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Tuesday night promises to be a battle of baseball's best, with All-Stars from both leagues lined up to face off in the annual Midsummer Classic at Petco Park in San Diego.
If you're trying to catch MLB's best in a star-studded summer showdown, you'll probably want to know where to catch it.
The 87th MLB All-Star Game coverage begins Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. EST on FOX, with first pitch scheduled for 8:16.
After a rousing Home Run Derby performance by Giancarlo Stanton, there should be a good deal of excitement entering the third-ever MLB All-Star Game in San Diego.
It's probably easier just to list those bowing out of the Midsummer Classic, as this always seems to be a source of controversy.
A trio of elite National League arms — Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw, Giants' Madison Bumgarner and Met ace Noah Syndergaard — are all sitting out because of injury or fatigue. And 2015 Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta announced Monday that he's leaning toward not pitching as well, given his recent struggles heading into ...
Two-thirds of the Senior Circuit starting outfield is also out with injury, as the Mets' Yoenis Cespedes and the Cubs' Dexter Fowler have been replaced by Rockies' Carlos Gonzalez and Marlins' Marcel Ozuna.
It's advantage-American League here, as the fan-voted starting lineup remains intact. Plus, the White Sox's Chris Sale leads the charge for a plethora of starting arms, with Rangers' Cole Hamels, Blue Jays' Aaron Sanchez, Indians' Corey Kluber and Sale teammate Jose Quintana lined up in the pen.
Like the rest of the starting infield for the NL, shortstop belongs to the Cubs' Addison Russell.
A strong defensive presence who has hit 11 home runs, he lacks the kind of impact bat some of his peers possess.
Fangraphs has him as only the sixth-best NL shortstop in WAR, behind All-Star reserves Aledmys Diaz in St. Louis and Dodgers rookie Corey Seager. And the top option in WAR, San Francisco's Brandon Crawford, isn't even on the roster.
While Chicago fans made sure to get out and vote in their players, they've left a number of better options either on the bench or nowhere to be found.
Meanwhile, the American League got it right again, as the trio of WAR leaders at shortstop are all present, and two of them are starting (Orioles' Manny Machado is at third base, with Red Sox Xander Bogaerts is at short).
In case you haven't figured it out by now, the American League is in good position to win Tuesday's showcase — and home-field advantage for the World Series.
And it's not just the injuries or poorly chosen starters for the National League that make the AL squad the favorites. They have history on their side.
While the all-time record is slightly in the Senior Circuit's favor, it's been all American League of late. Since 1997, the American League has won 15 of 19, with the NL winning just three (the two leagues played to a 7-7 tie in 2002).
If the All-Star Game is meant to showcase the game's greatest superstars, it's made a habit of doing just that in recent years.
Enter Angels superstar Mike Trout, who has won each of the past All-Star Game MVP awards, the first player ever to win the award in back-to-back seasons.
Batting second and slated to get a first-inning at-bat against NL starter Johnny Cueto, Trout's made a habit of fast starts in the past. He's homered and tripled in his first at-bats of the last two All-Star Games, scoring a run in both frames.
Trout's just 1-for-6 lifetime off Cueto, but the 24-year-old outfielder has a tendency to shine in big moments. Could he win a third MVP in a row? No one has ever done it before in any of the major North American sports, but nobody should be doubting the best player in the sport.
Big Papi has made it clear he intend to retire, and past greats such as Cal Ripken, Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter have gotten big sendoffs in their farewell All-Star Game appearances.
David Ortiz has been nothing short of spectacular in 2016. The 40-year-old designated hitter bats cleanup for the American League, bringing his league-leading 1.107 OPS with him.
He's probably the favorite to steal the MVP from Trout in the case the AL wins, but he should get a nice farewell from the fans and his fellow players.
Terry Collins showed some good awareness by naming Padres' Wil Myers as his DH for Tuesday over former Met Dan Murphy.
The San Diego first baseman starts and bats cleanup for the National League in front of his home crowd a day after giving fans a nice show in the Home Run Derby.
"I'm very excited about it," Myers told the media on Monday. "Hopefully I can put on a good show for the home crowd."
The nod is a nice gesture to the oft-injured 25-year-old who has managed to stay healthy, and has put together a strong .286/.351/.522 slash line with 19 home runs and 60 RBIs.
And he closed out the first half in style, garnering NL Player of the Month honors for June. During the month, Myers clubbed homers and slashed a ridiculous .327/.529/.765. His 21 extra-base hits tied the franchise record for the most such hits in a single month.
It's safe to say Myers is well-deserving of the opportunity, but now it's on him to deliver.
It used to be that the Midsummer Classic was a simple showcase, independent of any in-season consequences.
That hasn't been the case since 2003 with home-field advantage for the World Series being awarded to the winner.
But just how much is really on the line?
A lot, in fact. In the last 30 seasons, the team with home-field advantage won the World Series 25 times. Since that All-Star rule came into effect, nine of the 13 teams with home-field have won it all.
While it's not a guarantee, history indicates it would behoove both Ned Yost and Terry Collins to take Tuesday's matchup seriously, especially since both have aspirations of returning to the Fall Classic this October.
Tuesday's All-Star participants are not just a bunch of one-year wonders. These guys have a track record of excellence, and have the hardware to back it up.
In the end, which players have the standout performances shouldn't be the deciding factor in how entertaining Tuesday night's ballgame is. Whatever happens, baseball fans should expect a close, well-fought battle from both sides.
Since 2003, eight of the 13 All-Star games have been decided by two runs or fewer, and all but three have been decided by three runs or fewer, including the last three matchups.
With top tier talent on both rosters, the two should be fairly evenly-matched, which should appease most spectators.
After all, no one really wants to see a blowout, do they?
Vesta, one of the few remaining protoplanets in the solar system, is effectively a window into the early days of the solar system. This is primarily due to its relatively short period of geologic activity and its ‘frozen’ place in time since then. It was only imaged and studied in detail for the first time very recentl...
Understanding the strange dark material is the key to understanding the impacts that Vesta experienced early in its existence. Previous research has found that the dark material isn’t native to Vesta, and that it is extremely likely that it was brought there by asteroid impacts.
“First, we created a map showing the distribution of dark material on Vesta using the framing camera data and found something remarkable,” explains Lucille Le Corre from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research one of the lead authors of the study.
“Our analysis of the dark material on Vesta and comparisons with laboratory studies of HED meteorites for the first time proves directly that these meteorites are fragments from Vesta,” says Le Corre.
The new research was just published in the journal Icarus.
One predictor of your chances of survival after heart surgery: whether or not you’re married.
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An ill-fated light railway under construction in Jerusalem was originally heralded by Israeli officials as a way to cement the city’s “unification” four decades after the city’s Palestinian half was illegally annexed to Israel.
But the only unity generated among Jewish and Palestinian residents after four years of disruptions to the city’s traffic and businesses is general agreement that the project is rapidly becoming a white elephant.
After engineering problems, rows between the contractors and the municipality and delays caused by archaeological discoveries along the route, completion of the first 14km section of track is not expected until the end of next year at the earliest — more than 18 months behind schedule. The budget overspend is estimated...
This week, in an indication of the deepening crisis, Israel’s Dan bus company was forced to step in to buy the five per cent stake of Veolia, a French company that is supposed to operate the line for the next 30 years. Dan, which is waiting for the Israeli government to approve its bid, has no prior experience of runni...
Shmuel Elgrably, a spokesman for the transit system, told the Haaretz newspaper last week that the loss of Veolia had “screwed” the project.
Veolia’s unexpected withdrawal from City Pass, a French-Israeli private consortium backed in part by public finances, is being claimed as a victory by Palestinian officials and activists whose boycott and lobbying efforts appear to have forced the company to quit the project.
They have accused Veolia and another French firm, Alstom, which is laying the tracks and providing the rail cars, of violating international law by working on a project designed to benefit Jewish settlements in the occupied part of Jerusalem.
Since East Jerusalem’s annexation, Israel has moved some 200,000 Jews into illegal colonies surrounding more than a quarter of a million Palestinian residents.
Officials announced this month that 500 new apartments are to be built in Pisgat Zeev — a settlement of more than 40,000 Jews that will be connected to West Jerusalem in the first phase of the rail system’s construction.
The line, which is supposed to serve 150,000 passengers a day and ease congestion on Jerusalem’s roads, will also pass by the famous Damascus and Jaffa Gates of the Old City.
Future sections of track are supposed to link up other Jewish settlements, including Neve Yaacov, Atarot and Gilo.
When the transit system contract was signed in 2005, Ariel Sharon, the prime minister at the time, said it would “sustain Jerusalem for eternity as the capital of the Jewish people”.
Omar Barghouti, a founder of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, which has been targeting Veolia and Alstom over their involvement, wrote this month in the Jerusalem Quarterly magazine that the railway was part of “a comprehensive, long-term strategy … to cement the integration of those [settlem...
Mr Barghouti claimed that the transit system is part of a secret Israeli plan, the outlines of which were revealed by the Haaretz newspaper in May, to create large infrastructure projects to prevent the future division of Jerusalem and thereby thwart any hope of a peace agreement.
The Palestinians demand East Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state.
The project’s supporters, however, point out that five of the 23 stations along the first line will be located in Palestinian neighborhoods, including the deprived Shuafat refugee camp.
To be profitable, says City Pass, the light rail must cater to the city’s large communities of ultra-Othodox and Palestinians, both of whom are heavy users of public transport but currently use different bus routes.
Yet there are few indications that either group is keen to be brought on-board the transit system.
Palestinians are likely to be wary of using a railway dominated by settlers, and there may be severe limitations to their access to the service.
Shir Hever, a Jerusalem-based economist, said many Israeli Jews would be unwilling to share trains with the city’s Palestinian inhabitants, particularly after a series of terror attacks last summer in East Jerusalem, mostly using bulldozers.
Some observers suspect that, after the first attack following the railway’s opening, it will be closed to Palestinian travelers.
The ultra-Orthodox appear equally distrustful. Their rabbis have condemned the transit system because it will encourage men and women to mingle and replace the community’s own segregated “modesty” buses. Last year, seven rabbis wrote to the municipality to complain that their followers would have to pass through secula...
Planners too, it seems, are preparing for trouble. The 42 rail cars — each costing more than $3m — are designed to withstand stones and firebombs.
But the very survival of the project is now in question after the boycott movement’s successful lobbying. A Dutch bank, ASN, pulled its investments from Veolia in 2006, and the company lost a large contract in Sweden this year.
Alstom is also under great pressure. The Swedish national pension fund, AP7, excluded the French firm from its investment portfolio this year and activists are now seeking to force its withdrawal from a consortium awarded a $1.8billion contract in Saudi Arabia to build the Haramain Express between Mecca and Medina.
In addition, both Veolia and Alstom are battling the Palestine Liberation Organization through the French courts over their involvement in City Pass.
The consortium’s woes have only increased with the election last year as Jerusalem mayor of Nir Barkat, a right-wing businessman who is a vocal opponent of the venture. Costs have already exceeded $1.1bn, twice the original projections, with the Israeli government sinking in $200m itself.
Earlier this year Mr Barkat threatened to terminate City Pass’ contract after the completion of the first line. He believes other routes can be served by a fleet of buses that would be five times cheaper to run.
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SEMINARY,MS (WLBT) - A man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges after burning a cross. The incident happened on October 24, 2017 in Seminary, MS.
Louie Bernard Revette pleaded guilty to one county of interference with housing rights, a federal civil rights violation, and one count of using fire during the commission of a federal felony.
In his plea, Revette admitted that he traveled to what he knew to be a predominantly African-American residential area of Seminary, Mississippi. Revette admitted that he left the area, later recruiting a co-conspirator to build a cross to burn near the home of a juvenile victim.
The co-conspirator constructed the cross using materials from in and around Revette’s residence. He placed the cross near the juvenile’s home, and lit it on fire. Revette further admitted that he built and burned the cross to threaten, frighten, and intimidate African-American residents because of their race and color....
Revette faces a maximum total sentence of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine on the two charges. Sentencing has been scheduled for Aug. 20.
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Even after announcing cost-cutting efforts, Chipzilla is still boosting spending on future technologies.
Back in April, microprocessor giant Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) announced a restructuring program designed to cut the company's operating expenses by $1.2 billion annually. As part of this program, Intel began pulling the plug on certain projects and laying off employees.
However, the company told investors that even as it implements this restructuring program, it plans to "increase investments in the products and technologies that will fuel revenue growth, and drive more profitable mobile and [personal computer] businesses."
Intel said that it "plans to increase investments in its data center, [Internet of Things], memory and connectivity businesses, as well as growing client segments such as 2-in-1s, gaming and home gateways."
Last quarter, Intel reported that its spending on research and development saw a 5% boost year-over-year -- amounting to a full $142 million in additional spending.
Let's take a closer look at what Intel says it's spending that extra money on.
Intel said in its form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the year-over-year bump in research and development expenses was "driven by higher product and process development expenses and [programmable solutions group] expenses."
Partially offsetting that increase, the company said, was lower depreciation expenses "due to a change at the beginning of fiscal year 2016 to the estimated useful life of our machinery and equipment in our wafer fabrication facilities" as well as "savings from our 2016 restructuring program,"
Whew! If that seems a bit hard to understand, don't worry -- I'm going to break it down and explain each part in more detail.
In Intel's 10-Q filing, the company breaks down the key drivers of operating profit changes in each of its major business units.
Data source: Intel 10-Q filing.
From this table, you can get a general sense of what is going on: Intel is investing more in its data center, Internet of Things, and programmable solutions (formerly Altera) groups. At the same time, Intel cut back expenses in its client computing group.
That's all in line with what Intel said it planned to do in its restructuring announcements -- invest in areas that have the potential to deliver solid revenue growth and cut back spending to maximize the profitability of segments with dimmer long-term growth prospects.
You will recall that Intel said that it saw higher "process development expenses." Intel is likely referring to the costs associated with developing next-generation chip manufacturing technologies and enhancing current manufacturing technologies to wring more life out of them.

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