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CHICAGO — Baby bears fans channeled their inner Lightning McQueen Saturday, as the Chicago Bears hosted their second annual Baby Bear Crawl race at Halas Hall.
The contest featured fans and their babies decked out in Bears’ gear, alongside Advocate Health Care and Bears staff members and their little ones at the Walter Payton Center during Chicago Bears training camp.
The first place finisher took home a co-branded Bears blanket, cup and cooler, while second and third took home souvenir cups.
Staley the Bear also made an appearance, as each participating baby was given a souvenir Bears bib and a Baby Bears teddy bear. | https://wgntv.com/sports/bears-report/bears-host-2nd-annual-baby-bear-crawl-race-during-training-camp/ | 2023-07-29T23:54:32 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/sports/bears-report/bears-host-2nd-annual-baby-bear-crawl-race-during-training-camp/ |
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CHURUBUSCO, Ind. (WANE) – In Turtle Town U.S.A., there’s been nothing slow-going when it comes to Churubusco’s football program. The Eagles are coming off another strong year in the NECC small division where the team finished with an 8-3 season.
Heading into year 11 at Busco, head coach Paul Sade is working with several new faces. The team graduated several top playmakers over the summer, including quarterback Riley Buroff and tailback Wyatt Marks. Upperclassmen like tight end/linebacker Gavin Huelsenbeck and junior running back/linebacker Angelo Ianucilli will look to take on larger roles for the Eagles.
Despite rolling out several younger faces, Busco hopes to wrap up the season with their first NECC small division title since 2018.
The Eagles kick off the 2023 season against Columbia City on Friday, Aug. 18. | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2023-highlight-zone-preview-churubusco-eagles/ | 2023-07-29T23:55:41 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2023-highlight-zone-preview-churubusco-eagles/ |
BUTLER, Ind. (WANE) – For a handful of years, the Eastside Blazers have carried the torch as the best small school program in the NECC.
After leading Eastside for six seasons, Todd Mason is passing the torch to Alyx Brandewie.
Heading into the 2023 season, the former Manchester head coach is most excited about his depth in the trenches. Eastside will roll out 2-time All-State lineman Dane Sebert, along with all-NECC lineman Joey Eck. Brandewie hopes the offensive and defensive lines can set a tone of physicality for the rest of the team.
Eastside kicks off the 2023 season on Friday, Aug. 18 against Woodlan. | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2023-highlight-zone-preview-eastside-blazers/ | 2023-07-29T23:55:47 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/2023-highlight-zone-preview-eastside-blazers/ |
(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://www.wane.com/news/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-29T23:55:53 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Pretend you accidentally knock your drink over. What would you say happened to it? If you’re from Texas, or just from the south overall, you might say it “tumped” over.
In general, the word is used when something falls over, spills over, or is knocked over. You can tump someone over or be tumped over by someone else. It’s a useful word — but is it even a word?
And moreover, why do Texans say this?
While “tump” isn’t only found in Texas, you’ll definitely hear it there. Several Texas news outlets have attempted to trace the word’s origin, including Texas Monthly, which pointed to a now-26-year-old post on a message board called Word Wizard (the website is now gone, sadly). According to Texas Monthly’s John Nova Lomax, that lost-to-time post explained that “tump” was a word meant to mimic the “thump” of something falling and hitting the ground.
A common etymological theory is that the word is a combination of the words “tipped” and “dumped” — both of which are frequently followed by the word “over,” as “tumped” often is. In other words, what’s known as a portmanteau, as explained by Texas Standard in 2017.
Again, the verbal phenomenon isn’t signature to only Texas. Many southern outlets, including Oklahoma’s The Oklahoman and Alabama’s AL.com, have noted the trend. Nevertheless, Texans online appear to proudly own the word.
“If you used the word ‘tumped’ you’re: A) from Texas B) not from Texas and possibly just had a stroke. See a doctor ASAP,” joked the popular Texas Humor Twitter account in 2014.
Musings on the word can be seen in connection with Texas Reddit, including this giant thread of Texas slang words.
In a 2020 Reddit thread, one new Texan asked how long until they could convincingly say “Yeehaw,” to which someone posed a counter-challenge: “The real test is when you can properly use ‘tumped over’ in a sentence.”
We may just never know where tump came from. What’s more, researching tump can be more difficult than it used to be since a certain former president’s last name takes up considerable search engine real estate now.
Finally, if anyone ever laughs at you for using tump, just know this: the word’s even made it into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So tump away, Texas! | https://www.wane.com/news/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ | 2023-07-29T23:55:59 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ |
BLUFFTON, Ind. (WANE) – Long after hanging up the skates, former Komet Kaleigh Schrock is continuing to grow the game of hockey in his hometown.
The Fort Wayne native wrapped up his fourth year with the USPHL’s Spacemen. Last season was Schrock’s best yet with the club. The Spacemen advanced to the USPHL National Playoffs for the first time in club history.
Heading into year five, the Spacemen are expanding by adding a team in the league’s “Elite” division.
At the Spacemen’s summer golf outing on Saturday, Schrock reflected on the current state of his club and his former team’s hiring of head coach Jesse Kallechy. | https://www.wane.com/sports/local-sports/schrock-celebrates-spacemens-best-season-at-golf-outing/ | 2023-07-29T23:56:05 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/sports/local-sports/schrock-celebrates-spacemens-best-season-at-golf-outing/ |
8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.1011now.com/2023/07/29/8-dogs-died-extreme-heat-midwest-during-unairconditioned-drive/ | 2023-07-29T23:56:44 | 0 | https://www.1011now.com/2023/07/29/8-dogs-died-extreme-heat-midwest-during-unairconditioned-drive/ |
Bumps and Babies event celebrates motherhood
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Several Lincoln small businesses, nonprofits and service vendors gathered to support moms, babies and families on Saturday by promoting resources for the community.
It was the second annual Bumps and Babies event at the Icebox. Around 65 booths pertaining to a mother and her baby were set up at the event.
One booth, with co-owners Liz Pohlen and Mariah Flodman highlighted resources to help infants to young adults achieve important milestones.
The new-to-Nebraska business is called Inspire Occupational Therapy and offers occupational therapy to families in Lincoln, Omaha and the surrounding areas. They assist with a variety of things like helping with special-needs children or simply providing a little extra help at home with rehabilitation or other needs.
“Parenting is hard and this journey is hard so it’s really great for all of us to come together and support the same mission,” Pohlen said.
A few booths down was the MOMS Club of Lincoln, a local support group for moms. The Lincoln chapter began in 1998 and has about 40 moms in the group. They organize play groups with kids, but also give moms a break and organize Moms Night Out events.
“We give community back to moms who are looking for a little bit of help because it takes a village to raise those babies,” Candice Martin, President of MOMS Club of Lincoln said.
Since last year’s Bumps and Babies event, organizers added over 20 booths. The hope is that the event continues to grow.
The event will be under a different name next year. It will be called, Bumps Babies and Beyond Nebraska to ensure everyone in a growing family feels included.
Copyright 2023 KOLN. All rights reserved. | https://www.1011now.com/2023/07/29/bumps-babies-event-celebrates-motherhood/ | 2023-07-29T23:56:51 | 0 | https://www.1011now.com/2023/07/29/bumps-babies-event-celebrates-motherhood/ |
Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Alexander Zverev will take on Laslo Djere in the Hamburg European Open final on Sunday, July 30.
With -450 odds, Zverev is favored over Djere in this tournament final against the underdog, who is +310.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Finals
- Date: Sunday, July 30
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Prediction and Odds
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Trends and Insights
- In the semifinals on Saturday, Zverev beat Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4.
- Djere eliminated Zhizhen Zhang 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals on Saturday.
- Zverev has played 26 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 42 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Zverev has played 22 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.8% of games.
- In his 58 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Djere is averaging 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches) while winning 50.3% of those games.
- Djere has averaged 22 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 10.5 games per set through 22 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- In head-to-head matches, Zverev has two wins, while Djere has zero. In their last match on June 4, 2021, Zverev was victorious 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.
- In terms of sets, Zverev has won five versus Djere (100.0%), while Djere has captured zero.
- Zverev and Djere have competed in 47 total games, and Zverev has won more often, capturing 31 of them.
- Djere and Zverev have matched up two times, and they have averaged 23.5 games and 2.5 sets per match.
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(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.qcnews.com/news/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:00 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ |
(KTLA) — An invasive fly species has prompted the quarantine of an upscale Southern California neighborhood, the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
The Tau fruit fly is native to Asia and is a “serious pest for agriculture and natural resources,” according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
The flies can be typically found on a variety of fruits and vegetables along with a “select range of native plants in California,” officials said.
After the detection of more than 20 Tau flies in the Stevenson Ranch area of the Santa Clarita Valley, a quarantine was placed on residents.
The quarantine area spans about 79 square miles, bordered on the north by Castaic Junction, on the south by Oat Mountain, on the west by Del Valle, and on the east by Honby Avenue.
Stevenson Ranch is an upscale neighborhood with a median home price of $1.15 million dollars according to Redfin.
Officials believe the fly was introduced to Los Angeles County by travelers who brought uninspected produce into the state. Agriculture officials note this is a common way for invasive species to arrive.
To prevent the species’ further spread, quarantined residents are asked not to move any fruits or vegetables away from their property. The produce they own may be safely consumed or processed, but must remain at the property.
If residents choose not to consume their produce, they must be disposed of by “double-bagging in plastic and placing the bags in a bin specifically for garbage,” officials said.
CDFA is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner to “utilize a multi-tiered approach to eliminate the Tau fruit fly and prevent its spread to new areas.”
On properties within 200 meters of fly detections, crews will cut host fruit and vegetables to inspect for present fly larvae. Those properties will also be treated with a “naturally derived organic-approved material known as Spinosad, which will help remove any live adult fruit flies and reduce the density of the population,” said CDFA.
Fly traps that incorporate a pheromone along with a small amount of pesticide will also be placed throughout the treatment zones. | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:06 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ |
(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:12 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Pretend you accidentally knock your drink over. What would you say happened to it? If you’re from Texas, or just from the south overall, you might say it “tumped” over.
In general, the word is used when something falls over, spills over, or is knocked over. You can tump someone over or be tumped over by someone else. It’s a useful word — but is it even a word?
And moreover, why do Texans say this?
While “tump” isn’t only found in Texas, you’ll definitely hear it there. Several Texas news outlets have attempted to trace the word’s origin, including Texas Monthly, which pointed to a now-26-year-old post on a message board called Word Wizard (the website is now gone, sadly). According to Texas Monthly’s John Nova Lomax, that lost-to-time post explained that “tump” was a word meant to mimic the “thump” of something falling and hitting the ground.
A common etymological theory is that the word is a combination of the words “tipped” and “dumped” — both of which are frequently followed by the word “over,” as “tumped” often is. In other words, what’s known as a portmanteau, as explained by Texas Standard in 2017.
Again, the verbal phenomenon isn’t signature to only Texas. Many southern outlets, including Oklahoma’s The Oklahoman and Alabama’s AL.com, have noted the trend. Nevertheless, Texans online appear to proudly own the word.
“If you used the word ‘tumped’ you’re: A) from Texas B) not from Texas and possibly just had a stroke. See a doctor ASAP,” joked the popular Texas Humor Twitter account in 2014.
Musings on the word can be seen in connection with Texas Reddit, including this giant thread of Texas slang words.
In a 2020 Reddit thread, one new Texan asked how long until they could convincingly say “Yeehaw,” to which someone posed a counter-challenge: “The real test is when you can properly use ‘tumped over’ in a sentence.”
We may just never know where tump came from. What’s more, researching tump can be more difficult than it used to be since a certain former president’s last name takes up considerable search engine real estate now.
Finally, if anyone ever laughs at you for using tump, just know this: the word’s even made it into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So tump away, Texas! | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:18 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ |
8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbay.com/2023/07/29/8-dogs-died-extreme-heat-midwest-during-unairconditioned-drive/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:39 | 1 | https://www.wbay.com/2023/07/29/8-dogs-died-extreme-heat-midwest-during-unairconditioned-drive/ |
FLOYD COUNTY, Ind. — An Indiana State Police Trooper has been arrested for operating while intoxicated.
Zachary Smith, a 12-year ISP veteran, was arrested at his Floyd County residence Thursday afternoon, per state police. Troopers had initially gone to Smith’s home to deliver administrative paperwork.
When police showed up at Smith’s abode, however, they saw him pull his personal vehicle into his driveway. ISP said that Smith, who was the vehicle’s sole occupant, showed signs of impairment as he spoke to police after he had parked.
As a result of the subsequent investigation, Smith was arrested for OWI and incarcerated at Floyd County Jail.
Smith is now on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the OWI charge and an internal ISP investigation. | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/indiana-state-trooper-arrested-for-owi-placed-on-administrative-leave/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:44 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/indiana-state-trooper-arrested-for-owi-placed-on-administrative-leave/ |
The severe storms we had Saturday morning caused tree damage in several counties and widespread, lengthy power outages. The storms were ahead of a cold front that moved across the state and ended the excessive heat we dealt with for most of the work week. Behind the cold front temperatures will be in the 80s, with comfortable humidity levels for Sunday, and for the first half of next week. Enjoy the more tranquil weather. Warmer temperatures, higher humidity and a chance for storms will return for Thursday and Friday.
With more than six inches of rain, July has been a wet month. In fact, we have had as much rain in July as we had in the months of April, May and June combined. This is just what central Indiana needed, as we started to the month with the western half of the state in severe drought. The extra rainfall has led to a two-inch rainfall surplus across the state and the drought continues to ease.
The weekend started with rain.
July has been a vey wet month. and that has helped to ease the drought.
There is no extreme heat in the 7-day forecast. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/a-break-from-the-heat-and-humidity-a-streak-of-sunny-dry-days/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:50 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/a-break-from-the-heat-and-humidity-a-streak-of-sunny-dry-days/ |
(KTLA) — An invasive fly species has prompted the quarantine of an upscale Southern California neighborhood, the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
The Tau fruit fly is native to Asia and is a “serious pest for agriculture and natural resources,” according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
The flies can be typically found on a variety of fruits and vegetables along with a “select range of native plants in California,” officials said.
After the detection of more than 20 Tau flies in the Stevenson Ranch area of the Santa Clarita Valley, a quarantine was placed on residents.
The quarantine area spans about 79 square miles, bordered on the north by Castaic Junction, on the south by Oat Mountain, on the west by Del Valle, and on the east by Honby Avenue.
Stevenson Ranch is an upscale neighborhood with a median home price of $1.15 million dollars according to Redfin.
Officials believe the fly was introduced to Los Angeles County by travelers who brought uninspected produce into the state. Agriculture officials note this is a common way for invasive species to arrive.
To prevent the species’ further spread, quarantined residents are asked not to move any fruits or vegetables away from their property. The produce they own may be safely consumed or processed, but must remain at the property.
If residents choose not to consume their produce, they must be disposed of by “double-bagging in plastic and placing the bags in a bin specifically for garbage,” officials said.
CDFA is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner to “utilize a multi-tiered approach to eliminate the Tau fruit fly and prevent its spread to new areas.”
On properties within 200 meters of fly detections, crews will cut host fruit and vegetables to inspect for present fly larvae. Those properties will also be treated with a “naturally derived organic-approved material known as Spinosad, which will help remove any live adult fruit flies and reduce the density of the population,” said CDFA.
Fly traps that incorporate a pheromone along with a small amount of pesticide will also be placed throughout the treatment zones. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ | 2023-07-29T23:57:56 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ |
(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:02 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
Zenek Luci was born deaf to a family in Welland, Ontario. He used hearing aids as an infant before receiving a cochlear implant in an operation, his father, Gabriel, says.
"He was about one year old when it was turned on," Gabriel says. "When it's first turned on, they do a mapping, so they they start really low and see where they're responding to the sound."
Invented in 1957, cochlear implants are worn by more than two hundred thousand Americans, according to the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, an industry trade group.
Viral videos of patients receiving cochlear implants and hearing for the first time pack an emotional punch. It's a technology that's transforming lives—and one that's long stirred debate within the Deaf community. Dr. Samantha Kesteloot, an audiologist, educates families about implants and wears one herself.
"There's an internal part and external part," she explains. "The internal part is surgical, and there's an electrode array that is inserted into the cochlea, which is the organ of hearing."
"The outside part is a processor, which sort of looks like a hearing aid," she says. "That picks up the acoustical sound and converts it to electrical stimulus, and then those signals are sent down the electrode array and electrically stimulate the auditory nerve." That's the nerve that sends signals to the brain that correspond to the sensation of hearing.
Many adults with hearing loss say the implants have dramatically improved their lives.
Lou Ferrigno, the actor who once portrayed the Incredible Hulk, recently told students who were deaf or hard of hearing, and how implants have helped him. They "changed my life tremendously," he said. "There's so much hope that people can have better hearing, better lifestyle."
Dr. Keseloot, meanwhile, received her implant in 2017.
"It's completely changed my life," she says. "I always was a pretty high achiever with hearing aids, but I was always just kind of missing out on a lot of social things." Dr. Kestellot says she would "just sort of smile and nod and pretend I understood." Now, she says, "I can keep up in noisy situations."
SEE MORE: Parents push for insurers to cover pediatric hearing aids
Roughly one in five Americans has some form of hearing loss, according to the National Institutes of Health. And there is a thriving Deaf community in the U.S. that communicates with sign language. So adults who are eligible for implants have the choice of whether they want to receive them.
There's considerable debate, however, around their use with kids.
The FDA has approved the technology for children as young as nine months.
Without Zenek's implant, using just the hearing aid, "Everything he said was gibberish," says Gabriel Luci. "So that told us, okay, he's not getting enough with the aid."
"If a family desires listening in spoken language outcomes, the natural goal for the child is to speak and listen," says Dr. Kesteloot. "The best route is to aid and then implant if the hearing aids not doing enough. And then if the child chooses to sign later or, you know, and refuses the implant later, that's a choice that they can make."
Some parents of deaf children decline the procedure, says Dr. Kesteloot, including parents who are deaf themselves. "A lot of culturally deaf parents choose not to implant their children because they don't really have a need for it. Their life is based around sign language," she says. "And then also, some parents believe that the child should make the decision when they get old enough to make the decision. And that's, you know, a little tricky because there is a critical period for language development."
Dorian Smith Garcia wrote recently that videos celebrating cochlear implants "play into audism," which implies that people with hearing loss need to be "cured or corrected."
Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin, who is Deaf, says she isn't opposed to cochlear implants. But she told the World Science Festival in 2019 that Deaf culture built on sign language offers immense rewards for children.
"There is still a great deal of pressure that people should explore the option of cochlear implants because that's better than signing, that you shouldn't sign," she told the audience. "I would say to these people, who are you to decide for us?"
Gabriel Luci, who has a second child with implants named Sasha, says the decision should be up to every parent of a Deaf child.
"I do believe that getting my kids cochlear implants gives them more opportunities, though. I'm not taking away any opportunities from them; I'm only giving them opportunities," he says.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | https://www.wrtv.com/cochlear-implants-are-changing-lives-and-sparking-debate | 2023-07-29T23:58:03 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/cochlear-implants-are-changing-lives-and-sparking-debate |
(BCN) — The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office will be more capable to investigate workers’ compensation insurance fraud after it was awarded a $339,173 grant by the California Department of Insurance.
The funding for the grant, which is slated for fiscal year 2023-2024, comes from California employers who are legally required to be insured or self-insured, the district attorney’s office said in a statement Friday.
Workers’ compensation insurance fraud occurs when employees exaggerate or fabricate injuries or when white-collar criminals entice, pay, and conspire with others and create false or exaggerated claims, over-treating, and over-prescribing harmful and addictive drugs.
“Also, employers may ask injured workers not to file legitimate claims. Insurance companies pick up the tab, passing the cost onto policyholders, taxpayers, and the public,” the district attorney’s office explained.
The grant will focus on battling fraud that continues to increase costs on the workers compensation system, including medical provider insurance fraud, employer premium fraud, and claimant fraud.
“My office is dedicated to investigating and prosecuting workers’ compensation fraud, and to maintaining a level playing field for both employees and employers,” District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said in a statement.
The district attorney’s office said it will be conducting outreach to local businesses and community members, including diverse and underserved communities, on how to prevent and report insurance fraud.
Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/d-a-s-office-awarded-grant-to-investigate-prosecute-workers-compensation-fraud/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:06 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/d-a-s-office-awarded-grant-to-investigate-prosecute-workers-compensation-fraud/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Pretend you accidentally knock your drink over. What would you say happened to it? If you’re from Texas, or just from the south overall, you might say it “tumped” over.
In general, the word is used when something falls over, spills over, or is knocked over. You can tump someone over or be tumped over by someone else. It’s a useful word — but is it even a word?
And moreover, why do Texans say this?
While “tump” isn’t only found in Texas, you’ll definitely hear it there. Several Texas news outlets have attempted to trace the word’s origin, including Texas Monthly, which pointed to a now-26-year-old post on a message board called Word Wizard (the website is now gone, sadly). According to Texas Monthly’s John Nova Lomax, that lost-to-time post explained that “tump” was a word meant to mimic the “thump” of something falling and hitting the ground.
A common etymological theory is that the word is a combination of the words “tipped” and “dumped” — both of which are frequently followed by the word “over,” as “tumped” often is. In other words, what’s known as a portmanteau, as explained by Texas Standard in 2017.
Again, the verbal phenomenon isn’t signature to only Texas. Many southern outlets, including Oklahoma’s The Oklahoman and Alabama’s AL.com, have noted the trend. Nevertheless, Texans online appear to proudly own the word.
“If you used the word ‘tumped’ you’re: A) from Texas B) not from Texas and possibly just had a stroke. See a doctor ASAP,” joked the popular Texas Humor Twitter account in 2014.
Musings on the word can be seen in connection with Texas Reddit, including this giant thread of Texas slang words.
In a 2020 Reddit thread, one new Texan asked how long until they could convincingly say “Yeehaw,” to which someone posed a counter-challenge: “The real test is when you can properly use ‘tumped over’ in a sentence.”
We may just never know where tump came from. What’s more, researching tump can be more difficult than it used to be since a certain former president’s last name takes up considerable search engine real estate now.
Finally, if anyone ever laughs at you for using tump, just know this: the word’s even made it into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So tump away, Texas! | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:08 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — A strong mission to help United States veterans is the focus of the organization Helping Heroes of America.
The group held its sixth annual freedom ride on Saturday. The event helps generate money to help veterans throughout the year.
The event took place at Legion Post 64 on the south side of Indianapolis. Attendees could enjoy a motorcycle ride, car show, food trucks and live music.
For many years, the ride has helped hundreds of veterans with housing, buying vehicles, job placement, assisting with bills and so much more.
“We’re here to help veterans with the things they need. We’re helping them get back on the right track,” the organization’s founder Jennifer Highwood said.
Attendees participated in a 45-minute motorcycle ride in which they took Washington Street to Monument Circle, and looped around the circle to go back to Legion 64.
Highwood says seeing the growth of the event is an amazing feeling.
“During our very first ride, I had a big picture of what it was going to look like. I was very disappointed because it did not go how I wanted it to. But one thing I have learned is if you build it, they will come,” Highwood said. “What we have today is that big ride I envisioned.”
For information on how to volunteer or donate to Helping Heroes of America, visit their website. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/helping-heroes-of-america-holds-motorcycle-ride-and-music-festival-to-raise-money-for-veterans-in-need | 2023-07-29T23:58:09 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/helping-heroes-of-america-holds-motorcycle-ride-and-music-festival-to-raise-money-for-veterans-in-need |
(KRON) — The Oakland Police Department is investigating a death as a homicide after a victim was found with a fatal head injury in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood on Saturday.
Police were dispatched to the scene around 11 a.m. after receiving a report of an injured person in the 600 block of Alma Avenue. Medical personnel arrived at the scene and pronounced the person dead.
The name of the victim has not been released as police are still notifying the family.
Trinity Lutheran Church is located at 650 Alma Ave. Oakland High School is a short distance away at 1023 MacArthur Boulevard.
Anyone with information is asked to call OPD at (510) 238-3821 or the police tip line at (510) 238-7950. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-police-investigating-homicide/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:12 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-police-investigating-homicide/ |
Another week, another labor action across America.
In June, workers went on strike at at least 120 Starbucks locations, the company said.
Earlier this month, thousands of hotel workers across southern California walked off the job.
And this week, the writers strike in Hollywood reached its third month. Actors joined them on July 13.
Major strike activity increased by almost fifty percent in 2022, according to the U.S. Labor Department. And the Economic Policy Institute says over 120,000 workers were involved in major work stoppages last year.
What caused the resurgence of the U.S. labor movement?
For one thing, the pandemic accelerated union organizing, reporter Alex Press told "The Response" podcast recently. "We've seen this kind of brief, this sort of early stage uptick in union organizing in this country, very explicitly rooted in our response to a pandemic that was raising the stakes of once again to life or death sort of situations for a lot of frontline workers," she said.
Low unemployment has also given workers more leverage to organize and even strike, says Joseph Brock, president of Reliant Labor Consultants.
"That tight labor market, kind of brought on by COVID, has been a boon for unions," said Brock.
A demographic shift toward workers with more labor-friendly views may also be a factor. "There's a whole generation of younger workers that are discovering unionization as the most reliable way to get better pay and working conditions," Rutgers professor Susan Schurman told Money.com.
Workers cite low pay, bad working conditions, and poor job security as reasons to strike.
But a Milken Institute expert told Yahoo Financethat the Hollywood strike alone could cause $4 billion in losses to the U.S. economy.
"It's not just impacting these industries in California. But it's really doing so in New York, it's doing it in Atlanta. It's doing it in Albuquerque, it's doing it in Pittsburgh. It's doing it in all sorts of places where filming actually takes place," said Kevin Klowden.
What's the outlook for the future?
Unions once played a central role in America's economic, political, and cultural life. But Anthony Carnevale of Georgetown University says unions today face an uphill battle to regain that influence. "They lost their power largely because of globalization, technology, and the decline of manufacturing," he says.
Take the Amazon labor union, as it's called, which won an election with more than 8,000 workers in a Staten Island warehouse last year, a milestone hailed by the press, but the group has not yet reached a collective bargaining agreement.
"The bigger problem for unions will continue to be the attainment of that first collective bargaining agreement," says Brock.
And in terms of politics over the short term, Unions pose both political opportunities and challenges.
Balancing workers needs and growing the economy is proving tough for a president who has aligned himself closely with organized labor.
"Folks, I promised you that I'd be the most pro-union president in American history because I know this: in a crisis, America always counts on you," President Joe Biden told the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in a speech last year.
That alignment won him votes from union workers. But now, those close ties could harm a president who has always tried to connect with American workers.
Meanwhile, those marching on the picket line carry on.
SEE MORE: AI fears are fueling the labor strikes in Hollywood
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(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:18 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Pretend you accidentally knock your drink over. What would you say happened to it? If you’re from Texas, or just from the south overall, you might say it “tumped” over.
In general, the word is used when something falls over, spills over, or is knocked over. You can tump someone over or be tumped over by someone else. It’s a useful word — but is it even a word?
And moreover, why do Texans say this?
While “tump” isn’t only found in Texas, you’ll definitely hear it there. Several Texas news outlets have attempted to trace the word’s origin, including Texas Monthly, which pointed to a now-26-year-old post on a message board called Word Wizard (the website is now gone, sadly). According to Texas Monthly’s John Nova Lomax, that lost-to-time post explained that “tump” was a word meant to mimic the “thump” of something falling and hitting the ground.
A common etymological theory is that the word is a combination of the words “tipped” and “dumped” — both of which are frequently followed by the word “over,” as “tumped” often is. In other words, what’s known as a portmanteau, as explained by Texas Standard in 2017.
Again, the verbal phenomenon isn’t signature to only Texas. Many southern outlets, including Oklahoma’s The Oklahoman and Alabama’s AL.com, have noted the trend. Nevertheless, Texans online appear to proudly own the word.
“If you used the word ‘tumped’ you’re: A) from Texas B) not from Texas and possibly just had a stroke. See a doctor ASAP,” joked the popular Texas Humor Twitter account in 2014.
Musings on the word can be seen in connection with Texas Reddit, including this giant thread of Texas slang words.
In a 2020 Reddit thread, one new Texan asked how long until they could convincingly say “Yeehaw,” to which someone posed a counter-challenge: “The real test is when you can properly use ‘tumped over’ in a sentence.”
We may just never know where tump came from. What’s more, researching tump can be more difficult than it used to be since a certain former president’s last name takes up considerable search engine real estate now.
Finally, if anyone ever laughs at you for using tump, just know this: the word’s even made it into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So tump away, Texas! | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:24 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ |
CORNING — Five people are dead and one has major injuries Saturday following a collision on Interstate 5 about a mile south of Corning.
California Highway Patrol dispatchers received a call at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, reporting that a northbound car had crossed the center divider and into the southbound lanes. The car, a silver Infiniti, collided head-on with a southbound Ram pickup pulling a fifth-wheel trailer, with the resulting scattered debris blocking both southbound lanes.
All four of the people inside the Infiniti were ejected from the vehicle. The pickup’s driver died, with the front-seat passenger sustaining major injuries. A helicopter transported that passenger to Enloe Medical Center for treatment.
Traffic quickly began to back up to Corning and beyond. When it became clear the crash site would close that side of the freeway for an indefinite time, CHP officers began to divert traffic to the Liberal Avenue exit so motorists could continue south on Highway 99W.
A van from the Tehama County Coroner’s Office arrived at the scene. A Highway Patrol multidisciplinary accident investigation team — MAIT — was headed to the scene to conduct the investigation, which CHP officials said would last until about 9 p.m.
The CHP stopped southbound traffic at the Solano Street exit near downtown Corning at 2:08 p.m.
This is a developing story. We will update it as more information becomes available. | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/car-crosses-median-collides-with-truck-on-i-5-near-corning-apparent-fatality/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:47 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/car-crosses-median-collides-with-truck-on-i-5-near-corning-apparent-fatality/ |
SAN FRANCISCO — Brandon Crawford was activated off of the injured list Saturday prior to the Giants’ game against the Boston Red Sox but it remains unclear as to how he’ll split time at shortstop with rookie Marco Luciano going forward.
Prior to his 11-game stay on the injured list with left knee inflammation, Crawford had a slash line of .207/.285/.333 with five home runs and 26 RBIs in 64 games.
Crawford took live batting practice Friday and Saturday and although he is able to perform all baseball activities without restrictions, per Giants manager Gabe Kapler, Luciano started against Boston.
Luciano got his first major league hit on Friday and also scored a run in a 3-2 Giants loss to the Red Sox.
Kapler addressed the shortstop situation pregame, saying, “I imagine they’ll both get the reps, but I don’t have an exact (time)-share for you.”
Kapler added that Luciano is capable of playing in another infield spot, should the Giants want to get both the rookie and Crawford both in the lineup.
“We’re trying to get Luciano ready to play a little second base in case that become a necessity,” Kapler said, adding, “or in case game moves dictate that he needs to play on that side of the diamond.”
Kapler said that while Luciano has been trained almost exclusively at shortstop, the Dominican Republic native also practiced at second base in spring training.
“A very athletic player that has played shortstop for a considerable amount of time, which Marco has, he’s probably physically gifted enough to move to other positions on the dirt and in the outfield,” Kapler said.
Luciano said that while his position may change, his effort will not.
“All I can control is show up every day, play hard and play wherever they want me to play,” Luciano said through a Spanish language translator.
Brett Wisely, a 24-year-old rookie with a .175/.231/.267 hitting line, was optioned back to Triple-A Sacramento to make space for Crawford.
His inability to hit top-tier pitching was listed as the reason for Wisely’s demotion.
“I explained the situation to Wise, and talked to him a little bit about, collectively, what we think he needs to work on to get back to the major leagues and help us win baseball games,” Kapler said.
WINN UPDATE: Pitcher Keaton Winn (4.09 ERA, one save) will avoid surgery after a doctor’s visit showed no structural damage to his right elbow. Winn is in Triple-A after a brief stint in the majors. Kapler said, “the game plan is to get him some anti-inflammatory (medicine) and get him back to pitching as soon as possible.”
WADE UPDATE: LaMonte Wade Jr. continues to make progress as he battles a back injury but remained out of the lineup Saturday. Kapler said Wade is “doing everything he can. He wants to play and he wants to be competing out there.”
KAPLER ON WEBB: Kapler said he did not have a problem with pitcher Logan Webb’s actions Friday when he was seen shaking his head in the dugout after being pulled in the eighth inning. Kapler said “It’s fine. Logan’s a competitor and I love the fact that he’s a competitor that wants the ball and wants to go out there at every turn. Absolutely love it and respect him.” | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/sf-giants-activate-crawford-have-plans-for-top-prospect-luciano/ | 2023-07-29T23:58:53 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/sf-giants-activate-crawford-have-plans-for-top-prospect-luciano/ |
LONOKE COUNTY, Arkansas — Agriculture is Arkansas's largest growing industry, but there's a sector that's often overlooked — Aquaculture.
“In Lonoke County, you'll see some of the largest fish farms in the United States,” Keo Fish Farms General Manager Seth Summerside said. "We’re the largest hybrid striped bass hatchery in the world."
The farm spans 2,000 acres with sheds that house different fish. The Keo Fish Farms ponds aren't covered by shade, which means the heat impacts them.
"You can have temperature fluctuations anywhere between 70 degrees and 108 degrees," Summerside said. "[It] puts tremendous stress on the fish, and the hotter the temperature, the less oxygen."
According to Summerside, keeping a close eye on the fish is crucial because of the hot temperatures.
"The 100 different ponds... what's the temperature?" Summerside asked. "What's the oxygen level in the ponds? How are we transporting the fish? We're handling 150 million fish a year."
And the heat doesn't just impact the fish. Employees are feeling the burn too.
“Make sure you provide them with enough water, sunblock and air conditioning," Summerside said. "We shift hours based on the temperature whenever we can."
Even so, Summerside said they try and get their work done before the worst of the heat settles in.
“We start at six [and] we end at three," Summerside said. "We try to structure what we do on the farm with the hardest things first, so it's cooler."
With the hot temperatures not going away soon, Summerside says they'll keep finding ways to adapt.
“Climate, the temperature and the fluctuations with what we see in the weather, it's going to be consistent moving forward,” Summerside said. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-fish-farm-heat/91-17a05cef-5ce9-4e48-8fc8-21ddd54cab40 | 2023-07-29T23:59:28 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-fish-farm-heat/91-17a05cef-5ce9-4e48-8fc8-21ddd54cab40 |
8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
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JACKSONVILLE, Arkansas — The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is investigating a residential fire in the 13000 block of Peters Road in Jacksonville.
Deputies were dispatched to the area around 4 a.m. on Saturday and found the home engulfed. First responders extinguished the fire, and an investigation is underway.
The investigation into this incident is ongoing. We are working to gather additional information and will update you as soon as it becomes available. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/sheriffs-investigating-house-fire-jacksonville/91-eb9bf6bd-6328-4871-b89c-8e45339ad91a | 2023-07-29T23:59:34 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/sheriffs-investigating-house-fire-jacksonville/91-eb9bf6bd-6328-4871-b89c-8e45339ad91a |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — According to court documents, on July 29, 2023, U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks ruled to stop the Arkansas new library censorship law from going into effect.
Judge Brooks issued an order for a temporary restraint for the law that would go into effect Aug. 1.
Act 372 is known as the library obscenity bill. Multiple libraries and library patrons, including the Fayetteville Public Library, say the act is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs say the act broadens who can call library material obscene and can punish someone caught giving that content to minors.
They also disagree with section five of the act, saying it is unconstitutionally vague and would cause viewpoint discrimination.
The defendants, which include the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office, deny the plaintiff’s motion and say this law is meant to protect children from obscene material.
Arkansas Senator Dan Sullivan said the following in reference to the decision.
"Act 372 was overwhelmingly passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor. I'll continue to fight to keep material that is harmful to minors away from our most vulnerable. We will be appealing this decision to the Court of Appeals and investigating other legislation to protect our youngsters."
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Winning Powerball numbers for Saturday, July 29, 2023. Lottery drawing jackpot results
The Powerball lottery jackpot took another leap forward after no one matched all six numbers on Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, the Mega Milions jackpot sits at No. 8 among the nation's top 10 lottery prizes of all-time, as Tuesday's jackpot is currently worth an estimated $910 million, with a cash option of $464.2 million.
Grab your tickets and pull up a chair.
The numbers have been selected for the Saturday, July 29, Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $60 million, with a cash option of $31.1 million.
Powerball, Mega Millions numbers:Want to win the massive Mega Millions jackpot? Here are luckiest numbers, places to play
Powerball winning numbers 7/29/23
Saturday's drawing will take place around 10:59 p.m. ET. The winning numbers for Wednesday night's drawing were 3, 16, 40, 48, 60, and the Powerball is 14. The Power Play was 2X.
Did anyone win Powerball last night, Saturday, July 29th, 2023?
Results are pending.
Powerball winner?:Lock up your ticket and go hide. What to know if you win the jackpot
How many lotto numbers in Powerball do you need to win a prize?
You only need to match one number in Powerball to win a prize. However, that number must be the Powerball worth $4.
What do I do if I get 2 lottery numbers on Powerball?
Matching two numbers won't win anything in Powerball unless one of the numbers is the Powerball. A ticket matching one of the five numbers and the Powerball is also worth $4.
Powerball numbers you need to know:These most commonly drawn numbers could help you win
When is the next Powerball drawing?
Drawings are held three times per week at approximately 10:59 p.m. ET every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
How to play Powerball
Here's how to play Powerball:
Mega Millions numbers:Winning Mega Millions numbers for Friday, July 28, 2023. Lottery drawing at $1.05B
Powerball 2023 jackpot winners
Here is the list of 2023 Powerball jackpot wins, according to powerball.com:
- $754.6 million — Feb. 6; Washington.
- $162.6 million — Mar. 4; Virginia.
- $252.6 million — April 19; Ohio.
- $1.08 billion — July 19; California.
Powerball numbers:Results for Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Lottery drawing jackpot at $60M
Results for Top 10 Powerball lottery jackpots
Here are the all-time top 10 Powerball jackpots, according to powerball.com:
- $2.04 billion — Nov. 7, 2022; California.
- $1.586 billion — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee.
- $1.08 billion — July 19, 2023; California.
- $768.4 million — Mar. 27, 2019; Wisconsin.
- $758.7 million — Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts.
- $754.6 million — Feb. 6, 2023; Washington.
- $731.1 million — Jan. 20, 2021; Maryland.
- $699.8 million — Oct. 4, 2021; California.
- $687.8 million — Oct. 27, 2018; Iowa, New York.
- $632.6 million — Jan. 5, 2022; California, Wisconsin.
Results for Top 10 U.S. lottery jackpots
Here are the nation's all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to powerball.com:
- $2.04 billion, Powerball — Nov. 7, 2022; California.
- $1.586 billion, Powerball — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee.
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions — Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina.
- $1.35 billion, Mega Millions — Jan. 13, 2023; Maine.
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions — July 29, 2022; Illinois.
- $1.08 billion, Powerball — July 19, 2023; California.
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions — Jan. 22, 2021; Michigan.
- $1.05 million, Mega Millions — Aug. 1, 2023; TBD.
- $768.4 million, Powerball — Mar. 27, 2019; Wisconsin.
- $758.7 million, Powerball — Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts.
Chris Sims is a digital producer at Midwest DOT. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFSims. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2023/07/29/powerball-winning-numbers-7-29-23-july-29-2023-results-lottery-drawing-jackpot-power-ball-lotto/70484140007/ | 2023-07-30T00:00:02 | 1 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2023/07/29/powerball-winning-numbers-7-29-23-july-29-2023-results-lottery-drawing-jackpot-power-ball-lotto/70484140007/ |
8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
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New Brookings interchange on 20th Street opens
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 6:45 PM CDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
BROOKINGS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Traffic flow from the interstate into the city of Brookings got a little easier on Saturday when the I-29 interchange at 20th Street finally opened.
Construction on the project began in the spring of last year. Motorists should still be aware that it will remain a work zone with a 65-mile-per-hour speed limit until the permanent signs are installed.
The project has been in discussion for more than 20 years and in total cost more than $15 million.
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Over 400 people attend annual Jakob Hohm Off-Road Adventures
WILLOW LAKE, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - For the seventh straight year, the small town of Willow Lake in Clark County came together in a big way to show their support after a family lost their nine-year-old son.
Jakob Hohm came home from school one day, and the next, he unexpectedly passed away. Since then, Jakob Hohm Off-Road Adventures was formed and more than 400 people registered for an ATV ride that took place at noon on Saturday.
Hundreds of items also poured in from community members for an auction with proceeds going toward families that went through the same tragedy.
“Jakob had a big love for adventure and being outside riding snowmobiles and ATVs and razors, and we had just gotten one right before he had passed away,” said Jakob’s mother, Colleen. “We wanted to just keep his memory alive of helping other people because he really liked to be a friend to everyone he met and he had a heart of gold.”
Last year, the event was able to raise more than $70,000 and the organizers are optimistic that it will only continue to grow.
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(WFRV) – It may have many names, but depending on where you live, it only has one. “Cornhole” or “Bags” has been in the middle of discussions when it comes to what the popular bag toss game is called.
The American Cornhole Association (ACA) wanted to settle the debate about what the popular game is called. In addition to having it on its website, the ACA also posted on its Facebook page.
The Facebook post had nearly 600 engagements, and the results painted an interesting picture. A map with the results showed how different parts of the country have different names for the game.
Nearly 79% of the answers were “cornhole,” while just over 21% were “bags.” There was also a percentage for “bean bag toss.” Most of the answers for “bags” came from the Midwest.
But outside of the Midwest, answers were dominated by “cornhole.”
Regardless of what the game is called, most people play by the same rules.
On the American Cornhole Association’s website, it says that it was established in 2003 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was reportedly the first organized corn toss organization in the United States. | https://www.ksn.com/news/is-it-bags-or-cornhole-official-governing-body-tries-to-settle-the-debate/ | 2023-07-30T00:00:47 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/is-it-bags-or-cornhole-official-governing-body-tries-to-settle-the-debate/ |
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials slated millions of dollars for rural water projects in several states, with the Biden administration looking to shore up infrastructure needs made more urgent by long-term drought conditions that have been exacerbated by climate change.
The U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday that $420 million will be spent on projects in New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. The work includes construction of water treatment plants, pipeline connections, pump systems and reservoirs to provide drinking water to rural and tribal communities.
The West is experiencing . Scientists say the region has become much warmer and drier in recent decades and that climate change will continue to make weather more extreme, wildfires more frequent and destructive, and water supplies less reliable.
From Idaho and Montana south to New Mexico and Arizona, even soil moisture levels have hit record lows as . Earlier this month, , spurring concerns about the ability to crank out more hydropower from the dam that holds it back.
Native American tribes that are finally seeing federal money after years of being underfunded are working to get at water they long had rights to but could not access without funds to build the infrastructure. On the Navajo Nation, tens of thousands of people still live without running water, while tribes in the upper Midwest are awaiting pipeline extensions that would tap into reliable sources.
In all, the infrastructure measure included $5 billion for Western water programs, with 20% of that dedicated to rural projects.
Federal officials said the allocations were based on project plans and significant goals that are projected to be reached with the funding.
The largest share — $160 million — will go toward a project decades in the making that will eventually provide water for about 70,000 people who live in communities along the New Mexico-Texas state line, where the is being pumped at a faster rate than it’s being replenished.
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority will receive additional money from the Bureau of Reclamation and the state of New Mexico. When combined with matching money from the utility, the total for this year will be more than $228 million.
“This will take us far in the construction of this critically important project,” said Michael Morris, chairman of the water authority and mayor of Clovis, a rural community in eastern New Mexico.
Other allocations include $75.5 million for the Lewis & Clark Rural Water System, which spans parts of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. The system is designed to pipe water from the Missouri River to areas as far as 60 miles (97 kilometers) away that have less plentiful resources.
In North Dakota, $51 million will go to a section of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program.
More than $57 million will go to the Rocky Boys/North Central Montana Rural Water System, which serves the Rocky Boy’s Reservation and numerous municipalities. The Fort Peck Reservation in Montana will benefit from $7 million for the water system there.
Tanya Trujillo, assistant Interior secretary for water and science, was flanked by water managers in Albuquerque when she made the announcement.
“The department is committed to bringing clean, reliable drinking water to rural communities to help strengthen resilience to climate change,” Trujillo said.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Alexander Zverev will take on Laslo Djere in the Hamburg European Open final on Sunday, July 30.
With -450 odds, Zverev is favored over Djere in this tournament final against the underdog, who is +310.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Finals
- Date: Sunday, July 30
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has an 81.8% chance to win.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Trends and Insights
- In the semifinals on Saturday, Zverev beat Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4.
- Djere eliminated Zhizhen Zhang 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals on Saturday.
- Zverev has played 26 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 42 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Zverev has played 22 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.8% of games.
- In his 58 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Djere is averaging 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches) while winning 50.3% of those games.
- Djere has averaged 22 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 10.5 games per set through 22 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- In head-to-head matches, Zverev has two wins, while Djere has zero. In their last match on June 4, 2021, Zverev was victorious 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.
- In terms of sets, Zverev has won five versus Djere (100.0%), while Djere has captured zero.
- Zverev and Djere have competed in 47 total games, and Zverev has won more often, capturing 31 of them.
- Djere and Zverev have matched up two times, and they have averaged 23.5 games and 2.5 sets per match.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — With extreme heat plaguing the state and many parts of the country, Wichita Transit was free last week to provide a safe place to beat the heat.
That will be the case next week, as Wichita Transit announced Friday it would be free again next week.
The air-conditioned Q-LINE is already free. It currently runs Monday through Saturday from 6:15 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The Q-LINE has stops at the Advanced Learning Library and city museums, which can also help provide an escape from the heat.
The Neighborhood Resource Centers also have water and air conditioning for anyone who needs it. You can find them at the following locations:
- Atwater, 2755 E. 19th St. N.
- Colvin, 2820 S. Roosevelt St.
- Evergreen, 2601 N. Arkansas St.
The City of Wichita said in a tweet regardless of whether the free rides were extended, they were always going to be free on Aug. 1 for election day. | https://www.ksn.com/news/wichita-transit-free-again-next-week-to-help-beat-the-heat/ | 2023-07-30T00:00:53 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/wichita-transit-free-again-next-week-to-help-beat-the-heat/ |
Scattered showers are tracking through central Kansas this evening. Light rainfall will continue to move southeast over the next few hours as we watch a boundary exit the Sunflower State.
Our eyes are on our next wave of energy as it moves out of Colorado and across the state line overnight. A Marginal Risk for severe weather is in place for a large portion of the region as storms could produce strong winds and large hail as they move east.
Temperatures fall back into the 60s across western Kansas while central Kansas holds onto the 70s overnight. Our next wave of energy will bring showers to northwest Kansas after 11 PM.
Showers will track across northwest Kansas late this evening and eventually arrive in northcentral Kansas for the start of our Sunday. Rainfall will diminish as it tracks through southcentral Kansas in the afternoon, but an isolated storm or two remains possible.
Temperatures will inch back toward the 100-degree mark by tomorrow afternoon. Winds stay out of the south, with sunshine out west and spotty showers across central Kansas.
Excessive Heat Warnings are in place for southcentral Kansas through 9 PM tomorrow. Our heat index will be close to 110 degrees. Please make sure to drink plenty of water over the next few days as temperatures remain toasty.
We will continue to bake under the bubble of high pressure for the workweek with highs in the triple-digits. Our next strong cold front will arrive just in time for the weekend. Rain chances will increase with the boundary this weekend, and temperatures will return to our seasonal average.
KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Meteorologist Lucy Doll:
Wichita:
Tonight: Mostly clear to partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms. Lo: 73 Wind: SW 8-18
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. 20% chance of showers and storms. Hi: 100 Wind: S 5-15
Tomorrow night: Mostly clear to partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms. Lo: 75 Wind: SE 5-15
Wichita Weekly
Mon: Hi: 101 Lo: 76 Mostly sunny.
Tue: Hi: 103 Lo: 79 Mostly sunny.
Wed: Hi: 102 Lo: 79 Mostly sunny, windy.
Thu: Hi: 101 Lo: 72 Mostly sunny.
Fri: Hi: 92 Lo: 70 Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms.
Sat: Hi: 90 Lo: 69 Partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms.
-Meteorologist Lucy Doll | https://www.ksn.com/weather/weather-blog/storm-track-3-forecast-spotty-showers-tonight-triple-digit-temps-this-week/ | 2023-07-30T00:00:59 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/weather/weather-blog/storm-track-3-forecast-spotty-showers-tonight-triple-digit-temps-this-week/ |
Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood to host forums on how to protect kids from online predators
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood will lead five community forums starting Monday in New Smyrna Beach to share suggestions to parents on how to protect their children from online sexual predators and other internet dangers.
Chitwood will be joined by others from the Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Children & Families to discuss social media risks, the facts on human trafficking and tips on how to keep children safe from predators.
“If your kids are spending their time online, you need to be aware of what’s out there,” Chitwood said in a news release. “Your kids’ safety starts at home, and we want every family to have the knowledge and the tools to avoid the predators we know are using the same apps kids use every day.”
The forums were prompted by the July 15 arrest of a 29-year-old Cocoa Beach man who twice had sex with a 12-year-old Deltona girl and was continuing to communicate with her through Wink and Instagram apps, according to a sheriff's report.
The forums will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m:
- Monday at First NSB - A Family Church, 200 Faulkner St., New Smyrna Beach
- Monday, Aug. 7 at Tomoka Christian Church, 1101 E. Plymouth Ave., DeLand
- Wednesday, Aug. 9 at Deltona City Hall, 2345 Providence Blvd., Deltona
- Monday, Aug. 28 at DeBary City Hall, 16 Colomba Road, DeBary
- Tuesday, Aug. 29 at Mission San Jose of St. Peter, 165 Emporia Road, Pierson | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2023/07/29/volusia-sheriff-mike-chitwood-to-discuss-online-predators-at-5-forums/70492682007/ | 2023-07-30T00:01:21 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2023/07/29/volusia-sheriff-mike-chitwood-to-discuss-online-predators-at-5-forums/70492682007/ |
8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
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It’s a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag he carried returns from US
Toshihiro Mutsuda was only five years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action
TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.
On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: “It's a miracle."
The flag, known as “Yosegaki Hinomaru,” or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier's name, Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, and the signatures of his relatives, friends and neighbors wishing him luck. It was given to him before he was drafted by the Army. His family was later told he died in Saipan, but his remains were never returned.
The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Its meaning was not known until it was identified by the family earlier this year, said museum director Steve Banta, who brought the flag to Tokyo.
Banta said he learned the story behind the flag earlier this year when he was contacted by the Obon Society, a nonprofit organization that has returned about 500 similar flags as non-biological remains, to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.
The search for the flag's original owner started in April when a museum visitor took a photo and asked an expert about the description that it had belonged to a “kamikaze” suicide pilot. When Shigeyoshi Mutsuda's grandson saw the photo, he sought help from the Obon Society, group co-founder Keiko Ziak said.
“When we learned all of this, and that the family would like to have the flag, we knew immediately that the flag did not belong to us,” Banta said at the handover ceremony. “We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.”
The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when Banta, wearing white gloves, gently placed the neatly folded flag into his hands. Two of his younger siblings, both in their 80s, stood by and looked on silently. The three children, all wearing cotton gloves so they wouldn't damage the decades-old flag, carefully unfolded it to show to the audience.
“After receiving the flag today, I earnestly felt that the war like that should never be fought again and that I do not wish anyone else to go through this sadness (of separation),” Toshihiro Mutsuda said.
The soldier's daughter, Misako Matsukuchi, touched the flag with both hands and prayed. “After nearly 80 years, the spirit of our father returned to us. I hope he can finally rest in peace," Matsukuchi said later.
Toshihiro Mutsuda said his memory of his father was foggy. However, he clearly remembers his mother, Masae Mutsuda, who died five years ago at age 102, used to make the long-distance bus trip almost every year from the farming town in Gifu, central Japan, to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are enshrined, to pay tribute to her husband's spirit.
The shrine is controversial, as it includes convicted war criminals among those commemorated. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japanese militarism. However, for the Mutsuda family, it's a place to remember the loss of a father and husband.
“It’s like an old love story across the ages coming together ... It doesn’t matter where,” Banta said, referring to the Yasukuni controversy. “The important thing is this flag goes to the family.”
That’s why Toshihiro Mutsuda and his siblings chose to receive the flag at Yasukuni and brought the framed photos of their parents.
“My mother missed him and wanted to see him so much and that's why she used to pray here," he said. “Today her wish finally came true, and she was able to be reunited.”
Keeping the flag on his lap, he said, “I feel the weight of the flag." | https://www.kbtx.com/2023/07/29/its-miracle-say-family-japanese-soldier-killed-wwii-flag-he-carried-returns-us/ | 2023-07-30T00:02:25 | 1 | https://www.kbtx.com/2023/07/29/its-miracle-say-family-japanese-soldier-killed-wwii-flag-he-carried-returns-us/ |
Josh Smith Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Padres - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 6:24 PM CDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
On Saturday, Josh Smith (.250 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 90 points below season-long percentage) and the Texas Rangers face the San Diego Padres, whose starting pitcher will be Yu Darvish. First pitch is at 8:40 PM ET.
In his last game he had a one-hit showing (1-for-2) against the Astros.
Josh Smith Game Info & Props vs. the Padres
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
- Stadium: PETCO Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Padres Starter: Yu Darvish
- TV Channel: SDPA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +825)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +360)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +190)
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Josh Smith At The Plate
- Smith is hitting .212 with four doubles, four home runs and 15 walks.
- Smith has picked up a hit in 40.8% of his 49 games this year, with at least two hits in 8.2% of them.
- He has homered in 8.2% of his games this season, and 2.8% of his chances at the plate.
- In six games this year, Smith has picked up an RBI, with more than one RBI once.
- He has scored in 34.7% of his games this season (17 of 49), with two or more runs five times (10.2%).
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Josh Smith Home/Away Batting Splits
Padres Pitching Rankings
- The Padres pitching staff ranks 12th in MLB with a collective 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Padres have the second-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (3.78).
- Padres pitchers combine to rank 12th in baseball in home runs surrendered (117 total, 1.1 per game).
- Darvish (7-7 with a 4.80 ERA and 108 strikeouts in 101 1/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Padres, his 19th of the season.
- In his last time out on Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the right-hander tossed 4 1/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- In 18 games this season, the 36-year-old has amassed a 4.80 ERA and 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .254 to his opponents.
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Sam Huff Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Padres - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 6:24 PM CDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
The Texas Rangers and Sam Huff, who went 0-for-1 last time in action, battle Yu Darvish and the San Diego Padres at PETCO Park, Saturday at 8:40 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his most recent game (0-for-1) against the Padres.
Sam Huff Game Info & Props vs. the Padres
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
- Stadium: PETCO Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Padres Starter: Yu Darvish
- TV Channel: SDPA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +200)
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Sam Huff At The Plate
- Huff has a home run and two walks while batting .188.
- In three of nine games this year, Huff got a hit, but only one each time.
- He has gone deep in one game this season.
- Huff has picked up an RBI twice this season, but just one in each of those games.
- He has scored in one of nine games.
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Sam Huff Home/Away Batting Splits
Padres Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Padres has a collective 8.9 K/9, which ranks 12th in MLB.
- The Padres have a 3.78 team ERA that ranks second across all league pitching staffs.
- Padres pitchers combine to allow 117 total home runs at a clip of 1.1 per game (to rank 12th in the league).
- Darvish makes the start for the Padres, his 19th of the season. He is 7-7 with a 4.80 ERA and 108 strikeouts in 101 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the right-hander threw 4 1/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- In 18 games this season, the 36-year-old has put up an ERA of 4.80, with 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are batting .254 against him.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Alexander Zverev will take on Laslo Djere in the Hamburg European Open final on Sunday, July 30.
With -450 odds, Zverev is favored over Djere in this tournament final against the underdog, who is +310.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Finals
- Date: Sunday, July 30
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has an 81.8% chance to win.
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Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Trends and Insights
- In the semifinals on Saturday, Zverev beat Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4.
- Djere eliminated Zhizhen Zhang 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals on Saturday.
- Zverev has played 26 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 42 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Zverev has played 22 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.8% of games.
- In his 58 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Djere is averaging 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches) while winning 50.3% of those games.
- Djere has averaged 22 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 10.5 games per set through 22 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- In head-to-head matches, Zverev has two wins, while Djere has zero. In their last match on June 4, 2021, Zverev was victorious 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.
- In terms of sets, Zverev has won five versus Djere (100.0%), while Djere has captured zero.
- Zverev and Djere have competed in 47 total games, and Zverev has won more often, capturing 31 of them.
- Djere and Zverev have matched up two times, and they have averaged 23.5 games and 2.5 sets per match.
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BALTIMORE — With the Aug. 1 trade deadline just days away, Aaron Boone is trying to keep his focus on the players he has to work with.
“We need to handle our room,” the Yankees manager said before Saturday’s game against the Orioles. “We have guys that we know are capable of more, and that’s our focus, like just trying to get the most out of everyone in that room. And we all feel like there’s more all of us can do to get that out. So that’s about solely where my focus is.”
While Boone has repeatedly said that the last-place Yankees have the guys to get it done, the team entered Saturday’s game 3.5 games out of the American League’s third and final wild-card spot. The Yankees’ next two opponents, the Rays and Astros, hold the first two wild card slots, while the Blue Jays are in possession of the third. The Red Sox are 1.5 games out, while the Angles are only half a game behind the Yankees. The Mariners are one game behind New York.
Prior to the weekend, the Yankees felt they were in a position to be buyers, but the team was taking things day-by-day entering their big series against the first-place Orioles. The Yankees lost Friday’s game 1-0 despite Aaron Judge’s return from a toe injury and Gerrit Cole’s dominance on the mound.
Should the Yankees make any additions, the offense figures to be a priority. The lineup struggled mightily without Judge, and it didn’t exactly look good with him on Friday.
Left field, which has been a revolving door for the Yankees and plagued by poor defense, is one position the club could upgrade. But when asked about left specifically, Boone said he “can’t worry about what’s not here” and speculation, which runs rampant this time of year.
“I mean, technically everything can be upgraded,” Boone said. “The reality is Jake Bauers and [Billy McKinney], [Isiah Kiner-Falefa] have all been productive when they’ve been in there.
“I don’t even know if that’s a reality or who that person may be. Our job is to get everyone ready to do their job the best they can right now. That’s our focus. And as I’ve said all along, I feel like we have more than capable people in that room.”
While Boone is focused on his clubhouse, he did say that general manager Brian Cashman gave him an “overview of the war room” on Saturday.
“But until something’s imminent — like this might be a reality — we got this to worry about,” Boone continued. “We got the Orioles and trying to get a victory.”
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Even after Edwin Diaz went down for the season back in March, it was inconceivable the Mets, with their record highest payroll in history, would wind up sellers at the trading deadline. Yet here they are, raising the white flag over Flushing, beginning with the trading of David Robertson to the Marlins for a couple of low-level teenage “futures” plus agreeing to deal Max Scherzer to the Rangers and all but admitting they’ve been a $345 million catastrophe.
And somewhere Steve Cohen is asking: “How did it come to this?” And, perhaps more importantly: “Where do we go from here?”
How it came to this is mostly unexplainable. You could make the case that GM Billy Eppler perhaps didn’t do a great job of roster construction, but how does Jeff McNeil hit nearly 80 points below his league-leading .326 batting average last year? Or Pete Alonso’s slash line of .271/.352/.518 in 2022, shrink to .217/.315/.497? Or Francisco Lindor fall off from a .270 batting average and .788 OPS last year to .228/.760 while on pace for 30-40 fewer RBI?
It was nobody’s fault that Jose Quintana, counted on to fill one of the rotation vacancies from the free agent departures of Chris Bassitt and Taijuan Walker, missed the first 3 ½ months of the season with a freak injury, but without him the Nos. 4 and 5 spots after Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander and Kodai Senga have been an unenviable crapshoot all season long for Buck Showalter. Most egregious, however, was Eppler’s failure to secure any hard-throwing strikeout arms behind Robertson, as the Mets pen appeared too often to be an endless parade of Triple-A “tin cans”.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about this Mets pratfall — other than payroll doesn’t equivocate to pennants (see: Yankees) — it’s that they are nowhere near the same class as the Braves, who have superior players, on both sides of the ball, at catcher, first base, second base, third base, right field and maybe even center field where Michael Harris II, an elite defender, is developing fast into a solid hitter. And while we might give the edge at shortstop to the Mets, it’s based purely on Lindor’s reputation. The fact of the matter is the Braves’ Orlando Arcia has had an All-Star season.
There’s not a whole lot Eppler can do about the Mets’ offense as a whole other than hope Alonso, McNeil and Lindor will revert to ‘22 form and that Starling Marte, at 35 next year, isn’t nearing the end of the line (as it’s looked) and has some comeback in him. They lack power in the outfield which could be partially rectified by moving Brett Baty off third base where he’s been a defensive liability. That would also open up a spot for Ronny Mauricio, whose time appears to be at hand.
But if Cohen ever expects to realize the fruits of his spending, Eppler is going to need to make major additions to the pitching staff — starting with re-signing Robertson (who loved pitching for Showalter) after the season. That would certainly help ease the angst of Met fans unwilling to wait ‘til 2025 or later to see the two prospects, 18-year-old middle infielder Marco Vargas, or 19-year-old switch-hitting catcher Ronald Hernandez, he got back from the Marlins. To close the gap on the Braves, the Mets are going to have to do it with pitching, and with the understanding there may not be a whole lot left in the tank with Scherzer and Verlander.
Word is, because of Eppler, they may have a leg up on the competition for 25-year-old Orix Buffaloes righty Yoshinobu Yamamoto acknowledged as the best pitcher in Japan the last few seasons, who will be a free agent at the end of the season. But they’re going to need at least one more starter and it would be nice if one could emerge from the system from among Blake Tidwell, Mike Vasil, Christian Scott or Dominic Hamel. And the bullpen, even with Diaz’s return and a re-signing of Robertson, needs a near-total overhaul.
Cohen may find this hard to believe but the reason his Mets are sellers at the trading deadline this year is because they’re not a very good team, offensively, defensively and pitching-wise.
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IT’S A MADD, MADD WORLD
There was quite a hue and cry among the nation’s baseball media last week when the Angels declared Shohei Ohtani was not being traded — and then went out and dealt two of their top three prospects to the White Sox for rental righty Lucas Giolito.
“How could they hold onto him?” howled the masses, to which I would say: “How could they not?” Even if all the naysayers prove to be right and the Angels don’t make the playoffs, you have to give them credit for trying, and even if Ohtani does move on as a free agent, how do you trade a player – no matter what the circumstances – who is having the most incredible season in baseball history?
Angel fans all feel blessed (as do we all) to be able to witness Ohtani’s daily pitching and hitting feats — like last Thursday’s doubleheader against the Tigers when Ohtani notched his first career shutout in the opener — a one-hitter — and came back in the nightcap to hit his 37th and 38th homers as the Angels’ DH. Ohtani, who says the secret of his success is sleeping 12 hours a day, went into the weekend leading the majors in homers, triples (7), total bases (258), OPS (1.070) plus fewest hits allowed per nine innings (5.9) and opponents batting average (.185).
According to the Elias Bureau, only two players in history, Jim Rice in 1978 and Willie Mays in 1955, have ever led the league in both homers and triples in the same season. The American League MVP ought to be unanimous, no matter where the Angels finish up. We’ve never seen anything like this before and doubtless never will.
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This Chicago Cubs roller-coaster ride has been one for the books.
Whether it turns into a classic or gets thrown into the used-books bin remains to be seen.
The trade deadline is quickly approaching, the heat index is rising and the Cubs suddenly have performed like the team they were at the start of the season, making believers out of longtime skeptics and forcing the front office to either commit to this group or fast-forward to the future.
Does President Jed Hoyer believe in this team enough to stand pat or even add on? Or will his business sensibilities override his penchant for dreaming big?
Like the “Save Ferris” campaign in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Cubs players have engaged in a sort of guerilla campaign to “Save Belli” and “Save Stro,” hoping to keep Cody Bellinger and Marcus Stroman in the mix for a playoff push. If it works and they’re both still here Wednesday, the pressure will be on the players to avoid backsliding, as they’ve done before this season after prolonged stretches of playing well.
Hoyer must choose between his head and his heart. You have to believe he would want to keep both in a perfect world and roll the dice down the stretch. But he can’t dismiss what has happened in the first four months, even if it’s hard to make heads or tails of this team.
When the Cubs went on a 10-3 run in early April, culminating with a three-game sweep of the A’s in Oakland, you might have thought they clinched the pennant, at least if you were listening to Marquee Sports Network analyst Rick Sutcliffe.
But it turned out to be another case of someone with a big microphone wearing Cubs-colored glasses. After slumping in late April, all of May and into early June, the Cubs found themselves 10 games under .500 following a sweep by the Los Angeles Angels on June 8.
Just when it seemed safe to count them out and look toward 2024, the Cubs won 11 of 13 to get back within one game of .500, only to lose six of seven, including a devastating defeat July 3 in Milwaukee. Dansby Swanson said afterward it was time to “man up,” and the Cubs did just that the next night in a comeback win against the Brewers to stay on the edge of contention.
They won 13 of their next 19 and a season-high six straight entering Friday’s game against the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, becoming the third team in franchise history to get back to the .500 mark after being 10 games under.
They extended their streak to seven straight wins with a 3-2 win Friday night after outfielder Mike Tauchman robbed a home run to end the game and moved the Cubs above .500 for 1st time since May 6.
So who are these guys? With two months left, are the Cubs back to being a contender or just teasing their fans again?
“On this day, whatever today is, I don’t think .500 matters a whole lot to us,” manager David Ross said Friday. “We’re playing really good baseball . Part of your record is what you’ve done in the past. We’ve had a really rough May and some high moments and some low moments. It has gotten us to this point. However we got here, we’re here, and we’re playing good baseball. That’s my main concern.”
The Cubs’ 26-15 record since June 9 was tied for third best in the majors. They are 3 1/24 four games out of a wild-card spot and 4 1/2 behind the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers.
It’s perhaps their best stretch since early April, and as Ross pointed out, they’ve been doing it in a much different manner.
“I thought our pitching really stood out early on,” he said. “I feel like the offense is standing out right now, and different players are doing it. Timely hitting. We’re still getting guys on and able to bust games open a little bit. Hopefully this transitions into a back half of everybody kind of clicking on all cylinders.”
Being .500 is nothing to shout about. But it has been a while since one of Chicago’s five oldest professional sports teams had a winning record in the second half of their season. That team would be the 2021-22 Bulls, who finished 10 games over.
Normally a team with a .500 record at this point would be unapologetic sellers ready to play out the string. But these are strange times, and if Bellinger can continue to carry them the final two months, anything could happen.
In late May, when the Cubs were only 4 1/2 out despite being five games below .500, Ross cracked: “Thank goodness for the (crappy) play of everybody in the division I guess, right?”
The National League Central isn’t quite as crummy as it looked back then, though the Cubs are still the only team with a positive run differential. The Reds on Friday were 27-14 since June 9, and the Brewers have traditionally hung in down the stretch, even after dumping players at the trade deadline, such as closer Josh Hader last year.
With so much uncertainty before Tuesday’s trade deadline, it’s almost impossible to speculate about where the Cubs will be a little more than one month from now when the races heat up in September.
We’ve seen them at their best and their worst, sometimes in the same week.
Maybe it’d be less stressful to just let it play out without any expectations. Stop worrying about tomorrow and just enjoy the ride.
But what fun would that be?
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BALTIMORE – Aaron Judge returned and Gerrit Cole shoved, but that didn’t stop the first-place Orioles from beating the last-place Yankees on Friday night after rain delayed the start of a critical series for the Bombers.
Baltimore won, 1-0, after Anthony Santander clubbed a walk-off home run in the ninth inning. Tommy Kahnle, who has struggled in recent weeks, surrendered the dagger on a 2-0 count.
“Tough, tough loss, obviously,” said Aaron Boone, whose Yankees are now 3.5 games away from the American League’s third and final wild card spot with the trade deadline approaching.
The Orioles’ tight win spoiled Aaron Judge’s return from a torn ligament in his right big toe. Having last played on June 3, Judge said he felt jumpy early on at the plate, but he settled in for three walks after lining out in his first at-bat. The DH and No. 2 hitter also said that he felt good physically.
“Shout out to all the guys down in Tampa,” Judge said, a nod to the simulated games he played in Florida earlier this week. “They got me ready with a couple good at-bats. There’s some good arms down there, and they really got me locked in. But for me, I just tried to go out there and just do my job. I didn’t want to put too much pressure on myself. Just get on-base as best I can, especially for [Anthony] Rizzo and [Giancarlo] Stanton behind me, and see what happens.”
While the Yankees squared some balls up, not much transpired for the offense – a common occurrence when Judge was on the shelf.
O’s rookie Grayson Rodriguez recorded the longest – and arguably best – start of his young career, blanking the Yankees for 6.1 innings while limiting them to three hits. The 23-year-old cracked 100 miles per hour four times and still had high-90s heat in his final frames.
“Obviously, that’s a big arm, and he’s coming off a good start his last time,” Boone said. “He had enough of a presence with his breaking ball and his changeup to still allow his fastball to really work, which he had going tonight. We had a couple chances against him. But obviously, we got to find a way to do more.”
A prized pitching prospect before the season, Rodriguez has now recorded two strong starts in a row, as Boone noted. However, he entered the game with a 6.91 ERA, continuing a trend of the Yankees disappointing against starters with inflated marks.
The Yankees recorded just one more hit after Rodriguez departed, and they left six runners on base.
With no run support provided, Gerrit Cole kept the Yankees in the game with seven dominant innings. He, too, did not allow a run while limiting the opposition to three hits. He also struck out five and didn’t walk any Orioles.
“Really good mix,” Cole said of his outing. “Really good execution and good use of the off-speed and good locations. [Catcher] Ben [Rortvedt] was picking good spots.”
Cameras caught Cole shaking Rortvedt off repeatedly at one point toward the end of his night, but the pitcher chalked that up to a tense game and working through things with a young backstop who hasn’t caught the starter much.
The Yankees will now try to even the series on Saturday when Clarke Schmidt starts against Tyler Wells. It remains to be seen if Judge will play a second consecutive day, as Boone had already said the slugger should expect an off day this weekend before inclement weather prolonged Friday’s day at the office.
“I’m looking forward to kind of sitting down with him here a little bit and just seeing how it all went and see how he’s feeling right now,” Boone said. “And obviously check in tomorrow.”
Judge, meanwhile, would love to make up for lost time.
“I’m trying to play every one, so I gotta talk to him after we talk here,” he said. “I had a lot of missed time. So I gotta get back out there.
“Boonie might have some other ideas, but we’ll talk about it.”
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The Mets’ tear-down is underway, with the team agreeing to trade veteran ace Max Scherzer to the Texas Rangers in a deal still pending his approval, the Daily News can confirm.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner would have to waive his no-trade clause for the move to go through.
Scherzer, 39, is in the second season of a three-year, $130 million contract. The final year of the deal is a player option worth $43.3 million.
The right-hander is 9-4 this season but has pitched to a 4.01 ERA, his worst mark in more than a decade.
The agreement between the Mets and the Rangers came a day after Scherzer said he wanted to speak with the Mets’ front office about its intentions before the Aug. 1 trade deadline. The Mets traded closer David Robertson to the Marlins on Thursday.
“Probably got to have a conversation with the front office,” Scherzer said Friday after holding the Nationals to one run over seven innings in a win. “I mean, you’re trading our closer away. I’m sure a bunch of people are gonna have to have conversations with the front office.”
Scherzer would help bolster a Rangers rotation that is missing former Mets ace Jacob deGrom, who recently underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow after signing a five-year contract with Texas in the offseason.
The Rangers currently lead the AL West. Their pitching coach is Mike Maddux, who held the same role with the Nationals in 2016 and 2017, when Scherzer won back-to-back Cy Young Awards there.
The Nationals traded Scherzer to the Dodgers before the 2021 trade deadline. Scherzer said that situation was different than this year’s with the Mets, who are in fourth place in the NL East and outside of the playoff picture despite the biggest payroll in MLB history.
“When I was in Washington, I was going to be a free agent,” Scherzer said Friday. “Our season was going south and I wanted to get traded to a playoff contender. That was the calculus with me with the Nationals. This time around, I’m not going to be a free agent. I have another year here. We did great things last year. We won 101 ballgames last year. Unfortunately, this year it’s not.”
About an hour before news of the trade emerged, Mets manager Buck Showalter said he didn’t have an issue with Scherzer’s comments.
“I’m sure that’s how he feels,” Showalter said Saturday. “Max has made it very clear why he gets up in the morning. He wants it to be here. That’s the way he’s always felt. He likes it here.”
Co-ace Justin Verlander, who signed a two-year, $86.6 million deal with the Mets in the offseason, has also been the subject of trade rumors.
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The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision “was wrong,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said Wednesday, but has provided an opportunity to “go further” for diversity in higher education — steps like unraveling legacy admissions practices.
“Legacy admissions is one of those things too that a lot of campuses are looking at saying, ‘If I can’t use race as a factor to diversify my campus and why am I allowed to use something like, you know, a person’s last name?'” Cardona said in a interview with the Herald Saturday ahead of his remarks at the NAACP National Convention in Boston. “So it’s an opportunity for us to come together and exceed the outcomes that were available during affirmative action.”
Cardona’s remarks follow the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights’ decision to open an investigation into a complaint made against Harvard’s legacy and donor-related admissions preferences filed by Boston nonprofits alleging civil rights violations.
The complaint was just one step in a broad national push against legacy admissions — which opponents note gives preference to a majority white group of applicants, narrowing opportunity for applicants of color — in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn affirmative action in June.
Cardona declined to comment on the investigation but said “as a country, we really need to revisit all of our practices for college admissions.”
The secretary visited Wesleyan University on Friday, praising the college’s decision to end legacy admission preferences. The Connecticut university joins a growing list of colleges to forgo the practice, including Johns Hopkins, MIT, University of Florida and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
At colleges like Wesleyan, Cardona said, school heads are recognizing their roles to lead in the wake of the decision and “to make sure they’re doing more than they were doing before.”
The Department of Education will be releasing a report before or during September highlighting what college campuses can be doing to promote diversity, Cardona said, expressing concern that some states are misinterpreting the court’s decision as a broad limit on strategies for diversity.
“It’s really important to look at the language from this Supreme Court, but also what it doesn’t say,” said Cardona. “It doesn’t say college campuses shouldn’t be diverse. It doesn’t say — if anything it acknowledges the importance of diversity on campus.”
Cardona cited strategies like considering a student’s background in essay or other portions of college applications, expanding access to college level course in K-12 education, improving transfer credits and being more proactive in reaching out to diverse students.
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(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-30T00:03:47 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
BALTIMORE — Aaron Judge returned to the Yankees’ lineup as a DH on Friday. On Saturday, he returned to the field.
Aaron Boone used the reigning MVP as his right fielder and No. 2 hitter on Saturday with the Yankees looking for a bounce-back win over the Orioles at Camden Yards. Judge played the field for the first time since his efforts on a June 3 catch at Dodger Stadium resulted in a torn ligament in his right big toe.
Boone said he checked on Judge after the slugger went 0-for-1 with three walks in his return to action on Friday. Judge felt good to go, and team trainer Mike Schuk felt comfortable with Judge playing two days in a row.
With that said, Judge is expected to get a day off on Sunday.
“Maybe. Probably, but we’ll see,” Boone said when asked if that was the plan. “We’ll get through today and see where we’re at.”
After Friday’s game, Judge said that he wasn’t looking for a day off in Baltimore, but he and the Yankees know they need to be careful.
“I’m trying to play every one, so I gotta talk to [Boone] after we talk here,” Judge said said. “I had a lot of missed time. So I gotta get back out there.
“Boonie might have some other ideas, but we’ll talk about it.”
Speaking of being careful, Boone was asked about the possibility of Judge diving in the field and knowing when to take his foot off the gas. While Judge’s injury occurred on an all-out defensive play — a cement step at Dodger Stadium didn’t help — the manager said the outfielder has “curtailed some of that” over the last two years.
“He’s played a little smarter,” Boone said. “Doesn’t mean he’s not going to play hard and try and make plays, but I think there’s certain things that he doesn’t feel great about doing yet. So he’s naturally going to avoid certain things.”
Boone added that there could be situations where a pinch-runner comes in for Judge as his toe continues to heal.
NASTY NESTOR
Nestor Cortes (rotator cuff) totaled four innings, two hits, zero runs, one walk, five strikeouts and 49 pitches in his rehab start for Double-A Somerset on Friday. He then made his way to Baltimore and arrived at Camden Yards in the middle of the Yankees’ rain-delayed game.
Boone said that Cortes felt good after the outing. The skipper watched the entire performance on Saturday morning.
“Everything looked good,” Boone said. “The breaking ball. He actually had a good changeup going. I talked to him about that today. But his fastball, the life was there. Command of the cutter. He was sharp.”
Cortes is expected to make one more rehab start before rejoining the Yankees. He’ll throw about 60 pitches his next time out.
LOAISIGA’S REHAB
Jonathan Loáisiga (bone spur) is going to start a rehab assignment on Sunday in Tampa, per Boone. He’ll “probably” need to make at least three or four rehab appearances before returning to the Yankees’ bullpen.
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(NEXSTAR) — Pretend you accidentally knock your drink over. What would you say happened to it? If you’re from Texas, or just from the south overall, you might say it “tumped” over.
In general, the word is used when something falls over, spills over, or is knocked over. You can tump someone over or be tumped over by someone else. It’s a useful word — but is it even a word?
And moreover, why do Texans say this?
While “tump” isn’t only found in Texas, you’ll definitely hear it there. Several Texas news outlets have attempted to trace the word’s origin, including Texas Monthly, which pointed to a now-26-year-old post on a message board called Word Wizard (the website is now gone, sadly). According to Texas Monthly’s John Nova Lomax, that lost-to-time post explained that “tump” was a word meant to mimic the “thump” of something falling and hitting the ground.
A common etymological theory is that the word is a combination of the words “tipped” and “dumped” — both of which are frequently followed by the word “over,” as “tumped” often is. In other words, what’s known as a portmanteau, as explained by Texas Standard in 2017.
Again, the verbal phenomenon isn’t signature to only Texas. Many southern outlets, including Oklahoma’s The Oklahoman and Alabama’s AL.com, have noted the trend. Nevertheless, Texans online appear to proudly own the word.
“If you used the word ‘tumped’ you’re: A) from Texas B) not from Texas and possibly just had a stroke. See a doctor ASAP,” joked the popular Texas Humor Twitter account in 2014.
Musings on the word can be seen in connection with Texas Reddit, including this giant thread of Texas slang words.
In a 2020 Reddit thread, one new Texan asked how long until they could convincingly say “Yeehaw,” to which someone posed a counter-challenge: “The real test is when you can properly use ‘tumped over’ in a sentence.”
We may just never know where tump came from. What’s more, researching tump can be more difficult than it used to be since a certain former president’s last name takes up considerable search engine real estate now.
Finally, if anyone ever laughs at you for using tump, just know this: the word’s even made it into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So tump away, Texas! | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ | 2023-07-30T00:03:53 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ |
Zenek Luci was born deaf to a family in Welland, Ontario. He used hearing aids as an infant before receiving a cochlear implant in an operation, his father, Gabriel, says.
"He was about one year old when it was turned on," Gabriel says. "When it's first turned on, they do a mapping, so they they start really low and see where they're responding to the sound."
Invented in 1957, cochlear implants are worn by more than two hundred thousand Americans, according to the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, an industry trade group.
Viral videos of patients receiving cochlear implants and hearing for the first time pack an emotional punch. It's a technology that's transforming lives—and one that's long stirred debate within the Deaf community. Dr. Samantha Kesteloot, an audiologist, educates families about implants and wears one herself.
"There's an internal part and external part," she explains. "The internal part is surgical, and there's an electrode array that is inserted into the cochlea, which is the organ of hearing."
"The outside part is a processor, which sort of looks like a hearing aid," she says. "That picks up the acoustical sound and converts it to electrical stimulus, and then those signals are sent down the electrode array and electrically stimulate the auditory nerve." That's the nerve that sends signals to the brain that correspond to the sensation of hearing.
Many adults with hearing loss say the implants have dramatically improved their lives.
Lou Ferrigno, the actor who once portrayed the Incredible Hulk, recently told students who were deaf or hard of hearing, and how implants have helped him. They "changed my life tremendously," he said. "There's so much hope that people can have better hearing, better lifestyle."
Dr. Keseloot, meanwhile, received her implant in 2017.
"It's completely changed my life," she says. "I always was a pretty high achiever with hearing aids, but I was always just kind of missing out on a lot of social things." Dr. Kestellot says she would "just sort of smile and nod and pretend I understood." Now, she says, "I can keep up in noisy situations."
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Roughly one in five Americans has some form of hearing loss, according to the National Institutes of Health. And there is a thriving Deaf community in the U.S. that communicates with sign language. So adults who are eligible for implants have the choice of whether they want to receive them.
There's considerable debate, however, around their use with kids.
The FDA has approved the technology for children as young as nine months.
Without Zenek's implant, using just the hearing aid, "Everything he said was gibberish," says Gabriel Luci. "So that told us, okay, he's not getting enough with the aid."
"If a family desires listening in spoken language outcomes, the natural goal for the child is to speak and listen," says Dr. Kesteloot. "The best route is to aid and then implant if the hearing aids not doing enough. And then if the child chooses to sign later or, you know, and refuses the implant later, that's a choice that they can make."
Some parents of deaf children decline the procedure, says Dr. Kesteloot, including parents who are deaf themselves. "A lot of culturally deaf parents choose not to implant their children because they don't really have a need for it. Their life is based around sign language," she says. "And then also, some parents believe that the child should make the decision when they get old enough to make the decision. And that's, you know, a little tricky because there is a critical period for language development."
Dorian Smith Garcia wrote recently that videos celebrating cochlear implants "play into audism," which implies that people with hearing loss need to be "cured or corrected."
Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin, who is Deaf, says she isn't opposed to cochlear implants. But she told the World Science Festival in 2019 that Deaf culture built on sign language offers immense rewards for children.
"There is still a great deal of pressure that people should explore the option of cochlear implants because that's better than signing, that you shouldn't sign," she told the audience. "I would say to these people, who are you to decide for us?"
Gabriel Luci, who has a second child with implants named Sasha, says the decision should be up to every parent of a Deaf child.
"I do believe that getting my kids cochlear implants gives them more opportunities, though. I'm not taking away any opportunities from them; I'm only giving them opportunities," he says.
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Tesla Takeover is happening at the Madonna Inn this weekend.
This is the 3rd year and it is estimated to bring in about 2300 attendees, with last year having 1300.
With the conclusion of day one, the event continues at 10 AM to 4 PM on Sunday 7/29.
Elon Musk’s Mom will be speaking tomorrow. There are over 70 vendors, a kids' zone, and local food trucks.
The event is also donating part of the proceeds to 17strong a local nonprofit that grants Victory trips to those with terminal illness. Tesla Takeover donated $15,000 to 17 Strong.
President of Tesla Owners of Silicone Valley John Stringer says that “It's just the passion for Tesla when you drive these amazing vehicles, it really does change the way you look at what a car should be. But the Tesla community is very unique and different. I mean, people literally are coming to this event from all over the world.”
Tickets are priced from 45 to 65 dollars and can be purchased here | https://www.ksby.com/homepage-showcase/tesla-takeover-at-the-madonna-inn-this-weekend | 2023-07-30T00:04:49 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/homepage-showcase/tesla-takeover-at-the-madonna-inn-this-weekend |
The U.S. State Department has selected an Indigenous artist to represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, will be the first such artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious international arts event.
That's according to a statement this week from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the government body responsible for co-curating the U.S. Pavilion, alongside Oregon's Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico.
The State Department's records of the U.S. Pavilion exhibitions date back to when it was built, in 1930.
Although Indigenous artists have shown work more broadly in Venice over the years, the last time Indigenous artists appeared in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale was in 1932 — and that was in a group setting, as part of a mostly Eurocentric exhibition devoted to depictions of the American West.
"In 1932, one of the rooms was devoted to Native American art, but it was done in what I would say was a very ethnographic type of presentation," said Kathleen Ash-Milby, curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum, and one of the co-commissioners of Jeffrey Gibson's work in the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. "It grouped native people together and didn't really focus on their individuality as much. There were Navajo rugs on the floor. There were displays of jewelry. Many of the artists were not named."
Ash-Milby, who is also the first Native American curator to co-commission and co-curate an exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, told NPR her team selected Gibson because of the artist's wide-ranging, inclusive and critical approach to art-making.
"His work is multifaceted. It incorporates all sorts of different types of media," the curator, a member of the Navajo Nation, said. "But to me, what's most important is his ability to connect with both his culture and different communities, and bring people together. At the same time, he has a very critical lens through which he looks at our history as Americans and as world citizens. Pulling all those things together in the practice of an American artist is really important for someone who's going to represent us on a world stage."
Born in Colorado and based in New York, Gibson, 51, focuses on making work that fuses together American, Native American and queer perspectives. In a 2019 interview with Here and Now, Gibson said the art world hasn't traditionally valued Indigenous histories and artistic representations.
"There's this gap historically about these histories existing on the same level and being valued culturally," Gibson said. "My goal is to force them into the contemporary cannon of what's considered important."
A MacArthur "Genius" Grant winner, Gibson has had his work widely exhibited around the country. Major solo exhibitions include one at the Portland Art Museum last year and, in 2013, at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. His work is in the collections of high-profile institutions like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art. Gibson participated in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
"Having an Indigenous artist represent the United States at the Venice Biennale is a long overdue and very powerful moment," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Director Christopher Bedford said in an email to NPR. "Centering the perspectives of contemporary indigenous artists is a critical component of fostering inclusivity and equity in museums, and in our world."
The details of Gibson's contribution for the 2024 Biennale are mostly under wraps. Curator Ash-Milby said the artist is working on a multimedia installation with the title "the space in which to place me" — a reference to a poem by the Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier.
According to the organizers of the U.S. Pavilion, the upcoming Biennale will enable international audiences to have the first major opportunity to experience Gibson's work outside of the U.S. It will be on view April 20 through Nov. 24, 2024.
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A historic heat wave that has gripped the U.S. Southwest throughout July, blasting residents and baking surfaces like brick, is beginning to abate with the late arrival of monsoon rains.
Forecasters expect that by Monday, people in metro Phoenix will begin to see high temperatures fall under 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) for the first time in a month.
But not on Saturday. The high temperature in the desert city with more than 1.6 million residents climbed past 110 F for the 30th straight day, the National Weather Service said. The previous record stretch of 110 F or above was for 18 days in 1974.
There are increased chances on Sunday of cooling monsoon thunderstorms. Though wet weather can also bring damaging winds, blowing dust and the chance of flash flooding, the weather service warned. Sudden rains running off hard-baked surfaces can quickly fill normally dry washes.
Already this week, the overnight low at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport fell under 90 F (32.2 C) for the first time in 16 days, finally giving residents some respite from the stifling heat once the sun goes down.
Temperatures also were expected to ease in Las Vegas, Albuquerque and even in Death Valley, California, where the weather service said the expected high of 122 F (50 C) on Saturday is forecast to lower to 113 F (45 C) by Tuesday — along with a slight chance of rain.
Also in California, triple-digit heat was expected in parts of the San Joaquin Valley from Saturday through Monday, according to the National Weather Service in Hanford, California.
Gusty, late-afternoon winds were expected Saturday and Sunday in Santa Barbara County, posing an elevated risk of fire weather, the weather service in Los Angeles said. Hot, dry weather was also expected across nearby valleys, lower mountains and desert areas.
In Riverside County, a firefighter was injured as crews battled a wildfire that charred 3.2 square miles (8.3 square kilometers) in the community of Aguanga, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of San Diego, authorities said Saturday. The so-called Bonny Fire was about 5% contained, authorities said.
A downward trend in Southwest heat started Wednesday night, when Phoenix saw its first major monsoon storm since the traditional June 15 start of the thunderstorm season. While more than half of the greater Phoenix area saw no rainfall from that storm, some eastern suburbs were pummeled by high winds, swirling dust and localized downfalls of up to 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) of precipitation.
Storms gradually increasing in strength are expected over the weekend.
Scientists calculate that July will prove to be the hottest globally on record and perhaps the warmest human civilization has seen. The extreme heat is now hitting the eastern part of the U.S, as soaring temperatures moved from the Midwest into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, where some places are seeing their warmest days so far this year.
The new heat records being set this summer are just some of the extreme weather being seen around the U.S. this month, such as flash floods in Pennsylvania and parts of the Northeast.
“Anyone can be at risk outside in this record heat,” the fire department in Goodyear, a Phoenix suburb, warned residents on social media while offering ideas to stay safe.
For many people such as older adults, those with health issues and those without access to air conditioning, the heat can be dangerous or even deadly.
Maricopa County, the most populous in Arizona and home to Phoenix, reported this week that its public health department had confirmed 25 heat-associated deaths this year as of July 21, with 249 more under investigation.
Results from toxicological tests that can takes weeks or months after an autopsy is conducted could eventually result in many deaths listed as under investigation as heat associated being changed to confirmed.
Maricopa County confirmed 425 heat-associated deaths last year, and more than half of them occurred in July.
Elsewhere in Arizona next week, the agricultural desert community of Yuma is expecting highs ranging from 104 to 112 (40 C to 44.4 C) and Tucson is looking at highs ranging from 99 to 111 (37.2 C to 43.9 C).
The highs in Las Vegas are forecast to slip as low as 94 (34.4 C) next Tuesday after a long spell of highs above 110 (43.3 C). Death Valley, which hit 128 (53.3 C) in mid-July, will cool as well, though only to a still blistering hot 116 (46.7 C).
In New Mexico, the highs in Albuquerque next week are expected to be in the mid to high 90s (around 35 C), with party cloudy skies. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/30-days-over-110-f-in-phoenix-but-expected-monsoon-rains-could-cool-historically-hot-southwest | 2023-07-30T00:04:55 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/30-days-over-110-f-in-phoenix-but-expected-monsoon-rains-could-cool-historically-hot-southwest |
Marine 1st Lt. Harvey “Barney” Barnum jumped to the ground when he came under fire during an ambush in Vietnam that killed his radio operator and commander.
Collecting himself, Barnum realized he was now the highest-ranking officer of a rifle company he'd just joined. He called in artillery and, amid gunfire, dragged the commander to safety, where he died in Barnum’s arms. Then he proceeded to mount a counterattack, oversee evacuation of the wounded and lead the unit’s eventual break out to rejoin the battalion.
The Medal of Honor recipient, now 83, watched Saturday as his wife smashed a bottle of sparkling wine against the bow to christen the future U.S. Navy destroyer that'll bear the name Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
He said he was speechless when he learned that a warship would bear his name. "As anybody that knows Barney Barnum knows, I’ve never been speechless,” he joked before the event.
The ceremony on Saturday at Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works was a tribute to the Vietnam War hero who during his first firefight was foisted into leadership of Marines who didn’t yet know his name because he’d just joined them a couple of days earlier.
Dignitaries included Maine's governor and senators, as well as Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, who praised Barnum's humility and generosity, in addition to being a war hero who inspired fellow Marines.
Gen. Eric Smith, the acting Marine Corps commandant whose nomination to lead the Marine Corps is being blocked by a Republican senator, called Barnum “an icon, a legend, a Marine.”
In an interview, Barnum said the combat was harrowing on that day, Dec. 18, 1965, during Operation Harvest Moon. His unit was outnumbered, caught off guard and separated from the larger battalion outside the village of Ky Phu in Quang Tin Province.
The ship's namesake said he was scared like everybody else but he tried not to show it. The other Marines were looking to him, an artillery spotter, after their commander died, he said.
To launch a counterattack, he brandished a .45-caliber handgun and told the others to follow him. They did.
“It’s a tough business. But when it gets tough, the tough get going and that’s what Marines do,” he said. “We came together as a team. And, you know, there’s no fury unleashed that's greater than that of a bunch of Marines that know that their buddies have been shot.”
Barnum later became the first Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam conflict to return for another tour. He retired from the Marine Corps as a colonel after nearly three decades of service and served the secretary of defense as principal director of drug enforcement policy, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for reserve affairs, and acting assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs.
Barnum, of Reston, Virginia, was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, and studied at Saint Anslem College, a Benedictine college in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The school’s abbot, Mark Cooper, delivered the invocation on Saturday.
The event was a family affair for Barnum, who now lives in Virginia.
His wife, Martha Hill, served as the ship’s sponsor. At the event Saturday, she was in a wheelchair; Barnum has been her care provider since she had a stroke about five years ago. Her daughter; two granddaughters, one of whom sang “God Bless America;” and an 11-year-old great-granddaughter were also participants at the event Saturday. Other family and friends were present.
Displacing 9,500 tons, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is built to simultaneously wage war against submarines, aircraft and missiles, and other warships. The newest versions are being equipped for ballistic missile defense.
The 510-foot (155 meters) guided-missile destroyer was in dry dock for the ceremony as work continues to prepare the ship for delivery to the Navy. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/medal-of-honor-recipient-watches-as-warship-bearing-his-name-is-christened-in-maine | 2023-07-30T00:05:01 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/medal-of-honor-recipient-watches-as-warship-bearing-his-name-is-christened-in-maine |
The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.05 billion Friday night, only the fifth time in the history of the game that the grand prize has reached into the billions.
No one managed to beat the massive odds and match all six numbers for Friday's estimated $940 million jackpot. The numbers drawn were: 5, 10, 28, 52, 63 and the gold ball 18.
There have been 29 straight draws without a Mega Millions jackpot winner since the last grand prize ticket on April 18.
The $1.05 billion prize up for grabs in the next drawing Tuesday night would be for a sole winner choosing to be paid through an annuity, with annual payments over 30 years. Jackpot winners almost always opt for a lump sum payment, which for Tuesday’s drawing would be an estimated $527.9 million.
The potential jackpot is the fourth-largest in the game and the fifth over $1 billion, Mega Millions said in a statement early Saturday.
Although there were no jackpot winners, one ticket in Pennsylvania was worth $5 million and another in the state connected for $1 million. There also were $1 million winners in Arizona, California and New York, Mega Millions said.
It has been less than two weeks since someone in Los Angeles won a $1.08 billion Powerball prize that ranked as the sixth-largest in U.S. history. The winner of the prize is still a mystery.
Lottery jackpots grow so large because the odds of winning are so small. For Mega Millions, the odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million.
Winners also would be subject to federal taxes, and many states also tax lottery winnings.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/mega-millions-jackpot-climbs-to-1-05-billion-after-another-drawing-without-a-big-winner | 2023-07-30T00:05:07 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/mega-millions-jackpot-climbs-to-1-05-billion-after-another-drawing-without-a-big-winner |
HAMMOND — Yellow police tape encased the scene of a shooting that left one individual dead and at least one other wounded around 1:15 p.m. Saturday afternoon on the 5900 block of Park Place.
Hammond police were dispatched to the scene after receiving a call involving multiple men and shots fired, Lt. Steve Kellogg said. One person was dead on the scene. Police believe everyone involved in the shooting know each other and were traveling together.
John Bicek was inside his house when he heard two large pops, purportedly gunshots. His father, Robert, was on the back porch when he heard the shots.
"I came out of the front door to walk my wife to her car because she was going to work," John Bicek said. "And I see a man come over and he kept yelling, saying his friend had been shot and to call 911."
The man's shirt was covered in blood, Bicek said. He stumbled onto a nearby porch and collapsed on the stairs. It appeared he had been shot in the arm.
Neighbors sat on their front porch steps, watching as investigators bagged evidence and took photos. One witness said she has never witnessed crime on the block in the five years she has lived there.
A shoe rested on the pavement about 10 feet from a parked vehicle. A bullet rested on the ground approximately 50 feet away.
Investigators from the Lake County coroner's office were also on the scene.
The Hammond Police Department shared their condolences for the victim's family and said more information will be available as it becomes public. The name of the person who was killed and their exact cause of death have not yet been released. They also encouraged witnesses to come forward.
"Sharing information, no matter how seemingly insignificant, could be crucial in aiding in the investigation," Kellogg said in a news release.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact Detective Sgt. Marc Ferry at 219-852-2991. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/hammond-police-public-safety-dead/article_21b78fbc-2e3f-11ee-a1cf-2b9793325c15.html | 2023-07-30T00:05:09 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/hammond-police-public-safety-dead/article_21b78fbc-2e3f-11ee-a1cf-2b9793325c15.html |
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 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.
Australia argues there is a “disconnect” between the U.S. treatment of Assange and Manning. Then-U.S. President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-politics/blinken-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime | 2023-07-30T00:05:13 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-politics/blinken-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime |
Hello, Central Coast! Happy Saturday.
This weekend, expect to see triple-digit temperatures in the inland areas of Central Coast, while areas closer to the coast will be slightly cooler, but not as hot as the interior valleys. We are expecting to see conditions slowly cool down this upcoming work week, with some clouds making their return toward the coastal valleys and beaches. The heat advisory is slowly coming to an end for some areas throughout the Central Coast. Let’s dive in!
As of right now, we will continue to be well above normal temperatures, and this will continue at least through Sunday, with some added humidity as well.
Interior temperatures will continue to be in the 100 to 105-degree range through Sunday.
A Heat Advisory remains in place for San Luis Obispo County, affecting mainly the inland areas, and it is scheduled to expire Saturday evening.
The National Weather Service has also issued a Heat Advisory for Santa Barbara County that is expiring tomorrow evening around 8 pm.
Temperatures throughout the Santa Ynez Valley, like Solvang, Santa Ynez, and Los Alamos will see temps well above the 90s for Sunday.
Gusty northwest winds are expected in to be in southern Santa Barbara County this evening through Sunday night.
Wind gusts in Refugio are expected to reach 50 mph this evening around 8 pm, while Gaviota will see wind gusts moving at 40 mph. The strong winds are expected to moderately slow down to 30 mph during the overnight hours at 3 am.
If you have any loose objects around your home, please be sure to secure those in a safe space. For anyone planning to drive throughout the Gaviota coastline, be sure to drive with extra precaution this evening.
The 73rd annual California Mid-State Fair is coming to an end this weekend, and temperatures are expected to peak up to 105 degrees in the late afternoon hours at 4 pm.
Temperatures for the fair on Sunday will remain quite similar to what the inland areas are seeing today.
Increasing monsoon moisture will increase the chances for showers and thunderstorms in eastern and southern Los Angeles County early next week.
Don't worry! The Central Coast will NOT see any rain this upcoming work week, but we are expected to see more clouds and fog in the forecast for areas closer to the coast.
The forecast for tomorrow shows very little change in most areas or even slightly warmer conditions. We are expected to see some mid and high clouds, and for this reason, the heat advisories for SLO County and Santa Barbara County could possibly be extended.
With the increase in moisture and some cooling arriving on Monday, temperatures throughout the Central Coast are expected to be a few degrees cooler, as the inland areas could see temps slightly drop a few degrees.
Next week is interesting with the cooldown developing Tuesday through Thursday, but it looks like it won't be sticking with us since temps will be rising next Friday.
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Zenek Luci was born deaf to a family in Welland, Ontario. He used hearing aids as an infant before receiving a cochlear implant in an operation, his father, Gabriel, says.
"He was about one year old when it was turned on," Gabriel says. "When it's first turned on, they do a mapping, so they they start really low and see where they're responding to the sound."
Invented in 1957, cochlear implants are worn by more than two hundred thousand Americans, according to the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, an industry trade group.
Viral videos of patients receiving cochlear implants and hearing for the first time pack an emotional punch. It's a technology that's transforming lives—and one that's long stirred debate within the Deaf community. Dr. Samantha Kesteloot, an audiologist, educates families about implants and wears one herself.
"There's an internal part and external part," she explains. "The internal part is surgical, and there's an electrode array that is inserted into the cochlea, which is the organ of hearing."
"The outside part is a processor, which sort of looks like a hearing aid," she says. "That picks up the acoustical sound and converts it to electrical stimulus, and then those signals are sent down the electrode array and electrically stimulate the auditory nerve." That's the nerve that sends signals to the brain that correspond to the sensation of hearing.
Many adults with hearing loss say the implants have dramatically improved their lives.
Lou Ferrigno, the actor who once portrayed the Incredible Hulk, recently told students who were deaf or hard of hearing, and how implants have helped him. They "changed my life tremendously," he said. "There's so much hope that people can have better hearing, better lifestyle."
Dr. Keseloot, meanwhile, received her implant in 2017.
"It's completely changed my life," she says. "I always was a pretty high achiever with hearing aids, but I was always just kind of missing out on a lot of social things." Dr. Kestellot says she would "just sort of smile and nod and pretend I understood." Now, she says, "I can keep up in noisy situations."
SEE MORE: Parents push for insurers to cover pediatric hearing aids
Roughly one in five Americans has some form of hearing loss, according to the National Institutes of Health. And there is a thriving Deaf community in the U.S. that communicates with sign language. So adults who are eligible for implants have the choice of whether they want to receive them.
There's considerable debate, however, around their use with kids.
The FDA has approved the technology for children as young as nine months.
Without Zenek's implant, using just the hearing aid, "Everything he said was gibberish," says Gabriel Luci. "So that told us, okay, he's not getting enough with the aid."
"If a family desires listening in spoken language outcomes, the natural goal for the child is to speak and listen," says Dr. Kesteloot. "The best route is to aid and then implant if the hearing aids not doing enough. And then if the child chooses to sign later or, you know, and refuses the implant later, that's a choice that they can make."
Some parents of deaf children decline the procedure, says Dr. Kesteloot, including parents who are deaf themselves. "A lot of culturally deaf parents choose not to implant their children because they don't really have a need for it. Their life is based around sign language," she says. "And then also, some parents believe that the child should make the decision when they get old enough to make the decision. And that's, you know, a little tricky because there is a critical period for language development."
Dorian Smith Garcia wrote recently that videos celebrating cochlear implants "play into audism," which implies that people with hearing loss need to be "cured or corrected."
Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin, who is Deaf, says she isn't opposed to cochlear implants. But she told the World Science Festival in 2019 that Deaf culture built on sign language offers immense rewards for children.
"There is still a great deal of pressure that people should explore the option of cochlear implants because that's better than signing, that you shouldn't sign," she told the audience. "I would say to these people, who are you to decide for us?"
Gabriel Luci, who has a second child with implants named Sasha, says the decision should be up to every parent of a Deaf child.
"I do believe that getting my kids cochlear implants gives them more opportunities, though. I'm not taking away any opportunities from them; I'm only giving them opportunities," he says.
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As they inched toward Sunday’s scheduled arbitration hearing, the Bruins and restricted free agent Jeremy Swayman were $2.8 million apart on what they think the 24-year-old goalie is worth.
In the pre-hearing filings, the Bruins offered $2 million while Swayman’s camp came in at $4.8 million, according to Sportnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
Unlike baseball arbitration, which calls for the awarding of one number or the other, a middle ground can be found in NHL arbitration.
That’s what happened in a comparable arbitration case last week with Toronto goalie Ilya Samsonov. The Maple Leafs had an offer of $2.4 million and Samsonov’s camp filed at $4.8 million. The arbitrator gave Samsonov a $3.55 million salary.
In 37 appearances last season, Swayman had a 24-6-4 record with a .920 save percentage and 2.27 goals-against average. Swayman’s career marks are 54-23-7, .920 and 2.24. Samsonov’s record last season was 27-10-5 with a .919 save percentage and 2.33 GAA. For his career, Samsonov is 79-32-13 with a 2.65 GAA and .909 save percentage.
The two sides can negotiate a deal right up until the time of the hearing.
Considering arbitration is rarely relished by either the player or management side (relationships can be damaged in the process) and the fact that there’s a fairly clear comparable in the Samsonov award, one would think that the two sides could reach a deal before the hearing.
Then again, with the Bruins facing a salary cap crunch — they have approximately $5.4 million of cap space available — every dollar counts, especially if they’re contemplating taking on any more salary in a potential trade for a centerman with the departure of retired centerman Patrice Bergeron..
The Bruins also have to contend with Trent Frederic’s arbitration case, which is scheduled for Aug. 1. After a 17-goal season, he’ll be looking for a raise from his $1.05 million salary he made last season.
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Another week, another labor action across America.
In June, workers went on strike at at least 120 Starbucks locations, the company said.
Earlier this month, thousands of hotel workers across southern California walked off the job.
And this week, the writers strike in Hollywood reached its third month. Actors joined them on July 13.
Major strike activity increased by almost fifty percent in 2022, according to the U.S. Labor Department. And the Economic Policy Institute says over 120,000 workers were involved in major work stoppages last year.
What caused the resurgence of the U.S. labor movement?
For one thing, the pandemic accelerated union organizing, reporter Alex Press told "The Response" podcast recently. "We've seen this kind of brief, this sort of early stage uptick in union organizing in this country, very explicitly rooted in our response to a pandemic that was raising the stakes of once again to life or death sort of situations for a lot of frontline workers," she said.
Low unemployment has also given workers more leverage to organize and even strike, says Joseph Brock, president of Reliant Labor Consultants.
"That tight labor market, kind of brought on by COVID, has been a boon for unions," said Brock.
A demographic shift toward workers with more labor-friendly views may also be a factor. "There's a whole generation of younger workers that are discovering unionization as the most reliable way to get better pay and working conditions," Rutgers professor Susan Schurman told Money.com.
Workers cite low pay, bad working conditions, and poor job security as reasons to strike.
But a Milken Institute expert told Yahoo Financethat the Hollywood strike alone could cause $4 billion in losses to the U.S. economy.
"It's not just impacting these industries in California. But it's really doing so in New York, it's doing it in Atlanta. It's doing it in Albuquerque, it's doing it in Pittsburgh. It's doing it in all sorts of places where filming actually takes place," said Kevin Klowden.
What's the outlook for the future?
Unions once played a central role in America's economic, political, and cultural life. But Anthony Carnevale of Georgetown University says unions today face an uphill battle to regain that influence. "They lost their power largely because of globalization, technology, and the decline of manufacturing," he says.
Take the Amazon labor union, as it's called, which won an election with more than 8,000 workers in a Staten Island warehouse last year, a milestone hailed by the press, but the group has not yet reached a collective bargaining agreement.
"The bigger problem for unions will continue to be the attainment of that first collective bargaining agreement," says Brock.
And in terms of politics over the short term, Unions pose both political opportunities and challenges.
Balancing workers needs and growing the economy is proving tough for a president who has aligned himself closely with organized labor.
"Folks, I promised you that I'd be the most pro-union president in American history because I know this: in a crisis, America always counts on you," President Joe Biden told the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in a speech last year.
That alignment won him votes from union workers. But now, those close ties could harm a president who has always tried to connect with American workers.
Meanwhile, those marching on the picket line carry on.
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Exposure to extreme temperatures combined with suffocating air pollution can double the risk of dying from a heart attack, according to researchers who analyzed more than 200,000 cardiac deaths in China between 2015 and 2020.
Experts, who already believe that prolonged heat waves, cold snaps and polluted air are bad for the heart, said the study further strengthens the relationship by connecting it to the risk of cardiac death. Its findings were published last week in the journal Circulation.
“As far as I am aware, this is one of the first studies that looks at death from heart attack as the end result of this type of exposure, and it does not surprise me,” said Catharina Giudice, an emergency medicine physician and a fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who was not involved in the study.
“We’re seeing record-breaking heat after record-breaking heat year after year,” she said. “It’s getting hotter, lasting longer and happening more frequently. Heat makes cardiovascular disease worse. Pollution makes it worse. The two together are worse than each one independently.”
The study, funded by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, comes against a backdrop of prolonged and sweltering record-setting heat that has been smothering the United States and other countries, combined with industrial and wildfire air pollution, all fueled by a warming planet.
The dangerous health effects of climate change are well-documented, including threats from the spread of infectious diseases, food insecurity, the worsening of seasonal allergies, the risk of dementia and the deadly effects of heat waves, floods, drought and wildfire smoke.
Women, elderly at risk
The researchers examined the effects of extreme temperatures with and without high levels of fine particulate pollution on 202,678 heart attack deaths between 2015 and 2020 that occurred in Jiangsu province, a region with four distinct seasons and a wide range of temperatures and fine particulate pollution levels.
They found that days with extreme heat, extreme cold or high levels of fine particulate matter air pollution were significantly associated with the risk of death from a heart attack, especially for women and older adults, those with an average age of about 77.
The greatest increases occurred on days with both extreme heat and high levels of PM2.5 (Particulate Matter), which are particles less than 2.5 microns in width, (for comparison, the width of a human hair is 50 to 100 microns) estimating that up to 2.8% of the heart attack deaths were related to the combination of extreme temperatures and high levels of fine particulate pollution of more than 37.5 micrograms per cubic meter. (A microgram is a unit of mass equal to one-millionth of a gram.) They also found that heat waves interact synergistically with the fine particles, while cold spells do not.
Inhaling these microscopic particles — the result of fuel combustion from cars and factories, and wildfire smoke — deep into the lungs can irritate them and the blood vessels around the heart. Research has linked their exposure to heart disease, stroke and other health issues, including dementia. The World Health Organization’s target for average annual exposure to fine particulate pollution level is no more than 5 micrograms per cubic meter and no more than 15 micrograms per cubic meter for more than three to four days per year.
Danger rises with temperature
Compared with control days, the risk of a fatal heart attack was 18 percent higher during two-day heat waves with heat ranging from 82.6 to 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit, and 74% higher during four-day heat waves with temperatures between 94.8 and 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The risk was 4% higher during two-day cold snaps with temperatures between 33.3 to 40.5 degrees Fahrenheit, and 12% higher during three-day cold snaps of 27 to 37.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
The researchers measured extreme temperatures according to the daily heat index for an area, which records the combined effect of both heat and humidity, and also evaluated the length and severity of heat waves and cold snaps.
They compared heart attack deaths or “case days” with control days on the same day of the week in the same month — if a death occurred on a Wednesday, all other Wednesdays in the same month were regarded as control days. Days with an average level of fine particulate matter above 37.5 micrograms per cubic meter were considered high air pollution days.
“It’s pretty amazing that they started seeing these increases with temperatures over 90 degrees,” said Mark Link, a professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and a member of its cardiology division, who was not part of the study.
“In Dallas, we would call 90 degrees a cool day, but that’s when they saw mortality start to increase — and the combination of high heat and pollution was the deadliest. It’s pretty remarkable when you think about what’s happening down here now, where the average high is 102 or 103 degrees.”
On such days, “emergency visits for cardiac issues and everything else are up,” he said.
Lifestyle changes not enough
Yuewei Liu, associate professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and the study’s senior author, said it was still unknown how these exposures trigger a greater risk of dying of a heart attack. Such questions remain “a great public health challenge due to its substantial disease burden worldwide,” he said.
Health-care professionals typically urge lifestyle modifications to prevent heart disease, such as avoiding or quitting smoking; controlling hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes; losing weight; and exercising. Now, these may not be enough, experts said.
This study demonstrates “we cannot ignore the environment around us,” said Hitinder Gurm, an interventional cardiologist and chief medical officer at the University of Michigan, who was not part of the study but whose research has focused on temperature deviations and the risk of heart attacks. “Air pollution and extreme weather are emerging as important cardiac risk factors and require both individual and community level interventions.” | https://www.unionleader.com/extreme-heat-and-pollution-can-double-the-risk-of-a-heart-attack/article_2a4866db-8a62-5c85-9733-d55476dee80d.html | 2023-07-30T00:05:31 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/extreme-heat-and-pollution-can-double-the-risk-of-a-heart-attack/article_2a4866db-8a62-5c85-9733-d55476dee80d.html |
Just before dusk on a warm summer evening, a trio of volunteers is poised, clickers in hand, peering intently at an abandoned wooden building.
They’re watching for bats — while trying valiantly to ignore the bloodthirsty mosquitoes swarming about.
By day, Brett Thelen and Susie Spikol work at the Harris Center for Conservation Education, engaging the community in learning about and protecting wildlife.
By night, they volunteer for Bat Counts, a cooperative project of New Hampshire Fish and Game and the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension to monitor summer bat populations.
That’s what has brought them and a colleague, T. Parker Schuerman from New Hampshire Audubon, to this building off a dirt road in the woods of southwestern New Hampshire.
The building houses a maternity colony, where female bats roost in communities to birth, nurse and wean their young, which are called pups. These sorts of old structures are favorite roosting spots for little brown bats and big brown bats, two of New Hampshire’s eight native species.
A sign on the old structure reads “Private Property No Trespassing.”
The bats don’t care.
Shortly after 8 p.m., they start to emerge. The animals drop out of the building’s eaves and crevices, then zoom off like furry guided missiles, as the rapt humans record them with clicking counters.
Disease threatens bats
Bats have had a rough go of it in recent years.
A fungal infection called White Nose Syndrome nearly wiped out entire species, killing an estimated 6 million North American bats in less than two decades.
“It was just completely devastating,” says Haley Andreozzi, state wildlife conservation specialist at UNH Cooperative Extension.
For little brown bats here in particular, the threat was catastrophic, causing a 99% population decline, Andreozzi says.
Wildlife experts here have been keeping a close watch on bats ever since. And there are some signs the animals may be starting to recover.
The annual count compiles data from about 20 sites, a mix of barns, outbuildings and bat houses, in six counties — Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham and Sullivan — according to Sandra Houghton, wildlife diversity biologist at Fish and Game’s nongame and endangered wildlife program.
Last year, about 60 volunteers participated. The count revealed more than 300 bats at four distinct locations — and the first-ever count of more than 700 bats at one site.
Fish and Game biologists also do their own counts in the wintertime at caves and abandoned mines where bats are known to hibernate — they’re called hibernacula.
The scale and speed of the loss from White Nose Syndrome was stunning, Andreozzi said.
In 2009, state biologists recorded more than 3,200 bats hibernating in four of the largest mines, the highest winter count ever.
Just two years later, they found only 16 bats in those mines. “One of them was completely empty,” Andreozzi said.
Parsing the numbers
Thelen and Spikol have positioned themselves to watch the front of the building, while Schuerman is at the back.
As dusk deepens, the mosquitoes grow thicker, and so do the bats. By 8:30 p.m., they start dropping out more rapidly, as a gibbous moon rises over the trees.
This Monadnock location offers an ideal habitat for bats. There’s a pond nearby, lots of forests surrounding, and — did we mention? — plenty of bugs.
“This is the time of night I start daydreaming about scratching my skin with steel wool,” Thelen says, never taking her eyes off the bats.
“Or a pumice stone,” suggests Spikol.
At the back of the building, Schuerman is recording nearly as many bats going in as coming out. Some of the bats emerging from the front seem to be circling back in his direction.
“Maybe some of the pups are still nursing, so there’s more of them going back in,” muses Thelen.
When it’s too dark to see, the volunteers compare notes.
Thelen counted 185 bats coming out, and Spikol counted 210, so they split the difference at 198. Out back, Schuerman counted 43 bats out and 33 in. They subtract the ins from the outs so they don’t double count, and come up with a total for the night of 185.
“That’s really low for this site,” says Spikol, disappointed.
It seems low, agrees Thelen.
Maybe the bats in this colony didn’t have a successful breeding year, given the abnormal weather last spring. “Or the pups are still nursing so there are not as many coming out,” Thelen says.
They had much better luck at a large barn they visited earlier this summer, also in the Monadnock region. They stood amazed as hundreds of bats poured out of an old barn at dusk.
“It was like a kettle of bats,” Spikol says, her eyes alight.
A slow comeback
Eight species of bats make their homes in New Hampshire. All are listed as “species of greatest conservation need” in the state’s Wildlife Action Plan.
Four species of native bats — little brown bat, Eastern small-footed bat, tri-colored bat and Northern long-eared bat — are now listed as state endangered, and the Northern long-eared bat is also listed federally as an endangered species.
Five species of bats overwinter in caves and mines here, while the other three — like so many Granite Staters — head south when it gets cold.
The bats that head south — the hoary, red and silver-haired bats — were not affected by White Nose Syndrome, Houghton says.
It’s the bats that hibernate here that were devastated by the disease, which causes them to awaken from hibernation and seek food, only to starve to death when no insects are found.
Winter counts in the past two years have found hibernating bats in places that were devastated by the syndrome — including tricolored bats at a mine where they were last documented in 2009, according to Fish and Game.
Meanwhile, some recent studies suggest that surviving bats may have developed some resistance to the disease.
Houghton said she views the recent data as encouraging — but “with caution,” she said. “Everything is going to be slow and uncertain,” she says.
“With such a dramatic crash, we don’t know how healthy the population is,” she says.
Maternity colonies here used to number in the thousands, Houghton says. Smaller populations might not have the genetic diversity needed for a healthy population, she says.
Another challenge for bat recovery comes down to biology: Bat moms typically have just one pup a year.
Small mammals such as rabbits have multiple offspring, Andreozzi said. “That’s their evolutionary strategy to survive,” she says.
“Bats have a different strategy: They invest in one offspring, but they live a relatively long time,” she says.
Little brown bats in the wild live 6 to 10 years. In captive settings, some have been documented to live up to 30 years, Andreozzi says.
Bat birth rates are “what makes it more difficult to rebound from a population stress.”
Count them in
Enlisting Bat Counts volunteers to monitor bats at barns and outbuildings on their own property provides biologists with data they wouldn’t otherwise have access to, Fish and Game’s Houghton says.
The project also creates what she calls “bat ambassadors.”
“You have people out there in their communities who are able to, one, share their enthusiasm, but also give information about bats to other folks,” she says.
Andreozzi from Cooperative Extension says there are only a few criteria to become a Bat Counts volunteer: “They need to know that they have bats, that’s the first step. And then they have to care that they have bats, and be interested and have that curiosity.”
Otherwise, it’s pretty straightforward, she says. “You can sit in a lawn chair in your yard,” she said. “It is done on buggy evenings, but it’s really simple to sit there and count bats.”
It’s worth all the bug bites, last week’s volunteers agreed.
“It’s just really cool to see them fly,” Thelen from the Harris Center says. “Their way of being in the world is so different from our own way of being.
“It’s really exciting to step into their world for an hour.”
Thelen says the catastrophic impact of White Nose Syndrome on New Hampshire’s bat population was a wakeup call for people who cherish them. “That really, I think, rocketed them into people’s consciousness in a new way,” she says. “We started to realize how important they are, their role in the ecosystem.”
In the tropics, she says, bats are pollinators of many flowering plants. Here in the Northeast, “They’re actually the greatest predator of flying insects on the landscape.”
Bats typically eat half their body weight in insects — every night. “That has ecological impacts, but also economic impacts,” Andreozzi says.
That’s something everyone should care about, she says.
“We don’t know what it would mean to lose bat species on the landscape,” Andreozzi says. “There probably are ramifications we couldn’t begin to understand.”
It’s easy to see parallels between what humans and bats have endured in recent years — a catastrophic health threat and an agonizingly slow return to normal.
Houghton, for one, admires the creatures’ fortitude in the face of disaster.
“First of all, you’re incredible, as a mammal that flies,” she says. “But now, you’ve survived this catastrophic disease and you’re still here, even in small numbers.
“That’s something to appreciate.”
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• If you have questions about bats — including how to prevent bats from living in your house, or safely evict them if they do get in — visit wildlifehelp.org.
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Diane Cole hoisted a blue umbrella to protect herself from the noontime sun.
On a seemingly rare day without rain in Manchester, she shielded her 5-year-old grandson, Clark, as the sun sent the temperature climbing to 90 degrees last week.
“I think we’re the only one with an umbrella,” Cole said, as she watched the New Hampshire Fisher Cats play a day game at Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester.
But knowing how the summer has gone, she said: “Even if they say no rain in the forecast, it comes down.”
Manchester had 15 inches of rain between June 1 through Thursday — more than double the average rainfall — with at least a trace of rain on two of every three days during that span, according to the National Weather Service.
Rainy weather and gloomy forecasts have put a damper on many summertime businesses.
“I think what’s worse than bad weather is a bad-weather forecast,” said Mark Blasko, owner of Chuckster’s Family Fun Park, which has locations in Chichester and Hooksett. Both offer mini-golf, and Chichester also has batting cages, go-karts and a climbing wall.
After a record-breaking 2022, business is down 25% at each location this summer, he said.
Meanwhile, rain and, in one case, bad air quality have postponed or canceled nine Fisher Cats games so far this season, compared to four in the same time last year.
“Of course, it makes an impact,” Fisher Cats GM Mike Neis said during last week’s daytime game.
“It’s New England,” he said. “We’ve got nights where we think there’s no hope and we end up playing nine innings of rain-free baseball, and there’s also nights where we think we’re clear and easy and at the end of the day something pops up and knocks us out.”
According to Baseball America, the Fisher Cats recorded the biggest drop in attendance this season among 120 minor league teams with Major League affiliations through July 23, compared to mid-July 2022 crowds.
The Fisher Cats averaged an announced crowd of 3,502 per game in 2023, compared to 4,216 a year ago — a 17% drop.
Neis said those numbers include tickets given away. The team’s actual paid attendance is running 2% to 3% higher on a per-game average than last year.
Despite more games getting scrubbed this year, overall ticket and game-day revenues for 2023 to date are higher than at the same time last year, Neis said. The team expects to be profitable in 2023.
Rain fell again during Thursday night’s game, but the teams played through it.
Soggy SeacoastAt Hampton Beach, Bill Murphy said sales at BZ Gifts on Ocean Boulevard are “way down.”
“It’s the rain and the forecast of rain all the time,” said Murphy, who estimated his business was off 20% from last year.
His best-selling item?
“Umbrellas — it’s rain umbrellas and sun umbrellas,” Murphy said.
Thursday’s cloudy weather — and forecast of thunderstorms later on — meant there were few people at the beach by mid-morning, he said.
“It’s actually a nice day to be here,” he said. There was enough space to throw a football, and people reported the water was warm, Murphy said.
Bad weather, however, scuttled the tall ships Parade of Sail in Portsmouth later that day.
Later bookings
Murphy and other Hampton Beach businesses hope dry weather the rest of the summer will help them salvage their season.
June’s vacancy rate for Hampton accommodations probably was up 50% from last year, according to John Nyhan, president of the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce.
June “was a very poor month for our business community,” Nyhan said. “It didn’t help any of the types of business, be it motels, hotels, restaurants, retail.
“Different hotels were faced with cancellations. People watching the weather, and I even still think some of the weekly and biweekly rentals people are still watching the weather report before making a reservation,” he said.
“Since the July Fourth weekend, we’ve had good weather down in the Hampton Beach area,” Nyhan said.
“It’s going to take a real successful July and August for the businesses to make up some of the losses in June. We all have our fingers crossed to continue with this good weather. Whether it’s cool or hot, as long as it’s not raining, that’s the big hope,” Nyhan said.
The chamber’s beach office is fielding more calls than usual from people looking for openings within a few days, he said.
The weather is the deciding factor. “I don’t think it had anything to do with the cost or financial considerations,” Nyhan said. “People are going to come to the beach if it’s a good day.”
Dreary Derry
Brenna McCrevan, a supervisor at the town beach on Beaver Lake in Derry, said crowds have been the smallest in her six years working there in concessions and as a lifeguard.
“We just had so much rain and not a lot of people overall,” McCrevan said.
Last week “has been one of our busier weeks this year because it hits the 80s,” she said.
At Funspot in Laconia, the self-proclaimed largest arcade in the world, rain is an ally.
“The actual sun definitely makes it a little bit slower, not as consistent throughout the day,” said floor manager Hunter Moore.
“The rainy days are super busy. We absolutely have to be fully staffed at all times when it’s rainy,” he said.
The business is busier than last year, but he didn’t know by how much.
The ideal weather, he said, would be “a cloudy, partially rainy day,” Moore said.
Back in Manchester at the ballpark, Cole saw a silver lining with all the rain.
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The Ottawa Senators signed free agent forward Vladimir Tarasenko to a one-year, $5 million deal.
The 31-year-old veteran tallied a combined 50 points (18 goals, 32 assists) in 69 games last season with the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers.
The Ottawa Senators signed free agent forward Vladimir Tarasenko to a one-year, $5 million deal.
The 31-year-old veteran tallied a combined 50 points (18 goals, 32 assists) in 69 games last season with the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers.
A former 40-goal scorer and 2019 Stanley Cup champion, Tarasenko has 574 points (270 goals, 304 assists) in 675 games with the Blues (2012-23) and Rangers.
The Blues drafted the four-time All-Star Game participant in the first round (16th overall) in 2010.
St. Louis traded Tarasenko and Niko Mikkola to New York on Feb. 9 in exchange for Sammy Blais, Hunter Skinner, a first-round pick in 2023 and a fourth-rounder in 2024.
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Boston’s Triston Casas, right, celebrates his home run with third-base coach Carlos Febles during the fifth inning of Friday’s game against the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park.
SAN FRANCISCO — A chilly night by the bay couldn’t cool off the hottest hitter in baseball at Oracle Park on Friday night.
Triston Casas homered, doubled and drove in Boston’s first two runs as the Red Sox beat San Francisco, 3-2, to open a six-game West Coast trip. Starter Kutter Crawford gave the Red Sox 5⅔ strong innings as Boston won its fifth straight and improved to 56-47. The win was Boston’s 16th in its last 21 games; the club is nine games over .500 for the first time this season.
Casas, who entered with an MLB-leading .469 average and 1.669 OPS since the All-Star break, opened the scoring in the second, following an Adam Duvall double with a RBI ground-rule two-bagger of his own. Three innings later, Casas took launch against Giants starter Logan Webb, driving an opposite-field rocket to left-center for a solo shot. Casas’ 16th homer of the season (and seventh of the second half) went 435 feet with an exit velocity of 109.5 mph as the Sox took a 2-0 lead.
Crawford allowed just two baserunners through the first five innings but ran into a little trouble in the fifth. Rookie Marco Luciano hit a leadoff single, advanced on a wild pitch, then scored on a Michael Conforto single to make it a 2-1 game. Crawford left having allowed a single run on three hits and striking out seven.
Facing Josh Winckowski, San Francisco’s offense led off the seventh with back-to-back singles but was unable to scratch a run across. Winckowski battled back to retire the next three, punctuating the frame by catching Luciano looking on strike three with runners on the corners.
In the top of the eighth, manager Alex Cora seemed to will Boston to plating an insurance run. Connor Wong led off the inning with a single, then advanced to second on a Yu Chang sacrifice bunt. Cora pulled Jarren Duran in favor of lefty masher Rob Refsnyder once the Giants put in Taylor Rogers, and Refsnyder delivered, making it 3-1 with an RBI single to left.
It wasn’t a two-run game for long. Joc Pederson led off the bottom of the eighth with a solo blast that made it 3-2. It was just the second homer righty Chris Martin has allowed all season and the first since April 10. Entering Friday, Martin hadn’t allowed a run since June 6 (16 appearances).
Closer Kenley Jansen worked a 1-2-3 ninth to secure the win, but it didn’t come without drama. Giants catcher Patrick Bailey hit a fly ball to the warning track with one out; Adam Duvall caught it easily against the wall 383 feet away from home plate. Jansen blew a 1-2 cutter by Sabol to strike him out and end the game; it was his 23rd save of the season.
In just his fourth start at second base, Turner made a game-changing play. With two runners on and no outs in the seventh, pinch-hitter Blake Sabol smoked a grounder up the middle, but Turner corralled it on a dive and flipped to Chang for the first out of the inning. Winckowski then struck out Brett Wisely and Luciano with runners on the corners to escape the jam. | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/red_sox/casas-homers-again-as-red-sox-beat-giants-to-open-west-coast-trip/article_355609f1-866a-5252-898b-e195460b42f1.html | 2023-07-30T00:06:01 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/red_sox/casas-homers-again-as-red-sox-beat-giants-to-open-west-coast-trip/article_355609f1-866a-5252-898b-e195460b42f1.html |
SAN FRANCISCO — The Red Sox made a roster move to balance their bullpen mix Saturday, activating right-hander Mauricio Llovera and optioning lefty Joe Jacques to Triple-A Worcester.
Llovera, who was acquired from the Giants in a minor trade Wednesday night, was active against his former team Saturday afternoon. The 27-year-old has pitched well in both the majors and Triple-A this season. He has allowed one earned run in 5⅓ innings in the big leagues (1.69 ERA) and posted a 3.97 ERA while recording 29 strikeouts in 22⅔ Triple-A innings. The Giants designated Llovera for assignment last week when reliever Luke Jackson came off the injured list. The Red Sox pounced on an available player, shipping minor league righty Marques Johnson (the club’s 11th-round pick in 2022) to San Francisco in a deal that was finalized late Wednesday night.
Manager Alex Cora envisions Llovera pitching a middle relief role ahead of high-leverage righties Josh Winckowski, John Schreiber, Chris Martin and Kenley Jansen.
“We’ll see where we’re at late in the game,” Cora said. “Good sinker, good slider. We’ll make sure he gets his feet wet here. We needed a righty and we got one. We feel like if he can execute what we want, he’s going to be able to get people out.”
Llovera is on to his third organization after totaling 29 appearances with the Phillies and Giants over the last four seasons.
“I’m just trying to keep doing what I’ve been doing before coming here,” Llovera said (through interpreter Carlos Villoria Benítez). “I think my sinker and slider are my best pitches and those are the pitches I use to attack the batters.”
Jacques, a minor league Rule 5 draft pick who was called up for his big league debut in mid-June, lasted almost two months in the majors, pitching to a 4.86 ERA (9 earned runs in 16⅔ innings) while striking out 13 batters and posting an encouraging 3.82 FIP. The southpaw walked just two batters in 14 appearances. Somewhat surprisingly, Jacques had reverse splits and was hit particularly hard by lefties. Left-handed hitters hit .444 (12-for-27) with a 1.259 OPS against him while righties posted just a .652 OPS.
Jacques fell victim to a roster crunch. The Red Sox have four other lefties (Brennan Bernardino, Richard Bleier, Chris Murphy and Joely Rodríguez) in their bullpen and Bleier and Rodríguez do not have minor league options remaining.
Cora expects Jacques to be back in the majors before the end of the season.
“He was great. Another tough decision because we’ve got good players,” Cora said. “We made a big deal out of the save in Toronto, but you can see the stuff, the angle. He’s not afraid. He’s not scared. It was a tough one but like I told him, ‘Keep working on the things you’ve been working on here.’ He’ll be ready. At one point, I do believe he’s going to be part of this again.” | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/red_sox/red-sox-make-2-roster-moves-activate-righty-reliever-they-got-in-trade/article_06977c60-cdfb-5c88-9b70-39b403ad7ce0.html | 2023-07-30T00:06:07 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/red_sox/red-sox-make-2-roster-moves-activate-righty-reliever-they-got-in-trade/article_06977c60-cdfb-5c88-9b70-39b403ad7ce0.html |
Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes a picture with an attendee at the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday.
Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis appeared at the same event in the 2024 White House race for the first time on Friday, but even a day after Trump faced fresh criminal charges, it was the former president talking down DeSantis rather than the other way around.
Trump, who has all year relentlessly attacked DeSantis, his nearest rival for the Republican nomination, told a crowd of Iowa Republicans “not to take a chance” on the Florida governor he mockingly calls “DeSanctus,” among other nicknames.
DeSantis was seen as a major threat to Trump at the beginning of the year but his campaign has been flagging in recent weeks.
He declined to go after Trump at the Republican Lincoln Day dinner in Des Moines, where the two men and 11 other Republican White House hopefuls were given 10 minutes each in front of 1,200 attendees.
Only one Republican candidate — Will Hurd, a former Texas congressman and a longshot, went after Trump — and he was booed after he said: “Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison.”
Trump has been indicted twice this year, and his poll numbers in the Republican presidential nomination race keep going up.
In March, he was charged in New York over falsifying business records over an alleged hush money payment to a porn star, which Trump has pleaded not guilty to.
In June, Trump faced yet more charges when special counsel Jack Smith unveiled a 37-count indictment accusing him of willful retention and improper sharing of national defense information.
Thursday’s fresh charges were related to that case, when Trump was charged with ordering a member of staff at his Florida home to delete security videos to thwart an FBI investigation, among three new criminal counts against Trump, bringing the total to 40.
Still, Trump dominates the Republican field, and his lead has grown stronger since the criminal charges. It plays into his central argument that he is a victim of a runaway Justice Department.
The problem for DeSantis and his other rivals is they have not yet worked out a way to counter a front-runner who is facing multiple criminal charges. DeSantis has shied away from attacking Trump over the indictments, out of fear of alienating the Republican base.
But if the Florida governor does not work out a way to take on Trump directly, pollsters say he and the others are running out of time to stop Trump becoming the nominee.
Trump’s lead over DeSantis, who has been slipping in the polls, is roughly 30%, while none of the other Republican hopefuls have broken out of single digits, according to polls.
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The Chicago White Sox continued their sell-off Friday, with the club trading veteran right-handers Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly to the Los Angeles Dodgers and right-handed reliever Kendall Graveman to the Houston Astros.
The Dodgers sent Chicago veteran outfielder Trayce Thompson and a pair of Double-A right-handers, starter Nick Nastrini and reliever Jordan Leasure.
Graveman, meanwhile, was dealt straight up for Houston minor league catcher Korey Lee.
The trades come two days after the White Sox sent right-handers Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez to the Los Angeles Angels.
Lynn, 36, fills the Dodgers’ need for starting pitching after their entire Opening Day rotation went on the injured list at some point in the first half. Left-hander Clayton Kershaw is due back soon from a shoulder injury, but Dustin May (elbow) was lost for the season and Noah Syndergaard (finger) was traded last week to the Cleveland Guardians.
Lynn is 6-9 with a 6.47 ERA in 21 starts this season as he has struggled with consistency. He was roughed up in an outing against the Dodgers on June 13 — five runs (four earned) over five innings — then went seven scoreless innings against the Toronto Blue Jays on July 6 and has given up a combined 16 runs (13 earned) over his past two starts.
In 12 seasons, Lynn is 129-93 with a 3.71 ERA in 330 appearances (306 starts) for the St. Louis Cardinals (2011-17), Minnesota Twins (2018), New York Yankees (2018), Texas Rangers (2019-20) and White Sox.
Kelly, 35, returns to Los Angeles, where he pitched from 2019-21 and won the 2020 World Series title. Kelly is 1-5 with a 4.97 ERA in 31 relief appearances this season and is 52-37 with a 3.98 ERA in 439 career appearances (81 starts) for the Cardinals (2012-14), Boston Red Sox (2014-18), Dodgers and White Sox.
Kelly becomes the second player from the Dodgers’ World Series-winning team to return to the club this week. The Dodgers reacquired Enrique Hernandez in a deal with the Red Sox on Monday.
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(The Hill) — More than 20 states across the U.S. are under heat advisories as of Saturday.
From the California coast to the Midwest to the Southeast and the North- and Mid-Atlantic, 110 million Americans are facing scorching temperatures that could even get up to triple digits, according to ABC News.
Earlier in the week, the National Weather Service warned of “continued excessive summer heat” across the country in a forecast discussion. In the Washington, D.C. region, daily highs sat around 96 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS. In New York City, temperatures topped out at 90 degrees.
“Triple-digit heat continues across the southern half of the Plains to the eastern Gulf Coast while cool and unsettled weather continues across the northern Plains toward the Midwest,” the NWS said in their latest forecast discussion on upcoming weather between Monday and Tuesday.
The NWS said cooler temperatures will arrive in the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday. However, they said these cooler temperatures will be preceded by thunderstorms as a result of the cold front creeping south.
“However, prior to the arrival of the cool air, the cold front will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms along with locally heavy downpours which may be accompanied with gusty winds and/or squalls as they move through the aforementioned areas from west to east through tonight,” the NWS aid in the forecast discussion. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ | 2023-07-30T00:06:20 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/more-than-20-states-in-us-still-suffering-from-excessive-heat/ |
Darkness can never overcome God’s light, positive faith outshines all doubt
There is a lot of talk today about the reality of a global system of organized evil that controls the governments and social politics of the world.
There are many different attitudes from thinking this is silly, to being consumed with anxiety and stress. Those who pay little attention to the news, have learned that ignoring negativity makes them more calm. However, just because someone puts their head in the sand does not mean the problems are not real.
For those who carry the heavy burden of worrying about the future and their own safety, fear can take a devastating physical, emotional, and spiritual toll on our personal well-being.
In psychology, we know there are subconscious reflexes that cause us to reject information that challenges our worldviews. When certain information is just too overwhelming, we can build barriers to prevent knowledge from intruding into our thought processes, and also develop a familiar internal security system that allows us to feel contentment by concluding it's not true. In other words, hiding our heads in the sands of denial is the easy way to avoid dealing with uncomfortable knowledge.
On the other hand, truth seekers embrace all opinions because they want to research as much as they can to discover what is right and wrong. Even if it’s painful.
As Christians, the empowerment of being indwelt with the presence of God and having the opportunity to renew our minds can completely transform our attitude. Instead of thinking about how weak we are and submitting to the imagination that we are going to be devoured, Christians must realize they are in covenant with the God of all creation, and as a part of His family, nothing is more devastating to the forces of evil than His authority.
In our daily lives, darkness is never confronted or cast out by those who are shaking in their boots. Faith is having confidence in who God is and who we are in Him.
When the Bible says the enemy roars like a lion, it means he likes to make a lot of noise, but if we study this closely, this is a scare tactic he uses to make people believe he is stronger and more fierce than he actually is. This is a common strategy used in the animal kingdom where certain species will puff themselves up, spread their feathers, or do a lot of screaming to make their opponent afraid.
The old saying that a dog’s bark is worse than his bite applies here. As we pray for spiritual wisdom and discernment, we understand the devil is not a carnivorous beast looking to literally eat humans. He is trying to persuade and deceive someone who does not comprehend spiritual truth and because of a lack of understanding, he will harass and bully them until they learn how to stop him in the Name of Jesus.
When we realize that Satan is a faker and underneath the mask is a sniveling coward, we can walk in the revelation of spiritual victory. God says, “My people perish from the lack of knowledge” and this explains the foundation of spiritual warfare. The devil is sneaky and can throw obstacles in our path, he can make things difficult by launching ambush attacks, but the dark side cannot separate us from the love of God or stop us from accomplishing God’s will. What the enemy is trying to do is convince us that we are a failure, our mission is impossible, no one cares about us, and we might as well give up.
Of course, this is a lie and has no effect on anyone “until” someone believes it.
It’s true that mountains are moved by positive faith, but negative faith can also steal our joy and crush us under the weight of pessimism and doubt. Believing is the fervent acceptance of something we accept as true and releases power into whatever we agree with. Why is this important?
The attitude of our conscience is forming the basis of who we are and who we will become. I encourage you today to guard your thoughts and your words and remember that God never fails.
When a room is dark and you turn on the light what happens? Darkness runs and hides. God is Omnipotent and evil will always bow down to Him.
Dr. Billy Holland is a minister, chaplain, and author. Read more about the Christian life at billyhollandministries.com. | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2023/07/29/darkness-can-never-overcome-gods-light-positive-faith-outshines-all-doubt/70469049007/ | 2023-07-30T00:06:25 | 1 | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2023/07/29/darkness-can-never-overcome-gods-light-positive-faith-outshines-all-doubt/70469049007/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Pretend you accidentally knock your drink over. What would you say happened to it? If you’re from Texas, or just from the south overall, you might say it “tumped” over.
In general, the word is used when something falls over, spills over, or is knocked over. You can tump someone over or be tumped over by someone else. It’s a useful word — but is it even a word?
And moreover, why do Texans say this?
While “tump” isn’t only found in Texas, you’ll definitely hear it there. Several Texas news outlets have attempted to trace the word’s origin, including Texas Monthly, which pointed to a now-26-year-old post on a message board called Word Wizard (the website is now gone, sadly). According to Texas Monthly’s John Nova Lomax, that lost-to-time post explained that “tump” was a word meant to mimic the “thump” of something falling and hitting the ground.
A common etymological theory is that the word is a combination of the words “tipped” and “dumped” — both of which are frequently followed by the word “over,” as “tumped” often is. In other words, what’s known as a portmanteau, as explained by Texas Standard in 2017.
Again, the verbal phenomenon isn’t signature to only Texas. Many southern outlets, including Oklahoma’s The Oklahoman and Alabama’s AL.com, have noted the trend. Nevertheless, Texans online appear to proudly own the word.
“If you used the word ‘tumped’ you’re: A) from Texas B) not from Texas and possibly just had a stroke. See a doctor ASAP,” joked the popular Texas Humor Twitter account in 2014.
Musings on the word can be seen in connection with Texas Reddit, including this giant thread of Texas slang words.
In a 2020 Reddit thread, one new Texan asked how long until they could convincingly say “Yeehaw,” to which someone posed a counter-challenge: “The real test is when you can properly use ‘tumped over’ in a sentence.”
We may just never know where tump came from. What’s more, researching tump can be more difficult than it used to be since a certain former president’s last name takes up considerable search engine real estate now.
Finally, if anyone ever laughs at you for using tump, just know this: the word’s even made it into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So tump away, Texas! | https://who13.com/news/national-news/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ | 2023-07-30T00:06:26 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/what-does-tump-mean-and-why-do-texans-say-it/ |
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Two people were killed and two others injured Saturday in a midair collision at an airport in Wisconsin.
A Rotorway 162F helicopter and an ELA Eclipse 10 gyrocopter collided shortly after noon local time at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, authorities said. The aircraft belonged to individuals attending the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual fly-in convention in Oshkosh but were not involved in the air show, a statement from the organization said.
The association, citing the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, said two people were killed and two injured. The injured were taken to a local hospital and were in stable condition.
The association said further information would be released as additional details are confirmed. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
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Bear takes a dip in Burbank backyard as California’s heat wave continues
Think you can’t bear the heat? Well, you’re not the only one.
The recent heat wave has forced many Californians to seek refuge in their pools — and the state’s animal inhabitants are no exception.
On Friday, with the mercury peaking at around 92 degrees, one Burbank household discovered a bear trying to escape the heat in their backyard spa.
Burbank police said they received word of the bear at 3:30 p.m. from a home in the 1300 block of Paseo Redondo, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains.
When officers arrived, they found the bear seated inside the spa, paws propped up on the brick exterior. Representatives from the Burbank Animal Shelter and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife also responded to the scene.
After a quick dip, the bear exited the water, rambled over a wall and climbed up a tree near the rear of the house, police said.
By 6 p.m., authorities said, the animal was “peacefully sleeping” in the tree, at which point police and animal control left the area.
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The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday.
Johnny Johnson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing 6-year-old Casey Williamson after trying to sexually assault her in 2002.
With questions swirling about his mental competency, the execution was halted last Tuesday by a divided three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court. But after the Missouri Attorney General’s Office asked that the full court reconsider, that decision was reversed in a 7-3 ruling.
The case will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court before the scheduled execution date.
Attorneys for Johnson have claimed his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding the link between his crime and the punishment. They have also said Johnson has delusions about the devil using his death to bring about the end of the world.
The Missouri Supreme Court in June declined to halt the execution based on the mental health claim. The attorney general's office challenged the credibility of psychiatric evaluations of Johnson and contended that medical records indicate he is able to manage his mental illness through medication.
Johnson lured the girl to an abandoned glass factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk to the dilapidated site. When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free. He killed her with bricks and rocks, then washed off in the Meramec River. Johnson confessed to the crimes.
Casey’s disappearance set off a frantic search involving first responders and volunteers. Her body was found in a pit less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from her home, buried beneath rocks and debris.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kyler Murray's football career was nearly flawless for the first 25 years of his life: First, he was a Texas high school phenom, then a Heisman Trophy winner, then the No. 1 overall pick for the Arizona Cardinals, then a two-time Pro Bowl selection.
In all those situations, Murray was being compared to other football players.
These days, the competition is with himself.
“This is different,” Murray said. “This is you-on-you. Nobody really knows what you're going through except for yourself and whoever you're working out with.”
Murray, who turns 26 on Aug. 7, is working his way back to football relevancy following an underwhelming fourth season that was cut short by a torn ACL in his right knee against the New England Patriots on Dec. 12.
The quarterback acknowledged some tough days after the surgery — nights when it was tough to sleep because of the pain — but said he's not feeling sorry for himself as he works to get back to the field.
“I get to do what I love every day — play quarterback in the NFL,” Murray said. “Did I get hurt? Yeah. Did I experience something no one wants to experience? Yeah. But it's nothing for me to get up and work out. I was already doing that before I got hurt.”
Murray's expected to miss at least a few games of the upcoming season while he continues to recover, and the quarterback watched Saturday's practice at State Farm Stadium in a gray hooded sweatshirt and long black sleeve over his entire right leg.
His impending return is the hottest topic for the Cardinals during camp, but says he's not committing to a certain return date.
“I don't have a timetable,” Murray said.
Murray said he saw Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow at a recent UFC event and the two discussed the perils of an ACL injury. Burrow tore the ACL in his left knee during his rookie season in 2020, but returned to play 16 games in 2021.
“I wouldn't want to go out there and hurt the team or hurt myself,” Murray said. "The advice that I've gotten from a lot of people around me is to go when you're ready. Don't listen to outside noise. Don't feel pressure to come back because of this situation or that situation.
“Whenever you're ready, you'll know you're ready.”
Murray has been very good — at times spectacular — for much of his first four seasons. His uncanny scrambling ability has produced several highlight-reel plays and he's got plenty of arm to make all the throws he needs to make.
The apex of his pro career came in 2021, when the Cardinals started the season with a 10-2 record and looked like a Super Bowl favorite. But the franchise collapsed, losing four of the next five games before getting blown out against the Los Angeles Rams in an embarrassing playoff performance.
With high hopes in 2022, the Cardinals were one of the league's most disappointing teams, finishing with a 4-13 record. Murray was far from the only reason for those struggles, but also wasn't blameless, as his performance regressed in several areas.
“It's not a bad thing to sit back, watch, and try to make this a positive deal,” Murray said. “I feel good. Getting better each and every day, taking one day at a time. Just trying to be there for my teammates and learn as much as possible before I do stuff on the field.”
Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill made big changes after last season's debacle, bringing in a defensive-minded coach in Jonathan Gannon and a new general manager in Monti Ossenfort. The new regime seems just as smitten with Murray as the previous one — Gannon said one major reason he took the Cardinals job was Murray's presence.
Murray says he's excited about what the changes can bring.
The Cardinals have a large monetary interest in making things work: Murray signed a $230.5 million, five-year deal before last offseason that keeps him in the desert until 2028.
“It's been great so far,” Murray said. “We're actually establishing a run game. I believe we'll be able to run the ball a lot better, which will only be a weapon for us. Get under center, mix it up, not be as predictable.”
Veteran Colt McCoy is the Cardinals' most likely quarterback while Murray continues to recover. The 36-year-old has been the team's backup for the past two seasons and has a 3-3 record in the six games he's started.
The other current options are David Blough, who played decently in two starts last season, and Clayton Tune, a rookie fifth-round pick out of Houston.
“To me, whoever is available, we're trying to put the best guy out there to win football games,” Gannon said. “Obviously, Kyler's not available right now, but we've got a lot of guys who are very capable who I'm excited to see play and compete if he's not ready to go.”
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BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Chasing his first PGA Tour victory Lee Hodges shot a 5-under 66 on Saturday to stretch his lead to five strokes with a round left in the 3M Open.
Hodges had a 20-under 193 total at the TPC Twin Cities to break the tournament 54-hole mark of 195 set last year by Scott Piercy. Hodges led at 8 under after the first round and a record 15 under after the second.
“I have nothing to lose," Hodges said. "I’m out here playing with house money. I have a job next year on the PGA Tour, this is all great. This is just icing on the cake.”
J.T. Poston was second after a 66. Defending champion Tony Finau was another stroke back at 14 under after a 67.
Hodges' best finish in 64 prior events was a tie for third at The American Express in 2022, the only other time the 28-year-old Alabama player has led or shared the lead after 54 holes.
And he almost certainly has played himself into the playoffs that begin in two weeks. He began the week 74th in the FedEx Cup standings, with the top 70 players qualifying.
“I honestly don’t think I’ll be that nervous tonight." Hodges said. "I’ll hang out with my wife. We’ll go do something fun. I mean, yeah, it’s just golf at the end of the day. I’m lucky to be here.”
Hodges opened with an up-and-down even nine holes, then had five birdies on the back nine.
“I didn’t think I played bad on the front nine, I just couldn’t really get it close to the hole and when I did, I couldn’t make the putt,” he said.
Things were much different after the turn.
Hodges dropped birdie putts from 12 feet on No. 10 and nearly 11 feet on No. 11. His tee shot on the par-3 13th stopped 4 1/2 feet from the cup for another birdie. He added a 5-foorter for birdie on 16 and a 7-footer on 18.
He’ll be paired with Poston on Sunday the final group.
“We play some practice rounds together and I know him really well,” Poston said. “He’s a good friend. So, if I can’t get it done tomorrow, I’ll be pulling for him.”
Finau birdied four of his final eight holes. Last year, he trailed by five shots early in the final round and won by three at 17 under.
“It was just nice to make a run on the back nine today just to give myself a chance," Finau said. "If I’m eight back, that’s a whole different feeling than five or six. I was just happy with the way I finished my round today and to creep up and just be a little closer to the lead.”
Aaron Baddeley was fourth at 13 under after a 65.
Sam Ryder (65), Keith Mitchell (67), Billy Horschel (68) and Kevin Streelman (69) were 12 under. Ryder birdied in his final five holes — and seven of nine — to toe the tournament back-nine record of 29. Mitchell set that mark two years ago.
Kevin Yu shot 29 on his first nine, tying a score recorded by five others, but he was 5 over for his final six holes to finish with a 67. He was tied for 11th.
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The U.S. State Department has selected an Indigenous artist to represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, will be the first such artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious international arts event.
That's according to a statement this week from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the government body responsible for co-curating the U.S. Pavilion, alongside Oregon's Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico.
The State Department's records of the U.S. Pavilion exhibitions date back to when it was built, in 1930.
Although Indigenous artists have shown work more broadly in Venice over the years, the last time Indigenous artists appeared in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale was in 1932 — and that was in a group setting, as part of a mostly Eurocentric exhibition devoted to depictions of the American West.
"In 1932, one of the rooms was devoted to Native American art, but it was done in what I would say was a very ethnographic type of presentation," said Kathleen Ash-Milby, curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum, and one of the co-commissioners of Jeffrey Gibson's work in the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. "It grouped native people together and didn't really focus on their individuality as much. There were Navajo rugs on the floor. There were displays of jewelry. Many of the artists were not named."
Ash-Milby, who is also the first Native American curator to co-commission and co-curate an exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, told NPR her team selected Gibson because of the artist's wide-ranging, inclusive and critical approach to art-making.
"His work is multifaceted. It incorporates all sorts of different types of media," the curator, a member of the Navajo Nation, said. "But to me, what's most important is his ability to connect with both his culture and different communities, and bring people together. At the same time, he has a very critical lens through which he looks at our history as Americans and as world citizens. Pulling all those things together in the practice of an American artist is really important for someone who's going to represent us on a world stage."
Born in Colorado and based in New York, Gibson, 51, focuses on making work that fuses together American, Native American and queer perspectives. In a 2019 interview with Here and Now, Gibson said the art world hasn't traditionally valued Indigenous histories and artistic representations.
"There's this gap historically about these histories existing on the same level and being valued culturally," Gibson said. "My goal is to force them into the contemporary cannon of what's considered important."
A MacArthur "Genius" Grant winner, Gibson has had his work widely exhibited around the country. Major solo exhibitions include one at the Portland Art Museum last year and, in 2013, at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. His work is in the collections of high-profile institutions like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art. Gibson participated in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
"Having an Indigenous artist represent the United States at the Venice Biennale is a long overdue and very powerful moment," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Director Christopher Bedford said in an email to NPR. "Centering the perspectives of contemporary indigenous artists is a critical component of fostering inclusivity and equity in museums, and in our world."
The details of Gibson's contribution for the 2024 Biennale are mostly under wraps. Curator Ash-Milby said the artist is working on a multimedia installation with the title "the space in which to place me" — a reference to a poem by the Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier.
According to the organizers of the U.S. Pavilion, the upcoming Biennale will enable international audiences to have the first major opportunity to experience Gibson's work outside of the U.S. It will be on view April 20 through Nov. 24, 2024.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona was ejected in the first inning against the Chicago White Sox on Saturday.
Francona was tossed by first base umpire Todd Tichenor for arguing after Steven Kwan was doubled off first. It was Francona's first ejection this season.
Kwan opened the game with a soft single. With one out and Kwan running, Chicago left fielder Zach Remillard made a diving catch on José Ramirez's liner.
Remillard's throw was relayed to first by second baseman Jake Burger for a close play and Tichenor called Kwan out as he tried to return.
Kwan stood on first as if he expected Francona to challenge the call. Tichenor signaled something to the Cleveland dugout, then the Guardians manager jogged on to the field, barked at Tichenor and was booted.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins are signing free agent cornerback Eli Apple to a one year-deal, a person with knowledge of the signing told The Associated Press.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team hadn’t announced the deal.
The Dolphins were in need of depth at the cornerback position after All-Pro Jalen Ramsey tore the meniscus in his left knee at practice Thursday.
Ramsey had surgery Friday to repair the tear and later tweeted the procedure “went well.” There is no timeline for his return yet, but he is expected to miss the beginning of the regular season.
Miami opens the season on Sept. 10 at the Los Angeles Chargers.
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said Friday that while he is confident in the team’s cornerback room, which includes veteran Xavien Howard, 2022 standout Kader Kohou and 2023 second-round pick Cam Smith, the Dolphins planned to work out a cornerback to add depth.
Apple started 30 games for the Cincinnati Bengals over the past two seasons. He had two interceptions and 10 pass breakups in 2021, and no interceptions and eight pass breakups in 2022.
The Giants drafted Apple 10th overall in 2016. He spent three seasons with New York before being traded to New Orleans.
The Dolphins dealt with numerous injuries to their secondary in 2022 and were not at full strength entering training camp.
Cornerback Nik Needham is on the physically unable to perform list as he continues recovering from an Achilles tear suffered last October. Keion Crossen did not practice Friday with an undisclosed injury that McDaniel said will be further evaluated.
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8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat-related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said.
The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, police said.
The driver, whom police did not name, said he was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area failed until he heard dogs barking. Then, he pulled off Interstate 94 at a convenience store and gas station in Lake Station, Indiana. When he opened the back, the driver found several dogs dead and others suffering. Numerous store employees and passersby stepped in to aid the dogs.
Jennifer Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, responded to the call at 7:40 p.m. and said the dogs displayed signs of heatstroke: Salivating heavily, wobbling, vomiting and convulsing.
“There were already several dogs dead on the scene, and multiple failing fast,” Webber said. “Their crates inside the truck were completely trashed on the inside and the little water bowls were the size you’d give a parrot. And they were empty and torn up as if the dogs were exasperated.”
In a statement posted online, the Lake Station Police Department described the incident as a “freak event.” Telephone and email messages seeking further comment were left with the police station Saturday.
“This was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect but a mechanical failure of the AC unit that was being used in the cargo area,” the statement said.
But Webber said she encountered resistance when attempting to gather facts for the investigation she is authorized to conduct. The police officer in charge of the scene told her she could leave because the deaths were an accident that “the owner will take care of.”
The owner, who was driving the car, used abusive language, cursed at her and refused to produce health certificates, Webber said. Such paperwork is typically signed by veterinarians in each state involved and required to move dogs across borders for commerce. Webber said she doubted a veterinarian would have approved travel on Thursday, when heat indices exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius).
The extreme heat is a worldwide problem, and scientists calculate that July will be the hottest month on record.
“He shouldn’t have been traveling at all. So No. 1: That is neglectful,” Webber said. Then, the police let the owner drive away — this time with the door to the cargo area open — with several dead dogs and others who should have been hospitalized in crates that were not secured in the cargo area, she continued.
The truck, crates and dogs are evidence she wanted to inspect.
Even more, five of the dogs were transported to veterinary hospitals — in ambulances used for people, not in the specialized humane society vans offered on site. Webber filed a notice of seizure of the dogs when they’re released. According to Lake Station ordinance, the humane society may confine any dog who is “ill, injured, or otherwise in need of care” or “reasonably believed to have been abused or neglected.”
But Webber claimed that Lake Station police blocked the order, directing the hospitals treating the animals to release them to the owner when they are well again. She said that in her five years working with Lake Station, that has never happened.
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MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A vehicle fire temporarily snarled traffic on Interstate 75 on Saturday afternoon, according to Marion County Fire Rescue.
According to a news release, MCFR responded to the fire in the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 near mile marker 346 around 2:46 p.m.
Rescue officials said the 911 caller stated that “He smelled gas, lost power and eased to the right shoulder of the road.”
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According to the release, crews were able to quickly bring the fire under control.
No injuries were reported to firefighters or the driver, officials said.
MCFR said traffic on Interstate 75 is “free of obstruction,” although they did not report how long traffic was delayed because of the fire.
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The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday.
Johnny Johnson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing 6-year-old Casey Williamson after trying to sexually assault her in 2002.
With questions swirling about his mental competency, the execution was halted last Tuesday by a divided three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court. But after the Missouri Attorney General’s Office asked that the full court reconsider, that decision was reversed in a 7-3 ruling.
The case will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court before the scheduled execution date.
Attorneys for Johnson have claimed his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding the link between his crime and the punishment. They have also said Johnson has delusions about the devil using his death to bring about the end of the world.
The Missouri Supreme Court in June declined to halt the execution based on the mental health claim. The attorney general’s office challenged the credibility of psychiatric evaluations of Johnson and contended that medical records indicate he is able to manage his mental illness through medication.
Johnson lured the girl to an abandoned glass factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk to the dilapidated site. When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free. He killed her with bricks and rocks, then washed off in the Meramec River. Johnson confessed to the crimes.
Casey’s disappearance set off a frantic search involving first responders and volunteers. Her body was found in a pit less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from her home, buried beneath rocks and debris.
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Ice Spice has been on a bit of a hot streak as of late, but now she finds herself in hot water over her latest music video.
Earlier this week, she released the music video for the track, “Deli,” which is featured on the deluxe edition of her Like..? EP.
As reported by VIBE, popular TikToker Aya Tanjali is heavily featured in the video. In one scene, Tanjali is seen on all fours, twerking on a countertop.
There’s just one problem: Tanjali is reportedly 16-years-old.
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In an effort to provide proper context, Twitter flagged Ice Spice’s tweet promoting the video with a community note.
**WARNING: The aforementioned clip is in the tweet.**
The message warns of the twerking minor, adding that this could be a violation of state and federal laws.
Also, it is likely that Ice Spice knows of Tanjali’s age, as the two follow each other on Instagram.
Needless to say, this did not go well with most Twitter users either. Hopefully, Ice Spice can rectify the situation as quickly as possible. As of press time, however, Ice Spice has not commented.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Police are looking for the suspect they say shot a man in the leg in Southwest Fresno Saturday morning.
The shooting happened near Elm and Grove avenues just before 11:30 a.m.
Police say the suspect and victim knew each other and had an ongoing argument.
The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment. Police say he is cooperating in their investigation.
Officers do not have information that leads them to belive this was a gang dispute.
Police are not releasing the identity of the suspect as their search continues. | https://abc30.com/southwest-fresno-man-shot-in-the-leg-search-for-suspect/13570096/ | 2023-07-30T00:09:16 | 0 | https://abc30.com/southwest-fresno-man-shot-in-the-leg-search-for-suspect/13570096/ |
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Kyler Murray's football career was nearly flawless for the first 25 years of his life: First, he was a Texas high school phenom, then a Heisman Trophy winner, then the No. 1 overall pick for the Arizona Cardinals, then a two-time Pro Bowl selection.
In all those situations, Murray was being compared to other football players.
These days, the competition is with himself.
“This is different,” Murray said. “This is you-on-you. Nobody really knows what you're going through except for yourself and whoever you're working out with.”
Murray, who turns 26 on Aug. 7, is working his way back to football relevancy following an underwhelming fourth season that was cut short by a torn ACL in his right knee against the New England Patriots on Dec. 12.
The quarterback acknowledged some tough days after the surgery — nights when it was tough to sleep because of the pain — but said he's not feeling sorry for himself as he works to get back to the field.
“I get to do what I love every day — play quarterback in the NFL,” Murray said. “Did I get hurt? Yeah. Did I experience something no one wants to experience? Yeah. But it's nothing for me to get up and work out. I was already doing that before I got hurt.”
Murray's expected to miss at least a few games of the upcoming season while he continues to recover, and the quarterback watched Saturday's practice at State Farm Stadium in a gray hooded sweatshirt and long black sleeve over his entire right leg.
His impending return is the hottest topic for the Cardinals during camp, but says he's not committing to a certain return date.
“I don't have a timetable,” Murray said.
Murray said he saw Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow at a recent UFC event and the two discussed the perils of an ACL injury. Burrow tore the ACL in his left knee during his rookie season in 2020, but returned to play 16 games in 2021.
“I wouldn't want to go out there and hurt the team or hurt myself,” Murray said. "The advice that I've gotten from a lot of people around me is to go when you're ready. Don't listen to outside noise. Don't feel pressure to come back because of this situation or that situation.
“Whenever you're ready, you'll know you're ready.”
Murray has been very good — at times spectacular — for much of his first four seasons. His uncanny scrambling ability has produced several highlight-reel plays and he's got plenty of arm to make all the throws he needs to make.
The apex of his pro career came in 2021, when the Cardinals started the season with a 10-2 record and looked like a Super Bowl favorite. But the franchise collapsed, losing four of the next five games before getting blown out against the Los Angeles Rams in an embarrassing playoff performance.
With high hopes in 2022, the Cardinals were one of the league's most disappointing teams, finishing with a 4-13 record. Murray was far from the only reason for those struggles, but also wasn't blameless, as his performance regressed in several areas.
“It's not a bad thing to sit back, watch, and try to make this a positive deal,” Murray said. “I feel good. Getting better each and every day, taking one day at a time. Just trying to be there for my teammates and learn as much as possible before I do stuff on the field.”
Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill made big changes after last season's debacle, bringing in a defensive-minded coach in Jonathan Gannon and a new general manager in Monti Ossenfort. The new regime seems just as smitten with Murray as the previous one — Gannon said one major reason he took the Cardinals job was Murray's presence.
Murray says he's excited about what the changes can bring.
The Cardinals have a large monetary interest in making things work: Murray signed a $230.5 million, five-year deal before last offseason that keeps him in the desert until 2028.
“It's been great so far,” Murray said. “We're actually establishing a run game. I believe we'll be able to run the ball a lot better, which will only be a weapon for us. Get under center, mix it up, not be as predictable.”
Veteran Colt McCoy is the Cardinals' most likely quarterback while Murray continues to recover. The 36-year-old has been the team's backup for the past two seasons and has a 3-3 record in the six games he's started.
The other current options are David Blough, who played decently in two starts last season, and Clayton Tune, a rookie fifth-round pick out of Houston.
“To me, whoever is available, we're trying to put the best guy out there to win football games,” Gannon said. “Obviously, Kyler's not available right now, but we've got a lot of guys who are very capable who I'm excited to see play and compete if he's not ready to go.”
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James Harden is undoubtedly one of the best Shooting Guards in NBA history. Harden has built his name up to stand the test of time, being remembered forever with his stylish eurostep, unguardable crossover and trademarked step-back jumpshot. Harden has a lengthy NBA list of accomplishments that stacks up next to the best of ’em. One of the pivotal pieces needed to give him leverage in the ‘greatest ever’ conversation, alike many other NBA greats, is winning an NBA Championship.
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But without a Championship, Harden has still found his way into the ‘best shooting guard ever’ conversation. ESPN took to social media to find out in what order do these three al-time great NBA shooting guards rank between Dwyane Wade, Allen Iverson, and James Harden. ”
“In what order would you rank these SG’s?” NBA on ESPN posted on Instagram.
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“Why is harden on this post ?” one user commented.
“How dare y’all put harden on this list ” another user commented.
However, there were a number of people who came to Harden’s rescue, validating why he rightfully should be in this discussion.
“The disrespect on harden is crazy” read one commented
“I started watching basketball because of prime Harden, so I gotta stick with The Beard.” said another Instagram user.
Join the debate and comment below! Where do you rank #1-3: Dwyane Wade, Allen Iverson, and James Harden
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Two people were killed and two others injured Saturday in a midair collision at an airport in Wisconsin.
A Rotorway 162F helicopter and an ELA Eclipse 10 gyrocopter collided shortly after noon local time at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, authorities said. The aircraft belonged to individuals attending the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in convention in Oshkosh but were not involved in the air show, a statement from the organization said.
The association, citing the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, said two people were killed and two injured. The injured were taken to a local hospital and were in stable condition.
The association said further information would be released as additional details are confirmed. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
Separately, a plane earlier Saturday crashed into Lake Winnebago near Oshkosh, killing two people, according to the sheriff’s office. The NTSB is also investigating that case, which involved a single-engine North American T-6 aircraft. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/ap-4-dead-2-injured-in-separate-aircraft-accidents-in-wisconsin-authorities-say/ | 2023-07-30T00:09:25 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/ap-4-dead-2-injured-in-separate-aircraft-accidents-in-wisconsin-authorities-say/ |