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Don Loren Bandemer
June 13, 1955 - July 25, 2023
Don Loren Bandemer, 68, of Lincoln passed away Tuesday, July 25, 2023. He was born on June 13, 1955, in York, NE to Loren and Blanche (Bulin) Bandemer.
Don is survived by his wife, Belinda; 2 daughters; 6 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren. Siblings, Douglas (Coleen) Bandemer of Lee's Summit, MO, Cynthia (Michael) Ring of Marysville, KS, nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Loren and Blanche Bandemer, sister, Peggy Ann Bandemer.
Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 pm, Wednesday August 2, 2023, at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home, 5200 R St.
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Donald Whitmire
October 8, 1927 – July 23, 2023
Donald (Don) Lee Whitmire, 95, died in Lincoln on July 23, 2023. Don was born on October 8, 1927, in Sidney, NE, to Austin and Minnie (Seyfang) Whitmire. He grew up as an only child in Sunol, NE. After graduating from high school in Sidney, Don joined the Army. He was stationed in Fort Knox and played in the Army band. After leaving the Army, Don attended Hastings College where he met Lou Jean Blum of Alma, NE and married in 1951. They lived in Sidney, Alma, Phillipsburg (KS) and back to Alma in 1964 before moving to Lincoln two years ago. Don continued with service to his country in the Kansas National Guard for several years. In Alma, Don owned Whitmire's Appliance that sold and repaired TVs, appliances and other goods. They also owned the town laundromat. Don semi-retired in 1998 after selling his store but stayed active, working there for another decade. Don loved living near the Harlan County Reservoir and spent a lot of time fishing, hunting and boating with family and friends. Don is survived by his wife of 72 years, Lou Jean; daughter, Susan Whitmire Brown; and son, Jon (Linda) Whitmire, all of Lincoln; seven grandchildren: Chris Whitmire, Mike (Jessica) Whitmire, Jay (Katie) Brown, Kailee (Matt) Dow, Elly Brown, Austin Whitmire, Ethan Whitmire; six great-grandchildren: Kaleb, Kaidyn, Hannah, Van, Kendall, Aiden. He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Van Whitmire; and son-in-law, David Brown. Memorial service is scheduled for Labor Day weekend in Alma. Details will be posted at aspenaftercare.com. Memorials are suggested to be directed to family to purchase a bench along the lake's Pheasant Ridge Trail walking path in front of their long-time Alma home. | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/donald-whitmire/article_50f2288e-3dd9-58ee-bdc2-671262cc64fb.html | 2023-07-30T06:12:30 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/donald-whitmire/article_50f2288e-3dd9-58ee-bdc2-671262cc64fb.html |
Doris R. McPherson
October 23, 1929 - July 27, 2023
Doris R. McPherson, 93 of Lincoln, passed away July 27, 2023.
Doris was born on October 23, 1929 in Estherville, Iowa to Otto and Lucile (Trullinger) Rogers.
Doris is survived by her daughter Cindy McPherson.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Robert McPherson, brothers Dale (wife Jean) Rogers and Gary (wife Rita) Rogers.
No formal services
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Douglas H. Tabor
April 26, 1942 - July 28, 2023
Douglas H. Tabor, 81, of Lincoln passed away July 28, 2023. Born April 26, 1942 in Richlands, VA to James T. and Helen D. (Cox) Tabor. Douglas served in the Air Force and later in life worked for Coca-Cola as a Service Manager.
Family members include his wife, Diane; daughter, Terri (Bill) Dimon of Lincoln; son, Todd (Kristin) Tabor of Lincoln; sisters: Dorothy (John) Vencill of Richlands, VA and Betty Meadows of Kingston Springs, TN; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and beloved nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by his parents; brother, Jay (J.W.); and his grandfather, Poppy-Tom.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday August 1, 2023, at Messiah Lutheran 1800 S 84th St, Lincoln, NE. Reception to follow.
Memorials can be made to Messiah Lutheran Church or to the Tunnels to Towers Foundation.
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BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade surpluses.
Bruno Le Maire also defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to technology after authorities said two Chinese citizens are under investigation for what news reports say is possible smuggling of French-made processor chips with military uses to China and Russia.
Le Maire met Saturday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing’s top envoy on economic issues. He followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 9-10 as part of U.S. efforts to revive frosty relations with China.
Chinese officials gave Le Maire and Yellen a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. But Beijing has given no indication of possible changes in technology and other policies that its trading partners say violate Chinese market-opening commitments.
Officials of the 27-nation European Union are trying to narrow a trade deficit with China that swelled to 396 billion euros ($432 billion) last year. Le Maire cited cosmetics, aerospace and agriculture as possible areas for more French exports.
“There is a need to improve access to the Chinese market. I think that it was at the core of our discussions,” Le Maire said in an interview at the French Embassy. “We want to have a stronger economic relationship between Europe and China, between France and China, which means to get access for all European goods.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has looked to Europe as an alternative market and source of technology since Washington tightened controls on access to U.S. processor chips and other high-tech goods and hiked tariffs on imports from China in a feud over its industry development ambitions.
Le Maire and Chinese officials pledged to cooperate on climate change, financing for developing countries and nuclear power. They announced plans to set up a group to settle a dispute over access to China’s market for cosmetics, a major French export.
Le Maire also lobbied for investment from China’s fast-growing electric car industry. He was due to fly to the southern city of Shenzhen to meet Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD Auto, one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle producers. BYD Auto and other Chinese brands are starting to sell in developed markets including Europe and Japan. Chinese battery supplier CATL has set up a factory in Germany to supply automaker BMW.
“We want China to make investments in France in electric vehicles,” Le Maire said. “In the climate transition, there is a place for Chinese investment in France, which allows us to reinforce our economic relations and also speed up action against global warming.”
The talks were overshadowed by Russia's war against Ukraine and complaints China might be helping Moscow evade Western sanctions, but Le Maire said he didn't discuss the war with Chinese officials. However, he said it was in Beijing’s interest to end the 17-month-old war. President Emmanuel Macron’s security adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, said this month China was delivering “military equipment” to Russia but gave no details.
“I want to make very clear that we want this war to go to an end as soon as possible,” Le Maire said. “Indeed, (it is) in the interest of China, it is in the interests of the global growth to have peace as soon as possible.”
Le Maire also defended French controls on technology exports and foreign investment in high-tech industry. French authorities are investigating two Chinese citizens associated with chip producer Ommic who the newspaper Le Parisien said face possible charges of exporting chips to a Chinese armaments maker using forged documents.
French counter-espionage officials believe a Chinese investor who bought control of Ommic in 2018 was trying to transfer chip manufacturing technology to China, according to the newspaper. The ruling Communist Party is trying to develop its own chip industry, but Washington has blocked access to advanced manufacturing tools and persuaded allies Japan and the Netherlands to impose their own restrictions.
Chinese authorities complain their companies are unfairly targeted by restrictions on access to foreign technology. They have warned curbs on access to semiconductors will disrupt smartphone and other industries.
“Everybody can understand that France wants to protect its key technologies,” Le Maire said. “We don’t want any foreign country to get access to those French sovereign technologies.”
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Dr. Robert "Bob" L. Bovey, Capt., USN Ret
October 17, 1937 - July 8, 2023
Dr. Robert "Bob" L. Bovey, Capt., USN Ret, died on July 8th, 2023 in Winchester, Virginia at the age of 85. Born October 17, 1937 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania to Joseph and Ruby Bovey, Bob moved to Lincoln in 1948. He graduated from Northeast High School in 1954 and the US Naval Academy in 1959 with a BS in Marine Engineering. He received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 and an MS, US Navy Nuclear Power Training Program in 1965.
With 22 years in the Navy, he served on both attack and ballistic missile submarines (Captain of the USS Sand Lance SSN660). His last shore tours were as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Honors include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the National Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. After retirement, he was an international business consultant then 25 years with the Institute for Defense Analyses working on national security and homeland defense. Bob was a member of Masonic Lodge #297 in Lincoln; American Legion Post 199; Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity; and is a NE High School Distinguished Alumni.
Bob was a loving husband (married Rosalind Helms in 1960), a kind father and generous friend. He is survived by his wife, Rosalind; sons: Rob (Michelle), and Stuart; sister, Mary Jean Blumenstock (Fran); sister-in-law, Ann McEndarfer (Ed); and many nephews and nieces. He was preceded in death by his parents.
A memorial service for Bob will be held at the Westminster Canterbury chapel, July 31, 2023, in Virginia.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Justin Gaethje knocked out Dustin Poirier with a head kick one minute into the second round to win the main event lightweight bout at UFC 291 on Saturday night.
The third-ranked Gaethje (26-4) celebrated his victory by climbing to the top of the Octagon fence and doing a backflip off it. His perfectly timed headshot helped him avenge a loss to Poirier in 2018 when he suffered a fourth-round technical knockout via strikes.
“This chance at redemption was amazing,” Gaethje said. “It drove me to work harder to be ready.”
It was Gaethje’s 20th win by knockout or TKO and his seventh victory in his last nine fights. He also scored his first knockout win since UFC 249 in 2020.
“I was surprised by myself and how good I fought,” Gaethje said.
Second-ranked Poirier (29-8) entered the rematch between the two former interim lightweight champions as a minus-152 favorite according to FanDuel. He matched Gaethje blow for blow in the first round – earning a 10-9 advantage on two of three scorecards – before being quickly dispatched in the second.
The decisive high kick from one former champ caught the other by surprise because it wasn’t a move that he expected to see from Gaethje.
“I thought I had four more rounds,” Poirier said. “I didn’t know I had two more minutes.”
With the victory, Gaethje earned a BMF belt – the second UFC fighter to be awarded that belt.
Beating Poirier opens the door for Gaethje to have a potential title bout against the winner of Islam Makhachev and Charles Oliveira, who are set to square off at UFC 294 in October.
Gaethje’s BMF win over Poirier headlined five main card bouts.
Alex Pereira defeated Jan Blachowicz by split decision in a light heavyweight bout billed as the co-main event for his eighth win in his last nine fights.
Pereira (8-2), ranked second as a middleweight, made his debut in the light heavyweight division at UFC 291 after losing the middleweight title belt via knockout to Israel Adesanya at UFC 287 in April. Blachowicz (29-10-1) did not make the transition in weight class a smooth one for the former champion.
He weathered early takedowns in the first two rounds and rallied in the third round.
Derrick Lewis earned a record 14th knockout win over Marcos Rogerio de Lima just 33 seconds into the first round of the heavyweight bout. The No.10-ranked Lewis (27-11) scored an immediate takedown with a flying knee and pummeled 15th-ranked Rogerio de Lima (21-10-1) with repeated punches to score the early finish. He celebrated snapping a three-fight slide by stripping off his shorts and dancing around the Octagon.
“The win means a lot to me,” Lewis said. “I had a lot of pressure on me coming into this fight and I just wanted to prove to everyone I’m still one of the best fighters in the world.”
Bobby Green beat Tony Ferguson by submission via choke with six seconds left in the third round of the lightweight bout. Green (30-14-1) dominated the final two rounds to earn his second career submission, scoring takedowns in both rounds while raining repeated blows that left his opponent battered. He denied Ferguson (26-9) a shot at earning his first UFC victory since 2019, sending the 39-year-old fighter home with his sixth straight loss.
Kevin Holland made quick work of Michael Chiesa to win the welterweight bout. Holland (25-9) beat the 12th-ranked Chiesa — fighting for the first time following a two-year hiatus — by submission at 2:39 in the first round. He used his length and striking abilities to trap Chiesa (18-7) in a D’arce choke, forcing a quick tap out.
Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith, Jazz coach Will Hardy, and former Jazz stars Deron Williams and Karl Malone were among those in attendance at the second UFC pay-per-view event in 11 months in the Beehive State.
UFC reported a live gate of $6.5 million, breaking the previous venue record set at UFC 278 in August 2022. A sellout crowd of 18,467 was in attendance.
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Evelyn Fink (Rezac)
November 20, 1926 - July 20, 2023
Evelyn Fink (Rezac) passed away peacefully at the age of 96 on Thursday, July 20th 2023.
Evelyn was born on November 20th, 1926 on her parents farm just northeast of Garland, NE. After graduating high school in Denton, Evelyn went on to work for the school system in Crete where she met her late husband Stan. They married in 1946 and were together for 68 blissful years.
Evelyn was an active member of Church. As a result of her generous spirit and infectious personality she was loved by many. Her Christian life was as beautiful as the flowers and garden that she enjoyed tending to in her later years. Her influence will forever remain in the lives of all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Stan Fink, daughter Pamela Hill, daughter Sandra Sue and grandson Craig Hill.
A memorial service will be held on August 4th, 2023 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2001 S 11th Street at 10:00am. Gravesite burial at Lincoln Memorial and luncheon back at the church to follow.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Megan Rapinoe is adjusting to her new role at the Women's World Cup, even if it means she's not on the field as much as she'd like to be.
The outspoken 38-year-old known for her eclectic hair colors and the iconic victory pose she struck at the 2019 World Cup is the oldest player on the team. She already announced that her fourth World Cup would be her last.
“Ultimately, we're at the World Cup. This is where everybody wants to be, whether you're playing 90 minutes, whether you're a game changer, whatever,” she said Sunday. "I think it's a lot similar to what I thought it would be — bringing all the experience that I can, all the experience that I have, and ultimately being ready whenever my number is called up."
Rapinoe has played limited minutes so far, coming in as a substitute in the 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the tournament opener, which was her 200th career appearance for the team.
She was available but didn't play in the disappointing 1-1 draw with the Netherlands on Thursday in Wellington. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski made just one substitution in the match, bringing in midfielder Rose Lavelle after the first half.
“I think all of us on the bench, it's like we think we should be on the field as much as the players on the field believe that they should be on the field,” Rapinoe said. “Every player on the field that starts the game thinks that they should play 90 minutes, and every player who doesn't, who is a sub, thinks that they should be on at some point."
The United States has won the last two World Cups, but the players find themselves in a more precarious position as they chase an unprecedented third consecutive title. The Americans need at least a draw going into the final group match against Portugal on Tuesday at Eden Park in Auckland.
The Americans top Group E, even on points with the Netherlands, but hold the edge because of goal difference. Portugal, which beat Vietnam, could send the United States home early with a win over the Americans.
“We're unsatisfied with the way we played, but we know there are areas that we can be better and I think there's some really simple fixes we can do to put ourselves in a better position to have more joy on the ball, especially in the final third,” Rapinoe said. “I think everybody's looking at this like `Let's go.'”
At the 2019 World Cup in France, Rapinoe scored six goals over the course of the tournament, including a penalty in a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands in the final. She also finished with three assists and claimed both the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball for the best overall player.
Rapinoe, who is engaged to former WNBA star Sue Bird, has been a leader on and off the field.
She made headlines during the 2019 tournament when she said she wouldn't visit the White House if the United States won. Her decision was based on her disdain for then-President Donald Trump, and the team did not go to the White House after winning its second World Cup.
And in the midst of a dispute with U.S. Soccer over equal pay with the men's national team, Rapinoe helped the women hold firm on their position.
“I just think back to 2019 in particular. We didn’t really talk about it a lot as a group but we were like, `Well, we have to win. This is kind of like a must-win World Cup for us.' And I think it did give us confidence," she said. "It pressured us, but I think we also knew that we could handle it and it was almost a mandatory upping of our level to be able to match everything that we were saying off the field. I think in so many ways we were betting on ourselves.”
Rapinoe has won two Women’s World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal with the United States. She also took home the Ballon d’Or and the Best FIFA Women’s Player awards — the game’s top individual honors — for her play in 2019.
As a fierce advocate for social justice issues, including gender equity and LGBTQ rights, she was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Joe Biden last year.
“I’ve always tried to use whatever platform we have, and this platform was built long before I got here. We just continue to add to to it, to grow the game, to make the world a better place, to use our voices, to advocate for more,” she said.
At this World Cup, she's passing that legacy on to younger generation. Fourteen of the U.S. players are playing in their first World Cup. In 2019, Carli Lloyd was in a similar role of a player who was also something of a coach who led by example.
Rapinoe is doing that now.
“Still every day in training I'm like, `I'm gonna try to bust your ass,' and that makes them better, that makes me better," she said. "That makes the whole team better. So I think it's been really rewarding. And I think ultimately, and I think that this gets lost, but I get to play in another World Cup."
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Frances K. Kniep
January 23, 1948 - July 22, 2023
Frances K. Kniep, 75 of Lincoln, passed away July 22, 2023. Frances was born January 23, 1948 in Mitchell, South Dakota to Wilbert and Elsie (Kobernusz) Eggers. She grew up on a farm near Spencer. She attended college at Concordia University and received her teaching certificate. Frances first taught in the Minneapolis area then moved to Norfolk, Nebraska. She married James Kniep in 1986 and they have made their home in Lincoln. While in Lincoln she taught at Trinity Lutheran School. Fran enjoyed music and singing in the Lincoln Lutheran Choir and she was a good cook.
Frances is survived by her husband James and their daughter Sarah (husband David) Dvorak and grandchildren Bobbie, Lily, Jonathan and Eleanor; sisters Nancy Eggers and Rosella (husband Richard) Nelson; brother-in-law Dale Hoenscheid and many nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents, sisters Linda Hoensheid and Marna Dahmen and brother Lyle Eggers.
The funeral service will be held at 11:00 am on Friday, August 4, 2023 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 724 South 12th St in Lincoln.
Visitation with the family present will be on Thursday from 5 pm to 7 pm at Butherus Maser and Love funeral home, 4040 A St, Lincoln.
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The Texas Rangers agreed to acquire three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer in a blockbuster trade with the New York Mets on Saturday night, an all-in move for the surprise leaders in the AL West, a person with knowledge of the deal said.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t been announced.
The Rangers will be adding the 39-year-old Scherzer with another former Mets pitcher with Cy Young credentials, two-time winner Jacob deGrom, sidelined by Tommy John elbow surgery, possibly all the way through the end of next season.
According to multiple reports, the deal nets New York one of the top Texas prospects in infielder Luisangel Acuña, the younger brother of Atlanta star Ronald Acuña Jr.
As part of the deal, Scherzer agreed to opt in on the final year of his contract in 2024 at $43 million, according to reports that also said the Mets were paying about $35 million of the remaining $58 million on the right-hander’s contract.
The Mets, one of baseball's biggest disappointments, unloaded Scherzer two days after sending closer David Robertson to Miami for two minor leaguers.
New York began the season with the highest payroll in baseball at $353 million but started the day 17 games behind Atlanta in the NL East and 6 1/2 games back in the wild-card race.
The next question is what the Mets will do with Justin Verlander, another three-time Cy Young winner signed through next season. There should be plenty of suitors for the 40-year-old right-hander.
Texas has emerged from six consecutive losing seasons to lead the AL West all but one day in three-time World Series champion Bruce Bochy’s first season as manager.
The Rangers made the first notable move of this trading season by getting once-dominant closer Aroldis Chapman from Kansas City in June. Chapman has stayed in a setup role with Will Smith handling most of the closing duties.
Now Texas has bolstered the rotation knowing deGrom might be out until Scherzer's contract expires at the end of next season.
The trade for Scherzer came on the same day the Rangers said they were again bumping back the next start for All-Star right-hander Nathan Eovaldi. Bochy said Eovaldi had a sore elbow, but the club doesn't think it's serious.
The Rangers added deGrom in the offseason on a $185 million, five-year contract, knowing there was risk in signing the oft-injured right-hander.
He lasted just six starts — all Texas wins — before elbow issues sidelined deGrom for a month. It took multiple MRIs to determine the extent of the damage to his elbow, and the Tommy John procedure in June was the second of his career. The other was in rookie ball with the Mets in 2010.
“I think we need to improve as a starting rotation,” Bochy said before the Rangers' game at San Diego on Saturday night, as reports of the trade were circulating. “I think that’s fair to say.”
Scherzer (9-4) was leading the Mets in victories but had his highest ERA (4.01) since 2011 with Detroit. The eight-time All-Star started Friday at home against Washington, allowing one run in seven innings in a 5-1 New York victory.
With 210 career victories, Scherzer is third among active pitchers behind Verlander and Kansas City's Zack Greinke.
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Henry Robert Hultquist
February, 4, 1945 – July, 23, 2023
Henry Robert Hultquist (aka Hank) was born February 4, 1945, in Omaha, NE, to Virgil and Carita (Westring) Hultquist. The family moved to Ralston in 1954.
Around 1960 he was recruited by Jerry Chalupa, Ralston High band director, to just "carry" the tuba in the marching band to balance out the brass section. Eventually he decided to actually learn to play it! At RHS he participated in band, chorus, declam and debate and the "Ram Tales" staff, graduating in 1963. He attended the University of Nebraska where he played tuba in the Cornhusker Marching Band, attending several football bowl games in the mid-1960's.
He joined the Nebraska National Guard and took Army basic training in Kentucky. Later he played tuba in the 43rd Army Band
Returning to Nebraska he managed Perky's Pizza in Lincoln where the specialty "Pizzaco" became a favorite of customers including UNL students. For a time, Hank lived in an apartment above Perky's. Known for usually being late, this was convenient as he was able to just go downstairs two minutes before opening time!
In 1970 he married Marianne Meyer. They divorced in 1974. He married Linda Barnett June 18, 1995, in Lincoln.
Strangely enough, Hank never played the violin. He worked at Dietze Music in Lincoln, where he "apprenticed" with the strings specialist, who was nearing retirement. This is how he learned the trade that would be his main career, seeing an opportunity to develop a "niche" business to serve the expanding community of local violin, viola, cello and string bass players. In 1982 he opened "The Violin Shop" in his home on R Street. As the business grew, he saw the need to expand so he opened the store at 1641 South 17th Street, which has been the home of the business ever since. In 2015 he sold the business to David Frederick, who continues to operate it to the benefit of the Lincoln strings community.
Hank loved road trips, food, reading, puns and spelling words backwards to confuse people. But music was always his first love. His favorite composer was Dmitri Shostakovich. After retirement he enjoyed playing tuba in the Waverly Community Band and the Dixie Downbeats.
It would be remiss not to mention Hank's passion for old cars. He spent hours online in pursuit of (obscure?) vehicles on eBay and took many trips to pick up his "treasures" in California and Arizona, where the climate kept older cars in better shape. He always said he intended to restore the cars, but somehow that rarely happened. He was the proud owner of 13 vehicles at the time of his passing. These included a 1979 VW Diesel Rabbit, a 2001 bright red Audi station wagon and a 1977 Dodge station wagon. (Most of these vehicles don't actually run but there was always hope he would "get to them tomorrow.")
In April of 2023 he was hospitalized with several chronic health problems. At the end of May he entered hospice care at home where he passed away on Sunday morning, July 23, 2023.
Hank is survived by Linda Barnett, his wife of 28 years and truly the love of his life; daughter, Lea Anderson (Cliff Castillo) and their son, Nestor; son, Clark Anderson; and his "favorite sister," Mary Garrison (there were no other siblings!) and many cousins.
A Celebration of Life will be held Thursday, August 17th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at Urban Farmhouse Room, 3900 Yankee Hill Road #127, Lincoln. (Parking is in the southeast corner of the Target parking lot.)
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PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn't the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia's invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That's a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia's withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can't handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country's exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Janice Ludwig
August 23, 1937 – July 23, 2023
Services will be held Tuesday, August 1st, at 2:00 p.m. at Grace Community Evangelical Church, 6843 South Street in Lincoln. With a gravesite service in Gothenburg on Saturday, August 5th, at 2:00 p.m. at Gothenburg Cemetery, 41241 County Rd. Afterwards a gathering with family will be held to share memories of Jan at the Lutheran Church, 1512 Avenue G. See full obit online at AspenAfterCare.com. | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/janice-ludwig/article_6839cc07-81ff-5479-97f7-f727b262a003.html | 2023-07-30T06:13:14 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/janice-ludwig/article_6839cc07-81ff-5479-97f7-f727b262a003.html |
SYDNEY (AP) — Some of the biggest names in soccer have yet to show up at the Women's World Cup.
That's literally been the case of Australian star Sam Kerr, who missed the first two games with a calf injury.
Kerr has recovered in time to play for Australia in a crucial final Group B game against Canada on Monday. The Matildas need to beat the Canadians to ensure they advance to the knockout round, and the Chelsea striker's return to the lineup brings needed energy to the team.
“Mentally, it’s massive. It brings so much to our team and obviously also a lot to the opposition knowing that we have Sam available for this game,” Australia defender Ellie Carpenter said.
Kerr's injury on the eve of Australia's opening game against Ireland set the tone for a tournament that hasn't been kind to some of its biggest stars. She was the face of co-host Australia's preparations for the tournament, which is also being staged in New Zealand.
She dominated the covers of magazines across newsstands, while the autobiography she released late last year chronicled her rise to become arguably the best player in the women's game right now. Kerr's popularity transcends women's soccer and she is considered a national icon.
So the disappointment was palpable when news broke about an hour before the opening match that Kerr was going to be sidelined at least two games in this tournament.
Kerr's absence was felt in the 3-2 loss to Nigeria in Australia's second game, a loss that put the Matildas in danger of elimination. It is not known what her role will be against Canada, but Australia needs Kerr to deliver in the final game of group play.
"I’m definitely going to be available, but how we decide to use that is not to be given to the opposition,” said Kerr.
The World Cup is supposed to be a showcase for the finest talent and biggest names, but injuries have always robbed the tournament of some its star players.
Norway forward Ada Hegerberg has had her playing time curtailed. Often referred to as “the Lionel Messi of women's soccer,” Hederberg was part of a Norway's 1-0 upset loss to New Zealand in the opening game of the World Cup.
It got worse for the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner when she suffered a groin injury in the warm-up ahead of Norway's game against Switzerland, and she's been ruled out of the final Group A game against the Philippines.
Keira Walsh of England suffered a knee injury against Denmark that will sidenline her for the Lionesses' final Group D game against China. Described as irreplaceable, it is not known how much she will be able to play.
Even for some stars who have seen plenty of playing time, it has been difficult to make an impact.
American icon Alex Morgan has underwhelmed so far at her fourth World Cup, where she is hoping to help the United States to an unprecedented third consecutive title.
Morgan, the co-leading scorer at the last World Cup, has yet to score at this year's event and missed a penalty in the 3-0 win against Vietnam. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said Morgan was adapting to playing in a forward line with Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman.
“I think it’s not hard to realize that Alex’s role is slightly different than the Alex that we’re used to maybe in the past,” Andonovski said. "She does set up the other two forwards a lot more. It’s not that she’s not capable of scoring goals or getting behind crosses, but we can also see her playing balls to Trinity and Soph, but also getting crosses for them as well.”
Morgan, at 34, is now one of the older players at the tournament.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is also searching for first goal of the tournament. Sinclair is highest scorer in international soccer — men or women — with 190 goals.
Like Morgan, she also missed a penalty, in a 0-0 draw with Nigeria that could still prove costly. She was benched for Canada's second game against Ireland before coming in as a substitute at halftime as the gold medalist from the Tokyo Olympics logged a come-from-behind 2-1 win.
At 40 years old, Sinclair is having to accept a more limited role for Canada.
Brazil great Marta, at 37, has also been used sparingly in her sixth World Cup.
Her teammate, Debinha, who is also an iconic figure to Brazil fans, has been one of the standout players for her country so far. But she wasn't able to stop a 2-1 loss to France on Saturday despite scoring in that match.
The gap appears to be closing in the women's game, with underdogs proving more of a test for the more established nations. That's one reason some of the big name stars have yet to impress in tournament.
One of the few standouts who has not disappointed so far has been Alexandra Popp, who scored twice in Germany's 6-0 rout of Morocco.
Major tournaments are traditionally a mix of rising talents coming to the surface, while established stars have the chance to confirm their status among the greats.
Linda Caicedo of Colombia, Lauren James of England and Melchie Dumornay of Haiti have proven their worth as some of the brightest prospects in the game. But as the second round of games nears its completion, it feels like the tournament is still waiting for many of its big hitters to make an impact.
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John Robert "Jack" Dau
June 25, 1931 - July 26, 2023
John Robert "Jack" Dau, age 92 of Wahoo died Wednesday July 26, 2023 in Wahoo. He was born June 25, 1931 in Yutan, NE to Otto and Naomi (Wagner) Dau. Jack served in the Army from January 7, 1949 until July 21, 1952.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia; wife, Bonnie; son, Robert Dau; brothers: Jim and Bill Dau; sisters: Mary Lou Harnden and Beverly Baker; step-sons: Tim and Craig Harnett; step-granddaughter, Holly Givens; Son-in-law Rod Urban; and Ken Hulse. Jack is survived by his daughter, Kathy Urban of Wahoo; daughter-in-law, Jean Dau of Wahoo; five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; step-children: Kevin (Gwenn Arney) Harnett, Jan Givens, and Barry Harnett; five step-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Phyllis Dau; and friend, Ima Jean Alley.
Funeral Services, Tuesday, August 1, 10:30a.m., at Wahoo First United Methodist Church. Visitation Monday 5:00-7:00p.m. at funeral home. Burial with Military Funeral Honors by Wahoo American Legion Post #82 and Wahoo VFW Post #4502 at Sunrise Cemetery. Memorials to the family for later designation. Pruss-Nabity Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/john-robert-jack-dau/article_5bb6e6cc-0109-5a94-864c-eac6de523d9b.html | 2023-07-30T06:13:20 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/john-robert-jack-dau/article_5bb6e6cc-0109-5a94-864c-eac6de523d9b.html |
Clark-Shawnee Local School District has named Chrissy Elliot as the new elementary campus principal.
Elliot, who brings 16 years of primary education experience, has taught in a classroom for five years and served in school administration for 11 years.
“Chrissy brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience related to curriculum and administration,” said Superintendent Brian Kuhn. “Having previously served as an administrator at Possum, Reid and Rockway, Mrs. Elliott is very familiar with the students, staff and families of our district.”
Elliot began her career in 2007 as a third-grade teacher in the Olentangy Local School District, joined the Clark-Shawnee district in 2012, and was most recently the PreK through sixth grade principal at Edwin D. Smith Elementary School in Oakwood Schools from 2019-23.
“Clark-Shawnee is a district I feel very connected to as an alumna, parent and professional,” Elliott said. “I’m elated to be back with the Clark-Shawnee family and look forward to learning and growing together as we continue to build a positive school culture and community.”
In Clark-Shawnee, Elliott was the Kindergarten & Literacy Coordinator and Assistant Principal at Possum Elementary for two years, and was principal of Rockway Elementary from 2014-2017 and at Reid Elementary from 2017-19.
“Her previous years in the district provided valuable experience in each of Clark-Shawnee’s former elementary buildings,” Kuhn said.
Elliott earned a bachelor’s in Early Childhood education from Urbana University, a master’s in Teacher Leadership and Curriculum from Wright State University, and holds a P-3 Grades Teaching License, a PreK-6 Principal License, and a Superintendent License.
Elliot will fill the position vacated by Kyle Phelps, who is now the new Greenon Elementary principal. She will join the elementary school administrative team with third through sixth grade principal Chris Campbell and PreK through second grade principal Mandy Shaffer.
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Kendal E. "Ken" Sieg
March 20, 1945 - July 26, 2023
Kendal E. "Ken" Sieg, 78, of Lincoln, died on July 26, 2023. He was born on March 20, 1945 in Lexington, NE to Earl and Virgie (Thomas) Sieg.
Ken retired in 2010 from Nebraska Wesleyan University as the Director of Admissions. He is a member of Lancaster Lodge #58, Temple #271 O.E.S. and was a past president of the Nebraska Association of College Registrars and Admissions Offices.
Family members include his wife, Laurie; son, J.D. (Jolene) Sieg; Grandchildren: Brandon Sieg and Taylor Sieg (Jake Brunner); Brothers-in-law: John (Michelle) Meese, and James (Joan) Meese; Sisters-in-law: Melissa Miller, and Kathleen Stolarcyk; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by his parents; and siblings: Sherry and Tom.
Visitation with family greeting friends will be held on Tuesday August 1st, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Roper and Sons South Lincoln Chapel, 3950 Hohensee Drive, with an Eastern Star Service to follow at 7:00 p.m.
Funeral Service will be on Wednesday, August 2nd, at 10:30 a.m. at the Scottish Rite Temple, 332 Centennial Mall South. Private family committal at Sunrise Cemetery in Wahoo, NE.
Memorials may be directed to O.E.S Stardogs Inc, P.O. Box 6571, Lincoln, NE 68506, or Nebraska Wesleyan Theater Department, 5000 St. Paul Ave, Lincoln, NE 68504.
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Linda K Dawson
March 10, 1940 – July 27, 2023
Linda K. Dawson, age 83, of Lincoln, passed away on July 27, 2023. Born March 10, 1940, in Council Bluffs, IA to Frank and Virginia Feiertag. She worked as a customer service representative for Hy-Gain/Telex/Bosch for almost 40 years. She was an avid butterfly and Husker fanatic. She loved to travel and was lucky to have been able to see the world in her lifetime. She loved people and all that met her loved her.
Survived by her daughter, Melanie Harris (Todd), daughter, Dee Dial; grandchildren: Ragen Garrison, Macee Harris, Heather Swanson (Ben), Dalton Campbell and Deja O'Banion; great-grandchildren: Jackson, Emma and Cooper Swanson. Stepchildren: William Dawson, Rhonda Dawson and Debra Whitney. Step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren; brother, Frank Feiertag (Deb); nieces, nephews.
Preceded in death by husband, Ronald Dawson; Parents; and Sister, Carol Posig.
Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 2nd, at the Roper and Sons Midtown Chapel. Lunch reception to follow service at The Isles -Havelock 6232 Havelock Ave. Lincoln.
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Linda Rae (Franseen) Ball
April 1, 1946 - July 25, 2023
Linda Rae (Franseen) Ball was born in Red Oak, Iowa on April 1, 1946 to Alden Ivar Franseen and Dorothy (Gustafson) Franseen. Her early years were spent in Laurens, Iowa, until moving to Spencer, Iowa in 1956. She attended & graduated from Spencer High School in 1964. Following graduation, she attended LaJames Beauty School in Mason City, IA & Spencer, IA. She also worked as a car hop at the local Spencer Town and Country Drive-In where she met her future husband & love of her life, Jim Ball.
Linda & Jim were married in Spencer, IA January 1, 1965 & they made their first home in Alton, IA where Jim would start a high school teaching job. In 1978, the family moved to Coon Rapids, IA, then moved to Tekamah, NE in 1983. Lincoln, NE has been their home since 2002.
Linda was a homemaker for many years while her children were young. She once wrote “my kids are my biggest accomplishment & my greatest joy, I love them to pieces. I'm so blessed to be their mom – God picked out some good ones for me.” She also loved her dogs.
Linda was involved in several organizations during her life time. She was a member of the PEO sisterhood, served on the Chamber of Commerce and golf course boards to name a few. She loved Mary Kay & was a sales rep over the years, along with employment at several banks in Tekamah, NE & Lincoln, NE. She retired as an office staff member at the Gastroenterology clinic in Lincoln.
After several months of health-related complications, Linda passed away July 25, 2023 at the Monarch Hospice House in Lincoln, NE. Jim was at her side.
She was preceded in death by her parents and 2 sisters, Barb & Joan.
She is survived by her husband, Jim of Lincoln, NE; daughter, Tania (Ball) Feemster, son-in-law Tommy and grandsons, Tyler & Trevor Feemster of York, SC; Son, James Ball, daughter-in-law, Mary, and grandchildren, Donny Ball & wife Rachel of Arlington, NE, Braden Ball and Marissa Ball of Tekamah, NE; Son, Jeffrey Ball, daughter-in-law, Michelle, grandchildren, Jackson & Madison Ball of Lincoln, NE; Brother, Brian (Anji) Franseen of Spencer, IA; and many nieces & nephews, she loved dearly.
Linda's infectious, beautiful smile & her love of life will be missed by all.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 1:00 PM at Butherus, Maser & Love Funeral Home, 4040 A Street, Lincoln, NE.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial in Linda's name can be sent to The Heartland Cancer Foundation, PO Box 5203, Lincoln, NE 68505 or Tekamah United Methodist Church, 1410 L. Street, Tekamah, NE 68061.
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Norma Jean Wiedel
July 27, 2023
Norma Jean Wiedel, age 90, of Lincoln, peacefully passed away on Thursday, July 27, 2023.
Norma is survived by her two loving daughters, Shirley Wiedel and Sharon (William) Gewain; 1 granddaughter, Kimberly (Ryan) Cakerice; 2 great-grandchildren, Madelyn and Landon; other relatives and friends. Memorial services will be at a later date.
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This week host Fiona Ritchie re-visits artists including Breabach, Gavin Marwick, Austral, and Arthur Coates, whose works were recently featured in New Releases shows. These albums are well worthy of another airing before they blend into the music library. Let's give them another well-deserved chance to show what they have to offer.
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Patty S. Burianek
July 27, 2023
Patty S. Burianek, age 87, of Hallam, NE, passed away on July 27, 2023. Visitation will be on Monday from 5 -7 at Kuncl Funeral Home in Crete. Graveside Services are Tuesday at 10:00 AM at Camden Cemetery, Seward County, NE.
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Tune into some fresh new musical arrivals from The Thistle & Shamrock offices in the U.S. and Scotland. Host Fiona Ritchie handpicks from albums recently received, acquired, picked up, and passed along with well-known names including Natalie MacMaster, Rhiannon Giddens, Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy, and singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran's debut in the Thistle playlists. This is your time to discover new worldly sounds from Fiona's mailbox.
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Ramona P. Lux
July 24, 2023
Ramona P. Lux, age 95 of Shelby, Nebraska, passed away July 24, 2023 at Bryan East Hospital in Lincoln.
Memorial services will be held Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at Gresham Presbyterian Church with Pastor John Nelleson officiating. Visitation will be held Monday, July 31 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the church. Inurnment will be in the Blue Ridge Cemetery north of Gresham.
Memorials are suggested to the family in lieu of flowers to be designated later.
Survivors include her children Charles (Lori) Lux of York, Anne (Harry) Heath of Lincoln, Karen Svehla and special friend Don Antholz of Lincoln.
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Tune into some fresh new musical arrivals from The Thistle & Shamrock offices in the U.S. and Scotland. Host Fiona Ritchie handpicks from albums recently received, acquired, picked up, and passed along with well-known names including Natalie MacMaster, Rhiannon Giddens, Paul Anderson, and week 2 of global superstar singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran's debut in the Thistle playlists.
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Theodore C. Paulson
July 17, 2023
Theodore C. Paulson, age 82 went home July 17, 2023. He was the oldest son, born April 20, 1941, to Theodore L (Pat) and Susanna B (Bellecourt) Paulson. Join us to share memories and your stories during Ted's ‘Celebration of Life.' August 12, 2023 at 1:00 – 4:00 PM, Pruss-Nabity Funeral Home, 911 N Linden St, Wahoo, NE 68066 | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/theodore-c-paulson/article_3c83970b-20f8-5962-a547-d046fa43ab4e.html | 2023-07-30T06:14:03 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/theodore-c-paulson/article_3c83970b-20f8-5962-a547-d046fa43ab4e.html |
It's too soon to know for sure, but attendance at the California Mid State Fair is happening up to end on a high note.
"We have seen tremendous crowds, the first 10 days and we have two days left. We expect big crowds tonight and Sunday," Tom Keffury, California Mid State Fair spokesman, said.
Keffury says although the official numbers will not be in until next week, early indicators are pointing toward a successful year.
“Concert ticket sales have been very very strong and are a key indicator of overall attendance. last year. Attendance was great. First time in a couple years full force is back again this year, so it might become payable to last year, might be a little bit up,” Keffury said.
A diverse selection of musical acts from Pitbull and Styx to Tim Mcgraw likely contributed to the fair’s success.
"Country, of course we’ve had rock, but we’ve also had to enact the Christian act. Of course, we’ve had a Hispanic act and rap and R&B.It’s just been a great lineup this year, and we’ve seen all of the acts supported by the community,” Keffury said.
The Luke Bryan concert brought in some big crowds as well.
“It was a sold out show with 15,000 people in their arena. It was a big big night for us,” Keffury said.
The country concert helped propel food and drink sales to a new high.
“Luke was our busiest day,” one food vendor, Mark Davis, said.
The Pitbull show was the second busiest day at the fair so far.
“We definitely saw an uptick in crowd activity after 10 o’clock, when the concerts let out,” Keffury said.
Some vendors believe this season's food and drink sales will surpass last year.
"Sales have been going up, so we’re kind of on a climb now," Davis continues.
Some say that their business took a hit this time around because of the high temperatures.
"Sales were a little bit down, not too much but we went down from last year,” one food vendor, Marina Mendoza, said.
“This weekend with the rodeo and monster trucks I hope we can get busy too,” Mendoza continued.
Some say that the fair has been a great way to interact with community members.
“We walk around and show our support to different organizations at the fair and it’s great. It’s super fun. We love interacting with people,”Natlie Boyd, mid state fair princess 2nd runner up, said.
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Violet J. Sorensen
June 13, 1929 - July 25, 2023
Violet J. Sorensen, 94, of Lincoln passed away July 25, 2023. Born June 13, 1929, in Franklin, CA, to Jacob and Susie (Schuh) Derheim.
Violet retired in 1980 after twenty years with Orthopedic & Surgical Supplies. She was a member of the United Lutheran Church in Lincoln, NE. She was a pass member of the Eastern Star and Charter member of League of Women's Voters in Grand Island, NE, pass member of Unicameral Ladies Association, Beatrice Quilters in Beatrice, NE, and former Boy Scouts Den Mother.
Family members include her daughters Beverly (Gerald) Helzer, Kearney, NE, and Joanne (John) Vopalensky, Placentia, CA; sons Warren (Betty) Lautenschlager, Mesa, AZ and Kenny (Barbara) Lautenschlager, Valley, NE; step-sons Timothy (Janet) Sorensen, Elmwood, NE and Paul (Barbara) Sorensen, Lincoln, NE; step-daughters Diane (Ted) Johnson, Raymond, NE, Deborah “Debbie” (Terry) Larsen, Grand Island, NE, and Elizabeth “Beth” Sorensen, Lincoln, NE; 17 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her parents, both husbands Senator Marvin Lautenschlager and Glenn Sorensen, son Norman Lautenschlager, sister Bernice Weber, and great-grandson Jaxson Matulka.
Funeral Service: 10:00 am Thursday, August 3, 2023, at Peace Lutheran Church, 1710 North Rd., Grand Island, NE. Interment will be at the Grand Island Cemetery, following the funeral service.
Open visitation from 12:00 -7:30 pm, and family will be present from 6-7:30 pm Wednesday, August 2, 2023, Roper and Sons Midtown Chapel, 4300 ‘O' Street, Lincoln, NE.
Memorials to United Lutheran Church, 5945 Fremont Street, Lincoln, NE 68507.
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Of all extreme weather conditions, heat is the most deadly. It kills more people in the U.S. in an average year than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined. The human body has a built-in cooling mechanism – sweat. But that system can only do so much, especially in soaring temperatures with high humidity.
Here's a look at what happens to the human body in extreme temperatures – and the three main pathways to fatal consequences.
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Organ failure caused by heatstroke
When the surrounding temperatures approach your internal body temperature – which is about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for most of us – your body starts to cool off through evaporative cooling, better known as sweating. But when it's very humid out, that sweat won't evaporate as well and cool you down.
When your body is exposed to heat, it will try to cool itself down by redirecting more blood to the skin, says Ollie Jay, a professor of heat and health at the University of Sydney, where he directs the Heat and Health Research Incubator. But that means less blood and less oxygen are going to your gut. If these conditions go on long enough, your gut can become more permeable.
"So, nasty things like endotoxins that usually reside and stay inside the gut start leaking out of the gut, entering the circulation. And that sets off a cascade of effects that ultimately result in death," Jay says.
For example, those toxins can activate white blood cells, says Camilo Mora, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who has researched how heat can turn fatal. "They say, Oh my God, we're getting attacked right now. And the white blood cells are going to attack this contamination in the blood, creating coagulation" – or blood clots, Mora says. Those clots can lead to multiple organ failure.
"And at that point, it's pretty irreversible," Jay adds.
Cardiovascular collapse
The second way people die in high heat also has to do with your body pumping more blood to the skin. Your heart has to pump faster – which can make you feel lightheaded – to keep your blood pressure up.
"We might have a heart rate of 60 beats per minute, all of a sudden, we might be asking the heart to contract 100 times per minute, 110 times per minute. So now you're asking the heart to do a lot more work," Jay says.
Those spikes in the heart rate can be triggers for a heart attack, he says, especially for the elderly and those with underlying heart conditions.
Fluid loss leading to kidney failure
The third deadly danger has to do with the fluids your body is losing in extreme heat. People can sweat as much as a liter and half per hour, Jay says. And if you don't replenish those fluids, you get dehydrated and your blood volume shrinks, which makes it harder to maintain blood pressure. That can strain your heart and your kidneys.
"People with kidney disorders can be at greater risk of a negative health outcome during extreme heat exposure," Jay says.
Mora notes another danger to the kidneys that people who work physically demanding jobs in high heat outdoors face. Rhabdomyolysis causes muscle tissue to break down, releasing proteins into the blood that can clog kidneys. This usually occurs in the acute phase of heatstroke. Jay says there's also some evidence that habitually working outdoors in high heat without proper hydration can increase the risk of chronic kidney disease.
What you can do to stay safe
Watch for the first signs of mild heat exhaustion:
If that happens, Jay says, get out of the heat and into the shade or indoors ASAP. Drink plenty of water and wet your clothes and skin. Immersing your feet in cold water can also help.
Jay says the goal is to cool down so you don't progress to severe heat exhaustion, where you might start vomiting or seem to lose coordination – signs of neurological disturbance.
If your core body temperature rises to about 104 degrees Fahrenheit, Jay says, that's where you risk heatstroke.
How hot is too hot?
Experts say there's no absolute temperature at which extreme heat can turn dangerous.
"It depends on the individual," says Lewis Halsey, a professor of environmental physiology at the University of Roehampton in the U.K. "It depends on how acclimated they are to heat. It depends how long they're exposed to the heat for. It depends on how they're experiencing this heat."
If sweating is our superpower to keep cool, then "the kryptonite to that superpower is humidity," Halsey says.
So a person might start feeling overwhelmed much sooner in higher humidity at lower temperatures than if they're in dry heat, he says. Direct sunlight will heat us up faster than when we're in the shade. A nice breeze could help sweat evaporate and cool us off.
The elderly and very young are considered particularly vulnerable in the heat. But Mora of the University of Hawaii at Manoa notes heat stress can hit anyone.
He points to the story of a young family who died after becoming dangerously overheated while hiking on a day in August 2021 when temperatures reached 109 degrees Fahrenheit in Northern California. The husband, wife, their one-year-old daughter and even the family dog were found dead two days later.
Mora says those kinds of conditions could kill within a few hours — even if you are young and healthy.
"The military has done a lot of research into heat exposure and they find the first symptoms of heat exhaustion, heatstroke after only a few hours, even among the healthiest of people," Mora says.
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Virginia Ann Buckley
March 31, 1926 - July 27, 2023
Virginia Ann Buckley, 97, of Lincoln, passed away on July 27, 2023. She was born on March 31, 1926 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Dr. Fredrick David Coleman and Katherine Ann Wills.
Virginia was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Delta Gamma Sorority, P.E.O. Chapter CS-DK, Questors, and Church Circles. She enjoyed collecting antiques and was a proud homemaker.
Survivors include: children Barbara Ann Bender (Thomas) of Columbia, MO, Katherine Jean Goodrich (Stephen) of Lincoln, NE, and Lester F. Buckley (Nancy) of Lincoln, NE; 8 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Preceded In death by: Parents, Husband Lester M, and infant sister Barbara Jean.
Funeral will be held at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 2nd at the Roper and Sons Midtown Chapel, 4300 ‘O' Street.
Memorials to First Presbyterian Church.
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Woods Humane Society is offering a two-for-one kitten adoption promotion Sunday.
The promotion aims to find kittens and their companion a home during the height of kitten season.
The "Kitten two-fer" event is being held at both woods locations and reduces standard kitten adoption fees to $75 per kitten under 5-years-old when adopted in pairs.
The event is being sponsored by SloCal Roots, which will be holding an in-store donation drive during the event and will sponsor up to 26 kitten adoptions over the weekend.
All kittens are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, micro-chipped, licensed and treated for parasites. The adoptions include a voluntary 30-day pet insurance and free wellness exam at a local vet clinic. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/woods-humane-society-is-offering-a-two-for-one-kitten-adoption-promotion-sunday | 2023-07-30T06:14:15 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/woods-humane-society-is-offering-a-two-for-one-kitten-adoption-promotion-sunday |
A jury has ordered anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy and associates to pay more than $50 million in damages to Idaho's largest hospital in connection with armed protests last year that led to a security lockdown.
The decision handed down late Monday follows a ten day civil trial in which Bundy was a no show and where attorneys with St. Luke's Hospital outlined what they called an extensive campaign of bullying, intimidation and disinformation directed at doctors and medical staff that they say continues today.
"Standing up to threats, bullying, intimidation, disruption and self serving actions was necessary. Inaction would have signaled that their menacing behavior was acceptable," said Chris Roth, CEO of St. Luke's Health System, in a statement.
The drama goes back to March of 2022 when Bundy led a series of tense protests against the hospitalization of one of his associate's infant grandkids who state social workers said was malnourished. According to court documents, protesters, some armed, tried to force their way into the hospital's locked exits. Some held "wanted" signs naming individual doctors and nurses and even blocked an ambulance entrance as car horns blared.
At the trial, the hospital's security director, Abbey Abbondandolo told the jury that he ordered a security lockdown and diverted all incoming ambulances to other hospitals because he feared Bundy and his militia followers were close to taking over the hospital and carrying out a "Pizzagate" style attack.
"This is not just a guy going rogue. He's like a military leader who's able to coordinate actions and mobilize people on different fronts," Abbondandolo said.
The jury trial offered a window into the dark world of far-right extremism, with intimidation and threats being directed at top officials even in one of the most conservative states in the nation.
Ammon Bundy, who ran for governor in Idaho in 2022, receiving some 90,000 votes, routinely attacks the state's Republican leaders, including its conservative governor, on social media. Bundy and his followers frequently spread Q Anon conspiracy theories that St. Luke's and its staff who cared for the infant grandson were part of a global child sex trafficking cabal.
Meanwhile, it's unclear how much if any of the $50 million in damages, half of them punitive, will ever get paid. St Luke's says it plans to donate the money upon collection to one of its child health services organizations.
Bundy, who has defied a civil arrest warrant, appears to remain holed up in his home in a rural area outside Boise where he's been claiming erroneously that he has no assets left to be taken.
"People in a jury deciding how much St. Luke's is going to take from those who exposed the truth about them is a mockery to justice. When a baby is born he or she does not become property of the state or hospital executives," Bundy said in a tweet responding to the verdict.
This is just the latest legal drama for Bundy, who a jury actually acquitted in 2016 for leading a 41 day armed takeover of a federal bird sanctuary in Oregon. Bundy has also been arrested for trespassing in the Boise area several times more recently, even leading to his being banned from the Idaho state capitol for one year.
"They are, to some degree, terrorists in the way that they're acting. And then he turns around and makes himself the martyr or the victim, which is just ludicrous," says Gary Raney, a retired sheriff in Ada County, Idaho's most populous.
Leading up to the civil trial, Raney was advising local law enforcement to wait things out and not immediately go in and serve the warrant. The local sheriff had warned earlier this year that Bundy was becoming increasingly aggressive toward his deputies.
Raney told NPR he thinks Bundy will get served soon but there's no rush while tempers are flaring.
"The predicament is just keeping the community safe over there with all these - I'll use the technical term - yahoos that are over living on Bundy's property, trying to protect him from who knows what," Raney said.
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It was in the early ’60s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett.
For several hours we cruised past some of Washington’s most famous landmarks. Tony let me take a picture of him, shirtless and with a big smile on his face. He later signed it and I have kept it framed in my office ever since.
Bennett, who died last week at 96, was labeled in various obituaries as the “last of the crooners.” He was more than a crooner. While many singers have nice voices, not all can interpret songs the way Tony did.
His talent and material spanned several generations. While in later years he teamed up with contemporary singers like Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Michael Bublé and even Willie Nelson, he never compromised on the quality of his work or tried to become something he was not. Proof of his cross-generational appeal was his “re-discovery” by college-age students. You could hear every word and the way he sang them contained a power to stir up emotions.
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Consider just one of his many songs. “Fly me to the Moon” was sung by Frank Sinatra in an upbeat and swinging style. Bennett did it as a ballad and while each version has its own appeal, Bennett’s version is contemplative and, yes, more romantic.
In a 1965 interview for Life magazine, Sinatra paid Bennett the ultimate compliment: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me.”
Me, too. Shortly after that boat ride, I took a date to see him perform at the Shoreham Hotel’s iconic Terrace, an outdoor venue that during the summer featured the best singers of the day. It was where I began to understand what real love and romance felt like.
Tony Bennett was to music what Fred Astaire was to dance. It was said dancing partner Ginger Rogers gave Astaire sex appeal and Astaire gave her class. Bennett gave us class, good taste and sartorial splendor. I never saw him perform in anything but a suit or tuxedo.
At one time I owned most of his albums. We can now call up his songs on Alexa and similar devices. Among my favorites was “The Many Moods of Tony,” which features a poignant song called “When Joanna Loved Me.” It’s about a lost love and his remembrance of what he felt when they were in love. The lyric is by Paul Desmond: “When Joanna loved me, every town was Paris, every day was Sunday, every month was May.” But when Joanna left him, “May became December, but even in December, I remember, her touch, her smile, and for a little while, she loves me and once again it's Paris, Paris on a Sunday, and the month is May.”
One gets the feeling he is singing about himself and identifying with listeners who have suffered a lost love but who are comforted by the memory of what it once felt like.
Bennett had a vocal range that never reached falsetto. He never shouted. He didn’t have to in order to command attention.
Most people will likely remember him for what became his signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” Younger people would do well to consider this great preserver of the American Songbook with lyrics you can understand that have the power to touch one’s heart and soul. Not all “crooners” have that gift.
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The 14U Orcutt Babe Ruth All-Stars are on quite the hot streak.
The team played 13 games over their last two tournaments to win both state and Pacific Southwest Regionals.
The team is now headed to the Babe Ruth World Series in Fredericksburg and Stafford, Virginia.
"Obviously winning Hamilton, and we beat them twice in the championship, but after our first loss to them it kind of put a little spark in them and they realized, you know what, we've got to do whatever it takes," team manager Michael Roberson said.
The Orcutt squad played seven games in six days in 108-degree temperature to advance out of the Pacific Southwest Tournament in Tulare.
"You know our little town Orcutt, we're representing the whole Pacific Southwest," Roberson continued. "You've got Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. I was telling these kids we're not just California champs, we're the whole region."
The world series will consist of teams from Aruba, Mexico, and Australia coming from outside of the United States.
Pool play will consist of three divisions, each with five teams, and four games of pool play will commence.
The top eight will advance to the world series round in a single-elimination bracket-play that will crown a winner August 12th.
"We really want to dig deep and kind of win because this has never happened to us before," starting second baseman Ashton Bluem said. "Little Orcutt, never going to a world series. We really wanted to do it, so we came together and really got it done."
"This is a special ground and they don't come around that often," Roberson beamed. "We can do it if they believe in themselves like we believe in (them). Now, it's going to be a fun time. We're going to turn some heads. The sky's the limit with this group." | https://www.ksby.com/sports/14u-orcutt-babe-ruth-all-stars-are-headed-to-babe-ruth-world-series-in-virginia-aug-3rd-13th | 2023-07-30T06:14:21 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/sports/14u-orcutt-babe-ruth-all-stars-are-headed-to-babe-ruth-world-series-in-virginia-aug-3rd-13th |
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Emmett Till would have turned 82 today. Till was tortured and murdered in Mississippi after a white woman accused the Black 14-year-old of whistling and grabbing at her. Till and his mother's willingness to share the brutality Till suffered marked a pivotal moment in the early Civil Rights Movement. Mamie Till Mobley described her decision in a 2003 interview with The Chicago Project.
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MAMIE TILL MOBLEY: Let the people see what I've seen. And I want open casket viewing from now until the time we take Emmett for burial.
KELLY: Now, almost 70 years after Till was beaten, shot, had a cotton gin tied around his body and was thrown in the Tallahatchie River, Till and his mother are being memorialized in the form of three monuments in Chicago and Mississippi. President Biden signed the proclamation designating the sites earlier today. Patrick Weems is the executive director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Miss. He was at the White House when President Biden put pen to paper. We spoke before he headed to that event.
Patrick Weems, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
PATRICK WEEMS: Thank you, Mary Louise.
KELLY: You've come to D.C. for this event at the White House, and you picked up the Till family en route.
WEEMS: We drove from Chicago to D.C. to be here today, and I couldn't think of a more memorable trip to be here with Wheeler Parker, who's one of the most gracious, forgiving human beings and probably one of the most important people alive.
KELLY: So tell me about the three locations. There are two in Mississippi, one in Illinois. Start with the one that marks the site where Till's body was believed to have been pulled from the Tallahatchie River. What will visitors see there?
WEEMS: Yeah, well, hopefully what they won't see is a bullet-riddled sign. You know, we've had a lot of history of this site being desecrated, being shot up. We were able to put a bulletproof marker there recently in the last couple of years. But more significant is that the site where Till's body came out of the Tallahatchie River will now be a part of the National Park Service system. And to know that it will be federally protected - to make sure that if someone does vandalize our signs, it won't be a local sheriff. It will be the federal government that will get involved. But this is the big bang of the Civil Rights Movement, as Jesse Jackson talked about. This is a site where so many Black bodies were thrown into rivers. But Emmett's miraculously emerged. An 18-year-old fisherman found the body and brought it to the banks of the Tallahatchie River, where his body was initially identified because he had his father's ring on his finger. But then later, Mamie Till made sure the body came to Chicago, where she said, this is my son. I know my son.
KELLY: Yeah. And that's - the site in Illinois is the site where she insisted on an open casket. Describe what we'll see there.
WEEMS: Yeah. So, I mean, public officials wanted to bury Emmett in Mississippi. The sheriff had a directive to make sure the body was buried in Money, Miss. Mamie refused. She wanted to have a very private mourning for her son, first and foremost. But she also took that moment to remember and kind of resist white supremacy, resist the Jim Crow system by having a public funeral, having an open casket to show the world what they did to her son.
KELLY: And then the last location is also in Mississippi, back in Tallahatchie County.
WEEMS: That's right. So the site of the injustice - right? - so the miscarriage of justice took place in our courtroom in 1955. And it's also the site where people like Willie Reed, an 18-year-old sharecropper who witnessed the murder. He testified at the trial, and he whispered his testimony because he was scared to death. He later had a nervous breakdown, changed his name and moved to Chicago and didn't talk about this until 30 years later. And so, you know, it's a low point in American history, the fact that these men get off without any penalty. But it also is a testimony to people like Medgar Evers, Willie Reed, Mose Wright, Mamie Till, Dr. T.R.M. Howard - people who did the right thing that day and had the courage to at least try to get some attempt at justice.
KELLY: You know, I'm thinking about how this monument designation comes as a national conversation is underway about how to teach Black history in our schools. Do you think these monuments might help inform that conversation?
WEEMS: They already are. I mean, this is American history. We have young people visit these sites already. This will only amplify and make it easier for young people to come. It takes the best of us to talk about the worst of us. And if we're going to have a true democracy and multicultural democracy, we have to understand where we've stumbled. And we stumbled badly in 1955. And no matter party affiliation, I think we should all agree that what took place in 1955 was wrong. The system was wrong. Mississippi was wrong. The United States was wrong. But we can be better. It's our hope that this memorial marks a line in the sand that says, never again, and that if we want to hold and cherish our democracy, we need to learn about Mose Wright and Mamie Till.
KELLY: Patrick Weems. Thank you.
WEEMS: Thank you, Mary Louise. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers has joined 18 other Republican attorneys general seeking to block a proposed federal rule that would prevent state officials from obtaining private health information about residents who have abortions or receive gender-affirming care in other states, where the procedures are legal.
The change to HIPAA patient privacy rules, proposed in April by the Biden administration, would block states from accessing health information about residents who obtained lawful abortions or gender-affirming care “for criminal, civil or administrative investigations or proceedings.”
Nebraska, it appears, has no direct legal interest in the federal rule change. Given that HIPAA is a federal program, prohibiting states from receiving information is neither overreach nor a reduction of states' rights.
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So Hilgers is, as he acknowledged in his statement on opposing the change, injecting Nebraska into national abortion politics by claiming that the Biden administration’s proposed rule “is based on the false premise that states want to treat pregnant women as criminals and punish medical personnel who provide lifesaving care.”
In fact, that is exactly what lawmakers want in states such as Idaho, that have passed or are considering laws that restrict out-of-state travel for abortions.
Nebraska’s 12-week abortion ban does not contain such a provision, another reason that the state has no direct interest in the rule change. But, as nine state senators delineated in a letter to Hilgers, Nebraska "has an unfortunate history of prosecuting women and health care providers for pregnancy outcomes" and pointed to a recent case in Norfolk in which a 19-year-old was sentenced to 90 days in jail for disposing of a fetus after an abortion.
That, rightfully, caused the senator signees, including Lincoln’s Danielle Conrad, George Dungan and Jane Raybould, to ask Hilgers why he wants access to medical records from other states and if he plans to use those records, or turn them over to local authorities, to prosecute individuals who seek abortions where it is legal or those who aid others in seeking care outside Nebraska.
The proposed rule change also extends to individuals, including minors, who seek gender-affirming care, some of which is banned in Nebraska, in other states, raising the same questions of prosecution for those individuals as well.
Hilgers must directly answer those queries, by first saying whether the state will use the information for any kind of prosecution, then, if the answer is yes, why it is necessary to have access to the information without due process of a court order or subpoena.
Regardless of the answers, however, Hilgers’ opposition to the proposed rule is concerning, if for no other reason than the fact that when given the choice between making personal health information more or less secure, he's chosen less. | https://journalstar.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-7-30-nebraska-ag-owes-more-explanation-over-stance-on-abolition-health-privacy/article_51e0abd2-2a30-11ee-b433-1fe0c5038785.html | 2023-07-30T06:14:23 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-7-30-nebraska-ag-owes-more-explanation-over-stance-on-abolition-health-privacy/article_51e0abd2-2a30-11ee-b433-1fe0c5038785.html |
U.S. superstar swimmer, Katie Ledecky, surpassed Michael Phelps for most career individual world swimming titles after winning her 16th gold medal on Saturday.
The 26-year-old earned her 16th world title after winning in the 800-meter freestyle, finishing with a time of 8:08.87 at the 2023 World Aquatic Championships in Fukuoaka, Japan.
Ledecky also became the first-ever swimmer to win six-consecutive world championships in the same event.
Ledecky defeated Li Bingjie of China, the second place finisher, by 4.44 seconds.
Ledecky tied with Phelps earlier this week on Tuesday when she won the 1500-meter freestyle for her fifth world title in that event. | https://www.ksby.com/sports/katie-ledecky-holds-most-career-individual-world-swimming-titles-after-winning-her-16th-gold-medal-on-saturday | 2023-07-30T06:14:27 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/sports/katie-ledecky-holds-most-career-individual-world-swimming-titles-after-winning-her-16th-gold-medal-on-saturday |
It seems that Gov. Jim Pillen thinks it is all right for everyone to carry a concealed weapon. Perhaps he misses the days when we watch shows like "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" and wants to return to the Wild West.
OK, let’s do it!
It will be necessary to have Ben Cartwright talk some sense into the folks who think it’s all right to shoot first and talk later. We will need gentle Hoss to comfort the angry shooters and offer words of consolation to the victims and their loved ones.
We will definitely need Little Joe. He can lead innocent people to a "little house on the prairie" or put those who die from gun violence on a "highway to heaven." We will definitely need Adam. After he was done being a cowboy he became a doctor. Hopefully Trapper John, M.D., can patch up a few victims.
Newsflash, Gov. Pillen’s office! It is real life, not TV.
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I can’t. I just can’t do it. I can’t be quiet. What is happening in our down-to-earth, practical, nice Nebraska?
Live and let live? No. Love thy neighbor? No. Judge thy neighbor? Yes. Religion as politics? Yes. Politicians as clergy? Apparently.
Right before our eyes, ears and all of our senses, a shift to acceptance of prejudice, intolerance, dogmatism, bigotry, even outright hatred has leaked into our culture — locally, statewide and nationwide.
Is our once-unified philosophy of freedom to pursue happiness, liberty, equality and the good life being eroded away or blatantly stripped from our consciousness?
Hiding behind misleading rhetoric and false pretenses, our liberties are being frittered away regarding public safety, public education, public health and human services (physical and mental health, youth care), equality, respecting truth in history, scholarly study, censorship, criminalizing harmless personal expression and women’s rights of reproductive autonomy (to list civil liberties already threatened or being eliminated).
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Do not describe those guardhouse disenfranchising, judgmental and criminalizing ways to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who only ever taught and lived love to love and assuage the very souls being chastened by hypocritical humans.
If we follow leaders who sow fears through propaganda, divisiveness through their rhetoric and callousness through their action or inaction, where do we end up?
Mary Jo Oie, Lincoln | https://journalstar.com/opinion/letters/letter-where-are-we-headed-nebraska/article_bc60d39e-2998-11ee-974f-5b86799fa49d.html | 2023-07-30T06:14:31 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/opinion/letters/letter-where-are-we-headed-nebraska/article_bc60d39e-2998-11ee-974f-5b86799fa49d.html |
Justin Gaethje knocks out Dustin Poirier with head kick in UFC 291 title fight
Justin Gaethje knocked out Dustin Poirier with a head kick one minute into the second round to win the main event lightweight bout at UFC 291 on Saturday night.
The third-ranked Gaethje (26-4) celebrated his victory by climbing to the top of the Octagon fence and doing a backflip off it. His perfectly timed headshot helped him avenge a loss to Poirier in 2018 when he suffered a fourth-round technical knockout via strikes.
It was Gaethje’s 20th win by knockout or TKO and his seventh victory in his last nine fights.
Second-ranked Poirier (29-8) entered the rematch between the two former interim lightweight champions as a minus-152 favorite according to FanDuel. He matched Gaethje blow for blow in the first round before being quickly dispatched in the second. With the victory, Gaethje claimed a BMF belt — the second UFC fighter to be awarded that belt.
Beating Poirier opens the door for Gaethje to have a potential title bout against the winner of Islam Makhachev and Charles Oliveira, who are set to square off at UFC 294 in October.
Terence “Bud” Crawford was in complete control, defeating Errol Spence Jr. in the ninth round via TKO to become the undisputed welterweight champion.
Gaethje’s BMF win over Poirier headlined five main card bouts.
Alex Pereira defeated Jan Blachowicz by split decision in a light heavyweight bout billed as the co-main event for his eighth win in his last nine fights.
Pereira (8-2), ranked second as a middleweight, made his debut in the light heavyweight division at UFC 291 after losing the middleweight title belt via knockout to Israel Adesanya at UFC 287 in April. Blachowicz (29-10-1) did not make the transition in weight class a smooth one for the former champion.
Derrick Lewis earned a record 14th knockout win over Marcos Rogerio de Lima just 33 seconds into the first round of the heavyweight bout. The No.10-ranked Lewis (27-11) scored an immediate takedown with a flying knee and pummeled 15th-ranked Rogerio de Lima (21-10-1) with repeated punches to score the early finish. He celebrated snapping a three-fight slide by stripping off his shorts and dancing around the Octagon.
Bobby Green beat Tony Ferguson by submission via choke with six seconds left in the third round of the lightweight bout. Green (30-14-1) dominated the final two rounds to earn his second career submission, scoring takedowns in both rounds while raining repeated blows that left his opponent battered. He denied Ferguson (26-9) a shot at earning his first UFC victory since 2019, sending the 39-year-old fighter home with his sixth straight loss.
Kevin Holland made quick work of Michael Chisea to win the welterweight bout. Holland (25-9) beat the 12th-ranked Chisea — fighting for the first time following a two-year hiatus — by submission at 2:39 in the first round. He used his length and striking abilities to trap Chisea (18-7) in a D’arce choke, forcing a quick tap out.
Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith, Jazz coach Will Hardy, and former Jazz stars Deron Williams and Karl Malone were among those in attendance at the second UFC pay-per-view event in 11 months in the Beehive State.
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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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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.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/4-dead-2-injured-in-separate-aircraft-accidents-in-wisconsin-authorities-say/4548204/ | 2023-07-30T06:14:36 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/4-dead-2-injured-in-separate-aircraft-accidents-in-wisconsin-authorities-say/4548204/ |
Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor's unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
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A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter and this year promises to be worse after the city closed an arena that housed 500 people during the winter months. Bickering between the city’s liberal assembly and its conservative mayor about how to address the crisis, and a lack of state funding, have further stymied efforts to find a solution.
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it's “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
About 43% of Anchorage’s more than 3,000 unsheltered residents are Alaska Natives, and Bronson’s proposal also drew harsh criticism from those who called it culturally insensitive.
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“The reality is there is no place to send these people because this is their land. Any policy that we make has to pay credence to that simple fact. This is Dena’ina land, this is Native land," said Christopher Constant, chair of the Anchorage Assembly. "And so we cannot be supporting policies that would take people and displace them from their home, even if their home is not what you or I would call home.”
Bronson's airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the U.S. West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
In May, the city shut down the 500-bed homeless shelter in the city's arena so it could once more be used for concerts and hockey games after neighbors complained about open drug use, trespassing, violence and litter. A plan to build a large shelter and navigation center fell through when Bronson approved a contract without approval from the Anchorage Assembly.
That leaves a gaping hole in the city’s ability to house the thousands of homeless people who have to contend with temperatures well below zero for days at a time and unrelenting winds blasting off Cook Inlet. At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no vacancies.
New tent cities have sprung up across Anchorage this summer: on a slope facing the city’s historic railroad depot, on a busy road near the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and near soup kitchens and shelters downtown.
Assembly members are slated to consider a winter stop-gap option in August falling far short of the need: a large, warmed, tent-like structure for 150 people.
Summer brings its own challenges: hungry bears last year roamed a city-owned campground where homeless people were resettled after the arena closed. Wildlife officials killed four bears after they broke into tents.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
It’s not clear if his proposal will move forward. There is not yet a plan or a funding source.
Dr. Ted Mala, an Inupiaq who in 1990 became the first Alaska Native to serve as the state’s health commissioner, said Anchorage should be working with social workers and law enforcement to discover people’s individual reasons for homelessness and connect them with resources.
Buying the unsheltered a ticket to another city is a political game that's been around for years. A number of U.S. cities struggling with homelessness, including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, have also offered bus or plane tickets to homeless residents.
“People are not pawns, they’re human beings,” Mala said.
The mayor's proposal, while focused on warmer cities, also would fund tickets to other Alaska locations for those who want them.
Clarita Clark became homeless after her medical team wanted her to move from Point Hope to Anchorage for cancer treatment because Anchorage is warmer. The medical facility wouldn't allow her husband to stay with her, so they pitched a tent in a sprawling camp to stay together.
Having recently found the body of a dead teenager who overdosed in a portable toilet, Clark yearns to return to the Chukchi Sea coastal village of Point Hope, where her three grandchildren live.
“I got a family that loves me," she said, adding she would use the ticket and seek treatment closer to home.
Danny Parish also is leaving Alaska, but for another reason: He's fed up.
Parish is selling his home of 29 years because it sits directly across the street from Sullivan Arena. Bad acts by some homeless people — including harassment, throwing vodka bottles in his yard, poisoning his dog and using his driveway as a toilet — made his life “a holy hell," he said.
Parish is convinced the arena will be used again this winter since there isn't another plan.
He, too, hopes to move to the contiguous U.S. — Oregon, for starters — but not before asking Anchorage leaders for his own plane ticket out.
“If they’re going to give them to everybody else," Parish said, “then they need to give me one.” | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/as-alaska-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-mayors-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/4548166/ | 2023-07-30T06:14:42 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/as-alaska-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-mayors-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/4548166/ |
A Florida woman was arrested after biting the top of another woman's ear off during a fight over vape pens and alcohol on July 4th, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to an assault and battery call at a home in Callaway, a suburb of Panama City, just after midnight. An investigation revealed the incident had occurred at a house party next door at 6526 Olokee Street that was thrown by unsupervised minors.
When a fight kicked off between several men at the house party, 23-year-old Macy Regan attempted to leave and walk to her home next door, the sheriff's office said in a news release. It was then that Dixie Stiles, 18, confronted Regan and accused her of stealing vape pens and alcohol.
Regan allegedly pulled out a 9 millimeter gun from her waistband, which Stiles shoved out of the way. A physical altercation ensued where Regan bit the top of Stiles' ear off, the sheriff’s office said in the release.
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The women received multiple bruises and lacerations in the fight and Stiles' ear was unable to be re-attached, the sheriff's office said.
Both women were arrested. Stiles was charged with battery while Regan was charged with felony battery causing bodily harm.
Read the full story on NBCNews.com here. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/florida-woman-arrested-after-biting-ear-off-another-woman-during-fight-over-vape-pens-and-alcohol/4548227/ | 2023-07-30T06:14:48 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/florida-woman-arrested-after-biting-ear-off-another-woman-during-fight-over-vape-pens-and-alcohol/4548227/ |
Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
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“I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I’ve already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight,” she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
“I’m pretty tough on myself," she said. “But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace.”
The 800 was Ledecky’s second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
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“It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women’s 200 backstroke. McKeown’s victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
“You can’t change the rules,” she said. “I got ruled out. It’s just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn’t do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive.”
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström’s individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps’ mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
“There are not too many secrets,” Sjöström said about her longevity. “Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble.”
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year’s world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/4548250/ | 2023-07-30T06:14:54 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/4548250/ |
Terence Crawford knocked down Errol Spence Jr. three times Saturday night before finally ending the fight at 2:32 of the ninth round on a technical knockout to cement himself as one of the greatest welterweights in history.
The fight, the most-anticipated boxing match in several years, unified the division for the first time in the four-belt era that began in 2004.
Crawford (40-0, 31 knockouts) already owned the WBO belt, and took the WBC, WBA and IBF titles from Spence (28-1). Crawford also ran his KO streak to 11 matches, the second-longest active stretch.
Crawford, 35, has won titles in super lightweight and lightweight in addition to welterweight, capturing the latter after moving up in 2018. The Omaha, Nebraska, fighter became the first male boxer to become the undisputed champion in two divisions.
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A big fight night on the Strip still brings out the stars, with recording artists Cardi B and Andre 3000 of Outkast, actor and Las Vegas resident Mark Walhberg, NBA star Damian Lillard and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at T-Mobile Arena. They were among the celebrities that also included former boxing champions such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Eminem introduced Crawford and his song “Lose Yourself” played as he walked into the ring.
Spence was the aggressor early on, but Crawford sent him to the floor with a right hand with 20 seconds left in the second round. Then Crawford went after Spence, but time ran out before he could finish him off.
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Crawford, a minus-154 favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, then took control of the fight, landing several major blows, often on counters. But Crawford also picked his spots to go after Spence, his punching power taking a heavy toll.
In the seventh round, Crawford knocked down Spence twice — with a short right at 1:02 and with another right with just a second left.
The 33-year-old Spence who lives in DeSoto, Texas, won the IBF title in 2017, claimed the WBC championship in 2019 and took the WBA championship last year.
In the co-main event, Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (25-2-1) of Mexico beat Chicago resident Giovanni Cabrera (21-1) by split decision in a WBC and WBA lightweight match. Judges Benoit Roussel (114-113) and Don Trella (115-112) scored the fight in favor of Cruz, and Glenn Feldman gave Cabrera the fight by a 114-113 score. Cruz had a point deducted because of a head butt.
Also, Alexandro Santiago (28-3-5) of Mexico won the vacant WBC bantamweight title with a 115-113, 116-112, 116-12 decision over Nonito Donaire (42-8), who lives in Las Vegas. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/terence-crawford-unifies-welterweight-division-with-9th-round-tko-vs-errol-spence/4548193/ | 2023-07-30T06:15:00 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/terence-crawford-unifies-welterweight-division-with-9th-round-tko-vs-errol-spence/4548193/ |
MUNFORD — Destinee Briskey is beginning her third season as head varsity volleyball coach at Munford. The Lions lost four seniors from their 2022 team and three of those played all six rotations.
This year, Briskey will have three seniors but one of the three, outside hitter Ellie Jones, is battling an injury that kept her from playing in the seven-team varsity play date Munford hosted Thursday.
The Lions welcomed Oxford, Weaver, Cleburne County, Childersburg and Vincent. Sardis had committed to attend then canceled.
Jones and senior middle blocker Kaylyn Turner have played for the last three years but Turner came to volleyball late, and Briskey said she is still developing and refining her hitting skills. Turner’s potential was on full display Thursday.
“Her timing is getting better and better and better,” Briskey said of Turner at the end of the day Thursday. “She did everything today, including leadership, leading by example and also leading vocally. You can’t beat that.”
Defensive specialist Aubrey Lathem is Munford’s third senior.
From the junior class, the Lions have defensive specialist Breanna Hailes and opposite side hitters Raleigh Dew and Alys Mosley.
Sophomore Saraya Henderson is a libero and setter, and classmate Kastin Lathem is a setter. The four freshmen are libero Ashlyn Bishop, middle blocker Lauryn Brewster, defensive specialist Brooklyn Pressley and outside hitter Mylie Stephens.
“We’re a very young team,” Briskey said and the fact that the Lions have as many freshmen and sophomores on this varsity squad as they have seniors and juniors supports that assertion.
Briskey said she had “pretty much” determined who will play where and that the younger players are “filling their spots pretty well.” At times she can tell that the varsity game remains ”a little bit too fast” for the youngsters but she is confident they will “catch on quick.”
“We’ve definitely got to work on serve, receive and serving. That’s the name of the game. You’ve got to do those two things so we’ve got to really hit hard with that,” Briskey said. “I’ve really got to work with setters, just connecting with our hitters.”
While the hitting develops, the Lions will rely on defense and smarts to win matches.
“Defense is definitely going to have to be our thing and then being smart on offense,” Briskey said.
The Lions mentor doesn’t doubt the abilities of her youthful defenders.
“We’re young but they can play. They can go,” Briskey said.
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OXFORD — A former Olympian pitching for the Vipers still was not enough to bring down the first-place powerhouse Texas Smoke in Game 2 of their three-game weekend series.
The Vipers' Sierra Hyland pitched for Team Mexico in the 2020 Olympic Games, and she displayed what made her an Olympic athlete in Saturday’s 3-1 loss to the Smoke. She pitched 4⅔ innings and allowed one run on six hits with two walks, while 40 of her 71 pitches were strikes.
“Just working with what I had,” Hyland said. “Just trying to get outs for my defense and the offense for when they come back in. The umpire wasn’t really in our favor, in our opinion, but you know what? It’s a pitcher’s job just to get around it, get them swinging, and doing whatever we can to get off the field and get back in the dugout.”
It was a pitcher’s duel until the bottom of the fourth inning when the Vipers captured a 1-0 lead.
Makena Smith doubled to left with one out to give the Vipers a runner in scoring position. Brooke Wilmes grounded out to second, moving Smith to third. Smith scored on a passed ball.
Smith had a stellar night at the plate as she went 2-for-2 on three appearances with a single, a double, a walk, and the lone Vipers run.
“I guess I was seeing the ball well,” Smith said. “I think everybody was just missing it, I think we’re all just missing by not that much.”
The Smoke quickly tied the game 1-1 in the top of the fifth. With runners on first and second, Ana Marie Bruni hit a grounder to third, but a Vipers error allowed a run to score.
The Smoke went up 2-1 in the top of the sixth when Morgan Howe hit a run-scoring single to right field.
The Smoke scored the final run of the game in the top of the seventh. Ciara Bryan hit a lead-off triple to left before Bruni added another RBI on an infield single to second base.
—The Vipers mixed things up in terms of positions. Mary Iakopo, who typically catches, was at first. Suzy Brookshire, who is normally at first, was at third, and Smith, who plays third, was the catcher.
—Gianna Mancha and Amber Fiser both came in as relief pitchers for the Vipers. Mancha threw one-third of an inning and gave up one run on one hit. Fiser pitched two innings, struck out one, gave up three hits and one run.
—Smith on the position changes: “We’re just kind of moving things around, just kind of doing what we can with who we got. We’ve got a few injuries, trying to play around it, but anybody on this team is ready to play wherever.”
—Hyland on the key to Game 3: “We’ve just got to play like we’ve got nothing to lose. We’ve just got to go out there, get dirty, get some balls, string the hits together, get some runs in, and just keep going that way every inning. Win every inning and just keep going forward from that.”
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UFC 291 ended with a massive win for Justin Gaethje, who scored the biggest victory of his career in decisive fashion. Gaethje landed a perfect head kick to knock out Dustin Poirier and secure the BMF title belt.
In the co-main event, Alex Pereira had an impressive light heavyweight debut with a split decision win over Jan Blachowicz, potentially setting himself up for a shot at the promotion's most mobile belt. Pereira's record now sits at 8-2.
Derrick Lewis snapped a three-fight losing streak in emphatic fashion, charging Marcos Rogério de Lima with a flying knee at the start of the fight and never letting up once his opponent was down. It was Lewis' record 14th knockout in UFC. Given that it was the final fight of his UFC contract, it was a very well-timed win for Lewis.
"I just said 'Imma throw some bulls*** and see if it lands.' It did," Lewis said after the match.
Bobby Green was on track for a decision win over Tony Ferguson, but removed all doubt with a submission of the veteran in the final 10 seconds of the fight. The win broke a four-fight streak without a victory for Green, while Ferguson posted his sixth straight loss.
In the pay-per-view opener, Kevin Holland submitted Michael Chiesa with a D'arce choke in the first round of their welterweight scrap. It was Holland's 25th win in 35 pro fights. Chiesa record is now 18-7 after this third loss in a row.
Here's how UFC 291 went down:
UFC 291 live tracker: Updates, highlights and analysis
UFC 291 main card, odds (Live now on ESPN+PPV)
• Lightweight: Justin Gaethje def. Dustin Poirier by KO - 1:00 of R2
JUSTIN GAETHJE KO's POIRIER BY HEAD KICK 😱
— UFC (@ufc) July 30, 2023
WE HAVE A NEW BMF #UFC291 pic.twitter.com/eUunAPoHnO
• Light heavyweight: Alex Pereira def. Jan Blachowicz by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)• Welterweight: Stephen Thompson (-225) vs. Michel Pereira (+175)• Heavyweight: Derrick Lewis def. Marcos Rogério de Lima by TKO (flying knee and punches) - 0:33 of R1
AND HIS BALLS WAS HOT #UFC291 pic.twitter.com/uqz1Tqefxn
— UFC (@ufc) July 30, 2023
• Lightweight: Bobby Green def. Tony Ferguson by submission (arm-triangle choke) - 4:54 of R3• Welterweight: Kevin Holland def. Michael Chiesa by submission (D'arce) - 2:39 of R1
UFC 291 prelims card results, highlights
• Welterweight: Gabriel Bonfim def. Trevin Giles by submission (guillotine) - 1:13 of R1:
SLICK SUBMISSION FROM BONFIM 😨#UFC291 is LIVE on ESPN+ PPV 🍿 pic.twitter.com/jIaAQnPaIH
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) July 30, 2023
• Flyweight: CJ Vergara def. Vinicius Salvador by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)• Middleweight: Roman Kopylov def. Claudio Ribeiro by KO (head kick) - 0:33 of R2:
KOPYLOV’S NASTY HEADKICK DROPS RIBEIRO 😱#UFC291 LIVE on ABC and ESPN 🍿 pic.twitter.com/ZX8Gb4hUC3
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) July 30, 2023
• Welterweight: Jake Matthews def. Darrius Flowers by submission (rear naked) - 2:37 of R2
UFC 291 early prelims card results, highlights
• Welterweight: Uroš Medić def. Matthew Semelsberger by TKO (ground and pound) - 2:36 of R3:
Uros Medic brought the spin move 🌪️ #UFC291 is LIVE on ESPN 🍿 pic.twitter.com/sWsJaPFD5f
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) July 29, 2023
• Women's flyweight: Miranda Maverick def. Priscila Cachoeira by submission (armbar) - 2:11 of R2:
Miranda Maverick kicks off #UFC291 with a finish!@FearTheMAVERICK locks the armbar in Round 3 💪 pic.twitter.com/lUox5wVbrc
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LAS VEGAS — This, without hyperbole, was one of the greats weeks for the frequently maligned sport of boxing in the last 50 years, if not longer.
And Terence Crawford's ninth-round TKO victory Saturday over Errol Spence Jr. for the undisputed welterweight title before 19,980 fortunate fans at T-Mobile Arena ranks among the greatest performances in a huge fight ever.
Ever.
Yes, that’s considering anything that Floyd Mayweather, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns ever did, particularly considering the quality of the opponent, the stakes and the sheer ferocity that Crawford showed in taking Spence apart.
Yes, that includes anything that Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest boxer who ever drew a breath, ever did.
And it includes whatever big fight or famous fighter you want to name.
Yes, it was on par with Mike Tyson’s 91-second destruction of Michael Spinks for the undisputed heavyweight title in 1988. Yes, it ranks there with Mayweather’s domination of Diego Corrales in their super featherweight bout in 2001, when Mayweather dropped Corrales five times and stopped him in the 10th.
“I swear, I swear, I have said this before, but I’ve always dreamed of being a world champion,” said Crawford, who improved to 40-0 and became the first male boxer in the four-belt era to be undisputed in two weight classes. “I’m an overachiever. Nobody believed in me when I was coming up.”
Coming up?
There were those who didn’t believe in him going into the fight with Spence. The narrative from those was old and tired, that Spence was too big, too strong and had too much of a jab for a guy who used to be a lightweight to handle.
Crawford, though, performed like the all-time great he proved himself to be. He raised his game to a level that Spence couldn’t come close to matching. Crawford dropped Spence three times, once in the second and twice in the seventh.
Spence’s face was a mass of welts and bruises, and was barely recognizable when the fight ended.
It was a result of a master class from the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world — Sorry, Naoya Inoue — who put together the best performance of his life.
In the ring afterward, Spence was sanguine about the result because he’d been beaten so convincingly, so thoroughly and so comprehensively. How could one be upset losing to one of the greatest fighters ever?
“He was the better man tonight,” Spence said. “ … I couldn’t take his jab. My timing was a little bit off and he was catching me in between shots. He was the better man tonight. I make no excuses.”
The week began with Inoue, the former undisputed bantamweight champion, moving up to face unbeaten unified super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue. Much like Crawford did on Saturday, Inoue was frighteningly good Tuesday, a terrifying combination of speed and power and he stopped Fulton in the eighth round.
Crawford saw that and saw that many were saying Inoue was the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world regardless of what happened in the fight with Spence. Crawford answered in the best way possible, by dominating Spence in every phase and punching his Hall of Fame ticket with a victory that was one for the ages.
Whenever they talk about spectacular performances in big situations, Crawford’s name will always come up.
All three judges gave Spence the first round Saturday as Crawford, a slow starter on his best day, moved around, poked and prodded in an information-gathering three-minutes in order to see what he was up against.
Crawford took over in the second and never removed his foot from the gas. It was a jaw-dropping performance by a proud man who has long sought recognition for what we can now say are his other-worldly skills.
He dropped Spence with a left hand and then a short, hard, precisely placed right in what was a sign of what was to come for Spence, the amiable Texan.
“That first knockdown was more of a flash knockdown,” Crawford said. “I caught him with a left and he didn’t think I was coming back with the right.”
DOWN GOES SPENCE IN ROUND 2 😳@terencecrawford hits the combo 🔥 #SpenceCrawford pic.twitter.com/AACur1s70y
— SHOWTIME Boxing (@ShowtimeBoxing) July 30, 2023
Crawford tore Spence apart in Rounds 3 through 6 and Spence somehow managed to keep his feet. He had no such luck in the seventh.
In the corner in the seventh, Crawford caught Spencer with a blistering uppercut and then landed a right to the ear. Spence collapsed in big trouble, and only someone with the huge championship heart and competitiveness he possesses would drag himself off the canvas.
He did only to be dropped again, and if truth be told, it should have been stopped at that point. Crawford landed two rights to the ear and it was obvious Spence was finished. He had no chance to win, and allowing the fight to continue only subjected him to more punishment.
“I’m a great finisher,” Crawford said in one of the night’s biggest understatements.
You think?
Crawford landed 50.1 percent of his punches — 185 of 369 — and most of them were perfectly placed and thrown with bad intentions.
Spence only landed 96 punches out of the 480 he threw. Instead of showing his potent left hand, most of what Spence threw were weak jabs from range that never threatened Crawford.
Spence said he felt fine and was able to see despite the lumps and bumps covering his face.
“I felt good and I felt I could do enough to win the fight,” said Spence, who said he’d want to rematch at 154 pounds. “I’m not here to make excuses. I’m a grown man. I agreed to the weight and I did what I could.”
Crawford put himself into the history books, the record books and whatever kind of books they write about brilliant performances in the most important situations.
He’s the best fighter in the world and he performed like it Saturday against a guy who is brilliant himself. This was a pummeling of a C-level opponent. It was taking apart a superstar and a future Hall of Famer.
Crawford repeatedly thanked God and said his emotions were getting the best of him.
“I’m so mixed with so many emotions, I could cry right now,” Crawford said.
Spence said he’s a lot better than he showed, and he is, but Crawford is way better than he’d ever shown previously.
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As of UFC 291, Justin Gaethje is a certified BMF.
The fan favorite lightweight notched the biggest win of his career with a second-round KO of Dustin Poirier, winning the honorary "BMF" title with a head kick that sent his opponent flat. Referee Herb Dean had to leap between the two fighters to stop Gaethje from doing further damage.
Gaethje celebrated the win with a backflip off the fence.
JUSTIN GAETHJE WITH A HIGHLIGHT KICK 💥 #UFC291 pic.twitter.com/5zjnzXmLES
— ESPN (@espn) July 30, 2023
Gaethje had performed well in the first round, landing 33 of 56 significant strikes to Poirier's 27 of 51.
Over the last few years, Gaethje has been a participant in the most competitive division with UFC, with the likes of Poirier, Islam Makhachev, Charles Oliveira, Michael Chandler and more competing for a belt currently held by Makhachev.
Before Saturday, Gaethje's only win among that wave had been Chandler, but rocking Poirier could move him up a place in line to challenge Makhachev. Oliveira, the former champ, is currently scheduled to rematch Makhachev at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 21.
"You know what I want to do next. I want to fight for the world championship," Gaethje said after the fight. "I want to prove I'm the best in the world. Win, lose or draw, max effort is what you're going to get from me. Luck and chance are a factor and I'm willing to roll the dice any f***ing day."
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BEIJING — (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade surpluses.
Bruno Le Maire also defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to technology after authorities said two Chinese citizens are under investigation for what news reports say is possible smuggling of French-made processor chips with military uses to China and Russia.
Le Maire met Saturday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing’s top envoy on economic issues. He followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 9-10 as part of U.S. efforts to revive frosty relations with China.
Chinese officials gave Le Maire and Yellen a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. But Beijing has given no indication of possible changes in technology and other policies that its trading partners say violate Chinese market-opening commitments.
Officials of the 27-nation European Union are trying to narrow a trade deficit with China that swelled to 396 billion euros ($432 billion) last year. Le Maire cited cosmetics, aerospace and agriculture as possible areas for more French exports.
“There is a need to improve access to the Chinese market. I think that it was at the core of our discussions,” Le Maire said in an interview at the French Embassy. “We want to have a stronger economic relationship between Europe and China, between France and China, which means to get access for all European goods.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has looked to Europe as an alternative market and source of technology since Washington tightened controls on access to U.S. processor chips and other high-tech goods and hiked tariffs on imports from China in a feud over its industry development ambitions.
Le Maire and Chinese officials pledged to cooperate on climate change, financing for developing countries and nuclear power. They announced plans to set up a group to settle a dispute over access to China’s market for cosmetics, a major French export.
Le Maire also lobbied for investment from China’s fast-growing electric car industry. He was due to fly to the southern city of Shenzhen to meet Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD Auto, one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle producers. BYD Auto and other Chinese brands are starting to sell in developed markets including Europe and Japan. Chinese battery supplier CATL has set up a factory in Germany to supply automaker BMW.
“We want China to make investments in France in electric vehicles,” Le Maire said. “In the climate transition, there is a place for Chinese investment in France, which allows us to reinforce our economic relations and also speed up action against global warming.”
The talks were overshadowed by Russia's war against Ukraine and complaints China might be helping Moscow evade Western sanctions, but Le Maire said he didn't discuss the war with Chinese officials. However, he said it was in Beijing’s interest to end the 17-month-old war. President Emmanuel Macron’s security adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, said this month China was delivering “military equipment” to Russia but gave no details.
“I want to make very clear that we want this war to go to an end as soon as possible,” Le Maire said. “Indeed, (it is) in the interest of China, it is in the interests of the global growth to have peace as soon as possible.”
Le Maire also defended French controls on technology exports and foreign investment in high-tech industry. French authorities are investigating two Chinese citizens associated with chip producer Ommic who the newspaper Le Parisien said face possible charges of exporting chips to a Chinese armaments maker using forged documents.
French counter-espionage officials believe a Chinese investor who bought control of Ommic in 2018 was trying to transfer chip manufacturing technology to China, according to the newspaper. The ruling Communist Party is trying to develop its own chip industry, but Washington has blocked access to advanced manufacturing tools and persuaded allies Japan and the Netherlands to impose their own restrictions.
Chinese authorities complain their companies are unfairly targeted by restrictions on access to foreign technology. They have warned curbs on access to semiconductors will disrupt smartphone and other industries.
“Everybody can understand that France wants to protect its key technologies,” Le Maire said. “We don’t want any foreign country to get access to those French sovereign technologies.”
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PAVLIVKA, Ukraine — (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn't the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia's invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That's a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia's withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can't handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country's exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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SALT LAKE CITY — (AP) — Justin Gaethje knocked out Dustin Poirier with a head kick one minute into the second round to win the main event lightweight bout at UFC 291 on Saturday night.
The third-ranked Gaethje (26-4) celebrated his victory by climbing to the top of the Octagon fence and doing a backflip off it. His perfectly timed headshot helped him avenge a loss to Poirier in 2018 when he suffered a fourth-round technical knockout via strikes.
“This chance at redemption was amazing,” Gaethje said. “It drove me to work harder to be ready.”
It was Gaethje’s 20th win by knockout or TKO and his seventh victory in his last nine fights. He also scored his first knockout win since UFC 249 in 2020.
“I was surprised by myself and how good I fought,” Gaethje said.
Second-ranked Poirier (29-8) entered the rematch between the two former interim lightweight champions as a minus-152 favorite according to FanDuel. He matched Gaethje blow for blow in the first round – earning a 10-9 advantage on two of three scorecards – before being quickly dispatched in the second.
The decisive high kick from one former champ caught the other by surprise because it wasn’t a move that he expected to see from Gaethje.
“I thought I had four more rounds,” Poirier said. “I didn’t know I had two more minutes.”
With the victory, Gaethje earned a BMF belt – the second UFC fighter to be awarded that belt.
Beating Poirier opens the door for Gaethje to have a potential title bout against the winner of Islam Makhachev and Charles Oliveira, who are set to square off at UFC 294 in October.
Gaethje’s BMF win over Poirier headlined five main card bouts.
Alex Pereira defeated Jan Blachowicz by split decision in a light heavyweight bout billed as the co-main event for his eighth win in his last nine fights.
Pereira (8-2), ranked second as a middleweight, made his debut in the light heavyweight division at UFC 291 after losing the middleweight title belt via knockout to Israel Adesanya at UFC 287 in April. Blachowicz (29-10-1) did not make the transition in weight class a smooth one for the former champion.
He weathered early takedowns in the first two rounds and rallied in the third round.
Derrick Lewis earned a record 14th knockout win over Marcos Rogerio de Lima just 33 seconds into the first round of the heavyweight bout. The No.10-ranked Lewis (27-11) scored an immediate takedown with a flying knee and pummeled 15th-ranked Rogerio de Lima (21-10-1) with repeated punches to score the early finish. He celebrated snapping a three-fight slide by stripping off his shorts and dancing around the Octagon.
“The win means a lot to me,” Lewis said. “I had a lot of pressure on me coming into this fight and I just wanted to prove to everyone I’m still one of the best fighters in the world.”
Bobby Green beat Tony Ferguson by submission via choke with six seconds left in the third round of the lightweight bout. Green (30-14-1) dominated the final two rounds to earn his second career submission, scoring takedowns in both rounds while raining repeated blows that left his opponent battered. He denied Ferguson (26-9) a shot at earning his first UFC victory since 2019, sending the 39-year-old fighter home with his sixth straight loss.
Kevin Holland made quick work of Michael Chiesa to win the welterweight bout. Holland (25-9) beat the 12th-ranked Chiesa — fighting for the first time following a two-year hiatus — by submission at 2:39 in the first round. He used his length and striking abilities to trap Chiesa (18-7) in a D’arce choke, forcing a quick tap out.
Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith, Jazz coach Will Hardy, and former Jazz stars Deron Williams and Karl Malone were among those in attendance at the second UFC pay-per-view event in 11 months in the Beehive State.
UFC reported a live gate of $6.5 million, breaking the previous venue record set at UFC 278 in August 2022. A sellout crowd of 18,467 was in attendance.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — (AP) — Megan Rapinoe is adjusting to her new role at the Women's World Cup, even if it means she's not on the field as much as she'd like to be.
The outspoken 38-year-old known for her eclectic hair colors and the iconic victory pose she struck at the 2019 World Cup is the oldest player on the team. She already announced that her fourth World Cup would be her last.
“Ultimately, we're at the World Cup. This is where everybody wants to be, whether you're playing 90 minutes, whether you're a game changer, whatever,” she said Sunday. "I think it's a lot similar to what I thought it would be — bringing all the experience that I can, all the experience that I have, and ultimately being ready whenever my number is called up."
Rapinoe has played limited minutes so far, coming in as a substitute in the 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the tournament opener, which was her 200th career appearance for the team.
She was available but didn't play in the disappointing 1-1 draw with the Netherlands on Thursday in Wellington. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski made just one substitution in the match, bringing in midfielder Rose Lavelle after the first half.
“I think all of us on the bench, it's like we think we should be on the field as much as the players on the field believe that they should be on the field,” Rapinoe said. “Every player on the field that starts the game thinks that they should play 90 minutes, and every player who doesn't, who is a sub, thinks that they should be on at some point."
The United States has won the last two World Cups, but the players find themselves in a more precarious position as they chase an unprecedented third consecutive title. The Americans need at least a draw going into the final group match against Portugal on Tuesday at Eden Park in Auckland.
The Americans top Group E, even on points with the Netherlands, but hold the edge because of goal difference. Portugal, which beat Vietnam, could send the United States home early with a win over the Americans.
“We're unsatisfied with the way we played, but we know there are areas that we can be better and I think there's some really simple fixes we can do to put ourselves in a better position to have more joy on the ball, especially in the final third,” Rapinoe said. “I think everybody's looking at this like `Let's go.'”
At the 2019 World Cup in France, Rapinoe scored six goals over the course of the tournament, including a penalty in a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands in the final. She also finished with three assists and claimed both the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball for the best overall player.
Rapinoe, who is engaged to former WNBA star Sue Bird, has been a leader on and off the field.
She made headlines during the 2019 tournament when she said she wouldn't visit the White House if the United States won. Her decision was based on her disdain for then-President Donald Trump, and the team did not go to the White House after winning its second World Cup.
And in the midst of a dispute with U.S. Soccer over equal pay with the men's national team, Rapinoe helped the women hold firm on their position.
“I just think back to 2019 in particular. We didn’t really talk about it a lot as a group but we were like, `Well, we have to win. This is kind of like a must-win World Cup for us.' And I think it did give us confidence," she said. "It pressured us, but I think we also knew that we could handle it and it was almost a mandatory upping of our level to be able to match everything that we were saying off the field. I think in so many ways we were betting on ourselves.”
Rapinoe has won two Women’s World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal with the United States. She also took home the Ballon d’Or and the Best FIFA Women’s Player awards — the game’s top individual honors — for her play in 2019.
As a fierce advocate for social justice issues, including gender equity and LGBTQ rights, she was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Joe Biden last year.
“I’ve always tried to use whatever platform we have, and this platform was built long before I got here. We just continue to add to to it, to grow the game, to make the world a better place, to use our voices, to advocate for more,” she said.
At this World Cup, she's passing that legacy on to younger generation. Fourteen of the U.S. players are playing in their first World Cup. In 2019, Carli Lloyd was in a similar role of a player who was also something of a coach who led by example.
Rapinoe is doing that now.
“Still every day in training I'm like, `I'm gonna try to bust your ass,' and that makes them better, that makes me better," she said. "That makes the whole team better. So I think it's been really rewarding. And I think ultimately, and I think that this gets lost, but I get to play in another World Cup."
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The Texas Rangers agreed to acquire three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer in a blockbuster trade with the New York Mets on Saturday night, an all-in move for the surprise leaders in the AL West, a person with knowledge of the deal said.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t been announced.
The Rangers will be adding the 39-year-old Scherzer with another former Mets pitcher with Cy Young credentials, two-time winner Jacob deGrom, sidelined by Tommy John elbow surgery, possibly all the way through the end of next season.
According to multiple reports, the deal nets New York one of the top Texas prospects in infielder Luisangel Acuña, the younger brother of Atlanta star Ronald Acuña Jr.
As part of the deal, Scherzer agreed to opt in on the final year of his contract in 2024 at $43 million, according to reports that also said the Mets were paying about $35 million of the remaining $58 million on the right-hander’s contract.
The Mets, one of baseball's biggest disappointments, unloaded Scherzer two days after sending closer David Robertson to Miami for two minor leaguers.
New York began the season with the highest payroll in baseball at $353 million but started the day 17 games behind Atlanta in the NL East and 6 1/2 games back in the wild-card race.
The next question is what the Mets will do with Justin Verlander, another three-time Cy Young winner signed through next season. There should be plenty of suitors for the 40-year-old right-hander.
Texas has emerged from six consecutive losing seasons to lead the AL West all but one day in three-time World Series champion Bruce Bochy’s first season as manager.
The Rangers made the first notable move of this trading season by getting once-dominant closer Aroldis Chapman from Kansas City in June. Chapman has stayed in a setup role with Will Smith handling most of the closing duties.
Now Texas has bolstered the rotation knowing deGrom might be out until Scherzer's contract expires at the end of next season.
The trade for Scherzer came on the same day the Rangers said they were again bumping back the next start for All-Star right-hander Nathan Eovaldi. Bochy said Eovaldi had a sore elbow, but the club doesn't think it's serious.
The Rangers added deGrom in the offseason on a $185 million, five-year contract, knowing there was risk in signing the oft-injured right-hander.
He lasted just six starts — all Texas wins — before elbow issues sidelined deGrom for a month. It took multiple MRIs to determine the extent of the damage to his elbow, and the Tommy John procedure in June was the second of his career. The other was in rookie ball with the Mets in 2010.
“I think we need to improve as a starting rotation,” Bochy said before the Rangers' game at San Diego on Saturday night, as reports of the trade were circulating. “I think that’s fair to say.”
Scherzer (9-4) was leading the Mets in victories but had his highest ERA (4.01) since 2011 with Detroit. The eight-time All-Star started Friday at home against Washington, allowing one run in seven innings in a 5-1 New York victory.
With 210 career victories, Scherzer is third among active pitchers behind Verlander and Kansas City's Zack Greinke.
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SYDNEY — (AP) — Some of the biggest names in soccer have yet to show up at the Women's World Cup.
That's literally been the case of Australian star Sam Kerr, who missed the first two games with a calf injury.
Kerr has recovered in time to play for Australia in a crucial final Group B game against Canada on Monday. The Matildas need to beat the Canadians to ensure they advance to the knockout round, and the Chelsea striker's return to the lineup brings needed energy to the team.
“Mentally, it’s massive. It brings so much to our team and obviously also a lot to the opposition knowing that we have Sam available for this game,” Australia defender Ellie Carpenter said.
Kerr's injury on the eve of Australia's opening game against Ireland set the tone for a tournament that hasn't been kind to some of its biggest stars. She was the face of co-host Australia's preparations for the tournament, which is also being staged in New Zealand.
She dominated the covers of magazines across newsstands, while the autobiography she released late last year chronicled her rise to become arguably the best player in the women's game right now. Kerr's popularity transcends women's soccer and she is considered a national icon.
So the disappointment was palpable when news broke about an hour before the opening match that Kerr was going to be sidelined at least two games in this tournament.
Kerr's absence was felt in the 3-2 loss to Nigeria in Australia's second game, a loss that put the Matildas in danger of elimination. It is not known what her role will be against Canada, but Australia needs Kerr to deliver in the final game of group play.
"I’m definitely going to be available, but how we decide to use that is not to be given to the opposition,” said Kerr.
The World Cup is supposed to be a showcase for the finest talent and biggest names, but injuries have always robbed the tournament of some its star players.
Norway forward Ada Hegerberg has had her playing time curtailed. Often referred to as “the Lionel Messi of women's soccer,” Hederberg was part of a Norway's 1-0 upset loss to New Zealand in the opening game of the World Cup.
It got worse for the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner when she suffered a groin injury in the warm-up ahead of Norway's game against Switzerland, and she's been ruled out of the final Group A game against the Philippines.
Keira Walsh of England suffered a knee injury against Denmark that will sidenline her for the Lionesses' final Group D game against China. Described as irreplaceable, it is not known how much she will be able to play.
Even for some stars who have seen plenty of playing time, it has been difficult to make an impact.
American icon Alex Morgan has underwhelmed so far at her fourth World Cup, where she is hoping to help the United States to an unprecedented third consecutive title.
Morgan, the co-leading scorer at the last World Cup, has yet to score at this year's event and missed a penalty in the 3-0 win against Vietnam. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said Morgan was adapting to playing in a forward line with Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman.
“I think it’s not hard to realize that Alex’s role is slightly different than the Alex that we’re used to maybe in the past,” Andonovski said. "She does set up the other two forwards a lot more. It’s not that she’s not capable of scoring goals or getting behind crosses, but we can also see her playing balls to Trinity and Soph, but also getting crosses for them as well.”
Morgan, at 34, is now one of the older players at the tournament.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is also searching for first goal of the tournament. Sinclair is highest scorer in international soccer — men or women — with 190 goals.
Like Morgan, she also missed a penalty, in a 0-0 draw with Nigeria that could still prove costly. She was benched for Canada's second game against Ireland before coming in as a substitute at halftime as the gold medalist from the Tokyo Olympics logged a come-from-behind 2-1 win.
At 40 years old, Sinclair is having to accept a more limited role for Canada.
Brazil great Marta, at 37, has also been used sparingly in her sixth World Cup.
Her teammate, Debinha, who is also an iconic figure to Brazil fans, has been one of the standout players for her country so far. But she wasn't able to stop a 2-1 loss to France on Saturday despite scoring in that match.
The gap appears to be closing in the women's game, with underdogs proving more of a test for the more established nations. That's one reason some of the big name stars have yet to impress in tournament.
One of the few standouts who has not disappointed so far has been Alexandra Popp, who scored twice in Germany's 6-0 rout of Morocco.
Major tournaments are traditionally a mix of rising talents coming to the surface, while established stars have the chance to confirm their status among the greats.
Linda Caicedo of Colombia, Lauren James of England and Melchie Dumornay of Haiti have proven their worth as some of the brightest prospects in the game. But as the second round of games nears its completion, it feels like the tournament is still waiting for many of its big hitters to make an impact.
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2023 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
NATCHITOCHES, La. (KALB) - The City of Lights always shines bright, but they shined a little brighter during the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame weekend.
Twelve Louisiana legends from sportswriters, MLB players, basketball players and coaches highlighted the 2023 Induction class.
After a very eventful weekend for the inductees with a welcome party, bowling bash and tailgates, the moment of being inducted into the Hall of Fame finally came.
“When I got the call from the Hall of Fame,” said Hall of Fame inductee and third base coach for the Atlanta Braves, Ron Washington. “I had to go all the way back to the beginning and start working my way back to where I am right now. I noticed I made a difference in a lot of people’s lives but along the way there are a lot of people who made a difference in Ron Washington’s life.”
The crowd was filled with decades of Louisiana legends and Hall of Famers making it a big family reunion for many.
The inductees shared memories from when they played in the Major Leagues, WNBA and winning national championships, along with sharing lifelong moments that happened within their family.
“We can take away the accolades,” said former WNBA star and Shreveport native, Alana Beard. “We do not play to be Hall of Famers. If you did, I doubt you would ever be there. It is the relationships I was able to build throughout my 20 plus year career on a global scale that I think I am most proud of. Coach Steve McDowell, my high school coach, he is someone who instilled respect, approach and discipline. He taught me how to be a champion.”
When asked about his relationship with his brothers, Eli Manning shared a classic younger brother memory.
“Both my brothers, they actually take full credit that I never missed a game in high school, college or the NFL due to injury because of the mental and physical torcher they put me through as a kid,” said Manning. “Cooper is the oldest, so he picked on Peyton, then Peyton thought it was his job to pass that down to me and pick on me. He used to pin me down and put his knees on my arms and make me name all 28 teams. He thought that one day I would kneed to know that and it may have been important one day.”
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BEIJING – The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade surpluses.
Bruno Le Maire also defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to technology after authorities said two Chinese citizens are under investigation for what news reports say is possible smuggling of French-made processor chips with military uses to China and Russia.
Le Maire met Saturday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing’s top envoy on economic issues. He followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 9-10 as part of U.S. efforts to revive frosty relations with China.
Chinese officials gave Le Maire and Yellen a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. But Beijing has given no indication of possible changes in technology and other policies that its trading partners say violate Chinese market-opening commitments.
Officials of the 27-nation European Union are trying to narrow a trade deficit with China that swelled to 396 billion euros ($432 billion) last year. Le Maire cited cosmetics, aerospace and agriculture as possible areas for more French exports.
“There is a need to improve access to the Chinese market. I think that it was at the core of our discussions,” Le Maire said in an interview at the French Embassy. “We want to have a stronger economic relationship between Europe and China, between France and China, which means to get access for all European goods.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has looked to Europe as an alternative market and source of technology since Washington tightened controls on access to U.S. processor chips and other high-tech goods and hiked tariffs on imports from China in a feud over its industry development ambitions.
Le Maire and Chinese officials pledged to cooperate on climate change, financing for developing countries and nuclear power. They announced plans to set up a group to settle a dispute over access to China’s market for cosmetics, a major French export.
Le Maire also lobbied for investment from China’s fast-growing electric car industry. He was due to fly to the southern city of Shenzhen to meet Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD Auto, one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle producers. BYD Auto and other Chinese brands are starting to sell in developed markets including Europe and Japan. Chinese battery supplier CATL has set up a factory in Germany to supply automaker BMW.
“We want China to make investments in France in electric vehicles,” Le Maire said. “In the climate transition, there is a place for Chinese investment in France, which allows us to reinforce our economic relations and also speed up action against global warming.”
The talks were overshadowed by Russia's war against Ukraine and complaints China might be helping Moscow evade Western sanctions, but Le Maire said he didn't discuss the war with Chinese officials. However, he said it was in Beijing’s interest to end the 17-month-old war. President Emmanuel Macron’s security adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, said this month China was delivering “military equipment” to Russia but gave no details.
“I want to make very clear that we want this war to go to an end as soon as possible,” Le Maire said. “Indeed, (it is) in the interest of China, it is in the interests of the global growth to have peace as soon as possible.”
Le Maire also defended French controls on technology exports and foreign investment in high-tech industry. French authorities are investigating two Chinese citizens associated with chip producer Ommic who the newspaper Le Parisien said face possible charges of exporting chips to a Chinese armaments maker using forged documents.
French counter-espionage officials believe a Chinese investor who bought control of Ommic in 2018 was trying to transfer chip manufacturing technology to China, according to the newspaper. The ruling Communist Party is trying to develop its own chip industry, but Washington has blocked access to advanced manufacturing tools and persuaded allies Japan and the Netherlands to impose their own restrictions.
Chinese authorities complain their companies are unfairly targeted by restrictions on access to foreign technology. They have warned curbs on access to semiconductors will disrupt smartphone and other industries.
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PAVLIVKA – The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn't the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia's withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can't handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country's exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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AUCKLAND – Megan Rapinoe is adjusting to her new role at the Women's World Cup, even if it means she's not on the field as much as she'd like to be.
The outspoken 38-year-old known for her eclectic hair colors and the iconic victory pose she struck at the 2019 World Cup is the oldest player on the team. She already announced that her fourth World Cup would be her last.
“Ultimately, we're at the World Cup. This is where everybody wants to be, whether you're playing 90 minutes, whether you're a game changer, whatever,” she said Sunday. "I think it's a lot similar to what I thought it would be — bringing all the experience that I can, all the experience that I have, and ultimately being ready whenever my number is called up."
Rapinoe has played limited minutes so far, coming in as a substitute in the 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the tournament opener, which was her 200th career appearance for the team.
She was available but didn't play in the disappointing 1-1 draw with the Netherlands on Thursday in Wellington. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski made just one substitution in the match, bringing in midfielder Rose Lavelle after the first half.
“I think all of us on the bench, it's like we think we should be on the field as much as the players on the field believe that they should be on the field,” Rapinoe said. “Every player on the field that starts the game thinks that they should play 90 minutes, and every player who doesn't, who is a sub, thinks that they should be on at some point."
The United States has won the last two World Cups, but the players find themselves in a more precarious position as they chase an unprecedented third consecutive title. The Americans need at least a draw going into the final group match against Portugal on Tuesday at Eden Park in Auckland.
The Americans top Group E, even on points with the Netherlands, but hold the edge because of goal difference. Portugal, which beat Vietnam, could send the United States home early with a win over the Americans.
“We're unsatisfied with the way we played, but we know there are areas that we can be better and I think there's some really simple fixes we can do to put ourselves in a better position to have more joy on the ball, especially in the final third,” Rapinoe said. “I think everybody's looking at this like `Let's go.'”
At the 2019 World Cup in France, Rapinoe scored six goals over the course of the tournament, including a penalty in a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands in the final. She also finished with three assists and claimed both the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball for the best overall player.
Rapinoe, who is engaged to former WNBA star Sue Bird, has been a leader on and off the field.
She made headlines during the 2019 tournament when she said she wouldn't visit the White House if the United States won. Her decision was based on her disdain for then-President Donald Trump, and the team did not go to the White House after winning its second World Cup.
And in the midst of a dispute with U.S. Soccer over equal pay with the men's national team, Rapinoe helped the women hold firm on their position.
“I just think back to 2019 in particular. We didn’t really talk about it a lot as a group but we were like, `Well, we have to win. This is kind of like a must-win World Cup for us.' And I think it did give us confidence," she said. "It pressured us, but I think we also knew that we could handle it and it was almost a mandatory upping of our level to be able to match everything that we were saying off the field. I think in so many ways we were betting on ourselves.”
Rapinoe has won two Women’s World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal with the United States. She also took home the Ballon d’Or and the Best FIFA Women’s Player awards — the game’s top individual honors — for her play in 2019.
As a fierce advocate for social justice issues, including gender equity and LGBTQ rights, she was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Joe Biden last year.
The team also won a new contract that pays the players the same as their male counterparts.
“I’ve always tried to use whatever platform we have, and this platform was built long before I got here. We just continue to add to to it, to grow the game, to make the world a better place, to use our voices, to advocate for more,” she said.
At this World Cup, she's passing that legacy on to younger generation. Fourteen of the U.S. players are playing in their first World Cup. In 2019, Carli Lloyd was in a similar role of a player who was also something of a coach who led by example.
Rapinoe is doing that now.
“Still every day in training I'm like, `I'm gonna try to bust your ass,' and that makes them better, that makes me better," she said. "That makes the whole team better. So I think it's been really rewarding. And I think ultimately, and I think that this gets lost, but I get to play in another World Cup."
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SYDNEY – Some of the biggest names in soccer have yet to show up at the Women's World Cup.
That's literally been the case of Australian star Sam Kerr, who missed the first two games with a calf injury.
Kerr has recovered in time to play for Australia in a crucial final Group B game against Canada on Monday. The Matildas need to beat the Canadians to ensure they advance to the knockout round, and the Chelsea striker's return to the lineup brings needed energy to the team.
“Mentally, it’s massive. It brings so much to our team and obviously also a lot to the opposition knowing that we have Sam available for this game,” Australia defender Ellie Carpenter said.
Kerr's injury on the eve of Australia's opening game against Ireland set the tone for a tournament that hasn't been kind to some of its biggest stars. She was the face of co-host Australia's preparations for the tournament, which is also being staged in New Zealand.
She dominated the covers of magazines across newsstands, while the autobiography she released late last year chronicled her rise to become arguably the best player in the women's game right now. Kerr's popularity transcends women's soccer and she is considered a national icon.
So the disappointment was palpable when news broke about an hour before the opening match that Kerr was going to be sidelined at least two games in this tournament.
Kerr's absence was felt in the 3-2 loss to Nigeria in Australia's second game, a loss that put the Matildas in danger of elimination. It is not known what her role will be against Canada, but Australia needs Kerr to deliver in the final game of group play.
"I’m definitely going to be available, but how we decide to use that is not to be given to the opposition,” said Kerr.
The World Cup is supposed to be a showcase for the finest talent and biggest names, but injuries have always robbed the tournament of some its star players.
Norway forward Ada Hegerberg has had her playing time curtailed. Often referred to as “the Lionel Messi of women's soccer,” Hederberg was part of a Norway's 1-0 upset loss to New Zealand in the opening game of the World Cup.
It got worse for the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner when she suffered a groin injury in the warm-up ahead of Norway's game against Switzerland, and she's been ruled out of the final Group A game against the Philippines.
Keira Walsh of England suffered a knee injury against Denmark that will sidenline her for the Lionesses' final Group D game against China. Described as irreplaceable, it is not known how much she will be able to play.
Even for some stars who have seen plenty of playing time, it has been difficult to make an impact.
American icon Alex Morgan has underwhelmed so far at her fourth World Cup, where she is hoping to help the United States to an unprecedented third consecutive title.
Morgan, the co-leading scorer at the last World Cup, has yet to score at this year's event and missed a penalty in the 3-0 win against Vietnam. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said Morgan was adapting to playing in a forward line with Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman.
“I think it’s not hard to realize that Alex’s role is slightly different than the Alex that we’re used to maybe in the past,” Andonovski said. "She does set up the other two forwards a lot more. It’s not that she’s not capable of scoring goals or getting behind crosses, but we can also see her playing balls to Trinity and Soph, but also getting crosses for them as well.”
Morgan, at 34, is now one of the older players at the tournament.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is also searching for first goal of the tournament. Sinclair is highest scorer in international soccer — men or women — with 190 goals.
Like Morgan, she also missed a penalty, in a 0-0 draw with Nigeria that could still prove costly. She was benched for Canada's second game against Ireland before coming in as a substitute at halftime as the gold medalist from the Tokyo Olympics logged a come-from-behind 2-1 win.
At 40 years old, Sinclair is having to accept a more limited role for Canada.
Brazil great Marta, at 37, has also been used sparingly in her sixth World Cup.
Her teammate, Debinha, who is also an iconic figure to Brazil fans, has been one of the standout players for her country so far. But she wasn't able to stop a 2-1 loss to France on Saturday despite scoring in that match.
The gap appears to be closing in the women's game, with underdogs proving more of a test for the more established nations. That's one reason some of the big name stars have yet to impress in tournament.
One of the few standouts who has not disappointed so far has been Alexandra Popp, who scored twice in Germany's 6-0 rout of Morocco.
Major tournaments are traditionally a mix of rising talents coming to the surface, while established stars have the chance to confirm their status among the greats.
Linda Caicedo of Colombia, Lauren James of England and Melchie Dumornay of Haiti have proven their worth as some of the brightest prospects in the game. But as the second round of games nears its completion, it feels like the tournament is still waiting for many of its big hitters to make an impact.
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Morgan Addison (Erkard), Sarah Priscilla
Sarah P. Morgan Addison, age 91, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was born August 13, 1931, in Montgomery, Alabama to the late James P. Erkard, Sr. and Mattie (Phelan) Erkard Lee. She was lovingly raised by her father & mom, Pearl (Johnson) Erkard. She was a civilian federal employee for almost 34 years, retiring from WPAFB. In 2005, she was a founding member & usher of Believers Christian Fellowship Church in Dayton under the pastorage of Rev. Dr. William E. Harris, Jr.
On July 19, 2023, Sarah transitioned from this life to be in the presence of the Lord. She was at home with her family and caregiver Rosanna Prouty. She was preceded in death by husbands, Willie Morgan (1972) and Fred Addison of 26 years; her parents; sister, Dorothe Shafeek; brother, James; stepdaughters Phyllis Devaughn and Wendy Jarvis-Kennedy; and several extended family members and close friends. Sarah leaves to celebrate her legacy her daughter Sandra Morgan (Charles) Caesar; son Norvain (Yvonne) Morgan and daughter Sheila Morgan Hill whom she shared with her friend and their mother, Gloria Dove; sister Mattie Pearl Lightfoot; step-children Michael (Cassandra) Morgan, Wayne (Jimmie) Addison, Valerie (David M.) Williams, Iris (Lawrence) Grier, Yolanda (Paul) Salaam-Addison, and Tara Addison; grandchildren, Omavi & Ammad Caesar, Shaunte Matthews-Jones, Sandria Johnson, Norvain Morgan, Jr., & Jessica Addessi; devoted nephews & nieces, William Rucker, Kevin (Ashley) Rucker, Rahneia Shafeek, Timika Shafeek (Arthur) Horton, & Janice (Stephen) Haley; several close friends; and through blended families, a host of in-laws, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great (1, 2, 3x) grandchildren; cousins, and her church family. Sarah will be missed for her compassionate, sassy, loving, & giving spirit.
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Armendarez, John R
John R. Armendarez,
Age 81, of Wilmington, died Sat., July 22, 2023.
A US Army Vietnam War Veteran, John had retired from the General Motors-Moraine Plant after 31 years of service. Services 10:00 A.M., Sat., August 5 at Fisher-Edgington Funeral Home, 97 W. Locust Street, Wilmington.
Friends will be received from 4-7 PM, Friday, August 4, 2023 at Fisher-Edgington Funeral Home. To sign the online guest book, go to edgingtonfuneralhomes.com.
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Bach, Gayle
Gayle Bach died on July 10, 2023, at Saint Leonard Retirement Community in Centerville, Ohio, after living for several years in memory care. Gayle was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Bach (1998), her younger brother, Robert Mathis (1995), and her elder brother, Lanny Mathis (2021). Gayle graduated from Roosevelt High School and spent her career as a buyer at the Dayton Board of Education.
Gayle is survived by her stepdaughter, Karen Nagle, granddaughters Dana Nagle and Jenna Nagle, her brother, Dallas (Judith), and her sister, Lois Greene (Andrew), along with many nieces and nephews who mourn her.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 on August 11, 2023, at Newcomer Funeral Home Kettering Chapel, 3940 Kettering Boulevard, Kettering, Ohio. In lieu of flowers, we request that you send donations to the Alzheimer's Association, act.alz.org.
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Barber Jr., Hugh Philip
Hugh Philip Barber Jr., 87, of Springfield, passed away Friday, July 28th, 2023, at Forest Glen Health Campus. He was born July 18, 1936, in Charleston, West Virginia the son of Hugh Phillip and Goldie (Dieterle) Barber.
Hugh served our country in the United States Navy and graduated from The Ohio State University and Central Michigan University with a Master of Science in Engineering. He retired as an engineer from International Harvester in 1998 after 20 years of dedicated service.
He volunteered in the ER at Community Hospital, Community Mercy Hospice, Stars Tutoring and was selected the Outstanding Senior volunteer of 2002 in Clark County. He was a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church.
Hugh is survived by his wife of 64 years, Sally S. (Sherer) Barber; their children, Greg Barber, Suzanne (Patrick) Stone and Brian (Jeanne) Barber; grandchildren, Cody Stone, Katherina (Josh) Bidlack, Andrew (Sylvia) Barber, Katy (Connor) Gordon, Samantha Austin, Megan Moore, and Sarah Barber; multiple great grandchildren; sisters, Barbara (Ronald) Huffman and Betsy Gould; and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held later in the Fall.
The LITTLETON & RUE FUNERAL HOME is serving the family. Memories and condolences may be shared at www.littletonandrue.com
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Barnhart, James Edward
Age 91, of Trotwood, Ohio, passed away on Monday July 17, 2023. He was born in Donnellsville Ohio, son of Walter and Velma Barnhart. Preceded in death by his parents and sons, Mark Alan Bamhart, Scott Alan Bamhart_and Daughter-in-law Connie Bamhart. Survived by brother, Jerry Barnhart; son, James (Steve) Barnhart; daughter, Cheri Goodpasture (Russ); daughter-in-law, Michele Barnhart; grandchildren, Chris, Jamie, Shaun, Beth, Jack, Amanda, Sara, Jadie, Mark, Tara, Scott, and Curtis. 18 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren. He retired from the City of Dayton as a housing inspector. He attended Happy Corner Church of the Brethren. Services to be held August 6, at Happy Corner Church of the Brethren, 7037 N. Union Rd., Clayton, Ohio. Visitation 4pm, service 5pm, and meal following the service. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/barnhart-james/A7AZIQHQKZBQHO4CAKV56NLH3A/ | 2023-07-30T06:20:04 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/barnhart-james/A7AZIQHQKZBQHO4CAKV56NLH3A/ |
Best Jr., Dennis Darrnell
Age 45, of Trotwood, OH, passed away July 23, 2023. Funeral service 12 pm Friday, August 4, 2023, at House of Wheat Funeral Home, Dayton, OH.
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BOBAY, Phillip M.
BOBAY, Phillip M., 82, of Springfield, passed away Thursday, July 27, 2023 in Forest Glen. He was born November 4, 1940 in Ft. Wayne, IN the son of the late Wilbur and Isabelle (Lauer) Bobay. Phil served in the 122ND Fighter Wing in the Ohio Air National Guard for seven years. He retired from Navistar after 38 years of service. After retirement he volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and St. Vincent DePaul Society. He was an avid bicycle rider, music lover and musician, playing guitar and banjo for the Springfield Banjo Band and Kiwanis Band. Survivors include his wife Janice (Benecke); two children, Michael & Becky Bobay, Delaware, OH and Audrey & Brad VanHoose, Springfield, OH; one brother, Donald & Sherry Bobay, Ft. Wayne, IN; one sister-in-law, Sandy Bobay and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Thomas. The family would like to thank all the staff at Forest Glen, Mercy Health and Ohio's Hospice for their excellent care. Visitation will be held on Tuesday from 4:00 to 7:00 pm in the CONROY FUNERAL HOME. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 am on Wednesday in St. Bernard Catholic Church. Burial will follow in St. Bernard Cemetery. Memorial donations can be made to St. Vincent DePaul Society or St. Bernard Catholic Church. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/bobay-phillip/TXW7IRPDE5HDNGE2FZ6DBUODNU/ | 2023-07-30T06:20:17 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/bobay-phillip/TXW7IRPDE5HDNGE2FZ6DBUODNU/ |
Burnett, Maryam
age 84 formerly of Dayton, Ohio passed away on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Delaware, Ohio. She is survived by many loving family and friends. Visitation will be 8:30 AM, Thursday, August 3, 2023. Service to follow 9:00 AM at H. H. Roberts Mortuary. Interment Dayton National Cemetery. HHRoberts.com
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Brian (Scott) Bush
12/1/64 - 7/30/17
Dear Scott,
We hide our tears
when we say your name
But the pain in our hearts
is still the same.
Although we smile and seem carefree
There is no one who misses
you more than me.
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Carpenter, Rev. Floyd
Rev. Floyd Carpenter, age 92, of Miamisburg, Ohio, passed away, Thursday July 27, 2023, at home with loving family by his side. He was born in Jackson County, Kentucky on May 6, 1931, son of the late Ercell and Rev. Hewie Carpenter. Rev. Floyd has been in the ministry since 1960 ~ passionately serving the Lord. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a grandson, Marcus White; a great-granddaughter, Rayna Danielle White; and a son-in-law, Danny White; 2 brothers, and 2 sisters. He is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Lela D. (Day) Carpenter; his 4 children, Tim (Jo) Carpenter, Ercel (Tom) Trochelman, Susan (Todd) Kaiser, and Beverly "Janie" (Chris) Herron; 12 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; 12 brothers and sisters; numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. A Visitation will be held 5 7 p.m., Wednesday August 2, 2023, at the Abundant Life Tabernacle, 9440 Eby Road, Germantown, Ohio, where the Funeral Service will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday the 3rd, with Pastor James Setser and Pastor Larry Thomas officiating. The burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hamilton, OH. Dalton Funeral Home, serving the family. For a more complete obituary and to share condolences, please go to daltonfh.net | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/carpenter-floyd/FQYRCWQBCJFS7HBMJJA7H4R334/ | 2023-07-30T06:20:31 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/carpenter-floyd/FQYRCWQBCJFS7HBMJJA7H4R334/ |
BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade surpluses.
Bruno Le Maire also defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to technology after authorities said two Chinese citizens are under investigation for what news reports say is possible smuggling of French-made processor chips with military uses to China and Russia.
Le Maire met Saturday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing’s top envoy on economic issues. He followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 9-10 as part of U.S. efforts to revive frosty relations with China.
Chinese officials gave Le Maire and Yellen a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. But Beijing has given no indication of possible changes in technology and other policies that its trading partners say violate Chinese market-opening commitments.
Officials of the 27-nation European Union are trying to narrow a trade deficit with China that swelled to 396 billion euros ($432 billion) last year. Le Maire cited cosmetics, aerospace and agriculture as possible areas for more French exports.
“There is a need to improve access to the Chinese market. I think that it was at the core of our discussions,” Le Maire said in an interview at the French Embassy. “We want to have a stronger economic relationship between Europe and China, between France and China, which means to get access for all European goods.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has looked to Europe as an alternative market and source of technology since Washington tightened controls on access to U.S. processor chips and other high-tech goods and hiked tariffs on imports from China in a feud over its industry development ambitions.
Le Maire and Chinese officials pledged to cooperate on climate change, financing for developing countries and nuclear power. They announced plans to set up a group to settle a dispute over access to China’s market for cosmetics, a major French export.
Le Maire also lobbied for investment from China’s fast-growing electric car industry. He was due to fly to the southern city of Shenzhen to meet Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD Auto, one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle producers. BYD Auto and other Chinese brands are starting to sell in developed markets including Europe and Japan. Chinese battery supplier CATL has set up a factory in Germany to supply automaker BMW.
“We want China to make investments in France in electric vehicles,” Le Maire said. “In the climate transition, there is a place for Chinese investment in France, which allows us to reinforce our economic relations and also speed up action against global warming.”
The talks were overshadowed by Russia’s war against Ukraine and complaints China might be helping Moscow evade Western sanctions, but Le Maire said he didn’t discuss the war with Chinese officials. However, he said it was in Beijing’s interest to end the 17-month-old war. President Emmanuel Macron’s security adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, said this month China was delivering “military equipment” to Russia but gave no details.
“I want to make very clear that we want this war to go to an end as soon as possible,” Le Maire said. “Indeed, (it is) in the interest of China, it is in the interests of the global growth to have peace as soon as possible.”
Le Maire also defended French controls on technology exports and foreign investment in high-tech industry. French authorities are investigating two Chinese citizens associated with chip producer Ommic who the newspaper Le Parisien said face possible charges of exporting chips to a Chinese armaments maker using forged documents.
French counter-espionage officials believe a Chinese investor who bought control of Ommic in 2018 was trying to transfer chip manufacturing technology to China, according to the newspaper. The ruling Communist Party is trying to develop its own chip industry, but Washington has blocked access to advanced manufacturing tools and persuaded allies Japan and the Netherlands to impose their own restrictions.
Chinese authorities complain their companies are unfairly targeted by restrictions on access to foreign technology. They have warned curbs on access to semiconductors will disrupt smartphone and other industries.
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Chandler, Jack
Jack Chandler, age 76, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 in Lebanon, Ohio. He was preceded in death by his parents, Doris Huff (Hope) and Oval Philip Chandler as well as his sister, Bonnie Jean Chandler. Jack is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Debbie Chandler; daughters Stacey Kinner (Seither), Heather (Luke) Wood and Allison (Dennis) Gibbs; five grandchildren Max Kinner, Reese Wood, Bryce Wood, Davis Gibbs and Campbell Gibbs. He was a lifelong street rod enthusiast and leaves behind a legacy of creativity and engineering prowess in the countless custom vehicles he designed and constructed. Jack's builds have been featured in Hot Rod Magazine, Motor Trend Magazine and Goodguys Magazine. In addition to street rods, Jack and his wife Debbie shared a passion for traveling and enjoyed many years crisscrossing the U.S. in their RV. Jack also served four years as an Army Reservist in Springfield, Ohio. A memorial gathering will take place at Baker-Stevens-Parramore Funeral Home, 6850 Roosevelt Ave Middletown, Ohio 45005 on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 from 10:00am-11:00am with a memorial service to follow at 11:00am. Fond memories and expression of sympathy may be shared at www.bakerstevensparramore.com for the Chandler family.
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PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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Jonathan Taylor has emerged as one of the top running backs in the NFL.
The 24-year-old met with Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay on a team bus parked near the practice field on Saturday. Following the meeting, the star running back formally requested a trade as he seeks a contract extension, the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported.
Injuries impacted Taylor's 2022 season. He finished the year with a career-low 861 rushing yards over 11 games.
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After the conversation with Taylor, Irsay told reporters that his position on a contract extension remain unchanged.
"We're looking forward to a great season and hoping Jonathan is a big part of that," Irsay said. "We're looking forward to hopefully having Jonathan there."
He added, "It was a good conversation, and I'm hopeful as we go forward."
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Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer later reported that Irsay sent a text message saying he was not considering trading Taylor.
"We're not trading Jonathan… end of discussion. Not now and not in October!" the message stated.
Irsay also recently insert himself into the conversation about the state of the running back market. Irsay pushed back against ball carriers who feel the current market does not match the value they bring to franchises around the league.
Taylor led the league in rushing in 2021 and has a career total of 3,841 yards in just three seasons. He has a career average of 5.1 yards per carry and has scored three receiving touchdowns, while reaching the end zone 33 times on the ground.
But Irsay also noted that he takes the entire salary cap into consideration when contract situations arise.
"At this point, that's not something that we're discussing right now. This isn't a comment that has to do with Jonathan Taylor's situation. It's what my responsibilities are. I'm responsible for everyone on the team and to look at the cap money that you have and to look at contracts as you go forward," the Colts owner said.
Taylor, a second-round pick in the 2020 draft, has one-year remaining on his rookie deal. He is slated to earn approximately $4.304 million in 2023, which ranks 18th among running back salaries for the upcoming season.
From Irsay's point of view, Taylor would miss playing for the Colts.
"If I die tonight and Jonathan Taylor is out of the league, no one's gonna miss us," Irsay said Saturday. "The league goes on. We know that. The National Football League rolls on. It doesn't matter who comes and who goes, and it's a privilege to be a part of it." | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/colts-owner-rules-outs-trade-for-jonathan-taylor-despite-request-from-star-rb-report/article_49e98a09-e30b-55fd-bf60-d54bbb577e79.html | 2023-07-30T06:20:43 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/colts-owner-rules-outs-trade-for-jonathan-taylor-despite-request-from-star-rb-report/article_49e98a09-e30b-55fd-bf60-d54bbb577e79.html |
Chestnut, Dennis E. "Dino"
CHESTNUT, Dennis E. "Dino", age 76, of Dayton, passed away peacefully Wednesday, July 26, 2023. He was a retired Maintenance Engineer with CBRE, an Army Veteran of the Vietnam War, and a member of VFW Post 3238. He is preceded in death by his parents, William & Martha, 2 sisters, Maryann Mix and Pat LeDonne, and 2 brothers, Randy & Bud. Dennis is survived by his wife, Wanda J; son & daughter-in-law, Billy B. and Jennifer Chestnut; brother, John Chestnut; sisters-in-law, Berna Davis and Janet Lawson; nieces, Shari Chestnut & family, Jennifer Davis & family; nephews, Phillip Lawson & Family and Robert Hutchinson & Family; and a host of other nieces, nephews and friends. Funeral Service 11 AM Friday, August 4, 2023, at Marker & Heller Funeral Home, Huber Heights Chapel, 5844 Old Troy Pike with Pastor Randy Chestnut officiating. Entombment Memorial Park Cemetery. Family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday, August 3, 2023, from 5-7 PM.
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Chrystal (Christoffersen), Karen F.
Chrystal, Karen F. of Dayton, Ohio passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family, on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Karen was born the oldest of two children to Eloise and Alfred Christoffersen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 23, 1937. She attended Christ the King Grade School
and graduated High School from Divine Savior in 1955 while growing up in Milwaukee. She went on to attend Marquette University and graduated with a Degree in Dental Hygiene in 1957.
Karen married Don Chrystal on August 9, 1958 in Milwaukee. She met the love of her life at Marquette University. They bought a house in town and started their family. Their first three children (Jeff, Donna and Tim) were born in Milwaukee. A job transfer took the family to Neenah, Wisconsin
where the other three children (Jennifer, Vicki and Elaine) were born. Don took another job and the family moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1968. They quickly became active members of St. Charles Parish. Karen performed many duties over the years for St. Charles including: running Home Bound Communion, Lector for Sunday and Daily Masses, Planning Funerals,
Distributing Communion, Social Justice Committee and many other volunteer services for the Church. She would always find time in her busy schedule to help a sick friend with a meal or just spend time with someone who needed her. She worked many years as a Dental Hygienist and became lifelong friends with her patients. She treated all her patients
with such care and had such a gift of making them comfortable with her personality. She never met a stranger. A true passion of hers was playing cards, especially bridge. She enjoyed playing so much, but also the time with dear friends. She loved to travel and had many trips with her friends. She enjoyed sports, playing tennis and golf, but especially liked watching her Green Bay Packers. Even with raising six children and working, she would hardly ever miss any activities of her children. This carried over to her grandchildren. She was always at all the functions of her beloved grandchildren. Family gatherings and vacations were times she cherished.
Just playing games in the evening with her children and grandchildren after cooking them a delicious meal filled her heart with so much joy. She was the most wonderful and special wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Eloise and Alfred Christoffersen; and her son Tim. She is survived by her devoted husband Don of 65 years, five children: Jeff (Laura), Donna, Jennifer (Mike), Vicki (Rick), Elaine (Ron) and twelve beloved grandchildren: Matt (Natalie), Shelley, Alex (Emily); Becky (Tyler), Danny (Lauren), Chris (Kevin); Logan (Karaline); Kevin (Kristen), Kyle (Ashlynne), Courtney; Andrew (Kayla),
Adam; her adored four great-grandchildren: Eloise, Emerson, Karter and Amelia: and her brother Neil (Jane).
A special thank you to their many friends, the Staff at Tapestry Senior Living and the wonderful caregivers at Hospice of Dayton for the unbelievable care she received in her time of need.
The family will receive friends from 10:00-11:00am Friday August 11th at St Charles Borromeo Church. Mass will be celebrated at 11:00am. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hospice of Dayton, 324 Wilmington Ave, Dayton, OH 45420, (937) 256-4490, www.hospiceofdayton.org. Arrangements by Westbrock Funeral Home, 5980 Bigger Rd, Kettering, www.westbrockfuneralhome.com
Lift up your heart and share with me. God wanted me now,
God set me free.
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Clark, Jerry L.
Jerry L. Clark, 74, of Maineville, Ohio passed away on July 24th, 2023. He was born on June 30th, 1949 in Athens, Ohio to Wendell Norwood and Edith Louise Clark.
He is preceded in death by his parents and sister, Diann (the late Larry) Werts. He is survived by his loving wife of 45 years, Joyce, his sons Casey (Ekta) and Cooper, his sisters Joan (the late Ron) Slusser, Shelia (Lou) Castellucci, nephew Don Hudson, nieces Jacki (Dave) French, Yvonne Slusser, Karan (Tom) Hackman, Kim (Dan) Dyson, Brenda Krattiger, Becky (Tim) Lindeman, Laura Werts and Mark (Lisa) Werts.
Jerry graduated from Lakota High School, where he played basketball and ran track. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Miami University and his Master's degree from Xavier University in Educational Administration. He began his educational career as a physical education teacher and coach in Lakota Local School District, where he eventually became principal. He transitioned to assistant superintendent at Clermont Northeastern Schools and in time, earned the role of superintendent at Piqua City Schools, where he remained for fifteen years. After retirement from education, he worked in business development at SHP Leading Design, until his professional career ended in late 2022.
Jerry loved working, socializing with friends, watching the Cincinnati Reds, Bengals and Bearcats and spending time in Naples, Florida with his wife and family. He loved life and in his younger days, he was always up for adventure, which made for great stories in his later years.
He had many hobbies and interests, but above all, he loved being a husband and father. He always said that his greatest memories were of raising his two boys with Joyce. He adored being a dad and was immensely proud of his sons.
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Dominguez (Swanson), Margaret Ann
Margaret Ann Dominguez, 91, of Dayton, passed away peacefully in her sleep on 7/27/23. Services will be held on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 10a.m. at Swart Funeral Home, 207 E Central Ave, West Carrollton, OH.
Dominguez (Swanson), Margaret Ann
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Early, Robert Lewis
Robert Lewis Early, 88, of Kettering, Ohio, passed on July 27, 2023. Proceeded in death by his parents, siblings, and son, Dennis Early, Bob is survived by his wife of 51 years Barbara, son Jeffrey Clouse (Cindy Hall) and daughter Tracy Gearon (Bernie), 4 grandsons Nathan and Clifton Early, Mike Clouse and Tyler Whipp, 11 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great grandsons, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, nieces and nephew. Born in Corbin, Kentucky, he came to Dayton to work in the Frigidaire plant. Bob retired from the U.S. Postal Service in 1992 after 35 1/2 years. Thereafter he retired from the City of Kettering (print shop). Bob enjoyed his yearly hunting trips and his yearly Vegas vacations. He was a Mason (Lodge #147), Kentucky Colonel and NRA life member. He took pride in his yard and his beautification award. In 2001, he took his first trip out of the country (Spain) and so enjoyed it he picked a country to visit every year until his health declined. A visitation for family and friends will be held at Tobias Funeral Home at 5471 Far Hills Avenue on Thursday, August 3, 2023 from 10-12pm, with the Funeral Service at 12pm. Interment will follow at Heritage Hills Memory Gardens. In lieu of flowers, if so desired, please consider a memorial contribution to Hospice of Dayton who took wonderful care of Bob and family. www.tobiasfuneralhome.com
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Ensley, L. Louise
ENSLEY, L. Louise, age 92, passed away July 22, 2023. She was born on May 30, 1931 in Peebles, Ohio to Carl and Ocie (Davis) Milburn. She was a loving mother, sister and grandmother to her family. She enjoyed getting people together and sharing a homemade meal. Her passion was taking care of her husband and her son. She is preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, John Richard Ensley; and her siblings Daisy Houseman, Earl Milburn, Archie Milburn, and Erma Pitzer. She is survived by her son Jonathan (Jenny) Ensley; her twin grandchildren Elizabeth and Isabel; her sister Ruby Cline; her brother Dwight (Faycena) Milburn; and many nieces, nephews and extended family. There will be a service to celebrate her life on Monday, July 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm at the Woodland Cemetery Chapel 118 Woodland Ave Dayton, Ohio 45409 with a gathering beginning at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Hospice of Dayton in her memory. Service in care of Baker-Hazel & Snider Funeral Home.
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Estridge (Hole), Marilyn Louise
Age 91, of Brookville, passed away on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at Brookhaven Nursing and Care Center. Marilyn was preceded in death by her husband, James Estridge; son, Doug Estridge; sister, Carol Williams. Marilyn graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1949. She was an avid bowler for over 70 years, and involved in sports. She is survived by her children, Pam (Joe) Hanfelder, and Mike Estridge; grandchildren, Sarah Gulley, Ryan (Christina) Estridge, and Daniel Hanfelder; great-grandchildren, Caleb and Hunter Gulley, Anika and Autumn Estridge. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, at the GILBERT-FELLERS FUNERAL HOME 950 ALBERT RD., BROOKVILLE. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with interment to follow in Glen Haven Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers donations may be sent to Hospice of Dayton, 324 Wilmington Ave., Dayton, OH 45420 or the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, 501 7th Ave, Ste. 401, New York, NY 10018
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Fraley, Mary Lou
On Thursday, July 27, 2023, Mary Louise "Imel" Fraley age 91 rejoined her beloved husband of 59 years, Charles in heaven. Together they will celebrate eternity with their Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ. She was born the daughter of Charles & Caroline (Hayes) Imel on May 22, 1932, in Urbana, Ohio. In addition to her husband and parents she is preceded in death by her brothers Harry, & Richard Imel; 1 grandson; 1 great grandson. Mary leaves behind to cherish her memory children Tomecia
"Tomi" (Mike) Baldwin of South Vienna, Cheri (Rick) Watson of Texas, Karla "Sue" (Greg) Newland of Greenville. Chuck (Cheryl) Fraley of Springfield, Clark (Karen) Fraley of Sidney; brother in law Patrick (Rhonda) Fraley of Lewis Center; 24 grandchildren; 29 great grandchildren; 6 great great grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, friends & spoiled 3 & 4 legged critters. Mary was a loving mother, grandmother, & friend. She will be missed by all of those who love her. For 15 years she worked as a milk tester, & later had a 30 year career at Security National Bank. Mary was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ & was a 50 year member of First Free Will Baptist Church on Lafayette. Family was her greatest treasure in life. She always looked forward to the Christmas season, that meant baking, decorating cookies, & trimming the family Christmas tree with her grandchildren. Friends & family may call on Thursday, August 3, 2023, from 5PM 7PM at RICHARDS, RAFF, & DUNBAR MEMORIAL HOME 838 E. High St. Springfield, Ohio. A funeral service will be held on Friday, August 4, 2023, 10AM at First Free Will Baptist Church 1028 Lafayette Ave. Springfield, Ohio with Pastors Adam McCarty, Mike Mounts, & Michael Baldwin officiating. Interment to follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.richardsraffanddunbar.com
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Genovesi, Dr. John
10/12/1932 - 7/26/2023
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. John Genovesi, patriarch of the Genovesi family and a renowned and pioneering figure in the medical field. On July 26, 2023, Dr. Genovesi left this world, leaving behind a legacy that will be cherished by his family, friends, colleagues, and patients for generations to come. Born in Sicily, just prior to the start of World War II, to the late Giovanni and Francesca (Cataudella) Genovesi, Dr. Genovesi grew up with a passion for medicine and a deep commitment to serving others. His passion led him to become a distinguished Obstetrician and Gynecologist (OBGYN). He called his field "The Happy Medicine" because so many of the lives he touched were delivering beautiful babies. Throughout his forty years of practice in Dayton, Ohio, his residency at Nassau County General Hospital (NY), and his time of service in the United States Navy, Dr. Genovesi ushered nearly four thousand new lives into the world. Dr. Genovesi will be forever remembered as one of the first OBGYNs to perform a laparoscopic hysterectomy in Ohio, a groundbreaking procedure that revolutionized the world of surgery. His exceptional skills and innovative approach not only improved patient outcomes, but also inspired and paved the way for many others in the medical community to follow in his footsteps. Throughout his illustrious career, Dr. Genovesi continued to impart his knowledge and expertise to countless other doctors, residents, and nurses. His dedication to teaching and mentoring ensured that his legacy would live on through the future generations of the medical professionals he nurtured. Dr. Genovesi was a genuine and compassionate individual who positively impacted the lives of his patients, colleagues, friends, and family members. His kind spirit, caring nature, and willingness to go the extra mile for others made him an extraordinary person, loved by everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. Even more cherished to him than his medical achievements, Dr. Genovesi loved his family. He shared 66 wonderful years of marriage with his loving wife, Nicole Genovesi, who stood by his side throughout his remarkable journey. Together, they raised four children, Gianni (John), Lidia, Riccardo (Ricky), and Sergio with love, care, and unwavering support. As a grandfather to 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, his heart overflowed with pride and joy for his entire family. As the family bids farewell to their beloved husband/ father/ grandfather/ great-grandfather, they find solace in the countless memories and life lessons he shared with them. His love will continue to live on, guiding them through life's challenges and joys. They are grateful for the time they had with him and for the love he bestowed upon them. Dr. Genovesi is survived by his loving wife, Nicole (Boutet) Genovesi; children, Gianni "John" Genovesi (Lynda Kemp), Lidia (Richard) Ford, Rick (Paula) Genovesi, and Sergio (Carol) Genovesi; 11 grandchildren, Gian, Christina, Arianna, Francesca, Dante, Dominic, Anthony, Gabriel, Isabella, Taja, and Nico; 12 great-grandchildren and his brother Salvatore (Anna) Genovesi. A private memorial service will be held to honor Dr. Genovesi's life and legacy.
**IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, THE FAMILY KINDLY REQUESTS DONATIONS TO BE MADE TO A GOFUNDME FOR ARCHIE'S ARMY TO HELP HIS LATEST GREAT-GRANDCHILD, 5-MONTHS OLD, WHO WAS BORN WITHOUT KIDNEYS.
https://gofund.me/584d7976
Anyone who knew Dr. Genovesi undoubtedly knew of his rare sense of humor and kind heart. The family would greatly appreciate hearing any stories, anecdotes, or memories that you would like to share. Online memories and condolences may be left for the family at www.bakerhazelsnider.com.
Husband, this world seems so empty without you in it. Until we will all be together again, my love
Love, Nicole.
Daddy, we love and miss you, our world has a giant hole in it! Love, John, Lidia, Ricky, and Sergio.
Nonno, we are so grateful for your unwavering love and support, and we will continue to make you proud. Love, your "gioias": Gian, Christina, Arianna, Francesca, Dante, Dominic, Anthony, Gabriel, Isabella, Taja, and Nico.
May he rest in eternal peace. Arrangements entrusted with Baker Hazel & Snider Funeral Home.
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Goecke, James B.
James B. "Jim" Goecke, age 61, of Farmersville, Ohio, passed away Monday July 24, 2023, with loving family by his side. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, on September 30, 1961. Jim owned and operated Goe-Tile for 25 years ~ his business thrived because of his artistic designs and tile installations. He was preceded in death by his 2 sons, Jacob B. Goecke, and James Michael "Luke" Goecke. Jim is survived by his parents, Kay M. (Grimes) Harris and James H. Goecke; his children, Katie Squires, Cory (Andrea) Thompson, Hannah (Anthony) Carozza, and Emily (David) Patrick; his devoted brother Robert "Rob" (Linda) Goecke; 3 sisters, Amy Goecke, Jennifer Boston, and Molly Goecke; 14 grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; and 2 great-nephews; his beloved dogs ~ Cooper & Panda, and his beloved cats ~ Sebastian, Sabrina & Shakira. A Visitation will be held 1 3 p.m., Sunday August 6, 2023, at the Dalton Funeral Home, where the Service will follow at 3 p.m., with Deacon Ken Stewart and Dr. Dan Flory officiating. The burial will be at Hayslip Cemetery, Lynx (Adams County), Ohio. Please share condolences at daltonfh.net | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/goecke-james/4SXNUJ3N75FODEPPX6SCZDDBM4/ | 2023-07-30T06:21:44 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/goecke-james/4SXNUJ3N75FODEPPX6SCZDDBM4/ |
Goins, Francis Van
Francis Van Goins, age 95, of Dayton, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Funeral service 12 pm Thursday, August 3, 2023, at New Hope Lutheran Church, 2000 Catalpa Drive, Dayton, Ohio. Visitation 10 am 12 pm. Family will receive friends one hour prior to service. Pastor Richard Freudenberger officiating. Reverend Therman Sampson II eulogizing. Interment 9 am Friday, August 4, 2023, at Dayton National Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to the HOUSE OF WHEAT Funeral Home, Inc.
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Graham, Paul N.
Graham, Paul N., a resident of Yellow Springs, passed away July 24 at the age of 94. Paul was born in Dayton, OH to Mack and Alice Graham. He was a graduate of Dunbar High School ('46), received his undergraduate degree from Antioch College ('52), and a masters from Indiana University ('56). A research chemist by profession, he spent his entire career at Vernay Laboratories in Yellow Springs. Paul was a thoughtful, kind, soft spoken man who was much loved in the community. He was preceded in death by his wife Precious Jewel Freeman Graham; and brothers, Donald, Ralph and Morris Graham. He is survived by his sons, Robert Grahamjones (Frances) and Nathan Graham (Edwina); grandchildren, Lucia Nolan (John), Lindley Graham, Freeman Grahamjones and Mal Graham; and great grandchild, Robyn Lucy Nolan. There will be a celebration of his life in the fall. A life well lived. Arrangements by CONROY FUNERAL HOME. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/graham-paul/ANFKF7NPGNERDNA7YOFYBIAXS4/ | 2023-07-30T06:21:51 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/graham-paul/ANFKF7NPGNERDNA7YOFYBIAXS4/ |
Haber, Jeni Elizabeth
Age 30, of Kettering, OH, passed away July 22, 2023. Tobias Far Hills, Dayton, OH.
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Haber, Jeni Elizabeth
Age 30, of Kettering, OH, passed away July 22, 2023. Tobias Far Hills, Dayton, OH.
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Haggerty, Jr., John Robert
Age 79, of Washington Twp., OH, passed away July 23, 2023. Service 11am Thursday Aug 17 Robison Chapel Catlin, Ill Routsong funeral home, Centerville, OH.
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Centerville, OH
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Harrison, Sammye J.
HARRISON, Sammye J., 87, of Piqua, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. She was a graduate of Walnut Hills High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended the University of Cincinnati. She married Stanley M Harrison on February 26, 1956. After marrying, she commuted from Piqua to complete her BFA from Wittenberg University.
Sammye raised 3 children and was actively involved in supporting them in their numerous activities. She was past President of High Street Elementary School PTA and the AAUW. Using her artistic skills, she produced many of the advertisements for Barclay's Men's-Women's Clothiers. Ultimately, As co-owner of Barclay's with her husband Stanley, she opened and ran the Women's Department. Additionally, she was a very active member of the Piqua Country Club and the Nine Hole Golf League. She was active in the Columbian Club, YWCA, YMCA, MainStreet Piqua, and the Piqua Chamber of Commerce. She loved playing bridge and golf. She was always thrilled for the end of the year Nine Hole Golf League Bloody Mary Party. She was past Grand Marshal of the MainStreet Piqua Christmas Parade. She had a green thumb and loved growing orchids and African violets. She was a very active member of Beth Abraham Synagogue and was very committed to raising her family in her faith. She was a snow bird who would spend a portion of each year in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Her beloved husband, Stanley M. Harrison, predeceased her. She is survived by her daughter, Tamar Harrison (Andrew Jepsky); son, Norman Harrison; and son, Bert (Terri) Harrison. She is also survived by 6 grandchildren (Kaela, Alexandra, Ellie, Slava and Valentina Harrison, and Lauren Jepsky). She is also survived by brother, Raymond (Lee) Elman and many nieces and nephews. Predeceasing her are her parents, Ethel and Charlie Elman; daughter in-law, Toni Davis-Harrison and sister-in-law, Shirley Manes.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, July 31, 2023 at 11 AM at Beth Abraham Cemetery Chapel, 1817 West Schantz Avenue, Dayton, Ohio. Rabbi Aubrey Glazer will officiate. Sammye actively contributed to many charities. In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to Pink Ribbon Girls; Miami County Hospice; Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County; Greene Street United Methodist Food Pantry; or the Piqua and/or Lehman Educational Foundations. An open house/luncheon will follow the ceremony beginning at 2:00 PM at the home of Sammye Harrison in Piqua. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Marker & Heller Funeral Homes, North Main Street Chapel.
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Hill, George Raymond
George Raymond Hill, age 76 of Dayton, passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2023. He was born August 4, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio the son of James Robert and Gladys Hill (Inman). George loved spending time with his family and was known as the best Dad and Grampa to many. He would light up at the sight of puppies and babies. He enjoyed fishing, bowling, picnics, horseshoes and playing euchre. He was an avid sports fan who loved to watch THE Ohio State Buckeyes, the Cincinnati Reds and the Cincinnati Bengals. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his "Best Dog Ever", Barney; great grandson, Axel Jay Mobley; brothers, Bob Jr., Leon, Dale and Mickey Hill; sisters, Mary Stevens, Betty Miller, Shirley Hampton, Pat Vollman, Pam Luckoski and Barb Jackson; brother-in-law and best friend, Dick Erbaugh; and son-in-law, Eddie Greer. George is survived by his loving wife and soulmate of 55 years, Joanne "Jo"; children, Jenny (Rick) Babros, Kelly (Jeff) Siler, Mike (Heidi) Hill and Allison (Jeremy) Hill; grandchildren, Caitlin (Cody) Mobley, Emilie (Noah) Siler, Jessica (Maria) Babros, Justin (Violetta) Siler and Piper Hill; great granddaughter on the way, Charli Mae Mobley; sisters, Janet (Butch) Kley and Kathy (Bob) Weaver; brother, Jack Hill; brother-in-law, Condie Inman; and numerous other family and friends. Per the family's request, no formal services will be held.
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Hoover (Rowe), Ruth L.
HOOVER, Ruth L., 96, of Springfield, Ohio, passed away Sunday, July 23, 2023 at Vienna Springs Health Campus. Ruth was born September 19, 1926 in Chambersburg, PA, the daughter of Harry George and Mary Elizabeth (Rowe) Hartman. Most of her life was spent in Springfield. After graduating from Springfield High School in 1944, she attended Springfield Business School and became secretary to Rev. C.E. Byers the last 8 ½ years of his ministry at Maiden Lane Church of God, Springfield. On September 10, 1950, she was married to Edward N. "Ned" Hoover by Rev. Byers. Because she enjoyed working with 4H and Sunday School children, she desired to gain further training and prepare herself for teaching in the public schools. She graduated from Wittenberg University with a bachelor's degree in education, a master's degree from Wright State University, and took many additional education courses. For 31 years she was an elementary teacher in the Northeastern School District and worked an additional year in a private Christian school. She always felt Jesus was the greatest teacher, and the Holy Bible the greatest text. For 74 years she attended Maiden Lane Church of God, Springfield, and later Northside Church of God. Children, missions programs, visitation to shut-ins and many other Christian opportunities were ways she served her Lord. Her desire was to always be a faithful and true Christian in life as a mother, wife and citizen. She was saved as a young girl and endeavored to live a Christian life to please her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Survivors include three children, Dale E. (Jody) Hoover, Jeffrey A. Hoover and Karen (Paul) Hill; three grandchildren, Leah Beth Hill, David Hill and Ann Marie Hill; and several nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Ned, in 2020; siblings Martha Snapp in the mid-1970s and Ben G. Hartman in 2007. Her funeral service will be held on Monday, July 31 at 11:00 in the CONROY FUNERAL HOME. Visitation will be held one hour prior, beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the funeral home. Burial will follow in Ferncliff Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Hartman Rock Garden, a nationally-recognized visionary art environment created by her father. Address donations c/o Springfield Foundation, 333 N. Limestone St., Suite 201, Springfield, OH 45503. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/hoover-ruth/JVNSNO5DI5F2ZCMOWECUINVNKI/ | 2023-07-30T06:22:18 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/hoover-ruth/JVNSNO5DI5F2ZCMOWECUINVNKI/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. — People at the Yard at Ivanhoe said they don’t feel safe parking their cars at their own homes after dozens of car break-ins.
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“It’s been an issue for years, and something needs to be done,” said Julian Clarkson.
Clarkson said when he walked outside his apartment Saturday morning, one of the first things he saw was car after car with driver’s seat and passenger windows bashed in.
Clarkson said, while he was lucky enough not to be a victim this time, he counted about 20 people that were.
Most of it was just vandalism but Clarkson said he spoke to some of his neighbors who say the crooks took their wallets, money, social security card and parking decal.
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“There have been police reports filed but at the same time, there are no cameras or no working doors or no working gates,” said Clarkson.
Lucas Salazar said his car was also broken into inside the garage just a few months ago. Police never caught whoever was responsible.
“Honestly, it’s been a pretty consistent problem as far as security,” said Salazar. “This though, this is this is unprecedented.”
Read: Florida woman charged with DUI after crashing into patrol cars
“Obviously, crime doesn’t no zip code. At the same time there are measures that can be taken that are honestly not being taken and should have been taken a long time ago,” said Clarkson.
Eyewitness News reached out to Orlando Police asking the number of cars that have been broken into in all and how many times it’s happened in the past. We’re still waiting to hear back.
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Our team is also awaiting a response from the management company at the Yard at Ivanhoe for a response on these concerns.
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Hunter, Robert Eugene
Age 91, of Kettering, Ohio, passed away, Sunday, July 23, 2023. He was born July 12, 1932 in Akron, Ohio; the son of the late Robert and Mary (Goodall) Hunter. Robert was a long time resident of Kettering, Ohio where he served as Assistant Law Director for the city. He proudly served in the United States' Navy during the Korean War. After serving, he graduated with a law degree from The Ohio State University. Along with his parents, Robert is preceded in death by his wife, Carol Jane (McGreevey) Hunter. He is survived by his children, Robert (Dianne) Hunter, Diana (Nick) Neargarder, and Mark (Vickie) Hunter; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; sister, Diane (Jack) Windsor; brother, James Hunter; and numerous extended family members and friends. A memorial service will be held on Monday, August 7, 2023 at 10:00AM at Miami Valley Memorial Gardens Mausoleum, 1639 East Lytle-Five Points Road, Centerville, OH 45458 with a burial to follow where Navy Military Honors will be rendered. Online condolences and remembrances may be made to the family at www.routsong.com. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/hunter-robert/PT57MR7BAJEEBDXTZCOIMNJT2U/ | 2023-07-30T06:22:24 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/hunter-robert/PT57MR7BAJEEBDXTZCOIMNJT2U/ |
Jay (Magaw), Joan Doles
Age 87, of Union, OH, passed away July 15, 2023. Visitation, 10-11 a.m., Thursday, August 3, 2023. Kindred Funeral Home, Englewood, OH.
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UFC 291 ended with a massive win for Justin Gaethje, who scored the biggest victory of his career in decisive fashion. Gaethje landed a perfect head kick to knock out Dustin Poirier and secure the BMF title belt.
In the co-main event, Alex Pereira had an impressive light heavyweight debut with a split decision win over Jan Blachowicz, potentially setting himself up for a shot at the promotion's most mobile belt. Pereira's record now sits at 8-2.
Derrick Lewis snapped a three-fight losing streak in emphatic fashion, charging Marcos Rogério de Lima with a flying knee at the start of the fight and never letting up once his opponent was down. It was Lewis' record 14th knockout in UFC. Given that it was the final fight of his UFC contract, it was a very well-timed win for Lewis.
"I just said 'Imma throw some bulls*** and see if it lands.' It did," Lewis said after the match.
Bobby Green was on track for a decision win over Tony Ferguson, but removed all doubt with a submission of the veteran in the final 10 seconds of the fight. The win broke a four-fight streak without a victory for Green, while Ferguson posted his sixth straight loss.
In the pay-per-view opener, Kevin Holland submitted Michael Chiesa with a D'arce choke in the first round of their welterweight scrap. It was Holland's 25th win in 35 pro fights. Chiesa record is now 18-7 after this third loss in a row.
Here's how UFC 291 went down:
UFC 291 live tracker: Updates, highlights and analysis
UFC 291 main card, odds (Live now on ESPN+PPV)
• Lightweight: Justin Gaethje def. Dustin Poirier by KO - 1:00 of R2
JUSTIN GAETHJE KO's POIRIER BY HEAD KICK 😱
— UFC (@ufc) July 30, 2023
WE HAVE A NEW BMF #UFC291 pic.twitter.com/eUunAPoHnO
• Light heavyweight: Alex Pereira def. Jan Blachowicz by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)• Welterweight: Stephen Thompson (-225) vs. Michel Pereira (+175)• Heavyweight: Derrick Lewis def. Marcos Rogério de Lima by TKO (flying knee and punches) - 0:33 of R1
AND HIS BALLS WAS HOT #UFC291 pic.twitter.com/uqz1Tqefxn
— UFC (@ufc) July 30, 2023
• Lightweight: Bobby Green def. Tony Ferguson by submission (arm-triangle choke) - 4:54 of R3• Welterweight: Kevin Holland def. Michael Chiesa by submission (D'arce) - 2:39 of R1
UFC 291 prelims card results, highlights
• Welterweight: Gabriel Bonfim def. Trevin Giles by submission (guillotine) - 1:13 of R1:
SLICK SUBMISSION FROM BONFIM 😨#UFC291 is LIVE on ESPN+ PPV 🍿 pic.twitter.com/jIaAQnPaIH
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) July 30, 2023
• Flyweight: CJ Vergara def. Vinicius Salvador by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)• Middleweight: Roman Kopylov def. Claudio Ribeiro by KO (head kick) - 0:33 of R2:
KOPYLOV’S NASTY HEADKICK DROPS RIBEIRO 😱#UFC291 LIVE on ABC and ESPN 🍿 pic.twitter.com/ZX8Gb4hUC3
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) July 30, 2023
• Welterweight: Jake Matthews def. Darrius Flowers by submission (rear naked) - 2:37 of R2
UFC 291 early prelims card results, highlights
• Welterweight: Uroš Medić def. Matthew Semelsberger by TKO (ground and pound) - 2:36 of R3:
Uros Medic brought the spin move 🌪️ #UFC291 is LIVE on ESPN 🍿 pic.twitter.com/sWsJaPFD5f
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) July 29, 2023
• Women's flyweight: Miranda Maverick def. Priscila Cachoeira by submission (armbar) - 2:11 of R2:
Miranda Maverick kicks off #UFC291 with a finish!@FearTheMAVERICK locks the armbar in Round 3 💪 pic.twitter.com/lUox5wVbrc
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Jewsikow, Michael V. "Mike"
JEWSIKOW, Michael V. 'Mike" age 57 of Clayton, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Preceded in death by his in-laws J. Robert and Lynne Binkley, 2 brother-in-laws Matthew and Adam Binkley, his maternal grandmother Helen Zuppinger, and paternal grandmother Ida Schwedin. He is survived by his loving wife of 28 years Amy (Binkley) Jewsikow, 3 devoted sons Brenden, Logan and Jayce, Mike's parents Victor and Judy Jewsikow of Brookville, a brother Mark and his wife Amy Jewsikow of Springboro, and their sons Brian and Jason, and cousin Ronald and Holly Jewsikow and their son Ron (Huiyun) Jewsikow, and numerous other family and friends. Mike was a 1984 graduate of Northmont High School where he coached baseball, soccer and football. Mike was currently working at Ideal Image in Englewood. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, August 3, 2023 at Shiloh Church 5300 Philadelphia Dr. at N. Main St. by Pastor Jay McMillen. Interment Arlington Cemetery. The family will receive friends Wednesday, Aug. 2nd from 4 to 8 p.m. at Baker-Hazel & Snider Funeral Home 5555 Philadelphia Dr. at N. Main St. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Northmont Education Foundation or Choices in Community Living 1651 Needmore Rd. Dayton, OH 45414 in Mike's memory. Online condolences for the family may be sent to www.bakerhazelsnider.com.
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LAS VEGAS — This, without hyperbole, was one of the greats weeks for the frequently maligned sport of boxing in the last 50 years, if not longer.
And Terence Crawford's ninth-round TKO victory Saturday over Errol Spence Jr. for the undisputed welterweight title before 19,980 fortunate fans at T-Mobile Arena ranks among the greatest performances in a huge fight ever.
Ever.
Yes, that’s considering anything that Floyd Mayweather, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns ever did, particularly considering the quality of the opponent, the stakes and the sheer ferocity that Crawford showed in taking Spence apart.
Yes, that includes anything that Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest boxer who ever drew a breath, ever did.
And it includes whatever big fight or famous fighter you want to name.
Yes, it was on par with Mike Tyson’s 91-second destruction of Michael Spinks for the undisputed heavyweight title in 1988. Yes, it ranks there with Mayweather’s domination of Diego Corrales in their super featherweight bout in 2001, when Mayweather dropped Corrales five times and stopped him in the 10th.
“I swear, I swear, I have said this before, but I’ve always dreamed of being a world champion,” said Crawford, who improved to 40-0 and became the first male boxer in the four-belt era to be undisputed in two weight classes. “I’m an overachiever. Nobody believed in me when I was coming up.”
Coming up?
There were those who didn’t believe in him going into the fight with Spence. The narrative from those was old and tired, that Spence was too big, too strong and had too much of a jab for a guy who used to be a lightweight to handle.
Crawford, though, performed like the all-time great he proved himself to be. He raised his game to a level that Spence couldn’t come close to matching. Crawford dropped Spence three times, once in the second and twice in the seventh.
Spence’s face was a mass of welts and bruises, and was barely recognizable when the fight ended.
It was a result of a master class from the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world — Sorry, Naoya Inoue — who put together the best performance of his life.
In the ring afterward, Spence was sanguine about the result because he’d been beaten so convincingly, so thoroughly and so comprehensively. How could one be upset losing to one of the greatest fighters ever?
“He was the better man tonight,” Spence said. “ … I couldn’t take his jab. My timing was a little bit off and he was catching me in between shots. He was the better man tonight. I make no excuses.”
The week began with Inoue, the former undisputed bantamweight champion, moving up to face unbeaten unified super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue. Much like Crawford did on Saturday, Inoue was frighteningly good Tuesday, a terrifying combination of speed and power and he stopped Fulton in the eighth round.
Crawford saw that and saw that many were saying Inoue was the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world regardless of what happened in the fight with Spence. Crawford answered in the best way possible, by dominating Spence in every phase and punching his Hall of Fame ticket with a victory that was one for the ages.
Whenever they talk about spectacular performances in big situations, Crawford’s name will always come up.
All three judges gave Spence the first round Saturday as Crawford, a slow starter on his best day, moved around, poked and prodded in an information-gathering three-minutes in order to see what he was up against.
Crawford took over in the second and never removed his foot from the gas. It was a jaw-dropping performance by a proud man who has long sought recognition for what we can now say are his other-worldly skills.
He dropped Spence with a left hand and then a short, hard, precisely placed right in what was a sign of what was to come for Spence, the amiable Texan.
“That first knockdown was more of a flash knockdown,” Crawford said. “I caught him with a left and he didn’t think I was coming back with the right.”
DOWN GOES SPENCE IN ROUND 2 😳@terencecrawford hits the combo 🔥 #SpenceCrawford pic.twitter.com/AACur1s70y
— SHOWTIME Boxing (@ShowtimeBoxing) July 30, 2023
Crawford tore Spence apart in Rounds 3 through 6 and Spence somehow managed to keep his feet. He had no such luck in the seventh.
In the corner in the seventh, Crawford caught Spencer with a blistering uppercut and then landed a right to the ear. Spence collapsed in big trouble, and only someone with the huge championship heart and competitiveness he possesses would drag himself off the canvas.
He did only to be dropped again, and if truth be told, it should have been stopped at that point. Crawford landed two rights to the ear and it was obvious Spence was finished. He had no chance to win, and allowing the fight to continue only subjected him to more punishment.
“I’m a great finisher,” Crawford said in one of the night’s biggest understatements.
You think?
Crawford landed 50.1 percent of his punches — 185 of 369 — and most of them were perfectly placed and thrown with bad intentions.
Spence only landed 96 punches out of the 480 he threw. Instead of showing his potent left hand, most of what Spence threw were weak jabs from range that never threatened Crawford.
Spence said he felt fine and was able to see despite the lumps and bumps covering his face.
“I felt good and I felt I could do enough to win the fight,” said Spence, who said he’d want to rematch at 154 pounds. “I’m not here to make excuses. I’m a grown man. I agreed to the weight and I did what I could.”
Crawford put himself into the history books, the record books and whatever kind of books they write about brilliant performances in the most important situations.
He’s the best fighter in the world and he performed like it Saturday against a guy who is brilliant himself. This was a pummeling of a C-level opponent. It was taking apart a superstar and a future Hall of Famer.
Crawford repeatedly thanked God and said his emotions were getting the best of him.
“I’m so mixed with so many emotions, I could cry right now,” Crawford said.
Spence said he’s a lot better than he showed, and he is, but Crawford is way better than he’d ever shown previously.
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JOHNSON, Rodger
Rodger Johnson, age 67, of Dayton, Ohio, transitioned to his new life Saturday, July 22, 2023. Funeral service 11 am Tuesday, August 1, 2023, at House of Wheat Funeral Home, 2107 N. Gettysburg Avenue, Dayton, Ohio. Visitation 10 am at which time family will receive friends. Interment West Memory Gardens.
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