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DENVER -- Rain is moving out across Colorado. Sunday, storms and showers brought pockets of heavy rain, gusty winds and some areas of localized flooding for the Front Range.
The combination of a cold front and deep subtropical moisture over Colorado supported slow moving thunderstorms and steady rainfall.
Rain is great for our state, but we've seen some flash-flooding near land burned by recent fires. A flash flood watch will remain in effect near the 416 burn scar and the Spring fire burn scar over southern Colorado until Monday evening, with more storms expected tomorrow afternoon.
Skies will be partly cloudy to start on Monday. In Denver, expect mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies tomorrow. Highs will be a bit warmer, in the mid to upper 80s, with another round of scattered storms across the Metro Area.
Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe came up with big plays when the Bucks needed them on the way to a season-high 30-point performance in a 118-108 win over Orlando.
ORLANDO, Fla. - During his media session before Saturday's game, Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford heaped praise on the Milwaukee Bucks. He lauded their addition of Brook Lopez, the way the roster fit together, their defense and their depth.
On that last point, he went through the mental exercise of trying to rank the different threats the Bucks can throw at you. He started with Giannis Antetokounmpo followed by Khris Middleton then mentioned Eric Bledsoe before deciding that was enough to illustrate the difficulty of facing a team like the Bucks.
If he went through that exercise after the game, Clifford might have adjusted Bledsoe's spot in the pecking order, but all of his other areas of high praise came to pass as the Bucks closed out the Magic late for a 118-108 victory Saturday night at Amway Center.
Bledsoe picked up where he left off Wednesday night in Memphis, coming up with big plays when the Bucks needed them on the way to a season-high 30-point performance on 12-of-14 shooting to help lift the Bucks to their fourth win in a row.
After Milwaukee held the Magic at arm's length throughout the first half, Orlando counterpunched in the third quarter behind center Nikola Vucevic, who finished with a team-high 27 points. With a greater attacking mentality, the Magic chipped away at what had been a Milwaukee lead as large as 19 points. Moments into the fourth quarter, though, the margin was down to just two.
That's when Bledsoe, who was already in the midst of his strong effort, kicked into high gear. After a tip-in by Antetokounmpo, Bledsoe deposited a three-pointer and a midrange jumper. He kept the buckets rolling, scoring 12 of his 30 points in the final period.
Bledsoe wasn't alone among Milwaukee's standouts as the team's depth shone through yet again.
Antetokounmpo performed well throughout the game, finishing with 25 points, 13 rebounds and five assists. Brogdon continued his consistent stretch of scoring, slashing his way into the paint for 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting and D.J. Wilson added 8 points and 10 rebounds off the bench.
Lopez made his presence known especially on the defensive end, staging his own personal block party, recording six blocks to go with eight points.
Middleton took a while, but he made his way into that group of standout performances. He struggled with his shot for much of the night, opening 0 for 4 from the floor.
But he kept at it and played a major role in closing out the win. With Milwaukee's lead back down to four with under four minutes left, he backed Vucevic out and splashed a three-pointer on him from the top of the key. On the next possession, he snaked a pass from the baseline through multiple defenders to Bledsoe on the wing for a drive and floater that bounced in.
Middleton followed those plays with a pass to Brogdon for a layup then a midrange jumper to put the margin at 11 with under two minutes to go, essentially putting away the win.
With the win, the Bucks closed out a stretch of five road games in six contests with a 5-1 record, with the lone blemish coming in a loss at the Washington Wizards with Antetokounmpo out due to injury. They now head home for a pair of games spread out over five days.
"It's a good win for us on the road and now we get to go home for a week," Budenholzer said.
In this photo from May 2018, pipeline workers probe the ground on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township where sinkholes have developed as a result of the Mariner East 2 construction.
A worst-case explosion of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Delaware County would kill anyone within about a mile of the rupture, a new report says, but it concludes the chances of someone dying from a pipeline incident are less than that of dying in a car crash or from falling down stairs.
The report says that a flammable vapor cloud could extend 1.3 miles downwind from the point of a full rupture, and calculated that there was a 100 percent probability of dying from a blast over a certain intensity for everyone within a mile radius, whether they were outdoors or indoors.
And it said the chances of a natural gas liquids leak igniting from the Sunoco pipeline are higher in a densely populated area like Delaware County than they would be in a rural area, because of the higher number of potential ignition sources like cars, cellphones or doorbells.
The size and direction of a flammable vapor cloud would depend on wind speed and atmospheric stability, the report said.
“The dispersing flammable cloud could ignite at any point in time and the time of ignition, with respect to the changing size of the flammable cloud means that the resulting consequence can vary greatly,” said the report, written for Delaware County Council by G2 Integrated Solutions, an independent consultant.
The report also assessed the risk of the proposed conversion of a 50-mile section of the existing Adelphia pipeline from oil to natural gas, and concluded that its risk was in the same category as Mariner East 2. Delaware County hosts about 11 miles of ME2 and 12 miles of Adelphia.
Worries about ME2’s safety have been fueled by a long series of drilling-fluid spills and geological problems since the multibillion-dollar pipeline started construction in February 2017, prompting state regulators to issue dozens of violations. Federal data show Sunoco with the second-highest number of pipeline incidents in the industry.
Despite its grim predictions, the study concluded that the risk of fatality from such a pipeline incident was in the same category as common sources of risk facing the general population daily.
But pipeline safety campaigners rejected the comparison with common sources of risk such as cars, saying that the new report understates the actual risk by ignoring the fact that the Mariner East project will consist of three pipes of different diameters, representing at least a doubling of the risk.
Activists also noted that the report is based on risk to individuals, and did not consider the schools that the pipeline will run near, whose concentration of students would have increased the calculated risk, they said.
Sunoco, a unit of Energy Transfer, said the report vindicates its argument that the pipeline is safe, and questioned why the council decided to spend more than $100,000 of taxpayers’ money to have a consultant reach that conclusion.
Spokeswoman Lisa Dillinger said the actual risk level is lower than stated because the calculations are based on the hypothetical example of an individual standing directly over the pipeline 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The report said that the average person’s exposure to a fatal traffic accident is about 20 times greater than the fatality risk to someone standing above the pipeline 24/7.
The 74-page report, released last week, is the second risk study on the pipeline to be commissioned by safety campaigners or public officials in Philadelphia’s western suburbs this year. In August, pipeline activists released a “Citizens Risk Assessment” in which Quest, another consultant, made its own calculations on the vulnerability of residents in Delaware and Chester counties to any leak or explosion from the controversial line.
Quest’s estimate of the size of a flammable cloud was about a third of that calculated in the new report, a gap that activists attributed to the different modeling software used by the two companies.
Brian Zidek, a Delaware County councilman, said the report contained elements that would please both sides of the pipeline debate, and was broadly in line with the Quest study. But he defended the council’s decision to spend $115,000 on the new report, which he said adds to citizens’ understanding of the project’s risks.
“We have now two data sources that quantify the risk posed by the Mariner East pipeline, and being able to quantify that risk is useful for citizens, for first responders, and for any government agency having to deal with this,” he said.
Zidek, one of two Democrats on the Republican-controlled council, said G2 will present the study to the public at an event sometime before the end of the year. He said it should be read by the Public Utility Commission, as the state agency with authority over pipeline safety. Colleen Morrone, the Republican vice-chair of the council, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
Despite its differences with the Quest study, activists said the new report underlines the dangers of running the pipeline through a densely populated area like Delaware County.
“It is now abundantly clear that the rupture of a hazardous, highly volatile liquids transmission pipeline in Delaware County is going to be a mass casualty event. And the odds of this happening are disturbingly high,” said the citizens’ group Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety, in a statement.
State Sen. Andy Dinniman, a Chester County Democrat who is an outspoken opponent of the Mariner East project, said both studies help the public to understand pipeline risks after the Wolf administration declined to do its own assessment.
“Our communities are only as safe as what we know about this project and what we’re finding out is that our residents are not only rightfully concerned, but these concerns are far more serious than previously thought,” Dinniman said in a statement.
But pipeline advocates dismissed the new report as a last-ditch attempt to derail the project, which Sunoco says will begin operating before the end of the year.
“Living near the Mariner East lines is actually safer than driving a car, and this report confirms that local residents needn’t fear this critically important infrastructure project that will deliver significant economic benefits to Pennsylvanians for years to come,” said Kurt Knaus, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance.
When operational, Mariner East 2 will carry natural gas liquids about 300 miles across the state to a terminal at Marcus Hook in Delaware County where most of it will be exported to Scotland for making plastics.
Apple's Steve Jobs in 1997.
Here’s to the crazy ones.
That slogan, used by Apple in commercials years ago, might also apply to a new plan by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. It aims to find the next technology mogul in Japan through a program it says will back people who are "hen," a Japanese word that means odd, weird or crazy.
The ministry said it would provide up to ¥3 million ($30,000) per year to about 10 projects that it deems fit. The recipients will also get training from tutors.
“It can be any ambitious idea that has the potential to push information and communication technologies to new levels,” a senior officer at the ministry said. In a country that sometimes frowns on round pegs in square holes, the ministry is willing to embrace the unique ideas that people who are "hen" come up with, she said.
Quoting Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the ministry also said it understood that innovators may slip up. “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations,” the ministry said.
The ministry will begin accepting applications from individuals with innovative ideas in late June.
Corrections & Amplifications: The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is seeking an entity to administer a program to encourage innovation, and that program will provide funding to individuals with innovative ideas. Applications by organizations for the administration role are due by June 10, while individuals can apply starting in late June. An earlier version of this post incorrectly implied that the funding for innovative ideas would go only to companies, and it incorrectly said that those seeking funding for innovative ideas must apply by June 10. In addition, the earlier version incorrectly identified a senior officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as a spokeswoman.
In many ways, the comic artist Liana Finck’s work is fearless. Finck’s style is bold in its simplicity and storytelling, and now, in her latest book, “Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir” (Random House) brave in its intimacy. The book follows Leola (a fictionalized version of the artist) as she tries to reckon with the loss of her shadow by drawing her story. Leola returns to the drawing board over and over again, beginning with her mother’s history with her own shadow and moving on to her father’s strange childhood before coming to terms with herself and her relationship with her craft. Leola starts the book many times, but she never gets past the many different “Chapter 1s.” Of course, like many fearless pieces of art, “Passing for Human” is also about fear: of not fitting in and not being up to the task of making art. The Forward’s PJ Grisar spoke with Finck, who is a regular cartoonist for the New Yorker and a contributor to the Forward, about her newest book.
PJ Grisar: In many ways this book is about origins — your own, your parents’ and also that of the book itself. How did “Passing for Human” assume its final shape with your avatar, Leola, beginning the book with different starting points? Did it always have that framing device?
Liana Finck: No. It didn’t even start as a memoir. It was 2012 and I was finishing “A Bintel Brief,” which was my book before, and I needed a new project and I was very impatient and I didn’t know how to make money yet, so I really wanted a book advance right away. I’ve always really liked Vladimir Nabokov, and I thought it would be fun to do an adaptation of “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” [Nabokov’s first novel in English, about a writer working on a biography of his half-brother], and so [“Passing for Human”] started as that at first. I was trying to sell my agent on it and I was doing a few pages, and meanwhile he asked the estate of Nabokov and they said I couldn’t do it. So I slowly started changing what I was working on. [“Sebastian Knight”] is kind of a book about two brothers who are alter egos of each other, so I changed them to sisters and then one of them became me and then, I don’t remember why, but one of them became a shadow and then the story disappeared and it became this madcap adventure about a shadow coming back to haunt its person after its disappearance. But I was also really young , and I didn’t know how to keep a story going forever and it just trailed off. Instead of taking a month and thinking really hard about a good project, I immediately went back into these failed pages from this thing that kept morphing and it became a memoir. And then a couple of years later what I had was many false starts of the memoir, and once I tried to start with my mom’s story and my own story of being a weird kid and then, much later, when I was really trying to pull it together, I got tired of starting over and I just decided to use all the beginnings I already had. And that’s how the framing device came.
There’s so much about the creative process in here. How do you work? Do you use software for your drawings or are you more analog? Is it a mix of both?
In my life I do a mixture. I think I change every few years, but when I was working on this book it was always pen on paper. I always used the same pen, this very thin gel pen from Muji. But I thought really hard about how to make a comic that was more like writing, and I thought the way to do that was to draw very simply and be able to just redo each page a million times quickly and to edit that way. That’s where I came up with this kind of modular style with all the boxes the same size. And I used a kind of translucent paper and I traced. I’d redo each page a zillion times and make little changes each time I redrew.
When you’re working, do you welcome influences or do you try to avoid them? The book has many epigraphs and, of course, with all the stuff about losing your shadow, I can’t help but think of Peter Pan.
“Peter Pan” was [a] major [influence]. I think that’s really where the shadow comes from. I relate so much to Wendy in “Peter Pan,” because she has to grow up. She can’t be a kid forever. She lets go of magic, and I think it’s such a powerful female love story where she’s chasing this person who has so many more options than [she does] and [who] gets to have so much more fun. But in the end, she’s the one who’s able to see and who’s able to feel, and he’s not.
Graphic memoirs are very popular now, but this feels different from many others in that it is not quite an autobiography. Names are changed and there’s quite a bit of fantasy.
I don’t think I’d be capable of writing an exact memoir, because I think in metaphors. Everything I write to me is very real, but I know it’s not what the world would call real. I also really don’t get fiction. Why would you make something up? How would you make something up? I have no idea. I just like stories. Anything emotional feels true to me.
You’ve worked with the Forward, and even based your first book, “A Bintel Brief,” on the advice columns of the same name that used to run in our newspaper pages. Now you have your own advice column at The New Yorker, “Dear Pepper.” What about the advice column format intrigues you?
I didn’t feel any way about advice columns until I read “A Bintel Brief” and totally fell in love with it. I went through this very highbrow intellectual phase when I was a child, like 12 through 22 or something, and I would never have read a newspaper, let alone an advice column. It was all about poetry. I think I came to the end of poetry when I was 23. I had gotten all the feelings that I could out of it and then I was looking for more feelings. I was trying to read Hegel and stuff, and the feelings weren’t there. And then by chance I picked up “A Bintel Brief” and there they were.
This book feels different from “A Bintel Brief.” What comes first for you, the narrative or the style?
I think this book grew out of the interstitial part of “A Bintel Brief.” The first parts that I drew were actual adaptations of the letters. I connected them with this kind of made-up personal story where I meet the ghost of [Forward founder] Abraham Cahan he reads “Bintel Brief” letters out of an old notebook that belonged to my grandma, and I fall in love with him. In a way, that was the only fun part of “Bintel Brief” to make, because in the stories I felt like I was the conduit for Yiddish and the actual stories and the history to come into this new form. The interstitial part wanted to be, in the style, like “Passing for Human” but I hadn’t figured it out yet. Very simple, even lines. I’ve discovered that I don’t really like facial features, I just like facial expressions. I very consciously came up with a character who doesn’t really have facial features but she has these really overblown facial expressions and body language. I stopped using a brush and I started using a pen that I think is very expressive.
I imagine the palette, black and white, was a natural fit for the interplay between the shadow and the light.
Yes, it was originally called “Light and Shadow” and we thought that was too poetic and quiet for a title. But it fit the cover.
Your book deals with feeling not-quite-human and different from your peers. How has your relationship to otherness changed over the years? Do you feel different now or just different about it now?
I think it’s all about the internet. Sometimes I wonder if I hadn’t been a child of Facebook and text messaging and online dating, if I would be the kind of person who thinks of herself as very different from everyone else and maybe lives in a house by the ocean and has animals. I really always thought that’s who I would be, and now I’m just a person with a lot of friends. But I was raised in a time and place [the ’90s in Orange County, New York, and Rockland County, where Finck attended a Jewish day school] where anyone even shy, strange or different was very weird. In other words, The suburbs. I think as I’ve been able to post things immediately on the internet and see people’s comments it kind of blows my mind that people relate to all those ideas of feeling so different.
Something interesting in the book is how you manifest your gnawing doubts that are nagging at you.
Are those still lingering with you or have you allayed them?
They take different shapes. The doubts in the book are about not being able to draw. I think I allayed those doubts a long time ago. I was very self-conscious as a late child and young adult. When I was a kid I was so shy I couldn’t talk, and I felt that way about drawing later. I couldn’t express myself, and that’s really what the book is about: learning to shovel all those fears off of my one way of really expressing myself since I was a kid. But I have doubts in other areas now.
This story "Liana Finck On Peter Pan And The Rats Of Self-Doubt" was written by PJ Grisar.
(CNN Money) — SpaceX is planning to launch a tourist on a trip around the moon, and the company said it will reveal the person’s identity during a September 17 event.
The BFR, or Big Falcon Rocket, is SpaceX’s forthcoming spaceship system that consists of two parts: A massive rocket booster that promises to out-power any ever built, and a towering spacecraft that will vault out of the Earth’s atmosphere.
It’s not clear whether the BFR tourism mission has any link to an announcement SpaceX made in February 2017.
About one year after that, in February of this year, SpaceX debuted the long-awaited Falcon Heavy, which became the world’s most powerful operational launch vehicle.
members of the public are invited to a Summer Fair, which is being held at Swallow Wood care Home, Mexborough, on Saturday July 7.
There will be a selection of stalls, bric-abrac, tombola. a raffle and cake stalls at the event, on Wath Road.
Entry is free and the fair runs from 10am-noon.
Australia is home to some of the best truffles in the world.
You hear truffles, and you think Italy. That’s understandable considering that’s where the famous white truffle festival is held each year and is the country known for producing some of the best truffles in the world. I even ventured there this past October (prime season) to fulfill my own fungi fantasy. But there’s actually a secret destination producing what might be even better truffles: Australia.
While you might not think of the southern continent as having the best terrain for truffles, the town of Manjimup just east of Margaret River in Western Australia is the perfect breeding ground. It’s cool climate, and rich soils are ideal growing conditions and are where the Superior Périgord truffle, along with 75% of Australia’s truffles, are grown.
Incredibly, in the past two decades, Australia’s total production has grown from zero to over 14 tons, and it has become the fourth largest producer of Black Perigord truffle after Spain, France, and Italy. And they’re arguably higher quality.
What’s more is that Australia’s truffle season is the exact opposite of Europe’s. June 1 marks the start of the season, and it runs until the end of August, meaning their Southern Hemisphere truffle is available in the Northern Hemisphere’s summer.
The country is so proud of their delicacy, and they have an annual festival (much like that found in Alba, Italy) to celebrate the season. The Truffle Kerfuffle festival runs from June 22 to 24 this year and features truffle hunts, cooking demonstrations, and wine pairings. Truffle farmers, growers, and world-class chefs also gather to share their knowledge of one of the world’s most sought-after ingredients.
If you can’t make it Down Under, see if a top restaurant in your city offers Australian truffles. The Truffle & Wine Co. supply their goods to over 30 countries around the world. They are very popular in important capitals like New York, Paris, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore. But they also find their truffles landing in more exotic locales, including Seoul, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, South Africa, and regional France.
Whether you look at how it is grown, the lack of competition in the truffle orchards there, and opposing seasonality, Australia is undoubtedly a destination worth keeping an eye on when it comes to truffle production.
STARSPORT bring you the first photos of Loris Karius in a Liverpool shirt.
The German has put pen to paper on a five-year deal at Anfield.
He is expected to put pressure on starting goalkeeper Simon Mignolet.
Check out the first photos of Liverpool's newest number 1 in our gallery above.
Dennis Rodman Arrested - Again!
Dennis Rodman, who has had a stormy few months since his NBA career ended abruptly, was booked Wednesday for investigation of drunken driving.
Rodman, who was driving a Bentley, was stopped for a traffic violation, a passenger not wearing a seat belt, police Sgt. Bob Ciszek said.
"Also, the security in the area had reported he was possibly intoxicated as he was leaving a restaurant and bar," said police Sgt. Don Holford, adding Rodman flunked the field sobriety test conducted by a special driving-under-the-influence team.
The 38-year-old former NBA rebounding champion posted $2,500 bond and was released just after 10 p.m., said police Sgt. Loren Wyrick.
The smiling Rodman spoke briefly with reporters as he left jail, telling them he'd had only "a couple beers, that's all."
He had no criticism for the officers who stopped him.

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