A woman is going viral for saying she is considering leaving NYC after having an unpleasant experience while walking around the city. Originally posted by Izzy Graff (isabellegraff) on Instagram, the post features her gagging while showing her followers that her foot made direct contact with human feces while she was walking on the pavement.
To make matters worse, Graff said she had been wearing flip-flops that day. She can be heard retching in the video and telling viewers the experience left her feeling sick. She repeatedly said she felt like crying and wanted to be sick. The experience left her feeling so miserable that she said she would have to move out of NYC.
"Oh, I'm gonna throw up. Oh, I'm gonna throw up. Oh, I'm sick," Graff says in the clip. "I just, I'm like literally almost gonna cry. I just stepped, I'm wearing flip-flops, in human ***** . I really… I'm moving. Oh, this was it."
Graff's profile bio on the platform states that she is based in NYC. In many of her videos, she can be seen exploring new places in the city on foot.
The video has since been reposted and rapidly circulated across social media platforms. Her meltdown sparked a mixed reaction among viewers. While some sympathized with her for the unfortunate experience, others blamed her for wearing flip-flops.

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Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET
President and Chief Executive Officer - David A. Pace
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Operator: Good afternoon. Welcome to the Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Incorporated Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. This conference call is being recorded. During management's presentation and in response to your questions, they will be making forward-looking statements about the company's business. Outlook and expectations. These forward-looking statements and all other statements that are not historical facts reflect management's beliefs and predictions as of today. And therefore, are subject to risks and uncertainties as described in the company's SEC filings. Management will also discuss non-GAAP financial measures as part of today's conference call. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, but are intended to illustrate alternative measures of the company's operating performance that may be useful.

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A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country's civil war.
It is the first conviction against ***** ad, who fled from Damascus to Moscow with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending his family's five-decade grip on power.
Assad's cousin and the former head of political security in southern Syria's Deraa province, Atef Najib, was also sentenced to death. He had been put on trial and appeared wearing a striped prison uniform inside a cage in the courtroom as the judge read out his sentence.
Deraa is widely seen as the birthplace of the uprising against ***** ad's rule.
In March 2011, the detention and alleged torture of a group of teenagers accused of writing anti-government graffiti sparked protests in the city, which were met with a violent crackdown by security forces.

#assad #security #damascus

Patriots' Drake Maye Apparently Looks Even Better Than He Did Last Year originally appeared on NESN. Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Quarterback Drake Maye had a very impressive season in his sophomore campaign for the New England Patriots last year, making the All-Pro Second Team, finishing second in the MVP voting, and making it to a Super Bowl. Maye, who threw for 31 touchdowns and nine interceptions, led the AFC in completion percentage at 72% and also threw for 4,394 yards, looked to be a star already at just 23 years old.
Fast forward to this season, there's hope that not only can Maye continue playing at the level he did a year ago, but possibly even take a step up.
It's a tough ask for a young man to do so, given what we saw him do a year ago, but according to the latest from a Patriots reporter, there's a sense that he looks even more comfortable throughout the early stages of training camp.
"QB Drake Maye: This may seem like a small thing, but Maye looks even more comfortable than last season — and he has been able to do more. More command over the offense. More familiarity in the scheme. More on his plate. That should lead to another great season," Chad Graff wrote.

#maye #season

Namibia is rapidly emerging as Africa's next major oil producer while neighboring South Africa, which controls roughly two-thirds of the same Orange Basin petroleum province, remains years behind in developing essentially the same petroleum system. The Orange Basin, an offshore deepwater petroleum province spanning the Atlantic maritime border between the two countries, is estimated to contain more than 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Yet while Namibia has attracted a succession of world-class discoveries and moved rapidly toward commercial development, South Africa has struggled to translate the same geological opportunity into producing **** ets.
TotalEnergies' (NYSE:TTE) deepwater Venus Project in offshore Namibia now targets an initial production capacity of roughly 150,000 barrels of oil per day, with first oil aimed for 2030. Venus-1X is estimated to contain 1.5 billion barrels of light crude and 4.8 trillion cubic feet of gas. TotalEnergies has also taken over operations of the massive Mopane discovery from Portugal's Galp Energia (OTCPK:GLPEF).
Last month, Shell Plc (NYSE:SHEL) and its JV partners reported a major oil discovery at the Merlin-1X exploration well within Petroleum Exploration Licence 39 (PEL 39). Located in Namibia's Orange Basin roughly 290 kilometers off the coast, the resource has recoverable reserves estimated at 750 million barrels for Phase 1. The success of Merlin-1X marks a critical turnaround for the consortium.
In early 2025, Shell booked a $400 million impairment on its Namibian offshore portfolio following engineering hurdles at older discovery wells with complex geology and high gas-to-oil ratios, including Graff-1X and Jonker-1X. Those challenges had initially slowed commercialization plans, but the Merlin-1X discovery has significantly improved the outlook for the company's Namibian acreage.
Related: Harold Hamm Bets Bigger on Argentina's Vaca Muerta Shale Boom

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A.J. Brown issued major warning ahead of first season with New England Patriots originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
A.J. Brown has been issued a major warning ahead of his first season with the New England Patriots.
In an article identifying the player with the most on the line for every team heading into the 2026 season, The Athletic's Chad Graff, selected Brown from the Patriots.
Graff argued that there will be a lot of pressure on Brown to perform in the upcoming 2026 season, and if New England's offense sputters after how good it was last season, there will likely be a lot of fingers pointed at Brown.
"Brown essentially forced his way out of Philadelphia to head to his preferred team with his preferred coach and an ascending MVP candidate at quarterback. He’s joining a team that was in the Super Bowl last season," Graff wrote.

#season #sporting

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran " at levels they've never seen before " if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him.
But the U.S. government has no way to create an automatic, preauthorized "dead man's switch" that would prompt immediate retaliation.
Instead, if Trump were killed, the transfer of power to his successor is governed by the 25th Amendment and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. Vice President JD Vance instantaneously would become commander in chief and have authority for any retaliation.
Under such a scenario, Vance could do exactly what Trump called for, though there also is a chance he could decide not to follow his predecessor's orders — or offer a direct response in a different way.
"The U.S. has, for a whole variety of reasons, never utilized a technical 'dead man's switch,'" said Garrett M. Graff, author of "Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself -- While the Rest of Us Die."

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti.
It came months after another racist post by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash.
The latest image shows the Obamas smiling and waving at the top of stairs alongside a baby blue and white presidential plane with graffiti painted on it that included the Democrat's campaign slogan "Yes We Can," "Obama" and "BLM," short for Black Lives Matter. The post also shows graffiti in Arabic on the plane that says the phrase "alhamdulillah," which means "praise be to God" or "thank God."
The use of graffiti is a coded message to remind people of crime and urban decay and has been used in racist messaging against Black people in the past.
Trump has a yearslong record of intensely personal criticism of the Obamas, and of using incendiary, sometimes racist, rhetoric. That includes everything from feeding the lie that Obama was not born in the United States to crude generalizations about majority-Black countries and posts that have sparked anger on his Truth Social website.

Tens of thousands of far-left protesters flooded the streets and clashed with police in the Germany city of Erfurt on Saturday as they protested the conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Videos showed police beating back agitators with batons and deploying anti-riot ordnance as the demonstrators chanted against the country's conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a massive political rally.
Police said over 30,000 people attended the demonstrations, according to the ***** ociated Press (AP), and people could be seen carrying signs reading "Stop AfD ***** s" and "For Diversity, Against ***** s."
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Despite the tense clashes caught on video, police told news outlets the demonstrations have been "mostly peaceful," and claimed they've recorded approximately 100 law violations, mostly due to graffiti.

Olympian David Hearn has been indicted by a D.C. grand jury on a felony charge related to alleged vandalism at the Washington, D.C., Reflecting Pool, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Thursday.
Hearn, 67, is accused of ripping out a piece of sealant on the bottom of the Reflecting Pool on June 19, Pirro said. Pirro said National Park Service employees observed him removing the bottom liner of the pool.
"One of the most offensive images that I hold in my mind are the images of national monuments that are being debased, roped, torn down, graffitied, and damaged by individuals," Pirro said at a news conference on Thursday. "This unchecked vandalism and civil disorder turns into criminal behavior, and that's why we are here today."
Hearn, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, said he stopped by the pool last month while on a 64-mile bike ride, and authorities arrested him after he reached down into the pool. He said he was held for five hours.
Hearn's attorneys issued a statement shortly after Pirro's announcement saying that Hearn is innocent and the "indictment reflects the administration's effort to shift blame for their own failures."

Argus Leader readers spent the last week putting together their Mount Rushmore of South Dakota high school football quarterbacks, and the results are in. Pierre's Lincoln Kienholz, Brandon Valley's Austin Sumner, Sioux Falls Lincoln's Brody Schafer and Sioux Falls Lincoln's Neil Graff were the top four vote getters for the Argus Leader South Dakota High School Quarterback Mount Rushmore.
Sioux Falls Roosevelt's Taryn Christion and Aberdeen Central's Josh Heupel just missed the cut.
Here's a deep dive on the four selections for the top prep quarterbacks in South Dakota history.
Kienholz was voted the top quarterback in South Dakota history after breaking the state's career passing yards mark.
Kienholz was named the 2023 USA Today National Boys Athlete of the Year during his senior year after throwing for 3,422 yards and 46 touchdowns while running for 1,435 yards and 24 scores. He guided Pierre to three consecutive Class 11AA state championships and finished his career with 9,100 passing yards and 104 touchdowns in three years.

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David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was widely considered to have been Britain's greatest living artist, said The Daily Telegraph. Instantly recognisable, with his bleached-blond hair, round glasses, impish smile and "ever-smouldering cigarette", he was for decades a subject of fascination to the world's media, as Picasso had been a generation earlier. And just as Picasso once commented that he never produced a painting as a work of art – it was all research – Hockney was a man of restless curiosity, who for more than 60 years never stopped the process of experimentation and reinvention.
What drove him was an intense need to understand "the way the world works, how the eye sees it and how the brush sets it down", said Laura Freeman in The Times. "What happens when raindrops strike still water? Or a body breaks the surface of a swimming pool? How do you capture a glass of water, transparency on transparency, or shafts of sunlight on a polished parquet floor?"
He was a superb draughtsman, but there was no medium he would not try in his effort to depict the world as it is seen. He worked in oils, acrylics, watercolours, charcoal, pen and ink, pencil, felt-tips, crayons; he produced etchings and drypoints; and made use Polaroid cameras, Xerox photocopiers, inkjet printers and the iPad. His inspirations ranged from Monet to Chinese scrolls to the Bayeux Tapestry, and he found inspiration in everything California's epic landscapes to the graffiti in public lavatories.
He was fascinated by the mechanics of image-making, said Kelsey Ables in The Atlantic – and, as he put it, "any technology that is about pictures". In 2001, he published an art historical book in which he laid out his carefully researched but hotly debated theory that the likes of Caravaggio and van Eyck had used devices such as concave mirrors and projecting lenses to achieve realism.

Described as the "birthplace of the American Revolution", Boston's streets are teeming with monuments and landmarks that tell the story of the nation's history.
And they're now experiencing something of a makeover.
Scotland fans visiting the city for the World Cup have been decorating its statues with bright orange traffic cones, much to the bemusement of locals.
The practice is familiar to anyone from Glasgow, where the Duke of Wellington statue at the Gallery of Modern Art has been wearing a cone at a jaunty angle since the 1980s.
It's a mischievous visual ingrained in Glasgow's identity - and was even a source of inspiration for the graffiti artist Banksy.

Described as the "birthplace of the American Revolution", Boston's streets are teeming with monuments and landmarks that tell the story of the nation's history.
And they're now experiencing something of a makeover.
Scotland fans visiting the city for the World Cup have been decorating its statues with bright orange traffic cones, much to the bemusement of locals.
The practice is familiar to anyone from Glasgow, where the Duke of Wellington statue at the Gallery of Modern Art has been wearing a cone at a jaunty angle since the 1980s.
It's a mischievous visual engrained in Glasgow's identity - and was even a source of inspiration for the graffiti artist Banksy.

Thousands attend county's '100 objects' exhibition

An exhibition that showcased a county's history through items like graffiti art and a Dr Martens boot has been hailed a success, with thousands of visitors coming through the doors.
A History of Northamptonshire in 100 Objects ran at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery from 20 September to 8 February.
West Northamptonshire Council, which owns the museum, said it attracted 46,085 visitors - a 22% increase on the same period the year before.
James Petter, Reform-UK deputy leader and cabinet member for local economy, culture and leisure, sai