Perbaikan jalan amblas di Jalan Sholeh Iskandar, Kecamatan Tanah Sareal, Kota Bogor. Foto/Metropolitan
Jalan amblas di Jalan Sholeh Iskandar, Kecamatan Tanah Sareal, Kota Bogor, bakal dibuka sebagian pada pekan depan, setelah setahun ditutup karena perbaikan.
Rencana dibukanya jalan amblas di Jalan Sholeh Iskandar itu diungkapkan Kepala Pengawas Lapangan PPK wilayah 5.3 Jawa Barat, Agung Wibowo.
Agung mengatakan, jalan amblas di Jalan Sholeh Iskandar di atas underpass menuju Cilebut atau Kebonpedes bakal dibuka kembali lantaran perbaikannya telah selesai.
“Rencananya (dibuka sebagian pekan depan). Insya Allah dibuka total pada 23 November. Ini lagi di rapatin,”
Menurut Agung, pada tahap pembukaan sebagian ini bukan hanya kendaraan roda dua saja yang bisa melintasi jalan ini.
Melainkan, kendaraan roda empat pun sudah dapat melewati ruas jalan tersebut.
“Jalannya sudah dicor tapi sementara yang dibuka sebagian dulu. Untuk ruas satunya masih kita tutup untuk mengerjakan pekerjaan sisanya. Nanti kami pasang rambu,” kata Agung kepada wartawan, Senin, 07/11/2022.
Sementara, dijelaskan Agung, saat ini pihaknya masih akan mengerjakan pada bagian atas berupa pengerjaan saluran dan dinding parapet pada jalan amblas di Jalan Sholeh Iskandar itu.
Rencananya, pekerjaan itu diperkirakan akan selesai pada hari Rabu, 23/11/2022.
Setelah itu pihaknya akan bergeser dan mulai mengerjakan bronjong pada sisi yang lain untuk menanggulangi dampak longsor yang terjadi di area itu.
“Alhamdulillah tidak ada kendala. Mungkin hanya kendala cuaca saja. Tapi mudah-mudahan tetap bisa clear di tanggal 23 November, kita upayakan bisa cepat,” ucapnya.
Adapun, ditambahkan Agung, progres proyek perbaikan jalan amblas yang menghabiskan anggaran senilai Rp14,5 miliar itu sudah mencapai 83 persen.
Sebelumnya, Pemerintah Kota (Pemkot) Bogor memutuskan menutup sementara Jalan Sholeh Iskandar (Sholis), Kecamatan Tanah Sareal, Kota Bogor, mulai Selasa, 2 November 2021.
Penutupan dilakukan di titik jalan yang amblas, tepatnya berada persis di atas underpass menuju Cilebut atau Kebonpedes.
“Mulai besok, Jalan Sholis yang amblas akan ditutup bagi kendaraan roda empat dan lebih, untuk selanjutnya kendaraan akan akan dialihkan melewati underpass,” kata Wali Kota Bogor, Bima Arya usai melakukan peninjauan kondisi yang amblas di Jalan Sholis, Kecamatan Tanah Sareal, hari Senin, 01/11/2022.
Menurut Bima Arya, penutupan jalan akan dilakukan jajaran Polresta Bogor Kota untuk mengantisipasi terjadi longsoran tanah yang lebih parah. Apalagi saat ini kondisi cuaca dengan intensitas curah hujan sangat tinggi, sehingga perlu diantisipasi.
“Kami menyampaikan kepada warga Bogor maupun pengguna Jalan Sholeh Iskandar untuk mengantisipasi hal tersebut,” ucapnya terkait perbaikan jalan amblas di Jalan Sholeh Iskandar.
CEO Tesla Elon Musk membeli Twitter bulan lalu seharga $44 miliar. Dia telah menjanjikan perubahan besar pada kebijakan moderasi situs dan bersumpah untuk melindungi kebebasan berbicara di platform.
Miliarder teknologi dan pemilik baru Twitter, Elon Musk, telah mengancam larangan permanen pada akun "parodi" yang tidak secara jelas dilabeli sebagai parodi.
Musk mengumumkan kebijakan baru tersebut setelah banyak akun dengan verifikasi Twitter "tanda centang biru," menyindir Musk dengan mengubah nama dan profil mereka agar menyerupai miliarder teknologi. Keputusan Musk juga datang kira-kira delapan hari setelah dia menyatakan bahwa "komedi sekarang legal di Twitter."
Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended
Musk telah menjalani beberapa minggu pertama yang penting sebagai pemilik salah satu situs web media sosial terbesar di dunia. Dia membuat marah banyak akun populer dengan mengumumkan bahwa tanda centang biru di sebelah akun terverifikasi sekarang akan dimasukkan dalam Twitter Blue, layanan berlangganan premium $8 per bulan untuk platform tersebut.
Sejak itu dia sedikit mundur, memutuskan untuk menunda implementasinya sampai setelah pemilihan paruh waktu Selasa, menurut laporan media.
Tanda centang Biru sebelumnya gratis dan diberikan ke akun penting yang mengajukannya sebagai cara untuk membatasi penipuan dan peniruan identitas di platform. Musk juga menyatakan bahwa setiap akun terverifikasi akan memiliki tanda centang biru untuk sementara dihapus setelah mengubah namanya.
Beberapa selebriti dan akun terverifikasi lainnya, termasuk komedian Kathy Griffin, akun mereka ditangguhkan karena meniru Musk. Tidak jelas apakah pelanggaran tersebut akan mengakibatkan larangan permanen; mereka terjadi sebelum pengumuman Musk.
Sebelum menyelesaikan pembelian Twitter-nya, Musk menyatakan bahwa dia tidak percaya pada larangan permanen dan menyebutnya sebagai "kesalahan" oleh kepemimpinan sebelumnya Twitter untuk secara permanen menangguhkan mantan Presiden Trump atas tindakannya selama kerusuhan 6 Januari 2021 di gedung Capitol.
Pada hari Jumat, Musk memecat sekitar 3.700 pekerja dari Twitter, termasuk banyak eksekutif senior dan sebagian besar tim moderasi. Menurut outlet media AS, yang mengutip dua orang yang mengetahui situasi tersebut, Twitter meminta lusinan karyawan yang baru dipecat untuk kembali pada hari Minggu. Kegagalan yang memalukan adalah hasil dari tim manajemen yang menyadari bahwa pengalaman karyawan yang dipecat akan bermanfaat dalam menciptakan fitur-fitur baru yang direncanakan Musk untuk dibawa ke situs.
Meskipun Musk tidak sepenuhnya melarang akun parodi, dapat dikatakan bahwa mengharuskan akun parodi mengumumkan diri mereka sendiri akan merusak lelucon. Itulah argumen yang dibuat surat kabar satir AS dalam amicus brief kepada Mahkamah Agung bulan lalu untuk mendukung sesama satiris.
“(Memerlukan peringatan akan melucuti) kekuatan yang datang dengan wujud yang melahap dirinya sendiri. Selama ribuan tahun, ini telah menjadi ritme parodi, ”kata singkatnya. “Penulis meyakinkan pembaca bahwa mereka membaca hal yang nyata, lalu menarik permadani keluar dari bawah mereka dengan lelucon. Inti dari bentuk ini terletak pada memberi dan menerima antara pengaturan yang serius dan bagian lucunya yang konyol.”
Kira-kira satu jam setelah pengumuman Musk, dia men-tweet bahwa tujuan situsnya adalah menjadi “sumber informasi paling akurat tentang dunia.”
Dua wakil Indonesia, dari nomor ganda campuran dan tunggal putra, berhasil menjuarai turnamen Hylo Open 2022. Ganda Campuran diperoleh pasangan Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto/Lisa Ayu Kusumawati dan di tunggal putra oleh Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.
Keberhasilan di laga final tunggal putra dan ganda campuran membuat Indonesia meraih gelar juara umum pada turnamen bulu tangkis Hylo Open 2022.
Ganda campuran Indonesia, Rehan/Lisa lebih dulu memastikan gelar dalam turnamen level Super 300 ini. Keduanya dengan gemilang membungkam wakil Cina, Feng Yan Zhe/Huang Dong Ping, dengan straight set, 21-17, 21-15 setelah bertarung selama 43 menit.
Kemenangan itu menjadi gelar perdana bagi Rehan/Lisa sejak pertama kali dipasangkan pada 2019 lalu dan menjalani debut dalam turnamen level senior pada 2021.
Kemenangan itu juga menjadi pembuktian bagi pasangan peringkat ke-26 dunia itu setelah kandas di semifinal puncak French Open 2022 (Super 750) pekan lalu.
Dan Anthony Sinisuka Ginting menjadi juara dengan menaklukkan pemain Taiwan Chou Tien Chen. Lewat pertarungan sengit selama 2 jam 26 menit, pemain Indonesia itu menang dengan rubber set, 18-21, 21-11, 24-22.
Ini menjadi gelar juara yang kedua diraih Ginting dalam 2022. Sebelumnya ia juga menjadi yang terbaik pada Singapore Open.
Dengan hasil tersebut, Indonesia menjadi juara umum dengan raihan dua gelar. Tiga titel lainnya direbut Cina, di nomor tunggal putri, Thailand, di nomor ganda putri dan Taiwan, dinomor ganda putra. Mereka juga sekaligus merebut gelar runner-up.
Tim penyelamat berusaha untuk memulihkan pesawat penumpang Precision Air yang jatuh di Danau Victoria di Tanzania [Reuters]
Korban tewas dari kecelakaan pesawat hari Minggu di Danau Victoria di Tanzania telah melonjak menjadi 19, menurut Perdana Menteri negara itu Kassim Majaliwa.
Pesawat, yang berangkat dari ibukota komersial, Dar es Salaam, jatuh saat mencoba mendarat saat cuaca badai.
"Semua warga Tanzania bergabung dengan Anda untuk berduka atas 19 orang ini ... yang telah kehilangan nyawa mereka," kata Majaliwa kepada wartawan di kota barat laut Bukoba, tempat pesawat itu mendekati bandara sebelum jatuh ke air.
Komisaris regional Albert Chalamila mengatakan 43 orang – termasuk 39 penumpang, dua pilot dan dua awak kabin – berada di dalam pesawat.
Pihak berwenang setempat dan maskapai sebelumnya mengatakan bahwa 26 orang yang selamat dari 43 orang dalam penerbangan PW 494 telah ditarik ke tempat yang aman dan dibawa ke rumah sakit di Bukoba, sebuah kota tepi danau di wilayah Kagera.
Tidak segera jelas apakah 19 korban termasuk penyelamat yang tenggelam atau apakah pesawat 48 tempat duduk itu membawa lebih banyak orang daripada yang diungkapkan sebelumnya, kata seorang pejabat regional.
"Kami terus menyelidiki," kata Chalamila. "Ada kemungkinan bahwa dua orang tidak berada di dalam pesawat tetapi meninggal selama upaya penyelamatan."
Precision Air, maskapai swasta terbesar di Tanzania, mengatakan telah mengirim penyelamat ke tempat kejadian.
"Tim investigasi yang terdiri dari staf teknis Precision Air dan TAA (Otoritas Bandara Tanzania) juga telah berangkat untuk bergabung dengan tim penyelamat di lapangan," kata maskapai itu dalam sebuah pernyataan.
"Kami telah berhasil menyelamatkan cukup banyak orang,” kata Komandan polisi provinsi Kagera William Mwampaghale kepada wartawan pada hari sebelumnya.
“Ketika pesawat berada sekitar 100 meter (328 kaki) di udara, itu mengalami masalah dan cuaca buruk. Saat itu hujan dan pesawat jatuh ke air. Semuanya terkendali.”
Laporan berita menunjukkan foto-foto pesawat sebagian besar tenggelam di danau dengan hanya ekor berwarna hijau dan coklat yang terlihat di atas garis air.
Berbicara kepada Al Jazeera dari Dar es Salaam, wartawan Faraji Saidi mengatakan layanan darurat berada di tempat kejadian.
“Menurut komandan polisi di Bukoba, pesawat jatuh karena cuaca buruk, kabut. Di sekitar daerah itu sedang hujan. Upaya penyelamatan masih terus dilakukan. Maskapai ini sudah lama bekerja di Tanzania dan tidak mengalami kecelakaan,” kata Saidi.
Bandara Bukoba berada di tepi Danau Victoria, danau terbesar di Afrika. Perahu penyelamat dikerahkan dan pekerja darurat terus menyelamatkan penumpang lain yang terjebak di pesawat.
Presiden Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan menyerukan ketenangan selama operasi penyelamatan.
"Saya telah menerima dengan sedih berita tentang kecelakaan yang melibatkan pesawat Precision Air," cuitnya. “Mari kita tenang saat ini ketika tim penyelamat melanjutkan misi penyelamatan sambil berdoa kepada Tuhan untuk membantu kita.”
Masculinity in America → Every bull ride is a contest of life and death — and also of story and history. A Mexican American cowboy tries to hang on.
A bull rider is thrown amid a cloud of dust during the Wyoming Rodeo Association finals in Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 27. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post)
In LARAMIE, Wyoming - A stocky cowboy climbs onto a 1,400-pound bull. For the moment, they are both bound within a bucking chute. But already their muscles are tense and the arena is thick with dirt and adrenaline and soon, perhaps, also with blood. Joseph Quintana, the 25-year-old rider, is at once the trigger and the target. He needs to hang on for eight seconds to qualify here at the Wyoming Rodeo Association finals. The animal, named Wild Turkey, has been trained to make that nearly impossible.
Joe gives the nod.
The bull bounds out of the chute. The purple tassels from Joe’s riding chaps fly akimbo as the animal kicks up and down. But Joe himself looks sturdy; he keeps his left arm down on the bull-rope and shoots his right one into the air. One second.
Rodeo celebrates the raw skills of ranch work. It is an enunciation of dignity and of nostalgia for a lifestyle that feels far away in modern America. It also provides a respite from the isolation that persists in rural regions like this one. About 150 spectators are gathered here in late August at the Albany County Fairgrounds in Laramie to celebrate “the western way of life.”
A bull rider is thrown amid a cloud of dust during the Wyoming Rodeo Association finals in Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 27. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post)
“This is the time of day for a cowboy when all the hard work was being done. The bronc stompin', the fence buildin', the well diggin’ and the cattle tendin’,” an announcer says in a treacly voice at the start of the show. “It was this way of life that the sport of rodeo came to be, and folks, we are about to embark on one of the nation’s greatest feats of history. Because for a cowboy, this is his story.”
The script of American manhood is often set here in the frontier West, ever since the cowboy emerged as an iconic symbol of the United States more than 100 years ago. In that narrative, the cowboy lives by his own rules and bends others to his code. Stoic by nature, he betrays no emotion, except perhaps anger. He is good but also bad when the situation calls for it. He works alone but never gets lonely. He is almost always White.
At the rodeo, the bull ride is the culminating event, the main draw. There are few things that appear more macho than riding bulls. In a time when there are many conflicting ideas about how to be a “real man” in the United States, to cling to a bull is to cling to tradition, to embody a simple vision in a country where everything else feels adrift.
But unlike other rodeo events — tie-down roping, breakaway, and even steer wrestling — bull riding is unrelated to the grueling day-to-day skills necessary to subsist in Cowboy Country.
The bull kicks up more violently now, again and again, but Joe hangs on. Two seconds.
Now the animal starts to corkscrew like a crashing warplane. The dirt it kicks up is flying everywhere, from ground to sky like a sepia filter. Three seconds.
Riding bulls is entertainment..
In his day-to-day life, Joe breeds and raises high-altitude cattle in Saguache County, Colo., in the San Luis Valley about 300 miles south of Laramie. He is here to compete for thousands of dollars in prize money alongside scores of other athletes. They come from faraway parts of Nebraska and Colorado and Montana and Wyoming and even Texas
Joe isn’t a legacy cowboy, like many in the Western United States who have inherited property and are trying to figure out what to do with it. He made himself into a cowboy, methodically, even obsessively.
Joe, who is Mexican American, gravitated toward cowboy things even as a child. Western hats and saddle boots. Giant belt buckles. Riding around on horses.
A bull rider is thrown amid a cloud of dust during the Wyoming Rodeo Association finals in Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 27. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post)
In time, he began to identify with the men around him who did agricultural work. It seemed honest and dutiful — and manly. When he was a teenager, Joe started attending rodeos and training on his own to master the bull ride. It felt like a declaration of freedom, like a step toward becoming his own man.
“I just looked up to those guys for some reason. They were like heroes to me. And I just said, man, I’m going to ride bulls one day,” he says. “Rodeo is not like a job that you go apply for. It’s one of them deals that you got to want it more than you want anything.”
The story of the American cowboy is often framed as one of authenticity.
But it has always been about creation. And re-creation.
Joe was born and raised in Golden, Colo., a suburb of Denver where the quintessential American entertainer William Cody is buried.
Buffalo Bill, as Cody came to be known and immortalized, was the person most responsible for popularizing the lore of the Wild West in the late 19th century. His highly produced and scripted Wild West show recast cowboys from undesirables into figures of romance and virtue, says Richard White, an emeritus historian of the West at Stanford University.
A new narrative of American manhood was born — a highly profitable one.
The transformation from cowboy to Cowboy, from worker to showman, happens in the moments before Joe climbs into the chute and onto the bull. On the platform, his face becomes less soft as the ride approaches. His mouth turns down. Joe paces side to side, like he’s dancing a two-step. He practices jolting up and down. A shadow cast by his hat covers his eyes.
Joe is still upright, looking every bit the iconic cowboy in silhouette. Except Joe is flesh and blood. And so is the bull. Four seconds.
A bull rider is thrown amid a cloud of dust during the Wyoming Rodeo Association finals in Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 27. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post)
Wild Turkey spins and spins and spins like a hydroplaning car. Joe looks like he’s hanging on tight. And then, suddenly, he looks unsteady. Five seconds.
Gilbert Quintana, Joe’s dad, was not supportive of bull riding, and even now he wishes Joe would stop. He thinks it’s dangerous but that Joe is too headstrong to see all it could cost him.
After Joe’s parents divorced when he was about 3 years old, Gilbert did his best as a single father to keep his four kids on a schedule while working as a tower crane operator. Wrestling was not only the family sport but also a lifeline, which Joe, his brother and two sisters practiced seven days a week, all year round. But for Joe,it was a secondhand intensity. He came to resent the sport. “It’s like anything. Like, you can’t eat a ham sandwich every single day for every meal,” he says. “It wasn’t what I wanted to do. Rodeo was what I wanted to do.”
Joe dropped out of school in 2014 when he was 17 years old, in part to get away from wrestling. He moved out of his dad’s house abruptly; the two were estranged for a time. Joe worked as a cowpuncher in Flagler, Colo., making $150 a day tending to cattle on horseback.
In his free time, he rode bulls.
He thought he had his life all figured out. He recalls his elation when he bought a Dodge pickup truck with his own money.
Hard times followed. Once, with no money and no gas, Joe showed up at his dad’s house to ask for help. It was snowing.
“Do you remember what I told you?” Gilbert recalls telling Joe. “You’re a man now. And if you leave here, not to come back. You made a man’s decision, and you have to live with a man’s decision.”
Gilbert cried afterward. It was one of the hardest things he ever did, he says, but he wanted to teach Joe a lesson about accountability.
Later that year, a bull stepped on Joe’s chest at the end of a ride. It broke his sternum and his clavicle, and pushed bones so far back into Joe’s chest cavity that doctors thought his aorta was going to rupture. Both of his lungs were punctured and he lacerated his liver. He also broke his jaw after getting hit in the face several times. To help him breathe, Joe went on a ventilator and his lungs were sewn with mesh to the inside of his ribs.
The damage could have killed him.
A bull rider is thrown amid a cloud of dust during the Wyoming Rodeo Association finals in Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 27. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post)
For the next three months he could hardly walk or shower by himself.
About halfway through his 13-month recovery, Joe began to ask his doctor when he could ride bulls again. She shot that down.
And yet the week Joe was officially given a clean bill of health, he says with pride, he entered another rodeo. The six-inch plate left in his chest from the accident provided some reassurance: “I don’t think it’s going to break again.”..
After his accident, he went at bull riding even harder than before.
He figures he has “about five solid years left in this body” and he’s going to keep going until it gives out. He knows each bull ride could be his last.
What could possibly be worth such high stakes?
He can’t put it into words. The prize money isn’t good enough on its own to justify the sacrifices. Maybe he does it for the adrenaline. Maybe it makes him feel alive. Maybe it makes him feel like a man. Maybe it’s an old story: a young guy grasping for somewhere to belong.
Or maybe it’s none of those things, exactly.
“People call it the worst drug in the world. They say you can’t do it just once,” he says. “You’ve gotta be the right type of person. And if you are, and you do it, there’s just no other feeling in the world like it.”
And what is that feeling? The one that shaped his life and his work and his ambition?
“I don’t know,” he says. “It’s just that feeling.”
Whatever it is, Joe is always thinking about bull riding — when he is planting seed, when he is putting up hay, when he is driving to pick up his daughter. Sun up to sun down.
The bull kicks up again one more time, and as Joe pulls down to find his center of gravity, the bull starts to spin again, except this time Joe can’t hang on.
For the slightest moment he is hovering above the bull but is no longer on it. Five-and-a-half-seconds.
Every rodeo is a contest between story and history.
Behind the announcer’s booth, freight trains heave back and forth, betraying the truth of the land. Wyoming is called “The Cowboy State” but agriculture is a very small part of the economy here today — just two percent of Wyoming’s gross domestic product, according to government data. The state’s population relies heavily on the extraction and exportation of natural resources like oil, gas and coal.
As an icon of manliness, the American cowboy exists somewhere in the space between myth and reality as well.
The Frontier Thesis, an intellectual consensus of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bolstered the idea that American exceptionalism was forged through mastery over the continental wilderness. The idea spread, from paintings to Wild West shows to frontier films, and turned the West into the cradle of American masculinity.
In the popular telling, American virtue and maleness and Whiteness became one thing. Today, the cowboy remains a stand-in for the ideal man in American life; dominant, independent, and unwavering.
In truth, the crucial skills of rural Western life find their historic origins with Mexican vaqueros, mestizos of mixed Indigenous and Spanish lineage whose presence in North America preceded the Republic. But the frontier exceptionalism notably did not apply to the indigenous peoples who had lived on the land since time immemorial.
And cowboys in the Old West were corporate cogs, not mavericks. They worked primarily for large profit-driven corporations that were at the time consolidating ownership of once-open ranch-lands.
Joe comes crashing down. He lands on his flank and then his head falls into the dirt. The ride won’t count. Joe turns his body and is now face down. The bull still is on top of him, kicking. Six seconds.
“The cowboy’s life is not a glorious life but it’s his life,” the announcer tells the audience at the start of the show. “He owns a horse and a saddle. His life is hard work and true grit to survive and to live by the unwritten code. Week to week, trying to earn his wages, freedom and pride are the driving forces of the American cowboy. As we keep our soldiers, pride, and our freedom in our hearts, I want to ask you one thing: are you proud to be an American?”
Euphoria scatters throughout the arena like a cloud of dust.
Cheers ring out.
Two years ago, Joe bought about 2,600 acres and leased another 10,000, which he uses to run an operation of about 300 mother cows. “A bunch of critters,” he calls them. It was his dream. One thing he has learned is that the most valuable players in ranching towns are community-minded men. And women. Their lives are about attention to unglamorous details, not bravado and myth.
But he has grown wary of the myths that circulate around “real America” — who belongs, who doesn’t, and the unspoken reasons why. Some of the best cowboys Joe knows are Brown, Black and Indian.
“They’re the good workers,” he says with a chuckle.
You wouldn’t know it looking at the crowd or the athletes here at the rodeo, which are almost exclusively White. When the announcer lauds Bill Pickett, the Black cowboy who inspired steer wrestling, it registers more as oddity than overture. No one in the audience reacts.
There are very good rodeo performers, Joe points out, who aren’t real cowboys at all. He has encountered bull riders in the past who don’t even know how to ride a horse, who “show up in an Escalade and Air Jordans with their skinny jeans,” he says, laughing. “Then they’ll put on their rodeo attire and go out there and win, too!”
All those contradictions become irrelevant when Joe rides.
Every time he gets on a bull, he marks his territory.
The bull’s two hind legs fall on each side of Joe’s body, a miracle in motion that spares Joe’s spine from getting crushed. Joe needs to get out from underneath the bull. Seven seconds.
Addie, Joe’s 5-year-old daughter, has been watching the action. It’s all happening very quickly but she is following as best she can.
Joe had just been teaching her how to lasso in the hours before his ride.
“Hold your spoke,” Joe instructed, warmly, a gold cross resting atop his button-up western shirt. “Slide your head up. Flip it again.”
Addie’s giant belt buckle glittered in the sun as she swung the lasso around and aimed for a bottle of yellow Gatorade.
“You missed again! We gotta try a little harder,” he told her. “Here, rope my foot while I’m walking.”
“Swing it a little longer, before you throw,” he added.
A few tries later, she finally got him.
“Nice!” Joe shouted. “That’s the best one I’ve seen you throw!”
Joe hopes rodeo is something he and Addie can share. Women compete in a few roping and horse riding events, which is how Joe met his current girlfriend. Together they are teaching Addie how to ride.
“Are we ready for fast horses and beautiful women?” the announcer asks the crowd before the barrel racing begins.
Joe crawls back toward the pen and away from the spinning bull. A flash of disappointment hits his face at the precise moment he is finally safe.
“It felt good as f---, too!” he shouts.
Joe paces back and forth. His face is hard, turned downward in disappointment, or anger, or sadness. Eight seconds.
Amid the violence of a bull ride, the men who cling on become something other than themselves, brash characters instead of actual cowboys, Marlboro Men instead of the real thing. It is easy to see Joe this way, too.
But what does Joe think? Is a “real man” someone who does dangerous things simply because he can? Someone who knows that pain is a part of glory and pursues it anyway? Someone who works with his hands, or drives a big truck, or always gets what he wants?
It’s none of that, he says.
Joe aspires to be somebody who “will take the time to do something right instead of doing it twice,” he says, “somebody who takes care of his business, someone who is always on top of it.”
“You’re never sitting around waiting. You’re always trying to make something happen. You’re always on your way,” he says.
To be a “real man” one must also be a good man, Joe adds, and that is decided outside the arena. It’s about how you treat people. Being there for your family and your friends. Approaching strangers with kindness and respect.
He has messed up before. He probably will again. That’s real life.
“I’ve been in some low places in my life and I know some people are in low places,” Joe says. “And I just try to be a nice face that people can remember.”
The hardness drains from Joe’s face the farther away he gets from the bull chute. He catches his daughter’s gaze and he finally smiles. Joe’s ride didn’t qualify but he’ll try again soon. Another rider prepares to go on.
Sedikitnya 30 orang terluka ketika sebuah kereta keluar dari rel di pusat kota Seoul pada Minggu, Yonhap melaporkan. Menurut agensi, kecelakaan itu terjadi pada 20:55 waktu setempat (14:55 waktu Moskow). Ada 275 penumpang di kereta
Sebuah kereta tergelincir di pusat kota Seoul pada hari Minggu, melukai sekitar 30 penumpang, kata operator.
Penggelinciran terjadi pada pukul 20:52, ketika kereta Mugunghwa dengan 275 penumpang memasuki Stasiun Yeongdeungpo di pusat kota Seoul, menurut Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL).
Enam gerbong kereta termasuk lima gerbong penumpang keluar dari rel, tambahnya.
Kereta sedang dalam perjalanan menuju Iksan, di Provinsi Jeolla Utara, sekitar 180 kilometer selatan ibukota Korea Selatan, dari Yongsan, Seoul, pada pukul 20:15.
Sekitar 30 penumpang terluka karena tergelincir tetapi kebanyakan dari mereka luka ringan, kata KORAIL.
This picture shows a Mugunghwa train / Korea Times file
Akibat kecelakaan tersebut, operasional kereta api di jalur tersebut mengalami keterlambatan lebih dari satu jam.
KORAIL mengatakan mereka sedang mencari penyebab pasti dari penggelinciran itu
The administration of US President Joe Biden is privately encouraging Kiev to demonstrate a readiness to negotiate with Moscow, American newspaper reports citing people familiar with the discussions.
The newspaper said on Saturday that Washington does not want Ukraine to start negotiations with Russia, but, instead, aims to ensure that Kiev has the support of other countries.
"Ukraine fatigue is a real thing for some of our partners," one US official said.
According to the newspaper, concerns are mounting in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America, as food and fuel prices are rising amid Russia’s ongoing special operation in Ukraine.Russia-Ukraine talks began at the end of February after the start of Moscow's military operation. The last round of the negotiations concluded in Istanbul on March 29. The talks have since stalled.
Russia-Ukraine talks began at the end of February after the start of Moscow's military operation. The last round of the negotiations concluded in Istanbul on March 29. The talks have since stalled.
In late September, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was still open to talks with Kiev and called on Ukraine to stop the hostilities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in turn, stated that Kiev was ready for dialogue with Moscow, but only if another president came to power in Russia. The Kremlin responded that Moscow would wait for a change in the stance of Ukraine's current president or his successor.
This WAPO report comes after US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Friday to 'underscore' Washington's support amid the escalation of the war in Ukraine.
Sullivan affirmed that the United States will continue economic and humanitarian assistance and ongoing efforts with partners to hold Russia accountable for its aggression.
The recent surge in Russian attacks has resulted in massive blackouts. Besides this, Kyiv residents are under severe water shortages as one of the strikes hit an energy facility that powered 350,000 apartments in the capital, CNN reported.
In total, the United States has now committed more than USD 18.9 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration. Since 2014, the United States has committed more than USD 21 billion in security assistance to Ukraine and more than USD 18.2 billion since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on February 24. (ANI)
The request by American officials is not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, these people said. Rather, they called it a calculated attempt to ensure the government in Kyiv maintains the support of other nations facing constituencies wary of fueling a war for many years to come.
The discussions illustrate how complex the Biden administration’s position on Ukraine has become, as U.S. officials publicly vow to support Kyiv with massive sums of aid “for as long as it takes” while hoping for a resolution to the conflict that over the past eight months has taken a punishing toll on the world economy and triggered fears of nuclear war
While U.S. officials share their Ukrainian counterparts’ assessment that Putin, for now, isn’t serious about negotiations, they acknowledge that President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ban on talks with him has generated concern in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America, where the war’s disruptive effects on the availability and cost of food and fuel are felt most sharply
In the United States, polls show eroding support among Republicans for continuing to finance Ukraine’s military at current levels, suggesting the White House may face resistance following Tuesday’s midterm elections as it seeks to continue a security assistance program that has delivered Ukraine the largest such annual sum since the end of the Cold War.
