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COLLAPSE IN AFGHANISTAN

Biden Defends Troop Pullout

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American troops cannot — and should not — be fighting in a war, and NO REGRETS:
dying in a war, that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. President says fall
President Joe Biden
of Kabul, while
“hard and messy,”
was inevitable.
By Eli Stokols

President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House, said he would not pass the Afghanistan war along to a fifth president.
AFGHANISTAN: Seven are killed amid chaos at Kabul’s airport.
Thousands fled the capital as the Taliban enforced their rule.
By Ahmad Seir, Tameem Akhgar,
Kathy Gannon, and Jon Gambrell
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of Afghans rushed
into Kabul’s main airport Monday, some so desperate to
escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it
took off and plunged to their deaths. At least seven
people died in the chaos, U.S. officials said, as America’s
longest war ended with its enemy the victor.
The crowds came while the Taliban enforced their
rule over the capital of 5 million people after a light-
ning advance across the country that took just over a
week to dethrone the country’s Western-backed gov-
ernment. There were no major reports of abuses or
fighting, but many residents stayed home and re-
mained fearful after the insurgents’ takeover saw
prisons emptied and armories looted.
A resolute President Joe Biden said he stood
“squarely behind” his decision to withdraw American
forces and acknowledged the “gut-wrenching” imag-
es unfolding in Kabul. Biden said he faced a choice
See AFGHANISTAN on A6
AREA VETERANS: Those who served share mixed feelings on exit.
By Melanie Burney and Marina Affo
STAFF WRITERS
As she watched events unfold in Af-
ghanistan this week with staggering
speed, Kristin Leone began questioning
her 2015 deployment with the U.S. Naval
Reserve Nurse Corps, tending to wound-
ed American and NATO soldiers.
“Did I do enough?” the Berlin Borough
nurse wondered. “Did we do all of this in
vain?”
Like many veterans of the conflict in
the region, Leone, 45, felt a jumble of
emotions. Some said they are troubled by
the chaotic end to America’s longest war
Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it
moves down a runway at Kabul’s airport. Image verified by AP
with its enemy emerging as the victor.
Others expressed relief that the United
States and other Western countries are
closing their missions and flying their
staff and citizens to safety.
Many are pained for Afghans who are
trying to flee the country after the Tali-
ban seized power and dethroned the
Western-backed government. The last
American troops had planned to with-
draw at the end of the month.
“I’m not gonna say ‘Was it worth it?’ I
won’t say that,” said Air Force Maj. Dav-
id Strawbridge, of Middletown, Del., who
served outside Kabul during 2012 and
W
LOS ANGELES TIMES
ASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Joe Biden, facing
the biggest political cri-
sis of his term, defended
the chaotic withdrawal
of U.S. forces from Afghanistan amid
the rapid collapse of the country’s gov-
ernment, taking responsibility for end-
ing the 20-year war while asserting
that the “hard and messy” events of
recent days were inevitable.
“I am president of the United States
of America, and the buck stops with
me,” Biden said in a speech from the
White House on Monday afternoon.
“I’m deeply saddened by the facts we
now face. But I do not regret my deci-
sion to end America’s war fighting in
Afghanistan.”
While Biden acknowledged that the
Taliban’s march into Kabul “did unfold
more quickly than we anticipated,” he
argued that it validated his decision to
end America’s two-decade commit-
ment to Afghanistan.
“American troops cannot — and
should not — be fighting in a war, and
EVAN VUCCI / AP dying in a war, that the Afghans are
not willing to
fight for them- y REACTION: Local
selves,” Biden lawmakers weigh in
said. “We gave on withdrawal. A4
them every
chance to deter- y DOUBTS: U.S.
mine their own commanders saw
future. What we flaws in Afghan
could not pro- forces for more
vide them was than a decade. A5
the will to fight
for that future.” y TRUDY RUBIN:
Biden was far Biden’s team failed
more forceful in to plan for mass
explaining his ra- evacuation of
tionale for bring- activists and
ing U.S. troops translators. A11
home than the
poorly executed departure, blaming Af-
ghanistan’s political leaders who “gave
up and fled the country.” The president
claimed the failure to expedite the visa
process for the tens of thousands of
former interpreters and contractors
who aided U.S. forces was a response
to the former Afghan government re-
questing they hold off so as not to trig-
ger a panic.
Biden had returned from Camp Dav-
id just hours before his appearance in
the East Room, cutting short a week of
scheduled vacation amid rising pres-
sure to respond publicly to a diplomat-
ic, humanitarian, and political crisis af-
ter Afghanistan fell Sunday into Tali-
ban hands.
2013. “Let history define whether it was Biden began his remarks by empha-
worth it or not, but right now it just sizing his consistent view that the Af-
hurts.” ghanistan conflict had morphed from a
Leone, a lieutenant commander sta- counterterrorism mission in the after-
tioned at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lake- math of 9/11 into a nation-building exer-
hurst, spent six months at a combat hos- cise that was draining U.S. resources.
pital in Kandahar in 2015, treating inten- He implicitly rebuked the American
sive-care patients. She also is an ICU generals who convinced his successors
nurse at Virtua Hospital in Voorhees. to expand the war effort, often with
“The rational side of us says of course rosy and false promises.
it wasn’t all for nothing,” said Leone, who “I am now the fourth American presi-
was awarded the Navy-Marine Corps dent to preside over a war in Afghani-
Achievement Medal for outstanding ser- stan,” Biden said. “I will not pass this
vice. “We had a purpose and we had a responsibility on to a fifth president. I
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As storm nears, Haiti struggles

Hospitals were running Dresse said she lost two cous-
ins in Saturday’s earthquake,
low on supplies. “We are which also felled the 100-year-
at the mercy of God,” one old family home on the peninsu-
la where she vacationed regular-
earthquake survivor said. ly. The disaster also displaced
her elderly uncle, whom she was
By Jacqueline Charles evacuating from Les Cayes
and Daniel Chang ahead of the storm
MIAMI HERALD She told a story of how her
LES CAYES, Haiti — Earth- cousin, a woman also named Ma-
quake victims with broken bones galie, had rushed back into her
and open wounds filled a hospi- house to save her 16-year-old
tal courtyard in this rural coastal daughter, but died inside with
city Monday, desperate to evacu- her husband. The girl survived,
ate for better medical care else- Dresse said, and was airlifted to
where in the country. get medical care “outside of Hai-
But the window was quickly ti.”
closing as approaching Tropical As she waited at the airport,
Depression Grace threatened to Dresse reflected on the series of
drench the country — adding to natural disasters and other ca-
the already difficult challenges lamities that have befallen Haiti,
for international rescue efforts including the July 7 assassina-
after Saturday’s magnitude 7.2 tion of Haitian President Jovenel
earthquake leveled buildings Moïse, that draw international at-
and killed an estimated 1,300 peo- tention but often leave the coun-
ple all along Haiti’s southwest- try in worse shape.
ern peninsula. “We are unfortunately again
“We are at the mercy of God,” bitten directly,” Dresse said.
said Francesse Moril, 24, who People remove debris at the collapsed Le Manguier hotel in Les Cayes, Haiti, on Monday, two days after a “But I’m trying to see how we
lost her home in the earthquake. 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the country. MATIAS DELACROIX / AP can, as Haitians on the ground,
Moril sat under an open UNICEF connect with our families here
tent at the bedside of her friend, can save me.” and see how we can help.”
Michaela Belcombe, 53, a moth- At the airport in Les Cayes, Ri- Dresse’s business, which em-
er of five and grandmother of chard Hervé Fourcand, a former ploys mostly women, received
three. Haitian senator who loaned his financial support from foreign
They were part of a chaotic personal airplane to ferry the in- investors after the January
scene unfolding outside Les jured to Port-au-Prince for medi- 2010 earthquake that killed
Cayes’ hospitals as hundreds of cal help, said the hospitals were 300,000 people to help rebuild
others like them sought help. at capacity. Haiti’s economy. Dresse said
One private hospital with 64 “We have a very, very bad situa- she was in Atlanta when the
beds was already running low on tion right now,” he said. “The hos- 2010 earthquake struck, and
basic supplies, such as medical pitals we have cannot do any- that the disaster destroyed her
tape, painkillers, and antibiotics. thing.” business. But the foreign invest-
Many of the victims here did not Like others, Fourcand had ment helped.
want to be moved indoors as the flown into Les Cayes to help how- She said most of her employ-
ground in Haiti continues to con- ever he could. Fourcand said he ees had lost their homes, and
vulse with aftershocks. Instead, had arranged about 25 rescue many people sought refuge on
they gathered in the courtyard. flights out of Les Cayes, mostly the company campus in Port-au-
Workers bandaged injuries on by persuading pilots who had Prince because they felt safer
the ground. Others rolled out pa- brought search-and-rescue there. They lived outdoors and
tients in recliner chairs and lift- teams, international humanitari- struggled to find enough drink-
ed them into waiting pickup an workers and journalists to fer- ing water, food and shelter, she
trucks and SUVs to be taken to A young man cries as he waits to receive a sack of rice. Food was being ry back injured residents. said.
the airport. One mother whose distributed to earthquake survivors in Les Cayes, Haiti. JOSEPH ODELYN / AP The need for drinking water, But Dresse said she also no-
face had been bludgeoned and food and shelter is great, he said. ticed that many of the survivors
bloodied by falling concrete was transported to Port-au-Prince. The home was already wiped out “Tents are very important,” he found solace from the disaster in
forced to choose which of her The hospital, its walls cracked by Hurricane Matthew five years said, “because the people don’t work and other routines that
injured children to seek help for from the earthquake, is one of ago and she had not yet fully want to sleep inside the house.” brought back a sense of normal-
first. three in a devastated city where rebuilt the structure. Attached to Magalie Dresse, a Haitian en- cy.
At the government-run OFAT- doctors must quickly assess inju- an intravenous tube and with trepreneur and co-owner of Car- “That’s what motivated me to
MA Hospital, an awning-covered ries and decide who should be her left leg bandaged, she ibbean Craft, a manufacturer of reopen very quickly,” she said.
walkway has been converted flown out now and who can stay prayed for divine intervention to arts and crafts products, flew in “The same week after the earth-
into a patient ward. The doctors’ as Grace approaches and after- bring respite to Haiti’s string of from Port-au-Prince to help in- quake, we got everybody work-
residence is now an operating shocks continue. misfortune. jured friends and family who ei- ing. We had 121 people working
room and a school bus is now an Belcombe, one of the patients, “My leg hurts, my waist hurts,” ther needed to evacuate for medi- on my site. We had 700 refugees
ambulance for those too injured said concrete blocks in her par- Belcombe said. “And now bad cal help or to stay and prepare in the garden and we had to get
to receive care here who must be tially collapsed home fell on her. weather is coming? Only God for the approaching storm. them back to work.”

Detainee says China is holding Uyghurs in Dubai jail

Her account could be the first evidence that Beijing questioned by Chinese officials
at her hotel and then taken by
is operating a “black site” beyond its borders. Dubai police to a police station
for three days. On the third day,
ASSOCIATED PRESS The AP was unable to confirm she said, a Chinese man who in-
A young Chinese woman says or disprove Wu’s account inde- troduced himself as Li Xuhang
she was held for eight days at a pendently, and she could not pin- came to visit her. He told her he
Chinese-run secret detention fa- point the exact location of the was working for the Chinese con-
cility in Dubai along with at least black site. However, reporters sulate in Dubai, and asked her
two Uyghurs, in what may be the have seen and heard corroborat- whether she had taken money
first evidence that China is oper- ing evidence including stamps in from foreign groups to act
ating a so-called “black site” be- her passport, a phone recording against China.
yond its borders. of a Chinese official asking her Li Xuhang is listed as consul
The woman, 26-year-old Wu questions, and text messages general on the website of the Chi-
Huan, was on the run to avoid that she sent from jail to a pastor nese consulate in Dubai. The con-
extradition back to China be- helping the couple. sulate did not return multiple
cause her fiance was considered Chinese Foreign Ministry calls asking for comment and to
a Chinese dissident. Wu told the spokesperson Hua Chunying speak with Li directly.
Associated Press she was abduct- said: “What I can tell you is that Wu said she was handcuffed and
ed from a hotel in Dubai and the situation the person talked taken to a villa converted into indi-
detained by Chinese officials at a about is not true.” Dubai did not vidual cells.
villa converted into a jail, where respond to multiple phone calls Wu Huan (right), shown with her fiance, Wang Jingyu, at a safe house She saw another prisoner, a Uy-
she saw or heard two other pris- and requests for comment. in June, is now seeking asylum in the Netherlands. She was forced to ghur woman, while waiting to use
oners, both Uyghurs. Yu-Jie Chen, an assistant profes- sign documents incriminating her fiance. AP the bathroom once, she said. A
She was questioned and threat- sor at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, second time, she heard a Uyghur
ened in Chinese and forced to said she had not heard of a Chi- lar were being extradited or re- en people who have reported be- woman shouting in Chinese, “I
sign legal documents incriminat- nese secret jail in Dubai, and such turned to China, which has been ing held in villas in the UAE, don’t want to go back to China, I
ing her fiance for harassing her, a facility in another country would detaining the mostly Muslim mi- including citizens of Canada, In- want to go back to Turkey.” Wu
she said. She was finally re- be unusual. However, she also not- nority on suspicion of terrorism dia and Jordan but not China. identified the women as Uyghurs,
leased on June 8 and is now seek- ed that it would be in keeping with even for relatively harmless acts “There is no doubt that the she said, based on their distinc-
ing asylum in the Netherlands. China’s attempts to do all it can to like praying. Wu and her fiance, UAE has detained people on be- tive appearance and accent.
While “black sites” are com- bring select citizens back, both 19-year-old Wang Jingyu, are not half of foreign governments with Wu said she was interogated
mon in China, Wu’s account is through official means such as Uyghur but rather Han Chinese, whom they are allied,” Stirling and then forced to sign docu-
the only testimony known to ex- signing extradition treaties and the majority ethnicity in China. said. “I don’t think they would at ments testifying that Wang was
perts that Beijing has set one up unofficial means such as revoking Dubai has a history as a place all shrug their shoulders to a re- harassing her.
in another country. Such a site visas or putting pressure on fami- where Uyghurs are interrogated quest from such a powerful ally.” After Wu was released, she
would reflect how China is in- ly back home. and deported back to China, and However, Patrick Theros, a flew to Ukraine, where she was
creasingly using its international “[China] really wasn’t interest- activists say Dubai itself has former U.S. ambassador to Qatar reunited with Wang. After
clout to detain or bring back citi- ed in reaching out until recent been linked to secret interroga- who is now strategic adviser to threats from Chinese police that
zens it wants from overseas, years,” said Chen, who has tions. Radha Stirling, a legal ad- the Gulf International Forum, Wang could face extradition
whether they are dissidents, cor- tracked China’s international le- vocate who founded the advoca- called the allegations “totally out from Ukraine, the couple fled
ruption suspects, or ethnic mi- gal actions. cy group Detained in Dubai, said of character” for the Emiratis. again to the Netherlands. Wu
norities like the Uyghurs. Chen said Uyghurs in particu- she has worked with about a doz- On May 27, Wu said, she was said she misses her homeland.

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Mask disputes,
rising cases mar
return to school
By James Anderson against a deadly virus. I
ASSOCIATED PRESS sure wish the Governor
The summer surge of would join our side in the
the highly infectious delta battle,” said Dallas county
variant made for a disrup- Judge Clay Jenkins.
tive start of the school Republican Gov. Greg
year in many parts of the Abbott strongly opposes
country Monday as hun- public school mask man-
dreds of thousands of chil- dates, and students and
dren returned to class- parents gathered outside
rooms and parents, admin- the governor’s mansion in
istrators, and governors Austin to urge him to drop
clashed over whether that opposition.
masks should be required. The start of the school
Confusion reigned in year comes as the country
several Texas school dis- is averaging more than
tricts after the state Su- 130,000 new infections a
Tony Spell, praying with supporters in June, has repeatedly defied COVID-19 restrictions to hold in-person services at preme Court stopped day and the number of peo-
the Baton Rouge, La., church where he is pastor. He has preached that vaccinations are “demonic.” GERALD HERBERT / AP mask mandates in two of ple hospitalized with COV-
the state’s largest dis- ID-19 has soared to levels

Across the Bible Belt,

tricts, the day before the last seen in mid-February.
first day of school in Dal- The death toll has also ris-
las. An Arizona judge up- en to nearly 700 a day.
held, at least temporarily, Hospitals in several vi-
a mask mandate in a Phoe- rus hot spots say they are

silence from the pulpit

As the delta variant spreads, many pastors are mum on vaccines.
By Jay Reeves
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dr. Danny Avula, the head of Vir-
ginia’s COVID-19 vaccination effort,
suspected he might have a problem
getting pastors to publicly advocate
for the shots when some members
of his own church referred to them
as “the mark of the beast,” a biblical
reference to allegiance to the devil,
and the minister wasn’t sure how to
respond.
“A lot of pastors, based on where
their congregations are at, are pret-
ty hesitant to do so because this is
so charged, and it immediately in-
vites criticism and furor by the seg-
ment of your community that’s not
on board with that,” Avula said.
Across the nation’s deeply reli-
gious Bible Belt, a region beset by
soaring infection rates from the fast-
spreading delta variant of the virus,
churches, and pastors are both help-
ing and hurting in the campaign to
get people vaccinated against COV-
ID-19.
Some are hosting vaccination clin-
ics and praying for more inocula-
tions, while others are issuing fiery
anti-vaccine sermons from their pul-
pits. Most are staying mum on the
issue, something experts see as a
missed opportunity in a swath of the
country where church is the biggest
spiritual and social influence for
many communities.
That was on display recently in
metro Birmingham, where First Bap-
tist Church of Trussville had an out-
break following a 200th anniversary
celebration that included a video
greeting by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.
The pastor promised more cleaning
and face mask availability without
uttering two words that health offi-
cials say could make a difference
among people long on religion but
short on faith in government: Get
vaccinated.
A few outspoken religious leaders
have garnered crowds or media at-
tention for their opposition to the vac-
cines, such as Tony Spell, who repeat-
edly defied COVID-19 restrictions to
hold in-person services at the Baton
Rouge, La., church where he is pas-
tor. He has preached that vaccina-
tions are “demonic” and vowed that
the government will not “force us to
comply with your evil orders.”
But they appear to be outliers, ac-
cording to theologian Curtis Chang,
with the majority of ministers avoid-
ing the vaccine issue so as not to
inflame tensions in congregations al-
ready struggling with the pandemic
and political division.
“I would say that the vast majority
are paralyzed or silent because of
how polarized it has been,” said
Chang, who has pastored churches
and is on the faculty at Duke Divini-
ty School.
A survey by the National Associa-
tion of Evangelicals found that 95%
of evangelical leaders planned to get
inoculated, but that number hasn’t
translated into widespread advoca-
cy from the pulpit, he said.
The disparity matters because vac-
cination rates are generally low
across the Bible Belt, where South-
ern and Midwestern churchgoers
are a formidable bloc that has prov-
en resistant to vaccination appeals
from government leaders and health
officials. While many Black and Lati-
no people haven’t been vaccinated,
the large number of white evangeli-
cal resisters is particularly troubling
for health officials.
A poll by The Associated Press-
NORC Center for Public Affairs Re-
search in March showed that 40% of
white evangelical Protestants said
they likely would not get vaccinated,
compared with 25% of all Ameri-
cans, 28% of white mainline Protes-
tants, and 27% of nonwhite Protes-
Dr. Danny Avula,
the head of
Virginia’s
COVID-19
vaccination effort,
says many pastors
are reluctant to
speak out because
of opposition to
inoculations within
their
congregations.
STEVE HELBER / AP
tants.
Some national voices including
Black megachurch minister T.D.
Jakes, evangelist Franklin Graham,
and former Southern Baptist Con-
vention President J.D. Greear have
taken public stances in favor of vac-
cinations. But there hasn’t been a
sustained, unified push that could
give local pastors “cover” to speak
out themselves, Chang said.
First Baptist Trussville has taken
multiple steps to guard against
spreading the virus, including follow-
ing public health guidelines and lim-
iting in-person events, according to
spokesman and business manager
Alan Taylor. Yet when it comes to
the vaccines, church leaders consid-
er them “a personal choice,” he said.
“When I am asked personally, I say
it was the right choice for me and my
wife,” said Taylor, who contracted a
relatively rare breakthrough case of
COVID-19 despite having been vacci-
nated. “I firmly believe it helped
when I became infected.”
The story is much the same in Mis-
sissippi and Georgia, where some
churches are returning to online ser-
vices and some pastors are quietly
talking about the need for vaccina-
tion.
More than 200 pastors, priests and
other church leaders from Missouri
went further as cases exploded last
month, signing a statement urging
Christians to get vaccinated because
of the biblical commandment to
“love your neighbor as yourself.”
nix district despite a new seeing an increase in infec-
state law prohibiting such tions and hospitalizations
restrictions. One Colorado in children, bringing anxi-
county posted sheriff’s ety to families starting
deputies in schools on the school. A handful of Re-
first day of classes as a publican-led states ban
precaution after parents schools from requiring
protested a last-minute masks but many have de-
mask mandate. fied the laws and are fight-
Public school authori- ing them in the courts.
ties are com- In West Tex-
mitted to mak-
ing up lost
A state as, the Iraan-
Sheffield Inde-
ground after Supreme Court pendent
frequent dis-
ruptions, in-
ruling caused School District
district, which
cluding on- confusion in began its
and-off remote
learning, in
Texas, where school year
Aug. 10, said
the pandemic’s some districts Monday it was
first year left
millions of chil-
kept mask shutting down
for two weeks
dren behind in mandates. so students
their studies, and staff could
especially those of commu- quarantine. The district,
nities of color. The U.S. which has about 380 stu-
Centers for Disease Con- dents, provided no data
trol and Prevention recom- about a virus outbreak,
mends masks in schools but said no remote learn-
for students, staff, and ing would be available and
teachers. urged students and staff
Nowhere did Monday’s to stay at home. Mask
battles play out greater wearing was optional in
than in Texas, where some the district.
counties and school dis- Yellow school buses and
tricts kept in place mask parents snapping back-to-
mandates and others re- school pictures made the
scinded them as schools first day of school seem al-
reopened after Sunday’s most normal in Los Ange-
court ruling. les, where many schools
The order by the state’s reopened Monday in the
highest court — entirely nation’s second-largest
comprised of elected Re- school district.
publican justices — halts In Los Angeles, like the
mask requirements that rest of the state, students
county leaders in Dallas and teachers are required
and San Antonio, which to wear masks in indoor
are run by Democrats, put settings, and teachers
in place as new infections must show proof of vacci-
soared. nation or submit to weekly
Dallas school officials COVID-19 testing.
said Monday that masks Los Angeles Unified
were still required on dis- School District, which
trict property and that visi- serves about 600,000 K-12
tors weren’t allowed in students, is also requiring
schools. The Austin school students and staff to get
district and Harris County, tested weekly for COV-
which includes Houston, ID-19, regardless of vaccina-
also said their mask man- tion status, and is conduct-
dates for schools re- ing daily health checks.
mained in place. “There is no substitute
The top elected official for in-person learning,
in Dallas County said in a friendship and physical ac-
tweet that the Supreme tivity, which is why we
Court ruling did not strike have committed to putting
down his mask order, and into place the highest safe-
that it remained in effect. ty standards,” LAUSD in-
“We’re at war on behalf terim Superintendent
of moms and dads and kids Megan Reilly said.

N.Y. expands vaccine mandate

The state orders
health-care workers
to get shots. City
rules go into effect.
By Bobby Caina Calvan
and Jennifer Peltz
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Vaccine
mandates expanded Mon-
day as New York state or-
dered hospital and nurs-
ing home workers to get
COVID-19 inoculations
and New York City was
poised to start requiring
them for anyone in restau-
rant dining rooms, gyms,
museums. and many other
leisure venues.
The new policies aim to
goad people into getting
vaccinated as New York,
like the rest of the U.S.,
confronts a coronavirus
wave powered by the high-
ly infectious delta variant
of the virus.
As the variant posed a
growing threat and vacci-
nation rates leveled off
this summer, some cities,
states, and federal agen-
cies have rapidly shifted
from encouraging vaccina-
tion to either-or require-
ments — inoculation or
testing — to a flat-out insis-
tence on vaccination for
some settings or workforc-
es.
“Just buy into this be-
cause it’s going to work for
all of us, is going to make
us all safer,” New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio
said Monday.
In a nationwide first for
a city government, the
Democrat announced earli-
er this month that proof of
vaccination would be re-
quired to partake in much
of public life, from indoor
dining to gym workouts to
theater. It applies to pa-
trons, employees, New
Yorkers, commuters and
visitors alike in settings
ranging from arenas to cof-
fee shops to yoga studios.
Even strip clubs are in-
cluded.
There are exceptions for
children under 12 — who
are not yet eligible for vac-
cination — and athletes,
contractors, and some per-
formers who don’t live in
the city. The policy also ex-
cludes church potlucks,
community centers, office
buildings, house parties
(even if they’re catered)
and people ducking in
somewhere to pick up
food or use the bathroom,
among other exemptions.
It goes into effect Tues-
day, but enforcement
won’t begin until Sept. 13,
to give the public more
time to get vaccinated.
City officials promised
training for businesses on
how to handle possible
confrontations between pa-
trons and staffers, who
will be on the front lines of
checking vaccination sta-
tus.
The Metropolitan Muse-
um of Art, one of the city’s
most visited venues, said
it was working on how to
implement the new rule
but was happy to comply.
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Area Congress members react to crisis
Republicans blasted
Biden’s handling of the
exit. Democrats were less
critical of the president.
By Jonathan Tamari,
Andrew Seidman,
Julia Terruso, and Allison Steel
STAFF WRITERS
WASHINGTON — As Afghani-
stan collapsed into chaos and
President Joe Biden faced his
first full-blown crisis, Republi-
cans from Pennsylvania and
New Jersey blasted his withdraw-
al of U.S. forces.
Some Democrats also sharply
questioned the way Biden execut-
ed the decision — while still sup-
porting the goal of ending Ameri-
ca’s two-decade entanglement.
But most stopped short of blam-
ing him directly and urged a focus
on rescuing Americans and Af-
ghan allies, especially women now
facing a return to a brutal, funda-
mentalist rule. They said the fail-
ures in Afghanistan belong to lead-
ers of both parties who have over-
seen America’s long slog.
One thing they all agreed on:
The human repercussions will
be tragic.
“This is an unmitigated disas-
ter of epic proportions, for the
US & the World,” tweeted Rep.
Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.), a
member of the House Foreign Af-
fairs Committee from Bucks
County. “This is a direct result of
a complete failure of leadership
by those in government who
don’t have the first clue about
national & international security
& the importance of peace
through strength.”
Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.)
raised concerns in April about
the Afghan government’s ability
to hold the country. On Sunday,
he said, “The miscalculation to
rapidly withdraw our forces to
meet symbolic rather than strate-
gic deadlines has created a rapid-
ly unfolding humanitarian disas-
ter that will lead to only more
pain and suffering for the people
of Afghanistan.”
Even among some Democrats,
there was frustration with how
Biden removed U.S. troops —
and the lack of foresight about
what followed.
“I don’t think we had enough
of a plan for getting people out
of there while it was still safe to
do so. And that really worries
me,” said Rep. Susan Wild (D.,
Pa.), a member of the House For-
eign Affairs Committee from the
Lehigh Valley. “I criticized Presi-
dent Trump for what happened
with the Kurds in Syria and I will
criticize this administration for
the same thing. We don’t aban-
don our friends — not just our
friends, but our allies, people
“Right now it just hurts,” says Air Force Maj. David Strawbridge, of
Middletown, Del., who served outside Kabul in 2012 (above) and 2013.
Veterans
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mission.”
Retired Army Sgt. Dwight
Peterson, a Philadelphia native
who was deployed to Kandahar
for five months in 2004, said he
is devastated by the U.S. troop
withdrawal. He was sent home
after injuring his shoulder while
repairing a vehicle and watched
from afar with pride as fellow
soldiers helped steady the tumul-
tuous country.
“We’ve been there 20 years
and with us pulling out, it
seemed like the Taliban took it
back in 20 hours,” said Peterson,
47, who operates a pediatric
home health care company with
his wife in San Antonio, Texas.
“One side of me says it felt like a
waste of time.”
Strawbridge says his service
made a difference. He served as
part of Operation Enduring Free-
dom at Camp Phoenix. He be-
lieves the country’s main goal
was achieved with the killing of
Osama bin Laden.
“We did what we were asked to
do by our country,” said Straw-
bridge, 53, currently an opera-
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“ “
This is an unmitigated
disaster of epic proportions,
for the US & the World. This is a
direct result of a complete failure
of leadership by those in
government who don’t have the
first clue about national &
international security.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.)
who work right alongside our
troops. … It affects our credibili-
ty as a nation.”
Wild supported Biden’s end
goal but said Congress needs an-
swers about what went wrong.
“We were told just a few days
ago that it wasn’t going to look like
Vietnam, and Kabul was not going
to fall precipitously,” Wild said in
an interview, pointing back to Bi-
den’s own words. “And of course, if
anything it’s fallen even more
quickly than Saigon did.”
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D.,
Pa.), an Air Force veteran and
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee member from Chester Coun-
ty, said: “These past few days
have been difficult to process,
and not because the Taliban’s
progress was surprising. In fact,
the opposite. We sounded the
alarm, and our dire warnings fell
on deaf ears.”
Biden and some other Demo-
crats noted that former President
Donald Trump had signed a deal
with the Taliban and planned an
even earlier withdrawal, by May 1.
Trump boasted as recently as last
month that he had started a pro-
cess he said would be impossible
to stop. Many Republicans had
cheered that decision.
But Biden is now in charge,
and he has shown little hesita-
tion to reverse other Trump poli-
cies.
Republicans who had backed
Trump said Biden should have
carried out the withdrawal more
carefully.
“This rests solely at the end of
the day with the commander-in-
chief,” Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.),
a veteran of the second Iraq war
who represents the Harrisburg
area, said in an interview.
“Whether he’s gotten bad advice
or hasn’t taken good advice, you
run for office and you have to
tions officer. “We went over
there and we gave it our all.”
The veteran of more than 30
years said news of the withdraw-
al of troops stirred shock, dis-
may, confusion, and hurt. He
said his heart aches for Gold
Star families who lost loved ones
in Afghanistan.
What surprised retired Army
Lt. Col Mike Bliss, who did two
tours in Afghanistan, was how
quickly the Taliban took control.
Insurgents captured Kabul with
little or no resistance. U.S. mili-
tary officials say the Afghan mili-
tary lost the will to fight.
“The overall end result is that
they did not do what they need-
ed to do,: said Bliss, 47, of Glouc-
ester Township. “To see it unrav-
el so quickly is just a sad thing to
watch.”
Bliss was deployed to Kabul,
where he helped improve the
area near the international air-
port, where thousands are now
scrambling to get flights out of
Afghanistan. He also did a tour
in Jalalabad, one of the last cit-
ies to fall to the Taliban.
Now an administrator at Solid
Rock Baptist Church in Berlin,
Bliss wants to refrain from harsh
judgment on whether American
forces should have been with-
The miscalculation to
rapidly withdraw our forces
to meet symbolic rather than
strategic deadlines has created a
rapidly unfolding humanitarian
disaster that will lead to only more
pain and suffering for the people
of Afghanistan.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.)
“
This is a 20-year war. … We
own that failure as a nation.
Right now I’m just trying to think
about what we can do to make a
tangible difference for the people
who are there.
Rep. Andy Kim (D., N.J.)
own the decisions you make.”
Perry’s interview itself was no-
table — the deeply conservative
congressman who helped push
to overturn Pennsylvania’s elec-
tion results mostly avoids the
mainstream media.
Yet Republicans were eager to
lay blame Monday, while many
Democrats usually happy to talk
about Biden’s agenda were un-
available, according to aides.
Public comments from Sen.
Bob Menendez (D., N.J.), the
chair of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, were limited to
a handful of tweets. They didn’t
address Biden’s decision but
called for protecting troops, dip-
lomats, women, and activists.
Late in the day he released a
letter signed by 45 other sena-
tors also urging Biden to protect
Afghan women leaders.
Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.), a close
Biden ally, issued a statement say-
ing, “This is not the time for the
usual Washington finger pointing
and pontificating; our immediate
Kristin Leone, a Navy and civilian nurse, served six months in Afghanistan. “The rational side of us says of
course it wasn’t all for nothing,” she says. “We had a purpose and we had a mission.“ MITCHELL LEFF
drawn. The thought, he says, has
crossed his mind.
“When you look at the overall
picture,” Bliss said, “you can’t
help but wonder if the effort is
worth it? Our goal was not leave
and let it collapse.”
Several veterans of the war ex-
pressed regrets for those left be-
hind, those they’d made promis-
es to help.
Anthony McCloskey spent 13
months in the country as a Navy
petty officer, first class, and felt
when he came home in 2007 that
he had made a difference.
“I helped create a program to
teach Afghan women to read,”
said McCloskey, 42, a Comcast
director of cybersecurity. “We
started getting Afghan women in
classrooms. … All of that will be
swiftly wiped away. It makes me
feel awful.”
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I don’t think we had enough
of a plan for getting people
out of there while it was still safe
to do so. And that really worries
me. We don’t abandon our friends
— not just our friends, but our
allies, people who work right
alongside our troops.
Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.)
priority must be to safely evacu-
ate the Americans, women lead-
ers, activists and human rights de-
fenders who are being targeted by
the Taliban.”
After that, he said, “Congress
should conduct a full review of
mistakes made in Afghanistan
over the course of 20 years.”
For some veterans and nation-
al security experts, the failure
was deeply personal.
Rep. Andy Kim (D., N.J.)
served as a national security ad-
viser in the Obama administra-
tion and worked in Afghanistan
for about six months in 2011.
For days, he said, he’s fielded
nonstop calls, emails, and texts
from desperate embassy work-
ers and others. Even when some-
one, their spouse, and children
can be cleared to be evacuated,
he said, the next question might
be, “What about my mother?”
“It’s tough to hear,” Kim said.
“I make no promises to any-
body.”
He didn’t blame Biden specifi-
cally, saying, “This is a 20-year
war. … We own that failure as a
nation. Right now I’m just trying
to think about what we can do to
make a tangible difference for
the people who are there.”
Some reflected on the personal
sacrifices lost.
Constituents who served in Af-
ghanistan “are beside them-
selves,” said Rep. Dan Meuser, a
Northeastern Pennsylvania Re-
publican who serves on the
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee. “They’re depressed, they’re
frustrated, they’re furious.
They’re grieving.”
“I’ve heard from [military]
members who’ve retired and
they’re wondering what their sac-
rifices were about,” Perry said.
Houlahan has also heard from
those questioning their service.
Retired Army Sgt. Dwight Peterson (back row, second from left), who
was deployed to Kandahar for five months in 2004, said he is
devastated by the U.S. troop withdrawal. Courtesy Dwight Peterson
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This is not the time for the
usual Washington finger
pointing and pontificating; our
immediate priority must be to
safely evacuate the Americans,
women leaders, activists and
human rights defenders who are
being targeted by the Taliban
Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.)
“On behalf of our grateful com-
munity and nation, let me say as
clearly as I can: You changed
lives. You protected our home-
land from terrorism,” she said.
The issue spilled into Pennsyl-
vania’s U.S. Senate race. Demo-
crats’ usually active Twitter
feeds said relatively little about
the crisis.
“What we are seeing unfold in
Afghanistan right now is devas-
tating,” tweeted Montgomery
County Commissioner Val Ark-
oosh, one of the only Democratic
candidates who directly ad-
dressed the issue. “The most im-
portant priority right now must
be the safe evacuation of Ameri-
cans, partners, and allies.”
Another candidate, Rep. Conor
Lamb (D., Pa.), tweeted about
dedicating a local post office
Monday to an Air Force service-
man killed by a roadside bomb
in Afghanistan, without com-
menting on the withdrawal.
Republican contenders ripped
Biden’s decision.
“Welcome to Barack Obama’s
third term,” tweeted Jeff Bartos.
“The same geniuses who over-
saw withdrawal from Iraq (giv-
ing rise to ISIS) clearly learned
nothing from their past mis-
takes.”
Sean Parnell quickly released
a digital ad emphasizing his time
as an Army Ranger.
“As someone who spent 485
days in combat in Afghanistan
and was wounded in action, I be-
lieve it’s long past time to bring
our troops home,” Parnell said in
a statement. “But Joe Biden has
completely failed to properly exe-
cute the withdrawal.”
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Afghan army soldiers stand guard after the American military left Bagram air base, in
Parwan province north of Kabul, in July. RAHMAT GUL / AP
Throughout the war,
officials had doubts
U.S. commanders
privately saw flaws
in Afghan forces for
more than a decade.
By Craig Whitlock
WASHINGTON POST
In the summer of 2011,
Army Lt. Gen. William
Caldwell IV made a round
of public appearances to
boast that he had finally
solved a problem that had
kept U.S. troops bogged
down in Afghanistan for a
decade. Under his watch,
he asserted, U.S. military
advisers and trainers had
transformed the ragtag Af-
ghan army and police into
a professional fighting
force that could defend
the country and keep the
Taliban at bay.
“We’ve made tremendous
strides, incredible
progress,” Caldwell, the
head of the U.S. and NATO-
’s training command in Af-
ghanistan, told the Council
on Foreign Relations in
June 2011. “They’re proba-
bly the best trained, the
best equipped and the best
led of any forces we’ve de-
veloped yet inside of Af-
ghanistan. They only contin-
ue to get better with time.”
Three months later, in a
news briefing at the Penta-
gon, Caldwell said the Af-
ghan soldiers and police
previously had been in ter-
rible shape: poorly led, un-
inspired, and more than
90% of them illiterate. But
he said the Obama admin-
istration’s decision to
spend $6 billion a year to
train and equip the Af-
ghan security forces had
produced a remarkable
turnaround. He predicted
that the Taliban-led insur-
gency would subside and
that the Afghans would
take over responsibility
for securing their country
by the end of 2014, en-
abling U.S. combat troops
to leave.
“It really does give you a
lot of hope for the future
of what this country may
have ahead of itself,” he
said.
In fact, according to doc-
uments obtained for the
forthcoming Washington
Post book The Afghanistan
Papers: A Secret History of
the War, U.S. military offi-
cials privately harbored
fundamental doubts for
the duration of the war
that the Afghan security
forces could ever become
competent or shed their
dependency on U.S. mon-
ey and firepower. “Think-
ing we could build the mili-
tary that fast and that well
was insane,” an unidenti-
fied former U.S. official
told government interview-
ers in 2016.
Those fears, rarely ex-
pressed in public, were ul-
timately borne out by the
sudden collapse this
month of the Afghan secu-
rity forces, whose whole-
sale and unconditional sur-
render to the Taliban will
go down as perhaps the
worst debacle in the histo-
ry of proxy warfare.
The capitulation was
sped up by a series of se-
cret deals that the Taliban
brokered with many Af-
ghan government officials.
In recent days and weeks,
Taliban leaders used a
combination of cash,
threats, and promises of le-
niency to persuade govern-
Mark Milley, then an Army lieutenant general and deputy
commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, gave reporters
an upbeat assessment in 2013. ALEX WONG / Getty Images / TNS
ment forces to lay down
their arms.
Although U.S. intelli-
gence officials had recent-
ly forecast the possible de-
mise of the Afghan govern-
ment over the next three
to six months, the Biden
administration was caught
unprepared by the veloci-
ty of the Taliban takeover.
Afghan forces “proved in-
capable of defending the
country. And that did hap-
pen more rapidly than we
anticipated,” Secretary of
State Antony Blinken said
Sunday on the ABC News
program This Week.
Over two decades, the
U.S. government invested
more than $85 billion to
train and equip the Af-
ghans and pay their sala-
ries. Today, all that is left
are arsenals of weapons,
ammunition, and supplies
that have fallen into the
hands of the enemy.
Senior U.S. officials said
the Pentagon fell victim to
the conceit that it could
build from scratch an enor-
mous Afghan army and po-
lice force with 350,000 per-
sonnel that was modeled
on the centralized com-
mand structures and com-
plex bureaucracy of the
Defense Department.
Though it was obvious
from the beginning that
the Afghans were strug-
gling to make the U.S.-de-
signed system work, the
Pentagon kept throwing
money at the problem and
assigning new generals to
find a solution.
“We kept changing guys
who were in charge of
training the Afghan forc-
es, and every time a new
guy came in, he changed
the way that they were be-
ing trained,” Robert
Gates, who served as de-
fense secretary during the
Bush and Obama adminis-
trations, said in an oral-
history interview with
scholars at the University
of Virginia. “The one thing
they all had in common
was they were all trying to
train a Western army in-
stead of figuring out the
strengths of the Afghans
as a fighting people and
then building on that.”
In the interviews, U.S.
military trainers who
worked directly with re-
cruits said the Afghans suf-
fered from other irreconcil-
able problems, including a
lack of motivation and a
corrupt chain of command
that preyed upon its own
soldiers and police.
Maj. Greg Escobar, a
U.S. Army infantry officer,
spent 2011 trying to
straighten out a dysfunc-
tional Afghan army unit in
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Paktika province near the
border with Pakistan. The
first Afghan battalion com-
mander whom Escobar
mentored lost his job after
he was charged with rap-
ing one of his male sol-
diers. The commander’s re-
placement, in turn, was
killed by his own men.
Escobar said he came to
realize that the whole exer-
cise was futile because the
U.S. military was pushing
too fast and the Afghans
were not responding to
what was, in the end, a for-
eign experiment. “Nothing
we do is going to help,” he
recalled in an Army oral-
history interview. “Until
the Afghan government
can positively affect the
people there, we’re wast-
ing our time.”
Jack Kem, a retired
Army officer, said the train-
ing command struggled to
overcome a host of chal-
lenges. Recruiting was hard
enough, but was compound-
ed by startling rates of de-
sertion and attrition. And
trying to maintain an ethnic
balance in the force among
Afghanistan’s fractious
tribes was another “enor-
mous problem,” he said.
But perhaps the biggest
hardship was having to
teach virtually every re-
cruit how to read. Kem esti-
mated that only 2 to 5% of
Afghan recruits could read
at a third-grade level de-
spite efforts by the United
States to enroll millions of
Afghan children in school
over the previous decade.
“The literacy was just in-
surmountable,” he said in
an Army oral-history inter-
view. Some Afghans also
had to learn their colors,
or had to be taught how to
count. “I mean, you’d ask
an Afghan soldier how
many brothers and sisters
they had and they couldn’t
tell you it was four. They
could tell you their names,
but they couldn’t go ‘one,
two, three, four.’ ”
In September 2013, Mark
Milley, then an Army lieu-
tenant general and deputy
commander of U.S. forces
in Afghanistan, gave report-
ers an upbeat assessment.
“I am much more optimis-
tic about the outcome here,
as long as the Afghan secu-
rity forces continue to do
what they’ve been doing,”
he said.
“If they continue to do
that next year and the
year after and so on, then
I think things will turn out
OK in Afghanistan,” he
added. Today, Milley is
chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and serves
as the chief military advis-
er to President Joe Biden.
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COLLAPSE IN AFGHANISTAN

Biden
Continued from A1
will not mislead the American
people by claiming just a little
more time in Afghanistan will
make all the difference.”
Until stepping off Marine One
just after 1 p.m. in Washington,
Biden had remained out of pub-
lic view, relying on top aides to
appear on the network morning
shows to defend what even politi-
cal allies are describing as the
administration’s disastrous pull-
out from the country.
Just a month after Biden told
reporters it was “unlikely” the
Taliban would overtake the coun-
try, national security adviser
Jake Sullivan acknowledged it
had done just that.
“The speed with which cities
fell was much greater than any-
one anticipated,” Sullivan said
on NBC’s Today show, even as he
put the onus on Afghans to de-
fend their own country after 20
years of American involvement.
“Despite the fact that we spent
20 years and tens of billions of
dollars to give the best equip-
ment, the best training and the
best capacity to the Afghan na-
tional security forces, we could
not give them the will,” he contin-
ued. “And they ultimately decid-
ed they would not fight for Kabul
and they would not fight for the
country ... that opened the door
for the Taliban to come into Ka-
bul very rapidly.”
On Biden’s return to Washing-
ton, the White House informed re-
porters that he’d been briefed by
senior military and national secu-
rity officials earlier in the day on
the situation in Afghanistan.
Biden’s relative invisibility dur-
ing a major crisis has drawn
sharp criticism from Republi-
cans and even many Democrats,
who have called on the adminis-
tration to do more to reassure
the public and to follow through
on Biden’s commitment to help
the Afghans who aided the U.S.
effort.
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massa-
chusetts Democrat and Iraq com-
bat veteran, said calling Afghani-
stan’s fall “anything short of a
President Joe Biden waves as he returns to Washington on Monday. The president had been out of view at
Camp David over the weekend, drawing criticism from Republicans and Democrats. MANUEL BALCE CENETA / AP
disaster would be dishonest”
and urged the White House to
expedite the evacuation of vul-
nerable Afghans. “I’ve have been
calling on the administration to
evacuate our allies immediately
— not wait for paperwork, for
shaky agreements with third
countries, or for time to make it
look more ‘orderly.’ ”
Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.), the
chair of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, said his panel would
investigate “why we weren’t bet-
ter prepared for a worst-case sce-
nario,” adding that the U.S. owes
answers “to the American people
and to all those who served and
sacrificed so much.”
Several Republicans, while ac-
knowledging the role the Trump
administration played in signing
an agreement with the Taliban
last year to begin the process of
withdrawing U.S. forces, seized
on the opportunity to blister Bi-
den, who has been relatively im-
pervious to their partisan at-
tacks.
“While President Joe Biden
cowers at Camp David, the Tali-
ban are humiliating America,”
said Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.),
who disagreed with Biden’s deci-
sion to end the war. “The retreat
from Afghanistan is our worst
foreign policy disaster in a gener-
ation.”
This disaster, whether lawmak-
ers admit it or not, has many
fathers. Three presidents contin-
ued, and at times, expanded the
war, which cost the U.S. $2.6 tril-
lion and the lives of more than
2,400 service members; hun-
dreds of lawmakers voted to au-
thorize it. Biden’s decision to
end it, based on deep personal
conviction and the public’s wan-
ing commitment to Afghanistan,
also followed a timeline his pre-
decessor put in place.
President Donald Trump’s ad-
ministration signed the 2020
agreement with the Taliban to
withdraw U.S. forces from Af-
ghanistan by May 2021. The
agreement also allowed the re-
lease of 500 prisoners, many
with ties to terror groups like
Islamic State and al-Qaeda. His
decision not to involve the coun-
try’s leaders in negotiations de-
moralized and delegitimized the
now-toppled Afghan govern-
ment.
But the former president, who
criticized Biden earlier this year
for not sticking to his earlier
withdrawal timeline, issued a
number of statements Tuesday
attacking his successor’s “incom-
petence” and claiming that he
would have done a better job of
evacuating Afghan civilians to
safety.
The 6,000 U.S. forces Biden de-
ployed back to Kabul over the
weekend for a rescue mission,
according to the State Depart-
ment and the Pentagon, were pri-
marily concerned with the evacu-
ation of American citizens and
embassy personnel, stranding at
least for the moment the tens of
thousands of vulnerable Afghans
who served alongside U.S. forc-
es, those Biden promised would
not be left behind. The chaos at
the airport Monday led the Pen-
tagon to deploy an additional
1,000 troops on Monday, bring-
ing the total operation to 7,000.
On Sunday, Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani fled the country,
and the Taliban occupied the
presidential palace, culminating
its lightning takeover of the na-
tion.
Pentagon spokesperson John
Kirby said Monday that the U.S.
would give refuge to 30,000 vul-
nerable Afghans, although airlift-
ing them to safety — something
advocates have been seeking for
months — is only starting to
ramp up.
In interviews over the week-
end, senior administration offi-
cials said the swift collapse of
Afghan forces — after two de-
cades of intense support from
the U.S. government — affirmed
Biden’s belief that more time
and resources would not have
been well spent in Afghanistan.
But they struggled to explain
what they acknowledged was a
botched pullout, which has led to
the kinds of chaotic, heart-
wrenching scenes Americans re-
member well from Vietnam and
that Biden himself said were un-
likely.
“There’s going to be no circum-
stance where you see people be-
ing lifted off the roof of an em-
bassy of the U.S. in Afghani-
stan,” Biden told reporters last
month. On Sunday, however, U.S.
helicopters were photographed
swooping into the U.S. Embassy
in Kabul to rescue diplomats and
ferry them to the city’s interna-
tional airport for evacuation.
On Monday, while Biden re-
mained out of view at Camp Dav-
id, Americans awoke to stunning
video images of desperate Af-
ghans running alongside and
clinging to a massive C-17 air-
craft as it rumbled down the air-
port’s tarmac before taking off.
The chaos at Kabul’s airport
could jeopardize the rescue oper-
ation if U.S. forces are unable to
better control the crowds.
Biden was seen Sunday only in
a photo tweeted out by the White
House that showed him sitting
alone at a long conference table,
participating in a teleconference
with senior administration offi-
cials.

Afghanistan
Continued from A1
between honoring a previously
negotiated withdrawal agree-
ment or sending thousands more
troops back to begin a third de-
cade of war.
“After 20 years, I’ve learned
the hard way that there was nev-
er a good time to withdraw U.S.
forces,” Biden said in a televised
address from the White House.
The president said American
troops should not be fighting and
dying in a war “that Afghan forc-
es are not willing to fight for
U.S. Army Cpl. Keith Kluwe takes position after exiting a Chinook themselves.” He warned the Tali-
helicopter that landed in Afghanistan’s Baghran Valley in February 2003. ban not to interfere with the A Taliban fighter sits on the back of an armed vehicle in front of the
DAVID SWANSON / File Photo evacuation efforts. Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on Monday. RAHMAT GUL / AP
Across Afghanistan, the Inter-
The War in Afghanistan by the Numbers national Committee of the Red
Cross said thousands had been
ed until Afghan civilians could
be cleared from the runway, Kir-
thing behind.”
Others were not so lucky.

A
t just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in wounded in the fighting. Securi- by added. Uzbekistan air defenses shot
Afghanistan was America’s longest war. Ordinary Americans ty forces and politicians handed Late Monday night, hundreds down an Afghan military aircraft
tended to forget about it, and it received measurably less oversight over their provinces and bases of people remained trapped be- that tried to enter the country
from Congress than the Vietnam War did. But its death toll is in the without a fight, likely believing tween American forces trying to without permission. The two pi-
many tens of thousands. And because the U.S. borrowed most of the the two-decade Western experi- push them out of the airport and lots were reportedly injured and
money to pay for it, generations of Americans will be burdened by the ment to remake Afghanistan Taliban forces trying to keep in custody.
cost of paying it off. would not survive the resurgent them in, witnesses said. An Asso- Meanwhile, President Ashraf
Taliban. The last American ciated Press journalist also saw Ghani, who earlier left the coun-
Here’s a look at the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, by the numbers, as the
troops had planned to withdraw what appeared to be an airstrike try, faced Russian allegations he
Taliban in a lightning offensive take over much of the country before the
at the end of the month. target two vehicles near the air- fled Kabul with four cars and a
United States’ Aug. 31 deadline for ending its combat role and as the
“The world is following events port. helicopter full of cash. His where-
U.S. speeds up American and Afghan evacuations.
in Afghanistan with a heavy Earlier, more than 300 people abouts remained unclear.
Much of the information is from Linda Bilmes of Harvard University’s heart and deep disquiet about were evacuated aboard a Turkish The U.S. Embassy has been
Kennedy School and from the Brown University Costs of War project. what lies ahead,” United Nations Airlines flight after Turkish sol- evacuated and the American flag
Because the United States between 2003 and 2011 fought the Secretary-General Antonio Gu- diers cleared the runway. Senol lowered, with diplomats relocat-
Afghanistan and Iraq wars simultaneously, and many American troops terres said. Celik, who identified himself as a ing to the airport to help with the
served tours in both wars, some figures as noted cover both post-9/11 As the U.S. military and others Turkish Embassy employee, said evacuation. Other Western coun-
U.S. wars. continued evacuation flights, Af- people “threw themselves in tries also closed their missions
ghans swarmed over the interna- front of the plane.” and were flying out staff and
tional airport’s tarmac. Some “They wanted to board the their citizens.
THE LONGEST WAR: OVERSIGHT BY CONGRESS:
climbed into aircraft parked on plane. They wanted to escape Af- In interviews with U.S. televi-
Percentage of U.S. population Date Congress authorized U.S.
the taxiway, while others dan- ghanistan,” he said. “We were sion networks, national security
born since the 2001 attacks forces to go after culprits in Sept.
gled precariously off a jet bridge. afraid that the plane would re- adviser Jake Sullivan blamed the
plotted by al-Qaeda leaders who 11, 2001, attacks: Sept. 18, 2001.
U.S. troops took positions to turn and that we would enter Afghan military for the Taliban’s
were sheltering in Afghanistan: Number of times U.S. lawmakers guard the active runway, but the that chaos. We were sad for rapid takeover, saying it lacked
Roughly one out of every four. have voted to declare war in crowd stormed past them and those people.” the will to fight.
Afghanistan: 0. their armored vehicles. Gun- Shafi Arifi, who had a ticket The Taliban offensive stunned
THE HUMAN COST:
American service members killed Number of times lawmakers on shots rang out. As one U.S. Air to travel to Uzbekistan on Sun- American officials. Just days be-
in Afghanistan through April: Senate Appropriations defense Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster day, was unable to board his fore the insurgents entered Ka-
2,448. subcommittee addressed costs of III tried to take off, a helicopter plane because it was packed bul with little if any resistance, a
Vietnam War, during that conflict: did low runs in front of it to try with people who raced across U.S. military assessment predict-
U.S. contractors: 3,846. 42 to drive people off the runway. the tarmac and climbed aboard, ed it could take months for the
Afghan national military and Number of times lawmakers Videos showed a group of Af- with no police or airport staff capital to fall.
police: 66,000. in same subcommittee have ghans hanging onto the plane in sight. The rout threatened to erase
Other allied service members, mentioned costs of Afghanistan just before takeoff and several “There was no room for us to 20 years of Western efforts to
including from other NATO and Iraq wars, through mid- falling through the air as the air- stand,” said the 24-year-old. remake Afghanistan that saw
member states: 1,144. summer 2021: 5. plane rapidly gained altitude “Children were crying, women tens of thousands of Afghans
over the city. were shouting, young and old killed as well as more than 3,500
Afghan civilians: 47,245. Number of times lawmakers on Senior American military offi- men were so angry and upset, U.S. and allied troops. The initial
Taliban and other opposition Senate Finance Committee have cials, who spoke on condition of no one could hear each other. invasion in 2001 drove the Tali-
fighters: 51,191. mentioned costs of Afghanistan anonymity to discuss the ongo- There was no oxygen to ban from power and scattered
and Iraq wars since Sept. 11, 2001, ing operation, told the Associat- breathe.” al-Qaeda, which had planned the
Aid workers: 444.
through mid-summer 2021: 1. ed Press that the chaos left sev- After a woman fainted and was 9/11 attacks while being shel-
Journalists: 72.
en dead, including several who carried off the plane, Arifi gave tered in Afghanistan.
THE WARS END.
AFGHANISTAN AFTER NEARLY fell from the flight. Pentagon up and returned home. Under the Taliban, which
THE COSTS DON’T:
20 YEARS OF U.S. OCCUPATION: spokesperson John Kirby said Other Afghans, like Rakhmatu- ruled in accordance with a
Amount Bilmes estimates the
U.S. forces killed two people he la Kuyash, are also trying to harsh interpretation of Islamic
Percentage drop in infant United States has committed
described as carrying weapons leave through land border cross- law, women were largely con-
mortality rate since U.S., Afghan, to pay in health care, disability,
in the melee. He said 1,000 ings, all of which are now con- fined to their homes and sus-
and other allied forces overthrew burial, and other costs for roughly
more U.S. troops would be de- trolled by the Taliban. pected criminals faced amputa-
the Taliban government, which 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq
ployed to secure the airfield “I’m lost and I don’t know what tion or public execution. The in-
had sought to restrict women and veterans: more than $2 trillion.
and back up the 2,500 already to do,” said Kuyash, who crossed surgents have sought to project
girls to the home: About 50. Period those costs will peak: after there. into Uzbekistan on Sunday after greater moderation in recent
Percentage of Afghan teenage 2048. All flights at the airport — both leaving his children and rela- years, but many Afghans re-
girls able to read today: 37. — Associated Press military and civilian — were halt- tives in Afghanistan. “I left every- main skeptical.
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Making performance reviews effective

Having them more frequently lets employees get the
feedback they want with time to make improvements.
By Gene Marks
FOR THE INQUIRER
Not giving timely or thoughtful
feedback can result in worker
dissatisfaction and lead to high-
er employee turnover. This is a
potentially major issue for small
businesses, particularly in these
times of tight labor.
Yet as important as employee
SMALL BUSINESS
reviews are, many weren’t doing
such a great job even before the
pandemic. Only 13% of the
48,000 employees and managers
surveyed in 2019 by research
firm Leadership IQ thought that
their organization’s performance
appraisal system was useful.
And now, as we seem to be
emerging from the pandemic,
many employers — about 30%,
according to another study from
McKinsey & Co. and LeanIn.org
— are overhauling their employ-
ee review process.
What are they doing?
For starters, many are conduct-
ing more employee reviews
more frequently. Conducting an-
nual reviews is quickly becoming
a thing of the past. Employees —
particularly younger employees
— want feedback as often and as
quickly as possible. That means
ensuring that managers are com-
municating with their subordi-
nates both formally and informal-
ly throughout the year.
Many companies today have a
formal sit-down employee re-
view process, but these sessions
are best when there are no sur-
prises and really serve as a re-
cap of the feedback an employee
has already been receiving.
“In some ways, performance
reviews can be ineffective be-
cause they don’t really deal with
the everyday issues,” said Alexis
Waiters, the director of human
resources for Atlantic City.
“If your reviews are on a regu-
lar basis, it becomes something
that is easier to manage, especial-
ly for those employees whom
you have problems with,” Wait-
ers said. “It allows you to start
with corrective behavior before
See SMALL BUSINESS on A8

Internet
Some See Pandemic As gambling
Time to Make a Change in A.C. sets
a record
The casinos’ online take
in July was $118.6M,
improving on a high
mark reached in March.
By Wayne Parry
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gamblers continue to return to
Atlantic City’s casinos this sum-
mer, even as a contagious new
variant of the coronavirus contin-
ues to spread, yet it was internet
gambling that set a new monthly
record in July.
Figures released Monday by
the New Jersey Division of Gam-
ing Enforcement show that the
nine casinos collectively won
$118.6 million online in July, the
best month ever for a state that
was an early adopter of internet
betting. The previous record was
113.7 million in March of this
year.
July’s figure was an increase
of almost 36% from July 2020,
when casinos had just begun to
reopen after a 3½-month virus-
related shutdown.
Workers have said that the pandemic altered how they think about what is important in life and their careers. It has given them a “This could show that patrons
heightened understanding that life is short. As a result, record numbers of people are quitting their jobs. Los Angeles Times File Photo have not lost their appetite for
internet gaming products even

About a third of workers under 40

as they return to the in-person
gaming experience, or that more
people overall are participating
in different gaming options,”

thought of changing a job or field. said Jane Bokunewicz, director

of the Lloyd Levenson Institute
at Stockton University, which
studies the gambling industry.
By Heather Long “treat school as my job,” he said, for a few for many, even those who did not contract When in-person casino gam-
and Scott Clement months. the coronavirus. bling and sports betting revenue

W
WASHINGTON POST “If you come out of the pandemic the Many people told the Post that the pan- is included, the casinos and
hen Orlando Saenz was laid same as you were, you’ve missed an oppor- demic altered how they think about what is three horse tracks that offer
off at the end of January, he tunity to evolve and grow as a person,” important in life and their careers. It has sports betting won more than
was devastated. For nearly a Saenz said. “I just realized I needed to do given them a heightened understanding $450 million in July, an increase
decade he had worked as an better.” that life is short, and now is the time to of over 70% from a year ago.
executive assistant at an Aus- Saenz is not alone. Nearly 1 in 3 Ameri- make the changes they have long dreamed “The casinos’ recent positive
tin law firm, and it was hard to envision his can workers under 40 have thought about of doing. The result is a great reassess- momentum demonstrates Atlan-
next steps. But then it dawned on him: changing an occupation or field of work ment of work, as Americans fundamentally tic City’s resilience and should
This setback could be the kick he needed since the pandemic began, according to a reimagine their relationships to their jobs. bolster confidence in the recov-
to finally finish his associate’s degree and poll by the Washington Post and the Schar It’s playing out in record numbers of ery of New Jersey’s tourism and
seek a better career. School of Policy and Government at Americans quitting their jobs and a surge gaming sector,” said James Plou-
A few days later, Saenz, 40, enrolled in George Mason University, conducted July of retirements and people starting new sis, chairman of the New Jersey
community college. He plans to get a para- 6 to 21. About 1 in 5 workers overall have businesses. Casino Control Commission.
legal license. The enhanced unemploy- considered a professional shift, a signal Some, such as Saenz, seek a more mean- He noted that this July’s reve-
ment aid gave him the financial cushion to that the pandemic has been a turning point See CAREERS on A9 nue was more than 28% higher
than July 2019, a comparison
many in the Atlantic City casino
Many Younger Workers Considering Younger Americans Are More Likely to Have industry use for a more accurate
Changing Careers During the Pandemic Considered Moving During the Pandemic comparison of business before
the coronavirus pandemic hit in
Q: Since the pandemic began, have you seriously considered changing Q: Since the pandemic began, have you seriously considered moving to a 2020.
your occupation or field of work? (Percent of American workers saying new community? (Percent of American workers saying they have All nine casinos posted a reve-
they have considered changing occupation or field of work) considered moving) nue increase in July, led by Hard
Rock, which increased its win-
U.S. adults 22% U.S. adults 28% nings by nearly 79% to $55.5 mil-
lion.
18-39 years old 30% 18-39 years old 41% See GAMBLING on A9
40-64 years old 21% 40-64 years old 24%
65 and older 12% 65 and older 11%
AUTOMOTIVE | A8
SOURCE: July 6-21, Washington Post-Schar School of Policy and Government poll of 570 American workers SOURCE: July 6-21, Washington Post-Schar School of Policy and Government poll of 1,000 American workers
with an error margin of +/– 5 percentage points. Error margins are larger among subgroups. with an error margin of +/– 4 percentage points. Error margins are larger among subgroups.

How climate change affects your sushi Probe begins on Tesla

Water for the rice fields is disrupting fisheries, setting up a battle over scarce resources. Autopilot crashes.
Fritz Durst, a By Ximena Del Cerro quences for another part of the MARKETS | A8
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S&P hits record amid rising
concerns about pandemic
By Damian J. Troise
and Alex Veiga
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A choppy day on Wall Street end-
ed Monday with the S&P 500 and
Dow Jones Industrial Average
notching new highs after recover-
ing from an early slide.
The indexes each rose 0.3%, ex-
tending their winning streak to a
fifth day, while the Nasdaq fell
0.2%. Technology and health-care
stocks accounted for much of the
gain in the S&P 500. Sectors tradi-
tionally considered lower risk, in-
cluding utilities and companies
that make food and personal goods,
also helped lift the market.
Those gains outweighed a pull-
back in banks, energy stocks, and a
swath of retailers and travel sector
companies.
Despite the latest gains, there are
signs that investors have turned
cautious with the market at all-time
highs amid rising coronavirus infec-
tions in the U.S. and around the
globe due to the highly contagious
delta variant.
Traders shifted money into U.S.
bonds, which helped drag bond
yields lower. Small-company stocks
fell, knocking the Russell 2000 in-
dex 0.9% lower.
Nearly twice as many stocks in
the New York Stock Exchange fell
than rose.
“Delta is ending up being a cascad-
ing concern,” said Sam Stovall, chief
investment strategist at CFRA. “It
seems the market really doesn’t
want to make a commitment for the
Tesla Autopilot is being examined
The government is looking
at accidents involving the
models and parked
emergency vehicles.
By Tom Krisher
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT — The U.S. govern-
ment has opened a formal investiga-
tion into Tesla’s Autopilot partially
automated driving system after a
series of collisions with parked
emergency vehicles.
The investigation covers 765,000
vehicles, almost everything that
Tesla has sold in the United States
since the start of the 2014 model
year. Of the crashes identified by
the National Highway Traffic Safe-
ty Administration as part of the
probe, 17 people were injured, and
one was killed.
The NHTSA says it has identified
11 crashes since 2018 in which
Teslas on Autopilot or Traffic
Aware Cruise Control have hit vehi-
cles at scenes where first respond-
ers have used flashing lights,
flares, an illuminated arrow board
or cones warning of hazards. The
agency announced the action Mon-
day in a posting on its website.
The probe is another sign that
the NHTSA under President Joe Bi-
den is taking a tougher stance on
automated vehicle safety than un-
Small business
Continued from A7
you get to the point of discipline.”
Michelle Luecker, a human re-
sources director at UPL, a maker of
crop-protection products and spe-
cialty chemicals in Exton, agrees.
She said that her company has an
annual review process but it’s sup-
plemented by interim reviews dur-
ing the year.
“We ask our managers to meet
with their employees on a quarterly
basis regarding performance,” she
said. “And then before their annual
review they have two documented
review sessions to review goals, ini-
tiatives that they’re working on as
well as regular performance feed-
back.”
Next, goals must be set and docu-
mented. Luecker said that she’s
seen a shift toward goal-setting in
the time she’s been in the profes-
sion because younger generations
are interested in performance, but
also where they are heading.
“If a territory sales manager’s
goal is to someday be the head of
one of our U.S. divisions, we try to
determine what skills and knowl-
edge are needed in order to be able
to achieve that career goal and
then we make a plan,” she said. “It
might be that we sign them up for
extra training or spend time in oth-
er areas of the company — like mar-
keting — in order to get the skills
needed and to be more well-round-
ed.”
Employees need to clearly know
what’s expected of them both in the
short and long terms. Managers
and their teams must agree both on
the objectives that they want to
intermediate or long term.”
The S&P 500 rose 11.71 points to
4,479.71. The Dow added 110.02
points to 35,625.40. The Nasdaq fell
29.14 points to 14,793.76. The Rus-
sell 2000 lost 19.69 points to
2,203.41.
Stocks have been pushing to ever
higher records the last couple of
weeks even amid choppy trading as
investors try to gauge the impact of
rising virus cases. Analysts had ex-
pected economic growth to slow
from its breakneck pace earlier this
year, but the highly contagious del-
ta variant has prompted even more
caution from investors.
The concerns are being height-
ened as students head back to
school or prepare to head back to
school at the end of August. School
shutdowns because of the virus
could crimp a recovery in the job
market if parents have to stay
home.
A resurgence could also stifle the
recovery for many businesses that
rely on people leaving their homes
to eat, shop, and get other services.
Data out of China showed the glo-
bal coronavirus pandemic contin-
ues to hurt economies around the
world. Chinese industrial produc-
tion and retail sales both rose last
month, but at a far weaker pace
than what economists had expect-
ed.
China’s economy is suffering
from supply chain issues, where
manufactured goods that would typ-
ically be on their way to foreign
markets have either remained un-
The investigation covers Tesla's entire current model lineup, the Models Y, X,
S and 3 (above) from the 2014 through 2021 model years. AP File Photo
der previous administrations. Previ-
ously, the agency was reluctant to
regulate the new technology for
fear of hampering adoption of the
potentially lifesaving systems.
The investigation covers Tesla’s
entire current model lineup, the
Models Y, X, S and 3 from the 2014
through 2021 model years.
The National Transportation Safe-
ty Board, which also has investigat-
ed some of the Tesla crashes dating
to 2016, has recommended that the
NHTSA and Tesla limit Autopilot’s
use to areas where it can safely op-
erate. The NTSB also recommend-
ed that the NHTSA require Tesla to
have a better system to make sure
drivers are paying attention.
The NHTSA has not taken action
on any of the recommendations.
achieve for the company as well as
personal goals that each employee
desires to reach during an agreed-
upon period.
Once agreed on, the goals, along
with feedback from conversations
throughout the year, should be doc-
umented in a cloud-based HR sys-
tem that can be accessed by em-
ployees from wherever they’re
working.
Many affordable platforms, such
as those offered by Paychex, Gusto,
and BambooHR, make it easier for
both employees and supervisors to
leave notes, update goals, schedule
review meetings, and document job
progress using both desktop and
mobile devices.
At the Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia, director of
human resources Melissa Gabillon
has a process similar to Luecker’s
for goal-setting.
“Employees need to feel good
about what they are working to-
ward and understand how their con-
tributions benefit the organiza-
tion,” she said. “Taking time to ex-
plain how each goal will positively
impact the business helps our em-
ployees stay focused, motivated,
and engaged.”
Gabillon also ensures that the
goals set by managers and their em-
ployees are well-defined and mea-
surable.
Collaboration brings a perfor-
mance review all together. Unlike at
a large corporation, people working
at a small business regularly work
with employees in different parts of
the company, whether they’re on-
premises or working from home. A
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finished or stuck in shipping con-
tainers. The pandemic has made
hiring workers harder, as well.
The collapse of the Afghanistan
government over the weekend was
also on investors’ minds. While the
economy of Afghanistan is small,
the country is located in a delicate
part of the world, sandwiched be-
tween the economic giants of South
and East Asia and the oil-rich Mid-
dle East.
The price of U.S. crude oil fell
1.7% and weighed down energy
companies. Exxon Mobil dropped
1.5% and Chevron closed 1% lower.
Shares in some retailers and tour-
ism-related companies also fell.
Caesars Entertainment slid 4% and
Gap dropped 3.1%.
Bond yields fell and pulled banks
lower. They rely on higher yields to
charge more lucrative interest on
loans. The yield on the 10-year Trea-
sury fell to 1.26% from 1.29% late
Friday. Wells Fargo lost 1.9% and
Citigroup dropped 1.4%.
Also dampening investors’ opti-
mism was the University of Michi-
gan consumer sentiment index
from Friday, which fell to 70.2 from
its previous level of 81.2 in July.
That was the largest drop in senti-
ment since April 2020, when the
pandemic took its initial grip on the
country.
The unexpectedly bad reading
was almost entirely due to the
spread of the delta variant of the
coronavirus, which has caused hos-
pitals to fill up with unvaccinated
patients across the U.S.
The NTSB has no enforcement pow-
ers and can only make recommen-
dations to other federal agencies.
Last year the NTSB blamed Tes-
la, drivers and lax regulation by the
NHTSA for two collisions in which
Teslas crashed beneath crossing
tractor-trailers. The NTSB took the
unusual step of saying the NHTSA
contributed to the crash for failing
to ensure that automakers put safe-
guards in place to limit use of elec-
tronic driving systems.
Autopilot has frequently been
misused by Tesla drivers, who have
been caught driving drunk or even
riding in the backseat.
A message was left early Monday
seeking comment from Tesla, which
has disbanded its media relations
office.
good review process is open to col-
lecting feedback from people other
than just a direct supervisor.
Why is collaboration like this so
important? It’s because of balance.
This was confirmed in a recent
study from Temple University’s Fox
School of Business, which found
that feedback on a performance re-
view tends to be more critical when
it is just from a supervisor, marred
by favoritism and differences be-
tween how men and women rate
each other. So collecting as much
information from as many sources
as possible will help make for a
more relevant review.
To this end, Gabillon said, she
uses a “360 performance review
system” that includes not only feed-
back from peers but also direct re-
ports from managers. Series EE 0.10
Luecker likes to use a “multi-rat- Series I 3.54
er” form from the Society for Hu-
man Resource Management. She
said membership — particularly
for a small business owner — is
valuable because its many resourc-
es include how-to guides, forms,
and (most important) training for
both the employee and their manag-
ers.
“How an employee receives the
feedback is very important, too,”
she said. “It’s OK for individuals to
get constructive criticism and let it
digest for a while before resuming
the review. That’s all part of the
process. You learn that through
good training.”
Gene Marks is a certified public
accountant and the owner of the Marks
Group, a technology and financial
management consulting firm in Bala
Cynwyd.
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DistroKid raises funds at $1.3B valuation

The music distributor
says it will build new
tools for artists to better
connect with their fans.
By Lucas Shaw
BLOOMBERG NEWS
its customers $19.99 a year to
use its tools, which include distri-
bution across all major stream-
ing services and social networks.
An artist who released music
and makes no money still pays
$19.99, while an artist who
makes $1 million on a song also
has the same rate.
dent labels accounted for $8 bil-
lion of global recorded music rev-
enue in 2020, or about 35%, ac-
cording to Midia. Artists who re-
leased music on their own with-
out any label grossed about $1.2
billion, a record. Kaplan said
DistroKid is the largest player in
that market, and now has a hand
Kaplan founded DistroKid in
2013 after a few frustrating at-
tempts at releasing music from
his death metal band. A comput-
er programmer by trade, Kaplan
previously founded a website
that wrote about failed compa-
nies of the dot-com bubble, as
well as an email newsletter ser-
best product at the most attrac-
tive price point,” Parekh said.
Although DistroKid handles
music, it is at its core a technolo-
gy company. It plans to use the
money from Insight to build new
tools for the more than two mil-
lion artists that use its services.
The company has built tools that

M
illions of musicians have
used DistroKid to make
money from their art.
Now DistroKid is making some
money of its own.
DistroKid has raised money
from Insight Venture Partners
that values the music distribu-
tion and tools company at $1.3
billion, according to founder Phil-
ip Kaplan. Kaplan and Insight de-
clined to say how much money
Insight had invested, or how
large a stake it was acquiring.
The deal establishes the New
York-based company as one of
the most valuable music distribu-
tors in the world, and a leader in
the market for do-it-yourself mu-
sic releases. DistroKid charges
That price point means that
artists of any level can use the
company’s suite of tools, and mu-
sicians of a certain stature may
opt for DistroKid because it al-
lows them to retain ownership.
More than two million acts use
DistroKid, including the rappers
Ludacris and 21 Savage.
Record labels release music
that accounts for the majority of
sales every year, including most
of the music from the biggest
acts in the world. But their share
of overall music sales has de-
clined as more musicians turn to
distribution services that don’t
demand any ownership of their
copyrights.
Music released by indepen-
in releasing between 30% and
40% of all new music.
“My general feeling is that if an
artist becomes successful, it’s be-
cause the artist did it, and the
distributor didn’t have anything
to do with it,” Kaplan said. “All
we do is move files around. We’re
just doing it better and faster and
cheaper than anyone else.”
Millions of artists now use
DistroKid’s services very year, up-
loading 15,000 to 25,000 songs a
day. Singer Arizona Zervas used
DistroKid to release his smash
hit “Roxanne,” which reached
the top 10 in the U.S., Australia,
Canada and Ireland. That earned
him a deal with Columbia
Records.
vice he sold to MailChimp in
2011. When not programming,
Kaplan is a drummer.
The company raised money
from Silversmith Capital Part-
ners in 2018, though it didn’t dis-
close the amount of funding or
its valuation at the time. Insight
has little background in media or
music investments, but it came
upon DistroKid when junior
members of the team brought it
to the attention of Deven Parekh,
a managing partner. His own son
had used DistroKid to upload his
music.
“We talked to musicians. We
talked to labels. Time and time
again it came back to this was the
best known company with the
allow artists to more easily split
earnings, and something called
the vault that enables the unlimit-
ed free backups for their master
recordings.
A tool called social phone al-
lows artists to post a phone num-
ber publicly so they can send
texts to hundreds of fans to alert
them to a new album.
DistroKid now employs more
than 100 people, though it’s
small enough that Kaplan still
programs some of the code.
“The growth has been wild, but
mission has not changed,” he
said. “DistroKid set out to make
it as easy to release a song on
streaming services as it is to
post a photo on Instagram.”

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Continued from A7
ingful or higher-paying ca-
reer, while others want a
new location that allows
for a different lifestyle.
Since the pandemic began,
28% of U.S. adults say they
have seriously considered
moving, the Post-Schar
School poll finds, and 17%
say they have already
moved, either temporarily
or permanently. Adults un-
der age 40 are the most
likely to have considered
moving or to have already
relocated.
In parts of the country
with easy access to hiking
and outdoor activities, real
estate prices are soaring.
Austin; Boise, Idaho; Spo-
kane, Wash.; and a Phoenix
suburb called Sunrise saw
the largest spike in prices,
according to real estate
website Redfin. These cit-
ies are more affordable
than many big coastal cit-
Water being pumped from a well into an irrigation canal on a farm in Yolo County, Calif., earlier this month. Water ies and are places where it
rights in California are governed by a complex system that dates to the Gold Rush era. Although competition for is easy to have a physically
water isn’t unique to California, resulting reduced output could lead to higher rice prices. DAVID PAUL MORRIS / Bloomberg active lifestyle.
Saenz said he and his
tions in the retail industry
hit an all-time high in
June.
Recruiters say they are
hearing over and over
again that people want
more flexibility. They say
workers are hesitant to re-
turn to jobs in industries
such as retail, restaurants
and manufacturing that re-
quire a fixed schedule with
in-person work, often at
odd hours.
“People want work-life
balance,” said Angela Muh-
wezi-Hall, cofounder of
QuickHire. “A woman I
was speaking with yester-
day said she worked at a
restaurant, and she would
get home at 3 a.m. some-
times, and she doesn’t
want to do that anymore.
She wants to be able to see
her kids, especially after
having a year at home with
her kids. She still really
wants flexibility.” Line
cooks have been especially
hard to hire, Muhwezi-Hall
said.
The United States had a

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sled in court for decades.
As hotter and drier weather
drains reservoirs and withers
crops, the fight is growing even
more fierce, underscoring how cli-
mate change is pitting multibillion-
dollar industries around the world
against one another in a battle for
increasingly scarce resources.
“We should be shifting our focus
from thinking about drought as an
emergency that occurs once in a
while, to thinking about it in the
context of a long-term shift,” said
Jeanine Jones, interstate resources
manager at the California Depart-
ment of Water Resources.
In California, the agriculture in-
dustry’s massive water consump-
tion has long been a sticking point
for fisheries, environmental
groups, and other stakeholders.
Farms use about 40% of the state’s
water, on average, according to the
nonprofit research group Public
Policy Institute of California.
Water rights in California are gov-
erned by a complex system that
dates to the Gold Rush era. Senior
rights holders — companies, farm-
ers and cities with claims that were
acquired before 1914, and landown-
ers whose property borders a river
— are the last to see their supplies
curtailed.
They wouldn’t be affected by the
measures approved earlier this
month to restrict flows to some
farmers.
Competition for water isn’t
unique to California, however. In
Brazil, the Parana River Basin is
experiencing its worst water crisis
in 91 years, leaving farmers depen-
dent on the river to vie with hydro-
power plants that provide electrici-
ty and water to the country’s indus-
trialized south.
Water-intensive crops
Rice, typically cultivated in flood-
ed fields, is among the world’s
most water-intensive crops. Gov-
ernment data reveal the toll
drought is having on California’s
rice growers, which generate more
than $5 billion and 25,000 jobs for
the state annually, according to the
industry-funded California Rice
Commission.
In a typical year, the state ac-
counts for about two-thirds of U.S.
production of medium- and short-
grain rice, the kind used in sushi.
By late June, California plantings
were 19% below year-earlier levels
and the smallest in almost three
decades, a U.S. Department of Agri-
culture report showed.
Lower output will likely translate
to higher prices for consumers. Cal-
ifornia farmers can expect to get
$22 per 100 pounds of medium-
and short-grain rice for 2021-2022,
the most in 13 years, the USDA
said. Tony Gentile, co-owner of
impact on salmon has been even
more severe, however.
Young salmon are typically re-
leased from hatcheries into rivers,
where they make their way into the
Pacific Ocean. But water tempera-
tures in some rivers have climbed
so high that state officials are truck-
ing the fish to cooler areas until
conditions improve.
Commercial and recreational
ocean salmon fishing contributes
more than $900 million each year
to California’s economy, according
to the state’s Department of Fish
and Wildlife.
Hot weather and water diversion
for agriculture is putting commer-
cial fisheries at risk, said Jon
Rosenfield, a senior scientist at en-
vironmental group San Francisco
Baykeeper.
“Cities like San Francisco and
Oakland were once major West
Coast fishing ports, but as we’ve
diverted water from our rivers and
destroyed fish nursery habitats in
the rivers and the bay, those fisher-
ies have collapsed,” Rosenfield
said.
A previous collapse of the salm-
on population in 2008 forced fisher-
ies to close in droves. With her in-
come gone, Sarah Bates, who’s
been fishing in the San Francisco
Bay Area for 15 years, took a desk
job temporarily. Some of her peers
went into the construction industry
and stayed there, she said.
In a good year, Bates catches
300,000 to 500,000 salmon and
sells them at $13 a pound. But the
thought of fisheries closing again
“keeps me up at night,” she said.
wife, a teacher, have also
discussed leaving down-
town Austin and moving to
the countryside for a differ-
ent pace of life and the
chance to fish more —
what he calls the “Cabela
lifestyle,” referring to the
outdoor gear retailer. Near-
ly half of adults say it is
“extremely” or “very” im-
portant to have easy ac-
cess to hiking, fishing and
camping, up from 34% in a
2019 survey conducted by
the University of Chicago
Harris School of Public Pol-
icy, the Associated Press,
and NORC.
Viktoria Pavic, 25, had
the opposite reaction dur-
ing the pandemic: She
wanted to be in a bigger
city and saw this as a
chance to realize that
dream. She moved from
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to
Brooklyn, taking advan-
tage of rent prices that had
fallen in the city as many
young people temporarily
left.
“Right before pandemic,
I was planning to make the
move and travel more. I
wanted to live my life as
fully as I could,” Pavic
said. “The pandemic put a
stop to a lot of travel, but
at least I was able to move
to Brooklyn. You can’t put
your life on hold forever.”
Pavic is working as a
hostess at a restaurant but
record 10.1 million job
openings in June. Employ-
ers are raising pay, offer-
ing new benefits such as
mental health care, and al-
lowing more workers to re-
main at least partly remote
in an effort to lure people
to their firms.
The Post-Schar School
poll finds that a majority of
workers — 59% — say they
want to return to their
workplace all or most of
the time after the pandem-
ic is over. Just under 2 in
10 say they want to mostly
(10%) or always (8%) work
remotely, while 2 in 10 de-
sire an even split between
working at home and com-
muting occasionally. White
men are more likely than
other workers overall to
want to return to the work-
place. Remote work is
more popular among work-
ers who complete most of
their job at a computer and
those who have been tele-
working in the last month.
Both groups prefer fully or
partially remote work to
work taking place mostly
outside the home.
Fully online jobs and
schooling have been tough
for some. Tais Davis from
Richmond, Va., was half-
way through college when
the pandemic hit. She had
planned to become a doc-
tor, but she found the on-
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Continued from A7
Golden Nugget was up nearly
77% to $15.5 million; Borgata was
up 75% to $106.5 million (it was the
last casino to reopen last year, in
late July); and Tropicana was up
more than 63% to $36.7 million.
Resorts was up over 57% to $18.8
million; Harrah’s was up over 38%
to $29.3 million; and Caesars was
up nearly 31% to $26.3 million.
The Ocean casino was up over
27% to $33.4 million, and Bally’s
was up over 10% to $16.1 million.
New Jersey casinos and tracks
took more than $578 million worth
of sports bets in July. After paying
out winning bets and other expens-
es, they kept almost $55 million of
that total.
The Meadowlands Racetrack in
East Rutherford, just outside New
York City, made $31.7 million in
sports betting revenue; Monmouth
Park in Oceanport near the Jersey
Shore won $2.4 million, and Free-
hold Raceway won $165,792.
Flagship Restaurant Group, which
owns 16 sushi bars in six states,
said the company has raised menu
prices across all of its restaurants
in recent weeks as rice and sea-
food become more expensive and
labor costs climb.
Though Flagship uses California
rice, it’s considering sourcing the
grain from Japan or other markets
outside the U.S., Gentile said.
“Prices now fluctuate day to day
more than any other time that I
can remember, and I have been in
the restaurant business for more
than 20 years. It’s scary,” he said
Rice isn’t the only crop decimat-
ed by drought, of course. Dry condi-
tions have had a devastating im-
pact across California’s agriculture
industry, which supplies over a
third of U.S. vegetables and two-
thirds of its fruit. After years of
what seems like permanent
drought, farmers have started rip-
ping out almond trees, which are
typically a 25-year investment.
Scarce salmon
Fisheries and some environmen-
tal groups argue that the drought’s
Changes by the Trump adminis-
tration to limit the scope of protec-
tions under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act could further heighten
risks to the salmon population, en-
vironmental groups say. The Biden
administration is reviewing the re-
visions.
Environmental groups have ar-
gued that the California water
rights system unfairly benefits the
agricultural industry. They say the
damage done to the salmon could
have been avoided regardless of
the drought, heat waves and cli-
mate change if water allocations
were better managed.
But rice farmers contend that
their industry is essential to the
state’s economy, and that flooded
rice fields provide food and a rest-
ing place for millions of migrating
birds.
One thing is certain: Worsening
drought means competition for wa-
ter is poised to intensify, forcing
regulators to allocate increasingly
scarce supplies.
“Our society is going to have to
decide what it is that’s important to
us,” Bates said.
says she’s had a lot of time
to think about her future.
She started investing dur-
ing the pandemic and envi-
sions shifting into business
or nonprofit work.
“I have done some jour-
naling,” she said. “I hope
one day maybe I can start
a nonprofit, something
where I can do more for
my community.”
Applications for new
businesses exploded in
2020 and 2021, census data
show, presumably fueled
by people who were laid
off or wanted a change. In
May, the share of workers
voluntarily quitting their
jobs hit the highest level
the Labor Department has
recorded, yet another sign
that American workers are
rethinking what they want
to do in their careers and
are confident they can find
something else. Retail
workers have been quit-
ting at an especially rapid
pace this year; resigna-
harder than in-person
learning. She is now opting
for a nursing degree with
the hope of being able to
have a more flexible sched-
ule, including the opportu-
nity to work as a “per
diem” nurse who fills in at
different medical facilities.
“The pandemic taught
me that nothing is guaran-
teed now. Everything can
change within months if
not weeks,” Davis said.
“Just being able to spend
time by myself made me
realize what path I did and
did not want to go down.”
The poll was conducted July
6-21 by the Washington Post
and the Schar School of Policy
and Government at George
Mason University among a
random national sample of
1,000 adults, with 75% reached
on cellphones and 25% on
landlines. Overall results have
a margin of sampling error of
plus or minus 4 percentage
points.
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From Afghanistan’s fall
One domestic lesson needs to be a recalibration of policy assumptions.
Two years ago, lawmakers in Harrisburg
were preparing to eliminate Pennsylvania’s
General Assistance program, which had a
budget of $24 million and helped about
10,000 state residents by sending them each
a $200 check every month.
Before leading the charge to repeal the
program in 2019 — to the dismay of this
board — a House Republican said the state
needs to “put more money into programs
that are proven to help people in need.”
In light of global events, the arguments
made by lawmakers that spring are illumi-
nating. While social programs like General
Assistance that help the poor, or gun vio-
lence prevention programs that utilize pub-
lic health approaches, often need to prove
their efficacy, military and policing budgets
— especially before last summer’s protests
— don’t receive the same scrutiny.
Consider Afghanistan. Over the past two
weeks, the world has been witnessing a mas-
sive policy failure: Nearly 20 years of war,
about a trillion dollars, and thousands of
casualties weren’t enough to ensure that Af-
ghan soldiers would be able to hold off the
Taliban without American boots on the
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Better odds with mask and vaccine
The COVID-19 death rate is pretty scary,
including in Chester County: over 40,000
COVID-19 cases and 800 deaths. In the U.S.,
we have a total of over 36 million COVID-19
cases with more than 620,000 deaths.
Meanwhile, over 167 million people in the
U.S. are fully vaccinated. Fewer fully vacci-
nated people have died.
The chance of winning $1 million or more
in the lottery in the United States appears
to be less than the risk of dying from COV-
ID-19. To anyone that thinks playing the
lottery is a good cost-benefit, I would defi-
nitely suggest the mask and the vaccine.
Better odds.
Lynn Strauss, West Chester
Freedom vs. anarchy
I have been monitoring the constant pub-
lic dialog about vaccines and mask require-
ments along with the rest of the country.
For those who are against any anti-COV-
ID-19 requirements, my question is: Where
does that thinking end?
Driving without a license? Not having in-
surance on your car? Eliminating speed lim-
its? Allowing people to carry guns in
school? Yelling “fire” in a crowded build-
ing?
As a society, we have enacted various
requirements over the course of time as a
way to protect us as a whole. Otherwise this
is just anarchy, which is the logical conclu-
sion to the argument people are making
about allowing the pandemic to follow its
own course without taking preventative
measures.
Ross Attix, Flourtown
Support a public bank
It is heartbreaking to learn that the coun-
try lost 41% of Black-owned businesses in
the spring of 2020, and I applaud the Afri-
can American Chamber of Commerce for
supporting such businesses (Aug. 12). I re-
tired after 38 years as a small-business own-
er, so I clearly recognize the value of good
mentoring and supplemental financing that
entrepreneurs need when starting and/or
maintaining a small business.
However, this is not enough. Only a pub-
lic bank can and would provide the heavy
ground for even 14 days.
On Monday, the day after Afghanistan’s
capital Kabul fell to the hands of the Taliban,
President Joe Biden’s national security advis-
er Jake Sullivan acknowledged the adminis-
tration’s disastrous miscalculation, telling To-
day that “no amount of training, equipping,
or money or lives lost” was going to be
enough to change the result that we’ve all
been witnessing.
Considering the inevitability of the out-
come expressed by Sullivan, the decision to
withdraw American troops seems even more
justified. That doesn’t minimize the humani-
tarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan — nor
the grave threats still facing that war-weary
nation’s people, especially girls and women.
Some responsibility lies at the feet of the
president, particularly the failure to swiftly
secure visas for translators and other con-
tractors who helped American soldiers and
now have a target on their backs. While this
is damage that can’t be reversed, some suf-
fering can be prevented by putting forth ad-
ditional resources to help those Afghans
come to the United States. Philadelphia, a
sanctuary city, should welcome refugees
Afghan special immigrant visa (SIV)
applicants crowd into the Herat Kabul
internet cafe to apply for the SIV program in
Kabul, Afghanistan. PAULA BRONSTEIN / Getty Images
boost that a vibrant small-business sector
needs.
Such a bank could increase the pool of
low-interest loans that community banks
make and that big banks are increasingly
disinterested in making. Even better, as the
loans are paid off, the interest helps grow
the bank’s business capacity to invest back
into the community, becoming a new source
of public revenue.
City Council is poised to consider legisla-
tion to start up a Philadelphia public bank
this fall. Let’s all support the establishment
of a Philadelphia public bank and make our
money work for the common good.
Kay Lasker, Lawndale
Lack of handrails
The Philadelphia Museum of Art aspires
to be among the great museums of the
world. But sadly, it fails to provide for visi-
tor safety by not installing handrails on the
Rocky steps outside and on the Great Hall
stairs inside. Museum and city officials
need only look at the Metropolitan Museum
in New York to see how it has been done by
a truly great museum that really cares
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JEFF KOTERBA
from Afghanistan if that is an option.
Also sharing the blame is Congress, which
for two decades opened its purse and wrote
blank checks to underwrite an aimless, end-
less war that was all but doomed to fail. Two
years after the repeal of the General Assis-
tance program, it’s difficult not to wonder
how the money spent on Operation Free-
dom’s Sentinel could have been used to help
cities like Philadelphia address gun vio-
lence, poverty, and housing affordability, in-
stead of setting the Afghans up for the catas-
trophe that has been the last two weeks.
Domestically, and locally, one lesson from
the fall of Afghanistan needs to be a recali-
bration of policy assumptions. The same
principles that drive funding decisions
based on the likelihood of effectiveness
should extend not only to programs that ex-
pand the social safety net but to other expen-
ditures as well — including the military. Oth-
erwise, we confront the incredibly painful
moment of looking back with the realization
that 20 years of investment in lives and dol-
lars helped create, rather than prevent, a
calamity.
about its visitors. The Met has handrails on
the outside steps leading up to its main
entrance and on the great stairs inside.
It should not take a serious injury or
death and the associated potentially large
liability to have the Art Museum and the
city do the right thing. Unfortunately, it
seems that it will.
Michael Budin, Philadelphia
What the U.S. must
do to aid Afghanistan
The unexpectedly rapid fall of Afghani-
stan to the Taliban means that the U.S.
should take extraordinary steps to ensure
that the U.S. Embassy in Kabul remains
open until all the Afghans who assisted
American and allied troops in any way and
all the major leaders in the Afghan govern-
ment have been provided with U.S. visas
and have been brought to the United States.
The sudden fall of Afghanistan is the fault
of neither the Biden administration nor the
Trump administration. It is because the gov-
ernment we had in 2001 set up an artificial
government in Afghanistan not based on
the wishes or the culture of the Afghans.
The total inability or unwillingness of the
Afghan army to now defend this artificial
government only means that the U.S. and
our NATO friends should have completely
left Afghanistan years and years ago.
Andrew Mills, Lower Gwynedd
History does repeat
Afghanistan’s capital has fallen, and it
brings to mind similar articles printed dur-
ing the end of the Vietnam War.
We sent troops to Vietnam and spent mil-
lions of dollars to equip and support the
Vietnamese government. The result was the
deaths of millions of Vietnamese and thou-
sands of Americans. The Vietnamese who
worked with us had to be air evacuated and
protected once we decided to withdraw.
We sent troops to Afghanistan and spent
trillions of dollars to equip and support the
Afghan government. The result was the
deaths of thousands of Afghans and Ameri-
cans. The Afghans who worked with us
have to be air evacuated and protected
once we withdraw.
Déjà vu.
Edgars Nilenders, Rockledge,
ed.nilendes@gmail.com
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Sens. Bob
COLUMN
Casey, left, and
Pat Toomey

Right-wing jihad to
have proposed
the Nursing
Home Reform

control women wins a

Modernization
Act of 2021,
which would
expand the list
of monitored
nursing home
facilities. AP, File
bloody convert in U.K.
The virus is jumping across the mental illness. In fact, one study
pond. I’m talking not about COV- found more than half of mass
ID-19, but our lethal mixture of ha- shootings are domestic violence in-
tred of women, love of guns, and cidents — as happened in Ply-
warped right-wing political mouth. The man who killed 26 peo-
thought — the toxic concoction per- ple in a Sutherland Springs, Texas,
fected right here in the U.S. is find- church had been court-martialed
ing converts in other troubled for assaulting his wife and step-
postindustrial lands, including the son, for example. The one thing
United Kingdom. that’s different in 2021 is a global
In Plymouth, England — the World Wide Web where gross justi-
coastal town famous for launching fications for misogyny like the “in-
pilgrims seeking the purity of a new cel” movement flourish across na-
OP-ED
world — a young man named Jake tional borders.
Davison was discovering nothing It is unsurprising that the young
but trouble in his old world, much Plymouth killer would be drawn

Nursing home reform will

of it regarding the opposite sex. As into a right-wing ideology that ex-
he entered his 20s, the British youth alts gun ownership, a libertarian
took to social media sites concept of personal free-
like Reddit and YouTube dom ... and Donald

improve accountability, care

By Michael Brevda
Lawmakers realize we have a pervasive nurs-
ing home abuse problem in America. Nursing
home COVID-19 deaths are nearing 200,000.
More glaringly, a bipartisan Senate investigation
revealed that poor resident care is overwhelm-
ingly clustered around less than 5% of the na-
tion’s facilities.
A disproportionate amount of neglect cases
occur in nursing homes listed under the Special
Focus Facility (SFF) program. The program in-
cludes the worst performing facilities that “sub-
stantially fail” to meet the basic care standards
required by the federal government.
Annually, state and federal agencies inspect
nursing homes. When nursing homes do not
meet government safety standards, these instanc-
es are cited as deficiencies that require correc-
tion. Three years of inspection data is incorporat-
ed in Medicare’s nursing home star rating sys-
tem. Deficiency citations are converted into
points based on the number of deficiencies cited
and the scope and severity of those citations. The
facilities with the most points in a state then
become candidates for the SFF program.
Think of SFF nursing homes as the repeat
offenders that have a demonstrated pattern of
neglecting and harming vulnerable residents.
Until recently, an SFF distinction was shameful
but without much punishment or rehabilitation
opportunities. Right now, an SFF listing means
increased agency investigation and some minor
fines.
However, we have an opportunity to fix that.
Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey have pro-
posed the Nursing Home Reform Modernization
Act of 2021. The bill would expand the list of
monitored facilities, increase educational re-
sources for underperforming facilities, and estab-
lish an independent advisory council to inform
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices (HHS) on how best to rank nursing home
performance and foster quality improvements.
The bill would improve and expand the SFF
program to include facilities currently qualifying
as “candidates” for SFF but not members. These
are poorly performing facilities that exist on the
periphery of the SFF list but not on it. Under the
proposed legislation, the SFF list would expand
and require that no fewer than 3.5% of the worst-
rated facilities are under increased scrutiny.
This means that SFF list “candidates” can no
longer escape increased inspections and over-
sight simply because they are not officially listed
on the SFF list.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office
and the Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices would also get involved in auditing and
investigating low-rated nursing homes, with civil
penalties ranging from monetary fines to license
revocation. The revised civil penalties would be
higher monetary amounts. This money taken
from the violating facilities would be reinvested
to improve the SFF nursing home via increased
training and education for staff members in the
deficient facilities.
Further, the SFF program would be rebranded
as the “Low-Rated Facility Program,” and the
nursing home rating information would become
easily accessible to the public. This can better
inform elderly Americans on which facilities en-
joy high rankings and which facilities frequently
violate residents’ rights.
The program is not entirely punitive though.
The underlying purpose of the proposed nursing
home rating system is to publicly evaluate facili-
ties and offer a path toward improvement. Gov-
ernment regulators would work hand in glove
with poorly ranked facilities in an effort to im-
prove compliance with state and federal regula-
tions.
As a nursing home negligence litigator, I am
floored by the lack of quality control we use in
our long-term care system. The lifeblood of
these nursing homes is taxpayer dollars in the
form of Medicare and Medicaid. It is time that
the government insisted on humane, quality pa-
tient care in exchange for the hundreds of mil-
lions of federal dollars it pays private, for-profit
nursing home corporations.
The proposed legislation is supported by al-
most every senior citizen nonprofit in the US. It
also enjoys bipartisan support from legislators
not influenced by the nursing home lobby.
Let’s demand more accountability from nurs-
ing homes. Write your members of Congress
today and ask them to support the Nursing
Home Reform Modernization Act of 2021.
Michael Brevda is the managing partner at Senior
Justice Law Firm, a nationwide law firm narrowly
focused on nursing home abuse litigation. A version
of this piece first ran in the Orlando Sentinel.
to complain about his Trump. The last dozen
lack of success with girls years or so have provid-
— calling himself “a vir- ed powerful proof that
gin, fat, ugly,” who’d nev- nothing fuels the mod-
er been kissed — and, in- ern conservative id
creasingly, about his more than an almost
mom, whom he described primitive fear that more
as “my vile dysfunctional WILL BUNCH power or agency for
chaotic mother.” @will_bunch Black people or immi-
Lost, the young man in- grant cultures or women
creasingly looked to will end the “freedom”
America, so much so he at times of white male supremacy.
claimed — without evidence — But the great moral panic of 2021
that he’d been born in Phoenix. In- — after the shock of the coronavi-
creasingly he was drawn to Ameri- rus brought lockdowns, jobless-
ca’s unholy trinity of gun culture, ness, and an unprecedented re-
online misogyny, and right-wing thinking of the meaning of work ...
demagogues who exploit the first and life — has conservatives even
two. He liked and reposted videos more agitated. The sweeping
of U.S. citizens exercising their Sec- changes around the workplace, the
ond Amendment rights at target at least temporary rise in govern-
practice. He found solace in the ment aid, and longer-term factors
“black pill” culture of the internet’s like massive college debt and ridic-
so-called incel movement of young ulous urban rents have more wom-
men who find common cause in en postponing marriage and moth-
their rage over their virginity in a erhood or refusing to return to the
sexualized world — and a role mod- menial jobs that have become the
el in our nation’s misogynist 45th foundation of late-stage capitalism.
president, Donald Trump, whom These dog whistles about the tra-
he quoted: “In America, we do not ditional role of women — coded
seek to impose our way of life on appeals, in essence, to male su-
anyone but rather to let it shine as premacy — are what Republicans
an example for everyone to want.” hope can win them back control of
In his historic port city, Davison Congress in the 2022 midterms.
— who was able to get a gun li- The problem with political dog
cense, a rarity in the U.K. — im- whistles — as we’ve seen again and
posed his warped way of life on again over the last half-century —
innocent victims when he finally is that not everyone picks up these
snapped on Thursday. Starting frequencies in the same way. For
with the murder of his own the young, atomized, and alienat-
51-year-old mother, the young man ed, the promise of white male domi-
then burst out into the neighbor- nance in an increasingly diverse
hood and fired his pump-action and complicated world isn’t an elec-
shotgun at anyone he saw — even tion pitch but a call to radicalism.
a 3-year-old girl. By the time he In a globalized society, bad ideas
turned the gun on himself, En- spread even faster than the delta
gland’s worst mass killer in years variant. We’ve seen it with the nox-
had taken five other lives. ious conspiracy theory that is
Both powerful anecdotal evi- QAnon — which last year inspired
dence and increasing research es- the mass killing of 10 people in Ger-
tablish a strong link between mass many — and we’ve seen it now in
killings — almost exclusively the Plymouth, England, with toxic mas-
province of men — and misogyny. culinity. We must fight to eradicate
Reports have shown that, despite misogyny as a political strategy.
the popular misconception, a histo-
ry of domestic violence is a stron- +wbunch@inquirer.com
ger predictor of killing sprees than ^215-854-2957 "will_bunch

COLUMN

TRUDY RUBIN
"@trudyrubin
If you ever wondered what it
was like to get pleas for help from
Jewish friends in Europe as the
Nazis marched in, and not be able
to save them, I can tell you.
Only this time the friends are
Afghan human rights activists in
Kabul who will be dead if they
can’t get on an evacuation flight.
And a hefty share of the blame
rests with the United States.
Here’s a text message from Mari-
am, her name changed for her
safety, who ran several programs
for USAID (the American aid agen-
cy) and frequently promoted inter-
national business for her country
on Afghan television. She writes
from her hiding place in Kabul: “I
am shattered. I see all that I have
built collapsing in front of me. Hu-
manity, hope, home. All stores are
closed, and there are no burkas to
buy anywhere” (referring to the
tent-like coverings forced on wom-
en by the Taliban).
“I am making a burka out of a
bedsheet.”
No doubt the Taliban, who’ve al-
ready been pulling people out of
their homes and murdering them
in other cities, have lists of folks
like Mariam in Kabul. If she can’t
get evacuated, her U.S. connec-
tions are likely to get her killed.
If President Joe Biden was deter-
mined to withdraw the last U.S.
troops by Aug. 31 — a mistake —
his team should have thought
through their exit plans.
They should have planned in ad-
vance for large-scale evacuations
of Afghan human rights activists,
women leaders, and journalists
The horror of Afghan women
Biden’s team failed to plan for mass evacuation of activists and translators.
with U.S. connections, as well as
translators for the U.S. military.
They should have carried out air-
lifts while they still held Bagram
military airport near Kabul.
But they didn’t plan, as military
officials and concerned Congress
members have complained for
months.
President Biden said this
wouldn’t be Vietnam, where U.S.
officials were evacuated by heli-
copter from the embassy roof.
And before we left Vietnam, we
evacuated 120,000 Vietnamese
who worked with Americans. Not
now.
Instead, the U.S. is struggling to
get thousands of Americans and
embassy employees out from the
military side of Kabul’s internation-
al airport. Tens of thousands of Af-
ghans with U.S. connections may
be left in hell.
That includes people like the
brave Nargis (also a pseudonym),
who ran shelters for battered wom-
en in Herat and won a Woman of
Courage award from the State De-
partment. She escaped to Kabul,
but on Thursday wrote: “I am in
danger, the Taliban went to my
home in Herat to search for me by
name, as one who supported the
American project.”
Nargis managed to get a rare
visa to Turkey, but when she
braved the mobs and reached the
airport Sunday evening, the flight
was canceled. Civilian flights have
been ended. “Pray for me,” Nargis
texted. “There are Taliban near
the house,” she whispered in a
voice message.
Afghans wait to leave the Kabul airport as thousands tried to flee the
Taliban’s feared hard-line brand of Islamist rule. WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP
This is a woman well-known to
senior U.S. officials, who worked
with the U.S. aid grants. I visited
her shelters and saw her splendid
achievements. She, too, may be
killed for her connections with this
country if the Americans don’t
evacuate her soon.
When Secretary of State Antony
Blinken was asked on Aug. 2 about
helping Afghan human rights activ-
ists, including women, his re-
sponse was astonishing. His only
suggestion was that they leave for
a third country, which they can’t do
since neighboring countries won’t
take them. He said once they leave
Afghanistan, they could apply for
consideration to become U.S. refu-
gees. That can take two years.
It was already clear by the time
Blinken spoke that the psychologi-
cal blow of the exit date, and loss
of U.S. air support, had long since
convinced Afghan soldiers that the
Taliban were the winners. But the
White House refused to face the
reality that was already becoming
apparent.
The evacuation plans should
have been drawn up months ago,
with these scenarios in mind.
Yes, it must be said that the
former president precipitated this
disaster with a horrible “peace
deal” that gave everything to the
Taliban. Donald Trump made zero
plans to rescue Afghan translators
for the U.S. military or women ac-
tivists before his planned May 1
exit.
But there was no need for Biden
to out-Trump Trump.
Consider this: For months, bipar-
tisan groups of Congress mem-
bers have urged a mass evacua-
tion of Afghan translators for the
U.S. military to Guam or on hu-
manitarian parole to the U.S.
There, their applications for con-
gressionally mandated special im-
migrant visas (SIVs) could have
been completed.
No dice.
U.S. efforts to parcel out SIV ap-
plicants to Muslim-majority coun-
tries to wait out the complex ap-
proval process have made mini-
mal progress: Only about 1,200
translators left Afghanistan so far.
One, a friend of a friend of mine,
had been waiting nine years for
U.S. approval.
Around 19,000 remain in the
queue, plus family members.
These translators will be pulled
out and killed if they aren’t evacu-
ated. “This is a policy failure of
epic proportions,” says veteran
James Miervaldis, head of No One
Left Behind, a volunteer group try-
ing to help translators. “This is a
problem from hell that we made
ourselves.”
I don’t know how many evacua-
tion flights may yet be organized,
but certainly not enough, with the
Taliban in charge of the whole
country.
If something terrible happens to
Mariam, or Nargis, or thousands
of activists and translators, history
will condemn those who aban-
doned them to die.
+trubin@inquirer.com "trudyrubin
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Firefighters keep
watch on cub
By Eugene Garcia
ASSOCIATED PRESS
QUINCY, Calif. — Firefighters are keeping an eye
on a lone, emaciated bear cub that may have lost its
mother to the country’s largest wildfire now burn-
ing in Northern California.
The pointy-eared cub is seen rambling solo along
a mountain road burned by the Dixie Fire near
Taylorsville, peering through brush and leaping
through plants covered in fire retardant chemicals.
“Generally when you see them with a sow or a
mother bear, they’ll stay with the mother bear and
run off,” said firefighter Johnnie Macy, who was
deployed from Golden, Colo., to battle the fire. “This
bear hasn’t done that, so because of that we think
that the bear’s orphaned as a result of the fire.”
Macy said on Sunday that they’ve been monitoring
the cub for several days, to determine if it is an
orphan. A wildlife rescue team was waiting to ex-
tract the emaciated cub from the burn-scarred area.
Macy called the situation “heartbreaking,” but
said it is “Mother Nature taking its course.”
The Dixie Fire has been burning for more than a
The sun sets on the remains of the town of Greenville, Calif. The Dixie Fire has scorched 890 square miles in the northern month and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and
Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades since it ignited on July 13. MARANIE R. STAAB / Getty Images / TNS businesses with nearly 15,000 structures still under
threat. Pacific Gas & Electric has said the fire may

Winds may fuel Dixie Fire

A utility warned thousands
of California customers it
might cut their electricity to
prevent new fires.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
QUINCY, Calif. — Firefighters bat-
tling flames in Northern California
forests girded Monday for new
bouts of windy weather, and a utility
warned thousands of customers it
might cut their electricity to prevent
new fires from igniting if gusts dam-
age power lines.
Conditions that suppressed the
huge Dixie Fire overnight were ex-
pected to give way late in the day to
winds that could push flames toward
mountain communities in a region
where drought and summer heat
have turned vegetation to tinder.
“In this environment any type of
wind, no matter what direction —
especially the way the fire’s been
going — is a concern for everyone,”
said information officer Jim Evans.
Growing explosively at times, the
Dixie Fire has scorched 890 square
miles in the northern Sierra Nevada
and southern Cascades since it ignit-
ed on July 13 and eventually merged
with a smaller blaze called the Fly
Fire.
Ongoing damage surveys have
counted more than 1,100 buildings
destroyed, including 625 homes, and
more than 14,000 structures re-
mained threatened. Numerous evac-
uation orders were in effect.
Investigations are continuing, but
Pacific Gas & Electric has notified
utility regulators that the Dixie and
Fly fires may have been caused by
trees falling into its power lines. The
Dixie Fire began near the town of
Paradise, which was devastated by a
2018 wildfire ignited by PG&E equip-
ment during strong winds. Eighty-
five people died.
On Sunday evening, PG&E noti-
fied 39,000 customers in parts of 16
Northern California counties that it
may have to shut off power Tuesday
evening due to a forecast of dry
winds out of the northeast.
“Given this wind event and cur-
rent conditions including extreme to
exceptional drought and extremely
dry vegetation, PG&E has begun
sending 48-hour advance notifica-
tions to customers in targeted areas
where PG&E may need to proactive-
ly turn power off for safety to re-
duce the risk of wildfire from ener-
gized power lines,” a statement said.
The Dixie Fire was among 97
have been sparked when a tree fell on its power line.
A bear named “Smokey” is, of course, the most
famous orphan cub in the country rescued from
wildfire.
The badly burned bear was rescued from a New
Mexico wildfire in 1950 and became the living,
large, active wildfires burning in the breathing embodiment of a national campaign
United States on Monday, the Na- launched in 1944 when the U.S. Forest Service and
tional Interagency Fire Center said. Ad Council agreed that a fictional bear would be
More than 25,000 firefighters, sup- the symbol for a fire prevention campaign.
port personnel, and management Earlier this month, a bear cub with burns to its
teams were assigned to the blazes. paws and nose was rescued from a fire in eastern
The U.S. Forest Service said last Siskiyou County in California. Also this month, an
week that it is operating in crisis injured cub tunneled out of a Lake Tahoe wildlife
mode, with more than double the care center where he was being treated for burns
number of firefighters deployed sustained in a wildfire. The bear has since been
than at the same time a year ago. spotted in the wild.
The fires were also taking a toll on
wildlife.
Near Taylorsville, Calif., some fire-
fighters on Sunday were monitoring
a bear cub who was possibly or-
phaned in the Dixie Fire. The emaci-
ated cub was awaiting extraction
from the fire-scarred area by a wild-
life rescue team.
“Generally if you see them with a
sow or a mother bear, they’ll stay
with the mother bear and run off,”
said firefighter Johnnie Macy, who
was deployed from Golden, Colo.
“This bear hasn’t done that, so be-
cause of that we think that the bear’s
orphaned as a result of the fire.”
Climate change has made the U.S.
West warmer and drier in the past
A bear cub who may have lost its mother walks alone
30 years and will continue to make
along a mountain road burned by the Dixie Fire in
the weather more extreme and wild-
Plumas County, Calif. EUGENE GARCIA / AP
fires more destructive, according to
scientists.

TANF
Continued from A1
TANF was created in 1996 af-
ter Aid to Families with Depen-
dent Children (AFDC), formulat-
ed in 1935, was ended. Unlike
AFDC, the new initiative was a
block grant rather than a steady-
state payment, and it imposed
on recipients work requirements
and cumulative time limits of
five years.
Historians say TANF was
meant to appease critics who be-
lieved that the old system fos-
tered dependency.
Conservatives would say it suc-
ceeded. In the 2½ decades of
TANF, they have hailed it as a
needed change that pared the
welfare system and, specifically,
ushered low-income women into
the workforce.
But some scholars and advo-
cates say what’s developed isn’t
reform but a “punitive,” “racist,”
“dehumanizing” institution that
does little to ameliorate poverty.
“TANF has been a continuous
disaster,” said Mariana Chilton,
director of the Center for Hun-
ger-Free Communities at Drexel
University’s Dornsife School of
Public Health.
“People on TANF are stigma-
tized and reviled, and made to
jump through hoops,” said Tem-
ple University sociologist Judith
Levine, director of the school’s
Public Policy Lab. “We’ve made
getting TANF so hard, people
don’t want to bother to be on it.”
Since 1997, two million fami-
lies have been cut off TANF due
to sanctions imposed for per-
ceived violations of work rules,
advocates say.
Indeed, the number of TANF
recipients in Pennsylvania plum-
meted from 223,629 in July 2003
to 64,976 — more than 49,000 of
them children — as of June, ac-
cording to the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Human Services,
which oversees TANF.
In a statement responding to
questions, DHS officials said the
decline occurred because “in-
come and asset limits that gov-
ern TANF eligibility are very low,
so when recipients find employ-
ment ... they may move off the
benefit.”
Others say it’s not so simple.
In Pennsylvania, just 20% of
those who have left TANF have
found work, according to Peter
Zurflieh, staff attorney with the
Community Justice Project, a
statewide initiative of the Penn-
sylvania Legal Aid Network in
Harrisburg.
“And,” he said, “most of that is
low-wage, unskilled, or part
time.”
Of the remaining 80%, not
much is known, said Zurflieh,
“but in all likelihood, they’re not
doing well.”
‘Just a ball and chain’
Alisha Gillespie, 32, an unem-
ployed hospital worker from Ger-
mantown with three children
ages 6, 9, and 13, said that she’d
been on TANF for around five
years but that it appeared to
hurt more than help.
“It seemed like a form of sla-
very,” she said. “It wasn’t that
much money. I wanted to use it
to further my education, but they
kept telling me to find a job.”
TANF critics have said that the
program compels a recipient to
seek a job before furthering
their education, which can ulti-
mately limit the type of work a
person can do. “I couldn’t always
be at job centers looking for
work when my kid was sick in
the hospital with asthma issues,”
Gillespie said. “They act like you
don’t have trials and tribula-
tions.
“In the end, TANF was just a
ball and chain.”
According to the DHS state-
ment, the agency has been offer-
ing increased opportunities for
TANF recipients to garner educa-
tion credentials. The idea is to
“move away from simply focus-
ing on getting individuals into
low-wage jobs only to have them
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lose those jobs months later and
return to our programs.”
Zurflieh praised the agency’s
program connecting TANF recipi-
ents to community colleges for
doing “a remarkable job helping
students get degrees.”
Cash assistance that hasn’t
changed
In 2019, TANF cost nearly $31
billion in combined federal block
grants ($16.2 billion) and state
contributions ($14.7 billion), fed-
eral figures show. Pennsylvania,
which administers the program
for state residents, paid $514 mil-
lion for TANF programs in the
2019-20 time frame, $107 million
more than the minimum require-
ment, according to Pennsylvania
DHS.
Along with cash assistance
and job and education programs,
individuals on TANF have access
to child care.
In Pennsylvania, a family of
three receives an average month-
ly cash payment of $403 from
TANF, a figure that hasn’t
changed since 1990, during the
days of AFDC, according to a
2020 report from Drexel’s Center
for Hunger-Free Communities.
“That’s extreme, extreme pov-
erty,” said Hirsch of CLS. “No
child should be living in such
poverty.”
It’s “a travesty,” Chilton of
Drexel said.
Dollar amounts are set by the
states. Since 2013, 24 of them
have increased their cash assis-
tance payments; Pennsylvania
hasn’t, Hirsch said.
“
I cipients are Black] spends less
couldn’t
always be at
job centers
looking for
work when my
kid was sick in
the hospital
with asthma
issues. They act
like you don’t
have trials and
tribulations. In
the end, TANF
was just a ball
and chain.
Alisha Gillespie
DHS said that raising the
monthly TANF grant would re-
quire approval from the General
Assembly.
“There just isn’t political will
to do it,” Zurflieh said.
As it happens, states such as
Pennsylvania have been giving
less to mothers and children in
cash assistance, and redistribut-
ing the funds.
In 1997, the first full year of
TANF, Pennsylvania spent 72%
of the block grant on cash assis-
tance, according to Ife Ford, di-
rector of TANF research and
analysis for the Center on Bud-
get and Policy Priorities, a pro-
gressive think tank in Washing-
ton.
It spends just 14% today. New
Jersey, which started out giving
57% of its grant to cash assis-
tance, gave just 5% in 2019, Ford
said. The U.S. average is 21%,
according to the most recent fig-
ures.
Pennsylvania uses some 40%
of its grant to underwrite child
care for TANF mothers as well
as for people not part of the pro-
gram, Ford said.
Child-care funding “was in-
tended to support families transi-
tioning away from TANF,” ac-
cording to DHS.
‘Served to punish’
The notion that racism is
baked into TANF is widespread.
“States where Black families
compose a larger share of TANF
recipients have less generous
TANF policies,” the Hunger-Free
Communities report said. “Penn-
sylvania [where 52% of TANF re-
of their block grant on basic as-
sistance compared to other
states with fewer Black recipi-
ents.”
Ford said, “TANF work require-
ments come from a legacy of en-
slavement and forced labor, and
this belief that Black people are
lazy and undeserving of support,
and if we don’t coerce them to
work, they won’t.
“So, harsh TANF work require-
ments with difficult paperwork
obligations and time limits
served to punish rather than
help families.”
Currently, DHS is working to
“move away from the punitive
nature of work requirements,”
the agency statement said. The
agency is “hoping to mitigate the
impact of poverty and trauma on
our clients, which are exacerbat-
ed when coupled with experienc-
es of systemic racism.”
Racism kept many Black wom-
en out of the workforce altogeth-
er, said Rochelle Jackson,
founder and executive director
of Black Women’s Policy Agenda,
an Allegheny County advocacy
group. “There was never a time
when Black women didn’t want
to work,” she said, “but always a
time when they weren’t able to
work because of discrimination.”
She praised DHS Secretary
Theresa Miller’s awareness of
the problem of racism in how
Black women are treated:
“Theresa was courageous
enough to acknowledge we are
not doing so well.”
TANF should be ‘destroyed’
For her part, Chilton of Drexel
said TANF “should be de-
stroyed” and replaced with uni-
versal basic income, in which all
citizens receive an uncondition-
al, regular stipend.
A report from the Centers on
Budget and Policy Priorities sug-
gested that TANF offer a mini-
mum benefit, as well as an end
to both mandatory work and
time limits.
Instead of treating TANF recip-
ients “like naughty schoolchil-
dren,” Levine of Temple said,
perhaps the newly expanded
child tax credit will become a
better form of safety net for low-
and middle-income families.
Such a change, she said, could
finally usher in “a more gener-
ous, forgiving system.”
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THE REGION CITY Jay Greenberg, former NHL

SUBURBS writer for the Daily News. B5
SOUTH JERSEY

He left GOP to start a third party

Ethan Demme, ex-Republican chair in Lancaster County, the Lancaster GOP on Jan. 7, saying term limits and supporting indepen-
they were changing their registra- dent redistricting commissions to
opposed Trump in 2016. After Jan. 6, he went further. tions to independent. draw political maps.
Now Demme, the CEO of an edu- Founded in 2017 by former staff-
By Andrew Seidman politics, left the party following the cation publishing company, is head- ers in George W. Bush’s administra-
STAFF WRITER Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. ing up the Pennsylvania chapter of tion, SAM now has chapters in Con-
Ethan Demme was a lifelong Re- Denial of the 2020 election re- a centrist third party. Serve Ameri- necticut, New York, Iowa, and Tex-
publican and onetime local party sults has “damaged our system of ca Movement, or SAM, says it aims as, with plans to expand elsewhere.
chairman in Pennsylvania’s reliably government and has fomented the to “fix a system that has been cor- Much of its funding has come from
conservative Lancaster County. He seeds of sedition, resulting in vio- rupted by the mainstream parties Wall Street donors and an ex-tobac-
opposed Donald Trump from the lence in our nation’s capital,” and the people who prop them up.” co executive. Ethan Demme leads
outset of his 2016 presidential cam- Demme and two fellow Republicans Its platform focuses on gover- Demme, 39, registered the party the state chapter of
paign and, after 20 years in GOP wrote in a letter to the chairman of nance and elections issues like See SAM on B3 a centrist third party.

Flight Time
In a preview of Wednesday’s show, Chris Orr, Steve Salmirs, and Chris Thomas fly World War II-era SNJ aircraft over Atlantic City.
GEICO Skytypers took to the skies over
Atlantic City on Monday to show their flying
skills to local media. The Skytypers will
peform Wednesday at the air show in Atlantic
City. At bottom, the planes lay down some
smoke above the resort town.
Stormy
weather
possible
this week
Several wet days, including
remnants from tropical storm.
By Anthony R. Wood
STAFF WRITER
With Fred’s remnants forecast to arc
toward Western Pennsylvania, and the
atmosphere primed for a significant
moistening, the Philly region evidently is
in for more rounds of thunderstorm lot-
to.
For now the forecasts are maddening-
ly ambiguous, but shower and thunder-
storm chances pop up every day at least
through Sunday. And the National Weath-
er Service advised Monday that “a flash
flood watch likely will be needed at
some point for portions of the area this
week.”
That refreshing air mass that surfaced
Sunday was a drive-by, one-day wonder.
That means the sweat- and shower-pro-
ducing humidity so evident last week
has returned.
“It didn’t go far away, unfortunately,”
said Patrick O’Hara, a meteorologist at
the National Weather Service Office in
Mount Holly.
The supplier is an area of high pres-
sure off the coast that is swamping parts
of the Northeast with plenty of raw mate-
rial for showers.
The government’s Storm Prediction
Center has the Philadelphia region un-
der a “marginal risk” for severe storms
Tuesday and Wednesday, and the Weath-
See FRED on B5

Man on trial
in killing of
Staff photographs by Alejandro A. Alvarez
his girlfriend
Pilot Mike Eberhardt prepares to start flying.
He allegedly beat her, waited 10
hours before going to hospital.
By Vinny Vella
STAFF WRITER
During their first murder trial since
the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Montgomery County prosecutors said
Monday that they would prove a Perkio-
men Township man beat his girlfriend to
death in a jealous rage and then hid her
body in his home for more than 10 hours
before taking it to a nearby hospital in
an Uber.
His defense attorney acknowledged
the attack but said his client didn’t in-
tend to kill the victim.
Nicholas Forman, 24, has been
charged with first- and third-degree mur-
der in the death of Sabrina Harooni in
February 2020.

Pushing on after loss of his brother Investigators say Forman killed Haroo-
ni, 22, of Gilbertsville, at the height of an
argument over her ex-boyfriend. In a vid-
eo recording of Harooni’s battered body

A
aquil Madison was in his
North Philadelphia home
last month, working on a lab-
oratory project for his Physics II
class at Temple, when he received
the devastating news that his broth-
er had been shot.
JENICE He immediately dressed and
ARMSTRONG headed to Thomas Jefferson Uni-
@JeniceArmstrong versity Hospital, where his brother
had been taken. But before he got
there, his aunt called with the sad
news that his playful, lighthearted
older brother, Zykeem Thomas,
was dead. Instead of studying, Mad-
ison, 26, spent the night with his
sister, mourning their loss.
Trauma from losing a loved one
like that can really throw you.
Some people go into revenge
mode. Others sink into depression. found on Forman’s cell phone, a male
Some just give up. Not Madison. See TRIAL on B2
His brother’s slaying on July 13
made him more determined than
ever to keep pushing to achieve his
dream of becoming a physician.
That’s been his goal ever since
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Winners, losers in shift from fuel tax

A proposed Pa. switch to a fee based on miles driven could aid truckers, be costlier for regular vehicles.
By Ed Blazina
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
It’s only an idea for now, but
Pennsylvania’s proposed switch
from a fuel tax to a miles-driven
fee to help generate more mon-
ey for transportation could be a
boon for the trucking industry
and a big hit in the wallet for
drivers of passenger vehicles.
Based on the Transportation
Revenue Options Commission
recommendation to switch de-
livery and freight trucks from a
diesel tax of 73 cents a gallon
to a miles-driven fee of 8.1
cents, the cost to truckers
would drop by an average of
almost 33%. That’s based of fig-
ures provided by the Pennsylva-
nia Motor Truck Association
that show the average truck
now pays about 12 cents a mile
in state taxes.
Based on 13,000 miles driven
in a year — although many truck-
ers average more than double
that — and an average of six
miles per gallon, the cost would
drop to $1,053 from $1,582.
For passenger vehicles, based
on 13,000 miles a year and a ve-
hicle that gets 25 miles per gal-
lon of gasoline, the cost would
more than triple.
With Pennsylvania’s gasoline
tax at 58.6 cents a gallon, second Based on a commission’s recommendation to switch delivery and freight trucks from a diesel tax of 73 cents a gallon to a miles-driven fee of 8.1
highest in the country behind cents, the cost to truckers would drop by an average of almost 33%. File Photo
California, that motorist now
pays $306 a year. miles-driven fee is probably 10 transportation system will have
With the miles-driven fee, that years away, in a third phase of to pay something.”
driver would pay $1,053 annual- the commission’s plan for elimi- Since fuel tax revenue is be-
ly. nating fuel taxes. The plan also coming stagnant with gasoline
And in a strange twist, people calls for new fees for package vehicles becoming more effi-
with more fuel-efficient vehicles deliveries ($1 each) and rides cient and the growth of electric
would pay the same as a person with services such as Uber and vehicles, it makes sense for the
with a gas-guzzler. Their current Lyft ($1.11 per ride). state to switch to a fee for miles
advantage with the gasoline tax The potential that truck opera- driven, Oyler said.
would go away. tors could have reduced costs if The commission recommend-
For example, for a driver with the state switches to fees based ed that the Wolf administration
a vehicle that can go 40 miles on on miles driven was unexpected, spend the rest of the year refin-
a gallon, the gasoline tax said Rebecca Oyler, president ing proposals and building sup-
amounts to $190 a year now. Un- and CEO of the Pennsylvania port for the recommendations
der the miles-driven fee, that Motor Truck Association. and make a big push when the
driver also would pay $1,053. She served on the commission governor introduces his budget
Put another way, the more effi- and said she realized there in February.
cient a vehicle is, the more ex- hadn’t been a separate fee rec- In addition to the mileage fee,
pensive it would be to drive. ommended for truckers but fig- delivery fees, and surcharges
Alexis Campbell, a spokesper- ured that was just a detail the for Uber and Lyft rides, the com-
son for the state Department of commission didn’t get to during mission recommended doubling
Transportation, said those fig- its five-month mission. the vehicle registration fee to
ures seem accurate, but she Campbell said it wasn’t an $76 initially, then switching to
stressed that more study needs oversight and the commission in- For passenger vehicles, the estimated cost to drivers would more than charges based on the value of
to be done before legislation is tended to recommend the same triple under the proposal. the vehicle; increasing the state
developed to switch to the miles- fee for all motorists. vehicle rental tax to $5 from $3;
driven fee. The Transportation Revenue Right now, Oyler said, truck- rushed through its work to fin- and establishing a miles-driven
Transportation Secretary Options Commission “did not dif- ers provide about 38% of the ish by Wolf’s Aug. 1 deadline. As fee for electric vehicles until
Yassmin Gramian chaired the ferentiate between passenger fuel tax revenue that Pennsylva- a result, she agreed with Repub- fuel tax is eliminated and all ve-
42-member group appointed by and commercial vehicles for the nia receives. It would be a nice lican legislators that the group hicles pay for miles driven.
Gov. Tom Wolf in February and purposes of its analysis and surprise if changing the funding only looked at ways to generate The commission estimated
PennDot officials served as the when setting its example rate of system helped the industry by additional funds, not ways to cut the changes would generate
support staff for the commis- 8.1 cents,” she said. “Rate set- substantially reducing that per- costs. $3.5 billion annually in the first
sion. ting is complex, and discussions centage, she said. “The commission was given a two years; $6.6 billion annually
Campbell called the proposal around a potential [miles-driven “We know trucks have a great- really bold charge — find a way in the next two years; and as
“an exercise” to show how fund- fee] will be ongoing.” er impact on the condition of to eliminate the gasoline tax,” much as $11.5 billion annually
ing could be changed and reve- Oyler said her members roads than passenger vehicles, she said. “I just don’t think there after the fifth year. In addition
nue increased to pay for road- would be “glad to hear that” if so that’s why they pay more,” was great time given to finding to needing more money to care
work. they would save money. she said. “That 38% is a huge ways to save money, just how to for roads and bridges, PennDot
The department says spend- “Obviously, that would be amount of the overall money, generate revenue. needs to replace $400 million a
ing needs to be more than dou- great for truckers,” she said. “In and I would be surprised to see “We eventually pushed ahead year it has been receiving annu-
bled, to $15 billion a year from the context of what truckers pay that come down much. I’ll be in- with the funding options and ally from the Pennsylvania Turn-
the current $6.9 billion, to meet now, I don’t know whether that terested to hear if that changes.” said, ‘OK, all of the above.’ Ev- pike for public transit because
transportation needs. would hold when they actually Overall, Oyler expressed con- eryone at every point where that obligation ends in June
Completely switching to the set the rate.” cern that the commission they come into contact with the 2022.

Trial
Continued from B1
voice that investigators believe
to be Forman’s is heard saying,
“This is what cheating liars get.”
Assistant District Attorney Eri-
ka Wevodau said in her opening
statement that the video shows
“exactly what his intent was and
how proud he was.”
“This case is not a ‘whodunit,’
just like so many domestic vio-
lence cases aren’t,” Wevodau
said. “This defendant was the
last person to be seen with her
alive.”
Forman’s attorney, Michael
John, agreed with Wevodau that
there was no doubt his client
killed Harooni. But John still im-
plored jurors not to convict him
of first-degree murder, saying
Forman’s actions were not pre-
meditated.
“The simple fact is that he
didn’t want her to die,” John
said. “He did not plan her death,
to Pottstown Memorial Medical
Center, where she arrived cold
to the touch, without a pulse,
and bearing visible head and
neck injuries, hospital staff testi-
fied Monday.
An autopsy later determined
Harooni died from “asphyxia,
strangulation and multiple blunt
force injuries,” investigators
wrote in court filings.
In an interview with police,
Forman said Harooni was at-
tacked by a group of women
who followed them home from
the bar, a story he repeated to
the nurses who treated her. Ha-
rooni was badly injured in the
fight, Forman said, but
seemed fine until the next
morning, when he took her to
the hospital, witnesses testi-
fied Monday.
Nicholas Forman is charged with first- and third-degree murder in the Wevodau, the prosecutor,
death of his girlfriend, Sabrina Harooni. VINNY VELLA / Staff called this an outright lie de-
bunked by surveillance footage
but he was selfish and callous Oaks watching Super Bowl LIV, from the bar.
toward her life.” prosecutors said. The next morn- “His story doesn’t make sense,
Harooni’s fatal beating fol- ing, Forman loaded Harooni’s because it didn’t happen that
lowed a night out at a bar in body into an Uber and took her way,” she said. “Those girls
don’t exist, and they weren’t the
ones who brutally beat Sabrina
Harooni.”
An Uber driver who drove the
couple home from the bar the
night before told investigators
the couple got into a heated dis-
pute after Harooni mentioned
getting a text message from an
ex-boyfriend, according to the af-
fidavit of probable cause for For-
man’s arrest.
Forman became upset and de-
manded to see her phone, and
Harooni said he was scaring her,
the driver told investigators.
The driver, who is expected
to testify later in the trial, was
so worried he circled the block
after dropping the couple off
and waited outside Forman’s
house, Wevodau said. He heard
the two arguing, and when the
fight seemingly ended, drove
off.
Forman’s prosecution is ex-
pected to last through the week.
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Wrong turn ends on trolley line Multistate

By María Paula Mijares Torres
STAFF WRITER
It was a “wrong turn,”
the driver told officials,
that caused a white Jeep
to end up on the tunnel
tracks near SEPTA’s 37th
Street subway-surface trol-
ley station at 5 a.m. Satur-
day — disrupting service
on five trolley lines for
three hours.
SEPTA surveillance vid-
eo showed that the car
had entered through the
40th Street trolley sta-
tion open portal at the
intersections of Balti-
more and Woodland Ave-
nues, in West Philadel-
phia.
When the car was discov-
ered by the station’s staff,
the driver was in the vicini-
ty, said Andrew Busch, a
SEPTA spokesperson. No
charges were filed.
Busch says that this was
a rare occurrence, and de-
spite historical photos cir-
culated on Twitter, that it
hasn’t happened in recent
memory.
“We think this was an
isolated incident and the
area where the car en-
tered does need to be
open for trolleys to access
it,” Busch said.
The 40th Street station
portal is an open tunnel
accessible through Wood-
land or Baltimore Ave-
nues that could be access-
ed by cars or pedestri-
ans.
“[The entrance] is clear-
ly marked, and there are
signs and all kinds of noti-
fications that are clearly
marked a trolley area,”
Busch said.
The car was removed
from the tracks without in-
cident, Busch said, and no
one was injured.
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COMMENTARY | BY JENICE ARMSTRONG

Holding on to his dream after loss of brother

DOCTOR from B1
Young Scholars Charter School.
The book is about three under-
privileged Black childhood
friends from Newark, N.J., who
made a pact that instead of fol-
lowing their friends into gangs
and drugs, they would go to col-
lege and become doctors. All of
them beat the incredible odds.
Their story inspired Madison,
who is from a similarly disadvan-
taged background. That’s why
he stuck with that Physics II
class despite everything going
on around him.
“I had to get right back into it
because the class was over July
31,” Madison told me. “I had to
take my midterm on the 15th of
July, which was the day before
my brother’s funeral. It was
hard.
“I really had to pray,” he add-
ed.
Madison managed to get an A
in the class.
That’s quite an accomplish-
ment under the best of circum-
stances, but earning that sort of
grade after a loss like the one
Madison suffered speaks to a
whole other level of aptitude
and determination. I’d be lying
if I didn’t admit that I’m super
impressed.
A 2021 Temple graduate, he
works as a rehabilitation aide in
a local hospital while taking
courses in preparation for medi-
cal school, hopefully for the fall
of 2022. Madison also serves as
a youth mentor with 100 Black
Men of Philadelphia Chapter. I
learned about him from a board
member of that organization
who also suggested Madison set
up a GoFundMe account so peo-
ple can help him with his tuition
payments. (Checks can be sent
Aaquil Madison, a recent Temple
grad, hopes to become a doctor.
to Madison via 100 Black Men,
1324 Clearfield St., Philadelphia,
PA 19132.)
“Here’s a young man who’s as-
piring to be a doctor — not a
rapper or an athlete,” said Wel-
ler Thomas, a 100 Black Men
board member and owner of
Pathfinder’s Travel Magazine.
“He is busting his butt. He’s seri-
ous about what he’s doing.”
I hope so. America desperate-
ly needs more Black doctors. Ac-
cording to the Association of
American Medical Colleges,
only about 3% of all medical doc-
tors are African American
males. That’s a number that
hasn’t budged much since 1940,
according to a recent study. Im-
plicit bias in health care is real.
Studies show that Black patients
have better outcomes when
their physicians have a similar
racial background. But when it
comes to increasing the number
of people entering medical
school, money too often is a fac-
tor.
“We need the village to pour
into this young man right now.
We’ve got one that’s worth pour-
ing into,” said Arthur J. Wells
III, who mentored Madison
through the Big Brothers, Big
Sisters program after his father
was killed when he was just 7
years old.
“If you want to help some-
body, help somebody who’s do-
ing the right thing,” urged Wells,
aka “Max the Barber” and own-
er of Maxamillion’s Gentlemen’s
Quarters at 20th and Chestnut
Streets. “He’s not only going to
be a blessing to himself but to
other kids he comes into contact
with.”
His is a cause worth support-
ing.
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SAM
Continued from B1
with the Pennsylvania De-
partment of State in June.
“Too much of politics is
nationalized now,” he said.
“How does a State House
candidate in Adams Coun-
ty differentiate from one
in Delaware County? The
issues are actually differ-
ent for both communities,
but too often the cam-
paigns are run on these na-
tional issues. So that’s
what we’re really hoping
to do is really drive that
conversation.”
We caught up with
Demme and talked about
SAM, the challenges it fac-
es, and why campaign
mailers for local races fea-
ture scary warnings about
Trump and Rep. Alexan-
dria Ocasio-Cortez (D.,
N.Y.).
Answers have been light-
ly edited for clarity and
length.
Third parties haven’t
had a lot of success.
Why commit to this ma-
jor undertaking?
“There are a couple
things. Sixty-two percent
of folks think that it’s
time for a new political
party. So there’s clearly a
rise in appetite among
folks for a third party.
The rise in unaffiliated
voters has been a trend
in Pennsylvania, as well
as nationally.
“It seems that the time
is right. We’re at that polar-
ization tipping point, I like
to call it, where people are
really frustrated with both
major parties. And they
want something else, but
they don’t know what that
is.
“Other third parties that
have been around tend to
have more of a sharp or
narrower ideological fo-
cus. And that’s where the
SAM Party comes in.
We’re more process- and
principle-focused. We’re
leaving sort of our policy
platform up to each indi-
vidual candidate.
“When you look at Penn-
sylvania specifically, a cou-
ple of changes in the last
couple of years allowed
third parties a little more
latitude, if you will. We
have the elimination of
straight ticket voting.
Then there was a lawsuit
with a settlement with the
Green Party.
“So it’s much easier for
independent or third-par-
ty candidates to get on the
ballot.”
Why not try to reform
the GOP from the in-
side?
“I’ve actually spent a lot
of time trying to reform
the way the system works
but from within a major
party.
“The big change was
with Donald Trump in
2016 and then more recent-
ly with the denial of the
election results after No-
vember. That’s when I sort
of made the decision and
looked at it and talked to
friends and other folks …
and we concluded that re-
forming within the party
was not going to be a via-
ble option.”
Are you focusing on lo-
cal and state races? Or
governor and U.S. Sen-
ate as well?
“I’ve talked to at least a
dozen folks who are look-
ing at a State House race
run or congressional run
in Pennsylvania this cycle
as an independent.
“So I’ve actually been
surprised at the number
of people who have come
out of the woodwork say-
ing, ‘I’m interested in may-
be running for State
House, State Senate, or for
Congress.’ And we are talk-
ing to a few potential can-
didates who are looking at
a statewide bid, either for
[retiring Sen. Pat] Toom-
ey’s old seat or for gover-
nor. So there’s a lot of in-
terest.”
Do you see any day-
light between the na-
tional and state Repub-
lican Party regarding
the problems you’ve
identified?
“I think the biggest
thing over the last couple
years is, the differences
between national and
state and local politics has
shifted to, it’s all national.
[Former House Speaker]
Tip O’Neill said, ‘All poli-
tics is local.’ Now all poli-
tics is national.
“Even in local races, we
had a local municipal race
where, on the mailers for
the Republican primary, it
was all national issues. It
Ethan Demme outside his Lancaster home. “We concluded that reforming within the party was not going to be a viable
option,” the CEO of an education publishing company says. JACQUELINE LARMA
was, ‘Hey, we’re going to
stop Democrats from de-
funding the police,’ when
no Democrat running in
that area is actually advo-
cating for that position at
all. You’re seeing mail piec-
es for local municipal rac-
es that mention AOC.
“This has nothing to do
with how your sewer bill
gets sent out, and how
trash is picked up. The
elected officials pretty
much have to cater to that
loudest, vocal 20% of their
base in order to get elect-
ed.”
What have you learned
from SAM’s experience
in other states?
“Once you start to gain
some traction, the two ma-
jor parties will work to-
gether and sort of push
back. So it is a long slog of
— you have that immedi-
ate, there’s a lot of folks
who like the idea — but
then once you start chal-
lenging the status quo,
there will be push back. So
we’re expecting that.”
What are the next
steps?
“We’ll be hosting some
sort of candidate training
sessions. They’re open so
you don’t have to necessar-
ily be a SAM candidate,
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A 49-year-old Pember-
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ing money through Go-
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neral expenses but instead
spent the money on her-
self while abandoning her
husband’s body at the
morgue, Burlington Coun-
ty Prosecutor Scott Coffi-
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Patricia Clark was indict-
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Superior Court is pending.
Clark created the fund-
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The investigation was
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BEACH
SUZANNE
Suzanne Reider Beach passed
away in Bryn Mawr, PA on
August 13, 2021 after an extended
battle with cancer. She died as
she lived… with dignity, a kind
heart, and a loving, good-natured
friendliness for all she came into
contact with. Suzy was happily
married to Tom Beach, the love
of her life, for nearly 21 years at
the time of her death.
Born May 16, 1947 in Bryn Mawr,
she graduated from the Baldwin
School where she received the
"White Blazer," the school's
highest athletic honor. Voted on
by fellow students, the award is
given for exemplifying the best
qualities of sportsmanship: the
ability to win and lose gracefully,
act with integrity, take criticism
willingly, and show loyalty to
her team. She then moved on to
St. Lawrence University, and
decades later, received a degree
from Moore College of Art and
Design (where she was "Mother
Hen" to her much younger
classmates).
Aside from time with family and
friends, Suzy enjoyed traveling,
time on Squam Lake and at
their home in Naples, Florida,
interior design, figure skating,
golf, tennis, reading, and the
occasional Sudoku puzzle. She
had a tireless, adventurous spirit
and lived a full, rich life.
She was the heart of her family
and the soul of their daily lives.
Blessed with a rare combination
of modesty and intelligence, as
well as an eye for beauty, she was
a successful interior designer
and artist.
Suzy leaves behind her husband
Tom Beach; two children: Chas
McFeely and his partner Janet
Sun, Brooks McFeely and his wife
Tara; three grandchildren: Reider
McFeely, Meyer McFeely, and
Charlie McFeely; two siblings:
Ann Hoskins and her husband
Dunbar, and Sandy Reider; two
nephews: Chad Hoskins and his
wife Eliza, and Forest Reider
and his wife Nathalie Reider;
three step children: Walt Beach,
Ted Beach, and Jon Beach; and
numerous others.
She will be greatly missed.
Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers, gifts may
be sent in Memory of Suzanne
Reider Beach to Bryn Mawr
Hospital Foundation, 130 S.
Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA
19010.
CHADWICK & MCKINNEY F.H.
ARDMORE
www.chadwickmckinney.com
DUBIN
BERNARD
On Aug. 16, 2021. Beloved
husband of 59 years to Maxine
(nee Cohn), loving father of
Kenny (Cassi Cohen) Dubin,
Franni (Wyn) Oldroyd, Debbie
(Patrick) Walsh, brother of
Leonard (Marlene) Dubin
and his sister, adored Pop
Pop of Jenna, Jack, Cassidy,
Asher, Brendan and Keira.
Relatives and friends are
invited to Memorial Services
Wednesday 2:30 P.M. precisely
GOLDSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S
RAPHAEL-SACKS SUBURBAN
NORTH CHAPEL, 310 Second
Street Pike, Southampton, PA
18966. Shiva will be observed
Wednesday through Friday
afternoon at his late residence.
Contributions in his memory
may be made to a charity of the
donors’s choice.
www.goldsteinsfuneral.com
GIORDANO
FRANK N.
Passed August 12, 2021 at the
age of 81. Son of the late Carmen
and Grace Giordano. Devoted
husband to the late Dolores
(nee Iezzoni) of 54 years.
Beloved father of Carolyn
Mary (Stephen) McSorley,
Gregory N. (Kathie) and the
late Baby Carolyn. Loving
grandfather of Alexandra M.
McSorley. Brother of Loretta
(Tom) Smith, Raymond and
the late Bernadette (Michael)
Bordoni. Visitation, Service and
Interment will be PRIVATE. Any
mass cards and correspondence
for the family can be mailed to
the funeral home and will be
forwarded.
www.baldifuneralhome.com
GRECO
FRANCESCA ROSE
Passed unexpectedly on Dec.
13, 2020 as a direct result of
hospital negligence. Frances
was a remarkably independent,
elegant, loving, generous, multi-
talented 99 year old woman, who
enriched the lives of all who
were blessed to know her. She
is preceded in death by her son
Domenic and husband Anthony
Greco, who she will join at
Washington Crossing National
Cemetery on her 100th birthday.
Frances is survived by her
devoted son Anthony Greco Jr.,
her loving daughter Francine
Greco (Raymond Wisdo),
grandchildren Gina, Angela,
Devon, Toni, Tia, Anthony and
great grandchildren.
LISS
LEAH E. (NEE BARSKY)
Passed away peacefully on
August 14, 2021, in Ewing. NJ, a
month shy of her 82nd birthday.
She was the oldest daughter of
Morton and Rose (Leibovitz).
Her father was a jeweler, and
her mother was a seamstress and
supervisor. After graduating
from Olney High School, Leah
worked as a secretary. She
was introduced to her future
husband Alan by a mutual
friend and were married for 56
years. Leah was a dedicated
wife, mother and grandmother.
Her focus was on raising her
children and following her
grandsons. Leah really enjoyed
needlepoint, creating works that
reflected her family and their
interests. She was most happy
in recent years with larger
family gatherings, especially
celebrating her 80th birthday
with extended family. Leah
lived her entire life in the Phila.
area, including raising her
children in Langhorne, before
moving to Abrams Residence
several years ago. Despite
dealing with multiple serious
health problems in recent
years, she maintained a sense
of stubbornness to deal with
these issues and continue on.
The staff at Abrams Residence
and Greenwood House said she
maintained her sense of humor
all throughout her stay. She
is survived by her husband
Alan, Langhorne, PA, children
Audrey Liss, Newtown, PA and
Michael Liss (Beth), of Kansas
City, MO; her sister Sandy
Kravitz (Kenny), Elkins Park,
PA, her grandsons Zachary and
Drew Liss, Kansas City, MO;
her extended family and her
close friends Vivian Specter
and Esther Mcgill. Relatives
and friends are invited to
Services (masks are required)
Wednesday, August 18, 2021,
10:30 A.M., JOSEPH LEVEINE
& SONS MEMORIAL CHAPEL,
4737 Street Rd., Trevose, PA.
Interment will follow at Har
Zion Cemetery. The family
wishes to acknowledge Abrams
Residence and Greenwood
House for the compassionate
care provided to Leah over the
last several years. In lieu of
flowers, the family suggests
memorial gifts in Leah’s memory
be made to Abrams Residence
at Greenwood House, Ewing,
NJ, (www.greenwoodhouse.org)
or to a charity of the donor’s
choice. Online condolences
may be left for the family at
www.levinefuneral.com
MANLEY
MARY CAROLINE
(NEE PARKER)
Of Flourtown, PA, age 91,
on August 13, 2021, passed
peacefully surrounded by family.
Beloved wife the late Edward;
loving mother of Theresa Taylor
(Jeff), Patricia Manley (Raef),
Edward Jr., Jacqueline Whiting
(Bruce), Kathy Bacino, Mary
Jo Roman, Christopher (Tara),
Alison (Bernie) and Stephen
(Murray). Devoted grandmother
to Chad, Melissa, Stephen, Sarah,
Eddie, Taylor, Anna, Christopher,
Abigail, Gabriel, Christianna,
and Georgianna. Loving great-
grandmother to Aiden, Mason,
Parker, Emma, and Liam.
Mary is the sister of Margaret
Cancellarich (Don). She was
predeceased by brother George
"Sonny" Parker Jr. Born on July
15, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pa, Mary
was the daughter of the late
George Sr. and Eleanor Parker.
She was a graduate of John W.
Hallahan Roman Catholic Girls
High School (48'). Relatives and
friends are invited for visitation
on at St. Genevieve Church, 1225
Bethlehem Pike, Flourtown, PA
on Thursday, August 19th, from
6 P.M. to 8 P.M. and on Friday,
August 20th from 9:00 A.M. to
10:00 A.M. A Funeral Mass will
follow at 10:00 A.M. Interment
will be private at a later date. In
lieu of flowers, donations may be
made to St. Genevieve's Church
at the address listed above.
JOHN F. MURRAY F.H.,
Flourtown
www.murrayfuneralhome.com
NEVIN
PATRICIA ANN (NEE PAPA)
Age 70, on August 15, 2021.
Wife of the late Thomas. Loving
mother of Renee Muto-Florio
(Alfred), Carla Muto-McDonnell
(Vincent), Serina
(Drew McCann) and Thomas
Nevin. Grandmother of Alec,
Nevin
Vincent, Brenda, and her future
granddaughter. Dear sister of
Dr. Gregory Papa and Deborah
Milicia. Relatives and friends
are invited to her Viewing Friday
9 A.M. St. Edmond Church, 21st
St. and Snyder Ave. Funeral
Mass 10 A.M. Int. SS. Peter &
Paul Cem. The family requests
donations to Glioclastoma
Foundation, P.O. Box 62066,
Durham, NC 27715, www.info@
glioclastomafoundation.org.
RUFFENACH F.H.
RICCHINI
ELIZABETH L.
Died on August 5, 2021. She lived
with her daughter Elizabeth
and her son-in-law John. She
is survived by a daughter-in-
law Donna and grandchildren
Brian, Michael, Daria and
Carly. She was the proud great
grandmother of 6 and the
great great grandmother of 6.
She will be dearly missed by
all that knew and loved her.
SANUCK
ELEANOR M.
August 13, 2021. Preceded in
death by her beloved husband
William Sanuck; 2 sisters SR.
Agnes Kelm SSJ, and SR. Dorothy
Kelm SSJ, 2 brothers Robert
Kelm and William Kelm; she is
survived by her beloved children
Michael Sanuck (Kathleen),
Joseph Sanuck, Dorothy Ann
Lista (James); 4 grandchilden
Michael Sanuck, Neil Sanuck
M.D. (Lisa Wray M.D.), Matthew
Sanuck (Lisa), and Jamie Lista; 4
great grandchildren Colin, Liam,
Michael, Harrison Sanuck; also
survived by 1 brother Joseph
Kelm (Margie); sister-in-law
Frances Kelm and many loving
nieces and nephews. Eleanor was
a proud graduate of HALLAHAN
H.S. Class of 1950. Relatives
and friends are invited to her
Funeral Mass 10 A.M. Saturday
at the The St. Francis Xavior
Church (the Oratory) 24th and
Green St. Viewing will be held
Friday eve 6-8 P.M. and Saturday
from 8-9 A.M. at the DINAN
FUNERAL HOME 1923 Spring
Garden St. Phila. PA 19130.
Interment Calvary Cemetery,
Conshohocken. In lieu of flowers,
please make donations to St.
Francis Xavier School, 2319
Green St., Phila., PA 19130.
SPIEGEL
BARRY R.
92, of West Chester PA passed
away at Paoli Memorial
Hospital on August 12, 2021
after a brief illness. Barry
was born in Philadelphia in
1929, the son of Sol Spiegel and
Charlotte (nee Blumenthal)
Spiegel. He is survived by his
loving wife Elsa Spiegel (nee
Torp), sons Phillip (Julie) and
Paul, daughter Suzanne Pijawka
(Pete), sister Beth Hennessey,
and 6 grandchildren. In lieu of
flowers, the family requests
memorial donations to Fox
Chase Cancer Center: https://
www.foxchase.org/giving/ways-
give/donate-now
Services will be held at St. Luke
Lutheran Church, 203 N Valley
Forge Rd, Devon, PA 19333, at
11:00 A.M. on Friday August 20.
For more information, go to the
MAUGER-GIVNISH FUNERAL
HOME website at:
www.maugergivnish.com
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OBITUARY
AP bureau
chief Larry
Heinzerling
By John Daniszewski
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Larry Heinzer-
ling, 75, a 41-year Associated
Press news executive and bu-
reau chief who played a key role
in winning freedom for hostage
Terry Anderson from his Hezbol-
lah abductors in Lebanon, has
died after a short illness.
Mr. Heinzerling, who died at
home in New York last week,
served as AP bureau chief in
South Africa during a time of
popular revolt against apartheid
and in West Germany before the
fall of the Berlin Wall. He was
deputized by then-AP president
and chief executive officer Lou
Boccardi to seek contacts with
governments and international
intermediaries to obtain the re-
lease of Anderson, the AP bu-
reau chief in Beirut who had
been kidnapped by the extremist
group in 1985.
He worked behind the scenes
for nearly seven years to win
Anderson’s release in 1991.
At AP headquarters in New
York, Mr. Heinzerling was direc-
tor of AP World Services and lat-
er deputy international editor.
He was the son of the late Lynn
Heinzerling, a Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning foreign correspondent for
the AP in Europe and Africa.
“Larry followed in the foot-
steps of his illustrious AP corre-
spondent father but he walked
his own widely admired path —
reporter, editor, bureau chief,
headquarters executive and, in
one painful period in AP history,
my personal envoy as we
searched across the world for
the key to freedom for Terry
Anderson,” Boccardi said in an
email Thursday.
Brian Carovillano, AP vice
president and comanaging edi-
tor, said: “Larry was a rock of the
AP, someone who believed com-
pletely in our mission and the
power and importance of eyewit-
ness journalism. He also did as
much as anyone to help trans-
form this company into the glo-
bal organization it is today. His
impact on AP and its journalism
will endure.”
Mr. Heinzerling grew up partly
in Elyria, Ohio, and partly in Jo-
hannesburg, Geneva, and London
among other cities where his fa-
ther was posted. His father was a
World War II correspondent for
AP and won his Pulitzer in 1961
for coverage of the 1960 Congo
crisis as the country emerged
from Belgian colonial rule.
Mr. Heinzerling graduated
from Ohio Wesleyan University
before joining the AP in Colum-
bus in 1967, simultaneously ac-
quiring a master’s degree in inter-
national journalism at Ohio State.
Mr. Heinzerling is survived by
his wife of 20 years, Ann Cooper,
and his two children, Kristen Hei-
nzerling and Benjamin Heinzer-
ling; stepchildren Artyom Keller,
Andreas Klohnen, and Eva
Klohnen; and five grandchildren.
Another son, Jesse Heinzerling,
died earlier.
VANCE
BARBARA J. (NEE SPEAR)
Of Mechanicsburg, PA died
August 14, 2021. Daughter
of Frank and Marion Spear,
widow of Joseph Vance, sister
of Audrey Stevens. Survived
by daughters Pamela Vance
(Chris) and Wendy Wenger
(Oliver). Full obit visit
MalpezzifuneralHome.com
ZWEIG
G. EDWARD, JR.
Age 83, passed away on August
13, 2021. Beloved husband of the
late Barbara A. Loving father of
G. Edward III (Tracey), Susan
Kern (Christopher) and Michael
Zweig. Devoted grandmother
of Shawn Kern (fiancee Vi),
Kevin Kern (fiancee Lindsay)
and Morgan Zweig. Services
and Interment are private
at the family’s request.
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OBITUARIES

Jay Greenberg, ex-NHL writer for Daily News

By Gary Miles
STAFF WRITER
Jay Greenberg, 71, of Mon-
mouth County, N.J., the former
Flyers beat writer for the Daily
News, a celebrated author, and a
member of the Hockey Hall of
Fame’s “media honorees” wing,
died Thursday, Aug. 12, at home
of complications from West Nile
virus.
During his five decades of
sports journalism, Mr. Green-
berg worked for the Daily News
from 1978 to 1989 and covered
some of the Flyers’ and hockey’s
greatest moments. He wrote
about the team’s losses in the
Stanley Cup Finals in 1980, 1985,
and 1987, and scored an exclu-
sive interview with Wayne Gretz-
ky when the superstar was trad-
ed from Edmonton to Los Ange-
les in 1988.
Paul Holmgren, the former Fly-
ers player, coach, general manag-
er, and president, called Mr.
Greenberg a “database of the Fly-
ers. He knew the stories inside
the game.”
Mr. Greenberg also chronicled
football, baseball, and other
sports during his career, earning
a reputation as a writer who
could tell an engaging tale about
anything. Beginning in 1994, he
wrote a general sports column
for the New York Post for 17
years.
In 2013, Mr. Greenberg was
named a lifetime member of
the Professional Hockey Writ-
ers’ Association and given its
Elmer Ferguson Memorial
Award, which recognizes those
“whose words have brought
honor to journalism and to
hockey.”
Jay Greenberg covered the Flyers’ greatest moments 1978 to 1989.
ceeded Mr. Greenberg on the Fly-
ers beat at the Daily News.
Mr. Greenberg’s writing was in-
sightful, entertaining, and craft-
ed in such a way that it was easi-
ly recognizable by his readers.
“He may have been the finest
hockey writer ever,” said Pat
McLoone, the former assistant
managing editor for sports at the
Daily News.
Writing in December 1980
from Calgary in Canada about
the Flyers’ forthcoming game,
Mr. Greenberg said in the Daily
News: “Something called a ‘chi-
nook’ blew in here just before
the Flyers did yesterday, rais-
Mr. Greenberg wrote four books, ing the temperature to 52 de-
with a fifth still to be published. grees. A chinook is a north
wind with hot air — something
“It took me a few years to real- like Gene Hart — that comes
ize how rare it was for a out of the Canadian Rockies,
U.S.-based writer to become and disguises the fact that the
such an ultimate [hockey] insid- National Hockey League has ex-
er,” said Les Bowen, who suc- panded almost to the North
Pole.”
Mr. Greenberg also wrote for,
among other publications, the
Kansas City Star, Philadelphia
Bulletin, Sports Illustrated, To-
ronto Sun, Hockey News, hockey-
buzz.com, and princetontigers-
football.com.
He was the author or coauthor
of four books, including Full Spec-
trum: The Complete History of the
Philadelphia Flyers Hockey Club
and The Philadelphia Flyers at
50: The Story of the Iconic Hockey
Club and Its Top 50 Heroes, Wins
& Events. A fifth book is sched-
uled to be published next year.
Mr. Greenberg grew up in
Johnstown, Pa., and was attract-
ed to hockey as a youngster by
the Johnstown Jets, the local mi-
nor-league team at the time.
“That was where I learned the
game,” he told the Tribune-Demo-
crat of Johnstown in 2013.
“That’s where I fell in love with
the game.”
After graduating from the Uni-
versity of Missouri, Mr. Green-
berg started working at the Kan-
sas City Star. When the city got a
National Hockey League team in
1974, Mr. Greenberg volunteered
to cover it when no other report-
ers were interested.
He went to the Bulletin in 1975
to cover the Flyers and then to
the Daily News in 1978.
As much as he was respected
for his writing, Mr. Greenberg
was equally admired for his per-
sonal demeanor and profession-
al graciousness. Scott Lauber,
now a Phillies beat writer for
The Inquirer and Daily News,
worked for Mr. Greenberg in
1995 as a researcher for his first
book on the Flyers.
“It was like being asked to
catch a Cy Young Award win-
ner’s bullpen sessions,” Lauber
said of their time together. “It
was a master class on writing
and reporting, better than any
internship I ever had.”
Former Flyer Joe Watson, who
played when Mr. Greenberg was
on the Flyers beat, tweeted:
“Great hockey writer. Even bet-
ter person.”
New York Post columnist Mike
Vaccaro called Mr. Greenberg “a
beacon of kindness and grace,
forever willing to offer praise
and encouragement.”
In a statement, the Flyers said:
“Jay dedicated his life to writing
and had a truly special ability to
tell a story in a way that not
many could.”
Mr. Greenberg liked dogs, pop-
corn, spicy foods, and martinis.
He was a regular blood donor
and a lifelong follower of the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
“The National Institutes of
Health and Mt. Sinai School of
Medicine, to which Jay has do-
nated his brain for study, are not
going to find any deterioration of
his mind, only his motor abili-
ties,” his family wrote in a state-
ment. “Jay was sharp and kept
his sense of humor until the end.
(In fact, he dictated and wanted
this paragraph included in his
obit.)”
Mr. Greenberg is survived by
his wife of 44 years, Mona;
daughters Elizabeth and
Stephanie; a sister; and other rel-
atives.
Services are private.
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"GaryLMiles

James Hormel, 88, first openly gay U.S. ambassador

By Matt Schudel
WASHINGTON POST
James Hormel, who became
the first openly gay U.S. ambas-
sador in 1999 after his nomina-
tion was blocked for nearly two
years by conservative senators,
triggering a long political battle
over gay rights, presidential nom-
inations, and Senate procedures,
died Aug. 13 at a San Francisco
hospital. He was 88.
The death was announced by
Human Rights Campaign, the
gay rights advocacy organization
that Mr. Hormel helped found in
the early 1980s. The cause was
not disclosed.
Mr. Hormel, a grandson of the
founder of the Hormel meatpack-
ing and food company, spent most
of his life as a little-known law
school dean, philanthropist, and
supporter of gay rights groups.
He was a longtime contributor
to the Democratic Party and, fol-
lowing a practice of both political
parties, his largesse led to his
nomination in 1997 by President
Bill Clinton to be ambassador to
the tiny European country of Lux-
embourg. The Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee approved Mr.
Hormel on a 16-2 vote, and he
seemed all but sure to be con-
firmed by the full Senate.
He was already in a training
program at the State Depart-
ment when he learned that three
senators, all Republicans, placed
a “hold” on his nomination: Tim
Hutchinson of Arkansas, James
Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Robert
Smith of New Hampshire.
Mr. Hormel’s qualifications
were not at issue: He had been a
dean at the University of Chica-
go law school, had directed a
family investment firm, and had
served on many civic boards.
But under Senate rules, any
member could block a nomina-
tion from going forward to a full
vote. The three senators, later
joined by others, opposed Mr.
Hormel for what they called his
support of a “gay agenda.”
“This is not a tolerance issue,”
Smith said. “This is a matter of
advocacy of the gay lifestyle.”
Inhofe likened Mr. Hormel to
David Duke, a onetime member
of the Ku Klux Klan who soft-
ened his public image to run for
office. Other Republican sena-
tors also joined in, including Ma-
jority Leader Trent Lott (Miss.),
who aired his views of gay peo-
ple on a conservative TV talk
show and: “You should try to
show them a way to deal with
that problem, just like alcohol …
or sex addiction … or kleptoma-
niacs.”
Mr. Hormel’s son, Jimmy, who
managed the family investment
firm with his father, wrote:
“Those who oppose my father’s
nomination on the premise that
sexual orientation affects ‘family
values’ are not familiar with the
strength of our family. While I
was growing up, my father never
tried to influence my sexuality in
any way. What he did teach me
was kindness, acceptance of oth-
ers, honesty, self-esteem, and
standing up for what you be-
lieve.”
Mr. Hormel’s nomination ap-
peared to be dead in 1998, after “The process was very long were divorced after they both re-
Lott failed to advance it to the and strenuous, arduous, insult- alized he was gay. He settled in
full Senate for a vote. A year lat- ing, full of misleading state- San Francisco in the mid-1970s
er, Clinton renominated Mr. ments, full of lies, full of deceit, and founded a company to man-
Hormel for the vacant ambassa- full of antagonism,” Mr. Hormel age the Hormel family’s invest-
dorship. While the Senate was in said in 2012 while promoting a ments and philanthropic contri-
recess for the Memorial Day holi- memoir, Fit to Serve. butions.
day, Clinton installed him in the “Ultimately a great deal was He routinely gave away a quar-
post through a procedural move achieved,” he added. “Ultimate- ter of his annual income to sup-
that did not require Senate ap- ly, regulations were changed in port hunger relief, AIDS re-
proval. the State Department. Ultimate- search, educational programs,
Many conservatives were out- ly, other openly gay individuals and other charitable projects. He
raged. were appointed with- helped launch the Human Rights
“I think that by forc- out the rancor that Campaign, now the country’s
ing Americans to be went into my case.” largest advocacy group for LG-
represented by a radi- James Catherwood BTQ rights, and served on the
cal homosexual activist Hormel was born Jan. boards of the San Francisco
like Hormel, Clinton is 1, 1933, in Austin, Chamber of Commerce and San
showing his contempt Minn. His grandfather Francisco Symphony, among oth-
for traditional morali- had founded the er organizations.
ty, marriage, sexual fi- Hormel food company Mr. Hormel had long relation-
delity, and any concept in 1891, and his father ships with Larry Soule and Timo-
of honor,” a spokesper- was chief executive. In thy Wu. Survivors include his
son for the Family Re- 1937, Hormel began to husband since 2014, Michael
search Council said. market Spam, a P.N. Araque (their marriage was
“Who’s he going to ap- canned meat product officiated by House Speaker
point next? Larry Flynt James Hormel that became popular Nancy Pelosi); five children
as ambassador to the during World War II. from his first marriage; 14
Vatican?” Mr. Hormel, the grandchildren; and seven great-
Inhofe called Mr. Hormel “an youngest of three sons, grew up grandchildren.
inappropriate representative of in a mansion surrounded by ser- Pelosi, Bill and Hillary Clinton,
our country” and vowed, along vants, chauffeurs, and musical in- and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.,
with Lott and other Republicans, struments, which he became Calif.) were among those issuing
to block or delay other Clinton skilled at playing. statements of tribute after Mr.
appointments. That plan fell He graduated in 1955 from Hormel’s death.
apart after it was revealed that Swarthmore College in Pennsyl- “This is one of those glorious
members of Inhofe’s Senate staff vania and received a law degree days when the nice guy finishes
had downloaded so much pornog- in 1958 from the University of first,” Secretary of State
raphy that they almost crashed Chicago. He served as the law Madeleine Albright said in 1999,
the office computer system. school’s dean of students from when Mr. Hormel was sworn in
Mr. Hormel, in the meantime, 1961 to 1967. He once considered as ambassador. “Neither race,
took his oath of office in late running for Congress as a Repub- nor creed, nor gender nor sexual
June 1999 and served without in- lican. orientation should be relevant to
cident as ambassador to Luxem- In 1965, Mr. Hormel and his the selection of ambassadors for
bourg until December 2000. wife, the former Alice Parker, the United States.”

Fred
Continued from B1
er Prediction Center put areas west of the Delaware
River in the “slight risk” zone for excessive rainfall
for Tuesday.
It was unclear how much of a role Fred might play
around here.
On Monday afternoon, the center of the storm, with
peak winds of 65 mph (9 mph shy of hurricane
strength), made landfall along the Florida Panhandle.
It was forecast to weaken and then track along the
Appalachians, perhaps reaching Western Pennsylva-
nia sometime Wednesday afternoon.
Police survey The trend of the National Hurricane Center’s track
the parking lot has been shifting subtly westward, said O’Hara, and
where three it’s possible that areas near the Jersey Shore would
armed males see little in the way of Fred-related rains.
fired on a However, the mere proximity of a tropical storm
BMW in Olney can add atmospheric moisture and uncomfortable
on Monday. humidity to areas well away from the center, said
STEVEN M. FALK / Tom Kines, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather
Staff Photographer Inc.
With the moist flow from the south and Fred’s

Shootings leave man dead, woman critical

By Robert Moran
STAFF WRITER
An 18-year-old man was killed and
a 19-year-old woman was critically
wounded in a double shooting Mon-
day night in a shopping center park-
ing lot in the city’s Olney section,
police said.
Just after 7 p.m., three males ap-
proached a parked BMW SUV at the
shopping center on the 100 block of
East Olney Avenue and began shoot-
ing through the front windshield
and driver’s-side door, said Chief In-
spector Scott Small.
Both the man, who was behind the
wheel, and the woman, who was in
the front passenger seat, were shot
several times.
They were transported to Einstein
Medical Center, where the man, who
was not identified, died soon after-
ward.
Police found at least 16 spent shell
casings near the vehicle. The engine
was still running when police ar-
rived.
+bmoran@inquirer.com
^215-854-5983 "RobertMoran215
residue moisture, frequent showers are expected
Tuesday night and Wednesday, and it also appears
that the atmosphere will remain juicy even after
Fred goes away.
The weather service in Mount Holly has most of
Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Coun-
ties, along with Northwest Philadelphia, in the “en-
hanced risk” area for heavy rains through Tuesday
night.
But it is mid-August, the soil is getting dustier, and
the stream flows are low. For now, O’Hara said, the
agency is holding off on any flood advisories.
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Beauty salon chair ‘rentals’ debated

A Pennsylvania legislator is considering a bill that would tighten the language to prevent such rentals.
By Ford Turner
ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL
The dynamic in a salon where
several professional cosmetolo-
gists work in close proximity is a
special one, according to Tease
Salon owner Kelli Haeusler.
“I feed off their energy and
their talent,” Haeusler said. “We
are always consulting. We are
always trying to improve each
other, as a team.”
That’s a key reason Haeusler,
whose business is in Lower Ma-
cungie Township, supports a leg-
islative proposal that would
tighten language in state code
that prohibits renting work ar-
eas in salons.
“When you break it down into
rentals, you have lost that unifi-
cation of the salon,” Haeusler
said.
Not everybody agrees.
“I don’t mind the idea of rent-
ing chairs,” said Munefa Tah-
han, owner of L&C Beauty Salon
in Allentown. Tahhan, like sever-
al other salon owners inter-
viewed for this story, has had
great difficulty finding cosmetol-
ogists to work in the salon in
recent months.
Under state law, salons and spas
that care for hair, skin, and nails
are licensed and regulated by the
Department of State, and state Kelli Haeusler, who owns Tease Salon in Lower Macungie Township, applies coloring to a client while Francesca Olivers works at a station nearby.
code prohibits “booth rental.” Haeusler says she feeds off the talent and energy of coworkers — and that renting work spaces would eliminate that. RICK KINTZEL / Allentown Morning Call
In a memo to fellow lawmak-
ers, State Rep. Natalie Mihalek ness Network, said the biggest who rent booths, chairs, or spac- uniforms, stockings, nurse’s stations, too,” Carr said.
(R., Allegheny) said: “In recent concern is consumer safety. es in a business owned by some- shoes,” said Hoke, who owns Pa-
years there have been some busi- Obtaining a cosmetology li- one else do not face the govern- tricia & Co. Styling Salon in East Cosmetology suites
nesses that have ignored this cense in Pennsylvania requires ment scrutiny on financial mat- Manchester Township, York Yet another factor may be stir-
law by claiming they are renting 1,250 hours of study, and that ters that owners do, Shenck County. “We weren’t allowed to ring debate over rentals in the
‘chairs’ or ‘space’ (not booths).” includes acquiring knowledge of said. do men’s hair, but the barbers industry: suites.
Mihalek said she intends to the use of potentially dangerous Hence, their reported income could do women’s hair.” Haeusler and a business part-
file a bill that would tighten the chemicals used to color, wave, might be less — and reported Comparisons with barber- ner, Timmy Huertas of South
language to prevent such rent- and relax hair, Pelusi said. Used income of graduates is impor- shops continue to affect cosme- Whitehall Township, said the
als, which she says would pro- improperly, those chemicals can tant to cosmetology schools in tology, she said. Barbershop new trend has the owner of a
tect consumers and ensure the produce skin burns that resem- ensuring they can show the gov- owners can legally rent in their large building dividing the interi-
licensed facility maintains ble those from a fire, he said. ernment that most graduates shops — a dynamic Hoke said is or into spaces that can be rented
health, safety, financial account- In a rental situation, liability have gainful employment. unfair and discriminatory. out to individual salon owners.
ability, and other standards. would become a question, he Shenck said, “It is very impor- She favors the Mihalek propos- It is, they said, like having mul-
If the memo results in the fil- said. tant that the proper tip and al. tiple salons under one roof.
ing of a bill, no action could be “That person, whoever they wage data is collected for this Of renting, she said: “I don’t Huertas could not say whether
taken on it before late Septem- rent to, is operating their own industry, because if it is not, it think it is all that aboveboard.” the “suite” phenomenon is con-
ber, when lawmakers are sched- business, let’s face it,” Pelusi said. could come back on the school.” Lisa Carr, another longtime sa- tributing to friction over renting
uled to return to Harrisburg. Aaron Shenck, executive di- lon owner in York County, within salons.
Representatives of the salon rector of the Mid-Atlantic Asso- Comparisons to barbers agreed that barbers are very But, he said, state cosmetolo-
industry and the related cosme- ciation of Career Schools, said Patricia Ann Hoke, who start- much on the minds of some cos- gy guidelines define the work
tology-school industry in Penn- there are financial reasons for ed styling hair 55 years ago, said metology business owners. space for a practitioner as 6 feet
sylvania each had their own rea- schools to support Mihalek’s that back then cosmetology law “What is happening in the in- by 10 feet — and Huertas said he
sons for favoring the proposal. proposal. actually prescribed wardrobes dustry is barbers are allowed to agreed that the language in the
Henry Pelusi, president of the He described it as a tip-driv- for women practitioners. rent their stations, and the sa- state law about what may not be
Pennsylvania Salon Spa Busi- en business, and cosmetologists “We had to wear white dress lons think why can’t they rent rented should be made clear.
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With a replica of a bottlenose dolphin hanging nearby, Mackenzie Peacock, a field stranding technician, cleans a pool at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.
VERNON OGRODNEK / For The Inquirer

A drop in strandings
Shore center not sure why fewer marine mammals need help.
By Tommy Rowan

I
STAFF WRITER
t has been a slow year in the aquatic mam-
mal recovery business at the Jersey Shore,
and the folks who do that often grim work
aren’t complaining.
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in
Brigantine had rescued 115 mammals as of Aug.
15, down from the usual 150 to 180 by this point in
the year, director Bob Schoelkopf said.
“Which we were happy for,” he said.
The center — which helps whales, dolphins, sea
turtles, and seals that are injured, dead, or dying
— is the only organization authorized by New
Jersey to rescue distressed marine mammals.
There are similar centers in Baltimore and scat-
tered throughout New England.
Why are things so slow?
Hard to say.
“Could be the weather,” Schoelkopf said. “Could
be food.”
“Could be a lot of things,” said Mackenzie Pea-
cock, a technician on the center’s three-person
recovery team and self-described EMT for mam-
mals. “It could be climate change.”
In the summer, the center typically rescues tur-
tles and dolphins. But few dolphins have been
seen lately, aside from the occasional old dolphin Peacock prepares an emergency vehicle
that dies and washes up on the beach. “Or a having been hit by a boat propeller and then eaten used by the Marine Mammal Stranding
newborn that can’t keep up with the herd and by sharks. Center in Brigantine. The center has
comes ashore,” Schoelkopf said. “Mainly it’s turtle “Once it’s hit by a boat, it’s wounded, and the rescued 115 mammals as of Aug. 15,
calls that we’re getting.” sharks home in on the blood and start chewing it down from the usual 150 to 180 by this
In North Jersey recently, a sea turtle was found See STRANDINGS on C2 point in the year.

FOR THE KIDS

This week’s top picks
A customer at
Martha shows
By Lauren McCutcheon trayed by historical reenactors) in Old
his vaccination FOR THE INQUIRER City, make something fab for your cof-
card. Proof of
This calendar is updated every Mon- fee table at the Philadelphia Museum
vaccination is
day at inquirer.com/kidscalendar. of Art, learn to fish and orienteer, and
needed to dine
inside at Martha It’s happening. Philly’s marvelous, more.
but not outside. magical public pools have started, one
CHARLES FOX / Staff by one, to close. You can find their Meet the Revolution, Museum of
Photographer exact last days on the Philadelphia the American Revolution
Parks and Recreation website (FYI: (History / in-person / multiday) His-

Can a business require

Kelly Pool’s last day is Tuesday, Aug. torical reenactors aren’t meant for
17), but your final chance to swim will kids only, but they love them best.
be Sunday, Aug. 22. Summer: Why you For a few more weeks, this Old City
gotta go so fast? Still, there’s lots to do museum highlights the lives of Black

proof of vaccination?
outside the water, like meet great Revolutionary War soldier Edward
Black 18th-century residents (por- See CALENDAR on C3

It can, and here is the legal reasoning why.

By Nick Vadala
STAFF WRITER
With the delta variant continuing to
spread, it’s clear that the coronavirus
pandemic is not over yet.
In response, some businesses have be-
gun requiring patrons provide proof of
vaccination by showing a vaccine card.
In Philadelphia, that includes popular
restaurants such as Martha, Zahav, and
Le Virtu, among others.
A new city mask mandate requires ev-
eryone in Philadelphia to wear a mask
when going into any business — with an
exception for businesses that require
vaccination for customers and staff
members.
“If a business or institution is requir-
ing that everyone — including staff —
be fully vaccinated before entering, then
no one in that place needs to wear a
mask,” said acting Health Commission-
er Cheryl Bettigole in a news conference
on Wednesday. “So, there is an exemp-
tion for places with a vaccine mandate.”
Recently, some have questioned
whether businesses are legally able to
mandate vaccines before entering. Here
is what you need to know:
Meet the Revolution, Museum
Can businesses require proof of of the American Revolution.
vaccination? HEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer
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Olivia Ellman, with the Marine Mammel Stranding Center in Brigantine, conducts a tour of the center’s museum for Sara Liegel of Haddonfield, her children, Miles and
Henry, and her mother, Vivien Seyhan. VERNON OGRODNEK / For The Inquirer
Continued from C1
up,” Schoelkopf said. “I’ve had quite
a few the past week or so that came
down the Delaware Bay minus ex-
tremities. Shark just chewed every-
thing — head, flippers, everything.
Just left the shell.”
The rescues and recoveries
so far this month include a
dead dolphin and a dead
whale.
At the beginning of August,
the center got a call for recov-
ery and burial of a dead dol-
phin near the Ocean City-
Longport Bridge. “It was a
very decomposed animal,”
Schoelkopf said. The recovery
team couldn’t establish a
cause of death. “The thing
was nothing but mush,” he
said. “You could barely tell it
was a dolphin.”
Then on Aug. 9, the techni-
cians recovered a dead
62-foot fin whale in the New-
ark Bay that most likely had
been struck by a container
ship. They buried it in the
sand.
The year’s low stranding
numbers include fish.
“Even the sharks that peo-
ple usually start complain-
ing about washing up on the
beach,” Schoelkopf added,
“we haven’t seen large num-
bers of those coming in.”
Schoelkopf and his wife, Sheila
Dean, founded the Stranding Cen-
ter in 1978, and have hosted the
private, nonprofit marine veteri-
nary-care center on a half-acre lot
on Brigantine Boulevard since
1985. It is funded mostly through
Cards
Continued from C1
In a word, yes, says Eric Feldman,
professor of law and medical ethics
and health policy at the University of
Pennsylvania Carey Law School. And,
he adds, the idea of businesses requir-
ing vaccination cards to enter or use
their services is not much of a contro-
versial topic in the legal community.
“It’s quite clear that restaurants, air-
lines, cruise ships, your local café, your
local university, [or] the school that
you may choose to send your child to
are all within their legal bounds in ask-
ing you to demonstrate that you or
your child has been vaccinated,” he
says.
In some ways, it’s along the lines of
the commonly seen edict of “no shirt,
no shoes, no service,” or even dress
codes. Generally, private businesses
can decide who they are willing to
serve and what kinds of requirements
they impose on folks who enter — so
long as they are not being discriminato-
ry based on things like race, gender, or
religious affiliation.
And requiring vaccine cards, in most
cases, is not likely to be seen as dis-
criminatory, though some may view it
as more of an imposition than needing
to wear shoes or a shirt.
“Sure, a restaurant can say, ‘You’ve
got to wear shoes.’ Sure, a restaurant
Strandings
private donations.
What started with saltwater
tanks and a holding pool has grown
to include rehabilitation buildings
and pools for the animals as well
as a small museum and gift shop.
Troy Plant, a field stranding technician, cleans equipment at the Marine Mammal Stranding
Center. The center hasn’t been as busy this summer with sick or injured marine animals as in
past years, and experts aren’t exactly sure why.
The center has responded to
nearly 6,000 marine mammal
strandings along the East Coast.
Through the years, Schoelkopf has
noted a change in the types of
mammals that have passed
through, which he said could be
can say, ‘You’ve got to show us you’re
vaccinated,’ ” Feldman says.
Isn’t this a HIPAA violation? Aren’t
my rights being violated?
Probably not. Opponents of vaccine
card requirements often cite the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), the Health In-
surance Portability and Accountability
Act (commonly known as HIPAA), or
the Fourth Amendment as reasons why
“
It’s quite clear that restaurants, airlines, cruise ships,
your local café, your local university, [or] the school that
you may choose to send your child to are all within their legal
bounds in asking you to demonstrate that you or your child has
been vaccinated.
Eric Feldman, professor of law and medical ethics and health policy at the
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
such requirements may be unlawful.
But as Feldman says, those laws don’t
have much of an impact here.
The Fourth Amendment, for exam-
ple, protects us against unreasonable
searches and seizures, but only applies
to government entities — which some-
thing like a restaurant would not fall
under. HIPAA, which protects sensitive
medical information, applies to “cov-
ered entities,” such as health insurers
and providers, and doesn’t extend to
most businesses outside a health-care
setting, Feldman says.
Both the ADA and Civil Rights Act,
meanwhile, may provide some protec-
due to climate change. Harp seals,
once prevalent in the seas around
New Jersey, have all but disap-
peared, whereas manatees were
not seen 20 years ago but have
been coming north.
Melissa Laurino, a biology pro-
fessor at Stockton University in
Galloway Township who spends
the summer whale and dolphin
watching off the coast of Cape May,
said she still sees plenty of those
mammals on her daily boat rides.
tions because they prohibit discrimina-
tion — such as refusing service —
based on a disability in the case of the
ADA, and race, religion, sex, and na-
tional origin in the case of the Civil
Rights Act.
But, Feldman says, those acts are un-
likely to actually prohibit businesses
from requiring vaccination cards over-
all — rather, they require businesses to
try to make a “reasonable accommoda-
tion” for people who have legitimate
medical or religious reasons for not
getting vaccinated.
“If one has not been vaccinated be-
cause of one’s medical status, then they
need to be accommodated in some
way,” he says. “You have to take reason-
able steps to accommodate people who
can’t be vaccinated.”
What is a reasonable
accommodation when it comes to
vaccine mandates?
Reasonable accommodations can get
complicated when it comes to business-
es requiring vaccination cards, but,
Feldman says, they generally need to
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“Nothing really stands out this
season,” she said.
According to Mark Sullivan, asso-
ciate professor of marine science
at Stockton, ocean warming has led
to major shifts in fish species.
“The Gulf of Maine … is
warming faster than almost
any other ocean region
around the globe,” Sullivan
wrote in an email. “Reports
of black sea bass are becom-
ing more common in the
Gulf of Maine, while tradi-
tionally southern species
are making appearances in
New Jersey waters. Keep-
ing long-term scientific
data sets active is critical
for better understanding
the impacts of ocean warm-
ing on commercially and
recreationally managed spe-
cies.”
Peacock takes the low num-
ber in stride.
“Seals we usually see down
here are pups,” she said. “So
they’ll pop up in Maine, and
then swim down here, and
then when weather changes
and summer starts to hit,
they’ll go back up north.
Could have been a slow pup-
ping season. It could have
been they just didn’t want to
come down here.”
She shrugged.
“Maybe the mammals just don’t
need our help,” she said. “But we’re
on standby.”
+trowan@inquirer.com
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"tommyrowan
be made for folks with “legitimate ex-
emptions” for medical or religious rea-
sons.
For example, businesses may be able
to require folks who can’t be vaccinat-
ed to show a negative COVID-19 test or
use personal protective equipment like
a mask or face shield when in the estab-
lishment. Or, it may mean having a pri-
vate dining area for folks who are un-
able to get vaccinated, Feldman says.
Simply just offering takeout food at a
restaurant, he adds, may not be consid-
ered a reasonable accommodation if
the person is looking to have a night
out in addition to food.
But there are limits to what a reason-
able accommodation might be. For ex-
ample, asking a restaurant owner to
build a new wing to an establishment
to accommodate people who cannot be
vaccinated may be unreasonable for fi-
nancial reasons. And, Feldman notes,
there may not always be a reasonable
accommodation that a business owner
can make, depending on the situation.
“The bottom line legally is that
you’ve got to do something, you’ve got
to try or at least explore options —
though it may turn out that there are
no good options,” he says. “We are still
balancing the legal rights of someone
who has a legitimate exemption to vac-
cination with the public health con-
cerns of having people who are unvacci-
nated mingling in close contact with
others.”
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CAROLYN HAX
@carolynhax

Late dad’s
bad career
advice still
lingers
Adapted from an online discus-
sion.
Question: Two years ago my hus-
band passed away while my step-
daughter was in her sophomore
year of college. My husband and
I had very different views on ca-
reers — I went to college and
have done extensive training for
mine and I love it (it is also well-
paying, but that’s not why I do
it). It fulfills me. He didn’t go to
college and ended up working a Autism Play Date, Smith
series of jobs that paid the bills, Memorial Playground
but didn’t satisfy him at all. At
the end of his life, he was suffer-
ing a pretty major crisis of confi-

FOR THE KIDS

dence in his career after being
laid off.
My stepdaughter was aware
he wasn’t working, but didn’t
know the details. She started
majoring in a field that she
doesn’t love but would pay the This week’s top picks
bills, because that is what her
dad would want her to do (He
was pretty clear about that, Continued from C1 required. Ages 8-12. ($5 per child per Measurement Rules at the Mercer
much to my chagrin. I only “Ned” Hector, who fought to receive a activity, Aug. 17, 1:30-3:30 p.m., 8600 Ver- Museum
found out she wasn’t happy in pension for his service, and Helena ree Rd., facebook.com)
it after he died). Harris, a Black 18th-century educa- (Science / STEM / in-person / multi-
She has clear skills and pas- tor who taught white students in Phil- Family Yoga, Mount Cuba Center day) The Mercer welcomes back
sion in another field, which is adelphia, who’ll share her experienc- hands-on learning with an exhibit on
(Yoga / in-person / multiday) Last loan from the Children’s Museum of
stable, but not as lucrative. She es — and what kids in her day liked year, USA Today called Mount Cuba
isn’t one to care about money to do during good times and bad. Pittsburgh. Odometers that measure
“North America’s best botanical gar- your running speed and a scale that
— she’s super frugal. Anyway, Ages 5+. ($21 adult, $18 senior, student, den.” This year, the 1,083-acre preserve
I’ve implored her to consider teacher, & military, $13 ages 6-17, free 5 weighs you in chickens are comple-
keeps things humble with every-other- mented by a Bucks County couple’s
doing what she loves. I know & under, daily through Sept. 6, 10 a.m.-5 Saturday yoga for the fam, on the
she wants to change but she personal collection of antiques that
p.m., 101 S. Third St., amrevmuse- grassy lawn. BYO mat. Stick around af-
says she hears her dad’s voice measure. Reservations required. Ages
um.org) ter for a woodland walk. Ages 4+. ($15
in her head telling her to do 2-10. ($8-$15, through Sept. 5, Tuesday-
ages 18 and up, $8 ages 6-17, free under Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 84 S. Pine St.,
what he wanted and so she Art Kids Studio: Twist, Bend, Play, 6, Aug. 21, 10:30-11:15 a.m., 3120 Barley Doylestown, mercermuseum.org)
pulls back. Philadelphia Museum of Art Mill Rd., Hockessin, Del., mtcuba-
I can’t seem to let this go. Do I center.org)
tell her how miserable and
(Art / in-person / multiday) More Blue Cross RiverRink Summerfest
sculptural and glittery than tie-dye, art- (Skating / in-person / multiday) With
wrong he was in his thinking? Fish Fest, Frankford Boat Launch
ist Lynda Benglis’ sparkle knots serve rubber mats replacing the ice, the Riv-
Do I just leave it alone and let
as inspiration for projects kids can (Seasonal / in-person / outdoors / erRink has reopened for roller skating.
her push through this? It isn’t
make in the South Vaulted Walkway. free) Even the food is free at this Just like in winter, capacity is limited,
too late to change, and paying
Ages 2-14. ($25 adults, $23 seniors, $14 event that’s aimed at turning families masks are required, reservations are
for more college is something
we, as a family, can afford (I’ve students, free 18 & under, Aug. 19, onto fishing. There will be free in- recommended, sessions last 90 min-
told her this). I feel like I’m fight- 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Aug. 20, 10:30 struction (equipment provided), utes, Independence Blue Cross card-
ing a ghost and he’s not fighting a.m.-7:30 p.m.; Aug. 21-22, 26, 10:30 printmaking (fish-themed, naturally), holders get in free, and songs are Top
fair. a.m.-3 p.m.;, Aug. 27, 10:30 a.m.-7:30 music by a math teacher who raps, 40. There’s a pay-to-ride Ferris wheel,
Answer: Two things. p.m.; Aug. 28-29, Sept. 2, 10:30 a.m.-3 and naturally, water-based fun. Ages too. Ages 4+. (Admission: Free-$5, skate
First, this is ultimately some- p.m.; Sept. 3, 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; 2+. (Free, Aug. 22, noon-3 p.m., 5501 rental: $10, through Sept. 26, 101. S. Co-
thing she will have to work out, Sept. 4, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 2600 Ben- Tacony St., riverfrontnorth.org) lumbus Blvd., delawareriverwater-
and if she chooses the wrong jamin Franklin Pkwy., philamuse- front.com)
path, who knows — it could take um.org) Autism Play Date, Smith Memorial
her indirectly to an unknown Playground A New View: Camden
third path that’s better than ei- Junior Naturalist: Orienteering, (Sensory-friendly / seasonal / out- (Art / free / in-person) The message
ther of the two she’s considering Pennypack Environmental Center doors / free) Virtual no more, City Coun- of Camden’s six-site outdoor art exhib-
now. Or what you both see as (Nature / in-person) Waze doesn’t cilmember Derek Green’s annual festi- it: Don’t trash your city. The message
the unloved path could prove work when you’re trying to get val for students on the spectrum offers kids will leave with: That a 36-foot-long
perfect for her in the end. Or through a forest. Instead, orienteer- sensory-friendly games and activities, sculpture of a cat made out of old car
whatever else. So please dis- ing experts use maps and a compass local food, and loads of info for parents hoods, a 15-foot-tall, trash-collecting
abuse yourself of any black-and- to find their way to natural check- who have kids with autism. Registra- creature, and mealworms that eat Styro-
white notions of how this will points. This Northeast Philly work- tion required. Ages 5-18. (Free, Aug. 22, foam are pretty cool. Ages 2+. (Free,
turn out, and lift the responsibili- shop teaches the younger set how to 2-5 p.m. 3500 Reservoir Dr., smithplay- through Oct. 31, anewviewcamden.com,
ty for her well-being off your do just that, sans apps. Registration ground.org) various locations)
shoulders accordingly.
Second, you have some direct
knowledge that you have reason
to believe would help your step-
daughter make an informed de-
cision. That, you can share re-
sponsibly, even now after you’ve
kept quiet for a while. Simply
say you’re troubled by her lean-
ing so heavily on her dad’s phi-
losophy when he himself wasn’t
happy with where it took him —
it’s what he felt he had to do, not
what he wanted to do. Then say
with that off your chest you will
butt out from here and ever af-
ter, and be supportive no matter
what she decides.
Then do exactly that.
A reader’s thoughts: You are so
kind to think of what’s best for
your stepdaughter. I wish you’d
been my stepmom. What mat-
ters to her most is that you’re
supportive of her — maybe this
means she completes her de-
gree now, but if she realizes lat-
er she wants to switch, you can
support her then, too. Fish Fest, Frankford
Boat Launch
+tellme@washpost.com.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021:
You are highly individualistic and march to the beat
of your own drum. You are charming and
aggressive, creative and imaginative. Privately,
you’re a romantic. This year it’s time to loosen up
and have fun. You have a strong zest for life and
will enjoy being with others, which will be easy
because you are popular.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) iiii It’s the perfect
day to travel somewhere, because you need a
change of scenery. Do whatever you can to feel a
sense of adventure and stimulation. Go somewhere
you’ve never been before, because you will feel
gratified to learn something new. Tonight: Socialize.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) iii Discussions about
inheritances, shared property, and insurance issues
will favor you. Get your ducks in a row and defend
your best interests. In particular, these discussions
might relate to real estate, a family business, or
domestic situation. Tonight: Finances favor you.
GEORGIA NICOLS’
LOVE AND THE STARS
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) iii Because the Moon
is in a sign that is opposite your sign, you have to
go more than halfway when dealing with others.
This simply requires a little cooperation. In two
weeks, when the Moon is in your sign, others will
have to cooperate with you. Tonight: Warm
conversations.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) iii You might have
to work on behalf of someone else, because you
need to perform a service or cater to their needs.
Fear not. You aren’t being a martyr. This is just
how things are rolling. Do what you can to get
better organized. Tonight: Work.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) iiii This is a playful,
fun-loving day, which is why it’s an excellent time
to explore social outings, fun activities with kids,
and sporting events. You will also be productive in
areas related to the entertainment world and show
business. Tonight: Accept all invitations to party.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) iii Home and family
are your top priority. You will enjoy having a
chance to cocoon at home and relax among
familiar surroundings. Do whatever you can so you
have a warm feeling in your tummy. Tonight:
Pamper yourself.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) iiii You have a
strong need to communicate with others. Not only
do you want to talk to someone and, of course,
listen, you want to have a meaningful bond and
discuss real things. You don’t want to dally in
superficial chitchat. Tonight: Listen.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) iii Something to do
with earnings, cash flow, or money is on your mind.
You might be thinking of asking for a raise. It
might involve a boss or a parent. One thing is
certain, financially speaking, you can benefit from
real estate this year. Tonight: Count your money.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) iiii Things
will tend to go your way, because the Moon is in
your sign. Because of that, for a few days a month,
you are more emotional. Keep this in mind and do
your best to stay chill. Tonight: You win.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) iii You might
want to withdraw from your daily world and seek
out some peace and quiet and catch your breath.
Now and then, it’s good to do this to get
grounded. Afterward, you’ll be more ready to sally
forth into your world. Tonight: Hibernate.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) iiii This is an
excellent day for a heart-to-heart talk with an
acquaintance. You might seek out this person’s
advice. Possibly, you’ll get help with future goals.
Tonight: Warm conversations.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) iiii Once again,
you are high-viz, which means people notice you
more than usual, especially bosses, parents, and
teachers. You might have to do some damage
control. When others are watching, put your best
foot forward. Tonight: Still highly visible.
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Funky Winkerbean

Cy the Cynic says that if you

have something to postpone, Dustin
Yesterday’s Solution the best time is right now. Cy
Complete the grid is a notorious procrastinator,
so that every row, but his habit of waiting to draw
column and 3x3 trumps often serves him well.
In a team match, both Souths
box contains every
played at four hearts (East-West
digit from 1 to 9 would be down only one at four
inclusively. spades), and West led the king
of spades. At one table, declarer
Solution tomorrow. took the ace and drew trumps.
He next led a club from dummy
to his ten, and West took the
ace and forced dummy to ruff
a spade.
South then took his king
of clubs, ruffed his last spade
Wonderword in dummy and ruffed a club. Blondie
Dummy had good clubs but no
more entries, so South lost three
diamonds. Down one.
Cy, declarer in the replay, led
a club to his ten at Trick Two.
West won and led a spade. Cy
ruffed in dummy, came to his
king of clubs and drew trumps
with the A-J. He ruffed a club,
ruffed a spade and threw two
diamonds on the good clubs.
Making five.
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you see no problems. Even if
you see none, look again.
You hold: # A ! J 10 6 5 "
7 5 3 $ J 9 6 4 2. Your partner Mutts
opens one diamond, and the
next player overcalls one spade.
What do you say?
ANSWER: By agreement, a
“negative double” here would
promise enough strength to
respond, with length in hearts
and either club length or
diamond support. The hand is a
dead-minimum for that action,
and I would not criticize a pass.
Still, if you don’t act now, you
may never get to show a bit of
strength.
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‘A true legend,’ Carli Lloyd is retiring

Soccer great from Delran
will leave the sport at 39
after final games with
national and pro teams.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carli Lloyd, the soccer great
Carli Lloyd from Delran, N.J., is retiring af-
celebrates one ter a decorated career that in-
of her two cluded a pair of World Cup titles
goals in the and two Olympic gold medals, as
bronze-medal well as a bronze medal at the
win over Tokyo Games.
Australia at the The two-time FIFA World Play-
Tokyo Olympics. er of the Year known for her dra-
KIICHIRO SATO / matic hat trick in the 2015 World
Associated Press Cup final will play four as-yet
unannounced friendly matches
this fall with the U.S., and finish
out the season with her club
team, Gotham FC. She hinted for
more than a year that she was
nearing the end of her career
and made it official Monday.
“Through all the goals, the tro-
phies, the medals and the cham-
pionships won, what I am most
proud of is that I’ve been able to
stay unapologetically me,” said
Lloyd, whose international ca-
reer has spanned some 16 years.
“My journey has been hard,
but I can honestly say I’ve stayed
true to myself, to my teammates,
my coaches, the media and the
fans throughout my entire ca-
reer and that is what I am most
proud of. Everyone sees the mo-
ments of glory, but I have cher-
ished the work behind the
scenes and the adversity that
I’ve had to overcome to get to
those glorious moments.”
The 39-year-old Lloyd scored a
pair of goals in the United
States’ 4-3 victory over Australia
in the bronze medal game in Ja-
pan earlier this month. She be-
came the first American to score
in four Olympics, and her 10 to-
tal goals in the event set a record
among U.S. players.
She ranks second on the na-
tional team’s all-time list with
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EAGLES PRESEASON

Mutual Admiration
Hurts excited to meet Newton, vice versa
Eagles center Jason Kelce has a
laugh after joint practice with
Patriots. MONICA HERNDON / Staff

Putting
up good
front
Offensive line positioned
for bounce-back season.

J
alen Hurts’ biggest weapon
this season isn’t going to be
either of his first-round
wide receivers, DeVonta Smith
or Jalen Reagor. Or his two tal-
ented tight ends, Dallas Goedert
and Zach Ertz. Or even second-
year receiver Quez Watkins, the
summer sensa-
tion.
It’s going to
be an offensive
line that, if it
can manage to
stay healthy,
could be a 2021
game-changer
PAUL for both Hurts Jalen Hurts on meeting Cam Newton: “Being able to talk to him and have a relationship with him, it was great.” YONG KIM / Staff Photographer
DOMOWITCH and an Eagles
"@pdomo offense that
isn’t getting By Josh Tolentino ted briefly before handling their separate

much respect af-
ter last season’s 4-11-1 finish.
Injuries decimated the line
last season. The unit had a total
of 65 missed games due to inju-
ry, including 48 by starters.
They used an NFL-record 14
line combinations during the sea-
son. Needless to say, that played
a major role in both the implo-
sion of Carson Wentz and why
the Eagles finished 26th in scor-
ing (20.9 points per game), 28th
in passing yards (207.9), 28th in
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STAFF WRITER
porting all-white cleats with knee-
high white socks and white tape
wrapped around his ankles, Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts jogged off
the field with a rousing smile.
Before entering the media tent for his
weekly session with reporters following
Monday’s joint practice with the Patriots,
Hurts sought out New England quarterback
Cam Newton.
At 32, Newton might not exude the same
talent and traits as the 2015 version of him-
self, when he was named the NFL’s Most
media obligations. It was a meaningful mo-
ment for Hurts, who grew up watching New-
ton.
“This was my first time actually meeting
him in person,” Hurts said. “As an older
Preseason athlete, he’s a legendary player, the things
PATRIOTS AT EAGLES
he’s done in college and in the league. Be-
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ing able to talk to him and have a relation-
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ship with him, it was great.”
Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Hurts, a 2020 second-round pick, is ap-
Year and finished with first-team All-Pro proaching his sophomore season with ris-
honors, but one can still respect his accom- ing expectations for a franchise that is hun-
plishments. gry to get back on the winning track sooner
The two quarterbacks embraced and chat- See HURTS on D2

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Striking out Why there’s hope

hunger is goal for the Phillies
R
Kyle Gibson donates time and money hys Hoskins got a cortisone injection in his groin
to help others facing food insecurity. Friday. The Phillies need it to be their shot in the
arm.
By Matt Breen The Phillies just lost four of six games
STAFF WRITER to the Dodgers and Reds and dropped
Kyle Gibson lived in one of Minnesota’s wealthi- out of first place in the National League
est suburbs during his seven seasons as a Twins East. But surprisingly good starting
pitcher, so he was surprised that the food bank he pitching, surprisingly bad opponents on
volunteered with was sending supplies to two their upcoming road trip, and the bench-
ing of overmatched third baseman Alec
schools in his town. That’s when Gibson, who
Bohm are all good signs. No sign is bet-
joined the Phillies last month, realized food insecu- ter than Hoskins’ improving injury.
rity can be everywhere. Hoskins is more than just the big right-
“It’s every city, every community regardless of handed bat in the lineup, the team MARCUS HAYES
how affluent or low income they are,” Gibson said. spokesman in good times and bad, and,
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“We’ve been fortunate our entire life to never face
food insecurity, but the number of kids in America
who live in food insecurity is astounding.”
According to the U.S. Department of Agricul-
See GIBSON on D4
Kyle Gibson is donating to Philabundance and Cradles to
Crayons for each strikeout and win. CHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer
lately, the chief cheerleader. He’s the
glue guy.
“I’d agree with all of that. We miss him,” said Phillies
manager Joe Girardi, who watched Hoskins go 5-for-9
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PRACTICE OBSERVATIONS
By Jeff McLane
Receivers
fare well
vs. Patriots
The Eagles’ 13th practice
of training camp at the
NovaCare Complex on
Monday featured the first
of two joint practices with
the Patriots.
The first competitive
period pitted receivers vs.
defensive backs in
one-on-one drills. The
receivers, particularly Jalen
Reagor and Quez Watkins,
fared well. Reagor
struggled to get out of his
break and stumbled on his
first repetition vs. Pats
cornerback J.C. Jackson.
But the second-year
receiver snared a deep
jump ball over cornerback
Michael Jackson. It was
tightly contested, and
Reagor’s hands were
strong. He caught another
on a crisp out route.
Watkins’ speed can be
tough to contain in man
coverage. He lost a
defender over the middle
with a quick break, and
later left J.C. Jackson in his
wake after losing him at
the line with a stutter step.
Watkins bobbled Jalen
Hurts’ pass, but he pulled
the ball in before the
pylon. The receiver drew a
holding penalty on Jackson
a few snaps later.
On the other side of the
field, Travis Fulgham and
JJ Arcega-Whiteside
struggled to get separation.
Hurts so good
Hurts had a strong
practice against a defense
that is expected to be
above average. Hurts was
mostly on the money in
one-on-ones. His first toss
in team drills was a strike
to tight end Dallas
Goedert. After a few
rushes, he zipped a toss to
a crossing Watkins. Hurts
was shaky in
seven-on-sevens, but he
showed when it mattered
most.
Hurts not as good
While there were more
positives than negatives,
Hurts had a few moments
he’d like to have back.
During the first team
period, Watkins broke free
on a deep post. Hurts
clearly saw it, but for some
reason he didn’t pull the
trigger and eventually had
to eat the play. There were
a couple of unseemly
interceptions in
seven-on-sevens.
Collision course
Derek Barnett was my
pre-scrimmage candidate
as the most likely Eagle to
get into a brouhaha. On
one team drill play, he
dropped into coverage, and
just as a pass sailed by
tight end Matt LaCosse,
the defensive end stood his
ground. LaCosse collapsed
like he ran into a brick
wall, but Barnett’s shot
didn’t look intentional. He
hung around to make sure
the Patriot was OK, but
LaCosse eventually left
practice.
Dropped INTs
Good news: The Eagles’
secondary got hands on a
number of balls downfield.
Bad news: The defensive
backs couldn’t finish what
should have been a few
relatively easy
interceptions. Safety
Andrew Adams had two
would-be picks hit the
ground. Cornerback Josiah
Scott dropped a would-be
gift from Patriots rookie
quarterback Mac Jones, as
well. Linebacker Alex
Singleton came close to
interceptions in
seven-on-sevens, but both
would have been
remarkable plays had they
been made. Still, it might
be time for the defensive
backs to hit the JUGS
machine.
Ahem … injuries
The most significant
pre-practice update was
that receiver DeVonta
Smith was upgraded to a
limited participant. He only
participated in some
individual drills and ran off
to the side, but the rookie
is nearing a return.
Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata, blocking the Steelers’ Alex Highsmith last Thursday, is a “freak of nature,” Lane Johnson says. DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff
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third-down conversions (37.3%)
and gave up the league’s most
sacks (65).
But with the start of the sea-
son less than a month away, the
line is as healthy as it has been
in a long time.
Andre Dillard, who missed the
entire 2020 season with a biceps
injury and was supposed to com-
pete with Jordan Mailata for the
starting left tackle job this year,
is out indefinitely with a knee
injury. But even before he got
hurt, he gave no indication that
he was going to be able to beat
out Mailata, who started 10
games last year.
“Jordan’s a freak of nature,”
right tackle Lane Johnson said
Monday after the Eagles’ joint
workout with the New England
Patriots. “He’s 380 pounds. Once
he figures it out, he’s going to be
able to do whatever he wants,
whenever he wants, how he
wants.”
Johnson is one of three Pro
Bowlers on the line along with
right guard Brandon Brooks and
two-time All-Pro center Jason
Kelce. Left guard Isaac Seumalo
has 40 career starts, and Maila-
ta, a former Australian rugby
player who was a seventh-round
draft pick in 2018, could end up
being better than all of them at
some point.
“I don’t try to figure out how
close I am,” the 24-year-old Mail-
ata said Monday. “That will nev-
er change. With Stout [offensive
line coach Jeff Stoutland] as my
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rather than later. Throughout
training camp, first-year coach
Nick Sirianni has stressed effi-
ciency and limiting mistakes.
Last season, Hurts averaged
3.37 seconds per dropback,
which was longest in the league
among quarterbacks with multi-
ple starts, according to Pro Foot-
ball Focus. Even when Hurts
wasn’t pressured, he still aver-
aged more than 3 seconds per
dropback.
That’s simply too much time
with the ball in his hands.
A big part of improving Hurts’
efficiency revolves around his
decisiveness in the pocket. Part
of this equation can be ad-
dressed presnap, when Hurts
makes his checks at the line of
scrimmage. During the team’s
first preseason game against the
Steelers, Hurts did a fine job
with his checks. He was praised
on multiple occasions by coach-
es for his presnap decisions.
“I thought he played really
good,” offensive coordinator
Shane Steichen said. “What I
know about him is he’s never sat-
isfied, which is what makes him
good. He wants to be great. So
we corrected a few things, but
he’s ascending in the right direc-
tion and we’re excited about his
progress.”
The other factor of the efficien-
cy equation, though, is based on
what Hurts does once the ball is
snapped, and how he reacts to
coach, it definitely will never
change.
“But I will say that I’m a lot
more confident with the tools I
have in my bag. And right now,
I’m just trying to sharpen those
techniques down and master
that before wondering if I’m
ever going to reach the potential
that Lane is talking about.”
The one consolation from last
year’s injury-riddled season was
that young offensive linemen
like 2020 fourth-round pick Jack
Driscoll, Nate Herbig, Sua Ope-
ta, and Matt Pryor got a chance
to play. A lot.
Driscoll, Herbig, Opeta, and
Pryor combined for 28 starts
and 2,138 offensive snaps in
2020. Add rookie second-round
pick Landon Dickerson, who is
recovering from an ACL injury
but should be ready to play by
October or early November, and
you’ve got a unit that can go
10-deep and gives general man-
ager Howie Roseman and first-
year coach Nick Sirianni some
insurance if something does hap-
pen to a couple of his starters.
Kelce is 33. Brooks turns 32
this week. And Johnson is 31.
The odds of all three of them
being able to answer the bell for
17 games this season aren’t high.
But who knows?
This much is clear: They
looked good in Monday’s prac-
tice against the Patriots defense.
“We felt good today,” Johnson
said. “But we have to maintain
the continuity. Stay healthy.
Keep the same group around.
We do that and we’ll be the best
we can be.”
After going up against their
own defense every day in prac-
Jalen Hurts (left) chats with Greg Ward after practice. MONICA HERNDON / Staff
the pocket that’s created for
him. Will he fold when the pock-
et crashes? Will he use his speed
to create a new pocket outside
the hash marks? Will his receiv-
ers get open fast enough for him
to throw the ball their way?
There are many moving parts,
but a lot will fall on Hurts’ shoul-
ders.
“We have to be able to extend
plays when things are covered
up,” Hurts said. “We’ve worked
those things and drilled those
things. That’s the goal of this of-
fense — we want to be efficient.”
With veterans Lane Johnson
tice, Johnson and his linemates
welcomed facing the Patriots
and their multiple fronts.
“Today was a good test be-
cause a lot of times, maybe our
defense isn’t running a lot of
blitzes,” he said. “This was a
good defensive line we went up
against today. They run a lot of
stunts, a lot of games. They do
send a lot of blitzes.”
Seumalo returned to practice
Saturday after being sidelined
for much of the early portion of
training camp with a hamstring
injury. His return gives him a
chance to get in a lot of work
with Mailata leading up to the
Sept. 12 season opener against
Atlanta. The two played seven
games alongside each other last
season.
“Every single snap I can get
next to Isaac is important for
me,” Mailata said. “Just building
that rapport and building the
fundamentals of being on the
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and Jason Kelce serving as an-
chors, the offensive line seems
healthy and poised for a success-
ful season. If the linemen can
hold it down in the trenches,
they’ll have a chance to mask
some of Hurts’ mistakes and pro-
vide him with an opportunity to
succeed.
DeVonta Smith, who returned
to practice on a limited basis
Monday after suffering a
sprained MCL on July 31, excels
at route running and is expected
to be one of Hurts’ top targets.
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same level and hitting run-
blocks together.”
Like most of the Eagles’ start-
ers, Mailata played just 10 snaps
last week in the first preseason
game against Pittsburgh. That’s
a far cry from the 53 he played
in the Eagles’ first preseason
game two years ago (there were
no preseason games last season
because of COVID-19).
Back then, Mailata still was
learning how to play football
and he needed as many reps as
he could get.
“It was kind of weird for me,”
he said about playing just two
series. “I had to ask some of the
guys, ‘OK, do I take my pads off
at halftime?’ It felt like a weird
thing to do.
“After the second drive, when
we came out, I didn’t want to get
off the field. I asked Stout. I
said, ‘Stout, you sure you only
want me to play two drives?’ He
said yes. I said, ‘[expletive].’ ”
Earlier this year, Pro Football
Focus rated the Eagles’ offen-
sive line as only the 17th best in
the NFL. That was with the
knowledge that both Johnson
and Brooks would be back from
their injuries. Seventeenth!
“When we’re healthy, you’ve
seen what we can do,” Johnson
said. “But I like that. I like hav-
ing something to prove. It is
what it is. You just want to try to
leave no doubt at the end of the
year and keep stacking days.
“In this profession, you’re al-
ways looking for any motivation
you can find to push and moti-
vate yourself.”
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ment for the offense.
“Today felt good,” Hurts said.
“Everybody was competing and
playing fast. A lot of good things
today.”
The Eagles have another joint
practice with the Patriots on
Tuesday ahead of their second
preseason game Thursday
evening at Lincoln Financial
Field.
Hurts has signaled that he’ll
welcome each learning moment
with open arms. That includes
while he’s under center and also
while he’s watching one of his
role models from the sideline.
After all, Newton does hold
the NFL quarterback records for
the most rushing touchdowns
(70), most rushing touchdowns
in a single season (14) and most
rushing attempts (1,071).
“Hurts is my little bro,” New-
ton said. “There’s a lot of guys I
admire from afar. Just to see the
state of the NFL, having so
much athleticism at the quarter-
back position, it’s something to
smile about. Jalen is somebody I
followed all throughout his col-
lege career [at Alabama and
Oklahoma]. I heard so much
about him.
“For me to see him out here
today, it’s always love and will
always be love between us.”
Said Hurts: “Repetition brings
confidence and comfort. It’s a
real thing. ... Whether it’s the
same looks or different looks,
we have to respond the right
way offensively and make a posi-
tive play from it.”
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The 2020 Temple team, taking the field last October at an empty Lincoln Financial Field, didn’t have much
chance to bond due to COVID-19 restrictions that limited meetings to small groups. HEATHER KHALIFA / Staff
Owls go to New York to
get to know each other
Temple takes training
camp to the Bronx for a
team-bonding experience.
By Isabella DiAmore
FOR THE INQUIRER
Determined to escape the dis-
tractions of Philadelphia, the
Temple football team traveled
two hours and 110 miles on I-95
to SUNY Maritime College in
New York City’s Bronx borough.
There, the Owls will work on
the field and in the weight room
to prepare for a bounce-back sea-
son. Despite being away from
their home base on 10th and Dia-
mond, coach Rod Carey and the
Owls are homing in on football
while also opening up to one an-
other off the field.
“The first thing is bonding,”
Carey said. “Take everyone out
of their element and get us to-
gether alone.”
Temple didn’t play a game un-
til Oct. 10 last season, after train-
ing camp practices that fluctuat-
ed from day to day based on
COVID-19 guidelines. The Owls
also had to follow Philadelphia’s
guidelines on capacity, which
led them to work in small
groups rather than all together.
The pandemic could have
been a factor in the Owls’ lack of
chemistry or it could have been
the transfers and freshmen join-
ing the program. Either way,
Carey is not wasting any time.
The day after the team arrived
at SUNY’s campus, he took prac-
tice to the beach at the East Riv-
er.
The Owls, dressed in shorts,
T-shirts, and life vests, sprinted
and army-crawled in and out of
the water. Even after going
through several drills, Temple
lined up in groups with a paddle
and raft to row out in the river.
Last Sunday, Temple contin-
ued its team bonding and visited
the 9/11 Memorial and Museum
located at the site of the World
Trade Center. Players had the op-
portunity to observe and learn
personal stories of those who
died in the 2001 attack.
Carey described the day as
emotional and unbelievable. Al-
though many players were in-
fants when 9/11 occurred, Carey
noticed how impactful the visit
was when they asked questions
and expressed their feelings
about the tragedy to the coach-
ing staff. It was an opportunity
for Temple to learn as a family.
“We got a chance to bond with
something other than football,
which was really good for this
group and for us,” Carey said.
“It’s a piece of our country’s his-
tory and tools we can use going
forward, too.”
Carey believes the Owls can
build culture by overcoming
physical and mental barriers to-
gether beforestepping onto the
football field.
Redshirt junior receiver Jadan
Blue compared training camp to
his experience at high school
football sleep-away camp, where
the guys had no phones, no tele-
vision, and were completely fo-
cused on football.
“I want my video games, but it
is what it is. You don’t have that
anymore. All you get to see is
football and your coaches,” Blue
said. “It really builds team cama-
raderie around everybody that’s
regarding this football team.”
The Owls are staying in cam-
pus dorms, which the upper-
classmen are accustomed to
since many live on Temple’s cam-
pus. But it was still an adjust-
ment for the Owls, especially for
the coaches, who would usually
go home to their families after a
day of camp.
“For the players, I think our
guys were excited about it at
first and then maybe a little hesi-
tant getting up here,” safeties
coach Tyler Yelk said. “Now I
think they definitely realize that
it’s a pretty neat experience.”
Yelk, who moved in 2020 from
defensive analyst to safeties
coach, said he wanted to set an
example for the entire team to
embrace their experiences away
from home.
“They’re stuck here, you’re
stuck here with each other. We
got to spend time with one anoth-
er in and outside football,” Yelk
said. “I think that really benefits
us, especially being on an urban
campus.”
Graduate safety Amir Tyler
found himself becoming closer
with the new coaches who were
brought on this season, some-
thing the sixth-year player never
had the chance to do.
“This is a time where you
could focus on any of the miscor-
Temple’s Amir Tyler (left), a sixth-year safety, says the New York trip
has brought him closer to the team’s new coaches. HEATHER KHALIFA / Staff
rections that we missed,” Tyler
said, “or you could focus on
team bonding as well to bring
the team together.”
Besides spending practice to-
gether, the Owls have all their
meals and nights together. Dur-
ing that time, they talk about
sports: Is Tom Brady the real
GOAT? Is LeBron James better
than Michael Jordan? But there
are deeper conversations.
Redshirt junior linebacker Au-
dley Isaac said Owls players
have noticed a level of engage-
ment in conversation off the
field they normally don’t see dur-
ing training camp.
“It’s nothing football-related,”
Isaac said. “I’m seeing conversa-
tions about life.
“Whether it be anything that
someone has personally been
through or something that the
older guys are sharing with you
to prepare for in competitions,
this is needed across the team
because as much as we’re here
to play football, we’re also going
to grow together.”
Isaac explained an instance
where he spoke with a few fresh-
men about starting and playing
time, but he related it to life,
about maturing as a man, and
growing into one’s position.
“I remember looking back on
freshman year, I couldn’t tell
anybody about anything,” Isaac
said. “But seeing them talking
about stuff on the field — it’s the
stuff I learned on the field that
helped me with my personal life
and family, with anything that
comes up [whether] that be
deep relationships or friend-
ships. Things I learned playing
this game have transferred
over.”
TUESDAY, AUG. 17, 2021 | THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER | D3
Jay Greenberg
Jay Greenberg wrote for the Daily News, covering the Flyers from
1978 to 1989. He was a celebrated author, and a member of the
Hockey Hall of Fame’s “media honorees” wing.
Find his obituary, B5 FILE
Flyers announce
development camp
By Sam Carchidi
STAFF WRITER
Right winger Wade Allison,
center Morgan Frost, and de-
fenseman Cam York are among
the highly regarded prospects
who will attend the Flyers’ de-
velopment camp in Voorhees
from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1.
A total of 29 players are
scheduled to attend the camp,
including 20 Flyers draft picks.
The Flyer said an on-ice
schedule, along with potential
sessions that may be open to
the public, will be announced
closer to the start of camp.
Allison, 23, a power forward
who was impressive in a late-
season stint with the Flyers, is
favored to crack the team’s
lineup this season. He was a
second-round selection in 2016.
Frost, York, and right winger
Tyson Foerster are former first-
round selections who will at-
Carli Lloyd watched her kick during a public training session for the
U.S. women’s national team in 2019 at the Linc. STEVEN M. FALK / File
Lloyd
Continued from D1
312 appearances, and fourth
with 128 goals.
Lloyd is probably best
known for her three goals, all
in the space of 16 minutes, to
lead the United States to a 5-2
victory over Japan in the 2015
World Cup final. Her third goal
in that match was a blistering
strike from midfield.
At the 2008 Beijing Olym-
pics, Lloyd scored in overtime
in a 1-0 victory over Brazil in
the final. Four years later, she
scored both goals in the gold-
medal match against Japan at
Wembley Stadium, becoming
the only player to score win-
ning goals in consecutive Olym-
pic finals.
“Carli Lloyd is a true leg-
end,” U.S. coach Vlatko An-
donovski said. “Her career was
unique, and her success on the
field is something all current
and future National Team play-
ers should aspire to achieve.
The way she approached her
everyday training and career
as a professional is truly im-
pressive and I’ve been hon-
ored to coach her.”
Lloyd has played profession-
ally for some 12 years, span-
ning time in the now-defunct
Women’s Professional Soccer
league and in the National
Women’s Soccer League. She
tend the camp, which will have
two goalies: Samuel Ersson
and Kirill Ustimenko.
The camp will also include
the Flyers’ second-round selec-
tion in last month’s draft:
speedy right winger Samu
Tuomaala, who recently signed
a three-year entry-level deal
with the club. He was their
highest selection, taken 46th
overall.
The Flyers traded their top-
round pick to Buffalo as part of
the deal to acquire defense-
man Rasmus Ristolainen.
In another matter, Rick Bron-
well was named the Flyers’
head equipment manager, ac-
cording to general manager
Chuck Fletcher. The two had
been together with the Minne-
sota Wild.
+scarchidi@inquirer.com
"BroadStBull
also had a brief stint with
Manchester United in the
Women’s Super League.
Known for her steely focus
and competitiveness, Lloyd
suggested after the United
States’ run to the 2019 World
Cup title that she would try to
make the roster for the Tokyo
Games, but it would likely be
her last major tournament
with the national team.
When the Olympics were
pushed back a year because of
the coronavirus pandemic,
Lloyd underwent a knee proce-
dure and worked her way back
under a new trainer. She also
took advantage of the down-
time to reconnect with her fam-
ily, from whom she’d been es-
tranged for much of her ca-
reer.
“To end my career knowing
my family was able to be by
my side and share this last
chapter with me could not
have been any more special,“
she said. “We will all have a lot
more time to spend together
now, and especially with my
husband Brian, who has been
my rock and biggest support
system for all these years. We
are both looking forward to
starting this next chapter of
our lives without my everyday
grind of training and playing,
but I will most likely need to
another outlet for my competi-
tiveness! Perhaps that will be
golf?”
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Padres take a chance on Arrieta

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jake Arrieta caught on with a
playoff contender after getting
released by the Chicago Cubs,
signing a minor league deal with
the San Diego Padres on Mon-
day.
The former NL Cy Young
Award winner is expected to
make his first start for San Di-
ego on Wednesday against the
Colorado Rockies.
The Padres signed Arrieta to
add depth to their injury-
plagued rotation. Chris Paddack
(left oblique strain) and Yu
Darvish (back tightness) are on
the 10-day injured list.
San Diego manager Jayce Tin-
gler said Arrieta was put on the
team’s taxi squad after joining
the team in Denver for the start
of a three-game series.
Arrieta went 5-11 with a 6.88
ERA in 20 starts for Chicago, a
disappointing return to the team
for which he had his greatest
success. He is 115-90 with a 3.93
ERA over 12 seasons with Balti-
more, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Jake Arrieta went 5-11 with a 6.88 ERA in 20 starts for the Cubs. TNS
He won the Cy Young Award Bay Rays have signed 36-year-
in 2015 and had another superb old reliever David Robertson to
season in 2016, helping the Cubs a major league contract and will
to a drought-busting World Se- have him report to triple-A
ries title. Durham.
Robertson pitched for the sil-
Rays sign Robertson ver medal-winnng USA team in
The AL East-leading Tampa the Tokyo Olympics.
The right-hander is 53-33 with
137 saves and a 2.90 ERA in 12
major league seasons, including
nine with the New York Yan-
kees.
Robertson last appeared in
the majors in 2019, pitching in
seven games for the Phillies.
To make room on the 40-man
roster, the Rays transferred left-
hander Jeffrey Springs from the
15-day to 60-day IL.
Springs underwent surgery
Monday to reconstruct a torn
ACL in his right knee. The reliev-
er was hurt July 31 against Bos-
ton.
Yanks’ Frazier struggles
Yankees manager Aaron
Boone isn’t certain that Clint Fra-
zier will be able to play baseball
again after the outfielder was
pulled from a minor league re-
hab assignment Monday amid
continuing issues with his vi-
sion.
“We’ll see,” Boone said when
asked if Frazier would play
again. “Obviously he’s been
through a lot and been through
a lot of seeing a lot of people
and a lot of testing and every-
thing. We’ll just try and continue
to follow and support him where
we can. But as of right now, a
little holding pattern. I know he
feels well today, so we’ll just
see.”
The 26-year-old Frazier began
a minor league rehab assign-
ment last Tuesday after missing
nearly six weeks due to dizzi-
ness and other symptoms consis-
tent with vertigo. He went
4-for-10 over three games, but
Boone said Frazier felt unwell
prior to Sunday’s game with dou-
ble-A Somerset and took himself
out of the lineup.
White Sox put Engel on IL
The Chicago White Sox placed
outfielder Adam Engel on the
10-day injured list with left shoul-
der inflammation.
The 29-year-old Engel is bat-
ting .248 with seven homers and
18 RBIs in 33 games. He also has
been dealing with a groin issue.

COMMENTARY | BY MARCUS HAYES

There are good reasons

to like Phillies’ chances
PHILLIES from D1
with five RBI in wins against
the Nationals in the last two
games before he landed on the
10-day injured list. “You saw
what he did before he went
down again in Washington,
and how important he was to
us. We really need him back.”
Hoskins’ absence resonates
as much as would any player’s,
and that includes star right
fielder Bryce Harper and All-
Star catcher J.T. Realmuto.
Hoskins’ absence certainly res-
onates with them. Hoskins last
played Aug. 5. Since then,
Harper and Realmuto are each
5-for-26, hitting .192.
Hoskins injured his groin
July 29, missed four starts,
made the next three, but has
been shut down for the last
nine. The Phillies scored just
Phillies pitcher Kyle Gibson was nominated in 2019 for the Roberto Clemente Award. CHARLES FOX / Staff 27 runs in those nine games;
not coincidentally, Hoskins
they’ll face in the next six
weeks, then October baseball
will be theirs.
“Arizona — we gotta take
care of business there,” Harp-
er said after Sunday’s loss to
the Reds. “We have to. The
Braves are going to keep play-
ing well.”
Bad news, good news
The Phils lost four of the last
six ... but they won five of nine
during the homestand. Former
No. 1 starter Aaron Nola contin-
ued his inconsistency Sunday
... but occasional starter Matt
Moore pitched six no-hit in-
nings Saturday.
Better still, former closer
Ranger Suárez, who moved to
the rotation when the Phillies
traded for Ian Kennedy, has
surrendered just one run in
the 10 innings that comprise
his three starts. He’s thrown

Gibson
Continued from D1
ture, more than 11 million chil-
dren in the U.S. face food insecu-
rity, which is a lack of “consis-
tent access to enough food for
an active, healthy life.” Gibson
stuffed backpacks with food to
send to students in Minnesota,
trol of the people at risk, we try to
help out.”
Gibson is the vice president of
Big League Impact, which was
founded in 2013 by St. Louis Car-
dinals pitcher Adam Wainwright
to bring together pro athletes,
musicians, and other public fig-
ures to raise money and aware-
ness for “the causes our players
care about.”
Gibson teamed with Wain-
who maybe don’t have it on a
day-to-day basis. It’s a lot of
fun to be a part of it.”
Smith said Gibson’s work
with Cradles to Crayons shows
the “deep connection” that ath-
letes and their families can
bring to new cities. Gibson’s
support, she said, “means an
enormous amount.”
“The Phillies are so near and
dear to the rest of Philadelphia
leads the team with 24 home
runs and 68 RBIs.
He might soon add to those
numbers. Hoskins could re-
turn as a pinch hitter when the
Phillies play three games be-
ginning Tuesday at atrocious
Arizona. He could return to the
lineup full-time by the time
they hit sliding San Diego for
three more this weekend.
There’s more good news.
33, 61, and 82 pitches, and has
earned at least 90 pitches in
his next start, Girardi said. But
Suárez seems ready to shed
pitch-count restrictions com-
pletely.
The emergence of Suárez
and bonus innings from Moore
have made it easier to manage
the absence of No. 3 starter
Zach Eflin, who last pitched
July 16 due to chronic knee ten-

“
donated to a food pan- that this sort of sets
A friendly calendar dinitis. That issue had largely
try during his two sea- an example and
sons in Texas, and has We know that we’ve been helps us engage oth- Yes, going into Monday’s ac-
cleared up as of Sunday, when
Eflin threw two practice in-
now aligned himself af- er people who may tion, the Braves had won six of
ter being traded to the given a lot and have been be interested and be seven and surged into first
nings to hitters. This means
that Eflin could return to the
Phillies with two Phila-
delphia foundations:
put into a really fortunate hearing about us for
the first time just be-
place, a game ahead of the Phil-
lies, and the third-place Mets rotation in time for a Septem-
Philabundance and Cra- situation for our whole lives, cause we’re connect- have shown faint signs of life. ber push.
There are other, less tangible
dles to Crayons.
“He’s right. Poverty
basically. We really feel like it’s ed to someone who
has such a high pro-
But the Braves were three
games into a nine-game road reasons for optimism.
is everywhere,” said important to show love and give file,” Smith said. trip before playing eight On Wednesday, left fielder
Andrew McCutchen, 34, re-
MichalSmith, the execu- The foundation re- games against the Yankees, Gi-
tive director of Cradles hope to people who maybe don’t lies on volunteers and ants, and Dodgers. The Mets turned from his latest knee is-
to Crayons. “Philadel-
phia has the highest
have it on a day-to-day basis. donations to pull off
events like their back-
started a stretch Monday in
which they play either the
sue, and while he’s just
2-for-19, one of those two hits
rate of deep poverty in Kyle Gibson pack-a-thon, which Dodgers or the Giants 10 times was a home run.
the nation for a large will give 50,000 area in 10 days. Their rows are con- Bohm, a butcher in the field
city. But the pockets of poverty wright to raise money from children school bags and sup- siderably harder to hoe. whose power remains more
are all around us in the region. more than 150 major-league play- plies to start the school year. Meanwhile, only two of the promise than product — he
There are pockets of poverty in ers to provide more than 4 mil- “Kids need our help,” Smith Phillies’ next 18 games are has five errors in his last five
Ambler and Collegeville, in lion meals to students fighting said. “With the impact of COV- against a formidable opponent games and has 37 extra-base
North Philadelphia, and Bensa- childhood hunger during the ID, poverty has become more — when the Rays visit next hits in 151 career games — fi-
lem. It’s everywhere.” pandemic. Gibson was nominat- significant, quite frankly, for week. After that, only three of nally has been benched.
The Phillies acquired Gibson ed in 2019 for the Roberto Clem- many of our communities the Phillies’ following 20 Ronald Torreyes, his replace-
at the trade deadline to stabilize ente Award, which is given annu- throughout the region.” games are against a really ment, is 7-for-21 playing third
their rotation as he was one of ally by Major League Baseball Gibson will start Tuesday good team; they kick off that base in place of Bohm.
the American League’s top pitch- for community involvement and night in Arizona as he tries to stretch with three in Milwau- Girardi knows the weak
ers in the first half of the season. philanthropy. keep the Phillies in the hunt kee. So, that’s just five out of schedule only matters if the
It didn’t take long to feel his im- He and his wife went on mis- for their first playoff berth in a 38 games against top-notch Phillies “grind out every
pact as Gibson, 33, won his first sion trips to Haiti and the Do- decade. teams. They’ve paid their game.”
two starts. And it didn’t take minican Republic and raised His performance was al- dues: The Phillies, at 61-57, “Every day’s a challenge,” Gi-
long for the community to feel more than $160,000 for the Boys ready important as the team is have played the third-toughest rardi said.
that impact, too. and Girls Club while he was desperate to finally return to schedule to date, and they More so if you play sloppy
Philabundance is the region’s pitching for the Twins. October baseball. And now have the easiest schedule re- and dumb.
largest food bank and distrib- “It’s a big part of what my wife each strikeout and win carries maining, according to power- Less so if your big, right-
utes more than 24 million and I believe in,” said Gibson. even more significance. rankingsguru.com. handed bat comes back.
pounds of food a year to those in “We know that we’ve been given “We’re going to spend the So what if they dropped four
need in the Delaware Valley. Cra- a lot and have been put into a rest of this year and hopefully of six to the Reds and Dodg- +mhayes@inquirer.com
dles to Crayons provides chil- really fortunate situation for our next year and who knows after ers? If they beat the bad teams "inkstainedretch
dren in need with essential whole lives, basically. We really that. We want to be connected
items, such as backpacks, coats, feel like it’s important to show with the community and find
shoes, toys, and books. love and give hope to people areas to plug in and to give
Gibson and his wife, Eliza- and to use our platform,” Gib-
beth, are donating this season to son said. “It’s great to be able
Philabundance for every strike- to give, but we also like to
out he throws and to Cradles to show up and do things and be
Crayons for every win by the a part of it. It’s cool to see peo-
Phillies. He launched a website ple’s faces light up.
to invite fans to join him. “People just want to know
“Trying to help kids, whether it’s that they’re recognized and
internationally or domestically, they’re seen and that people
has been a passion of ours,” said aren’t forgetting about their
Gibson, who has three children. problems. There’s a lot of peo-
“Being born in the U.S., we kind of
won the birth lottery, right? A lot
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SCOREBOARD
PHILLIES BASEBALL
PROBABLE PITCHERS NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS
Date Opponent Phillies’ Starter (W-L, ERA) Opponent’s Starter (W-L, ERA) TV Time EAST W L Pct. GB L10 Str. Home Away
Atlanta* 62 56 .525 — 8-2 W-3 31-29 31-27
Tuesday @Arizona RH Kyle Gibson (8-4, 2.91) TBD (NBCSP) 9:40 Phillies 61 57 .517 1 6-4 L-1 36-25 25-32
Wednesday @Arizona LH Ranger Suarez (5-3, 1.07) TBD (NBCSP) 9:40 N.Y. Mets* 59 58 .504 2½ 3-7 L-3 36-23 23-35
Thursday @Arizona RH Zack Wheeler (10-7, 2.56) TBD (NBCSP) 3:40 Miami* 51 67 .432 11 5-5 W-4 30-27 21-40
Washington 50 68 .424 12 1-9 L-7 29-33 21-35
CENTRAL
STATISTICS NFL Milwaukee 72 47 .605 — 7-3 W-2 32-27 40-20
Includes all players from 2021 season PRESEASON SCHEDULE Cincinnati* 64 55 .538 8 6-4 W-1 31-27 33-28
Complete through Sunday’s game WEEK 2 St. Louis 61 56 .521 10 8-2 W-6 32-25 29-31
BATTERS .............AVG OBA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS E THURSDAY Chicago Cubs* 52 68 .433 20½ 0-10 L-11 31-28 21-40
Vierling .429 .429 7 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 New England at Eagles, 7:30 (NBC10, NFLN) Pittsburgh* 42 76 .356 29½ 1-9 L-2 24-35 18-41
Segura ...................305 .363 348 50 106 20 3 8 40 26 53 7 2 8 FRIDAY WEST
Marchan ................304 .333 23 4 7 1 0 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 Cincinnati at Washington, 8 (NFLN) San Francisco* 76 42 .644 — 8-2 W-1 40-18 36-24
Harper ...................297 .414 337 68 100 26 1 21 49 64 91 12 1 1 Kansas City at Arizona, 8 (ESPN) L.A. Dodgers* 72 46 .610 4 8-2 W-3 36-20 36-26
Torreyes ................273 .320 209 24 57 8 0 6 31 14 24 2 1 4 SATURDAY San Diego* 67 53 .558 10 5-5 W-1 40-24 27-29
Realmuto ..............268 .352 336 48 90 18 3 13 53 37 87 7 3 2 Buffalo at Chicago, 1 (NFLN) Colorado* 52 66 .441 24 5-5 L-1 38-21 14-45
Maton ....................261 .323 115 15 30 7 1 2 13 9 39 2 0 4 N.Y. Jets at Green Bay, 4:25 (NFLN) Arizona 38 81 .319 38½ 4-6 L-1 24-36 14-45
Jankowski .............253 .345 99 19 25 5 0 1 9 14 23 4 0 0 Baltimore at Carolina, 7
Bohm ......................251 .309 362 46 91 15 0 7 47 31 103 4 0 17 Atlanta at Miami, 7 AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS
Herrera ..................247 .300 300 38 74 18 1 8 34 21 53 4 1 1 Tennessee at Tampa Bay, 7:30 EAST W L Pct. GB L10 Str. Home Away
Hoskins .................244 .332 381 61 93 29 0 24 68 46 108 3 2 4 Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7:30 (NFLN) Tampa Bay* 71 47 .602 — 7-3 L-2 35-22 36-25
Williams.................244 .309 86 7 21 4 0 1 6 8 21 1 2 2 Indianapolis at Minnesota, 8 Boston 69 51 .575 3 5-5 W-3 37-24 32-27
McCutchen ............227 .343 348 56 79 13 1 21 59 62 100 6 1 2 Houston at Dallas, 8 N.Y. Yankees* 65 52 .556 5½ 7-3 W-2 32-25 33-27
Gregorius ..............219 .271 242 25 53 11 2 10 36 14 50 3 0 13 Las Vegas at L.A. Rams, 10 (NFLN) Toronto 63 54 .538 7½ 5-5 W-1 31-25 32-29
Miller ......................215 .306 223 36 48 4 2 12 32 29 80 3 0 3 Denver at Seattle, 10
Baltimore* 38 78 .328 32 0-10 L-11 17-37 21-41
Haseley .................190 .190 21 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 SUNDAY
Quinn .....................173 .306 52 8 9 2 2 0 2 6 19 4 3 0 N.Y. Giants at Cleveland, 1 (NFLN) CENTRAL
Knapp ....................158 .215 120 10 19 3 0 2 11 9 48 0 0 1 San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, 7:30 (NFLN) Chicago White Sox* 68 50 .576 — 5-5 L-2 39-22 29-28
Moniak ..................103 .188 29 3 3 0 0 1 3 3 14 0 0 0 MONDAY, AUG. 23 Cleveland* 57 59 .491 10 5-5 W-1 29-27 28-32
Joyce ......................100 .258 50 5 5 1 0 2 6 10 14 0 0 0 Jacksonville at New Orleans, 8 (ESPN) Detroit 58 62 .483 11 6-4 L-1 33-27 25-35
Kingery ..................053 .053 19 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 WEEK 3 Minnesota* 52 66 .441 16 7-3 W-2 28-32 24-34
Team Totals.......241 .318 3890 533 937 190 16 139 509 410 1054 63 16 73 FRIDAY, AUG. 27 Kansas City* 49 67 .422 18 3-7 L-4 29-30 20-37
PITCHERS...................W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO Indianapolis at Detroit, 7 WEST
Rosso ..........................0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1ê 1 0 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7:30
Eagles at N.Y. Jets, 7:30 (NBC10)
Houston* 70 47 .598 — 5-5 L-1 37-23 33-24
Jones ............................0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0ê 1 0 0 0 2 0
Knapp .........................0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0ê 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota at Kansas City, 8 (NFLN) Oakland* 68 50 .576 2½ 8-2 L-1 34-25 34-25
Maton .........................0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0ê 0 0 0 0 0 1 SATURDAY, AUG. 28 Seattle 63 56 .529 8 5-5 L-1 37-25 26-31
Hammer .....................1 1 0.82 10 0 0 11 9 1 1 1 5 10 Green Bay at Buffalo, 1 (NFLN) L.A. Angels* 59 60 .496 12 4-6 W-1 32-30 27-30
Suarez .........................5 3 1.07 30 3 4 50ê 24 10 6 3 20 51 Baltimore at Washington, 6 Texas 42 76 .356 28½ 3-7 W-1 28-31 14-45
Wheeler .....................10 7 2.56 24 24 0 162 125 50 46 12 35 187 Chicago at Tennessee, 7 (NFLN) *Game ended too late for this edition.
Bradley ........................7 1 2.70 38 0 2 36ë 34 14 11 4 16 22 Arizona at New Orleans, 8
Gibson ........................2 1 3.18 3 2 0 17 15 9 6 1 9 11 Tampa Bay at Houston, 8
Neris .............................1 5 3.86 52 0 12 51ê 40 26 22 8 21 65 L.A. Rams at Denver, 9:05 RESULTS, SCHEDULE
Brogdon ......................5 2 4.06 44 1 1 44ê 38 24 20 5 16 38 L.A. Chargers at Seattle, 10 (NFLN)
SUNDAY TUESDAY
Falter ...........................1 0 4.12 10 0 0 19ë 18 9 9 3 2 23 SUNDAY, AUG. 29
National League National League
Eflin .............................4 7 4.17 18 18 0 105ë 116 52 49 15 16 99 Jacksonville at Dallas, 1 (NFLN) Atlanta 6, Washington 5 Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10
Coonrod ......................1 2 4.18 27 0 2 28 26 15 13 5 10 30 Miami at Cincinnati, 4 (CBS) Cincinnati 7, Phillies 4 Atlanta at Miami, 7:10
Alvarado .....................6 1 4.35 45 0 4 41ê 33 23 20 4 39 55 Las Vegas at San Francisco, 4 (NFLN) Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 1 Milwaukee at St. Louis, 7:45
Nola ..............................7 7 4.48 24 24 0 134ë 126 68 67 20 31 163 New England at N.Y. Giants, 6 (NFLN) Chicago Cubs 4, Miami 1 San Diego at Colorado, 8:40
De Los Santos .............0 1 5.57 20 0 0 21 27 19 13 6 8 32 Cleveland at Atlanta, 8 (NBC10) San Francisco 5, Colorado 2 Phillies at Arizona, 9:40
Howard .......................0 2 5.72 11 7 0 28ê 25 19 18 2 17 31 San Diego 8, Arizona 2 N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 9:45
Velasquez ...................3 6 5.95 21 17 0 81ë 76 55 54 17 45 85 LEAGUE CALENDAR
Sept. 9 — Kickoff weekend. L.A. Dodgers 14, N.Y. Mets 4 Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
Moore .........................2 3 6.07 18 10 0 56ê 60 40 38 12 24 51 American League American League
Kintzler ........................2 1 6.37 29 1 0 29ë 45 23 21 7 8 22 Jan. 15-16 — Wild Card Playoffs.
Jan. 22-23 — Divisional Playoffs. Boston 6, Baltimore 2 Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05, Game 1
Hale ..............................0 2 6.41 17 1 0 26ë 30 20 19 5 9 21 Cleveland 11, Detroit 0 Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05, Game 2
Anderson ...................2 4 6.75 14 9 0 48 51 36 36 10 20 35 Jan. 30 — Championship Games.
Feb. 6 —Pro Bowl (Las Vegas). N.Y. Yankees 5, Chicago White Sox 3 L.A. Angels at Detroit, 7:10
Romero ........................0 0 7.00 11 0 0 9 12 8 7 4 4 8 Minnesota 5, Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:10
Kennedy ......................0 0 7.11 7 0 3 6ê 6 5 5 3 4 7 Feb. 13 — Super Bowl LVI (Los Angeles).
Texas 7, Oakland 4 Seattle at Texas, 8:05
Sanchez ......................1 0 8.22 5 1 0 7ë 13 8 7 1 5 9 L.A. Angels 3, Houston 1 Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Paulino .......................0 0 9.00 1 0 0 2 3 2 2 1 0 0 EAGLES Toronto 8, Seattle 3 Houston at Kansas City, 8:10
Llovera ........................1 0 9.45 6 0 0 6ë 10 7 7 5 4 7 Interleague Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10
Torreyes ......................0 0 13.50 2 0 0 2ë 6 4 4 2 0 1 SCHEDULE St. Louis 7, Kansas City 2 Interleague
Feliz ..............................0 1 36.00 2 0 0 1 4 4 4 1 1 2 TRAINING CAMP Toronto at Washington, 7:05
MONDAY
Team Totals ..........61 57 4.41 118 118 28 1031ê 974 551 505 157 371 1066 Aug. 16-17: Joint practice with New England
National League WEDNESDAY
Patriots.
Atlanta at Miami* National League
Sun., Aug. 22: Second public practice (Lin-
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati* Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 12:35
coln Financial Field).
SCHEDULE RECORD BREAKDOWN (61-57) San Diego at Colorado* San Diego at Colorado, 3:10
Aug. 24-25: Joint practice with New York Jets. N.Y. Mets at San Francisco*
TV — NP: NBCSP; NP+: NBCSP+. vs. NL W- L W- L N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 3:45
PRESEASON Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers*
Tue., Aug. 17 ......@Arizona ................(NP) 9:40 Atlanta ................9- 7 vs. NL East ..........34-27 Atlanta at Miami, 7:10
Thu., Aug. 19 .......New England ....(NBC10) 7:30 American League
Wed., Aug. 18 .....@Arizona ................(NP) 9:40 Miami ..................7- 6 vs. NL Central ....14-10 Milwaukee at St. Louis, 7:45
Fri., Aug. 27 ........N.Y. Jets ............(NBC10) 7:30 L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees*
Thu., Aug. 19 ......@Arizona ................(NP) 3:40 New York .............8- 8 vs. NL West .........7-11 Phillies at Arizona, 9:40
REGULAR SEASON Baltimore at Tampa Bay*
Fri., Aug. 20 .........@San Diego ..........(NP) 10:10 Washington ......10- 6 Extra Innings .......8- 5 Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
Sun., Sept. 12 ......@Atlanta ...............(FOX) 1:00 Cleveland at Minnesota*
Sat., Aug. 21 .......@San Diego ............(NP) 8:40 Chicago ................3- 1 One-Run Gms. ...21-15 American League
Sun., Sept. 19 ......San Francisco ......(FOX) 1:00 Houston at Kansas City*
Sun., Aug. 22 ......@San Diego ............(NP) 3:40 Cincinnati ............2- 4 Two-Run Gms. . 13- 9 Cleveland at Minnesota, 1:10
Mon., Sept. 27 ....@Dallas ...............(ESPN) 8:15 Oakland at Chicago White Sox*
Tue., Aug. 24 ......Tampa Bay ..............(NP) 7:05 Milwaukee ..........4- 0 vs. LH Starters ..17-20 Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Sun., Oct. 3 ..........Kansas City ...........(CBS) 1:00
Wed., Aug. 25 .....Tampa Bay ..............(NP) 7:05 Pittsburgh ..........1- 2 vs. RH Starters .44-37 L.A. Angels at Detroit, 7:10
Sun., Oct. 10 ........@Carolina..............(FOX) 1:00
Thu., Aug. 26 ......Arizona ....................(NP) 7:05 St. Louis ................4- 3 Day .....................30-16 Thu., Oct. 14 ........Tampa Bay ............(FOX) 8:20 GOLF Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:10
Seattle at Texas, 8:05
Fri., Aug. 27 .........Arizona ....................(NP) 7:05 Arizona.................0- 0 Night ..................31-41 Sun., Oct. 24 ........@Las Vegas ...........(FOX) 4:05
Sat., Aug. 28 .......Arizona ....................(NP) 6:05
PGA TOUR SCHEDULE Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Colorado ..............1- 2 Home .................36-25 Sun., Oct. 31 ........@Detroit ................(FOX) 1:00
Aug. 19-22 — The Northern Trust, Liberty Nation- Houston at Kansas City, 8:10
Sun., Aug. 29 ......Arizona ....................(NP) 1:05 Los Angeles .........2- 4 Road ...................25-32 Sun., Nov. 7 ........L.A. Chargers .........(CBS) 4:05 al GC, Jersey City, N.J. Interleague
Mon., Aug. 30 .....@Washington.........(NP) 7:05 San Diego .............2- 1 Starters .............29-37 Sun., Nov. 14 .......@Denver ...............(CBS) 4:25 Aug. 26-29 — BMW Championship, Caves Valley Toronto at Washington, 4:05
Tue., Aug. 31 ......@Washington.........(NP) 7:05 San Francisco .....2- 4 Relievers ............32-20 Sun., Nov. 21 .......New Orleans..........(FOX) 1:00 GC, Owings Mills, Md.
Wed., Sept. 1 ......@Washington.........(NP) 7:05 vs. AL .................. 6- 9 Before ASG ........44-44 Sun., Nov. 28 .......@N.Y. Giants .........(FOX) 1:00 Sept. 1-4 — Tour Championship, East Lake GC, At- MLB CALENDAR
Fri., Sept. 3 ..........@Miami ...................(NP) 7:10 Since Mantis .......9- 4 After ASG ...........17-13 Sun., Dec. 5 .........@N.Y. Jets .............(CBS) 1:00 lanta. Aug. 22 — Little League Classic: L.A. Angels
Sat., Sept. 4 ........@Miami ...................(NP) 6:10 BY DAY Sun., Dec. 12 .......Bye LPGA TOUR SCHEDULE vs. Cleveland, Williamsport, Pa.
Sun., Sept. 5 .......@Miami ...................(NP) 1:10 Monday ................6- 5 Friday .................10- 9 TBD.......................Washington ......................TBD Aug. 19-22 — AIG Women's British Open, Car- Sept. 8 — Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Mon., Sept. 6 ......@Milwaukee ..........(NP) 2:10 Tuesday ..............8-11 Saturday .......... 10-10 Sun., Dec. 26 .......N.Y. Giants ............(FOX) 1:00 noustie GL, Carnoustie, Scotland Sept. 15 — Roberto Clemente Day.
Tue., Sept. 7 .......@Milwaukee ..........(NP) 7:40 Wednesday .........7- 8 Sunday ...............12- 8 Sun., Jan. 2 .........@Washington .......(FOX) 1:00 Aug. 26-29 — CP Women's Canadian Open, Oct. 3 — Regular season concludes.
Wed., Sept. 8 ......@Milwaukee ..........(NP) 7:40 Thursday ............8- 6 Sun., Jan. 9 .........Dallas .....................(FOX) 1:00 Shaughnessy Golf and CC, Vancouver. October TBD — Postseason begins.

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BASEBALL STANDINGS SUMMER LEAGUE SCHEDULE BASEBALL
(Home Team in CAPS) EASTERN CONFERENCE LAS VEGAS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE W L T Pts GF GA At UNLV campus AMERICAN LEAGUE
2021 Team 2021 Last 3 Starts (’21) New England .........13 3 4 43 37 23 SUNDAY CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed OF Adam Engel
New York City FC .....9 5 4 31 34 18 Sacramento 86, Dallas 70 on the 10-day IL, retroactive to August 13. Select-
Club/Time Odds Pitcher W- L ERA W- L vs.Opp W-L IP ERA
Nashville .................7 2 10 31 31 19 Washington 93, Milwaukee 83 ed the contract of RHP Mike Wright from Char-
Braves (8) —$125 Ynoa (R) 4- 2 3.02 5- 3 0- 0 2- 1 17ê 3.12 L.A. Clippers 94, Utah 90 lotte (Triple-A East) and agreed to terms on a ma-
Orlando City ...........8 4 6 30 28 23
MARLINS/7:10 +$115 Alcantara (R) 7-10 3.52 10-14 2- 0 1- 1 17ë 5.09 Union.........................7 5 7 28 25 19 Brooklyn 104, San Antonio 100 jor league contract. Recalled RHP Ryan Burr from
Cubs (9½) +$140 Hendricks (R) 13- 5 4.15 14-10 0- 0 1- 1 17 6.35 Minnesota 99, Sixers 96 (OT) Charlotte. Optioned RHP Matt Foster to Charlotte.
D.C. United ..............8 8 3 27 29 26
Designated RHP Zack Burdi for assignment.
REDS/7:10 —$150 Gutierrez (R) 8- 3 3.95 9- 5 0- 0 0- 0 0 0.00 CF Montréal ............7 7 5 26 26 25 Orlando 89, Houston 76
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent RHPs J.P. Feyereisen
Brewers (7½) —$138 Burnes (R) 7- 4 2.23 12- 8 0- 1 1- 0 19 2.84 Columbus.................6 7 6 24 21 24 New Orleans 80, Golden State 79
and Ryan Thompson to Florida Complex League
Atlanta......................4 6 9 21 22 25 Memphis 96, Chicago 91
CARDINALS/7:45 +$128 Wainwright (R) 11- 6 3.27 14- 9 0- 0 3- 0 23 1.96 (FCL) on rehab assignments. Transferred LHP Jef-
Chicago ....................5 9 5 20 21 29 MONDAY frey Springs from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL.
Padres (11½) —$125 Knehr (R) 1- 0 2.77 2- 0 0- 0 0- 0 6 4.05 New York .................5 9 4 19 22 24 Indiana 74, Washington 66 Agreed to terms with RHP David Robertson on a
ROCKIES/8:40 +$115 Márquez (R) 10- 9 3.78 14-10 2- 0 2- 1 16 5.06 Inter Miami CF .........4 9 4 16 15 28 Denver 94, Milwaukee 87 major league contract.
Phillies (9½) —$152 Gibson (R) 8- 4 3.12 12- 9 0- 1 2- 1 18ë 2.41 Cincinnati ................3 7 7 16 18 30 Oklahoma City 116, San Antonio 91 NATIONAL LEAGUE
D'BACKS/9:40 +$142 Poppen (R) 0- 0 4.05 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0 0.00 Toronto FC ...............3 10 6 15 24 40 Cleveland 88, Phoenix 85 CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled SS Jose Barrero
WESTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Knicks 104, Atlanta 85 from Louisville (Triple-A East). Placed LF Jesse
N.Y. Mets (8) +$138 Stroman (R) 8-11 2.79 11-13 0- 0 1- 2 16 3.94
Kansas City ............11 4 4 37 35 20 Detroit vs. Orlando (late) Winker on the 10-day IL.
GIANTS/9:45 —$148 Webb (R) 6- 3 2.96 12- 4 0- 0 2- 0 18 1.50 Memphis vs. L.A. Clippers (late) PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Returned OF Ka'ai Tom
Seattle ....................10 3 6 36 32 16
Pirates (9) +$250 Crowe (R) 3- 7 5.27 7-10 0- 0 0- 0 0 0.00 LA Galaxy ..............11 6 2 35 30 28 Charlotte vs. Chicago (late) from rehab assignment with Indianapolis (Tri-
DODGERS/10:10 —$285Price (L) 4- 1 3.60 3- 6 0- 0 0- 1 13ë 4.61 Colorado ..................9 4 4 31 25 17 TUESDAY ple-A East) and reinstated him from the 10-day IL,
Dallas vs. Miami, 3 (ESPNU) then designated him for assignment.
INTERLEAGUE Minnesota United ...7 6 5 26 21 22
Real Salt Lake .........6 6 6 24 27 20 Utah vs. Sixers, 3:30 (NBATV) BASKETBALL
2021 Team 2021 Last 3 Starts (’21) Houston vs. Portland, 5 (ESPNEWS)
Portland ...................7 9 2 23 25 35 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Club/Time Odds Pitcher W- L ERA W- L vs.Opp W-L IP ERA Brooklyn vs. Toronto, 5:30 (NBATV)
Los Angeles FC .......6 8 5 23 24 26 MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Traded G Eric Bledsoe to
Blue Jays (9½) —$175 Manoah (R) 5- 1 2.59 8- 3 0- 0 3- 0 18ë 1.93 San Jose....................5 7 7 22 21 27 L.A. Lakers vs. Golden State, 7 (ESPNEWS) Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for C Daniel Otu-
NATIONALS/7:05 +$165 Fedde (R) 4- 8 5.12 9-10 1- 0 0- 1 14ë 5.52 FC Dallas ...................5 8 6 21 23 27 New Orleans vs. Minnesota, 7:30 (NBATV) ru and Gs Patrick Beverley and Rajon Rondo.
Houston....................3 7 9 18 20 28 Sacramento vs. Boston, 9 (ESPN) NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Signed F Herbert
AMERICAN LEAGUE Jones. Re-signed C Willy Hernangomez.
2021 Team 2021 Last 3 Starts (’21) Vancouver ..............3 7 8 17 19 28
Austin FC .................4 10 4 16 13 21
LEAGUE CALENDAR PHOENIX SUNS — Signed C JaVale McGee.
Club/Time Odds Pitcher W- L ERA W- L vs.Opp W-L IP ERA Sept. 28 — Training camp begins.
Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Oct. 19 — 2021-22 regular season begins. FOOTBALL
Red Sox (7) +$102 Eovaldi (R) 10- 7 3.92 12-11 2- 0 1- 2 17 6.88 SUNDAY NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Feb. 18-20, 2022 — All-Star 2022 (Rocket
N.Y. YANKEES/1:05 —$112 Montgomery (L) 4- 5 3.69 13- 8 0- 2 1- 0 15ë 0.57 Atlanta 1, Los Angeles FC 0 ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated RB James
Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland).
Red Sox (7) —$127 Houck (R) 0- 3 2.94 3- 3 0- 0 0- 1 12ë 3.55 Chicago 1, Columbus 0 Apr. 10, 2022 — Regular season ends. Conner, TE Darrell Daniels, DL Leki Fotu and S
N.Y. YANKEES/7:05 +$117 Gil (R) 1- 0 0.00 1- 1 0- 0 1- 0 11 0.00 Nashville 5, D.C. United 2 Apr. 12-15, 2022 — Play-in tournament. Charles Washington from the reserve/COVID-19
Seattle 6, Portland 2 list.
Orioles (8½) +$175 Means (L) 5- 4 3.21 7-10 0- 1 1- 1 15ê 4.70 Apr. 16, 2022 — Playoffs begin.
TUESDAY BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed QB Kenji Bahar.
RAYS/7:10 —$185 Rasmussen (R) 1- 1 3.98 2- 1 1- 0 0- 0 9 4.00 June 2, 2022 — NBA Finals begin.
Colorado at LA Galaxy, 10:30 CHICAGO BEARS — Waived OL Gage Cervenka,
June 19, 2022 — Last possible date for NBA
L.A. Angels (9½) +$110 Bundy (R) 2- 9 6.16 6-11 0- 0 1- 2 14ë 3.68 Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 DB Dionte Ruffin and WE Jester Weah.
Finals. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated OLB
TIGERS/7:10 —$120 Mize (R) 6- 6 3.66 13- 9 0- 0 1- 1 16ê 3.86 WEDNESDAY June 23, 2022 — NBA Draft.
D.C. United at New England, 7 Za'Darius Smith and S Will Redmond from the non-
Mariners (9) —$148 Anderson (L) 5- 8 4.24 10-11 0- 0 0- 0 0 0.00 football injury list.
RANGERS/8:05 +$138 Howard (R) 0- 3 5.61 3- 6 0- 0 0- 1 9 7.00 Toronto FC at Atlanta, 7
Indians (9½) +$130 Morgan (R) 1- 5 6.52 4- 6 0- 0 0- 2 17 4.76
CF Montréal at Cincinnati, 7:30 COLLEGE FOOTBALL LOS ANGELES CHARGERS —
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived TE Pro Wells,
New York City FC at Union, 7:30 AP TOP 25 WRs Reece Horn and Riley Lees.
TWINS/8:10 —$140 Ober (R) 1- 1 4.53 8- 5 0- 0 0- 0 14ê 2.51 Chicago at Miami, 7:30
W- L Pts. Pvs. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Released P Lachlan
Astros (9½) —$180 Valdez (L) 8- 3 3.10 10- 4 0- 0 2- 1 17ë 3.57 Columbus at New York, 8 Edwards.
1. Alabama (47) ......................0- 0 1,548 1
ROYALS/8:10 +$170 Lynch (L) 2- 3 5.97 3- 4 0- 0 1- 1 15ë 4.02 Orlando City at Nashville, 8:30
2. Oklahoma (6) .....................0- 0 1,462 6 LOS ANGELES RAMS — Waived K Austin MacGin-
Athletics (9) —$115 Bassitt (R) 12- 3 3.06 17- 7 0- 0 2- 0 20 0.45 Portland at Kansas City, 8:30 nis, LB Derrick Moncrief, T Ryan Pope, OLB Max
3. Clemson (6) ........................0- 0 1,447 3
WHITE SOX/8:10 +$105 López (R) 1- 0 1.35 1- 1 0- 0 0- 1 7ê 8.59 Seattle at FC Dallas, 8:30 Roberts and DL George Silvanic.
4. Ohio St. (1) ...........................0- 0 1,393 2
Vancouver at Austin FC, 9 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released OL Jerald
ODDS: Number with favorite (—) indicates amount needed to wager to win $100; Num- 5. Georgia (3) ..........................0- 0 1,364 7
Houston at Real Salt Lake, 10 Hawkins.
ber with underdog (+) indicates amount won if $100 is wagered. 6. Texas A&M ..........................0- 0 1,223 4
NEW YORK JETS — Placed K Chris Naggar on
TEAM W-L: Team’s record in games this pitcher starts. 7. Iowa St. ................................0- 0 1,160 9
waivers. Activated DL Quinnen Williams off the
WNBA 8. Cincinnati ...........................0- 0 1,014 8 physcially unable to perform (PUP) list.
9. Notre Dame ........................0- 0 1,009 5 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Released LBs James
STANDINGS 10. North Carolina .................0- 0 999 18 Burgess Jr., Donald Payne and DL Eddie Vander-
PRO FOOTBALL THE BASEBALL PICK EASTERN CONFERENCE 11. Oregon ...............................0- 0 968- does.
PRESEASON On the baseball board, gonna roll out to Cin- W L Pct. GB 12. Wisconsin .........................0- 0 743- SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Waived LB Nate Evans,
WEEK 2 cinnati and try the Reds with Vladimir Gutier- Connecticut ....................15 6 .714 — 13. Florida ...............................0- 0 728 13 OT, Lukayus McNeil, CB Jordan Miller, DT Walter
THURSDAY rez over the Cubs. This is the first year at the Chicago ...........................11 10 .524 4 14. Miami .................................0- 0 663 22 Palmore, WR Anthony Ratliff-Williams and RB
Favorite Line O/U Underdog Time show for Gutierrez and it has been going New York ........................10 12 .455 5½ 15. Southern Cal ....................0- 0 660 21 Cameron Scarlett. Signed DE Alex Tchangam.
Patriots .............1ç 38ç EAGLES .............7:30 quite well. The kid from Cuba owns an 8-3 Washington ......................8 11 .421 6 16. Louisiana St. .....................0- 0 631-
Atlanta ...............................6 14 .300 8½
HOCKEY
FRIDAY record with a 3.95 ERA, and his last three 17. Indiana .............................0- 0 549 12
Indiana...............................4 17 .190 11 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Favorite Line O/U Underdog Time starts (19 innings, 4 earned runs, 15 Ks) have 18. Iowa ..................................0- 0 513 16
FLYERS — Extended the contract affiliation with
Chiefs .................2ç 41 CARDINALS ......8:00 all been wins. Sure Kyle Hendricks has a WESTERN CONFERENCE 19. Penn St. ..............................0- 0 456- Reading Royals (ECHL) through the 2021-22 with
WASHINGTON...4ç 34ç Bengals..............8:00 sweet 13-5 record, but that was when the W L Pct. GB 20. Washington ......................0- 0 449- an option to renew through 2022-23.
SATURDAY Cubs were the Cubs. Rizzo gone! Bryant Las Vegas ........................16 6 .727 — 21. Texas ................................0- 0 350 19
Favorite Line O/U Underdog Time gone! Baez gone! Kimbrel gone! Pederson Seattle .............................16 6 .727 — 22. Coastal Carolina .............0- 0 232 14 COLLEGES
BEARS ...............4ç 38ç Bills.....................1:00 gone! Chicago lost ELEVEN in a row heading Minnesota .......................13 7 .650 2 23. Louisiana-Lafayette .......0- 0 208 15 NYU — Named David Thompson head coach
Jets ....................1ç 33ç PACKERS ..........4:25 Phoenix............................10 10 .500 5 24. Utah....................................0- 0 176- men's and women's track and field and assistant
into last night's game, and can not see a way
Dallas ................................9 13 .409 7 25. Arizona St. ........................0- 0 125- coach men's and women's cross country.
DOLPHINS .........5 37ç Falcons .............7:00 for this skeleton crew to post a W. Cincy for
Los Angeles ......................7 13 .350 8 Also Receiving Votes: Oklahoma St. 107, THIEL — Named Mike Winslow football running
Ravens ...............3ç 35 PANTHERS ........7:00 the money!
SUNDAY backs coach.
STEELERS ..........6ç 37ç Lions ..................7:30 Mississippi 106, Texas Christian 40, Liberty
BUCS ..................2ç 36ç Titans .................7:30 THE FOOTBALL PICK Connecticut 80, Dallas 59 36, Auburn 32, NC St. 14, Michigan 12, North-
COWBOYS .........4 37ç Texans ..............8:00 If you're wondering why the Raiders are -7 Chicago 87, Seattle 85, OT western 8, Nevada 7, Boise St. 7, Ball St. 6, AUTORACING
VIKINGS .............2ç 37ç Colts ..................8:00 points over the Rams this Saturday, it looks Phoenix 92, Atlanta 81 Brigham Young 6, Central Florida 5, Houston
Raiders ..............7 35 Chiefs.................8:30 like Jon Gruden wants to ROLL! If you didn't Las Vegas 84, Washington 83 5, Boston College 5, West Virginia 3, UCLA 2, NASCAR CUP SERIES SCHEDULE
Broncos .............6 37ç SEAHAWKS ....10:00 catch the Vegas game against the Seahawks, Minnesota 88, New York 78 Army 2, Alabama-Birmingham 2. Sun., Aug. 22 — FireKeepers Casino 400 (Michi-
Gruden left Nathan Peterman in for the EN- Los Angeles 75, Indiana 70 gan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Mich.)
SUNDAY
Favorite Line O/U Underdog Time TIRE game! Peterman was pretty sharp, com- MONDAY 2021 SCHEDULES Sat., Aug. 28 — Coke Zero Sugar 400 (Daytona In-
ternational Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla.)
BROWNS ............6 35ç Giants ...............1:00 pleting 29 of 39 for 246 yards, and LV gobbled No games scheduled. PENN ST.
TUESDAY PLAYOFFS
49ers ..................4ç 34ç CHARGERS .......7:30 up 158 yards on the ground. Then we looked Remaining times, TV info TBA
ROUND OF 16
at the Rams first game against the Chargers, Minnesota at Connecticut, 7 Sat., Sept. 4 ........@Wisconsin .......(FOX) 12:00
Sun., Sept. 5 — Southern 500 (Darlington Race-
BOXING and they EXPLODED for SIX points. Obviously, Dallas at Chicago, 8 Sat., Sept. 11 ......Ball St.......................(FS1) 3:30 way, Darlington, S.C.)
SATURDAY, SEPT. 25 Sean McVay could care less about the pre- Indiana at Phoenix, 10 Sat., Sept. 18 ......Auburn ..................(ABC) 7:30 Sat., Sept. 11 — Federated Auto Parts 400 (Rich-
WBC, IBF welterweight title season, which is why his spread record is just Washington at Las Vegas, 10 Sat., Sept. 25 ......Villanova ...........................TBD mond Raceway, Richmond, Va.)
Las Vegas 6-6-1, while Gruden is a money-maker at Atlanta at Los Angeles, 10:30 Sat., Oct. 2 ..........Indiana .............................TBD Sat., Sept. 18 — Bass Pro Shops Night Race (Bris-
Favorite Underdog 23-12-3. McVay started Devlin 'Duck' Hodges WEDNESDAY Sat., Oct. 9 ..........@Iowa ...............................TBD tol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.)
Pacquiao .....—320 Ugas ................+260 at QB and followed with Bryce Perkins. What Seattle at New York, 7 Sat., Oct. 16 ........Bye ROUND OF 12
WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight title & Who? No sign of Matthew Stafford. Not sure THURSDAY Sat., Oct. 23 ........Illinois ................................TBD Sun., Sept. 26 — South Point 400 (Las Vegas Mo-
London if we'll see a Stafford sighting, so check dur- Minnesota at Connecticut, 7 Sat., Oct. 30 ........@Ohio St. ..........................TBD tor Speedway, Las Vegas)
Favorite Underdog ing the week, because if we do, that PLUS 7 Washington at Phoenix, 10 Sat., Nov. 6 ..........@Maryland .......................TBD Sun., Oct. 3 — YellaWood 500 (Talladega Super-
Joshua ........—260 Usyk .................+220 looks kinda tasty. Atlanta at Los Angeles, 10:30 Sat., Nov. 13 ........Michigan ...........................TBD speedway, Talladega, Ala.)
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Poconos: Heavy showers Tuesday. High 73 to 78. A
thunderstorm in spots early Tuesday night, then some
HOME GAME * PRESEASON rain and a t-storm.
Jersey Shore: Clouds and sun Tuesday with a couple of
TUESDAY Tennis on Tennis Channel High 84 Low 74 83 74 87 74 84 72 showers; humid. High 80 to 84. Mostly cloudy Tuesday
night.
TV/Radio ¢ ATP/WTA: Cincinnati, 11 a.m. Humid with heavy Humid with a Humid with a A couple of heavy Humid with a
Delaware: Humid Tuesday with clouds and sun; an
WNBA showers shower in spots heavy shower t-storms stray t-storm
Baseball afternoon thunderstorm in spots. High 81 to 85.
¢ Phillies at Diamondbacks, ¢ Wings at Sky, 8 p.m.; Mystics at
9:30 p.m. (NBCSP; WIP-FM 94.1) Aces, 10 p.m. (CBSSN); Dream at Saturday Sunday Monday Next Tues. Next Wed. Manasquan to Cape Henlopen: Wind southeast 6-12
¢ Red Sox at Yankees, Game 1, Sparks, 10:30 p.m. (NBA TV) knots Tuesday. Seas 1-3 feet. Visibility under 2 miles in a
1 p.m.; Game 2, 7 p.m. (MLB Local Events thunderstorm.
Network) Delaware Bay: Wind southeast at 6-12 knots Tuesday.
Minor League Baseball
Summer League Basketball Seas 1-3 feet. Visibility under 2 miles in showers.
¢ Reading Phillies vs. Bowie
¢ 76ers vs. Jazz, 3:30 p.m. (NBA
TV)
Baysox, 7:05 p.m., FirstEnergy
Stadium
88 73 90 72 88 71 87 69 86 68 Cape Henlopen to Va. Beach: Wind from the south-
Humid with a Humid with clouds Mostly sunny and Partly sunny Partly sunny southeast at 4-8 knots Tuesday. Seas 1-3 feet. Visibility
Soccer ¢ Jersey Shore BlueClaws vs. stray t-storm and sun humid generally clear.
¢ Liga MX: Puebla FC at Tijuana, Asheville Tourists, 7:05 p.m.,
10 p.m. (FS1) FirstEnergy Park Forecasts and graphics provided by
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Little League Softball Horse Racing
¢ World Series: semifinals, 4 p.m., ¢ Parx Racing, 12:55 p.m., Seattle
7 p.m. (ESPN2) Bensalem 73/55 Winnipeg
90/68 Montreal Bangor
Portland 76/69 83/64
Billings
76/57
AT A GLANCE
94/56
Minneapolis
Boise Rapid City 90/70 Boston
81/53 104/67 Detroit 82/70

Alabama again No. 1 82/69 Toronto New York

80/68 79/73
Chicago
84/70
Pittsburgh

in AP preseason poll
San Francisco Salt Lake City Omaha Philadelphia
97/63 Denver 91/71 St. Louis 76/68 84/74
70/56 87/72
Las Vegas 96/64 Washington
105/82 86/75
Kansas City
87/70
Los Angeles Charlotte
ASSOCIATED PRESS ed him sixth overall in 85/69 81/72
Another college football 2014. Albuquerque Memphis Atlanta
season will start with ev- Smart, 27, averaged ca- Phoenix 87/67 89/75 78/70
eryone chasing the Tide. reer highs in points (13.1), 96/78
Dallas
El Paso 89/74 FRED
Alabama is No. 1 in the assists (5.7), blocks (0.5) 85/70
Associated Press Top 25 and minutes (32.9) for the
preseason poll for fourth Celtics last season. Orlando
New Orleans 93/77
time in the past six sea- y Restricted free-agent Houston 92/79
sons. guard Josh Hart is closing 93/78
Miami
Coming off its sixth na- in on a three-year, $38 mil- 90/81
tional championship un- lion agreement to stay
der Nick Saban, the Crim- with the New Orleans Peli- Shown are Tuesday’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
son Tide enters the season cans, according to an
loaded with potential re- ESPN report.
placements for the record- The former Villanova
breakers and NFL draft star averaged 9.2 points,
picks who have moved on, 8.0 rebounds and 2.3 as-
including Heisman Trophy sists in 28.7 minutes over
winner DeVonta Smith, 47 games last season with SUN+MOON REGIONAL+U.S. CITIES
now playing for the Ea- the Pelicans. Sun rises 6:15 a.m., sets 7:55 p.m. Moon rises 4:21 p.m., sets 12:47 a.m. Bold = in our region; s=sunny, pc=partly cloudy, c=cloudy, sh=showers, t=thunderstorms, r=rain, sf=snow flurries, sn=snow, i-ice
gles. City Tues. Wed. Thur. City Tues. Wed. Thur.
Alabama received 47 of Tennis Albany 72/66/r 76/66/sh 74/66/t Las Vegas 105/82/pc 99/75/t 97/77/s
63 first-place votes from In addition to donating Albuquerque 87/67/t 85/63/t 85/64/pc Lincoln 91/71/s 92/70/pc 91/71/pc
the panel of sports writers prize money to relief ef- Allentown 80/70/sh 80/70/sh 82/68/t Los Angeles 85/69/pc 76/66/pc 76/63/pc
and broadcasters forts in Haiti following a Anchorage 58/52/r 61/53/pc 63/54/pc Memphis 89/75/pc 85/74/t 86/75/t
Atlanta 78/70/r 88/73/t 86/72/t Miami 90/81/sh 91/80/t 91/78/s
Oklahoma is No. 2, just deadly earthquake, tennis Full: Aug 22 Last: Aug 30 New: Sept 6 First: Sept 13 Atlantic City 82/76/sh 79/76/c 84/77/t Milwaukee 81/68/pc 81/68/t 84/69/pc
ahead of No. 3 Clemson star Naomi Osaka said she Baltimore 86/74/t 86/74/t 90/73/t Minneapolis 90/70/s 90/72/s 93/74/pc
(each received six first- plans to do more. TUESDAY’S TIDES Boston 82/70/pc 82/72/c 78/71/sh New Orleans 92/79/t 92/79/t 92/79/pc
place votes). “I feel like I’m not really Buffalo 80/69/t 82/69/sh 82/69/t New York 79/73/sh 81/73/sh 80/72/t
Philadelphia (Chestnut St.) Atlantic City (Steel Pier) Charleston, S.C. 84/76/t 87/76/t 89/75/sh Orlando 93/77/t 93/77/t 93/76/t
Ohio State, which lost to doing that much,” Osaka Charlotte 81/72/r 88/73/t 90/71/t Phoenix 96/78/t 96/78/t 98/78/s
High: 9:34 a.m., 10:03 p.m. High: 3:06 a.m., 3:51 p.m.
the Tide in last season’s said. “I’m trying to figure Low: 4:10 a.m., 4:17 p.m. Low: 9:13 a.m., 10:22 p.m. Chicago 84/70/pc 84/69/t 88/70/t Pittsburgh 76/68/t 76/69/t 81/67/t
championship game, is out what I can do. The Cincinnati 80/67/t 84/69/t 82/68/t Portland, Maine 79/67/pc 80/68/sh 82/67/sh
Delaware Breakwater Little Egg Inlet
No. 4 after receiving a first- prize money thing was the High: 7:07 a.m., 7:41 p.m. High: 4:09 a.m., 4:45 p.m.
Cleveland 80/68/t 81/68/t 81/67/t Portland, Ore. 76/57/s 83/59/s 84/62/s
Dallas 89/74/t 87/76/t 90/77/t Richmond 86/73/t 86/74/t 90/73/t
place vote. Georgia received first thing I thought I Low: 1:46 a.m., 1:51 p.m. Low: 10:07 a.m., 11:14 p.m. Denver 96/64/s 95/61/t 79/56/t St. Thomas 89/82/pc 89/82/t 89/79/pc
three first-place votes and could do that would raise Des Moines 87/68/pc 89/70/pc 90/71/pc St. Louis 87/72/pc 90/73/pc 89/74/pc
Cape May Barnegat Inlet
rounds out the top five. the most awareness. I High: 3:39 a.m., 4:24 p.m. High: 3:23 a.m., 3:59 p.m. Detroit 82/69/c 82/68/sh 83/68/t Salisbury 85/74/t 86/74/t 88/73/t
Penn State is ranked guess that is the reason I Low: 9:32 a.m., 10:41 p.m. Low: 9:44 a.m., 10:48 p.m. Harrisburg 84/74/t 82/73/t 85/72/t Salt Lake City 97/63/t 72/55/t 72/57/t
Helena 74/49/pc 54/47/r 69/52/pc San Diego 79/72/pc 77/70/pc 76/68/pc
No. 19. announced it.” Honolulu 87/74/sh 88/76/s 88/76/pc San Francisco 70/56/s 74/57/s 73/57/s
The 2020 Buckeyes were A 7.2-magnitude earth- AIR QUALITY Houston 93/78/t 91/79/t 94/78/t San Juan 89/79/pc 88/79/t 88/79/pc
emblematic of a bizarre sea- quake struck the region on The worst pollutant in the region Monday was not available.
Indianapolis 82/69/t 83/69/t 85/68/pc Scranton 78/70/r 77/70/t 79/68/t
son played through the pan- Saturday, with an estimat- Jackson, Miss. 91/74/pc 91/74/t 87/74/t Seattle 73/55/pc 79/58/s 80/60/s
Jackson Hole 82/53/c 65/43/c 61/40/sh Tampa 91/80/t 93/79/t 92/78/t
demic, suiting up for only ed death toll of 1,400. Monday’s Mon. Jacksonville 89/75/t 91/74/t 92/74/pc Washington 86/75/t 85/75/t 87/75/t
Good (G) ................................... 0-50 Pollution Index High
eight games after the Big On Saturday night, Osa- Moderate (M) .......................51-100 Tues. Kansas City 87/70/pc 89/70/c 88/73/pc Wilmington 83/73/t 83/74/sh 87/72/t
Ten didn’t kick off until late ka tweeted her decision to Unhealthful/sensitive (S)101-150 Bristol ..............G48 OZ G
October. The season was rid- donate her prize money Unhealthful (U).................151-200 Burlington.......G45 OZ N.A.
dled with postponements, from this week’s U.S. Open
Very Unhealthful (V) .......201-300 Camden...........G46 OZ
Hazardous (H)...................301-500 Chester............G45 OZ
G FOREIGN CITIES
G
cancellations, and players tune-up tournament in Carbon monoxide .................CO Norristown......G48 OZ G City Tues. Wed. Thur. City Tues. Wed. Thur.
and coaches missing games Nitrogen dioxide .................. NO Philadelphia ...G45 OZ
Ohio. G
Particulates.............................PA Trenton............G48 OZ N.A. Acapulco 87/76/t 89/77/t 89/77/t Kuwait City 114/87/pc 112/84/s 110/82/s
across the country because Osaka, who has a Hai- Sulfur Dioxide ........................SO Amsterdam 63/58/r 69/60/sh 68/57/sh London 68/58/c 69/55/c 70/58/sh
of COVID-19. There was lit- tian father and Japanese Ozone ......................................OZ Wilmington ....G48 OZ G
Aruba 91/81/pc 91/81/t 90/80/t Madrid 94/63/s 95/65/s 96/64/s
tle nonconference play and mother, has an opening- Ozone forecast available at 1-800-872-7261 and www.dvrpc.org. Athens 93/76/s 94/76/s 94/76/t Manila 92/79/pc 91/78/t 90/78/t
Auckland 63/51/r 57/48/r 59/49/pc Melbourne 58/45/c 60/48/c 61/50/pc
none among Power Five con- round bye in Cincinnati. Monday’s pollen information:
Baghdad 107/79/pc 108/78/pc 110/79/pc Mexico City 73/58/t 76/59/t 77/56/t
ference teams. She will face the winner of Grasses .............................................. ................................................... low
Bangkok 94/78/pc 95/79/s 95/79/pc Milan 85/66/pc 86/67/s 86/67/s
Ragweed ........................................... ................................................... low
Amid all the chaos and Tuesday’s match between Other weeds .................................... ........................................ moderate
Barbados 88/81/pc 88/79/s 87/79/sh Montreal 76/69/r 82/68/sh 86/69/sh
frustration was a familiar Coco Gauff and qualifier Barcelona 78/69/s 79/69/s 80/70/s Moscow 86/65/c 86/60/t 71/58/c
Trees .................................................. ................................................... low
Beijing 85/68/pc 83/73/r 77/71/r Nairobi 72/56/c 74/56/c 75/56/t
ending: The season came to Hsieh Su-Wei. Mold spores ...................................... ........................................ moderate
Berlin 65/53/sh 70/58/sh 71/58/c Nassau 90/81/c 91/80/pc 89/79/pc
a close with Alabama on SOURCE: www.asthmacenter.com Bermuda 87/80/pc 88/81/pc 88/80/t New Delhi 100/82/pc 98/82/pc 93/81/t
top. NHL Brussels 62/58/r 69/58/sh 70/56/sh Paris 71/59/c 72/60/c 75/58/pc
Alabama is now tied with The Nashville Predators PHILADELPHIA ALMANAC Budapest 72/56/pc 76/55/pc 80/58/pc Prague 66/52/pc 69/55/sh 72/57/pc
Buenos Aires 62/56/pc 68/58/pc 64/51/t Rio de Janeiro 80/68/s 81/68/s 82/68/s
Ohio State for the second- have signed goaltender Temperatures Monday’s Barometer Cairo 97/75/s 95/74/s 98/76/s Rome 86/72/s 87/72/s 87/71/s
most preseason No. 1 rank- Juuse Saros to a four-year, High Monday ......... 82 (1:00 p.m.) 6 a.m. ........................ 30.17 steady Cancun 90/78/s 90/75/t 84/77/r St. Petersburg 79/59/c 72/60/pc 67/57/c
ings with eight. Oklahoma $20 million contract. Record high ................... 98 (1997) Noon .......................... 30.20 steady Copenhagen 66/58/r 66/57/c 68/56/sh Seoul 90/70/pc 88/72/pc 88/72/c
Humidity at 4 p.m. .................. 66% 4 p.m. ......................... 30.16 falling Dubai 109/91/s 108/92/s 106/91/s Shanghai 86/75/pc 88/75/t 88/77/s
has the most with 10. Saros, 26, is coming off Low Monday ......... 71 (4:30 a.m.) Daylight sky conditions: 100% Dublin 64/54/c 63/52/c 63/54/c Singapore 84/76/sh 84/76/sh 84/76/sh
his best season yet in his Record low .................... 53 (1979) clouds with 0% sunshine Havana 90/77/t 88/74/r 90/72/r Stockholm 60/47/r 59/50/r 61/47/pc
NBA five-year NHL career. He Normal high/low ................ 86/68 Precipitation in Inches Hong Kong 90/82/t 89/82/t 89/80/pc Sydney 64/46/s 65/48/s 70/49/pc
The Los Angeles Clip- went 21-11-1 in 36 games High/low Aug. 16, 2020 ... 74/67 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. Mon. .... 0.00 Istanbul 88/73/s 87/73/s 85/72/pc Taipei City 95/81/t 88/78/t 91/78/t
pers have brought back with career bests in wins, Cooling degree days Month to date .......................... 1.42 Jerusalem 83/72/s 82/71/s 82/70/s Tokyo 80/76/sh 86/78/s 88/78/pc
This year ................................. 1076 Year to date .......................... 27.53 Johannesburg 66/50/s 69/49/s 70/43/s Toronto 80/68/sh 79/70/pc 80/69/t
guard Eric Bledsoe to the 35 starts, a 2.28 goals- Last year ................................. 1144 Normal year to date ............ 27.36 Kabul 91/63/s 93/64/s 92/62/s Vancouver 72/56/s 71/59/pc 73/60/s
team where he started his against average and a .927 Normal year .............................. 999 Surplus ................................... +0.17 Kuala Lumpur 86/74/r 84/74/sh 83/74/t Warsaw 67/54/c 69/57/pc 72/56/pc
NBA career. save percentage. He fin-
A trade with the Mem- ished sixth in the Vezina
phis Grizzlies announced Trophy voting for best NFL
Monday sends Bledsoe to goalie and 11th in the Hart

Falcons first team to be 100% vaccinated

the Clippers for guards
Patrick Beverley and Ra-
jon Rondo and center
Daniel Oturu. Bledsoe
spent his first three sea-
sons in Los Angeles after
being the 18th pick overall
out of Kentucky in 2010 be-
fore going to Phoenix, Mil-
waukee and New Orleans.
Memphis only acquired
Bledsoe in a trade July 26
with New Orleans that
also brought the Grizzlies
center Steven Adams in ex-
change for center Jonas
Valanciunas along with a
swap of multiple draft
picks.
Bledsoe averaged 12.2
points, 3.8 assists and 3.4
rebounds in his lone sea-
son with the Pelicans.
y Boston Celtics guard
Marcus Smart has agreed
to a four-year, $77 million
contract extension, ESPN
reported.
Smart has played his en-
tire seven-year career
with the Celtics, who draft-
Trophy voting for most
valuable player.
y The Minnesota Wild
have signed Kevin Fiala to
a $5.1 million, one-year
contract.
Fiala, 25, had 20 goals
and 20 assists in 50 games
last season with the Wild,
leading the team with five
game-winning goals and
41 takeaways. He has 101
points in 133 games over
two-plus seasons since
Minnesota acquired him
from Nashville for Mikael
Granlund just before the
2019 trade deadline.
Fiala has 91 goals and
198 points since the Preda-
tors drafted him No. 11
overall in 2014.
y The Flyers and the
ECHL Reading Royals an-
nounced a new affiliation
agreement between both
teams. The extension goes
through the 2021-22 sea-
son with an option to re-
new for the 2022-23 sea-
son.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Cominsky was injured in that Walton died Sunday. Trace McSorley is expected
The Atlanta Falcons the third quarter of Friday No cause of death was to miss a few weeks be-
have become the first night’s 23-3 loss to the Ten- provided. cause of back problems.
NFL team to have all of nessee Titans. Walton, a native of Bea- The Ravens announced
its players complete COV- The Falcons have re- ver Falls, Pa. — the home- they had signed quarter-
ID-19 vaccinations. leased linebacker George town of Pro Football Hall back Kenji Bahar, but Mc-
The Falcons opened Obinna and offensive line- of Famer Joe Namath — Sorley’s injury leaves
training camp with more man Bryce Hargrove and coached the Jets for sev- Tyler Huntley as the clear
than 90% of their players waived-injured wide re- en years and went 53-57-1 top option to back up
vaccinated, and they con- ceiver J’Mon Moore. The while leading New York Lamar Jackson for the
firmed Monday they team also has waived de- to the playoffs twice. time being.
reached 100%. The NFL fensive lineman John At- y Dick Schafrath, a star
announced the Falcons kins, cornerback Marcus Cleveland injuries
offensive tackle for the
were the first team to Murphy and offensive The Browns placed
Cleveland Browns who
reach 100%. lineman William Sweet. tight end Stephen Carlson
blocked for Hall of Fame
on injured reserve after
Atlanta becomes the first running backs Jim
Obituaries he suffered a season-end-
team able to have all its Brown, Leroy Kelly and
ing knee injury in Satur-
players not wear masks Joe Walton, the former Bobby Mitchell before go-
day night’s exhibition
around the facility and eat New York Jets coach who ing into politics after retir-
opener at Jacksonville.
and work out together. built Robert Morris Uni- ing, has died. He was 84.
Wide receiver Ryan
Meanwhile, defensive versity’s football program The team said Schafrath Switzer went on IR with a
end John Cominsky has from the ground up, has died on Sunday night. No foot injury. He caught a
been placed in the concus- died. He was 85. cause of death was given. touchdown pass in the
sion protocol and will Robert Morris an- fourth quarter of the
miss this week’s pre- nounced in an obituary Ravens’ McSorley out Browns’ 23-13 win over
season game at Miami. posted on its website Baltimore quarterback the Jaguars.