De’Von Achane is formally listed as questionable for Thursday evening with an ankle harm. Nevertheless, there may be a variety of optimism that he’ll go. (I do know, I do know. You’ve heard this earlier than Look away, Christian McCaffrey managers).

Achane was seen practising in restricted trend Wednesday with out favoring his ankle a lot in any respect. Raheem Mostert has already been dominated out for this contest, in order that would appear to go away a variety of alternative for Achane tonight. 

However I am not going to start out Achane in normal scoring leagues (PPR is one other story) even when he does go well with up in opposition to the Buffalo Payments.

The Miami Dolphins run sport had hassle getting moving into Week 1, however Achane emerged as a risk within the passing sport. Although he averaged simply 2.4 yards per try, he caught seven passes for 76 yards and scored a speeding landing. The versatile risk may give the Payments protection some hassle. The Payments allowed six catches for 64 yards with an 85.7% catch price to Cardinals runners in Week 1. 

In PPR leagues, I might begin Achane if he’s out there. These catches may add up rapidly because the BIlls protection will probably be centered on Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle on the surface, and stress on Tagovailoa may additionally result in some dump offs.

Nevertheless, in normal leagues the place you want a TD to essentially rack up the factors if he cannot get it occurring the bottom, I would depart him on the bench.

With the danger of re-injury excessive, I might count on Jeff WIlson Jr. to have a large share of the carries and be prioritized on the purpose line. Until the Dolphins march down the sector instantly after which punch it in, the longer Achane performs, the upper his threat of harm. I wouldn’t sweat that out for a rating. Wilson has been very efficient on the purpose line in his profession. He was additionally the Dolphins best runner in Week 1, taking 5 carries later within the sport. The veteran posted 26 yards on 5 carries for a median of greater than 5 yards per carry.

Hold your eye on the standing of rookie Jaylen Wright on this sport, too. Wright was a wholesome inactive in Week 1, however fantasy managers would like to see him get his likelihood after a formidable preseason.

The fourth-round decide for the Dolphins has the attribute Mike McDaniels loves most: velocity. He’s an ideal match for this technique, and certain only one harm away from alternative. In his first preseason sport, Wright ran for 55 yards and a landing on ten carries.

Keep in mind the Payments are usually not a simple matchup, permitting simply 63 yards to opposing runners in Week 1. 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola has sued Selection, saying {that a} July story that mentioned he ran an unprofessional set with impunity and touching and tried to kiss feminine extras throughout the manufacturing of his movie “Megalopolis” was false and libelous.

The go well with, which seeks not less than $15 million from the leisure commerce publication, was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket on Wednesday, two weeks earlier than the director’s long-dreamed-of and self-financed epic is to be launched in U.S. theaters.

The go well with calls the director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” a “inventive genius” and says others are “jealous” and due to this fact inform “realizing and reckless falsehoods.”

It says Selection’s “writers and editors, hiding behind supposedly nameless sources, accused Coppola of manifest incompetence as a movement image director, of unprofessional conduct on the set of his most up-to-date manufacturing, Megalopolis, of organising some sort of scheme in order that anybody on the set who had a criticism of harassment or in any other case had nowhere to lodge a criticism, and of hugging topless actresses on the set. Every of those accusations was false.”

The lawsuit additionally names the story’s reporters, Brent Lang and Tatiana Siegel, as defendants.

It repeatedly says Selection was both knowingly publicizing falsehoods or exhibiting reckless disregard for the reality, echoing an ordinary for libel established by the U.S. Supreme Court docket.

A Selection spokesperson, Jeffrey Schneider, informed The Related Press, “Whereas we is not going to touch upon lively litigation, we stand by our reporters.”

The July 26 story used nameless experiences and movies from crew members of the taking pictures for “Megalopolis” of a nightclub scene in an Atlanta live performance corridor in February, 2023. The story mentioned Coppola tried to kiss younger feminine extras and “appeared to behave with impunity” on the set. It mentioned the movie’s monetary preparations meant “there have been not one of the conventional checks and balances in place.”

In a single video, Coppola, carrying a white go well with, walks by way of a dancing crowd, stopping to apparently lean in to a number of younger ladies to hug them, kiss them on the cheek or whisper to them. One other video reveals him leaning into a lady who pulls away and shakes her head.

The entire ladies have tops on, and the Selection story mentions “topless” extras solely in reference to an unique report on the allegations within the Guardian.

In a subsequent story a few week later, which is talked about solely parenthetically in Coppola’s lawsuit, one of many ladies, Lauren Pagone, spoke to Selection and agreed to be recognized, saying Coppola left her “in shock” when he touched, hugged and kissed her with out her consent.

Pagone mentioned she got here ahead as a result of one other of the extras, Rayna Menz, mentioned in Selection’s sister publication Deadline that Coppola did nothing to make her or anybody else on the set uncomfortable.

The AP doesn’t sometimes identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly as Pagone has.

Requested concerning the touching and kissing allegations by The AP earlier than the lawsuit was filed, Coppola mentioned, “I don’t even need to (speak about it). It’s a waste of time.”

Later in the identical interview, with out being requested concerning the topic once more, Coppola mentioned “I’m very respectful of girls. I at all times have been. My mom taught me — she was somewhat nuts — she mentioned, ‘Francis if you happen to ever make a go at a lady, which means you disrespect her.’ So I by no means did.”

The lawsuit takes explicit problem with an assertion within the Selection story that Coppola inadvertently obtained right into a shot and ruined it. The go well with says Coppola was effectively conscious that some digital camera angles would come with him, and that he was supposed to seem within the scene anyway.

“The common reader would perceive that Coppola was so aged and infirm that he not knew direct a movement image,” the go well with says.

“Megalopolis” is a Roman epic set in a futuristic New York starring Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel. Coppola offered off items of his appreciable wine empire to largely finance it himself.

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AP Movie Author Jake Coyle contributed to this report.

OPINION|

Within the spring of 1989, towards the top of my eighth-grade yr and earlier than my development spurt, “Area of Goals” launched. The baseball-ish film featured Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Ray Liotta, and, for 10 minutes, Dwier Brown. I don’t truly keep in mind the primary time I noticed the film.  

I discover that truth humorous.

The primary time I visited the Area of Goals Film Website in Dyersville, Iowa, I went with Dad. It was 2018 and totally in the midst of my first catch-playing yr. We headed north by way of Kansas Metropolis and watched the Royals lose a recreation on the best way. We went on the invitation of Akron, Ohio journalist Bob Dyer who was connecting me to one among his readers, Stan Sipka, also called “the outdated man who walks alongside the seaside carrying gloves asking individuals to play catch with him.”

I discover that truth humorous, too.

Mates like Garry. Garry’s dad handed away a few years in the past. Garry has the newspaper clipping of the day his dad caught Satchel Paige in a barnstorming recreation. Garry additionally has the invitation his father obtained to attend “spring coaching” in Sizzling Springs, Arkansas. The invitation was signed by Honus Wagner. It was enjoyable listening to Garry share these recollections.

Mates like Minnesota Twins followers, John and Suzanne. I politely interrupted their recreation of catch so I may take part. Suzanne performed first base and used the identical first base mitt mannequin Twins’ nice Kent Hrbek used. So, I threw her brief hops and watched her scoop and choose each single one with a smile and with out lacking a beat. Then, I performed catch with John as he advised me the story of the entire recreation shutout he pitched his senior yr of highschool. Taking part in catch is a good way to make and share recollections.

It was similar to James Earl Jones — who died Sept. 9 — as Terence Mann mentioned, “The recollections shall be so thick, they’ll need to brush them away from their faces.” (Jamie and I heard him say this on the VHS film performed on the TV in the home as a part of the tour.)

Earlier than the on-field, under-the-stars screening of “Rally Caps,” Coach Ballgame hosted a Sandlot Clinic, with the assistance of a number of of the Ghost Gamers. Coach Ballgame, also called James Lowe, travels the nation conducting Sandlot Clinics, educating life classes by way of baseball and educating these new to the sport concerning the heroic Roberto Clemente. With humor and story and interactive workout routines, Coach Ballgame celebrates the enjoyment of each ballplayer, no matter their baseball capability.

He’s had 4 open-heart surgical procedures and is ready for the decision to go to Philadelphia for a 10-plus hour surgical procedure to restore among the after-effects of his newest coronary heart surgical procedure. Tim and Bigby met us on the discipline so we may make new recollections collectively.

Like working the bases and enjoying ball in Coach Ballgame’s Sandlot Clinic.

Like enjoying catch on the sector through the largest recreation of catch and exploring the well-known outfield-fence corn.

Like speaking about all of the necessary issues in life — films and books and fifth-grade academics and being 10 years outdated.

Bigby hasn’t but seen “Area of Goals,” so he doesn’t absolutely perceive the importance of the place the place we performed catch. He doesn’t know the query Kevin Costner requested Dwier Brown that tugs on the center strings of virtually each one that has ever watched the film — “Hey! Dad? You wish to have a catch?”

However that doesn’t imply he gained’t keep in mind the afternoon we spent collectively enjoying ball underneath the late-summer child blue Iowa sky.

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian police say a famend portrait of Winston Churchill that was reported stolen from an Ottawa lodge has been tracked down in Italy.

Investigators will journey to Rome later this month to retrieve the 1941 portrait of the British chief taken by Ottawa photographer Yousuf Karsh, police mentioned in a information launch.

“As soon as in Ottawa police custody, the portrait shall be prepared for the final step of its journey house to the Fairmont Château Laurier, the place it’ll as soon as once more be displayed as a notable historic portrait,” police mentioned.

Police mentioned “The Roaring Lion” was stolen from the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, someday between Christmas Day 2021 and Jan. 6, 2022, and changed with a forgery. The swap was solely uncovered months later, in August, when a lodge employee observed the body was not hung correctly and appeared completely different than the others.

“It was decided that the portrait was bought by means of an public sale home in London to a purchaser in Italy, each of whom have been unaware that the piece was stolen,” the discharge mentioned. “With the assistance of public suggestions, forensic evaluation, and worldwide co-operation, investigators tracked down the person accountable for the theft.”

At a press convention on the lodge Wednesday afternoon, Geneviève Dumas, common supervisor of the Fairmont Château Laurier, mentioned the theft occurred on the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“All the things was closed, and we narrowed the hole to 12 days,” Dumas mentioned. “The best way that occurred, there was no one within the lodge and we found it solely eight months later.”

Ottawa police Det. Akiva Gellar mentioned the portrait was recovered after “a really intensive investigation” that took greater than two years however provided few specifics.

A lot of the investigation is “nonetheless very delicate as a result of the matter is earlier than the courts,” he mentioned.

“Quite a lot of the main points about how we discovered it, and additional particulars shall be launched throughout the ceremony in Rome,” mentioned Gellar. “And later down the highway, as soon as we’ve got the portrait again in Canada, we will converse extra about that.”

Police arrested a 43-year-old man from Powassan, Ontario, in April and have charged him with stealing and trafficking the portrait.

The person, whose title is protected by a publication ban, faces costs that embrace forgery, theft over $5,000 and trafficking in property obtained by crime exceeding $5,000.

The well-known picture was taken by Karsh throughout Churchill’s wartime go to to the Canadian Parliament in December 1941.

It helped launch the profession of Karsh, who photographed of among the twentieth century’s most famed icons, together with Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein and Queen Elizabeth.

A tech billionaire carried out the primary personal spacewalk lots of of miles above Earth on Thursday, a high-risk endeavor reserved for skilled astronauts — till now.

New Jersey-born entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to check the corporate’s new spacesuits on his chartered flight. The daring spacewalk additionally noticed SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis going out as soon as Isaacman was safely again inside.

So who’s Isaacman, and the way’d he pull that off?

Isaacman, 41, CEO and founding father of the Shift4 credit score card-processing firm, has declined to reveal how a lot he invested within the flight. It was the primary of three flights in a program he’s dubbed Polaris; this one was referred to as Polaris Daybreak. For SpaceX’s inaugural personal flight in 2021, he took up contest winners and a most cancers survivor.

Till Thursday, solely 263 folks had carried out a spacewalk, representing 12 international locations. The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked it off in 1965, adopted a couple of months later by NASA’s Ed White.

Isaacman began taking flying classes in 2004 and set a world document for circumnavigating the globe 5 years later.

He earned a bachelor’s diploma in skilled aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical College in 2011 and is a married dad to 2 daughters.

In keeping with Forbes, Isaacman began Shift4 within the basement of his dad and mom’ New Jersey residence in 1999. He was 16 years outdated on the time. Shift4 handles funds for a 3rd of America’s eating places and accommodations.

Isaacman took it public in June 2020 and owns 38% of the inventory, based on Forbes.

In 2011, he began Draken Worldwide, a protection agency that boasts the globe’s largest personal army plane fleet and trains Air Pressure pilots. He later bought a majority stake for a nine-figure sum, Forbes experiences.

Isaacman is price an estimated $1.9 billion.

American entrepreneur and billionaire Jared Isaacman turned the primary non-professional astronaut to stroll in area on Thursday.

The 41-year-old bankrolled the Polaris Daybreak mission that launched him and three others into area aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship.

Value an estimated $1.9bn (£1.46bn), Mr Isaacman made his fortune from fee processing firm Shift4 Funds, which he based in 1999 aged 16.

The businessman had lengthy been keen about flying, first taking pilot classes in 2004 and later setting a world report for circumnavigating the world in a light-weight jet.

Stepping out into area for his first time on Thursday, the businessman mentioned: “Again at residence all of us have a whole lot of work to do.

“However from right here Earth positive appears to be like like an ideal world.”

SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis additionally did a spacewalk after Isaacman returned.

Ms Gillis, the violinist-turned-aerospace-engineer, is the Polaris Daybreak’s mission specialist.

Polaris Daybreak just isn’t Mr Isaacman’s first area mission. In 2021, he bankrolled and led the primary non-public, all-civilian staff to ever orbit the Earth.

That crew – named Inspiration4 – left on a SpaceX capsule from Florida and spent three days in area earlier than splashing down efficiently within the Atlantic Ocean.

Time journal estimated that Mr Isaacman paid $200m (£153m) to fellow billionaire Elon Musk for all 4 seats aboard the SpaceX craft.

“That was a heck of a experience for us,” Mr Isaacman radioed shortly after touchdown on the time. “We’re simply getting began.”

Mr Isaacman was born in Union, New Jersey, the place, from an early age, he wasn’t afraid to go in opposition to the grain and push boundaries.

On the age of 15, he dropped out of highschool and later took a GED (a high-school equivalency examination), in line with the Netflix docuseries Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to House.

“I used to be a horrible scholar,” Mr Isaacman mentioned within the sequence. “And I wasn’t, like, completely happy at school, both.”

A 12 months later, he launched his profitable firm Shift4 Funds from his dad and mom’ basement, in line with a report by Forbes.

The corporate now handles funds for a 3rd of eating places and resorts within the US, together with massive names like Hilton, 4 Seasons, KFC and Arby’s; and processes over $260bn (£199bn) yearly, in line with its web site.

Mr Isaacman additionally based Draken Worldwide in 2011, a defence agency that trains Air Power pilots and owns the world’s largest fleet of personal navy aircrafts.

In 2019, Mr Isaacman offered a majority stake in Draken to Blackstone, a Wall Road agency, for a nine-figure sum, Forbes reported, launching himself into billionaire standing.

The journal dubbed him a “thrill seeker” in a 2020 profile, reporting that for enjoyable, Mr Isaacman “bullets the MiG sooner than the pace of sound and climbs mountains to unwind from continuous, intense 80-plus-hour weeks”.

He additionally set a world pace report in 2009 for flying across the globe.

Within the docuseries, Mr Isaacman mentioned: “I do imagine you solely get one crack at life.”

“To the extent you might have the means to take action, you might have this obligation to dwell life to the fullest,” he added. “You by no means know when it’ll be your final day.”

Mr Isaacman is married, has two daughters and lives together with his household in New Jersey.

He and the others on board the Polaris Daybreak are anticipated to return on Saturday.

The WMNF Music of the Day for August 12, 2024 is Earlier than I Let Go, by Maze that includes Frankie Beverly.

This tune is devoted to Frankie Beverly, who handed away yesterday on the age of 77. 

His demise was introduced Wednesday by his household in a Fb publish, which reads:

Grieving the lack of a liked one is a deeply private and emotional expertise. Throughout this time, as we’re navigating emotions of sorrow, reflection, and remembrance we kindly ask for privateness and understanding, permitting us the area to grieve in our personal method. This era for is one in all therapeutic, and your respect for our want for solitude is appreciated as we honor the reminiscence of our beloved Howard Stanley Beverly recognized to the world as Frankie Beverly.

He lived his life with pure soul as one would say, and for us, nobody did it higher. He lived for his music, household and buddies.

Love each other as he would need that for us all.

Howard Stanley Beverly aka Frankie Beverly

12/6/46 – 9/10/24

The Beverly Household

Maze, the famend R&B band led by Frankie Beverly, rose to prominence within the late Seventies and have become a big drive within the soul and R&B music panorama. Initially fashioned in Philadelphia as “Uncooked Soul,” the band relocated to San Francisco, the place they had been found by Marvin Gaye. With Gaye’s mentorship, the band adopted the identify “Maze” and crafted a sound that mixed easy R&B with components of soul, funk, and jazz. Their music resonated with audiences resulting from its emotional depth, laid-back grooves, and relatable lyrics.

His music has been sampled and lined over 200 instances by artists together with 50 Cent, Beyoncé, 2Pac and Daft Punk.

Beverly, the lead singer, songwriter, and producer of Maze, was instrumental in shaping the band’s distinctive fashion. Beverly’s signature easy vocals and heartfelt lyrics grew to become the core of Maze’s identification. His writing typically centered on themes of affection, life’s challenges, and private introspection, which endeared the band to listeners who appreciated each the emotional resonance and the infectious rhythms of their songs.

The tune “Earlier than I Let Go,” one in all Maze’s greatest hits, exemplifies Beverly’s distinctive contribution to the band’s sound. Launched in 1981 on their album Stay in New Orleans, the observe grew to become an everlasting basic. It’s a vibrant, upbeat tune that blends soulful grooves with a touch of funk, making it a staple at celebrations and events. The lyrics, although centered on love and parting methods, carry a constructive, feel-good power that contrasts with the emotional weight of the subject material. Beverly’s easy supply and the tune’s energetic instrumentation helped it transcend time, turning into a beloved anthem throughout generations.

A tech firm has added gas to the Kamala Harris earrings conspiracy concept after quipping that her debate evening jewellery is strikingly much like the Bluetooth units it makes — and has even provided to design “orange” ones for Donald Trump.

Claims that Harris, 59, was fitted with clip-on audio headphones disguised as pearl earrings for her showdown in opposition to the previous president, 78, have been spreading like wildfire on social media within the wake of Tuesday’s presidential debate.

Now, Germany-based firm Icebach Sound Options has weighed in on the viral saga after conspiracy-minded Trump supporters claimed the vp was carrying a pair of its Bluetooth units — the Nova H1 Audio Earring.

“We have no idea whether or not Mrs. Harris wore one in all our merchandise. The resemblance is placing and whereas our product was not particularly developed for the use at presidential debates, it’s nonetheless suited to it,” Icebach’s managing director, Malte Iversen, mentioned in a tongue-in-cheek assertion to tech outlet Tom’s Information.

“To make sure a degree enjoying subject for each candidates, we’re at the moment creating a male model and can quickly be capable to provide it to the Trump marketing campaign. The selection of coloration is a bit difficult although as orange doesn’t go nicely with a whole lot of colours.”

In the meantime, the corporate has additionally vowed to clear up the “rumors and myths surrounding our great merchandise” throughout a forthcoming look on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

“Following the presidential debate we’ve got been contacted by quite a few TV reveals for interviews,” a message on the Munich-based firm’s web site states.

“After thorough discussions we’ve got determined that we’ll grant one reside interview … our chosen interviewer is Jimmy Fallon, a trusted Bavarian in coronary heart.”

It wasn’t instantly clear when the supposed Fallon look was slated to air.

The so-called “earring-gate” controversy erupted after a number of right-wingers zeroed in on the vp’s pearls — claiming they contained a clandestine Bluetooth gadget that enabled her to be coached by unseen aides throughout the ABC Information debate in Philadelphia.

The NOVA H1 Audio Earrings, although, bear little or no resemblance to those Harris wore — apart from the truth that each embrace pearls.

The veep’s precise earrings appeared to look extra like a gold model of the Double Pearl Hinged Earrings from Tiffany & Co.

A sterling silver model of the Tiffany earrings, which retail for $800, seem to have bought out, in response to the luxe model’s web site.

The clip-on NOVA H1 Audio Earrings, in the meantime, promote for roughly $625 apiece.

Harris, for her half, has beforehand bashed Bluetooth earpieces as a safety risk and has been noticed utilizing wired earbuds on the marketing campaign path.

Nonetheless, comparable theories unfold on social media throughout the 2020 and 2016 election cycles with claims that President Biden and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton have been each utilizing earpieces throughout their debates in opposition to Trump.

Truth-checking web sites shortly shot down these claims.

In the meantime, Trump appeared so as to add to the Harris conspiracies Wednesday, suggesting to Fox Information that the veep had obtained advance data of what could be mentioned.

“That they had a rigged present with any individual that perhaps even had the solutions,” he mentioned. “I imply, I’ll be sincere, I watched her discuss and I mentioned, ‘You recognize, she appears awfully accustomed to the questions.’”