York Times, “if you have to work to pay your everyone to “become accomplished in any branch he wishes … to do one thing bills, I think that that is one definition today and another tomorrow, to hunt in of being a part of the working class.” the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear But if everyone with bills to pay — escattle in the evening, criticize after sentially, everyone — is socialism’s dinner.” priority, what is not socialism? Seventy years ago, rediscovery of the The Democratic Socialists of Ameryoung Marx’s gauzy ruminations about ica, a political party, sort of, recently ending “alienation” thrilled leftists. issued its “program,” which begins by They could enjoy the frisson of naughurging readers to imagine “a future without capitalism.” You “control your tiness by calling themselves Marxists, own labor and see it going to good use. without having to plow through his turIt’s not just a job to pay the bills”: gid “mature” writings (e.g., “Das Kapi“Speaking of bills: you don’t really tal”) about the labor theory of value. have them anymore. You have no debt. Today’s DSA program has nothing to You don’t need health insurance. You do with politics understood as the art

of the possible. DSA socialism is Peter Pan politics, the root-and-branch rejection of adulthood, understood as oppression by reality. It is psychotherapy for disappointed young people who are offended by the everydayness of everyday life — work, bills, groceries, mortgages. Yuck. Even when the DSA ostensibly talks about politics, its extremism is merely infantilism. For example, the DSA proposes to “abolish the Senate,” which is undemocratic because large and small states have equal representation there. Abolition would require a constitutional amendment, which 13 small states could, and more would, defeat. The DSA’s supposedly political program (it includes dismantling the presidency and the Supreme Court) is earnest and unserious. Because socialism shares Paine’s delusion about society’s, and humanity’s, plasticity, socialism invariably ends in disappointment. In today’s America, it begins there, with sandbox revolutionaries who think growing up is incompatible with social justice. The New York Times reports that at a recent DSA convention in Chicago, Leon Trotsky was “talked about.” Rightly so. He said that under socialism “the average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx.” So, socialism is Garrison Keillor’s imagined Lake Wobegon, where “all the children are above average.” At the Chicago gathering, socialists could purchase “far-left merchandise,” including “guillotine earrings.” This is today’s socialism — naughty and fun but unlikely to begin America over again. Email George Will at georgewill@washpost.com.

The ‘cancel Thanksgiving’ candidate lost Democratic socialist Francesca Hong lost her bid to be the Democratic nominee in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, but it’s not progressives who will be most disappointed by her defeat. It’s conservatives who will feel the pain. They spent millions attacking Hong in ads, calling her “too liberal,” but the messaging seemed Megan clearly designed to generate supMcArdle port for her among Democratic voters, based on the GOP theory that she’d be much easier to beat in the general election than moderate David Crowley. It almost worked, even though Hong was, to put it mildly, not a good candidate. Democrats should feel an unpleasant, crawling sensation at the base of their collective spine when they contemplate how close they came to having her on the ticket — not just because she’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, but because she has a hard-to-explain history of radical pronouncements. Hong called America “an abundance of suffering.” She said we should “cancel Thanksgiving” and suggested we should “defund then abolish” the police. She publicly wrestled with her “proximity to Whiteness,” in the person of her biracial son. None of this is a good look for someone who wants ordinary people to vote for them. Before you ask, no, Hong was not at that time some naive college student. She was in her 30s. Her only excuse is that for a few years this sort of thing was normal among sober adults and eminent institutions. It was like watching a clique of teenage mean girls overdosing on extra-strength Robin DiAngelo. The only difference was that many of the mean girls held tenured professorships and senior roles at prestigious publications. With so many luminaries signing up to join the fun, how was Hong to know that it wouldn’t last? I should clarify that this is not Hong’s explanation for her remarks. But then, Hong couldn’t really give a good explanation. She tried to brush off her police abolitionism. Other tweets were dismissed as “silly” or “jokes.” The best defense came from a more seasoned progressive politician, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), who laughingly told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that “Woke 1 was crazy!” Note that I did not say it was a good defense. But it is apparently the best the establishment can muster, the credo of the post-bachelor party hangover: “Whew, things got a little out of hand, but what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right?” Well, no, it doesn’t, which is why conservatives pounced on Hong with such glee. She reawakened the rage they felt during those years of speech-policing, social media mobs and peremptory firings. Their fury will not abate until there’s some reckoning with the cruelty and caprice of that era. The Democratic establishment’s hope that we can all just quietly agree to pretend it never happened is insufferably naive. After all, when President Donald Trump leaves office, and conservatives try to memory-hole his abuses and their shameful complicity, is the left prepared to let bygones be bygones? Because I’m sure not. Years of justifiable outrage will not, and should not, dissipate overnight. It’s only natural for both sides of the culture wars to long for some justice, not just to satisfy their personal pique but to ensure that there is no Woke 2.0 or Trump sequel. That said, you can want a reckoning without expecting one. And you should be mindful of the cost of trying to bring one about. Republicans run on old tweets and transgender sports and spend too much time in office trying to defund and defang left-coded institutions, rather than solving problems. Democrats run on “saving democracy” and expropriating billionaires, then pour their political hearts into investigations and prosecutions. This may work in a primary or in places that are very red or very blue, but it’s a lousy strategy in swing states and nationwide elections. For that matter, Hong couldn’t even win her primary, and that same night, election denier Mike Lindell went down in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary. There’s a ray of hope in that, but only a flicker, since both candidates were unusually inept. The furious bases of the two parties will have more opportunities to nominate passionate ideologues who will at best go on to lose their general elections and at worst further destabilize American politics. I doubt their anger will ebb soon, and I won’t even argue that it should. Sometimes you have to accept that your anger may be justified, but that doesn’t mean it can be satisfied. And once you figure that out, it’s often best to put it aside and talk about something else. Megan McArdle is on X, @asymmetricinfo. Email her at Megan.McArdle@washpost.com.

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BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

When Darren Heitner woke up and checked his phone Thursday, he was puzzled by one of the ﬁrst things he saw. Heitner, a Florida-based attorney, is one of the top legal experts in sports. Recently, he’s been helping college basketball players obtain extra years of eligibility and maintaining an active presence on X, where he weighs in on legal issues in sports — cases such as the one that ﬂashed across his screen that morning. “My initial reaction was, ‘Is this a real story?’ ” he said. Yes, it was. An attorney repre-

senting Jayden Daniels had sent LSU a cease-and-desist letter, demanding the school refrain from “any further use, display, publication, distribution, promotion, commercialization or other exploitation of” his name, image and likeness. The letter was sent on Aug. 5, the day the Tigers opened their ﬁrst set of preseason practices under coach Lane Kifﬁn. Daniels sent the cease-and-desist letter because LSU had given his No. 5 jersey number to sophomore cornerback DJ Pickett. The former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback was “deeply disappointed and feels profoundly disrespected” by that decision, a Daniels spokesperson told ESPN.

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He and his family “had every reason to believe” the Tigers would no longer issue the number out of respect for what Daniels had accomplished in Baton Rouge. But former coach Brian Kelly and his staff had once promised Pickett that he could wear No. 5. Kifﬁn decided to grant that wish once he took over the program, putting LSU at odds with one of its greatest players. What exactly is Daniels trying to accomplish? And does LSU have to do anything differently now because he sent the letter? The Advocate asked four lawyers who practice intellectual

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Team shares platform to help find marrow donor, expand donor registry BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

In so many ways, 11-year-old Cate Hargett was just like any other kid in the stands watching the New Orleans Saints go through a joint practice against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday afternoon. Her eyes lit up when she saw the big NFL players up close, and she was filled with the kind of bouncy energy kids of her age possess, hitting a pre-planned touchdown dance on request. But Cate is not like other kids in one specific area. In fact, she’s not like many people at all. And that was why she and her family were there Thursday. Cate has what is known as telomere biology disorder, a rare genetic condition that causes mutations in the telomeres, which serve as a sort of cap for chromosomes. “We’ve known since Cate was about 2 months old that she has bone marrow failure, which means her marrow just doesn’t produce all the blood cells it needs for her to stay healthy,” said Jenni Hargett, Cate’s mother. Jenni said Cate has been treated as a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, for most of her life. She has undergone extensive genetic testing in her 11 years, but doctors could never isolate what the issue was — until Cate participated in a clinical study at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland this summer, where they found the gene at the root of Cate’s illness. “It’s a previously unknown inherited bone marrow failure syndrome,” Jenni Hargett said. “They know, worldwide, of about 20 patients that have it. We had hoped that by finding the gene and the cause it would give us a direction, a better way to treat. But instead, the scientists, the researchers,

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New Orleans Saints kicker Tanner Brown kicks the ball during a preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday at the Caesars Superdome.

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Some position battles add intrigue after Saints’ preseason opener BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

Kellen Moore indicated he still has faith in Charlie Smyth. The New Orleans Saints coach believes the kicker has been in the NFL long enough to understand that “inevitably” a miss is going to happen. “You just keep hanging in there,” Moore said. Smyth, in his third year with the Saints, has no other choice. The Ireland native missed Analysis a 52-yard ﬁeld goal in Saturday’s 24-20 preseason loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, marking the latest sign the 25-year-old is in a bit of a slump at the moment. Smyth’s miss followed what had been a shaky stretch of

practices. The kicker had at least one miss in three of his last four outings — including two days in which he sailed three attempts in each session. The struggles undoubtedly have tightened the Saints’ kicking competition. And against the Jaguars, former UFL standout Tanner Brown nailed both of his attempts from 49 and 29 yards. Throughout training camp and the preseason, Smyth is now 35 of 44 (including extra points), while Brown is 35 of 40. Smyth “Keep going, keep going,” Moore said when asked about where the battle goes from here. “Both

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‘Real one’ Mosley reaches out in community BY ROD WALKER Staff writer

Jaron Pierre smiled as he glanced over at Jamahl Mosley reclined in a chair getting his beard trimmed at the Washington Academy of Barbering and Arts in New Orleans East. Pierre, drafted by the New Orleans Pelicans in June, was born and raised in this STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK city. So he knows what it means for his to have his head coach spendNew Orleans Pelicans coach Jamahl Mosley reacts hometown ing three hours last Tuesday afternoon to a child’s haircut on Tuesday at Washington doing what he was doing. Academy of Barbering Arts. “Coach Mosley is a real one,” Pierre

said. “It just tells you that he wants to be involved in the community. You can tell it’s something he’s been doing his whole life.” Mosley was one of the last people to sit in one of the barber chairs Tuesday. The first 21/ 2 hours was for 30 local school-aged kids. They received free haircuts, free book bags and free words of encouragement as they prepared to return to school. The day included everything from Mosley playing Uno with the kids to him just handing out life lessons. Mosley is committed to being involved in more than just what goes on inside the

Smoothie King Center during the NBA season. What happens outside the building is important to him, too. He talked about it during his introductory news conference in May. “One of the biggest things that I believe in is the community,” Mosley said that day. “How to be more involved, how to change lives — not just on the basketball court, but off the court. We’re on this court for a short period of time, but the legacy that we leave is more than the court.” This was the ﬁrst of what will be many

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Team TKN is on top again. The duo of former LSU beach volleyball All-Americans Kristen (Nuss) Cruz and Taryn (Kloth) Brasher won their third straight title Sunday in the AVP Manhattan Beach Open in California. They defeated fellow Americans Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft 21-18, 2116 in the ﬁnal. Cruz and Brasher did not drop a set in any of their six tournament matches. The 2024 Olympians are the ﬁrst women’s duo to win three straight Manhattan Beach titles since three-time Olympic gold medalists Misty-May Treanor and Kerry Walsh-Jennings won four in a row from 2005-08. Coming into the weekend, they were tied for third in the world rankings and have three other international wins this season in addition to the AVP tour.

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Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tommy John praises the late Dr. Frank Jobe during a memorial service at Dodger Stadium on April 7, 2014. John died on Sunday at the age of 83.

Surgery namesake Tommy John dies He was first MLB pitcher to return after elbow procedure BY BETH HARRIS AP sportswriter

LOS ANGELES — Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the ﬁrst pitcher to successfully return after groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83. He died at his home in Bradenton, Florida, on Saturday night, agent Mike Maguire said Sunday. He had been in hospice care. On Aug. 8, the New York Yankees released a social media post in which John wrote that he wanted to say goodbye to everyone, including friends and fans who followed him throughout his career, saying, “I will never forget you.” The Yankees called John “a bedrock of our rotation during his time in pinstripes and a longtime favorite of Yankees fans.” John was a four-time All-Star with a record of 288-231 and a 3.34 ERA during a career that stretched from 1963-89. He pitched for Cleveland, the Chicago White Sox, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Yankees, the California Angels and the Oakland Athletics. “Tommy was an exceptional

pitcher throughout his career in Major League Baseball, and his courageous role in becoming the first to have surgery that would go on to bear his name can’t be overstated,” Stan Kasten, Dodgers president and CEO, said in a statement. “His impact both on and off the field has been felt by ballplayers of all ages and will be for generations to come.” The left-hander was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, a death knell for pitchers’ careers to that point. John allowed Dr. Frank Jobe, the Dodgers’ team physician, to replace the ligament with a tendon from his right forearm. Jobe gave the surgery 100-to-1 odds of being successful. The procedure had been done on others before, although it was usually performed on wrists and hands. John was the first pitcher to have it done on his elbow. More than 2,600 big-leaguers and thousands more amateurs have since had UCL reconstructions, better known as Tommy John surgery. It’s been a godsend for many of baseball’s greatest stars, including twoway sensation Shohei Ohtani, three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander and even Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper. “If you put it in dollars and

cents, I think there’s no question that Tommy John is the most valuable reconstructive procedure there is,” Dodgers team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache said in 2024. John recorded 2,245 strikeouts but never led either league in wins or strikeouts. He had the secondmost wins of any pitcher since 1900 not to be elected to the Hall of Fame. From 1995 through 2009, John was on the Hall of Fame ballot, but he never received more than 31.7% of the votes, falling well short of the 75% required for election. “Tommy was a wonderful person who competed to the utmost and did what no player had ever done to save his career, in conjunction with the esteemed Dr. Frank Jobe,” former Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti posted on X. “The HOF is missing Tommy John.” Known for his longevity, John was the opening day starter for both the 1966 Chicago White Sox and the 1989 New York Yankees. He won 124 games before his UCL repair and 164 after. His ﬁnal appearance came days after his 46th birthday. In 1974 while with the Dogers, John had a 13-3 record and led the National League in victories going into the All-Star break. He was pitching against the Montreal Expos when he permanently damaged the UCL in his left arm. After a month, the injury had not improved. During the four-hour surgery

on Sept. 25, 1974, Jobe made holes in the humerus and ulna bones of John’s left arm and used anchors to insert the tendon in a figureeight pattern. At first, John’s left hand was shriveled and he lacked feeling in several of his fingers because of damage to the ulnar nerve. Jobe performed a second procedure to re-route the nerve that was necessary to John’s full recovery. John’s arm was in a cast for four months. He had recovered the full range of motion in his left arm by spring training of 1975 and spent that season resting, healing and rebuilding strength in his arm. That September he made five appearances during an offseason instructional league, working his way up to seven innings by his final game. He resumed pitching for the Dodgers in 1976 as the fourth starter in their rotation. John made 31 start, posting a 10-10 record, a 3.09 ERA, 91 strikeouts, 61 walks and 207 hits allowed in 207 innings. John donated the original cast from his surgery to the Smithsonian Institution in June 2022. His teammates on the 1974 Dodgers signed it, as well as Jobe and the team’s Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully. The procedure has become so widely known that in 2019, Merriam-Webster added the term to its dictionary.

Scheffler opens PGA postseason in dominant form BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Scottie Scheffler was back to his dominant form Sunday, turning a two-shot lead into a runaway in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He closed with a 4-under 66 for an eight-shot victory, the largest in the 68-year history at the TPC Southwind. Scheffler ended nearly seven months without winning, a season that has been marked by astonishing consistency but only one trophy to show for it from his season opener at The American Express in the California desert. This was only close for a fleeting moment. After months of little things getting in the way, Scheffler hit a bunker shot on the par5 third that would have settled a few feet away for a tap-in birdie. But it landed on a sprinkler head, took a hard hop and rolled through the green into the water for bogey. “I was like, ‘Man, when is this going to stop happening?’ ” Scheffler said. That shrunk his lead to one shot over Sungjae Im. Then Scheffler made consecutive birdie putts on the fifth and sixth holes and was on his way. Playing in the final group in stifling heat and the most wind all week, Scheffler matched the best score Sunday. He finished at 17-under 263, eight shots clear of his Dallas

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Scottie Scheffler, right, celebrates with caddie Ted Scott on the 18th green after winning the St. Jude Championship on Sunday in Memphis, Tenn. Scheffler won by eight strokes. neighbor Si Woo Kim, who closed with a 68. The previous record was John Cook winning at TPC Southwind by seven shots in 1996. Schefﬂer now has 21 career victories on the PGA Tour, 10 of them by four shots or more. Sam Burns, one of Scheffler’s best friends in golf, played with him in the final group and took double bogey on the par-5 third hole. He shot 73 and tied for third

with Alex Noren (69). “I don’t think it would have mattered if I played well,” Burns said. “He was going to be tough to beat today.” Schefﬂer won $3.6 million from the prize fund, and he clinched an additional $23 million in bonus money for being No. 1 in the FedEx Cup through next week’s BMW Championship. No one can catch him. No one is particularly

close in the game at the moment, even when he’s not piling up trophies. Scheffler now has two victories, five runner-up finishes and five other top-four finishes in another stellar year that until Sunday was marked by his lack of winning compared with previous years. The TPC Southwind was the course he had played the most times without winning, and the FedEx Cup playoffs opener had been the only postseason tournament he had yet to win. All that changed. Im wound up with a 75 to tie for fifth, but it was enough for the South Korean to move from No. 53 into the top 50 who advance to the BMW Championship next week in St. Louis. Im kept alive his chances of reaching the Tour Championship every year since he was a rookie in 2019. Im bumped out Keith Mitchell, who stood in the water left of the 18th fairway to play a shot from the bank as he tried to give himself his best chance. That shot tumbled into the water, he made bogey and narrowly missed out. So did Jordan Spieth, who needed to close with four pars to reach the BMW Championship for the first time since 2023, but finished with a bogey from the water on No. 15 and three pars for a 70. The top 50 who advance also are assured of playing all the $20 million signature events next year.

Washington Commanders backup quarterback Marcus Mariota has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee, coach Dan Quinn conﬁrmed Sunday. Mariota, 32, will miss the remainder of the preseason, but Quinn is “optimistic that he’ll be ready for the start of the regular season.” Mariota was injured during Washington’s preseason opener against Miami on Friday night. Starter Jayden Daniels did not play against the Dolphins. Quinn said the Commanders don’t plan on bringing in another quarterback at this time. The only other QBs on the roster are Sam Hartman and rookie Athan Kaliakmanis.

Djokovic taken down by Tirante in first round

MASON, Ohio — Novak Djokovic’s stay at the Cincinnati Open was a short one. The 24-time major champion fell to Thiago Agustin Tirante 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday in a match that took 2 hours, 44 minutes in hot and humid conditions. A 25-year-old from Argentina, Tirante is ranked No. 50 in the world. Djokovic — a three-time Cincinnati champion and No. 5 in the rankings — was playing for the first time since his loss to topranked Jannik Sinner in the semifinals at Wimbledon. Djokovic appeared to struggle physically in the heat and had his 10-match winning streak in Cincinnati snapped. The 39-year-old told reporters that an unspecified health condition made it difficult for him to play in hot and humid weather.

Englishman Whaley beats Leng to win U.S. Amateur

ARDMORE, Pa. — Jack Whaley of England used double gloves, needed an umbrella and was stung by a wasp at rainy Merion Golf Club and still pushed through to hold off Jay Leng to win the U.S. Amateur on Sunday. The 22-year-old English amateur sank his final putt to clinch the 36hole final 4 and 3. Whaley made a rapid rise from NAIA star to Florida State to amateur champion. He now has an exemption into the 2027 U.S. Open, the 2027 British Open at St. Andrews and the Masters, should he remain an amateur. Whaley won the seventh U.S. Amateur held at Merion and is the first English amateur to win since Matt Fitzpatrick at Brookline in 2013.

Hip impingement puts A’s OF Soderstrom on IL

The Athletics lost another slugger when they placed outfielder Tyler Soderstrom on the 10-day injured list on Sunday with a left hip impingement. The 24-year-old Soderstrom is batting .245 with 19 homers and 56 RBIs. He set career highs with 25 homers, 93 RBIs and a .276 batting average last year. The Athletics already were playing without first baseman Nick Kurtz and catcher Shea Langeliers. Kurtz is on the IL with a right thumb injury that could sideline him for the rest of the year. Langeliers had season-ending surgery on his right knee last month. Also Sunday, the A’s claimed left-hander Joe Rock off waivers from the Chicago White Sox and optioned him to Triple-A Las Vegas.

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of those guys, I am proud of those guys. You go through some bumps sometimes, and you just keep going. Just keep going through training camp and through this preseason.” Here are the other positions most affected by what happened on the ﬁeld Saturday.

Quarterback Will Zach Wilson get an opportunity with the second team? After Wilson outplayed Spencer Rattler, Moore was noncommittal about whether Wilson would see reps with the second unit rather than the third. Moore did reveal that the starters likely won’t play in next week’s preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams, creating an opportunity for him to swap Rattler for Wilson if the coach decides to shake things up. The Saints have said there’s a competition taking place for backup quarterback, but Rattler and Wilson have yet to rotate reps since camp began July 29. Wilson’s performance against Jacksonville showed that it could be worth exploring. The former second overall pick went 11-of-16 passing for 145 yards and a touchdown, while Rattler mustered only 42 yards on

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Moore might not have quite the same philosophy as former Saints coach Dennis Allen, who would often say that a player can’t make the team if they’re stuck in the training room. But Kendre Miller (back) and Devin Neal (hamstring) need to make sure they’re doing all they can to return to the practice field sooner rather than later because the battle to become the third running back arguably has intensified more than any other position in camp. Audric Estime followed a strong week of practice with a 9-yard touchdown on his first run against Jacksonville. Estime finished with 28 yards on five carries, good for an average of 5.6 yards per attempt. The unfortunate part is Estime got hurt. He left early with an ankle injury, which Moore said was being further evaluated. Does that open the door for Ty Chandler? The former Vikings running back also has had a solid camp and dazzled with an 86-yard kickoff return to open the Jaguars game.

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New Orleans Saints running back Ty Chandler, center, runs the opening kickoff back 86 yards during a preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday at the Caesars Superdome.

by who they didn’t play. Beyond shelving their starters, New Orleans also withheld a few key backups — including second-year linebacker Danny Stutsman. Stutsman has been competing with Pete Werner for a starting spot opposite Kaden Elliss, and it’s worth wondering whether the deWide receiver cision to rest Stutsman indicates that battle is truly neck-and-neck. The race for WR4 is wide open. Linebacker Fourth-year linebacker Jaylan Barion Brown (four catches, 53 The Saints made a statement

The short answer is not much. LSU does not have to scrub Daniels from its record book, and it can keep displaying images of him in Tiger Stadium, its football operations building and other parts of campus. If LSU wants to sell Daniels’ jersey, though, it could run into some problems.

What’s next? As of Sunday, LSU still lists some signed Daniels’ merchandise for sale on LSUshop.net, but it does not appear to have any Daniels jerseys available for purchase. That small change could be the only tangible thing that comes as a result of Daniels’ cease-and-desist letter, the four lawyers said. That, and the possibil-

ity that other schools across the country use the case to reexamine the ways they’re using their former players’ NIL rights. “I wouldn’t recommend betting on this,” Feldman said, “but if I were to choose a side, I would say right now it looks like LSU, probably, has very little to worry about.” Fleshman and Heitner agree. They’re both sur-

prised that Daniels and his camp even took the unusual step, a move that had Heitner questioning if he had fallen for a fake news story on social media. “Unless LSU had plans to embark on some sort of massive commercial effort to sell a product or service in association with Jayden Daniels’ name, image or likeness,” he said, “this is all a very pointless exercise.”

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Fleshman said that use likely would be a black-andwhite violation of Daniels’ NIL rights. “The gray area, I would say,” he said, “is really around how is this video, how is this image or how is this highlight video being used?” The purpose matters. Feldman thinks LSU can use photos and videos of Daniels in TV commercials; radio, print or streaming ads; and social media posts so long as they’re being used only to promote the football program. Things get murkier if LSU football attaches one of its corporate sponsors to images of Daniels. “Let’s say they have a signed football,” Feldman said, “and then they put a picture of that signed football in an ad for something. Then you can say, ‘Well, maybe they’re now using it for commercial purposes.’ ” Could promoting LSU athletics be a commercial purpose? Kansas City attorney Mit Winter, a lawyer who practices sports law and intellectual property law, thinks Daniels could have a right to object if the Tigers use his likeness in basic promotional materials. Therein lies the gray area. “If they wanted to keep using his NIL to promote LSU athletics,” Winter said, “they would need to enter into another agreement with him for that, and presumably Jayden Daniels would ask for some money to do that. That’s just an assumption on my part.”

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fore and after the grace period ended, something Tulane law professor Gabe Feldman pointed out after he was asked what he thought Daniels was trying to accomplish. “The question is,” Feldman said, “what are the specifics of the contract they had? What did it allow them to do? What did it not allow them to do, and then, more importantly, maybe, what did they actually do? What is he complaining about?” Feldman suggested Daniels could be “stating a legitimate claim,” but because his attorney did not offer speciﬁc evidence that LSU had violated the terms of the contract, then the letter he sent could merely could be an example of “public posturing.” Heitner echoed that sentiment. He said it was “rather sloppy” for Daniels’ lawyer to make those claims and demands “without any legal basis whatsoever.” “It seems like it’s retaliatory,” Heitner said. “It’s purely a reaction to not getting his way with respect to retirement of his jersey number.”

Ford also has taken occasional reps with the ﬁrst team, and he made sure not to be forgotten with a standout performance against the Jaguars. Ford had seven tackles and an interception, picking off Jacksonville quarterback Nick Mullens in the red zone.

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No, Daniels does not have a legal right to the No. 5, and he cannot prevent LSU from issuing it to one of its players. That’s not what his cease-and-desist action is demanding of the school. Daniels can exercise his legal right to stop LSU from using his name, image and likeness (NIL) in certain ways. David Fleshman, a former LSU basketball player who now practices sports law in Baton Rouge, said the school could expose itself to a potential lawsuit if it uses Daniels’ NIL in a “very clear commercial purpose.” “It’s not a blanket prohibition against any use of his name, image and likeness,” Fleshman said. “It’s only the commercial use.” LSU had an agreement with Daniels that, presumably, outlined the ways in which the school could use his NIL after he moved on to the NFL. Adam Kenner, Daniels’ attorney, referenced that contract at the top of the cease-and-desist letter, where he said that LSU had a 180-day “grace period” in which it could use Daniels’ NIL after his collegiate career ended. It’s unclear what exactly the deal allowed LSU to do with Daniels’ NIL both be-

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yards) and Kevin Austin (three catches, 24 yards) could be the most logical candidates to fill that spot, though neither delivered the kind of statement against Jacksonville to say the battle has reached a conclusion. There’s also rookie Bryce Lance, who didn’t play Saturday because he’s been dealing with “bumps and bruises.” The Saints don’t have a clear fourth receiver after Ja’Lynn Polk retired earlier in camp. And if rookie Jordyn Tyson, who is dealing with a hamstring injury, has to miss significant time, whoever wins that job likely will be elevated to the third receiver behind Chris Olave and Devaughn Vele. There’s also a question of how many receivers the Saints keep. Bub Means (four catches, 77 yards) made a case that he’s deserving of a spot, but there might not be room if the Saints have only five wideouts on their initial 53man roster. And even if the Saints keep six receivers, Means would have to beat out someone like Austin, who is ahead of him in the pecking order as of now. Elsewhere, Ronnie Bell (zero catches, one target) surprisingly had a quiet night given he had been having a productive camp. And Jalen Cropper (three catches, 49 yards) found his way to the ball, despite limited reps in practice.

8-of-11 passing. Rattler was also sacked twice, one of which led to a fumble that Jacksonville recovered inside the Saints 10-yard line.

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their megaphone, Jenni Hargett said they’ve been able to add almost 10,000 people to the donor registry since they began searching for a match in December of last year. Jenni Hargett described herself as someone who leans toward being cynical, but she said this process has restored her faith in humanity. “I’ve heard directly from eight people who have been called as matches for other patients — those are patients that otherwise would not get a life-saving stem cell transplant,” Jenni Hargett said. “So it’s really been a beautiful thing to be a part of that. “We’re obviously ready to find STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE Cate’s match and be able to breathe New Orleans Saints offensive lineman Dillon Radunz poses for a photo with Cate Hargett, 11, after a joint a little easier, but it has been really practice with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday in Metairie. amazing to know this has grown into something that is helping so bone marrow, they assume the that process is like donating plas- to have the best chance of surviv- many people.” donor process will be difficult or ma. It’s an afternoon. It’s no longer ing the disease. Those who are interested in Cate’s parents work as a school- joining the donor registry can find the invasive process that it was time-consuming. teacher and farmer in Greenwood, more information at my.nmdp.org/ “It’s a 30-second cheek swab on years ago. “Once people know, it’s an easy Mississippi. Neither has a large join. each side,” Jenni Hargett said. social media following to get the “Then if they’re called to donate yes.” Because of Cate’s situation, she word out. Still, because of organi- Email Luke Johnson at — and it’s rare to be matched with a patient — but if you are matched, needs a 100% match from a donor zations such as the Saints sharing ljohnson@theadvocate.com.

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the doctors, they’re going to learn from patients like Cate that are the ﬁrst to come through with it.” While Cate and her family are navigating their journey, they also hope to help people who are going through something similar by raising awareness and increasing the number of people in the National Marrow Donor Program registry. That was why the Hargett family was at Saints camp Thursday, and it is why players such as Saints guard Dillon Radunz offered his time and platform to get the word out. Radunz was one of several players from both the Saints and Jaguars who made time to visit with Cate after practice Thursday, but he also submitted his own sample to the donor program — a simple process that required him to swab his cheeks for 30 seconds. “Obviously it’s heartbreaking,” Radunz said. “Any of these diseases that pop up and need a lot of research, need a lot of help, obviously it’s sad, and it’s more sad when it happens to children who are completely innocent. You hear about a story like that and you immediately want to help. “Anything to promote this, to promote people being registered to be donors to help people like Cate, I want to do my part to help.” One of the main obstacles the Hargetts have encountered is education. When people think about

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Sanders’ turn to start in Browns’ QB competition BY JOE REEDY AP sportswriter

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark dribbles the ball in the second half of a game against the Atlanta Dream on Sunday in Atlanta.

Fever picks up big win over Dream, Reese BY CHARLES ODUM AP sportswriter

ATLANTA — After the Indiana Fever’s fourth straight win, Caitlin Clark said coach Stephanie White “made a great point” in her postgame talk with the team by saying it felt like a playoff game. If so, the Fever looked playoffready in its 95-91 overtime win over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday. The Fever showed impressive depth with four players scoring 18 or more points. Perhaps of more importance, Indiana responded to a major challenge from an Atlanta team that began the day one-half game behind the Fever for the important fourth-place spot in the playoff standings. The top four teams receive home-court advantage in the ﬁrst round. “Coming into each night, we know how important that win is to hopefully get home-court advantage in the playoffs,” Clark said. Atlanta led 72-64 entering the

fourth quarter. Indiana held the Dream to nine points in the final period of regulation. “Just proud of our group,” Clark said. “Super resilient. Obviously, this was a big one.” Clark scored 26 points with nine assists. After scoring only five points in the first half, Kelsey Mitchell had an important layup late in overtime to finish with 20 points. It was Mitchell’s 19th consecutive game scoring at least 20. “Kelsey struggled from the floor in the first half, and she found it in the second half,” White said. “I think that’s part of her growth, which is knowing to stay with it, that it’s going to come.” White said Clark and Mitchell “were both terrific” and said Clark was effective in creating scoring opportunities for her teammates. “The way that she’s getting us into offense, the way she’s using the floor to give her teammates shots ... she’s allowing the game to flow, and she’s doing a great job

of finding her teammates in that,” White said. “The way she does that, it opens things up for her.” Makayla Timpson delivered Indiana’s first three field goals of overtime to score a career-high 20 points. Aliyah Boston added 18 points with 14 rebounds. Clark said Atlanta — which had 32 points from Allisha Gray, and 15 points with 14 rebounds from Angel Reese — “is a team that will be scary in the playoffs. They’re great at what they do. They have a lot of different weapons.” The Dream also had the support of a sellout crowd of 17,044 at State Farm Arena, the home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and also the usual site of Dream games when Clark and the Fever are in town. “For us, these are the games you get up for, that’s what’s fun about competition,” Clark said. “You know, you want to play the best. It brings out the best in you. Obviously, that’s been a challenge and we’re really good at that.”

Kittle points toward Week 1 return BY JOSH DUBOW

AP pro football writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle said he expects to come off the physically unable to perform list before the start of the season and remains hopeful that his surgically repaired Achilles tendon will be healthy enough for him to play in Week 1. Kittle tore his right Achilles on Jan. 11 in a playoff win at Philadelphia and is hoping to be back at practice in time to play Week 1 on Sept. 11 in Australia against the Los Angeles Rams. “I have a chance,” Kittle said Sunday. “We’re running around a lot, hitting top speeds. Hopefully we’re back in pads practicing sooner than later. Just trying to check the boxes and not be (dumb) is what I would say.” Kittle has made an impressive recovery over the past seven months and has been working out on the side at practice while he remains on the PUP list. Kittle said he expects to come off that list before rosters are cut to 53 players on Aug. 30 so he won’t have to miss the first four games of the season. The Niners are set to leave for Australia on Sept. 2, and Kittle said he wouldn’t expect to make the long flight unless the team plans to play him against the Rams. The first step will be coming off the PUP list and practicing with his teammates. “Hopefully I’m in pads sooner than later, because I don’t want my first time to be in pads traveling in Australia,” he said. “Because I just don’t think that’d be a very smart idea. These next couple of weeks will let me

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San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle waves before a preseason game against the Tennessee Titans on Thursday in Santa Clara, Calif. know if I’m ready to play Week 1 or not.” Kittle said the grueling process that he described as “the most boring rehab in the entire world” was made easier once Dr. Neal ElAttrache told him early on that Week 1 was a possibility, with Kittle saying that helped “light a ﬁre” for him. He also knows not to push too hard to prevent a setback. “I want to play in every football game that I possibly can play in,” he said. “But I’m also aware it’s an 18-week season, and so hey, if you miss Week 1 and you’re playing Week 2, it is what it is. I’m just going keep that as my goal and then we’ll adjust from there if we need to.” Kittle is a two-time All-Pro and seven-time Pro Bowler who is a key part of the San Francisco of-

fense as a passing threat and a blocker in the run game. He had 57 catches for 628 yards receiving and seven touchdowns last season. He also brings an infectious positivity that inspires his teammates and has helped his speedy recovery. “That’s how he lives his life,” offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak said. “That’s how he goes by his every day, and you got to appreciate that about him. To me, that’s what’s going to make him get back from his injury and be himself again is because he has the right mindset. He attacks every day with positivity, that he’s progressing and he’s healing. Just seeing him out there just with the trainers working out, he looks great, and I’m excited to see kind of how he progresses over these next few weeks and where we’re at.”

CLEVELAND — Deshaun Watson made the most of his opportunity this past week to show he should be the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback when the season opens on Sept. 13 against Jacksonville. The upcoming week will be Shedeur Sanders’ turn. “I did feel going into the last game that it was relatively close in terms of both having an opportunity at the starting position, so it would be unfair to not go into the next Sanders game and give Shedeur that same opportunity,” coach Todd Monken said Sunday. “Albeit a different team, certainly at home. There’s no guarantee the same players will be playing in this game, but it’s the closest you have, and we owe it to both players, who have handled it well and competed at a high level.” Sanders will start and play the first half of Saturday’s game against Buffalo, as well as take snaps with the first team on Monday and Wednesday. Watson will be with the first unit on Tuesday and play the third quarter Saturday. Both quarterbacks will take snaps with the starters during Thursday’s joint workout with the Bills. Monken said the snaps both players are getting are “pretty balanced at this point, within reason.” Watson played six series in a 34-10 loss to the Chicago Bears. He led the Browns to a field goal and touchdown on the second and third drives, completing 8 of 9 passes for 102 yards. The 10-year veteran was 3 of 6 for 24 yards on his last three series, including 0 for 2 during a twominute drill late in the first half. Watson also had more consistent

pressure in the pocket with the Browns taking out their starting offensive line after two series. However, for his first playing time in 22 months, Watson had a solid 98.2 passer rating while going 11 of 15 for 126 yards. “It was good to be able to move around, run around and be in live action, other guys trying to hit me and be confident with it. So the work has definitely been put in,” Watson said after Saturday’s game. Sanders went 6 of 11 for 79 yards with an interception and a 39.6 passer rating in three possessions. Sanders, who started the final seven games last season, had a 24-yard completion to Gage Larvadain on his first snap and later found Luke Floriea for a 35-yard gain to the Bears 14. Cleveland didn’t get points, though, when Ahmani Marshall was stopped on fourth and 1 at the 5. Sanders’ worst throw was on the third series, when a pass intended for Malachi Corley was overthrown and picked off by Beanie Bishop at the Bears 30 and returned 34 yards into Cleveland territory. “I just didn’t execute, but the right decision was made,” Sanders said after the game. “Turning the ball over and all that stuff is not great, and you won’t survive a long time in the league doing that. But as long as my eyes, feet and everything were in the right place, being able to execute it, it just may happen.” Monken hopes Sanders can bounce back this week, as he has throughout the offseason workouts. “He’s improved so much. I mean he really has in terms of climbing the pocket and working through his progressions,” Monken said. “Even on the one he threw to 81 (Luke Floriea) in the slot, like he drifted too deep. We caught him in the blitz, but they weren’t even close. He created some of his own pressure.”

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As NASCAR Chase nears, Logano is heating up again BY NATE RYAN

Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Joey Logano delivered a warning to his NASCAR rivals after his victory Saturday night at Richmond Raceway. “Don’t let the boys get hot,” the driver of Team Penske’s No. 22 Ford said after fending off a late charge by Chase Briscoe to earn his 39th career win by 0.392 seconds. “We’re Logano pretty strong right now. It’s awesome to see the speed in the 22 again.” After falling as low as 20th in the points standings at the season’s halfway mark, the threetime Cup Series champion is surging toward the NASCAR Chase. Two races remain until the title run featuring the top 16 drivers. With two victories in the past four races (after only one win in his previous 56 starts), Logano has jumped to ninth in the points standings and established himself as a championship contender again. It’s no surprise given that it’s the 2026 season. Since 2014, Logano has either won the Cup title or advanced to the championship round in every even-numbered year, and he typically does it with a late-season spree. In his last title run, the 36-year-old won three of the final 10 races. “We’ve seen it a lot over the years once he gets that confidence,” crew chief Paul Wolfe said. “He’s very good under pressure situations.” Logano scored his third Richmond win Saturday but his first in nine years at the track. “Gosh, it was a great car,” he said. “We’ve had a great car here the last five races, and we haven’t been able to capitalize on the win.

We’ve been so close, but it was sweet redemption today.” Logano capitalized on the final strategy call by Wolfe, who pitted his driver just after taking the lead from Briscoe with 39 laps remaining. Logano needed only 15 laps to retake the lead from Christopher Bell, who was trying to stretch his tires to the finish on Richmond’s abrasive surface over the last 57 laps. Briscoe led a race-high 171 of 400 laps. He had a best finish of 11th in nine previous starts at Richmond, one of only three active tracks where he had yet to score a top 10. After qualifying second, he passed pole-sitter Ryan Blaney on the first lap to lead the first lap of his career on the 0.75-mile oval. “This place has been a real struggle to me,” said Briscoe, who clinched a spot in the Chase with his sixth top 10 in the past seven races. “To get close and not get it done is so frustrating. We had a great points night, but just frustrating to say the least to have one slip away like that at the end.” Austin Cindric finished third and credited his teammate Logano with providing the advice that helped him score his best result since an April 2025 win at Talladega Superspeedway. “This is a racetrack that I feel like Joey Logano could finish top five in my rental car,” Cindric said. “It’s a place where I study him so much.” Denny Hamlin took fourth, followed by Chase Elliott, who notched his first top five since winning at Texas Motor Speedway three months ago. In an emotional ceremony Friday morning, Richmond Raceway dedicated the grandstand seats where Hamlin’s parents sat for years watching NASCAR races long before their son became a 64-time winner in the Cup Series. Hamlin’s father, Dennis, died in a house fire in December.

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THE VARSITY ZONE FOOTBALL PRE VIEW n DISTRICT 11-2A

A proven presence

Country Day leans on returning RB as new QB takes over BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

Country Day running back Justin Drago crossed the line of scrimmage, turned and hauled in a short pass over the outstretched arm of a Calvary Baptist defender. With the ball in his hands, Drago cut left and raced past midfield for a 30-yard pickup in a second-round playoff game last season. “We were so explosive compared to my sophomore year,” Drago said. “We had big play after big play. Being a part of that was very fun.” Now comes the challenge of doing it again. With record-setting quarterback Hudson Wright gone, Country Day will lean on the senior Drago to give sophomore quarterback Jack Grace a proven safety valve. Grace, a Jesuit transfer, takes over after Wright threw for 3,334 yards and a schoolrecord 48 touchdown passes while leading the Cajuns to seven wins, their most since 2018. “That’s where Justin’s presence is going to be huge,” coach Ben Powell said. “He can kind of mentally take the load off: I don’t have to throw the ball all three downs. I’ve got a guy that I can hand the ball off to. I’ve got a guy, ‘Oh, things aren’t developing like coach said,’ I’ve got a guy I can check the ball off to.” Drago said he’s “going to be talking to Jack in the backfield a lot, keeping him focused, keeping him calm under pressure.” Primarily a defensive player at strong safety and outside linebacker during his first two seasons as a starter, Drago moved last year to full-time running back in Powell’s first season at the school. In a four-wide spread passing offense installed by Powell, Drago led the team in rushing with 151 carries for 810 yards and eight touchdowns. He also caught a teamhigh 52 passes for 675 yards and 11 scores, finishing with more than 1,400 yards from scrimmage. He returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, including one in the playoff loss to Calvary. “He’s the kind of kid that if we said, ‘Hey, you’re not going to play running

Justin Drago RB | Country Day, Sr. Accounted for more than 1,400 yards from scrimmage on more than 200 touches, including a team-high 52 receptions from out of the backfield in the Cajuns’ four-wide spread passing offense. Curtis McAllister WR | Country Day, Jr. Paired with Kellen Brewer as basketball standouts catching passes for the Cajuns. McAllister’s father is former New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister.

STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

Country Day running back Justin Drago, center, runs through the Patrick F. Taylor defense during a game Oct. 4, 2024, in Metairie. back anymore, we’re just going to put you at linebacker because that’s what the team needs,’ he wouldn’t have an issue with it,” Powell said. “He’s our best football player,” the coach continued. “But we made the decision, we felt like as a team, our ability to score points and do things on offense and win more games is having him play 90% of the time at running back.” Drago is not the only playmaker back from last season. Basketball standouts Curtis McAllister and Kellen Brewer return as experienced wideouts. Senior tight

community service events for Mosley. He was just as active the past five seasons in Orlando when he was head coach of the Magic. Mosley makes it clear this work isn’t about him. In fact, he would have preferred no cameras around Tuesday. “This has nothing to do with me,” he said. “It has everything to do with what we are doing as an organization to be in this community and give back.” It didn’t take long for Pierre to appreciate his new coach. He has already invited Mosley and some of the coaching staff to his grandmother’s house for some good ole home cooking. “New Orleans is a different place,” Pierre said. “We don’t accept a lot of people from outside or people that aren’t from here. For us to welcome him with open arms and for him to take me under his wings and take me to these events brings more and more love to him. By the time the season starts, he will be a fan favorite for everybody down here. I’m pushing it.” Inevitably, the only thing that will win fans over is winning games. But on Tuesday, Mosley earned his first W in New Orleans. It didn’t happen on a basketball court, but instead in a barber school on the fourth floor of the Executive Plaza building. Rebecca “Ro” Washington, who opened the barber school 10 years

end Alex Moore gives Country Day a reliable target over the middle. While Country Day’s offense piled up points, its defense struggled against top competition, allowing 66 points apiece to Episcopal and Calvary and 42 to Newman. That could require Drago to return to a larger defensive role late in games. “Hopefully he doesn’t ever play defense,” Powell said, “because we’re always up.” Contact Christopher Dabe at cdabe@ theadvocate.com

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW 1. Drew Brees’ three sons are on the Santa Fe Christian (California) football team that will visit Newman for a Thursday game in Week 2. The Brees children attended Newman when Drew quarterbacked the New Orleans Saints. Drew is a Santa Fe Christian assistant coach. 2. Newman and Country Day are breaking in new QBs. For Newman, dual-threat senior Ren Guidry and pocket-passing sophomore Jaylen Hunter will battle through the preseason. Country Day has sophomore Jack Grace, a sophomore. 3. Covenant Christian will turn to senior QB Peyton Clement in place of all-state QB Owen Troscliar, a

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Covenant Christian Last year: 8-3 (second round), 4-0 in 7-1A Newman Last year: 7-3 (quarterfinals), 4-0 in 10-2A Country Day Last year: 7-5 (second round), 2-2 in 102A Fisher Last year: 1-9, 1-3 in 9-3A Houma Christian Last year: 1-9, 1-5 in 8-2A

FIVE PLAYERS TO WATCH

Newman coach Aaron Vice talks to his team during a game against St. Charles Catholic on Sept. 4 in LaPlace. Vice has handed off playcalling duties to offensive coordinator Kenny Sears Jr.

MOSLEY

LOOKING BACK

ago, was beaming with pride. “Having coach Mosley come here and sponsor haircuts is about so much more than getting a fresh haircut,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to teach our students how to not only give back but it also builds conﬁdence and creates connections. It’s all about serving the community and sometimes simply making someone feel good about themselves. He helped shine light on the East.” As Mosley continues to get settled into his new hometown, he is constantly learning what makes the city tick. He’s absorbing as much information as he can. He’s been spotted on the sideline watching the Saints practice at training camp. He admires what he’s seen from Saints coach Kellen Moore, who has brought some of his players to the Pelicans’ facility to hoop. But the biggest inspiration Mosley got came Aug. 8 when he watched Saints legend Drew Brees give his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction speech. “It gave me goose bumps and brought tears to my eyes,” Mosley said. It also gave him a better sense of what type of place New Orleans is. Mosley watched Brees’ speech three times. “It was not only the passion of his words but also the passion in this city,” Mosley said. “All you could hear was the love he has for this city and how much the city poured into him. And that’s what it’s about for us. How much can we pour back into this city and give to this city and represent

Randy Lacrosse DL/RB | Fisher, Sr. An all-district defensive lineman with 10 tackles for loss while also leading the team in rushing with 393 yards on 79 carries and two TDs. Hendrix Hill WR/CB | Newman, Sr. The versatile playmaker (40 catches, 528 yards, nine TDs last season) can line up anywhere on offense — including direct-snap plays at quarterback. A.J. Yunusah LB | Newman, Jr. Returns as a third-year starter after his 89 tackles led the team. The returning alldistrict selection had five tackles for loss and three interceptions. dual threat who guided the Lions to 21 wins over the past two seasons. Clement threw six TD passes in limited action last season. 4. Fisher will likely go another season without playing at its home stadium as the entire school campus undergoes reconstruction after Hurricane Ida in 2021. There is progress, however. The Gators returned to their home baseball field in the spring. 5. Newman coach Aaron Vice will give up playcalling duties after adding offensive coordinator Kenny Sears Jr. to the coaching staff. The former college QB at Northwestern State played in high school for his father, Ken Sears, at St. Paul’s. “I wasn’t going to do it if it wasn’t the right guy,” Vice said.

STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

New Orleans Pelicans coach Jamahl Mosley, center, reacts to a student’s haircut on Tuesday at Washington Academy of Barbering Arts. the right way. The only way you do that is if you’re out in the community. That’s what we have to continue to do.” This isn’t just something Mosley wants his team to do. He knows it’s something the players need to do. “We are so blessed to be in the situation that we’re in as coaches and players,” Mosley said. “So we have to be able to support the people that support us.”

Mosley will preach his message of giving back to his team. Washington will preach the same message to her team of 12 aspiring barbers who were busy honing their skills Tuesday. She knows that eventually, those barbers will own their own businesses, ﬁlled with barbershop talk. And like with most barbershops, sports will be a hot topic. The Pelicans, no doubt, will be discussed. The 30 kids who received haircuts

and the 12 barbers who delivered those cuts will remember the three hours spent with Mosley and the lessons learned. “This reminds me that success isn’t only measured by how much you can make,” Washington said. “Sometimes success is measured by how much you are willing to give.” Email Rod Walker at rwalker@ theadvocate.com.

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SCOREBOARD Braves avoid sweep

Odds Sports Betting Line MLB Monday

American League FAVORITE LINE at TAMPA BAY -167 at KANSAS CITY OFF National League FAVORITE LINE at CINCINNATI OFF at PHILA -240 at CINCINNATI OFF at N.Y METS -125 LA Dodgers -251 Interleague FAVORITE LINE Detroit -122 at BOSTON OFF Atlanta -125 at CHI CUBS -173

UNDERDOG Baltimore Athletics

LINE +132 OFF

UNDERDOG St. Louis Miami St. Louis San Diego at COLORADO

LINE OFF +190 OFF +102 +196

Pro basketball W 23 21 22 20 13 10 8

L 12 13 14 14 22 23 25

Pct .657 .618 .611 .588 .371 .303 .242

x-Minnesota Golden State x-Las Vegas Dallas Portland Phoenix Los Angeles Seattle

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L 7 9 12 15 20 23 22 30

Pct GB .806 — .727 3½ .667 5 .571 8½ .429 13½ .361 16 .353 16 .189 22½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s Games

Chicago 82, Seattle 80 Indiana 95, Atlanta 91, OT Portland 88, Phoenix 85

Monday’s Games

Dallas at Golden State, 9 p.m.

Pro football NFL Glance Thursday’s Games

Cincinnati 16, Detroit 14 Pittsburgh 28, Green Bay 9 Indianapolis 13, New England 13 Arizona 27, Las Vegas 14 L.A. Chargers 27, Houston 7 Tennessee 19, San Francisco 13

Friday’s Games

Denver 27, Atlanta 7 Tampa Bay 24, N.Y. Jets 16 Washington 20, Miami 7

Saturday’s Games

Buffalo 29, Carolina 14 Chicago 34, Cleveland 10 Minnesota 13, N.Y. Giants 10 Jacksonville 24, New Orleans 20 L.A. Rams 20, Kansas City 12 Baltimore 24, Philadelphia 7 Dallas 17, Seattle 7

Thursday, Aug. 20

Las Vegas at Houston, 7 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, 9 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 21

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Carolina at Jacksonville, 6:30 p.m. Green Bay at Denver, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 22

Washington at Detroit, 11 a.m. Atlanta at Indianapolis, noon Baltimore at Minnesota, noon Buffalo at Cleveland, noon N.Y. Giants at Miami, 3 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 3 p.m. Chicago at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at New England, 6 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Dallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Sunday

At Lindner Family Tennis Center Cincinnati Purse: $9,415,725 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Results Sunday from Western & Southern Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses):

Golf FedEx St. Jude Championship Sunday

Men’s Singles

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Sunday

At Columbia Edgewater Country Club Portland, Ore. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,541; Par: 72 Final Round Jeeno Thitikul 68-67-67-64—266 C. Wannasaen 69-68-67-63—267 Arpichaya Yubol 66-66-68-67—267 Sophia Schubert 67-66-67-71—271 Na Rin An 69-68-66-69—272 67-66-72-67—272 P. Anannarukarn Celine Boutier 69-67-70-66—272 S. Vinijchaitham 67-70-70-66—273 Rose Zhang 70-65-70-68—273 Chella Choi 70-67-67-70—274 Manon De Roey 67-69-68-70—274 Jiwon Jeon 67-71-66-70—274 Somi Lee 72-68-67-67—274 Anne Chen 74-65-70-66—275 Nataliya Guseva 67-68-73-67—275

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Western & Southern Open Results

Seattle at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

The Standard Portland Classic

Atlanta Braves pitcher Bryce Elder throws the first pitch of the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday in Atlanta. The Braves won 5-3 over the Diamondbacks.

Tennis

Sunday, Aug. 23

At TPC Southwind Memphis, Tenn. Purse: $20 million Yardage: 7,288; Par: 70 Final Round Scottie Schefﬂer 68-61-68-66—263 Si Woo Kim 70-68-65-68—271 Sam Burns 67-70-62-73—272 Alex Noren 71-66-66-69—272 Wyndham Clark 69-66-70-68—273 Sungjae Im 66-66-67-74—273 Tommy Fleetwood 66-68-68-72—274 Jake Knapp 65-70-67-72—274 Hideki Matsuyama 66-70-67-71—274 Xander Schauffele 67-72-68-67—274 Ludvig Åberg 68-65-74-67—274 Patrick Cantlay 69-66-70-70—275 Bud Cauley 66-72-70-67—275 Nicolas Echavarria 68-66-71-70—275 Matt Fitzpatrick 70-67-69-69—275 Tom Kim 69-72-63-71—275 Kurt Kitayama 65-73-66-71—275 Adam Scott 66-70-69-70—275 Pierceson Coody 71-66-70-69—276 Viktor Hovland 68-64-72-72—276 Maverick McNealy 68-70-69-69—276 Patrick Rodgers 67-69-71-69—276 Jordan Spieth 65-69-72-70—276 Ryan Gerard 70-70-68-69—277 Harry Hall 72-68-68-69—277 Max Homa 73-67-69-68—277 Jackson Koivun 71-70-66-70—277 J.T. Poston 71-68-66-72—277 Alex Smalley 68-68-72-69—277 Jacob Bridgeman 69-70-68-71—278 Chris Gotterup 66-70-69-73—278 Brian Harman 70-64-69-75—278 Russell Henley 71-70-67-70—278 Rickie Fowler 68-73-66-72—279 Nicolai Højgaard 73-70-68-68—279 Keith Mitchell 69-66-72-72—279 J.J. Spaun 71-69-67-72—279 Sepp Straka 68-73-72-66—279 Justin Rose 73-70-73-64—280 Nick Taylor 69-68-69-74—280 Cameron Young 69-69-72-70—280 Michael Brennan 73-70-67-71—281 Harris English 68-75-71-67—281 Ben Grifﬁn 73-71-69-68—281 Sam Stevens 69-71-70-71—281 Gary Woodland 66-71-70-74—281 Corey Conners 71-71-70-70—282 Matti Schmid 73-70-67-72—282 Justin Thomas 70-67-72-73—282 Michael Thorbjornsen 65-75-72-70—282 Sudarshan Yellamaraju70-65-76-71—282 Ryo Hisatsune 69-70-71-73—283 Shane Lowry 69-72-72-70—283 Collin Morikawa 71-69-71-72—283 Michael Kim 65-72-74-73—284 Min Woo Lee 67-71-75-71—284 Jordan L. Smith 71-73-67-73—284 Eric Cole 72-72-70-71—285 Ryan Fox 73-73-72-67—285 Kristoffer Reitan 72-71-73-69—285 Alex Fitzpatrick 71-74-70-71—286 Aldrich Potgieter 71-71-72-72—286 Ricky Castillo 72-74-68-73—287 Matthew McCarty 73-72-71-71—287 Aaron Rai 72-66-71-78—287

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By ERIK RANK

Erika Hara 69-66-69-71—275 Minami Katsu 70-67-67-71—275 Lauren Coughlin 70-68-71-67—276 Andrea Lee 70-68-73-65—276 Hye Jin Choi 66-67-72-72—277 Mariel Galdiano 65-71-70-71—277 Morgane Metraux 68-67-75-67—277 Yealimi Noh 69-67-69-72—277 Ruoning Yin 69-68-71-69—277 Aditi Ashok 69-71-66-72—278 Ayaka Furue 68-70-72-68—278 Esther Henseleit 72-67-71-68—278 Chizzy Iwai 67-71-69-71—278 Soo Bin Joo 67-70-68-73—278 Hae-Ran Ryu 67-68-72-71—278 Dewi Weber 67-70-69-72—278 Ana Belac 72-68-69-70—279 Nicole Broch Estrup 71-68-68-72—279 Robyn Choi 67-70-71-71—279 Lindy Duncan 68-70-70-71—279 Megha Ganne 71-68-67-73—279 Juniper Jang 72-67-72-68—279 Yan Liu 67-72-69-71—279 Benedetta Moresco 67-69-74-69—279 Xiaowen Yin 73-66-71-69—279 Madison Young 71-69-67-72—279 Jenny Bae 70-69-70-71—280 Olivia Cowan 66-72-70-72—280 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 70-68-72-70—280 You Min Hwang 67-73-68-72—280 C. Lo-Chacarra Coto 67-73-69-71—280 Weiwei Zhang 71-68-67-74—280 Amanda Doherty 73-67-70-71—281 Nastasia Nadaud 69-71-73-68—281 Emily Pedersen 74-66-68-73—281 Wei-Ling Hsu 72-68-71-71—282 Gurleen Kaur 70-70-71-71—282 Mao Saigo 69-68-75-70—282 Camille Boyd 68-72-71-72—283 Ashleigh Buhai 69-69-72-73—283 MinJi Kang 71-69-70-73—283 Stephanie Meadow 71-69-70-73—283 Nika Ito 71-69-74-70—284 Alexa Pano 69-71-71-74—285 Lauren Walsh 66-73-74-72—285 Grace Kim 66-69-74-77—286 Mimi Rhodes 68-71-71-78—288 Maude-Aimee Leblanc 72-68-76-74—290 Lauren Tenuta 69-70-74-78—291

Sunday’s Games

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National League

Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto

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L 49 55 58 63 65

Pct GB .602 — .556 5½ .532 8½ .492 13½ .484 14½

Chicago Detroit Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City

W 65 60 60 60 51

L 58 64 65 65 74

Pct .528 .484 .480 .480 .408

Houston Texas Seattle Athletics Los Angeles

W 63 61 58 49 49

L 61 64 66 75 76

Pct GB .508 — .488 2½ .468 5 .395 14 .392 14½

Central Division

GB — 5½ 6 6 15

Round of 64 Christopher O’Connell, Australia, def. Casper Ruud (11), Norway, 7-5, 1-2, ret. Michael Zheng, United States, def. Ugo Humbert (24), France, 6-4, 6-3. Daniil Medvedev (4), Russia, def. Marco Trungelliti, Argentina, 6-4, 7-5. Joao Fonseca (23), Brazil, def. Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 6-4, 7-6 (2). Felix Auger-Aliassime (2), Canada, def. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 6-3, 7-5. Lorenzo Musetti (10), Italy, def. Daniel Altmaier, Germany, 6-4, 6-2. Taylor Fritz (6), United States, def. Alex Michelsen, United States, 6-3, 6-4. Brandon Nakashima (27), United States, def. Aleksandar Kovacevic, United States, 6-2, 7-5. Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Argentina, def. Arthur Rinderknech (25), France, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5). Nuno Borges, Portugal, def. Francisco Cerundolo (20), Argentina, 6-4, 6-4. Andrey Rublev (13), Russia, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-1. Learner Tien (16), United States, def. Sebastian Baez, Argentina, 6-3, 7-6 (4). Daniel Merida, Spain, def. Zizou Bergs (30), Belgium, 6-3, 6-2. Adam Walton, Australia, def. Ignacio Buse (29), Peru, 6-4, 6-3.

Women’s Singles

Round of 64 Mirra Andreeva (5), Russia, def. Oleksandra Oliynykova, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-0. Elena Rybakina (2), Kazakhstan, def. Taylor Townsend, United States, 6-3, 6-4. Sara Bejlek, Czechia, def. Barbora Krejcikova (23), Czechia, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Wang Xinyu, China, def. Donna Vekic (31), Croatia, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Iga Swiatek (7), Poland, def. Emiliana Arango, Colombia, 6-3, 6-0. Janice Tjen (32), Indonesia, def. Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, 7-6 (8), 5-7, 7-5. Madison Keys (20), United States, def. Daria Snigur, Ukraine, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Marie Bouzkova (22), Czechia, def. Lucrezia Stefanini, Italy, 6-2, 6-4. Ann Li (28), United States, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 7-5, 6-3. Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, def. Talia Gibson, Australia, 6-2, 7-6 (2). Marta Kostyuk (10), Ukraine, def. Soﬁa Kenin, United States, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. Katerina Siniakova (33), Czechia, def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-1. Iva Jovic (13), United States, def. Tamara Korpatsch, Germany, 6-4, 6-3. Ekaterina Alexandrova (16), Russia, def. Anna Blinkova, Russia, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-5. Wang Xiyu, China, def. Leylah Fernandez (30), Canada, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Sloane Stephens, United States, def. Anastasia Potapova (24), Russia, 6-2, 6-4. Women’s Doubles Round of 32 Shuko Aoyama, Japan, and En-Shuo Liang, Taiwan, def. Ingrid Neel, Estonia, and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, 6-2, 7-5. Ulrikke Eikeri, Norway, and Quinn Gleason (6), United States, def. Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, and Ellen Perez, Australia, 6-2, 1-6, 10-7. Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Hanyu Guo (3), China, def. Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, and Miyu (1994) Kato, Japan, 6-4, 6-2. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Jelena Ostapenko (5), Latvia, def. Olivia Nicholls, Britain, and Tereza Mihalikova, Slovakia, 7-6 (2), 6-3. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Maya Joint, Australia, def. Elise Mertens, Belgium, and Diana Shnaider (8), Russia, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 10-3. Aldila Sutjiadi, Indonesia, and Erin Routliffe (7), New Zealand, def. Asia Muhammad, United States, and Fanny Stollar, Hungary, 7-5, 7-5. Marie Bouzkova and Linda Noskova, Czechia, def. Caroline Dolehide and Emma Navarro, United States, 6-4, 6-4. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, and Anna Danilina (2), Kazakhstan, def. Ann Li, United

States, and Clara Tauson, Denmark, 6-4, 6-2.

Auto racing

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League ATHLETICS — Claimed LHP Joe Rock off waivers from the Chicago White Sox. Recalled SS Darell Hernaiz from Las Vegas (PCL). Placed LF Tyler Soderstrom on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 15. Transferred RHP Justin Sterner from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL. BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent C Samuel Basallo on a rehab assignment to Norfolk (IL). BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled LHP Raymond Burgos and C Mickey Gasper from Worcester (IL). Sent SS Trevor Story on a rehab assignment to Worcester. Placed DH Masataka Yoshida on the 10-day and RHP Justin Slaten on the 15-day IL, Slaten retroactive to Aug. 13. DETROIT TIGERS — Selected the contract of LF Brett Callahan from Toledo (IL). Designated CF Trei Cruz for assignment. HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled RHP Miguel Ullola from Sugar Land (PCL). Optioned RHP Ronel Blanco to Sugar Land. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent RHP Eli Morgan outright to Omaha (IL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent C Alex Jackson outright to St. Paul (IL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated LHP Brendon Little from the paternity list. Optioned LHP Ricky Tiedemann to Buffalo (IL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Selected the contract of RHP Dennis Santana from Reno (PCL). Designated LHP Philip Abner for assignment. ATLANTA BRAVES — Selected the contract of LHP Ray Kerr from Gwinnett (IL). Designated LHP Danny Young for assignment. CHICAGO CUBS — Reinstated RHP Edward Cabrera from the 15-day IL. Optioned RHP Javier Assad to Iowa (IL). Sent RHP Daniel Palencia on a rehab assignment to Iowa. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Kyle Hurt from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed LHP Justin Wrobleski on the 15-day IL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled LHP Hunter Barco and 3B Nick Yorke from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned RHP Wilber Dotel and SS Jack Brannigan to Indianapolis.

FOOTBALL

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed RB Tre Stewart. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed RB Jonathan Ward.

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

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L 50 58 61 66 69

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Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati

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L 48 53 61 65 64

Pct GB .616 — .576 5 .508 13½ .484 16½ .480 17

Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

W 74 67 66 51 50

L 51 58 59 73 74

Pct GB .592 — .536 7 .528 8 .411 22½ .403 23½

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s Games

St. Louis 8, Chicago Cubs 4 San Francisco 7, Colorado 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Washington 4 Miami 8, Cincinnati 4 Cleveland 6, San Diego 1 Milwaukee 4, L.A. Dodgers 1 Boston 4, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 9, Minnesota 1 Arizona 10, Atlanta 3

Baltimore 10, Tampa Bay 2 Pittsburgh 8, Boston 3 Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit 5 N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3, 10 innings Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 5 Kansas City 3, L.A. Angels 0 Athletics 5, Texas 2 San Diego 5, Cleveland 0 Seattle at Houston, n

Atlanta 5, Arizona 3 N.Y. Mets 4, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 8, Boston 3 Miami 7, Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 5 St. Louis 11, Chicago Cubs 4 Milwaukee 6, L.A. Dodgers 2 Colorado 13, San Francisco 7 San Diego 5, Cleveland 0

Baltimore (Young 9-3) at Tampa Bay (McClanahan 9-6), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Valdez 7-8) at Pittsburgh (Mlodzinski 6-5), 6:05 p.m. Arizona (Bratt 1-1) at Boston (TBD), 6:10 p.m. Athletics (Barnett 1-3) at Kansas City (Wacha 5-8), 6:40 p.m. Atlanta (Pérez 8-6) at Minnesota (Ober 7-4), 6:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Castillo 4-9) at Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 8-9), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Pallante 12-6) at Cincinnati (Lowder 4-8), 12:40 p.m., 1st game Miami (Junk 6-7) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 15-4), 5:40 p.m. St. Louis (TBD) at Cincinnati , 5:40 p.m. Detroit (Valdez 7-8) at Pittsburgh (Mlodzinski 6-5), 6:05 p.m. Arizona (Bratt 1-1) at Boston (TBD), 6:10 p.m. San Diego (Buehler 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (McLean 8-8), 6:10 p.m. Atlanta (Pérez 8-6) at Minnesota (Ober 7-4), 6:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Castillo 4-9) at Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 8-9), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis 11, Chicago Cubs 4

Athletics 5, Texas 2

St. Louis

Texas

Monday’s Games

NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 Results Saturday

At Richmond Raceway Richmond, Va. Lap length: 0.75 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (10) Joey Logano, Ford, 400 laps, 73 points. 2. (2) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 400, 52. 3. (23) Austin Cindric, Ford, 400, 48. 4. (14) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, 46. 5. (13) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, 38. 6. (30) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400, 31. 7. (8) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 400, 36. 8. (3) Josh Berry, Ford, 400, 40. 9. (5) William Byron, Chevrolet, 400, 30. 10. (25) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 400, 27. 11. (32) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 400, 28. 12. (18) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 399, 25. 13. (1) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 399, 41. 14. (31) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 399, 23. 15. (4) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 399, 22. 16. (20) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 399, 21. 17. (6) Ryan Preece, Ford, 398, 20. 18. (35) Noah Gragson, Ford, 398, 19. 19. (16) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 398, 18. 20. (7) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 398, 22. 21. (19) Chris Buescher, Ford, 398, 16. 22. (12) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 398, 15. 23. (33) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 397, 0. 24. (17) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 397, 13. 25. (11) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 397, 12. 26. (9) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 397, 11. 27. (21) Erik Jones, Toyota, 396, 10. 28. (26) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 396, 9. 29. (29) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 396, 8. 30. (27) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 396, 7. 31. (28) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 396, 6. 32. (34) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 394, 5. 33. (15) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 394, 4. 34. (37) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 392, 3. 35. (36) Josh Bilicki, Ford, 391, 0. 36. (24) Zane Smith, Ford, 366, 1. 37. (22) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, engine, 279, 1. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 98.339 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds. Margin of Victory: .392 seconds. Caution Flags: 4 for 31 laps. Lead Changes: 29 among 10 drivers. Lap Leaders: R.Blaney 0; C.Briscoe 1-2; R.Blaney 3; C.Briscoe 4-6; R.Blaney 7-31; J.Berry 32; T.Gibbs 33; B.Wallace 34-36; R.Blaney 37-78; C.Briscoe 79-106; R.Blaney 107-124; C.Briscoe 125-171; J.Logano 172-178; D.Hamlin 179; R.Blaney 180-181; J.Logano 182-233; D.Hamlin 234; J.Logano 235-243; C.Briscoe 244-279; K.Larson 280281; T.Reddick 282-288; C.Briscoe 289-323; J.Logano 324; C.Bell 325-341; C.Briscoe 342360; J.Logano 361; C.Briscoe 362; D.Hamlin 363; C.Bell 364-375; J.Logano 376-400 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): C.Briscoe, 8 times for 171 laps; J.Logano, 6 times for 95 laps; R.Blaney, 6 times for 88 laps; C.Bell, 2 times for 29 laps; T.Reddick, 1 time for 7 laps; D.Hamlin, 3 times for 3 laps; B.Wallace, 1 time for 3 laps; K.Larson, 1 time for 2 laps; J.Berry, 1 time for 1 lap; T.Gibbs, 1 time for 1 lap. Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 4; R.Blaney, 2; T.Gibbs, 2; C.Elliott, 2; J.Logano, 2; S.Van Gisbergen, 2; C.Briscoe, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; D.Suárez, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. D.Hamlin, 969; 2. R.Blaney, 854; 3. T.Gibbs, 842; 4. T.Reddick, 831; 5. C.Briscoe, 715; 6. C.Elliott, 695; 7. C.Bell, 695; 8. K.Larson, 660; 9. J.Logano, 659; 10. C.Buescher, 653; 11. C.Hocevar, 645; 12. W.Byron, 630; 13. D.Suárez, 618; 14. B.Wallace, 587; 15. A.Cindric, 574; 16. S.Van Gisbergen, 567. NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

East Division

Chicago White Sox 4, Detroit 3 Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 3, 10 innings Cleveland 6, San Diego 1 Seattle 10, Houston 5 Boston 4, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 9, Minnesota 1 L.A. Angels 1, Kansas City 0 Texas 5, Athletics 3

Sunday’s Games

GB — 1½ 1½ 2½ 10 12 14

New York 82, Connecticut 75 Washington 80, Los Angeles 70 Minnesota 92, Las Vegas 87

East Division

Saturday’s Games

WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

American League

West Division

UNDERDOG LINE at PITTS -101 Arizona OFF at MINNESOTA +102 Chi White Sox +139

Indiana Atlanta New York Washington Chicago Toronto Connecticut

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Chicago

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Monday’s Games

Athletics

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ab r h bi ab r h bi Langford lf 3 1 0 0 Bolte cf 5 1 3 0 Duran ss 4 0 0 0 Gelof lf 5 1 2 2 Nimmo rf 4 0 1 0 Wilson ss 4 0 0 0 Burger 1b 4 1 3 2 Heim c 2 0 0 0 Foscue 2b 3 0 1 0 White 1b-3b 4 2 2 1 Kelenic ph 1 0 0 0 Butler rf 4 1 2 2 N.Lopez 2b 0 0 0 0 Muncy dh 3 0 2 0 Freeman 3b 3 0 1 0 Williams 2b 4 0 1 0 Díaz c 4 0 0 0 Hernaiz 3b 2 0 1 0 Wynns dh 1 0 0 0 McNeil ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Pederson ph-dh 2 0 0 0 Carter cf 3 0 1 0 Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 34 5 13 5 Texas 011 000 000 — 2 Athletics 020 000 21x — 5 E_Díaz (5). DP_Texas 1, Athletics 0. LOB_ Texas 6, Athletics 9. 2B_Carter (11), Muncy (9). HR_Burger (21), Butler (11), Gelof (14), White (1). S_Freeman (1). IP H R ER BB SO Texas Bradford 4 8 2 2 1 4 Silseth 1 0 0 0 1 0 Alexander 1 0 0 0 1 0 Junis L,1-2 1 2 2 2 0 1 1 Gray ⁄3 3 1 1 0 0 2 Winn ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Athletics J.Lopez 6 5 2 2 2 6 Medina W,4-3 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 Alvarado H,7 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 1 Rom H,2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Harris S,12-17 1 0 0 0 0 2 WP_J.Lopez. ABS Challenge_Heim (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Bradford (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Bradford (Ball-Conﬁrmed); Gray (Ball-Overturned to Strike). Umpires_Home, Malachi Moore; First, Alfonso Marquez; Second, Mike Estabrook; Third, Jacob Metz. T_2:39. A_7,343 (14,014).

Milwaukee 6, L.A. Dodgers 2

N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3

Milwaukee

New York

Los Angeles

Toronto

ab r h bi Ohtani dh 4 0 1 0 Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 Pages cf 3 1 1 1 Muncy 3b 3 1 1 1 Rojas ph 1 0 0 0 Betts ss 4 0 1 0 Tucker rf 3 0 0 0 Edman 2b 3 0 0 0 T.Hernández lf3 0 1 0 Rortvedt c 2 0 0 0 Feduccia ph-c 1 0 1 0 Totals 39 6 11 3 Totals 31 2 6 2 Milwaukee 010 010 202 — 6 Los Angeles 000 100 001 — 2 E_Edman 2 (3). DP_Milwaukee 2, Los Angeles 1. LOB_Milwaukee 10, Los Angeles 3. 2B_Chourio 2 (22), Bauers (18). HR_Muncy (24), Pages (21). IP H R ER BB SO Milwaukee Henderson W,7-2 7 3 1 1 1 6 1 Patrick H,8 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 2 Ashby H,11 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Hall 1 1 1 1 0 1 Los Angeles Skubal L,7-7 6 7 2 1 2 7 2 Henriquez ⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 1 Vesia ⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 Hurt 1 1⁄3 1 2 0 1 3 2 Dreyer ⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 WP_Patrick. ABS Challenge_Vaughn (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Henderson (Ball-Conﬁrmed); Henderson (Ball-Conﬁrmed). Pitch timer violations_Hall (pitcher). Umpires_Home, Emil Jimenez; First, Derek Thomas; Second, Mike Muchlinski; Third, Doug Eddings. T_2:51. A_45,828 (56,000).

ab r h bi ab r h bi Rice 1b 5 1 1 2 Bateman rf-cf 5 0 0 0 García dh 3 0 1 1 McAdoo 1b 3 0 2 0 Ramos lf 4 0 1 0 Smith ph-3b 1 1 0 0 Grisham cf 4 0 0 0 Kirk c 3 0 1 0 Jones rf 4 0 0 0 Valenzuela c 0 0 0 0 Lombard ss 3 1 1 0 Springer dh 4 0 0 0 McMahon 3b 2 0 0 0 Clement 2b 3 0 0 1 Gldschmdt ph 0 0 0 0 Okamoto 1b 4 2 1 0 Chisholm pr-2b1 0 1 0 Cameron lf 4 0 1 1 Wells c 2 0 0 0 Giménez ss 4 0 2 1 Rosario ph 1 0 0 0 Straw cf 1 0 0 0 A.Sánchez c 1 1 0 0 Lukes ph-rf 2 0 0 0 Caballero 3b 2 1 1 1 Totals 32 4 6 4 Totals 34 3 7 3 New York 001 000 100 2 — 4 Toronto 000 010 001 1 — 3 E_Rice (4). DP_New York 2, Toronto 1. LOB_New York 6, Toronto 5. 2B_Ramos (16), Lombard (1), Okamoto (17), Cameron (1). HR_Rice (33). SB_Lombard (1), Caballero (30), Ramos (4), Giménez (17), Chisholm (32). SF_García (2), Clement (5). S_Caballero (3). IP H R ER BB SO New York 1 1 4 Weathers 7 1⁄3 6 1 0 1 1 Bednar W,6-3 1 2⁄3 0 1 Hill S,2-6 1 1 1 0 0 0 Toronto 2 3 10 Cease 6 1⁄3 2 2 Little 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 Sewald 1 2⁄3 1 0 Fisher L,3-4 1 2 2 1 0 0 Little pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. WP_Bednar. ABS Challenge_Lombard (Strike-Overturned to Ball). Umpires_Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Brock Ballou; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Nic Lentz. T_2:59. A_42,351 (39,150).

Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit 5

Atlanta 5, Arizona 3

Chicago

Arizona

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Detroit

ab r h bi Torres 2b 5 1 2 0 McGonigle ss 4 0 0 0 Dingler c 4 0 1 1 Keith dh 2 2 2 1 Valencia ph-dh2 0 0 0 McKinstry rf 2 1 0 0 Lee ph-3b 1 0 0 0 Torkelson 1b 3 0 0 0 Callahan lf 2 1 1 2 Malgeri ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Clark cf 4 0 1 1 Báez ss-lf 4 0 0 0 Totals 35 7 8 7 Totals 34 5 7 5 Chicago 001 021 201 — 7 Detroit 031 000 100 — 5 E_McGonigle (13). DP_Chicago 0, Detroit 1. LOB_Chicago 7, Detroit 7. 2B_Peters (24), Grichuk (19), Torres (10), Dingler (24). 3B_Callahan (1). HR_Romo (7), Murakami (28), Vargas (28), Keith (9). IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Burke 4 1⁄3 5 4 4 3 2 Smith W,2-0 1 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 2 Brazobán H,10 ⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 2 1⁄3 0 0 Newcomb S,4-5 0 1 2 Detroit Anderson 5 4 3 3 2 5 Holton L,1-5 BS,2-4 1 3 3 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 Rainey Waguespack 2 1 1 1 0 1 Holton pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. WP_Smith, Rainey. ABS Challenge_Meidroth (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Burke (Ball-Conﬁrmed); Anderson (Ball-Conﬁrmed). Umpires_Home, Adam Beck; First, Dan Iassogna; Second, D.J. Reyburn; Third, Louie Krupa. T_2:50. A_34,251 (41,083).

Atlanta

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RIGHT: This print, ‘New Orleans — Spring meeting on the Metairie Race-Course,’ published May 4, 1872, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, shows a group of jockeys and horses during a race at the Metairie Race Course track in New Orleans. This was the same course where enslaved horse jockey Abe Hawkins rode the racehorse Lecomte to victory over Lexington in 1854.

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Meet Matt Damon’s stunt double in ‘Odyssey’ BY ANTHONY SOLORZANO Los Angeles Times (TNS)

If he wasn’t the first Black professional athlete,

Hawkins definitely was the most popular BY ROBIN MILLER Staff writer

At the end of the race, everyone in the stands was chanting his name. “Abe! Abe! Abe!” Not the racehorse Lecomte’s name, not the name of the horse’s owner, Thomas Jefferson Wells of Smith’s Landing, but the name of the jockey, Abe Hawkins. While this detail might not sound remarkable now, in 1854, it was extraordinary. Hawkins was a Black man when he rode Lecomte to victory over the legendary 19th-century racehorse Lexington at the Metairie Race Course. The year was 1854, and Hawkins was a slave on Ash-

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Though photography was being used in the mid 19th century, there are no photographs or drawn images of Abe Hawkins. This artist’s rendering of how Hawkins may have appeared sometimes is used with histories written about him. land Plantation. His job was to ride planter Duncan Kenner’s racehorses, along with others to which he was leased. Hawkins wasn’t the youngest rider, but his body shape and size were perfect to be a horse jockey. He was good at it — and he

A hand-colored print from the 1920s of Louisiana racehorse Lecomte, which Abe Hawkins rode to victory over the racehorse Lexington in 1854. PROVIDED IMAGE

was paid well too.

Was Abe Hawkins the first? Which prompted Phyllis Hall to delve into Hawkins’ status in the world of professional sports. “I recently learned of Abe Hawkins’ story, and I heard that some historians consider him the first Black professional athlete in the United States,” the Catahoula reader said. “Is this true or were there other Black professional athletes before him in the 1800s?” Well, Hawkins wasn’t exactly the first. “I think it would be reasonable to say he was among the first in Louisiana,” said Nick Weldon, director of publications at The Historic New Orleans Collection. “He certainly

There’s this piece in the newspaper in 1866, and the writer says he went to the Jersey Derby. ... And he said he shook Abe’s hand. So, here was this White man who stuck out his hand to shake the hand of a Black man, and it’s 1866. That’s how famous Abe was.” KATHERINE C. MOONEy, author of “Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack.”

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Extreme heat is reshaping Italy’s wine industry BY COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press

CORTE FRANCA, Italy — Workers fan out before dawn to clip clusters of grapes destined to be transformed into Italy’s prized Franciacorta sparkling wine a full 10 days earlier than anticipated, as scorching temperatures brought the fruit to maturation earlier than ever. Climate change is narrowing the window for harvesting wine

grapes, forcing winemakers to make quick decisions when even a few days can mean the difference between a good vintage and a bad one. “These are delicate, frantic moments, and everything has to work perfectly,” said Berlucchi CEO Arturo Ziliani, whose father, Franco, and estate owner Guido Berlucchi became the ﬁrst winemakers in the northern Italian

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Workers unload crates of wine grapes on a tractor during the harvest in Corte Franca, northern Italy, on Aug. 6.

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LOS ANGELES — Stuntwoman Devyn Dalton never stops training. Her workouts typically consist of strength exercises, mixed with martial arts and outdoor activities like hiking and running. The only things that change are the structures of her workouts, depending on the role she’s getting ready for. “When I am (preparing) for a role specifically, I’ll definitely figure out what I need for that (character),” she said. Sometimes it requires increased agility. Sometimes she needs to focus on athletic training. Regardless of Dalton the role, she has to be mentally sharp and completely submerge herself into the character, to the point of invisibility. Her latest challenge: standing in for Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” In a scene where Odysseus and his crew come into contact with the Laestrygonians, a tribe of maneating giants, Dalton, who’s 4-and-a-half-feet tall, doubled for Damon. The filmmakers used the height difference to help create the illusion of the ginormous Laestrygonians. In a recent appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Damon gave his stunt double credit for having “the greatest arms” he’s ever seen. “It was almost 100% my arms in the movie, but you gotta give it up where it’s due,” Damon said. Dalton’s job isn’t just creating a character based on a different actor’s movement, her job is to blend in so seamlessly that the audience doesn’t even know it’s not Damon’s arms in battle, or that she’s the one tackling Amy Madigan’s Aunt Gladys in the climactic scene in 2025’s “Weapons.” That type of invisibility starts with the script itself. Before dissecting a scene, Dalton studies the character within the story. She looks at their emotions and motivations behind each movement. Once she understands the character, Dalton examines how the actor portrays the words on the page. She pays attention to how the actor’s mannerisms change when they are in action — how they walk, which foot they lean on and other subconscious physical gestures. Then, she disappears into the spectacle of the film. “That’s when you know you’ve done your job as a stunt double,” she said. “(The audience) should just see the character and it doesn’t take them out of the film.” As a stunt double, she is often put in dangerous situations that require extra focus. The butterflies never go away, Dalton said, and an adrenaline rush right before a physically demanding stunt is inevitable. In situations where she is doing a new stunt for the first time, Dalton tries to visualize everything that can go wrong and prepare to react to it. “You have to take a leap of faith and trust that the work you’ve put in is there for you,” she said. Stunt performers are also finally getting recognition from

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Rehab usually required after hip replacement surgery Dear Doctors: My 80-year-old mother had a successful hip replacement after a fall. What are the accepted best practices for caring for older adults after hip replacement? When is supervision recommended, and how does that change during recovery? Dear reader: Recovery from hip replacement surgery can be challenging at any age. Hip joints are involved in almost every movement we make. They act as a hinge, help push off the ground and keep our bodies steady. This makes it hard to protect the area during healing. The healing process itself is also complex. It involves bone repair, muscle healing and careful pain control. Advanced age can make recovery even harder. This is even

medical problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, breathing problems or frailty, can also delay healing. All of this makes rehab after hip replacement even more important for older adults. Many older adults healing from a hip fracture need extra support along the way. A stay in an ASK THE DOCTORS inpatient rehab facility is often an important step in that process. The goal is to provide a safe, more true when a hip fracture structured environment where is involved. Older adults often have lower bone density. This can patients can rebuild strength, make the new joint less stable and regain movement and recover independence. Rehab care teams increase the risk of future fracinclude more than doctors and tures. They also often have less nurses. Physical therapists guide muscle mass and strength. This can impair balance and limit phys- strength and movement work. Ocical therapy. Soft tissue and bone cupational therapists help patients heal slower in older age, which return to daily tasks. Dietitians can make recovery longer. Other support healing through nutrition.

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One of the rehab team’s key jobs is gauging when a patient is ready to do certain tasks alone. These tasks range from something as simple as sitting up in bed without help to something as hard as standing or walking alone. Several factors determine when it is safe for a patient to go solo. Physical strength, balance, stamina and overall health all come into play. So does cognition, which shapes judgment and the ability to follow directions. As patients improve, the care team adjusts supervision to match their changing needs. As strength and stamina increase, so does the person’s conﬁdence. This sets the stage for a more active role in everyday life. Before someone is discharged, the rehab team checks how they

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In the forefront of racing All those newspaper mentions helped move Hawkins to the forefront of the sport. “The thing that’s striking to me is he gets named in the newspapers even when he loses,” Mooney said. “So, it’s not like, ‘Oh, Famous Horse has won this race.’ It was, ‘Famous Jockey was riding Famous Horse.’ He’s the ﬁrst jockey I’ve ever seen who gets named where he’s news no matter what happened, which is important because of the time frame in which he’s famous.” That’s not to say there weren’t other Black celebrities at the time. Frederick Douglass probably topped the list. “People knew who Frederick Douglass was, because he was in the news,” Mooney said. “And he was not a celebrity in a way that necessarily had to do with the fact that he was enslaved. He had been enslaved, and he was talking about abolishing that.” But Hawkins’ celebrity was different. He was a star of an exciting sport that attracted spectators from near and far. His athleticism could stir a grandstand crowd into a fever pitch. “Abe Hawkins shows up on the scene, and everyone knows him,” Mooney said. “He’s riding in Saratoga during the Civil War, which, to me, is wild.”

An interest in horses Mooney, a New Orleans native, is a professor of history at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She grew up riding horses, which fueled her interest in racehorses.

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Continued from page 1D was a professional athlete, given that he won his freedom later and won money as a professional racer, but there were Black jockeys before him.” Still, Hawkins stood out, often called “the best rider on the continent,” as noted in Weldon’s Jan. 11, 2019, article for The Historic New Orleans Collection’s First Draft blog. “He was the ﬁrst Black man on a racehorse identiﬁed by name in a newspaper as a jockey,” said Katherine C. Mooney, author of the 2014 book, “Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack.” “Jockeys who had not been as important to the story started getting named in news stories, so they became a part of the story.” References to Hawkins as simply “Abe” or “Old Abe” began appearing in local New Orleans papers as early as 1851. His surname was added when he began riding on such Northern tracks as the Saratoga Race Course in New York, where he won the Travers Stakes.

are doing. Are they ready to return home alone, or do they need more help? Some people will be able to manage on their own. Others may ﬁnd they need assistive devices, such as grab bars, a raised toilet seat or a shower chair. Ongoing outpatient physical therapy is also common. The goal is not just a successful recovery from surgery; it is also a safe return home, with as much function and independence as possible.

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A state historical marker commemorating enslaved horse jocky Abe Hawkins stands on Ashland Road or La. 3251 in Geismar, less than a mile east of River Road. “I didn’t ride racehorses, but I watched horse racing on TV,” she said. “I was a baby historian in graduate school, and I was supposed to be picking a topic for (my) thesis.” That’s when she discovered author Ed Hotaling’s 1999 book, “The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America’s First National Sport” in a used bookstore. “He has a chapter on Abe in the book, and I think I read that book in two days,” Mooney said. “I was glued to it, because I had no idea about any of this. I started looking around for sources, and I found out that so many of the archive collections you would need for this are at LSU.” Mooney quickly discovered that past historians didn’t write about Southern Black jockeys and horse trainers, because they viewed racehorse training as a plantation hobby. “Well, when you look it up in the archives, there are reams of stuff about jockeys and trainers and racehorses,” she said. “And I sat there for three days (and) realized how important horse racing was to the people who owned these horses.” The archival material included Kenner’s itemized list for Ashland, which included a tiny coat for Hawkins. “I was beside myself,” she said. “And the more I looked, the more I found. There was this whole world where these guys rode horses, and we’ve, we’ve basically forgotten it. And yet the world we live in now, and the way we treat famous Black athletes today is part and parcel of all that.”

population. All were leased out to ride horses and were able to travel. Hawkins’ eventual freedom came with the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which banned slavery in the United States, on Dec. 5, 1865. “There’s this piece in the newspaper in 1866, and the writer says he went to the Jersey Derby, and one of the people he saw was Abe Hawkins,” Mooney said. “And he said he shook Abe’s hand. So, here was this White man who stuck out his hand to shake the hand of a Black man, and it’s 1866. That’s how famous Abe was.” Meanwhile, Weldon writes that Hawkins developed tuberculosis in 1867 and returned to his wife and children at Ashland, where he died in May of that year. He requested to be buried by the training race track on the plantation grounds. His age is unknown. A story circulated at the time of Hawkins’ return that the jockey offered some of his winnings to Kenner to alleviate Ashland’s wartime financial losses. “I think if that story is true, I think it more that Abe was offering Kenner a loan,” Mooney said. Back to the 1854 LecomteLexington matchup at Metairie Race Course, it’s no wonder Hawkins revved up the crowd. Not only did his 4-mile heat on Lecomte set a world record at 7 minutes and 26 seconds, but Hawkins also finished it with showmanship. “He rode that horse home with one hand in the air,” Mooney said. “And the crowd was chanting, ‘Abe! Abe! Abe!’”

Meanwhile, Kenner left Ashland for Paris for the duration of the war while Hawkins continued riding horses in races throughout the country. Hawkins technically still was a member of the enslaved jockey

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at the 2028 ceremony for achievement in stunt design. “It’s about time,” Dalton said. “I’m so excited for stunts to be recognized at that high level because of the amount of skill it takes to execute these stunts and all these ﬁlms. ... I hope one day I get

to be in that room as well,” she added. The dream just gets bigger after working with Nolan and the cast of “The Odyssey,” one of the highestgrossing ﬁlms of 2026. “Everyone’s coming together to tell the same story,” she said.

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Today is Monday, Aug. 17, the 229th day of 2026. There are 136 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closedcircuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was “wrong” but denied previously committing perjury (Clinton was subsequently impeached by the House of Representatives, but acquitted in the Senate). Also on this date: In 1807, Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat made its ﬁrst voyage, heading up the Hudson River on a successful round trip between New York City and Albany. In 1863, federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of shelling. In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sen-

tence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who had maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.) In 1945, Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed independence for Indonesia, setting off the Indonesian National Revolution against Dutch rule. In 1945, the George Orwell novel “Animal Farm,” an allegorical satire of Soviet Communism, was first published in London by Martin Secker & Warburg. In 1959, trumpeter Miles Davis released “Kind of Blue,” regarded as one of the most influential jazz albums of all time. In 1978, the first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris. In 1999, more than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of Turkey. In 2019, an accident during repair work at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant killed at least 10 workers and left dozens missing after an engine room was

suddenly ﬂooded. The accident occurred at the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant in southern Siberia. In 2017, a van barreled down a busy walkway in central Barcelona, swerving as it mowed down pedestrians in the picturesque Spanish tourist destination. Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured in what authorities called a terrorist attack. Today’s birthdays: Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton is 90. Actor Robert DeNiro is 83. Businessman Larry Ellison is 82. Film director Martha Coolidge is 80. Filmmaker/author Julian Fellowes is 77. Tennis Hall of Famer Guillermo Vilas is 74. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 68. Author Jonathan Franzen is 67. Actor Sean Penn is 66. Singer/ actor Donnie Wahlberg is 57. College Basketball Hall of Famer and retired NBA All-Star Christian Laettner is 57. Rapper Posdnuos (De La Soul) is 57. Tennis Hall of Famer Jim Courier is 56. Soccer great Thierry Henry is 49. Rock climber Alex Honnold is 41. Actor Austin Butler is 35. Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers is 32. Actor Lexy Kolker is 17. Actor Kayden Tokarski is 17.

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Predawn picking Weeks of temperatures reaching highs between 99 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, combined with below-average rainfall, have pushed some winemakers in Franciacorta to record the earliest start on record — 10 days earlier than last year and about a month earlier than three decades ago. Berlucchi, the oldest producer of Franciacorta, which is made using the traditional method of secondary fermentation in the bottle, began harvesting Aug. 2 as part of an industrywide effort to preserve grape quality in the face of increasingly extreme weather. Experts say several factors combined to push Franciacorta’s harvest so early this year. A relatively mild winter meant the vines produced buds earlier, while hailstorms damaged some of the yield, lightening the fruit and bringing it to earlier maturation. Even in late July, Berlucchi was targeting an Aug. 10 harvest date, but it quickly became clear that Pinot Nero used for sparkling blends and rosé was ready to be picked, signaled by rapidly rising sugar levels. Within two days, workers were mustered and the presses were readied. The midday heat has been so extreme that workers are forced by regional labor rules to stop between 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., but

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A hot worker picks wine grapes during the harvest in Corte Franca, northern Italy, on Aug. 6.

steel machines to extract the highest quality freerun juice, a crucial step in sparkling wine production that cannot be rushed. Berlucchi operates up to 24 presses a day, often late into the night, to process the unusually early harvest. Berlucchi remains Franciacorta’s largest producer, making about 4 million bottles annually, about 20% of the Franciacorta consortium’s total production of about 20 million bottles. About 90% are sold in Italy, with the remainder exportComplex calculations ed to markets including It is not just Franciacorta Germany, Switzerland, the that is starting early. Sicily United States and Japan. began the wine harvest for still wines in late July. Small Winemakers adapt parts of Tuscany also start“Climate change and the ed picking, as well as most African weather systems settling over Europe are sparkling wine regions. The calculation is most bringing extraordinary complex for the makers of temperatures and forcing Champagne-style sparkling early picking, not only in wines, which require a deli- Italy, but also in France and cate balance of much high- Germany,” said Paolo Caser fixed acidity, much lower telletti, secretary general pH and lower sugars than of the Italian Wine Union for still reds and whites. trade organization. “Early-ripening varieties With earlier harvests besuch as Chardonnay re- coming a trend, winemakquire great care, because ers say they will have to a delay of just a couple of begin monitoring the fields days can leave you with even earlier to make sure grapes unsuitable for spar- they don’t miss the best kling wine. Sugar rises too harvesting moment. “A good oenologist can quickly and acidity falls too quickly,” said Attilio Sci- manage situations like this. enza, a professor emeritus I can say with confidence at the University of Milan. that wine quality is not High outdoor tempera- compromised. It simply tures require the grapes requires a different organito be cooled before being zation of work than in past gently pressed in stainless years,” Castelletti said. winemakers say it has been too hot for the afternoon shift. To gain time and bring grapes to the presses before they are overheated, Berlucchi last week started the harvest at 4 a.m., with workers picking under the blaze of floodlights. “The grapes are perfectly healthy,” said Ferdinando Dell’aquila, an oenologist who is Berlucchi’s technical director. “We just have to work as quickly as possible, harvest them and preserve their acidity.”

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PIscEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Consider how you can make your space cost-efficient and conducive to what you want to achieve. Comfort and convenience will lead to a successful outcome. Don't bypass what matters most. ARIEs (March 21-April 19) You have too much to lose if you don't concentrate on what you want to achieve. The sky's the limit if you stay focused and are ready to take advantage of whatever comes your way. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Distance yourself from volatile situations. Precision matters, and by eliminating outside interference and dedicating your attention to finishing what you start, you will overcome any unexpected changes that take place. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) If you take the path that offers insight into interesting pastimes, you'll connect with someone who can offer insight into new possibilities. Expanding your circle of friends will also change how you spend your time. cAncER (June 21-July 22) Put your emotions aside and your mind on what matters. Having discipline and working hard will help you make a difference in how you live. Set your mind on connecting with people who have something to contribute. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TITLE: STREET LIGHT REPAIR SERVICES SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4752 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: AUGUST 14, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: SEPTEMBER 9, 2026 @ 1:00 P.M. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: AUGUST 25, 2026 @ 11:00 A.M. OR TEAMS MEETING ID: 282 304 312 121 00 PASSCODE: QY958QB2 CALL IN: 1 504-356-4110, 695410005#

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 968-76 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer

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TITLE: RE-BID CONTRACT RECOVERY SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4744 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: AUGUST 3, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 @ 4:00 P.M. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: AUGUST 19, 2026 @ 11:00 AM TEAMS: Meeting ID: 252 498 720 470 92 Passcode: 252 498 720 470 92 Call in:

There will be a Manda‐ tory Pre-Bid Conference August 20th, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. (CDT) at the New Or‐ leans African American Museum, 1417-1418 Gov‐ ernor Nicholls, New Or‐ leans, LA 70116. Bids must be received on or before September 10th, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. (CDT). Bids can be hand-deliv‐ ered or submitted online www.cityblueprintpl at ans.com. Bids will be read aloud in a public meeting at NOAAM (1417 Gov Nicholls) at that time. NOAAM

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Land Trust Louisiana (LLT) as the receiver of properties acquired from homeowners through the Road Home Program. In 2012, LLT transferred ap‐ proximately 3,000+ Or‐ leans Parish properties (“Road Home Properties” or “Properties”) from its inventory to NORA. This number has been de‐ creased as NORA dis‐ posed of them through its property disposition programs and there re‐ mains approximately 703 of these properties in NORA’s inventory. • NORA Properties: Cur‐ rently NORA owns ap‐ proximately 170 proper‐ ties that NORA has ac‐ quired over the years through expropriation, adjudication, long-term lease and donation. • Other properties as identiﬁed by NORA. NORA desires to contract with multiple contractors to provide the lawn and yard maintenance on these properties on a routine or as needed basis and requests pro‐ posals from experienced property maintenance companies to provide the services needed. A copy of the RFP may be downloaded from the NORA website at www. noraworks.org, or by contacting Audrey Plessy, Procurement Manager at (504) 6584402, or via email at Au‐ drey.Plessy@nola.gov.

trees, ﬁll and grade, and all other items identiﬁed within the bid package. Bid documents are avail‐ able for download from LLTs website https:// www.lalandtrust.us .

PUBLIC NOTICE --INVITATION TO BID NO. 3124: AS NEEDED PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF AG‐ GREGATE MATERIALS The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Commis‐ sion for the Port of New Orleans (“NOPB”) is so‐ liciting bids for the asneeded purchase and de‐ livery of ballast and ag‐ gregate materials (the “Materials”), as set forth more fully and in accor‐ dance with the General Conditions and Specifi‐ cations (“Specifica‐ tions”) and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the form agree‐ ment attached hereto (“Agreement”) for an ini‐ tial term of one (1) year, with the NOPB having the option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods. Official bid documents can be downloaded and must be submitted elec‐ tronically through Cen‐ tral Bidding at www.cen tralbidding.com. The specifications of the Invi‐ tation to Bid (ITB) may also be obtained from App, the SEBconnect available on both the Apple and Google play platforms. BID SUBMISSION: NOPB will accept sealed bids for this Project until 10:00 a.m. CDT on Thursday, August 27, 2026 (the “Bid Submission Deadline”). Any bid received after the Bid Submission Deadline will not be con‐ sidered. Bidders must submit bids electronically for this Project in the follow‐ ing way: • Submit an ELECTRONIC BID. Bids must be submitted electronically at www. centralbidding.com For any questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Cen‐ tral Bidding at 225-8104814. The bidder must at‐ tach a completed and signed digital copy of the Bid Form, Proof of Au‐ thority and any other documents required in the Bidding Documents. The NOPB shall not be re‐ sponsible if a bidder can‐ not complete or submit an electronic bid. Bidders shall be responsible for receiving confirmation that the bid was suc‐ cessfully delivered prior to the Bid Submission Deadline.

Pre-Submission Meeting: A Pre-Submission Meet‐ ing will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. (CDT). Prospec‐ tive respondents are en‐ couraged to attend. Dur‐ ing this meeting, NORA staff will review the sub‐ mission requirements, discuss the scope of work, and answer ques‐ tions. During the period be‐ tween the issuance of this RFP and the proposal due date, no oral inter‐ pretation of the RFP re‐ quirements will be pro‐ vided to any prospective Offeror. All questions and requests for inter‐ pretation must be sub‐ mitted in writing to Au‐ drey.Plessy@nola.gov. The deadline for submit‐ ting questions is Thurs‐ day, September 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. (CST). NORA will respond to written questions submitted via email before the due date and time. Answers to questions will be is‐ sued in the form of an addendum. NORA will not accept re‐ sponses submitted by fax. Respondents must submit their proposal electronically through a Microsoft OneDrive shared folder. Responses delivered after the dead‐ line will not be consid‐ ered.

BID OPENING: Immedi‐ ately following the Bid Submission Deadline, bids will be opened in ac‐ cordance with the bid documents.

All proposals must be uploaded to an assigned shared folder no later than WEDNESDAY, SEP‐ TEMBER 16, 2026, at 2:00 P.M. (CDT).

NOPB CONTACT: Bidders must submit Questions in writing to procure‐ ment@railnola.com by Tuesday August 18, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CST. As nec‐ essary, addenda to this ITB will be issued to all bidders receiving this ITB. Questions, answers, and all forms required will be posted on Central Bidding at www.central bidding.com .

NORA will award con‐ tracts resulting from this solicitation to the re‐ sponsible Offeror or Of‐ ferors whose proposal, conforming to the solici‐ tation, will be most ad‐ vantageous, considering price and other technical factors. NORA reserves the right to award a con‐ tract without negotia‐ tions, to make multiple awards, to make no award, or to decline ne‐ gotiations if it is deter‐ mined that no respon‐ dent can deliver the re‐ quired level of service within an acceptable price range and/or time‐ frame.

196784-aug10-17-2t $76.92 PUBLIC NOTICE --NEW ORLEANS REDEVEL‐ OPMENT AUTHORITY (NORA) REQUEST FOR PROPOS‐ ALS (RFP) PROPERTY MAINTE‐ NANCE SERVICES ISSUE DATE: MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2026 DUE DATE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 The New Orleans Rede‐ velopment Authority (NORA) works to rede‐ velop and revitalize the City of New Orleans. Equipped with broad legal authorities, includ‐ ing the power to expro‐ priate blighted proper‐ ties, NORA works in part‐ nership with the City of New Orleans, local orga‐ nizations, businesses, neighborhoods, and citi‐ zens to implement com‐ prehensive neighbor‐ hood and commercial corridor redevelopment plans. With these responsibili‐ ties, NORA has a large in‐ ventory of properties that require regular maintenance (grass cut‐ ting, lot clearing, and de‐ bris removal). Properties that are the subject of this RFP include: • LLT Properties Trans‐ ferred to NORA: In the wake of Hurricane Kat‐ rina, the State of Louisiana created the

Brenda M. Breaux Executive Director 197783-aug 17-26-31-3t $157.05

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS LOUISIANA LAND TRUST HOME DEMOLITION AND SLAB REMOVAL Bids will be received electronically until 2:00 pm, Monday, August 31, 2026 local time, through Louisiana Land Trust Website for the follow‐ ing:

Louisiana Land Trust Louisiana Watershed Ini‐ tiative-Statewide Buyout Program & Restore Louisiana – Solution 4 (2.0) Program Home Demolition and Slab Removal St. Tammany & Tangipahoa Parishes, Louisiana Bid Package No.14 This project consists of the removal and disposal of structures, concrete slab foundations and concrete ﬂatworks, re‐ moval of hazardous

A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held on Monday, August 24, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. local time via the following re‐ mote: Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/j/84757537035? pwd=b92KB8aWP65s2P8 QDF1bPzTQeeHmTt.1 Meeting ID: 847 5753 7035 Passcode: 096000 One tap mobile +13126266799,,8475753703 US The Louisiana Land Trust strongly encourages maximum participation in all bids by qualified Minority Business Enter‐ prises, Women Business Enterprises, small busi‐ nesses, and by local con‐ struction and demolition companies, as prime contractors and as sub‐ contractors. Published: The AdvocateBaton Rouge & New Orleans The Tangi-Times News https://www.lalandtrust. us/ 197601-aug 17-1t $250.00 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 2150 Sealed proposals will be received by the Office of State Procurement, 1201 North Third Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, LA until 10:00 AM CT on September 16, 2026 for Solicitation Number Doc2183429780 - Request for Proposal (RFP) for Family Support and Youth Transition Services for OJJ. The RFP may be accessed at: https://portal.us.bn. cloud.ariba.com/ dashboard/public/ appext/comsapsbncd iscoveryui#/RfxEvent/ preview/1110021386?anI d=ANONYMOUS. No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement Phone (225) 342-8010 197572-aug 17-1t $12.34 PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a PublicPrivate Partnership pro‐ ject to design, construct, and operate a high-qual‐ ity recreational vehicle campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com. 192988-jul 2-aug 31-t PUBLIC NOTICE --The Lowlander Center (https://www.lowland ercenter.org/) is an‐ nouncing a Request for Proposals (RFP) due Monday, August 31, to deconstruct spoil banks for a Canal Spoil Re‐ placement (Backfilling) Project. Please email admin@lowlandercenter. org with any questions by Tuesday, August 11. All questions and an‐ swers will be posted on the Lowlander Center canal backfilling project page (https://www.low landercenter.org/canalbackfilling) by Tuesday, August 18. Please see the project page for RFP, per‐ mits, plat maps, back‐ ground information about the project, and an informational slidedeck. This project is partially funded by the National Oceanic and Atmos‐ pheric Administration (NOAA), through a grant agreement with the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, grant award number: NA23NOS4730219. The views and conclusions contained in this docu‐ ment are those of the au‐ thors and should not be interpreted as represent‐ ing the opinions or poli‐ cies of the U.S. Govern‐ ment or the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and its funding sources. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. h

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Advertisement of Public Notice as required by LA state law. The public is advised that the pro‐ posed 2027 annual bud‐ get of Lakeview Crime Prevention District (LCPD) will be available for public inspection dur‐ ing the public meeting that will be held Thurs‐ day, August 27, 2026, at 6pm in the Siena Hall Meeting Room at St. Do‐ minic Church (775 Harri‐ son Avenue, New Or‐ leans, LA 70124), at which passage of the 2027 pro‐ posed annual budget will be on the agenda. The budget is also available for review prior to the August 27th meeting at the LCPD website: lcpdnola.org 197113-aug 12-1t $10.16 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to be posted: Community Leaders Ad‐ vocating Student Suc‐ cess Inc./ Fannie C. Williams Charter School Budget Meeting will be held on Thursday August 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the school Library, Ad‐ dress: 11755 Dwyer Road New Orleans, LA 70128. Also, you can attend via the zoom link below. The 2026-27 Budget will be approved at the meeting. The Budget is available for viewing in the Busi‐ ness Ofﬁce Monday- Fri‐ day 9a.m. to 3p.m. or you can contact the ofﬁce at 504-373-6228 Ext 7. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/86725218911? pwd=AczazANrSMzvT26 Eo3m1MecDbfG6Ct.1 Meeting ID: 867 2521 8911 Passcode: UFJ0tC 197271-aug 13-27-15t $180.10 PUBLIC NOTICE --SMW Engineering is proposing to install telecommunications antennas on the rooftop of the building located at 621 St. Louis Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana at latitude 29° 57’ 23.4” north and longitude 90° 03’ 57.4” west. The antennas will be 26.5 meters above ground level (33.2 meters above mean sea level). Specific information regarding the project is available by calling Chad Stinnett during normal business hours at (205) 629-3868. Any interested party may submit environmental related comments within 30 days of this publication with Environmental, Inc. at 96B Cogswell Avenue, Pell City, AL 35125 for comments on the impact of the proposed action on any districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under National Historic Preservation Act Section 106. 197737 Aug. 17, 1t $163.33 PUBLIC NOTICE --UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF JOHN J. HOUSEY, JR., AS OWNER OF THE F/V EUGENIE, A 1976 HATTERAS 42 CONVERTIBLE SPORT FISHING VESSEL, BEAR‐ ING OFFICIAL NO. 578545 AND FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2:26-cv-1430 JUDGE: JANE TRICHE MILAZZO MAGISTRATE: JANIS VAN MEERVELD NOTICE OF COMPLAINT FOR EXONERATION FROM, OR ALTERNATIVELY, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY NOTICE is hereby given that Limitation Plaintiff, John J. Housey, Jr. (“Owner” and/or “Limita‐ tion Plaintiff”), as owner

METAIRIE 3513 EDENBORN AVENUE Lrg 2 Bed, 1 Bath * $925 * Off St Prkg Blocks from Lakeside 504-982-4040 * 504-885-8060 504-454-1333

APARTMENT ESPLANADE RIDGE The Carson Company, Inc. 2900 Third St., 1Bd/1Ba.................$700 1703 Burdette St., 2Bds/1Ba.........$725 3953 Delachaise St. (Up), 3/1.......$950 2300 N. Broad St., 1Bd/1Ba...........$995 2731 Bruxelles St., 3Bds/1Ba......$1095 2443 N. Robertson St., 2/1...........$1150 4933 N. Rampart St., 2Bds/1Ba..$1474 5910 Hayne Blvd. Up Front, 4/1..$1495 2503 S. Dorgenois St., 2/1...........$1639 4557 Feliciana St, 5Bds/2Bas.....$2500 821-1858 * 822-8432 * 427-4646

APARTMENT WESTBANK * $1300/Mo. 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 4-Car Garage/Workshop. Pets OK. 504-913-4263

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CATS RAGAMUFFIN & RAGDOLL KITTENS www.CatsByFrancy.com/kittens $1500up! Reg. Shots & Guaranty 337-230-3150

GENTILLY 2544 ALLEN TOUSSAINT BLVD. NEWLY RENOVATED!!! 1-2 Bdrm Apts * From $800/mo Parking * Sec Gate 504-209-8054 * 504-454-1333

CATS Young Male Cat, Gray Colors, Have too many cats, Looking for another home for him. Please call 504-861-9617 ($50)

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DOGS AKC Standard Poodles. Black & Parti black & white. Ready to Go. Utd on all shots & worming. Text 228-669-8581 or 228-669-2377.

2850 IDAHO AVENUE 1 Block to Vets & Williams All Amenities * Pool * Parking Studio/1 Bed Apt * Starting $650/Mo 504-385-5482 * 504-454-1333

APARTMENT Efﬁciency #E $800. 4327 & 4329 Hollygrove Street: 1 Bedroom. Water Pd $900. 504-313-2192 METAIRIE 3201 RICHLAND AVENUE 1/2 Block off Vets * by Paretti Jaguar 1 Bed * Prkg * Pool * Rent $675/mo 504-320-6958 * 504-454-1333

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196706-aug 10-17-24-3t $592.81

APARTMENT 5708-B Tullis Dr, Westbank, 4BR/2BA. Stove, Refrigerator, Utilities, w/d Hookup, Central A/C, OffStreet Parking, Near Bus, $1800; 504-4543847 Ofﬁce, 504-512-2814 MP.

APARTMENT WESTBANK * 3 Bedrooms /2.5 Baths, Double Garage, Private Yard. $1,800/Mo. 504-913-4263

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Complete digital Bid Doc‐ uments are available for the project through City Blueprint & Supply Com‐ pany. Digital versions are available at www.cityblu eprintplans.com. Physi‐ cal copies may be ob‐ tained at the Bidder's ex‐ pense from City Blue‐ print at: 1904 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70112; Phone (504) 2268616.

Advertising Dates: August 10, 14, 17 and 24, 2026 NOCP 9209

HOUSE Algiers-Former Double. 4Brms, 2baths. Great location. Fully fenced. $119,000.00 713-398-6027 elanza@soldbyelanza.com

CEMETERY PLOTS Westlawn Cemetery Mausoleum, in the Chapel. Corr IV, Tier A, holds 6 interments $17,500. 504-259-0505

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Michele Downey please contact attorney Cristy Chazan at 504-5256802. 197609-Aug 15-17, 3t $37.80 Notice of Public Sale Pursuant to the lien granted by the Louisiana Self-Service Storage Facility Act – LA RS: 4759, Storage Post will sell at public auction on August 27th, 2026, at 10:00 am, personal property belonging to the following tenants to the highest bidder. The sale shall be held at Storage Post, 10259 Airline Hwy St Rose, Louisiana 70087 504-466-2023., Eva P Mitchell /Estate of Eva P Mitchell A096- Yard tools, sofa set, lamps, HHG’S Eva P Mitchell /Estate of Eva P Mitchell B283 – gas can, Jack hammer, ﬁle Cab. And matts. Avery Usand B164- Tool Box, Car

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of the F/V EUGENIE, a 1976 Hatteras 42 Convert‐ ible sport ﬁshing vessel bearing United States Coast Guard Documenta‐ tion No. 578545 (“Vessel” and/or “EUGENIE”), her engines, equipment, gear, tackle, appurte‐ nances, etc., has ﬁled a Complaint pursuant to 46 U.S.C. §§ 181 et seq., as amended by 46 U.S.C. §§ 30501 et seq., claiming the right to exoneration from and/or limitation of liability for damage claims, demands, or liens arising out of an incident involving the Vessel on or about January 3, 2026, which resulted the per‐ sonal injury of Euell “Corky” Potts.

Automotive CLASSIC CARS Looking to Buy an Old Foreign Project Car. Any condition, running or Not. Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes, Maserati, Ferrari and much more. Fast and Easy transaction. Cash on the Spot. If you have any of these or any other old for‐ eign cars, please call 571-259-9656

pp for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims con‐ tained in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. July 14, 2026 Carol L. Michel Clerk of Court 195326-JUL 27- aug 3-1017-4t $1,180

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PUBLIC NOTICE ---

All persons asserting claims with respect to which the Complaint seeks exoneration from or limitation of liability are advised and admon‐ ished to ﬁle their respec‐ tive claims with the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, Room C151, 500 Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130, and to serve on the attor‐ ney for Limitation Plain‐ tiff, Alan R. Davis, of Tay‐ lor, Wellons, Politz & Duhe at 1555 Poydras Street, Suite 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, a copy thereof on or be‐ fore the 12th day of Octo‐ ber, 2026, or be forever defaulted.

ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation will introduce the 2026-27 budget and hold its ﬁrst public hearing on the 2026-27 budget on May 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at Edgar P Harney Build‐ ing located at 2503 Wil‐ low St., New Orleans, LA 70113 (LA R.S. 39:1307). ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation is the charter school management or‐ ganization operating ReNEW Laurel Elemen‐ tary, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, ReNEW Schaumburg Ele‐ mentary, and ReNEW Moton Lakefront Elemen‐ tary. A physical copy of the 2026-2027 budget is available at 10001 Lake Forest Blvd., Suite 710, New Orleans, LA 70127.

Personal attendance is not required.

186911-may 9-aug 27 $956

Any claimant desiring to contest either the right to exoneration from and/or the right to limita‐ tion of liability shall ﬁle and serve an answer, all as required by Rule F of the Supplemental Rules d f i d i l

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I, Adam Corb, have been convicted of 14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 06/03/2014. My Address is: 151 WOODLAWN AVE HARAHAN, LA 70123 Race: WHIE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 5/8/1985 Height: 5'10" Weight: 185 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: GREEN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 197496, AUG 16-17 $250

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NOTICE OF NON-NEGOTIATED CHECKS NON-NEGOTIATED CHECKS: Below is a list of payees that were issued checks by the Office of the Clerk of Court for Orleans Parish. These checks have not been negotiated. The unnegotiated funds shall be declared forfeited and submitted as abandoned property to the State of Louisiana, Department of Treasury. To claim these funds before they are submitted to the State, you must contact the Clerk’s Office bookkeeping department before August 31, 2026 at (504) 4070144 or email: clkbkeeper@orleanscivilclerk.com. NAME Adam J Verret Adams & Reese, LLP Agile Legal Alexandre E. Bonin APLC Allen & Gooch, A Law Corporation Amerititle, Inc. Brown Weimer LLC Cannon & Livermore, LLC Credit Union Mortgage Association, INC David W. Shaw DeRouen Law Firm FCC Finance LLC Fidelity National Title Group Fred R. Defrancesh Garcia & Artigliere Gregory Wakeland Halliday Harold Mitchell, Jr. Imperial Fire & Casualty Insurance Company James B. Guest James E. Frye III Jessica Caldwell Johnson, Yacoubian & Paysse Koury & Hill, LLC Law Office of Lewis-Crawford, LLC Law Offices of Brad J. Brumfield Leon L. Emanuel Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LOGS Legal Group LLC Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett Peoples Legal LLC Progressive Pusateri, Johnston, Guillot & Greenbaum, LLC Raven Colin Regions Mortgage Rocco A. Summa Sean Regan Law Stafford, Stewart & Porter State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company State of LA, Treasury Dept The Boone Law Firm The Hite Law Group The Khan Law Firm L.L.C. The Sevin Law Firm, LLC Thomas B. Wahlder, LLC Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. William Jason Brister Willis & Buckley, APC Your New Orleans Real Estate Zarzaur & Schwartz, PC 195946-673366-aug 3-17-2t $ 221.76

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14:27:42.1 - Attempted Forcible Rape (attempted). Date Convicted: 11/29/2010.

Eye Color: BLUE Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 7562 FORUM BLVD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70128

197485, AUG 16-17 $250

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11/9/1992 Height: 6'3" Weight: 317 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 197549, AUG 16-17 $250

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 6/9/1979 Height: 5'10" Weight: 207 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

I, BRIAN KEITH STICKEL AKA BRIAN STICKEL AKA BRIAN K STICKEL AKA BRIAN STICLER AKA , have been convicted of 14:81 Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 04/20/2015.

LOUISIANA 197648, AUG 16-17 $250

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Toledano St New Orleans, LA 70125

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Date of Birth: 10/23/1987 Height: 5'9" Weight: 150 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 06/11/1968 Height: 5'9" Weight: 170 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: HAZEL Scars/Tattoos:

LOUISIANA 197550, AUG 16-17 $250

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I, Chad Everette Sylvest aka CHAD EVERETTE SYLVEST, have been convicted of 14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 11/09/2015. My Address is: 7609 4TH ST 6 MARRERO, LA 70072

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Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 9/17/1984 Height: 6'1" Weight: RED290 Hair Color: RED Eye Color: BLUE Scars/Tattoos:

197480, AUG 16-17 $250 I, BRIAN ANTHONY GORUM, have been convicted of 14:43.1 Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 03/28/2024. 14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 03/28/2024.

LOUISIANA 197493, AUG 16-17 $250

My Address is: 1242 ST ANTHONY ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70116

I, BUFORD CLAY CARROLL JR AKA BUFFORD CLAY CARROLL JR AKA Buffored Carroll JR AKA JUNIOR, have been convicted of 11990002 22.011(a)(2) PC - Sexual Assault Child. Date Convicted: 03/09/2004. State Equivalent: 14:43 - Simple Rape.

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- Aggravated Rape (attempted).

14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 10/05/2016. 14:81.1 - Pornography Involving Juveniles. Date Convicted: 09/05/2018. 15:542 Failure to Register/Notify as a Sex Offender. Date Convicted: 09/05/2018.

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I, CHRISTOPHER MUNIZ, have been convicted of 14:80 Carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Date Convicted: 06/13/2019. My Address is: 2208 Breckenridge Dr Harvey, LA 70058 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 11/21/2000 Height: 5'9" Weight: 121 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 197502, AUG 16-17 $250

I, CURTIS JACKSON AKA CFURTIS JACKSON, have been convicted of 14:42.1 - Forcible Rape. Date Convicted: 11/30/1989. My Address is: 820 WIEGAND DR BRIDGE CITY, LA 70094 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 10/20/1959 Height: 6' Weight: 195 Hair Color: BALD Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

I, DAVID FRANCIS PHAM, have been convicted of 14:283 Video Voyeurism. Date Convicted: 10/16/2023.

My Address is: 8905 Edinburgh st NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 12/22/1962 Height: 6' Weight: 150 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 621 N STARRETT RD METAIRIE, LA 70003 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 7/07/1994 Height: 5'11" Weight: 300 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 218 W ROBERT E LEE BLVD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70124 Race: ASIAN OR PAC. ISL. Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 4/28/1976 Height: 5'7" Weight: 175 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 197620, AUG 16-17 $250

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LOUISIANA 197503, AUG 16-17 $250 I, Fredrick Allen Bowers AKA FREDERICK BOWERS AKA FREDERICK A BOWERS AKA FREDRICK BOWERS AKA FREDRICK A BOWERS AKA FREDDIE AKA FREDDY, have been convicted of 14:81.1 Pornography Involving Juveniles. Date Convicted: 01/25/2023. My Address is: 211 APOLLO ST TERRYTOWN, LA 70056 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 7/29/1998 Height: 6'1 Weight: 260 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: BLUE Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 197488, AUG 16-17 $250

I, CHARLES LEE DOBBINS III, have been convicted of 14:80 Carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Date Convicted: 06/24/2015.

My Address is: 2441 ILLINOIS AVE KENNER, LA 70062

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ORLEANS, LA 70118 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 4/22/1978 Height: 5'9" Weight: 198 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

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197548, AUG 16-17 $250

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197660, AUG 16-17 $250

Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 1/13/1964 Height: 5'9" Weight: 160 Hair Color: GRAY Eye Color: HAZEL Scars/Tattoos:

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197657, AUG 16-17 $250

My Address is: 2341 CADDY DR MARRERO, LA 70072

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 9/19/1967 Height: 5'7" Weight: 195 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

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My Address is: 1257 LOCHLOMAND DR HARVEY, LA 70058

Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 7/28/1960 Height: 5'7" Weight: 210 Hair Color: GRAY

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth:

I, CLAUDE JONES JR AKA CJ JONES JONES AKA CJ JONES AKA HASHIM JONES, have been convicted of 14:43 - Simple Rape. Date Convicted: 12/04/1986. 15:542 - Failure to Register/Notify as a Sex Offender. Date Convicted: 05/24/2010. My Address is: 3710

I, DARRELL JOSEPH YOUNG JR, have been convicted of 14:283 Video Voyeurism. Date Convicted: 01/23/2013. My Address is: 7120 GENTRY RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE

My Address is: 5236 CHARTRES ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117

I, John Coleman AKA KENT A COLEMAN, have been convicted of 14:283 - Video Voyeurism. Date Convicted: 12/13/2021.

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 7/1/1956 Height: 5'10" Weight: 180 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 944 HOOTER RD BRIDGE CITY, LA 70094 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 8/25/11978 Height: 5'6" Weight: 213 Hair Color: BALD Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

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I, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON aka PEANUTE JEFFERSON, have been convicted of 11990002 22.011(a)(2) PC - Sexual Assault Child. TEXAS. Date Convicted: 07/18/2007. State Equivalent: 14:43 Simple Rape. My Address is: 3522 LEONIDAS ST NEW

I, HOWARD JORDON AKA HAROLD WEST, have been convicted of 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 03/17/1988. 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 12/19/1997.

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