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Montréal’s summer isn’t winding down just yet—not if Piknic Électronik has anything to say about it. After a standout season featuring over 23 electrifying events, the UK’s Disclosure is making a triumphant return for a special one-night DJ set that promises to be one for the books.
Set against the backdrop of Parc Jean-Drapeau’s island, OfF Piknic is pulling out all the stops with Disclosure headlining on Friday, August 30, 2024. Setting the stage for the night’s main event, UK dubstep trailblazer Hamdi will be on warm-up duties, followed by a back-to-back set from Montréal’s own crowd-pleasers, Guthrie and Lia Plutonic. This event marks the kickoff of the Labour Day weekend, transforming it into a dance-fueled spectacle that’s sure to light up the city.
Since their last Montréal gig in late 2021, Disclosure has been on a tear, notching up new accolades along the way. Among their recent highlights: a scorching back-to-back session with Mochakk at Cercle Festival and dropping their highly-anticipated summer anthem, “She’s Gone, Dance On.”
Tickets for Disclosure’s OfF Piknic performance are still available for purchase online, but they’re moving fast.
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3:01 PM PT — According to county records, Artem Chigvinstev was released at 2:18 PM PT.
We now know how the alarm was sounded when someone at Artem Chigvintsev’s home called 911.
Sources connected to the investigation tell TMZ … a call came in around 8:30 AM, reporting a “medical emergency” at the home. It’s unclear who made the call.
As paramedics and the fire department were en route, someone from the house called 911 again to cancel the request. They did not say why, but we’re told paramedics and fire returned to their stations … never showing up at the house.
At 10 AM, Artem was arrested for felony corporal injury to spouse or cohabitant. In order to make the arrest for a felony, the injury must be visible.
Artem is married to Nikki Garcia — better known as Nikki Bella in WWE circles — but the name of the alleged victim has been withheld.
Artem and Nikki celebrated their second wedding anniversary this week.
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Here’s a simple, but handy update for Threads users on desktop. Today, Threads has added the ability to rearrange the columns for your desktop Threads display.
Threads launched the new column display on desktop back in May, which is very similar to the TweetDeck or Hootsuite format, enabling you to monitor separate streams based on keywords, topics, people, and more, in addition to your “Following” and “For You” feeds.
It’s a good way to keep track of various elements within the app, and stay up to date, while Threads also recently added analytics to its desktop display, facilitating more functionality.
The capacity to easily rearrange the columns as they appear is valuable, in that it makes it much easier to shift around various topics and trends at different times.
I mean, it’s not a world-changing upgrade, but it’s a much-requested one, and it will help many social media managers make best use of the platform.
The update is being rolled out to all Threads users from today.
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The big question political observers have been asking this week is whether Kamala Harris would get a polling “bounce” from what by all accounts was a pretty successful Democratic National Convention. There’s now enough post-convention polling data in to at least assess that proposition, and the best answer is that if there’s a “bounce,” it’s modest.
One problem is that hardly any public pollsters went into the field just before or just after the DNC. Morning Consult’s tracking poll is a good source of trend data, and it had Harris leading Trump by an identical four-point margin (48 to 44 percent) the week before and the week of the convention. YouGov/Economist showed Harris leading Trump by three points (46 to 43 percent) in an August 17–20 survey and by 2 percent (47 to 45 percent) in an August 25–27 poll. In the FiveThirtyEight national polling averages, Harris led Trump by 2.9 percent (46.7 to 43.8 percent) the day the confab in Chicago began and by 3.7 percent (47.3 to 43.6 percent) the day after it ended. She leads by 3.4 percent (47.1 to 43.7 percent) as of August 29. Some of the data feeding those averages, of course, was collected well before the results were released, so it could be a while before we can fully determine what happened to public opinion during and immediately after the DNC, but it’s worth noting that (a) convention bounces seem to have become smaller during the past few cycles (perhaps as a result of polarization) and (b) except in cases of big shifts, there’s no way to know if convention-week gains would have happened anyway and/or invisibly counteracted contrary trends.
Even if you conclude there was no significant “convention bounce” for Harris, a good argument can be made that her pre-convention surge was the functional equivalent, as Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter suggested: “Unlike any other election we have ever seen before, where the candidate really just came onto the scene less than a month before the convention, she got a lot of that bump before we even got to Chicago with the base then rallying around her.”
It’s also notable that something else happened in the presidential race the very day after the DNC: Robert F. Kennedy dropped his independent bid and endorsed Donald Trump. He had already been losing altitude in the polls all summer, so there weren’t a lot of Kennedy supporters left to “lend” to Trump, and given their low propensity to vote and strong hostility to both major parties, they might just stay home in November. But all we can say now is that this development doesn’t seem to have affected the major-party contest in any dramatic way. The very recent YouGov-Economist survey did show slight gains for Trump and for Jill Stein, but that could just represent statistical noise.
In any event, bounce or no bounce, this remains a very close presidential race both nationally and in the seven battleground states, and Kamala Harris is in a much better position that Joe Biden was for most of 2024. Nationally, her above-mentioned 3.4 percent lead is somewhat less than the national popular-vote margin (4.5 percent) won by Biden in 2020, and somewhat more than the margin (2.9 percent) that left Hillary Clinton achingly close to victory in 2016. Given all sorts of possible subterranean shifts in voting groups, you cannot extrapolate those numbers to 2024 and assume Harris needs to win by any particular percentage; let’s just say her national support looks sufficient for victory, though that’s hardly any sort of assurance.
In the battlegrounds where the race will be decided, every state is definitely in play. According to the FiveThirtyEight averages, Harris actually leads in six of the seven: by 0.1 percent in Arizona (45.4 to 45.3 percent); by 0.4 percent (46.5 to 46.1 percent) in Georgia; by 3.0 percent in Michigan (46.9 to 43.9 percent); by 1.2 percent (45.8 to 44.7 percent) in Nevada; by 1.3 percent (46.4 to 45.1 percent) in Pennsylvania; and by 2.7 percent (47. 4 to 44.7 percent) in Wisconsin. Trump leads by 0.5 percent (46.1 to 45.6 percent) in North Carolina. All of these leads are both fragile and even debatable: Nate Silver argues that the most recent polling from Pennsylvania doesn’t look as good for Harris as what we were seeing when he first became the nominee. And while there are multiple paths to 270 electoral votes for both candidates, the consensus is that Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania (19 electoral votes) are likely to be crucial.
As has been the case since Harris became the Democratic nominee, the performance of the two candidates with various subgroups of voters are beginning to look a lot more like those of 2016 and 2020 than what we were seeing with Biden in the race. The very latest high-quality national poll (from Quinnipiac) shows Harris leading among under-35 voters by 52 to 39 percent and among Black voters by 75 to 20 percent and the two candidates tied among Hispanic voters at 48 percent, with Harris leading overall by two points (49 to 47 percent). This is a likely-voter poll; other pollsters will be switching over from registered-voter to likely-voter polls in the weeks just ahead. Traditionally, this gives a boost to Republicans, but as with so many other issues in this surprising election year, that may or may not be the case with Harris (whose Democrats have become very enthusiastic) and Trump (who appeals to many marginal voters) as the contestants.
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Jack Draper set up a likely US Open third-round tie with Carlos Alcaraz after an out-of-sorts Katie Boulter suffered a disappointing exit to Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.
Draper, who enjoys playing on the American hard courts having made it to the fourth round in New York last year, was far too good for his opponent Diaz Acosta of Argentina, winning 6-4 6-2 6-2.
But he will have his work cut out matching last year’s run as Alcaraz is likely to be waiting in the next round.
The Spaniard, who won the French Open and Wimbledon this year, faces Dutchman Botic van De Zanschulp in the early hours of Friday.
Draper was in control from the off against the world No 64. A break in the third game of the match put him on his way and it was plain sailing from there, hitting 29 winners in a routine win.
Draper said he is relishing the prospect of a potential meeting with Carlos Alcaraz
“I didn’t know what to expect today as I didn’t get enough court time the other day to know. But today I felt my tennis was in a good place,” Draper told Sky Sports Tennis.
“I felt a bit flat at the start. Sometimes you don’t wake up feeling amazing so I had to get myself going and I felt my serve got me out of trouble a lot.
“Hopefully I can build on this performance. This is the Grand Slam where I have had my best results so far so there is something about the conditions that suit my game.
“If I keep on improving, there is no reason I can’t do well here.”
Draper, who upset Alcaraz on grass at Queen’s earlier this summer, said: “I was proud of my performance at Queen’s as he hasn’t lost to anyone on grass for a couple of years so I must have done something right.
“If I do play him I will be expecting a very different Carlos Alcaraz. It is a different ball game on a hard court.”
Sky Sports Tennis’ Tim Henman, on Jack Draper:
“I was impressed by his overall level. There were very few dips. His serving, hitting his spots, winning first-serve points.
“If you were being critical you would like to see the first-serve percentage a little higher, it was around 50-55 but from the back of his court, his footwork and physicality [stood out].
“He looked to attack both wings and he wasn’t afraid to serve and volley. It was a very impressive performance.”
Boulter was outplayed throughout her 7-5 7-5 defeat to the world No 74 to end British interest in the women’s draw following Harriet Dart’s exit to Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk on Wednesday.
She was heard saying to her team on courtside that “everything was horrendous” as her best game deserted her.
Bouzas Maneiro, 21, has already upset Paula Badosa in Madrid and knocked out Marketa Vondrousova at Wimbledon this year, and now she can add Boulter to her list despite a spirited rally from the British No 1 in the second set.
“I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself,” Boulter told a news conference after her defeat. “I can sit here and say I’m trying to get a run in a Grand Slam and I’m pushing myself in these moments but at the same time I’m trying not to put too much emphasis on it because you can stop thinking about winning the match instead of the actual process of it.”
The match hinged on the first set and Boulter looked in a good position when she broke to go 4-2 up.
But from that point the Spaniard dictated the match, cleverly moving Boulter around the court to win five of the next six games and take the opener.
Highlights as Katie Boulter suffered a disappointing US Open exit to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Boulter lost the opening set of her first-round victory over Aliaksandra Sasnovich but there was no comeback this time, even though she briefly threatened it.
A double break for Bouzas Maneiro in the second set appeared to seal Boulter’s fate as she trailed 5-2, but she clawed them both back and held her own serve to level at 5-5.
However, normality resumed as Boulter handed her next service game back to Bouzas Maneiro with a bad miss at the net and a double fault.
Her opponent was able to serve it out at the second attempt to make the third round of a Grand Slam for just the second time.
Boulter, who played doubles alongside Anna Kalinskaya on Wednesday, admitted the transition from grass to clay, in order to play at the Paris Olympics, and then to hard court in time for the US Open did impact her performance at Flushing Meadows.
“I’m lying if I say it didn’t, but I knew that,” said the 28-year-old from Leicester. “My mind was set from stage one and I wouldn’t change it for the world.
“I do need to look after my body which is why I won’t play the Korea Open in Seoul. I’ll give myself an extra week to get some groundwork done and that’s my compromise.”
Sky Sports Tennis’ Tim Henman on Katie Boulter’s defeat:
“It came down to errors. You can overcomplicate this game but if you keep the ball on the island you will be very good.
“Sixty points in the first set between the players finished with a mistake. When Katie fought back from 5-2 down in the second set it was because she didn’t make mistakes.
“It was a disappointing performance, given Katie’s quality. It’s a match I think she should win.
“If she looks back at this it won’t be a great watch but I think she can learn a lot from it. She is such a good ball striker that if she keeps the ball in play, she wins that game pretty routinely.”
Take a look at a day in the life of Boulter as she prepared for the US Open
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Melissa Kaye is clearing out the vault to make room for their new collection and will be extending special pricing for 2 days only! Fine jewelry up to 70% off.
September 18-19, 2024, 9am-6pm
Melissa Kaye Sample Sale
287 Park Avenue South, 2nd Floor (Entrance on 22nd Street)
New York, NY 10010
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