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They say everything old becomes new again, and nowhere in Pittston is there a better example of a classic business expanding to the delight of costumers, current and new, than Duchess Outlet.
The Caprari name is well respected and inherently carries with it a promise of honesty, integrity, quality products and a keen eye toward the ever-changing needs of today’s busy shopper.
If you have not stopped by Duchess Outlet, 75 William St., the former Pittston Stove building, are you in for a treat! Three generations of Capraris have individually, and as a family, grown Duchess Outlet to so much more than their grandfather, Sam Caprari, could have dreamed when he purchased the building in 1958.
“Our family has always been able to move forward with our basic work ethic,” stated Julio Caprari. “Our grandfather started in manufacturing. Our grandmother, Theresa, grew the business to include retail space and offer quality products at discounted prices.”
In the 1980s, Sam and Theresa’s son, Paul, a soft-spoken man of great humor and warmth, along with the love of his life, wife Paula, became the second generation to run the family business. Paul added high quality, highly demanded London Fog coats, men’s blazers, suits, and high-quality outerwear.
During this time, Paula’s love of Madame Alexander dolls brought an entirely new customer base to Duchess Outlet. She is in plain terms a “doll doctor,” specializing in doll repair and restoration. In 2010, she opened the Doll Museum.
“You can see the evolution of the dolls in their outfits and workmanship,” Paula said. “Some dolls are from generous donors, and many are from my personal collection. This is my passion.”
Anyone is welcome to tour the Doll Museum and enjoy its 1,000+ dolls. With no admission fee, it is a generous community offering by the Caprari family.
Pittston Stove was built in the 1880s, and has had only two owners.
“Duchess Outlet is a fantastic addition to the Pittston community because it blends old and new,” Paul Caprari Jr. said. “Today, people can really appreciate all that Pittston has to offer.”
With Paul Jr.’s and Julio’s combined intellect, the Caprari family is experiencing an exciting next phase in their family business: The Duchess Outlet Antique Mall.
“Presently, we have expanded our square footage, with further plans of expansion,” Julio explained. “We didn’t start the business to stay the same. We want to expand to all parts of the property within the next few years.”
“We plan to be one of the largest antique stores in Pennsylvania within the next few years,” Paul Jr. said.
The Capraris come from a long line of hard workers and it shows. Everyone is happy to be there. Their knowledge and love of their customers and their products is infectious.
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“Everyone is welcome here,” Julio said. “Come in, walk around and have a look. See what we are all about.”
Filled with something to look at wherever your gaze might fall, it is difficult to believe all that is offered. The expansion moved quickly and the Capraris opened the Duchess Outlet Antique Mall in May. As word of mouth spreads, vendors are constantly dropping by, wondering if there is room for them.
“We are getting great feedback and our online sales have grown,” said Julio.
Paul Jr., who owned “Yores” on Main Street, knows antiques. He purchased items from Pittston stores having liquidation sales, estate sales, churches, and more. “We have new items literally every day. You should come at least weekly because there is great turn over in our inventory. The key is diversity, and we have it.”
Visit their outlet and newly expanded antique mall that includes Madame Alexander dolls, Folkmanis puppets, collectibles, men’s cashmere coats, estate jewelry, sports and political memorabilia, the macabre, seasonal décor, toys, books, comic books, dolls, stuffed animals, pub and glass ware, historical tins, religious items, antique photos, furniture, diecast cars, action figures, historical pieces related to coal mining, and so much more.
There are even vintage Barbie dolls and life-sized Hansa stuffed animals.
“We got a call from a movie set asking if we could get a particular life-sized stuffed animal. We were happy to do it. It’s now taken on a life of its own as we are supplying TV shows, movies, museums and schools. We have also seen an uptick in studios coming to us for specific antiques and looks,” Julio said.
Visit “2 Vintage Chixx,” “One More Time Consignment Shop,” “Rising Phoenix Antiques and Auctions,” “Toys N Treasures,” and “Victoriana Lady Lisa,” to mention a few.
Somehow didn’t find what you are looking for? Duchess Outlet works closely with local antique stores, believing there is enough business for everyone.
With warehouses full of items, they look forward to hiring more employees to continue expansion.
Team member Jeanette Volch greets customers, knows everything going on in the store, assists buyers and keeps everything neat and tidy.
“The Capraris are wonderful people,” Jeanette said. “We all love what we do and work hard. They treat me like family. I feel very lucky.”
As the Capraris begin an entirely new chapter in Duchess Outlet history, their 65-year existence continues to be their promise of quality items at fair and affordable prices.
Shop 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. They can be reached at 570-654-3851 or at duchessoutlet@gmail.com. Free parking can be found along the side and behind the building. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/pit_progress/news/something-for-everyone-at-duchess-outlet/article_5d9e1bc4-7996-52b2-ade1-2931d037cf70.html | 2023-07-30T06:37:23 | 1 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/pit_progress/news/something-for-everyone-at-duchess-outlet/article_5d9e1bc4-7996-52b2-ade1-2931d037cf70.html |
Back Mountain National’s run in the Pennsylvania Major Baseball Tournament came to an end Saturday.
Evan Calio’s three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth gave East Side Little League the lead for good as the West Chester team rallied for an 8-6 victory in the elimination game.
Back Mountain ended the season with a District 31 and Section 5 title, and finished fourth in the state.
Fighting through two rain delays — the latter lasting more than an hour — National appeared to have the momentum when play resumed in the top of the fifth.
With Ben Nulton, Dom Smacchi and Michael Viglone on base, hot-hitting Trever Cunningham ripped a double down the right-field line. It scored both Nulton and Smacchi as Back Mountain took a 5-4 lead — its first since a 2-0 advantage in the top of the first.
But East Side, the Section 7 champ which is 10-1 in all-star play, rallied in the home half of the fifth.
Pierce Villano was hit by a pitch, and Jack Warner drew a walk to start the frame. Nulton, National’s third pitcher, got the next two outs, but couldn’t get by Calio — who ripped his second homer of the night, finishing 2 for 3 with five RBIs.
Back Mountain tried to rally back in the sixth.
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Carter Samanas roped a single to right, and Lorenzo Zangardi drew a one-out walk, his third of the game. Hard-throwing Sean Bradley got a fielder’s choice for the second out, but an error by the second baseman on Landon James’ roller allowed Samanas to score — trimming the deficit to 8-6.
Bradley forced an infield pop-up to second base for the final out, ending National’s season.
Back Mountain got the perfect start — scoring in the first as Samanas’ fielder’s choice plated one, while another scored on an error.
East Side had a quick response with a four-spot in its half of the first. Calio crushed a two-run home run to left, Bradley drilled a double to right-center and another scored on a wild pitch.
National’s second pitcher, Cunningham, threw well in relief. He entered in the first, and allowed just one hit through four innings of work. He struck out nine before hitting his 85-pitch limit at the end of the fourth.
Cunningham had himself a state tournament. He smacked a home run in the third, and finished 3 for 3 with three RBIs. He ended the event with a batting average over .600 with three home runs and nine RBIs.
Back finished with nine hits Saturday. In addition to Cunningham — who missed the cycle by a triple — Jack Oliver, Gavin Bayer, Samanas, George Rolland, Nulton and Smacchi all had hits. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/sports/east-side-little-league-drops-back-mountain/article_78d9e011-1a8f-585a-9e52-4a2d538edba0.html | 2023-07-30T06:37:29 | 1 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/sports/east-side-little-league-drops-back-mountain/article_78d9e011-1a8f-585a-9e52-4a2d538edba0.html |
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A star-studded group highlighted by several former pro baseball players, a 2,000-point scorer in basketball, star swimmers and track and field standouts, along with a woman who is part of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the "voice" of northern California, are set for enshrinement in the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame Aug. 6 at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Headlining the class is the recently deceased Joanne McComb who, as a teenager, participated in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was featured in the iconic film "A League of Their Own," starring Tom Hanks. The league was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. McComb had a cameo part as a first baseman in the film.
Joining her are former professional baseball players, Gene Domzalski, Jim Stehle and Mike Papi; along with the dynamic swimming brother and sister act of Joe and Katlin O'Hara, fellow pool and track and field star Marsha Krysiewski Hanson; and distance running standouts Rebecca Mack McGraw and Amy Viti,
Also, state wrestling champion Scott Davis; Northwest Area basketball legend Joe Hasay; swimming coach and multi-sport official Nina Wozniak; longtime football and baseball official Bill Downey; baseball lifer Jim Hill; the "Voice" of northern California sports, the late Dick Callahan; and high school and college basketball standout Jaime Kauczka Esgro.
The organization will honor Ken Cara of Hazleton TV station WYLN with its Media Award; Sandy Wazeter of Special Olympics will receive the Sam Falcone Community Service Award and the Tracey Tribendis "Profile in Courage" Award will be presented to Quinn Crispell of Misericordia University.
The affair starts at 3 p.m. with a cocktail hour (cash bar) with dinner at 4 followed by the induction ceremony. Tickets are $60 for adults and $25 for children under 13 and are available on the chapter's website, luzernecountysportshalloffame.com.
"These sports facilitators and athletes have provided us with a vision of our community and how we have excelled in all recognizable aspects of the game," LCSHOF president Jim Martin said.
Dick Callahan
The late Dick Callahan had a voice no one could deny — one that eventually took him to northern California where he had the distinction of announcing "at least once" for every professional sports team in the San Francisco area.
A native of Avoca and a graduate of Scranton Prep and St. Jerome's University in Canada, Callahan, the only child of Richard and Margaret Callahan, enjoyed a successful career in insurance.
His career behind the microphone began at St. Jerome's as public address announcer and upon his return to Northeast Pennsylvania he was the radio announcer of the Scranton Miners of the Eastern Basketball League.
He moved to northern California in 1975 and became the public address and radio announcer for the St. Mary's Gaels basketball and football teams. He also was the radio announcer for the San Francisco Pioneers of the first women’s professional basketball league. He ascended to the professional ranks serving as the public address announcer for the Oakland Athletics, a span which included more than 1,000 games. He also served as PA announcer for the Golden State Warriors for 19 seasons and nine seasons with the University of California Golden Bears.
Scott Davis
Scott Davis was a star in three-sports in high school but it was wrestling where he etched his name in Pennsylvania history by winning the 2007 PIAA Championship at 140 pounds.
Prior to coming to Lake-Lehman, Davis was excelled in football and baseball at Clarion, where in football he passed for nearly 2,000 yards and ran for almost 800 yards and continued to star in those sports for the Black Knights..
After one year at the University of Kentucky, Davis transferred to Delaware State where he starred in baseball and sports a career .345 batting average. He keyed Delaware State to a pair of Mid Eastern Athletic Conference North Division crowns and, in 2011, was named the MEAC's baseball Player of the Year after batting a whopping .418. He was an honorable mention All-American by Baseball Insider.com and was a second team selection by the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Gene Domzalski
As head coach of the Wilkes College baseball team in the 1970s, Domzalski took the Colonels places they had never been before — including being the first local college team to take a spring trip to a warmer climate in the southern states.
Domzalski's was a three-sport standout in football, basketball and baseball at Newport Twp. and earned a scholarship to the University of Wyoming for football.
He caught the attention of major league scouts and ended his collegiate career by signing with the New York Yankees. He spent five years in the Yankees organization, reaching Class AA with the Amarillo Gold Sox of the Texas League where he batted .303 in 39 games. Over his career the third baseman batted .266.
He was named head coach of the Colonels in 1970 and in his nine seasons, he compiled a 138-42 record, which included a pair of Middle Atlantic Conference championships. The Colonels made three-straight NCAA regional appearances in 1976, '77 and '78. Hs 1976 team won the regional as the bracket's lowest seed and went on to finish fourth in the Division III World Series.
Bill Downey
Becoming an official while still a student at Northwest High School, Downey would spend 49 and 42 years respectively wearing the striped shirt of the sports of football and basketball.
His officiating was respected statewide, exemplified by being chosen to officiate the 2006 Class AA championship game between Wilson and Jeanette high schools. In all, he officialted 20 championship games on the District 2 and 4 levels.
In basketball, he officiated 25 league and district championships between Districts 2 and 4 and, in softball, umpired the Class AAAA final in 1985 between North Penn and Harbor Creek and again in 2001 the Class AA final between Fleetwood and Riverside. He also umpired and refereed for the Keystone Games.
Downey also qualified as an American Legion umpire and an umpire with the Amateur Softball Association, positions he held for 20 years.
Jamie Kauczka Esgro
Jamie Kauczka Esgro has the distinction of being the first-ever female basketball player from Wyoming Valley West named to the Pennsylvania All-State team.
She was named all-conference first-team three straight years, including one year as the Division 1 MVP. She sparked the Spartans to three consecutive WVC Division 1 titles and two trips to the state tournament, finishing with 1,332 career points. She was enshrined in Wyoming Valley West Hall of Fame in 2019.
She continued her basketball career at Bloomsburg University, where she was a three-year starter and selected as a team co-captain her senior year. She is one of just seven female Bloom players to top 1,000 career points and 700 rebounds, finishing with 1,117 points and 711 rebounds. She ranks 19th all-time in points scored and 11th all-time in rebounds.
Marsha Krysiewski Hanson
In her four years at Wyoming Valley West, Marsha Krysiewski Hanson accumulated 14 gold medals in District 2 competition — nine of which were individual accomplishments in swimming and track & field. Her success on the track earned her an invitation to the World Sports Exchange in Spain, prior to her senior year.
At Lock Haven, she became an award-winning heptathlete, capturing multiple PSAC championships, competing in the seven disciplines —100m hurdles, 200 and 800-meter runs, high jump, long jump, shot put and javelin. She earned All-American honors and won the NCAA Division II National Eastern Region Athlete of the Year Award in 2001. At Lock Haven, she ranks in the top five all-time in three track and field events.
Marsha and her husband, Corry, have three sons; Toby, Mac and Beau. She is pursuing a yoga certification.
Joe Hasay
Joe Hasay is a member of the state's 2000-point club, a group which includes Wilt Chamberlain, Tom Gola and Kobe Bryant. Hasay tallied 2,065 points. He is also one of just 15 players from Luzerne County to accomplish that feat.
Hasay's career at Northwest High School under legendary coach Eddie Gayeski, was all about winning. He helped lead the Rangers, then playing in District 4 in the Susquehanna Valley Conference, to four straight appearances in the PIAA playoffs, including a third and fourth-place finish in the state, along with a berth in the final eight and sweet 16.
Hasay was a three-time conference all-star, an all-state selection and appeared in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd" for making 41 consecutive free throws.
He currently is the CEO of the Paradyne Corporation and resides in Arroyo, California and sponsors an annual scholarship for an athlete at Northwest Area. Joe's wife, Teresa, passed away in 2017. They had two children, Jordan and Jedd.
Jim Hill
Jim Hill was involved in baseball for 35 years — 25 of which he spent as head coach of Northwest Area. He collected more than 250 wins at the Rangers' helm and twice was named Coach of the Year in the Wyoming Valley Conference.
He also accumulated a multitude of awards and acknowledgements, including the Valley Umpires Sportsmanship and the Dedicated Teen Baseball awards in 1985. He was heavily involved in the Rural Teeners League, serving as a coach and league president for 36 years. He was the founder of the Northwest-Benton American Legion team which he coached for a number of years.
He coached 46 first-team divisional all-stars and won six divisional championships.
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Rebecca Mack McGraw
Rebecca Mack McGraw dominated the Wyoming Valley Conference and District 2 in cross country and track while at GAR, including a triple win (800, 1600 and 3200 runs) in districts as a sophomore. At the PIAA championships she won gold in the 800 and 1600.
As a junior, she captured gold in the PIAA cross country championships with a then- state record 18:32 to go with her D2 gold medals in cross country and the 800 meters in track.
Entering her senior year her exploits were recognized nationally when she was named a pre-season All-American by Track and Field Magazine in 1996. In her final year she took second in the D2 cross country meet and in track was second in the 800 and 1600 runs.
All those medals and course and meet records added up to her becoming the first female athlete in the storied sports history of GAR High School to be awarded an athletic scholarship when she decided to take her talent to the University of Maryland. She participated in cross country and track as a Terrapin. She was a finalist in the 800-meter run at the ACC Indoor Championships and was a member of the medley relay teams which placed in the ACC.
Joanne McComb
The late Joanne McComb is a legendary figure in the sports history of Bloomsburg University, having been inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2019.
A graduate of Slippery Rock, she was one of the pioneers of women's athletics at Bloomsburg, serving as its first women's basketball coach and later as associate director of athletics. The school established an annual honor in her name — the Female Underclass Athlete of the Year Award.
Born in Avonmore, she learned to play baseball as a youngster on neighborhood streets. As a teenager she saw a notice of a tryout for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, went to the tryout only to be rejected because she was just 15 years old. However, the following year she was signed by the Springfield Sallies rookie team which toured the east coast and Canada.
In the movie "A League of Their Own,” she had a cameo role playing first base for the Sallies. She later remarked that one of her favorite memories with the AAGPBL was playing a shortened exhibition game in Yankees Stadium, prior to the start of a Yankees-Philadelphia A's game.
She retired in 1986 and died this past June.
Joe O'Hara
Saying Joe O'Hara excelled in swimming, water polo and volleyball at Wyoming Valley West High School, is an understatement.
In swimming, he twice was named District 2 Swimmer of the Year in District 2. He won 15 medals, seven of which were gold. He competed in the PIAA championships in 11 events over his scholastic career. In water polo, he was a three-time All-American, four-time All-State selection and led the Spartans in scoring all four years.
His athletic abilities and his excellence in the classroom earned him a scholarship to Xavier University where he helped the Musketeers win the Atlantic 10 swim championship. He completed his collegiate career by setting several school records.
He went on to earn a doctorate in veterinary medicine and serves as an ER veterinary doctor at the Denver Emergency Animal Hospital and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, and competes in half and full ironman competitions and rec volleyball.
Katlin O'Hara
Katlin O'Hara holds a rare distinction in District 2 — she never lost a swimming competition in the 12 events in which she participated. In her four years swimming for the Wyoming Valley West, she collected 12 gold medals.
She was a three-time District 2 Female Swimmer of the Year and a 10-time National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association Top 16 award winner. She also was outstanding in water polo, being named all-state all four years in high school and three times garnered All-American Water Polo consideration.
She attended Syracuse University where she set or broke seven school pool records, several of which remain today.
She earned a doctorate in podiatric medicine from Temple University and continues her athletic endeavors by participating in half and full marathons. Dr. O'Hara is part of the Carolina Podiatry Group and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mike Papi
Mike Papi enjoyed a terrific scholastic career at Tunkhannock High School and an even better one at the University of Virginia.
As a Tiger, he was named All-Wyoming Valley Conference in both basketball and baseball. On the diamond, he sparked the Tigers to consecutive District 2 championships and berths in the PIAA championships which culminated in a silver medal in the PIAA Class 3A championships.
As a UVA sophomore he led the Atlantic Coast Conference in both batting (.381) and on-base percentage (.517) in 2013. Those statistics earned him All-ACC and All-American first-team honors. The following year he led the ACC in home runs (11), RBI (56) and total bases (119) and keyed the Cavaliers to a runner-up finish in the College World Series. That year his patience at the plate rewarded him with a nation-leading 81 walks, a mark that still stands at Virginia.
He was selected in the first round of the MLB amateur draft by Cleveland and played in the organization for six years.
He currently resides in Fort Mill, South Carolina with his wife, Amber and son, Walker. He’s investment advisor representative for Capstone Wealth Management,
Jim Stehle
Jim Stehle arrived at Wilkes from Coughlin High School already with a reputation as throwing a blazing fastball.
As a freshman, he was second in NCAA Division III with an average of 13.8 strikeouts per game and followed that in 1975 by averaging 15.5 whiffs per game to lead all of Division III. As a junior in 1976 he finished 8th in strikeouts and 10th in wins. Also, as a junior he was named second team Small Colleges All-American and was selected as a TOPPS NCAA Division III All-Star first-team member. As a senior he averaged 12.4 strikeouts per game and was named to the TOPPS second team. Twice he struck out 16 batters in a game.
In the amateur draft in 1977 he was selected by and signed with the San Diego Padres. He spent two years in the San Diego organization, reaching Class AA before hanging up his spikes in favor of the business world.
He spent 24 years as the regional field manager for Anheuser Busch in the Atlanta area and is now a teacher/coach at St. Francis High Prep School, Alpharetta, Georgia.
Amy Viti
A graduate of Hanover Area High School, Amy Viti's outstanding career in cross country and track and field really started to blossom as a senior. She was a two-time state qualifier and, in her final year as a Hawkeye, finished third at the PIAA championships in the 400-meter run. She totaled 11 District 2 medals, including gold in the 400 and also was named the District 2 PIAA Scholar/Athlete of the Year.
She attended Misericordia University and set five school records. She was a five-time NCAA track & field qualifier and a three-time All-American in the 800-meter run with second, third, and fifth place career finishes. She was a three-time USATF and Cross Country Coaches Association All-American and five-time CoSIDA All-American.
Academically, she maintained a 4.0 GPA, not only earning her valedictorian honors but she also was a two-time NCAA Elite 90 Award Recipient, awarded to the athlete with the highest academic average and the most credits completed competing at a NCAA championship. She also was a NCAA Woman of the Year Top 9 Finalist.
She is a speech-language pathologist in the Hanover Area School District.
Nina Wozniak
Nina Wozniak's 40-year career as an athlete and coach is ringed with one constant — winning.
It all started at age 12 when she became the first YW-YMCA age-group swimmer to win a state championship. At Wyoming Valley West, she continued her success in swimming and softball, earning all-star recognition in both sports. At Bloomsburg, she qualified for the PSAC swim championships three times.
She began her coaching career at age 22 at Wyoming Area, guiding the Warriors to back-to-back Wyoming Valley Swim League and District 2 championships while going 25-1-0 and breaking every established record in the WA books.
After a short stint at New Oxford Junior/Senior High School, she returned to the area, taking over as girls' swim coach at her alma mater a job she held for nine years. During that time she led the Spartans to six straight league and District 2 championships with her swimmers setting pool and D-2 records along the way and accumulating numerous post-season awards such as invitations to the All-American NISCA National High School Swim Championships.
Wozniak won numerous Coach of the Year awards at Wyoming Area and Valley West, and also coached in the Keystone Game and the Fast USA team, along with participating in the local Special Olympics program. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/sports/luzerne-county-hall-of-fame-set-to-welcome-16-new-members/article_31200f59-3487-5b3e-bd30-b4652cf68a8f.html | 2023-07-30T06:37:41 | 1 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/sports/luzerne-county-hall-of-fame-set-to-welcome-16-new-members/article_31200f59-3487-5b3e-bd30-b4652cf68a8f.html |
Summers in Pennsylvania are known as a great time to get together with family and friends at a picnic. The faint smell of good food on an outdoor grill, the aroma of woodsmoke from a campfire, reconnecting with folks not seen but a few times a year, sharing stories and new ideas and an overall camaraderie that is captivating.
Members along with family and friends of the Pennsylvania Fox & Coyote Hunters Association came together at the Sorber Cabin, near Noxen, on July 15 for their annual family-day gathering. The more than 300-member-strong, statewide and non-profit organization has a mission of preserving the heritage of hunting with hounds.
But this day was not about planning a hunting trip. It was about being together with family and friends and learning more about the outdoors in a way that was meaningful and educational for everyone, whether a child or an adult.
“Because our members are from all across Pennsylvania, our family day is a great opportunity to bring people together and allow everyone the opportunity to get to know each other a little better and also to enhance our overall knowledge of the outdoors by having small and interactive presentations that are meant for everyone attending to take part in,” Dick Bednarczyk of the Pennsylvania Fox & Coyote Hunters Association said. “We also really value the youth who enjoy the outdoors and look for ways to enhance their love for nature during our family day as we know that they are the future of our sport.”
The event featured several activities that supported learning and interaction. The first of the activities was an in-depth look at the importance honeybees play. Everyone attending got to see the equipment that beekeepers utilize in the harvesting of honey along with an up-close look at bees coming and going from an active hive.
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A black powder rifle demonstration, a deer aging presentation and a discussion on public policy were other events that drew the interest of many in attendance.
There were also several events that were just for the children attending the family day event. A youth turkey calling contest and paintball coyote target shoot along with a bench show where beloved hounds of many of the members had the chance to be judged on their high standards were some of the other events that were photo-worthy.
Probably the most rewarding moment of the day was when the association had a chance to give back by awarding scholarships to five high school graduates who are either members or close relatives of association members. The scholarships were $500 each and were to help offset the costs of any form of secondary education that the student committed to and will attend.
Bednarczyk said the roots of the association were established in Pennsylvania in 1936 and focused mainly on fox hunting with dogs such as American Fox Hounds and slightly after, Walker Hounds. It grew in popularity over the years and became one of the oldest hunting associations in the state. As coyote numbers grew steadily and heavily through the 1980s and 1990s, the association also placed an emphasis on hunting coyotes in 2005, and shortly after, updated the name of the organization to Pennsylvania Fox & Coyote Hunters Association, Inc.
A primary focus of the association is to preserve the heritage of hunting with hounds in the state of Pennsylvania through advocacy.
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Wild turkeys can be found almost always, except for the times they are being hunted.
That is true when set up on a decoy spread during spring gobbler season, or when armed with a camera while exploring the summer woods. A lot of conservation-minded individuals are finding out just how true the latter scenario is the past few weeks.
Exchanging a turkey gun for a camera would seem to make getting into “range” for a photograph a lot easier than getting close enough to deliver a lethal load from a shotgun. For those participating in the annual Pennsylvania Wild Turkey Sighting Survey, however, nothing is further from the truth.
Since the beginning of July, the Pennsylvania Game Commission has sought input from the public in surveying wild turkeys this summer with its annual wild turkey sighting survey that runs through Aug. 31. This is a project that requires no special effort by outdoorsmen and turkey hunters.
Participation in the survey is important for turkey population management, as data allows the PGC to determine total wild turkey productivity and compare long-term reproductive success within Pennsylvania and across states, as this is a standard methodology used across the country. Data also is used in the turkey population model to track population trends.
Turkey sightings can be reported pgcdata collection.pa.gov/TurkeyBroodSurvey. Participants are requested to record the number of wild turkeys they see, along with the county, township, Wildlife Management Unit, date and contact information if agency biologists have any questions.
Participants may also simply drop a “pin” on the map for the location data to automatically populate. Location data is used only for the survey, not for law enforcement and is not shared, but viewers can also access the raw data and reports from previous years.
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“The turkey survey enhances our agency’s internal survey, which serves as a long-term index of turkey reproduction and is used in our turkey population model,” PGC turkey biologist Mary Jo Casalena said. “Participants should report all turkeys seen, whether gobblers, hens with broods or hens without broods.”
Many factors, including spring weather, habitat conditions, previous winter food abundance, predation and last fall’s harvest affect wild turkey productivity. Statewide, reproductive success last summer and in 2021 were above average (3.1 poults per hen).
At the WMU level, reproductive success in 2022 either improved or was similar to the previous three-year average in 17 of 23 WMUs. It declined below the previous three-year average in only six WMUs — compared to declining to 11 WMUs in 2021.
Units that declined were WMUs 3A, 3B, 3C, 4C and 5D, with a slight decline in WMU 2D. Like many other states this survey includes input from both agency personnel and the public.
“Thanks to the large sample size from all corners of the Commonwealth, we have high confidence in the results,” Casalena said. “Let’s maintain these results in 2023 and even increase participation.
“Observer details needed are either a phone number or email address in case we have questions. In July and August there should be a noticeable size difference between adults and poults so you are counting “big birds” and “little birds.”
“Submit a separate report for each flock of turkeys observed or lone turkeys. Record the sex for all adults present, and make an attempt not to report the same flock multiple times, as numerous duplications will bias the results, however, if you sight the same brood flock later during the survey period with fewer poults, record the group again and check the box that indicates it is a repeat observation.” | https://www.citizensvoice.com/sports/wildlife/turkey-hunters-pursuing-birds-with-cameras-not-shotguns-for-pgc-survey/article_3e303002-ebd9-5778-b551-36d0f7ff69b5.html | 2023-07-30T06:37:53 | 1 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/sports/wildlife/turkey-hunters-pursuing-birds-with-cameras-not-shotguns-for-pgc-survey/article_3e303002-ebd9-5778-b551-36d0f7ff69b5.html |
LAS VEGAS — LAS VEGAS (AP) — 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.
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.
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.
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SALT LAKE CITY — 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.
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.
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.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — 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.
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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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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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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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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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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On July 30, 1954, Elvis Presley made his professional debut in Memphis, opening for Slim Whitman. It was his first concert to be advertised.
In 1956, 11-year-old Brenda Lee signed a contract with Decca Records and recorded her first single, "Jambalaya."
In 1970, The Beatles closed their Apple Boutique.
Also in 1970, the Rolling Stones fired Allen Klein as their manager.
In 1986, RCA Records dropped John Denver from his contract.
In 1992, Motown's biggest stars gathered for a memorial service for Mary Wells, who died of cancer at the age of 49. Smokey Robinson sang a medley of Wells' hits.
In 1996, actor Claudette Colbert (kohl-BAYR') died in Barbados at the age of 92. She won an Oscar for her performance in "It Happened One Night."
Also in 1996, actor Tom Cruise filed a lawsuit against a German magazine for falsely quoting him as saying he had "zero sperm count." Cruise later accepted a retraction.
In 1998, "Howdy Doody" creator Buffalo Bob Smith died of cancer in Flat Rock, North Carolina. He was 80.
In 2007, Britney Spears' divorce from Kevin Federline was finalized. They had married in 2004.
Today's Birthdays: Blues guitarist Buddy Guy is 87. Singer Paul Anka is 82. Jazz saxophonist David Sanborn is 78. Actor William Atherton ("Die Hard" films") is 76. Actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is 76. Actor Jean Reno (ZHAHN rih'-NOH') ("The Da Vinci Code," "Godzilla") is 75. Actor Ken Olin is 69. Actor Delta Burke is 67. Actor Richard Burgi ("Desperate Housewives") is 65. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 65. Country singer Neal McCoy is 65. Director Richard Linklater ("Boyhood," "Dazed and Confused") is 63. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 62. Actor Lisa Kudrow ("Friends") is 60. Guitarist Dwayne O'Brien of Little Texas is 60. Actor Vivica A. Fox is 59. Actor Terry Crews ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Everybody Hates Chris") is 55. Actor Simon Baker ("The Mentalist") is 54. Director Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Insomnia") is 53. Actor Tom Green is 52. Drummer Brad Hargreaves of Third Eye Blind is 52. Actor Christine Taylor ("Dodgeball," "The Brady Bunch Movie") is 52. Comedian Dean Edwards ("Saturday Night Live") is 50. Actor Hilary Swank is 49. Actor Jaime Pressly ("Mom," "My Name Is Earl") is 46. Singer-guitarist Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers is 43. Actor April Bowlby ("Drop Dead Diva," "Two and a Half Men") is 43. Actor Yvonne Strahovski (EE'-vohn stra-HOW'-skee) ("Chuck") is 41. Actor Martin Starr ("Silicon Valley," "Freaks and Geeks") is 41. Actor Gina Rodriguez ("Jane the Virgin") is 39. Actor Joey King (TV's "Fargo") is 24. | https://www.kanw.com/new-mexico-news/2023-07-30/today-in-entertainment-history-brenda-lee-recorded-1st-song | 2023-07-30T06:44:16 | 0 | https://www.kanw.com/new-mexico-news/2023-07-30/today-in-entertainment-history-brenda-lee-recorded-1st-song |
Today in History
Today is Sunday, July 30, the 211th day of 2023. There are 154 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 30, 1945, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands during World War II, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survived.
On this date:
In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.
In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland, was founded.
In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.
In 1916, German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, New Jersey, killing about a dozen people.
In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. Kilmer is remembered for his poem "Trees."
In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making "In God We Trust" the national motto, replacing "E Pluribus Unum."
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year.
In 1980, Israel's Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
In 2008, ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (RA'-doh-van KA'-ra-jich) was extradited to The Hague to face genocide charges after nearly 13 years on the run. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprisonment after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.)
In 2010, the Afghan Taliban confirmed the death of longtime leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and appointed his successor, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
In 2016, 16 people died when a hot air balloon caught fire and exploded after hitting high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture near Lockhart, Texas, about 60 miles northeast of San Antonio.
In 2020, John Lewis was eulogized in Atlanta by three former presidents and others who urged Americans to continue the work of the civil rights icon in fighting injustice during a moment of racial reckoning.
Ten years ago: U.S. Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge she faced — but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges at Fort Meade, Maryland, more than three years after she'd spilled secrets to WikiLeaks. (The former intelligence analyst was later sentenced to up to 35 years in prison, but the sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in his final days in office.) Harry F. Byrd, a newspaper publisher who served as governor of Virginia then Senator for the state for more than 30 years, leading the Senate's conservative coalition in opposition to the New Deal policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died at age 98.
Five years ago: Zimbabwe voted for the first time without Robert Mugabe on the ballot; there were long lines at some polling stations. President Donald Trump said he'd be willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani "anytime" with "no preconditions." More than 27,000 people remained evacuated because of a Northern California wildfire that ranked as the ninth most destructive blaze in the state's history; the fire in the area of Redding had destroyed more than 800 homes and left two firefighters and four civilians dead. Ron Dellums, an anti-war activist who championed social justice as Northern California's first black congressman, died of cancer at his home in Washington at the age of 82.
One year ago: At least 25 people died — including four children — when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia. A ticket bought in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Illinois beat the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining of hundreds of members of the Navajo Nation to serve as Code Talkers for the U.S. military during World War II, died in Shiprock, New Mexico at age 98.
Today's Birthdays: Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 89. Blues musician Buddy Guy is 87. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal is 84. Singer Paul Anka is 82. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 78. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 76. Actor William Atherton is 76. Actor Jean Reno is 75. Blues singer-musician Otis Taylor is 75. Actor Frank Stallone is 73. Actor Ken Olin is 69. Actor Delta Burke is 67. Law professor Anita Hill is 67. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 65. Country singer Neal McCoy is 65. Actor Richard Burgi is 65. Movie director Richard Linklater is 63. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 62. Actor Lisa Kudrow is 60. Bluegrass musician Danny Roberts (The Grascals) is 60. Country musician Dwayne O'Brien is 60. Actor Vivica A. Fox is 59. Actor Terry Crews is 55. Actor Simon Baker is 54. Actor Donnie Keshawarz is 54. Movie director Christopher Nolan is 53. Actor Tom Green is 52. Rock musician Brad Hargreaves (Third Eye Blind) is 52. Actor Christine Taylor is 52. Actor-comedian Dean Edwards is 50. Actor Hilary Swank is 49. Olympic gold medal beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor is 46. Actor Jaime Pressly is 46. Alt-country singer-musician Seth Avett (AY'-veht) is 43. Actor April Bowlby is 43. Former soccer player Hope Solo is 42. Actor Yvonne Strahovski is 41. Actor Martin Starr is 41. Actor Gina Rodriguez is 39. Actor Nico Tortorella is 35. Actor Joey King is 24. | https://www.kanw.com/new-mexico-news/2023-07-30/today-in-history-president-lyndon-b-johnson-signs-medicare-into-law | 2023-07-30T06:44:18 | 1 | https://www.kanw.com/new-mexico-news/2023-07-30/today-in-history-president-lyndon-b-johnson-signs-medicare-into-law |
MAINE, Maine — Dozens of Mainers met up on Bailey Island to support fisheries and to show opposition to offshore wind development as legislation signed into law this week moves the project forward.
LD 1895 'An Act Regarding the Procurement of Energy from Offshore Wind Resources', signed by Governor Janet Mills, works to lay out a plan to develop the offshore wind project responsibly, add strong standards for workers, both on and off the water, as well as avoid disruption of important fishing grounds.
The New England Fisherman's Stewardship Association held a 'Save Our Fisheries' Fundraiser to show their disapproval of the bill and project.
Over fifty local businesses and stakeholders were in attendance, along with a lobster boat parade to show solidarity on the water.
"There's not a man or woman fisherman on the coast that agrees that offshore wind development is a good idea," NEFSA Founder Jerry Leeman said.
But not everyone is opposed. Backing the bill is the President of the Maine Building and Construction Trades Council, Jason Shedlock. He said he thinks the project is inevitable, and the recent legislation will lay out protections for project workers and fishermen.
"We did all we could as the state of Maine to make sure that these structures as the federal government sites them, are sited outside of areas that have the most impact to people that earn their livings on the water," Shedlock said. "Rather than cross our arms and say no, we don't want this, we said how do we want it to happen."
However, Leeman said the project could be invasive for fishermen's proprietary fishing areas, and it is hard to predict the fishing values of the Gulf of Maine for the project site.
"How do we pick the least impactful place when you...can't tell me the parameters of what we're looking for," Leeman said. "You can't tell a fisherman to stop fishing but what you can do is over-regulate them to a point where they can't financially go anymore." | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/maine-fishermen-gather-in-opposition-to-the-push-for-offshore-wind-development/97-d0789ddb-c492-45ca-b400-a4a89c3837de | 2023-07-30T06:46:27 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/maine-fishermen-gather-in-opposition-to-the-push-for-offshore-wind-development/97-d0789ddb-c492-45ca-b400-a4a89c3837de |
FUKUOKA, Japan — Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
“I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I’ve already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight,” she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
“I’m pretty tough on myself," she said. “But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace.”
The 800 was Ledecky’s second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
“It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women’s 200 backstroke. McKeown’s victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
“You can’t change the rules,” she said. “I got ruled out. It’s just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn’t do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive.”
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström’s individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps’ mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
“There are not too many secrets,” Sjöström said about her longevity. “Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble.”
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year’s world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/507-a7750f56-2a2d-4696-8048-afe9293dc5ed | 2023-07-30T06:46:33 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/507-a7750f56-2a2d-4696-8048-afe9293dc5ed |
Are you overrun by zucchini this summer? Slice it, grill it, fill it, fry it, bake it, pickle it, grate it, turn it into zoodles – zucchini is the most versatile vegetable in the garden.
Desperation may have something to do with all those variations, because the more you pick, the more the plant produces. And there is usually one that gets away, hiding under leaves and reaching an enormous size!
Zucchini is originally native to Mexico, but the squash we know today is a variety brought to the United States by Italian immigrants. The early varieties, bred in Italy in the 16th century, were round.
They were dubbed zucchini from Zucca, meaning pumpkin, and ini, which means small. The elongated version we know, grow and love was developed near Milan.
The squash was used here but really took off in the early 1970s with the age of flower children and their focus on home gardens and vegetarianism.
Soon, zukes began popping up in seed collections — Burpee, for example in 1973 — and on grocery store counters. Zucchini cookbooks abounded shortly after, because this veggie is generous to a fault.
You can slow down the production by eating the female flowers, identified by a tiny zuke at the base of the blossom, stuffed with cheese or meat and immersed in sauce or fried.
What can you do with all the bounty of zucchini? Eat it, donate it to a food bank, feed it to backyard chickens and rabbits … or have fun with it.
Maybe you should hold a neighborhood contest for the biggest zucchini and share a potluck of zucchini dishes.
Or you can use pumpkin-carving tools to make designs in the outer skin for a centerpiece. Bat a whiffle ball with the giant ones, and then save and dry the mature seeds for the cardinals at your feeders.
When all else fails, celebrate April fool’s day in August: play a joke on a friend or neighbor by sneaking into their garden and placing your overgrown zucchini among their plants.
Or offload your extras on the doorstep of a friend or neighbor in the dark of night like the Tooth Fairy – surprise … it’s a giant zuke. All’s fair when it comes to zucchini.
All kidding aside, if you have an excess of zucchini, shred it and freeze so it will be available all winter long.
A good use for this shredded zucchini is in a yummy chocolate zucchini bread. This recipe takes just 15 minutes to prepare and bakes in about 50 minutes. It makes two loaves of 12 slides each.
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 cup canola oil
3 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
½ cup baking cocoa
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon baking powder
2 cups shredded peeled zucchini
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Directions
In a large bowl, beat sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and baking powder; gradually beat into sugar mixture until blended. Stir in zucchini and nuts. Transfer to two 8x4 inch loaf pans coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
Here is another low-calorie recipe: Zucchini Tots.
Ingredients
1 cup zucchini, grated
1 large egg
1/4 medium onion, diced
1/4 cup reduced sharp cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
Salt & Pepper to taste
Cooking spray
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray mini muffin tin with cooking spray. Grate zucchini into a clean dish towel.
Wring all of the excess water out of the zucchini.
In a medium bowl, combine all of the ingredients and season with salt & pepper to taste.
Fill each muffin section to the top, pushing down on the filling with your spoon so it’s nice and compacted so they don’t fall apart when you take them out of the tin.
Bake for 16 to 18 minutes or until the tops are golden.
Use a plastic knife or rubber spatula around the edges of each tot to remove them from the muffin tin. Enjoy. Make the most of your zucchini harvest this summer.
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Oklahoma defensive coordinator Ted Roof was asked which player he thinks will have a breakout season and the first player he mentioned was junior defensive back Billy Bowman.
Bowman isn’t a surprising name to see on Roof’s list. With two years of starting experience under his belt, Bowman has taken on a key role in the Sooners’ secondary and that’s expected to continue moving forward.
Last year Bowman was an All-Big 12 honorable mention despite going down with a knee injury against TCU, and missing the next two games.
In his second game back from injury, the sophomore came away with a pick against Baylor — the first of his career.
Two games later, Bowman got another pick against Oklahoma State.
The Texas native closed out the season with another interception in a key fourth-and-three against Florida State in the Cheez-It Bowl.
With three interceptions and five pass breakups in an injury-shortened season, Bowman made big strides in his second year in the program.
“He’s a guy that has a lot of experience,” Roof said during the coaches luncheon on Thursday. “He got hurt last year so that slowed down his development. And we missed him when he got hurt, but that’s where the competitive depth comes into play.”
In two seasons, Bowman has appeared in 22 of the team’s 26 games with 16 career starts. Bowman has had to learn to adapt quickly since arriving on campus.
For the first time in his collegiate career, he’ll be entering the season with the same defensive coordinator and the same safeties coach that he had the season before.
“It’s always great to be in a system multiple years in a row,” Bowman said during spring practices. “When I first got here, I was in a new system. Then as a sophomore, another different system. Now going into the same system for the second year in a row.
“It brings experience. We know what we’re working on as a group so we can get those things fixed.”
Bowman isn’t the only experienced safety the Sooners will have at their disposal this season. Senior Key Lawrence has eight career starts included four last season.
Reggie Pearson transferred to Oklahoma from Texas Tech this offseason and could also compete for playing time at safety. Coaches have also been impressed with the play of freshman Peyton Bowen.
“Billy wants to be a leader,” OU safeties coach Brandon Hall said during the spring. “Billy cares. Billy wants to win every rep. The thing about Billy is that Billy’s worst enemy is always going to be him.
“He holds himself to such a high standard, and the good thing for him is that as he gets more and more experience in this defense, I think you’re going to see him start to become more vocal. That’s something that we need at our position the most.” | https://www.normantranscript.com/roof-sees-potential-for-bowman-after-injury-shortened-season/article_b17aedd6-2d6a-11ee-a7bd-e7ae2473295a.html | 2023-07-30T06:48:38 | 0 | https://www.normantranscript.com/roof-sees-potential-for-bowman-after-injury-shortened-season/article_b17aedd6-2d6a-11ee-a7bd-e7ae2473295a.html |
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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Electric bus manufacturer Proterra and motor coach operator ABC Companies recently announced what the companies claim is the largest charging facility for motor coaches—larger, more luxurious buses designed for longer trips than urban transit buses—in North America.
Located on a 3.5-acre site in Newark, California, the facility has 20 dual-cable EV chargers, allowing it to charge up to 40 motor coaches, with charging power up to 1.4 megawatts, according to a Proterra press release.
Proterra has been one of the leaders for electric buses, jockeying with BYD for some of the top sales. The company has been electrifying motor coaches from Van Hool with its own battery and electric powertrain hardware, which the California charging facility will support.
ABC Companies claims its fleet of electric vehicles, ranging from 8-passenger vans to 75-passenger double-deck motor coaches, has logged hundreds of thousands of miles over almost two years.
The charging facility was developed with input from utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), which is expanding its charging infrastructure efforts from passenger cars to commercial vehicles. PG&E claims to have contracted with more than 180 sites to date, enabling charging for over 3,700 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
Electrifying larger vehicles like buses is an important piece of the emissions reduction puzzle. A 2021 study found that a shift to electric trucks and buses could prevent more than 57,000 premature deaths by reducing air pollution. A London bus charging project has also shown how this added charging infrastructure could be used to help stabilize the grid by syncing charging with the peaks and troughs of electricity demand.
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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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Republican lawmakers are seeking to block stricter emissions rules that would require more EVs, even as many Republican-led states stand to benefit from new manufacturing jobs related to the EV boom.
A bill in the House of Representatives called the Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act was introduced in March and advanced from the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee to Full Committee consideration last week. It seeks to “amend the Clean Air Act to prevent the elimination of the sale of internal combustion engines.”
Federal emissions rules don’t officially mandate EVs, but they’re anticipated to result in 67% EVs by 2032. California, however, as adopted rules that effectively mandate EV sales by 2035.
Another recently introduced House bill, the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act would block the proposed EPA regulations, and would prohibit regulations mandating any specific technology or limiting sales of vehicles of a certain powertrain type, according to Fox News.
This bill was introduced by Republican Congressmen Tim Walberg and Andrew Clyde, who represent Michigan and Georgia, respectively. In a statement, Clyde said the rules may be “enriching China,” and that it’s an attack on rural America. However, the reality is that these laws provide an incentive for U.S.-built EVs that doesn’t exist for internal-combustion vehicle manufacturing, which could continue moving offshore, including to China.
The state Clyde represents is one of several Midwest and Southeastern U.S. states seen as part of the EV “battery belt,” stretching from Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, down to Georgia and South Carolina, and includes a number of states with lawmakers simultaneously seeking EV manufacturing jobs but resisting policy that favors the product. Georgia is anticipated to benefit from large EV manufacturing projects, including EV assembly plants for Rivian and Hyundai-Kia slated to start producing vehicles in 2024. Hyundai’s assembly plant will be supported by a joint-venture battery plant with LG.
Michigan’s auto industry is already transitioning to EVs with projects like General Motors’ “Factory Zero” repurposing of the automaker’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant.
The outcome of the 2024 presidential election will ultimately decide the next few years’ worth of emissions regulations. Reuters reported recently that former President Donald Trump, who is among the Republican candidates running in 2024, has vowed to “terminate” green vehicle mandates.
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BALTIMORE — It didn’t take long for Aaron Judge to make his presence felt.
After drawing three walks in his Friday return, the reigning MVP got his bat going in the Yankees’ 8-3 win over the Orioles on Saturday. Judge, playing the field for the first time since tearing a ligament in his right big toe on June 3, recorded three hits, including a two-run, 442-foot blast to centerfield.
“He’s just a special player,” Aaron Boone said afterward. “For him to come in and, so far in two games, really not have a non-really competitive at-bat after being down as long as he has been. He’s just a special player, and it’s good to see him playing like that.”
Added Judge: “Just trying to do my job.”
The home run, Judge’s 20th of the year, came in the third inning off Tyler Wells. The Orioles starter, a frequent victim of Judge’s power, exited shortly after that.
Judge has now hit 22 career dingers at Camden Yards and four off Wells, but he modestly said, “I wouldn’t say I see him well.”
Judge wasn’t the only Yankees slugger to homer off Wells, as Giancarlo Stanton hit a 427-foot missile with nobody on in the first inning. Kyle Higashioka then crushed a Cole Irvin pitch 428 feet for another solo shot in the sixth inning.
“There’s no question Aaron’s presence in the lineup is enormous,” Boone said. “But it’s also a peek into what we truly believe: other guys are capable as well. Giancarlo set the tone with an early homer.”
However, it was Isiah Kiner-Falefa who broke the game open, as he ended a 10-pitch at-bat with a three-run double off Bryan Baker in the sixth. The two-bagger gave the Yankees a five-run lead. Boone called the at-bat “one of the best” of the Yankees’ season.
“It felt great, said Kiner-Falefa, who also walked twice and forced another 10-pitch at-bat his first time up. “I’ve been grinding and just trying to do anything I can to contribute in any way. If it’s off the bench, pinch-run, hitting. That at-bat was a big time moment for me that felt great, especially against these guys.”
The Yankees scored an additional run in the fourth when Gleyber Torres lofted a sac fly.
Clarke Schmidt, meanwhile, fought hard to continue his run of dependability. The right-hander totaled five innings, five hits, three earned runs, one walk, two strikeouts and 96 pitches.
“Did a lot of really good things,” Boone said of Schmidt. “Wasn’t perfect, but a lot of gritty, tough, tough, tough pitching.”
Ryan Mountcastle hit a solo homer off Schmidt in the second before Ramón Urías added a run on an infield single. The Orioles scored again in the fifth on an Anthony Santander groundout, but Schmidt got Ryan O’Hearn on a check swing to end the inning with a runner on third.
Having preserved a one-run lead with a devastating, 3-2 breaking ball, Schmidt excitedly spun off the mound before calling it a night.
“This is like my fourth time facing these guys, so I had to get a little bit creative and try not to be too predictable,” Schmidt said. “I haven’t thrown O’Hearn a ton of curveballs. I felt like I was executing some good cutters up, but he wasn’t biting on it. So we felt like going to the chase curveball there was the best opportunity for me, because I know he almost bit at one earlier.”
With the series all tied up and the trade deadline approaching, the Yankees will try to grab one more win in Baltimore when they play the Orioles on Sunday Night Baseball. Luis Severino, coming off two solid starts following prolonged struggles, will pitch the series finale for the Yankees.
Dean Kramer will start for the Orioles. The right-hander held the Yankees to one earned run over seven innings on July 5. He struck out 10 that day.
Once the Yankees wrap things up in Baltimore, they’ll head home for a three-game series against the Rays and a four-game series against the Astros. The series against Tampa Bay overlaps with Tuesday’s deadline.
Regardless of what the Yankees do trade-wise, Boone is hoping the Bombers’ offense, often dormant over the last two months, continues to build on Saturday’s performance.
“That’s what it’s supposed to look like right there,” the manager said. “Up and down, just so good to see us have that level of at-bats, even in the ones that were not ending with a positive result.
“That’s us, and that’s who we want to be, and that’s what we’re working to be. That was really good to see.”
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Hundreds of new laws will take effect Tuesday in North Dakota, including greater enforcement of seat belt use and restrictions regarding gender identity, sexual content in public libraries and ownership of farmland by foreign entities.
North Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature adjourned April 30 after writing new laws and budgets for the next two years. Some contentious policy bills have already taken effect due to emergency clauses, which make legislation immediately into law when signed by the governor.
Among those already in effect are revised laws outlawing all abortions, except in cases where women could face death or a “serious health risk.” Another exception for pregnancies caused by rape and incest applies only in the first six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.
Here is what to know about the new laws taking effect in North Dakota.
SEAT BELTS
North Dakota joins a majority of states with some form of a primary enforcement seat belt law, according to information from the Governors Highway Safety Association.
The state previously had secondary enforcement, meaning officers could cite front seat occupants for not wearing a seat belt only after a previous traffic infraction, though there was primary enforcement for minors in all seats.
The new law will require all vehicle occupants to wear seat belts, not just those in front seats. The fine remains at $20.
The proposed change was a hot debate for years in the Legislature, involving arguments of safety versus personal freedom. The change initially will be one of education before transitioning to enforcement, said Burleigh County Sheriff Kelly Leben, who supported the legislation.
“One of the arguments is people always say we should have personal choice, but we regulate a lot of things in our society, and that’s just part of living in a modern society, is there’s going to be rules, and seat belts are proven, time and time again, that’s the one thing people can do that will make a difference in a crash,” Leben said.
The state government’s Vision Zero initiative aims to mitigate traffic deaths, with seat belts as one component.
North Dakota logged a 20-year low of 98 traffic deaths in 2022, according to preliminary data from the state Department of Transportation. Nearly 82% of front-seat vehicle occupants used seat belts in 2021, according to NDDOT data.
GENDER IDENTITY
The Legislature passed a raft of gender-related bills that will soon take effect.
Those include two bills restricting transgender girls and women from participating on school sports teams matching their gender identity.
Other new laws will restrict sex amendments on birth records and bar transgender people from using restrooms and showers aligning with their identity in correctional facilities and public college dormitories.
Another bill that took effect in May prohibits transgender K-12 students from using restrooms aligning with their gender identity, among other restrictions. The Fargo School Board indicated it will defy the law.
One other bill, which took effect in April, criminalizes sex reassignment surgeries and gender-affirming care for minors.
BOOK BANNING
Republican lawmakers targeted sexual content in public libraries with a new law for removing or relocating “explicit sexual material” from public libraries’ children’s collections.
Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, who vetoed a broader bill allowing misdemeanor charges against librarians, said the new law “standardizes the process for local public libraries to review material when requested by parents, library users or other members of the public — a process already in place and working at nearly all public libraries across the state.”
Fargo Public Library Director Tim Dirks consulted the city attorney regarding the library’s current policies for compliance with the new law, with which he said he feels comfortable. The law requires a “compliance report” from public libraries to a top legislative panel.
“I think the key thing for us is the existing policies and procedures that we have in place,” but it remains to be seen how people will respond, Dirks said. The library has about 300,000 items on its shelves at three branches, plus vast collections of electronic materials.
It’s unclear how many challenges might arise to library materials, Dirks said. Fargo’s public library has had one or two challenges per year.
Republican lawmakers decried books such as “This Book Is Gay” by Juno Dawson and “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe.
“What I always found incredible to this whole conversation … is that in a society with the First Amendment, free and open, you have to understand you are going to run into things that you find offensive,” Dirks told The Associated Press. “Our job as the public library is to be representative as broadly as we can in terms of our society and our community.”
FOREIGN OWNERS OF FARMLAND
Two new laws will ban foreign governments and adversaries from owning land in North Dakota. The legislation came amid concerns of Chinese ties to a company’s proposed corn milling plant near the Grand Forks Air Force Base.
One law has exemptions for Canada and for agricultural research on no more than 160 acres (64.75 hectares).
The other law also bans local government boards from advancing foreign adversaries’ development plans during a two-year legislative study into related issues.
The new laws respond to constituents’ concerns but could create confusion for agribusiness companies with ties to foreign countries, Republican state Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring told the AP.
“It’s not a government that owns them, but it is a foreign entity, and the reality is all the work that they have to do for research … they have to do at ground zero,” he said.
Goehring noted all land in the U.S. is agricultural land until designated otherwise and an area of 160 acres is not enough for extensive research.
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Boos rained down early and often Saturday night at Citi Field, where the Mets followed up their trade of ace Max Scherzer with a punchless performance against the last-place Nationals.
Mets pitcher Carlos Carrasco surrendered eight runs — including four in the first inning — in his latest ugly outing, failing to get through three innings in New York’s 11-6 loss.
A throwing error by Mets rookie third baseman Mark Vientos on the first play of the game set the tone, and a barrage of hits by the Nationals followed. Joey Meneses recorded an RBI single, ex-Met Dominic Smith added a two-run knock and Stone Garrett lifted a sacrifice fly to account for the first-inning offense.
The booing started during that opening frame and grew louder with every Washington run. The contentious crowd let Carrasco especially hear it after a two-run double by Riley Adams knocked the 36-year-old pitcher out of the game with the Mets trailing 8-1.
Six of the eight runs against Carrasco (3-5) were earned, inflating his season ERA to 6.40. It was the third rough start in a row by the right-hander and the second consecutive game he only lasted 2.1 innings.
Nationals starter Patrick Corbin, who was born in upstate Clay, N.Y., entered Saturday with an NL-leading 11 losses. He allowed an RBI double to Vientos, a solo home run to Tommy Pham and a two-run shot to Fransisco Lindor but lasted 5.2 innings to pick up the win.
Rookie catcher Fransisco Alvarez and Vientos hit back-to-back solo home runs in the ninth inning to conclude the night’s scoring.
Rain delayed the start of the game by an hour and 20 minutes. The wet weather and lopsided loss concluded a deflating day for the Mets, who established themselves as full-blown trade-deadline sellers by sending Scherzer to the Rangers.
Scherzer, 39, was in the second season of a three-year, $130 million deal with the Mets, who hoped pairing the three-time Cy Young Award winner with 40-year-old co-ace Justin Verlander would give them a dynamic one-two punch at the top of their rotation. Instead, Scherzer endured an up-and-down year. His 4.01 ERA is his worst in over a decade.
The trade came two days after the Mets sent closer David Robertson to the Marlins and less than 24 hours after Scherzer said he wanted to speak with the front office about its intentions before Tuesday’s deadline.
The Rangers hope Scherzer can bolster a rotation that is missing Jacob deGrom, who recently underwent Tommy John surgery after leaving the Mets for a five-year deal in the offseason. To acquire Scherzer, Texas traded one of its top prospects in minor-league infielder Luisangel Acuna, the 21-year-old brother of Braves superstar Ronald Acuna Jr.
Coming off a 101-win season, the Mets entered the 2023 campaign with an MLB-record $360 million payroll and sky-high expectations. Saturday’s loss dropped them to 49-55 and seven games out of the third-and-final NL wild card spot.
The Mets won the first two games of their four-game set against the NL East rival Nationals, who are 44-61. The series concludes Sunday afternoon, with Verlander — also the subject of trade rumors — scheduled to pitch against Washington’s Trevor Williams (5-5, 4.47 ERA).
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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.
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.
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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The Mets’ tear-down is underway, with the team trading veteran ace Max Scherzer to the Texas Rangers in a blockbuster move Saturday, the Daily News confirmed.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner agreed to waive his no-trade clause to push the deal through. The Mets get back minor-league middle infielder Luisangel Acuna, who is the 21-year-old brother of Braves superstar Ronald Acuna Jr. and one of the Rangers’ top prospects.
Scherzer, 39, is in the second season of a three-year, $130 million contract. The final year of the deal was a player option worth $43.3 million that Scherzer picked up as part of the trade.
The right-hander is 9-4 this season but has pitched to a 4.01 ERA, his worst mark in more than a decade.
The trade came a day after Scherzer said he wanted to speak with the Mets’ front office about its intentions before the Aug. 1 trade deadline. The Mets traded closer David Robertson to the Marlins on Thursday.
“Probably got to have a conversation with the front office,” Scherzer said Friday after holding the Nationals to one run over seven innings in a win. “I mean, you’re trading our closer away. I’m sure a bunch of people are gonna have to have conversations with the front office.”
Texas hopes Scherzer can bolster a rotation that’s missing former Mets ace Jacob deGrom, who recently underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow after signing a five-year contract with the Rangers in the offseason.
The Rangers lead the AL West. Their pitching coach is Mike Maddux, who held the same role with the Nationals in 2016 and 2017, when Scherzer won back-to-back Cy Young Awards there.
“Beyond excited to reunite with old baseball friends and meet new ones but absolutely crushed saying goodbye to current ones,” the pitcher’s wife, Erica Scherzer, tweeted Saturday. “What a day.”
The Nationals traded Scherzer to the Dodgers before the 2021 trade deadline. Scherzer said that situation was different than this year’s with the Mets, who are in fourth place in the NL East and outside of the playoff picture despite the highest payroll in MLB history.
“When I was in Washington, I was going to be a free agent,” Scherzer said Friday. “Our season was going south and I wanted to get traded to a playoff contender. That was the calculus with me with the Nationals. This time around, I’m not going to be a free agent. I have another year here. We did great things last year. We won 101 ballgames last year. Unfortunately, this year it’s not.”
About an hour before news of the trade talks emerged, Mets manager Buck Showalter said he didn’t have an issue with Scherzer’s comments.
“I’m sure that’s how he feels,” Showalter said Saturday. “Max has made it very clear why he gets up in the morning. He wants it to be here. That’s the way he’s always felt. He likes it here.”
Co-ace Justin Verlander, who signed a two-year, $86.6 million deal with the Mets in the offseason, has also been the subject of trade rumors.
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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.
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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Tim Anderson touched the plate after hitting his first homer of the season and returned to a less than filled Chicago White Sox dugout.
After a moment, teammates spilled back in and greeted the shortstop with high-fives and hugs.
“I was wondering where everybody went,” Anderson said. “But it was a cool moment. I was happy to finally get it out of the way.”
Anderson’s blast leading off the bottom of the first, his first of three hits, served as a jump-start for the Sox in a 7-2 victory against the Cleveland Guardians in front of 26,299 on Saturday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“I was more so worried about getting my swing back, not really worried about homers,” Anderson said. “I knew if I could try to find my swing then everything else would come back. Just been working on trying to find my swing and it showed tonight.”
It was his first home run since July 15 of last season in Minneapolis, a span of 97 games. He missed most of the last two months of 2022 after undergoing surgery on his left hand in early August.
He was on the injured list from April 11 to May 2 this season with a sprained left knee.
“He’s battled some injuries that I truly believe have hampered him not only this year but last year as well,” manager Pedro Grifol said. “He was feeling pretty good and then he had that injury in Minnesota (in April). That affected his stride.
“He’ll sit here and probably tell you there’s no excuses, but I can talk for him. Sometimes it just throws your balance off, your mechanics off and you just don’t feel it. But huge credit to his work ethic.”
Anderson’s homer wasn’t the only “first since” Saturday.
Sox pitcher Mike Clevinger made his first start since June 14 at the Los Angeles Dodgers. He went on the IL a day later with right biceps inflammation.
“I knew it wasn’t anything too serious because it was biceps,” Clevinger said. “Anything biceps related isn’t something that’s detrimental long term on the IL. The first couple of days of throwing, I had some doubts. I had some real doubts.
“Credit to the training staff for keeping my head on straight. I was in a little bit of a dark place when I was first trying to throw. They helped me. ‘Hey, look this is normal. This is supposed to feel this way.’
“Then things started clicking and started seeing light at the end of the tunnel last couple of weeks.”
Clevinger allowed two hits and struck out three in five scoreless innings. Grifol indicated before the game that Clevinger would be limited to around 80 pitches. He threw 72.
“It was a lot of fun,” Clevinger said. “There were a lot of pitches thrown without having that environment. But it was fun to get back out there with the boys.”
Clevinger received strong defensive support. Left fielder Zach Remillard made a diving catch to rob José Ramírez in the first. Umpires ruled that the relay throw to first was in time to nab Steven Kwan. The Guardians were not allowed to challenge any portion of the play, with umpires indicating time had run out to request a review. Manager Terry Francona argued and was ejected.
Second baseman Jake Burger and third baseman Yoán Moncada made nice fielding plays for outs on back-to-back grounders by Josh Bell and Will Brennan in the fifth.
“That’s who I nominated for player of the game when we came in the clubhouse, the defense,” Clevinger said. “Without them that’s a totally different outlook.”
Moncada appeared to show no side effects from an awkward landing at the plate while trying to score from first base in the fourth. In addition to the defensive play in the top of the fifth, he knocked in two with a single in the bottom of the inning.
Andrew Vaughn hit a two-run homer in the sixth, and the Sox added two runs in the seventh on RBI singles from Luis Robert Jr. and Eloy Jiménez.
The Sox had 12 hits, with Anderson leading the way. He’s 20-for-57 (.351) with two doubles, one home run, six RBIs and eight runs in 14 games since the All-Star break.
He has appreciated the support from his teammates.
“They’ve been there every step of the way,” Anderson said. “They’ve seen the work, the front office has seen the work, everybody knows what I’m capable of and how I’m able to work and continue to try to get better.
“But everybody has been rooting me on from Day 1. I just continue to keep pushing.”
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Corey Peabody in the Beacon Plumbing and Jamie Nilsen in the Legend Yacht Transport won preliminary unlimited hydroplane heats Saturday at the Columbia Cup in the Tri-Cities.
Nilsen, who won Heat 1B, sits in first place in the National High Points Standings. He edged Dustin Echols in the Flav-R-Pac (Bucket List Racing).
Peabody edged Strong Racing teammate J.Michael Kelly in the Beacon Electric in Heat 1A. Kelly is just 71 points behind Nilsen in the standings.
The final for the Columbia Cup is Sunday at 4:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on YouTube.
MLS NEXT Pro soccer
• The Tacoma Defiance (8-4-6, 33 points) play host to Whitecaps FC 2 (8-7-4, 30 points) on Sunday at noon at Starfire Stadium in Tukwila. The two sides met earlier this year, with Whitecaps FC 2 winning 1-0 on May 21 at Swangard Stadium.
Tacoma’s 2-1 loss to LAFC2 last weekend snapped its seven-match unbeaten streak (4-0-3). However, Defiance still sits in first place in the MLS Next Pro Pacific Division with 33 points, three points above Whitecaps FC 2, with one game in hand.
USL 2 soccer
• Northwest Division champion Ballard FC, down 2-0 in the 81st minute, rallied to defeat the Ventura County Fusion 4-3 in extra time Friday. With the win, Ballard FC captured the Western Conference championship and advanced to the national semifinal on Sunday at the Flint City Bucks in Michigan.
Minors
• Zach DeLoach, Adam Engel, Mark Mathias and Sam Haggerty hit four consecutive solo home runs in the fourth inning and the Tacoma Rainiers (51-50) extended their winning streak to four games with a 10-2 win over the Salt Lake Bees at Cheney Stadium. Darren McCaughan went seven innings, allowing one run while striking out nine.
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Mike Elias on Friday said the increasing workloads of his young starting rotation is “becoming more of a conversation.”
It might be even more so if Tyler Wells continues pitching the way he has in the second half.
Wells, the Orioles’ best starting pitcher before the All-Star break, struggled again Saturday night in an 8-3 loss to the New York Yankees. The announced crowd of 42,829 — the second sellout at Camden Yards this season — witnessed Wells fail to make it through three innings for the second time in three starts.
“It’s a long season,” Wells said. “You’re going to have some rough starts. It is what it is. That’s part of the job. We all have tough days at work.”
The relief behind Wells, who surrendered three runs, wasn’t much better, as Mike Baumann gave up one run and Cole Irvin allowed four in the sixth.
Ryan Mountcastle blasted a solo home run in the second and Ramón Urías hit an RBI single later in the inning to give the Orioles an early 2-1 lead, but they could only manage three more hits and one additional run in the final seven frames. Baltimore’s final run crossed the plate on a groundout by Anthony Santander that brought the Orioles within one run in the fifth.
A month ago, Wells was seen as an All-Star candidate, posting a 3.18 ERA and 0.927 WHIP in the first half. He covered at least five innings in each of his first 17 starts.
In three second-half starts, the 6-foot-8 right-hander has allowed 11 runs and 19 base runners in just nine innings. He’s failed to record more than 13 outs in each of the three outings.
Wells was pulled after 63 pitches. In his past five starts, he’s averaged just 73 pitches and hasn’t thrown more than 86 in any of them. The 28-year-old is one of three starters in the Orioles’ rotation within 20 innings of their single-season highs at any level, including Dean Kremer and Grayson Rodriguez.
“We’re trying to be mindful of indicators that they might be exhibiting that might be reason to pull back other than just sort of the academic concept of, like, ‘Oh, hey, look how many innings this guy’s thrown, let’s back that off,’” said Elias, the Orioles’ executive vice president and general manager. “There’s really not a ton of science, or any science, there. We try to use common sense. We try to use our expertise.
“I don’t know that a single member of our rotation right now wants to go leave the rotation in some way shape or form. There’s that, too. They’re having the season of their lives, they’re competing, the team’s in first, they’ve got their whole careers ahead of them.”
Baltimore is 63-41 and still atop the American League standings, 1 1/2 games ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays and eight games up on the Yankees, who are in last place in the AL East.
One of the few positives Saturday was the crowd at Oriole Park. While many seats were filled with Yankees fans, the yard was packed, and the team opened up the left field upper deck seats for one of the few times this season.
The only other sellout crowd this season was Baltimore’s home opener, also against the Yankees. The crowd was the largest at Camden Yards for a non-home opening game since Aug. 19, 2017.
Wells gave up a solo home run to Giancarlo Stanton in the first and pitched a scoreless second, but he ran into trouble in the third in the way that’s hurt him often this season — the long ball. Aaron Judge, playing in his second game back from the injured list, launched a high fastball 442 feet to left-center field to put the Yankees up 3-2. The big fly was the 25th Wells allowed in 20 starts. All but one of them have been one- or two-run home runs, a significant reason Wells has a solid 3.80 ERA.
“It just didn’t look like he had his best stuff,” manager Brandon Hyde said.
Wells said “control was by far the biggest issue” Saturday, and that’s been the case in the second half. He’s walked nine batters and hit three in his past nine frames.
“I don’t think it’s been a stuff issue,” Wells said. “I think it’s been a location, execution issue.”
Despite throwing more innings so far this season than all of last year, his first as a big league starter, Wells said he doesn’t believe fatigue is a factor to his recent rough patch. The only season in Wells’ career in which he’s thrown more than the 113 2/3 innings he’s pitched in 2023 was in the minors in 2018. He missed the next two seasons after undergoing Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery in 2019.
“Physically, I feel fine,” Wells said.
After hitting Anthony Rizzo and walking DJ LeMahieu with two outs, Hyde pulled Wells for Baumann. The last time Hyde removed Wells earlier than normal, the Orioles won a pivotal game against the Rays.
“Yeah,” Hyde said when asked if there’s trust in Wells considering his first half, “but I’m also trying to win the game. For me, if the guy’s stuff doesn’t look like Tyler Wells and he’s walking people and hitting Rizzo with a curveball, for me, that’s not who he is.”
The Yankees’ run off Baumann in the fourth scored on a sacrifice fly from Gleyber Torres. In the sixth, Kyle Higashioka homered off Irvin and Isiah Kiner-Falefa drove in three with a bases-clearing double. Bryan Baker and Cionel Pérez combined to pitch 3 2/3 scoreless innings to get the Orioles’ bullpen through the game after Irvin only managed 1 1/3 innings.
The Orioles on Sunday will attempt to win the season series against the Yankees for the first time since 2016. The game will be broadcast on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” the first time Camden Yards has hosted it since August 2018.
Around the horn
- Catcher Adley Rutschman hit in the leadoff spot for the first time in his career Saturday. Hyde said before the game that he values the plate discipline and approach Rutschman provides atop the order. Gunnar Henderson, the Orioles’ typical leadoff hitter in recent weeks, hit in the No. 2 hole. Rutschman went 0-for-2 with a walk and a hit by pitch.
- Two days after former Orioles outfielder Adam Jones served as the Bird Bath Splash Zone’s first “guest splasher” of the season Friday, the club announced it would have a new guest Sunday. Gov. Wes Moore will be in Section 86 to potentially spray fans with water during the Orioles’ night game against the Yankees.
- After Dean Kremer takes the mound Sunday, right-handers Kyle Gibson, Kyle Bradish, Grayson Rodriguez and Wells are projected to pitch the four games against the Toronto Blue Jays beginning Monday, the club announced.
- Left-handed pitching prospect DL Hall threw two innings for the Orioles’ Florida Complex League team on Friday, allowing one hit and one walk while striking out six. Elias said Hall, the club’s top pitching prospect, has seen an uptick in his velocity after spending the past few months focusing on strength training over pitching. His outing Friday was his second since mid-June.
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A self-described doomsayer details his concerns
I’m one of those doomsayers decried by Tim Ritchie, president of the Museum of Science, in “The AI doomsaying is counterproductive” (Ideas, July 23). I signed the Center for AI Safety statement — “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war” — precisely because I’m concerned that artificial intelligence systems may become (in Ritchie’s words) “an independent being … autonomous [and] amoral.”
Considering that there is already an autonomous GPT-4 (Auto-GPT), it seems clear that we have to deal with autonomous applications of AI, and no one has figured out how to give AI a moral sense. Are they independent beings? The scary problem is that no one knows. In a Globe op-ed in May, “How can humans maintain control over AI — forever?” AI researcher Stuart Russell wrote that he asked GPT developer Sébastien Bubeck whether GPT-4 had developed its own internal goals, and Bubeck said he had no idea.
Ritchie quotes Marc Andreessen: “AI is a computer program like any other. … It is owned by people and controlled by people.” Can ChatGPT think for itself? We don’t know. Will some later AI be smarter? Probably. Will we eventually build an AI smarter than us? It seems likely, and then it’s hard to imagine that people will be able to control it.
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We should not panic, but neither should we deny these risks.
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‘Hey, AI! Global warming — would you get on that, please?’
In his Ideas commentary, the president of the Museum of Science, Tim Ritchie, advises us to “be practical about what is worrisome” about AI, but also to “celebrate what is good” about it (“The AI doomsaying is counterproductive”). One of the worrisome aspects he identifies is that the computing power needed to fuel AI may increase global warming. So, here’s my suggestion: The first task for which scientists should employ AI is to figure out how to run AI without increasing global warming or, even better, how to reduce it. Then I’ll start celebrating its goodness. And if it can do the same for the energy-gulping cryptocurrency industry, I’ll double my huzzahs.
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Re “Speeding cited in fatal Brandeis shuttle crash” (Page A1, July 23): Thank you for bringing to light the crucial information, according to newly released federal records, about how fast a Brandeis University shuttle driver was allegedly traveling on the night the bus crashed, killing a student, as well as the details about how many hours the driver had worked that week.
I hope future coverage about this story combines what is known thus far with critical analysis of why so many Americans are forced to work long hours at multiple jobs just to (barely) make ends meet. The wealth of our economy is built by people like Jean Michel Fenelon — identified as the driver in the shuttle crash, according to a police report — who tend to receive precious little in return.
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Just as we should be shocked and saddened by the death in the crash of Brandeis undergraduate Vanessa Mark and the injuries sustained by at least 26 other passengers, so too should we address all of the underlying conditions that contributed to this tragedy.
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Jeff Jacoby (“When the minimum wage rises, does homelessness rise too?” Ideas, July 23) discusses a new study by political scientist Seth Hill, who claims in a working paper that high minimum wages cause homelessness. Hill’s research provides evidence only of correlation, not causation. The culprit that causes both higher minimum wages and increases in homelessness: States that have built too few new housing units.
Homelessness is at root caused by not building enough housing, and higher housing costs lead voters to support, and governments to pass, higher minimum wages. If anything, minimum wages increase many working families’ ability to pay higher rents, which reduces homelessness. However, to really reduce the number of homeless people, we need to build much more housing in high-cost states.
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LSP: Suspect faces charges following crash that killed Denham Springs teen
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (WAFB) - A suspect faces multiple charges following a crash that claimed the life of a Denham Springs teen on Wednesday, July 12, according to Louisiana State Police.
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Troopers said that William Cokes, 49, of Baton Rouge, will be charged with vehicular homicide, first-degree vehicular injuring, reckless operation of a vehicle, possession of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles, and no driver’s license. Troopers added Cokes will be booked into the Livingston Parish Detention Center after being discharged from medical treatment.
Caleb Easterling, 19, of Denham Springs, was killed in the three-vehicle crash on LA 64 near LA 1019 in Livingston Parish, according to authorities.
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Investigators said they believe that Cokes’ vehicle crossed the center lane and crashed head-on into Easterling’s vehicle. Authorities said a Dodge Charger then crashed into the back of Easterling’s vehicle.
The crash remains under investigation.
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NEW YORK (CNN) — Madonna’s self-titled first album was released 40 years ago this week.
In a social media video she shared on Thursday, the pop culture icon marked the anniversary by dancing to “Lucky Star,” the fourth single from her 1983 debut album, which was also her first top-five Billboard hit in the US.
“To be able to move my body and dance just a little bit makes me feel like the Luckiest Star in the world!” Madonna wrote, referencing her recovery from a medical issue earlier this summer. “Thank you to all of my fans and friends!”
Those friends include Michael Rosenblatt, the former A&R man at Sire Records – Madonna’s first label – who helped launch her career.
“I gave Madonna – after we signed – I gave her a gift of one of these old school Casiotone keyboards with a cassette player built in,” Rosenblatt told CNN in a recent interview. “And a week or two – definitely not longer than two weeks after I signed her – she came into my office and she played me ‘Lucky Star.’ She said, ‘I just wrote this on this little thing’ I got her.”
“I told her she wrote her first hit,” he recalled.
But luck had very little to do with the future Queen of Pop’s initial rise to fame, the kind of storied journey that has generated as many versions as those who tell it. One through-line, however, is that Madonna herself always seemed to know exactly where she was headed.
“I was so impressed with her from the first time I met her,” Bobby Shaw – who worked in the world of music promotion in early-1980s New York City and was the first promoter of Madonna’s music – told CNN. He also called her a “go-getter” who was “really aggressive” in wanting to know all about the business.
“Madonna” the album served as an explosive entry for the trained dancer-turned-singer on the road to being so much more. Although the album only contained eight songs total, those songs – including additional singles “Borderline,” “Burning Up” and “Holiday” – embodied the young and exuberant New York club culture of the time.
Danceteria, a dance club in Manhattan’s Garment District from 1979 to 1986, served as one of the nexus points for the burgeoning music scene in the city. A then 24-year-old Michigan native who had already tried to put together a record in Paris, Madonna was known to frequent the spot – she even said she “stalked” a DJ there in a recent Instagram post.
“My best friend at the time was Mark Kamins, who was the Friday, Saturday night DJ at Danceteria” Rosenblatt recalled. “And he told me about this girl who kept coming by trying to get him to play her demo – which he wouldn’t. But he told me this girl was just incredibly hot.”
“There was a star radiating in my office. It was her.”
One Saturday night in the winter of ’81-‘82, he would finally meet Madonna, coincidentally while he was accompanying another duo of artists who recently had been signed by a friend of his in England – namely, Wham!.
“So I’m out that night with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, taking them to various clubs. And we’re at Danceteria, we’re at the second floor bar area, which is where Mark Kamins was the DJ. And I saw this girl go across the dance floor and up to the DJ booth and I said to myself, ‘That’s gotta be this girl that Mark’s talking about,’” Rosenblatt said, going on to mention that the two started talking, and made an appointment that Monday for Madonna to play him her demo. (The demo, he later said, contained the track “Everybody” – which would eventually become “Madonna’s” lead single, along with a B-side titled “Ain’t No Big Deal.”)
“So Monday, end of the day, Madonna and Mark showed up at my office and played me her demo, which was good. I mean, it wasn’t f–king amazing, but it was good,” he continued. “But what happened was, there was a star radiating in my office. It was her.”
Rosenblatt knew from the get-go that he was dealing with someone special, but he had one more test up his sleeve to spring on the neophyte.
“I always ask this question – and I still do with any artist I’m interested in – (which) is, ‘What do you want? What are you looking for?’” he explained. “The wrong answer is, ‘I want to get my art out there.’ The best answer was the one Madonna gave me, which said, ‘I want to rule the world.’ And I thought, that’s a hell of an answer.” (As it happens, it’s also the answer Madonna famously gave Dick Clark on “American Bandstand” in 1984.)
Rosenblatt’s instincts kicked in, and he wanted to move fast in securing a deal with Madonna. Which meant talking to his boss, Sire Records president Seymour Stein, and setting up an appointment for the two to meet the very next day – even though Stein was in the hospital at the time for a heart-related issue. (Stein lived for much longer, though, and passed away earlier this year).
“I went up to see Seymour, played him the demo, told him all about her, that she’s just a f–king star and we gotta sign her,” Rosenblatt recalled.
But there was still one thing that stuck out for him.
“I told Madonna, ‘You have to bring some ID, because I don’t believe your name is Madonna.’ And she said, ‘What are you talking about?’” he said, adding that he replied to her at the time that it was “just too good to be true. It’s like, it’s perfect.”
“And she came up the next day with her passport!”
“She was just this club kid.”
As with many parts of Madonna’s origin story, that meeting with Stein at the hospital has become the stuff of legend. There was a boombox in the room, and Rosenblatt played her demo again for Stein while Madonna was there. Beyond her music, the clincher was the artist standing there who was ready to take on the world.
“We listened to the music again and Madonna charmed the hell out of him,” Rosenblatt said of that fateful day with Stein. “She knew that she was this close to getting a deal, and this was the guy who was gonna make it happen.”
And while “everybody hit it off,” Rosenblatt still wasn’t fully confident that Stein would agree to sign her, because, he said, nobody else wanted to sign Madonna at the time. (The singer herself has spoken of the professional rejection she experienced in her early years in New York.)
Rosenblatt said it had to do with just how novel Madonna really was – not only in terms of her personality and (later, oft-imitated) presentation – but also because her music differed from what was popular at the time.
“You think about that genre, it hadn’t happened yet,” he said of Madonna’s early sound.
“There was disco, and there was new wave. And there was nothing in the middle, you know what I mean? So nobody was interested,” he added, going on to say that it was “also maybe because she didn’t have a manager or lawyer out there shopping. She was just this club kid.”
“Madonna was really coming out of the new wave clubs in a way that never really happened before,” he later said. “I mean, Debbie Harry was huge, but nobody was doing the disco/new wave thing, (the) R&B thing the way Madonna did. I mean, we created a format. But before that it didn’t (exist).”
Still, Rosenblatt knew a star when he saw one, and Stein agreed. He said yes to signing her for a singles deal – “a $10,000 singles deal” – that day in hospital. Rosenblatt and Stein had a strategy, knowing that the singles deal would eventually lead to a full-on record contract down the road.
“It made noise. It made noise enough to give her an album deal.”
“We went into the studio with Mark Kamins to cut ‘Ain’t No Big Deal,’ as the A-side, and ‘Everybody’s’ the B-side.” Rosenblatt said. “‘Ain’t No Big Deal’ did not come out well. So we just went with ‘Everybody.’ And I remember going into Bobby Shaw’s office because we’re all psyched about ‘Ain’t No Big Deal.’ And I said, ‘Well, that didn’t come out well. Is ‘Everybody’ strong enough for you?’ He goes, ‘Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.’”
Shaw explained that his decision to promote “Everybody” was a little unorthodox, since there was still no album secured yet behind it.
“Back then, unless there’s an album to back it up, the record companies aren’t going to spend a lot of money to try to get it on radio,” he explained.
Still, they went for it.
”(‘Everybody’) was a good record. It’s pretty simple,” Shaw said. “The song was great. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out.”
Additionally, much like Rosenblatt, Shaw had more than a hunch that the person singing the song was going to be a big deal.
“I knew before this first song that (Madonna) was somebody special,” Shaw said. “The music had to be good, but nonetheless, the first song was great. I loved it. And I mean, it made noise. It made noise enough to give her an album deal.”
Madonna collaborated with a string of producers that included Kamins, Reggie Lucas – with whom they cut the song “Physical Attraction,” “which we loved,” Rosenblatt said – and John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez on her first few singles.
“So we made the album and it had ‘Borderline,’ which I knew was a smash. It had ‘Lucky Star,’ which I thought was gonna be a big hit, but it didn’t have what I wanted to be the lead off, just stone cold hit,” Rosenblatt said. “And I went to Seymour and I said, ‘Dude, I need another $10,000 to do another song.’”
Stein told him that in order to secure that additional funding, they would have to go to Los Angeles to meet the the top brass at Warner Bros. Records (now Warner Records) – Sire being a subsidiary of that company.
“I just knew that if I were to take Madonna out to LA to meet Warner Bros., getting the money would be no problem,” Rosenblatt said.
“Do you think you should tell Madonna to take the rags out of her hair?”
The pair traveled out to the West Coast, and stayed at Rosenblatt’s parents’ house, where Madonna invariably caught the attention of his mother.
“We’re getting ready to go out to meet the Warner crew,” Rosenblatt recalled. “My mom pulls me aside before we leave and goes… ‘Do you think you should tell Madonna to take the rags out of her hair before you meet Warner Bros.?’” – a clear reaction to the future star’s style that would soon take youth fashionby storm.
“And I said, ‘Thanks for caring mom, but we’re good!’” Rosenblatt added with a laugh.
Of course, the meetings with the top brass went well – their trip even coincided with the Passover holiday, Rosenblatt shared, and Madonna ended up as a guest at the Seder with Rosenblatt, his family, and some of the WB music execs, including Mo Ostin, at the legendary Chasen’s Restaurant, where she sang verses of the Haggadah (Passover prayer book) while wearing her trademark crosses.
“We met everybody and everybody loved her, everybody just loved her. Everybody got it,” Rosenblatt said. “She just charmed everybody. And at the end of the day before we left, I ran up to Lenny Waronker, who was the president of Warner Bros. at the time, (and) I said, ‘I need $10,000 to do one more song. I just need that lead out single.’ He said, ‘You got it.’ So the trip was a success.”
Back in New York, Rosenblatt came to Lucas, Benitez and Kamins with a proposal.
“I said, ‘Look, whoever comes to me with the song gets to produce it, I have $10K to cut a song.’”
Four days later, he said Benitez came in with a demo version of a song called “Holiday.”
“Sung by a guy. Much slower. But I love the song,” Rosenblatt recalled, adding how they proceeded to “speed it up and make it a dance record.”
“Holiday” – to this day one of Madonna’s most well-known anthems – was the surefire element Rosenblatt thought they needed to finish the album.
“It was grassroots, ground up.”
Then came the time to promote it, which wasn’t exactly in the bag yet. Shaw remembers how he and Madonna went down to Florida on a publicity tour, and drove around in “a beautiful convertible” while her brother, then-dancer Christopher Ciccone, and two other backup dancers traveled separately.
“We were listening to music while we were driving. And I was smoking pot and she wasn’t smoking,” Shaw recalled of their drive to Key West from Fort Lauderdale. “And then that night it poured. We did the Copa in Key West.”
Before the show, Shaw remembers sitting in one of their hotel rooms, watching the group rehearse. This was before Madonna was the Madonna the world eventually came to know, so sometimes the shows they played were for only a couple dozen people.
“I look back at this now, it just seems so surreal. But I was sitting on the edge of a bed watching them practice dancing in a hotel room. And it poured that night and maybe 25 people came to the venue. She was nobody. Nobody knew her then. We were trying to break her. So it was grassroots, ground up.”
Things changed, of course, thanks to the singles from the “Madonna” album picking up airplay on the radio and her music videos finding heavy rotation on the still new MTV. Madonna had aprescient attitude to music as a visual medium, quickly embracing the music video format when more established musicians initially balked at the concept.
“When ‘Holiday’ just started to break, and then ‘Borderline,’ and then it was, like, over,” Rosenblatt recalls of the moment when the scales tipped and Madonna started to catch on. “And I think the record just started to explode.”
This was still 1983, before Madonna’s smash sophomore album “Like A Virgin” and her now-legendary performance at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards in September 1984, a showstopping display that made everyone who wasn’t already start paying attention.
“She’s gonna be bigger than Olivia Newton John.”
Looking back, Rosenblatt remembers telling Stein that Madonna was going to “be the biggest artist” he would ever work with.
“And he’s like, laughing, he goes, ‘Yeah? How big is she gonna be?’ And I said, ‘Seymour, she’s gonna be bigger than Olivia Newton John,’ who at the time was the biggest selling female artist.”
“I said she’d be bigger than Olivia Newton John and I thought she’d be like Barbara Streisand, because I really saw her acting,” Rosenblatt later added. “But who knew she was going to be this cultural idea, who knew she was going to be Marilyn Monroe. She became this cultural icon and that I don’t think anybody saw coming. But I knew, and as did Madonna.”
“I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn’t know anybody, I wanted to dance, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do all those things,” Madonna said of her meteoric rise in a 1985 concert documentary. “I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.”
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — For over thirty years, the Arizona Rose Theatre works to bring the community together over the arts. In addition to the mainstage productions, the theatre hosts summer camps for Southern Arizona's young performers.
Erin Recuparo is the Arizona Rose Arts Academy program coordinator and the daughter of the couple who started the theatre over thirty years ago.
"It's to share in a story or experience," she said. "It really is about the arts and the arts are so important. It keeps the arts alive and introduces it to new generations."
During summer camp, the performers practice the music and choreography for hours. Liv Fredericksen practiced her solo performance for months in anticipation for the end of camp showcase.
"I love singing, acting and just creating stories," she said. "It's the community we've built here. Everyone is just so nice and we are just one big happy family."
She shares the stage with fellow camper Kai Piers, who is also excited to perform their favorite songs.
"For me it's about making people laugh or feel certain emotions," Piers said. "Telling other people's stories — whether they are real or fake — is just really great."
Both performers have been coming to the camp for years and they are excited to come back next year. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/curtain-closes-on-summer-camp-arizona-rose-theatre-performers-continue-building-community | 2023-07-30T06:55:16 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/curtain-closes-on-summer-camp-arizona-rose-theatre-performers-continue-building-community |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — After a hot Saturday morning and afternoon, storms and scattered showers came through during the evening before dissipating around 10pm. That pattern of high chances for afternoon storms will continue throughout the week.
The increase in moisture will make southern Arizona just a little bit cooler as temperatures will be in the high 90s and low 100s to start off the week. By next weekend, it will be hotter and drier. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/monsoon-storms-continue-bringing-down-record-high-temperatures | 2023-07-30T06:55:22 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/monsoon-storms-continue-bringing-down-record-high-temperatures |
YUCATÁN, Mexico (CNN) — The first time I watched “Raiders of the Lost Ark” as a kid, it inspired me to explore the little forest behind my house.
Armed with a walking stick and a shovel in my best impersonation of Indiana Jones, I maneuvered through thick clusters of trees, my feet slipping on the waxy leaves from a massive magnolia.
I scanned the ground, thinking any minute I would spy some rock sticking up that had been used to build a long-forgotten city that held buried treasure.
When no discovery emerged, I remember thinking there must be a more efficient way to investigate the past.
While searching for evidence of lost civilizations can still involve traversing jungles and hacking a path through the underbrush, airborne tools are making the job a little easier.
Once upon a planet
A lost Maya city abandoned more than 1,000 years ago has been found in the jungles of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, research assistant professor in civil engineering at the University of Houston, spotted the city, dubbed Ocomtún, during an aerial archaeological survey.
Using light detection called LiDAR, researchers such as Fernandez-Diaz can practically peer right through dense vegetation to see evidence of ancient structures.
Archaeologist Ivan Šprajc of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and his team used Fernandez-Diaz’s data and found 50-foot-tall (15.2-meter-tall) structures resembling pyramids, pottery and engravings that they believe date back to between 600 and 900. The lost city’s “peculiar features” could take years to excavate.
Dig this
When archaeologists excavated the Oc Eo site in southern Vietnam, they uncovered a sandstone slab and nutmeg seeds that still released a unique aroma.
A newly released analysis of the slab showed it was once a work surface for grinding spices used to prepare curry at least 2,000 years ago. The array of spices detected on the slab and other tools at the site — once an overseas trading hub — originated from different places around the world.
The ingredients used to prepare the ancient curry are incredibly similar to curries made today in Vietnam and elsewhere across Southeast Asia, proving that the dish has deep roots.
Other worlds
The Milky Way galaxy may be home to trillions of rogue planets, or worlds that travel through space without orbiting a star. These cold, faint worlds are incredibly difficult to detect — but not for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The next-generation space observatory is set to launch between October 2026 and May 2027. Named for NASA’s first chief of astronomy, the telescope may have what it takes to find hundreds of Earth-mass rogue planets as well as thousands of exoplanets that orbit stars.
The telescope, nicknamed the wide-eyed cousin of the Hubble Space Telescope, marks the next big step toward finding life outside the solar system. The Roman telescope will have the same orbit as the James Webb Space Telescope, which just detected water swirling around a nearby planetary system.
Mission critical
If humans continue releasing planet-heating pollution across the globe, a vital system of ocean currents could collapse, according to a new study. And that calamitous event may happen sooner than expected.
Scientists have determined that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which regulates global weather patterns, could shut down as soon as 2025 if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t reduced.
Global warming is also having a more immediate effect on air travel, making it more difficult for planes to take off at certain airports and contributing to summer travel woes.
Two aviation projects from NASA could help revolutionize air travel by the 2030s, creating the next generation of more sustainable flight that burns less fuel.
Across the universe
The Webb telescope has captured the energetic outbursts of two rambunctious young stars.
The stellar pair is still actively forming and is 1,470 light-years away. The space observatory’s capabilities allowed it to peer through the shroud of gas and dust around the stars and spy the jets of material they’ve been blasting into space for thousands of years.
As the stars burp out the gas and dust, the newly ejected material collides with previously released clouds, creating colorful waves seen in the image above.
Separately, an international team of astronomers has discovered an eerily glowing dead star with two completely different faces.
Explorations
Grab a refreshing beverage and settle in with these fascinating reads:
- Carl Sagan’s pristine personal copy of the master recording for Voyager’s Golden Record, including music styles from around the world and the sounds of Earth, hit the auction block this week.
- There is a “gravity hole” in the Indian Ocean where Earth’s gravitational pull is weaker and the sea level dips by hundreds of feet. Scientists now think they have solved the riddle of this anomaly.
- Pieces of bone found inside a safety deposit box might have belonged to composer Ludwig van Beethoven — and the Medical University of Vienna is testing to see whether the skull fragments are a genetic match.
- Scientists revived a 46,000-year-old worm found deep in the Siberian permafrost that lived at the same time as woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats.
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Royals vs. Twins: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Byron Buxton and Bobby Witt Jr. will be among the stars on display when the Minnesota Twins face the Kansas City Royals on Sunday at 2:10 PM ET, at Kauffman Stadium.
The Twins are -185 moneyline favorites in this matchup with the Royals (+150). The total is 9 runs for this game.
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Royals vs. Twins Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Royals Recent Betting Performance
- In 10 games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Royals have a record of 3-7.
- When it comes to the total, the Royals and their opponents are 5-5-0 in their previous 10 games.
- Bookmakers have not posted a spread in any of the Royals' past 10 matchups. The average over/under set by bookmakers in Kansas City's past three contests has been 9.8, a streak in which the Royals and their opponents have hit the over every time.
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Royals Betting Records & Stats
- The Royals have been victorious in 28, or 30.1%, of the 93 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- Kansas City is 11-31 this season when entering a game as the underdog by +150 or more on the moneyline.
- The Royals have an implied victory probability of 40% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- Games involving Kansas City have gone over the total set by oddsmakers in 49 of 106 chances this season.
- In 17 games with a line this season, the Royals have a mark of 9-8-0 against the spread.
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NAIROBI – African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a path to end the war there.
Putin in a press conference late Saturday following the Russia-Africa summit said Russia’s termination of the grain deal earlier this month caused a rise in grain prices that benefits Russian companies. He added that Moscow would share some of those revenues with the “poorest nations.”
That commitment, with no details, follows Putin’s promise to start shipping 25,000 to 50,000 tons of grain for free to each of six African nations in the next three to four months — an amount dwarfed by the 725,000 tons shipped by the U.N. World Food Program to several hungry countries, African and otherwise, under the grain deal. Russia plans to send the free grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea and Central African Republic.
Fewer than 20 of Africa’s 54 heads of state or government attended the Russia summit, while 43 attended the previous gathering in 2019, reflecting concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even as Moscow seeks more allies on the African continent of 1.3 billion people. Putin praised Africa as a rising center of power in the world, while the Kremlin blamed “outrageous” Western pressure for discouraging some African countries from showing up.
The presidents of Egypt and South Africa were among the most outspoken on the need to resume the grain deal.
“We would like the Black Sea initiative to be implemented and that the Black Sea should be open,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said. “We are not here to plead for donations for the African continent.”
Putin also said Russia would analyze African leaders’ peace proposal for Ukraine, whose details have not been publicly shared. But the Russian leader asked: “Why do you ask us to pause fire? We can’t pause fire while we’re being attacked.”
The next significant step in peace efforts instead appears to be a Ukrainian-organized peace summit hosted by Saudi Arabia in August. Russia is not invited.
Africa’s nations make up the largest voting bloc at the United Nations and have been more divided than any other region on General Assembly resolutions criticizing Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Delegations at the summit in St. Petersburg roamed exhibits of weapons, a reminder of Russia's role as the top arms supplier to the African continent.
Putin in his remarks on Saturday also downplayed his absence from the BRICS economic summit in South Africa next month amid a controversy over an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court. His presence there, Putin said, is not “more important than my presence here, in Russia.” | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/30/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ | 2023-07-30T06:56:35 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/30/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ |
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.
“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.” | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/30/frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/ | 2023-07-30T06:56:41 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/30/frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/ |
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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General Daily Insight for July 30, 2023
A lack of clarity can lead to hurt feelings. Perfectionist Venus scoffs at wispy Neptune in a messy quincunx at 12:25 pm EDT, making it difficult to know what's appropriate. As the Moon supports Mars, we at least have the courage to work past any misunderstandings and take ownership of our mistakes. Finally, the Moon agrees with Jupiter, showering us with luck and wisdom that should help us make sense of what was previously a confusing haze of emotion. We can find our way through.
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Aries
March 21-April 19
You could get the sense that you're feeling your way through the dark. It's possible that a statement of yours won't land well with your audience, potentially because you weren't aware that they were sensitive to the topics that you were addressing. While this isn't completely unavoidable, there's nothing wrong with taking ownership of what you said and apologizing for your ignorance. They'll likely appreciate your willingness to grow from your mistakes, and you should be able to move past any awkwardness.
Taurus
April 20-May 20
Your friends may feel like you're avoiding them at the moment. While this probably isn't the case, you may have recently spent a while on your own, handling situations that you needed to take care of -- it might be time to reach out to your friends and remind them that you haven't cut them off out of the blue. We all have periods of our lives where we're not able to be as social, but a quick hello can make a big difference.
Gemini
May 21-June 20
Speak from the heart, not from the mind. You could be struggling with an authority figure, like a parent or a supervisor, whom you find difficult to understand. You are different people who have unique styles of communicating and thinking, so your methods may not make sense to each other. It's easy to dismiss someone's way of life when you don't know their story, but there's likely a reason they operate like this. Keep an open mind when puzzling things out with them.
Cancer
June 21-July 22
You might be avoiding learning something new. You could feel like you don't need help or advice at this time, but you're allowed to need a little boost getting to wherever you're going. Trying to do it on your own may lead you to do things wrong or to take a lot more time -- instead, make a point of listening to someone who knows tips and tricks to get you there much faster or more accurately. Don't shut yourself off from growth.
Leo
July 23-August 22
Your fears might distort what's actually happening. Speaking onstage could feel like everyone is just waiting for you to finish, when really they're engrossed in what you're saying. Auditioning for a part or requesting funding could feel like you gave the worst performance of anyone, when really you knocked it out of the park! It's understandable, since we all have insecurities, but try to see the people around you as being on your side rather than against you. Don't create an enemy in your head.
Virgo
August 23-September 22
Someone may be refusing to speak up. It's possible that a peer is dancing around specific topics with you, or avoiding speaking to you entirely, but seems as though they have something that they want to say. Perhaps they feel hurt but don't want to look weak, or a secret is weighing on them. Whatever they're keeping inside, they could be struggling to bring it to the surface. Give them the space to figure it out, and until then, that's all you can do.
Libra
September 23-October 22
Someone who currently claims to be your friend might not be what they seem. They may feel enamored with you for myriad reasons, but their intentions could be less simple than companionship -- what might they want from you? Whether this is love, money, influence, or just your kindness, you should be aware of the people that you're sharing your life with during this time. Make sure that those in your circle want the best for you, as you do for them.
Scorpio
October 23-November 21
You may not be sure what to say today. Someone could bring you shocking information, leaving you unsure whether to try and make them feel better with lighthearted humor or be serious and give them a shoulder to cry on. It might be best to ask them directly what would make them feel most supported or loved, and go from there, because attempting to figure it out through trial and error won't be fun. As long as they know you care, that's what matters.
Sagittarius
November 22-December 21
You might be torn between moving on and trying again. In particular, it could be almost easy to see a future where you go your separate ways from someone in your life that you have fallen out with or just drifted apart from, even if at one point in time you couldn't imagine your life without them in it. While it will take hard work to repair the relationship should you choose to try, preserving a meaningful connection with a friend may be worth it.
Capricorn
December 22-January 19
It's hard to know if you should speak up now -- especially if you want to talk to someone about a tough topic or say something that won't be easy for them to hear. You're possibly not sure if you should clam up and keep the information to yourself, or if they would want to know so that they can promptly address the subject. This decision is difficult, and there's probably no right answer. It's more about what you feel inside. So use your intuition.
Aquarius
January 20-February 18
Social risks may presently be dangerously uncertain. No matter how fun an acquaintance seems or how long you've been interested in getting to know them, listen to your gut. Set aside any shared interests and ask yourself why you haven't fully approached them yet. Does anything about them endanger your sense of security? While it might still feel tempting to try and form a bond, it's probably not worth the gamble you would be making. Not everyone has to be your friend.
Pisces
February 19-March 20
A current choice between the easy way and the hard way isn't as simple as it sounds. The easy way is potentially riskier or less aligned with your morals, while the hard way is challenging, but should be more stable and provide long-term benefits. Giving yourself an out and taking the simple path is enticing, but life might be more difficult later due to taking such shortcuts. Avoid punishing your future self and take the path that's more likely to fully satisfy you. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/horoscopes/sns-daily-horoscopes-07302023-20230730-vkc3mdvyebhydkoxyrh4ysmyea-story.html | 2023-07-30T06:57:15 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/horoscopes/sns-daily-horoscopes-07302023-20230730-vkc3mdvyebhydkoxyrh4ysmyea-story.html |
March 27, 1938—July 19, 2023
BALTIMORE, MD—Bernhardt “Bernie” Johnson, 85, died peacefully on July 19, 2023 in Baltimore, MD. He was born March 27, 1938 in Kenosha, WI to Ernest and Virginia (Irving) Johnson.
After Bernie graduated from Mary D. Bradford High School in Kenosha in 1956, he worked at various jobs in Kenosha while studying part-time at the two-year extension center of the University of Wisconsin. In 1966 he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, majoring in Business Administration.
Bernie and his wife Shelby Leschinsky then moved to warmer climates—Atlanta, GA—where he later earned his MBA from Mercer University and enjoyed teaching as an Adjunct Instructor.
He worked for 28 years at the offices of Liberty Mutual in Atlanta and Gainesville, GA. Bernie was a true people person, made friends wherever he went, and delighted in “small world” stories. He especially enjoyed encountering others from Wisconsin on his travels and in his later homes of Atlanta, GA, Brevard, NC, York, PA, and Baltimore, MD.
He received a saxophone on his 60th birthday and enthusiastically spent the next 22 years taking lessons, playing in bands, and going to band camps around the country. He was a member of New Horizons Bands in the greater Atlanta area, Anderson, SC, and Hendersonville, NC, as well as the Brevard Community Band.
A lifelong student of German, Bernie would pepper his speech with German words and always had a German dictionary handy. Germanic highlights of his later years include the fast friends he made when he opened his house in Atlanta to a number of German interns as well as the month-long trip he took alone to Germany for an intensive language course, at which, of course, he made many new best friends.
A devoted father and grandfather, nothing gave Bernie more pleasure than reveling in the accomplishments of his daughter and grandson. He was so very proud of them.
He is survived by his former wife, Shelby (Leschinsky) Johnson; daughter, Lindsay Johnson and her spouse Stephanie Moore; grandson, Graylen Johnson-Moore; sister, Christine (Johnson) Kohloff; brother, Earl and spouse Linda (Leiting) Johnson; and a host of cousins, nieces, and nephews.
He will be remembered for his perseverance, his cheery disposition, and his unflagging optimism.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Whitewater, WI with burial to follow at Hebron Cemetery in Hebron, WI. Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday at the church until the time of service.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the March of Dimes. Dunlap Memorial Home in Fort Atkinson is assisting the family. www.DunlapMemorialHome.com | https://kenoshanews.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/bernhardt-bernie-johnson/article_3198e3c5-3b40-5ff4-a116-04ae8a5bd7b6.html | 2023-07-30T06:57:15 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/bernhardt-bernie-johnson/article_3198e3c5-3b40-5ff4-a116-04ae8a5bd7b6.html |
Dec. 26, 1922—July 16, 2023
Harold (Jim) Russel Eils, 100, passed away on July 16, 2023, at his home surrounded by his family. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend to many. Jim was born on December 26, 1922.
Jim proudly served in the Army during WWII. His dedication and service to his country were commendable.
Following his military service, Jim pursued a career in the athletic department of UW-Parkside. He made significant contributions to the university and was highly respected by his colleagues.
Jim found joy in various hobbies throughout his life. He enjoyed playing racquetball, acting in his younger years, and volunteering for numerous organizations. His selflessness and commitment to helping others were truly admirable.
Jim will be deeply missed by his surviving family members, including his wife of 76 years, Mary Ann Eils; his children: Donna (Grant) Zimany and Martin Eils; as well as his nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and beloved dog. He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters: Alice Onosko, Ruth Miller, and Marie McCarron; and brothers: John, Robert, and Karl Eils. He was also preceded in death by his children: Patricia (David) Flores and William (Jennifer) Eils.
A visitation will be held on August 14th from 10:00-11:00 a.m., followed by a service from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at First Christian Church, located at 13022 Wilmot Rd, Kenosha, WI 53142. A luncheon will be held at the church after the service. Jim will be laid to rest at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Union Grove, located at 21731 Spring St, Union Grove, WI 53182, at 3:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that contributions be made to the VFW or a veterans charity of your choice. Your support will honor Jim’s memory and assist those who have served our country.
Jim’s legacy will live on through the countless lives he touched and the memories he created with his loved ones. He will forever be remembered for his unwavering love, kindness, and dedication to his family and community. | https://kenoshanews.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/harold-jim-russel-eils/article_ae87cd60-f24d-5415-bcf2-e8656473d9aa.html | 2023-07-30T06:57:21 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/harold-jim-russel-eils/article_ae87cd60-f24d-5415-bcf2-e8656473d9aa.html |
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.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2023-07-30T06:57:21 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
Feb. 21, 1934—July 16, 2023
STOUGHTON—Robert James Kramer, age 89, of Stoughton, passed away on Sunday, July 16, 2023, at Stoughton Hospital. He was born on Feb. 21, 1934, in Kenosha, WI, the son of Louis and Katherine (Seiberlich) Kramer.
Bob graduated from Mary D. Bradford High School in Kenosha. He married Sarah “Sally” Kiger on Oct. 12, 1957, in Kenosha. He worked as a Journeyman Glazier retiring in 1996. Bob served in the U.S. Army.
Bob enjoyed his time in the Northwoods, spending his retirement at their home on Two Sisters Lake. He enjoyed hunting, fishing (especially with his children and grandchildren), and having a laugh and a beer with friends and family. Bob was very involved in his children’s activities, especially with the Kenosha High School summer marching band program.
He was a happy person, and made everyone around him feel the same. He always said goodbye to family with an “I love you,” and words of advice to his grandchildren, “don’t do anything stupid.”
Bob is survived by his wife, Sally; sons: Craig (Ouafa) of Waterford and Barry (Susan) of Lake Tomahawk; daughter, Karen Kramer-Aehl (James) of McFarland; grandchildren: Elizabeth (Jerry), Eric (Jessica), Jacob (Assem), Benjamin, Peter, Brendon and Katrina; and great-granddaughter, Francesca. He was preceded in death by his parents; and siblings: Katherine, Francis and Louis.
A private gathering will be held for immediate family. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be gifted in Robert’s name to a charity of your choice.
Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.
Gunderson Stoughton
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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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Dec. 17, 1945—July 23, 2023
KENOSHA—Sharon “Sheri” A. Krencis, age 77, of Kenosha, peacefully passed away on Sunday, July 23, 2023 at her home with all her family by her side. Sheri was born on December 17, 1945 in Kenosha to Harold and Pearl (Belongia) Bauer and was educated in local schools.
She was a homemaker and raised her three children. She thoroughly enjoyed working in her yard and taking care of her family. Later in life she married Richard Krencis on August 12, 1989 in Kenosha. She enjoyed her afternoon lunches with her cousins, strolls down by the lake, trips up north and putting together puzzles with Richard.
She was preceded in death by, her parents, brother, Charles and husband.
Sharon is survived by, her three children: Debra Freitag, Michele (Ron Claeys) Christensen and Jami (Paula) Benefiel; her grandchildren: Natasha (Bryan) Easter, Jessica (Lupe) Romero, Candace Stiles, Stephanie Christensen, Jared Benefiel, Kora Benefiel: and eight great-grandchildren.
In accordance with Sheri’s wishes, no services will be held.
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July 31, 1936—July 23, 2023
GENOA CITY—Thomas F. (Tom) O’Neal of Genoa City, passed away on Sunday, July 23, 2023 at Parkside Manor Assisted Living surrounded by loving nieces and nephews.
Tom was born on July 31, 1936 in Piggott, Arkansas. He was the fifth of six children born to Audie Frank O’Neal, a farmer, and Neoma (Slaughter) O’Neal.
The family moved to Kenosha, where Audie had found factory work in 1947, seeking a better life in the industrial Midwest.
Tom graduated from Mary D. Bradford High School in 1955 and went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. After university, Tom worked briefly for Kenosha County as a social worker. He then became the first Director of Sheridan Nursing Home, where he worked until moving to Washington Manor Nursing Home as a Director. He stayed at Washington Manor until his retirement in 2001.
Tom’s great passion, outside of work, was for his dogs. In 1963, he founded Dream Ridge Kennels with his life and business partner Ron Fabis. A 1975 NY Time Article stated that “Dream Ridge” is a name known to Cocker Spaniel enthusiasts on four continents . . . the kennel has bred 47 champions in this country alone . . . Dream Ridge Cockers also have won titles in England, Venezuela, Brazil and Japan. Later in their careers Tom and Ron also started breeding English Toy Spaniels. Tom would go on to receive a “Breeder of the Year” award from the AKC for his breeding of English Toy Spaniels.
Tom stayed very active in the show dog world until shorty before his death. He was an active member of the Kenosha Rotary Club and, at the time of his death he was the longest tenured Rotarian. Tom served on the board of Hospice Alliance for many years.
He is survived by his brother, Cecil (Rebecca Young) O’Neal of La Chapelle Goneguet, France, thirteen nieces and nephews and numerous great and great-great-nieces and nephews.
Tom was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters, Bonnie O’Neal, Maggie Harmon and Betty Bailey; brother, Clifton O’Neal and his life partner, Ronald Fabis.
Funeral services honoring Thomas’s life will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at the Piasecki Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Sunset Ridge Memorial Park. A visitation for Thomas will be held on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 from 10:30 a.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial remembrances to any of the following charity of your choice Hospice Alliance, Inc., 10220 Prairie Ridge Blvd., Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158 https://hospicealliance.org, Kenosha Rotary Foundation, PO Box 577, Kenosha, WI 53141 https://kenosharotary.org, or English Toy Spaniel Club of America https://englishtoyspanielclubofamerica.org/ would be appreciated by the family.
The family would like to express our thanks to Hospice Alliance for the care provided to Tom. In addition, the family would like to thank the staff and community at Parkside Manor for their care, love and support, it was truly Tom’s extended family.
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MT. PLEASANT—Virginia A. Scholzen, 70, of Mt. Pleasant, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer at Columbia-St. Mary’s Milwaukee Campus on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 with family by her side.
Her Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Lucy Catholic Church, 3101 Drexel Ave. on Tuesday, August 1st at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will be at the church from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the mass. Entombment will be private in Holy Cross Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested memorial to the American Cancer Society or the Hospitality House. Ginny asked that you Pass It On by doing or saying something kind for someone. Please see the funeral home website for the complete obituary.
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50th for John, Jean Meiners
ANCHOR — John and Jean Meiners will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a celebration at a later date.
John and Jean Beckberger were married on Aug. 4, 1973 at St. John's Lutheran Church, Anchor. Their attendants were Judy Schmidgall, maid of honor; and Dennis Harms, best man.
They are the parents of Dr. Ryan (Mandi) Meiners, Chicago; and Ross Meiners, Tucson, AZ. They have two grandchildren.
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70th for Dallas, Yvonne Embry
MACKINAW — Dallas and Yvonne Embry of Mackinaw will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary with an open house at Mackinaw Valley Vineyard from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 13.
Dallas and Yvonne Miller were married on Aug. 15, 1953 in Ft. Hood, TX.
They are the parents of Bill (Diana) Embry; Pam Thierry; Mary (Mark) Dietrich; Jane (Joe) Thurmond, all of Mackinaw; and Alisa Lancaster, Bloomington. They have 14 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
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Buckle up: New laws from seat belts to library books take effect in North Dakota
By JACK DURA
Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Hundreds of new laws will take effect Tuesday in North Dakota, passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled Legislature. Among them is a primary enforcement seat belt law, which comes after years of debate over safety versus personal freedom. A raft of gender-related legislation will take effect, including restrictions for restrooms in certain public facilities and for athletic participation. Public libraries will have to comply with state restrictions on explicit sexual material in children’s collections. And the state’s agriculture commissioner says restrictions on foreign entities owning land in North Dakota could create confusion for agribusiness companies with foreign ties. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/buckle-up-new-laws-from-seat-belts-to-library-books-take-effect-in-north-dakota/ | 2023-07-30T06:58:27 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/buckle-up-new-laws-from-seat-belts-to-library-books-take-effect-in-north-dakota/ |
France’s Le Maire presses China on market access and lobbies for electric car investment
By JOE McDONALD
AP Business Writer
BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister says he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies. Bruno Le Maire also 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. Le Maire defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to advanced technology after 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. Chinese officials gave Le Maire a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/ | 2023-07-30T06:58:33 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/ |
Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
By HANNA ARHIROVA
Associated Press
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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Ukrainian drones intercepted across Russia, military says
By Josh Pennington, Mariya Knight, Zahra Ullah and Heather Chen, CNN
(CNN) — Three drones were intercepted in “Moscow City” in an attempted attack on Sunday on the business and shopping development in the west of the Russian capital, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said.
“One Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was destroyed in the air by air defense forces over the territory of the Odintsovo district of Moscow region,” a statement said.
“Two more drones were jammed using electronic warfare capabilities and after losing control, they crashed on the territory of a complex of non-residential buildings in Moscow City.”
Overnight in Russia-occupied Crimea, 25 Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted, the Defense Ministry added. Sixteen were destroyed by Russian air defenses while the rest crashed in Black Sea after their signals were jammed by electronic warfare equipment, according to the ministry.
No casualties or damages have been reported.
CNN has not been able to verify the claims made by Russia’s Defense Ministry.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were first deployed by Ukraine to help artillery locate Russian targets on the battlefield, and now many believe they are being used to hit targets well inside Russian territory.
Russian state news agency TASS reported the attack, attributing it to security sources. “There was a strike in the building of the “IQ-Quarter” located in “Moscow City” (shopping center),” TASS said.
In subsequent reporting, it added that a “temporary no fly zone had been introduced for the Moscow flight zone… reported by emergency services.”
“As a result of the strike, glass broke on the fifth and sixth floors of the 50-story building. There are no casualties. It did not result in a fire.”
Videos showed debris as well as emergency services at the scene.
A witness told Reuters that there were explosions and fire. “My friends and I rented an apartment to come here and unwind, and at some point, we heard an explosion – it was like a wave, everyone jumped,” she said. “There was a lot of smoke, and you couldn’t see anything. From above, you could see fire.”
It also came after a Russian missile attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy late on Saturday, which left at least one civilian dead and five others wounded, according to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.
In eastern Ukraine, local military officials reported at least two deaths from a rocket strike on Zaporizhzhia – a 32-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man.
“The enemy made 77 attacks in 20 settlements of Zaporizhzhia region over the past day,” Zaporizhzhia military head Yurii Malashko said, adding that there were at least 31 reports of destruction to residential buildings and infrastructure.
Second drone attack in a week
Sunday’s drone attack was the second reported in Moscow in the past week.
Ukrainian forces carried out drone strikes on July 24, Ukrainian officials confirmed with CNN, adding that security forces were responsible for the strike. Russian officials said it was a “terrorist attack of the Kiev regime.”
Ukrainian Minister Mykhailo Fedorov whose Digital Transformation Ministry oversees the country’s “Army of Drones” procurement plan, said there would be more strikes to come.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Russian Africa forum in St. Petersburg on Saturday, President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow had never rejected peace negotiations with Ukraine and a ceasefire was hard to implement when the Ukrainian army was on the offensive.
To start the process an agreement is needed from both sides, Putin added.
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Marlins vs. Tigers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Luis Arraez and Javier Baez will be among the stars on display when the Miami Marlins face the Detroit Tigers on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET, at LoanDepot park.
The favored Marlins have -150 moneyline odds to win against the underdog Tigers, who are listed at +125. The over/under is 7 runs for the game.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: BSFL
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Marlins Recent Betting Performance
- The Marlins have played as the favorite in seven of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, the Marlins and their opponents are 4-6-0 in their last 10 games with a total.
- The Marlins have not played a game with a spread over their last 10 outings.
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Marlins Betting Records & Stats
- The Marlins have won 31 of the 48 games they were favored on the moneyline this season (64.6%).
- When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -150 or shorter, Miami has a 21-5 record (winning 80.8% of its games).
- Based on this contest's moneyline, the Marlins' implied win probability is 60%.
- Miami has played in 104 games with set over/under, and have combined with opponents to go over the total 49 times (49-51-4).
- The Marlins have a 4-2-0 record ATS this season (covering 66.7% of the time).
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Guardians vs. White Sox: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Jose Ramirez and the Cleveland Guardians play Luis Robert and the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on Sunday. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET.
The favored Guardians have -145 moneyline odds to win against the underdog White Sox, who are listed at +120. The total for the game has been set at 9 runs.
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Guardians vs. White Sox Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: NBCS-CHI
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue: Guaranteed Rate Field
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Guardians Recent Betting Performance
- In seven games over the last 10 matchups when favored by oddsmakers, the Guardians have a record of 3-4.
- In their last 10 games with a total, the Guardians and their opponents have combined to hit the over five times.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Guardians' last 10 games.
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Guardians Betting Records & Stats
- The Guardians have gone 31-23 in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 57.4% of those games).
- When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -145 or shorter, Cleveland has a 17-9 record (winning 65.4% of its games).
- The Guardians have an implied moneyline win probability of 59.2% in this contest.
- Cleveland has combined with opponents to go over the total 44 times this season for a 44-56-4 record against the over/under.
- The Guardians have a 7-3-0 record against the spread this season (covering 70% of the time).
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
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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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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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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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.
Loading...
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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Known for his televised comedy specials and bringing a guitar, rubber chicken and cigarettes on stage, Gary Mule Deer defies most definitions.
He may not be a household name, but he has inspired several A-list entertainers. A new, locally produced documentary explores his life, career and not-so-small impact on the comedy scene — with the help of a few famous friends.
David Letterman, Alice Cooper and Amy Grant are just a few of the celebrities inspired by and interviewed for the project called “Show Business Is My Life, But I Can’t Prove It: A Film About Gary Mule Deer.” The film that made its Texas debut at the Lone Star Film Festival will be available on all major streaming platforms starting Aug. 1.
“Gary could look at the sky, the clouds, the rug and find something weirdly funny,” comedian and actor Steve Martin said in a recently released trailer about the documentary.
Over the span of 96 minutes, the production explores everything from the South Dakota brothels where Mule Deer got his start playing Johnny Cash covers to his early TV specials and the grind of touring roughly 180 days a year.
Red Sanders, film producer and president of Red Productions, said working on the project shifted his perception on how to define success.
“So often we, as Americans, look at the big A-list celebrity names as like they’ve really done it,” he said. “But it was interesting to see, someone who didn’t have the true limelight of an A-list celebrity but still is able to look back on his career, where he got, what he’s done, and be happy … And then on the flip side, how some of these A-list celebrities look at Gary and go, ‘Man, he’s doing what we always wanted to do.’”
The project was produced through Red Entertainment, the original content arm of Red Productions. Working on the project with Heather Wilk, his colleague at Red Entertainment, G.B. Shannon, the documentary’s director, and fellow North Texans, Hussain Manjee and Shezad Manjee of DHD Films, Sanders said it was incredible how everything clicked into place.
Shezad Manjee, co-founder and creative director of DHD, said that as a result of this project, they already have three other features in development. He hopes that this documentary and the recent funding boost from the Texas legislature will help keep the momentum going.
“We’re living in this golden age of storytelling where you can tell stories anywhere in the world,” he said.
This story, in particular, has a universal appeal, Manjee said.
“He’s got this larger than life personality, but there’s no ego,” he said. “I had our 4-year-old at lunch with him one day and my 4-year-old was laughing. Then at the screening later that day, we had folks my grandparents’ age (laughing). His ability to connect with multiple generations is incredible.”
The team is excited to have that work be available for a larger audience.
And if the Mule Deer’s final comment in the trailer is any indication, he remains humble. “A lot of people come up to me after a show and say, ‘Gary Mule Deer, you were always my favorite comedian. I forgot about you’.”
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
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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On a hot June morning, Wilks Development staff and community members held a groundbreaking ceremony for its newest project — the redevelopment of the historic Public Market into senior living.
For Kyle Wilks, co-founder and CEO of the company, this project presented a unique opportunity to capitalize on the building’s location within the city core.
“There’s not a lot of age-restricted, senior apartments, and especially not close to downtown, close to the Medical District, close to 7th Street, inside the loop. There’s not a lot of that,” Wilks said.
These market-rate apartments are one of the few new developments for seniors that have popped up in Fort Worth over the past few years. As people live longer, Fort Worth’s senior population is growing and needs a place to stay. But the demand for affordable senior housing has not been met with a consistent supply.
That’s because building senior housing, especially affordable units, comes with a different financial playbook.
“From a pure financing (standpoint), they require a little bit more equity, a little more debt, because they don’t generate the revenue that would make it sustainable over time,” said Brian Dennison, vice president of development and asset management for Fort Worth Housing Solutions.
These requirements for senior housing put restrictions on developers, which can limit their return on investment, Dennison said.
A growing elderly population with nowhere to go
Fort Worth’s senior population, those 65 and older, is growing and now accounts for about 10% of the city’s total population as of 2021. Of that group, about 25% of all seniors are renters.
“The population of older adults here in Tarrant County is growing, so it’s in our best interest to make provisions and to be thinking down the road because they’re still going to be here,” said Shakita Johnson, executive director of United Way Tarrant County’s Area Agency on Aging. “The question is in what shape and in what condition and at what cost to the community as a whole.”
While a majority of seniors continue to be homeowners, factors like rising taxes and insurance, play a significant role in forcing them to sell their homes and move into an apartment. Others might just want to downsize after becoming empty nesters.
Fort Worth native Connie Davenport wanted to return home after living in Illinois for a while. While doing research, she stumbled upon St. Francis Village, an independent, retirement living community for seniors 62 and older in Crowley.
It was the perfect, affordable fit for the 85-year-old on a fixed income.
“I didn’t want to deal with a house anymore, that responsibility. So I wanted something that was self-maintained,” she said. “I’m a former Air Force wife… It’s like living in base housing. So if I have any problem with maintenance, all I do is call up the office and tell them I have a problem and they come and fix it.”
Many seniors live on a fixed income, whether it’s Social Security, pension or retirement savings. That limits where they can live and how much they can spend on rent every month.
“The housing options that are being offered by local developers are a little above the income level that the seniors are meeting so that puts them at a little bit of a disadvantage,” said Kelley Kaiser, housing navigator for the county’s Area Agency on Aging.
Where do Fort Worth’s seniors get their income from?
In Fort Worth, about 68% of those 60 years and older earned income through Social Security and 45% through retirement savings in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Location is also key — Davenport is 15 minutes from her church and 15 minutes from one of her nieces, she said. There’s also an on-site nurse and an activities director who puts together events for the residents. Transportation is also available for those who can’t drive.
But the demand for affordable senior housing makes the few places available in high demand. Davenport said she had to wait almost two years before she was able to relocate to St. Francis Village in September 2020.
“I have friends right now wait-listed, usually sometime between 18 months and two years, just depending on availability,” Davenport said. “You’re not going to find a place as affordable as St. Francis Village.”
The starting rent price for a one-bedroom apartment at St. Francis Village is $1,121 and can go up to $1,600, according to its website.
Despite the demand for senior-oriented housing, less than 4% of all multifamily permits approved by the city of Fort Worth between January 2019 and April 2023 were for seniors.
That’s only 111 permits out of 3,348 multifamily permits issued in the past five years.
Fort Worth Housing Solutions manages about 50 properties citywide, of which only six are designed for seniors.
“It’s such a huge shortfall,” Dennison said. He estimates about 20% of the properties should serve seniors.
Fort Worth currently has about 15,000 senior apartment units and data provided by the city estimates that it would require between 3,000 to 7,000 units at various levels of affordability to close the affordable senior housing gap.
The few affordable senior units in the city are mostly located outside Loop 820 because the land is a bit cheaper for developers there, Dennison said.
Apartments dedicated to seniors usually offer only one-bedroom units with the occasional two-bedroom unit. They also have more programs and services in response to the special needs of elders.
These extra services are where costs can rise quickly for developers, said Aron Will, vice-chairman for senior housing at CBRE, a commercial real estate services and investment firm.
The average cost of a senior housing development in 2022 is $317,400 per unit and can go up to $400,000. In comparison, regular housing development costs in the mid to high $200,000 per unit, said Will.
What are the different types of senior housing?
- 55+ communities: These age-restricted communities offer a variety of living options, like houses, condos, townhomes and apartments, that are exclusive to those 55 and older. They typically do not provide any medical care or similar services on-site for residents.
- Luxury senior living: This living option allows residents to enjoy an all-inclusive, higher-end living environment. They usually offer features such as restaurants, golf courses, pools and fitness centers.
- Independent living: This option is for active older adults looking to build or expand their social networks. These communities plan recreational, social and physical activities for residents with some on-site services like meal plans. This is good for older adults who don’t need frequent health care.
- Assisted living: Assisted living is designed for people who enjoy living independently but need support with activities of daily living (ADLs) like bathing, getting dressed, preparing meals, taking medications and housekeeping.
- Memory care: Designed to provide care for older adults with cognitive health issues, services are similar to a nursing home. Some facilities offer care through the end of life.
- Nursing care: This option is for older adults with chronic health conditions who may benefit from or need readily available medical care but don’t require hospitalization. These communities work with healthcare professionals to provide care for their residents, which includes ensuring they take their medications regularly, monitoring their responses to recommended treatments and discussing any health concerns with their care team.
Source: Forbes Health
Senior-centric projects underway
In early June, Fort Worth Housing Solutions announced that it was acquiring Crestwood Place Apartments on the west side of town with its partner Ojala Holdings and redeveloping the property into senior housing.
While the initial announcement of the move drew concerns from residents, the housing authority told the Crestwood neighborhood that the senior units will address a gap in affordable housing for seniors.
“It’s a huge high-opportunity area,” Dennison said. “And then the question is, why not seniors? Why not have one designated for them? What is wrong with that? What you’ll find out is that seniors will flock to that…”
Kaiser, the Area Agency on Aging’s housing navigator, said it’s important to explore other housing options for seniors that keep prices affordable.
“I think it will be more cost-effective to find additional avenues for the senior population. Typically when it comes to lack of affordable housing, we’re going to have to find some creative solutions,” Kaiser said.
Fort Worth Housing Solutions is also wrapping up construction on the first phase of its Stop Six Choice Neighborhood Initiative, Cowan Place, a four-story, mixed-income community, offering one and two-bedroom apartments for residents 62 and older.
Dennison said the housing authority also wants to create another five senior housing projects in the next 24 to 36 months in an effort to continue closing the gap.
“We have to have a senior initiative that really focuses on meeting that gap,” he said. “Because otherwise we’re turning away seniors who desperately need the help, need support.”
Sandra Sadek is a Report for America corps member, covering growth for the Fort Worth Report. You can contact her at sandra.sadek@fortworthreport.org or on Twitter at @ssadek19.
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Q&A: Fire on board the Fremantle Highway ship
What caused the fire?
The Fremantle Highway caught fire off the Dutch island of Ameland on July 26. The car carrier had set out from Bremerhaven, Germany, to sail to Singapore. The cause of the fire has not been definitively established, but it is possible that the battery in one of the electric cars on board ignited.
This can happen, for example as a consequence of a production error. On Friday evening, the Dutch authorities reported that the fire had died down and was emitting less smoke. However, it is still burning, and it is not clear for how long the freighter can withstand the heat.
According to the German environment ministry, the ship is carrying 1,600 tons of heavy fuel oil and another 200 tons of marine diesel oil. There is still the danger of an environmental disaster.
Does the transport of electric vehicles endanger shipping?
It is difficult to make a general statement about this. The Allianz insurance company records that 209 ship fires were reported last year. That is the highest number in a decade, up 17% on 2021. Thirteen of those fires occurred on car carriers — but it is not clear how many of them involved electric vehicles.
What is clear is that electric vehicles are powered by lithium-ion batteries, similar to those used in laptops. If a battery of this type is faulty — for example, if it short-circuits — it can spontaneously combust.
It is evident from the precautionary measures taken on commercial flights that this can be a serious problem. Passengers on planes are not allowed to check in laptops in their suitcases, but must take their computers with them into the cabin as hand luggage. If a device gets hot or starts smoking, passengers are told to notify the crew immediately, something that is now explicitly mentioned before every takeoff.
There are strict regulations for air freight, too. Only certain types of batteries may be transported on cargo-only aircraft, and then only under strict conditions with regard to packaging, for example.
Why is this fire so hard to put out?
The Fremantle Highway car carrier had around 3,800 new cars on board, including 500 electric vehicles. The lithium-ion batteries installed in these vehicles are extremely difficult to extinguish once they start to burn. The fire cannot be extinguished with water or by oxygen deprivation, as this carries a risk of explosion. Not only that, thermal processes can also cause fires spontaneously to reignite. Burning batteries must be extinguished with special substances that are often not to hand on ships like the Fremantle Highway.
What makes a fire on a freighter so challenging?
Insurance experts say the fire on the Fremantle Highway has brought attention to a problem that has existed for some time: inadequate fire protection on ships. More and more equipment with lithium-ion batteries is being transported worldwide — yet extinguishing systems on freighters are often outdated, and have not kept pace with the new fire protection challenges.
Another difficulty is that car carriers like the Fremantle Highway are essentially giant floating car parks. Cars are packed in close together, and the ceilings separating them are low. This makes it hard for firefighters to get at the source of the fire. In the event of an accident, it is easier to extinguish fires in electric vehicles if they are being transported on trucks or by rail.
Is this fire already having consequences?
A spokesperson for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has said that, in light of the growing number of fires on cargo ships, it plans to bring in new safety standards for those transporting electric vehicles next year. The IMO, which is based in London, sets the regulations for safety at sea. The guidelines could include specifications on how fully a battery can be charged. New chemicals for extinguishing fires, special fire blankets, battery-penetrating jet extinguishers, and bigger gaps between electric vehicles could also become mandatory.
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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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Rose 32 Craft Coffee and Mocktail Bar
Who? Stacey Allen is the founder and owner of Rose 32.
When? Allen launched her business in 2022 and is coming up on her one-year anniversary.
Where? Rose 32 does not have a physical location but services the entire Dallas-Fort Worth region.
What? A mobile craft coffee and mocktail service that services all kinds of events, including weddings, corporate meetings, gatherings, etc.
Contact:
(682) 816-9242
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rose32coffeebar/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/rose32coffee
Stacey Allen, founder of Rose 32 Craft Coffee and Mocktail Bar, spoke with the Fort Worth Report about getting into the coffee business and her approach to service.
This interview has been edited for clarity and grammar.
Sandra Sadek: Can you introduce Rose 32 to us?
Stacey Allen: I just wanted to share the love I have for coffee, the love I have for people and serving people.
My business is named after my grandmother. Her name was Evelyn Rose and she was born in 1932. My grandmother was very influential in my life. She was just very sweet with any individual that she would come across. She would just exude love and kindness and that’s something I want to carry on in my business to carry on her legacy.
Sadek: How did you get into coffee? Is this something you’ve always wanted to do?
Allen: I remember drinking coffee as a little girl… I think I was like 4 years old. I thought it was cool to have a cup of coffee in your hand.
I remember my dad, he took me hunting and he would have a little thermos of coffee and he offered it to me.
When I first moved to Texas — I’ve been in Texas for 10 years — when I first moved here, I just started noticing all the little craft coffee shops that were here, especially in Fort Worth. I started going around, visiting all the shops and each one has something different to offer and it’s so fun. I even have a little coffee passport where you could notate different coffee notes, kind of like wine.
Sadek: How did you learn the craft of coffee?
Allen: I had a mentor in the coffee space, Sam Iweis, owner of Kindred Coffee in North Richland Hills. He just kind of took me under his wing and showed me all things coffee. He does roasting as well which is a whole other ballgame when it comes to the coffee side of things. But I really learned a lot from him, tasting different beans from different regions and learning about what I personally liked and how to serve it.
Sadek: Tell me more about the mocktail aspect of your business.
Allen: The mocktail side, I decided to kind of add on after I first started my business, because I have seen a trend of people that are wanting to be social, but not feel pressured to drink alcohol. I’m not against drinking, but I am more for a healthy lifestyle. And so one of the things that’s really important to me with my business is offering clean ingredients and organic syrups, and cleaner products. So that’s kind of my specialty.
That’s maybe where I stand apart from other coffee vendors. But even with the mocktails, you know, it doesn’t make sense to take away the alcohol, but then put a bunch of sugar in there. I tried to just use really clean ingredients and things that are healthier for you. And I have recently started doing fun additives like ashwagandha drops or something that will help with stress relief. I even have like a mushroom complex drop.
Sadek: How is running a mobile coffee business different from a brick-and-mortar store? How do your clients react?
Allen: I would say that every event that I do, whether it’s a pop-up, or if it’s a wedding, I do have the question, “Where are you located?” And so, my goal and dream for the future would definitely be to have a brick and mortar. I would like to do something a little bit more non-mainstream when it comes to coffee shops.
I see a need for nighttime coffee shops. There are a lot of times when you talk to people that are in school, or just night owls, like me, they really maybe don’t want to go to a bar, they want to have some kind of social space, or they want to get some work done or something at night… And it’s just not really out there. So, that’s my dream, to have a space where people can come more towards the evening and have fun, and not be pressured to drink any alcohol. But I do enjoy being mobile right now. There’s flexibility in that. And it’s just fun to move around and have something different than I’m doing every time.
Sadek: Do you recommend any coffee drinks or mocktails from your menu? Which ones are the most popular?
Allen: I would say out of the lattes, the lavender vanilla latte is the most popular. The beans that I use, the cold brew beans, have really just like warm chocolatey notes in there. So, so good. And then you had like a little bit of floral in there.
For mocktails, my personal favorite is called the Passion Project. That’s a mix of passion fruit, lime, raspberry, sparkling water. It’s pretty tasty. And then also the strawberry rose lemonade or a lemon spritz is what I call it now. It’s all-natural ingredients: strawberries, organic simple syrup, a dash of rose water, sparkling water and lemon juice as well. Those are I would say so far, the two biggest sellers, but I am constantly coming up with new mocktails.
Sandra Sadek is a Report for America corps member, covering growth for the Fort Worth Report. You can contact her at sandra.sadek@fortworthreport.org or on Twitter at @ssadek19.
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When I saw “Oppenheimer” last weekend, it reminded me of a story I had heard about a former TCU professor who had some involvement in the Manhattan Project.
“Oppenheimer,” in case you haven’t seen it, tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He’s credited with developing the atomic bomb, and the Manhattan Project was the U.S. effort to build an atomic weapon during World War II.
The film brought in $82.5 million, behind “Barbie,” but quite an achievement for a three-hour movie about an event now nearly 80 years old.
I dashed off a quick note to TCU to see if my memory was on target and received a flood of information on Harrison Miller Moseley, former professor of physics and head of the department there for many years.
It was Moseley who I recalled hearing about and who was involved in the Manhattan Project, though he didn’t speak about it until late in his life.
I spoke with Magnus Rittby, professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at TCU, who has been compiling a history of the physics department at the school.
Moseley (1922-2014) grew up in Fort Worth at the Masonic Home, a facility for widows and orphans, following the death of his father. He played on some of the school’s famed football teams and graduated valedictorian in 1938, earning a full ride to TCU. There he came under the tutelage of the chairman of the department, Newton Gaines, who probably deserves his own story as he recorded folk songs for Alan Lomax in the 1930s. At TCU, Moseley graduated the top of his class in 1943, then headed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he worked with Nathan Rosen, a friend and fellow scientist with Albert Einstein.
Rosen and Einstein, together with another physicist, Boris Podolsky, in 1935 wrote one of the most famous papers in physics history, called “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete.”
That paper’s impact continues, Rittby said.
“There was a Nobel Prize given in 2022 about some of the same issues raised in the paper, on quantum entanglement,” he said.
When Rosen was asked by Einstein to join the Manhattan Project at the Naval Research Laboratory, Rosen asked if he could bring his brightest student, Moseley. Moseley enlisted in the Navy and began working in the Naval Research Laboratory with Rosen on a process to produce the enriched uranium needed for the atomic bomb. Their process was called liquid-thermal diffusion.
This approach to making enriched uranium was not originally favored, but it eventually proved to be the one that could produce the most material effectively. That is demonstrated in the film when Oppenheimer fills a fish bowl with marbles as the Manhattan Project grows its supply of enriched uranium. Without that enriched uranium, there would have been no bomb.
“He was at the very basic level of figuring out how they could get the necessary material for the first bomb. Which I think is pretty cool,” Rittby said.
While Moseley was doing serious work, he had a sense of humor, Rittby said. Rittby has some correspondence between Moseley and TCU’s then chairman, Gaines.
Moseley writes Gaines to advise him to to use a non-Navy mailing address since the guards are checking what goes in and out of the Navy Yard and that any physics writings would be suspect:
“Comic books, red apples, and second-hand submarines – these I could get away with. But should I start out with a sheet of solved problems in electricity I would no doubt be called in by Naval Intelligence for peddling A-Bomb secrets on the open market”.
While Moseley’s work on the Manhattan Project was not discussed much during his time at TCU, he did speak with Fort Worth author Stella Brooks about his life. She chronicled his life story in a book, Unbelievable: The Unmasking of Dr. Harrison Miller Moseley.
The book details Moseley’s remarkable life and offers an interesting peek behind the curtain at one of the most important scientific and technical achievements of the 20th century. All through the lens of a man who either led or was a member of the physics department at TCU for 40 years.
So if you go see “Oppenheimer,” when you see the scenes with the marbles in the fishbowl, just remember, a guy that taught at TCU for 40 years helped do that.
Retail dreams
Walmart is inviting entrepreneurs to apply to pitch shelf-ready products that are made, grown or assembled in the U.S. to be sold in Walmart or Sam’s Club stores or online.
It’s Walmart’s 10th annual Open Call event. Applications are open until Aug. 18.
Open Call will take place on Oct. 24 and 25, during Manufacturing Month 2023.
Last year, more than 1,100 small and medium businesses participated, making Open Call 2022 the largest one yet.
Even if companies don’t walk away with a deal, all Open Call finalists will have access to mentoring sessions with Walmart leaders and special guests, where they will have access to business insights and resources. Each finalist will have a one-on-one pitch meeting with Walmart and/or Sam’s Club.
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Updated July 28, 2023 at 4:15 PM ET
Extreme heat is baking much of the U.S. and the National Weather Service has dubbed this a summer of "excessive" weather.
If you're in a place with a heat advisory, you should try to stay indoors as much as you can. But if you need to go outside, or if you're somewhere with more moderate heat, remember that high temperatures can be dangerous. It might be OK to mow the lawn or go to a cookout, but "don't overdo it," warns John Schumann, a primary care physician in Tulsa, Okla. "Heat can envelop and pummel you."
And there are a lot of misconceptions about the best ways to protect yourself, warns David Eisenman, a physician at UCLA who is co-director of the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions. Here are mistakes to avoid and ways to plan ahead to protect yourself from the heat.
1. Too much, too soon: You need to acclimatize
When a heat wave strikes, your body needs time to adjust, says Neil Gandhi, a physician at Houston Methodist Hospital: "You can't do too much too soon."
If you go from mostly spending time in air conditioning to an outdoor activity in the sweltering heat, you could be caught off guard. Your body isn't "acclimatized to handle the stress," Gandhi says. And every year, about 650 people die from heat-related illness in the United States.
Fortunately, once acclimatized, the body gets better at fending off heat-related illness. "Our body starts to sweat sooner at a lower body temperature and at a greater rate," explains Eisenman. Also, blood flow to the skin improves, which has the effect of cooling us down by carrying heat out of the body's core. And your thirst increases, so you're less likely to get dehydrated.
But this doesn't happen immediately. "It's going to happen over the space of several days of exposure," Eisenman says. So if you're planning a hiking trip, summer sightseeing or any other extended exposure to heat, plan to spend short periods in the heat each day in the days leading up to your outdoor adventure.
And note that kids acclimatize much more slowly than adults, says Eisenman, so give them extra days to prepare.
2. Failing to pre-hydrate (and rehydrate!)
Hydrate in advance, says Wafi Momin, a cardiologist at Memorial Hermann Health System in Katy, Texas. "Grab a glass of water or a sports drink before you head out to the outdoors," he says.
And bring plenty of water with you, and don't wait until you're thirsty to start drinking during an outdoor activity. "The moment you begin to feel thirsty, you're likely anywhere between 10 to 25% dehydrated already," says Gandhi.
Most people aren't even hydrated enough on a normal day, Eisenman notes, so it's easy to start at a deficit on a hot day. His advice is to double the amount you'd drink in a typical day. The best test of hydration is to check the color of your urine. "Make sure that you're peeing frequently and that your urine is pale" — almost clear, says Eisenman.
Water is the best way to hydrate — and it's free! Sports drinks add electrolytes and can be helpful if you've gotten overheated or if you're participating in a marathon or other endurance event — but they're not necessary when you're simply trying to stay hydrated throughout the day, says Schumann, who also serves as a medical director for Oak Street Health, a chain of primary care clinics. In Tulsa, he says, in recent weeks they've seen bouts of 100-degree weather.
"In these heat-dome times, though I pooh-pooh all the millennials who carry water bottles everywhere, the kids — they're right about this," he says.
3. Don't be the frog in the boiling pot (i.e., your car)
You may not realize how hot it's getting inside your car.
Cars heat up so fast even in moderate heat because of a "mini greenhouse effect," Eisenman explains.
"The sun is coming through those windows, and then the heat is getting bounced around and getting trapped inside. It turns into a different wavelength of heat and doesn't go back out the windows," he says. "And on a day of moderate temperatures, say like 75 degrees outside, in 25 minutes it will become 100 degrees inside your car."
Each year, about 50 children die when left in a car. So do not underestimate the dangers, especially if you're distracted by finishing up a phone call, says Eisenman. "Even with the air conditioner running, even with the windows cracked, it can become hot in there very quickly," he adds.
4. Heat + (certain) medications don't mix
Certain medications can make people more vulnerable to heat, explains Momin.
Some heart medications such as blood pressure drugs, which millions of people take, are diuretic, he explains. "Those medications are trying to get rid of fluid from your body because of underlying heart issues," he says. And if you then add heat, which also causes you to lose excessive amounts of fluid, "that can cause a very dangerous situation."
Other types of medications can have this effect too, says Schumann. These include anticholinergic medications, anticonvulsants, bladder medications and sedatives. "Lots of medicines work by dehydrating us — excreting excess fluid. Be careful!" he warns.
In general, older people are more vulnerable to heat, so if you're older and on these medications, take extra precautions to stay cool and hydrated. Ask your doctor whether any of your medicines could be dehydrating.
5. Don't ignore the early signs of heat-related illness
The first few signs that you're getting overheated may not feel too alarming: sweating, fatigue, dizziness and headache. You might feel nauseous or lightheaded. But "those are the telltale signs of heat exhaustion creeping in," says Momin.
"You may just blow it off, saying, you know, it's hot and I've felt this way before, but the worst of the symptoms can come on very quickly without realizing it," he says. "And all of a sudden, your body's overheating to a point where you won't really be able to drink enough fluids at that juncture to reverse what's already gone on."
Symptoms of heat exhaustion can quickly become more serious. They can include muscle cramping, increased fatigue and accelerated heart rate. "You may start to weaken and just kind of get out of breath as you exert yourself," Gandhi says.
6. Know when to seek medical attention
If you're with someone who begins to show signs of heat-related illness, move the person to a cool place, give them water or a sports drink and moisten their skin. You can also remove unnecessary clothing such as shoes, socks and jackets.
Then, observe them. Their symptoms should start to improve in about 30 minutes, Eisenman says. If they don't get better in that time or if at any point they start having more worrisome symptoms, call for medical help. "I think sometimes people wait too long to call 911," says Eisenman.
"If their heart rate is going fast, if they're breathing quickly, if they seem at all confused, those are all indicators they've had more exposure to the heat than you can handle," Eisenman says.
When heatstroke sets in, people can even lose consciousness or pass out — in this case, seek immediate medical attention.
You really want to avoid heatstroke: With heatstroke, your core body temperature can rise quickly to 103 to 105 degrees or more, says Gandhi. When this happens, "you can start to experience some organ damage pretty quickly."
7. Wear loose, light clothing
If you're spending time in the heat, what you wear matters. "I would seek lighter colors because those tend to reflect heat rather than absorb heat compared to darker colors such as blacks and dark blues," says Momin. And stay away from tight clothing, which can block airflow.
"Loose-fitting clothing allows for the heat to evaporate off your body more easily," adds Eisenman.
8. Alcohol is a bad call
If you're at an outdoor party, resist that ice-cold margarita. Go for mocktails instead. "Alcohol will dehydrate you much faster" in the heat, says Schumann.
If you're determined to have something with a little kick in it, "drink some water for every drink you have to avoid trouble," he says. "If you wind up having to pee a lot, it'll be worth it. If you don't, you might be getting into trouble."
"Alcohol is very problematic" if you're outdoors in the heat, agrees Momin. Not only does it cause you to lose fluids, but "it can also impair your judgment." And when that happens, you might miss the signs of heat-related illness.
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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Two standouts from the Colorado volleyball team might start preseason workouts somewhat slowly. But it’s for a good reason.
Alexia Kuehl and Ana Burilović were selected for their respective countries’ national teams. Kuehl, an American with dual citizenship for Germany, will be competing for the U23 German Women’s National Team in the World University Games in Chengdu, China. Burilović, an incoming freshman from Croatia, was selected to play with Croatia’s U19 National Team in the World Championship in August.
An outside hitter from Split, Croatia, Burilović said that her team has been practicing all summer in preparation for the World Championship.
“I’m very excited to represent my country and play against other big teams such as Turkey, Germany, and many more,” Burilović said in a release from CU. “I think these tournaments are great for gaining experience and I believe we have a promising generation of players who are ready to make great results.”
Kuehl said the experience has been an opportunity to play the sport she loves while being exposed to a culture she has never fully known.
“Being able to play for the U23 National Team has been such an amazing experience so far, Kuehl said. “With this amazing opportunity I’ve been able to see a tiny bit into what it was like for my dad growing up and playing in Germany, which is a cool experience to connect with him on.”
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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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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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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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Updated July 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM ET
Two Supreme Court decisions are changing the way students, educators and even the Biden administration are approaching higher education.
The first ruling ended affirmative action for public and private colleges. It declared that race conscious admissions programs at both Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The second put a halt to President Biden's student loan cancellation plan. Now the Biden administration is trying to find new ways to make college more accessible. The administration recently unveiled a new student loan repayment plan that will save borrowers thousands of dollars by keeping monthly payments low and preventing interest from accumulating.
This week, the administration's focus is on affirmative action: The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into the practice of legacy admissions at Harvard University, and on Friday, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Wesleyan University, which recently got rid of legacy admissions.
Legacy admissions are on the chopping block
The federal inquiry comes after to three Boston-based groups — the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network — filed a complaint with the Education Department against Harvard. It accuses the university of discriminating against Black, Hispanic, Asian and other non-white undergraduate applicants by showing preference for those who have family relationships with donors or alumni.
In a statement to NPR, Harvard spokesperson Nicole Rura said the university is reviewing its admissions policy to ensure it is "complying with the law and to carry forward Harvard's longstanding commitment to welcoming students from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences."
Ivory Toldson, the national director of Education Innovation and Research at the NAACP, said that legacy admissions compromise a university's ability to create a diverse student body. He said if colleges are committed to diversity, they should not be favoring applicants from wealthier backgrounds.
"Now that race conscious admissions has been outlawed by the Supreme Court, you have to look at other ways to achieve diversity," Toldson said during an interview for Morning Edition.
Toldson said legacy admissions should be abolished.
The impact of legacy admissions policies on a student body
A study released this week by the Harvard School of Economics showed that richer applicants are getting a leg up in the college admissions process. Students from affluent backgrounds are twice as likely to get into top colleges than students from more middle class backgrounds, even if the students have similar GPAs and SAT scores.
Admissions data cited in documents that were part of the affirmative action case revealed that nearly 70% of the university's legacy applicants were white — including applicants who have relationships with donors, those who are children of faculty or staff, and athletes applicants. And while legacy applicants make up less than 5% of applicants to Harvard, the data showed they constitute around 30% of the applicants admitted each year, the ruling cited.
Some schools have gotten rid of legacy admissions altogether.
Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts college in Connecticut that has a 16% acceptance rate, recently eliminated its legacy admissions policy. Wesleyan President Michael Roth told NPR's Leila Fadel, during an interview for Morning Edition, the decision to end the policy was a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended affirmative action as part of college admissions.
"It became clear to me that any advantage you give to incumbents, to people who already have advantages, is a glaring sign of unfairness," Roth said.
Other schools have done the same. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities also ended legacy admissions this month, and Colorado passed a state law banning the practice at all public colleges and universities.
"Not getting in" is just one concern for students
Whitney Gouche is vice president of a nonprofit called EMERGE that serves high-achieving students from low-income areas in Texas. She said her students feel discouraged by the recent Supreme Court decision.
"We've explained to our students, that regardless of the decision, you still belong here, she said. "You have the merits to be a successful student at this campus."
Convincing students to apply isn't the easiest task — concerns about high cost are also on students' minds. Even if they get in, it could cost about $70,000 in tuition for an elite college like Wesleyan.
Roth said that while admitted students who qualify for financial aid will receive it at Wesleyan, the university has to do more to convince students to apply in the first place.
"We have to be very aggressive in recruiting students from places that haven't typically looked at schools like Wesleyan," Roth said.
Roth said that ending legacy admissions won't solve the more widespread problem of education disparities in the United States.
"Legacy admissions is attractive to talk about, but the real issues are elsewhere," Roth said.
This story was edited by Nicole Cohen and Erika Aguilar.
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Megan Rapinoe rallies the the USWNT for its highest-pressure game in years
Rapinoe has faced a must-win group stage finale at a World Cup before, and is ready for this one.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Though much about this U.S. women’s World Cup team is new, the situation in which it finds itself is not.
In fact, it’s been here pretty recently.
Eight years ago in Canada, the Americans started with a win narrower than its score, then a tie that raised lots of consternation.
Back then, it was a 3-1 win over Australia and a scoreless tie with Sweden. This time, it was a 3-0 win over Vietnam and a 1-1 tie with the Netherlands.
There are some definite differences between then and now. The most obvious is that the U.S. wasn’t the reigning champion, never mind the two-time reigning champion it is now. The other is that going into the group stage finale in 2015, the U.S. had a one-point lead over second-place Australia in the standings, instead of being tied for first. So while the finale was a must-win, goal difference wasn’t a factor the way it will be this time.
From a high-level view, though, the two landscapes look pretty similar. So it wasn’t surprising to see a player step up to the podium on Sunday who was there back then and is here now.
And it was even less surprising that the player was Megan Rapinoe.
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‘Strap in and get ready’
“I think being on the U.S. women’s national team, we kind of always feel like this,” Rapinoe said. “When was the last time anybody wrote a headline like, ‘They played the best game, and that’s exactly what we were expecting.’ … That would be you guys [in the media] not doing your job, and that would be us not doing our job, if we’re like, ‘Nope, played great, doing everything we’re supposed to be doing.’”
If quips like that weren’t enough to prove Rapinoe has a future in media — she’s already done plenty on camera over the years — then something she said a moment later was further proof.
“Obviously, if we would have won [the] last game, we would have clinched the group and been through already, but whatever,” she said dismissively, banishing the Netherlands tie to the past ahead of Tuesday’s game against Portugal (3 a.m. ET, Fox29, Telemundo 62, Peacock).
“I mean, this is the tournament — this is what it means, this is the pressure of being the No. 1 team in a World Cup, but this is just the pressure in general of being at the World Cup,” Rapinoe continued. “This moment is going to come no matter what. So it’s not a bad thing, I don’t think, for everyone to be like, ‘OK, let’s strap in and get ready for this game.’”
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‘Where we want to be’
She still has many critics, and they don’t hesitate to pounce whenever Rapinoe shows up. But the rallying cry she gave her team here would have drawn cheers from any Eagles fan had Jalen Hurts said it on a November Thursday.
“For me, I’m excited,” Rapinoe said. “You have a must-perform, must-win type of game. … It’s a pressure moment, and that’s what the tournament is now. Every single game from here on out is that pressure moment, and that’s the best part of being at a World Cup.”
It’s her job to pass that mentality on to the new generation of rising American stars, and she has embraced the role with her full self.
“Everybody’s like, ‘OK, we have to perform better, and we have to get this result,’” she said. “I think that something that just always gets passed down to the generations of this team is — no, we go into these moments like, ‘Hell yeah, this is exactly where we want to be.’”
And as she said a few minutes later, in reflecting on taking everything in at her last World Cup: “I’m trying to stay present as much as possible, but … I just want to [bleeping] win, too. I’m like, ‘Oh, yay, last World Cup, great’ — and I’m like, ‘No, it’s awesome when you win, not when you don’t win.’”
» READ MORE: Naomi Girma and Sophia Smith lead the USWNT’s campaign for mental health at the World Cup
‘A very close relationship’
Rapinoe did not play against the Netherlands after coming off the bench against Vietnam. She was one of a few players who might have helped turn the tie into a win had U.S. manager Vlatko Andonovski sent her in.
“For me, the conversations that I’ve had with Vlatko just in general [have been] when the time is right and the situation in the game is ready, that I’ll be ready,” she said. “I think I could have helped, but I think Lynn [Williams] could have helped, and I think Trinity [Rodman, who started] was helping, and I think Soph [Smith] was helping. And it was right there for us — I don’t think that it was like all the players on the field didn’t do their job.”
Few players know Andonovski better than Rapinoe, who has played for him not just with the U.S. but with the NWSL’s OL Reign. For over a year now, she has served as his top lieutenant in the locker room with the freedom to make it a two-way conversation.
“I’m always talking to him, always saying what I think about things, or talking with players,” she said. “Obviously, if I can’t be playing, I can still see the game and see what’s happening, whether that’s at halftime or after the game. So we have a very close relationship.”
The cameras won’t be rolling behind the scenes Tuesday, but there’s no doubt that Rapinoe will have just as much to say to her team as she did to the media on Sunday.
» READ MORE: Covering a World Cup is a privilege, but it’s also a month-long grind
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Cardinals vs. Cubs: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
The St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs will send Steven Matz and Kyle Hendricks, respectively, to the mound when the two clubs face off on Sunday at Busch Stadium, at 2:15 PM ET.
Bookmakers list the Cardinals as -145 favorites on the moneyline, while giving the underdog Cubs +120 moneyline odds. The total is 9 runs for this matchup.
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Cardinals vs. Cubs Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:15 PM ET
- TV: BSMW
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Venue: Busch Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Cardinals Recent Betting Performance
- In four games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Cardinals have a record of 0-4.
- In their last 10 games with a total, the Cardinals and their opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Cardinals' last 10 games.
Cardinals Betting Records & Stats
- The Cardinals have won 22 of the 52 games they were the moneyline favorite this season (42.3%).
- St. Louis has gone 15-19 (winning 44.1% of its games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -145 or shorter.
- The implied moneyline probablility for this matchup gives the Cardinals a 59.2% chance to win.
- St. Louis has played in 103 games with a set over/under, and have combined with its opponents to go over the total 52 times (52-47-4).
- The Cardinals have put together a 1-7-0 record ATS this season (covering only 12.5% of the time).
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RGV Promotions is inviting the public to their free health and wellness expo.
The event, set for Friday, Aug. 4 at the Jose “Pepe” Salinas Recreation Center — located at 1011 W. Kelly Ave., will feature free health screenings, activities and information on resources available for the community.
The event will also feature a giveaway for backpacks and school supplies.
The event starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m.
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UTRGV awarded $1.2 million grant from NASA for their STEM program
UTRGV was one of 19 colleges and universities from across the country that was awarded a grant from NASA to expand their STEM program.
A UTRGV professor said the $1.2 million grant will be used over the course of three years to strengthen resources and curriculums in the university’s STEM program.
UTRGV environmental sciences assistant professor Tian Dong said the university hopes the grant will get more of the Hispanic population in the STEM field, as they are often underrepresented in the stem workforce.
“This is especially true for students coming from the Rio Grande Valley, which are first generation college students coming from low income backgrounds,” Dong said.
Some of the money will go to new equipment, cutting edge research and even paid internships to NASA centers across the country. | https://www.krgv.com/news/utrgv-awarded-1-2-million-grant-from-nasa-for-their-stem-program | 2023-07-30T07:05:32 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/news/utrgv-awarded-1-2-million-grant-from-nasa-for-their-stem-program |
UTRGV holds white coat ceremony for students entering the medical field
Dozens of future doctors in the Rio Grande Valley took the next step in their education.
UTRGV School of Medicine held their white coat ceremony on Saturday, signifying that the 54 medical students entered into their profession.
“It was a great feeling,” Jake Lanoue said. “There’s a lot of expectations that come with it, but the honor itself feels really nice. And I feel like there's still more work for me to do to feel worthy of wearing the coat, but I know I can do it."
Lanoue says he hopes to work within the field of neurology, and become a pioneer in the field someday. | https://www.krgv.com/news/utrgv-holds-white-coat-ceremony-for-students-entering-the-medical-field | 2023-07-30T07:05:38 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/news/utrgv-holds-white-coat-ceremony-for-students-entering-the-medical-field |
Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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Royals vs. Twins: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Byron Buxton and Bobby Witt Jr. will be among the stars on display when the Minnesota Twins face the Kansas City Royals on Sunday at 2:10 PM ET, at Kauffman Stadium.
The Twins are -185 moneyline favorites in this matchup with the Royals (+150). The total is 9 runs for this game.
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Royals vs. Twins Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Royals Recent Betting Performance
- In 10 games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Royals have a record of 3-7.
- When it comes to the total, the Royals and their opponents are 5-5-0 in their previous 10 games.
- Bookmakers have not posted a spread in any of the Royals' past 10 matchups. The average over/under set by bookmakers in Kansas City's past three contests has been 9.8, a streak in which the Royals and their opponents have hit the over every time.
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Royals Betting Records & Stats
- The Royals have been victorious in 28, or 30.1%, of the 93 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- Kansas City is 11-31 this season when entering a game as the underdog by +150 or more on the moneyline.
- The Royals have an implied victory probability of 40% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- Games involving Kansas City have gone over the total set by oddsmakers in 49 of 106 chances this season.
- In 17 games with a line this season, the Royals have a mark of 9-8-0 against the spread.
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Kids learn new skills free of charge in the Hub City
JACKSON, Tenn. — Kids in the Hub City were able to learn some new skills for free.
The Bounce Back Program celebrated its 2oth year of teaching free basketball skills to the youth.
City Councilman Johnny Dodd, along with his sponsors, were able to teach kids basketball skills, provide breakfast and lunch, as well as offer some door prizes.
Jackson Central Merry’s boys basketball team were also able to help teach the children skills, and kids were able to learn basketball skills like defense, dribbling, and shooting
Dodd shared more information on the Bounce Back program and its importance to the community.
“Well from dribbling to shooting defense, the main skill they been taught today is life skills. It’s not about basketball skills, but just learning life skills and what it mean to be a person. The importance of giving, the importance of being positive. It’s the main thing I want them to take away basketball skills are all great, but I want them to grow up and be productive young people in the community,” Dodd said.
Bounce back happens every year before school begins.
Dodd wants to thank those who helped sponsored this program.
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The remains of a German mountaineer who had been missing for almost four decades were discovered in the melting ice just off the Matterhorn mountain earlier this month, Swiss police said Friday.
It is a grisly discovery that underscores the unforgiving nature of the world’s highest summits and how climate change is warping the magnificent peaks.
Police in Valais canton, in southwestern Switzerland, did not publicly identify the man but said DNA analysis revealed he was a 38-year-old German climber who had been reported missing in September 1986.
“The bodies of mountaineers whose disappearance was reported decades ago are increasingly turning up due to the receding glaciers,” law enforcement said.
Matterhorn is a pyramid-shaped, 14,692-foot-high mountain that straddles the borders of Switzerland and Italy. As of 2011, at least 500 people are estimated to have died attempting to climb it — a significantly higher death toll than Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak at just over 29,000 feet. Everest borders China and Nepal.
Rising temperatures and melting glaciers have not only revealed more bodies, but also made the journey for others climbers even more dangerous, as melting permafrost increases the risk of landslides and rockfall. The volume of alpine glaciers has shrank by about 60 percent since the mid-19th century, according to the Swiss National Center for Climate Services, and annual snow days have also decreased since at least the 1970s.
In 2014, the remains of a Czech mountaineer who had been missing since 1974 were found near Switzerland’s Mount Titlis. On Matterhorn, the remains of a British climber were found in 2013, more than three decades after he was reported missing. About two years later, the bodies of two Japanese climbers were also discovered, capping a nearly 45-year mystery.
The bodies of missing climbers are hard to locate if they become buried under snow or slide farther down the slopes as time goes on. Even if they’re found, some remain stuck because volatile weather, poor flight conditions and the physical strain of moving dead weight at high altitudes are risky for searchers. On a few occasions, people have died trying to recover bodies on the world’s highest peaks. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/30/climate-change-matterhorn-climber-remains/ | 2023-07-30T07:08:02 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/30/climate-change-matterhorn-climber-remains/ |
NURDAGI, Turkey — Hasan Kilic still visits what remains of the building where he lost nearly everyone — his wife, his parents, a brother and two of his three sons. He was there in April, still in pain from injuries that had kept him in intensive care for weeks after the earthquakes. He was back last month, his body healed some, but his gaze hollow as he reflected on all that he and this town had suffered.
In what seemed to him like an instant, an estimated 5,000 people in the town and surrounding villages were killed, and “Nurdagi was turned into nothing,” Kilic said.
Turkey’s devastating February earthquakes spared little in Nurdagi. Nearly six months later, what remains of it — the survivors, scattered buildings — is vanishing. Residents have been exiled to shipping-container communities on the town’s outskirts or to faraway cities. Crippled apartment blocks are being bulldozed and carted off.
But on a windswept hill above the city, new apartment blocks are rising at an astonishing pace. Nurdagi and villages surrounding it are becoming a showcase for a plan to build hundreds of thousands of homes across the earthquake zone within a year — a promise made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that tamped down public anger at the government’s sluggish earthquake response and earned Erdogan votes in Turkey’s recent presidential election.
For Nurdagi, Erdogan’s pledge effectively means relocating the town. The government’s plans, to rebuild on what officials say is sturdier ground, have drawn criticism from some engineers, worried about the frenetic pace of construction after lax standards were blamed for the widespread destruction in the earthquakes, which killed over 50,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria.
And residents have voiced confusion over the town’s fate. Will Nurdagi truly be rebuilt — with parks, squares, shops and some semblance of its old identity?
But they had endured a harsh winter and now a searing summer in temporary accommodations, and there were countless ordeals — finding work, paying bills, coping with the loss of children or parents — still to face. For many traumatized residents, the new Nurdagi could not be built soon enough.
Saniye Cetin, 36, whose house had been damaged and was slated to be demolished, managed to secure an apartment in a new development outside Nurdagi that had opened just before the earthquakes.
“Our other house was bigger,” she said. The apartment has stunning views of the mountains, but there is nothing around it, like a supermarket, and she doesn’t have a car. But she and her daughter were luckier, she knew, than tens of thousands of people across the earthquake zone who are clamoring for homes.
“What does it matter if we don’t like it?” she said.
In the displacement camps, health workers are worried about the mental toll on people sheltering in tents or shipping containers, especially children, who often blame themselves for the calamities that befell their families. Other residents, like Kilic, spend their days in solemn vigil at the site of their tragedies, standing next to disfigured buildings or empty lots where apartments once stood.
On a street around the corner from Kilic’s building, a middle-aged man stood staring at an empty lot on a recent afternoon. Nearly 50 people had died in the building that once stood there, including his mother and his sister, he said. The man, a civil servant, declined to give his name because he was not allowed to speak to journalists. He said he comes to the site two or three times a week.
“My memories are all here, so I stay here,” he said. “I look at this empty land, and I leave.”
Down the street from where he stood, graffiti covered the base of one of the few buildings still standing.
“Not all the pain will pass in time,” it said.
A town disappears
Some areas that the earthquakes ravaged were piled high with memory, like Antakya, ancient Antioch, a site of Greek Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman history. Some of those civilizations’ remnants, along with tens of thousands of contemporary residents, were lost in the tremors.
Nurdagi belonged to another category in the catalogue of devastation — a newer town, just decades old, populated by former villagers who had moved for economic or other reasons.
“I don’t think there is memory of the city — a feeling of belonging to the city,” said Kemal Vural Tarlan, a migrant rights activist who has been visiting Nurdagi since the late 1990s. He said its most durable legacy was as a stop on a historical migration route for Roma people. More recently, the town was known for its robust trade in secondhand minibuses and as a center for loan-sharking.
The things that made it feel like a town — the apartment blocks that collapsed — had started appearing only in the past 20 years, he said. After February’s tragedy, officials bestowed on Nurdagi a recognition of sorts, saying it would be the site of an “earthquake museum,” meant “to build a bridge between the past and the future,” the local governor said.
Hasan Kilic’s family had owned a three-story building in the city for 35 years, watching a hamlet grow into a town.
The family’s apartments were upstairs, above a row of shops. One of the shops, he said, may have removed columns in the building, leading to a partial collapse of the structure when the earthquakes hit.
His parents hadn’t even been expected in town. They lived in a nearby village, growing wheat and peppers, and had come to Nurdagi on the bitterly cold night before the earthquakes because the apartment was easier to heat than their other home.
“I wish I was gone, too,” said Kilic, 48.
Along with the visits to his destroyed building, Kilic frequented the cemetery, spending so much time there that his surviving son had urged him to talk to a psychiatrist, he said. The doctor prescribed drugs to calm him, but they made him feel nauseated and “stupid,” he said.
He had applied to live in the new housing but did not know if he was eligible, and besides that, he wasn’t sure whether he should stay in Nurdagi.
“I was born here; I grew up here,” he said. “I don’t know.” Once his son went off to college, “there would be nothing to keep me here,” he said.
In Nurdagi’s container camps, alongside the temporary schools, playgrounds and mess halls, government psychologists have also set up offices. Months after the earthquakes, they said, the “survival mode” that had sustained residents through hundreds of aftershocks was receding. Now, the trauma caused by the disaster was becoming more pronounced.
Those who needed counseling included roughly 1,000 children who had lost a parent, a sibling or other relative. Therapy included art classes, where children inevitably painted the earthquake: “their buildings, their loved ones, toys that they lost,” said Seyma Colak, a psychologist.
In so many of the pictures, children painted their families as if they were whole and no one had died, health workers said.
Many of the children “blame themselves for having survived,” Colak said. Teenagers especially tried to “suppress their trauma,” believing they needed to stay strong for their families.
An uncertain future
Outside the town, concrete foundations have been poured between olive groves and a highway, and the shells of half a dozen apartment blocks have already appeared. Elsewhere in the province, large, tidy village homes have also been completed. The construction is being overseen by TOKI, the state housing agency, whose projects survived the earthquakes better than many privately constructed buildings. Inspectors, working for the government or private companies, said strict construction standards were being applied to the new developments, despite the speed with which they were being erected.
The plans call for more than 5,000 units to be built across the district, construction officials said, adding that it was still unclear whether commercial activities would resume in the old town or be moved closer to the new housing.
Zeynel Akar, 43, a Nurdagi resident who works as an accountant for one of the building contractors, said the success of the project would depend on whether businesses and job opportunities came back to Nurdagi and whether things like stores were built at the new site. “If not, people will have to migrate somewhere else,” he said. “Because life is not sustainable.”
Viewed from the mountains above Nurdagi, the container camps now dominate the landscape. Some of the units came from Qatar, where they were used to house ticket holders during soccer’s recent World Cup.
In one camp, Hatice Koyuncu’s family had customized their unit, building a porch from discarded plywood and growing a garden of eggplant, tomatoes and peppers, an activity she said helped her kill time and soothed her epilepsy. The family was hoping for one of the new apartments, or else permission to rebuild their destroyed home. “God willing,” Koyuncu said.
Her 21-year-old daughter, Nuray, was more anxious about the future: worried about her responsibilities as the eldest child to take care of her family. She feared they would not be able to afford one of the new apartments while they paid off debts incurred before the earthquakes. She was about to graduate from college, trained as a lab technician, but fretted she would not be able to find a job if she didn’t leave Nurdagi, and couldn’t leave without bringing her mother and younger brother along.
“I am feeling very nervous about these things,” she said. And she was haunted by the past.
When she visited the old town now, she was struck by the “loneliness” of the city and how dark it was at night. The rubble reminded her of those who had been trapped beneath it.
“It’s a very devastating thing to see in the place where you grew up,” she said. “It’s going to pass. But I don’t know if it will be forgotten.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/27/turkey-earthquakes-nurdagi-rebuild/ | 2023-07-30T07:08:09 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/27/turkey-earthquakes-nurdagi-rebuild/ |
A barrage of Russian attacks on Saturday left civilians dead and buildings destroyed, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It said Russia launched five missile strikes and 19 airstrikes and fired 30 times with multiple-launch rocket systems on cities and military forces. The attacks come as Ukraine ramps up a counteroffensive that, according to Russia, has included a number of mostly intercepted drone attacks on Moscow.
Ukraine live briefing: Russian bombardment kills civilians amid report of peace talks
A summit is set to be held next weekend in Saudi Arabia, where representatives from 30 countries were invited to discuss peace ideas as Europe and Washington try to bolster support for Kyiv, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Key developments
Ukraine’s military did not specify where the barrage of attacks occurred, but Russia has in recent days targeted populated areas in southern Ukraine as Kyiv ramps up its counteroffensive. “The threat of missile and airstrikes remains high across Ukraine,” the military warned.
The summit in Saudi Arabia is expected to have representatives from Ukraine, Britain, South Africa and the European Union in attendance, but Russia will not be joining them, the Journal reported. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week, regarding another peace initiative, that Russia “cannot cease fire when we are under attack,” referencing the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which is seeking to take back territory illegally occupied by Russia since its invasion last year.
Ukraine will be able to meet heating needs this winter, the country’s energy minister said. Speaking in a televised interview, German Galushchenko said Ukraine is using new ways to add power to its grid but did not specify how, according to Reuters. Russian attacks crippled Ukraine’s power grid last winter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law moving the date for Christmas from Jan. 7 to Dec. 25, as part of an effort to “renounce Russian heritage.” The government said that Christmas is a Christian holiday, integral to Ukraine, and that observing the Julian calendar, which celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7, had long been imposed on the Ukrainian people.
Battleground updates
Russia said it thwarted an alleged Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow early Sunday. One drone was struck down in the air over Odintsovo, southwest of the capital, and two more that were disabled electronically crashed within Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Telegram post.
More than 100 Wagner mercenaries in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The mercenaries were near the Suwalki Gap, Morawiecki said Saturday, referencing a strategic corridor bridging the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. “Now the situation becomes even more dangerous,” Morawiecki said in comments reported by Polish public broadcaster TVP.
Ukrainian troops have been using North Korean artillery seized from a ship by a “friendly” country, soldiers told the Financial Times, which was shown the rockets. The munitions are not reliable and “do crazy things sometimes,” a soldier told the publication. Ukraine’s use of artillery from North Korea — which has aligned itself with Russia — shows that the country is using all of the resources available to it, as it warns the West that it is in dire need of more ammunition to be successful in its counteroffensive.
Global impact
The International Olympic Committee invited Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan to compete at next year’s Paris Olympics after she was disqualified from the Fencing World Championships in Milan for refusing a mandatory handshake with Russian opponent Anna Smirnova. “As a fellow fencer, it is impossible for me to imagine how you feel at this moment,” the president of the IOC wrote in a letter, which Kharlan shared on Instagram.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia’s defense minister of visiting North Korea to secure weapons. “I strongly doubt he’s there on holiday,” Blinken told reporters, according to Agence France-Presse. “We’re seeing Russia desperately looking for support, for weapons, wherever it can find them,” Blinken was quoted as saying on a trip to Australia that ended Saturday. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Pyongyang this week as the city marked the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice.
From our correspondents
In repeat bombings of Odessa, Putin deepens economic war on Ukraine: Since Russia terminated the U.N.-brokered grain deal that allowed Ukrainian exports from the Black Sea, Russia has intensified attacks on Odessa, one of Ukraine’s major port regions, John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka report.
As a result of the strikes, “Odessa’s grain industry suffered tens of millions of dollars in damage,” they write. “The attacks destroyed at least 60,000 tons of grain, enough to feed more than 270,000 people for a year, according to the U.N. World Food Program.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/30/russia-ukraine-war-news/ | 2023-07-30T07:08:15 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/30/russia-ukraine-war-news/ |
The 2023 3M Open Odds & Preview: J.J. Spaun
Heading into the final round of the 3M Open, J.J. Spaun is in 27th place at -8.
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J.J. Spaun Insights
- Over his last 18 rounds, Spaun has finished better than par on 12 occasions, while also shooting three bogey-free rounds and 15 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded a top-five score in one of his last 18 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day twice.
- Over his last 18 rounds, Spaun has finished within five strokes of the top score for the day eight times.
- Spaun has finished in the top 10 once in his past five events.
- He has qualified for the weekend in four of his past five appearances.
- Spaun has finished with a score better than the tournament average in three of his past five events, including one finish within three shots of the leader.
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3M Open Insights and Stats
- Spaun finished 66th in his only finish at this event in three visits.
- In his past three appearances at this tournament, he has made the cut once.
- The Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,017 yards in the past year, while TPC Twin Cities is set for a longer 7,431 yards.
- TPC Twin Cities has seen an average tournament score of -8 recently, which is lower than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- The average course Spaun has played i the last year (7,308 yards) is 123 yards shorter than the course he'll be playing this week (7,431).
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -5. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -8.
Spaun's Last Time Out
- Spaun finished in the 30th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the Barracuda Championship, with an average of 3.13 strokes.
- He averaged 3.84 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 44) at the Barracuda Championship, which was good enough to place him in the 90th percentile among all competitors on par 4s (the tournament average was 3.97).
- Spaun was better than 88% of the golfers at the Barracuda Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 4.25 strokes per hole, compared to the field average of 4.53.
- Spaun carded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the Barracuda Championship, worse than the field average of 1.6.
- On the 16 par-3s at the Barracuda Championship, Spaun carded three bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 2.2).
- Spaun had more birdies or better (11) than the field average of 6.4 on the 44 par-4s at the Barracuda Championship.
- In that most recent tournament, Spaun's showing on the 44 par-4s included a bogey or worse three times (the field's average was worse, at 5.6).
- Spaun finished the Barracuda Championship recording a birdie or better on nine par-5 holes, while the field averaged 4.3 on the 12 par-5s.
- The field at the Barracuda Championship averaged 0.7 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Spaun finished without one.
3M Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: TPC Twin Cities
- Location: Blaine, Minnesota
- Par: 71 / 7,431 yards
- Spaun Odds to Win: +3300 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/drone-attack-in-moscow-injures-one-and-damages-two-buildings-russian-officials-say/3306140/ | 2023-07-30T07:11:19 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/drone-attack-in-moscow-injures-one-and-damages-two-buildings-russian-officials-say/3306140/ |
Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
“I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I’ve already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight,” she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
“I’m pretty tough on myself," she said. “But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace.”
The 800 was Ledecky’s second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
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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.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/3306139/ | 2023-07-30T07:11:25 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/3306139/ |
SELMA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A little girl is finally back in her room two months after a car crashed through the wall of her bedroom in Selma.
For the last several months five-year-old Penelope Perez has been sleeping in her mom’s room.
But with the help of firefighters, police, a nonprofit, and a local business they were able to surprise her today with a new room.
The look on Perez’s Face said it all.
The five-year-old was speechless as she walked into her new room.
“It looks so beautiful I can’t even imagine I’m surprised myself,” said Elizabeth Perez, Penelope’s mom.
Saturday was the first time Penelope had been in her room since a car came hurling through the wall.
Luckily at the time of the crash, no one was inside.
When Nora Cuevas, founder of the non-profit Brighter Tomorrow, heard about what had happened, she knew she had to do something special.
So, she contacted Selma police, fire, Walmart, and other local businesses to help.
“We all came together, we all pitched in. We wanted to make the little girl have a great experience out of the bad tragedy that happened,” said Cuevas, founder of the nonprofit Brighter Tomorrow.
Firefighters from the Selma Fire Department helped build the donated furniture.
“A lot of the time we are showing up when things are burning, and tonight we’re showing up when things are clean, and we’re putting together beds so she can come home,” said Chief Paul Demmers with Selma Fire.
“Thank you,” Penelope Perez said to everyone who made today possible. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/community-rebuilds-room-for-5-year-old-selma-girl/ | 2023-07-30T07:12:24 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/community-rebuilds-room-for-5-year-old-selma-girl/ |
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.
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.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/30/china-france-ukraine-trade-technology-electric-cars/f2ad27ec-2e9b-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-30T07:12:24 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/30/china-france-ukraine-trade-technology-electric-cars/f2ad27ec-2e9b-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
MELBOURNE, Australia — When Nigeria scored its third goal in the Women’s World Cup match that now has co-host Australia on the brink of elimination, the hundreds of Matildas fans watching on a giant screen in Melbourne’s Federation Square sent up a chorus of groans.
“You can see the joy all over here,” Nigeria fan Juwon Fayomi said.
The Matildas’ 3-2 loss to Nigeria sent the tournament co-hosts into a must-win group-stage finale against Olympic champion Canada on Monday in Melbourne. So there’s a chance Australia could be knocked out in the group stage of the Women’s World Cup, a fate that no host country endured in the first eight editions.
That undoubtedly could dampen some local enthusiasm. But because of Australia’s unique migration history, pockets of passionate fans still will be heavily invested in the Women’s World Cup matches.
Almost one-third of Australians are foreign-born, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and 51.5% have a parent born overseas.
“We often think of the United States as the great migrant-receiver country, but actually, the percentage of foreign-born is higher in Australia,” said demographer Elin Charles-Edwards, a University of Queensland professor.
The 2023 World Cup is being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, and ticket sales have set records.
In the knockout rounds, Australia will host five of the eight round-of-16 matches, two quarterfinals, a semifinal match, as well as the third-place match and the Aug. 20 final.
Fayomi, a mechanical engineering researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, arrived in Australia from Nigeria about nine months ago. He attended the Super Falcons’ first group-stage match — a 0-0 draw against Canada — in Melbourne.
“I’m so proud of them,” Fayomi said. “So proud, so proud.”
The Super Falcons can guarantee themselves a spot in the knockout round with a win or draw over winless Ireland on Monday in Brisbane.
Colombia fans packed the Sydney Football Stadium’s stands for Las Cafeteras’ 2-0 win over South Korea last week. Another big crowd was expected for Colombia’s match against two-time World Cup champion Germany.
“Emotionally, it’s exciting to see the stands dressed in yellow,” Colombia player Lady Andrade said. “We didn’t think this was going to happen.”
Despite ranking 55th worldwide in national population size, at 26.6 million, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia is ninth in the size of its population born in other countries.
The notion of “populate or perish” is ingrained in Australia’s post-colonization history, Charles-Edwards said. Early policies attracted immigrants from Northern Europe to boost the nation’s population.
Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, she said, the removal of some restrictive policies increased the number of Australian residents from nearby Asian nations and other parts of the world.
Enosky Agudelo Tang, a restaurant owner in Sydney with both Colombian and Chinese heritage, moved to Australia from Colombia nearly 17 years ago. He hadn’t seen a Colombian national team, men’s or women’s, play in person in two decades – until Colombia’s World Cup win over South Korea.
“In South America, (soccer) is in our blood,” Agudelo Tang said. “We still love Colombia. We still love our background. We still love our culture. It’s a big deal that we can support, in our home where we live now, our country.”
When the United States and Netherlands played to a 1-1 draw in New Zealand last Thursday, Southern Cal student Aidan Miltner, who is studying abroad at the University of Melbourne, watched at the FIFA Fan Festival in Melbourne.
“It’s a sense of pride for my home country,” Miltner said. “Being abroad, being a little homesick, it’s nice to have a community out here to cheer on our team.”
Australia has the highest percentage of international university students in the world, with about one in every four students coming from abroad, according to the International Institute of Education’s Project Atlas.
Some foreign-born Australian residents are passionate not just for their home teams. They also cheer on teams from nearby countries. Daniel Dodoo is from Ghana and Raymond Ndikontar from Cameroon, but they both were cheering for Nigeria in its match against Australia.
“Nigeria is representing West Africa, and because (Ghana) didn’t get to qualify for the World Cup, I came to support them,” Dodoo said.
Of the top 20 countries that foreign-born Australian residents hail from, half have teams competing in this year’s Women’s World Cup.
“A World Cup is something that culturally brings people together,” Charles-Edwards said. “It’s very easy to support the Matildas but also have another team that you’re backing during the World Cup. So that just, I think, adds to the excitement and to the interest in the sport.”
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Zeke Palermo contributed reporting from Sydney. Palermo and Cassidy Hettesheimer are students at the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.
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AP Women’s World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/fifa-womens-world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/2023/07/30/womens-world-cup-fans-australia-canada/f13694be-2e9d-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-30T07:12:26 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/2023/07/30/womens-world-cup-fans-australia-canada/f13694be-2e9d-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
Adelaide, Australia — Morocco made history in multiple ways during its 1-0 victory over South Korea in the Women's World Cup on Sunday.
After a lopsided 6-0 loss against Germany, the victory keeps No. 72-ranked Morocco in contention to advance to the knockout stage of the tournament.
Morocco scored its first ever World Cup goal in the sixth minute when Ibtissam Jraïdi met a cross from Hanane Aït El Haj with a glancing header toward the far post.
South Korea had the majority of the possession but was unable to translate the advantage into many scoring opportunities. Its best chance at equalizing came in the 87th minute when 16-year-old New Jersey resident Casey Phair pushed a shot just wide of the post. Phair, the youngest player to appear at a World Cup, went on as a late substitute.
After dropping its opening match 6-0 to Germany, Morocco’s victory temporarily moves it level with Germany and Colombia on three points ahead of the matchup later Sunday between those teams in Sydney. Morocco becomes the first Arab Nation ever to win a game at a Women’s World Cup and remains in contention to advance to the round of 16.
South Korea is all but eliminated from the tournament after its second loss of the tournament.
Morocco will take on Colombia on the final day of the group stage Thursday in Perth in a match that may decide which of the two teams advances to the round of 16. South Korea will play Germany in Brisbane. The two matches will kick off simultaneously.
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Luke Winstel contributed to this report from Brisbane, Australia.
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Winstel is a student at the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.
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AP Women’s World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/fifa-womens-world-cup | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/2023/07/30/womens-world-cup-south-korea-morocco-match-summary/ea2ae4da-2ea3-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-30T07:12:26 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/2023/07/30/womens-world-cup-south-korea-morocco-match-summary/ea2ae4da-2ea3-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
NAIROBI, Kenya — African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a path to end the war there.
That commitment, with no details, follows Putin’s promise to start shipping 25,000 to 50,000 tons of grain for free to each of six African nations in the next three to four months — an amount dwarfed by the 725,000 tons shipped by the U.N. World Food Program to several hungry countries, African and otherwise, under the grain deal. Russia plans to send the free grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea and Central African Republic.
Fewer than 20 of Africa’s 54 heads of state or government attended the Russia summit, while 43 attended the previous gathering in 2019, reflecting concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even as Moscow seeks more allies on the African continent of 1.3 billion people. Putin praised Africa as a rising center of power in the world, while the Kremlin blamed “outrageous” Western pressure for discouraging some African countries from showing up.
The presidents of Egypt and South Africa were among the most outspoken on the need to resume the grain deal.
“We would like the Black Sea initiative to be implemented and that the Black Sea should be open,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said. “We are not here to plead for donations for the African continent.”
Putin also said Russia would analyze African leaders’ peace proposal for Ukraine, whose details have not been publicly shared. But the Russian leader asked: “Why do you ask us to pause fire? We can’t pause fire while we’re being attacked.”
The next significant step in peace efforts instead appears to be a Ukrainian-organized peace summit hosted by Saudi Arabia in August. Russia is not invited.
Africa’s nations make up the largest voting bloc at the United Nations and have been more divided than any other region on General Assembly resolutions criticizing Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Delegations at the summit in St. Petersburg roamed exhibits of weapons, a reminder of Russia’s role as the top arms supplier to the African continent.
Putin in his remarks on Saturday also downplayed his absence from the BRICS economic summit in South Africa next month amid a controversy over an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court. His presence there, Putin said, is not “more important than my presence here, in Russia.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/30/russia-africa-summit-ukraine-grain-war/47afd368-2ea4-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-30T07:12:27 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/30/russia-africa-summit-ukraine-grain-war/47afd368-2ea4-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man was shot in Fresno after being involved in a dispute with the man who shot him Saturday morning, according to the Fresno Police Department.
Police say around 11:30 a.m. they responded to Elm and Grove Avenues for a report of a victim of a shooting.
Upon arrival, officers say they found a man with a single gunshot wound to his lower leg who was eventually transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators determined the victim and the suspect knew each other and were involved in a dispute before the suspect pulled out a handgun, shot the victim, and fled.
Police say they are actively searching for the suspect to take him into custody. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/man-shot-after-dispute-in-fresno-police-say/ | 2023-07-30T07:12:30 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/man-shot-after-dispute-in-fresno-police-say/ |