#hungary 2022 saturday

[umgeorge]

"Two years of GR. 💙 On this day in 2021, we announced George had joined the Team. 🤝" - september 7, 2023 📷 @.mercedesamgf1 / instagram

[robinfrinjs]

can you explain the alex palou situation please. i don't follow indycar but i need to know the tea

Ok so I'll try to explain it but it's quite a complicated situation. This is all I know and can remember at this point.

Back in 2022 Chip Ganassi Racing, the team he was driving for at that moment. Had announced they had taken the option on Alex's contract so he would be staying with the team for the 2023 season.

However a little after that Alex Palou released a series of tweets stating that this wasn't true. See below.

According to Alex as said CGR used a quote that wasn't his. And specifies he does not intend to continue with the team after 2022

Just after Alex his Twitter thread, McLaren announces Alex will be driving for the team in 2023.

However CGR still stays with their press release and says Alex Palou is under contract through the 2023 season.

A few days after this rumours surface that Palou would be benched for the remaining IndyCar races. This however did not end up happening. What did happen is Palou saying his access to team date had been restricted.

Not too long after CGR files a civil lawsuit

Alex his lawyers state that by filing a lawsuit, CGR is impacting Alex his F1 opportunity for the worse.

CGR dropped the lawsuit and on September 14 2022 it was announced Palou and CGR would stay together for the 2023 season. This included a blessing to test Formula 1 cars with McLaren.

After this the news died down a little. It seemed Palou would drive his last season for CGR in 2023 and would then move to McLaren. However recently it appeared Alex Palou has informed the team he "does not intend to honor his contractual obligations," according to a statement from McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown given to IndyStar.

To thicken the plot. His management team wasn't notified of this either. Monaco Increase Management said Palou last spoke to his management on 9 August and hasn't returned any calls since. And hadn't mentioned any intention to not honor the contract he had with McLaren. Since then he hadn't returned any calls or messages and thus released this statement.

Chip Ganassi released a statement Saturday saying: "I grew up respecting the McLaren Team and their success. The new management does not get my same respect. ... Simply stated, the position of McLaren IndyCar regarding our driver is inaccurate and wrong; he remains under contract with CGR."

During this season he has represented McLaren at the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Miami and has tested the car in Hungary.

Yasukawa, Palou's former manager has confirmed that he's now in charge of his contractual affairs.

This next text is all from IndyStar:

Earlier this summer, IndyStar was told by a source close to the parties' negotiations that in McLaren's signed contract with Palou existed a clause listing a date (believed to be July 31) before which the driver could have released himself from his future deal with McLaren if he had landed an offer for a 2024 F1 ride. Should an F1 offer have come in after that date, Palou would've been required to have McLaren loan him out (or arrange for McLaren to be paid some level of a buyout) in order for Palou to be driving anywhere other than Arrow McLaren during the 2024 racing season.

As Palou told reporters Thursday, no offer for a 2024 F1 ride had been made to Palou before he informed McLaren of his decision to back out of his multi-year deal. Pertinent to Friday's news, IndyStar also reported earlier this summer that CGR had extended Palou a new, sizable seven-figure contract offer in the midst of the runaway championship leader's run of three consecutive wins and four in a five-race span.

After this the news died down again for a few days but it has since been revealed McLaren has filed a lawsuit against Alex Palou and Chip Ganassi Racing driver's racing entity and also ALPA Racing USA, LLC.

This is still recent news so all can be found here:

[tuntetesinfo]

2023. JÚLIUS 15., SZOMBAT, 14:00

28. Budapest Pride Felvonulás // 28th Budapest Pride March

Budapest

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Hosszas tervezést és egyeztetést követően örömmel jelenthetjük be, hogy 2023-ban is lesz Budapest Pride Felvonulás, Magyarország legnagyobb emberi jogi tüntetése! A 28. Budapest Pride Felvonulást július 15-én tartjuk, ahova várunk mindenkit, aki egy szabad, elfogadó és demokratikus országban szeretne élni.

*** FONTOS INFORMÁCIÓK:

IDŐPONT: július 15. szombat 14.00-20.00 ÚTVONAL: Vajdahunyad vára előtti füves terület - Andrássy út - Oktogon - Teréz körút - Király utca - Városligeti fasor - Dózsa György út - Hősök tere - Vajdahunyad vára előtti füves terület GYÜLEKEZŐ: 14.00-tól INDULÁS: 15.00 ÉRKEZÉS: kb. 17.00 VÉGE: 20.00 PROGRAMOK: *Beszédek! *Izgalmas fellépők és előadók! *Civil falu!

Részletes program hamarosan!

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Egységben az erő! Csatlakozzatok hozzánk csoportosan, járművekkel, kollégákkal, vagy a szervezetetekkel! Esetleg mindezt egyszerre!

Indíts járművet, díszítsd fel, válogasd össze a legjobb zenéket, amiket ismersz, és kápráztass el 35.000 embert! Ne hezitálj, töltsd ki az űrlapot, és állj be te is a Pride konvojba! https://forms.gle/TD15HyQTnLyeSXkT7

Regisztráljatok és vonuljatok csapatban! Ha együtt, egyszerre érkeztek, biztos nem keveredtek el a tömegben! Készítsetek transzparenseket, csináljatok zászlókat, torozottatok minél több embert! De előtte mindenképpen regisztráljatok itt! https://forms.gle/YJYJYGSvDQ8KZ2jEA

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Szlogenünk változatlanul “Vedd vissza a jövőd!”, mely rámutat a társadalomban jelenlévő különböző hatású, ám hasonló gyökerekből táplálkozó és egymást erősítő, rendszerszintű problémákra (rasszizmus, lakhatási válság, ökológiai krízis, a demokráciába vetett hit válsága, homofóbia, transzfóbia és szexizmus), valamint az azokra keresendő megoldási lehetőségekre. 2021 után 2022-ben is több, mint 35.000-en vonultunk együtt Budapest utcáin fergeteges hangulatban, ez ne legyen másként 2023-ban sem, ezért már most véssétek be a naptárba a dátumot! További részletekkel a későbbiekben fogunk jelentkezni, addig is hívjátok meg minél több ismerősötöket, legyen ez a valaha volt legnagyobb Budapest Pride Felvonulás

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After a long planning and organization, we are delighted to announce that there will be Budapest Pride March in 2023, the biggest human rights protest in Hungary! The 28th Budapest Pride March will be held on July 15, where we expect everyone who wants to live in a free, inclusive and democratic country.

*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

DATE: 15th July. Saturday 14.00-20.00 ROUTE : Grassy area in front of Vajdahunyad vár- Andrássy út - Oktogon - Teréz körút - Király utca - Városligeti fasor - Dózsa György út - Hősök tere - Grassy area in front of Vajdahunyad vár GATHERING: 14.00 START: 15.00 ARRIVAL: 17.00 END : 20.00 PROGRAMS: *Speeches! *Extraordinary performers! *Civillian Village!

Detailed programme coming soon!

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Unity makes strength! Join us in with friends, with vehicles, colleagues or your organisation! Or all at once!

Start a vehicle, decorate it, choose the best music you know and dazzle 35,000 people! Don't hesitate, fill in the form and join the Pride convoy! https://forms.gle/TD15HyQTnLyeSXkT7

Register and march as a team! If you arrive together at the same time, you won't get lost in the crowd! Make banners, make flags, get as many people as possible! But be sure to register here first! https://forms.gle/YJYJYGSvDQ8KZ2jEA

*** Our slogan is unchanged "Claim back your future!", which points to systemic problems present in society with different effects, but feeding from similar roots and reinforcing each other (racism, housing crisis, ecological crisis, crisis of faith in democracy, homophobia, transphobia and sexism), as well as the solution options to be sought for them. Similarly to 2022, more than 35.000 participants marched together last year in Budapest in an amazing mood, so let's book this date already in your calendars! More details will follow soon, in the meantime, invite as many of your friends as possible and make a huge crowd again

[blamemma]

tbh i never stress about daniel coming back, or even these last 5 races bc he always performs well under pressure imo. i was nervous for his test drive and then ofc like 5 seconds later (literally…) you have him in a full time seat and christian hyping him up to media. thanks to nycks team ig for leaking it early 😅😅 bc then there was almost no time to be anxious as a daniel fan

literally, i feel like as daniel fans who lived through 2022 we got all our anxiousness and dread out the way...don't get me wrong come quali on saturday i will be bricking it and on the edge of my seat, but at my core, i got faith. i missed hungary cause i was away and then obvs zandvoort....we all know what happened....so i havent actually had a chance to live a daniel race weekend this year yet so i am eXCITED

[mariacallous]

Novak was the public face and driver of Fidesz’s campaign to present Hungary as a bastion of Christian family values. Her resignation over the pardoning of a paedophile’s accomplice compromises Orban’s domestic and international messaging.

“I gave birth to three children, so I personally experienced how much a helpless, vulnerable life is in need of security and protection,” the outgoing president of Hungary, Katalin Novak, said in her resignation statement on Saturday evening.

Novak’s short speech announcing her departure, while also seeking to mitigate the anger directed against her in recent days over a paedophile-pardoning scandal, closed with a blessing and partial quotation from the Lord’s Prayer: “Oh God, bless the nation of Hungary! For yours is the kingdom, yours is the power, yours is the glory.”

That combination of family and religious motifs in Novak’s farewell message to the country befits her career as a whole. While the religious practice of many senior Fidesz members is nominal (despite its Conservative Christian branding), Novak’s is understood to be devout, involving both daily bible study and active membership of the Reformed Church – the largest Protestant church in Hungary.

With her 2014 appointment as state secretary for family and youth affairs, then family minister from 2020-22, she has been both the public face of Fidesz’s family policies and the author of many of its features. Those include measures against the LGBT community, whom she has frequently painted as a threat to the safety of Hungary’s children.

“Nothing is more important than our children… As the LGBT+ propaganda in the Western world is now targeting kindergarten kids and schoolchildren, we have to be vigilant,” she told Fidesz-aligned outlet Mandiner in an interview given ahead of Hungary’s 2022 referendum on LGBT issues.

Yet the credibility of Fidesz’s Conservative Christian message fell further on Sunday night when joint investigative work by Telex and Direkt 36 revealed more damaging religious dimensions to the story about Novak’s decision to pardon the deputy director of a state orphanage who had been convicted of covering up systematic child abuse by his manager.

The online portals alleged that the pardon for the criminal – identified as Endre Konya, who was nine months short of serving a sentence of three years and four months – came about at the intercession of Zoltan Balog, the presiding bishop of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

Konya is understood to have deep family roots in the Reformed Church and, according to unnamed sources close to the president’s office, Bishop Balog secured his pardon by telling the president that the matter was “very important to the church”.

Balog and Novak have been described in the media as “exceptionally close” ever since the bishop, formerly a Fidesz cabinet minister, served as Novak’s boss at the Ministry of Human Resources in the 2010s. “Kata [Novak] can refuse him nothing,” a source told Telex.

On Tuesday morning, Bishop Balog attended an emergency meeting of the church’s executive committee in Budapest. After discussing the matter for five hours, members voted to retain their confidence in him, but also demanded changes in his engagement with public life.

In a subsequent statement, Balog acknowledged involvement in the pardon had been an error. “I was wrong and I made a mistake,” he said.

The problem now facing the government is neatly summarised by Remy Bonny, executive director of the international LGBT advocacy group, Forbidden Colours. “Once again, Fidesz’s hypocrisy becomes clear,” Bonny says, pointing to the irony of Fidesz “saying that LGBTIQ+ activists endanger children, while their main proponent of ‘traditional family values’ released an accomplice to child sex abuse”.

This, he claims, “shows Fidesz is the real danger to Hungarian children”.

Novak the ‘family’ advocate

“Katalin Novak was Prime Minister Orban’s most powerful anti-gender ambassador,” argues Neil Datta, executive director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) in Brussels.

Her apparent moderation of tone and manner when compared to other tub-thumping Fidesz figures, he believes, “gave a respectable face to intolerance and undermining human rights”.

Over a decade, Novak incrementally built a significant profile in the sphere of global ultra-conservative values advocacy. Starting from the time of her appointment as state secretary in the Ministry of Human Resources, she became a key fixture at international conferences on family issues, many with a strong anti-LGBT edge.

“You could even describe Novak as a co-leader of the international anti-LGBTIQ+ movement,” Bonny of Forbidden Colours says.

Most notably, Novak was a co-founder of the Political Network for Values (PNfV). Indeed, according to Bonny, “through PNfV and own her personal lobbying in Washington during the [Donald] Trump-era, she was instrumental in uniting 34 states in the Geneva Consensus Declaration [of 2020]” – a commitment to prohibit abortion and marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Such linkages with foreign governments on cultural issues proved increasingly important to Budapest as it faced growing isolation among EU and NATO partners. Novak leant the international image factual credibility by spearheading flagship domestic policies during her period as, first, state secretary and, later, minister for family affairs.

These included the abolition of adoption rights for same-sex couples and the Fidesz government’s flagship “Family Policy”, a generous package of preferential loans, tax breaks and grants for married couples who committed to having children. Indeed, Fidesz’s “family values” messaging became so personally identified with Novak that on her elevation to the presidency in 2022, Orban did not appoint a successor to her as family minister.

Instead, her previous role’s administrative tasks were absorbed by the Human Resources Ministry, while Novak carried its representative functions into the presidency; her contribution was seen as simply irreplaceable. “Novak’s purpose was to embody Prime Minister Orban’s morality agenda in state diplomatic channels,” describes Datta.

Has Fidesz’s ‘pro-family’ stance become a liability?

Novak’s centrality to the topic presents serious plausibility problems for Fidesz in continuing to utilise “Christian Family Values” as a messaging tool at home and abroad. Experts, however, differ as to the severity of the harm done.

Looking at the situation from within Hungary,Janos Reichert, religious affairs commentator for the independent Hungarian weekly Magyar Hang, notes some unusual features. “The hard core of Fidesz’s base, its very centre, was shocked – and those people will be even more shocked if it is confirmed that Bishop Zoltan Balog pushed for the pardon,” Reichert says.

The uncertainty hovering around that allegation means that the story has not died conveniently with Novak’s resignation. “This is not over yet, it will wreak havoc,” he adds.

Yet Reichert also thinks that, over the longer term, the scandal won’t result in a significant course adjustment in the government’s approach. “I think Fidesz’s family propaganda will be pushed unchanged, and even harder,” he predicts.

That, he maintains, is because “the whole Fidesz project, including Viktor Orban himself, is now viewed by its supporters in a religious register: many people simply believe in him [Orban], he is their god”.

EPF’s Datta, who has done extensive work tracking Fidesz’s overseas network building, has a different view, seeing Fidesz’s international branding now as far more compromised in the eyes of its target audience.

He says the fall from grace of Novak, together with former justice minister Judit Varga, who countersigned the presidential pardon and was expected to lead the Fidesz list for the European Parliament elections in June, “is a definite blow to Fidesz’s brand”.

“This recent scandal reveals how Orban’s morality agenda is just a fig leaf meant to legitimise democratic backsliding and authoritarianism,” Datta continues.

This view, however, is contested by Bonny, who is far more cautious about the international implications. “Fidesz’s injection of anti-LGBTIQ+ hate speech into the mainstream of international politics will now certainly be looked at sceptically by others,” he admits.

Yet he doubts it will cause lasting damage to existing partner relationships. “Many actors in the international ultra-conservative world don’t actually have a lot of principles,” he says. “So, Fidesz will still have access to the relevant networks.”

[brookston]

Holidays 12.30

Holidays

Cleaning Day (Haiti)

Falling Needles Family Fest Day

Feast of the Holy Family

Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Flail Day French Republic)

Freedom Day (Scientology)

Incwala Day (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)

International Day of Indian Cinema

Kodachrome Day

Let's Make A Deal Day

Lhosar (Gurung People, Nepal)

National Cheryl Day

National Resolution Planning Day

New Year’s Eve Eve

Rizal Day (Philippines)

Smart Highway Day

Take a Walk Show

Tamu Lochar (Sikkim, India)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bacon Day [also 8.31]

Baking Soda Day

Coffee Day (Hawaii)

Drink With a Straw Day

International Day of the Donut

Kona Coffee Day

National Bicarbonate of Soda Day

5th & Last Saturday in December

Evergreen Tree Day [Last Saturday]

Last Saturday of the Year [Last Saturday]

Independence Days

Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province

Midget Nation-in-Exile (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Northern Federation of Occidental Republics (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

USSR (Established, 1922)

Xenlandia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abraham the Writer (Christian; Saint)

Anysia of Salonika (Christian; Saint)

Boxing the Jesuit Day (Church of the SubGenius)

The Clam (Muppetism)

Ecgwine of Worcester (Christian; Saint)

Egwin of Evesham (Christian; Saint)

Felix I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Frances Joseph-Gaudet (Episcopal Church)

Gall (Positivist; Saint)

Get Drunk Early for Hogmanay Day (Pastafarian)

Kwanzaa, Day 5: Nia (Purpose)

Liberius of Ravenna (Christian; Saint)

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Artology)

Maximus (Christian; Saint)

Obatala’s Day (Pagan)

Ralph of Vaucelles (Christian; Saint)

Roger (a.k.a. Ruggero) of Cannae (Christian; Saint)

Sabinus, Bishop of Assisi, and his companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Sixth Day of Christmas (a.k.a. Bringing in the Boar)

Twelve Holy Days #5 (Leo, the heart; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #6 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Alice, Darling (Film; 2022)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV Cartoon Series; 2000)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Film; 1925)

Born to Die, by Lana Del Rey (Song; 2011)

The Curious Puppy (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

Dallas (Film; 1950)

The Gallopin’ Gaucho (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Kiss Me, Kate (Broadway Musical; 1948)

Let’s Make a Deal (TV game Show; 1963)

A Man Called Otto (Film; 2022)

The Merry Widow, by Franz Lehár (Operetta; 1905)

My Way, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1968)

Nelly’s Folly (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

No Man of Her Own (Film; 1932)

Rob Roy, by Walter Scott (Novel; 1817)

The Roy Rogers Show (TV Series; 1951)

Some Came Running, by James Jones (Novel; 1957)

Sounder, by William H. Armstrong (Novel; 1969)

Tainted Dreams (TV Soap Opera; 2013)

Tangled Up In Blue, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1974)

Tin Yop (Pixar Cartoon; 1988)

Two’s a Crowd (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Why Him? (Film; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Felix, Lothar (Austria)

Feliks, Rajner, Srećko (Croatia)

David (Czech Republic)

David (Denmark)

Taave, Taavet, Taavi, Taavo, Tavo (Estonia)

Daavid, Taavetti, Taavi (Finland)

Roger (France)

Herma, Hermine, Minna (Germany)

Anisios, Filetairos, Gideon, Josef (Greece)

Dávid (Hungary)

Eugenio (Italy)

Dāvids, Dāvis (Latvia)

Dovydas, Gedrimė, Gražvilas, Irmina, Sabinas (Lithuania)

David, Diana, Dina (Norway)

Dawid, Dawida, Dionizy, Eugeniusz, Irmina, Katarzyna, Łazarz, Rainer, Sabin, Sewer, Uniedrog (Poland)

Anisia (Romania)

Dávid (Slovakia)

Judit, Judith, Raúl (Spain)

Abel, Set (Sweden)

Ainsley, Kelsa, Kelsey, Kelsi, Kelsie, Mason (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 364 of 2024; 1 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 52 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 18 (Ren-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 17 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 4 Fest; Foursday [4 of 5]

Julian: 17 December 2023

Moon: 87%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 28 Bichat (13th Month) [Gall]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 10 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 9 of 31)

[jacensolodjo]

Bulgarian parliament has officially allowed Bulgaria to join the list of countries that recognize the Holodomor as genocide. 2/1/2023

For those keeping track, the list now stands

Australia Brazil Bulgaria Canada Columbia Czech Republic Ecuador Estonia Georgia Germany Hungary (Republic of) Ireland Latvia Lithuania Mexico Moldova Paraguay Peru Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Ukraine United States Vatican City

Each addition is another victory, no matter how small it might seem.

In addition, they have declared the last Saturday of November to be Holodomor Remembrance Day, joining:

Canada Poland Ukraine USA Vatican City

This is also after a vote back in December 2022 in the European Parliament to recognize the Holodomor as genocide.

[slow-button-off]

I'm ignoring the disqualification and just want to get into the strategy. I really don't get it. There's a few things that I've been thinking of:

1. Like okay fine, their simulations showed that a one stop would be similar to a 2 stop, but what kind of data are you collecting when you have data from the sprint that shows how much more your tyres fell off compared to everyone. Did they think that somehow they'd magically be able to change something between Saturday and Sunday even though they were under parc ferme. They're usually so cautious and sometimes this season have been TOO conservative with their tyres out of fear of excessive deg, so then why now would they think that they could pull this off knowing the track characteristics and the weakness of their car. And this leads me into another point:

2. Do you think they realize that a major weakness for them is that they can't think on the fly and adapt to changing situations. We've seen this so many times - rain suddenly comes and they panic, safety car comes out and they don't know what to do. They saw that the strategy wasn't working like merc and mclaren but instead of adjusting and reassessing, they just pushed through. Why do they keep following what their data says and not what's actually happening on track. The same as Hungary 2022 where it was clear that the hard tyre wasn't the right choice, but no, our computer tells us it's what we should do so we won't follow what we see happening in front of us on track, we'll follow our data. This is something that they really need to work on because it affects so many races - usually on charles side of course. There's obviously something flawed with their simulation model. Why are they the only team that shows weird things like this. Why are they the only team that expects rain when there isn't rain (Brazil 2022), why are their numbers so often wrong. Surely by now you'd figure that they need to make changes to their systems.

3. My last point is what was the point of it?? Like yes, your data showed that a one stop is a possibility, but no matter which way you looked at it, that wouldn't have been the preferred method. So why would you decide to go that way and make life difficult for your driver when you could do what everyone else was doing and end up with the same position. From what I can recall from the race, it's not like he would've gained anything from doing the one stop. If he did the 2 stop, he wasnt losing any positions. It's not like it was a turkey 2021 situation where they were no where and could try something strange because they had nothing to lose. I don't get why they needed to take a gamble - because thats what it was, a gamble. Even if the simulations showed that it was possible, it was still a risky move. So I just don't get why they decided to go that route. And I won't even get started on why they thought to try the alternate strategy with the lead car, because then I'd have to fly to maranello to burn the place down.

It just worries me so much that things will continue like this even when they get a competitive car and in the end nothing will change

The data collection itself is probably fine but they can't extrapolate it at all.

I think they know. What Fred said makes me think that they know. But they're gonna need to actually go ahead and fix it. But that's also easier when you have good numbers in the background.

[f1]

Red Bull's Max Verstappen will have five-place grid penalty for Belgium GP

Verstappen has won nine of the 11 races so far in 2023 Red Bull's Max Verstappen will have a five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix as a result of using too many gearbox parts. The punishment will apply for Sunday's grand prix and not Saturday's 'sprint'. The penalty has not been officially confirmed, but BBC Sport has verified it with senior figures in Red Bull. Such is the performance of Verstappen in the Red Bull that the penalty is unlikely to impact his chances of winning the race at Spa-Francorchamps. The Dutchman, who is leading the championship by 110 points after winning nine of the 11 races so far in 2023, is on a run of seven consecutive grand prix victories, two short of the all-time record in a season set by Sebastian Vettel for Red Bull in 2013. And at last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, Red Bull won their 12th consecutive Formula 1 championship race, breaking a record held by McLaren since 1988. Although the penalty will mean Verstappen will start behind at least five other cars, he won last year's Belgian Grand Prix from 14th on the grid in arguably the most dominant performance since the start of F1's new regulations introduced in 2022. McLaren's Lando Norris, who finished second to Verstappen in Hungary on Sunday, said on Thursday's media day before the penalty became apparent: "Even if they started last in every race, they're going to come through [the field]." Teams are limited to four each of a prescribed number of gearbox components in F1. Verstappen has taken his fifth of at least one of the components. It was not immediately apparent which part had caused the problem. via BBC Sport - Formula 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/

[newstfionline]

Monday, May 15, 2023

Unusually early heat wave in Pacific Northwest tests records (AP) An early heat wave took hold Saturday in parts of the Pacific Northwest, with temperatures nearing or breaking records in some areas and heat advisories in place through Monday. The historically temperate region has grappled with scorching summer temperatures and unprecedented wildfires fueled by climate change in recent years. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory extending from Saturday through Monday for much of the western parts of both Oregon and Washington state. It said the temperatures could raise the risk of heat-related illness, particularly for those who are dehydrated or don’t have effective cooling.

Venezuela Brain Drain Is Enriching Neighbors (Bloomberg) No Latin American country churned out as many college graduates as Venezuela during the petroleum-powered boom that began there in the 1970s. Now, migration experts estimate some 2 million Venezuelans with advanced degrees live outside the country as turmoil at home prompted a brain drain. In Panama alone, the expats have started more than 5,500 businesses and are contributing more than $200 million a year in taxes and fees.

Zelensky, in private, plots bold attacks inside Russia, leak shows (Washington Post) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has won the trust of Western governments by refusing to use the weapons they provide for attacks inside Russia and prioritizing the targeting of Russian forces inside Ukraine’s borders. But behind closed doors, Ukraine’s leader has proposed going in a more audacious direction—occupying Russian villages to gain leverage over Moscow, bombing a pipeline that transfers Russian oil to Hungary, a NATO member, and privately pining for long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia’s borders, according to classified U.S. intelligence documents detailing his internal communications with top aides and military leaders. The documents, which have not been previously disclosed, are part of a broader leak of U.S. secrets circulated on the Discord messaging platform and obtained by The Washington Post. They reveal a leader with aggressive instincts that sharply contrast with his public-facing image as the calm and stoic statesman weathering Russia’s brutal onslaught. The insights were gleaned through intercepted digital communications, providing a rare look at Zelensky’s deliberations amid Russian missile barrages, infrastructure attacks and war crimes.

Germany Announces Its Biggest Military Aid Package Yet for Ukraine (NYT) Germany on Saturday sent the strongest signal yet of its commitment to backing Ukraine in its battle against Russian occupiers, promising more tanks, armored vehicles and substantial air defense systems in its largest weapons package for Kyiv. The arms package, totaling 2.7 billion euros, or about $2.95 billion, amounted to roughly as much as Germany’s total military aid to Ukraine since the war began in February 2022. The move was part of a budding effort by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to draw a line under a year of rocky relations over Germany’s hesitancy to provide weapons and solidify a partnership that may prove increasingly critical to maintaining European unity in backing the war.

Turkey appears headed to a runoff presidential race (AP) Turkey’s presidential elections appeared to be heading toward a second-round runoff on Monday, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with a firm grip for 20 years, leading over his chief challenger, but falling short of the votes needed for an outright win. With 99.4% of the domestic votes and 84% of the overseas votes counted, Erdogan had 49.4% of the votes, with his main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, garnering 45%. Erdogan, 69, told supporters in the early hours of Monday that he could still win. He said, however, that he would respect the nation’s decision if the race went to a runoff on May 28.

Syrians in Turkey facing uncertain future whether Erdoğan stays or goes (Guardian) An estimated 4 million Syrians live in Turkey and their relationship to their adopted home deepened over the past decade despite an increasingly hostile climate. When polled, at least 80% of Turks say they want Syrians to return. This sentiment has found an increasing home across the political spectrum in Turkey, amid a rise in openly anti-immigrant xenophobic parties and where a broad coalition trying to unseat the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has attacked him from the right on immigration. The result has been a tug-of-war between Erdoğan’s governing coalition and the nominally social democratic opposition Republican People’s party (CHP) over the fate of Turkey’s Syrian community. Both parties are openly competing to see who can promise to crack down harder on immigration and swiftly restore relations with Assad. When Turkey heads to the polls on Sunday the Syrian community is poised to endure loss no matter who wins. Syrians who return face an uncertain future that may include detention, torture, enforced disappearance and poverty.

Cyclone Mocha makes landfall in Myanmar (AP) Rescuers early Monday evacuated about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.6 meters (12 feet ) deep along western Myanmar’s coast after a powerful cyclone injured hundreds and cut off communications. Damage and six deaths have been reported, but the true impact was not yet clear in one of Asia’s least developed countries. Strong winds injured more than 700 people. Mocha made landfall near Sittwe township with winds blowing up to 209 kilometers (130 miles) per hour, Myanmar’s Meteorological Department said. By midday Monday, it had weakened to a tropical depression, according to the India Meteorological Department. High winds crumpled cell phone towers, but in videos collected by local media before communications were lost, deep water raced through streets and wind blew off roofs.

Thailand’s Opposition Wins (AP) Thailand’s opposition racked up a stunning majority of the 500 seats at stake in the race for the House of Representatives, dealing a major blow to the establishment parties and the former general who has led the Southeast Asian country since seizing power in a 2014 coup. The results of Sunday’s general election are a strong repudiation of the country’s conservatives and reflect the disenchantment in particular of young voters who want to limit the influence of the military in politics and reform the monarchy. But the exact shape of the new government is unclear as post-election coalition talks and behind-the-scene negotiations take center stage.

Iranian nuclear program (WSJ) Alarmed by Iran’s progress in enriching uranium at close to weapons-grade levels, European countries are pressing the Biden administration to revive a diplomatic track with Tehran that they hope would help avoid a possible nuclear crisis. After 18 months of negotiations, talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear accord collapsed in August when Tehran rejected a deal that would have largely restored the original pact’s terms. Iran is now amassing 60% highly enriched uranium and recently produced a small amount of near-weapons grade material, according to the United Nations atomic agency. European officials say time is running out to diplomatically address an Iranian nuclear program that puts Tehran as little as several months away from being able to develop a nuclear weapon, but they are worried that the White House has shelved the issue until after the 2024 election. They acknowledged that any new effort to keep a lid on Iran’s nuclear advances may fail to stop Iran from eventually getting a weapon.

Cease-fire between Israel and militants in Gaza appears to hold (AP) A fragile cease-fire between Israeli forces and militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding after a five-day clash that killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel. The latest round of Gaza fighting was sparked Tuesday when Israeli jets killed three top commanders from the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to earlier rocket launches from Gaza. Those killings set off a barrage of militant fire and the conflagration threatened to drag the region into another all-out war until an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire took hold late Saturday. While the calm appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza’s 2 million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fueled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years.

Netflix and Egypt Spar Over an African Cleopatra. (NYT) On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt, the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty founded by Alexander the Great, who went on to even greater posthumous fame as a seductress, immortalized by Shakespeare and Hollywood. Beyond that, many of the details are fuzzy—which is how one of the world’s dominant streaming services ended up in an imbroglio with modern-day Egypt recently, called out by online commenters and even the Egyptian government for casting a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens.” Egyptians say the influential streaming service is dragging an ancient queen into a modern, and decidedly Western, debate—about Black representation in Hollywood—in which she has no real place. A popular television host accused Netflix of trying to “take over our Egyptian culture.” An Egyptian lawyer filed a complaint demanding that the streaming service be shut down in the country.

‘Mommunes’: Mothers Are Living Single Together (NYT) First, Kristin Batykefer lost her marketing job when there was a management change. Then her marriage fell apart, and she suddenly found herself with no income and nowhere to go. To help her get back on her feet last year, two family friends invited Ms. Batykefer and her now 4-year-old daughter to stay in their four-bedroom home. Then Ms. Batykefer’s best friend, Tessa Gilder, also went through a divorce and came to stay in the house, bringing along her two children, now ages 5 and 1. Almost overnight, they had organically formed a commune for single mothers: a “mommune.” All over the world, women are joining forces under one roof, sharing the load of child care and household bills through the age-old power of sisterhood. Living in a mommune, said Kristin, has made it easy to find an extra pair of hands to help. Ms. Batykefer wrote on an TikTok post that has been viewed more than 1 million times, “Shoulda moved into a mommune a long time ago.”

For Today’s Anxious Teens, Outdoor Adventures Can Be a Cure (WSJ) According to a report released in February by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, teenagers in the U.S. are in the midst of a staggering mental health crisis. A survey conducted in fall 2021 found that 30% of teen girls have seriously considered suicide, a jump of 60% in the past decade. Boys are struggling, too. More than 40% of high school students reported feeling so despondent or helpless that they could not go about their normal activities for at least two weeks during the previous year. What can we as parents do? For our family, the answer has always been nature. We hoped that by making nature our family’s norm, they would absorb, as though by osmosis, its many lessons and gifts. Research points to the mental, physical and emotional benefits of time spent in nature. In an April 2021 review of more than 40 experimental studies, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that exposure to outdoor environments reduces the stress-hormone cortisol, lowers blood pressure, boosts immunity and executive function, and provides relief from chronic anxiety and depression. According to a 2007 study in Japan, participants in three-day “forest bathing” trips—a kind of eco-therapy involving immersion in nature—showed improved immune function that lasted for a full month after the outing. Even short, daily doses of nature can help. A 2019 study showed that U.S. university students who spent 15 minutes or more being active outside reported a higher quality of life and less perceived stress.

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YE Sports 2022

A member of Team Ukraine competes during the final of highlights of the artistic swimming at the 19th FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 25, 2022.

(AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi) ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MÅNESKIN Shares 'Gossip' Music Video Featuring TOM MORELLO

Italian rockers MÅNESKIN have released their new single "Gossip" featuring a guest appearance by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello.

Fierce with a rapid, infectious and hammering guitar hook, MÅNESKIN's latest offering continues to reaffirm the group's status as a genuine force in rock and roll. The single is taken from MÅNESKIN's upcoming album "Rush!", which is set for release on January 20.

Regarding their collaboration with Morello, MÅNESKIN's Damiano David said: "Tom Morello's enormous experience allowed us to take cues on how to work on tracks without overthinking. We can't thank him enough for joining us on this track. It's an honor for the whole band!" Ethan Torchio added: "Tom Morello brought some RAGE to MÅNESKIN!" Thomas Raggi said: "Tom is one of the greatest musicians that I've always listened to and learned from. Playing with him is a dream come true. It's an enormous gift and a personal highlight of this incredible year." Victoria De Angelis commented: "The song originated from a riff which Thomas had written some time ago and which we had been holding onto for a long time which we kept developing. Then the icon Tom Morello joined and brought something extra to the classic uptempo MÅNESKIN cheerfulness."

MÅNESKIN is a critically acclaimed four-piece-rock band that began busking on the streets of Rome as teenagers, and now just a few years later, are a razor tight group of captivating musicians widely hailed for being at the forefront of driving a worldwide resurgence of rock music. The band has 320 certifications, including 48 gold, 253 platinum and 18 diamond. The past year has seen the band reach over seven billion streams, while surging to No. 1 in numerous countries and across the global charts of multiple digital platforms (including the No. 2 TikTok song of 2021). The band's meteoric rise has continued straight into 2022, as they performed on "Saturday Night Live", were hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "America’s New Favorite Rock Band," won "Best Alternative Video" at the VMAs, "Top Rock Song" at Billboard Music Awards, "Best New Alternative Artist" at iHeart Radio Music Awards, various wins at national award shows in Japan, Spain, Poland, Hungary, and Finland, as well as over 19 nominations globally, including the Brit Awards, NME Awards, Kerrang! Awards, Swiss Music Awards and more. They are also the first Italian artist to have won the "Best Rock" award at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2021.

This summer has seen MÅNESKIN contribute a distinctive rendition of "If I Can Dream" for "Elvis", the major motion picture and No. 1-charting soundtrack. Their Max Martin-produced single "Supermodel" has recently surpassed 238 million global streams, appeared in the Top 20 APC in 17 countries, and remained No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative chart for five consecutive weeks. The band continue to reaffirm its triumphant status in 2023, with their recent Grammy Award nomination for "Best New Artist" and AMA Award for "Favorite Rock Song". Simultaneously, the band's reputation as the leading new generation must-see live rock act builds each and every time they take the stage.

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Remote-activated bomb killed Russian general Kirillov wanted by Ukraine

Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was in charge of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defence forces, was killed in a remote bomb blast, according to Russian media.

He was assassinated with an explosive device planted in an electric scooter near an apartment building about 4 miles from the Kremlin, according to the investigative committee. Kirillov’s aide also died in what the committee called a “terrorist act.”

Investigative actions and operational search activities are being carried out to establish all the circumstances of the crime.

Kirillov’s death came a day after Ukrainian prosecutors charged the general in absentia with using prohibited chemical weapons in the war against Ukraine. Military experts also said it could have been an attempt by Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) to escalate the military conflict and rule out any possibility of negotiations.

Legitimate target

Later, a source in Ukraine’s security service confirmed that Kirillov’s murder was the result of a terrorist attack carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). According to the SSU, the Russian general was “an absolutely legitimate target.”

Kirillov was sanctioned by the UK for allegedly using forbidden weapons in Ukraine. He was also accused of propaganda against “democracy.” The SSU filed a similarly worded charge almost a day before the explosion.

Experts claimed that Kirillov was revealing information about secret laboratories, publicly voicing the crimes of NATO countries involved in secret chemical weapon experiments in Ukraine.

Kirillov was also involved in disclosing “provocations” related to the sensational poisoning of a British intelligence double agent, Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal.

Conflict not to be frozen

Meanwhile, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that Moscow would not be satisfied with “any schemes” to freeze the war in Ukraine. He also rejected any role of NATO in the conflict settlement.

Russia will not be satisfied with any schemes to freeze the conflict. We are fully convinced by the example of the Minsk agreements that [Ukraine] cannot be trusted, and we are well aware that the purpose of the exercise [of freezing the conflict] is to give the Kyiv regime a much-needed respite on the battlefield to rearm and mend its wounds… [NATO] and Ukraine’s membership prospects have been part of the problem from the very beginning, not part of the solution.

Nebenzya suggested that the peace initiatives voiced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could be just a “smokescreen” before another escalation, as was the case with the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ (AFU) incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.

The unwillingness of the overdue Ukrainian leadership to move towards peace was also manifested in its rejection of Hungary’s proposal to establish a Christmas ceasefire and a prisoner swap. For our part, we handed over the list for exchange on the same day, but Zelensky rejected the initiative in a typically rude manner, once again refusing to take away more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen being kept in Russia for more than a year.

Russia’s UN envoy also recalled Zelensky’s decree signed in October 2022. According to the document, Ukraine legally banned itself from any negotiations with the current Russian leadership.

New escalation attempt

On Friday night, 13 December, and the following day, Russian forces launched massive missile and UAV strikes on Ukrainian territory. The attack targeted critical fuel and energy facilities that supported the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. The strikes were a retaliation to Ukraine’s use of long-range ATACMS missiles to hit an aircraft factory in Taganrog.

On Saturday, Russian air defences shot down Ukrainian drones in five regions. The AFU also shelled Donetsk with long-range missiles on Sunday. Some analysts attribute the intensified efforts of the Ukrainian forces to an attempt by the Zelensky administration to gain some battlefield advantage ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.

Earlier, Zelensky repeatedly emphasised that his country intended to continue the war until it achieved its goals or until Russia accepted the terms of the peace plan. However, leaders of some allied countries expressed concerns that the Ukrainian president’s policy could put Europe and NATO countries, which are not directly involved in the conflict but provide military and financial aid to Kyiv, at risk.

Russian military strikes on Friday, targeting military airfields, warehouses with UK-made Storm Shadow carriers as well as several power stations, forced Poland to raise fighter jets on duty and activate ground-based air defence systems. The Financial Times reported that the strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was the most “massive.”

Oreshnik vs. Tomahawk

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, gave an unequivocal response to speculation about another use of Oreshnik missiles by Russia and on the subject of a possible cease-fire:

We have repeatedly said that a ceasefire itself is not what we want. We want a peace that will come after our conditions are met and after all of our goals are achieved.

Earlier, Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko agreed to deploy Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile systems on Belarusian territory. This could be seen as a response to the deployment of US Tomahawk missile systems in Germany next year.

Read more HERE

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Events 6.1 (after 1940)

1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 1958 – The current constitution of France is adopted. 1960 – An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people. 1963 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. 1965 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas. 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son. 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded. 1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique. 1992 – El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground. 1993 – Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians. 1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside. 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina. 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed. 2003 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs. 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. 2006 – WikiLeaks is launched. 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers. 2017 – Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo. 2021 – Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race. 2022 – Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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On Monday, Serbia and Hungary reacted sharply to Bulgaria’s decision to add an extra tax of 10.20 euros per megawatt hour on Russian natural gas transferred through the Turkstream pipeline.

With the move, accepted by the Sofia parliament on Friday, Bulgaria has taken a position against the transmission of Russian gas but risks fueling tension with Serbia and Hungary, where Russia remains the main supplier of natural gas via the Turkstream route.

Serbian President Alexander Vucic told Politika newspaper on Saturday that the decision “is a big problem for us, it would raise the price of gas drastically, by an additional 100 euros per 1,000 cubic meters of gas”.

“That should not apply to Serbia”, Vucic said, adding he will talk with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev. Radev has yet to comment on the matter but has criticised Bulgaria’s plans to diversify gas resources in the past.

Serbia’s Ministry of Mining and Energy told BIRN on Monday: “This topic will be discussed with … Hungary and Bulgaria, and Serbia will do everything to ensure that its citizens are not affected.” The ministry said that all gas storages – in both Serbia and Hungary – are full at the start of the heating season.

It added that diversification of energy is “one of the strategic goals” of Serbia and construction of the Serbia-Bulgaria gas interconnection, with a capacity of1.8 billion cubic meters of gas, is “in the final phase”. This should enable Serbia to obtain gas from Azerbaijan and the LNG terminal in Alexandroupolis in Greece.

Serbia’s concern was echoed in Hungary. “This is unacceptable. For one EU member state to jeopardise the gas supply of another EU member state is quite simply against European solidarity, against European rules,” said Hungary Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Monday. He described the move as another attempt to make Hungarian-Russian energy cooperation impossible.

Szijjarto also said his government has contacted Bulgaria and Serbia and is taking steps to ensure that Bulgaria does not apply laws that would put Hungary and Serbia in a difficult situation.

From Bulgaria, there has been silence. The decision passed without any major statement from the government, in power since June and consisting of two opposing forces – the reformist duo “We Continue the Change” and Democratic Bulgaria on one side, and on the other, Bulgaria’s long-ruling GERB, backed by United Democratic Forces.

In 2019, the then GERB government under Boyko Borissov greenlighted the Turkstream project, guaranteeing revenues to Russia’s Gazprom, and isolating Ukraine.

On August 31, the Prosecutor’s office in Sofia launched an investigation into breaches in the construction of the pipeline.

In April 2022, Bulgaria and Poland cut ties with Gazprom as a result of the Ukraine war. 

In the same year, despite a change in power between the short-lived pro-Western coalition under Kiril Petkov and a more pro-Moscow interim cabinet, Bulgaria completed a gas interconnector with Greece in order to transfer gas from Azerbaijan and the US. 

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Holidays 9.30

Holidays

Agricultural Reform Day (Sao Tome and Principe)

Arizona Monsoon Season ends

Army Incompetence Day

Birth of Morelos (Mexico)

Botswana Day (Botswana)

Boy’s Day (Poland)

Chewing Gum Day

Day of Hungarian Folktales (Hungary)

Do Something Wacky With A Grandparent Day

E-mail Debt Forgiveness Day

Frisbee Day

International Blasphemy Rights Day (a.k.a. Blasphemy Day)

International Podcast Day

International Recovery Day

International Thunderbirds Day

International Translation Day (UN)

Jananeta Irawat Birth Day (Manipur, India)

Kokkeisetsu (Japan)

Liberation Day (Abkhazia)

Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Day

Monkey Bars Day

National Black Funding Day

National Chewing Gum Day

National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools

National Kratom Day

National Love People Day

National Microcephaly Awareness Day

National Mud Pack Day

National Nonspeaking / Nonverbal Awareness Day (UK)

National Pet Tricks Day (UK)

National PrepareAthon! Day [also 4.30]

National Puppy Mill Survivor Day

National Sporting Heritage Day (UK)

National Teach Spanish Day

Neonatal Intensive Care Awareness Day

Orange Shirt Day (Canada)

Parsnip Day (French Republic Day)

Peon Day (Warcraft)

Pink Out Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Recovery Day (Canada)

Rumi Day

Secretary Day (Venezuela)

Thunderbirds Day

Time For Yoga Day

Truth and Reconciliation Day (Canada)

World Pole Dance Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Austrian Beer Day (Austria)

Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day

Hot Mulled Cider Day

National Hot Mulled Cider Day

National Soufflé Potato Day

World Stroopwafel Day (Netherlands)

5th & Last Saturday in September

Centzon-Totochtin Drunken Rabbit Day [Last Saturday]

Everybody's Day Festival [Last Saturday]

Family Health and Fitness Day USA (Last Saturday]

International Lace Day [Last Saturday]

National Alpaca Farm Days begin [Last Saturday]

National Ghost Hunting Day [Last Saturday]

Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play [Last Saturday]

Save Your Photos Day [Last Saturday]

World Cyanotype Day [Last Saturday]

World Day of Leukodystrophies [Last Saturday]

Independence Days

Botswana (from UK, 1966)

Republic of Abkhazia (from Georgia, 1983) [unrecognized]

Tinakula (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Autumnale II (Pagan)

Anthony Green (Artology)

Blue-Feathered Swallowing Swallow (Muppetism)

Feast of Soma (God of Ambrosia & Immortality; India)

Festival of Drunkenness (Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Tereteth (Goddess of the Coconut Toddy; Yap Island, Micronesia)

Gregory the Illuminator (Christian; Saint)

Honorius of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Jerome (Christian; Saint)

John Waters Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Medetrinalia (Fruits Offered to Goddess of Medicine; Ancient Rome)

Molière (Positivist; Saint)

Plan for the 31st if September Day (Pastafarian)

Ridiculous Excuses Day (Pastafarian)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because Green Day fans will never leave you alone.)

Premieres

Adjustment Team, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1954)

Alias (TV Series; 2001)

The Ascent Of Rum Doodle, by W.E. Bowman (Novel; 1956)

The Big Chill (Film; 1983)

Bird (Film; 1988)

Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey (Children’s Book; 1948)

The Boy Friend (Broadway Musical; 1954)

Car Talk (Radio Series; 1977)

Cheers (TV Series; 1982)

The Clock Store (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Con Man (Web Series; 2015)

Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? (Disney Short Film; 1970)

Death Valley Days (Radio Series; 1930)

Entergalactic (Animated Film; 2022)

The Family of Pascual Duarte, by Camilo José Cela (Novel; 1942)

Fantasy, by Mariah Carey (Song; 1995)

50/50 (Film; 2011)

The Flintstones (Animated TV Series; 1960)

Go Away Stowaway (WB MM Cartoon; 1967)

Grand Ole Opry (TV Series; 1950)

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (Novel; 2008)

The Greatest Game Ever Played (Film; 2005)

Into the Blue (Film; 2005)

Little Women (Novel; 1868)

Louis Armstrong Plays King Oliver, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Album; 1957) [1st stereo album]

Love for Sale, by Tony Bennett (Album; 2021)

Luke Cage (TV Series; 2016)

The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1791)

Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors (Animated Film; 2018)

Methuselah's Children, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1958)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Film; 2016)

Murder, She Wrote (TV Series; 1984)

Nebraska, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1982)

Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin (Opera; 1935)

The Queen (Film; 2006)

The Rifleman (TV Series; 1958)

The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas (Novel; 1942)

The Saint in Europe, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1953) [Saint #30]

Scooby-Doo! And the Monster of Mexico (WB Animated Film; 2003)

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (Novel; 1959)

Serenity (Film; 2005)

Shine On, by Jet (Album; 2006)

The Steeple-Chase (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Theme From Shaft, by Isaac Hayes (Song; 1971)

To the Manor Born (UK TV Series; 1979)

You, Me and the Apocalypse (UK TV Series; 2015)

Today’s Name Days

Hieronymus, Urs, Victor (Austria)

Felicija, Grgur, Jerko, Jeronim (Croatia)

Jeroným (Czech Republic)

Hieronymus (Denmark)

Kaur, Kauri, Tauri (Estonia)

Sirja, Siru, Sorja (Finland)

Jérôme (France)

Hieronymus , Urs, Viktor (Germany)

Stratonikos (Greece)

Jeromos (Hungary)

Gerolamo (Italy)

Abgara, Elma, Lamekins (Latvia)

Bytautė, Jeronimas, Sofija, Žymantas (Lithuania)

Hege, Helga, Helge (Norway)

Grzegorz, Hieronim, Honoriusz, Imisław, Leopard, Sofia, Wera, Wiera, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz, Zofia (Poland)

Grigorie (Romania)

Lubov, Nadezhda, Vera (Russia)

Jarolím (Slovakia)

Jerónimo, Sofía, Sonia (Spain)

Helge (Sweden)

Jerome, Jeronima, Gerome, Geromino (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 273 of 2024; 92 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 39 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 26 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 16 (Xin-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 15 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 15 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 3 Shù; Threesday [3 of 30]

Julian: 17 September 2023

Moon: 98%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 21 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Molière]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 7 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 7 of 30)