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McCarthy lashes out at GOP rebels Mace, Gaetz and Rosendale in defiant exit speech
McCarthy (R-Calif.) pulled no punches when asked about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), the mastermind of his historic removal as speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Indian soldiers missing in flash flood
Nearly two dozen Indian troops have gone missing after a cloudburst triggered a flash flood in the mountainous state of Sikkim.
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Diamondbacks use long ball to take Game 1 over Brewers in wild card series
Corbin Carroll, Ketel Marte and Gabriel Moreno homered against Corbin Burnes, helping Arizona erase an early three-run deficit and sending the Diamondbacks to a 6-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 1 of their NL Wild Card Series on Tuesday night.
The rally put Arizona in a prime position to advance. Game 2 of the best-of-three series is Wednesday, and the Diamondbacks have ace Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly lined up after rookie Brandon Pfaadt lasted just 2 2/3 innings in the opener.
Arizona, which clinched an NL wild card in the final days of the season, had been 0-14 in postseason games when trailing by at least three runs.
Carroll and Marte homered on back-to-back pitches in the third, and Moreno put the Diamondbacks ahead in the fourth. Evan Longoria protected Arizona’s one-run lead in the fifth by robbing Tyrone Taylor of a bases-loaded hit and turning it into an inning-ending double play. Christian Walker provided some insurance with a two-run double off Devin Williams in the ninth.
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The NL Central champion Brewers left the bases loaded in the first and third, and they failed to score after loading the bases with nobody out in the fifth. Arizona’s Joe Mantiply, Miguel Castro, Ryne Nelson, Ryan Thompson, Kevin Ginkel and Paul Sewald combined for 6 1/3 innings of shutout relief.
Milwaukee appeared to have a starting pitch advantage for Game 1 by virtue of clinching its playoff berth early enough to set up its postseason rotation. It didn’t quite work out that way.
Gallen pitched Friday and Kelly went on Saturday, so the Diamondbacks opted against using them on short rest and instead started Pfaadt. Although Pfaadt yielded three runs and seven hits before departing in the third, Burnes also struggled.
The three-time All-Star and 2021 Cy Young Award winner allowed four runs through the first four innings and left with the Brewers trailing 4-3 after he walked the only two batters he faced in the fifth.
Milwaukee opened a 3-0 lead on Carlos Santana’s RBI single in the first and Tyrone Taylor’s two-run homer in the second.
It seemed as if that might be plenty for Burnes, who retired seven of Arizona’s first eight batters.
Then the momentum changed in a hurry.
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Carroll followed Geraldo Perdomo’s one-out single in the third with a 444-foot drive into the second deck of the stands in right-center. On Burnes’ next pitch, Marte sent a cutter over the right-field wall.
After the Brewers left the bases loaded in the bottom of the third, Moreno homered for the first time since Sept. 2. Moreno’s 425-foot shot came on a 2-2 slider.
The Diamondbacks barely survived a shaky relief performance from Nelson, who typically starts rather than working out of the bullpen.
Sal Frelick and Willy Adames opened the sixth with back-to-back singles. Nelson then walked Josh Donaldson to load the bases for Brice Turang.
It was initially ruled that Nelson’s first pitch to Turang hit him around the foot, which would have brought in the tying run. But the Diamondbacks challenged the call, and it was overturned on a replay review.
Turang struck out, and Thompson got the final two outs with a huge assist from Longoria. Taylor’s screaming liner was grabbed by Longoria, who threw from his knees to double Adames off second.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Arizona outfielder Jake McCarthy was removed from the team’s Wild Card Series roster shortly before the start of Game 1 due to a right oblique strain. Utilityman Jace Peterson replaced McCarthy on the roster.
Under MLB postseason rules, McCarthy wouldn’t be able to play for the Diamondbacks until the NL Championship Series, if they get that far.
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Gallen (17-9, 3.47 ERA) is pitching for Arizona in Game 2. Freddy Peralta (12-10, 3.86 ERA) starts for Milwaukee.
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Six Flags worker dies after falling out of back of moving van at Georgia park
“It’s a cargo van, so there are no seats back there. At some point, making a maneuver in the park, one of the passengers was ejected from the van and sustained serious severe head trauma.”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/six-flags-worker-andrea-crook-dies-in-accident-at-georgia-park/
McCarthy-connected PACs dropped millions on Republicans who booted him from speakership
Political action groups affiliated with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shelled out millions — to support the same Republicans who ousted him Tuesday.
Cambodia bars Right Livelihood winners from travel to awards
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On this day in history, October 4, 1927, Mount Rushmore’s moment of creation begins in South Dakota
The creation of Mount Rushmore, which set the images of four American presidents in towering monumental relief in the Black Hills of South Dakota, began on this day in history, Oct. 4, 1927.
“Mount Rushmore is a project of colossal proportion, colossal ambition and colossal achievement,” writes the National Park Service, which assumed management of the landmark by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.
The monument immortalizes presidents George Washington (1789-97), Thomas Jefferson (1801-09), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) and Abraham Lincoln (1861-65).
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Danish-American sculptor Gutzon Borglum led the effort, which employed about 400 men and women before it was completed on Oct. 31, 1941.
“A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated,” Borghlum said of his majestic relief, in which the face of each president stands about 60 feet in height.
“Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what matter of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away.”
When Texas Sen. Tom Connolly questioned the project, Borglum responded fiercely, “Mount Rushmore is eternal. It will stand until the end of time.”
The artist never saw his vision to completion.
He died of a heart attack in March 1941. His son Lincoln Borglum oversaw the project in its final months.
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The face of each president was slowly revealed over years of work: first Washington (1930), then Jefferson (1936), then Lincoln (1937) and finally Roosevelt (1939).
Washington’s faith in the new republic in its darkest hours earned him the title Father of His Country.
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Jefferson gave humanity the belief that “all men are created equal.”
Roosevelt was one of the world’s leading reformers and environmentalists and won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.
And Lincoln emancipated from slavery nearly 4 million Americans and inspired the nation through the tragedy of the Civil War.
Yet those achievements are not good enough for some Americans today — as Mount Rushmore has come under attack in recent years by “woke” pundits.
“Can we retire using ‘Mount Rushmore?’ That should be offensive to all of us, especially Native Americans — indigenous people who were the first people here before Christopher Columbus,” former NBA star and basketball analyst Jalen Rose said in a video tweet in August.
“That land was stolen from them when it was discovered that it contained gold,” he also said.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, responded days later by introducing the Mount Rushmore Protection Act.
The act prohibits the use of federal funds “to alter, change, destroy or remove the likeness, the name of or any of the faces on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial,” Johnson’s office said in a press release.
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The process for carving the monument from a mountain face of granite and sandstone was ambitious, daring and dangerous.
Rock was first blown off the mountain with the use of targeted explosives before the process got increasingly more precise.
“Dynamite was used until only three to six inches of rock was left to remove to get to the final carving surface,” writes the National Park Service.
“At this point, the drillers and assistant carvers would drill holes into the granite very close together. This was called honeycombing. The closely drilled holes would weaken the granite so it could be removed often by hand.”
The National Park Service also said, “After the honeycombing, the workers smoothed the surface of the faces with a hand facer or bumper tool. In this final step, the bumper tool would even up the granite, creating a surface as smooth as a sidewalk.”
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The work “was exciting, but dangerous” — yet not one person died in the 14 years of construction despite the explosives, heights and daunting conditions, the NPS reports.
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Hammoud powers Pingry past Bridgewater-Raritan – Girls soccer recap
Alyssa Hammoud’s goal in the 57th minute, her second of the game, lifted Pingry to a 2-1 victory over Bridgewater-Raritan in Martinsville.