The house from the 1983 film “A Christmas Story” is up for sale and drawing lots of looky-loos, including an actor from the film, Yano Anaya, who drew some pretty serious ire from the home’s owner when he was caught taking photos with fans on the property.
In a video obtained by TMZ that was shot on Nov. 15, Anaya, who played Grover in the film, can be seen taking photos with what appears to be fans of the film outside on the house’s porch steps. Suddenly, the owner — reportedly named Brian Jones — yells at Anaya, telling him to leave pronto.
“Get the f—k off my house, now! Get the f—k out of here. I’m not kidding,” Jones is heard screaming in the footage. Anaya, seeming confused, begins to step down, but Jones continues to yell. “Beat it! Get the f—k out. Leave now! Get away from my property — don’t ever come here again. Never ever again. Leave now, I’m serious,” Jones ordered, as he approaches Anaya. As he was walking away, Anaya appeared to try to reason with Jones, who then called Anaya a “scammer.”
In another clip of the incident, Jones was talking to another person, saying, “Do you know what this guy’s doing? You have no idea what a scammer, and what a loser this guy is.” Anaya asked Jones to tell him why he was being called that.
“Why don’t you talk to me about it so we can fix it?” Anaya asked, but the video ended with Jones walking away.
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According to TMZ, Anayo and some of his “A Christmas Story” cast mates were interested in buying the home after it was put up for sale. Emmanuel Soba — Anayo’s business partner — says Jones’ blowup completely blindsided them as they had a positive phone conversation with Jones about potentially buying the home the day before the incident.
In an apology, Jones claimed he was concerned “fans could be misled into contributing to a GoFundMe campaign that will not result in the purchase of the house.”
“I have no association with any GoFundMe campaign. I am not selling the house through Go Fund Me, so fans should not contribute to that fund under false pretenses, thinking their money is going toward buying the house,” Jones told TMZ. “I am entertaining offers only from qualified buyers through my real estate broker.”
A GoFundMe was created by a volunteer member of Anaya’s group to raise money to buy the home, but that page is inactive.
China’s reserve requirement cut won’t make big difference with Covid rules still in place, analyst says
China’s latest move to cut the reserve requirement ratio for banks by 25 basis points won’t have much significance on its economy without a drastic shift from its stringent Covid restrictions, according to Economist Corporate Network.
“Consumer and investor sentiment has been so damaged by these policies that you’re not going to see any recovery in any meaningful sense until there’s a shift,” Mattie Bekink, the China director at the organization, said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.”
Bekink emphasized how sensitive investor sentiment has affected markets previously.
“We’ve already seen markets move quite significantly based on basically rumors that Beijing was going to relax — that was just a few weeks ago,” she said.
“The lockdowns seem to be endless and relentless,” Bekink said.
— Jihye Lee
Other currencies also at risk due to China unrest: Standard Chartered
Global currencies will also be at risk of weakening along with the offshore Chinese yuan amid unrest in China on its zero-Covid policies because of how supply chains may be affected, according to Standard Chartered.
“The key question for how the world reacts is how the Chinese supply chain responds,” Steven Englander, Standard Chartered Bank’s managing director said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.”
“If it gets further disrupted, I think it’s a risk-off thing,” he said. “Not just CNH, but other currencies will be at risk.”
Englander added that traders may be looking to reduce their exposure to further risk.
— Jihye Lee
Oil prices slip as China’s Covid protests continue
Crude oil futures slipped early in Asia as high Covid cases, virus restrictions and unrest in China raise fears about demand from the world’s second-largest oil consumer.
West Texas Intermediate futures shed 0.35% to $76.01 per barrel, while Brent crude futures lost 0.26% to $83.41 per barrel.
Oil prices saw sharp falls last week as “mounting lockdowns in China raised concerns over demand,” ANZ Research’s Brian Martin and Daniel Hynes wrote in a Monday note.
“This remains a headwind for oil demand,” they said, adding that the impact of rising Covid cases was reflected in China’s mobility data as well.
— Abigail Ng
Offshore Chinese yuan weakens in Asia morning as Covid protests persist
The offshore Chinese yuan sharply weakened against the U.S. dollar amid negative sentiment over unrest in China over Covid restrictions.
The currency weakened around 0.8% against the U.S. dollar to 7.2529 in Asia’s morning trade.
The dollar index rose 0.32% to 106.29, with investors likely seeing the greenback as a safe haven asset as concern over China grows.
The major players are starting to take sides on Yellowstone. Episode 4 assembles what appears to be the core tensions for the remainder of the season—the killing of the park wolves, Kayce’s choice, Market Equities’ gloves-off approach to ruining the Duttons, and, once again, Beth’s infinite hatred for Jamie—with Beth and John (and Rainwater?) on one side and Market Equities, environmentalists, and perhaps Kayce and Jamie on the other. But we’ll explain our reasons for those latter two.
What seemed last episode to be a driving force for the rest of the season—Beth’s assault on a California tourist—turns instead into a relative non-issue in Episode 4. The assault, however, does drive a further wedge between Beth and Jamie, which may prove fatal for one, and motivate John to seek outside help; there are only so many crises one rancher/governor/father/tired man without whiskey can put up with.
A couple important points before we dive into the action. Kayce’s vision. We intuited that Kayce’s ceremonious hallucination last season will be kept behind an annoying plot curtain for the rest of this season, and we were right. As a reminder, Kayce saw two paths, of which he must choose one. Kayce’s summary of that choice: “the end of us.” That end could imply the end of the Duttons or the end of his nuclear family. It’s been speculated that Kayce will have to choose between his Dutton family and his own—a theory which seems to have been given more credence last week.
Another point about all this. Kayce’s loyalty struggle between John and Monica represented the original tension in Yellowstone Season 1; it was the core struggle of the show—the Duttons vs the outside forces trying to take their land. Kayce’s decision to marry and have a child with Monica, a woman from the reservation, threatened to split apart the Dutton family. That tension has been more or less smoothed over in later seasons—as other dramatic plot points were introduced and as the series’ writing sidelined both Monica and the Broken Rock Reservation storyline.
The last couple episodes suggest we’re finally coming full circle. But instead of John fighting Rainwater and Broken Rock, he may be heading toward an alliance. Where that puts Kayce, however, is unclear.
Here’s how the episode played out.
She Looks Like a Beth
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After spending the night in jail, Beth gets a visitor: Jamie. He outlines the seriousness of the assault charge, explaining that if the California woman choses to move forward with the charges, Beth may face real consequences—and, therefore, so will John. Later that morning, Jamie manages to convince the woman not to press charges. He explains that she could face charges herself, considering she instigated the fight, a process that would likely keep her in Montana. She decides she’d rather just get the hell out of town. And she does.
Jamie’s reward for his legal cunning is an awkward-as-hell car ride back to the ranch with Beth, which ends in another assault. As soon as the gets in, Beth notices a baby seat in back and asks Jamie if he has a baby. Instead of, ya know, lying—like he probably did with the woman at the county jail—he blubbers his way into a confession, even saying the baby is a boy. Beth, who Jamie had sterilized after an abortion, immediately flies into a rage, attacking Jamie and promising to ruin him and his son. (*John voice* Jesus Beth.) And so the tiresome Beth Hates Jamie storyline enters its most charged chapter. Beth decides to get out and hitch a ride. Jamie almost grows the balls to run Beth over with his car, but doesn’t. What a show!
Good news for Market Equities and Sarah: Jamie now has a reason (as if he needed an extra one) to once again betray his family.
John Dutton’s Horrible Terrible No Good Very Bad First Week in Office
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Meanwhile in Helena, John fires an entire room of his advisors—because they started a dumb meeting without him. Suddenly without advisors, John asks for advice. He’s just been told by Montana authorities that wolves from Yellowstone National Park have been killed on his ranch. An NGO (representing all evil environmentalists) is likely to come after John for the killing. John is tired of this shit.
At a lunch with Senator Perry, John explains how tired he is of this shit. Perry advises John to hire an environmental advisor so that he can get ahead of the coming storm. We can already see what’s coming next: Summer Higgins. And, indeed, John temporarily releases her from prison to serve as an advisor. She says she won’t hook up with him. John says that’s okay. Later that night, they immediately hook up.
New Allies and New Enemies
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Kayce and Monica bury their child on the ranch. John and Beth watch from afar. John scolds Beth for her volatility. Beth tells John that if she dies, she wants to be cremated and scattered. It’s the kind of dialogue one expects will foreshadow late-season death—and we’re starting to think that maybe this season marks the end of Beth Dutton. Given the seemingly unmotivated flashbacks in Episode 1. Given the complete lack of redeemability in her pathological torture of Jamie. Given the approach of her most formidable foe yet in Sarah. It all seems to suggest that Beth is in trouble. That’s our guess, anyway.
After the funeral ceremony, John talks with Rainwater, who asks John to come to the reservation and meet with him. Though he has not yet told John, Rainwater is facing political pressure and may soon be disposed.
It’s an alliance we didn’t anticipate, but it could prove to be the determining partnership this season. John doesn’t yet know it, but Jamie is vulnerable to betrayal. Beth, he does know, is unstable. He’s running out of allies in his fight against land development. If he can protect Rainwater from political disposal, maybe he can find a new way to protect his own land.
Later, Jamie meets with Sarah for lunch. Sarah explains Market Equities’ new strategy: stalling the development until the next voting cycle, when John will likely leave office. Of course, Sarah has another strategy and quickly seduces Jamie. The two hook up in a bathroom. Beth, having followed Jamie to the bar, follows the two into the bathroom and discretely takes Sarah’s wallet, snapping a picture of her fake ID. She now knows who her main nemesis will be.
Early the next morning, she runs into Summer at the ranch. Another enemy. She decides to have a drink, and the episode ends with Beth dramatically sipping whiskey—the kind of thing a character does before they die. We’re calling it now. Bye Beth.
Joshua St Clair is an editorial assistant at Men’s Health Magazine.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A boil water notice has been placed for the City of Houston’s Main Water System.
The video above is from a previous report.
Earlier on Sunday, the water pressure dropped below the city’s required minimum of 20 PSI due to a power outage at the East Water Purification Plant, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
The city monitored the water pressure throughout the entire day. Shortly after the outage, all water was restored to customers.
For those who are experiencing low pressure can contact the City of Houston Service at 311.
As a result of the notice, the public is being advised:
Do not drink water without boiling it first
Bring all water to a boil for at least two minutes and let it cool off before using.
Those who do not have access to power to boil are advised to use bottled water.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to deploy necessary resources to support the city of Houston after it announced a boil water notice following the loss of local power to three water treatment plants.
“The State of Texas is immediately responding and deploying support to Houston as they work to get a safe supply of water back online,” said Governor Abbott. “We have been in contact with Mayor Turner to offer the full support of the state, and we’re currently working to fulfill the city’s request for help with rapid turnaround of water sample results. I thank TDEM and TCEQ for swiftly responding to help address this issue. We urge those that the boil water notice affects to continue heeding the guidance of local officials and take adequate precautions when boiling and using water. Together, we will ensure our fellow Texans are supported while the city’s water supply returns.”
To see if you are in the impacted area, click here.
If you have any questions concerning the matter, you can contact 311 or email waterquality@houstontx.gov.
Cyber Monday 2022 is live, and if you haven’t yet gotten yourself the Nintendo Switch Black Friday deal, time is running out. This year’s Black Friday deal from Nintendo is on the Mario Kart 8 bundle once again. Nintendo Black Friday deals are starting to wind down, but the console deal is still live and in stock everywhere online, at least right now. This is basically perfect if you’re looking for a Nintendo Switch to give as a gift this year, for a lot of reasons.
Nintendo Switch Cyber Monday Bundle Deal
Are there Any Nintendo Cyber Monday Gift Card Deals?
As a matter of fact, yes. You can get a $20 eShop card for $18.50, or the $5 Nintendo eShop card for $4.50. Not the biggest savings around, but that’s 10% and there’s no limit to how many $5 cards you can buy. Just saying.
What’s In the Nintendo Switch Cyber Monday Deal?
Nintendo famously offers a variation of this bundle each Black Friday but this is the first time it’s lasted into Cyber Monday. Here’s what the 2022 Nintendo Switch bundle gets you:
HAC-001(01) model Nintendo Switch console with Neon Red and Neon Blue Joy-con
Download code for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Code for 3-month membership to Nintendo Switch Online
It’s a pretty good deal considering you get a game and NSO membership all for the price of a regular Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch is the latest model, meaning it has 4.5-9 hours of battery life as opposed to the original version, which had 3-5. This isn’t an OLED model Switch, but it’s still a Switch, and everyone likes Switch!
How to Get the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe New Tracks
With the 3-month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online, you get access to online play and a collection of Super NES and NES games as part of the subscription. However, if you want to access the new Mario Kart 8 tracks, you’ll need to upgrade to the NSO Expansion subscription. That tier entitles you to the extra Mario Kart 8 tracks, Animal Crossing DLC, the Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion, as well as access to a selection of Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games.
DOHA, Qatar — The U.S. Soccer Federation displayed altered images of Iran’s flag on some of its social media accounts, a switch that drew attention ahead of the U.S. men’s national team’s World Cup match against the Iranians. The federation said the change was intended to show solidarity with protests in the country and by Sunday had reverted, switching back to the official flag.
The alteration, which was visible on U.S. men’s national team social media accounts, removed a symbol in the middle of the flag associated with Iran’s clerical leaders.
The banner image on the team’s Twitter account Sunday morning featured a flag that includes Iran’s colors — red, green and white — but did not include a symbol that was added after the 1979 revolution, depicting a stylized rendering of the word for “God.” A similar image was included in a recent tweet about Group B standings. By Sunday afternoon, the official flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran replaced the altered image on the U.S. team’s Twitter account.
Iran faces the United States on Tuesday, the final match of group play for both teams.
In a statement early Sunday, the USSF, which oversees all of the national teams, said the decision was made in recent days to “show support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights.” The changes were temporary, the federation said.
A State Department official said the decision wasn’t a coordinated effort between the department and the USSF. U.S. men’s national team players also weren’t looped in.
“We didn’t know anything about the posts, but we are supporters of women’s rights — we always have been,” U.S. defender Walker Zimmerman said at a news conference.
U.S. soccer players said Nov. 27 that they support women’s rights after the U.S. Soccer Federation briefly put up altered images of Iran’s flag on social media. (Video: Reuters)
Protests in Iran broke out in September after a young woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. They have since grown into a nationwide uprising channeling an array of complaints against Iran’s clerical leaders. Hundreds of people have been killed during a crackdown on protests by the authorities, according to human rights groups.
Iran’s World Cup victory stirs joy, but tensions over protests persist
During Iran’s previous two matches, tensions surfaced between supporters and opponents of the government, including over the flag, with some anti-government critics waving a pre-revolutionary flag or concealing the symbol on the current flag with black tape. Vigorous debates have occurred within the protest movement over which flag should be displayed.
The changes appearedon the men’s national team’s social media accounts but not on the USSF website. For instance, the page that features the upcoming schedule displays the Iranian flag with the post-revolution symbol.
FIFA, soccer’s global governing body,declined to comment on the flag’s alteration.
Europe teams won’t use LGBTQ armbands at World Cup after FIFA threats
The USSF has previously taken steps to show support for marginalized groups at this World Cup. In a media room at the team’s training center outside Doha, a large USSF logo on a wall features rainbow colors instead of red and blue, in support of the LGBTQ+ community. The display comes amid concerns over treatment of LGBTQ fans in Qatar, a conservative Muslim nation that criminalizes homosexuality, as well as efforts by FIFA to downplay the rainbow symbol, including by saying it would penalize players who wear rainbow armbands.
There was no immediate reaction from the Iran’s government to the altering of the flag. A commentary posted Sunday on the website of Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency called the removal of the symbol a “strange and insulting action that was undoubtedly aimed at creating tension and destroying the focus of Iran’s team.”
The United States does not have formal diplomatic relations with Iran but is engaged in a number of delicate negotiations with the country through third-party intermediaries, including an effort to restore the 2015 nuclear deal.
Experts explain what exactly Iran’s morality police do, and why women are risking their lives on the front lines to fight against it. (Video: Julie Yoon/The Washington Post)
John Hudson contributed to this report.
World Cup in Qatar
USMNT: The United States faced England in its second World Cup game Friday. The match ended in a 0-0 draw, leaving the United States feeling good about its performance but also leaving Group B wildly unsettled heading into Tuesday’s finales.
Political protest: The looming backdrop to Iran’s World Cup campaign is a nationwide protest movement back home targeting its clerical leadership, and the tensions, inescapable and persistent, are spilling onto the field.
Perspective: The beautiful game is fine. Suitcases full of cash are better. Read Sally Jenkins on the human rights controversy in Qatar.
More than a century after it was first theorized, scientists have completed Einstein’s homework on special relativity in electromagnetism.
Osaka University researchers show the relativistic contraction of an electric field produced by fast-moving charged particles, as predicted by Einstein’s theory, which can help improve radiation and particle physics research.
Over a century ago, one of the most renowned modern physicists, Albert Einstein, proposed the ground-breaking theory of special relativity. Most of everything we know about the universe is based on this theory, however, a portion of it has not been experimentally demonstrated until now. Scientists from Osaka University’s Institute of Laser Engineering utilized ultrafast electro-optic measurements for the first time to visualize the contraction of the electric field surrounding an electron beam traveling at near the speed of light and demonstrate the generation process.
According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, one must use a “Lorentz transformation” that combines space and time coordinates in order to accurately describe the motion of objects passing an observer at speeds near the speed of light. He was able to explain how these transformations resulted in self-consistent equations for electric and magnetic fields.
While different effects of relativity have been proved numerous times to a very high degree of experimental
Illustration of the formation process of the planar electric field contraction that accompanies the propagation of a near-light-speed electron beam (shown as an ellipse in the figure). Credit: Masato Ota, Makoto Nakajima
Now, the research team at Osaka University has demonstrated this effect experimentally for the first time. They accomplished this feat by measuring the profile of the Coulomb field in space and time around a high-energy electron beam generated by a linear particle accelerator. Using ultrafast electro-optic sampling, they were able to record the electric field with extremely high temporal resolution.
It has been reported that the Lorentz transformations of time and space as well as those of energy and momentum were demonstrated by time dilation experiments and rest mass energy experiments, respectively. Here, the team looked at a similar relativistic effect called electric-field contraction, which corresponds to the Lorentz transformation of electromagnetic potentials.
“We visualized the contraction of an electric field around an electron beam propagating close to the speed of light,” says Professor Makoto Nakajima, the project leader. In addition, the team observed the process of electric-field contraction right after the electron beam passed through a metal boundary.
When developing the theory of relativity, it is said that Einstein used thought experiments to imagine what it would be like to ride on a wave of light. “There is something poetic about demonstrating the relativistic effect of electric fields more than 100 years after Einstein predicted it,” says Professor Nakajima. “Electric fields were a crucial element in the formation of the theory of relativity in the first place.”
This research, with observations matching closely to Einstein’s predictions of special relativity in electromagnetism, can serve as a platform for measurements of energetic particle beams and other experiments in high-energy physics.
Reference: “Ultrafast visualization of an electric field under the Lorentz transformation” by Masato Ota, Koichi Kan, Soichiro Komada, Youwei Wang, Verdad C. Agulto, Valynn Katrine Mag-usara, Yasunobu Arikawa, Makoto R. Asakawa, Youichi Sakawa, Tatsunosuke Matsui and Makoto Nakajima, 20 October 2022,
NFL free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was removed from a Los Angeles-bound American Airlines flight Sunday morning at Miami International Airport after refusing to comply with safety protocol, according to a statement from the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Officers were notified of a medical emergency on an American Airlines flight around 9:30 a.m. Sunday. The flight crew grew concerned for a passenger – identified by police as Beckham – as they tried to wake him to fasten his seat belt, according to a statement from Miami police.
“He appeared to be coming in and out of consciousness, prior to their departure,” the police statement read. “Fearing that Mr. Beckham was seriously ill, and that his condition would worsen through the expected 5 hour flight, the attendants called for police and fire rescue.”
When officers arrived, they asked Beckham to exit the aircraft several times, and he refused, according to the statement. The aircraft was deplaned, at which point officers asked Beckham to exit the plane and he did so without incident, the statement read.
“American Airlines flight 1228, with service from Miami (MIA) to Los Angeles (LAX), returned to the gate before takeoff due to a customer failing to follow crew member instructions and refusing to fasten their seatbelt (sic). The customer was removed, and the flight re-departed at 10:54 a.m. local time,” American Airlines said in a statement obtained by CNN.
Daniel Davillier, Beckham’s attorney, released a statement saying his client boarded the flight that morning without any problems. The flight had been delayed and Beckham fell asleep with his blanket over his head – a normal practice of his during long flights, Davillier said.
“He was awakened and told that the plane was back at the gate and that he needed to get off the plane because he did not put his seatbelt on when asked,” Davillier’s statement read, adding that Beckham was told it was too late to fasten the belt and he’d either need to get off the plane or everyone would have to deplane.
“The overzealous flight attendant refused to simply allow Mr. Beckham to fasten his seatbelt and proceed with the flight and instead immediately removed everyone from the plane,” Davillier said. “At no time was Mr. Beckham disruptive or combative.”
Davillier called the incident “completely unnecessary.”
“Sleeping on a plane should not be a cause for removal from a flight,” the attorney said. “If they could wake him up when the flight returned to the gate, then they could have done the same thing and woken him up to ask him to put on his seatbelt.”
No charges have been filed in the incident and after being escorted by officers to the terminal’s non-secure area Sunday morning, Beckham then “made other arrangements,” police say.
Beckham is currently a free agent as he continues to recover from surgery to repair a knee injury suffered in Super Bowl LVI as a member of the Los Angeles Rams in February. Beckham had a touchdown catch in the Rams’ winning effort over the Cincinnati Bengals in that game.
Beckham was spotted in Miami sitting courtside at the Miami Heat-Washington Wizards game Wednesday night, according to video posted on the NBA’s official Twitter account.
Jay Leno is returning to the comedy stage Sunday night, two weeks after sustaining significant burn injuries in a gasoline fire.
The former “Tonight Show” host will perform in front of a sold-out crowd at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California, according to a spokesperson for the club.
Leno, an avid car collector, had been working underneath a vehicle on November 12, when he was burned.
The 72-year-old underwent two surgical procedures to treat his injuries, his physician, Dr. Peter Grossman, said. Leno suffered burns to his face and hands.
His doctor noted that Leno was walking around and cracking jokes during his stay at the Grossman Burn Center.
The hospital announced in a November 21 news statement that Leno had been released.
“Jay will receive follow-up care at the Grossman Outpatient Burn Clinic for burns to his face, chest and hands he received during a fire at his home garage,” the statement said.
Grossman said he was pleased with Leno’s recovery and “optimistic that he will make a full recovery.”
“Jay would like to let everyone know how thankful he is for the care he received, and is very appreciative of all of the well wishes,” the hospital added. “He is looking forward to spending Thanksgiving with his family and friends and wishes everyone a wonderful holiday.”
Leno is slated to perform three additional shows at the Comedy and Magic Club in December.
Inflation is decreasing, but consumer prices remain almost eight percent higher than they were a year ago. For many families, this news is troubling as the holiday season approaches, and many evaluate their travel and gift-buying plans in the coming weeks.
The current inflationary crisis is not only being felt in the United States.
Germany has seen prices rise 10.4 percent since October 2021, and consumers in Argentina are trying to keep up with historic inflation that is expected to clock in 73.5 percent higher in January 2023 compared to the same period this year.
Around the world, the supply chain breakdowns caused by the covid-19 pandemic, the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and corporate greed are leading to higher prices across critical markets, including food and shelter.
Read our full coverage for the details and what actions are being taken to reduce inflationary pressure across markets.
