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SMITHVILLE – Smithville’s Drew Summerford is ready to fill in his new role as the head coach for the Lady Noles’ volleyball team after seeing success last season as the assistant coach.
“Since we started volleyball here, things have gotten better every year,” Summerford said. “This year has been a little bit different because we’re trying to change the way that we approach the game. We’re trying to get to where we can progress and continue to get better every day, and in order to do that, we’ve got to change a few things.”
Summerford, who has been a coach at Smithville for 11 years, served as the assistant volleyball coach to former head coaches Jeremy Duke and Brian McCollum in the program’s four-year existence.
“It’s been a big transition because there are a lot more responsibilities as far as making sure everything is organized for the games and scheduling practices,” he said. “It’s been a lot more to it than I anticipated in the beginning, dealing with the booster club, fundraisers and camps, but everything has gone smoothly so far.”
Summerford believes that his already good rapport with his group can help Smithville volleyball continue to grow.
“Moving into this role, I’ve had a pretty good response from the girls,” he said. “I’ve known and coached almost all of them since they were in seventh grade, so it was an easy transition for them with me coming in. They already know what I expect from them on and off the court, and they come in every day and are ready to go.”
Working things out in practice has come easily for the Lady Noles as Summerford has seen multiple upperclassmen step into leadership roles.
“A lot of the older girls are coming in and helping the younger ones with the things that we’re trying to implement,” he said. “When we start doing drills, they already know what to expect, and they’re being more hands-on and trying to assist the younger girls.”
With the volleyball season a week away, Summerford plans to bring his competitiveness to the program as the Lady Noles hope to make a deep run in the playoffs.
“Like every coach does, I expect us to compete, win the division, make the playoffs and compete for a state championship,” he said. “That’s what I look up to the older girls for because they’ve been here, and it goes from softball to volleyball – nothing changes.”
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The Oakland A’s are having a mostly miserable season but do have some players playoff-contending teams might be interested in acquiring prior to Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline.
One could be right-handed starting pitcher Paul Blackburn.
Backed by a suddenly potent offense, Blackburn on Saturday allowed two earned runs over six innings to help the Athletics earn an 11-3 win over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
“Paul did a great job tonight. It’s probably the best we’ve seen him,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. “In this field, you’re going to scatter some hits and it’s just about limiting the damage, and I thought he did a great job in six innings.
“After the fifth, I thought he was a little gassed. I talked to him and he wanted the sixth inning, and he went out there and showed why.”
Making his 11th start this season, Blackburn (2-2) gave up nine hits in a 106-pitch, six-inning outing for Oakland. He struck out seven and walked none.
“Tonight, we moved the ball well, used every pitch in every count,” Blackburn said. “I felt like we kind of kept them off balance all night and created a lot of soft contact.”
Zack Gelof and Brent Rooker each homered in a five-run second inning that helped carry the Athletics to their fifth win in their last 10 games, as they’ll look to sweep the series with the Rockies on Sunday.
“The guys came into Colorado knowing how the ball flies but not trying to do too much, just kind of staying within their approach and putting simple swings, simple approaches together and having good quality team at bats and passing it on to the next guy,” Rooker said. “That’s shown with the hits and runs we’ve put up the last two days.”
Blackburn, an Antioch native and a 2022 MLB All-Star, isn’t set to become a free agent until 2026 but is eligible for arbitration again this offseason and could be due a raise from the $1.9 million he’s making this season.
This year, since he’s returned from cracked fingernail and blister issues that cost him the first two months of the season, Blackburn has a 4.83 ERA in 54 innings, collecting 56 strikeouts to go with 18 walks.
Blackburn’s strikeout totals could make him an attractive target for contending teams. Other A’s players who could be on the move are pending unrestricted free agents Tony Kemp and closer Trevor May.
“I’ve kind of been around the trade deadline my whole career,” Blackburn told MLB.com earlier this month. “I’m here and I want to be here. I love these guys. I really do. I would fight for every single guy in here. It’s a big family in here and this is where I want to be. As far as the trade deadline, it hasn’t crept into my mind at all.”
Rooker finished with three RBIs, two from his 17th home run of the season and a sacrifice fly. Ramón Laureano’s two-run double highlighted Oakland’s four-run sixth inning and Seth Brown had three hits and a pair of RBIs as the A’s ended the night one run shy of their season high.
Randal Grichuk had three hits for the Rockies, including a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth inning off Tayler Scott.
The Rockies trailed 6-0 before putting up their first run on Michael Toglia’s RBI single in the second inning. They added a second run on C.J. Cron’s slow roller down the third base line that scored Ryan McMahon from third in the third inning.
But Oakland added four runs in the in the sixth and another in the seventh.
Gelof, who reached on a passed ball third strike in the first before scoring on Seth Brown’s sacrifice fly, homered for the second time in two games on a 2-0 offering from Newark native Chris Flexen, making his Rockies debut after having his contract selected from Triple A Albuquerque earlier in the day. JJ Bleday was hit by a pitch ahead of Rooker’s drive over the center-field wall.
Flexen (0-5) went 3 2/3 innings and gave up six runs on four hits. He walked six and struck out four.
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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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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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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.
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- 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.
Yankees at Orioles
Sunday, 7:10 p.m.
TV: ESPN
Radio: 97.9 FM, 101.5 FM, 1090 AM
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Twins vs. Royals: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
The Kansas City Royals and Michael Massey square off against Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins on Sunday, in the final game of a three-game series at Kauffman Stadium.
Bookmakers list the Twins as -185 favorites on the moneyline, while giving the underdog Royals +150 moneyline odds. The over/under is 9 runs for the game (with -115 odds on the over and -105 odds on the under).
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- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
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- The Twins have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and have gone 4-4 in those contests.
- The Twins and their opponents have combined to hit the over seven times in their last 10 games with a total.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Twins' last 10 games. Minnesota's past four games have gone over the set point total, and the average over/under during that stretch was 8.9.
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Twins Betting Records & Stats
- The Twins have won 41 of the 68 games they were listed as the moneyline favorite this season (60.3%).
- When playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -185 or shorter, Minnesota has an 11-7 record (winning 61.1% of its games).
- Based on this contest's moneyline, the Twins' implied win probability is 64.9%.
- Minnesota has had an over/under set by oddsmakers 106 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 51 of those games (51-49-6).
- The Twins have a 4-7-0 record ATS this season (covering just 36.4% of the time).
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PHOENIX — Two people have been displaced and a dog has died following a house fire in southwest Phoenix, according to authorities.
The Phoenix Fire Department said the fire happened Saturday night, near 43rd Avenue and Baseline Road.
A mother and her daughter escaped the house before the fire department arrived. They were uninjured.
Fire crews arrived at the home just before 8 p.m. after a 911 call from a neighbor who saw smoke coming from the home's garage.
"Crews arrived to find a working fire in the attic, living space, and garage area of the home and strategically attacked the fire from interior positions," the fire department said.
Firefighters found the dog while searching the home.
"Despite extensive treatment efforts by firefighters, the pet succumbed to the smoke and did not survive," according to the fire department.
The displaced family is being helped by the Community Assistance Program.
The task force for fire Investigations is looking into what caused the fire.
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PHOENIX — 23-year-old Jordan Middleton had his whole life ahead of him. Those who knew and loved him said he was adventurous, kind, and had a passion to ride. His family though didn't expect his final ride to happen so soon.
"He's just a very caring, young, funny kid," his cousin, Crystal Eisenbeis said. "It's going to be hard to move forward just because it was so tragic."
Glendale police said they got a call that a motorcyclist was down near 67th Avenue and Gelding Drive just after 4:00 p.m. on July 27. Authorities arrived to the scene and found Middleton. He had been shot. Middleton was taken to the hospital, where he died.
"It's heartbreaking, he was innocent," said Eisenbeis. "Nobody prepares to bury their child."
Officers began looking for two people in a silver sedan that witnesses saw arguing with Middleton shortly before the shooting. According to the police report, witnesses saw one of those people, later identified as 21-year-old Nevaeh Worsley, getting out of that car holding a handgun. It also states Worsley was seen getting back in the car and that both cars then turned onto 67th Avenue. When witnesses caught up to Middleton they said he was on the ground. Worsley is now facing a charge of second degree murder.
"That's heartless," Eisenbeis said. "Why would you do that? What would make you so angry you'd get a gun out and shoot somebody on a bike? No car, no protection, no nothing. Why would you do that?"
Middleton's family is struggling to accept what happened. However, they are finding comfort knowing Middleton wasn't alone during his last moments.
Austin Sidler said he didn't see the shooting, but saw Middleton fall off his bike.
"It almost looked like he was just swerving in and out of the lane," he said. "Like maybe he started to pass out and then once the bike stopped, he kind of just rolled off the bike, conscious for maybe a few seconds."
Sidler, who's a Maricopa County detention officer, said first responders hadn't arrived yet, so he jumped out of his car to help.
"When I ran up I started seeing the blood that was all over him," he said. "I ran back to my car, grabbed my work uniform and a jacket that I had in my car and I put pressure over the wound and then used another piece of clothing to put under his arm to keep him from burning on the asphalt."
"That really means a lot to us that he went out of his way to try and help my cousin," Eisenbeis said. "And he tried everything he could and comforted him while rescue came. We want to thank him for just comforting him and trying to save his life. He did what he needed to do to try and save him and unfortunately, he didn't make it, but we really want to reach out to him. Jordan's dad especially wants to thank him."
Filled with heartache, Jordan's family is now starting the painful task of trying to bring his body home. That way they said they can celebrate him, and the 23 years of joy he brought them.
"We're sad," said Eisenbeis. "We're sad. I mean, it's heartbreaking. He was young, he had so much life to live."
Eisenbeis has set up a GoFundMe to help Jordan's parents with funeral expenses. If you'd like to donate, they said they'd be so appreciative. You can go here to donate.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals wrapped up their first week of Training Camp in Glendale in front of fans for the NFL’s “Back Together Saturday” celebration. First-year head coach Jonathan Gannon opened practice by addressing the crowd but when asked about whether or not he’s had an opportunity to soak everything in, he jokingly referenced the “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” meme that first popped up circa 2012.
“No, I do. I’m appreciative and I’m glad the fans are here today, I’m excited for today and our players are too,” Gannon said. “It’s go about your day and do the best you can.”
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray spoke in from of local media in the Valley for the first time since December of last year, before suffering a season-ending knee injury in Week 14. The 25-year-old is in good spirits even though he can only watch practices right now. Murray couldn’t give us a timetable of when he'll be back on the field but he’s making the most of all the mental reps he can get while observing camp.
“I mean really this whole thing is kind of mental,” Murray said. “The first time I bent my knee the PT had to bend it for me because I was too scared to do it, so I think with reps with everything confidence comes.”
Murray has been ramping up his running and cutting as he gets closer to being a full go on the field, but the mental component is crucial to any athlete’s recovery. K1 opened up about the dark and painful days immediately following the injury, describing it as “two weeks of hell.” While this is an unusual way to start training camp, Murray doesn’t feel like he’s behind when it comes to learning the playbook verbiage with a new coaching staff. K1 said he doesn’t find the monotony of rehab to be a challenging part of the process and he’s embracing the work.
“I mean, if anything, I just gained more resiliency and just the kind of a bulletproof mindset,” Murray said. “I was already confident and really didn't give a [expletive] about what other people thought about me or said about me. But this is different. This is kind of you and you and no one really knows what you're going through by yourself and whoever you're working out with.”
The Cardinals get to enjoy their Sunday off before getting back to work on Monday.
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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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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing "harmful" materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids. The measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect Aug. 1.
A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock had challenged the law, saying fear of prosecution under the measure could prompt libraries and booksellers to no longer carry titles that could be challenged.
The judge also rejected a motion by the defendants, which include prosecuting attorneys for the state, seeking to dismiss the case.
The ACLU of Arkansas, which represents some of the plaintiffs, applauded the court's ruling, saying that the absence of a preliminary injunction would have jeopardized First Amendment rights.
"The question we had to ask was — do Arkansans still legally have access to reading materials? Luckily, the judicial system has once again defended our highly valued liberties," Holly Dickson, the executive director of the ACLU in Arkansas, said in a statement.
The lawsuit comes as lawmakers in an increasing number of conservative states are pushing for measures making it easier to ban or restrict access to books. The number of attempts to ban or restrict books across the U.S. last year was the highest in the 20 years the American Library Association has been tracking such efforts.
Laws restricting access to certain materials or making it easier to challenge them have been enacted in several other states, including Iowa, Indiana and Texas.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said in an email Saturday that his office would be "reviewing the judge's opinion and will continue to vigorously defend the law."
The executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge's 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.
"As folks in southwest Arkansas say, this order is stout as horseradish!" he said in an email.
"I'm relieved that for now the dark cloud that was hanging over CALS' librarians has lifted," he added.
Cheryl Davis, general counsel for the Authors Guild, said the organization is "thrilled" about the decision. She said enforcing this law "is likely to limit the free speech rights of older minors, who are capable of reading and processing more complex reading materials than young children can."
The Arkansas lawsuit names the state's 28 local prosecutors as defendants, along with Crawford County in west Arkansas. A separate lawsuit is challenging the Crawford County library's decision to move children's books that included LGBTQ+ themes to a separate portion of the library.
The plaintiffs challenging Arkansas' restrictions also include the Fayetteville and Eureka Springs Carnegie public libraries, the American Booksellers Association and the Association of American Publishers.
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Colorado USPS mail carrier saves life of elderly woman after noticing mail piling up
Seana Green found the woman lying on her kitchen floor
A mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Durango, Colorado, saved a 90-year-old woman's life after growing concerned about the quantity of mail that began to pile up without being taken inside.
Seana Green, who has been a mail carrier for about 15 years, attempts to keep up with the neighbors on her route and sometimes sticks around for a quick visit as she goes house to house delivering mail. But about two weeks ago, Green noticed something out of the ordinary about one of the neighbors.
The mail at the home of Marilyn Schmidt, who was 89 at the time, began to pile up, which made Green worry about her well-being.
"She's out there pretty much at least like three or four times a week, kind of on an every other day thing," Green told KOAT.
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Green said she had not seen Schmidt for a few days when she decided to check on her.
"I didn't see her on Thursday and I didn't hear on Friday. And when I showed up on Saturday, and she wasn't on the porch and the mail was just hanging out of her box," Green said. "I hollered through the screen and I said, ‘Mrs. Schmidt?’ And, ‘Mrs. Schmidt, are you in there, or are you OK?’ And I heard her very weak voice, like, Oh, and I almost sounded like a kitten meowing."
After entering the home, Green noticed Schmidt lying on the kitchen floor. Green then called 911 and Schmidt was rushed to the hospital. Schmidt has been staying at the Mercy Medical Center since she was found.
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"The doctor said, you know, if we hadn't found her when we did, it would have been probably the worst-case scenario," Green said.
Now, two weeks after the incident, Schmidt celebrated her 90th birthday at the Mercy Medical Center with a chocolate ice cream cake.
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I’ve spent the past few years, on behalf of the MIT Press, working to rescue neglected “proto-science fiction” novels and stories — first published during the genre’s nascent 1900–1935 era — from obscurity.
These works include Cicely Hamilton’s “Theodore Savage” (1922), one of the first thrillers to imagine the Great War as foretelling the downfall of civilization; E.V. Odle’s “The Clockwork Man” (1923), perhaps the earliest cyborg adventure; and “Of One Blood” (1902–1903), by Boston’s own Pauline Hopkins, which has been called “‘Black Panther’ before ‘Black Panther.’”
Why describe such books as “proto”-science fiction? Because the now-familiar term “science fiction” — a coinage of the pioneering pulp magazine editor Hugo Gernsback — wouldn’t take root until late in this period.
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The sum of my work to date is the MIT Press’s “Radium Age” series, which so far comprises a dozen novels and two story anthologies. Well before I dubbed the era science fiction’s “Radium Age,” I was a fan of A. Merritt, Rose Macaulay, Olaf Stapledon, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and other future-focused speculative authors of the period. I enjoy the fact that, while it’s less naively optimistic than the Victorian-era “scientific romances” of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and their ilk, at the same time this body of literature offers a welcome antidote to the wised-up “realism” of Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and other avatars of science fiction’s so-called Golden Age, when it comes to such outré visions as the detoxification of masculinity, say, or the greenifying of cities, or the forced appropriation of the surplus value created by workers.
Oh yeah, and it’s fun to read too!
In addition to the overlooked classics that the MIT Press is reissuing, we’re working on a collection of stories by Francis Stevens (the pen name of the first American woman to publish widely in proto-sf pulp magazines), an anthology of proto-sf stories translated for the first time from Bangla — the language spoken in Bangladesh — into English, and a variety of other multi-authored anthologies. The second of these latter, “More Voices from the Radium Age,” hits bookstores on Tuesday. What follows are a few excerpts from that collection’s stories.
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Joshua Glenn is editor of MIT Press’s Radium Age series, a consulting semiotician, and a former Ideas section staffer.
THE LAST DAYS OF EARTH
George C. Wallis’s 1901 eco-catastrophe depicts a far-future Earth whose sun has grown dim and asks us to imagine what it might be like for humankind’s last survivors.
The man . . . noted, with apparently keen interest, all the things that were so familiar to him — the severely plain walls, transparent on one side, but without window-frame or visible door in their continuity; the chilling prospect of a faintly-lit expanse of snow outside; the big telescope that moved in an airtight slide across the ceiling, and the little motor that controlled its motions; the electric radiators that heated the place, forming an almost unbroken dado round the walls; the globe of pale brilliance that hung in the middle of the room and assisted the twilight glimmer of the day; the neat library of books and photo-phono cylinders, and the tier of speaking machines beneath it; the bed in the further corner, surrounded by yet more radiators; the two ventilating valves; the great dull disc of the Pictorial Telegraph: and the thermometer let into a vacant space of floor. On this last his glance rested for some time, and the woman’s also. It registered the degrees from absolute zero; and stood at a figure equivalent to 42º Fahrenheit. From this tell-tale instrument the eyes of the two turned to each other, a common knowledge shining in each face. The man was the first to speak again.
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“A whole degree, Celia, since yesterday. And the dynamos are giving out a current at a pressure of 6,000 volts. I can’t run them at any higher efficiency. That means that any further fall of temperature will close the drama of this planet. Shall we go tonight?”
THE REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS
The Russian Symbolist poet Valery Bryusov was fascinated with the notion of a dystopia in which one’s every action would be regulated. Bryusov’s 1907 story predicts the outbreak, in the domed polar city of Zvezdny, of an epidemic of contradictory-ness.
Since the detection of the disease in its early stages was very difficult, the chronicle of the first days of the epidemic is full of comic episodes. A train conductor on the metropolitan railway, instead of receiving money from the passengers, himself pays them. A policeman, whose duty it was to regulate the traffic, confuses it all day long. A visitor to a gallery, walking from room to room, turns all the pictures with their faces to the wall. A newspaper page of proof, being corrected by the hand of a reader already overtaken by the disease, is printed next morning full of the most amusing absurdities. At a concert, a sick violinist suddenly interrupts the harmonious efforts of the orchestra with the most dreadful dissonances. A whole long series of such happenings gave plenty of scope for the wits of local journalists. But several instances of a different type of phenomenon caused the jokes to come to a sudden end. The first was that a doctor overtaken by the disease prescribed poison for a girl patient in his care and she perished. For three days the newspapers were taken up with this circumstance. Then two nurses walking in the town gardens were overtaken by “contradiction,” and cut the throats of forty-one children. This event staggered the whole city. But on the evening of the same day two victims fired the mitrailleuse [19th-century machine gun] from the quarters of the town militia and killed and injured some five hundred people.
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At that, all the newspapers and the society of the town cried for prompt measures against the epidemic. At a special session of the combined Board and Legal Chamber it was decided to invite doctors from other towns and from abroad, to enlarge the existing hospitals, to build new ones, and to construct everywhere isolation barracks for the sufferers, to print and distribute five hundred thousand copies of a brochure on the disease, its symptoms and means of cure, to organise on all the streets of the town a special patrol of doctors and their helpers for the giving of first aid to those who had not been removed from private lodgings. It was also decided to run special trains daily on all the railways for the removal of the patients, as the doctors were of the opinion that change of air was one of the best remedies. Similar measures were undertaken at the same time by various associations, societies, and clubs. A “society for struggle with the epidemic” was even founded, and the members gave themselves to the work with remarkable self-devotion. But in spite of all these measures the epidemic gained ground each day . . . .
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THE THIRD DRUG
In this 1908 proto-sf horror story, Edith Nesbit, whom we remember today for “Five Children and It” and other delightful “contemporary fantasies,” explores a theme that would become increasingly popular in subsequent decades: superhuman intelligence.
As the bandage clasped his knees Roger moved.
“For God’s sake, no!” the doctor cried; “the time is so near. If you cease to submit it is death.”
With an incredible accelerated swiftness he swept the bandages round and round knees and ankles, drew a deep breath — stood upright.
“I must make an incision,” he said — ”in the head this time. It will not hurt. See! I spray it with the Constantia Nepenthe; that also I discovered. My boy, in a moment you know all things — you are as a god. Be patient. Preserve your submission.”
And Roger, with life and will resurgent hammering at his heart, preserved it.
He did not feel the knife that made the cross cut on his temple, but he felt the hot spurt of blood that followed the cut, he felt the cool flap of a plaster spread with some sweet, clean smelling unguent that met the blood and stanched it. There was a moment — or was it hours? — of nothingness. Then from that cut on his forehead there seemed to radiate threads of infinite length, and of a strength that one could trust to — threads that linked one to all knowledge past and present. He felt that he controlled all wisdom, as a driver controls his four-in-hand. Knowledge, he perceived, belonged to him as the air belongs to the eagle. He swam in it, as a great fish in a limitless ocean.
He opened his eyes and met those of the doctor, who sighed as one to whom breath has grown difficult.
“Ah, all goes well. Oh, my boy, was it not worth it? What do you feel?”
“I. Know. Everything,” said Roger.
A VICTIM OF HIGHER SPACE
Fans of “weird fiction” will tell you that Algernon Blackwood was an important precursor to H.P. Lovecraft and everyone since. This 1914 story of Blackwood’s, which features the occult detective John Silence, is narrated by an explorer of four-dimensional space.
“I procured the implements and the coloured blocks for practical experiment, and I followed the instructions carefully till I had arrived at a working conception of four-dimensional space. The tesseract, the figure whose boundaries are cubes, I knew by heart. That is to say, I knew it and saw it mentally, for my eye, of course, could never take in a new measurement, or my hands and feet handle it.
“So, at least, I thought,” he added, making a wry face. “I had reached the stage, you see, when I could imagine in a new dimension. I was able to conceive the shape of that new figure which is intrinsically different to all we know — the shape of the tesseract. I could perceive in four dimensions. When, therefore, I looked at a cube I could see all its sides at once. Its top was not foreshortened, nor its farther side and base invisible. I saw the whole thing out flat, so to speak. And this tesseract was bounded by cubes! Moreover, I also saw its content — its insides.”
“You were not yourself able to enter this new world,” interrupted Dr. Silence.
“Not then. I was only able to conceive intuitively what it was like and how exactly it must look. Later, when I slipped in there and saw objects in their entirety, unlimited by the paucity of our poor three measurements, I very nearly lost my life. For, you see, space does not stop at a single new dimension, a fourth. It extends in all possible new ones, and we must conceive it as containing any number of new dimensions.”
THE THING FROM – ‘OUTSIDE’
This 1923 thriller by long-time Maine resident George Allen England, about an alien stalking an expedition in the Canadian wilderness, may remind you of John Carpenter’s “The Thing.” That movie was based on a later sci-fi story modeled upon this one.
With a very thriving fear in his heart, Jandron peered at her for a moment. He fell to muttering:
“I’m Wallace Jandron. Wallace Jandron, 37 Ware Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I’m quite sane. And I’m going to stay so. I’m going to save her! I know perfectly well what I’m doing. And I’m sane. Quite, quite sane!”
After a time of confused and purposeless wrangling, they got a fire going and made coffee. This, and cube bouillon with hardtack, helped considerably. The camp helped, too. A house, even a poor and broken one, is a wonderful barrier against a Thing from — Outside.
Presently darkness folded down. The men smoked, thankful that tobacco still held out. Vivian lay in a bunk that Jandron had piled with spruce boughs for her, and seemed to sleep. The Professor fretted like a child, over the blisters his paddle had made upon his hands. Marr laughed, now and then; though what he might be laughing at was not apparent. Suddenly he broke out:
“After all, what should It want of us?”
“Our brains, of course,” the Professor answered, sharply.
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Politicians don't have to fear AI replacement, thanks to 'legacy,' need for 'discourse': expert
The UK House of Lords serves in a largely advisory capacity and records speeches regularly
A British peer in the House of Lords suggested artificial intelligence (AI) could easily replace its members in the near future. But one expert argued the desire for tradition and trust in the human element when making major decisions will likely delay AI adoption.
"One of my thoughts is that the British have a sense of legacy – it’s a big thing for them," Alex Sharpe, principal of Sharpe Management Consulting LLC, told Fox News Digital. "They also give ‘discourse’ a whole new dimension. It’s almost like political theater, so I can’t see it going away."
A debate in the House of Lords this week prompted a chilling prophecy from Richard Denison, 9th Baron Londesborough, who warned AI may soon learn his style of speech "with no hesitation, repetition or deviation."
The House of Lords, which until 1999 largely had hereditary membership, serves in an advisory capacity to the House of Commons, the elected body of members that actually debates and decides policy and laws for the United Kingdom.
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"Is it an exciting or alarming prospect that your lordships might one day be replaced by peer bots with deeper knowledge, higher productivity and lower running costs?" Denison said during a debate about the impact of AI on the job market. "Yet this is the prospect for perhaps as many as 5 million workers in the U.K. over the next 10 years.
"I was briefly tempted to outsource my AI speech to a chatbot and to see if anybody noticed. I did, in fact, test out two large language models. In seconds, both delivered 500-word speeches, which were credible, if somewhat generic."
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Another peer, Charles Colville, said he asked ChatGPT to write a speech for him on the threat AI poses to journalism, which prompted fears humanity "will descend into a landscape where news is stripped of the very human elements that make it relatable, understandable and ultimately impactful," The Guardian reported.
Sharpe, in an interview with Fox News Digital, argued AI has been around for years, pointing to programs like Siri that are, in fact, AI, but not on the level of a large language model like ChatGPT.
"What we're hearing now and seeing now is no different than what we see in other places, except that it's really white collar instead of blue collar," Sharpe explained, adding that what people are thinking of as AI is mostly informed by "a lot of movies and science fiction."
"[Alan] Turing wrote the first paper, and I believe his paper actually used the term artificial intelligence," Sharpe noted, in reference to Turing’s seminal "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" paper, which asked, "Can machines think?"
The paper formed the basis of his work in developing the earliest stages of computer science and the foundations of theory and research into artificial intelligence.
The biggest issue AI faces in reaching those truly human-like behaviors that would pass Turing’s "imitation game," during which someone wouldn’t be able to tell they’re talking to a machine, is the lack of significant data to train the model.
For politicians, that poses an interesting problem since their speeches, thoughts and ideas are heavily documented in video and writing for AI to analyze.
"When you're talking politicians, they have all this documented history and all that, but then the machines are really not creating anything new," Sharpe said. "They're putting stuff together. They're making inferences."
This ability to replicate a person’s ideas and thoughts to near perfection could ultimately make a body like the House of Lords, which is purely advisory, obsolete. But other issues, such as the legal requirement for politicians as stated in a country’s constitution or similar documents, will likely delay adoption, according to Sharpe.
"And could you imagine a lobbyist trying to convince a machine to do something?" Sharpe asked. "We talk a lot about lobbyists, and we look at them very negatively, but the reality is there is a lot of jiggering that goes on, a lot of deals that go on to get very important things done. Because, at the end of the day, politicians are elected by their constituents.
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"When it comes to governance and long-term strategy, I don’t want to leave that up to a machine," he added. "I think aiding humans to make better decisions and being held accountable for decisions is a good thing, but turning it over to machines – I just don’t see that happening anytime soon." | https://www.foxnews.com/world/politicians-dont-have-fear-ai-replacement-thanks-legacy-need-discourse-expert | 2023-07-30T07:21:26 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/world/politicians-dont-have-fear-ai-replacement-thanks-legacy-need-discourse-expert |
To understand why Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida’s presidential campaign is flailing barely two months after its launch, think back to when he publicly berated children for wearing masks to protect themselves from COVID.
“You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off,” an irritated DeSantis sneered as he jabbed his finger at kids assembled behind him for a press conference in March 2022. “Honestly, it’s not doing anything. We’ve got to stop with this COVID theater. So if you want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.”
Having been bullied by their governor, most of the children who were wearing masks sheepishly removed them. What should have been an easy photo op instead became an abject demonstration of DeSantis’s anti-charm offensive.
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This is why firing staff and streamlining his political operation might not be enough to save DeSantis’s presidential hopes. The biggest problem with DeSantis’s campaign is DeSantis himself.
After his comically glitchy campaign launch, hosted by Elon Musk on Twitter in May, there was a consensus that things could only get better for the first-time presidential candidate. They haven’t. In fact, DeSantis’s technical difficulties that night might turn out to be his campaign’s high point.
In recent weeks, he continues to trail Donald Trump by double digits in every poll and has fired about 40 percent of his staff. One of those staffers got the boot after reportedly sharing a video that, in one particularly disturbing scene, combined DeSantis’s face, Florida’s flag, a Nazi symbol with the words “Make America Florida,” and armed soldiers marching toward it.
It could have been an opportunity for DeSantis to reject Nazism at a time when hate crimes are prevalent. Instead, DeSantis, who has embraced Trump’s stance of never apologizing, has remained silent — and that silence is telling on him.
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In another video, created by the DeSantis campaign, Trump is portrayed as sympathetic to the LGBTQ community (which he most certainly is not). It then pivots to images of DeSantis and — for some weird reason — shots of buff, half-naked men.
“I’m going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up, shirtless bodybuilders,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the nation’s first out gay Cabinet member.
Though DeSantis tries to present himself as a jeans-wearing, just-folks kind of guy, he’s fooling no one. Exorbitant travel spending has created money problems for his campaign. And then there’s his message. From state to state, DeSantis’s stump speeches consist of little more than tired variations on his “anti-woke” attacks that have overtaken Florida politics and targeted marginalized groups.
These aren’t top-of-mind issues for many potential voters. Besides, it’s tough for someone who chided children for trying to protect themselves from a deadly virus to sell the idea that he’s protecting them by banning drag shows.
DeSantis has tried to distance himself from an ahistorical new Black history curriculum that will teach middle school students “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” But Chris Christie, also a Republican presidential candidate, said DeSantis “started this fire with the [Stop WOKE Act] that he signed, and now he doesn’t want to take responsibility for whatever is done in the aftermath of it.”
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Of course, it’s funny to hear Christie criticize DeSantis, who basically stole the former New Jersey governor’s abrasive, bullying style. And in the same way that it ultimately helped stall Christie’s 2016 run for the presidency, DeSantis’s peevishness isn’t playing well on the national stage.
Republican opponents don’t need to derail DeSantis’s campaign — he’s doing that for them.
He certainly isn’t helping himself by claiming that, if elected president, he would consider appointing an infamous anti-vaxxer with a famous surname, currently a Democratic presidential candidate, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Food and Drug Administration. This plays like DeSantis’s Hail Mary pass to his party’s outermost fringes.
We’re less than a month from the first Republican presidential primary debate. It could be crucial in reviving DeSantis’s campaign, which was once touted as a serious threat to the one-term, twice-impeached, oft-indicted former president making another run for the White House.
“Ron DeSantis has never been the favorite or the darling of the establishment, and he has won because of it every time,” Generra Peck, DeSantis’s campaign manager, said in a statement to NBC News. “No one in this race has been under fire more and won than Governor DeSantis. He’s ready to prove them wrong again. Buckle up.”
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That’s nothing but empty bravado for a sour candidate whose deeply dysfunctional campaign already seems to be running out of gas.
Renée Graham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at renee.graham@globe.com. Follow her @reneeygraham. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/30/opinion/renee-graham-ron-desantis-anti-charm-offensive/ | 2023-07-30T07:21:26 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/30/opinion/renee-graham-ron-desantis-anti-charm-offensive/ |
ATLANTA – The Atlanta Braves scored six runs in the first inning off of Brewers’ starter Julio Teheran en route to a 11-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. After Ronald Acuna lead off with a single and a steal of second base, Ozzie Albies singled to drive him in. Two batters later, Matt Olson singled to bring home Albies. Travis d’Arnaud hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0 before Marcell Ozuna had his first of four RBI’s to increase the lead to 4-0. Eddie Rosario hit the first of four Braves home runs to add on two.
With Atlanta up 6-0, Sal Frelick hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth to put the Brewers on the board. In the bottom half, Acuna replied with a two-run home run to put Atlanta up 8-1. Ozuna cleared the wall in the fifth and the seventh to put the Braves lead at double digits.
Trailing 11-1, Milwaukee added on four in the eighth off of a Joey Wiemer single and a William Contreras three-run home run, but that would be all of the offense as the Braves claimed the season series over the Brewers.
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France’s Le Maire presses China on market access and lobbies for electric car investment
BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade surpluses.
Bruno Le Maire also defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to technology after authorities said two Chinese citizens are under investigation for what news reports say is possible smuggling of French-made processor chips with military uses to China and Russia.
Le Maire met Saturday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing’s top envoy on economic issues. He followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 9-10 as part of U.S. efforts to revive frosty relations with China.
Chinese officials gave Le Maire and Yellen a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. But Beijing has given no indication of possible changes in technology and other policies that its trading partners say violate Chinese market-opening commitments.
Officials of the 27-nation European Union are trying to narrow a trade deficit with China that swelled to 396 billion euros ($432 billion) last year. Le Maire cited cosmetics, aerospace and agriculture as possible areas for more French exports.
“There is a need to improve access to the Chinese market. I think that it was at the core of our discussions,” Le Maire said in an interview at the French Embassy. “We want to have a stronger economic relationship between Europe and China, between France and China, which means to get access for all European goods.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has looked to Europe as an alternative market and source of technology since Washington tightened controls on access to U.S. processor chips and other high-tech goods and hiked tariffs on imports from China in a feud over its industry development ambitions.
Le Maire and Chinese officials pledged to cooperate on climate change, financing for developing countries and nuclear power. They announced plans to set up a group to settle a dispute over access to China’s market for cosmetics, a major French export.
Le Maire also lobbied for investment from China’s fast-growing electric car industry. He was due to fly to the southern city of Shenzhen to meet Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD Auto, one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle producers. BYD Auto and other Chinese brands are starting to sell in developed markets including Europe and Japan. Chinese battery supplier CATL has set up a factory in Germany to supply automaker BMW.
“We want China to make investments in France in electric vehicles,” Le Maire said. “In the climate transition, there is a place for Chinese investment in France, which allows us to reinforce our economic relations and also speed up action against global warming.”
The talks were overshadowed by Russia’s war against Ukraine and complaints China might be helping Moscow evade Western sanctions, but Le Maire said he didn’t discuss the war with Chinese officials. However, he said it was in Beijing’s interest to end the 17-month-old war. President Emmanuel Macron’s security adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, said this month China was delivering “military equipment” to Russia but gave no details.
“I want to make very clear that we want this war to go to an end as soon as possible,” Le Maire said. “Indeed, (it is) in the interest of China, it is in the interests of the global growth to have peace as soon as possible.”
Le Maire also defended French controls on technology exports and foreign investment in high-tech industry. French authorities are investigating two Chinese citizens associated with chip producer Ommic who the newspaper Le Parisien said face possible charges of exporting chips to a Chinese armaments maker using forged documents.
French counter-espionage officials believe a Chinese investor who bought control of Ommic in 2018 was trying to transfer chip manufacturing technology to China, according to the newspaper. The ruling Communist Party is trying to develop its own chip industry, but Washington has blocked access to advanced manufacturing tools and persuaded allies Japan and the Netherlands to impose their own restrictions.
Chinese authorities complain their companies are unfairly targeted by restrictions on access to foreign technology. They have warned curbs on access to semiconductors will disrupt smartphone and other industries.
“Everybody can understand that France wants to protect its key technologies,” Le Maire said. “We don’t want any foreign country to get access to those French sovereign technologies.”
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade surpluses.
Bruno Le Maire also defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to technology after authorities said two Chinese citizens are under investigation for what news reports say is possible smuggling of French-made processor chips with military uses to China and Russia.
Le Maire met Saturday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing’s top envoy on economic issues. He followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 9-10 as part of U.S. efforts to revive frosty relations with China.
Chinese officials gave Le Maire and Yellen a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. But Beijing has given no indication of possible changes in technology and other policies that its trading partners say violate Chinese market-opening commitments.
Officials of the 27-nation European Union are trying to narrow a trade deficit with China that swelled to 396 billion euros ($432 billion) last year. Le Maire cited cosmetics, aerospace and agriculture as possible areas for more French exports.
“There is a need to improve access to the Chinese market. I think that it was at the core of our discussions,” Le Maire said in an interview at the French Embassy. “We want to have a stronger economic relationship between Europe and China, between France and China, which means to get access for all European goods.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has looked to Europe as an alternative market and source of technology since Washington tightened controls on access to U.S. processor chips and other high-tech goods and hiked tariffs on imports from China in a feud over its industry development ambitions.
Le Maire and Chinese officials pledged to cooperate on climate change, financing for developing countries and nuclear power. They announced plans to set up a group to settle a dispute over access to China’s market for cosmetics, a major French export.
Le Maire also lobbied for investment from China’s fast-growing electric car industry. He was due to fly to the southern city of Shenzhen to meet Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD Auto, one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle producers. BYD Auto and other Chinese brands are starting to sell in developed markets including Europe and Japan. Chinese battery supplier CATL has set up a factory in Germany to supply automaker BMW.
“We want China to make investments in France in electric vehicles,” Le Maire said. “In the climate transition, there is a place for Chinese investment in France, which allows us to reinforce our economic relations and also speed up action against global warming.”
The talks were overshadowed by Russia’s war against Ukraine and complaints China might be helping Moscow evade Western sanctions, but Le Maire said he didn’t discuss the war with Chinese officials. However, he said it was in Beijing’s interest to end the 17-month-old war. President Emmanuel Macron’s security adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, said this month China was delivering “military equipment” to Russia but gave no details.
“I want to make very clear that we want this war to go to an end as soon as possible,” Le Maire said. “Indeed, (it is) in the interest of China, it is in the interests of the global growth to have peace as soon as possible.”
Le Maire also defended French controls on technology exports and foreign investment in high-tech industry. French authorities are investigating two Chinese citizens associated with chip producer Ommic who the newspaper Le Parisien said face possible charges of exporting chips to a Chinese armaments maker using forged documents.
French counter-espionage officials believe a Chinese investor who bought control of Ommic in 2018 was trying to transfer chip manufacturing technology to China, according to the newspaper. The ruling Communist Party is trying to develop its own chip industry, but Washington has blocked access to advanced manufacturing tools and persuaded allies Japan and the Netherlands to impose their own restrictions.
Chinese authorities complain their companies are unfairly targeted by restrictions on access to foreign technology. They have warned curbs on access to semiconductors will disrupt smartphone and other industries.
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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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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-30T07:23:40 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Thursday that it has opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft over concerns that bundling its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app with its Office productivity software gives it an unfair edge over competitors.
The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc's top competition enforcer, said it would carry out its in-depth investigation “as a matter of priority.”
The investigation stems from a complaint filed in 2020 by Slack Technologies, which makes popular workplace messaging software.
Slack, owned by business software maker Salesforce, alleged that Microsoft was abusing its market dominance to eliminate competition — in violation of EU laws — by illegally combining Teams with its Office suite, which includes Word, Excel and Outlook.
“Remote communication and collaboration tools like Teams have become indispensable for many businesses in Europe. We must therefore ensure that the markets for these products remain competitive,” said Margrethe Vestager, the EU's antitrust commissioner.
“This is why we are investigating whether Microsoft’s tying of its productivity suites with Teams may be in breach of EU competition rules,” she added.
Microsoft said in a statement that it respected “the European Commission’s work on this case.” It added that it “will continue to cooperate with the commission and remain committed to finding solutions that will address its concerns.”
Only last week, the German alfaview video conferencing company added its own complaint over Microsoft Teams, arguing that bundling gives the U.S. tech giant an unmatched competitive advantage “that is not justified by performance and that competitors like alfaview cannot match.”
The commission says opening the investigation in no way determines the outcome.
Europe has led the way in ratcheting up scrutiny of Big Tech companies over worries that they have become too dominant. When Brussels has looked into Microsoft’s recent deals, however, the company has prevailed.
The EU approved Microsoft’s plan to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, after the company offered to automatically license popular Activision titles like “Call of Duty” for cloud gaming platforms.
Microsoft also has won EU clearance to buy video game company Zenimax and speech recognition company Nuance.
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AP Business Writer Kelvin Chan contributed from London.
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LONDON (AP) — A London High Court judge on Thursday allowed Prince Harry’s lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun tabloid to go to trial on claims the newspaper used unlawful methods to gather information about him, rejecting the newspaper's attempt to throw out the case.
The Duke of Sussex alleged the publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World had hacked his phone and used investigators and deception to unlawfully gather information on him dating back two decades.
News Group Newspapers, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, argued that the suit should be thrown because the claims were brought after the six-year limitation to do so expired.
Justice Timothy Fancourt ruled in favor of the argument by the newspapers that Harry was well enough aware of the phone hacking scandal to bring his case sooner. However, he said he would allow him to proceed on claims about other unlawful intrusions, such as the use of private investigators hired to snoop on him.
The ruling was similar to one Fancourt made in May in a companion case brought by actor Hugh Grant, that also tossed out phone hacking charges.
Harry's lawyer had argued he was prevented from bringing his case because of a “secret agreement” between the royal family and the newspapers that called for a settlement and apology. The deal, which the prince said was authorized by the late Queen Elizabeth II, would have prevented future litigation from the royals.
The publisher denied there was any secret agreement and Fancourt said Harry failed to produce evidence of such a deal.
Harry had said the rationale for the secret agreement was to avoid putting members of the royal family on the witness stand to recount embarrassing voicemails intercepted by reporters.
The case is one of three phone hacking lawsuits Harry has brought against British tabloid publishers in his battles with the press.
The decision comes less than two months after Harry testified in his lawsuit against the publishers of the Daily Mirror. He became the first senior member of the royal family to testify in a court in more than a century.
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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's foreign minister called for mutinous soldiers to release the president on Thursday, a day after members of the presidential guard declared they had seized power in a coup over the West African country’s deteriorating security situation.
While many people in the capital of Niamey went about their usual business, it remained unclear who was in control of the country and which side the majority might support. A statement tweeted by the army command’s account declared that it would back the coup in order to avoid a “murderous confrontation” that could lead to a “bloodbath.” It was not possible to confirm that the statement was genuine.
Support appeared strong, meanwhile, among political parties for President Mohamed Bazoum, who was detained at his residence but managed to tweet a message of defiance on Thursday. Several political groups have called the coup attempt “suicidal and anti-republican madness.”
“There was an attempted coup, but of course we cannot accept it,” Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou told news network France 24 in an interview.
“We call on all Nigerien democratic patriots to stand up as one to say no to this factious action that tends to set us back decades and block the progress of our country,” he said.
He also called for the president's unconditional release and said talks were ongoing. Benin President Patrice Talon, head of the Economic Community of West African States, is expected to lead mediation efforts.
Bazoum, who was elected in 2021 in Niger's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since its independence from France, is a key ally in the West's efforts to battle jihadists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Africa's Sahel region. Extremists in Niger have carried out attacks on civilians and military personnel, but the overall security situation was not as dire as in neighboring nations.
The fight against extremism in the region has become a major arena in which the West and Russia have vied for influence.
Bazoum was seen by many as the West's last hope for partnership in the Sahel after Mali turned away from former colonial power France and instead sought support from the Russian mercenary group Wagner. Wagner appears to be making inroads in Burkina Faso as well.
Western countries have poured aid into Niger, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited in March, seeking to strengthen ties. American, French and Italian troops are currently stationed in Niger to train its soldiers, while France also conducts joint operations.
But the threat to Bazoum has raised concerns that Niger could also turn away from the West.
On Thursday, several hundred people gathered in the capital of Niamey and chanted support for Wagner while waving Russian flags. A day earlier, protesters had voiced support for Bazoum.
Underscoring the importance of Niger to the West, Blinken said Thursday that he had spoken with the president, saying that he “made clear that we strongly support him as the democratically elected president of the country.”
Blinken, who was in New Zealand, repeated the U.S. condemnation of the mutiny and said his team was in close contact with officials in France and Africa.
On Wednesday morning, members of the presidential guard surrounded Bazoum's house and detained him.
The mutinous soldiers, who call themselves the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, took to state television and announced they had seized control because of deteriorating security and poor economic and social governance in the nation of 25 million people. They said they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions, and closed all the borders.
The attempted coup was reportedly led by the head of the presidential guard, General Tchiani, who the president had planned to relieve from his position, Niger analysts say.
According to someone close to the president who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the situation, the president has not and will not resign and is safe in his residence.
"The hard-won achievements will be safeguarded. All Nigerians who love democracy and freedom will see to it," Bazoum tweeted early Thursday morning.
In their statement Wednesday, the group of Nigerien political groups said the “country, faced with insecurity, terrorism and the challenges of underdevelopment, cannot afford to be distracted.”
In an interview with the Associated Press in December, Bazoum said that while there's always the possibility of a coup in the face of the extremist threat, Niger had the situation under control. "We are doing well in managing our own situation,” he said.
The international community strongly condemned the coup Thursday.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna tweeted that France is concerned about the events in Niger and following the situation closely. France “firmly condemns any attempt to take power by force,” the minister said.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, tweeted that Niger is “an essential partner” for the EU in the Sahel and that the region’s “destabilization would serve no one’s interests.” He reaffirmed the EU’s full support of Bazoum.
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Associated Press reporters Tracy Brown in Washington and John Leicester in Paris contributed.
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Twitter, now called X, reinstates Kanye West’s account
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The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reinstated rapper Kanye West on Saturday, about eight months after his account was suspended for posting antisemitic comments.
Last December, West, who performs under the name Ye, posted an image that appeared to show a swastika interlaced with a Star of David, prompting X owner Elon Musk to suspend the artist from the platform.
Musk at the time labeled West’s post an “incitement to violence.”
The 46-year-old West was initially suspended from Twitter in October of 2022 for antisemitic posts. He was reinstated briefly by Musk in November, before being resuspended from the platform just a few weeks later.
Ryan Mac, a tech reporter for the New York Times, reported that he was informed by X that West’s account “will be ineligible for a monetization and no ads will appear next to his posts.”
X’s press office did not immediately respond to a query about West’s account. By late evening, West had yet to post anything new.
Antisemitic remarks by West last year cost him heavily in lost business deals. Adidas cut ties with him after a nearly decade-long partnership, abandoning his Yeezy-branded sneakers.
Gap and Balenciaga also cut ties with the rapper and designer.
Since Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion last October, he has fired thousands of employees and cut moderation of content.
In December, he reinstated former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, although Trump has yet to return to the platform.
A week ago, Musk and his newly hired chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, announced the rebranding of Twitter as X and said it would become an “everything app” that would allow users to handle all their finances as well as socializing.
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This week is sort of a checkup and “to do list”. Since it is so stinking hot outside, try to get outside and finish tending the garden by noon, working in the shade if at all possible. I have an inexpensive beach umbrella I drag around the lawn with me (and the ground stake that it pops into) and I work under that if no shade is available. It makes a lot of minor tasks easier to handle.
• Keep a watchful eye on squash and melon plants. Do away with squash bugs.
• Keep tomatoes staked up properly, securing them as they reach for the sun.
• If you haven’t already taken care of this, remove spent pea vines from the garden and add them to the compost heap.
• Keep the compost pile cooking by adding to it and tossing regularly.
• Check the sprinklers again. Timers should be updated and all the spray nozzles checked for perfect spray patterns. Check the emitters to be sure they are not clogged.
• Keep vegetables, fruits, berries, and herbs picked to keep production up.
• You can still make weekly plantings of bush and pole beans.
• If you have a spot in the garden that has some shade, consider another planting of arugula, chard, kale, Asian greens, and basil. In the coolest part of the garden, sow a bit more lettuce. These can be “intercropped,” or planted between taller plants — say, tomatoes — or between rows of pole beans.
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• Check the mint plants. A large container dedicated solely to unruly mint is a great idea.
It seems like a no-brainer to keep vegetables, fruits, greens, berries and herbs picked, but we get caught up in summer fun and vacations and the next thing you know, the abundance of the garden can be overwhelming. Check on the zucchini, cucumbers, beans and herbs. Yours truly is guilty of these transgressions. I was on a road trip for a week and the pole beans are growing into outer space and the tomatoes have flopped all over the place. They need to be lightly pruned and re-tied. I’ll be out there tomorrow, bright and early, getting a grip on this stuff.
Keep the herbs in check. I make sure they get a really good soaking of water (you know: moist to 6-8 or more inches below the surface). I also give the thyme, tarragon and sage and mint fresh haircuts. This keeps the plants pushing new growth for cooking and salads, and, stops them from going to seed too early.
If aphids and spider mites are an issue, go ahead and put a good spray nozzle on the hose and give everyone a good spray. I do this early in the morning or late at night. Don’t get worried about dampness in the garden overnight. Our night time temperatures are in the 60s and the humidity is a lowly 20%.
And last but not least, I am willing to risk the serenity of my garden by installing some kind of stakes and draping them with shade cloth to protect them from the 100 plus temps that keep heading our way. I’ve got a twelve-foot-by-six-foot piece of shade cloth on hand. No, I’ve not made one of these contraptions before, so we will see how it goes — or doesn’t.
And remember our watering rule: Less often, but longer and deeper. Please don’t be one of those folks whose garden is watered for 10 minutes every day. None of this “sprinkling” nonsense. When you sprinkle, 50-70 percent of the water is wasted. It goes into the air not into the soil. It’s like tossing money into the air. And none of the “set it and forget it” either. Be mindful of how long and how deep you water. Check to see if the water and moisture is getting at least six inches below the surface of the soil. Deep, thorough watering makes strong productive plants.
Any minute now, there will be big, luscious, juicy sliced tomatoes for BLTs and dinner.
You can do this.
Mary Ann Newcomer is a native daughter of Idaho, deeply rooted in the soil of the American West. “I grow gardens, scout them high and low, and write about those gardens and the act of gardening in the Intermountain West.” When not tending her garden, she volunteers at the Idaho Botanical Garden. Her work is featured in “Under Western Skies,” and her website is:gardensofthewildwildwest.com. | https://www.idahopress.com/community/community_columns/down-and-dirty-comin-in-hot/article_3a131690-2b19-11ee-b566-9f54f4fd8adf.html | 2023-07-30T07:27:49 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/community/community_columns/down-and-dirty-comin-in-hot/article_3a131690-2b19-11ee-b566-9f54f4fd8adf.html |
Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Way back in May, I took a blank sheet of printer paper and drafted my best sketch of a simple, two-dimensional bucket. I then proceeded to write inside it everything I hoped our family might do this summer, focusing on new experiences for us. I don’t know about you, but I find it’s much easier talking about what I want to do than actually making things happen. Still, I believe there’s something about writing it down that somehow makes it more likely to happen.
So we’ve been slowly checking items off our Summer 2023 Bucket List, and so far they’ve all been wins. Maybe some of these will inspire you to get out there and enjoy Idaho. (Have any ideas I can add to my list? Give me a shout at nampanatalie@gmail.com).
The MeandersMy husband and I borrowed an inflatable kayak and took off for McCall last week. Our destination: the Meanders, a section of the North Fork of the Payette River that feeds into Payette Lake. We took Warren Wagon Road around the lake, hanging a right at Northwest Passage Campground. Driving past the campground on Eastside Drive, we parked on the other side of the bridge in the designated parking area.
Within minutes we put in and headed upstream (though there didn’t seem to be much of a current), paddling for about an hour at a pace that can truly be described as meandering. I had hoped to see a moose (my friend once told me she saw one in the area) but the only creatures we spied were a few fish, butterflies and birds. The day was warm, so we pulled onto a sand bar and took a refreshing plunge into the icy water.
On the way home, we stopped for lunch at Salmon River Brewery and took in views of the lake as we enjoyed cold Asian noodle salad and a turkey sandwich. McCall was hopping; I remarked to my husband that if you threw in a few fudge shops and an alpine coaster, it would be well on its way to becoming the Gatlinburg of the Northwest.
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Roaring Springs Water ParkI’ll readily admit I’m a sucker for water parks and theme parks, so I have already visited our local water park in years past. But what was new at Roaring Springs that I wanted to experience this summer was the recently completed expansion. There’s a whole new area devoted to kids (and kids at heart) that includes a giant smiling potato which dumps water every few minutes.
My favorite part of the expansion was Class 5 Canyon, an “action river.” It’s the same idea as a lazy river, only with more waves and stronger currents that push you along and keep it exciting. There are no inner tubes allowed, but there are foam kickboards and life jackets available to use. I went with friends who have young kids, and we must have gone around the river two dozen times. It never got old. Two enthusiastic thumbs up, Roaring Springs!
CampingI grew up going on epic road trips as a child with a father who firmly believed getting there was half the fun, with camping being the other half. I still love to camp, but sometimes it feels a little overwhelming, with all the prep and whatnot. We have friends who have perfected minimalist camping, literally grabbing sleeping bags, a tent, a bag of hot dogs and buns and taking off for the woods. They have inspired me to try to streamline our own process so it doesn’t take three days to prepare and four more to recover.
A few weeks ago, David and I packed just the necessities, some easy food and our current reads and headed north on Highway 21. We didn’t have much of a plan, just hoping to find a spot along the way to camp. We didn’t have to go far before we found one, just about 20 minutes north of Idaho City. It was a national forest campground, and we snagged a prime spot right next to a stream. A little thunderstorm came through later, but it wasn’t bad, and the two of us delighted in hanging out by the stream, reading and talking leisurely about nothing in particular. The following day we headed home rested and recharged after a blissful 24 hours in the woods, inspired to make camping a true hobby of ours. | https://www.idahopress.com/community/community_columns/nampa-newbie-summer-bucket-list-part-one/article_c68fc7f6-2d5f-11ee-a73f-ff52a8699636.html | 2023-07-30T07:27:55 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/community/community_columns/nampa-newbie-summer-bucket-list-part-one/article_c68fc7f6-2d5f-11ee-a73f-ff52a8699636.html |
Getting in the van and hitting the road to make money from music because records don’t sell is nothing new for James McMurtry.
“It’s been that way for us for a long time,” McMurtry said in a recent interview. “I never made money off records. I had to tour cheap back before Napster. It’s really been from the get go. The Columbia records never did recoup. We had to learn to tour cheap right off the bat.”
The three records McMurtry cut for Columbia Records, beginning with 1989’s “Too Long in the Wasteland,” may not have been money makers, but they established McMurtry as one of the best songwriters of his generation and set him up for a life in vans that has become more wearying as he’s entered his 60s.
“It’s a little tougher, but the vans ride smoother than they used to,” he said. “I don’t like buses. I’ve only been on a few of them. I’d rather be in a van and have everybody get their own hotel room every night.”
Perhaps inevitably, the road contributes to songs that McMurtry writes, like “Canola Fields,” the lead track from 2021’s “The Horses and the Hounds,” his most recent album.
“That came through the windshield,” he said. “We spent a lot of back and forth in western Canada. They got this crop that has these beautiful chartreuse blossoms that go out all the way to the horizon. We didn’t know what it was. Then, one time, there was a sign ‘Canola Processing.’ And in October or November, we saw it raked up into rows and a bunch of machines scooping it up. So we figured out it was a row crop.”
The songs, however, aren’t written on the road.
“I’ll get a phrase and turn it over in my head, but I’m not really writing a song,” he said. “I write when our tour draw starts falling off and I start working on an album. We’re still doing pretty good off this last one, so it may be a while.”
That means songs from “The Horses and the Hounds” will figure prominently in the set that McMurtry and his band play this summer.
“We play pretty much the same set through a tour, maybe a couple tours,” McMurtry said. “When it gets boring for us up there, we change it. It’s just about set flow, what song naturally follows another. It’s a really good idea to do ‘Choctaw Bingo’ ‘Leveled Land’ (which) they like and ‘Canola.’
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“This new record is connecting with people a little more than a lot of them,” he added. “The nature of what makes a song popular is the listener. If the listener can connect with the character in the song and see themselves in it, they want to listen to it again and again.”
Of late, McMurtry has been encoring wearing a dress in protest of anti-drag laws enacted in Florida and Tennessee and introduced by legislatures in at least 13 other states.
The audience reaction, by all reports, has been enthusiastic. And the shows have been generating positive reviews from writers and fans, even if the band doesn’t share the sentiment.
“You can be having a horrible time up there and people think that it’s great,” he said. “You have to try to connect with the audience and the energy they have, which is easier in a band situation, where they’re moving sometimes. Solo shows, they’re all looking at you.”
When McMurtry’s not on tour he has a twice-weekly residency at Austin’s venerable Continental Club, with his band on Tuesdays and solo on Wednesdays.
“It keeps the chops up. But the main thing is it builds the audience,” he said. “Austin has become such a tourist town. A lot of people come in and just go to the Continental Club. They don’t care who is playing. A lot of them have never heard of James McMurtry before. That’s what you want.
“You have to keep your audience growing,” McMurtry said. “Some of them are getting old and won’t be around or won’t come out.”
McMurtry has played hundreds of places over the years. Asked if there’s anywhere he hasn’t played that he still wants to visit, he said: “I’ve played every place in the agency books and some that aren’t; I’d like to play in Hawaii, so I can say I’ve played all 50 states. I’ve played Alaska. But I’ve never been to Hawaii.”
McMurtry won’t be taking a van to the islands. But he’ll probably find one there to keep making a living from his music. | https://www.idahopress.com/community/life/james-mcmurtry-coming-to-treefort-music-hall-aug-2/article_00e3b930-2b1c-11ee-8e44-835dc9b62956.html | 2023-07-30T07:28:01 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/community/life/james-mcmurtry-coming-to-treefort-music-hall-aug-2/article_00e3b930-2b1c-11ee-8e44-835dc9b62956.html |
NASCAR Cup Series tempers boil over at Pocono
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Marty Snider, Jeff Burton, and Steve Letarte broach the "cauldron of hate" that Pocono has become following run-ins between Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick, Ryan Preece and Corey LaJoie, and Ty Dillon and Chase Briscoe. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nascar/highlights-hocevar-wins-richmond-truck-race | 2023-07-30T07:28:07 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nascar/highlights-hocevar-wins-richmond-truck-race |
CALDWELL — The Sunnyslope region has proven to be fertile ground for agritourism, as evidenced by the popularity of Destination Caldwell’s AgVenture Trail tours, which offer a unique, hands-on experience.
The AgVenture Trail was originally developed by the folks at Destination Caldwell and agriculture partners in the area as a self-guided tour, said local farmer and AgVenture tour guide Gina Dowen. The response from the public about the trail was positive, and people started asking for an organized social outing with more experiences, said Dowen, a member of the Destination Caldwell board of directors.
Starting in May of this year, the tours have taken place on the first Friday of each month and will run through October. As the tour bus driver, Dowen said she has the chance to share about the area’s agricultural background and history.
“I’m a rancher’s daughter and a farmer’s wife,” shared Dowen. “I grew up in Caldwell. It’s been fun for me to dive into the history of Caldwell and be able to introduce people to agriculture and take them to different places.”
That history includes stories like the one about the 1920 sheep wool harvest, when two million pounds of wool was shipped out of Caldwell alone. “That’s a lot of sheep!” Dowen said with a laugh.
Dowen said there are about 20 members on the AgVenture Trail, all of which are connected in some way to the agriculture business, be it offering experiences like goat yoga or you-pick flowers, a small store that sells agricultural products, or a place like Rose Hill Bakery, that uses eggs from McIntyre Farms.
In an area that thrives off its agriculture, many residents may not know about all the agricultural aspects of the valley, said Melissa Sherman, program and events director at Destination Caldwell.
“We have this huge agricultural asset in this area and so many amazing agricultural commodities and crops, and we want to make sure we educate people about it and promote it,” Sherman said.
Guided AgVenture Trail tours are limited to 14 guests and include bus transportation, farm-to-fork lunch, hands-on experiences and shopping opportunities. “It’s a different experience every time,” Sherman said. So far, each tour, which costs $110 a person, has sold out.
The tours have attracted a variety of people, Sherman said, with some people using them as “date days” or family outings. And then there’s Gary Narberes, who has attended every tour.
Narberes moved to the Treasure Valley in 2019. As a kid, he always enjoyed field trips. Later, as a dad, he relished the opportunity to take his kids to the state fair in Sacramento and have close encounters with cattle and pigs.
When he saw an ad for the AgVenture Trail tours, he jumped at the chance. “I saw it as a win-win, because for me I’m still new to the area so I don’t know a lot of what’s out there and this really helped me see what’s right in my own backyard.”
On an early tour, the group went to Peaceful Belly Farms, which he discovered was only five miles from his home. “I had absolutely no idea it was that close.”
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Other highlights for Narberes have been visits to the Rose Hill Bakery, where they made their own cream puffs; McIntyre Pastures, where they learned about mobile henhouses and selected eggs off a conveyor belt; and Yarnageddon, where he experienced a kiss from an alpaca.
“It’s those kinds of experiences that helped people understand where food comes from, instead of going to Walmart and just picking up a dozen eggs,” he said. “You get a better understanding of what you’re paying for versus what you’re getting.”
And the interaction with the farmers themselves has been special. “It’s so neat that there are people who are willing to share their knowledge and experiences and what it’s like to be a farmer in the 2020s, and the legacies of some of these places that are third and fourth generation-run.”
Having gone on each tour, Narberes has enjoyed watching other participants’ reactions to what they’re experiencing and learning for the first time. “Everyone has come away with a great experience.”
Williamson Orchards & Vineyards is one of the AgVenture Trail members that hosted the tour group, offering wine tastings and sharing the legacy of their farming operation. “The Williamsons are farmers first,” said assistant manager Teresa Shively. “They’ve been here since 1909 and they are a farming family. They were so excited to be part of the tour because of that aspect. They’re fourth generation and want to make sure the generation coming up will be able to move forward with the farm and winery.”
Shively said many people in the area are discovering the Sunnyslope region for the first time. “We are seeing people who might not come out to visit us otherwise,” she said. “We’ve been here a long time but there are lots of folks who don’t know the Sunnyslope wine region is here, not far from Boise. We like the fact that we can bring in folks that are new or are unaware of how big the industry is out here.”
The next Agriventure Trail tour is slated for August 4, Sherman said, and like all other tours, will include an “ag bag”—a canvas bag filled with coupons and swag from downtown businesses and AgVenture members. The tour starts and ends at Indian Creek Plaza, and since the date coincides with First Friday, tour participants have the chance to dine, shop and support local businesses.
For this next tour, Sherman said she will take over tour bus driving duties from Gina Dowen, who will be in her ‘Gina the Corn Lady’ mode that day. The tour will start off at Namaste in the Country with a session of goat yoga, followed by a boxed lunch from Rose Hill Bakery at the Shed at Garret Ranches.
Following lunch, the tour group will learn about the ranch’s farming practices and sample some farm-fresh produce and explore its shop. Next is a stop at Peaceful Belly Farm for an educational tour and cider tasting.
And the last stop will be with Gina the Corn Lady, who will give a lesson on the history and importance of the versatile crop, along with a chance to taste some fresh-from-the-field corn on the cob. Dowen said she relishes the chance to share her passion for the importance of agriculture with the wider public.
“My philosophy as a farmer is if we don’t teach what we do to those in our community so they feel a part of what we do and a part of things, their lack of knowledge will push us out,” Dowen shared. “If we don’t teach them the ground is important, that growing food is important, then the ground will eventually be covered with houses.”
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Casper Fire-EMS Share Photos from Early Morning Structure Fire
Early Saturday morning, July 29, a house fire engulfed a local residence in flames.
Casper Firefighters were able to put the blaze out quickly. No injuries have been reported.
Casper Fire-EMS shared this video to their social media:
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Driving uptown from Wolcott, on the right-hand side is a building with several small businesses; one of which is Meraki Metaphysical.
Up the stairs and through a beaded curtain is a room full of glittering stones and crytals. Books on astrology and the zodiac line the walls.
The smell of incense is strong. The store manager tells me it's nagchampa—for good energy, of course. You won't find any ouija boards here. Good vibes only. No curses, no hexes, no dark magic.
Serenity Johnson invites me through another beaded curtain into a dim room. We sit on antique emerald-colored chairs. Pop music plays in the background. "This is where the magic happens" she says.
Johnson is the store manager. She looks like a fairy, sitting neatly in a chartreuse tie dye dress with giant blue eyes and smoky lavender hair.
She moved to Casper in 2019. Her last job was working at Ridley's and she couldn't wait to do something else. Finally, a part-time position opened up and Johnson gradually worked her way up.
Her love for all-things-metaphysical started at the age of six when her brother brought home a book about crystals.
"Imagine a little girl coming up to you and saying 'If you wrap an amethyst in dog hair it can stop snake venom.'"
According to Johnson's father, her great grandmother had premonitions and her Aunt Kelly could speak with the dead.
High School was sometimes a bit awkward, she shares: "During lunches I read the [tarot] cards for money. I was that weird girl."
On her way home from school she used spells to forecast what loomed ahead.
There's a table for tarot readings between us, and since Johnson is an experienced reader...
She shuffles a deck of mushroom cards.
Takeaways: Something's about to go down and I'm supposed to roll with it. I am also supposed to relax (ughh). A puffball mushroom turns up on the last card, reinforcing the message that I'm holding onto something too tightly. "Let go, exhale..." she reads.
Other services include reiki, rune reading, and shadow work; for that last one, the Prince of Darkness (he's really a ray of sunshine, says Johnson) puts customers into a meditative state to help them reach their deities and inner turmoil.
Casper strikes me as a mystical place--not just because it's the name of a friendly ghost, but I have my reasons. There are over half a dozen metaphysical shops in the area selling everything from patchouli to love potions:
Pan's Grove, Wonder!, Crescent Moon Co., Diamond in the Rough, Sway's—just to name a few.
In fact, you can find a bevvy of them at the Casper Holistic Expo in September.
I knew Casper was rich in artists, musicians, and punks, but I had not realized its prolific community of mystics, witches, and oracles. Some more serious than others.
The owners of the store, Natalie Meraki and Kyle Lee, are in Arizona. Over the phone, Meraki tells me that she and her boyfriend moved to Casper from Portland to be closer to family.
While searching, they were hoping to find a space that would be inviting to all crowds. The metaphysical community is not large, but they do have their regulars.
"We're just a bunch of weirdos," says Meraki. When they found the Wolcott location, it seemed like the perfect fit. Bright lights flood into the store from eastern windows, helping create a happy, warm spot. The building is rich in history, and Johnson would tell you that spirits roam the hallways, humming.
Meraki shared a poem she wrote about the shop:
"In the beginning, there was a vast sea of darkness. A vessel appeared. The vessel was not existent of obligation, it was a gift given freely of gratitude. An abundance of equal love for anyone whom chose it, fueled by its name, Love Boat..."
While the store has been a vision come true, Meraki and Lee plan to sell. They are hoping the right person comes along and can keep things going for the community it serves.
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Our family was in need of new deck chairs this year, as ours had seen much better days! They’re a sling style with a fabric seat and a metal frame. However, years of sunshine had frayed the fabric of the seats, and exposure to the elements had also brought rust to the surface of the chair arms and legs.
What to do? These chairs were just six years old. The frames themselves were still structurally sound, but they were at the point where they were no longer as aesthetically pleasing as they once were. I’m sure some people would have thrown the chairs away, but I’ve always been someone who would rather restore or refinish something than throw it away – especially a set of chairs that just weren’t that old.
As I pondered what to do with the chairs, I visited a local home improvement store and looked at similar high-top swivel deck chairs, and the prices ranged from $150 to $250 per chair!
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At this point, I thought about how much it might cost to simply refinish the chairs instead of buying new. I figured if I could refinish all four for less than $600 – the cost of replacing them with the lowest-priced similar chairs I saw – then it was worth doing.
We live in such an exciting time, because finding how-to information for projects like this is often only a click away. A quick YouTube search revealed multiple videos of people tackling similar chair-refinishing projects and explaining how the chairs could be disassembled and reassembled. I was confident that I could tackle this project.
I looked at pricing for UV-rated outdoor fabrics to replace the chair’s seats. This was actually the easiest part of the project! The sling seats have a simple stitch on each side of the fabric that a spline slides into, and then the spline and seat slide into rails on each side of the chair’s frame.
It’s important to use fabric treated to withstand being in the sun. I found a style of outdoor fabric that I liked that was about $15 per yard, so purchasing four yards brought the budget to $60. I removed one of the existing fabric seats and overlaid it on the new fabric, cutting a rectangle large enough to create seam allowances for the new seats I was making.
While I have a sewing machine, if you do not, perhaps you know someone who does. You might also check your local library, as many of them have “maker spaces” with all kinds of equipment that you might be able to utilize. (My local library has not only sewing machines, but a vinyl cutter for making custom shirt transfers and other sewing-related machines for patrons to use.)
Next up: Refinishing the chair frames. I purchased a quart of enamel paint for about $18 and another $24 worth of primer. I used automotive-grade handheld abrasive pads to sand the surface rust off and return the metal to a paintable condition. (While I had these pads on hand already, they’re not expensive --about $1.50 each.)
I used a paint sprayer, but if you don’t have one, you could always use spray paint for this project too. However, you’ll spend less on this project if you’re able to purchase paint in a quart versus in spray cans. This brought my total to just over $100 to refinish all four chairs!
I’d never taken on a project like this before, but it was fun and not terribly difficult. There is definitely a sense of satisfaction that comes with refinishing something too – I was thrilled that I’d saved money and kept these still-functional chairs out of a landfill. I also used it as an opportunity to update outdoor living space with an entirely new look, as I changed the colors of both the frames and the fabric of these chairs.
Before you throw away something similar, see if it just needs a refresh. It may be more economical to do so – and you just might find that you have a new skillset too.
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Photo spreads in home design magazines can be awe-inspiring. Quite often homeowners wish they could lift the looks right off the pages of magazines and transform their own homes into picture-perfect retreats.
It takes an eye for design to pull a room together even with inspiration and make it both functional and attractive. While hiring an interior designer is one way to go, homeowners can use some of the tricks and techniques the designers employ to do a remarkably good job of improving the interiors of their homes without such help.
Embrace texture: The colors used in a home can add impact, but designers often utilize various textures to create aesthetic appeal. A single color scheme can be enhanced by various fabrics. Consider a leather sofa made more cozy with chenille pillows next to a rustic side table. Figure out ways to incorporate a few different textures to add depth to the room.
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Be careful with color: Many high-end homes showcase neutral shades that are enhanced by pops of color. If you like a rich, royal purple, leave room for other colors as well. Add touches of purple in vases, throw pillows and other accessories.
Also, many designers work in shades of three for room colors. There may be one main color for walls, another color for larger accents, such as couches and chairs, and then a third color that pops in accessories such as flowers, pillows and collectibles. These can be any colors, but the most muted tends to be the more abundant shade.
Add a bit of bling: Glittery items and metallics can add a touch of luxury feel to any space. A shiny table lamp, mirrors, a sparkling chandelier, and the like are easy ways to produce a high-end feel. Reflective surfaces also will cast light around the room, giving the illusion of a larger space.
Choose a big statement piece: Many homeowners make the mistake of filling a room with several small pieces of furniture that only contribute to clutter. Instead, look for a statement piece, which can be a cabinet, armoire or chaise. Mix and match large and small elements for a sense of balance.
Accessorize: Finish the room with accessories and flowers. When placing and hanging knickknacks and wall art, odd-numbered groupings often look the most cohesive and interesting. Experiment with different scales and heights for even more dimension.
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The Times Media Co. and the Home Builders Association of Northwest Indiana are again teaming up to present the popular Summer Home Showcase, an annual event that opens the doors to a wonderful selection of houses.
The two-weekend event features some of the newest construction, move-in ready homes and ready-to-build lots in a variety of settings.
Held from noon-4 p.m. July 29th & 30th and August 5th & 6th the tour is a free, multi-location event. No appointments are needed to visit these dream houses built by many of Northwest Indiana's premier builders.
"We love partnering with the HBA and bringing our home tour to the communities we serve," says Roxanne Olejnik, Advertising Sales Director for Times Media Co. "Northwest Indiana has so many talented builders, and this event is a great opportunity for them to showcase their work. Most builders will be on location, which makes it a great opportunity to get all your questions answered from the building experts themselves.
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Whether you're ready to buy, just gathering ideas for remodeling or redecorating or trying to determine which of the many neighborhoods, cities and communities in Northwest Indiana are best for you, the showcase is the perfect place for all. The tour features homes, paired villas, condominiums, townhomes and cottages suited to a variety of life stages including growing families looking for more space, empty-nesters desiring maintenance-free options so they can enjoy their free time (and avoid shoveling snow or mowing lawns) and first-time owners.
Settings include city, country and suburban environments throughout Lake and Porter Counties. Featured communities also offer different lifestyle options from country-living to easy access to Chicago, retail and restaurants, health care, outdoor activities, and other amenities. With houses available in every price range, those considering building a new home will find the perfect dwelling within their budget in the location and style that best fulfills their dreams.
Each new home on the tour showcases the latest in dynamic trends including amenities, upgrades, energy-saving technology, storage, styles, floorplans smart home options, structured wiring, home automation, security systems, materials, colors and new looks inside and out.
The showcase is also a great opportunity to meet Region builders and their design team members, many of whom will be on hand to answer questions.
That's particularly important in such a hot housing market.
Participating builders also enjoy meeting with those on the tour as it gives them the opportunity to hear what shoppers are looking for in a new home. It's a win-win by providing builders with the information they need to design and build the homes clients want. And for clients, it helps them understand the builders' philosophy and their commitment to providing high quality houses with the latest in technologies and cost saving energy efficiencies.
These popular showcases are one of the ways the Home Builders Association helps connect buyers to the Region's premier builders and tradespeople. HBA of NWI represents more than 275 members in all facets of the building community. For more than a quarter of a century, the organization has been instrumental in working locally, statewide and nationally to improve and elevate the building industry in the Region. These efforts have ensured that high standards of construction and development are met while incorporating sensitivity to the natural surroundings that reflect HBA of NWI's commitment to enhancing the community's quality of life.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Twins vs. Royals: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
The Kansas City Royals and Michael Massey square off against Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins on Sunday, in the final game of a three-game series at Kauffman Stadium.
Bookmakers list the Twins as -185 favorites on the moneyline, while giving the underdog Royals +150 moneyline odds. The over/under is 9 runs for the game (with -115 odds on the over and -105 odds on the under).
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Twins vs. Royals 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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Twins Recent Betting Performance
- The Twins have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and have gone 4-4 in those contests.
- The Twins and their opponents have combined to hit the over seven times in their last 10 games with a total.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Twins' last 10 games. Minnesota's past four games have gone over the set point total, and the average over/under during that stretch was 8.9.
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Twins Betting Records & Stats
- The Twins have won 41 of the 68 games they were listed as the moneyline favorite this season (60.3%).
- When playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -185 or shorter, Minnesota has an 11-7 record (winning 61.1% of its games).
- Based on this contest's moneyline, the Twins' implied win probability is 64.9%.
- Minnesota has had an over/under set by oddsmakers 106 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 51 of those games (51-49-6).
- The Twins have a 4-7-0 record ATS this season (covering just 36.4% of the time).
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
Spain Roster
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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SCHEDULE
Sunday, July 30
Legion baseball: Class A state tournament at Kindred: (12/2:30/5 p.m).
Northwoods League: Bismarck at St. Cloud, 4:05 p.m.
Monday, July 31Legion baseball: Class A state tournament at Kindred (3/5:30 p.m.).
Northwoods League: Home Run Derby, 7:05 p.m., Municipal Ballpark.
Tuesday, Aug. 1Legion baseball: Class A state tournament at Kindred: championship (12 p.m.); if necessary (2 p.m.).
Northwoods League: Great Plains All-Star Game, 7 p.m., Municipal Ballpark.
MLB
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1 p.m.
KXMR (710 AM) – Minnesota at Kansas City
AUTO RACING
7:55 a.m.
ESPN — Formula 1 MSC Cruises Belgian Grand Prix
8 a.m.
CBSSN — FIM Motocross MXGP
2 p.m.
CNBC — FIM Superbike World Championship
USA — NASCAR Cook Out 400
3 p.m.
FOX — NHRA DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals
GOLF
4:30 a.m.
GOLF — LPGA Amundi Evian Championship
7:30 a.m.
CNBC — PGA Tour Champions Senior Open Championship
11 a.m.
NBC — PGA Tour Champions Senior Open Championship
Noon
GOLF — PGA 3M Open
2 p.m.
CBS — PGA 3M Open
HORSE RACING
Noon
FS2 — Saratoga Live
3 p.m.
FS1 — Saratoga Live
MLB
11:05 a.m.
PEACOCK — L.A. Angels at Toronto
12:30 p.m.
MLBN — Milwaukee at Atlanta or Philadelphia at Pittsburgh
1 p.m.
BSN – Minnesota at Kansas City
3:30 p.m.
MLBN — Texas at San Diego or Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers (joined in progress)
6 p.m.
ESPN — N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore
TENNIS
6 a.m.
TENNIS — Warsaw-WTA, Hamburg-ATP Finals
1 p.m.
TENNIS — Umag-ATP, Atlanta-ATP Finals
WNBA
Noon
CBSSN — Minnesota at Connecticut
3 p.m.
ESPN — New York at Los Angeles
5 p.m.
CBSSN — Dallas at Las Vegas
PLAYBACK
10 YEARS AGO (2013): Facing the top competition in the nation after forgoing competing in Greco-Roman-style wrestling and focusing on freestyle wrestling, Bismarck High’s Ryan Blees won 10 straight matches to win the 152-pound junior freestyle title, beating Minnesota’s Jake Short, named his state’s top high school wrestler as a senior, by a 12-9 margin in the championship match. Blees was the first North Dakota wrestler to win a national freestyle title since 1996.
20 YEARS AGO (2003): For the second straight week, turnovers did in the Bismarck Roughriders, this time in a playoff loss to the Omaha Beef, 72-49. The Riders gave up 37 fourth-quarter points, well more than the margin of victory. Their two turnovers, both coming on picks by quarterback Charles Schwab, were both quickly turned into touchdowns and the Beef pulled away behind their impressive homefield advantage.
50 YEARS AGO (1973): Bismarck golfers took home the top three spots in the Mandan Invitational Golf Tournament with Lee DeForest winning with a 103, four strokes up on runner-up Jay Uhlman and an extra stroke up on third-placer Steve Woodcox. DeForest also won medalist honors, scratching a first-round 66.
TRIVIA ANSWER
Matthew Wolff was the winner of the first 3M Open in 2019, winning by one stroke over Bryson DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa.
CONTACT US
Dave Selvig, Tribune sports editor, 250-8246 or 888-684-2293 after 3 p.m. (e-mail: david.selvig@bismarcktribune.com)
Josh Dungan, Tribune sportswriter, 355-8839 or 888-684-2293 after 3 p.m. (e-mail: josh.dungan@bismarcktribune.com)
Scott Throlson, Tribune sportswriter, 250-8245 or 888-684-2293 after 3 p.m. (e-mail: scott.throlson@bismarcktribune.com)
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Twins vs. Royals: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
The Kansas City Royals and Michael Massey square off against Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins on Sunday, in the final game of a three-game series at Kauffman Stadium.
Bookmakers list the Twins as -185 favorites on the moneyline, while giving the underdog Royals +150 moneyline odds. The over/under is 9 runs for the game (with -115 odds on the over and -105 odds on the under).
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Twins vs. Royals 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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Twins Recent Betting Performance
- The Twins have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and have gone 4-4 in those contests.
- The Twins and their opponents have combined to hit the over seven times in their last 10 games with a total.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Twins' last 10 games. Minnesota's past four games have gone over the set point total, and the average over/under during that stretch was 8.9.
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Twins Betting Records & Stats
- The Twins have won 41 of the 68 games they were listed as the moneyline favorite this season (60.3%).
- When playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -185 or shorter, Minnesota has an 11-7 record (winning 61.1% of its games).
- Based on this contest's moneyline, the Twins' implied win probability is 64.9%.
- Minnesota has had an over/under set by oddsmakers 106 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 51 of those games (51-49-6).
- The Twins have a 4-7-0 record ATS this season (covering just 36.4% of the time).
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LEGION BASEBALL
CLASS AA STATE TOURNAMENT
SCHEDULE
July 24-29 at Dickinson
Monday, July 24
Game 1: No. 7 Fargo Post 400 10, No. 10 Grand Forks 5
Game 2: No. 9 Williston 5, No. 8 Dickinson 3, 8 innings
Tuesday, July 25
Game 3: No. 3 West Fargo 8, No. 6 Mandan 1
Game 4: No. 4 Bismarck Governors 6, No. 5 Jamestown 5
Game 5: No. 2 Minot 8, No. 7 Fargo Post 400 7
Game 6: No. 1 Fargo Post 2 8, No. 9 Williston 0
Wednesday, July 26
Game 7: No. 6 Mandan 10, No. 8 Dickinson 0, 5 innings
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Game 8: No. 5 Jamestown 3, No. 10 Grand Forks 1
Game 9: No. 6 Mandan 14, No. 7 Fargo Post 400 1, 6 innings
Game 10: No. 9 Williston 14, No. 5 Jamestown 4, 5 innings
Thursday, July 27
No. 3 West Fargo 6, No. 2 Minot 0
No. 1 Fargo Post 2 6, No. 4 Bismarck Governors 0
No. 9 Williston 7, No. 2 Minot 6
No. 4 Bismarck Governors 11, No. 6 Mandan 1, 5 innings
Friday, July 28
No. 1 Fargo Post 2 6, No. 3 West Fargo 4
No. 9 Williston 9, No. 4 Bismarck Governors 3
No. 9 Williston 4, No. 3 West Fargo 2
Saturday, July 29
Game 18: No. 1 Fargo Post 2 16, No. 9 Williston 7
CLASS A STATE TOURNAMENT
BISMARCK SENATORS 9, WATFORD CITY 3
Loser out game
Watford City;200;000;1;--;3;6;5
Senators;421;110;x;--;9;10;3
Carson Voll, Judd Jonsrud (3) and Paco Baldenegro; Tony Burkel, TJ Olson (5) and Tyler Kleinjan. Hank Barry (5). W – Burkel. L – Voll.
Highlights: WC – Voll 2-for-4, 2 doubles, R; Jason Hogue 0-for-4, R; Johnsrud 2-for-2, double, 3 RBIs; Neil Dahl 1-for-3; Nolan Dahl 1-for-1, R. Senators – Ben LaDuke 1-for-3, R, RBI; Klainjan 2-for-4, 2 R; Andrew Jablonski 2-for-4, 2 R, RBI; Traiden Kalfell 1-for-3, R; Barry 1-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBIs; Olson 1-for-3, RBI; Hayden Emter 1-for-2, R, 2 RBIs; Jason Juma 1-for-1; Jared Frank 1-for-2; Burkel 4.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 6 Ks; Olson 2.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 2 Ks.
SCHEDULE
July 28-Aug. 1
At Kindred
Friday, July 28
East No. 1 Wahpeton 17, West No. 4 Watford City 0
East No. 3 West Fargo Vets 3, West No. 2 Bismarck Senators 0
East No. 2 Casselton Haymakers 3, West No. 3 Bismarck Capitals 0
East No. 4 Kindred 4, West No. 1 Dickinson Volunteers 1
Saturday, July 29
Bismarck Senators 9, Watford City 3
Dickinson Volunteers 2, Bismarck Capitals 0
Wahpeton 8, West Fargo Vets 4
Kindred 10, Casselton 3
Sunday, July 30
Game 9: Dickinson Volunteers vs. West Fargo Vets, 12 p.m. (loser out)
Game 10: Bismarck Senators vs. Casselton, 2:30 p.m. (loser out)
Game 11: Wahpeton vs. Kindred, 5 p.m. (winner's bracket final)
Monday, July 31
Game 12: Winner Game 9 vs. Loser Game 11, 3 p.m.
Game 13: Winner Game 10 vs. Winner Game 11, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 1
Game 14: Winner Game 12 vs. Winner Game 13, 12 p.m.
Game 15: Second championship game (if necessary), 2 p.m.
NOTE 1: Pairing for Game 12 and 13 will not match previous opponents against each other unless absolutely necessary.
NOTE 2: If three teams remain after Game 13, the winner of Game 11 automatically draws the bye in Game 14.
CLASS B STATE TOURNAMENT
July 26-30 at Carrington
Wednesday, July 26
Game 1: Thompson 5, Hazen 4
Game 2: Cando 2, New Rockford 1
Game 3: Langdon 10, Burlington 0
Game 4: LaMoure 10, Carrington 5
Thursday, July 27
New Rockford 7, Hazen 6
Carrington 9, Burlington 5
Thompson 7, Cando 5, 8 innings
LaMoure 13, Langdon 2
Friday, July 28
Langdon 11, New Rockford 1, 6 innings
Carrington 3, Cando 2
Thompson 9, LaMoure 3
Langdon 9, Carrington 5
Saturday, July 29
LaMoure 10, Langdon 1
Thompson 4, LaMoure 2
NORTHWOODS LEAGUE
ST. CLOUD 10, BISMARCK 4
Bismarck;301;000;000;--;4;7;2
St. Cloud;800;011;00x;--;10;12;2
Alec Danen, Stephen Klenske (2), Jaxon Meyer (6) and Robby Harrison; Garrett McLaughlin, Brady Posch (5), Alex Ramos (8) and Kevin Butler. W – Posch (2-1). L – Danen (4-4).
Highlights: Bis – Nick Oakley 2-for-4, R; Dante Leach 2-for-5, R; Jack Herring 1-for-5, R; Brock Kleszcz 2-for-5, R, RBI. SC – Haiden Hunt 2-for-4, R, RBI; Oscar Serratos Jr. 1-for-4, R, RBI; Anthony Mata 3-for-5, 2 R; Jose Gonzalez 1-for-5, R, 2 RBIs; Jackson Hauge 3-for-4, double, R, RBI; Sawyer Smith 2-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBIs.
Time of game: 2:50.
Attendance: 1,421.
Records: Bismarck 7-18, St. Cloud 14-9.
STANDINGS
Second half
Great Lakes East
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
Kalamazoo;16-7;.696;--
Rockford;15-10;.600;2
Battle Creek;13-12;.520;4.5
x-Traverse City;12-12;.500;4.5
Kokomo;10-15;.400;7
Kenosha;9-17;.346;8.5
Great Lakes West
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
Madison;14-10;.583;--
Fond du Lac;13-11;.542;1
x-Green Bay;12-11;.522;1.5
Wisconsin Rapids;10-11;.476;2.5
Wausau;9-12;.429;3.5
Lakeshore;9-15;.375;5
Great Plains East
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
La Crosse;19-4;.826;--
Waterloo;18-6;.750;1.5
Duluth;16-9;.640;4
x-Eau Claire;11-13;.458;8.5
Rochester;11-13;.458;8.5
Thunder Bay;8-17;.320;12
Great Plains West
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
x-Willmar;15-8;.652;--
St. Cloud;14-9;.609;1
Mankato;13-11;.542;2.5
Minot;7-17;.292;8.5
Bismarck;7-18;.280;9
Minnesota;2-16;.111;10.5
x--Won first half
Saturday, July 29
St. Cloud 10, Bismarck 4
Kalamazoo 7, Kenosha 4, first game
Kalamazoo 6, Kenosha 0, second game
Thunder Bay 7, Duluth 4
Green Bay 7, Wisconsin Rapids 2
Fond du Lac 4, Madison 3, 11 innings
Kokomo 6, Rockford 5, 10 innings
Battle Creek 8, Traverse City 6
Eau Claire 15, Minnesota 14, 10 innings
La Crosse 7, Mankato 6, 11 innings
Rochester 10, Minot 8
Lakeshore 9, Wausau 8
Waterloo 6, Willmar 2
Sunday, July 30
Bismarck at St. Cloud, 4:05 p.m.
Duluth at Thunder Bay
Kenosha at Kalamazoo
Wausau at Lakeshore
Madison at Fond du Lac
Wisconsin Rapids at Green Bay
Minnesota at Eau Claire
Rockford at Kokomo
Battle Creek at Traverse City
La Crosse at Mankato
Waterloo at Wilmar
Rochester at Minot
Monday, July 31
Great Plains Home Run Challenge, 7 p.m.
Wisconsin Rapids at Wausau, completion of suspended game
Wisconsin Rapids at Wausau, second game
Kalamazoo at Battle Creek
Lakeshore at Madison
Traverse City at Kokomo
Kenosha at Rockford
Green Bay at Fond du Lac
Tuesday, Aug. 1
Great Plains All-Star Game, 7 p.m.
Wausau at Madison
Wednesday, Aug. 2
Kalamazoo at Battle Creek
Traverse City at kokomo
Madison at Lakeshore
Wisconsin Rapids at Wausau
Fond du Lac at Green Bay
Rockford at Kenosha
Thursday, Aug. 3
Willmar at Bismarck, 6:35 p.m.
Waterloo at Rochester
Minnesota at Thunder Bay
Fond du Lac at Wisconsin Rapids
Wausau at Madison
Kalamazoo at Traverse City
Battle Creek at Kenosha
Kokomo at Rockford
Minnesota at Minot
St. Cloud at La Crosse
Eau Claire at Duluth
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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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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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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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Some of the most memorable games in Colorado football history involve conference battles with Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri.
The Buffaloes also played a pair of Big 12 title games against Texas.
Those schools won’t be in the Big 12 when Colorado rejoins the conference next year, but CU’s administration is excited about the current makeup of their future home.
Six teams from the original Big 12 have since departed, or have plans to depart. CU (Pac-12) and Nebraska (Big Ten) left in 2011. Missouri and Texas A&M (SEC) left in 2012. And Oklahoma and Texas (SEC) will leave next summer.
When CU gets back to the Big 12 next year, it will renew some rivalries with Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech. The Buffaloes also will get acquainted with TCU, West Virginia, BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston.
Potential matchups with those schools, as well as playing games in those markets, is intriguing to the Buffs.
“If you think about the Big 12 in the past, it was all those middle states around us,” CU athletic director Rick George said. “Now being able to go and play in Cincinnati, which is a good market for us; and to go in to play in Orlando, those factors were really important for us because the conference is different than it was [then]. And the fact that they added Houston I think is really favorable. It’s the seventh largest market in the country. We recruit really well out of there. We looked at this thing in very detailed format to make the decision that we did.”
At the time that CU made the decision to leave the Big 12 in 2010, the conference looked to be on the verge of collapse. There were serious talks about the Pac-10 taking as many six teams from the Big 12 — Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and CU — while Missouri and Nebraska (and Texas) were being courted by the Big Ten.
“Many people back then thought that was it; that was the demise of a conference,” CU chancellor Philip DiStefano said Thursday, “and it didn’t turn out that way. It just turned out the opposite.”
CU and Nebraska both left in 2011 and Missouri and Texas A&M left a year later, but the Big 12 got off the deck and added TCU and West Virginia to make up for some of the losses.
When Oklahoma and Texas announced two years ago their decisions to leave for the SEC in 2024, it appeared to be another crushing blow to the Big 12. Certainly losing the two marquee programs isn’t good for the Big 12, but adding four new teams this year — plus Colorado next year — has provided a tremendous boost again.
“There was that instability that was going on in the Big 12 at the time [in 2010], which now I look at and think about the resilience of the Big 12,” DiStefano said. “I think they became stronger.”
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark will reach his one-year anniversary on the job on Tuesday. In that short time, he’s made some moves to generate excitement within the conference. At Big 12 media day in Arlington, Texas, on July 12, exactly two weeks before news broke of CU’s jump to the conference, Yormark expressed his excitement in the new version of the Big 12.
“I want the Big 12 to be the best version of ourselves and if we can do that, we’re in a great place,” he said. “So it’s not about ranking us within the Power Five. But I can tell you this: There’s been no better time to be a part of the Big 12 than right now. And this thing is going to grow. It’s going to move forward in a positive way and I’m really excited about our future.”
That future will now include the Buffaloes.
“As we looked at this during this process, it became clear that the Big 12 was the best fit for us,” George said. “We feel really good about where we are today and what the future looks like for Colorado.”
Reworking the schedule
In moving to the Big 12, CU will have to do some work on its future non-conference scheduling in football.
Scheduling many years in advance is common in college football and CU has three home-and-home sets currently scheduled with Big 12 teams: Houston (2025 and 2026), Kansas State (2027 and 2028) and Oklahoma State (2036 and 2037).
“We’ll have to dissolve those contracts, obviously, and then we will look to fill those games as quickly as we can,” George said. “But what I think it gives us an opportunity to do is create more home contests here, because we may go out and look for opponents that are just going to play in Boulder one year. So rather than having six games [at Folsom Field], we’ll have seven, which again, helps us in revenue generation for our department.”
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded the judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz for showing bias toward the prosecution.
The unanimous decision Monday followed a June recommendation from the Judicial Qualifications Commission. That panel had found that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer violated several rules governing judicial conduct during last year’s trial in her actions toward Cruz’s public defenders. The six-month trial ended with Cruz receiving a receiving a life sentence for the 2018 murder of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the jury could not unanimously agree that he deserved a death sentence.
The 15-member commission found that Scherer “unduly chastised” lead public defender Melisa McNeill and her team, wrongly accused one Cruz attorney of threatening her child, and improperly embraced members of the prosecution in the courtroom after the trial’s conclusion.
The commission, composed of judges, lawyers and citizens, acknowledged that “the worldwide publicity surrounding the case created stress and tension for all participants.”
Regardless, the commission said, judges are expected to “ensure due process, order and decorum, and act always with dignity and respect to promote the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”
A voicemail message was left at Scherer’s office Tuesday, and an email seeking comment was sent to the public defender’s office. Paula McMahon, spokesperson for the Broward State Attorney’s Office, said her office didn’t have comment.
Scherer retired from the bench at the end of last month. The 46-year-old former prosecutor was appointed to the bench in 2012, and the Cruz case was her first capital murder trial. Broward County’s computerized system randomly assigned her Cruz’s case shortly after the shooting.
Scherer’s handling of the case drew frequent praise from the parents and spouses of the victims, who said she treated them with professionalism and kindness. But her clashes with Cruz’s attorneys and others sometimes drew criticism from legal observers.
After sentencing Cruz, 24, to life without parole as required, Scherer left the bench and hugged members of the prosecution and the victims’ families. She told the commission she offered to also hug the defense team.
That action led the Supreme Court in April to remove her from overseeing post-conviction motions of another defendant, Randy Tundidor, who was sentenced to death for murder in the 2019 killing of his landlord. One of the prosecutors in that case had also been on the Cruz team, and during a hearing in the Tundidor case a few days after the Cruz sentencing, Scherer asked the prosecutor how he was holding up.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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High pressure is slowly making it’s way east across the northern half of New Mexico. Since it was sitting over the Four Corners this afternoon, there was more record breaking heat for many places across northwest New Mexico and southeast Colorado. Shower and thunderstorm activity will continue to dissipate across the state overnight and into early Sunday morning. Record breaking heat is no longer expected starting Sunday and continuing into next week.
High pressure pushing east will allow drier air to wrap around it into southern and eastern New Mexico starting Sunday. This will only allow very isolated mountain storms to pop up in the afternoon with little accumulating rainfall. The biggest impact from tomorrow’s storms will be gusty winds brought by outflow boundaries. Monday will be a rinse and repeat of Sunday, with again only isolated mountain storms across far west/northern New Mexico. A few storms may form over the Sacramento Mountains, but that will be the farthest extent.
Even with drier air, cloud coverage should keep temperatures below the triple digits for most of the state through Monday. The exception will be far east/southeastern New Mexico, with Roswell and Tucumcari expected to get above 100°. Above average temperatures will persist all next week, but not nearly as extreme as the record breaking heat from the last couple weeks.
High pressure will continue to push east early to mid next week. This will finally bring the biggest surge of monsoon moisture that the state has seen so far this year. Widespread afternoon showers and storms will persist for most of the state Tuesday and Wednesday. This will keep temperatures stable through mid week. Unfortunately, monsoon activity will be short-lived, with more dry air and record breaking heat returning by next weekend. Enjoy the rain next week while it lasts! | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/monsoon-moisture-arrives-next-week/ | 2023-07-30T07:44:48 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/monsoon-moisture-arrives-next-week/ |
State police have arrested a 14-year-old boy who, they said, shot and killed a girl.
Police went to the residence of William Brown, 39, on Friday in Questa on a report of a homicide. Investigators learned that around 2:30 p.m., four juveniles were hanging out and listening to music when a 14-year-old boy pointed a pistol at a 13-year-old girl, pulled the trigger and killed her, according to a New Mexico State Police news release. Police said the boy dragged the girl’s body outside and then returned to the residence.
Brown, the boy’s father, got home later and went inside the residence. Brown and his son then refused to come out for about half an hour after police arrived, authorities said.
The boy, who police declined to name, is being charged with an open count of first-degree murder, two counts of assault on a police officer and two counts of tampering with evidence. He was booked into the San Juan Juvenile Detention Center in Farmington. His father, who owned the guns inside the home, was booked into Taos County jail on a charge of negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor resulting in death.
The law the elder Brown is being charged under, which makes it a crime to make guns available to minors who later use them for a crime, was passed during this year’s legislative session and dubbed Bennie’s Law in memory of 13-year-old Bennie Hargrove, who was shot and killed at Washington Middle School in Albuquerque in August 2021 as he tried to intercede in a bullying incident.
Family and friends of the victim plan to host a vigil at Eagle Rock Lake at 6 p.m. Sunday, according to Glenda Archuleta-Alnachef, the victim’s aunt. After the vigil, she said, people plan to march to raise awareness of gun safety. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/state-police-juvenile-killed-suspect-taken-into-custody-in-questa-homicide/article_30c48144-2e3b-11ee-ab8b-479f91579642.html | 2023-07-30T07:44:55 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/state-police-juvenile-killed-suspect-taken-into-custody-in-questa-homicide/article_30c48144-2e3b-11ee-ab8b-479f91579642.html |
Two notable developments in Santa Fe’s affordable housing realm transpired last week.
The city’s breaking news was the pending rollout of an online tool developed by the Land Use Department. It’s an interactive, GIS-based map tracking projects with 10 or more units in the residential development pipeline.
It replaces a static PDF map of the city with balloons and arrows pointing to where things were happening or expected to happen. That map was outdated soon after printing.
The new tool, going live with a work-in-progress disclaimer, is long overdue. City councilors already want more data than the trove offered.
The tool’s headline news, with a big asterisk, is that more than 10,000 dwelling units are in the pipeline. More context on that later with Santa Fe County’s breaking news.
The pipeline’s four categories start with all units either under discussion with city planners or with master plan approvals. That’s a huge share of the 10,000 and includes some that are years away. Examples are Phase 3 of Tierra Contenta, the midtown campus, Las Soleras, Santa Fe Estates and some yet unknown by the public.
The second category is approved units in subdivisions or apartment complexes that have not yet started. That number is much smaller with no guarantee of anything built anytime soon. Money was spent getting approvals from drawn plans, but that amount is a fraction of what it takes to build. More on that with the county discussion.
The third category is unfinished projects under construction and the fourth is recently completed. The Land Use Department staff plans quarterly updates as projects finish or fall out of the pipeline.
The tool’s arrival seemed to surprise and please councilors. It should also please and inform legions of Santa Feans following affordable housing issues.
Meanwhile, Santa Fe County’s significant action was approving an affordable housing plan more than two years in the making. It was produced by Sites Southwest, a planning firm, with input from 35 citizen volunteers, of which I was one.
The plan, approved by resolution, is required by the Mortgage Finance Authority for the county to consider loans and grants for affordable housing. Those actions are done by an ordinance, also passed by commissioners Tuesday night with no public comment.
The report’s headline news is only 10% of county residents, including those in the city, can afford a median-priced home. The biggest reason for that disparity is another headline: More than 17,000 dwelling units are needed for market equilibrium. The report says they are needed by 2025 — just two years away.
Granted, much of the report’s data was culled from the best available information at the time. Much has been built since 2019, but only a fraction of the need and not enough to stabilize housing prices. A concluding strategy from the report is bound to be controversial — housing costs can only drop with much smaller units at much higher density — like under 1,500 square feet with at least 10 units per acre.
It’s hard to imagine where in the county that could happen. It certainly won’t be along West Alameda in the new piece of historic Agua Fría village. Wherever it happens, it will take a lot more money than is floating around Santa Fe.
A conservative estimate of 17,000 dwelling units at 1,500 square feet built at $200 per foot is over $5 billion, an astronomical figure no affordable housing trust fund could dream of leveraging.
The report is a start. And should a dent be made in the housing crisis, perhaps the county will need a pipeline track tool of its own. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/real_estate/tracking-tools-will-help-but-a-massive-problem-remains/article_68f1ada4-2d59-11ee-b13a-ab963eddd32c.html | 2023-07-30T07:45:01 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/real_estate/tracking-tools-will-help-but-a-massive-problem-remains/article_68f1ada4-2d59-11ee-b13a-ab963eddd32c.html |
Jeff Apodaca is leery about the P word. Which is funny, because he loves the P word.
“I know you’re the press, but don’t make it political,” he pleaded.
Not sure I can completely heed that request, but here goes:
Apodaca was talking about a private event on July 21 at the governor’s mansion, where Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hosted the family of former Gov. Jerry Apodaca and dedicated a memorial garden in his honor. And while it wasn’t anything close to a political act — it actually was a refreshing slice of humanity, devoid of movidas — the irony of politics is inescapable.
Jeff Apodaca, Jerry’s youngest son, was a bitter rival of Lujan Grisham’s in the 2018 Democratic Party primary. If you knew Jerry or know Jeff, both former undersized but overachieving college football players, you know winning means a lot — and losing hurts even worse.
The sting, particularly for politicians, can last a lifetime.
It can work both ways, too. The elder Apodaca, a political infighter who had few peers in that arena both when he was the governor and in the years afterward, rarely forgot a slight. Or a defeat. After Lujan Grisham vanquished his youngest son and state Sen. Joseph Cervantes for the Democratic nomination nearly five years ago, the old man shocked a lot of Democrats when he endorsed her rival in the general election — Republican Steve Pearce.
From the outside, you’d have thought that’d leave a mark for a lifetime.
Five years later, Jeff Apodaca, an Albuquerque businessman who’s plenty plugged in to what happens in the political arena, scoffed at the notion of a grudge.
He acknowledged there were some hard feelings for a time after the ‘18 primary, allowing there were some “heated” words between the two in the days or months after the returns came in.
But he said the rivalry began to soften as time went on, with the thaw obvious when a group of New Mexico Amigos — a private collection of business people interested in promoting the state — invited the governor to join them on a plane trip.
“I happened to be standing there and she came walking up,” Apodaca recalled. “She goes, ‘Hey, Jeff, how are you?’ She gave me a big hug and I gave her a big hug back. And that was the whole talk of the Amigos trip: ‘Oh, my God: He’s talking to the governor, they talked to each other. They must be friendly again.’ And I’m like, dude, she kicked my … I mean, she won and you know, she’s been very cordial and professional and friendly with me since.”
If there were any lingering strains between the two, they evaporated when Jerry Apodaca — elected as New Mexico’s governor in 1974, the first Hispanic of the modern era to head the state — died in the spring at the age of 88. Jeff Apodaca invited Lujan Grisham to speak at a memorial service for his father in the Capitol Rotunda, and she delivered a moving tribute, one clearly appreciated by the family.
“After all the speeches, she literally said, ‘You know, I’d like to have you and the family up, just so you guys can see the residence,’ “ recalled Apodaca, who grew up there with his brother and sisters when they were young. “So, you know, it was very nice. It was a very private thing. But it was very nice.”
Protecting Jerry Apodaca’s legacy — and that of his ex-wife, Clara, a formidable presence who has made her own mark in New Mexico — is of extreme importance to Jeff and his siblings. You’d probably expect that; it’s a family thing. But there are other factors at play.
If you were a young New Mexico Hispanic in the ’70s, you remember what a big deal it was that a guy from ’Cruces could ascend to the governor’s chair. I’m not saying he spurred every minority in the state to run for political office — plenty were going to do it anyway — but it did not hurt to know there was a scout who had gone ahead when there was no trail. No easy path.
Lujan Grisham, just a couple years older than Jeff, was in that generation, and talked about that in her eulogy of the former governor; the impact of having an Hispanic leader in the ’70s.
I asked Lujan Grisham’s spokesman about the ceremony. The words I got back read like a mix of personal feeling and political remembrance.
“It was important to me to not only provide a place for those who have lived at the governor’s residence to be honored but also a place to remember that these were husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters,” the governor’s statement read. “I was glad to honor Gov. Apodaca alongside his family at the residence last week, because his passing was not only a loss for his family, but also to the people of New Mexico he served.”
At the end of the day, maybe it’s just flowers and greenery, and nothing more. But it could be a recognition that people are people, elections come and go, and time moves on for all of us.
Dude, it was a simple thing. But a good thing. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/local_columns/a-rose-is-a-rose-is-a-moment-of-humanity/article_95b67dec-2ca0-11ee-86e5-cf1f5108bb81.html | 2023-07-30T07:45:07 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/local_columns/a-rose-is-a-rose-is-a-moment-of-humanity/article_95b67dec-2ca0-11ee-86e5-cf1f5108bb81.html |
Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
Spain Roster
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
Spain Roster
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Japan Roster
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Frank Gore, the 49ers all-time leading rusher has officially rejoined the franchise as a football advisor in a new front office position.
Gore has been around the team since this Spring and will be working with general manager John Lynch, assistant general manager Adam Peters, and their staff on player evalution.
According to Lynch, Gore sat in on pre-draft meetings and took notes on how the process plays out.
Lynch says Gore's duties will include going out on the road with some of the scouts to make school calls.
Lynch complimented his smart football mind and says the two parties have a mutual interest in working together and learning from one another.
Gore rushed for 16,000 years, third in NFL history, and holds the NFL record for most games played by a running back with 241.
The decision to join the 49ers front office comes just over a year after the 40-year-old signed a one-day contract to retire with his former team.
Gore was a third-round draft pick for the 49ers in 2005 and played 10 of his 16 NFL seasons with the team. | https://www.ksby.com/sports/frank-gore-joins-the-49ers-front-office-as-a-football-advisor | 2023-07-30T07:45:31 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/sports/frank-gore-joins-the-49ers-front-office-as-a-football-advisor |
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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Four players have decided not to report to training camp in the hopes of signing new contract extensions.
Josh Jacobs of the Raiders and Nick Bosa of the 49ers are two of those players.
Things are a little stickier between the Raiders and Josh Jacobs out in the desert heat of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The star running back led the NFL in rushing last season and elected not to report to training camp after he was unable to reach a long-term agreement with the Raiders prior to the franchise tag deadline on July 17th.
According to NFL reports, the Raiders offered Jacobs a deal worth $12 million a year, but Jacobs declined.
It is unclear how much Jacobs is looking for and if he even wants to stay put in the silver and black.
Heading back over to the bay in San Francisco, Nick Bosa is also holding out of 49ers training camp to land a contract extension.
The 25-year-old edge rusher has one more year in his rookie contract before becoming an unrestricted free agent in 2024.
According to John Lynch, the team is in good communication with Bosa's player agent and both parties are working diligently to come to an agreement.
Bosa is coming off of a performative season with a career-high 18.5 sacks and was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year. | https://www.ksby.com/sports/josh-jacobs-and-nick-bosa-not-reporting-to-training-camp-in-hopes-of-signing-new-contract-extensions | 2023-07-30T07:45:37 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/sports/josh-jacobs-and-nick-bosa-not-reporting-to-training-camp-in-hopes-of-signing-new-contract-extensions |
Lubbock Schlotzsky's on 19th St. reopens 1 year after fire; here's a first look
Chris Lonngren remembers the smell of smoke permeating his Schlotzsky's on 19th Street. A year later, he is thankful for the smell of baking bread, the return of most of his staff, and the upcoming reopening on Tuesday.
"It's been a long year," Lonngren said. "When we started baking bread on Monday, people would just stand at the door, breathing in. A year ago, I would come in, and it was just the smoke smell. You get a whiff of bread baking, and it smells a whole lot better than the smoke that we had from the fire."
The restaurant at 3715 19th St. will reopen at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1. From Aug. 1-2, they will operate from 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m., and offer a limited menu. On Aug. 3, the hours will return to 10 a.m.-9 p.m. all week.
"Hopefully, everyone will come and be patient the first day," Lonngren said. "We're looking forward to serving Lubbock again and getting back and doing the things that we used to do."
As part of the reopening, a percentage of sales made between Aug. 1-4 will go toward Saint Benedict’s Chapel. This is a partnership of 10 churches that are "dedicated to serving Lubbock’s homeless, working poor, and food insecure," according to their website.
"We always do a lot in the community, and there's lots of different groups we've supported," Lonngren said. "The number of meals that (Saint Benedict's Chapel) serves out of there is unbelievable. It's just amazing, the volunteers that they have coming in and the thousands of meals they do every week."
The journey to reopening Lubbock's 19th Street Schlotzsky's included extensive remodel after fire
In early August of 2022, the Schlotzsky's at 3715 19th St. had a fire that began in the kitchen and Lonngren's office. About two weeks later, a 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of arson.
Related: Arson suspect in Schlotzsky's fire has been arrested
Lonngren's wife's family was among the first Schlotzsky's franchisees, and started to open multiple restaurants in the area about 45 years ago. Since the fire, Lonngren has been working to bring back one of their longest-running locations.
"It's taken a long time, a lot longer than we thought," Lonngren said. "The dining room looked pretty good, the kitchen was devastated, and my office got burned up. I thought it would take three or four months, but with all the smoke and damage, we ended up having to gut the whole thing and start over."
Looking on the positive side, Lonngren mentioned they had to opportunity to upgrade and finish some features. The kitchen received all-new equipment, the front counter was finished, and they opened more space.
"You have to look for the positives on these things," he said. "We've had really good support from Lubbock, a lot of businesses in Lubbock."
Lonngren also kept in touch with the former employees since the fire. When it happened, he had around 15 employees, and the majority returned.
"Basically everyone came in, so that was pretty amazing," he said. "They're ready to get back to work. We've hired some new people as well, and we're still hiring."
People interested in applying can visit schlotzskys.com/careers. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/business/2023/07/30/lubbocks-schlotzskys-on-19th-is-reopening-after-fire-heres-when/70480429007/ | 2023-07-30T07:46:18 | 1 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/business/2023/07/30/lubbocks-schlotzskys-on-19th-is-reopening-after-fire-heres-when/70480429007/ |
Peoples Bank announces promotions
Peoples Bank Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Larry Allen, has announced promotions for two employees.
Mikena Allen has been promoted to Banking Officer and Teller Operations Manager. Allen has been with Peoples Bank for two years. She graduated from Frenship High School and she is engaged to Joe Angel and they have a two-year-old son, Joe Michael. In her free time, she enjoys crafts, going to the movies and spending time with her son.
Tonya Edwards has been promoted to Banking Officer. Edwards has been with Peoples Bank for seven years and currently works in our loan documentation department. She was born and raised in Lubbock and graduated from Roosevelt High School. Edwards is married to Brian and they have three kids, seven grandkids and two great grandkids. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her grandkids and great grandkids. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/business/2023/07/30/peoples-bank-announces-promotions/70475348007/ | 2023-07-30T07:46:24 | 1 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/business/2023/07/30/peoples-bank-announces-promotions/70475348007/ |
Finalist: Alice P. Neuhauser
CFO & Treasurer
Seismic Capital Company
Alice P. Neuhauser is the chief financial officer and treasurer of Seismic Capital Company. She co-founded the company alongside CEO Steven Weinstein and President Eric White in 2019. Together they seek to generate seismic change in the way venture capital is done, for the benefit of investors and start-ups.
She is an accomplished business leader and mentor with experience across multiple industries, ranging from entertainment to tech. She helps identify and support early-stage companies poised to disrupt their respective industries. As a part of Seismic’s investment committee, Neuhauser provides insightful participation and plays a key role in developing strategic financial plans for Seismic’s portfolio companies. She manages the internal and external procedures of Seismic Capital and also handles banking, IRA, and broker-dealer relationships. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/finalist-alice-p-neuhauser | 2023-07-30T07:47:11 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/finalist-alice-p-neuhauser |
Finalist: Gaspare Benso
Chief Financial Officer & EVP
Autry Museum of the American West
Gaspare Benso serves as the EVP business operations and CFO of the Autry Museum of the American West. He joined the Autry Museum just before the COVID-19 pandemic, which he then partnered with the president & CEO to implement cost-saving initiatives across all departments, resulting in a reduction in operating expenses by over 12%. The Autry Museum came out of the pandemic even stronger.
Gaspare is a strategy-minded and results-driven business operations and finance partner with more than 25 years of experience working with nonprofit and for-profit organizations. He is a well-rounded leader with a diverse scope of expertise, combining a strong analytical and detail-oriented mindset with the ability to also focus on the big picture and quickly summarize results for any audience. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/finalist-gaspare-benso | 2023-07-30T07:47:18 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/finalist-gaspare-benso |
Honoree: Lucia Kung
Chief Financial Officer
Mental Health America of Los Angeles
Lucia Kung immigrated from Taiwan, first living in Toronto before moving to Los Angeles in 2002. Prior to her move to Canada, Kung spoke no English but went to ESL class every day. Ultimately, she got her first job at a coffee shop as a cashier and was excited to be making money, and with that she could learn English. She later found a job working as a receptionist at a hand tool distribution company. There, she also served as a translator between her Mandarin speaking boss and their largest customer in Quebec, negotiating business deals for more than six years. After her move to Los Angeles, she found the nonprofit world and determined it was the direction she wanted to go. The people who are positively impacted by the nonprofits she’s worked for are what keeps her motivated, inspired, and working hard.
As Chief Financial Officer for Mental Health America of Los Angeles (MHALA), Kung has revitalized the agency’s financial growth. With many companies having to lay off staff during the pandemic, she secured a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for $4.6 million for the agency. She has fully restructured the agency’s budget and financial strategies. In addition, Kung has been able to reorganize and speed up accounts receivable to ensure the adequate cash flow for employee payroll and on-time payments for vendors. Since she arrived at MHALA in 2016, her sound advice on endowment investments, financial planning and projections, and robust relationships with key financial partners have elevated MHALA’s ability to better serve people in the community with mental health needs. A true financial thought leader, not only does Kung excel in her position as CFO but also is a cherished, respected, and wellloved member of the MHALA organization. There is not a colleague or staff member at MHALA who does not appreciate Lucia’s impeccable work ethic and strong financial leadership. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/honoree-lucia-kung | 2023-07-30T07:47:24 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/honoree-lucia-kung |
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The 2023 World Cup was barely a week old when the U.S. women’s national team began to feel it. They felt it during Thursday’s 1-1 draw with the Netherlands, and afterward. They are now facing “a must-perform,” as Megan Rapinoe said, in Tuesday's group finale against Portugal (3 a.m. ET, Fox) from which they need a result to advance; a loss would almost certainly eliminate them.
So “of course,” Rapinoe said Sunday, “there's a little bit of anxiousness.”
But of course, she also explained throughout a free-wheeling 25-minute news conference replete with laughs and F-bombs, the USWNT is used to this.
“I think being on the U.S. women's national team, it kinda always feels like this,” Rapinoe said.
“We go into these moments like, ‘Hell yeah,’” she said. “This is exactly where we wanna be.”
They are part of a program that has made pressure inescapable and inevitable. They have made it so both by winning and by talking. In 2019, Rapinoe admitted, with an equal pay lawsuit on the docket and with bold comments spilling out of their mouths every other day, they felt: “Well, we have to win.” They never quite explicated it. They didn’t even really speak about it as a team. But they understood, Rapinoe said: “This is kind of like a must-win World Cup for us.”
And they won it, because they’re accustomed to pressure. They know how to attack and embrace it. In 2019, they even fed off it.
“I think it did give us confidence,” Rapinoe said. “I think it pressured us, but I think we also knew that we could handle it, it was almost like a mandatory upping of our level, to be able to match everything that we were saying off the field. In so many ways, we were betting on ourselves, and kind of laying the bet out early. And it was on us to prove it.
“Without the winning, you don't get all these microphones. Without the winning, you don't get the platform, you don't get the media, you don't get the eyes, you don't get the fans, you don't get the ability to say what you want all the time.”
"We go into these moments like hell yeah."
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 30, 2023
The @USWNT's Megan Rapinoe on the mood around the team ahead the USA's next match against Portugal 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/a9et8P7EzV
Four years later, their vibe is different. They have been less brash, less outspoken. So, Rapinoe was asked: Do they still feel all of that? Is this World Cup a must-win?
“We feel like we have to win everything all the time,” she said. “That's the expectation for ourselves. That's the expectation playing for the U.S. women's national team.”
The pressure, this time around, comes one round early, and comes from two uninspiring performances. They “weren't in sync,” against the Netherlands, midfielder Andi Sullivan admitted Saturday. They’re “unsatisfied with the way that we've played,” Rapinoe said. With 4 points, and with Portugal on 3, they need a draw to secure a place in the Round of 16. They might need a multi-goal win to top the group and avoid a matchup with Sweden.
Which is why they feel anxious. But they’ve created an environment where channeling it into positive energy is the norm. “I think that is something that always gets passed down through the generations of this team,” Rapinoe said. It gets passed down via attention to detail in training, via off-field habits, via preparation, all of which allows them to play free in the most pressure-packed moments of their lives.
Those moments have perhaps arrived earlier than expected in 2023, but “I think everybody's looking at this like, ‘Let's go,’” Rapinoe said.
If they lose Tuesday, they would go down as by far the worst USWNT ever. But even that has been the case entering all but a handful of the World Cup games they've ever played. They have never finished worse than third at this tournament. Even in 2011, trailing Brazil in the waning moments of a quarterfinal, Rapinoe remembers thinking: "F***, we're gonna be the worst team ever in the history of the U.S. women's national team. This is gonna be terrible."
She responded by hitting a majestic cross to Abby Wambach, who tied the game with a header. The USWNT won on penalties, then advanced to the final. It hadn’t trailed in a knockout-round game until the match versus the Netherlands.
Soon after recalling that moment, Rapinoe was asked: If this 2023 team doesn't win it all, how should it be judged?
She responded with five words: “I've never thought about that.” | https://www.wpxi.com/news/national/megan-rapinoe-says/24TWLCMPC477PXHH7UFQNKXI2I/ | 2023-07-30T07:47:26 | 0 | https://www.wpxi.com/news/national/megan-rapinoe-says/24TWLCMPC477PXHH7UFQNKXI2I/ |
No. 1 - Ernst & Young LLP
725 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90017
Headcount in Los Angeles County
- Total number of CPAs: 585
- Total number of accounting professionals (including CPAs): 2,294
- Total number of employees: 2,528
Headquarters: London
Year established: 1903
Offices firmwide: 728
Accounting services offered: Audit, Tax, Advisory, M&A, Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Robotics Process Automation, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services, Private Client Services
Industries served: Entertainment, Financial, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Retail, Tech
Top Local Executive: Andy Park, Managing Partner, Greater Los Angeles | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-1-ernst-young-llp | 2023-07-30T07:47:30 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-1-ernst-young-llp |
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Earlier this week, a visitor sitting in the training camp office of Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead posited a theory for the lack of faith surrounding the franchise entering the 2023 season. Specifically, the predicted 2023 mediocrity from the gambling sharps, like BetMGM oddsmakers who are placing the Rams’ win total at 6.5 games this season.
Cornerback Jalen Ramsey and middle linebacker Bobby Wagner, gone in a defensive reshuffle.
The wide receiver group? Shallow.
The offensive line, still in flux.
Not to mention the youngest roster in the league, yet also the seventh consecutive season without a first-round draft pick to groom into a cornerstone.
And pressing against it all, the previously wobbly state of the franchise’s Holy Trinity: Head coach Sean McVay, whose future was uncertain one year ago; quarterback Matthew Stafford, who drew a varying level of trade interest from at least four teams in the offseason; and perennial All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald, whose future with the Rams seems tethered to how long Stafford and McVay stay in place.
Taken from a wider context? The Rams look like an extremely young team with a Super Bowl-window defining trinity that has raised questions about a rebuild.
“What’s your counter to that?” the visitor asked.
Snead smiled.
“You’re probably leaving [wide receiver] Cooper Kupp out,” he said. “You could probably go a little deeper than that [trinity]. I think you could go deeper, but OK. … I don’t even know if I would have a counter to that. I would say if those three individuals end up on injured reserve or maybe missing time, maybe bet the under [of 6.5 wins]. But you could counter by going, well, let’s say we were starting over and rebuilding. If you were searching for a quarterback like Stafford, a defensive tackle like Aaron Donald and a head coach like Sean, you could spend a lifetime looking. You could trade for a bunch of first-round picks and still spend a lifetime looking for that triumvirate or whatever you call it. That’s the positive.”
Yes, the Rams are young. Extremely young. Yes, they don’t have a stable of recent first-round picks stepping into vital roles. What they do have are three players who can be classified as elite when healthy — Stafford, Kupp and Donald — and a head coach who has put last offseason’s hand-wringing about his coaching future behind him.
“This is a fun-ass group to be around,” McVay said this week. “Listen, we’re going to go cut it loose.”
When McVay says that initially, it sounds like a boast — as in, We're going to cut it loose and kick some ass.
Maybe they’ll get there. But what he means is this: The Rams are a team chock full of young guys and a growth curve that might be as steep as has existed during McVay’s tenure. Possibly going all the way back to his first season in 2017, when nobody was sure what was going to happen with a newly minted 30-year-old head coach and a struggling quarterback in 2016 No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff. Or heading into 2018, when so much of the roster was young and fresh-faced. In this scenario, “cutting it loose” is more akin to “letting it all hang out and seeing what happens."
That’s what happens when you lose nine starters between offense and defense, and the players who are stepping into those roles have limited experience. Or when the overall roster could have as many as 14 draft picks on the roster and a multitude of undrafted free agents. Precisely how young will this team be? Even the Rams don’t know at this point because so many starting positions and the underlying depth chart are up in the air. This reality is creating a balance between significant experience among a few, versus a youthful exuberance of many that had defensive coordinator Raheem Morris declaring that some pass-breakups in practice are celebrated like winning a Super Bowl.
That's great in training camp, when the record is 0-0 and emotion is counted like an asset in the win column. Of course, that can change quickly once the regular season kicks in, and losses and mistakes of youth begin to mount. And suddenly the coaching staff and personnel architects are surveying the upward climb in a more realistic, tangible and measurable way. It's a fact that isn’t lost on the Rams, even in the embrace of youth and a suspicion that outsiders aren’t taking an accurate accounting of what the return of their elite stars can mean for the 2023 season.
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“There’s going to be some spilled milk,” Snead said. “But a lot of that veteran core has played in two Super Bowls, whether it’s Cooper Kupp, [tight end] Tyler Higbee, [offensive tackle] Rob Havenstein, they’ve been in not just one but two, and in both of those they had different partners around them. Now it’s going to be up to those guys, up to our staff, up to all of us to help the youth get closer to being ‘unyouthful’. There’s going to be spilled milk because of it, and it’s really going to be how you respond. If there’s spilled milk in Week 3, it doesn’t mean that some of the lessons learned in Week 3 can’t help you in Weeks 14, 15, 16, 17 when you’ve got to win three of four to punch a [playoff] ticket.”
That will be the burden on McVay and his seasoned staff. But after a season of tough reflection following a 5-12 finish in 2022 and a renewed appreciation of how the highs shouldn’t be taken for granted, there’s a smoldering fire beneath the surface of the coaching staff. One that is well aware that an offseason ago, the notion of the New York Giants and Seattle Seahawks being playoff contenders was scoffed at. But key veterans, young breakouts and coaching pulled both franchises into the postseason.
This Rams team will take that lesson in hand. Especially in the face of doubt and some hard lessons learned in 2022.
“I do think that we’re in position to attack an opportunity with some frickin’ balls about us,” McVay said. “Some stones where it’s like, ‘I’m not naïve to the narrative externally, but all I need to worry about is being the best coach of this team and not being afraid to go cut it loose and compete.’ Then pick ourselves back up and continue to do it and see what happens.
"For me, it's just getting back grounded, reestablishing a purpose, having the principles and values in your everyday approach in the way that you handle the ebbs and flows that are inevitable. But what I'm most interested in is modeling the way — not just saying any of this s***. I see better than I hear. I say that to the guys, but the same goes for me." | https://www.wpxi.com/news/national/sean-mcvays-outlook/HE7NQRAJLSCJMRF6RENPATTUN4/ | 2023-07-30T07:47:33 | 1 | https://www.wpxi.com/news/national/sean-mcvays-outlook/HE7NQRAJLSCJMRF6RENPATTUN4/ |
No. 19 - CBIZ/MHM
10474 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Headcount in Los Angeles County
- Total number of CPAs: 36
- Total number of accounting professionals (including CPAs): 76
- Total number of employees: 93
Headquarters: Cleveland
Year established: 1978
Offices firmwide: 127
Accounting services offered: Audit, Tax, Advisory, Business Management, Internal Audit, Estate Planning, Forensic, Litigation Support, Family Office, Infrastructure & Project Advisory
Industries served: Entertainment, Financial, Healthcare, Hospitality, Legal, Manufacturing, Nonprofit, Real Estate, Retail, Tech, Life Sciences
Top Local Executive: Jim Parks, Executive Director | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-19-cbiz-mhm | 2023-07-30T07:47:36 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-19-cbiz-mhm |
NAIROBI, Kenya — (AP) — 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."
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://www.wpxi.com/news/world/african-leaders/IO6IHKV7UL7SCIJLBU2B25S764/ | 2023-07-30T07:47:39 | 1 | https://www.wpxi.com/news/world/african-leaders/IO6IHKV7UL7SCIJLBU2B25S764/ |
No. 2 - PwC
601 S. Figueroa St. Suite 900, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Headcount in Los Angeles County
- Total number of CPAs: 536
- Total number of accounting professionals (including CPAs): NA
- Total number of employees: NA
Headquarters: London
Year established: 1854
Accounting services offered: Audit, Tax, Advisory, M&A, Internal Audit
Industries served: Entertainment, Financial, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Retail, Tech
Top Local Executive: Stefanie Kane, Office Managing Partner | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-2-pwc | 2023-07-30T07:47:43 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-2-pwc |
No. 3 - Deloitte LLP and subsidiaries
555 W. Fifth St. Suite 2700, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Headcount in Los Angeles County
- Total number of CPAs: 443
- Total number of accounting professionals (including CPAs): 2,531
- Total number of employees: 2,894
Headquarters: New York
Year established: 1895
Accounting services offered: Audit, Tax, Advisory, M&A, Internal Audit
Industries served: Entertainment, Financial, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Retail, Tech
Top Local Executive: Terry Feit, Managing Partner | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-3-deloitte-llp-and-subsidiaries | 2023-07-30T07:47:49 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-3-deloitte-llp-and-subsidiaries |
No. 8 - SingerLewak
10960 Wilshire Blvd. 11th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Headcount in Los Angeles County
- Total number of CPAs: 120
- Total number of accounting professionals (including CPAs): NA
- Total number of employees: NA
Headquarters: Los Angeles
Year established: 1959
Offices firmwide: 16
Accounting services offered: Audit, Tax, Advisory, Business Management, M&A, Internal Audit, Estate Planning
Industries served: Entertainment, Financial, Healthcare, Hospitality, Legal, Manufacturing, Nonprofit, Real Estate, Retail, Tech
Top Local Executive: Jim Pitrat, Managing Partner | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-8-singerlewak | 2023-07-30T07:47:55 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/top-accounting-firms-2023/no-8-singerlewak |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing "harmful" materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids. The measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect Aug. 1.
A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock had challenged the law, saying fear of prosecution under the measure could prompt libraries and booksellers to no longer carry titles that could be challenged.
The judge also rejected a motion by the defendants, which include prosecuting attorneys for the state, seeking to dismiss the case.
The ACLU of Arkansas, which represents some of the plaintiffs, applauded the court's ruling, saying that the absence of a preliminary injunction would have jeopardized First Amendment rights.
"The question we had to ask was — do Arkansans still legally have access to reading materials? Luckily, the judicial system has once again defended our highly valued liberties," Holly Dickson, the executive director of the ACLU in Arkansas, said in a statement.
The lawsuit comes as lawmakers in an increasing number of conservative states are pushing for measures making it easier to ban or restrict access to books. The number of attempts to ban or restrict books across the U.S. last year was the highest in the 20 years the American Library Association has been tracking such efforts.
Laws restricting access to certain materials or making it easier to challenge them have been enacted in several other states, including Iowa, Indiana and Texas.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said in an email Saturday that his office would be "reviewing the judge's opinion and will continue to vigorously defend the law."
The executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge's 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.
"As folks in southwest Arkansas say, this order is stout as horseradish!" he said in an email.
"I'm relieved that for now the dark cloud that was hanging over CALS' librarians has lifted," he added.
Cheryl Davis, general counsel for the Authors Guild, said the organization is "thrilled" about the decision. She said enforcing this law "is likely to limit the free speech rights of older minors, who are capable of reading and processing more complex reading materials than young children can."
The Arkansas lawsuit names the state's 28 local prosecutors as defendants, along with Crawford County in west Arkansas. A separate lawsuit is challenging the Crawford County library's decision to move children's books that included LGBTQ+ themes to a separate portion of the library.
The plaintiffs challenging Arkansas' restrictions also include the Fayetteville and Eureka Springs Carnegie public libraries, the American Booksellers Association and the Association of American Publishers.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ | 2023-07-30T07:49:32 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ |
Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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."
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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.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ | 2023-07-30T07:49:52 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ |
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.
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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.
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Whenever the Springfield Museum of Art (SMOA) opens a new exhibit in the Deere Gallery, its biggest space, there’s a sense of excitement. It’s next such opening will have a huge emphasis on local and homegrown artists, adding an even bigger sense of anticipation.
The 77th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition will have more works than in recent years. Thirty percent will be first-timers or ones who haven’t participated in a while and a group of teens who joined just so they could exhibit their work when it opens Saturday, Aug. 5.
An opening reception will be 6-7:30 p.m. Saturday and will include the awards, several of the artists, live music, food trucks and a cash bar. Admission is $5 for non-members and free to SMOA members.
“This exhibition is to highlight the talent in our community, and it’s a part of connecting art and community,” said Jessimi Jones, SMOA executive director.
The exhibition will contain 134 pieces by 113 artists, aided by staff reaching out to encourage the members’ participation. Elizabeth Wetterstroem, SMOA’s collections and exhibitions manager, said portraits will be one of the most prominent works.
The guest juror is Ramona Bronkar Bannayan, the recently retired senior deputy director of exhibitions and collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Even she has local ties as her mom, Eunice Bronkar, was an artist and SMOA member, had exhibitions there and taught art at places like Clark State.
“She has an incredible combination with ties to her mom, the museum and the community that makes it a special connection,” Jones said. “We have a special opportunity to have a juror of her caliber and background.”
Wetterstroem said Bronkar Bannayan noted a lot of insight and thought in some some of the exhibition’s works.
The exhibition will also have young blood with the works of six youths from Project Jericho. These students visited artist Lynda Pauley’s Prairie’s Edge studio for pastel painting lessons in June, learning how to use shape, value, temperature and color to create landscape or pet portraits according to Kristi Limes, Project Jericho success coordinator.
The students also learned the importance of protecting natural resources, seeing a 300-year-old tree on the property and one student had never held a dog before and these experiences inspired their art.
Pauley showed the students a portrait she planned on entering in the exhibition and Limes reached out to Wetterstroem about the possibility of the kids gaining membership. Although it’s normally for those over 18, an exception was made.
“We wanted to give that opportunity. The collaboration is a way to recognize Project Jericho as part of the many artists in our community,” said Wetterstroem.
The exhibition will be a way for audiences to learn and appreciating the scope of art today, Jones said. She invites everyone to the opening to experience the joy of art and artists.
“This is our most celebratory event, whether you have a piece or not, it’s to celebrate art in our community,” she said.
Despite construction going on at the SMOA’s north side at this time, the facility and its main galleries are open.
The Juried Members’ Exhibition will be on display through Oct. 15. The SMOA is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 12:30-4:30 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $5 for adults and free for SMOA members and students.
HOW TO GO
What: 77th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
Where: Springfield Museum of Art, 107 Cliff Park Rd., Springfield
When: Wednesdays through Sundays through Oct. 15
Admission: $5 non-members; free for members and students
More info: www.springfieldart.net/
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Northeastern Local School District has started its online auction for items from inside two of the district’s former schools.
The auction includes items from inside Northridge Middle and Elementary School, and Rolling Hills Elementary School such as cooking and kitchen items, furniture, classroom items and more.
The auction is being held on www.govdeals.com, and by searching “Northeastern.”
According to the site, there are 147 total listings of items from inside the two schools so far, but new items are being added each day. The auctions end between now and Aug. 9.
As of Thursday, the highest bid for an item was $135.
Items inside the old Kenton Ridge High School, and the Northridge and Rolling Hills buildings, will be auctioned off at a later date.
The district combined several school buildings into the two new buildings, moving from Northeastern High and Middle School, Kenton Ridge High School, Northridge Middle and Elementary School, Rolling Hills Elementary and South Vienna into just two buildings going forward.
The Kenton Ridge building will open this fall on the property near the current Kenton Ridge High School, and the Northeastern site opened last fall on the northeastern side of the district, adjacent to former South Vienna school.
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The movie The Princess Bride is actually older than the Clark State Performing Arts Center, but the film’s cult following is alive and well, and it will help the venue mark its anniversary with a program unlike any other in the PAC’s 30-year history.
For its first time, the PAC will present what has become a popular entertainment trend. “The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes” will offer a viewing of the classic film followed by a question-and-answer session and behind the scenes look with the film’s male lead Elwes live on stage in Springfield on March 24.
“The film has a lot of fans, and we’ve had an excited response,” Dan Hunt, executive director of the PAC in Springfield, said. “We wanted to try something new with this.”
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Elwes played the role of the star-crossed Westley and Dread Pirate Roberts in 1987′s The Princess Bride. The movie blends comedy, adventure and romance executed by a cast that included Andre the Giant, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk, Billy Crystal, Fred Savage and more. Rob Reiner directed the movie.
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The Princess Bride generated many memorable lines, including “As you wish,” “Mostly dead,” “Inconceivable,” and “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
Six years after the film premiered, the PAC opened, and the upcoming season of shows will mark its 30th anniversary. Hunt began working at the PAC just two weeks before it opened.
Tickets for all shows are now available. For more information or to purchase tickets, go to pac.clarkstate.edu/.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Four people are dead and two hospitalized after two separate crashes connected to EAA AirVenture on Saturday, according to EAA.
A T-6 Texan crashed into Lake Winnebago shortly after 9 a.m., killing both people on board.
Then at 12:24 p.m. a Rotorway 162F helicopter and ELA 10 Eclipse gyrocopter collided at the south end of the EAA AirVenture flightline at Wittman Regional Airport, killing two and injuring two others. Both of the injured are in stable condition, according to EAA.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating both accidents and has not provided a cause for either.
“Naturally, with the mid-air collision, somebody was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” EAA director of communications Dick Knapinski said. “How that occurred and why that occurred is what the NTSB will investigate and, from then, lessons will be learned as to what aviators can do to keep themselves safer.”
The investigation will likely take months to reach its conclusion.
“NTSB investigations typically take between a full year to 18 months to complete,” he said. “They will have a preliminary investigation within the next week or so and then put out those findings. But the probable cause will probably take a year or more to determine by the board.”
The factors the NTSB will examine in its investigations include weather conditions, pilot experience, aircraft condition, flight pattern and communication between ground and flight operations to determine the cause, which could be pilot error, a mechanical issue or another reason, according to Knapinski. He described the weather as “mild” and likely not a contributing factor.
“Having accidents like this in the singular is very rare,” he said. “Having two fatal accidents take place on the same day is exceedingly rare.”
These are not the first incidents regarding aircraft at or heading to EAA this week. On Thursday, a single-engine plane bound for EAA AirVenture crash landed in a cornfield in Green Lake County, hospitalizing two people.
On Tuesday Knapinski said there was a “forced landing” east of the north/south runway at EAA AirVenture. The pilot was the only person onboard and was not injured.
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As the world now knows, Kanye West went on an antisemitic tear some months back that ultimately cost him his deal with adidas. He partnered with the German company on his Yeezy brand which helped make him a Forbes-vetted billionaire.
adidas had to write down over a billion dollars worth of debt once Yeezys became unsellable, something that downgraded West’s financial standing as well. But now, adidas and West have the chance to make some of those losses up, as Yeezy quietly dropped new sneaker releases in the spring.
On May 31, adidas dropped 15 different styles of Yeezys including some coveted ones like the Yeezy Boost 350 V2 CMPCT “Slate White” the Yeezy Boost 350 “Pirate Black,” and the Yeezy Foam RNR “MX Cinder.”
The Financial Times reports that orders for 4 million pairs of Yeezys netted the company $565M. Despite his execrable remarks, West still receives a royalty from those sales.
The brand previously announced that it would donate some of the profits from the Yeezy brand to five organizations in the U.S. and China that combat hate, racism, and violence. One of them is the Philonise and Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change established by George Floyd’s brother and his wife. In one of his most-publicized rants, Ye said that Floyd wasn’t murdered but instead died of a fentanyl overdose.
“Burning is not the solution,” adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said in May. “What we are trying to do over time is to sell part of these goods and then donate to organizations that help us and that also have been hurt by Kanye’s statements.”
adidas has not yet determined how the charity money will be distributed. One thing that is certain is that the once-lucrative partnership caused the company to have its first unprofitable year in three decades. The sales were referenced by sources as better than the company’s “most optimistic” projections, per FT, which helps but doesn’t completely offset their loss. The company will release its quarterly results on Aug. 3.
That’s right around the time they are expected to make another drop of styles including the Yeezy Boost 350 V2, the Yeezy 500, the Yeezy Boost 700, the Yeezy Slide, the Yeezy Foam RNNR, the QNTM, the Yeezy 450.
After an outcry over West’s behavior, adidas ended its partnership with Yeezy in November 2022. West has yet to make a public comment on the new drops.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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Japan vs. Spain: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group C action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Spain (6 points) and Japan (6 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
For this group-stage match, Spain is -121 to win and Japan is +341, with the draw at +236. The over/under for this game is 2.5 goals.
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Spain vs. Japan Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Spain Moneyline: -121
- Japan Moneyline: +341
Spain vs. Japan World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams average a combined 7.5 goals per game, five more than this match's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Spain has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 2-0-0 in those games.
- Spain has played as a moneyline favorite of -121 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Japan has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Japan has not entered a game this tournament with longer moneyline odds than +341.
Spain World Cup Stats
Japan World Cup Stats
- In Women's World Cup, Mina Tanaka has one goal (in two matches) and three assists for Japan.
- In Women's World Cup, Jun Endo has one goal (in two matches) and one assist.
- In Women's World Cup action, Hinata Miyazawa has two goals (but no assists).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Aoba Fujino has posted one goal with one assist.
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Spain vs. Japan Recent Performance
- Spain was 6-5-2 in 2022 against teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +16. This year, its record is 8-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+33 goal differential).
- Spain's last game was a win, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 16 shots and outshooting by 12.
- Spain got two of its goals from Hermoso and Redondo, who finished with two each, in that game versus .
- So far this year, Japan is 5-0-3 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +13. In 2022, it went 4-2-3 in such matches (+3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its most recent match, Japan took down Costa Rica 2-0. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto lifted Japan with a goal apiece.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The 2023 World Cup was barely a week old when the U.S. women’s national team began to feel it. They felt it during Thursday’s 1-1 draw with the Netherlands, and afterward. They are now facing “a must-perform,” as Megan Rapinoe said, in Tuesday's group finale against Portugal (3 a.m. ET, Fox) from which they need a result to advance; a loss would almost certainly eliminate them.
So “of course,” Rapinoe said Sunday, “there's a little bit of anxiousness.”
But of course, she also explained throughout a free-wheeling 25-minute news conference replete with laughs and F-bombs, the USWNT is used to this.
“I think being on the U.S. women's national team, it kinda always feels like this,” Rapinoe said.
“We go into these moments like, ‘Hell yeah,’” she said. “This is exactly where we wanna be.”
They are part of a program that has made pressure inescapable and inevitable. They have made it so both by winning and by talking. In 2019, Rapinoe admitted, with an equal pay lawsuit on the docket and with bold comments spilling out of their mouths every other day, they felt: “Well, we have to win.” They never quite explicated it. They didn’t even really speak about it as a team. But they understood, Rapinoe said: “This is kind of like a must-win World Cup for us.”
And they won it, because they’re accustomed to pressure. They know how to attack and embrace it. In 2019, they even fed off it.
“I think it did give us confidence,” Rapinoe said. “I think it pressured us, but I think we also knew that we could handle it, it was almost like a mandatory upping of our level, to be able to match everything that we were saying off the field. In so many ways, we were betting on ourselves, and kind of laying the bet out early. And it was on us to prove it.
“Without the winning, you don't get all these microphones. Without the winning, you don't get the platform, you don't get the media, you don't get the eyes, you don't get the fans, you don't get the ability to say what you want all the time.”
"We go into these moments like hell yeah."
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 30, 2023
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Four years later, their vibe is different. They have been less brash, less outspoken. So, Rapinoe was asked: Do they still feel all of that? Is this World Cup a must-win?
“We feel like we have to win everything all the time,” she said. “That's the expectation for ourselves. That's the expectation playing for the U.S. women's national team.”
The pressure, this time around, comes one round early, and comes from two uninspiring performances. They “weren't in sync,” against the Netherlands, midfielder Andi Sullivan admitted Saturday. They’re “unsatisfied with the way that we've played,” Rapinoe said. With 4 points, and with Portugal on 3, they need a draw to secure a place in the Round of 16. They might need a multi-goal win to top the group and avoid a matchup with Sweden.
Which is why they feel anxious. But they’ve created an environment where channeling it into positive energy is the norm. “I think that is something that always gets passed down through the generations of this team,” Rapinoe said. It gets passed down via attention to detail in training, via off-field habits, via preparation, all of which allows them to play free in the most pressure-packed moments of their lives.
Those moments have perhaps arrived earlier than expected in 2023, but “I think everybody's looking at this like, ‘Let's go,’” Rapinoe said.
If they lose Tuesday, they would go down as by far the worst USWNT ever. But even that has been the case entering all but a handful of the World Cup games they've ever played. They have never finished worse than third at this tournament. Even in 2011, trailing Brazil in the waning moments of a quarterfinal, Rapinoe remembers thinking: "F***, we're gonna be the worst team ever in the history of the U.S. women's national team. This is gonna be terrible."
She responded by hitting a majestic cross to Abby Wambach, who tied the game with a header. The USWNT won on penalties, then advanced to the final. It hadn’t trailed in a knockout-round game until the match versus the Netherlands.
Soon after recalling that moment, Rapinoe was asked: If this 2023 team doesn't win it all, how should it be judged?
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Earlier this week, a visitor sitting in the training camp office of Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead posited a theory for the lack of faith surrounding the franchise entering the 2023 season. Specifically, the predicted 2023 mediocrity from the gambling sharps, like BetMGM oddsmakers who are placing the Rams’ win total at 6.5 games this season.
Cornerback Jalen Ramsey and middle linebacker Bobby Wagner, gone in a defensive reshuffle.
The wide receiver group? Shallow.
The offensive line, still in flux.
Not to mention the youngest roster in the league, yet also the seventh consecutive season without a first-round draft pick to groom into a cornerstone.
And pressing against it all, the previously wobbly state of the franchise’s Holy Trinity: Head coach Sean McVay, whose future was uncertain one year ago; quarterback Matthew Stafford, who drew a varying level of trade interest from at least four teams in the offseason; and perennial All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald, whose future with the Rams seems tethered to how long Stafford and McVay stay in place.
Taken from a wider context? The Rams look like an extremely young team with a Super Bowl-window defining trinity that has raised questions about a rebuild.
“What’s your counter to that?” the visitor asked.
Snead smiled.
“You’re probably leaving [wide receiver] Cooper Kupp out,” he said. “You could probably go a little deeper than that [trinity]. I think you could go deeper, but OK. … I don’t even know if I would have a counter to that. I would say if those three individuals end up on injured reserve or maybe missing time, maybe bet the under [of 6.5 wins]. But you could counter by going, well, let’s say we were starting over and rebuilding. If you were searching for a quarterback like Stafford, a defensive tackle like Aaron Donald and a head coach like Sean, you could spend a lifetime looking. You could trade for a bunch of first-round picks and still spend a lifetime looking for that triumvirate or whatever you call it. That’s the positive.”
Yes, the Rams are young. Extremely young. Yes, they don’t have a stable of recent first-round picks stepping into vital roles. What they do have are three players who can be classified as elite when healthy — Stafford, Kupp and Donald — and a head coach who has put last offseason’s hand-wringing about his coaching future behind him.
“This is a fun-ass group to be around,” McVay said this week. “Listen, we’re going to go cut it loose.”
When McVay says that initially, it sounds like a boast — as in, We're going to cut it loose and kick some ass.
Maybe they’ll get there. But what he means is this: The Rams are a team chock full of young guys and a growth curve that might be as steep as has existed during McVay’s tenure. Possibly going all the way back to his first season in 2017, when nobody was sure what was going to happen with a newly minted 30-year-old head coach and a struggling quarterback in 2016 No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff. Or heading into 2018, when so much of the roster was young and fresh-faced. In this scenario, “cutting it loose” is more akin to “letting it all hang out and seeing what happens."
That’s what happens when you lose nine starters between offense and defense, and the players who are stepping into those roles have limited experience. Or when the overall roster could have as many as 14 draft picks on the roster and a multitude of undrafted free agents. Precisely how young will this team be? Even the Rams don’t know at this point because so many starting positions and the underlying depth chart are up in the air. This reality is creating a balance between significant experience among a few, versus a youthful exuberance of many that had defensive coordinator Raheem Morris declaring that some pass-breakups in practice are celebrated like winning a Super Bowl.
That's great in training camp, when the record is 0-0 and emotion is counted like an asset in the win column. Of course, that can change quickly once the regular season kicks in, and losses and mistakes of youth begin to mount. And suddenly the coaching staff and personnel architects are surveying the upward climb in a more realistic, tangible and measurable way. It's a fact that isn’t lost on the Rams, even in the embrace of youth and a suspicion that outsiders aren’t taking an accurate accounting of what the return of their elite stars can mean for the 2023 season.
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“There’s going to be some spilled milk,” Snead said. “But a lot of that veteran core has played in two Super Bowls, whether it’s Cooper Kupp, [tight end] Tyler Higbee, [offensive tackle] Rob Havenstein, they’ve been in not just one but two, and in both of those they had different partners around them. Now it’s going to be up to those guys, up to our staff, up to all of us to help the youth get closer to being ‘unyouthful’. There’s going to be spilled milk because of it, and it’s really going to be how you respond. If there’s spilled milk in Week 3, it doesn’t mean that some of the lessons learned in Week 3 can’t help you in Weeks 14, 15, 16, 17 when you’ve got to win three of four to punch a [playoff] ticket.”
That will be the burden on McVay and his seasoned staff. But after a season of tough reflection following a 5-12 finish in 2022 and a renewed appreciation of how the highs shouldn’t be taken for granted, there’s a smoldering fire beneath the surface of the coaching staff. One that is well aware that an offseason ago, the notion of the New York Giants and Seattle Seahawks being playoff contenders was scoffed at. But key veterans, young breakouts and coaching pulled both franchises into the postseason.
This Rams team will take that lesson in hand. Especially in the face of doubt and some hard lessons learned in 2022.
“I do think that we’re in position to attack an opportunity with some frickin’ balls about us,” McVay said. “Some stones where it’s like, ‘I’m not naïve to the narrative externally, but all I need to worry about is being the best coach of this team and not being afraid to go cut it loose and compete.’ Then pick ourselves back up and continue to do it and see what happens.
"For me, it's just getting back grounded, reestablishing a purpose, having the principles and values in your everyday approach in the way that you handle the ebbs and flows that are inevitable. But what I'm most interested in is modeling the way — not just saying any of this s***. I see better than I hear. I say that to the guys, but the same goes for me." | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/sean-mcvays-outlook/HE7NQRAJLSCJMRF6RENPATTUN4/ | 2023-07-30T07:54:03 | 0 | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/sean-mcvays-outlook/HE7NQRAJLSCJMRF6RENPATTUN4/ |
Mikola (Mikola), Victoria E. "Vicki"
Victoria E. Mikola (age 73) passed away at home in Colorado Springs, Co. on July 9,2023. She was born in Dayton, Ohio on December 9, 1949, to Margaret Mikola (Fleischman) and Mike Mikola.
After graduation from Greenon High School, Vicki was employed by the FBI in Washington, DC. She later enlisted in the US Air Force, stationed in Alaska and Italy; she held an AA degree from Sinclair Community College and worked in transportation at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio.
Her interests included travel, volunteering at art, cultural and historical organizations. She also volunteered at libraries and as an airport ambassador.
Preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Amy Middleton.
Survived by niece, Angie Middleton-Raynor; nephew David Middleton; aunt, Dona Fleischman; cousins, Gail Hanger (Jay), John Fletcher (Joyce), Della Carr, Becky Fleischman, Julie Hannan (David); former husband, Ezra Dack
She will be missed by family and friends. Donations may be made in honor of Vicki to your local animal shelter or library.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — (AP) — 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."
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Germany faces Colombia in the FIFA Women’s World Cup on Sunday, July 30, 2023 (7/30/23) at Allianz Stadium in Moore Park, Australia.
The game starts at 5:30 a.m. ET on FS1 and Telemundo.
HOW TO WATCH: Fans can watch the match for free via a trial to fuboTV or via a subscription to Sling TV, which offers 50% off the first month.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
Who: Germany vs. Colombia
When: Sunday, July 30, 2023
Time: 5:30 a.m. ET
Where: Allianz Stadium
TV: FS1 and Telemundo
Channel finder: Verizon Fios, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DIRECTV,Dish,Hulu, fuboTV, Sling.
Live stream: fuboTV (free trial), Sling TV (which offers 50% off the first month)
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Long flight to the Women’s World Cup? US players have a plan for that
By Anne M. Patterson AP Sports Writer
Midfielder Andi Sullivan plans on napping. Defender Emily Fox intends to keep with a soccer theme and finally watch “Ted Lasso.”
The U.S. national team — like most of the rest of the field — faces a long flight to the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Already seasoned travelers, the Americans have strategies for wiling away the time. And they’ll certainly need those tactics: The flight to New Zealand, where they’ll spend the group stage of the tournament, is 12 hours.
“I need suggestions!” midfielder Kristie Mewis exclaimed about the shows she plans to download for the flight. “Honestly, I’m rewatching ‘Suits’ right now. I love ‘Suits.’”
Once they get there, the players will retreat into a self-imposed bubble where they shut out the noise and the distractions for some seven weeks. Most stay off of social media platforms for the duration.
Forward Trinity Rodman, making her World Cup debut, is taking the advice of the veterans. Rodman’s dad is former NBA star Dennis Rodman, so she gets a lot of attention just because of her name.
“They have been very open about making sure you have entertainment and ways to distract yourself outside of your phone and social media, because I do think with social media you can get consumed by it and you can definitely get sucked up in it,” Rodman said. “But I think finding those ways to isolate yourself, finding hobbies in the hotel room: Coloring, journaling, reading, Fortnite. I’m a bit of a gamer so that has definitely helped me to just like relax.”
The United States plays Wales in a send-off match on Sunday in San Jose, California. That same night, they’ll fly to training camp in New Zealand.
The World Cup kicks off July 20. The United States opens with a game against Vietnam on July 22.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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