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Nick Maton Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 2:23 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Saturday, Nick Maton (batting .227 in his past 10 games) and the Detroit Tigers face the Miami Marlins, whose starting pitcher will be Johnny Cueto. First pitch is at 4:10 PM ET.
He reached base in both of his plate appearances in his previous appearance against the Marlins.
Nick Maton Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Johnny Cueto
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -154)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +220)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +150)
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Nick Maton At The Plate
- Maton is hitting .167 with seven doubles, seven home runs and 37 walks.
- In 37.8% of his games this year (31 of 82), Maton has picked up at least one hit, and in seven of those games (8.5%) he recorded more than one.
- He has hit a long ball in seven games this year (8.5%), homering in 2.6% of his trips to the plate.
- Maton has picked up an RBI in 23.2% of his games this year, with more than one RBI in 7.3% of his games. He has also produced three or more runs in four contests.
- In 26 of 82 games this year, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Marlins has a collective 9.6 K/9, the third-best in MLB.
- The Marlins' 4.11 team ERA ranks 13th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Marlins pitchers combine to give up 114 home runs (1.1 per game), the eighth-fewest in baseball.
- The Marlins will look to Cueto (0-1) in his third start this season.
- In his last appearance on Saturday, July 22, the righty tossed six innings against the Colorado Rockies, allowing one earned run while surrendering two hits.
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It’s not easy being a bagman — just ask R. Hunter Biden.
On the plus side, it beats working.
Collecting cash for his corrupt father allows Hunter to devote more time to the things that he believes make life worth living — smoking crack cocaine, getting drunk, knocking up strippers, procuring high-end hookers, committing perjury on federal firearms forms, etc.
The downside? You have to turn over between 10 and 50 percent of your ill-gotten gains to the Big Guy.
Until Hunter’s laptop became a national scandal (except in state-run Democrat media, which continue to totally ignore it) a lot of people were unfamiliar with the word “bagman.”
The Oxford dictionary definition is, “An agent who collects or distributes the proceeds of illicit activities.”
But there’s a different definition that probably fits Hunter better: someone “who runs errands for other criminals.”
In this case, the other criminal is the president of the United States.
Legally, the bagman operates in a nether world. His m.o. is unethical, improper, but sometimes it’s not quite criminal. That’s why the definition is so nebulous. For that matter, what exactly is a “payoff?”
Some people can give a politician money legally. Others can’t.
There was a famous case in Massachusetts in 1974, three days before the statewide elections. A sitting state judge hand-delivered a $1000 check to the Dover home of then-Gov. Frank Sargent. He said it was from his mother-in-law. The idiot judge dropped it off with a state trooper.
Sarge immediately smelled a rat. He told the cops, “Get it back to this jerk!”
Governor’s Councilor Sonny McDonough was a student of the game, having survived a scandal a few years earlier in which five of his colleagues had gone to prison for shakedowns. One of them, a fellow by the name of “Iron Mike,” had an actual rate card for pardons and commutations.
Sonny read the stories about the judge and was appalled. Amateur hour!
“Never give money to a cop,” he explained, “unless it’s for the cop. They always assume it’s for them.”
Sonny elaborated: “You know what I really hate? When a cop gives me $300. Because I never know if he’s stolen $200 or $700.”
The most successful bagmen are either lawyers or “lobbyists.” With a lawyer, you have attorney-client privilege which is tough to pierce (unless you’re a defendant named Donald Trump). Lobbyists can be hired and then after banking their totally legal retainers they can… well, you know.
The Godfather said “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” And keep your bagmen even closer yet. Ted Anzalone was accused of being Mayor Kevin White’s bagman. He beat two raps in federal court. Kevin never wavered in his support of Anzalone, for obvious reasons.
In fact, Kevin once publicly said of Anzalone, “He comes as close to a minor saint as anyone I know.”
Dementia Joe speaks just as highly of Hunter: “He’s the smartest man I know.”
Using a family member as your bagman doesn’t always end well though. Remember Nicky “Pockets” Mavroules, the crooked ex-Congressman and mayor of Peabody.
His bagman was his son-in-law, who had a hack state job. The problem was when the son-in-law’s marriage to Pockets’ daughter broke up. He began recording conversations with Pockets. Soon he was testifying that his father-in-law, a darling of the Democrat left, used a code for pickups.
“Five bottles of wine” was $5,000. Rep. Mavroules’ Bureau of Prisons number was 19168-038.
It may be lucrative, but it’s not always easy being a bagman. Hunter Biden’s lifestyle doesn’t just put him at risk for cirrhosis of the liver. It’s pretty clear he’s also suffering from incipient cirrhosis of the soul.
Consider the assessment of his character by two Arabs who were thinking of hiring him for a mission in 2015. They acknowledged his obvious assets, including, “#2 son… with dad he is connected everywhere… He said he has access to highest level in PRC (China), he can help there.”
But there are negatives. With bagmen there always are. Here are the Obama donors spelling out the downside of paying off Hunter:
“His negatives are that he is alcoholic, drug addict — kick out of US Army (actually Navy) for cocaine. Chasing low class hookers, constantly needs money-liquidity problems and many more headaches.”
The problem with most bagmen is that they eventually begin thinking like one of Sonny McDonough’s cops — they come to believe that it’s their cash that they’re picking up.
Read Hunter’s laments to his daughter on the abandoned laptop. He complains that he would never ask his offspring to kick back half the way he’s always been required to for “Pop.”
Still, you must give Hunter credit for coming up with a new racket — the paintings. Traditionally, pols have used “books” to, uh, supplement their income. The problem with “books,” though, is that they leave a paper trail, or should I say, a lack of a paper trail.
The mayor of Baltimore was writing “children’s books” which she then sold to agencies she controlled. Her name was Catherine Pugh. Her BOP number is 65148-037.
The beauty of Hunter’s “paintings” is that the capital investment is so infinitesimal. One canvas, a tube or two of paint — and viola, you pocket $750,000! The Democrat fat cats Hunter is “selling” to don’t even care if he doesn’t throw in a frame. Just roll up the “art” and mail it to the Hamptons or Boca or Beverly Hills in a shipping tube.
What’s the Big Guy’s take on the paintings?
The best bagman, of course, is the politician himself. As in every business, even monkey business, you maximize profits by cutting out the middleman.
The master of this was a longtime Boston hack, former city councilor and state rep James Coffey. He lived on Condor Street in East Boston and he was a vulture when he came to taking money.
Councilor Coffey’s nickname, which he bestowed upon himself, was, “I’ll Take a Buck!”
A buck! Those were simpler times. Now Rep. Andy Biggs says the Biden Crime Family may have grabbed up to $100 million from sinister foreign nationals.
Hunter “I’ll Take a Hundred Million Bucks!” Biden. Doesn’t have quite the same ring, does it?
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She never missed a beat and was lightning on her feet when the "Shake It Off" artist and her fans caused a "Swift Quake" in Seattle during her "Eras Tour" concerts.
According to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, two of Taylor Swift's concerts generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3-magnitude earthquake, asCNN originally reported.
The data was gathered from Swift's sold-out "Eras Tour" performances at Lumen Field on July 22 and 23, after Swift's fans, and possibly the sound system, shook the ground so hard that it recorded a maximum ground acceleration of roughly 0.011 meters per second squared, causing what is now being called a "Swift Quake."
Caplan-Auerbach, who’s a geology professor at Western Washington University, told CNN that this data compares to a 2011 NFL game, when the Seattle Seahawk fans went crazy over Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch's touchdown during a game against the New Orleans Saints and caused a seismic activity that was then named a "Beast Quake."
"I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals," Caplan-Auerbach told CNN. "If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical."
Caplan-Auerbach pointed out that even though there is only a 0.3 magnitude difference between the "Beast Quake" and the "Swift Quake," the Swifties are the MVPs for outperforming the Seahawks fans in terms of enthusiasm and excitement.
"The shaking was twice as strong as 'Beast Quake.' It absolutely doubled it," said Caplan-Auerbach, adding that the length of cheering played a big role in the data. "Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it."
After the concert, Swift tookto Instagram to thank her fans and said that "all the cheering, screaming, jumping, dancing, singing at the top of your lungs" made that one of her favorite weekends "ever."
Swift's Seattle concerts were played in front of a crowd of more than 144,000 fans over two nights, and they came towards the end of the U.S. leg of the "Eras Tour," according to the Seattle Times.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles will take on the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB action with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles have the 16th-ranked batting average in the majors (.249).
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles are 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles' 8.4 strikeouts per game rank 11th in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- Pitchers for the Orioles combine for the 19th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees' 141 home runs rank seventh in Major League Baseball.
- New York ranks 18th in the majors with a .402 team slugging percentage.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .301 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York averages the 12th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.9) in the majors this season.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season. He is 7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when the right-hander went 4 1/3 innings, surrendering three earned runs while allowing only one hit.
- Wells is looking to secure his ninth quality start of the season in this game.
- Wells enters the matchup with 18 outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not allowed an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees' Clarke Schmidt (6-6) will make his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Friday, July 21, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed five hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- He has three quality starts in 20 chances this season.
- Schmidt will look to pitch five or more innings for the third start in a row.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished five of them without allowing an earned run.
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Most of July had been a grind for Mets star Pete Alonso.
The slugger endured a 13-game drought without a home run and, after July 19 ended with a third consecutive hitless performance, his season average dipped to .203.
The All-Star first baseman has been scorching ever since. Friday night’s win over the Nationals marked Alonso’s second two-home run game in four days, following up the two blasts he hit against the Yankees on Tuesday to end the homer-less streak.
Alonso is batting .400 since July 20 and has at least one hit in all but one of the eight games during that stretch.
“I feel like I’m in a really good spot, and I just want to fight like hell to keep staying where I’m at,” Alonso said after Friday’s game.
Alonso led all MLB batters with 22 home runs when he was struck on the left wrist by a fastball from the Braves’ Charlie Morton on July 7. Alonso left that game and missed eight more with a bone bruise and sprain but returned from the injured list faster than the anticipated three-to-four-week timeline.
The 28-year-old would only connect on four home runs over his next 30 games, however, and ended up hitting .152 in June.
“You go through periods, first of all, that they’re just making pitches on you,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said Friday. “Then you get frustrated and you start going out of the zone. The answer usually is being more selective, but you don’t hit a home run if you don’t swing the bat.”
Alonso boosted his season average to .220 with his two-hit game Friday and drove in all five of the Mets’ runs in their 5-1 victory.
“I’ve had a lot of conversations with Pete in my office, late after everybody’s left,” Showalter said. “When you get it going again, somebody’s going to pay. You always feel that with Pete.”
Alonso’s 30 home runs are the third-most in Major League Baseball this season. The Angels’ Shohei Ohtani leads all hitters with 39, while the Braves’ Matt Olson leads the National League with 33. Alonso’s 73 RBI are tied for the eighth most in baseball.
The Mets have disappointed this season, entering Saturday night’s game against Washington with a 49-54 record despite the largest payroll in MLB history. On Thursday, they traded closer David Robertson to the Marlins for a pair of teenage prospects.
Still, Alonso says the Mets will have “a hell of a chance at the end of the year” if the players do their jobs.
“It’s really enjoyable to help the team win and do my job and play a part and help this team win,” Alonso said. “It’s great, but also every single day, it’s a new challenge. It’s a new adversity.”
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest that pits the Baltimore Orioles (63-40) versus the New York Yankees (54-49) at Oriole Park at Camden Yards should be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-4 in favor of the Orioles. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The probable starters are Tyler Wells (7-5) for the Orioles and Clarke Schmidt (6-6) for the Yankees.
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this contest is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Under 9.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- Over the past 10 games, the Orioles have been favored just once and lost that contest.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Baltimore and its opponents are 4-6-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have won 33 out of the 46 games, or 71.7%, in which they've been favored.
- This season Baltimore has won 26 of its 36 games, or 72.2%, when favored by at least -125 on the moneyline.
- The Orioles have a 55.6% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Baltimore has scored the 10th-most runs in the majors this season with 499.
- The Orioles have the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
Yankees Performance Insights
- Over their last 10 games, the Yankees have been favored twice and lost each contest.
- When it comes to the over/under, New York and its opponents are 5-5-0 in its previous 10 games.
- The Yankees have not covered the spread in any of their last 10 games (one of those games had a spread).
- The Yankees have come away with 12 wins in the 30 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- New York has a win-loss record of 10-12 when favored by +105 or worse by oddsmakers this year.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Yankees have a 48.8% chance of walking away with the win.
- The offense for New York is the No. 21 offense in MLB, scoring 4.3 runs per game (446 total runs).
- Yankees pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.87 ERA this year, eighth-best in baseball.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the San Francisco Giants (56-48) and the Boston Red Sox (56-47) at Oracle Park is expected to be a tight matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 5-4, with the Giants securing the victory. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The probable pitchers are James Paxton (6-2) for the Red Sox and Ryan Walker (3-0) for the Giants.
Red Sox vs. Giants Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oracle Park in San Francisco, California
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Red Sox vs. Giants Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Giants 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Giants
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- In six games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Red Sox have a record of 3-3.
- Boston and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times in its last 10 games with a total.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Red Sox's last 10 games.
- This season, the Red Sox have won 24 out of the 43 games, or 55.8%, in which they've been favored.
- Boston has a record of 15-11 in games when bookmakers favor them by at least -130 on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the Red Sox, based on the moneyline, is 56.5%.
- Boston is among the highest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking sixth with 519 total runs this season.
- The Red Sox have a 4.26 team ERA that ranks 17th among all league pitching staffs.
Giants Performance Insights
- The Giants have been an underdog just two times in their last 10 contests and lost both matchups.
- In its previous 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, San Francisco and its opponents are 3-7-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The last 10 Giants contests have not had a spread posted by bookmakers.
- The Giants have won in 23, or 54.8%, of the 42 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- This season, San Francisco has been victorious 11 times in 24 chances when named as an underdog of at least +110 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Giants have an implied victory probability of 47.6% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- San Francisco scores the 15th-most runs in baseball (469 total, 4.5 per game).
- The Giants have pitched to a 4.01 ERA this season, which ranks 11th in baseball.
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants will play on Saturday at Oracle Park, at 7:15 PM ET, with Rafael Devers and Michael Conforto among those expected to step up at the plate.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox average 1.1 home runs per game to rank 20th in MLB play with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox have the third-best batting average in the league (.265).
- Boston has the No. 6 offense in MLB action, scoring five runs per game (519 total runs).
- The Red Sox are fourth in baseball with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox batters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in baseball.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston's 4.26 team ERA ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Red Sox combine for the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants have hit 120 homers this season, which ranks 14th in the league.
- San Francisco ranks 22nd in the majors with a .397 team slugging percentage.
- The Giants have a team batting average of .241 this season, which ranks 19th among MLB teams.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an OBP of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants rank just 28th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 9.5 whiffs per contest.
- San Francisco averages the 16th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.7) in the majors this season.
- San Francisco has the 11th-ranked ERA (4.01) in the majors this season.
- The Giants have a combined WHIP of just 1.253 as a pitching staff, which is the eighth-best in baseball this season.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton (6-2) takes the mound for the Red Sox in his 13th start of the season. He's put together a 3.46 ERA in 65 2/3 innings pitched, with 75 strikeouts.
- The lefty last pitched on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he went six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is trying to pick up his eighth quality start of the season in this game.
- Paxton heads into the matchup with nine outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 outings this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander did not allow a run in 2 2/3 innings pitched on Thursday in his last outing, a matchup with the Oakland Athletics.
- Walker has not earned a quality start in six starts this season.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
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2023 Amundi Evian Championship Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 4
Celine Boutier is the current leader (-100) at the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship after three rounds of play.
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Amundi Evian Championship Fourth Round Information
- Start Time: 12:45 AM ET
- Venue: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par/Distance: Par 71/6,527 yards
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Amundi Evian Championship Best Odds to Win
Celine Boutier
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 1st (-11)
- Odds to Win: -100
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Nasa Hataoka
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 2nd (-8)
- Odds to Win: +400
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Minjee Lee
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +700
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Brooke Mackenzie Henderson
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +800
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Nelly Korda
- Tee Time: 6:05 AM ET
- Current Rank: 5th (-6)
- Odds to Win: +1200
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Amundi Evian Championship Odds (Rest of Field)
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‘I’m still in shock’: Woman wins lottery jackpot while taking break from work
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A North Carolina woman won a triple-digit jackpot thanks to purchasing a lucky scratch-off ticket.
According to the North Carolina Educational Lottery, Jodi Owens won a $100,000 prize by putting her break time to good use and buying a lottery ticket.
Officials said Owens, a retired nurse practitioner, took a break from doing some work around her house and stopped at a Civietown Mini Mart in Shallotte. She picked up a few items including a Black Titanium scratch-off.
She returned home to scratch her winning ticket.
“I’m still in shock,” Owens said. “It’s truly a blessing.”
Owens claimed her prize on Friday and took home $71,259 after taxes.
“I’m going to pay my mortgage off and pay my car off,” she said. “I’m thinking about getting a manicure and pedicure too!”
Lottery officials said the Black Titanium scratch-off game just launched last month and is available for $30.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid a coordinated effort to undermine No Labels' work to secure ballot access in states nationwide, we have named Jay Nixon – a lifelong Democrat who spent 30 years serving Missouri as a governor, attorney general and state senator – as director of our new Ballot Integrity Project.
Since early last year, No Labels has gathered over 700,000 signatures and qualified for the ballot in five states. We have a strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., with the aim of potentially offering our line to an independent Unity presidential ticket in 2024. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming desire of Americans for more choices and voices in our politics – with two-thirds of voters saying they don't want a rematch of the 2020 election – but we now face organized opposition from a group of political operatives and former elected officials intent on keeping us off the ballot.
"At a moment when so many Americans' are losing trust in our democracy, we need to hold even tighter to the pillars that have held our democracy up for almost 250 years. In our country, you win by persuading more people and getting more votes, not by limiting voters' choices and denying competitors a place on the ballot," said Nixon. "Americans have the constitutional right to put any person or party on the ballot and to vote for whomever they want. Anyone who is against that isn't standing up for democracy. They are standing in the way."
Former Gov. Larry Hogan will welcome Nixon to the No Labels community in his first scheduled public appearance at a town hall on Tuesday, August 1, at 5 p.m. ET. Register here to join the town hall.
In Nixon's decorated public service career, he established a stellar record as a champion for the civil and voting rights of Americans. In his new role with No Labels, Nixon will work closely with No Labels national co-chair and civil rights icon, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., to monitor legal developments, provide strategic counsel and serve as a public advocate for No Labels' ballot access efforts.
Since the start of its ballot access effort, No Labels has rigorously followed the letter and spirit of all applicable election laws. In recent months, however, it has become the target of an undemocratic campaign by organized and powerful partisan interests determined to keep No Labels off the ballot.
Local parties and partisan election officials have filed baseless lawsuits, invented spurious charges and delayed certification without justification in Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Now, a new well-resourced group, organized under the name "Citizens to Save our Republic," has embarked on an effort to pressure No Labels and its members to abandon our ballot access effort.
"No Labels is a movement dedicated to democracy, and democracy can't stop because the powers that be think it's 'dangerous' to have competition," said Chavis. "The way to unite this country and to restore Americans faith in our future is to have more democracy, not less. I'm eager to begin working side by side with former Gov. Nixon to protect Americans' most fundamental constitutional rights."
On July 18, No Labels launched its Common Sense policy booklet at an overflow town hall event at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., featuring Dr. Chavis, his fellow No Labels co-chairs former Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Joe Lieberman and special guests Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Jon Huntsman. It was the first of many town halls No Labels will host in the months ahead – with different leaders in different states – to spur a long overdue discussion about where America needs to go in 2024 and beyond.
By early 2024, No Labels will gauge the mood of the American public and their openness to an independent Unity ticket and will offer our ballot line to a ticket if and only if, such a ticket has a viable path to victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Since its founding in 2009, No Labels has spent 13 years working to give voice to America's commonsense majority. We are now getting ballot access in states across the country to ensure Americans have the choice to vote for a 2024 presidential ticket that features strong, effective, and honest leaders who will commit to working closely with both parties to find commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems. www.nolabels.org.
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LOMPOC, Calif., July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation this week thanked the Senate Interior Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2024 funding package that can improve the management of America's wild horses and burros.
A national nonprofit advocacy organization, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to press the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the immediate scaling up of safe, proven and humane fertility control for wild horses and burros as well as with a diverse array of public lands stakeholders to create broader acceptance of fertility control use.
If implemented correctly and robustly, fertility control would slow (not stop) the growth of wild herds, keeping them on their home ranges rather than relying on the costly and traumatic capture, removal and warehousing of wild horses and burros.
"We are grateful to the Senate for again supporting protections for wild horses by taking the vitally important step of directing — in clear language — that the Bureau of Land Management implement thoughtful management that results in the kinds of humane approaches for which Return to Freedom has tirelessly advocated," said Neda DeMayo, president of RTF.
The Senate Committee's guiding report language calls for $11 million "to be spent to continue implementation of a robust and humane fertility control strategy of reversible immunocontraceptive vaccines."
The Senate Committee's report emphasized that it "expects" the BLM to place "specific attention on:"
- "increasing the use of fertility control, including measurable objectives in reducing population growth with fertility controls,
- "targeting removals from the most heavily ecologically impacted and populated areas,
- "expanding long-term, off-range humane holding, and continuing adoptions while fully implementing and enforcing existing safeguards."
The Senate Committee on Thursday approved a total of $148 million for wild horse and burro management for 2024. Congress allocated the same amount in 2023.
By comparison, the House Interior Appropriations Committee on June 19 approved $155 million for wild horse management in 2024.
The House Committee's report language also sets aside $11 million for fertility control; however, it does not specify using the funding solely for immediate on-range implementation. The House also allows the money to be used for research, including on permanent sterilization, which RTF strongly opposes.
The Senate and House must now reconcile their differences.
RTF is calling on the House and Senate conferees to adopt the House's funding level alongside the Senate's guiding report language. RTF will continue to advocate for stricter wild horse and burro protections and for greater funding until the final bill is approved later this year.
Background
As it has for decades, the BLM continues to emphasize capture-and-removal, putting off fertility control use while also failing to reach the agency's own wild horse population targets. In FY 2022, for example, 20,193 wild horses and burros were removed from their home ranges while just 1,622 mares were treated and released with some form of fertility control.
Out of the BLM-estimated 141,000 federally protected wild horses and burros that the agency is charged with overseeing, 58,000 now live not on the range but in overcrowded government corrals or on leased pastures.
The cost to taxpayers of continued off-range holding of captured wild horses has climbed to more than $83 million annually. That has left little funding for prioritizing range management, restoration, personnel and administration, let alone fertility control.
Population modeling by RTF and other stakeholders has shown that immediately implementing fertility control alongside any removal that BLM conducts is the only way to catch up with and stabilize herd growth so that on-range management can replace removals.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to wild horse preservation through sanctuary, education, conservation, and advocacy since 1998. It also operates the American Wild Horse Sanctuary at three California locations, caring for more than 450 wild horses and burros managing the population with fertility control since 1999. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates about wild horses and burros on the range and at our sanctuary.
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Tingo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TIO) between December 1, 2022 and June 6, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Tingo securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Tingo class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16856 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 7, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Tingo overstated its revenue and other accounting metrics, creating a false impression of success; (2) Tingo was not meaningfully engaged in many of the business activities that it claimed would drive future growth; (3) many of Tingo's supposed contracts with customers and suppliers did not exist; and (4) in light of the above, defendants' positive statements about Tingo's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Jarren Duran Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:35 PM EDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
Jarren Duran, with a slugging percentage of .375 in his past 10 games -- including one home run -- will be in action for the Boston Red Sox against the San Francisco Giants, with Ryan Walker on the mound, July 29 at 7:15 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he went 1-for-3 against the Giants.
Jarren Duran Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Ryan Walker
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +180)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +800)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +225)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -110)
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Jarren Duran At The Plate
- Duran is batting .311 with 29 doubles, two triples, six home runs and 20 walks.
- In 64.2% of his games this year (52 of 81), Duran has picked up at least one hit, and in 24 of those games (29.6%) he recorded more than one.
- He has gone deep in 7.4% of his games this year, and 2% of his plate appearances.
- Duran has picked up an RBI in 29.6% of his games this year, with two or more RBI in 8.6% of his games. He has also produced three or more runs in three contests.
- He has scored in 27 of 81 games this season, and more than once 8 times.
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Jarren Duran Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants have the 11th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.01).
- Giants pitchers combine to give up 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- Walker (3-0 with a 2.70 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 33 1/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Giants, his seventh of the season.
- His last appearance came on Thursday against the Oakland Athletics, when the righty went 2 2/3 scoreless innings while allowing just one hit.
- In 24 games this season, the 27-year-old has an ERA of 2.70, with 10.3 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are batting .250 against him.
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‘I’m still in shock’: Woman wins lottery jackpot while taking break from work
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A North Carolina woman won a triple-digit jackpot thanks to purchasing a lucky scratch-off ticket.
According to the North Carolina Educational Lottery, Jodi Owens won a $100,000 prize by putting her break time to good use and buying a lottery ticket.
Officials said Owens, a retired nurse practitioner, took a break from doing some work around her house and stopped at a Civietown Mini Mart in Shallotte. She picked up a few items including a Black Titanium scratch-off.
She returned home to scratch her winning ticket.
“I’m still in shock,” Owens said. “It’s truly a blessing.”
Owens claimed her prize on Friday and took home $71,259 after taxes.
“I’m going to pay my mortgage off and pay my car off,” she said. “I’m thinking about getting a manicure and pedicure too!”
Lottery officials said the Black Titanium scratch-off game just launched last month and is available for $30.
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Lee Elementary School has a new look on the outside of the building
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - A new piece of art is on the building of Lee Elementary in Manhattan.
As you’re driving by on Anderson you might see a new piece of art outside of Lee Elementary. Last fall Lee Elementary received a grant and part of the grant was for an art project on the school.
“They had a vision because they had this giant wall behind that doesn’t have anything on it to put a mural up there so I got contacted by a couple of different people and put my name in the hat and submitted a couple of ideas and drawings and they liked it so did a couple more drafts of drawings and we agreed on something,” said Layne Stafford, mural artist.
The school had a vision of how they wanted the painting to look.
“The diversity of Lee School because I actually student taught here a long time ago I got my degree in education so I remember when I student taught here there was so many nationalities of kids so when I was here there was like 18 or 19 so there’s probably more than that now so they wanted to show the diversity and then celebrate the some of the clubs and organizations they have and opportunities for kids outside the classroom,” said Stafford.
Stafford said he enjoys doing this for the school he first started at.
“It’s kind of fun that it comes back full circle like that I student taught here over a decade ago so I got my degree in education so like I enjoy being around kids for a season I don’t teach anymore but I think it’s fun to bring like color and like saturate a wall that had nothing going on on it,” said Stafford.
Stafford hopes the painting inspires the kids when they come back.
“It will be kind of a wow factor cause a lot of the kids probably haven’t been here, they’ve had summer programs here but a lot of the kids haven’t been here this summer so my hope is that they can see something up on the wall that they can really relate to like it was interesting this summer I would see kids out here in summer programs that could be some of the kids up here,” said Stafford.
The mural will be completed this weekend as Stafford mentioned the school will do something for it when school opens back up.
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How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Hunter Brown and the Houston Astros will hit the field against the Tampa Bay Rays and starting pitcher Taj Bradley on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros rank 10th-best in MLB action with 130 total home runs.
- Houston's .411 slugging percentage ranks 14th in baseball.
- The Astros are 18th in MLB with a .248 batting average.
- Houston is the 12th-highest scoring team in baseball, averaging 4.7 runs per game (487 total).
- The Astros' .317 on-base percentage ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Astros strike out 7.9 times per game to rank fifth in baseball.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB.
- Houston has a 3.81 team ERA that ranks third across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Astros combine for the 14th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.271).
Rays Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rays rank fourth in Major League Baseball with 151 home runs.
- Tampa Bay ranks fifth in the majors with a .444 team slugging percentage.
- The Rays' .255 batting average is among the best in baseball, ranking 10th in MLB.
- Tampa Bay has scored the fourth-most runs in baseball this season with 549.
- The Rays have an on-base percentage of .327 this season, which ranks 10th in the league.
- The Rays rank 17th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.6 whiffs per contest.
- Tampa Bay strikes out 9.2 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, eighth-best in MLB.
- Tampa Bay has the first-best ERA (3.69) in the majors this season.
- Rays pitchers have a 1.178 WHIP this season, second-best in the majors.
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- Brown gets the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts through 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when the righty threw six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Brown heads into this game with nine quality starts under his belt this year.
- Brown is aiming for his third straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.5 frames per appearance on the mound.
- He has had four appearances this season in which he did not surrender an earned run.
Rays Probable Starting Pitcher
- Bradley (5-6) will take to the mound for the Rays and make his 16th start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up three earned runs and allowed five hits in five innings pitched against the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.
- He has earned a quality start one time in 15 starts this season.
- Bradley will look to pitch five or more innings for the fourth start in a row.
- He has two appearances with no earned runs allowed in 15 chances this season.
Astros Schedule
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid a coordinated effort to undermine No Labels' work to secure ballot access in states nationwide, we have named Jay Nixon – a lifelong Democrat who spent 30 years serving Missouri as a governor, attorney general and state senator – as director of our new Ballot Integrity Project.
Since early last year, No Labels has gathered over 700,000 signatures and qualified for the ballot in five states. We have a strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., with the aim of potentially offering our line to an independent Unity presidential ticket in 2024. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming desire of Americans for more choices and voices in our politics – with two-thirds of voters saying they don't want a rematch of the 2020 election – but we now face organized opposition from a group of political operatives and former elected officials intent on keeping us off the ballot.
"At a moment when so many Americans' are losing trust in our democracy, we need to hold even tighter to the pillars that have held our democracy up for almost 250 years. In our country, you win by persuading more people and getting more votes, not by limiting voters' choices and denying competitors a place on the ballot," said Nixon. "Americans have the constitutional right to put any person or party on the ballot and to vote for whomever they want. Anyone who is against that isn't standing up for democracy. They are standing in the way."
Former Gov. Larry Hogan will welcome Nixon to the No Labels community in his first scheduled public appearance at a town hall on Tuesday, August 1, at 5 p.m. ET. Register here to join the town hall.
In Nixon's decorated public service career, he established a stellar record as a champion for the civil and voting rights of Americans. In his new role with No Labels, Nixon will work closely with No Labels national co-chair and civil rights icon, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., to monitor legal developments, provide strategic counsel and serve as a public advocate for No Labels' ballot access efforts.
Since the start of its ballot access effort, No Labels has rigorously followed the letter and spirit of all applicable election laws. In recent months, however, it has become the target of an undemocratic campaign by organized and powerful partisan interests determined to keep No Labels off the ballot.
Local parties and partisan election officials have filed baseless lawsuits, invented spurious charges and delayed certification without justification in Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Now, a new well-resourced group, organized under the name "Citizens to Save our Republic," has embarked on an effort to pressure No Labels and its members to abandon our ballot access effort.
"No Labels is a movement dedicated to democracy, and democracy can't stop because the powers that be think it's 'dangerous' to have competition," said Chavis. "The way to unite this country and to restore Americans faith in our future is to have more democracy, not less. I'm eager to begin working side by side with former Gov. Nixon to protect Americans' most fundamental constitutional rights."
On July 18, No Labels launched its Common Sense policy booklet at an overflow town hall event at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., featuring Dr. Chavis, his fellow No Labels co-chairs former Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Joe Lieberman and special guests Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Jon Huntsman. It was the first of many town halls No Labels will host in the months ahead – with different leaders in different states – to spur a long overdue discussion about where America needs to go in 2024 and beyond.
By early 2024, No Labels will gauge the mood of the American public and their openness to an independent Unity ticket and will offer our ballot line to a ticket if and only if, such a ticket has a viable path to victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Since its founding in 2009, No Labels has spent 13 years working to give voice to America's commonsense majority. We are now getting ballot access in states across the country to ensure Americans have the choice to vote for a 2024 presidential ticket that features strong, effective, and honest leaders who will commit to working closely with both parties to find commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems. www.nolabels.org.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles will take on the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB action with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles have the 16th-ranked batting average in the majors (.249).
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles are 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles' 8.4 strikeouts per game rank 11th in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- Pitchers for the Orioles combine for the 19th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees' 141 home runs rank seventh in Major League Baseball.
- New York ranks 18th in the majors with a .402 team slugging percentage.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .301 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York averages the 12th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.9) in the majors this season.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season. He is 7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when the right-hander went 4 1/3 innings, surrendering three earned runs while allowing only one hit.
- Wells is looking to secure his ninth quality start of the season in this game.
- Wells enters the matchup with 18 outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not allowed an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees' Clarke Schmidt (6-6) will make his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Friday, July 21, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed five hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- He has three quality starts in 20 chances this season.
- Schmidt will look to pitch five or more innings for the third start in a row.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished five of them without allowing an earned run.
Orioles Schedule
Yankees Schedule
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LOMPOC, Calif., July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation this week thanked the Senate Interior Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2024 funding package that can improve the management of America's wild horses and burros.
A national nonprofit advocacy organization, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to press the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the immediate scaling up of safe, proven and humane fertility control for wild horses and burros as well as with a diverse array of public lands stakeholders to create broader acceptance of fertility control use.
If implemented correctly and robustly, fertility control would slow (not stop) the growth of wild herds, keeping them on their home ranges rather than relying on the costly and traumatic capture, removal and warehousing of wild horses and burros.
"We are grateful to the Senate for again supporting protections for wild horses by taking the vitally important step of directing — in clear language — that the Bureau of Land Management implement thoughtful management that results in the kinds of humane approaches for which Return to Freedom has tirelessly advocated," said Neda DeMayo, president of RTF.
The Senate Committee's guiding report language calls for $11 million "to be spent to continue implementation of a robust and humane fertility control strategy of reversible immunocontraceptive vaccines."
The Senate Committee's report emphasized that it "expects" the BLM to place "specific attention on:"
- "increasing the use of fertility control, including measurable objectives in reducing population growth with fertility controls,
- "targeting removals from the most heavily ecologically impacted and populated areas,
- "expanding long-term, off-range humane holding, and continuing adoptions while fully implementing and enforcing existing safeguards."
The Senate Committee on Thursday approved a total of $148 million for wild horse and burro management for 2024. Congress allocated the same amount in 2023.
By comparison, the House Interior Appropriations Committee on June 19 approved $155 million for wild horse management in 2024.
The House Committee's report language also sets aside $11 million for fertility control; however, it does not specify using the funding solely for immediate on-range implementation. The House also allows the money to be used for research, including on permanent sterilization, which RTF strongly opposes.
The Senate and House must now reconcile their differences.
RTF is calling on the House and Senate conferees to adopt the House's funding level alongside the Senate's guiding report language. RTF will continue to advocate for stricter wild horse and burro protections and for greater funding until the final bill is approved later this year.
Background
As it has for decades, the BLM continues to emphasize capture-and-removal, putting off fertility control use while also failing to reach the agency's own wild horse population targets. In FY 2022, for example, 20,193 wild horses and burros were removed from their home ranges while just 1,622 mares were treated and released with some form of fertility control.
Out of the BLM-estimated 141,000 federally protected wild horses and burros that the agency is charged with overseeing, 58,000 now live not on the range but in overcrowded government corrals or on leased pastures.
The cost to taxpayers of continued off-range holding of captured wild horses has climbed to more than $83 million annually. That has left little funding for prioritizing range management, restoration, personnel and administration, let alone fertility control.
Population modeling by RTF and other stakeholders has shown that immediately implementing fertility control alongside any removal that BLM conducts is the only way to catch up with and stabilize herd growth so that on-range management can replace removals.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to wild horse preservation through sanctuary, education, conservation, and advocacy since 1998. It also operates the American Wild Horse Sanctuary at three California locations, caring for more than 450 wild horses and burros managing the population with fertility control since 1999. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates about wild horses and burros on the range and at our sanctuary.
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants will play on Saturday at Oracle Park, at 7:15 PM ET, with Rafael Devers and Michael Conforto among those expected to step up at the plate.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox average 1.1 home runs per game to rank 20th in MLB play with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox have the third-best batting average in the league (.265).
- Boston has the No. 6 offense in MLB action, scoring five runs per game (519 total runs).
- The Red Sox are fourth in baseball with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox batters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in baseball.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston's 4.26 team ERA ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Red Sox combine for the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants have hit 120 homers this season, which ranks 14th in the league.
- San Francisco ranks 22nd in the majors with a .397 team slugging percentage.
- The Giants have a team batting average of .241 this season, which ranks 19th among MLB teams.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an OBP of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants rank just 28th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 9.5 whiffs per contest.
- San Francisco averages the 16th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.7) in the majors this season.
- San Francisco has the 11th-ranked ERA (4.01) in the majors this season.
- The Giants have a combined WHIP of just 1.253 as a pitching staff, which is the eighth-best in baseball this season.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton (6-2) takes the mound for the Red Sox in his 13th start of the season. He's put together a 3.46 ERA in 65 2/3 innings pitched, with 75 strikeouts.
- The lefty last pitched on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he went six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is trying to pick up his eighth quality start of the season in this game.
- Paxton heads into the matchup with nine outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 outings this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander did not allow a run in 2 2/3 innings pitched on Thursday in his last outing, a matchup with the Oakland Athletics.
- Walker has not earned a quality start in six starts this season.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
Red Sox Schedule
Giants Schedule
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Tingo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TIO) between December 1, 2022 and June 6, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Tingo securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Tingo class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16856 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 7, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Tingo overstated its revenue and other accounting metrics, creating a false impression of success; (2) Tingo was not meaningfully engaged in many of the business activities that it claimed would drive future growth; (3) many of Tingo's supposed contracts with customers and suppliers did not exist; and (4) in light of the above, defendants' positive statements about Tingo's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Tingo class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16856 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — A man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Lackawanna County.
Troopers say 23-year-old Alexander Petrovich of Eynon was speeding along I-81 North in Moosic Borough when he lost control and struck a tractor-trailer.
Petrovich was thrown from his motorcycle and died at the scene.
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How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Hunter Brown and the Houston Astros will hit the field against the Tampa Bay Rays and starting pitcher Taj Bradley on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros rank 10th-best in MLB action with 130 total home runs.
- Houston's .411 slugging percentage ranks 14th in baseball.
- The Astros are 18th in MLB with a .248 batting average.
- Houston is the 12th-highest scoring team in baseball, averaging 4.7 runs per game (487 total).
- The Astros' .317 on-base percentage ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Astros strike out 7.9 times per game to rank fifth in baseball.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB.
- Houston has a 3.81 team ERA that ranks third across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Astros combine for the 14th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.271).
Rays Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rays rank fourth in Major League Baseball with 151 home runs.
- Tampa Bay ranks fifth in the majors with a .444 team slugging percentage.
- The Rays' .255 batting average is among the best in baseball, ranking 10th in MLB.
- Tampa Bay has scored the fourth-most runs in baseball this season with 549.
- The Rays have an on-base percentage of .327 this season, which ranks 10th in the league.
- The Rays rank 17th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.6 whiffs per contest.
- Tampa Bay strikes out 9.2 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, eighth-best in MLB.
- Tampa Bay has the first-best ERA (3.69) in the majors this season.
- Rays pitchers have a 1.178 WHIP this season, second-best in the majors.
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- Brown gets the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts through 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when the righty threw six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Brown heads into this game with nine quality starts under his belt this year.
- Brown is aiming for his third straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.5 frames per appearance on the mound.
- He has had four appearances this season in which he did not surrender an earned run.
Rays Probable Starting Pitcher
- Bradley (5-6) will take to the mound for the Rays and make his 16th start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up three earned runs and allowed five hits in five innings pitched against the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.
- He has earned a quality start one time in 15 starts this season.
- Bradley will look to pitch five or more innings for the fourth start in a row.
- He has two appearances with no earned runs allowed in 15 chances this season.
Astros Schedule
Rays Schedule
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LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Students with the PA Jazz Institute are hoping to hit a high note with their big upcoming performance.
They're playing at the Scranton Jazz Festival next weekend.
Newswatch 16 stopped by their rehearsal Friday at the WVIA Studio in Jenkins Township.
The 18th annual Scranton Jazz Festival starts next Friday in downtown Scranton.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles will take on the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB action with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles have the 16th-ranked batting average in the majors (.249).
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles are 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles' 8.4 strikeouts per game rank 11th in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- Pitchers for the Orioles combine for the 19th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees' 141 home runs rank seventh in Major League Baseball.
- New York ranks 18th in the majors with a .402 team slugging percentage.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .301 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York averages the 12th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.9) in the majors this season.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season. He is 7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when the right-hander went 4 1/3 innings, surrendering three earned runs while allowing only one hit.
- Wells is looking to secure his ninth quality start of the season in this game.
- Wells enters the matchup with 18 outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not allowed an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees' Clarke Schmidt (6-6) will make his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Friday, July 21, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed five hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- He has three quality starts in 20 chances this season.
- Schmidt will look to pitch five or more innings for the third start in a row.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished five of them without allowing an earned run.
Orioles Schedule
Yankees Schedule
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants will play on Saturday at Oracle Park, at 7:15 PM ET, with Rafael Devers and Michael Conforto among those expected to step up at the plate.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox average 1.1 home runs per game to rank 20th in MLB play with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox have the third-best batting average in the league (.265).
- Boston has the No. 6 offense in MLB action, scoring five runs per game (519 total runs).
- The Red Sox are fourth in baseball with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox batters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in baseball.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston's 4.26 team ERA ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Red Sox combine for the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants have hit 120 homers this season, which ranks 14th in the league.
- San Francisco ranks 22nd in the majors with a .397 team slugging percentage.
- The Giants have a team batting average of .241 this season, which ranks 19th among MLB teams.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an OBP of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants rank just 28th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 9.5 whiffs per contest.
- San Francisco averages the 16th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.7) in the majors this season.
- San Francisco has the 11th-ranked ERA (4.01) in the majors this season.
- The Giants have a combined WHIP of just 1.253 as a pitching staff, which is the eighth-best in baseball this season.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton (6-2) takes the mound for the Red Sox in his 13th start of the season. He's put together a 3.46 ERA in 65 2/3 innings pitched, with 75 strikeouts.
- The lefty last pitched on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he went six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is trying to pick up his eighth quality start of the season in this game.
- Paxton heads into the matchup with nine outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 outings this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander did not allow a run in 2 2/3 innings pitched on Thursday in his last outing, a matchup with the Oakland Athletics.
- Walker has not earned a quality start in six starts this season.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
Red Sox Schedule
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‘I’m still in shock’: Woman wins lottery jackpot while taking break from work
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A North Carolina woman won a triple-digit jackpot thanks to purchasing a lucky scratch-off ticket.
According to the North Carolina Educational Lottery, Jodi Owens won a $100,000 prize by putting her break time to good use and buying a lottery ticket.
Officials said Owens, a retired nurse practitioner, took a break from doing some work around her house and stopped at a Civietown Mini Mart in Shallotte. She picked up a few items including a Black Titanium scratch-off.
She returned home to scratch her winning ticket.
“I’m still in shock,” Owens said. “It’s truly a blessing.”
Owens claimed her prize on Friday and took home $71,259 after taxes.
“I’m going to pay my mortgage off and pay my car off,” she said. “I’m thinking about getting a manicure and pedicure too!”
Lottery officials said the Black Titanium scratch-off game just launched last month and is available for $30.
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Guest column: New organ donation, transplant rules deserve close scrutiny
The current system is run by dedicated mission-oriented professionals who have the singular focus of supporting their patients in our hospitals.
- Kelley Koch is chair of the Dallas County GOP Central Committee.
The federal government recently announced it intends to change the rules that govern America’s organ donation and transplant system. Iowans need to keep careful watch on what is being proposed, which includes separating the current contract for managing the national organ donation and transplant system into multiple parts, which may be performed by multiple organizations. This is a risk of critical errors in a life-and-death system of patient care.
The process of organ donation and procurement is a closely coordinated partnership between doctors, hospitals and nonprofit organizations who work together to find compatible matching organs and tissues for patients needing transplants. In our rush to reform this system, we need to remember our current system saves thousands of lives each year. Improving, not dismantling, should be the “order of the day.” This well-established, highly functioning system currently is run by the United Network for Organ Sharing, a national, highly respected, nonprofit organization. It contracts with the United States Department of Health and Human Services to put patients first, not profits.
We risk patients in rural Iowa and elsewhere being underserved if profit motivation is allowed to take over. Keep in mind the patient in need of the transplant is thoroughly screened and evaluated by approved hospital based transplant teams prior to being placed on the UNOS waiting list for an organ or tissue. This system has been highly successful over decades and we must build on this nonprofit model currently in place. There are undoubtedly changes needed to modernize with improvements that are required, but these must be thoughtfully enacted without disrupting the 104,000 patients currently being served.
The current organ donation and transplant system is made possible by local organ procurement organizations and hundreds of hospitals, physicians, surgeons, and transplant coordinators across the country. At the heart of it are the generous donors who have given the gift of life through the loss of their own. The system is run by dedicated mission-oriented professionals who have the singular focus of supporting their patients in our hospitals. They do this because they care for and want their patients to live and/or have a better quality of life. Profiting is not in the equation.
Every Iowan should pay attention to these proposed changes, and policymakers in Washington should follow the same guidelines as our doctors: Do no harm. In fact, Washington policy makers MUST include hospitals, surgeons, and transplant coordinator to help improve current rules as these are the professionals that are the front line of this critically important medical field.
Kelley Koch is chair of the Dallas County GOP Central Committee. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/guest-editorials/2023/07/29/new-organ-donation-transplant-rules-deserve-close-scrutiny/70480512007/ | 2023-07-29T20:00:26 | 1 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/guest-editorials/2023/07/29/new-organ-donation-transplant-rules-deserve-close-scrutiny/70480512007/ |
2023 Amundi Evian Championship Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 4
Celine Boutier is the current leader (-100) at the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship after three rounds of play.
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Amundi Evian Championship Fourth Round Information
- Start Time: 12:45 AM ET
- Venue: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par/Distance: Par 71/6,527 yards
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Amundi Evian Championship Best Odds to Win
Celine Boutier
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 1st (-11)
- Odds to Win: -100
Boutier Round by Round Results
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Nasa Hataoka
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 2nd (-8)
- Odds to Win: +400
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Minjee Lee
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +700
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Brooke Mackenzie Henderson
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +800
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Nelly Korda
- Tee Time: 6:05 AM ET
- Current Rank: 5th (-6)
- Odds to Win: +1200
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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Guest column: It’s time to rejoin UNESCO
It is vital for a country with the talent and resources of the United States to be a part of the work to meet new and existing challenges across the globe.
- Barbara Eckstein is president of the Johnson County Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA.
- John Kenyon is Executive Director of Iowa City: UNESCO City of Literature.
At a time when the world would benefit from more collaboration and communication, the U.S. is poised to rejoin an organization that fosters both on a global scale. With the vote on June 30 by members of UNESCO to authorize U.S. re-entry to this institution, the last step is for Congress to authorize funds to make it happen.
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, a UN agency with 194 members, was founded in 1945. The U.S., along with the United Kingdom, led in the formation of UNESCO to promote education, intercultural dialogue, human rights, the arts and sciences, and communication. For decades the U.S. supported these programs because they align with U.S. values and advance U.S national interests.
Many in Iowa City may know UNESCO because we have been a UNESCO-designated City of Literature since 2008, or because of programs in support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals run by the local chapter of the United Nations Association, such as the Night of 1,000 Dinners.
But UNESCO is much more, a vast international organization that contributes to peace and security by promoting international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication and information. It administers the World Heritage Site list, promotes the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, coordinates the tsunami early warning system, and advocates for the safety of journalists, among many other projects and programs.
In recent years, those efforts have been compromised. The U.S. stopped paying dues to UNESCO in 2011, a move required by U.S. law when UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member state. The Trump administration withdrew the U.S. from UNESCO entirely in 2017. Since that time, the organization’s efforts to promote well-being and peace around the world have suffered. The influence of China, now the largest financial contributor to UNESCO, has increased while ours has waned.
In coming months, UNESCO will be addressing issues of crucial importance to our country, most notably setting international standards for artificial intelligence, monitoring technology research, and protecting media freedom. By rejoining UNESCO, the U.S. will have a seat at the table in efforts to address global issues that impact all of us.
The proposed re-entry plan calls for the U.S. to pay its 2023 dues of $75 million plus an additional $10 million for Holocaust education, preservation of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, journalists’ safety, and STEM education in Africa. To put these figures into perspective, the FY2024 budget for the Iowa City Community School District is $319 million—more than four times our annual dues in UNESCO.
The U.S. would also pay $619 million in back dues over the next few years, restoring the more than 20% of UNESCO’s annual budget that was cut when the country stopped payments. These payments will make the U.S. a member in good standing and restore our nation’s influence and credibility.
We call on the Iowa congressional delegation to support approval of these funds, restoring our country’s voice in discussions that impact crucial U.S. interests and affect Iowans’ everyday lives. It is vital for a country with the talent and resources of the United States to be a part of the work to meet new and existing challenges across the globe.
Barbara Eckstein is president of the Johnson County Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA. John Kenyon is Executive Director of Iowa City: UNESCO City of Literature. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/guest-editorials/2023/07/29/time-rejoin-unesco-united-states/70480366007/ | 2023-07-29T20:00:32 | 1 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/guest-editorials/2023/07/29/time-rejoin-unesco-united-states/70480366007/ |
How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros will look to get to Taj Bradley when he takes the mound for the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET, in the second game of a three-game series at Minute Maid Park.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros are 10th in MLB play with 130 home runs. They average 1.3 per game.
- Houston ranks 14th in baseball with a .411 slugging percentage.
- The Astros have the 18th-ranked batting average in the majors (.248).
- Houston is the 12th-highest scoring team in MLB play, averaging 4.7 runs per game (487 total).
- The Astros rank 16th in MLB with a .317 on-base percentage.
- Astros hitters strike out 7.9 times per game, the fifth-fewest strikeouts in baseball.
- Houston's pitching staff is sixth in the majors with a collective 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Houston has the third-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (3.81).
- Pitchers for the Astros combine for the 14th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.271).
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- Hunter Brown (6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season.
- His most recent time out was on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when the righty went six innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing six hits.
- Brown is trying to secure his 10th quality start of the year in this outing.
- Brown will try to build upon a three-game streak of going five or more innings (he's averaging 5.5 frames per appearance).
- In four of his appearances this season he did not surrender an earned run.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles will take on the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB action with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles have the 16th-ranked batting average in the majors (.249).
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles are 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles' 8.4 strikeouts per game rank 11th in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- Pitchers for the Orioles combine for the 19th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees' 141 home runs rank seventh in Major League Baseball.
- New York ranks 18th in the majors with a .402 team slugging percentage.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .301 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York averages the 12th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.9) in the majors this season.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season. He is 7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when the right-hander went 4 1/3 innings, surrendering three earned runs while allowing only one hit.
- Wells is looking to secure his ninth quality start of the season in this game.
- Wells enters the matchup with 18 outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not allowed an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees' Clarke Schmidt (6-6) will make his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Friday, July 21, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed five hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- He has three quality starts in 20 chances this season.
- Schmidt will look to pitch five or more innings for the third start in a row.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished five of them without allowing an earned run.
Orioles Schedule
Yankees Schedule
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a four-year-old girl fathered by his son Hunter with an Arkansas woman, Lunden Roberts, in 2018.
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," Biden said in a statement. It was his first acknowledgement of the child.
“This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter,” he said. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
Hunter Biden's paternity was established by DNA testing after Roberts sued for child support, and the two parties recently resolved outstanding child support issues. The president's son wrote about his encounter with Roberts in his 2021 memoir, saying it came while he was deep in addiction to alcohol and drugs, including crack cocaine.
“I had no recollection of our encounter,” he wrote. “That’s how little connection I had with anyone. I was a mess, but a mess I’ve taken responsibility for.”
An attorney for Roberts did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president, who has made a commitment to family central to his public persona, has faced increasing criticism from political rivals and pundits for failing to acknowledge the granddaughter. According to a person familiar with the matter, he was taking the cue from his son while the legal proceedings played out. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private matters.
Hunter Biden has four other children, including a son, Beau, born by his wife Melissa Cohen in 2020. He was named after the president's late son who died of cancer in 2015, leaving behind two children.
Biden's grandchildren have played a distinctive role in his presidency, often accompanying the president or first lady on trips and making regular visits to the White House. The president has also credited his grandchildren with persuading him to challenge then-President Donald Trump for the White House in 2020.
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Rangers vs. Padres Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's game that pits the San Diego Padres (50-54) against the Texas Rangers (60-44) at PETCO Park has a good chance to be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 6-4 in favor of the Padres. First pitch is at 8:40 PM ET on July 29.
The Padres will give the nod to Yu Darvish (7-7, 4.80 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 8 on the season, and the Rangers will turn to Martin Perez (8-3, 4.91 ERA).
Rangers vs. Padres Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 8:40 PM ET
- Where: PETCO Park in San Diego, California
- How to Watch on TV: SDPA
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Rangers vs. Padres Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Padres 6, Rangers 5.
Total Prediction for Rangers vs. Padres
- Total Prediction: Under 9.5 runs
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Rangers Performance Insights
- The Rangers have played as the underdog in six of their past 10 games and have gone 3-3 in those contests.
- In its previous 10 games with a total, Texas and its opponents have combined to exceed the over/under on five occasions.
- The last 10 Rangers contests have not had a spread set by bookmakers.
- The Rangers have been chosen as underdogs in 33 games this year and have walked away with the win 17 times (51.5%) in those games.
- This season, Texas has been victorious two times in three chances when named as an underdog of at least +150 or longer on the moneyline.
- The Rangers have an implied victory probability of 40% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
- Texas is the top-scoring team in baseball, averaging 5.8 runs per game (606 total).
- The Rangers have the 16th-ranked ERA (4.23) in the majors this season.
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CANBERRA, ACT — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday pushed back against Australian demands for an end to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s prosecution, saying the Australian citizen was accused of “very serious criminal conduct” in publishing a trove of classified documents more than a decade ago.
Australia’s center-left Labor Party government has been arguing since winning the elections last year that the United States should end its pursuit of the 52-year-old, who has spent four years in a British prison fighting extradition to the United States.
Assange’s freedom is widely seen as a test of Australia’s leverage with President Joe Biden’s administration.
Blinken confirmed on Saturday that Assange had been discussed in annual talks with Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane, Australia.
“I understand the concerns and views of Australians. I think it’s very important that our friends here understand our concerns about this matter,” Blinken told reporters.
“Mr. Assange was charged with very serious criminal conduct in the United States in connection with his alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of our country,” he added.
Wong said Assange’s prosecution had “dragged for too long” and that Australia wanted the charges “brought to a conclusion.”
Australia remains ambiguous about whether the United States should drop the prosecution or strike a plea bargain.
Assange faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents in 2010.
American prosecutors allege he helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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How to Watch the Rangers vs. Padres Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Ha-Seong Kim and the San Diego Padres take the field on Saturday at PETCO Park against Martin Perez, who is starting for the Texas Rangers. First pitch is at 8:40 PM ET.
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Rangers vs. Padres Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 8:40 PM ET
- TV Channel: SDPA
- Location: San Diego, California
- Venue: PETCO Park
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Rangers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rangers rank sixth in Major League Baseball with 144 home runs.
- Texas ranks second in the majors with a .462 team slugging percentage.
- No team has a better batting average than the .274 AVG the Rangers have posted this season.
- Texas has scored the most runs (606) in baseball so far this year.
- The Rangers have the best on-base percentage (.343) in baseball this year.
- The Rangers rank 13th in strikeouts per game (8.5) among MLB offenses.
- Texas has an 8.1 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 26th in baseball.
- Texas has the 16th-ranked ERA (4.23) in the majors this season.
- The Rangers have a combined WHIP of just 1.243 as a pitching staff, which is the sixth-best in baseball this season.
Rangers Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Rangers will hand the ball to Perez (8-3) for his 20th start of the season.
- The left-hander's last start was on Sunday, when he tossed six innings while giving up four earned runs on six hits in a matchup with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- He has started 19 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in eight of them.
- Perez has two starts in a row of five innings or more.
- He has made 19 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants will play on Saturday at Oracle Park, at 7:15 PM ET, with Rafael Devers and Michael Conforto among those expected to step up at the plate.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox average 1.1 home runs per game to rank 20th in MLB play with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox have the third-best batting average in the league (.265).
- Boston has the No. 6 offense in MLB action, scoring five runs per game (519 total runs).
- The Red Sox are fourth in baseball with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox batters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in baseball.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston's 4.26 team ERA ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Red Sox combine for the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants have hit 120 homers this season, which ranks 14th in the league.
- San Francisco ranks 22nd in the majors with a .397 team slugging percentage.
- The Giants have a team batting average of .241 this season, which ranks 19th among MLB teams.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an OBP of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants rank just 28th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 9.5 whiffs per contest.
- San Francisco averages the 16th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.7) in the majors this season.
- San Francisco has the 11th-ranked ERA (4.01) in the majors this season.
- The Giants have a combined WHIP of just 1.253 as a pitching staff, which is the eighth-best in baseball this season.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton (6-2) takes the mound for the Red Sox in his 13th start of the season. He's put together a 3.46 ERA in 65 2/3 innings pitched, with 75 strikeouts.
- The lefty last pitched on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he went six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is trying to pick up his eighth quality start of the season in this game.
- Paxton heads into the matchup with nine outings of five or more innings pitched this season.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 outings this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander did not allow a run in 2 2/3 innings pitched on Thursday in his last outing, a matchup with the Oakland Athletics.
- Walker has not earned a quality start in six starts this season.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
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Bronny James plays piano in a video posted by his father, LeBron James, on Saturday, four days after the teenager went into cardiac arrest during a basketball workout at the University of Southern California.
The 18-year-old plays a brief melody in front of his family, smiles and gets up without speaking in the video posted on his father's Instagram account. The video doesn't indicate where or when it was shot.
“A man of many talents,” the Los Angeles Lakers superstar can be heard saying in the background as Bronny finishes playing with his two younger siblings looking on.
TMZ posted photos of Bronny out to dinner with his family, which it says were taken Friday night. They show the teenager with his father outside celebrity hot spot Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica.
Wearing black pants and a zip-up hoodie, Bronny carried his phone while standing outside the Italian restaurant.
Bronny was released from the hospital on Thursday. He will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
"We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love," LeBron wrote on social media Thursday. "Will have more to say when we’re ready but I wanted to tell everyone how much your support has meant to all of us!"
Bronny, whose full name is LeBron James Jr., committed to USC in May after the 6-foot-3 guard became one of the nation’s top prospects out of Sierra Canyon School in nearby Chatsworth.
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CHICAGO — Officers searching the apartment of a Chicago man accused of fatally stabbing a man on a restaurant's roof discovered the body of a young woman in his refrigerator earlier this month, authorities said.
Brandon Sanders, 33, has not been charged in the death of Iman Al-Sarraj, 18, whose beaten body was found in early July in a refrigerator at his apartment in Chicago's West Ridge neighborhood.
But he was arrested June 29 and charged with murder, robbery and burglary in the May killing of Rasim Katanic, a 69-year-old who was a Bosnian War refugee, WLS-TV reported.
Prosecutors said surveillance footage shows Sanders climbing a stairwell on May 12 to a rooftop where Katanic was working on a cooler compressor atop Tahoora Sweets & Bakery. Katanic was later found stabbed to death on that roof.
At his bail hearing, Sanders’ attorney said, “There are some issues with a mental state.” Sanders remains held without bail.
Katanic’s daughter, Aida Sutardio, told the Chicago Sun-Times her father had retired at 66 but continued doing maintenance work for longtime clients of his heating, ventilation and air conditioning business, including the restaurant where he was found on the roof.
She said she is having a difficult time grasping “that he was slaughtered on top of a roof.”
“We never thought that this is how his life would end,” Sutardio said.
The Associated Press left telephone messages Friday with the Cook County State's Attorney’s Office seeking comment on the status of the investigation into Al-Sarraj's death.
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2023 Amundi Evian Championship Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 4
Celine Boutier is the current leader (-100) at the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship after three rounds of play.
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Amundi Evian Championship Fourth Round Information
- Start Time: 12:45 AM ET
- Venue: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par/Distance: Par 71/6,527 yards
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Celine Boutier
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 1st (-11)
- Odds to Win: -100
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Nasa Hataoka
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 2nd (-8)
- Odds to Win: +400
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Minjee Lee
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +700
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Brooke Mackenzie Henderson
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +800
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Nelly Korda
- Tee Time: 6:05 AM ET
- Current Rank: 5th (-6)
- Odds to Win: +1200
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete, fueling worries about whether Congress will be able to avoid a partial government shutdown this fall.
Congress has until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to act on government funding. They could pass spending bills to fund government agencies into next year, or simply pass a stopgap measure that keeps agencies running until they strike a longer-term agreement. No matter which route they take, it won't be easy.
“We're going to scare the hell out of the American people before we get this done," said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.
Coons' assessment is widely shared in Congress, reflecting the gulf between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate, which are charting vastly different — and mostly incompatible — paths on spending.
The Senate is adhering mostly to the top-line spending levels that President Joe Biden negotiated with House Republicans in late May as part of the debt-ceiling deal that extended the government's borrowing authority and avoided an economically devastating default.
That agreement holds discretionary spending generally flat for the coming year while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. On top of that, the Senate is looking to add $13.7 billion in additional emergency appropriations, including $8 billion for defense and $5.7 billion for nondefense.
House Republicans, many of whom opposed the debt-ceiling deal and refused to vote for it, are going a different way.
GOP leaders have teed up bills with far less spending than the agreement allows in an effort to win over members who insist on rolling back spending to fiscal year 2022 levels. They are also adding scores of policy add-ons broadly opposed by Democrats. There are proposals to reduce access to abortion pills, bans on the funding of hormone therapy and certain surgeries for transgender veterans, and a prohibition on training programs promoting diversity in the federal workplace, among many others.
At a press conference at the Capitol this past week, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction within the House GOP, said that voters elected a Republican majority in that chamber to rein in government spending and it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.
“We should not fear a government shutdown," said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. “Most of the American people won't even miss if the government is shut down temporarily.”
Many House Republicans disagree with that assessment. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, called it an oversimplification to say most Americans wouldn't feel an impact. And he warned Republicans would take the blame for a shutdown.
“We always get blamed for it, no matter what,” Simpson said. ”So it’s bad policy, it’s bad politics."
But the slim five-seat majority Republicans hold amplifies the power that a small group can wield. Even though the debt ceiling agreement passed with a significant majority of both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives opponents were so unhappy in the aftermath that they shut down House votes for a few days, stalling the entire GOP agenda.
Shortly thereafter, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy argued the numbers he negotiated with the White House amounted to a cap and “you can always do less.” GOP Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, followed that she would seek to limit nondefense spending at 2022 budget levels, saying the debt agreement “set a top-line spending cap — a ceiling, not a floor.”
The decision to cut spending below levels in the the debt ceiling deal helped get the House moving again, but put them on a collision course with the Senate, where the spending bills hew much closer to the agreement.
“What the House has done is they essentially tore up that agreement as soon as it was signed,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “And so we are in for a bumpy ride.”
Even as House Republicans have been moving their spending bills out of committee on party-line votes, the key committee in the Senate has been operating in a bipartisan fashion, drafting spending bills with sometimes unanimous support.
“The way to make this work is do it in a bipartisan way like we are doing in the Senate. If you do it in a partisan way, you’re heading to a shutdown. And I am really worried that that’s where the House Republicans are headed," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters this week.
McCarthy countered that people had the same doubts about whether House Republicans and the White House could reach an agreement to pass a debt ceiling extension and avoid a default.
“We’ve got 'til Sept. 30. I think we can get this all done," McCarthy said.
In a subsequent press conference, McCarthy said he had just met with Schumer to talk about the road ahead on an array of bills, including the spending bills.
“I don't want the government to shut down,” McCarthy said. “I want to find that we can find common ground.”
In all, there are 12 spending bills. The House has passed one so far, and moved others out of committee. The Senate has passed none, though it has advanced all 12 out of committee, something that hasn't happened since 2018.
Still, the difficulty ahead was evident on the House side, where Republicans gave up until after the recess on trying to pass a spending measure to fund federal agriculture and rural programs and the Food and Drug Administration, amid disagreements over its contents. They began their August recess a day early instead of holding votes Friday.
Simpson said some of his Republican colleagues don't want to take money approved already outside the appropriations process to cover some of this year's spending and avoid deeper cuts. For example, the House bills would take almost all of the money approved last year for the Internal Revenue Service in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and use the savings to avoid deeper spending cuts elsewhere.
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn't vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts "would have just been devastating.”
“That's the challenge we're going to have when we get back in September,” he said.
Further complicating things in the House, a few Republicans are opposed to some of the policy riders being included in the spending bills. For example, the agriculture spending bill would reverse the FDA's decision to allow abortion pills to be dispensed in certified pharmacies, instead of only by prescribers in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.
“I had a problem with abortion being put inside an ag bill," said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. "I think that's ridiculous."
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Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.
Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies.
In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
“People are yearning for something greater than themselves — beyond their own understanding,” said Jack Grogger, a chaplain for the Los Angeles Angels and a longtime Southern California fire captain who has aided many people in their gravest moments.
That search for something bigger, he said, can take on many forms, from following a religion to crafting a self-driven purpose to believing in, of course, angels.
“For a lot of people, angels are a lot safer to worship,” said Grogger, who also pastors a nondenominational church in Orange, California, and is a chaplain for the NHL's Anaheim Ducks.
People turn to angels for comfort, he said. They are familiar, regularly showing up in pop culture as well as in the Bible. Comparably, worshipping Jesus is far more involved; when Grogger preaches about angels it is with the context that they are part of God's kingdom.
American's belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79%). Fewer U.S. adults believe in the devil or Satan (56%), astrology (34%), reincarnation (34%), and that physical things can have spiritual energies, such as plants, rivers or crystals (42%).
The widespread acceptance of angels shown in the AP-NORC poll makes sense to Susan Garrett, an angel expert and New Testament professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky. It tracks with historical surveys, she said, adding that the U.S. remains a faith-filled country even as more Americans reject organized religion.
But if the devil is in the details, so are people’s understandings of angels.
“They’re very malleable,” Garrett said of angels. “You can have any one of a number of quite different worldviews in terms of your understanding of how the cosmos is arranged, whether there’s spirit beings, whether there’s life after death, whether there’s a God … and still find a place for angels in that worldview.”
Talk of angels, Garrett said, is often also about something else, like the ways God interacts with the world and other hard-to-articulate ideas.
The large number of U.S. adults who say they believe in angels includes 84% of those with a religious affiliation — 94% of evangelical Protestants, 81% of mainline Protestants and 82% of Catholics — and 33% of those without one. And of those angel-believing religiously unaffiliated, that includes 2% of atheists, 25% of agnostics and 50% of those identified as “nothing in particular.”
The broad acceptance is what fascinates San Francisco-based witch and author Devin Hunter: Angels show up independently in different religions and traditions, making them part of the fabric that unites humanity.
“We’re all getting to the same conclusion,” said Hunter, who spent 16 years as a professional medium, and started communicating as a child with what he believed were angels.
Hunter estimates that a belief in angels applies to about half of those practicing modern witchcraft today, and for some who don't believe, their rejection is often rooted in the religious trauma they experienced growing up.
“Angels become a very big deal" for long-time practitioners who've made occultism their primary focus, said Hunter, an angel-loving occultist. “We cannot escape them in any way, shape or form.”
Jennifer Goodwin of Oviedo, Florida, also is among the roughly seven in 10 U.S. adults who say they believe in angels. She isn’t sure if God exists and rejects the afterlife dichotomy of heaven and hell, but the recent deaths of her parents solidified her views on these celestial beings.
Goodwin believes her parents are still keeping an eye on the family — not in any physical way or as a supernatural apparition, but that they manifest in those moments when she feels a general sense of comfort.
“I think that they are around us, but it’s in a way that we can’t understand,” Goodwin said. “I don’t know what else to call it except an angel.”
Angels mean different things to different people, and the idea of loved ones becoming heavenly angels after death is neither an unusual belief nor a universally held one.
In his reading of Scripture as an evangelical Protestant, Grogger said he believes angels are something else entirely — they have never been human and are on another level in heaven's hierarchy. “We are higher than angels,” he said. “We do not become an angel.”
Angels do interact with humans though, said Grogger, but what "that looks like we’re not 100% sure.” They worship God who created this angelic legion of unknown numbers, he said, adding that evangelicals often attribute the demonic forces in the world to the angels who fell from heaven when the devil rebelled.
The Western ideas about angels can be traced through the Bible — and to the worldviews of its monotheistic authors, Garrett said. Those beliefs have changed and developed for millennia, influenced by cultures, theologians and even the ancient polytheistic beliefs that came before the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, she said.
“There are sort of lines of continuity from the Bible that you can trace all the way up to the New Age movement,” said Susan Garrett, who wrote “No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus.”
The angels in the Bible do God's bidding, and angelic violence is one part of their job description, said Esther Hamori, author of the upcoming book, “God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible.”
“The angels of the Bible are just as likely to assassinate individuals and slaughter entire populations as they are to offer help and protect and deliver,” said Hamori. She doesn't believe in these angels, but studies them as a Hebrew Bible professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York where she teaches a popular “Monster Heaven” class.
“They’re just God’s obedient soldiers doing the task at hand, and sometimes that task is in human beings' best interests, and sometimes it’s not," she said.
The perception that angels act angelic and look like the idyllic, winged figurines atop Christmas trees could be attributed to an early centuries belief that people are assigned one good angel and one bad — or have a good and bad spirit to guide them, Garrett said.
This idea shows up on the shoulders of cartoon characters and is likely what Abraham Lincoln was alluding to in his famous appeal for unity when he referenced “the better angels of our nature” in his first inaugural address, she said.
“It’s also tied in with ideas about guardian angels, which again, very ancient views that got developed over the centuries,” Garrett said.
For Sheila Avery of Chicago, angels are protectors, capable of keeping someone from harm. Avery, who belongs to a nondenominational church, credits them with those moments like when a person’s plans fall through, but ultimately it saves them from being in the thick of an unexpected disaster.
“They turn on the news and a terrible tragedy happened at that particular place,” Avery said, suggesting it was an “angel that was probably watching over them.”
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James posted a video Saturday just a couple of days since his son, Bronny James, was released from the hospital.
LeBron James posted a video on his Instagram of his son just days after he suffered a cardiac arrest during practice at the University of Southern California, playing the piano.
“Grand rising!!! God Is Great! Bronny you are amazing!!! Simple as that! Keep going Young!!! We’re here right with you every step of the way,” LeBron James wrote on Instagram.
Bronny James, 18, played a “brief melody” on the piano in front of his family. According to The Associated Press, the video did not indicate where or when the video was taken.
TMZ, according to the AP, posted videos of Bronny James and his family going out to dinner Friday night outside of Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica.
On Thursday, LeBron James posted on Twitter thanking people for sending their prayers to his family, CNN reported.
“We feel you and I’m so grateful. Everyone doing great,” LeBron James wrote, according to CNN. “We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love. Will have more to say when we’re ready but I wanted to tell everyone how much your support has meant to all of us! #JamesGang.”
Bronny James was released from the hospital Thursday and will continue to be evaluated in order to try to find the cause of the cardiac arrest he suffered, the AP reported.
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Flor Marte knows someone will die. She knows when and how, because it came to her in a dream. That's her gift – all the women in the Marte family have one.
But Flor refuses to share who the dream is about. Instead, she insists on throwing herself a living wake, a reason for the entire family to come together and celebrate their lives. That's the starting point for Elizabeth Acevedo's debut novel for adults, Family Lore.
Acevedo grew up in Harlem, with summer visits to the Dominican Republic, and aspirations of becoming a rapper – until a literature teacher invited her to join an after-school poetry club.
She attended reluctantly; but what she found in spoken word performance broke her world and the possibilities of language wide open.
"I think for folks who maybe have felt it difficult to occupy their bodies and take up space and demand attention, to have three minutes where that is the requirement is really powerful," she says.
Acevedo went on to become a National Poetry Slam champion and earn degrees in performing arts and creative writing. After college, she taught language arts in Prince George's County, Maryland. Teaching, she says, is its own kind of performance – one where the audience doesn't always want to be there. But her students were struggling in other ways.
"So many of my young people weren't at grade level, but they'd also not encountered literature that they felt reflected them," she says. "Trying to meet some of those students where they were was really a kickoff for my writing."
So Acevedo began writing young adult books. The Poet X, her first novel about a Dominican-American teen finding her voice through poetry, won a National Book Award in 2018.
Pivoting to a new audience
Now, with Family Lore, Acevedo turns her attention to adult readers.
"I think the way this pushes forward her work and the growing body of Dominican-American literature is how deeply she writes into the interiors of her women characters," says author Naima Coster, who read an early draft of the novel.
The story is told through memories, out of order, sometimes a memory within a different memory. Acevedo jumps from the Dominican countryside to Santo Domingo to New York, as sisters Matilde, Flor, Pastora and Camila – along with younger generation Ona and Yadi – reflect on their childhoods and teenage romances and the secrets that bind them all together. Though the Marte women grow older together, their relationships do not get easier.
"What does it mean if these women have really just had a different experience of their mother?" says Acevedo. "And how that different experience of their mother automatically will create a schism, because now it's like, 'You don't remember her the way I remember her, and because of that, I can't trust you."
There are infidelities, miscarriages, childhood love affairs and therapeutic dance classes. Acevedo explains that she needed to tell this story in a non-linear format, in the way memories surface and warp; the way family gossip is passed on from person to person, in a roundabout way.
Returning to the body
That format, she says, was more suited for adult readers; and writing for adults also allowed her to be candid about bodies: how they move, change, excite, disappoint.
"The generation I was raised by felt like their relationship to their body was very othered," Acevedo says. "When I speak to my cousins, when I think about myself, it's been a return to desire, a return to the gut, a return to health in a way that isn't necessarily about size but is about: who am I in this vessel and how do I love it?"
That tension is felt especially by the younger Marte women, whose supernatural gifts radiate from within. Ona has a self-described "alpha vagina," Yadi has a special taste for sour limes.
Naima Coster says it's easy to feel pressure to write about marginalized communities as clean-cut, exemplary characters. But Family Lore relishes in airing out the Marte family's dirty laundry– in showing Afro-Dominican women as full, complicated protagonists.
"It feels major, the way she writes about the ways that these women misunderstand each other, but still love each other," she says.
Acevedo says those themes – family, home, Blackness, power – will be in every book she writes, "because those are the questions that haunt me."
Family Lore reads like the feeling of getting older and no longer having moms and aunts lower their voices when you enter the room – like finally being privy to what makes a family flawed and perfect.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
"I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I've already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight," she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
"I'm pretty tough on myself," she said. "But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace."
The 800 was Ledecky's second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
"It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women's 200 backstroke. McKeown's victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
"You can't change the rules," she said. "I got ruled out. It's just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn't do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive."
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström's individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps' mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
"There are not too many secrets," Sjöström said about her longevity. "Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble."
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year's world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event.
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20 Suits for Students participants each earn $1,000, laptop
Twenty students from throughout Palm Beach County each were awarded $1,000 and a laptop Saturday morning at the annual Suits For Seniors, I Think I Can scholarship breakfast.
Community leaders and sponsors honored the program participants at Manatee Lagoon.
Suits for Seniors is an eight-week program geared toward teaching students about financial literacy, career planning and professional development.
"I hope each participant understands that its their role to change to community," Jervonte Edmonds, who founded Suits for Seniors, said. "What we do is plant a seed for them to grow into the leaders that change the world for the next generation.
The career academy is at 10 of 11 Title 1 schools in Palm Beach County.
"We teach our kids leadership financial literacy, how to get to college, how to get a career, anything related to post-secondary success."
The program has rates of 100% high school graduation, 95% college enrollment and 75% post-secondary graduation.
Juan Maldonado a Palm Beach State College student, said: "It taught me lessons like financial literacy, how to invest, how to make a budget, how to invest, how to save assets over liabilities as well as academically it gave me the opportunity to find scholarships to be able to pay my way through school to pay for my books and tuition stuff like that so I have a lot of money saved up."
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‘I’m still in shock’: Woman wins lottery jackpot while taking break from work
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A North Carolina woman won a triple-digit jackpot thanks to purchasing a lucky scratch-off ticket.
According to the North Carolina Educational Lottery, Jodi Owens won a $100,000 prize by putting her break time to good use and buying a lottery ticket.
Officials said Owens, a retired nurse practitioner, took a break from doing some work around her house and stopped at a Civietown Mini Mart in Shallotte. She picked up a few items including a Black Titanium scratch-off.
She returned home to scratch her winning ticket.
“I’m still in shock,” Owens said. “It’s truly a blessing.”
Owens claimed her prize on Friday and took home $71,259 after taxes.
“I’m going to pay my mortgage off and pay my car off,” she said. “I’m thinking about getting a manicure and pedicure too!”
Lottery officials said the Black Titanium scratch-off game just launched last month and is available for $30.
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Judge awards $11 million to family in death of Boynton Beach woman from kratom
Family members of a woman who died from kratom have been awarded $11 million in a federal wrongful death lawsuit.
On Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Circuit Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued a final default judgment against Grow, LLC, and Sean Michael Harder, owner and operator of The Kratom Distro, for the kratom-induced death of 39-year-old Krystal Talavera, a mother of four who lived in Boynton Beach.
"I again emphasize that no award of damages will ever be adequate and that this decision reflects nothing more than an adherence to prior cases."
Middlebrooks said in his ruling.
He said, "when when placed alongside the long line of wrongful death actions in Florida, particularly tobacco cases where the survivors tend to have witnessed their loved ones suffer a long and painful death, an award of $20 million is not reasonable."
The breakdown was $4,642,895.70 for the estate of Krystal Talavera, $1 million for Devin Filippelli as Talavera’s surving son; and $2 million for her other three children.
Talavera’s lawyers provided witnesses and evidence to show the impact and cost of Krystal’s death on her surviving children.
Filippelli explained in court how his mother died on June 20, 2021, on Father's Day, the day after his high school graduation. He was getting ready to attend the University of Florida.c
Krystal’s ex-husband, Benny Flores talked about the pain their two young sons are going through, especially the 6-year-old who kept asking when his mother was coming back.
Krystal’s partner, Biaggio Vultaggio, the father of her youngest son, recalled the heartbreaking moment he found Krystal collapsed on the floor in the living room, as their 14-month-old baby played next to her body.
There were hot cup of coffee and an open bag of "Space Dust," which is derived from kratom, or Mitragyna speciosa, a natural plant with origins in Southeast Asia that is commonly sold as a supplement in U.S. stores.
It is not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
In 2019, the FDA tested 30 different kratom products and found "significant levels" of lead and nickel in them, which researchers said could cause heavy metal poisoning if consumed over the long term.
Of 27,338 overdose deaths that occurred July 2016–December 2017,152 (0.56%) tested positive for kratom on postmortem toxicology, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
“At high concentrations, mitragynine produces opioid-like effects, such as respiratory failure,” the coroner wrote, according to the complaint.
Talavera was taken to Bethesda Hospital East in Boynton Beach, where she was pronounced dead.
She had worked as a registered nurse at Trustbridge Hospice Care in West Palm Beach.
“This $11 million dollar judgment should be a wakeup call to the kratom industry about this dangerous and unregulated substance,” Talavera's lawyer Tamara Williams, with mctlaw, said in a news release. “There are families across the country who know firsthand that kratom is addictive and can be deadly.”
Attorney Michael Cowgill said he hopes this judgment gets the attention of legislators and regulators.
“It’s time our government representatives act to protect the people across the country who are addicted to kratom and to protect other families from having to deal with unnecessary kratom averdose deaths,” Cowgill said.
Last week mctlaw attorneys won a $2.5 million dollar jury verdict in another kratom wrongful death lawsuit against a kratom manufacturer in Washington state.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid a coordinated effort to undermine No Labels' work to secure ballot access in states nationwide, we have named Jay Nixon – a lifelong Democrat who spent 30 years serving Missouri as a governor, attorney general and state senator – as director of our new Ballot Integrity Project.
Since early last year, No Labels has gathered over 700,000 signatures and qualified for the ballot in five states. We have a strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., with the aim of potentially offering our line to an independent Unity presidential ticket in 2024. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming desire of Americans for more choices and voices in our politics – with two-thirds of voters saying they don't want a rematch of the 2020 election – but we now face organized opposition from a group of political operatives and former elected officials intent on keeping us off the ballot.
"At a moment when so many Americans' are losing trust in our democracy, we need to hold even tighter to the pillars that have held our democracy up for almost 250 years. In our country, you win by persuading more people and getting more votes, not by limiting voters' choices and denying competitors a place on the ballot," said Nixon. "Americans have the constitutional right to put any person or party on the ballot and to vote for whomever they want. Anyone who is against that isn't standing up for democracy. They are standing in the way."
Former Gov. Larry Hogan will welcome Nixon to the No Labels community in his first scheduled public appearance at a town hall on Tuesday, August 1, at 5 p.m. ET. Register here to join the town hall.
In Nixon's decorated public service career, he established a stellar record as a champion for the civil and voting rights of Americans. In his new role with No Labels, Nixon will work closely with No Labels national co-chair and civil rights icon, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., to monitor legal developments, provide strategic counsel and serve as a public advocate for No Labels' ballot access efforts.
Since the start of its ballot access effort, No Labels has rigorously followed the letter and spirit of all applicable election laws. In recent months, however, it has become the target of an undemocratic campaign by organized and powerful partisan interests determined to keep No Labels off the ballot.
Local parties and partisan election officials have filed baseless lawsuits, invented spurious charges and delayed certification without justification in Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Now, a new well-resourced group, organized under the name "Citizens to Save our Republic," has embarked on an effort to pressure No Labels and its members to abandon our ballot access effort.
"No Labels is a movement dedicated to democracy, and democracy can't stop because the powers that be think it's 'dangerous' to have competition," said Chavis. "The way to unite this country and to restore Americans faith in our future is to have more democracy, not less. I'm eager to begin working side by side with former Gov. Nixon to protect Americans' most fundamental constitutional rights."
On July 18, No Labels launched its Common Sense policy booklet at an overflow town hall event at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., featuring Dr. Chavis, his fellow No Labels co-chairs former Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Joe Lieberman and special guests Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Jon Huntsman. It was the first of many town halls No Labels will host in the months ahead – with different leaders in different states – to spur a long overdue discussion about where America needs to go in 2024 and beyond.
By early 2024, No Labels will gauge the mood of the American public and their openness to an independent Unity ticket and will offer our ballot line to a ticket if and only if, such a ticket has a viable path to victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Since its founding in 2009, No Labels has spent 13 years working to give voice to America's commonsense majority. We are now getting ballot access in states across the country to ensure Americans have the choice to vote for a 2024 presidential ticket that features strong, effective, and honest leaders who will commit to working closely with both parties to find commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems. www.nolabels.org.
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LOMPOC, Calif., July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation this week thanked the Senate Interior Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2024 funding package that can improve the management of America's wild horses and burros.
A national nonprofit advocacy organization, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to press the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the immediate scaling up of safe, proven and humane fertility control for wild horses and burros as well as with a diverse array of public lands stakeholders to create broader acceptance of fertility control use.
If implemented correctly and robustly, fertility control would slow (not stop) the growth of wild herds, keeping them on their home ranges rather than relying on the costly and traumatic capture, removal and warehousing of wild horses and burros.
"We are grateful to the Senate for again supporting protections for wild horses by taking the vitally important step of directing — in clear language — that the Bureau of Land Management implement thoughtful management that results in the kinds of humane approaches for which Return to Freedom has tirelessly advocated," said Neda DeMayo, president of RTF.
The Senate Committee's guiding report language calls for $11 million "to be spent to continue implementation of a robust and humane fertility control strategy of reversible immunocontraceptive vaccines."
The Senate Committee's report emphasized that it "expects" the BLM to place "specific attention on:"
- "increasing the use of fertility control, including measurable objectives in reducing population growth with fertility controls,
- "targeting removals from the most heavily ecologically impacted and populated areas,
- "expanding long-term, off-range humane holding, and continuing adoptions while fully implementing and enforcing existing safeguards."
The Senate Committee on Thursday approved a total of $148 million for wild horse and burro management for 2024. Congress allocated the same amount in 2023.
By comparison, the House Interior Appropriations Committee on June 19 approved $155 million for wild horse management in 2024.
The House Committee's report language also sets aside $11 million for fertility control; however, it does not specify using the funding solely for immediate on-range implementation. The House also allows the money to be used for research, including on permanent sterilization, which RTF strongly opposes.
The Senate and House must now reconcile their differences.
RTF is calling on the House and Senate conferees to adopt the House's funding level alongside the Senate's guiding report language. RTF will continue to advocate for stricter wild horse and burro protections and for greater funding until the final bill is approved later this year.
Background
As it has for decades, the BLM continues to emphasize capture-and-removal, putting off fertility control use while also failing to reach the agency's own wild horse population targets. In FY 2022, for example, 20,193 wild horses and burros were removed from their home ranges while just 1,622 mares were treated and released with some form of fertility control.
Out of the BLM-estimated 141,000 federally protected wild horses and burros that the agency is charged with overseeing, 58,000 now live not on the range but in overcrowded government corrals or on leased pastures.
The cost to taxpayers of continued off-range holding of captured wild horses has climbed to more than $83 million annually. That has left little funding for prioritizing range management, restoration, personnel and administration, let alone fertility control.
Population modeling by RTF and other stakeholders has shown that immediately implementing fertility control alongside any removal that BLM conducts is the only way to catch up with and stabilize herd growth so that on-range management can replace removals.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to wild horse preservation through sanctuary, education, conservation, and advocacy since 1998. It also operates the American Wild Horse Sanctuary at three California locations, caring for more than 450 wild horses and burros managing the population with fertility control since 1999. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates about wild horses and burros on the range and at our sanctuary.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
"I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I've already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight," she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
"I'm pretty tough on myself," she said. "But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace."
The 800 was Ledecky's second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
"It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women's 200 backstroke. McKeown's victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
"You can't change the rules," she said. "I got ruled out. It's just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn't do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive."
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström's individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps' mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
"There are not too many secrets," Sjöström said about her longevity. "Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble."
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year's world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event.
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2023 Amundi Evian Championship Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 4
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Flor Marte knows someone will die. She knows when and how, because it came to her in a dream. That's her gift – all the women in the Marte family have one.
But Flor refuses to share who the dream is about. Instead, she insists on throwing herself a living wake, a reason for the entire family to come together and celebrate their lives. That's the starting point for Elizabeth Acevedo's debut novel for adults, Family Lore.
Acevedo grew up in Harlem, with summer visits to the Dominican Republic, and aspirations of becoming a rapper – until a literature teacher invited her to join an after-school poetry club.
She attended reluctantly; but what she found in spoken word performance broke her world and the possibilities of language wide open.
"I think for folks who maybe have felt it difficult to occupy their bodies and take up space and demand attention, to have three minutes where that is the requirement is really powerful," she says.
Acevedo went on to become a National Poetry Slam champion and earn degrees in performing arts and creative writing. After college, she taught language arts in Prince George's County, Maryland. Teaching, she says, is its own kind of performance – one where the audience doesn't always want to be there. But her students were struggling in other ways.
"So many of my young people weren't at grade level, but they'd also not encountered literature that they felt reflected them," she says. "Trying to meet some of those students where they were was really a kickoff for my writing."
So Acevedo began writing young adult books. The Poet X, her first novel about a Dominican-American teen finding her voice through poetry, won a National Book Award in 2018.
Pivoting to a new audience
Now, with Family Lore, Acevedo turns her attention to adult readers.
"I think the way this pushes forward her work and the growing body of Dominican-American literature is how deeply she writes into the interiors of her women characters," says author Naima Coster, who read an early draft of the novel.
The story is told through memories, out of order, sometimes a memory within a different memory. Acevedo jumps from the Dominican countryside to Santo Domingo to New York, as sisters Matilde, Flor, Pastora and Camila – along with younger generation Ona and Yadi – reflect on their childhoods and teenage romances and the secrets that bind them all together. Though the Marte women grow older together, their relationships do not get easier.
"What does it mean if these women have really just had a different experience of their mother?" says Acevedo. "And how that different experience of their mother automatically will create a schism, because now it's like, 'You don't remember her the way I remember her, and because of that, I can't trust you."
There are infidelities, miscarriages, childhood love affairs and therapeutic dance classes. Acevedo explains that she needed to tell this story in a non-linear format, in the way memories surface and warp; the way family gossip is passed on from person to person, in a roundabout way.
Returning to the body
That format, she says, was more suited for adult readers; and writing for adults also allowed her to be candid about bodies: how they move, change, excite, disappoint.
"The generation I was raised by felt like their relationship to their body was very othered," Acevedo says. "When I speak to my cousins, when I think about myself, it's been a return to desire, a return to the gut, a return to health in a way that isn't necessarily about size but is about: who am I in this vessel and how do I love it?"
That tension is felt especially by the younger Marte women, whose supernatural gifts radiate from within. Ona has a self-described "alpha vagina," Yadi has a special taste for sour limes.
Naima Coster says it's easy to feel pressure to write about marginalized communities as clean-cut, exemplary characters. But Family Lore relishes in airing out the Marte family's dirty laundry– in showing Afro-Dominican women as full, complicated protagonists.
"It feels major, the way she writes about the ways that these women misunderstand each other, but still love each other," she says.
Acevedo says those themes – family, home, Blackness, power – will be in every book she writes, "because those are the questions that haunt me."
Family Lore reads like the feeling of getting older and no longer having moms and aunts lower their voices when you enter the room – like finally being privy to what makes a family flawed and perfect.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A North Carolina man’s long-lost 1967 Mustang coupe was found after being stolen 21 years ago.
Detectives in Guilford County, and the owner of the car, were also surprised to find the vehicle was still in decent shape.
“Twenty-one years. That is unbelievable,” David Tucker said.
The blue Mustang was Tucker’s dream car. He and his son even formed a bond during the boy’s childhood, riding together in the coupe.
“Riding in it with my son … he was in a car seat in the back,” Tucker said. “He finally got out of the car seat and was able to sit up front with me. Just riding around with him, and seeing the look on his face. That’s the best.”
In 2002, Tucker decided to sell the car. He left it sitting at a friend’s house in Oak Ridge, where it might have more visibility for potential buyers.
But somebody decided to just take it.
“I can’t even describe the sadness,” Tucker said. “That was like my baby, you know? A member of the family just got gone. I never thought I would see it again.”
For years, Tucker worked along with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office to try to find it.
He checked in on his VIN number every year.
“The VIN number had been changed on it,” said Detective Sergeant Ryan Seals with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office. “The initial VIN number … came back to a vehicle that had already been scrapped.”
But a few weeks back, deputies said that VIN number eventually led to a crack in the case: The car was found states away in Florida — and only a little worse for wear.
In addition to a little bit of damage on the inside and outside, the car, too, had been painted white.
“It’s nowhere near what it used to be. It’s going to take some work,” Tucker said.
Tucker is currently trying to figure out how to get the car back to North Carolina.
“It means a lot, there was a lot of memories.” he said. “That was my dream car, and my son loved it. We rode in and all the time. So I’m just anxious to get it back and maybe get it back to where it was when it got stolen.”
Tucker is also working with DMV to get his title back. He says it could still take several weeks or even months to get his car back to North Carolina. | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/dream-car-mans-stolen-mustang-found-21-years-later/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:10 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/dream-car-mans-stolen-mustang-found-21-years-later/ |
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A North Carolina man’s long-lost 1967 Mustang coupe was found after being stolen 21 years ago.
Detectives in Guilford County, and the owner of the car, were also surprised to find the vehicle was still in decent shape.
“Twenty-one years. That is unbelievable,” David Tucker said.
The blue Mustang was Tucker’s dream car. He and his son even formed a bond during the boy’s childhood, riding together in the coupe.
“Riding in it with my son … he was in a car seat in the back,” Tucker said. “He finally got out of the car seat and was able to sit up front with me. Just riding around with him, and seeing the look on his face. That’s the best.”
In 2002, Tucker decided to sell the car. He left it sitting at a friend’s house in Oak Ridge, where it might have more visibility for potential buyers.
But somebody decided to just take it.
“I can’t even describe the sadness,” Tucker said. “That was like my baby, you know? A member of the family just got gone. I never thought I would see it again.”
For years, Tucker worked along with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office to try to find it.
He checked in on his VIN number every year.
“The VIN number had been changed on it,” said Detective Sergeant Ryan Seals with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office. “The initial VIN number … came back to a vehicle that had already been scrapped.”
But a few weeks back, deputies said that VIN number eventually led to a crack in the case: The car was found states away in Florida — and only a little worse for wear.
In addition to a little bit of damage on the inside and outside, the car, too, had been painted white.
“It’s nowhere near what it used to be. It’s going to take some work,” Tucker said.
Tucker is currently trying to figure out how to get the car back to North Carolina.
“It means a lot, there was a lot of memories.” he said. “That was my dream car, and my son loved it. We rode in and all the time. So I’m just anxious to get it back and maybe get it back to where it was when it got stolen.”
Tucker is also working with DMV to get his title back. He says it could still take several weeks or even months to get his car back to North Carolina. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/dream-car-mans-stolen-mustang-found-21-years-later/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:13 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/dream-car-mans-stolen-mustang-found-21-years-later/ |
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid a coordinated effort to undermine No Labels' work to secure ballot access in states nationwide, we have named Jay Nixon – a lifelong Democrat who spent 30 years serving Missouri as a governor, attorney general and state senator – as director of our new Ballot Integrity Project.
Since early last year, No Labels has gathered over 700,000 signatures and qualified for the ballot in five states. We have a strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., with the aim of potentially offering our line to an independent Unity presidential ticket in 2024. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming desire of Americans for more choices and voices in our politics – with two-thirds of voters saying they don't want a rematch of the 2020 election – but we now face organized opposition from a group of political operatives and former elected officials intent on keeping us off the ballot.
"At a moment when so many Americans' are losing trust in our democracy, we need to hold even tighter to the pillars that have held our democracy up for almost 250 years. In our country, you win by persuading more people and getting more votes, not by limiting voters' choices and denying competitors a place on the ballot," said Nixon. "Americans have the constitutional right to put any person or party on the ballot and to vote for whomever they want. Anyone who is against that isn't standing up for democracy. They are standing in the way."
Former Gov. Larry Hogan will welcome Nixon to the No Labels community in his first scheduled public appearance at a town hall on Tuesday, August 1, at 5 p.m. ET. Register here to join the town hall.
In Nixon's decorated public service career, he established a stellar record as a champion for the civil and voting rights of Americans. In his new role with No Labels, Nixon will work closely with No Labels national co-chair and civil rights icon, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., to monitor legal developments, provide strategic counsel and serve as a public advocate for No Labels' ballot access efforts.
Since the start of its ballot access effort, No Labels has rigorously followed the letter and spirit of all applicable election laws. In recent months, however, it has become the target of an undemocratic campaign by organized and powerful partisan interests determined to keep No Labels off the ballot.
Local parties and partisan election officials have filed baseless lawsuits, invented spurious charges and delayed certification without justification in Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Now, a new well-resourced group, organized under the name "Citizens to Save our Republic," has embarked on an effort to pressure No Labels and its members to abandon our ballot access effort.
"No Labels is a movement dedicated to democracy, and democracy can't stop because the powers that be think it's 'dangerous' to have competition," said Chavis. "The way to unite this country and to restore Americans faith in our future is to have more democracy, not less. I'm eager to begin working side by side with former Gov. Nixon to protect Americans' most fundamental constitutional rights."
On July 18, No Labels launched its Common Sense policy booklet at an overflow town hall event at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., featuring Dr. Chavis, his fellow No Labels co-chairs former Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Joe Lieberman and special guests Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Jon Huntsman. It was the first of many town halls No Labels will host in the months ahead – with different leaders in different states – to spur a long overdue discussion about where America needs to go in 2024 and beyond.
By early 2024, No Labels will gauge the mood of the American public and their openness to an independent Unity ticket and will offer our ballot line to a ticket if and only if, such a ticket has a viable path to victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Since its founding in 2009, No Labels has spent 13 years working to give voice to America's commonsense majority. We are now getting ballot access in states across the country to ensure Americans have the choice to vote for a 2024 presidential ticket that features strong, effective, and honest leaders who will commit to working closely with both parties to find commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems. www.nolabels.org.
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(NerdWallet) – Labor Day may mark the unofficial end of summer in the U.S. — but it’s hardly the end of airport crowds. In fact, given record-breaking crowds already this year, there’s a good chance this Labor Day weekend could be busier than any prior Labor Day weekend.
Already this summer, U.S. airports have set fresh passenger records. June 30, the Friday before July 4, marked a new record high of passengers on a single day when more than 2.884 million people passed through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints.
That figure topped the previous record of 2.882 million people from the Sunday after 2019’s Thanksgiving, according to a NerdWallet analysis of TSA data showing the number of passengers screened at U.S. TSA checkpoints over the last four years.
Roughly 12% more people passed through U.S. airports in June 2023 versus June 2022, which is perhaps unsurprising given the lingering effects of the pandemic through 2022.
The more impressive feat, though, is that 2023’s crowds have exceeded 2019 levels. TSA screened 0.6% more passengers in June 2023 versus June 2019, proving that summer is back and bigger than ever.
Expect Labor Day 2023 crowds to be no different, but some days around the long weekend are significantly busier than others.
The best and worst days to fly Labor Day weekend
TSA checkpoint data suggests most people use Labor Day — which is observed on the first Monday of September — as a long weekend. They depart on Friday, bask in two full days of vacation and return home on Monday.
To avoid crowds, and likely save money, book Labor Day travel on days that aren’t the start and end of the weekend. Based on an average of the past four years, here were the most to least crowded days for the week surrounding Labor Day, ranked:
- Friday before Labor Day (most crowded).
- Thursday before.
- Labor Day Monday.
- Sunday after.
- Friday after.
- Monday after.
- Monday before.
- Thursday after.
- Tuesday after.
- Wednesday before.
- Sunday before.
- Saturday before.
- Wednesday after.
- Tuesday before.
- Saturday after (least crowded).
When broken out by pre- and post-Labor Day travel, here are the three least crowded days to travel ranked from least to most crowded:
Pre-holiday:
- Tuesday before (overall least crowded day pre-holiday).
- Saturday before.
- Sunday before.
Post-holiday:
- Saturday after (overall least crowded day post-holiday).
- Wednesday after.
- Tuesday after.
During the seven days after and before Labor Day (including the holiday itself), the Friday before Labor Day has been the single busiest day to fly over each of the past four years.
As far as the period starting on Labor Day itself and spanning the subsequent seven days, Labor Day Monday has been the busiest day to fly over the past three years. If Labor Day Monday is excluded from the rankings, the Sunday after has been the busiest over the past three years. In 2019, the trends were flipped: the Sunday after was the busiest, and the holiday itself was the second busiest.
The smarter, cheaper Labor Day weekend itinerary
If you work a standard Monday-Friday workweek and have the holiday off, leaving Friday after work and returning on Labor Day seems logical. But following the same itinerary as everyone else means you’ll likely pay — both in airfares and navigating airport crowds. For lighter crowds (and perhaps better deals), try these travel days instead:
Fly on the Tuesday or Wednesday before: Let Labor Day weekend become closer to a week by jetting off earlier than the folks leaving Thursday or Friday, assuming you have enough vacation days to use (or can work remotely). You’ll have more time away from home and be more relaxed without the big airport crowds.
Travel on Saturday: Crowds are light on Saturdays before and after the holiday. So, rather than rushing out of work on Friday afternoon to catch a flight, opt for the morning flight the next day.
That Saturday morning flight might also reduce your risk of delays, too. According to travel booking site Hopper’s Flight Disruption Outlook for Spring 2023, flights departing after 9 a.m. are twice as likely to be delayed than departures scheduled from 5-8 a.m.
Fly home the Sunday before: While most folks fly home on Labor Day Monday, you might get a head start by flying home on Sunday. Sure, you’ll have one less vacation day than folks following your same itinerary departing Monday, but that’s not a bad thing. By returning Sunday night, you’ll have a whole day to refresh and prepare for the week ahead by doing laundry, meal prepping or catching up on potential jetlag. Sometimes the nicest way to relax is by taking a vacation from your vacation. | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/the-busiest-days-to-fly-around-labor-day-2023/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:16 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/the-busiest-days-to-fly-around-labor-day-2023/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Yet another new, unsafe trend is catching attention.
This time, some TikTok users are encouraging viewers to add borax to their water, claiming the common cleaning product can help reduce inflammation and joint pain, or even “detoxify” the body. As you may have guessed, health officials are warning of the consequences the trend could have on your health.
Borax, or sodium tetraborate decahydrate, is a chemical compound commonly available in the form of a white crystalline powder. It’s been utilized in a variety of ways since the Middle Ages, and today is often used a laundry detergent, kitchen/bathroom cleaner, and even a bug and weed killer.
Boric acid has also been found to have bacteriostatic properties, meaning it can prevent the growth of bacteria, Dr. S. Ruddy Rose, director of VCU Health’s Virginia Poison Center, told Nexstar.
Despite its endless safe uses, however, borax is not approved for ingestion by humans.
Ingesting borax can cause people to become quite sick, according to Dr. Rose, leading to convulsions, problems with the gastrointestinal tract, heat burns, and even kidney damage.
“This happens pretty quickly,” he adds.
Even the company behind 20 Mule Team Borax, a popular borax product, has warned against participating in the TikTok trend.
“20 Mule Team Borax has many uses but ingesting is not one of them,” the company warned on July 25.
“Do not bathe in, apply to skin, or ingest Borax, including drinking it diluted in water,” the company continued. “It is not intended for use as a personal care product or dietary supplement.”
Should your child fall victim to the trend, Dr. Rose said you can follow up with the child’s pediatrician, as long as they don’t have any symptoms. But if your child is vomiting, has abdominal pain, or experiences a seizure or other serious symptoms, it’s best to seek emergency medical attention.
Several videos recommending borax have been removed from TikTok, according to NBC News.
Social-media users, meanwhile, should always be cautious about taking medical advice from influencers or TikTok personalities.
“Just beware of these types of activities,” Dr. Rose said. “The people promoting it may not be doing it for the right reason.”
Borax uses
There are plenty of non-dangerous ways to use borax that you may not be aware of.
- It can unclog drains. As recommended by Southern Living, 1/2 cup of borax and two cups of boiling water down a clogged drain should clear it right out. Let the solution sit for 15 mins before flushing with warm water.
- It’s a pest deterrent/killer. Borax is a desiccant, which means it sucks up moisture. In this way, borax can be useful to sprinkle in places where bugs might ordinarily populate. The powder will keep the area dry and make it less optimal for insects to make home. Meanwhile, if bugs are already in your home, it’s not too late. The Spruce explains that insects, like cockroaches and ants, become “dried out” from the inside and die after eating the powder.
- It can help grow your fruit trees. Bob Vila recommends adding borax to the soil around your tree to help keep the plant’s pH levels desirable for growth.
- It’s in ingredient in “slime.” If your kids love making and playing with slime, Taste of Home has a recipe for using borax to make the stretchy, gooey stuff. | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:18 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ |
(NerdWallet) – Labor Day may mark the unofficial end of summer in the U.S. — but it’s hardly the end of airport crowds. In fact, given record-breaking crowds already this year, there’s a good chance this Labor Day weekend could be busier than any prior Labor Day weekend.
Already this summer, U.S. airports have set fresh passenger records. June 30, the Friday before July 4, marked a new record high of passengers on a single day when more than 2.884 million people passed through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints.
That figure topped the previous record of 2.882 million people from the Sunday after 2019’s Thanksgiving, according to a NerdWallet analysis of TSA data showing the number of passengers screened at U.S. TSA checkpoints over the last four years.
Roughly 12% more people passed through U.S. airports in June 2023 versus June 2022, which is perhaps unsurprising given the lingering effects of the pandemic through 2022.
The more impressive feat, though, is that 2023’s crowds have exceeded 2019 levels. TSA screened 0.6% more passengers in June 2023 versus June 2019, proving that summer is back and bigger than ever.
Expect Labor Day 2023 crowds to be no different, but some days around the long weekend are significantly busier than others.
The best and worst days to fly Labor Day weekend
TSA checkpoint data suggests most people use Labor Day — which is observed on the first Monday of September — as a long weekend. They depart on Friday, bask in two full days of vacation and return home on Monday.
To avoid crowds, and likely save money, book Labor Day travel on days that aren’t the start and end of the weekend. Based on an average of the past four years, here were the most to least crowded days for the week surrounding Labor Day, ranked:
- Friday before Labor Day (most crowded).
- Thursday before.
- Labor Day Monday.
- Sunday after.
- Friday after.
- Monday after.
- Monday before.
- Thursday after.
- Tuesday after.
- Wednesday before.
- Sunday before.
- Saturday before.
- Wednesday after.
- Tuesday before.
- Saturday after (least crowded).
When broken out by pre- and post-Labor Day travel, here are the three least crowded days to travel ranked from least to most crowded:
Pre-holiday:
- Tuesday before (overall least crowded day pre-holiday).
- Saturday before.
- Sunday before.
Post-holiday:
- Saturday after (overall least crowded day post-holiday).
- Wednesday after.
- Tuesday after.
During the seven days after and before Labor Day (including the holiday itself), the Friday before Labor Day has been the single busiest day to fly over each of the past four years.
As far as the period starting on Labor Day itself and spanning the subsequent seven days, Labor Day Monday has been the busiest day to fly over the past three years. If Labor Day Monday is excluded from the rankings, the Sunday after has been the busiest over the past three years. In 2019, the trends were flipped: the Sunday after was the busiest, and the holiday itself was the second busiest.
The smarter, cheaper Labor Day weekend itinerary
If you work a standard Monday-Friday workweek and have the holiday off, leaving Friday after work and returning on Labor Day seems logical. But following the same itinerary as everyone else means you’ll likely pay — both in airfares and navigating airport crowds. For lighter crowds (and perhaps better deals), try these travel days instead:
Fly on the Tuesday or Wednesday before: Let Labor Day weekend become closer to a week by jetting off earlier than the folks leaving Thursday or Friday, assuming you have enough vacation days to use (or can work remotely). You’ll have more time away from home and be more relaxed without the big airport crowds.
Travel on Saturday: Crowds are light on Saturdays before and after the holiday. So, rather than rushing out of work on Friday afternoon to catch a flight, opt for the morning flight the next day.
That Saturday morning flight might also reduce your risk of delays, too. According to travel booking site Hopper’s Flight Disruption Outlook for Spring 2023, flights departing after 9 a.m. are twice as likely to be delayed than departures scheduled from 5-8 a.m.
Fly home the Sunday before: While most folks fly home on Labor Day Monday, you might get a head start by flying home on Sunday. Sure, you’ll have one less vacation day than folks following your same itinerary departing Monday, but that’s not a bad thing. By returning Sunday night, you’ll have a whole day to refresh and prepare for the week ahead by doing laundry, meal prepping or catching up on potential jetlag. Sometimes the nicest way to relax is by taking a vacation from your vacation. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/the-busiest-days-to-fly-around-labor-day-2023/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:19 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/the-busiest-days-to-fly-around-labor-day-2023/ |
(NEXSTAR) – The astounding critical and commercial reception of the new “Barbie” movie has catapulted all-things-Barbie back to the forefront of pop culture.
Even Allan!
Mattel’s Allan dolls — first introduced in the earlier half of the ‘60s as a “buddy” for Ken dolls — are currently experiencing increased demand among collectors and Barbie fans, with early specimens selling for upwards of $200 on eBay over the last several days.
The value of Allan dolls has increased, no doubt, due to Allan’s inclusion in the film. But that’s about the only effect the movie has had on the price of vintage Barbies, according to Barbie expert Rebecca Chulew, who has been featured such shows as “Collector’s Call,” “Toy Hunter” and “My Crazy Obsession.”
“Many vintage Barbies were produced by the millions and are easy to find,” said Chulew, who has sold over 10,000 Barbies on eBay and Macari over the years. “Everybody thinks they have a valuable Barbie. The truth is, the majority aren’t.”
Certain vintage Barbie dolls, meanwhile, might still be worth a pretty penny, but their value really isn’t tied to the movie, according to Chulew.
“The doll now is kind of holding steady,” she said. “It has a good value, but I don’t see it going up or down a lot.”
The most valuable Barbies, she said, continue to be the very first series of dolls ever produced in 1959. Specifically, the No. 1 or No. 2 Ponytail Barbies, which can fetch anywhere from $4,000 to $8,000 per doll, depending on condition, the inclusion of the original box, and — perhaps more importantly — the hair color.
“They made three blondes for every brunette,” said Chulew, who noted that brunette Ponytail Barbies from 1959 can sell for up to $6,000, even out of the box.
Chulew further said that sealed or boxed dolls don’t matter as much to many Barbie collectors, seeing as the early opaque boxes were more akin to “shoeboxes” and didn’t showcase the dolls. (“There’s a lot of [online] box sales going on” for folks who want just the packaging, she said.)
Another coveted doll is the Side-Part American Girl Barbie produced in the mid-‘60s, which can go for “about $3,000” (and reportedly once sold for almost double), according to the expert.
Collectors also tend to prize “Twist ‘n Turn” Stacey dolls (not to be confused with Stacie dolls) from the late ‘60s, as well as “Steffie-face” Barbies (i.e., a type of doll using a certain face mold) introduced a few years later. Both can sell for hundreds to the right collectors.
Other valuable dolls include rarer Barbies that weren’t widely produced — like the brunette mentioned above — and, specifically, Black Barbies. According to Chulew, first- and second-issue Francie dolls from 1967-1969 are tough to find, while Alpha Kappa Alpha Barbies (which commemorated the historically African American sorority) can go for up to around $1,000.
And then, there’s Allan.
Allan dolls — including the original from 1964, the bendable-leg version from 1965 and the Wedding Day Allan doll from 1990 — have seen a “slight increase [in value] due to the movie,” said Chulew, adding that sellers might be able to get a few hundred for each one.
The rest of the Barbie line, and even vintage dolls that were mentioned in the movie, are likely worth no more than they were last year.
“I think what you’re going to see in the next 30 to 60 days are a lot of people selling their childhood dolls. And a lot of them aren’t going to be valuable,” Chulew said. “A few rarities might be unearthed, but it might cause stagnation in the market. It’s going to be tough for collectors to sort through all the barbies being advertised as ‘rare’ when they’re not.”
Barbie collectors, on the other hand, might be busy scooping up other “Barbie”-movie merchandise to complete their collections or prepare for any future scarcity. For example, the collectible “Barbie” popcorn buckets from AMC are very “hot” right now, Chulew said, and certain dolls from Mattel’s latest line of movie-inspired figures are becoming hard to find, even if they’re still selling at retail prices.
“But they don’t appear to have made the Allan doll from the movie,” she lamented, “which may be a mistake on their part.” | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/your-vintage-barbie-dolls-might-be-worth-a-pretty-penny-if-you-have-the-right-ones/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:20 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/your-vintage-barbie-dolls-might-be-worth-a-pretty-penny-if-you-have-the-right-ones/ |
LOMPOC, Calif., July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation this week thanked the Senate Interior Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2024 funding package that can improve the management of America's wild horses and burros.
A national nonprofit advocacy organization, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to press the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the immediate scaling up of safe, proven and humane fertility control for wild horses and burros as well as with a diverse array of public lands stakeholders to create broader acceptance of fertility control use.
If implemented correctly and robustly, fertility control would slow (not stop) the growth of wild herds, keeping them on their home ranges rather than relying on the costly and traumatic capture, removal and warehousing of wild horses and burros.
"We are grateful to the Senate for again supporting protections for wild horses by taking the vitally important step of directing — in clear language — that the Bureau of Land Management implement thoughtful management that results in the kinds of humane approaches for which Return to Freedom has tirelessly advocated," said Neda DeMayo, president of RTF.
The Senate Committee's guiding report language calls for $11 million "to be spent to continue implementation of a robust and humane fertility control strategy of reversible immunocontraceptive vaccines."
The Senate Committee's report emphasized that it "expects" the BLM to place "specific attention on:"
- "increasing the use of fertility control, including measurable objectives in reducing population growth with fertility controls,
- "targeting removals from the most heavily ecologically impacted and populated areas,
- "expanding long-term, off-range humane holding, and continuing adoptions while fully implementing and enforcing existing safeguards."
The Senate Committee on Thursday approved a total of $148 million for wild horse and burro management for 2024. Congress allocated the same amount in 2023.
By comparison, the House Interior Appropriations Committee on June 19 approved $155 million for wild horse management in 2024.
The House Committee's report language also sets aside $11 million for fertility control; however, it does not specify using the funding solely for immediate on-range implementation. The House also allows the money to be used for research, including on permanent sterilization, which RTF strongly opposes.
The Senate and House must now reconcile their differences.
RTF is calling on the House and Senate conferees to adopt the House's funding level alongside the Senate's guiding report language. RTF will continue to advocate for stricter wild horse and burro protections and for greater funding until the final bill is approved later this year.
Background
As it has for decades, the BLM continues to emphasize capture-and-removal, putting off fertility control use while also failing to reach the agency's own wild horse population targets. In FY 2022, for example, 20,193 wild horses and burros were removed from their home ranges while just 1,622 mares were treated and released with some form of fertility control.
Out of the BLM-estimated 141,000 federally protected wild horses and burros that the agency is charged with overseeing, 58,000 now live not on the range but in overcrowded government corrals or on leased pastures.
The cost to taxpayers of continued off-range holding of captured wild horses has climbed to more than $83 million annually. That has left little funding for prioritizing range management, restoration, personnel and administration, let alone fertility control.
Population modeling by RTF and other stakeholders has shown that immediately implementing fertility control alongside any removal that BLM conducts is the only way to catch up with and stabilize herd growth so that on-range management can replace removals.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to wild horse preservation through sanctuary, education, conservation, and advocacy since 1998. It also operates the American Wild Horse Sanctuary at three California locations, caring for more than 450 wild horses and burros managing the population with fertility control since 1999. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates about wild horses and burros on the range and at our sanctuary.
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MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — AppHarvest, a Kentucky-based indoor farming company that was backed by Martha Stewart when it began shipping tomatoes in early 2021, has filed for bankruptcy, officials announced on Monday.
The Chapter 11 filing on Sunday came following several months of financial difficulties, including the potential foreclosure of its greenhouse in Richmond and concerns about cash flow, news outlets reported. In addition, AppHarvest Founder Jonathan Webb was replaced earlier this month as chief executive officer and chairman of the board.
The company said in a statement that it is looking to restructure while business operations continue at its four farms.
“The AppHarvest board of directors and executive leadership evaluated several strategic alternatives to maximize value for all stakeholders prior to the Chapter 11 filing,” said AppHarvest CEO Tony Martin. “The Chapter 11 filing provides protection while we work to transition operation of our strategic plan, Project New Leaf, which has shown strong progress toward operational efficiencies resulting in higher sales, cost savings and product quality.”
The company had over $609 million in assets and over $341 million in debts at the end of March, according to filings in bankruptcy court.
The Morehead-based company, one of many players in the fast-growing field of indoor farming, began shipping beefsteak tomatoes to Kroger, Walmart, Publix and other grocers in early 2021. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/kentucky/kentucky-indoor-farming-company-backed-by-martha-stewart-files-for-bankruptcy/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:21 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/kentucky/kentucky-indoor-farming-company-backed-by-martha-stewart-files-for-bankruptcy/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Yet another new, unsafe trend is catching attention.
This time, some TikTok users are encouraging viewers to add borax to their water, claiming the common cleaning product can help reduce inflammation and joint pain, or even “detoxify” the body. As you may have guessed, health officials are warning of the consequences the trend could have on your health.
Borax, or sodium tetraborate decahydrate, is a chemical compound commonly available in the form of a white crystalline powder. It’s been utilized in a variety of ways since the Middle Ages, and today is often used a laundry detergent, kitchen/bathroom cleaner, and even a bug and weed killer.
Boric acid has also been found to have bacteriostatic properties, meaning it can prevent the growth of bacteria, Dr. S. Ruddy Rose, director of VCU Health’s Virginia Poison Center, told Nexstar.
Despite its endless safe uses, however, borax is not approved for ingestion by humans.
Ingesting borax can cause people to become quite sick, according to Dr. Rose, leading to convulsions, problems with the gastrointestinal tract, heat burns, and even kidney damage.
“This happens pretty quickly,” he adds.
Even the company behind 20 Mule Team Borax, a popular borax product, has warned against participating in the TikTok trend.
“20 Mule Team Borax has many uses but ingesting is not one of them,” the company warned on July 25.
“Do not bathe in, apply to skin, or ingest Borax, including drinking it diluted in water,” the company continued. “It is not intended for use as a personal care product or dietary supplement.”
Should your child fall victim to the trend, Dr. Rose said you can follow up with the child’s pediatrician, as long as they don’t have any symptoms. But if your child is vomiting, has abdominal pain, or experiences a seizure or other serious symptoms, it’s best to seek emergency medical attention.
Several videos recommending borax have been removed from TikTok, according to NBC News.
Social-media users, meanwhile, should always be cautious about taking medical advice from influencers or TikTok personalities.
“Just beware of these types of activities,” Dr. Rose said. “The people promoting it may not be doing it for the right reason.”
Borax uses
There are plenty of non-dangerous ways to use borax that you may not be aware of.
- It can unclog drains. As recommended by Southern Living, 1/2 cup of borax and two cups of boiling water down a clogged drain should clear it right out. Let the solution sit for 15 mins before flushing with warm water.
- It’s a pest deterrent/killer. Borax is a desiccant, which means it sucks up moisture. In this way, borax can be useful to sprinkle in places where bugs might ordinarily populate. The powder will keep the area dry and make it less optimal for insects to make home. Meanwhile, if bugs are already in your home, it’s not too late. The Spruce explains that insects, like cockroaches and ants, become “dried out” from the inside and die after eating the powder.
- It can help grow your fruit trees. Bob Vila recommends adding borax to the soil around your tree to help keep the plant’s pH levels desirable for growth.
- It’s in ingredient in “slime.” If your kids love making and playing with slime, Taste of Home has a recipe for using borax to make the stretchy, gooey stuff. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:25 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ |
NEW YORK, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Tingo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TIO) between December 1, 2022 and June 6, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Tingo securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Tingo class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16856 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 7, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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(NEXSTAR) – The astounding critical and commercial reception of the new “Barbie” movie has catapulted all-things-Barbie back to the forefront of pop culture.
Even Allan!
Mattel’s Allan dolls — first introduced in the earlier half of the ‘60s as a “buddy” for Ken dolls — are currently experiencing increased demand among collectors and Barbie fans, with early specimens selling for upwards of $200 on eBay over the last several days.
The value of Allan dolls has increased, no doubt, due to Allan’s inclusion in the film. But that’s about the only effect the movie has had on the price of vintage Barbies, according to Barbie expert Rebecca Chulew, who has been featured such shows as “Collector’s Call,” “Toy Hunter” and “My Crazy Obsession.”
“Many vintage Barbies were produced by the millions and are easy to find,” said Chulew, who has sold over 10,000 Barbies on eBay and Macari over the years. “Everybody thinks they have a valuable Barbie. The truth is, the majority aren’t.”
Certain vintage Barbie dolls, meanwhile, might still be worth a pretty penny, but their value really isn’t tied to the movie, according to Chulew.
“The doll now is kind of holding steady,” she said. “It has a good value, but I don’t see it going up or down a lot.”
The most valuable Barbies, she said, continue to be the very first series of dolls ever produced in 1959. Specifically, the No. 1 or No. 2 Ponytail Barbies, which can fetch anywhere from $4,000 to $8,000 per doll, depending on condition, the inclusion of the original box, and — perhaps more importantly — the hair color.
“They made three blondes for every brunette,” said Chulew, who noted that brunette Ponytail Barbies from 1959 can sell for up to $6,000, even out of the box.
Chulew further said that sealed or boxed dolls don’t matter as much to many Barbie collectors, seeing as the early opaque boxes were more akin to “shoeboxes” and didn’t showcase the dolls. (“There’s a lot of [online] box sales going on” for folks who want just the packaging, she said.)
Another coveted doll is the Side-Part American Girl Barbie produced in the mid-‘60s, which can go for “about $3,000” (and reportedly once sold for almost double), according to the expert.
Collectors also tend to prize “Twist ‘n Turn” Stacey dolls (not to be confused with Stacie dolls) from the late ‘60s, as well as “Steffie-face” Barbies (i.e., a type of doll using a certain face mold) introduced a few years later. Both can sell for hundreds to the right collectors.
Other valuable dolls include rarer Barbies that weren’t widely produced — like the brunette mentioned above — and, specifically, Black Barbies. According to Chulew, first- and second-issue Francie dolls from 1967-1969 are tough to find, while Alpha Kappa Alpha Barbies (which commemorated the historically African American sorority) can go for up to around $1,000.
And then, there’s Allan.
Allan dolls — including the original from 1964, the bendable-leg version from 1965 and the Wedding Day Allan doll from 1990 — have seen a “slight increase [in value] due to the movie,” said Chulew, adding that sellers might be able to get a few hundred for each one.
The rest of the Barbie line, and even vintage dolls that were mentioned in the movie, are likely worth no more than they were last year.
“I think what you’re going to see in the next 30 to 60 days are a lot of people selling their childhood dolls. And a lot of them aren’t going to be valuable,” Chulew said. “A few rarities might be unearthed, but it might cause stagnation in the market. It’s going to be tough for collectors to sort through all the barbies being advertised as ‘rare’ when they’re not.”
Barbie collectors, on the other hand, might be busy scooping up other “Barbie”-movie merchandise to complete their collections or prepare for any future scarcity. For example, the collectible “Barbie” popcorn buckets from AMC are very “hot” right now, Chulew said, and certain dolls from Mattel’s latest line of movie-inspired figures are becoming hard to find, even if they’re still selling at retail prices.
“But they don’t appear to have made the Allan doll from the movie,” she lamented, “which may be a mistake on their part.” | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/your-vintage-barbie-dolls-might-be-worth-a-pretty-penny-if-you-have-the-right-ones/ | 2023-07-29T20:05:31 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/your-vintage-barbie-dolls-might-be-worth-a-pretty-penny-if-you-have-the-right-ones/ |
‘I’m still in shock’: Woman wins lottery jackpot while taking break from work
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A North Carolina woman won a triple-digit jackpot thanks to purchasing a lucky scratch-off ticket.
According to the North Carolina Educational Lottery, Jodi Owens won a $100,000 prize by putting her break time to good use and buying a lottery ticket.
Officials said Owens, a retired nurse practitioner, took a break from doing some work around her house and stopped at a Civietown Mini Mart in Shallotte. She picked up a few items including a Black Titanium scratch-off.
She returned home to scratch her winning ticket.
“I’m still in shock,” Owens said. “It’s truly a blessing.”
Owens claimed her prize on Friday and took home $71,259 after taxes.
“I’m going to pay my mortgage off and pay my car off,” she said. “I’m thinking about getting a manicure and pedicure too!”
Lottery officials said the Black Titanium scratch-off game just launched last month and is available for $30.
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Plane crashes into Lake Winnebago - fate of occupants unknown
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - On Saturday, July 29, 2023, at around 9:06 a.m. the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center began receiving multiple 911 calls about an airplane that had crashed into Lake Winnebago. First reports from the US Coast Guard indicate that it was a T-6 Texan aircraft.
The Winnebago County Marine Units with Dive Rescue/Recovery Team members, along with the Oshkosh Fire Department, Winneconne Fire Department, Neenah Menasha Fire Rescue, Calumet County Sheriff’s Office, Wisconsin DNR, US Coast Guard, and the US Coast Guard Auxiliary all responded to the scene to immediately begin an emergency rescue response.
The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that there were 2 total occupants aboard the plane and that recovery efforts for the occupants and also the plane are ongoing. They are working closely with EAA, the NTSB, and the FAA.
The US Coast Guard also confirmed seeing an oil slick and debris floating in the water.
Please continue to avoid the area of Asylum Bay Boat Launch so that recovery efforts may continue safely.
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Reports of crash at EAA
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:01 PM CDT|Updated: 5 minutes ago
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - Crews are responding to a reported collision between two aircraft on the EAA AirVenture grounds. Eyewitnesses tell our executive producer on the scene they saw two ultralight aircraft collide before landing on top of a parked airplane. This is still an active scene and Action 2 News is working to learn more on this developing story.
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An investigation is underway after a man was found shot to death Saturday morning in Dale County.
Ozark-Dale County E911 received a call about 9:15 a.m. of an unresponsive man in the 5500 block of County Road 33 in the Skipperville community, said Sheriff Mason Bynum.
When deputies arrived, they found 27-year-old Demarcus “Sam” McKenzie II, of Skipperville, dead on the scene from a gunshot wound.
McKenzie’s body is being taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy.
Sheriff’s investigators, along with Ozark police and crime scene technicians, are processing the scene. Bynum said ALEA’s State Bureau of Investigation agents are also en route to assist.
The sheriff said they do have some “persons of interest” who are being interviewed.
Authorities are asking that anyone who was travelling in the area south of Highway 105 on County Road 33 and saw anything suspicious Saturday morning to call investigators at 334-774-5111. Tipsters can also remain anonymous by leaving a tip on the sheriff’s website at www.daleso.com. | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/27-year-old-found-shot-to-death-in-dale-county.html | 2023-07-29T20:08:23 | 1 | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/27-year-old-found-shot-to-death-in-dale-county.html |
‘I’m still in shock’: Woman wins lottery jackpot while taking break from work
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A North Carolina woman won a triple-digit jackpot thanks to purchasing a lucky scratch-off ticket.
According to the North Carolina Educational Lottery, Jodi Owens won a $100,000 prize by putting her break time to good use and buying a lottery ticket.
Officials said Owens, a retired nurse practitioner, took a break from doing some work around her house and stopped at a Civietown Mini Mart in Shallotte. She picked up a few items including a Black Titanium scratch-off.
She returned home to scratch her winning ticket.
“I’m still in shock,” Owens said. “It’s truly a blessing.”
Owens claimed her prize on Friday and took home $71,259 after taxes.
“I’m going to pay my mortgage off and pay my car off,” she said. “I’m thinking about getting a manicure and pedicure too!”
Lottery officials said the Black Titanium scratch-off game just launched last month and is available for $30.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is hunting for malicious computer code it believes China has hidden deep inside the networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases in the United States and around the world, according to U.S. military, intelligence and national security officials.
The discovery of the malware has raised fears that Chinese hackers, probably working for the People’s Liberation Army, have inserted code designed to disrupt U.S. military operations in the event of a conflict, including if Beijing moves against Taiwan in coming years.
The malware, one congressional official said, was essentially “a ticking time bomb” that could give China the power to interrupt or slow U.S. military deployments or resupply operations by cutting off power, water and communications to military bases. But its impact could be far broader, because that same infrastructure often supplies the houses and businesses of ordinary Americans, according to U.S. officials.
The first public hints of the malware campaign began to emerge in late May, when Microsoft said it had detected mysterious computer code in telecommunications systems in Guam, the Pacific island with a vast American air base, and elsewhere in the United States.
More than a dozen U.S. officials and industry experts said in interviews over the past two months that the Chinese effort predated the May report by at least a year, and that the U.S. government’s effort to hunt down the code, and eradicate it, has been underway for some time. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential and in some cases classified assessments.
They say the Chinese effort appears more widespread — in the United States and at American facilities abroad — than they had initially realized. But officials acknowledge that they do not know the full extent of the code’s presence in networks around the world.
The discovery of the malware has touched off a series of Situation Room meetings in the White House in recent months, as senior officials from the National Security Council, the Pentagon, the Homeland Security Department and the nation’s spy agencies attempt to understand the scope of the problem and plot a response.
Biden administration officials have begun to brief members of Congress, some state governors and utility companies about the findings, and confirmed some conclusions about the operation in interviews with The New York Times.
There is a debate inside the administration over whether the goal of the operation is primarily aimed at disrupting the military, or at civilian life more broadly in the event of a conflict. But officials say that the initial searches for the code have focused first on areas with a high concentration of U.S. military bases.
In response to questions from the Times, the White House issued a statement Friday night that made no reference to China or the military bases.
“The Biden administration is working relentlessly to defend the United States from any disruptions to our critical infrastructure, including by coordinating interagency efforts to protect water systems, pipelines, rail and aviation systems, among others,” said Adam Hodge, acting spokesperson for the National Security Council.
The U.S. government and Microsoft have attributed the recent malware attack to Chinese state-sponsored actors, but the government has not disclosed why it reached that conclusion. There is debate among different arms of the U.S. government about the intent of the intrusions, but not about their source.
The public revelation of the malware operation comes at an especially fraught moment in relations between Washington and Beijing, with clashes that include Chinese threats against Taiwan as well as U.S. efforts to ban the sale of highly sophisticated semiconductors to the Chinese government.
The discovery of the code in American infrastructure, one of President Joe Biden’s most senior advisers said, “raises the question of what, exactly, they are preparing for — or whether this is signaling.”
If gaining advantage in a Taiwan confrontation is at the heart of China’s intent, tabletop exercises conducted by the government, think tanks and other outside experts suggest time is of the essence. Slowing down U.S. military deployments by a few days or weeks might give China a window in which it would have an easier time taking control of the island by force.
Chinese officials did not respond to requests for comment concerning the American discovery of the code. But they have repeatedly denied conducting surveillance or other cyberoperations against the United States.
They have never conceded that China was behind the theft of security clearance files of roughly 22 million Americans — including 6 million sets of fingerprints — from the Office of Personnel Management during the Obama administration. That exfiltration resulted in an agreement between President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping that resulted in a brief decline in malicious Chinese cyberactivity. The agreement has since collapsed.
Now, Chinese cyberoperations seem to have taken a turn. The latest intrusions are different from those in the past because disruption, not surveillance, appears to be the objective, U.S. officials say. At the Aspen Security Forum last week, Rob Joyce, director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency, said China’s recent hack targeting the U.S. ambassador to Beijing, Nicholas Burns, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was traditional espionage. But he said the intrusions in Guam were “really disturbing” because of their disruptive potential.
The Chinese code, the officials say, appears directed at ordinary utilities that serve both civilian populations and nearby military bases. Only U.S. nuclear sites have self-contained communication systems, electricity and water pipelines. (The code has not been found in classified systems. Officials declined to describe the unclassified military networks in which the code has been found.)
While the most sensitive planning is carried out on classified networks, the military routinely uses unclassified, but secure, networks for basic communications, personnel matters, logistics and supply issues.
Officials say that if the malware is activated, it is not clear how effective it would be at slowing an American response — and that the Chinese government may not know, either. In interviews, officials said they believe that in many cases the communications, computer networks and power grids could be quickly restored in a matter of days.
But intelligence analysts have concluded that China may believe there is utility in any disruptive attack that could slow down the U.S. response.
The first hints of the new campaign by China came in May, when experts at Microsoft released some details of the malware found in Guam — home to major U.S. Air Force and Marine bases — and elsewhere in the United States. The company attributed the intrusion to a Chinese state-sponsored hacker the experts called Volt Typhoon.
A warning from the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the NSA and others issued the same day said the state-sponsored hacker was able to avoid detection by blending its attack in with normal computer activity but did not outline other details of the threat.
Officials briefly considered whether to leave the malware in place, quietly monitor the code they had found and prepare plans to try to neutralize it if it was even activated. Monitoring the intrusions would allow them to learn more about it, and possibly lull the Chinese hackers into a false sense that their penetration had not been exposed.
But senior White House officials quickly rejected that option and said that given the potential threat, the prudent path was to excise the offending malware as quickly as it could be found.
Still, there are risks. U.S. cybersecurity experts are able to remove some of the malware, but some officials said there are concerns that the Chinese could use similar techniques to quickly regain access.
Removing the Volt Typhoon malware also runs the risk of tipping off China’s increasingly talented hacking forces about what intrusions the United States is able to find, and what it is missing. If that happens, China could improve its techniques and be able to reinfect military systems with even harder-to-find software. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/u-s-hunts-chinese-malware-that-could-disrupt-military-operations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-29T20:08:45 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/u-s-hunts-chinese-malware-that-could-disrupt-military-operations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. (AP) — A small plane towing a banner landed in the ocean off a crowded New Hampshire beach on Saturday, and lifeguards rescued the pilot, who was unhurt, authorities said.
The single-engine Piper PA-18 plane landed about noon off Hampton Beach, witnesses said. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the pilot was the only person on board.
Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno told WMUR-TV that the pilot was rescued by lifeguards, and wasn’t hurt.
The plane has since been pulled to shore and was sitting on the beach.
The FAA said it would investigate the cause of the incident, along with the National Transportation Safety Board.
The Hampton Police Department and the New Hampshire Beach Patrol did not immediately respond to messages for comment. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-small-plane-towing-a-banner-lands-in-the-ocean-off-a-crowded-new-hampshire-beach-pilot-unhurt/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-29T20:08:46 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-small-plane-towing-a-banner-lands-in-the-ocean-off-a-crowded-new-hampshire-beach-pilot-unhurt/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Dozens of bullets were fired at a community outreach event late Friday in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood, injuring five people, two of whom were critically wounded, according to police.
A pop-up event to provide food and services in the South Seattle neighborhood was underway when the shots were fired, Police Chief Adrian Diaz said at a news conference at about 10:30 p.m.
“Honestly, this is really disturbing,” Diaz said, “when you have victims that were really just trying to do an outreach effort, trying to help people … get people on the right path — and this is what they end up getting hit with.”
Investigators believe there were at least two shooters, but no suspect description has been released.
Here’s what to know about know about the shooting.
What happened
The shooting started just before 8 p.m. in the 9200 block of Rainier Avenue South in a parking lot where the event is held every Friday, near what was once a King Donut shop.
“Dozens and dozens” of bullets were fired, said Diaz, who responded to the scene Friday, as did Mayor Bruce Harrell.
A 24-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man were taken to Harborview Medical center in critical condition. They were in satisfactory condition Saturday morning, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Two other men in their 20s were treated at the hospital. One was discharged and the other was expected to be released Saturday. A fifth victim, a man in his 30s, according to police, was treated at the shooting scene.
Diaz said it was not immediately known if the victims were targeted or what unfolded before the shots were fired.
Who are the suspects?
No suspects have been identified as of Saturday morning.
The shooting is being investigated by SPD’s Gun Violence Reduction Unit.
Police are asking anyone with information to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
What was the event?
Shantel Patu, executive director of Urban Family, a group that focuses on youth programs, neighborhood safety and family support, said the Friday event often gives away food, toys and clothes to the community.
Patu came to the scene after her group was contacted Friday to aid police in their investigation by managing the crowd and helping people affected by the shooting.
With shootings occurring so often in Seattle, it’s time for the community to do more and for parents to look inside their homes, at what their kids are doing and what they’re going through, she said.
“This act of gun violence at an outreach event meant to be a safe place for South Seattle neighbors is appalling and unacceptable,” said Harrell in a statement posted Saturday on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter. “There are too many guns in hands where they do not belong, and we can never accept this violence as a normal fact of life.”
Recent shootings
Two weeks ago, three men in their 20s were shot a few blocks away from Friday’s shooting scene, in the 9000 block of Seward Park Avenue South. No arrests have been made in that shooting.
Last weekend, two men and two women were shot early Sunday during a street racing event on Capitol Hill, near Broadway and East Pike Street.
One of the women, 20, died at Harborview Medical Center, according to police. The woman’s family identified her in an online crowdfunding campaign as Essence Naje Greene.
No suspects have been identified in either of the shootings.
With an alarming uptick in gun violence in the lead-up to summer, the Seattle Police Department in June created a community violence task force of officers and detectives pulled from units across the agency who will target people responsible for the shootings.
The task force, composed of about 50 officers, is focusing efforts on four areas where violence is widespread: Aurora Avenue, downtown, the Central District and the city’s South End.
Seattle police investigated 55 homicides in 2022, up from 41 the previous year. Fifty-four people were killed in Seattle homicides in 2020, 20 more than in 2019.
Seattle Times staff reporter Daisy Zavala Magaña contributed to this story. Material from The Seattle Times archives was used in this reporting. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/what-we-know-about-the-seattle-mass-shooting-at-a-community-event/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-29T20:08:48 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/what-we-know-about-the-seattle-mass-shooting-at-a-community-event/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
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Do Oregon and Washington need to give consideration to joining the Big 12? It has been well documented that both schools covet the Big Ten. But the opportunity may not exist today, and they could always join at a later date if/when the opportunity arises. — Andrew Perez
The Hotline doesn’t foresee the Pacific Northwest powers ever joining the Big 12, no matter how dire the Pac-12 situation becomes — even if, for example, the Arizona schools and Utah were to follow Colorado’s lead and flee the conference.
It works both ways: The Big 12 isn’t a good fit for them, and they aren’t good fits for the Big 12.
The reasons are rooted in the financial, logistical and competitive aspects of realignment and conference structure.
First, from the Big 12’s side: Adding Washington and Oregon to a group of newcomers that would include the Four Corners schools would create an 18-team conference — bigger than the Big Ten and SEC and, frankly, too big to function effectively.
To make it work, the Big 12 would need a western division similar to what has been proposed for the Big Ten. But why would the network partners (ESPN and Fox) want a western division that did not include a presence in California? They wouldn’t.
There’s also the competitive issue: Would the likes of Oklahoma State and Baylor welcome two heavyweight football programs that would make playoff access exponentially more difficult for the existing Big 12 members?
From the perspective of the two schools, there are innumerable reasons to decline the Big 12 option. The first, of course, is geography. Can you imagine Washington sending its athletes (in all sports) to Ames, Orlando, Cincinnati and Lubbock on a weekly basis?
Sure, the Huskies would agree to compete on Big Ten campuses if the offer presented itself, but that scenario likely would include transformative revenue and alignment with comparable academic institutions.
In the Big 12 scenario, Washington’s non-revenue sports would be schlepping to and from the Central Time Zone for essentially the same amount of money they would get in the Pac-12. And even if the revenue isn’t fully comparable, the travel isn’t worthwhile. (The same issues exist for the Ducks.)
Yes, USC and UCLA are doing something similar in the Big Ten. But again, they are getting paid well for it.
The competitive issue exists for Oregon to an even greater extent, perhaps, than it does for the Huskies. Why would a football program that has designs on the playoff, and a national title for Phil Knight, want to participate in an 18-team league?
All of which is to say: We don’t envision the Huskies and Ducks participating in the Big 12, ever.
If the Pac-12 loses the Four Corners schools, leaving just the Pacific Northwest quartet and the Bay Area teams, two scenarios would exist:
- The conference reforms by adding the likes of Boise State and San Diego State to create a league of eight or 10 teams.
- The Huskies, Ducks and perhaps Cal and Stanford agree to join the Big Ten, likely for reduced revenue shares, thus expediting the creation of the Big Ten’s eight-team western division (with the Los Angeles schools).
The latter scenario feels more plausible and yet, at the same time, not all that plausible.
Was it the 10 university presidents or Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff who decided to demand “north of $40 million” per school per year (and perhaps as much as $50 million) during the contract negotiations with ESPN last fall, if the believable rumors are true? — @Jalex0077
Kliavkoff and his media adviser, Doug Perlman, are in charge of the negotiations — they determined whatever price point was placed on the negotiating table last fall. And yes, we have been told the starting number was in the $40 million vicinity.
What we don’t know is the role UCLA played in the process: Did the conference seek something on the high side of $40 million only in the event the Bruins were forced to reverse course? Or was that figure the target even without the Bruins?
Either way, Kliavkoff’s strategy was to draft off the Big Ten’s negotiated figure of more than $60 million per school per year. Our sources in the media industry were skeptical of the approach and suggested ESPN would be, as well. However, it’s difficult to know what price point would have been acceptable to Oregon and Washington, for instance.
Then the Big 12, desperate for security, renewed its agreement with ESPN and Fox at $31.7 million per school per year. Suddenly, a floor was set for the Pac-12.
Will Kliavkoff secure a valuation that places the Pac-12 on the same level? We should know soon enough: He needs to lock in a proposal in the next few weeks.
Which is the next school to leave the Pac 12: Arizona, Oregon or Washington? — @LouisOliverio
Arizona is clearly the Big 12’s next target. The Wildcats fit geographically and have the basketball brand the Big 12 covets in its 14th member. (Connecticut is also under consideration.)
Commissioner Brett Yormark’s strategy has been obvious (and smart) since last fall: Secure a media deal, then pursue the most receptive Pac-12 school, Colorado, in an attempt to destabilize the league and start a chain reaction.
Perhaps that reaction never materializes. Maybe it only extends to Arizona. Or maybe it leads to the Wildcats, Sun Devils and Utes all leaving for the Big 12.
The saga isn’t over. But to this point, he has completely outmaneuvered Kliavkoff.
As it relates to a potential Arizona defection, would the fact that Arizona and Arizona State share a board of regents potentially complicate any decision to change conferences? — @AmbitiousCoug
This is one of the most significant questions hanging over the fate of the conference: To what extent are the Arizona schools tied together in conference affiliation?
The University of California’s regents didn’t insist that Cal and UCLA remain together, which could provide a model for the governing board in the Grand Canyon State.
We claim no insight on this matter, save for what Arizona president Robert Robbins said during a college athletics forum in June:
“We don’t have to do the same thing. But (ASU president Michael Crow) and I are very, very tight. I think it’d be unlikely that we’d be split up. Right now with 10 schools, we control a very nice 20 percent of solidarity.”
What are Stanford and Cal thinking right now? Certainly, they won’t accept academic lightweights to fill out the conference membership, but what choice do they have? Could they go independent, join the Ivy league or just drop football? — @troyboy8ball
Better question: Who is doing the thinking for the Bay Area schools?
Cal chancellor Carol Christ is retiring next year, and Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne is stepping down next month following an academic scandal.
The schools are staggering on the field, seemingly rudderless in their Ivory Towers and poorly positioned to make any demands, or set any academic requirements for expansion, within the Pac-12 boardroom.
(That’s a huge factor in the broader realignment game, by the way: The Pac-12 would be vastly better positioned to hold its ground if the schools in the nation’s sixth-largest media market were thriving on the field, as Cal did in the 2000s and Stanford did in the 2010s.)
The Cardinal and Bears cannot compete as Independents for financial and competitive reasons — only Notre Dame can thrive in that role — and the Ivy league isn’t an option. (Check back in 15-20 years on that, however.)
We believe their fate is tied to Oregon and Washington, either in the current Pac-12, in a reconfigured Pac-12 or in the Big Ten.
Is there a minimum number of teams the Pac-12 needs to remain eligible for an automatic berth in the College Football Playoff? — @jeffyrocket
Yes, and it’s not an issue.
The NCAA’s minimum requirement to be an officially recognized conference is six members. We asked the CFP about this months ago and were told its qualification process would follow the NCAA requirement.
So in theory, the Pac-12 could lose all the Four Corners schools, then add San Diego State and someone else to reach eight members, and still send its champion to the CFP (as long as it was one of the six highest-ranked conference winners).
That might be just fine with Oregon, which is all about the playoff. But there are obviously a slew of challenges with such an outcome.
What are the 2024 schedule ramifications with only nine schools? — @DmanKeyes
The Pac-12 plays nine conference games, which is, of course, unworkable with only nine schools. Best we can tell, the conference must add a 10th member by next summer.
That’s problematic because of San Diego State’s massive exit fee (approximately $34 million) for leaving the Mountain West with less than 12 months notice.
SMU’s escape route from the American conference is cheaper — probably $18 million, based on precedent — and that could push the Mustangs into the top spot on the Pac-12’s list of expansion candidates.
San Diego State has had much more football and men’s basketball success than Colorado, and you can argue it’s in a better market. Would a one-for-one swap be a net upgrade for the Pac-12? — @_alexwakefield
While the San Diego media market isn’t quite as large as Denver and the surrounding area, according to Nielsen, it’s close enough to be immaterial. And from a recruiting standpoint, SDSU’s location is substantially more important to the Pac-12.
Meanwhile, the Aztecs’ major sports have performed better than Colorado’s versions over the past decade.
So yes, that swap would constitute an upgrade on several fronts.
With Colorado’s departure, do you see the Pac-12 adding three schools? — @WHS1969
The bold play at this point would be to add multiple schools at reduced revenue shares — some combination of San Diego State, SMU and Gonzaga, for instance.
But anyone expecting bold action from the Pac-12 presidents is setting themselves up for disappointment.
The group talks about a strategic approach that anticipates “where the puck is going.” In reality, it’s unable to see the puck until the conference gets whacked in the mouth.
Do you feel that you have been misled by your sources inside the Pac-12?— @KenRhodes23
Not at all, and here’s the reason: To a significant extent, our coverage of the media rights process has leaned into 1) sources in the sports media industry who are unaffiliated with the conference, and 2) on-the-record comments by the university presidents.
That reliance on industry sources is precisely why the Hotline has viewed Pac-12 survival as no more than a 4-point favorite over extinction — that’s roughly equivalent to a 60 percent probability — throughout the spring and summer. (The line has been lowered to 2.5 points following Colorado’s departure, by the way.)
It’s why we have always described a media deal that satisfied the 10 schools as “the most likely outcome” and not as a given.
And it’s why we have written ad nauseam since January that time and risk move in lockstep: The longer Kliavkoff waited to secure a deal, the greater the risk of presidential panic or external forces leading to defections and possible implosion.
I won’t get into details about Hotline sources for obvious reasons. But hopefully, that explanation provides some context on our coverage.
How would you grade Kliavkoff’s performance to this point? — @miles_adkisson
The Hotline long ago committed to waiting out the media rights negotiations before rendering a verdict on Kliavkoff.
Yes, he was dealt a difficult hand by his predecessor, Larry Scott. But this is what he was hired to do. Construct a media deal. Find new sources of revenue. Put the conference in position to thrive.
(The Pac-12 presidents opted against hiring someone from inside college sports because they wanted an expert in media rights and revenue generation.)
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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid a coordinated effort to undermine No Labels' work to secure ballot access in states nationwide, we have named Jay Nixon – a lifelong Democrat who spent 30 years serving Missouri as a governor, attorney general and state senator – as director of our new Ballot Integrity Project.
Since early last year, No Labels has gathered over 700,000 signatures and qualified for the ballot in five states. We have a strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., with the aim of potentially offering our line to an independent Unity presidential ticket in 2024. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming desire of Americans for more choices and voices in our politics – with two-thirds of voters saying they don't want a rematch of the 2020 election – but we now face organized opposition from a group of political operatives and former elected officials intent on keeping us off the ballot.
"At a moment when so many Americans' are losing trust in our democracy, we need to hold even tighter to the pillars that have held our democracy up for almost 250 years. In our country, you win by persuading more people and getting more votes, not by limiting voters' choices and denying competitors a place on the ballot," said Nixon. "Americans have the constitutional right to put any person or party on the ballot and to vote for whomever they want. Anyone who is against that isn't standing up for democracy. They are standing in the way."
Former Gov. Larry Hogan will welcome Nixon to the No Labels community in his first scheduled public appearance at a town hall on Tuesday, August 1, at 5 p.m. ET. Register here to join the town hall.
In Nixon's decorated public service career, he established a stellar record as a champion for the civil and voting rights of Americans. In his new role with No Labels, Nixon will work closely with No Labels national co-chair and civil rights icon, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., to monitor legal developments, provide strategic counsel and serve as a public advocate for No Labels' ballot access efforts.
Since the start of its ballot access effort, No Labels has rigorously followed the letter and spirit of all applicable election laws. In recent months, however, it has become the target of an undemocratic campaign by organized and powerful partisan interests determined to keep No Labels off the ballot.
Local parties and partisan election officials have filed baseless lawsuits, invented spurious charges and delayed certification without justification in Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Now, a new well-resourced group, organized under the name "Citizens to Save our Republic," has embarked on an effort to pressure No Labels and its members to abandon our ballot access effort.
"No Labels is a movement dedicated to democracy, and democracy can't stop because the powers that be think it's 'dangerous' to have competition," said Chavis. "The way to unite this country and to restore Americans faith in our future is to have more democracy, not less. I'm eager to begin working side by side with former Gov. Nixon to protect Americans' most fundamental constitutional rights."
On July 18, No Labels launched its Common Sense policy booklet at an overflow town hall event at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., featuring Dr. Chavis, his fellow No Labels co-chairs former Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Joe Lieberman and special guests Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Jon Huntsman. It was the first of many town halls No Labels will host in the months ahead – with different leaders in different states – to spur a long overdue discussion about where America needs to go in 2024 and beyond.
By early 2024, No Labels will gauge the mood of the American public and their openness to an independent Unity ticket and will offer our ballot line to a ticket if and only if, such a ticket has a viable path to victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Since its founding in 2009, No Labels has spent 13 years working to give voice to America's commonsense majority. We are now getting ballot access in states across the country to ensure Americans have the choice to vote for a 2024 presidential ticket that features strong, effective, and honest leaders who will commit to working closely with both parties to find commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems. www.nolabels.org.
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LOMPOC, Calif., July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation this week thanked the Senate Interior Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2024 funding package that can improve the management of America's wild horses and burros.
A national nonprofit advocacy organization, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to press the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the immediate scaling up of safe, proven and humane fertility control for wild horses and burros as well as with a diverse array of public lands stakeholders to create broader acceptance of fertility control use.
If implemented correctly and robustly, fertility control would slow (not stop) the growth of wild herds, keeping them on their home ranges rather than relying on the costly and traumatic capture, removal and warehousing of wild horses and burros.
"We are grateful to the Senate for again supporting protections for wild horses by taking the vitally important step of directing — in clear language — that the Bureau of Land Management implement thoughtful management that results in the kinds of humane approaches for which Return to Freedom has tirelessly advocated," said Neda DeMayo, president of RTF.
The Senate Committee's guiding report language calls for $11 million "to be spent to continue implementation of a robust and humane fertility control strategy of reversible immunocontraceptive vaccines."
The Senate Committee's report emphasized that it "expects" the BLM to place "specific attention on:"
- "increasing the use of fertility control, including measurable objectives in reducing population growth with fertility controls,
- "targeting removals from the most heavily ecologically impacted and populated areas,
- "expanding long-term, off-range humane holding, and continuing adoptions while fully implementing and enforcing existing safeguards."
The Senate Committee on Thursday approved a total of $148 million for wild horse and burro management for 2024. Congress allocated the same amount in 2023.
By comparison, the House Interior Appropriations Committee on June 19 approved $155 million for wild horse management in 2024.
The House Committee's report language also sets aside $11 million for fertility control; however, it does not specify using the funding solely for immediate on-range implementation. The House also allows the money to be used for research, including on permanent sterilization, which RTF strongly opposes.
The Senate and House must now reconcile their differences.
RTF is calling on the House and Senate conferees to adopt the House's funding level alongside the Senate's guiding report language. RTF will continue to advocate for stricter wild horse and burro protections and for greater funding until the final bill is approved later this year.
Background
As it has for decades, the BLM continues to emphasize capture-and-removal, putting off fertility control use while also failing to reach the agency's own wild horse population targets. In FY 2022, for example, 20,193 wild horses and burros were removed from their home ranges while just 1,622 mares were treated and released with some form of fertility control.
Out of the BLM-estimated 141,000 federally protected wild horses and burros that the agency is charged with overseeing, 58,000 now live not on the range but in overcrowded government corrals or on leased pastures.
The cost to taxpayers of continued off-range holding of captured wild horses has climbed to more than $83 million annually. That has left little funding for prioritizing range management, restoration, personnel and administration, let alone fertility control.
Population modeling by RTF and other stakeholders has shown that immediately implementing fertility control alongside any removal that BLM conducts is the only way to catch up with and stabilize herd growth so that on-range management can replace removals.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to wild horse preservation through sanctuary, education, conservation, and advocacy since 1998. It also operates the American Wild Horse Sanctuary at three California locations, caring for more than 450 wild horses and burros managing the population with fertility control since 1999. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates about wild horses and burros on the range and at our sanctuary.
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
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How to Watch the Reds vs. Dodgers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Freddie Freeman and Will Benson will look to continue their recent offensive production when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds take the field at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, at 9:10 PM ET.
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Reds vs. Dodgers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 9:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue: Dodger Stadium
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Reds Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Reds rank 17th in Major League Baseball with 117 home runs.
- Fueled by 316 extra-base hits, Cincinnati ranks 12th in MLB with a .413 slugging percentage this season.
- The Reds' .252 batting average ranks 14th in the league this season.
- Cincinnati has scored 509 runs this season, which ranks eighth in MLB.
- The Reds have an OBP of .331 this season, which ranks eighth in MLB.
- The Reds rank 23rd with an average of nine strikeouts per game.
- Cincinnati strikes out 8.5 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 20th in MLB.
- Cincinnati pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.69 ERA this year, which ranks 25th in MLB.
- Reds pitchers have a 1.430 WHIP this season, fifth-worst in the majors.
Reds Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Reds will hand the ball to Luke Weaver (2-2) for his 18th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Sunday, when he threw four innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks, giving up three earned runs while allowing eight hits.
- In 17 starts this season, he's earned one quality start.
- Weaver has started 17 games this season, and he's lasted five or more innings eight times. He averages 4.7 innings per appearance.
- He has one appearance this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 17 chances this season.
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2023 Amundi Evian Championship Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 4
Celine Boutier is the current leader (-100) at the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship after three rounds of play.
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Amundi Evian Championship Fourth Round Information
- Start Time: 12:45 AM ET
- Venue: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par/Distance: Par 71/6,527 yards
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Celine Boutier
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 1st (-11)
- Odds to Win: -100
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Nasa Hataoka
- Tee Time: 6:25 AM ET
- Current Rank: 2nd (-8)
- Odds to Win: +400
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Minjee Lee
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +700
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Brooke Mackenzie Henderson
- Tee Time: 6:15 AM ET
- Current Rank: 3rd (-7)
- Odds to Win: +800
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Nelly Korda
- Tee Time: 6:05 AM ET
- Current Rank: 5th (-6)
- Odds to Win: +1200
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She never missed a beat and was lightning on her feet when the "Shake It Off" artist and her fans caused a "Swift Quake" in Seattle during her "Eras Tour" concerts.
According to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, two of Taylor Swift's concerts generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3-magnitude earthquake, asCNN originally reported.
The data was gathered from Swift's sold-out "Eras Tour" performances at Lumen Field on July 22 and 23, after Swift's fans, and possibly the sound system, shook the ground so hard that it recorded a maximum ground acceleration of roughly 0.011 meters per second squared, causing what is now being called a "Swift Quake."
Caplan-Auerbach, who’s a geology professor at Western Washington University, told CNN that this data compares to a 2011 NFL game, when the Seattle Seahawk fans went crazy over Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch's touchdown during a game against the New Orleans Saints and caused a seismic activity that was then named a "Beast Quake."
"I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals," Caplan-Auerbach told CNN. "If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical."
Caplan-Auerbach pointed out that even though there is only a 0.3 magnitude difference between the "Beast Quake" and the "Swift Quake," the Swifties are the MVPs for outperforming the Seahawks fans in terms of enthusiasm and excitement.
"The shaking was twice as strong as 'Beast Quake.' It absolutely doubled it," said Caplan-Auerbach, adding that the length of cheering played a big role in the data. "Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it."
After the concert, Swift tookto Instagram to thank her fans and said that "all the cheering, screaming, jumping, dancing, singing at the top of your lungs" made that one of her favorite weekends "ever."
Swift's Seattle concerts were played in front of a crowd of more than 144,000 fans over two nights, and they came towards the end of the U.S. leg of the "Eras Tour," according to the Seattle Times.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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Nearly two years after 10 people were crushed to death during the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival, no charges have been filed — even though some people, including event workers, expressed safety concerns.
Pinpointing “who exactly caused those deaths is not an easy question to answer,” said Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
“It’s a very difficult thing to say, unless you have some kind of clear evidence that somebody in charge, whose job it was to ensure safety and who should have known better, failed to take action,” she said.
A nearly 1,300-page report on the investigation into the tragedy released by Houston police Friday said contract worker Reece Wheeler told authorities that he saw a crush of people and warned an event organizer that people could die, shortly before rapper Travis Scott went onstage.
In the report, investigators wrote that Scott said he did see one person near the stage getting medical attention, but said that overall, the crowd seemed to enjoy the show. He said he did not see any signs of serious problems, nor did he hear anyone tell him to stop the show.
Hip-hop artist Drake, who also performed, told police it was difficult to see from the stage what was going on in the crowd and that he didn’t hear anyone call for the show to stop.
Despite no charges being filed, more than 500 lawsuits have been filed over the deaths and injuries at the concert, including many against concert promoter Live Nation and Scott. Some of those suits have since been settled.
Those who were killed ranged in age from 9 to 27, and all 10 people died due to compression asphyxia, according to medical examiners.
In June, a Texas grand jury declined to indict six people in the case, including Scott. Prosecutors said, then, that the circumstances of the deaths limited what charges they were able to present, eliminating potential counts such as murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Thompson said the sheer number of people involved in putting on the event, the large scale of it, and the high bar for proving criminal negligence or recklessness are challenges for prosecutors in cases like this.
“It goes back to, who knows what’s going on, is that being communicated?” she said. “Were they being told that people have died, and they still wanted the concert to go on? Or, were they being told that ‘Hey, some people are getting hurt, which might not be that unusual at an event like that?”
Assistant Harris County District Attorney Alycia Harvey said after the grand jury declined to issue indictments that prosecutors were left with only possible counts of endangering a child in connection with the deaths of the two youngest concertgoers, ages 9 and 14.
Scott’s lawyer, Kent Schaffer, has said that the performer was not responsible for the tragedy.
“He never encouraged people to do anything that resulted in other people being hurt,” Schaffer said.
Scott has previously said he was unaware of the deaths until after the show. He has since created what he called Project HEAL, a $5 million initiative that includes funding for an effort to address safety challenges for festivals and large-scale events.
The police report said Scott told investigators that around the time Drake came onstage he was told to end the show after the performance, but that no one told him of an emergency.
Following the tragedy, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott formed a task force to study concert safety, and to recommend crowd control and security measures during mass gathering.
The task force in April 2022 reported that people without tickets entered the outdoor festival area hours before the performances began, overwhelming staff and leading to a variety of injuries. It also concluded that the process for issuing permits for mass gatherings is inconsistent statewide.
The task force recommended creating a command center that is authorized to pause or cancel a show in response to safety concerns.
“Sometimes, sadly, industries learn safety practices following disasters,” said Thompson, the law professor. “The standards for live concerts like this, I would imagine, are going to change.”
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Miller reported from Oklahoma City, Willingham reported from Charleston, West Virginia. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-10-people-died-at-the-astroworld-music-festival-two-years-ago-what-happens-now/ | 2023-07-29T20:09:32 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-10-people-died-at-the-astroworld-music-festival-two-years-ago-what-happens-now/ |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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(The Hill) – A majority of Americans believe former President Trump has done “something illegal” or “unethical,” according to a new poll.
The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll released Friday, found that 51% of Americans believe the former president has done “something illegal,” 27% said he’s done something “unethical,” but “not illegal,” and 19% said he’s done “nothing wrong.”
The results of the new poll come just one day after the Department of Justice (DOJ) levied new charges against Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case for attempting to delete surveillance footage. The superseding indictment brings the total number of counts facing the former president in the classified documents case to 40.
The poll, however, was conducted before the new charges against Trump were announced.
The survey also found that the percentage of Democrats who think Trump has done “something illegal” has increased — up from 78% in June to 84%. The number of independents that believe the same also increased from 50% to 52% in the same period, according to the poll.
The number of Republicans that believe Trump’s actions are “illegal,” however, has remained steady at around 13%. But, as the poll notes, there was a dip the number of Republicans that believe Trump has done “nothing wrong” — going from 50% to 41% since June.
DOJ special counsel Jack Smith has been investigating Trump and his allies’ efforts to upend the 2020 election. The former president also faces another indictment from New York district attorney Alvin Bragg for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection to a 2016 hush money payment.
The survey of 1,285 respondents was conducted from July 25-27, with a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/majority-of-americans-believe-trump-has-done-something-illegal-poll/ | 2023-07-29T20:09:32 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/majority-of-americans-believe-trump-has-done-something-illegal-poll/ |
Recent bird sightings as reported to the Mass Audubon:
The unequivocal rarity of last week was the continued presence of a mountain plover on Long Beach in Centerville that was enjoyed and photographed by many admirers for most of the week.
Cape Cod: The mountain plover on Long Beach in Centerville has been seen by dozens since its discovery on July 21. Other sightings include single black skimmers at Race Point in Provincetown and Great Sippewisett Marsh in Falmouth, a black-headed gull at Wing Island in Brewster, three blue grosbeaks at the Francis A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth, two long-billed dowitchers at Nauset Beach in Eastham, and a little blue heron at the Pogorelc Sanctuary in West Barnstable.
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Plymouth County: Five sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson, two upland sandpipers at the Plymouth Municipal Airport, a peregrine falcon at Duxbury Beach, a sora at Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield, three merlins at Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth, and an acadian flycatcher at Wompatuck State Park in Hingham.
Norfolk County: Three piping plovers at Sandy Beach in Cohasset, three ruddy ducks at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough, a clapper rail at the Squantum Marshes in Squantum and a yellow-crowned night-heron at Squantum Point Park. A sharp-shinned hawk was noted at Moose Hill Sanctuary in Sharon, and a Louisiana waterthrush was identified on the campus of the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham.
Middlesex County: Two yellow-crowned night-herons in Kearney Square in Lowell and another one at Costco Creek in Everett.
Essex County: Single royal terns at Crane Beach in Ipswich and Plum Island, where two yellow-crowned night-herons, a least bittern, a lesser black-backed gull, three long-billed dowitchers, and 26 stilt sandpipers were also seen, a black guillemot and a caspian tern at Crane Beach, a sandhill crane at Appleton Farm in Ipswich, and a yellow-crowned night-heron off Salem Street in Peabody.
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Berkshire County: A short-billed dowitcher in Sheffield, and single merlins in Pittsfield and Lenox.
Franklin County: Three sandhill cranes off Pleasant Street in Ashfield, and five semipalmated plovers on Christian Lane in Whately.
Hampshire County: Four sandhill cranes off Central Street in Plainfield, a continuing blue grosbeak on Aqua Vitae Road in Hadley, 18 greater yellowlegs and two sanderlings in the East Meadows in Northampton, and three red crossbills at Quabbin Park at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.
Worcester County: A Bonaparte’s gull and an acadian flycatcher at Quabbin Reservoir’s gate 35 in New Salem, four sandhill cranes at Canterbury Brook Marsh in Hardwick, two black vultures in Fitchburg, two cliff swallows at Mount Watatic in Ashburnham, and a sora at Bolton Flats Wildlife Management Area in Bolton.
Martha’s Vineyard: A common raven at the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest.
Nantucket: Two merlins at Nantucket State Forest and another single in the vicinity of Stump Pond, three yellow-crowned night-herons and a clapper rail at the UMass Field Station marsh, a continuing American coot on the Nantucket Harbor Flats, and a royal tern at Muskeget Island.
For more information about bird sightings or to report bird sightings, call Mass Audubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/29/metro/bird-sightings-mass-audubon/ | 2023-07-29T20:09:32 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/29/metro/bird-sightings-mass-audubon/ |
Bangladesh: Opposition protesters clash with police
Bangladesh police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse opposition protesters who pelted them with rocks, calling for the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down.
Protesters support the country's opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which has organized a number of rallies since last year demanding Hasina's resignation. The party is calling for a neutral caretaker government to instead shepherd the country to next January's elections.
Hasina has rejected the calls and intends to run for a fourth term.
What happened during the protest?
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets on Saturday, attempting to block several entry points to the capital Dhaka. Some used rocks against police forces and their vehicles, who fired tear gas and charged batons to disperse them, the police said.
Faruk Hossain, a spokesman of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said at least 90 activists were arrested during the protests, while the BNP put the number at some 124. Two senior leaders were also detained briefly, only to be later released.
"Our force was attacked without any reason. They were only trying to ease the traffic flow," Hossain was quoted as saying. "We had to fire tear gas and rubber bullets to control the situation."
Hossain added that some 20 officers where injured. The BNP said over 100 of its activists were injured.
Meanwhile, senior BNP leader Abdul Moyeen Khan denounced the police action as an "injustice." He told the Reuters news agency that the actions against Saturday's protests "only confirmed the autocratic nature of the ruling regime and fully exposes their motives to remain in power through a rigged election."
Why is the opposition calling on Hasina to step down?
The BNP has accused Hasina of rigging the 2018 vote. The prime minister's main rival, former premier and BNP leader Khaleda Zia, has since been convicted on graft charges and effectively placed under house arrest.
Western governments and rights groups criticize Hasina's administration for cracking down on anti-government protests.
The authorities are accused of authoritarianism, human rights abuses, forcibly dissapearing and killing dissidents and cracking down on free speech.
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CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — For a single, unthinkable moment last summer, the Chautauqua Institution was a hostile place for the freedom of expression that has been its hallmark for 150 years: As Salman Rushdie was about to speak, an audience member leapt onto the stage and stabbed the celebrated author more than a dozen times.
By the next day, Chautauqua Institution President Michael Hill recently recounted, the decision had been made not only to resume programming, but to “double down on what Mr. Rushdie stands for, what our speakers and preachers and artists stand for — which is the free exchange of ideas and the belief that society is stronger when we do that.”
A year later, Rushdie, blinded in one eye by the assault, is recovering from the attack. The Chautauqua Institution is recovering, too.
Programming and revenue for the arts and intellectual retreat in the rural southwest corner of New York was disrupted for two seasons by COVID-19. Then the attack further shattered the return to normal that regular visitors had so craved.
With a new nine-week summer season now under way, well-tended gardens are in bloom and rocking chairs are back out on the porches of Victorian- and cottage-style homes.
Security has been strengthened, though the gated compound remains open to anyone who buys a pass to enter.
“We look at the work that we do under a different lens since” the stabbing, Hill said during an interview in his office, which overlooks Bestor Plaza, a lush expanse of greenery anchoring the 750-acre (303-hectare) grounds. “The attack was an attempt at silencing, which underscores the need for institutions like ours to not stay silent.”
As an institution, Chautauqua defies easy explanation.
“NPR camp for grown-ups” is the description preferred by Erica Higbie, who owns a house on the grounds.
Located on the shore of Chautauqua Lake, the institution is a self-contained community with lecture halls, houses of worship, cafes, shops, a library, post office and bookstore, along with private homes, rentals and the Athenaeum Hotel, which served as former President Bill Clinton’s executive mansion for a week in 1996 as he prepared for his debate with Republican challenger Bob Dole.
Aside from boating and golf, the 4,400-seat, open-air amphitheater is a main draw, with a summer entertainment lineup this year offering concerts by Diana Ross and Bonnie Raitt, ballet and theater productions and performances by the house Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
But for Higbie and many others, the primary appeal exists in the institution’s 19th Century beginnings as a summer educational experiment in which daily lectures are curated around weekly explorations of anything from politics to infrastructure and faith to friendship.
“I am a lecture junkie,” Higbie said from her porch as people navigated the grounds on foot, bikes and scooters. The speed limit for the rare vehicle traffic is 12 mph. The retired teacher takes in a daily morning lecture and may hear two more in the afternoon at the amphitheater and the Hall of Philosophy.
Through the decades, Susan B. Anthony advocated for women’s rights at the institution and President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his 1936 “I Hate War” speech in the amphitheater. Former Vice President Al Gore spoke about the climate crisis and Supreme Court Judges Robert H. Jackson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are among countless others who have offered insights.
Rushdie’s appearance came during a week last year exploring home as “a place for human thriving.”
Henry Reese, co-founder of the City of Asylum Pittsburgh, was about to interview “The Satanic Verses” author about violence against writers when Rushdie was attacked as the men sat in armchairs on the amphitheater’s sunken stage.
Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death, was stabbed in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye. Reese suffered bruises and a gash to his forehead.
With alleged assailant Hadi Matar awaiting trial in a nearby courthouse, Reese is scheduled to return to the institution on the anniversary of the attack, Aug. 12. His appearance is expected to kick off a week exploring freedom of expression, imagination and the resilience of democracy. Republican strategist Karl Rove and Democratic strategist David Axelrod are among other invited guests.
It would have been out of character for the institution to do anything but pick up where it left off after the assault, regular guest lecturer Eboo Patel said.
“Not a single artist or speaker canceled,” Patel, founder of Interfaith America in Chicago, said by phone.
“Chautauqua recognizes that it has a responsibility to its own community, honestly to American civilization and the human spirit, and it’s back up in 24 to 48 hours. That’s stunning,” he said.
Property owners differed on how far the institution should go to ensure personal safety, said Higbie, the president of the Chautauqua Property Owners Association.
“Everybody was in shock for a long time,“ Higbie said.
Visitors say they notice more security and protocols at events. Amphitheater patrons can bring only clear bags inside, for example, and may be scanned or asked to walk through a weapons detector.
Even so, “I never hesitated for a minute” to return, said Michael Crawford of Washington, D.C., as he chatted with Mary Pat McFarland of Philadelphia. The two sat on one of the red benches placed around the grounds to invite discussion.
A handful of musicians with violins, guitars and a small harp played an impromptu jam session beneath a tree nearby.
Hill said he sees his role as “teeing up” issues for engagement, so shying away from difficult ones would be a disservice at a time when civic discourse is in short supply.
“It’s about bringing divergent viewpoints for people to digest,” Hill said. “For us to have made the decision to stop bringing speakers who may be controversial in any way would have been for us to stop doing our mission.”
“It would have been,” he said, “to literally stop the reason this place was created.” | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-after-an-attack-on-salman-rushdie-the-chautauqua-institution-says-its-mission-wont-change/ | 2023-07-29T20:09:38 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-after-an-attack-on-salman-rushdie-the-chautauqua-institution-says-its-mission-wont-change/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday signed a law moving the official Christmas Day holiday to Dec. 25 from Jan. 7, the day when the Russian Orthodox Church observes it.
The explanatory note attached to the law said its goal is to “abandon the Russian heritage,” including that of “imposing the celebration of Christmas” on Jan. 7, and cited Ukrainians’ “relentless, successful struggle for their identity” and “the desire of all Ukrainians to live their lives with their own traditions, holidays,” fueled by Russia’s 17-month-old aggression against the country.
Last year, some Ukrainians already observed Christmas on Dec. 25, in a gesture that represented separation from Russia, its culture and religious traditions.
The law also moves the Day of Ukrainian Statehood to July 15 from July 28, and the Day of Defenders of Ukraine to Oct. 1 from Oct. 14.
The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims sovereignty over Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and some other Eastern Orthodox churches continue to use the ancient Julian calendar. Christmas falls 13 days later on that calendar, or Jan. 7, than it does on the Gregorian calendar used by most church and secular groups.
The Catholic Church first adopted the modern, more astronomically precise Gregorian calendar in the 16th century. Protestants and some Orthodox churches have since aligned their own calendars for the purpose of calculating Christmas and Easter.
Ukraine’s religious landscape has fractured for years. There are two branches of Orthodox Christianity in the country, one aligned with the Russian church, even as it enjoys broad autonomy, the other completely independent of it. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the branch that is separate from the Russian church, announced earlier this year that it was switching to the Revised Julian calendar, which marks Christmas on Dec. 25.
Its leadership last year allowed believers to celebrate the holiday on Dec. 25.
Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Saturday that the rival Orthodox Church, which is aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, vowed to continue observing Christmas on Jan. 7.
Zelenskyy on Saturday traveled to the war-torn Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, which Russia has illegally annexed, but only partially occupies, and met with members of the country’s Special Operation Forces. Zelenskyy noted in an online statement that Saturday marks their official day of recognition and also the anniversary of the deadly attack on the Olenivka prison in the Russian-held part of the region in which dozens of prisoners of war were killed.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of the attack, with both sides saying that the assault was premeditated in a bid to cover up atrocities. A United Nations fact-finding mission requested by Russia and Ukraine was sent to investigate the killings, but the team was disbanded in January 2023 due to security concerns.
Zelenskyy described the attack as one of Russia’s “most vile and cruel crimes” in a video statement Saturday. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/ukraine-moves-date-of-christmas-day-to-distance-itself-from-russian-tradition/ | 2023-07-29T20:09:38 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/ukraine-moves-date-of-christmas-day-to-distance-itself-from-russian-tradition/ |
The patient arrived at the makeshift clinic near a Mount Everest base camp strapped to the back of a fellow porter. He was unconscious, on the verge of death.
The clinic, a plywood hut powered by solar panels and car batteries, was miles from help. It had no imaging equipment to check for head injuries, no lab to help find clues of what might be going wrong. The doctor evaluating him, Luke Apisa, a physician from Massachusetts General Hospital, instead had to rely on a handheld device that showed fluid in his lungs and what he could observe.
The young man, who ferried equipment up and down the mountain for climbers, was suffering acute high-altitude sickness, Apisa concluded, “drowning in his own blood.” He administered oxygen and steroids to reduce swelling in the man’s brain and crossed his fingers.
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The diagnosis was right. The man lived. But Apisa’s work in this harsh environment of thin air and extreme cold was meant as training for conditions even more austere — outer space.
His recent three-month rotation at Everest was part of a new Space Medicine Fellowship by Mass General and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, one of a handful of new and planned programs across the country that are anticipating a need for medical care in a coming boom of space travel and prolonged missions to the moon and beyond. Hoping to help prepare physicians for the unparalleled challenges they would face on such missions, the MGH fellowship sends them to some of the most harsh and remote places on Earth.
“This is one of the best analogs we have for what space medicine is like,” said Apisa, 31, who is an emergency room physician with a specialty in wilderness medicine.
No longer the grist of science fiction, life in space is expected to soon become a reality for growing numbers of astronauts and space tourists. NASA is planning a long-term base on the moon, in addition to a Gateway station in lunar orbit from which scientists will work and eventually launch missions into deep space, including to Mars. And private companies are racing to build out commercial programs. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is already advertising for reservations aboard its Starship mission to the Moon’s orbit, saying it will eventually “carry up to 100 people on long-duration, interplanetary flights.”
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There will be a need for doctors trained to deliver complex medical care in those conditions, emergency medicine specialists at Mass General and Baylor College said.
For decades, NASA’s paradigm has focused on preventative medicine — essentially finding the brightest people on Earth who are also in the most pristine of health to reduce as much as possible the risk of serious medical emergencies in space. For medical care on flights, at least one astronaut with 40 hours of paramedic-level training is aboard, and in the event of a serious medical emergency, there is a chief flight surgeon in Mission Control who could talk a crew through care from the ground.
But that arrangement is likely to change if long-distance missions become a reality and space travel is routinely made available to a wider range of people, experts said. Physicians will need to accompany missions to space and not only have specialized knowledge of the possible medical problems space could present but be able to make sound decisions with limited diagnostic tools.
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“If you are pushing off earth’s surface, you have to be thoughtful of what you can take,” said Dr. N. Stuart Harris, an emergency medicine physician at Mass General who chairs its SPEAR MED division which includes space medicine and wilderness medicine fellowships, as well as climate change programs. He is co-directing the new space fellowship.
“There are pressure considerations, lack of oxygen considerations, you have radiation concerns, and it’s a long way home, so you need to think about what you would do,” Harris said.
That is where the more adventurous elements of MGH’s two-year space medicine fellowship come in. The program includes training in rescue medicine, a rotation in NASA’s medical research branch, as well as a rotation at SpaceX to learn about commercial space flight. Critical is the kind of rotation Apisa just finished, as lead medical officer on an expedition to a remote location such as Alaska or the Himalayas.
As in space, there are significant time and distance constraints with caring for patients in the clinic at Everest. A helicopter can ferry acutely ill patients down the mountain in about an hour, but because cloud cover is so often an issue it usually means flights are unable to make it to the remote clinic for at least a day. That delay, along with the limited access to medical and diagnostic machines, makes for ideal space training conditions.
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“It’s wonderful to work in a big tertiary care center like Mass General where you have access to everything, and you can get any test in the world you want,” Apisa said. “Doing work in an austere environment, it hones your skills. It forces you to rely on everything you learned in medical school.”
The fellows will also learn about the effects of space on the human body which can create significant challenges for even the healthiest people.
For example, in zero and low gravity, air doesn’t diffuse the way it does on earth, so if it is not kept moving in a space station or capsule, astronauts could breathe in their own carbon dioxide and potentially suffocate, Apisa said. And doctors need to be aware that without gravity, urine, blood, and other substances can float unconstrained, presenting substantial infection risks.
Lack of gravity also has peculiar effects on the human body.
“Astronauts seem to accumulate too much water in the brain, and we don’t fully understand why this occurs ... and how we can prevent this,” said Lonnie Petersen, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The condition, known as Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome, or SANS, has led to lasting vision problems, with some astronauts reporting they are not able to see as well up close after a flight.
“It’s a complex syndrome, and we don’t fully understand why it doesn’t fully resolve as you reintroduce gravity,” Petersen said.
Researchers are concerned that as more people spend longer times in space, SANS will become more common.
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There’s also concern about the long-term effect of weightlessness on muscle and bone density. The space station is equipped with exercise devices that allow astronauts to work against springs and pulleys to maintain fitness.
“As we have more commercial space flight, we will have a different composition of crew members, we will see more preexisting conditions, the age range will expand, and obviously the way we do medicine is evolving,” Petersen said.
The Space Medicine Fellowship will train doctors to think like engineers so they can help design space operations for long-term flight that will focus on protecting human health, said Dr. Erik Antonsen, associate professor of space medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and a co-director of the fellowship. Antonsen formerly worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center assessing health risks for astronauts.
“We are trying to find the right balance between human physicology and engineering,” he said.
One immediate concern is designing a safe system for frequent space walks on the moon. On the International Space Station, each astronaut typically performs no more than five walks during a six-month stint. Each walk requires several hours of prep time in 100 percent oxygen to slowly acclimate to the extremely low air pressure outside in order to avoid dangerous bubbles forming in their joints, Antonsen said.
But on the moon, NASA is planning daily space walks. A safe process with shorter prep times will be necessary, he said.
Dr. Jonathan Clark, who will be teaching the new space fellows, puts it this way: “The human body is incredibly resilient and tolerant but also at the same time can be exceptionally vulnerable.”
Clark, a clinical professor of neurology and space medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, served as a Naval flight surgeon and headed several Naval research facilities. Health and safety are deeply personal for him; his wife Laurel Clark, a NASA astronaut, died along with her six fellow crew members in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
The fellowship training will focus on potential threats in space, including the extreme temperature fluctuations and massive amounts of radiation.
“We look at the threat matrix and come up with ways to mitigate, reduce, prevent, and manage once they happen,” he said.
Clark has calculated the risks of flying from both commercial air travel (a 1 in 10 million chance of death), to heading into space (a 1 in about 100 risk of death.)
Yet despite the massively disproportionate risk for space travel, Clark sees it as an existential necessity that may help humans survive the ravages of the climate crisis.
“Space flight allows us to study human adaptation to harsh, extreme environments to increase our species’ future survivability,” he said. “It’s what we can do to improve life on Earth — to not only survive but to thrive.”
But there is still a lot of work to do, both by training programs and engineers, before doctors are routinely deployed into space. Apisa, the Mass General physician, recently started a new rotation, this one working with scientists at SpaceX at their headquarters in California.
Apisa is drawn to life on the edges; first emergency medicine, then wilderness medicine, and now the final frontier. He is uncertain precisely what the future holds for him professionally — that’s part of the adventure — but feels it will, inevitably, include healing patients in challenging settings, be it on Everest or from Mission Control. Or from space, perhaps?
“That,” he says, “would be a dream come true.”
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Dutch authorities prepare to tow burning cargo ship
Dutch authorities started preparing on Saturday to tow away a vehicle-packed cargo ship which has been burning for days off the country's coast.
The operation of moving the Fremantle Highway from the Dutch coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site for the aquatic and terrestrial species it hosts, and closer to the north of Schiermonnikoog island temporarily aims to avert an ecological disaster.
What do we know about the towing operation?
The decision to proceed with moving the ship comes after the flames eating at it have significantly subsided.
"The temperature on board the ship has dropped sharply and the intensity of the fire and smoke development have decreased," said the Rijkswaterstaat, the national water management agency, in a statement.
The agency added that the cargo ship was also stable, "still intact below the waterline and does not tilt."
Fears for an ecological disaster
Efforts to put down the fire for the past few days were carefully calculated, in fear of sinking the ship and consequently prompting an ecological disaster. The ship was carrying 3,783 cars, including 498 electric cars, its Japan-based charter company K Line said.
Authorities feared the car parts, batteries and fuel would damage the ecologically sensitive site and harm its inhabitants.
Ship owner Shoei Kisen Kaisha suggested the fire started on one of the electric vehicles, whose batteries are highly combustible. The actual cause of the fire has yet to be confirmed.
The towing operation is expected to take around 12 hours.
No exact time has been decided, as it will depend on the weather conditions, but Dutch authorities said they were aiming for the towing to be conducted during the weekend.
The fire killed one member of the all-Indian crew of the ship.
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