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Liverpool faces Leicester City in a Club Friendly on Sunday, July 30, 2023 (7/30/23) at National Stadium in Singapore.
How to watch: Fans can watch the match on Paramount+, which costs $5.99 a month
Here’s what you need to know:
What: Club Friendly
Who: Leicester City vs. Liverpool
When: Sunday, July 30, 2023
Time: 5 a.m. ET
Where: National Stadium
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NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Lewis, the British billionaire whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer team, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty in New York to insider trading charges alleging that he fed corporate secrets to romantic partners, personal assistants, friends and his pilots, earning them millions of dollars illegally. He was then released on $300 million bail.
Lewis and two of his pilots — Patrick O’Connor and Bryan ‘Marty’ Waugh — surrendered early in the morning to the FBI, a prosecutor said. The pilots also pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Manhattan federal court. They were each released on $250,000 bail.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who announced the charges Tuesday night in a video, said Lewis was accused of “orchestrating a brazen insider trading scheme” that utilized his access to corporate boardrooms to feed inside tips to friends and lovers.
“Those folks then traded on that inside information — and made millions of dollars in the stock market — because, thanks to Lewis, those bets were a sure thing,” Williams said. “That’s classic corporate corruption. It’s cheating. And it’s against the law — laws that apply to everyone, no matter who you are.”
David M. Zornow, an attorney for Lewis, said his client had come to the U.S. “to answer these ill-conceived charges” and would fight them vigorously.
“The government has made an egregious error in judgment in charging Mr. Lewis, an 86-year-old man of impeccable integrity and prodigious accomplishment,” Zornow said in a statement.
Lawyers for the pilots did not immediately reply to messages seeking comment.
At an arraignment Wednesday, Lewis wore a gray three-piece suit. When he was asked how he pleaded to the charges, he said: “Not guilty, your honor.”
His $300 million bond was secured by a yacht and private aircraft that a prosecutor said was worth about $300 million. Lewis and the pilots must remain in the United States.
Lewis was charged with 16 counts of securities fraud and three counts of conspiracy. O’Connor, 66, of Preston Hollow, New York, and Waugh, 64, of Lynchburg, Virginia, each face seven counts of securities fraud and a conspiracy count.
Lewis has a fortune that Forbes estimates at $6.1 billion, with assets in real estate, biotechnology, energy and agriculture. He bought an interest in Tottenham Hotspur, one of England’s most storied soccer clubs, in 2001.
Under his ownership, the Premier League club built a state-of-the-art stadium at an estimated cost of more than $1 billion. It features an NFL field below the moveable soccer pitch, as Tottenham has a long-term agreement with the NFL to stage regular-season games in London.
Today, a trust benefiting members of Mr. Lewis’ family is the majority owner of ENIC, the holding company that owns the team. Lewis himself is not a beneficiary of that trust and relinquished operational control of the club last October, according to corporate filings.
Lewis’ Tavistock Group has stakes in more than 200 companies around the world, according to its website, and his art collection boasts works by Picasso, Matisse, Degas and more. His business connections include Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Justin Timberlake, with whom he built a Bahamian oceanside resort that opened in 2010.
According to the indictment, Lewis’ investments in various companies gave him control of board seats, where he placed associates who let him know what they learned behind the scenes. Prosecutors say Lewis improperly doled out that confidential information between 2019 and 2021 to his chosen recipients and urged them to profit off of it.
At one point, according to the indictment, he even loaned his two private pilots $500,000 apiece to buy stock in a cancer drug company that he knew had gotten — but not yet publicly disclosed — encouraging results from a clinical trial.
According to court papers, O’Connor texted a friend in connection with that loan to buy the stock, telling the friend the “Boss is helping us out and told us to get ASAP,” and assured the friend that “All conversations on app is encrypted so all good. No one can ever see.”
Lewis also gave the tip to his girlfriend, his personal assistant, a poker buddy and a friend with whom he had a romance, the indictment said. After the company announced the clinical trial data, the stock gained nearly 17% in a day, and Lewis’ friends and employees all eventually sold at a profit. The pilots repaid the loans at Lewis’ request, according to the indictment.
Another time, according to the filing, Lewis gleaned some closed-door information about a muscular dystrophy drug company in which he was a major investor. The information allegedly included a planned financial move and some clinical trial news.
Lewis’ biotech hedge fund signed a confidentiality agreement that prohibited disclosing the information or trading on it. But according to the indictment, he told his girlfriend to buy the company’s stock, then told the pilots the same as they flew the couple to Massachusetts from Seoul, where the two had been staying.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Ventolo, Martha Kay "Marti"
VENTOLO, Martha Kay, age 81, of Enon passed away peacefully on July 26, 2023. She was born in Union County, Ohio to the late Francis and Lociel Cramer. Martha married the love of her life, Joseph A Ventolo, Jr. on May 4, 1962. Martha graduated from Wilmington College after earning a Bachelor's of Art degree and went on to work as the director of Preschool at Enon United Methodist Preschool. Martha proudly volunteered at the US Airforce Museum, dedicating over 6000 hours of her time over the years. She was a long-time member of the Enon UMC. Marti was a loving, compassionate, and kindhearted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. In addition to her parents, Martha was preceded in death by her brothers, Francis Cramer and David Cramer; sister, Georgina Almazon; and son-in-law, Loman T. Fisher III. Martha leaves to cherish her memory, loving husband of 61 years, Joseph Ventolo, Jr.; devoted daughters, Christina Fisher, Karen (Phil Wilson) Woodward, and Joelle (John Musgrove) Ventolo; sister, Elizabeth Jones; grandchildren, Loman (Sylvia) Fisher IV; Victor (Jaclyn) Woodward, Kaylyn (Chris) Hemmelgarn, Jonathan (Jessica) Sheridan, Aaron (Jen) Woodward, Tyler (Julia) Woodward, and Sarah Sheridan; great-grandson, Ben; and many other loving nieces, nephews, cousins, relatives, and dear friends. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at Adkins Funeral Home (7055 Dayton Road. Enon) from 1pm 3pm and from 6pm 8pm. A funeral service honoring Martha's life will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023 at Enon United Methodist Church at 2pm (calling hours at church for one hour prior, 1pm 2pm). Burial to follow at Enon Cemetery.
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Colby Gaulden, 10, puts on his catcher’s gear in the dugout with Reid Alcaraz, 11, right, during a practice scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. The Roadrunner state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regional in Waco, Texas.
Eric Yturbe, 12, attempts to steal third base during a practice at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. Roadrunner is New Mexico's state baseball champion in the Majors division.
From left, Aiden Garcia, 12, Colby Gaulden, 10, and Evan Anaya-Leach, 12, laugh while sitting in the dugout during Roadrunner’s practice Thursday at Roadrunner Little League.
Mastin Lovato sprints in the rain during a practice on Thursday. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
Evan Anaya-Leach, 12, reacts to a high pitch during Roadrunner Little League's practice on Thursday for the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
Roadrunner All-Stars head coach Joe Garcia talks with players during a scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. Roadrunner will play in the upcoming Southwestern Little League majors baseball regional in Waco, Texas.
Aiden Garcia, 11, is safe stealing second base during a practice scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, July 27, 2023. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
Eric Yturbe, 12, attempts to retrieve baseballs on top of the dugout during a practice scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
Tyriano Martinez-Cordova holds his glove inside the dugout during practice on Thursday for Roadrunner Little League's upcoming appearance at the Southwestern Regionial in majors baseball, held in Waco, Texas.
Catcher Colby Gaulden, 10, watches the game from the dugout his Roadrunner Little League team's practice on Thursday for the upcoming Southwestern Regionals.
Players stretch before practice at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
Colby Gaulden, 10, puts on his catcher’s gear in the dugout with Reid Alcaraz, 11, right, during a practice scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. The Roadrunner state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regional in Waco, Texas.
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Eric Yturbe, 12, attempts to steal third base during a practice at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. Roadrunner is New Mexico's state baseball champion in the Majors division.
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From left, Aiden Garcia, 12, Colby Gaulden, 10, and Evan Anaya-Leach, 12, laugh while sitting in the dugout during Roadrunner’s practice Thursday at Roadrunner Little League.
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Mastin Lovato sprints in the rain during a practice on Thursday. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
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Eric Yturbe, 12, pitches during Roadrunner Little League's Thursday practice at its home field.
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Evan Anaya-Leach, 12, reacts to a high pitch during Roadrunner Little League's practice on Thursday for the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
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Roadrunner All-Stars head coach Joe Garcia talks with players during a scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. Roadrunner will play in the upcoming Southwestern Little League majors baseball regional in Waco, Texas.
Chancey Bush/ Journal
Aiden Garcia, 11, is safe stealing second base during a practice scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, July 27, 2023. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
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Eric Yturbe, 12, attempts to retrieve baseballs on top of the dugout during a practice scrimmage at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
Chancey Bush/ Journal
Tyriano Martinez-Cordova holds his glove inside the dugout during practice on Thursday for Roadrunner Little League's upcoming appearance at the Southwestern Regionial in majors baseball, held in Waco, Texas.
Chancey Bush/ Journal
The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
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Catcher Colby Gaulden, 10, watches the game from the dugout his Roadrunner Little League team's practice on Thursday for the upcoming Southwestern Regionals.
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Tyriano Martinez-Cordova up to bat during Roadrunner Little League's Thursday practice for upcoming regionals play.
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Players stretch before practice at the Roadrunner Little League complex on Thursday. The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the upcoming Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
Chancey Bush/ Journal
The Roadrunner Little League state championship team will be competing in the Southwestern Regionals in Waco, Texas.
No matter what happens next, Roadrunner Little League already owns a little slice of history.
Facing a 3-0 deficit against perennial powerhouse Carlsbad in the deciding game of the state baseball tournament in the Majors division, Roadrunner staged an improbable, two-out, five-run rally in the sixth inning to advance to this week’s regionals in Waco, Texas. Perhaps even more impressive was the fact that Roadrunner faced an uphill battle in the bracket after losing to Carlsbad earlier in the tournament. | https://www.abqjournal.com/sports/roadrunner-little-league-all-stars-make-history-as-they-head-to-regionals/article_e47b1032-2e4e-11ee-ae0d-579214219358.html | 2023-07-30T07:56:46 | 0 | https://www.abqjournal.com/sports/roadrunner-little-league-all-stars-make-history-as-they-head-to-regionals/article_e47b1032-2e4e-11ee-ae0d-579214219358.html |
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's banking sector could withstand a severe economic downturn without depleting their financial buffers against losses, the European Central Bank said Friday.
A survey of 98 large and medium-sized banks done by the ECB's supervisory arm in conjunction with the European Banking Authority showed that even in the most adverse scenario — a fall of almost 10% in economic outpoint over three years — banks would still have enough capital to cover losses and then some.
The stress test was not a pass-fail exercise for banks in the 20 countries that use the euro currency. Rather, results for individual banks will be used by banking regulators in determining how much capital they need to hold in reserve.
Banks are crucial to the European economy because companies get most of their financing from them, instead of from financial markets — the opposite of the situation in the U.S.
The ECB took over supervision of the biggest banks after the eurozone debt crisis more than a decade ago, when bank losses led to heavy bailout costs for governments. National supervisors were perceived to have been less than vigilant on developing risks.
Scrutiny of bank finances has grown after the failure of three U.S. banks amid rising interest rates that led to losses on investments and mass withdrawal of deposits. The financial turmoil then hit Credit Suisse, a globally significant bank that had long-running problems, leading the Swiss government to engineer an emergency takeover by rival UBS to prevent further banking chaos.
Switzerland is not part of the European Union, where some of the safeguards instituted after the 2008-2009 global financial crisis were more widely applied.
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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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DULUTH — A 33-year-old Hermantown resident was taken to St. Luke's hospital with life-threatening injuries after an apparent motorcycle crash north of Duluth on Saturday evening.
According to a media release from the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, emergency responders received a crash detection report at approximately 7:19 p.m. from an Apple device traced to Pequaywan Lake Road north of Duluth. Before responders arrived, a motorist called and reported a man lying in the ditch in that area from an apparent motorcycle crash. The device on the man's person had contacted 911 automatically.
The sheriff's office continues to investigate the incident, at which the St. Louis County Sheriff's Volunteer Rescue Squad, Mayo Ambulance and Pequaywan Area First Responders provided assistance. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/motorcyclist-seriously-injured-in-crash | 2023-07-30T08:01:54 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/motorcyclist-seriously-injured-in-crash |
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.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/drone-attack-in-moscow-injures-one-and-damages-two-buildings-russian-officials-say/3614468/ | 2023-07-30T08:04:46 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/drone-attack-in-moscow-injures-one-and-damages-two-buildings-russian-officials-say/3614468/ |
Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
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“I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I’ve already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight,” she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
“I’m pretty tough on myself," she said. “But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace.”
The 800 was Ledecky’s second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
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“It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women’s 200 backstroke. McKeown’s victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
“You can’t change the rules,” she said. “I got ruled out. It’s just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn’t do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive.”
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström’s individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps’ mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
“There are not too many secrets,” Sjöström said about her longevity. “Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble.”
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year’s world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
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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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Tigers vs. Marlins: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
The Miami Marlins and Detroit Tigers will meet on Sunday at LoanDepot park, at 1:40 PM ET, with Luis Arraez and Spencer Torkelson among those expected to produce at the plate.
The Marlins are favored in this one, at -150, while the underdog Tigers have +125 odds to play spoiler. The total is 7 runs for this game (with -120 odds on the over and +100 odds on the under).
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Tigers vs. Marlins Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: BSFL
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Tigers Recent Betting Performance
- The Tigers have played as the underdog in seven of their past 10 games and have gone 2-5 in those contests.
- When it comes to the over/under, the Tigers and their opponents are 4-5-1 in their previous 10 games.
- Bookmakers have not posted a runline in any of the Tigers' past 10 games.
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Tigers Betting Records & Stats
- The Tigers have won in 34, or 40.5%, of the 84 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- Detroit has a record of 24-29 in games where bookmakers have it as underdogs of at least +125 on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have an implied victory probability of 44.4% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- Games involving Detroit have gone over the total set by sportsbooks in 54 of 105 chances this season.
- In 11 games with a line this season, the Tigers have a mark of 4-7-0 against the spread.
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Tigers Splits
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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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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Community members gathered in Sacramento Saturday to weigh in on how the Sacramento Police Department uses its military equipment.
"This is really one of the first of his time, first of his time, first of his kind of opportunity to really have community members come in and voice their valid concerns,” said Keyan Bliss, Sacramento Community Review Commission.
Sacramento police gave a presentation about and took questions from the community on how military equipment is used.
The discussion comes as the department plans to spend over $350,000 on new tactical gear over the next year — including on things like military-style rifles and armored vehicles when it already has $4.5 million dollars in inventory.
“I think it's important that committee members have a direct say in all policies and procedures of the city and all of its public departments, including the police department,” said Bliss. “Our community members that live here in Sacramento city have a right and an invested interest in how the police use every all means of equivalence."
The event was hosted by the Sacramento Community Review Commission and intended to gather feedback from the community the department serves as the commission gets ready to give a recommendation on spending to Sacramento City Council.
While many in attendance expressed their concerns about these things potentially dividing the community, others see benefits.
One man who attended the meeting says he supports buying new equipment to replace old, outdated equipment.
“The things that they are purchasing will benefit the community. Regardless of it it's at a critical incident or if they're being called by another agency to use that to do search and rescue. It's all kinds of things those are being used for,” he said.
Councilmember Katie Valenzuela sat in for the conversation and says she’ll take the group’s input to other elected leaders as they strive to build trust and transparency in Sacramento.
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NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. — The woman who was killed after being hit by a car in North Highlands Wednesday night has been identified by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office.
Shanese Marielee Bradshaw, 25, was identified as the victim of the crash on Watt and Orange Grove avenues.
California Highway Patrol officials say a black 2011 Lexus GS350 with the license plate number 9ELX700 hit Bradshaw and drove away from the scene.
Officials are still searching for the car and expect it to have damage to the right side, including missing the right side mirror.
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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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Ask Amy: Advice for the Real World
Dear Amy: My husband’s brother and his wife announced about a year ago that they had irreconcilable differences; they divorced after a long and loveless marriage.
To be honest we have no idea why they stayed together as long as they did.
About a month later, my brother-in-law introduced us to his new girlfriend.
I was initially very happy that he had found someone new who really seemed to fit into the family dynamic better than his ex.
But then his new girlfriend reached out on Facebook. I accepted her friend request and was trying to get to know her by looking at her past posts.
That’s when I realized that she and my brother-in-law had been in a relationship for at least five years.
I haven’t mentioned this to anyone else in the family except for my husband.
I was raised with a strong belief in the sanctity of marriage, and I unfortunately find their infidelity and lack of shame about it to be disturbing.
I try not to let this knowledge get in my way of being friendly with them, but it’s always sitting in the back of my mind, and I’ve found myself avoiding them so I don’t have to think about it.
Do you have any suggestions on what I can do to keep this relationship friendly? I don’t want to damage my husband’s family dynamic.
– Don’t Want to be Judgmental
Dear Judgmental: No one knows what goes on in another couple’s marriage, but my observation is that even long and loveless marriages can hang on until another potential partner enters the scene, which often serves as the impetus for the couple to finally separate.
Generally, when a separated or very recently divorced person introduces another partner to the family very quickly after parting with the spouse, it’s a sign that the new person has been on the scene for a while.
Your brother-in-law and his former wife might have had an understanding or were negotiating about how to handle their marriage and outside relationships prior to their divorce.
The girlfriend’s public posts indicate that there is an overall lack of shame regarding the relationship, and whether this is because they are actually shameless or perhaps reacting to a much more complicated personal situation remains to be seen. It is really none of your business, but if you’re curious, you could ask – but I suggest you work hard to keep your harsher judgment in check.
You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.
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Ask Amy: Advice for the Real World
Dear Amy: I have two friends, both of whom live across the country, who like to call me for extended conversations.
Both of these people talk nonstop and miraculously seem to have evolved out of the need for air, because I spend these calls waiting for a tiny pause that would allow me to blurt out that I have to go.
When I imagine telling them that I really don’t like talking on the phone, I feel sure they will feel insulted.
As it is, I only answer every third or so call, but it’s still too much.
Any ideas for how I can end these calls without sparking animosity?
– Desperate Phone Hostage
Dear Hostage: “I have to be honest – I don’t take all of your calls because I don’t really like talking on the phone” is describing a personal preference, not delivering an insult.
And – the way you describe these encounters as a hostage situation makes these people seem less like actual friends and more like bored and boring cold-calling phone bots.
In short, if you want a monologue, you can watch Jimmy Kimmel. And even he comes up for air.
If you dodge a call, you could use texting (or email) to contact them: “I see you called. What’s up?”
This might unleash a new wave of annoyance, but that would be another challenge for another day.
You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.
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DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren
DEAR ABBY: About 10 years ago, I visited my oldest and dearest friend, who I see a few times a year. The last time, her husband, who I’ve also known for years and who I thought was a friend, started teasing me. I can take a joke, but the teasing got mean. Eventually he stopped, and I continued my visit.
I was really angry at him, but because I didn’t want to involve my friend, I sent him an email. I told him I thought his teasing went too far and to please not do it again. He never replied. Now when I visit my friend, her husband is never there. He stays away. I haven’t seen him in years.
My friend makes silly excuses why he isn’t at home when I visit. In fact, the last time I went I saw him driving away when I drove up! I don’t hold a grudge against the guy. I think it’s sad that he has to run away. Should I say something? -- PERPLEXED IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR PERPLEXED: No. You dealt with your friend’s husband appropriately without involving his wife. Enjoy your visits with her, and do not drag her into this. I see no reason to raise the subject. Your problem is solved.
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DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren
DEAR ABBY: I’m a gentleman who would like to date more than I do. I want to ask a woman in my church choir out for coffee or lunch on a Sunday afternoon. But I get so nervous I get knots in my stomach. I know dating is one of the things I need to leave in God’s hands and have His help in getting over the nerves.
I like my friend in the choir a lot. I think she’s a wonderful and caring person. I want to get to know her better because, even though we’ve said “Hi” and “Bye” and exchanged glances during choir practice on Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings, I don’t know her heart and what makes her tick. Can you offer some advice? -- PAINFULLY SHY IN MISSOURI
DEAR PAINFULLY SHY: Start treating the woman as you would a friend rather than a love interest. Asking a fellow choir member to join you for coffee afterward or for a lunch could be a healthy, nonthreatening beginning of a relationship. (Notice I didn’t use the word “romance.”)
Because you want to get to know her better, summon your courage and let her get to know YOU better. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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BY ANNIE LANE
Dear Annie: I would like to respond to relatives who are upset when they are not thanked for giving children/teens gifts. Just tell them how you feel! When I was growing up, my grandmother was a loving but stern influence in my life and I now appreciate all the lessons she taught me. She always gifted us $20 each birthday in brand-new, crisp $1 bills that she specially requested at the bank.
I clearly remember one time when my sister and I as teenagers had gotten lazy about writing her thank-you cards. She sat us down and let us know that when someone gives you a gift, you hurt their feelings by not thanking them or sending a card. We were of course embarrassed, but it was an amazing lesson to learn.
In the 30 years since, I still go out of my way to make sure I thank gift givers because of this conversation. A text at least, or a phone call. I don’t think a written card is always necessary depending on your relationship to the giver, but it sure can’t hurt! -- Teen Who Is Now a Thankful Adult
Dear Thankful: What a great letter. That is wonderful advice for the grandparents just to be honest and tell their grandchildren how they feel.
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DEAR ABBY: About 10 years ago, I visited my oldest and dearest friend, who I see a few times a year. The last time, her husband, who I’ve also known for years and who I thought was a friend, started teasing me. I can take a joke, but the teasing got mean. Eventually he stopped, and I continued my visit.
I was really angry at him, but because I didn’t want to involve my friend, I sent him an email. I told him I thought his teasing went too far and to please not do it again. He never replied. Now when I visit my friend, her husband is never there. He stays away. I haven’t seen him in years.
My friend makes silly excuses why he isn’t at home when I visit. In fact, the last time I went I saw him driving away when I drove up! I don’t hold a grudge against the guy. I think it’s sad that he has to run away. Should I say something? -- PERPLEXED IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR PERPLEXED: No. You dealt with your friend’s husband appropriately without involving his wife. Enjoy your visits with her, and do not drag her into this. I see no reason to raise the subject. Your problem is solved.
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MORE FROM DEAR ABBY:
Dear Abby: Woman expecting quadruplets is devastated when her fiancé unexpectedly leaves her
Dear Abby: I’m madly in love with a man who only wants to drink when not sleeping or working
Dear Abby: Father fails to show up for teen son
Dear Abby: Painting is a painful reminder of a former friend
Dear Abby: I want out, but he has nowhere to go. I feel guilty.
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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Corbin Carroll uses speed to help Arizona D-backs beat Mariners 4-3
Jul 29, 2023, 8:06 PM | Updated: 11:42 pm
(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
PHOENIX (AP) — Rookie sensation Corbin Carroll is among the National League’s leaders in homers, triples and stolen bases.
If there was a category for being a big ol’ pain in the rear end on the basepaths, he’d be right near the top of that leaderboard as well.
Arizona Diamondbacks 4, Seattle Mariners 3: Box score
Carroll started an eighth-inning rally with some distracting base running, Dominic Canzone brought his fellow rookie home with a single for the go-ahead run and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 on Saturday night.
Carroll, a Seattle native who made his All-Star Game debut in his hometown earlier this month, started the decisive rally in the eighth with a walk off reliever Andrés Muñoz. He then advanced to second on a balk by Muñoz (2-4) and stole third against the flat-footed Mariners infield a few pitches later. Seattle pulled its infield in with one out before Canzone delivered a chopper that bounced through to break the 3-all tie.
CLUTCH CANZONE. pic.twitter.com/77YcKobiJH
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) July 30, 2023
“It’s just a classic case of being prepped and being ready,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said about Carroll’s aggressive baserunning. “He’s capable of doing that against any pitcher at any time. It was the difference in the game.”
Carroll has 32 stolen bases and 21 homers this season, consistently causing problems for opposing teams with his power-speed combo. Canzone had two RBI singles, coming through with his clutch hit in the eighth in just his 14th big league game.
“I was just trying to hit anything hard and maybe get a little lucky,” Canzone said. “And I did get a little lucky.”
It was a much-needed win for the D-backs, who are still just 7-15 in July.
The Mariners had their three-game winning streak snapped. Seattle was trying to jump to four games above .500 this season, but couldn’t get it done after going 0 for 11 at the plate with runners in scoring position.
Seattle had a great chance to score in the ninth after a one-out triple by Cade Marlowe, but José Caballero whiffed for the second out. J.P. Crawford then walked before Scott McGough struck out All-Star Julio Rodríguez to end the game.
“We’ve been having quality at-bats the past few days,” Crawford said. “Today, we just couldn’t get them in. It was just one of those days.”
Seattle scored twice on sacrifice flies before Tom Murphy’s solo homer to left made it 3-0 in the fourth. Murphy has been on a recent tear, with extra-base hits in four straight games. He also has seven homers in his past 20 games.
Murph is HOT 🔥 pic.twitter.com/3RErA1qa0G
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) July 30, 2023
But the D-backs quickly clawed back, scoring two runs in the fourth and then tying the game in the fifth on Carson Kelly’s RBI single.
“You’ve got to figure out a way to win these games,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “We were right in there, doing a lot of good things offensively. Just the big hit late — we weren’t able to do it tonight.”
Arizona rookie right-hander Brandon Pfaadt gave up three runs on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings, striking out three and walking one. Pfaadt’s had two encouraging starts in a row after a rough start to his big league career.
“I think it went super well,” Pfaadt said. “We built on our last start. There were a lot of positives to take out of it.”
The D-backs bullpen of Kyle Nelson, Miguel Castro, Kevin Ginkel (4-0), Andrew Chafin and McGough combined to throw 3 1/3 scoreless innings.
Seattle righty Bryan Woo gave up three runs on seven hits over five innings, walking two.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Diamondbacks: 3B Evan Longoria was placed on the 10-day injured list with a strained lower back. IF Josh Rojas was called up from Triple-A to take his spot.
UP NEXT
The three-game series concludes Sunday. The Diamondbacks will send RHP Merrill Kelly (9-4, 3.12 ERA) to the mound, while the Mariners counter with RHP Luis Castillo (6-7, 3.02 ERA).
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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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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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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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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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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?
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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.star945.com/news/national/sean-mcvays-outlook/HE7NQRAJLSCJMRF6RENPATTUN4/ | 2023-07-30T08:16:07 | 0 | https://www.star945.com/news/national/sean-mcvays-outlook/HE7NQRAJLSCJMRF6RENPATTUN4/ |
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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The TinCaps hit three home runs and Carlos Luis had two extra-base hits, but Fort Wayne let a pair of leads get away and lost to West Michigan 8-5 at LMCU Ballpark in Comstock Park, Michigan, on Saturday.
Luis homered for the second straight night, a fourth-inning solo blast, which put Fort Wayne (49-46, 17-12 second half) in front 4-1, but the visitors gave up three runs in the sixth and four more in the eighth and saw their lead over Dayton in the race for the Midwest League East Division's second-half playoff spot shrink to one game after the Dragons' 5-2 win over Great Lakes, their seventh victory in eight games.
Fort Wayne fell behind 1-0 in the first inning on a Brady Allen single off left-hander Miguel Cienfuegos, but drew even in the third when catcher Anthony Vilar led off with a home run on the first pitch of the inning, off 2021 No. 3 overall pick Jackson Jobe, who was making his 2023 High-A debut the day before his 21st birthday.
The long ball was Vilar's sixth of the season and second with the TinCaps.
Later in the same inning, Kai Murphy rolled a one-out single to center. Fort Wayne's Nerwilian Cedeño followed with his first High-A home run in 25 games at the level, putting the TinCaps in front 3-1.
Luis tacked on in the fourth inning with his fifth home run of the season. The lefty-swinging slugger added a double for his fifth hit in two games, three of which have gone for extra bases. He has four RBI in those contests.
Fort Wayne's three long balls put it back on top of the league in home runs for the season with 95, on pace to set a new franchise record (the old mark stands at 127). The TinCaps have homered six times in the last two games and now lead the MWL in on-base plus slugging (OPS), as well, at .733, after scoring only four runs total in their first five games of the season and ranking near the bottom of the league in most offensive stats for the first month of the campaign.
TinCaps starter Miguel Cienfuegos made the lead stand up into the sixth, but ran into trouble at that point, walking Carlos Mendoza and giving up a double to Luke Gold before being replaced by right-hander Will Geerdes. Geerdes promptly surrendered an Allen triple and then a single to Eliezer Alonzo on back-to-back pitches to tie the game at 4.
Cienfuegos was pitching for the second time in four days after going two innings in Wednesday's contest before the game was suspended because of rain. The 26-year-old southpaw was pressed into service again Saturday because of the absence of expected starter Victor Lizarraga, the No. 7 Padres prospect, who was placed on the 7-day IL prior to the game.
Cienfuegos was charged with three runs on four hits while striking out four and walking one.
The TinCaps re-took the advantage in the eighth on a Kervin Pichardo single after Nathan Martorella had doubled and Graham Pauley had been hit by a pitch.
In the bottom half, however, Geerdes again struggled, letting the first five hitters of the inning reach on a double, three singles and a walk and exited the game trailing 7-5. Right-hander Keegan Collett retired the next three hitters, but one of those was a sacrifice fly which brought in the game's final tally.
Geerdes blew a second save in seven games with the TinCaps and fell to 0-3. In his last two outings, he has surrendered eight runs on nine hits with two walks in 4 1/3 innings.
Murphy drew a walk in the ninth to go with his two hits and a run scored, but Fort Wayne could not close the gap in its final trip to the plate.
Cedeño was robbed of a potential second home run with a runner on first in the seventh on a catch from Whitecaps center-fielder Dom Johnson in the deepest part of the ballpark in center.
Dom Johnson ranges to the wall and reels this one in to rob Nerwilian Cedeno of an extra-base hit and end the inning. pic.twitter.com/LfAptmbA3Q
— Tigers ML Report (@tigersMLreport) July 30, 2023
Martorella went 1 for 4. His on-base plus slugging (OPS) of .870 is No. 2 in the MWL, down from first on Friday.
Not in the lineup for the first time in 95 games this season was center-fielder Jakob Marsee, the league's leader in runs scored. After a torrid June and early July, the former Central Michigan Chippewa was 1 for 28 with a lone single in his previous eight games. He had been the only player in the league to play in all of his team's games.
Injured list exodus
On Saturday, the TinCaps announced four of their players had been placed on the 7-day injured list with undisclosed maladies. Lizarraga was among those, scratched from his start after throwing five shutout innings in his best performance of the season his last time out. The 19-year-old reigning Padres Minor League Pitcher of the Year is 2-5 with a 4.26 ERA and Fort Wayne is counting on him to be a factor down the stretch of the season as it makes a postseason push.
Also going to the IL was utility man Lucas Dunn, one of the league's hottest hitters over the last month and a Swiss Army knife for the Fort Wayne defense. Since June 30, Dunn had been hitting .362 with a .464 OBP and 1.001 OPS. Dunn had not been in the lineup since Tuesday.
The TinCaps also put relievers Alan Mundo (1-1, 9.95 ERA) and Aaron Holiday (3-3, 4.75) on the IL. Those losses forced manager Jonathan Mathews to stick with Geerdes longer than he probably would have liked in the eighth inning Saturday. | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/tincaps/full-count/short-handed-tincaps-lose-lead-after-starter-scratched/article_555255c0-2e9c-11ee-ad2e-cf7f1d8773b6.html | 2023-07-30T08:18:35 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/professional/tincaps/full-count/short-handed-tincaps-lose-lead-after-starter-scratched/article_555255c0-2e9c-11ee-ad2e-cf7f1d8773b6.html |
The Kardashians have never exactly been shy about letting it be known they care a lot about how they look.
Kim Kardashian has said she'd "probably eat s--t" if it would make her look younger, while mom Kris Jenner has cheerily detailed the procedures she's undergone to enjoy an ultra-smooth visage at 67. And Khloe Kardashian has mercilessly compared herself to her sisters, whether she's admiring Kim and Kourtney Kardashian's "ample cleavage."
Kylie Jenner—mom to Stormi Webster, 5, and Aire Webster, 17 months, with ex Travis Scott—started a wildly successful cosmetics and skin care company, buoyed by the glossy-pout-building Lip Kit. The airbrushed-to-perfection look Kylie's been sporting since her late teens made her the natural face of her own line.
Natural meaning obvious, that is.
Because while the Kylie Cosmetics mogul, 25, has never been one of the more talkative members of her family when it comes to how she maintains and enhances, lately—maybe it's motherhood, maybe it's just maturity that comes with, um, age—Kylie has joined them in getting real about what it actually takes to achieve her brand of beauty.
And, most interestingly, she's openly pondered what her family's brand of beauty has wrought.
She expounded on the subject with Kourtney not long ago: Recruited to do the now-pregnant star's glam for a Poosh event, captured for the July 20 episode of The Kardashians, she headed over to her big sis's house with a massive pink Kylie Cosmetics case to work her magic.
When Khloe walked in and resisted compliments about her waist-length, stick-straight hair, Kourtney mused, "I do think you should be confident in your imperfections."
That led to Kourt raising the topic of today's beauty standards, about which Kylie noted, "I just feel like we have huge influence, and like what are we doing with our power? I just think I see so many young girls on the Internet now, like, fully editing."
"I went through that stage, too," she added, "and I feel like I'm in a better place, but other people can instill insecurities in you."
Kylie reminded her sisters that they used to talk about her ears—"'cause I loved them," Khloe protested—and being called names like Dopey "f--ked me up," she said. "I never thought about my ears! And then for five years I never wore an updo. And then I had Stormi, and she has my ears. And it made me realize how much I love them."
"Now I wear an updo every carpet," Kylie added.
This new era of openness may have also stemmed in part from wanting to put a rest to all the wildest rumors and assumptions about procedures she may or may not have had and why she had them—or didn't.
Talking to Paper in 2019, Kylie denied speculation that she "fully went under the knife and completely reconstructed" her face. "I'm terrified," she added. "I would never."
But she did re-confirm having lip fillers, having first acknowledged them at least four years beforehand, when she was barely 18.
"I want to admit to the lips," she lamented on a 2015 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, "but people are so quick to judge me on everything, so I might have tiptoed around the truth, but I didn't lie."
And some things do not change. Her denials didn't stop the step-by-step speculative videos on YouTube and TikTok—some made by doctors, no less!—proclaiming to know exactly what work Kylie has had done over the years.
"I think a big misconception about me is that I've had so much surgery on my face and that I was some insecure person, and I really wasn't!" she said in an interview with Homme Girls published in April. "Yeah, I love full lips and wanted full lips, but growing up I was always the most confident person in the room. I was the girl performing for everyone."
Kylie's one insecurity was her lips, "so I got lip filler," she explained, "and it was the best thing I've ever done. I don't regret it. But I always thought I was cute."
As it turns out, however, there was a time when Kylie was down on more than her lips' natural pout factor.
On the July 27 episode of The Kardashians, she shared with primarily platonic bestie Stassie Karanikolaou that she had a boob job not all that long before Stormi was born.
Kylie was 19 at the time and, she recalled, "within six months of having Stormi—not thinking I would have a child when I was 20—like, they were still healing."
Looking back, Kylie said, "I had beautiful breasts—like, natural tits. Just gorgeous, perfect size, perfect everything. And I just wish, obviously, I never got them done to begin with. I would recommend anyone who is thinking about it to wait until after children."
And what of Stormi, who, Kylie told Hommes Girls, "was perfect the way she is" (and that was the only beauty advice she had for her 5-year-old, other than "be confident").
"Obviously I have a daughter," Kylie acknowledged on the Hulu series' season-three finale. "I would be heartbroken if she wanted to get her body done at 19. And she's the most beautiful thing ever. I want to be the best mom and best example for her. And I just wish I could, like, be her and do it all differently, because I wouldn't touch anything."
So, chalk up some of her new perspective to being a mom.
In a July 20 episode confessional, touching on the insecurity conversation she'd had with Khloe and Kourtney, Kylie had again mentioned the "false" claims that she changed her whole face. She stressed, "I've only gotten fillers and I feel like I don't want that to be a part of my story. I will always want everyone to just love themselves."
Not that it's always easy.
Recalling how a friend had recently asked how she stayed so strong in the face of so much online negativity, Kylie concluded that, at this point in her life, she's already heard "every negative possible thing."
"The more it happens I think you just become stronger and more numb to it," she said, "and yeah, it can be a really dark place sometimes."
But, Kylie continued, she has "real love to fall back on" in case the world that has giveth her celebrity should instead taketh away, "and that's all that really matters to me. So it becomes easier." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1381497/how-motherhood-taught-kylie-jenner-to-rethink-plastic-surgery-and-beauty-standards?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-07-30T08:20:02 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1381497/how-motherhood-taught-kylie-jenner-to-rethink-plastic-surgery-and-beauty-standards?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
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.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — When Nigeria scored its third goal in the Women’s World Cup match that now has co-host Australia on the brink of elimination, the hundreds of Matildas fans watching on a giant screen in Melbourne’s Federation Square sent up a chorus of groans.
In the sea of yellow and green jerseys, though, a few spectators cheered and exchanged high-fives.
“You can see the joy all over here,” Nigeria fan Juwon Fayomi said.
The Matildas’ 3-2 loss to Nigeria sent the tournament co-hosts into a must-win group-stage finale against Olympic champion Canada on Monday in Melbourne. So there’s a chance Australia could be knocked out in the group stage of the Women’s World Cup, a fate that no host country endured in the first eight editions.
That undoubtedly could dampen some local enthusiasm. But because of Australia’s unique migration history, pockets of passionate fans still will be heavily invested in the Women’s World Cup matches.
Almost one-third of Australians are foreign-born, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and 51.5% have a parent born overseas.
“We often think of the United States as the great migrant-receiver country, but actually, the percentage of foreign-born is higher in Australia,” said demographer Elin Charles-Edwards, a University of Queensland professor.
The 2023 World Cup is being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, and ticket sales have set records.
In the knockout rounds, Australia will host five of the eight round-of-16 matches, two quarterfinals, a semifinal match, as well as the third-place match and the Aug. 20 final.
Fayomi, a mechanical engineering researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, arrived in Australia from Nigeria about nine months ago. He attended the Super Falcons’ first group-stage match — a 0-0 draw against Canada — in Melbourne.
“I’m so proud of them,” Fayomi said. “So proud, so proud.”
The Super Falcons can guarantee themselves a spot in the knockout round with a win or draw over winless Ireland on Monday in Brisbane.
Colombia fans packed the Sydney Football Stadium’s stands for Las Cafeteras’ 2-0 win over South Korea last week. Another big crowd was expected for Colombia’s match against two-time World Cup champion Germany.
“Emotionally, it’s exciting to see the stands dressed in yellow,” Colombia player Lady Andrade said. “We didn’t think this was going to happen.”
Despite ranking 55th worldwide in national population size, at 26.6 million, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia is ninth in the size of its population born in other countries.
The notion of “populate or perish” is ingrained in Australia’s post-colonization history, Charles-Edwards said. Early policies attracted immigrants from Northern Europe to boost the nation’s population.
Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, she said, the removal of some restrictive policies increased the number of Australian residents from nearby Asian nations and other parts of the world.
Enosky Agudelo Tang, a restaurant owner in Sydney with both Colombian and Chinese heritage, moved to Australia from Colombia nearly 17 years ago. He hadn’t seen a Colombian national team, men’s or women’s, play in person in two decades – until Colombia’s World Cup win over South Korea.
“In South America, (soccer) is in our blood,” Agudelo Tang said. “We still love Colombia. We still love our background. We still love our culture. It’s a big deal that we can support, in our home where we live now, our country.”
When the United States and Netherlands played to a 1-1 draw in New Zealand last Thursday, Southern Cal student Aidan Miltner, who is studying abroad at the University of Melbourne, watched at the FIFA Fan Festival in Melbourne.
“It’s a sense of pride for my home country,” Miltner said. “Being abroad, being a little homesick, it’s nice to have a community out here to cheer on our team.”
Australia has the highest percentage of international university students in the world, with about one in every four students coming from abroad, according to the International Institute of Education’s Project Atlas.
Some foreign-born Australian residents are passionate not just for their home teams. They also cheer on teams from nearby countries. Daniel Dodoo is from Ghana and Raymond Ndikontar from Cameroon, but they both were cheering for Nigeria in its match against Australia.
“Nigeria is representing West Africa, and because (Ghana) didn’t get to qualify for the World Cup, I came to support them,” Dodoo said.
Of the top 20 countries that foreign-born Australian residents hail from, half have teams competing in this year’s Women’s World Cup.
“A World Cup is something that culturally brings people together,” Charles-Edwards said. “It’s very easy to support the Matildas but also have another team that you’re backing during the World Cup. So that just, I think, adds to the excitement and to the interest in the sport.”
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Zeke Palermo contributed reporting from Sydney. Palermo and Cassidy Hettesheimer are students at the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Sam Kerr is set to return for Australia at the Women’s World Cup just in time for a must-win match against Canada. If the Matildas lose, the tournament co-hosts will be eliminated.
That was barely even a consideration ahead of this World Cup, with Kerr expected to take Australia deep into the tournament for perhaps a shot at the championship. But the star striker missed the the home team’s first two matches with a calf injury.
She announced ahead of Monday’s match in Melbourne that she will play against Canada, the Olympic gold medalists in Tokyo. A win will put Australia into the knockout round for the fifth consecutive time. A shocking 3-2 loss to Nigeria dropped Australia to third in Group B, behind Nigeria and Canada, and a loss in the last group game would be devastating for the co-hosts.
Kerr is Australia’s all-time leading scorer with 63 goals in 121 games.
“I’m definitely going to be available,” Kerr said, “but how we decide to use that is not to be given to the opposition.”
The Australians had lost only one of their previous 11 matches before the Nigeria game, but the Matildas have been hampered by injuries beyond Kerr; Manchester City forward Mary Fowler missed the Nigeria match with a concussion sustained at practice.
Canada opened the tournament with a scoreless draw against Nigeria, followed by a 2-1 win over Ireland.
JAPAN-SPAIN
Japan and Spain square off in the Group C decider that pits two tournament heavyweights against each other in a Monday match b etween serious tournament contenders.
Both teams are undefeated headed into the match in Wellington, where the top spot in the group will be decided. Spain has rolled to a 3-0 win over Costa Rica and a 5-0 rout of Zambia, while Japan has logged a 5-0 win over Zambia and a 2-0 win over Costa Rica.
Spain has a one-goal edge in the tiebreaker headed into the showdown.
“They’re very good, and I respect the team very much,” Japanese defender Moeki Minami said of Spain. “In Europe, they play in a similar style to as a Japan team. Therefore, having a similar type of performance, I think we will have a very interesting match.”
Japan, winners of the 2011 World Cup, has won five of its six previous games. The last three wins have been by a combined 12-0 score.
Spain has recorded eight consecutive wins since it dropped a 3-2 match to Australia in February. Spain has scored 27 goals in that span with seven clean sheets.
IRELAND-NIGERIA
Ireland’s first ever Women’s World Cup tournament will end after Monday’s match against Nigeria in Brisbane, Australia. The Nigerians, however, still have a shot at advancing out of Group B and into the knockout round.
Ireland was steady but not strong enough in a 1-0 loss to co-host Australia in the tournament opener, and then the Girls in Green scored first on Canada before falling 2-1 to lose their fifth game in six matches and slip out of contention.
“I think we’ve shown that we deserve to be here with the two performances that we’ve put in,” said Megan Connolly, who had an own goal in the loss to Canada. “As a team and as a nation, we wanted to come out with more, but I know we’ve made everyone proud and our goal doesn’t change: we want to come away with a win.”
Nigeria has four points from its first two group games — a scoreless draw against Canada followed by a shocking 3-2 upset over Australia. Nigeria can advance by avoiding defeat to Ireland; a loss would leave Nigeria dependent on the result of the match between Canada and Australia.
“In a lot of ways, it could be our hardest match,” Nigeria coach Randy Waldrum said. “I don’t think we’re expecting them to just lay down because they’re going home already. I expect us to get the best from them.”
Nigeria star striker Asisat Oshoala is available after a thigh injury kept her out of the starting 11 in the win over Australia, when she came off the bench and scored Nigeria’s winning goal. Waldrum would not specify how Oshoala will be used against Ireland.
“I think she’s doing much better. I think we did the right thing by managing her minutes,” he said. “We still may have to do a little bit of that in this match with Ireland. We will start to make some decisions on whether that’s at the front end or the back end of it.”
COSTA RICA-ZAMBIA
Costa Rica and Zambia would both like to get on the scoring board — and earn a Women’s World Cup victory — before departing the tournament following the Group C finale Monday in Hamilton, New Zealand.
The teams were eliminated with a match to spare. Zambia had a pair of blowout losses to Japan and Spain, while Costa Rica lost to the same two teams but my smaller margins. Zambia has given up 10 goals in two games, while Costa Rica has conceded five.
Neither team has scored in the tournament.
Costa Rica also appeared in the 2015 tournament, where it picked up two points, and has a shot at its first victory against Zambia. Costa Rica is ranked 41 places higher than Zambia in the FIFA world rankings.
“The desire is there, we have given everything,” Costa Rica coach Amelia Valverde said. “The team is clear in that we will try and get that victory. We are a better version of what we were.”
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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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Manitowoc's Capitol brings Charlie Berens and more in 2023-2024 season, plus more news in weekly dose
Here's your weekly dose of community news from throughout Manitowoc County.
MANITOWOC - Manitowoc’s Capitol Civic Centre, 913 S. Eighth St., has unveiled the lineup for its 2023-24 season.
Tickets went on sale for Capitol subscribers last week and the Capitol Members’ Exclusive purchase begins at 10 a.m. July 31. Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Aug. 7.
Here’s the full lineup of shows. For more information or to order tickets, go to cccshows.org or call 920-683-2184.
- July 26, 7 p.m. — Let Me Be Frank’s “BayFest.” Show is PG-13 and tickets are $30 and $35.
- Sept. 27, 7 p.m. — Let Me Be Frank’s “Fort Howard, We Wipe America.” Show is PG-13 and tickets are $30 and $35.
- Oct. 5, 7 p.m. — The Bronx Wanderers. Show is PG and tickets are $39 and $49 with a student discount available.
- Oct. 26, 7 p.m. — Charlie Berens, Good Old Fashioned Tour. Show is PG and tickets are $39, $46 and $53 with a limited number of $100 VIP tickets available. VIP tickets include prime seating and an exclusive post-show meet-and-greet.
- Dec. 5, 7 p.m. — Let Me Be Frank’s “A Frank’s Christmas.” Show is PG and tickets are $30 and $35.
- Dec. 15-17 — Jean Wolfmeyer School of Dance presents “The Nutcracker.” Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15 and 4 p.m. Dec. 16 and 17. Show is PG and tickets are $22, $29 and $36 with a student discount available.
- Dec. 19, 7 p.m. — Capitol Civic Centre Community Chorale Christmas Concert. Show is rated G and tickets are $12 with a student discount available.
- Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m. — Four Guyz in Dinner Jackets, Call us Old Fashioned, the Supper Club Tour. Show is PG and tickets are $15, $25 and $35 with a student discount available.
- Feb. 14, 7 p.m. — Let Me Be Frank’s “The Bay Beach Boys.” Show is PG-13 and tickets are $30 and $35.
- Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. — Rockapella. Show is rated PG and tickets are $35, $42 and $49 with a student discount available.
- Feb. 29, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. — “Dot Dot Dot: A New Musical.” Show is rated G and tickets are $5.
- March 21, 7 p.m. — Yesterday and Today, The Interactive Beatles Experience. Rated PG and tickets are $29 and $39 with a student discount available.
- April 9, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. — Cat Kid Comic Club. Show is rated G and tickets are $5.
- April 10, 7 p.m. — Let Me Be Frank’s “W.I.R. Nights.” Show is rated PG-13 and tickets are $30 and $35.
- April 24, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. — Bill Blagg, Magic in Motion. Show is rated G and tickets are $5.
- April 27, 7 p.m. — Take Me Home, The Music of John Denver starring Jim Curry. Show is rated PG and tickets are $30 and $40 with a student discount available.
- May 2, 7 p.m. — The Artimus Pyle Band — A tribute to Ronnie Van Zant’s Lynyrd Skynyrd featuring Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle. Show is rated PG and tickets are $46 and $56 with a student discount available.
- May 21, 7 p.m. — Capitol Civic Centre Community Chorale Spring Concert. Show is rated G and tickets are $12 with a student discount available.
Welcome to your weekly dose.Here is more news from throughout Manitowoc County.
Veterans can take free bus trip to Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison
A free bus trip — for veterans only — to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison is set for Aug. 15.
The event is sponsored by Bay Bus Company of Green Bay and will depart the Manitowoc Park & Ride lot across from Perkins, 4525 Calumet Ave., at 8 a.m. and return at about 4:30 p.m.
The trip is free for participating veterans, courtesy of Bay Bus Company. Lunch will be included. To reserve a spot, call Tom Hoffman at 920-645-5563.
The museum dates to 1901 when it was established as the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall in the Wisconsin State Capitol. It is composed of two galleries that chronicle the history of Wisconsin citizens who served in the U.S. military from the American Civil War to present day. It is an educational activity of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.
Manitowoc Lincoln Park road to close for about two weeks for reconstruction
A portion of the Manitowoc Lincoln Park roadway — between the parking lot at the main entrance to the zoo and heading northwest to cabin 2 — will be closed for about two weeks after reconstruction started July 28.
Visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo will be able to access the zoo from the Reed Avenue entrance, the city said, adding to keep in mind that construction is taking place on Reed Avenue, so there is only one-way traffic on Reed Avenue (currently eastbound).
The city said visitors to cabin 2 should use the entrance off Lincoln Boulevard on the south side of the park.
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The roadway between the playground and cabin 2 will be open, but the roadway on the north side of cabin 2 will be closed for reconstruction, the city said.
Access to cabin 1, the hexagonal open-air shelter, the tennis courts, ball diamond and fieldhouse will not be affected.
Maritime Museum to offer free presentation on U.S. Navy’s ‘King Neptune’s Court’ tradition
Wisconsin Maritime Museum, 75 Maritime Drive, Manitowoc, will offer a free “Think & Drink” series presentation titled “King Neptune’s Court: Gender Expression in the U.S. Navy” at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 3.
The presentation will be given by Naval History and Heritage Command’s Dr. Heather Haley and U.S. Army War College’s Dr. Jacqueline Whitt. Featured drink will be a Pride Punch. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase at a limited bar.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the talk will start at 6:30 p.m. A livestream will be available, but people must register in advance at https://forms.gle/TLFtu5gC2n8RbJap7. Admission is free both in person and online.
Throughout the branches of the United States Armed Forces, there are many traditions. A well-known tradition in the United States Navy is the King Neptune ceremony. This particular ceremony takes place when the ship is crossing the equator. Three members of the ship’s crew dress up as Neptune, Queen Amphitrite and Davy Jones. Together, the trio forms a court of judgment for those who have not crossed the equator.
Members of the ship’s crew who have not crossed the equator yet are known in this ceremony as pollywogs. They must prove to the court they are seaworthy by enduring a series of physical trials. Once they have proven themselves, they are known as shellbacks.
For more information, call the museum at 920-684-0218.
Lakeshore Technical College will hold an open house Aug. 9
Lakeshore Technical College will host an open house at its Cleveland campus from 1 to 6 p.m. Aug. 9. Anyone interested in starting this fall or later can tour the college’s facilities while exploring more than 70 degree programs.
College representatives will be available to answer questions about application steps, learning options and how to pay for college, as well as academic, financial and personal support resources.
Fall semester start dates vary. Competency-based education programs have multiple start dates beginning as early as Aug. 14. Programs offered in person, online and through iFlex begin Aug. 28.
LTC graduates approximately 800 students each year. The college’s most recent survey shows associate degree graduates reporting a median salary of $59,899 within six months of graduating.
Registration is requested, though not required. Details and registration can be found at gotoltc.edu/open-house.
Progress Lakeshore launches new small business mentoring program
Progress Lakeshore, Manitowoc County’s economic development agency, is starting a new small business mentoring program called Circles of Seven, or “C7.”
The program will provide business mentoring to small businesses throughout the county via a group mentoring model.
C7 is an offering by MartinKarl Consulting, an Illinois-based economic development and small business development consulting agency.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 45% of all new businesses fail in the first five years of operation. Progress Lakeshore said it intends to slow that business failure rate through this peer-based mentoring program.
C7 operates with one seasoned mentor surrounded by six protégé business owners. Meeting monthly, the C7 group tackles topics such as marketing, finance, human resources and social media.
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An application must be completed to be considered for the Circles of Seven program. It is open to businesses in Manitowoc County that have been in operation for 12 months or more.
The deadline to apply for the program is Aug. 28. Access the application through the Progress Lakeshore website. For any inquiries about the program, email Ann Flad-Jesion, director of Entrepreneurship & Business Development, at ann@progresslakeshore.org.
Friends of Mariners Trail earns over $6K from Garden Faire Extraordinaire
For more than 30 years, Manitowoc has hosted the Garden Faire Extraordinaire. On June 13, more than 88 vendors shared in the gardening experience at Washington Park. Visitors and vendors alike come from far and near to take part in the event.
The garden fair is organized by Stark Ministries under the direction of Kristy Stark, Tammy Hagenaw and Robin Ivey. Participating vendors donated items for the raffle table. Friends of Mariners Trail staffed the raffle tent and was given proceeds from the raffle as well as profits from the entire event that totaled $6,036.
Friends of Mariners Trail organizes 50 flowerbeds along the 7-mile paved trail that runs along Lake Michigan and connects Manitowoc and Two Rivers. Trail organizers said they were honored to be asked to take part in the gardening event.
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If you harbor nostalgia for the supposedly good ol’ days of roguish politics in Boston, then perhaps the last two years have been exhilarating. Finally, the City Council makes good copy again! The current crop of councilors sometimes seem bent on reviving every hoary old stereotype of a Boston pol: They put relatives on the city payroll; trade insults; stir up religious and racial tensions; and generally treat laws and ethics like goo-goo annoyances. None have been caught in an affair with a cigarette girl, a la Mayor John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald — though the term’s not over yet.
But the previous decade — when the council attracted people like Ayanna Pressley, Andrea Campbell, Michelle Wu, and Lydia Edwards, to name just a few — shouldn’t just be written off as an aberration or a vanishing golden age. It was proof that the council does not have to be a petulant backwater. Voters can demand more of the council — and with elections coming up, now’s the chance to make that clear.
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In the latest embarrassment, Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson of Dorchester agreed to pay a $5,000 fine to the State Ethics Commission after she hired her sister and son to work in her office, a blatant violation of conflict of interest laws. She said she was not aware that hiring relatives was a violation, an explanation that’s almost as damning as the hires themselves. Just a few months ago, the commission fined her colleague, Ricardo Arroyo of Hyde Park, $3,000 for representing his brother in a lawsuit against the city even while serving as a city councilor.
Then there’s Councilor Kendra Lara, who has been arraigned on a multitude of criminal charges after she allegedly crashed a car into a house in Jamaica Plain. Police allege that she was driving an unregistered and uninsured car, that her driver’s license had been revoked, and that her 7-year-old son was not in a car seat as required by law. She was also reportedly driving at least 53 miles per hour in a residential area where the speed limit was 25.
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But wait, there’s more! Frank Baker, the Dorchester city councilor who is not running for reelection, decided to torch his reputation on the way out, launching a brazen and ridiculous attack on fellow Councilor Liz Breadon’s religious background last year. While there’s nothing illegal about what Baker did, it revived a style of divisive, sectarian politics that most Bostonians thought we’d seen the last of long ago. And while Breadon herself may resemble Abraham Lincoln compared to her colleagues, let’s not forget she was in charge of the redistricting process that went so badly awry that a federal judge said it likely violated the 14th Amendment, a collective black eye for the council.
The way to restore integrity to the council is for the public — and the civic groups that endorse candidates and mobilize voters in local races — to make clear that personal ethics do matter, and use their volunteer time and resources accordingly. Conversely, if politicians come to believe that simply parroting the right ideological platitudes or channeling the right ethnic resentments is all it takes to win races, then it’s a pretty good bet that’s all the city will get.
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And that would be a shame — not just because it coarsens the city’s broader political culture when the council comes to resemble a flame war on Twitter. This current council has been distinguished by how little it has accomplished. Yes, flawed people can sometimes still do good things in politics. But this many scandals can also hobble the council’s ability to act and provide a check on the power of the mayor. This council frittered away its chance to have any real impact on the budget, for instance, meaning that the mayor essentially got everything she wanted. The council can’t be an effective law-making body if its members ignore laws themselves; it can’t be an effective advocate if its members’ personal ethics are open to question.
The worst outcome would be for these last two years to set off a vicious cycle in which the debacle of this council lowers the public’s expectations of what the City Council can be. This editorial isn’t meant to endorse or oppose any particular candidate — that’ll come later in the campaign. But with all 13 council seats on the ballot this fall, and more incumbents than usual facing competition, the time is right for voters and civic organizations to start sending the message that something must change — if not the councilors themselves, then the way they approach their jobs.
From recent history, it’s clear that Boston city councilors can, in fact, do policy-setting work that makes the city a better place — but only if that’s what’s demanded of them, and only if voters make loud and clear that they won’t accept excuses when councilors fall short.
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Imagine having only 24 hours to go from a blank page to putting a completed theatrical work on an actual theatrical stage.
It's happening today and Monday in Little Rock.
Six writers, six directors and 24 actors are coming together to create six original short plays, all to be conceived from scratch, written, rehearsed and performed in a 24-hour period. (Well, actually 25 hours, but let's not get technical.)
The 24 Hour Plays will be onstage at 7 p.m. Monday at Little Rock's Arkansas Repertory Theatre. It's a benefit for the American Red Cross and all net proceeds are to go toward regional tornado relief.
Playwrights Graham Gordy, Lesley Dancer, Candrice Jones, Coby Goss, Spade Robinson and Kyle Therral Wilson will meet up at 7 p.m. today with directors DeAndre Lewis, DeLance Minefee, Dariane Mull, Cat Miller, Ann Muse and Justin Pike and the two dozen actors, as well as the two producers: North Little Rock High School theater teacher Wyatt Hamilton and acclaimed actor Ashlie Atkinson.
It's similar to the 48 Hour Film Project, Hamilton says, but in a tighter time frame.
Everybody will thrash around some ideas, whereupon the directors and actors will go home and the playwrights will start working on scripts. Hamilton says those are due at 6:30 Monday morning; once they're printed and copied, the directors will start figuring out, round-robin-style, the casting process.
Once that's completed, at 8 or 8:30 a.m., rehearsals with the actors and the memorization of lines will begin, lasting until to 2 p.m., when technical rehearsals – lights, sets, props, etc. – take over.
The rehearsal process will continue until the audience starts entering the theater at 6:30 p.m.; at 7, whatever and wherever things are at that point, the curtain rises "and we've got a show," Hamilton says.
As part of the inspiration for the playwrights, Hamilton says, the actors have been instructed to show up each with a prop and a costume piece and highlight any special skills they have, or "anything they always wanted to do on stage."
Each of the six plays should run around 10 minutes, with a total run-time of an hour to an hour and 15 minutes.
Hamilton is also serving as production manager. Atkinson will be part of the actor cadre, along with Adrian Ramirez, Alecia Hendrix, Amaya Hardin, Ben Barham, Brian C. Earles, Bryce Colvert, Don Bolinger, Duane Jackson, Finley Daniel, Glen J. Gilbert, Heather Dupree, Jamie Boshears, Kathryn Pryor, Kenneth "Hollywood" Gaddie, Leonel Martínez, Mark Hansen, P. Jay Clark, Patrice Williams, Sam Gibson, Satia Spencer, Sela Estelle, Taijee Bunch and Verda Davenport.
The 24 Hour Plays concept got its start in 1995 in New York and has since been produced in cities around the globe, Hamilton explains. This is the first time Arkansas will have a formal connection to the organization. Atkinson says she has had a link there as an actor since 2005, and, she adds, "this is the first [Arkansas] pin they're going to put in their map."
"The fun thing about the 24 Hour Plays is that the plays are conceived, cast, written, rehearsed and performed all within 24 hours," Hamilton adds. "With that being the setup, we don't have cast lists, show titles, or really any specifics yet. All we have is the list of participants.
"The limitations of the time frame and the spontaneity spur creativity."
"The stories that we tell are based on the questions we ask," says Minefee, a Jacksonville native and graduate of Henderson State University in Arkadelphia who worked with the late Curtis Tate at what was then the Arkansas Territorial Restoration (now Historic Arkansas Museum); did several shows at the Rep and is now working as an actor and director out of Harlem in New York. "I'm excited to be able to come back," he says.
The goal is to sell out the Rep's 300-plus seats and, with some advertising revenue from the program and a text-to-pledge setup, raise $10,000 or more on Monday night for tornado relief.
The March 31 tornado tore up portions of west Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood and Jacksonville. Hamilton and Minefee were personally affected, or almost: There was considerable destruction in Hamilton's west Little Rock neighborhood, including houses within feet of his. And, Minefee says over a Zoom link with a shake of his head, the Jacksonville neighborhood where he grew up basically no longer exists.
Everybody involved in the project, including several sponsors, is donating "time, food, space, talents," Hamilton says.
Actor-singer-pianist-organist Bob Bidewell is creating an original 24 Hour Song that he'll perform. Artist Layet Johnson, who created the mural in the Rep lobby depicting and reflecting the 2022-23 season's shows, is heading up a group of half a dozen area artists to compile a 24-hour comic book linked to the production. The Rep is providing space without charge. Damgoode Pies is supplying pizza; Boulevard Bread, coffee (a sine qua non) and pastries; and Taziki's, dinner.
"We have great people, which is the recipe for success," Atkinson says. "We keep a bit of the tightrope act, over 24 hours.
"This shows what we're capable of – people come together in a very short time and the collaborative focus can outpace the individuals so exponentially. We just have to trust in the process and let the magic in."
24 Hour Plays
7 p.m. Monday, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock. Six playwrights, six directors and a few dozen actors will create six short theatrical works in a 24-hour time frame.
Tickets: $30. Net proceeds benefit the American Red Cross and regional tornado relief.
(501) 378-0405
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Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
MUSIC
'Work of Art'
Grammy Award-winning smooth jazz guitarist Norman Brown headlines the final night of Art Porter Music Education's 13th "A Work of Art," this week at venues throughout Little Rock.
Brown performs for the Scholarship Program with the APME All-Stars, 8 p.m. Saturday in the William Grant Still Ballroom in Robinson Center, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. Joi Porter, a graduating senior from Maumelle High School, will receive a $3,000 renewable scholarship from APME at the concert. Tickets are $65.
The rest of the week's lineup:
◼️ Monday – Kickoff, Little Rock City Hall, noon
◼️ Tuesday – Jazz on the Plaza featuring Minors in Music students and jazz violinist Lexington Porter, nephew of the late Art Porter Jr., River Market Plaza, noon (near the Farmers Market). Free
◼️ Wednesday – Arkansas native Ronnie McBride & Friends, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., 7 p.m. $45
◼️ Thursday – Violinist and singer Chelsey Green, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., 7 p.m. $45
◼️ Friday – Porter Players Jam Session, AC Hotel by Marriott, 201 W. Capitol Ave., 7 p.m. Free.
Call (501) 492-9120 or visit artporter.org.
Chamber music
Faculty participating in the the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock's summer Faulkner Chamber Music Festival open a series of three concerts at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Center for Humanities and Arts Theater at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. The program includes "Entr'acte" by Caroline Shaw and the String Octet in C major, op.7, by Georges Enescu. Admission is free. Visit chambermusicLR.com/tickets.
The musicians will repeat the program at 8 p.m. Wednesday at White Water Tavern, 2500 W. Seventh St. at Thayer Street, Little Rock. Tickets are $15. Visit whitewatertavern.com.
A concert at 7 p.m. Friday at the CHARTS Theater will feature "Ainsi la nuit" ("Thus the Night") by Henri Dutilleux, "Eclogue for Piano and Strings" by Gerald Finzi and the Piano Quintet in f minor by Cesar Franck. Admission is free.
Carnival concerts
Trout Fishing in America will help Mount Sequoyah, 150 N. Skyline Drive, Fayetteville, celebrate its 100th year of programming with a pair of concerts, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday – a kid-friendly afternoon show in Clapp Auditorium and a more adult-oriented evening show at Vesper Point near the Cross Overlook.
The concerts are in conjunction with a 100th anniversary carnival, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. that will feature games, activities, face painting, food-truck fare and snow cones.
Concert tickets are $25, $15 for children and include access to the carnival. Carnival-only tickets are $5. A family package to the carnival and the 2 p.m. concert is $70. Visit tinyurl.com/5n7kver4 or fb.me/e/2HQS2i9zS.
Walton Arts series
Grammy-winning saxophonist Tim Armacost leads the Tim Armacost Quintet (with Joe Locke, vibraphone; Jim Ridl, piano; Kenny Davis, bass; and Rudy Royston, percussion) to kick off the 2023-24 Starrlight Jazz Club season, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in the Starr Theater at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
The rest of the lineup (all performances, 7:30 p.m. in Starr Theater):
◼️ Oct. 13: Jeff Lorber Fusion Trio
◼️ Dec. 2: Singer Tierney Sutton, with pianist Mitch Foreman and guitarist Serge Merlaud
◼️ Jan. 13: Loston Harris Trio
◼️ Feb. 2: Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band
◼️ April 27: Aubrey Logan Band.
Season subscriptions are $196-$328.
Acoustic and electric guitarist Monte Montgomery will open the arts center's West Street Live series at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22, also in the Starr Theater.
The rest of that lineup (all performances at 7:30 p.m. in the Starr Theater):
◼️ Oct. 19: Danielle Nicole Band
◼️ Nov. 30: John Fullbright Band
◼️ Feb. 1: Damn Tall Buildings
◼️ March 2: Lee Rocker
◼️ April 5: Jackie Venson.
Subscriptions are $191 for tiered seating, $1,292 for a four-person cabaret table.
Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Delta Symphony season
The Delta Symphony Orchestra will kick off its 50th concert season with its annual fundraising gala, 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Gardens at Harmony, 4517 E. Parker Road, Jonesboro. The theme is "Stars of the World Stage"; it will feature a jazz ensemble, soprano (and Jonesboro native) Genevieve Fulks, live and silent auctions and catering by Bistro on the Ridge. Master of ceremonies will be Mitch Mahan. Tickets are $125. Call (870) 761-8254 or visit deltasymphonyorchestra.org/tickets.
The rest of the orchestra's 2023-24 concert season (except as noted, all concerts at 7:30 p.m. in Riceland Hall, Arkansas State University's Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro):
◼️ Oct. 14: Classical concert with cellist Jeremy Crosmer
◼️ Dec. 10: Holiday concert with singers Perry Harper, Maddie Bowden Smith and Nancy Owens, 2 p.m.
◼️ Feb. 4: Young Artist Concert, featuring the grand prize winners of the orchestra's national competition and a multi-school junior high chorus, 2 p.m.
◼️ April 6: "Out of This World" concert, marking the pending total solar eclipse, including Gustav Holst's "The Planets"
◼️ May 4: "May the 4th Be With You" concert, featuring John Williams' music for the "Star Wars" films.
Season tickets are $100-$140.
ART
'Surface Impressions'
"Surface Impressions," prints by Melissa Gill, Acadia Kandora, Jay Fox, David Warren, Dominique Simmons, Kristin DeGeorge, Perrion Hurd, Jonathan Wright, Win Bruhl, Miranda "Randi" Young, Matthew Castellano, Warren Criswell, Ivan Thorpe and Aj Smith, will be on display Monday-Aug. 27 in the Brad Cushman Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 916-5104 or email nglarson@ualr.edu.
'Artist's Journey'
"M. Speer: An Artist's Journey," a retrospective exhibition of six decades of works by Fort Smith native Margaret Speer Carter, goes on display with a 5-7 p.m. reception Friday at the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, 1601 Rogers Ave., Fort Smith. The exhibition will be up in the museum's main gallery until Nov. 5. Summer hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call (479) 784-2787 or visit fsram.org.
ETC.
Dinosaur discussion
Paleontologist Steve Brusatte covers "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Brusatte will examine where dinosaurs came from, how they rose to dominance, how most of them became extinct as the result of a collision with a giant asteroid and how some of them lived on as today's birds. He will also discuss the way he and his students dig up dinosaurs and show how scientists use modern technologies to study fossils. He will sign copies of his book of the same title after the talk. Admission is free. Register to attend live or online at tinyurl.com/mr25mahe. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/a-work-of-art-benefit-to-fund-music-scholarships/ | 2023-07-30T08:23:43 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/a-work-of-art-benefit-to-fund-music-scholarships/ |
ARLINGTON, Va. -- A large number of Airbus passenger jets will need to have their engines removed and inspected in the coming months after engine-maker Pratt & Whitney discovered a problem with metal powder used in some parts, potentially adding to stress on airlines during the remainder of a hectic summer travel season.
"Pratt & Whitney has determined that a rare condition in powder metal used to manufacture certain engine parts will require accelerated fleet inspection," RTX said in a news release. The engine involved is most often used to power the Airbus A320neo, a midsize jet popular for short and medium-distance flights.
The company said it expects that about 200 of its PW1100 engines will need to be pulled off and inspected by mid-September, and another 1,000 engines will need inspections in the next nine to 12 months.
The disclosure was made as RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, reported second-quarter earnings of $1.3 billion, up 2% from a year earlier. After adjusting for one-time items, the profit came to $1.29 per share, beating the $1.18 consensus forecast of analysts.
Revenue rose 12% to $18.3 billion, topping analysts' prediction of less than $17.7 billion, according to a FactSet survey. Pratt & Whitney accounted for about one-third of sales.
On a call with analysts, Chief Operating Officer Christopher Calio said the "rare condition" in powdered metal used for some engine parts made between late 2015 and mid-2021 could reduce the life of those parts.
Pratt had planned to schedule "enhanced inspections" during normal maintenance stops. Based on recent discoveries, he said, Pratt decided that the inspections -- focused on high-pressure turbine disks -- need to be speeded up.
Calio said Pratt & Whitney is developing plans to conduct the inspections as quickly as possible. He added that current production is not affected by the problem, and the company will continue to produce new engines and spare parts. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/airbus-jets-to-have-engine-inspections/ | 2023-07-30T08:23:49 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/airbus-jets-to-have-engine-inspections/ |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The state of Alaska wants the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a federal agency's rejection of a proposed copper and gold mine in southwest Alaska's Bristol Bay region.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January blocked the proposed Pebble Mine, citing concerns with potential impacts on a rich aquatic ecosystem that supports the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. It was the 14th time in the roughly 50-year history of the federal Clean Water Act that the EPA flexed its powers to bar or restrict activities over their potential impacts on waters, including fisheries.
Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor in a statement last week said having a case heard directly by the Supreme Court rather than first in the lower courts is "an extraordinary ask, but it's appropriate given the extraordinary decision being challenged."
"The EPA's order strikes at the heart of Alaska's sovereignty, depriving the State of its power to regulate its lands and waters," according to the court filing.
An EPA spokesperson said the agency was reviewing the recent filing.
The EPA has said its decision would prohibit certain waters from being used as disposal sites for the discharge of material from the construction and operation of the proposed Pebble Mine project. The decision also would prohibit future proposals to build or operate a mine to develop the deposit that would result in the same or greater level of impacts.
Canada-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. owns the Pebble Limited Partnership, which is pursuing the mine. Northern Dynasty President and CEO Ron Thiessen in a statement said the company plans to support the state in its legal action and left open the possibility of pursuing separate litigation.
Alaska Native tribes and environmental groups have long pushed for the rejection of the mine.
Alannah Hurley, executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, called the state's filing a "slap in the face to Bristol Bay" and said tribes "will use every tool at our disposal to protect our waters, our salmon, and our people." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/alaska-asks-supreme-court-to-void-epa-rejection/ | 2023-07-30T08:23:55 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/alaska-asks-supreme-court-to-void-epa-rejection/ |
The Barker-Karpis Gang, later known as the "Ma Barker Gang," was a famous criminal group of the Depression era. Led primarily by Alvin "Creepy" Karpis (1907–1979) and Fred Barker (1903–1935), the gang consisted of many different individuals over the course of its exploits.
Some of the core members besides Karpis and Barker were Arthur "Doc" Barker (brother of Fred), Lawrence DeVol, Harvey Bailey, Frank "Jelly" Nash, Bernard Phillips, Harry Sawyer, Volney Davis, Harry Campbell and Verne Miller. Although most well known for committing crimes throughout the Midwest, the gang's first murder was of a town marshal in Pocahontas, and members later holed up in Hot Springs.
Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis became acquainted while they were incarcerated at Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kan. Shortly after their release, they were arrested again in June 1931 in Tulsa for the theft of some jewelry. Barker later escaped from jail, and after Karpis was released, he joined Barker in Thayer, Mo., where Fred's mother, Kate "Ma" Barker, lived with Arthur W. Dunlop on a rented farm.
Before daylight on Nov. 8, 1931, Fred Barker, William Weaver, and quite possibly Alvin Karpis were driving around the town of Pocahontas looking for places to rob. Their vehicle stopped to allow Weaver to answer a call of nature while the night marshal of the town, Manley Jackson, began jotting down the car's license plate number. Seeing this, Fred Barker summoned Jackson into the car at gunpoint. The gang drove him several miles outside of Pocahontas, and Barker shot him numerous times in the back. His body was later found by local residents.
The following month, Barker, Karpis and Weaver were involved with the murder of Sheriff C. Roy Kelly of West Plains, Mo., after they burglarized stores in that town. After leaving a trail in Missouri, they went to the criminal haven of the gangster era – St. Paul, Minn., where the gang began to take shape. One of the seasoned criminals they met during this time was Frank "Jelly" Nash, a former Arkansas resident and experienced bank robber. Nash would accompany the gang on several bank heists.
Between 1932 and 1935, the Barker-Karpis Gang robbed dozens of banks and committed two kidnappings. Some of their most successful bank robberies amounted to $250,000 and up. On June 15, 1933, the gang kidnapped William A. Hamm Jr., a wealthy St. Paul beer brewer, and held him for a $100,000 ransom. On Jan. 17, 1934, they kidnapped the president of the Commercial State Bank of St. Paul, Edward George Bremer. They were able to ransom $200,000, but the fingerprints of "Doc" Barker were found on a gas can left at the scene of the ransom exchange. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was soon on the gang's trail.
The members of the gang scattered and hid out in areas across the country after the Bremer kidnapping. On Jan. 16, 1935, federal agents fired about 1,500 rounds of ammunition into a house located on Lake Weir in Ocklawaha, Fla., killing Fred and "Ma" Barker.
At this time, Alvin Karpis was still on the run, and in June 1935, he was in the resort town of Hot Springs. He used the town for his hideout off and on for the next several months. In the latter part of 1935 and early 1936, Karpis and his accomplice Fred Hunter stayed at two different cottages on Lake Catherine and Lake Hamilton. Karpis and Hunter moved frequently in the Hot Springs area, as they knew the FBI and U.S. postal investigators were in the area looking them.
In March 1936, Karpis rented a house between Malvern and Hot Springs. On March 30, 1936, the FBI raided the house only to find that Karpis had already fled to New Orleans. He continued to evade the FBI for another month until, on May 1, 1936, Karpis and Hunter were finally apprehended. On July 27, Karpis pleaded guilty to charges from the Hamm kidnapping and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He served nearly 33 years of his life sentence and was released from prison in December 1968. Karpis died Aug. 26, 1979, from an overdose of sleeping pills while living in Spain.
The 1970 movie "Bloody Mama" was loosely based on the exploits of the Barker-Karpis Gang. Directed by Roger Corman and starring Shelley Winters and Robert De Niro, it was filmed in the Arkansas Ozarks and Little Rock. – Will Walker
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ALMA Tina Lee Dye, 317 N. Redbud Lane, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
ARKADELPHIA Mae Otis Buckley, 1205 Caddo St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
AUSTIN Ronald Johnson, 37 Palm Drive, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Jena Lynne Grable, 161 Peach St., July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
BALD KNOB Betty Faye Clark, P.O. Box 144, July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
BAUXITE Tina King, 13287 Chamber Road, July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
Mecila Ashley Barnett, 26599 S. Sardis, July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
BEARDEN Ricky A. Dawn, 1522 Ark. 9, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Videan S. Dawn, 1522 Ark. 9, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Kelly Craig, 2120 Ark. 203, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
BENTON Sheila Jackson, 906 Edgefield Drive, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Wendy Burrow, 351 Meadow Creek Drive, July 24, 2023, Chapter 7.
BENTONVILLE Cory Daniel Glanton, 707 Windsor Lane, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
BERRYVILLE Robin D. Howerton, 12305 Ark. 103 South, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
BONNERDALE Kindle Ewing Sr., 175 Carondelet Lane, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Sheila Ewing, 175 Carondelet Lane, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
BRADLEY Minnie Brewer, 517 N. Pilot, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
BROOKLAND Britney A. Gilbert, 1800 McNatt Drive, No. 5, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
BRYANT Elbert Ross, 1306 Miller Place Drive, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Brittney Celeste Post, 907 Amy Circle, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
BULL SHOALS Danny W. Hutcherson, 1508 Carolyn Drive, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Melanie W. Hutcherson, 1508 Carolyn Drive, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
CABOT Albert Eugene Bunce, 188 Leaning Pines Road, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
CAMDEN TaCara Shanekia Collins, 121 Ouachita Road 163, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
CEDARVILLE Donald Hasson Rosson Jr., 2119 Ark. 162, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
CENTERTON Gary Scott Thrasher, 938 Fieldstone Court, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
CONWAY Valerie Jo Holcomb, 2010 Rich Smith Lane Apt. 506, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Josephine Fennell Smith, 1985 Rich Smith Lane, Apt. 212, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Timothy Mark Buhrow, 1380 Joyner Road, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Waymon Ernest Delph, 825 Crosspoint, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Ebony Nicole Austin, 1770 Poinsettia Drive, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Dawn Michele Clark, 5 Smoking Oaks Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Candice Fowlkes, 2119 Ada Ave., July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Alicia Waymire, 325 Radcliffe Drive, Apt. 2, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
DE WITT Jody Courtney, 1704 Ark. 276, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
DELAWARE Martha Ann Brodie, 87 Spring Road, July 24, 2023, Chapter 7.
DRASCO Chaney Osborn, 1245 5 Mile Loop, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
ELKINS Russell A. Haskins, 20803 Upper Road, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Sheila G Haskins, 20803 Upper Road, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
FAYETTEVILLE Nicole Shipp, 4468 W. Pecan St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
FORT SMITH Shayna Lorine Jones, 5918 S. Carthage St., July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Kessa Jolene Lincoln, 6B Eastwood Drive, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Jimmy Dean Bond, 3316 Phoenix Ave., July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Rebekah Christina Sims, 3316 Phoenix Ave., July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Simma Nakhiengchanh, 1016 N. 34th St., July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
GRAVETTE Alisha A. Warren, 211 Westfield St., July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
GREENWOOD Carrie Janine Hokit, 109 Plumbark Court, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
HARRISON Shawn R. English, 1304 A. Capps Road, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
HATTIEVILLE Ivan Clay Hollaway, 609 Ark. 213, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
Connie Renee Hollaway, 609 Ark. 213, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
HOT SPRINGS Brian Irwin, 102 A Happy Isle Point, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE William Franklynn Owens, 6 Charnela Lane, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Garry Wayne Robertson, 5 Valls Lane, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Patricia Sue Robertson, 5 Valls Lane, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
JACKSONVILLE Darin Ray McNeil, 1100 Brewer, July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
Shawna D. Givens, 986 Williamsburg Court, July 23, 2023, Chapter 7.
Jonae Roshandra Guy-Gabriel, 1302 Liberty Drive, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
JONESBORO Morgan Weatherley, 1515 Aggie Road Apt. A1, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Bennie Harold Wiseman, 1153 CR 339, July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Janyce Sue Wiseman, 1153 CR 339, July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Cheyenne Nicole Lattimore, 1504 Links Drive, Apt. 9, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Rodney Freeman Burns, 1504 Links Drive, Apt. 9, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
LAFE Jennifer Lynn Trice, 1925 Greene 441 Road, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
LITTLE ROCK Michael Ortega Jr., 14506 Ridgewood Drive, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Michael C. Fluker Jr., 2 Orange Blossom Circle, July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
Hernadus Fountain, 3819 Sierra Forrest Drive, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Jonia A. Askew-Dobbins, 8701 Interstate 30, Apartment 50, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Shanteya Simuel, 1805 S. Buchanan St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Rudie Lamar Boulware Jr., 7117 N. Chicot Road, Apt.1, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
April M. Grant, 6 Wimbledon Green Circle, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Ashlee Amber Williams, P.O. Box 250302, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Robin D. Holt, 1726 E. Second St., Apt. E206, July 22, 2023, Chapter 13.
Annessa Davis, 8309 Community Road, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Curtis Edward Pettis Jr., 1916 S. Pulaski St., July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Katrina T. Wilson, 7401 Briarwood Drive, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Deidra Mitchell, 38 Plantation Drive, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Kimbro Arnold, 1613 Hanger St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Robert Stebbins, 28 N. Sherrill Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Charlene Abernathy, 8010 W. 36th St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Elizabeth Curenton, 8106 W 35th St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Robin L. Null, 18115 Arch St., July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Raven Nowden, 6001 Pecan Lake Road, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Latreshe LaFaye Madison, 4123 Tatum St., July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
Tamara Eackles, 4914 Frazier Pike, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
MALVERN James Alton Pierce, 205 Vine St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Judy Grace Pierce, 205 Vine St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
MAUMELLE Danyelle Hegwood, 7341 River Pointe Drive Apt 17, July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
Steven Cote, 106 Navajo Trail, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Elton D. Witherspoon, 20 Valley View Drive, July 23, 2023, Chapter 7.
Catherine M. Witherspoon, 20 Valley View Drive, July 23, 2023, Chapter 7.
Ricky Nwozuzu, 100 Park Drive, Apt. 637, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Brady Buck, 8000 River Pointe Drive, Apt. 15B11, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
MC CRORY Cecil Fuller, 202 Elizabeth St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
MC GEHEE Adell Leigh Taylor, P.O. Box 1201, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
MENA Stanley Giles Richey, 806 Karen Drive, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
MINERAL SPRINGS Jason Earl Pilgreen, 229 N. Lewis St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Toyia Lynn Hughes-Pilgreen, 229 N. Lewis St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
MONTICELLO Lasheta D. Bonner, 1348 E. Jackson Ave., July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Martha Lou Brannen, 203 E. Ellis St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
MORROW David C. Grosvold, P.O. Box 180, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Lora B. Grosvold, P.O. Box 180, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
MOUNTAIN HOME Jason Gailey, 634 Gentry St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
NATURAL DAM Susan Kay Hudson, P.O. Box 1, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK Autumn Jones, 1408 Yarrow Drive, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Brenda Parker, 1015 Donavan Briley Drive, Apt. G, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Shannon E. Hall, 4707 Ridge Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Harvey M. Hall, 4707 Ridge Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Billy Hogan, 12704 MacArthur Drive, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
PERRY Machelle Renee Johnson, 108 E. Eighth Ave., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
PIGGOTT Ashley Lynn McCollum, 242 E. Davis St., July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
John Akridge, 3676 N. Fourth Ave., July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Heather Akridge, 3676 N. Fourth Ave., July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
PINE BLUFF Angela Rochelle King, 1008 S. Maple St., July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Kabiona Simone Anthony, 3913 King Richard Road, July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
D'Andrea Revaye Jackson, 4100 Old Warren Road, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Bridgette Tate, 2701 Shady Grove St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Tyraneka T. Sims, 4212 W. Burnett St., July 23, 2023, Chapter 7.
Tye Edward Goodlow, 7904 Windsong Cove, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Rose L. Nichols, 4601 S. Main St., Apt. 523, July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Sherri Yvonne Richardson, 6002 Kennedy Ave., July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
Candace Fletcher, 405 Green Meadows Drive, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Donte' T Laws, 3901 King Richard Road, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
PRAIRIE GROVE Deborah Kerns, 400 Phyllis Farm Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
Edd Kerns, 400 Phyllis Farm Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
RISON Mona Geraldine Watkins-Ward Brewer, 9370 Ark. 79, July 20, 2023, Chapter 7.
Ricky Lynn Harris, 8080 Dial Road, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Dakota Danielle Kirkpatrick, 8080 Dial Road, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
ROGERS Shalise Hymes, 413 E. Laura St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Robert Gordon Bright, 16349 Pin Oak Lane, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Laurie Lee Bright, 16349 Pin Oak Lane, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
RUSSELLVILLE Jennifer B. Alice, 1940 S. Elmira Ave. Apt. 505, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Preston Bennett Albright, 206 E. Fir St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Mahgan Noel Albright, 206 E. Fir St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Beverly Kostic, P.O. Box 10086, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
SHERWOOD Leon Edward Williams, 103 Red River Drive, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Shanekia M. Williams, 103 Red River Drive, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
David L Brown Jr., 11216 Denton Road, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Stanley David Ferguson, 2302 Bearskin Drive, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Lorraine Sue Ferguson, 2302 Bearskin Drive, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
Yvette Hair, 105 Almond Cove, Apt. C, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
SHIRLEY Buffie Dee Carrigan, 270 Sparrow Trail, July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
SPRINGDALE Esmeralda Barrera, 3816 Bueno Ave., July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
Archie Carpenter, Cascade Circle, July 23, 2023, Chapter 7.
STAR CITY Christopher Michael Smith, 642 Allegiance Road, July 24, 2023, Chapter 7.
Kimberly Gail Smith, 642 Allegiance Road, July 24, 2023, Chapter 7.
TEXARKANA Barbara Fant Rouw, 1822 Hickory, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Danny Hale, 7885 Blackman Ferry Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Brenda Hale, 7885 Blackman Ferry Road, July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
TRUMANN Margaret I. Kelley, 408 Olive St., July 26, 2023, Chapter 7.
VAN BUREN Harold Dean Cole, 9144 Shiloh Village Road, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Barbara Sue Cole, 9144 Shiloh Village Road, July 20, 2023, Chapter 13.
Zakarion Paul Farnworth, 3806 Todd St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
Jacqueline Savannah Rachel Neel, 3806 Todd St., July 25, 2023, Chapter 7.
WALNUT RIDGE Felissa Rene Vaccari, 911 N.W. Sixth St., July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
WEST HELENA Nakesha Lynette Hardison, 216 Jane St., July 21, 2023, Chapter 7.
WEST MEMPHIS Tyrone Lewis, 1101 Wingate Drive, July 26, 2023, Chapter 13.
WHITE HALL Nicholas Allan McNeese, 1900 Taylor Road, July 21, 2023, Chapter 13.
Luke Ryan Ratcliff, 110 Wesley Lane, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
DeAnna Kathryn Ratcliff, 110 Wesley Lane, July 24, 2023, Chapter 13.
Tonya Lane, 3201 Ark. 104, July 25, 2023, Chapter 13.
WILMAR Beverly Ann Sullivan, 494 Sullivan Road, July 26, 2023, Chapter 7. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/bankruptcy-watch/ | 2023-07-30T08:24:07 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/bankruptcy-watch/ |
Building permits for the Little Rock metro area; projects valued at $75,000 or more.
COMMERCIAL
Kinco Constructor, 700 E. 17th St., Little Rock, $11,000,000.
Nabholz Construction Corp., 900 W. Daisy Gatson Bates Drive, Little Rock, $341,739.
Bradford Construction, 1001 S. Bowman Road, Little Rock, $305,000.
Nabholz Construction. Corp., 1 Childrens Way, Little Rock, $246,644.
Nabholz Construction Corp., 1 Childrens Way, Little Rock, $79,416.
RESIDENTIAL
H. A. Custom Homes, 25 Haywood Court, Little Rock, $850,000.
Beza Investments, 153 Caurel Circle, Little Rock, $751,000.
Beza Investments, 151 Caurel Circle, Little Rock, $615,000.
Graham Smith Construction, 138 Woodlands Park Drive, Little Rock, $405,000.
Liberty Construction, 1521 Merrill Drive, Little Rock, $345,000.
JHL Bldg., 2 Fletcher Ridge Circle, Little Rock, $300,000.
Randy James Construction, 49 Copper Circle, Little Rock, $300,000.
Randy James Construction, 1 Cobalt Cove, Little Rock, $300,000.
Cope Gracy, 327 Fletcher Loop, Little Rock, $295,000.
Cope Gracy, 329 Fletcher Loop, Little Rock, $260,000.
Maura Lozano-Yancy, 7 Old Forge Court, Little Rock, $250,000.
Phillips Property, 3308 Longcoy St., Little Rock, $250,000.
Justin McCrae 13820 Marina Drive, Little Rock, $200,000.
Calhoun Custom, 11408 E. Stoney Point Court, Little Rock, $200,000.
Metro Builders, 1901 Sanford Drive, Little Rock, $193,313.
Metro Builders, 2001 Reservoir Road, Little Rock, $191,123.
Armstrong's Electrical, Inc., 2420 S. Izard St., Little Rock, $180,000.
Dogwood Homes, LLC, 10 Buttermilk Road, Little Rock, $170,000.
Metro Builders, 1821 Sanford Drive, Little Rock, $154,692.
Metro Builders, 2001 Reservoir Road, Little Rock, $153,578.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 45 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 47 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 49 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 51 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 53 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 55 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 21 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 23 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 25 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 27 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 29 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 31 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 33 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 35 Wolfsbridge Loop, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 1027 Brookside Drive, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 1025 Brookside Drive, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 1023 Brookside Drive, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 1021 Brookside Drive, Little Rock, $152,095.
Jeffrey Hall Construction, 1019 Brookside Drive, Little Rock, $152,095.
River Rock Builders, 11325 Ethan Allen Drive, Little Rock, $150,000.
Arkansas Homes, 8821 Winston Drive, Little Rock, $120,000.
Sr. Masoud Shahed-Ghazi, 10920 Breckenridge Drive, Little Rock, $120,000.
Carole Smith, 334 Cambridge Place Drive, Little Rock, $110,000.
B Jo's Construction, 10625 Breckenridge Drive, Little Rock, $95,000.
Bret Franks Construction, 2102 Gristmill Road, Little Rock, $79,000.
Scott Greenwood, 7 Pinnacle View Cove, Little Rock, $75,000. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/building-permits/ | 2023-07-30T08:24:13 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/building-permits/ |
BANKING
Citizens Bank in Batesville named Zach McCoy as its new executive vice president and chief financial officer.
CONSULTING
CTEH, LLC, has added Christa López, Ph.D., CEM, to its Climate Resiliency and Disaster Recovery practice as a senior advisor.
INSURANCE
Meadors, Adams & Lee, the state's oldest independently-owned insurance agency, announced J.K. Patterson is now a shareholder in the firm.
MARKETING
MHP/Team SI announces that it has promoted Kelsey Blackmon and Aziza Carroll to account strategy directors.
UTILITIES
The Arkansas Advanced Energy Association and Arkansas Advanced Energy Foundation announced the appointments of new officers on their boards of directors. The new advanced energy association board members are: Chairman Alex Ray, Vice Chair Lisa Perry; Secretary David Stitt; Treasurer Caleb Gorden. The new advanced energy foundation board members are: Chair Elston Blake Forte; Vice Chair Peter Neirengarten; Secretary Adam Fogleman; Treasurer Flint Richter.
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St. Edward Catholic Church was the setting Saturday, July 22, for the marriage of Caroline Jordan Cooner and Hayden Michael Hum. Bishop Francis Malone of Shreveport officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Alice and Leslie Cooner and the granddaughter of the late Rose and Gerald Hudgens and the late Joanne and Walter Cooner, all of Little Rock.
Shanon and Jeffery Hum of Sherwood are the parents of the groom. He is the grandson of Jan and Charlie Baker of Hot Springs and Mary and Patrick Hum and Donna and the late Bobby Agee, all also of Sherwood.
Large blush-colored urns filled with white phalaenopsis orchids, white hydrangeas, white tulips, blush roses and light blue delphinium marked the church entrance. Music was by organist Phillip Quick.
The bride, who walked down the aisle with her father wore a sleeveless Mikado silk gown with an asymmetrical pointed neckline and chapel train. Her silk tulle veil with a rolled edge was cathedral-length. She carried a garden style bouquet of white phalaenopsis orchids, white hydrangeas and Quicksand roses.
Matron of honor was Laura Donovan Sokora and maid of honor was Garrett Elizabeth Gentry, both of Little Rock.
Bridesmaids were Sophie Overton of Wynne; Brooke Cousin of Kansas City, Kan.; Savannah Wray of Fayetteville; Hannah Lawson and Madison Whatley, both Little Rock; Hollyn Hum of Sherwood, sister of the groom; and Kamren Cooner of Memphis and Breanna Cooner of Wilmington, N.C., sisters-in-law of the bride.
They wore dusty blue gowns with pearl-embellished sashes and carried bouquets of white dendrobium, white hydrangeas and blush roses.
Flower girl and ring bearer were Anne Elizabeth Hum of Little Rock and Barrett McGee of North Little Rock, cousins of the groom.
Claiborne Sanders of Dallas served as best man. Groomsmen were Zachary Sokora, Collin Soulsby and Andrew Wiechern, all of Little Rock; Cole Moore of Fort Smith; Jacob Hum of Redwood City, Calif., brother of the groom; Samuel Ogles of Kansas City, Mo.; Story Phillips of Hot Springs; and Thomas Cooner of Memphis and William Cooner of Wilmington, brothers of the bride. Guests were seated by Charles McNulty of Stuttgart and William Fox of Dallas.
A reception was held at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Tables covered in pale blue and ivory floral linens held various arrangements of white hydrangeas, white tulips, blue roses, light blue delphinium and candles. Music was by Diamond Empire Band.
The bride graduated with high distinction and a bachelor's degree in communication and marketing from the University of Arkansas. She is a marketing campaign manager at Inuvo Inc.
The groom has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the university and is a sales manager at Hum's Hardware and Rental.
After a honeymoon in St. Lucia, the couple will live in Little Rock. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/caroline-jordan-cooner-hayden-michael-hum/ | 2023-07-30T08:24:26 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/caroline-jordan-cooner-hayden-michael-hum/ |
I never drive around Fort Chaffee without thinking about its rich history. From German prisoners in World War II to refugees from Southeast Asia following the Vietnam War and Cuban refugees in 1980, it has played a role in Arkansas history for more than eight decades.
Ground was broken Sept. 20, 1941, for what originally was Camp Chaffee near Fort Smith and Barling. The U.S. Department of War knew the country might soon be drawn into World War II and set out to double the size of the U.S. Army. Less than three months later, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had indeed entered the war.
The federal government paid $1.35 million to acquire 15,163 acres from 712 property owners. These included businesses, churches and families. The camp, which would grow to almost 76,000 acres, was named for Maj. Gen. Adna Chaffee Jr. As an artillery officer in Europe during World War I, Chaffee determined that the cavalry was outmoded, and that tanks should be used.
The first soldiers arrived the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. The camp was activated March 27, 1942. Three armored divisions trained there, and 3,000 German prisoners of war were housed on the base from 1942-46. Fort Smith and Barling saw a boom in businesses opened and houses built.
According to the Central Arkansas Library System's Encyclopedia of Arkansas: "From 1948-57, Chaffee was home to the 5th Armored Division. On March 21, 1956, Camp Chaffee was redesignated as Fort Chaffee. The Army generally refers to something as a fort when it is a more permanent installation than a camp.
"In 1958, Chaffee was home to its most famous occupant, Elvis Presley. He received his first military haircut in Building 803. In 1959, what was dubbed the Home of the U.S. Army Training Center, Field Artillery moved from Fort Chaffee to Fort Sill in Oklahoma. From 1960-61, Fort Chaffee was the home of the 100th Infantry Division."
In 1961, the fort was declared inactive. It was re-activated later that year and on several other occasions.
During the Vietnam War, tactical defoliants such as Agent Orange were tested here. Things got busy again in 1975-76 when the fort was a processing center for refugees from Southeast Asia. There were 50,809 refugees processed. Many of them stayed in the Fort Smith area, adding greatly to the culture of west Arkansas.
Fort Chaffee was back in the news in May 1980 when it became a Cuban refugee resettlement center. The center became necessary when American boats were allowed to pick up refugees at the port of Mariel. Three weeks after the center was activated, some of the refugees rioted, burning two buildings.
The Arkansas State Police used tear gas to break up the riots, and 84 Cubans were jailed. The incident dominated the news in Arkansas for the next week, and Democratic Gov. Bill Clinton later blamed his November 1980 loss to Republican Frank White in part on that news coverage. Fort Chaffee wound up processing 25,390 Cubans during a two-year period.
Soldiers were trained there again when the Joint Readiness Training Center opened in 1987. In 1995, however, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) recommended Fort Chaffee's closure. Later that year, the federal government declared 7,192 acres of the fort's 76,075 acres to be surplus. Remaining acreage was turned over to the Arkansas National Guard to use as a training center.
"A change-of-command ceremony was held Sept. 27, 1997," the Encyclopedia of Arkansas notes. "Command was transferred from the U.S. Army to the Arkansas Army National Guard when the U.S. Army garrison was deactivated. Fort Chaffee became the Chaffee Maneuver Training Center for Light Combat Forces. Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority was established to begin redeveloping land that was turned over to the state."
In the cover story for today's Perspective section, I outline the things that are coming together to create a new golden era for Fort Smith. They include a mission at Ebbing Air National Guard Base for foreign pilots of F-35 and F-16 jet fighters along with the development of a cultural and educational corridor along the Arkansas River, anchored by the U.S. Marshals Museum.
A big part of the positive economic equation is the success of Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority, which has set records for real estate sales during the past two years. Chaffee stands as one of the shining examples of a successful public-private partnership following the BRAC process. In fact, the pace of construction at what's now known as Chaffee Crossing almost made me think I was in Benton County.
"Of the excess property following BRAC, 5,104 acres were conveyed to the public trust that became Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority," authority executive director Daniel Mann tells me as we sip coffee in his conference room. "We still own 1,300 acres, some of which will be used for a 37-mile trail system. There will be about $2.5 billion invested in Chaffee Crossing. There are 3,602 jobs here now, and we project that will grow to 4,621 direct jobs."
Capital investments in the mixed-use development are about 40 percent industrial, 33 percent residential, 8 percent retail, 7 percent government offices and 7 percent schools. There are six churches. Mann says the infrastructure investments are $273 million with $140 million coming from the federal government, $44 million coming from the state and $14 million coming from the development authority.
"Most of the top BRAC redevelopments are on the East Coast or West Coast," Mann says. "But this one in the middle of the country ranks near the top. In addition to what's happening on the commercial side, more than $822 million in capital will be invested in 45 residential neighborhoods. We project there will be between 5,000 and 7,000 housing units when all is said and done."
A rapidly growing historic and entertainment district at Chaffee Crossing boasts a whiskey distillery, a brewpub, coffee shops and a winery. The Barracks at Chaffee, a $30 million mixed-use project to renovate 32 former military buildings, is moving forward. Developer Rival Commercial hopes to have more than 100 residential units, between eight and 10 restaurants and breweries, and more than 30 retail and commercial spaces. The authority has invested more than $2.2 million in the district to improve streets, parking lots and utilities.
Last year, the authority board approved the sale of 61 acres in Barling along Arkansas Highway 22 to Van Trust Real Estate for an 825,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center. Development in the industrial sector is expected to continue in the years ahead with the expansion of Interstate 49 through Chaffee Crossing.
Meanwhile, the Colorado-based owners of Axe & the Oak Distillery purchased Building 339 in the historic area. The 49,000-square-foot former military laundry is being converted into a distillery for bourbon, rye, vodka and gin. The company already distributes products in eight states and Germany.
Some of the greatest growth continues to come from Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, which has launched an occupational therapy degree program to complement its physical therapy degree program, master's degree in biomedicine degree program and its Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.
In late 2009, Sparks Health System was sold for $136 million to a company then known as Health Management Associates. Little Rock-based Baptist Health purchased the system in 2018. Once liabilities were settled from the 2009 sale, the hospital's foundation had more than $60 million to invest. Almost $34 million was used to complete the 102,000-square-foot building at Chaffee Crossing that houses Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.
An anonymous $15 million gift in 2017 allowed for construction of the 66,000-square-foot College of Health Science building, which houses the physical and occupational therapy programs.
Rex Nelson is a senior editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/chaffees-new-era/ | 2023-07-30T08:24:32 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/chaffees-new-era/ |
The semiconductor industry warned that there won't be enough engineers, computer scientists and technicians in the United States to support a rapid expansion this decade, threatening efforts to boost the domestic chip economy.
Chipmakers are on course to add about 115,000 jobs by 2030, the Semiconductor Industry Association said, citing a survey it commissioned. Based on a study of degree completion rates, though, about 58% of those projected positions could remain unfilled.
Chip companies have long cited a struggle to find qualified U.S. employees. Earlier this month, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said production at a planned facility in Arizona will be postponed from late 2024 until 2025 because of a shortage of skilled workers. The move dealt a blow to efforts by the Biden administration, which is counting on federal incentives to revitalize semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.
"We're supposed to go from a $550 billion industry to a trillion-dollar industry in 2030, and that's going to take more talent," said John Neuffer, chief executive officer of the SIA. "If we aren't able to get our arms around this, our industry in general will falter."
TSMC is one of a number of large chip companies -- a group that includes Intel and Samsung Electronics -- that have announced plans to build production facilities in the United States. They're trying to take advantage of billions of dollars set aside by last year's Chips and Science Act to bolster the domestic industry.
Total industry revenue will grow to $1 trillion by 2030, almost double where it was in 2020, the SIA said. At that point, the field will need about 460,000 workers, according to the study carried out by Oxford Economics. Based on trends, companies won't be able to fill 67,000 new positions.
Not enough Americans are studying science, engineering, math and technology-related subjects, according to the SIA. And people from other countries who are acquiring those skills are leaving, the group said.
At U.S. colleges and universities, more than 50% of master's engineering graduates and 60% of those with a Ph.D. in engineering are citizens of other countries. About 80% of those master's graduates and 25% of those who earn doctorates depart the United States, by choice or because immigration policy doesn't allow them to stay.
The SIA CEO said that in the near term, the fix has to come from immigration reform that would allow the United States to retain more of the talent that it's creating at its world-leading universities. Beyond that, the United States has to lure more students into the relevant education path, and the chip industry has to do a better job of attracting those that have the skills it needs.
Neuffer said he's optimistic that lawmakers in Washington are ready to help address the skills shortage. The supply chain struggles during the pandemic may have actually helped matters because they raised the chip industry's profile, he said.
"No one is going to forget the chip shortages that we had and that chips are critically important," Neuffer said. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/chipmakers-fear-worker-shortage/ | 2023-07-30T08:24:38 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/chipmakers-fear-worker-shortage/ |
This week, Canada and parts of the United States have confronted unprecedented declines in air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, but people elsewhere in the world have long had to adjust and adapt to living with hazardous pollution levels. In some cases, those levels have improved over time.
NPR correspondents Anthony Kuhn and Eyder Peralta and freelance reporters Shalu Yadav and Kate Bartlett share what it's like in Beijing, Seoul, New Delhi, Mexico City and Johannesburg.
From Beijing to Seoul
I first visited Beijing in 1982, and lived there much of the time between 1992 and 2018.
In most of my years there, the pollution was terrible, especially in winter, although we didn't have ways to measure it. The air had an acrid, sulfurous smell, and soot was everywhere. To me, it was simply the cost of covering — and living — an epic story. People were less aware than they are now of the difference between weather and pollution, fog and smog.
Ahead of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing started to get rid of the coal stoves commonly used in the courtyard dwellings ("siheyuan" in Chinese) of Beijing's old city, and coal-fired heating plants, to help clean up the air ahead of the Games. Factories were moved farther and farther out of the city center. Coal-burning stoves in the courtyards were slowly replaced by electric heat.
While air quality in Beijing has improved in recent years, even now, occasional dust storms blow in from the Gobi desert, turning Beijing's skies yellow in spring and covering everything in gritty dust. AQI readings of 500 or worse are still occasional facts of life.
When I moved to Seoul in 2018, I cheerfully assumed I'd be leaving the air pollution behind. But it has followed me.
In China, we usually spoke of PM2.5, particulate matter that penetrates deep into the lungs. In Seoul, people call it "fine dust."
Much of it blows eastward from northern China over the Korean peninsula. But South Korea's automobiles and heavy industry add their own smog to the miasma — as does, reportedly, North Korea. The pollution is one reason South Koreans were already quite accustomed to wearing face masks, even before COVID.
South Korean and Chinese environmental officials have met numerous times to try to find a joint solution, but with little immediate or visible result. There are plenty of days of AQI over 100 or 150. There's little I can do but cancel outdoor activities, and wait until the air clears.
--Anthony Kuhn, NPR Seoul correspondent
New Delhi
My beloved city is famous for its heritage and Mughlai food — and infamous for its horrid pollution, which reaches AQI levels of 500 to 600 in the winter.
When it's that time of the year, my mornings start with opening my AQI app to check the level of pollution outside. That level decides whether I go for an outdoor run or find a safe indoor space in a gym where air purifiers are showcased as a premium facility.
But some days I don't need my AQI app. It's so bad that my eyes burn as soon as I wake up, I can taste the pollutants in my mouth and my lungs feel like an overworked machine that needs a break!
The pollution is so bad that some studies suggest that breathing it in is as dangerous as smoking about two dozen cigarettes a day.
"Craving a smoke? Come to Delhi!" is an overused joke that circulates in WhatsApp groups here, to share a light moment amid the gloom overcasting the sky and our lives in the city.
Jokes apart, it's a very serious health issue. An estimated 1.7 million Indians died of pollution-related disease in 2019.
It has in fact become a big factor in making my future decisions.
My husband and I have been intently discussing if we should plan our first baby and raise her in this city or move to another city. It's a scary thought — seeing our future kid gasping for breath, and suffering breathing problems like so many other kids in Delhi.
--Shalu Yadav, freelance reporter
Mexico City
Mexico City was once known as the most polluted city in the world.
The air quality here is still bad — on Thursday, the AQI reached 123, which is unhealthy for people with respiratory problems. And you feel it — your eyes get watery, your throat scratchy and the sky looks hazy. But in the 1990s and early 2000s, air quality would routinely hit the 200s. So, how did it get better?
Essentially, the government got tough on pollution with a complex system of countermeasures. Less efficient cars are allowed limited time on the road. And as soon as the air quality gets bad — either too high a concentration of ozone or particulate matter — the government orders even newer, more efficient cars off the streets. They order factories to reduce their output, food vendors are prohibited from using charcoal and road work stops.
If the air quality doesn't improve, the countermeasures get tougher. It often means residents can't drive to work or school, for example, so they have to walk, bike or take public transportation. If it gets bad enough, government offices shut down.
All of this has made a difference. In the 1990s, measures like these were put in place every month. Mexicans used to joke the air was so bad, so often, that birds would die mid-flight. These days, really bad days are rare. We have only a handful of environmental contingencies a year.
--Eyder Peralta, NPR Mexico City correspondent
Johannesburg
Africa is well known for its stunning sunsets and wide open skies – Paul Simon even sung about them in his song "Under African Skies."
So when I moved to Johannesburg as a correspondent, after previously working in heavily polluted Hong Kong, I found the fresh air in my leafy suburb a welcome change.
But in South Africa, one of the world's most unequal countries, air quality depends a lot on where you live.
According to the 2022 World Air Quality Report, the wealthy city of Cape Town had some of the best air quality in the country, while Thabazimbi, an iron mining town in northern Limpopo province had some of the worst.
Such disparities led environmental groups to sue the government last year in a groundbreaking case in which the judge ruled the unsafe levels of air pollution in the coal mining region of Mpumulanga were in breach of residents' constitutional rights to clean air.
Elsewhere on the continent, things are a mixed bag, with countries like Chad, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Egypt all showing high levels of pollution, while Angola and Kenya had relatively low levels.
One of the main impediments to monitoring air quality in Africa is the limited availability of reliable data, according to IQAir, with only 19 countries across the continent monitored.
Chad was found to be the most polluted of those, actually topping the global list as the country with the worst air quality in the world in 2022 – beating New Delhi. IQAir credited the country's regular dust storms as one of the reasons behind the poor levels of air quality.
--Kate Bartlett, freelance reporter
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Last week I read some remarks by a young architect that gave me hope.
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B-I-N-G-O
Bingo Bash, in its 16th year, was held July 20 at The Hall.
The event hosted by ACCESS in Action is ACCESS' largest fundraiser. About 350 guests enjoyed a buffet dinner by Adam's Catfish followed by 11 games of Bingo with the Arkansas Traveler's Lance Restrum serving as emcee.
During the program ACCESS executive director and co-founder Tammy Simmons was presented with an award and named one of Dentaquest's 2023 Health Equity Heroes. The award is given to those responsible for extraordinary work that advances equitable access to health care.
ACCESS is a nonprofit agency that offers education, training and therapy for individuals with special needs. ACCESS in Action is a group of young professionals that volunteer and advocate for the nonprofit's mission.
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Dedicated viewers of Fox News are likely familiar with Lear Capital, a Los Angeles company that sells gold and silver coins. In recent years, the company's ads have been a constant presence on Fox airwaves, warning viewers to protect their retirement savings from a looming "pension crisis" and "dollar collapse."
One such ad caught the attention of Terry White, a disabled retiree from New York. In 2018, White invested $174,000 in the coins, according to a lawsuit by the New York attorney general -- only to later learn that Lear charged a 33% commission.
Over several transactions, White, 70, lost nearly $80,000, putting an "enormous strain" on his finances, said his wife, Jeanne, who blames Fox for their predicament: "They're negligent," she said. A regretful White said he thought Fox "wouldn't take a commercial like that unless it was legitimate."
While the legitimacy of the gold retirement investment industry is the subject of numerous lawsuits -- including allegations of fraud by federal and state regulators against Lear and other companies -- its advertising has become a mainstay of right-wing media. The industry spends millions of dollars a year to reach viewers of Fox, Newsmax and other conservative outlets, according to a Washington Post analysis of ad data and financial records, as well as interviews with industry insiders. Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have promoted the coins, while ads for Lear's competitors have appeared on a podcast hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Newsmax broadcasts of former President Donald Trump's political rallies.
An analysis by The Post of political newsletters, social media, podcasts and a national database of television ads collected by the company AdImpact found that pitches to invest in gold coins are a daily presence in media that caters to a right-wing audience and often echo conservative talking points about looming economic and societal collapse. The Post found no similar ads for gold retirement investments in mainstream or left-wing media sources in the databases.
These so-called "gold IRA" companies are not publicly traded, so their revenue, profits and ad budgets largely cannot be determined. Court documents filed by Lear say the company has about $200 million in annual revenue; Dale Whitaker, the former chief financial officer at another company, Augusta Precious Metals, said overall industry revenue likely approaches $1 billion a year.
Over the past decade, more than 30 customers in 20 states have sued a dozen gold IRA companies, including Lear. Federal regulators have sued four companies -- two in the past year alone -- claiming investors were systematically charged as much as triple the coins' value.
None of the cases have gone to trial; some are still pending. Of those that have been resolved, most have settled or been sent to arbitration, where outcomes are not made public. The companies have not admitted wrongdoing in any of the cases and say their customers have been adequately informed of the details of their purchases.
Joe Rotunda, enforcement director at the Texas State Securities Board, said the industry is extraordinarily difficult to police because selling gold, even as a retirement investment, is "extremely thinly regulated."
Experts on commercial speech say Fox and other media outlets have no obligation to spurn advertising from gold IRA companies, despite the allegations. "Courts are very hesitant to impose liability on publishers," said Harvard law professor Rebecca Tushnet, an expert in First Amendment and advertising law, who said the law is designed primarily to compel truthfulness by advertisers.
Tushnet added that "it might be reasonable, if you found out about the lawsuits, [to] contact the advertiser" and ask questions about the claims before running the ads. But if an advertiser blames their legal troubles on "the woke mob," she said, "you're often allowed to believe them."
Fox News declined to comment. In a statement, Newsmax spokesman Bill Daddi said the network does not see allegations against the gold IRA companies as "a cause to block them from advertising." Daddi compared them to some major financial firms that have been sued by customers or regulators, and whose ads continue to be accepted by mainstream outlets. For example, Wells Fargo paid $3 billion in 2020 to settle potential charges related to opening fake accounts in customers' names.
In a statement, Lear Capital spokesperson Tracy Williams defended the company's operations, saying most of Lear's customers would have made a profit if they had sold at a recent market high. Williams said that White, the New York retiree, had acknowledged the company's fee in a recorded call.
Last year, Lear settled New York's 2021 lawsuit involving White without admitting wrongdoing. However, the company agreed to repay some customers and to disclose its fees more clearly. Lear now gives customers 24 hours to pull out of purchases, Williams said, putting the company at the "vanguard of disclosure ... within its industry."
Lear declined to say how much it spends to advertise on Fox News, but Williams said the network is not Lear's primary source of customers. Nor is Lear likely to make up a significant share of Fox's total ad revenue, which exceeds $1 billion a year, according to securities filings.
Fox is a logical place for Lear to advertise because "purchasing physical assets appeals to persons who have concerns regarding ... topics often discussed on that platform," Williams said. She added: "U.S. monetary policy is inseparable from U.S. political dynamics and themes."
For years, gold IRA industry advertising has echoed accusations against Democratic politicians commonly found in news segments on conservative outlets. The ads tout the coins as a safe haven from economic uncertainty and social upheaval.
Most of the coins are manufactured by the Royal Canadian Mint, which says they're bullion, a kind of coin whose value is determined by the underlying metal. As such, they meet IRS rules for retirement investments.
Unlike most bullion coins, however, the gold IRA industry's coins are typically exclusive to the companies who sell them, usually with markups far higher than those charged by mainstream coin retailers, regulators and coin experts say. Alex Reeves, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mint, said the mint has no control "over sales practices further down the chain of distribution."
"They are priced like collectibles, but collectible coins aren't typically sold in bulk," said Everett Millman, a precious metals specialist at coin dealer Gainesville Coins. "If a customer spent the same amount of money on products that are more standard, like [Canadian] Silver Maple Leafs, they would end up with a lot more ounces per dollar."
With the exclusive coins, Millman said, "They're simply torching money."
"No one in their right mind would pay the premiums that these guys are charging," added Ken Lewis, CEO of online coin dealer Apmex, who reviewed several customer invoices at The Post's request.
The ads explain none of that. Instead, they focus on news events, such as a spate of recent bank failures and "everything that's happening in the economy right now ... with all the talk of inflation," Rotunda said.
For example, an email ad for Augusta, sent to a Newsmax mailing list last July, warned that "The Biden administration's economic policies are 'declaring war' on retirement savers." In December, American Hartford Gold Group sent an email ad with the subject line: "Bill O'Reilly Warns: Retirement Funds at Risk From a Biden Recession." The email is signed by O'Reilly, who did not respond to a request for comment.
Another ad for Hartford sent to the Newsmax mailing list in March warned of "Biden and Yellen's Secret Plan to Steal your Hard-Earned Money and Bail Out Their Wall Street Buddies."
Trump rallies are particularly big events for Hartford. On July 1, Newsmax aired a live broadcast of a Trump speech in Pickens, S.C., on a split screen with an ad for Hartford, which also sends "Trump Rally Special" email ads via Newsmax.
Since October 2020, email newsletters distributed by Newsmax have included more than 1,100 ads for gold IRA companies -- nearly a quarter of all Newsmax email ads reviewed by The Post. At $1,000 to $5,000 each, according to Augusta financial records from 2016 reviewed by The Post, the ads likely generate more than $1 million a year in revenue.
Daddi, the Newsmax spokesman, said gold IRA companies represent "a small percentage of the total advertisers on Newsmax across all platforms."
Hartford spokesman Steven Goldberg said it runs ads "where we believe it will create the most value." Among the company's chosen venues: a "prophetic" evangelical Christian email newsletter, two right-wing TV channels, and more than a dozen conservative radio shows and podcasts, including Giuliani's and Cruz's.
One of Hartford's ads caught the attention of Ed DeSanto, 65, a semiretired Florida medical coder and an avid right-wing radio fan. He invested a $100,000 lump-sum payout from his pension in a Hartford IRA in 2019.
DeSanto said he doesn't remember exactly where he heard the Hartford ad, but "if you listen to those radio shows, they play those commercials all the time." He said he believed he was being careful: He picked Hartford because it scored well in a ranking of gold IRA companies he found online. (Such rankings often include disclosures noting that the authors are paid by the gold IRA companies.)
DeSanto's $100,000 investment netted him just $53,000 worth of gold and silver, according to a Post analysis of his invoices -- meaning the coins had been marked up 92% over the value of the metal. DeSanto blames himself.
"I did a little bit of research, but evidently not enough," DeSanto said. "When I found the invoice, it was a big shock."
In 2018 and 2019, another retiree, John Mathys of Illinois, claimed a Hartford salesman persuaded him to invest his $569,000 retirement savings by "bombarding him" with calls and emails for months, according to a federal lawsuit Mathys filed against Hartford in 2020. The lawsuit was sent to arbitration. Neither Mathys nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment.
Mathys, who was 83 at the time of the lawsuit, is one of three customers who sued Hartford in the past six years accusing the company of fraud. The other two lawsuits settled.
Hartford declined to comment on any of the cases. "We are fully transparent with our clients about the pricing of the products they purchase and the potential range of markup for those products," Goldberg said in a statement, adding that the company operates "with a steadfast commitment to doing business legally and ethically."
"We deny the allegation that we've misled or otherwise acted improperly," Goldberg said.
In February and April, DeSanto sold back some of his gold coins to Hartford. Although gold prices had climbed an average of 32 percent since his 2019 purchase, he lost money on the sales, according to a Post analysis of his invoices.
DeSanto said he has complained to both the Florida attorney general and the CFTC about his experience with Hartford. He said he spoke twice with CFTC investigators in 2020, but the agency has not taken public action.
In February, DeSanto also called Hartford to try to sell back his coins. He said he was flabbergasted to learn that the salesman who handled his purchase was still employed there. And he was shocked to find O'Reilly's photo still featured on the company's website.
"Everything is the same there," DeSanto marveled. Of O'Reilly, he added: "I would think, for his reputation, he'd want to get away from a company like them."
Information for this article was contributed by Sarah Ellison,Dan Morse and Raz Nakhlawi of The Washington Post.
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This weekend provides the perfect occasion to say a kind word for the loyal opposition, which represents a vital cog in our system...
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Historic Arkansas Museum's Trinity Gallery can trace its origins to the time when Dale Bumpers was governor.
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Happy birthday. A paradox: Your life becomes simultaneously simpler and fuller. You'll get carried away with a single focus and your enthusiasm opens a giant blossom of beauty. More highlights: a coveted membership that keeps you working toward a goal until it's yours, an investment that triples your money, and renovations to up your game.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your wants will mesh with the needs of those around you. Communicate to learn how you can help one another. Some will be too proud to express themselves. You'll have to go first.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). To fully possess your world when you know it will not be the same tomorrow takes courage. Today you have the gravitas to give yourself over to changeable things. You'll follow your heart and make the commitment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To withhold approval or affection until someone does what you want is a short-sighted ploy that usually backfires. You prefer a more honest and direct approach, and will have great success with it today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Improvement cannot be forced or magically conjured. It won't materialize in response to an order nor can it be bought. Things will get better in the same way they always have -- with a solid step-by-step plan and the determination to see it through.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There's great value exchanged between generations today, much to the benefit of all. You'll learn from those who are much older or younger than you, and you have plenty to teach the ones who are receptive to it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your value never changes because attention is given or taken away. It's intrinsic. There's a deep-rooted certainty in you today. It's not that you know you're right, but you do know you're worthy, so there's nothing to prove.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There's a conflict between the responsibility you feel toward the others and the duty you have to do what's right for you. Make no assumptions and remain calmly optimistic. A constructive conversation will illuminate a way to satisfy all.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you really want something, you tend to calculate the risks by minimizing the negatives and glorifying the gains. Take the wanting out of the equation and suddenly there is a much more accurate risk calculation available.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You don't yet know which way of doing things fits you best. You'll find out what it is by discovering what it's not. Trying different methods is research. "This isn't for me" is the data that gets you closer.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You'll receive a vision for a relationship. This dream is doable. Even though there will be a magical feeling about the process, it will still happen in practical steps. Work back from the picture to outline the steps.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It is said that true love sees with the heart. Even so, test what you feel might be true against input from other senses. You may accept and love a person and yet find certain behaviors unacceptable.
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Sense and decency
In regard to the "Support our libraries" letter, I am appalled that any adult with an ounce of common sense and decency would consider, much less condone, giving young children books that are nothing but pornography. You are free to read anything you choose. I don't care, nor would I try to stop you, but when you make this filth available and even mandatory to babies, I will speak up and tell you, it is wrong. I've been called a bigot, white Christian, a threat to democracy, but you want me to think that you are so tolerant, wise and all-knowing. Well, I don't think any such thing.
The majority of people in this country, which by the way is a republic, not a democracy, do not support giving our children pornography in school as a reading assignment or making it available in the school library. Teachers are supposed to teach and leave the disgusting books to the adults.
Yes, I am a Christian, but I did not forfeit my common sense, decency, and logic. As a parent, grandparent, and great-grandparent, I will speak out and condemn the movement to sexualize our young children. Book banning, my eye! Make them available to you if you choose to read that garbage, but leave our children alone.
Parents, it's up to you to screen everything your child reads and don't be afraid or intimidated by bullies who will call you bigot, homophobe, and other names. Wear it with pride, knowing that you stand for truth, honor and the American way of life.
I believe "woke" means Willingly Overlooking Known Evil. No more. Don't be afraid, speak out. Love them, but let them know enough is enough.
PHYLLIS FARISH
Bella Vista
Restore golf course
War Memorial Stadium/Golf Course. I believe these names were/are synonymous with Little Rock. They were once a mark of pride for the country to admire, War Memorial Golf Course has become an eyesore for residents to drive by and cry. Why?
Could we all come together and perhaps restore a nice nine-hole course that would be the envy of many comparable cities that do not have the space due to asphalt? How many years has War Memorial Golf Course been a vacant lot? Let's get together and restore it. Perhaps we could ask for a grant to make it a national historic site (active). How much surplus is the state of Arkansas sitting on?
STEVE BRACKINS
Little Rock
Ignorance is glaring
Mike Masterson's recent column on our troubled nation and the song "Try That in a Small Town" makes me wonder about "investigative journalism." His curiosity seems lost when he writes on far-right and culture war issues.
His ability to ignore both sides of certain issues is glaring, as his columns on Harrison show. This is the person who told us: "There are many Americans, such as those with the Oath Keepers organization, for whom pledging their oath represents a sacred constitutional responsibility." Those words were written after Jan 6, 2021. I must have missed the retraction when some were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
As far as the song, nobody said the lyrics alone were problematic. Once people saw the video though, which Mike conveniently ignores, lots of people wondered why the focus on only certain types of violence, and certainly the setting. It's interesting not to see any pictures of Jan. 6 violence. Since Jason Aldean was on stage at the beginning of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, (Las Vegas), you might have thought that would get a spot.
These things don't happen in a small town? Of the Arkansans convicted for the J6 riots, the hometowns were Yellville, Heber Springs, Gravette, and our big-town rep, Conway! Did I miss where the D.C. folks attacked those towns?
It seems like too many Americans believe that carrying the flag, or pronouncing their "Christian bona fides" makes them better Americans than everyone else, even as they attack police officers with that same flag, or attack other Americans with their "Christian beliefs."
I'm not sure what happened to the thought behind the hymn, "They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love," but two thoughts come to mind. The first is John Prine's admonition that your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore, and the second from the Michael Stanley Band, "The Lord uses the good ones, the bad ones use the Lord."
GREG ROUNTREE
Scott
Government broken
I studied American government; heck, every high school kid did in the '80s.
We were taught that our government was put in place to make sure every person living in the United States had rights, that it was there to protect us and our rights, unify all of us as one, make laws that govern all of us, build our infrastructure and that religion would be separate from government.
What happened in the past 40 years? Our government officials, especially in Arkansas, have done none of the above.
Now we have these government officials spending a majority of their time trying to pass cruel bills to govern women's uteruses and the trans community, all in the name of Jesus.
How about this--quit wasting taxpayer dollars and ... you know, do your job.
Government officials need to 1. Create jobs here in America by bringing them back from overseas and giving incentives to do so. 2. Ensure education for everyone equally, including the poor. Give them the same advantages in school and we all thrive. 3. Adjust the working wage so the middle class doesn't die. 4. Start universal health care for all and it becomes nonprofit like other countries. 5. Overhaul the tax system for the rich. 6. Create skilled jobs with transportation infrastructure projects. 7. Get away from fuel. Electric is our clean future. 8. Build a system where our trash is burned to create power like Sweden does. 9. Most important one: Clean up our corrupt voting system. No PAC money, lobbyists, limit on funds and cap on funds raised, cut down campaigning time from two years to eight months, and if a politician breaks those laws, they are barred for life.
We as a nation must stop using Jesus our Lord to govern people we don't like or understand. That's why they invented churches--that's where they need to be on Sunday talking about the Lord, not in our government capital.
We as a community and as Americans must stand up for others and protect everyone at all cost. Our independence and rights are being taken from us in the name of God.
What a sad, unhealthy, poor, uneducated country we have become, all in the name of God.
RHONDA DOUDNA
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IXTENCO, Mexico -- On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he's had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties -- running from deep red to pale pink, from golden yellow to dark blue -- passed down from his parents and grandparents would disappear. White corn long ago came to dominate the market and became the foundation of Mexicans' diet.
But now, the heirloom corn Vargas grows is in vogue. It accounts for 20 of the 50 acres on his farm in Ixtenco, in the central state of Tlaxcala. Vargas, 53, remembers just one acre reserved for it in 2010, when demand was virtually zero and prices low. Fueled largely by foreign demand, the corn in its rainbow of colors has become more profitable for him than the white variety.
Vargas is among farmers in Mexico who've been holding on to heirloom strains for generations, against a flood of industrially produced white corn. They're finding a niche but increasing market among consumers seeking organic produce from small-scale growers and chefs worldwide who want to elevate or simply provide an authentic take on tortillas, tostadas and other corn-based pillars of Mexican food.
Corn is the most fundamental ingredient of Mexican cuisine, and it's never far from the national conversation. Amid President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's move to ban the importation of genetically modified corn and his imposition of a 50% tariff on imported white corn, some scientists, chefs and others are advocating for the value of the old varieties in an increasingly drought-stricken world.
Heirloom varieties make up far less than 1% of total domestic corn production in Mexico. But for the first time in years, Vargas and others are hopeful about the crop. Some in the academic and public sectors hope to increase its production.
Vargas' heirloom corn sells for around $1.17 per kilogram abroad, more than three times the price for his white. If demand keeps growing, he'll plant more. He boasts about his colorful "little corn" that travels the globe.
"People abroad validated us," he said.
U.S. DEMAND
In Brooklyn, Mexican chef Zack Wangeman and his wife, Diana, have been running their tortilla shop and restaurant, Sobre Masa, since 2021. Their dishes and corn masa, which they sell to other New York restaurants, are made with heirloom Mexican corn from small farms.
Wangeman, 31, believes tortillas made from that corn have gained a foothold because for many they evoke a "country flavor ... that taste of toasted corn" that is uniquely Mexican.
"When you use hybrid corn, genetically modified corn or whatever other option there is, it doesn't give you that nostalgic flavor," said Wangeman, who was born in the southern state of Oaxaca.
He was drawn to the corn by a chef friend who returned from a food fair raving about it. Wangeman got in touch with Tamoa, a company that since 2016 has promoted the heirloom corn grown by about 100 families in central and southern Mexico to foreign markets.
Across Mexico, about 60,000 tons of heirloom corn is produced annually. It's a tiny fraction of the 23 million tons of white corn grown on an industrial scale to meet domestic demand for human consumption and the 16.5 million tons of yellow corn that Mexico imported last year -- mostly from the U.S. -- for industrial and animal feed use.
It's unclear how much of the heirloom corn goes abroad -- Mexico doesn't keep export data for the crop. But Rafael Mier, director of the Mexican Corn Tortilla foundation, said it's clear exports of heirloom corn are growing based on the increasing number of tortillerias and restaurants buying it, especially in the U.S.
In Las Vegas, chef Mariana Alvarado said she began getting native corn through Tamoa and Los Angeles-based Masienda for tortillas, tostadas, tamales and the masa she sells in markets and online about four years ago.
At the time, she said, maybe 20 chefs in the U.S. used native corn -- she estimates that's now doubled.
Little by little, Alvarado said, she built a client list of Latinos and fans of Mexican cuisine looking for "organic, clean, healthy food." She doesn't believe this is a passing fad -- in fact, she expects the distinction between Mexican food that uses modified corn and more authentic fare made with heirloom strains to grow.
"Smelling them, trying them -- they realized that the taste is totally different from the tortillas they were used to here in a supermarket," Alvarado said of U.S. customers.
This year, Alvarado pointed out, a Kansas City, Mo., tortilleria that uses native Mexican corn won the Outstanding Bakery prize at the James Beard awards -- the Oscars of the food world.
"We're making noise as tortilla-makers here in the United States, bringing native corn," Alvarado said.
ATTRACTING GROWERS
Under a blazing sun and large sombrero, agronomist Gerardo Noriega gave final instructions to a group of technicians and researchers as they sowed hundreds of native corn seeds in a recently plowed field in Apizaco, Tlaxcala. Noriega, of Chapingo Autonomous University, uses the field as a large, open-air laboratory to study the benefits of native versus hybrid -- crossbred -- corn varieties.
Noriega's project is one of several efforts nationwide to promote organic agriculture among small producers. The hope is to get more growers into crops that draw higher prices and help ensure the survival of Mexico's 59 native corn varieties. At least 12 are grown in Tlaxcala, where some 232,000 acres of the 355,000 planted with corn are growing heirloom varieties.
Noriega told the group that by taking up the genetic material -- seeds, plants, tissue -- naturally selected over centuries in Mexico, "you can start to produce those corn varieties on a massive scale, the yellows, multicolored, reds, blues, pinks and even whites, and we would not need to mess with genetically-modified."
The native varieties have exceptional yield and can stand 50 days of drought, he said: "There isn't a hybrid that can tolerate those conditions."
But most Mexican farmers are accustomed to planting crossbred corn and using fertilizer and other chemicals to improve its yield.
Heirloom corn won't be an easy sell for farmers like Isidro Caporal. He entered the Chapingo University program last year but still has crossbred corn fed with chemical fertilizers planted on most of his 25 acres.
"This corn is way ahead," said the 79-year-old Caporal as he walked down a row of hybrid corn, already 5 feet tall. He said his crop yields more than double that of native varieties and requires less of his time.
He conceded that this year's drought hit his hybrid corn hard. "I know that I won't be able to sell those cobs because they were really small, but it doesn't matter," he said. "I can hold onto them to eat at home."
For others, Lopez Obrador's argument about potential health risks of genetically modified corn rings true. His move to ban the importation of GMO corn -- modified in the lab to resist pests and herbicides -- prompted a trade tiff with the United States and Canada.
The World Health Organization has said generally that genetically modified foods "on the international market have passed safety assessments and are not likely to present risks for human health."
But Berenice Perez, 35, believes the heirloom corn varieties she grows are healthier, as well as tastier. She left Mexico's capital three years ago and moved to rural Las Mesas in Tlaxcala. Her mother had died of cancer, and she sought a healthier lifestyle.
"A lot of people say we're crazy," Perez said. "We're not going to become millionaires, but I think that wealth isn't so much found in the economic as in nutrition and in what we leave for those who come after us." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/mexican-farmers-see-demand-grow-abroad-for/ | 2023-07-30T08:25:45 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/mexican-farmers-see-demand-grow-abroad-for/ |
Jazz guitarist Norman Brown has garnered more than a few eloquent descriptions.
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MasterChef: United Tastes of America contestant Jennifer Maune of Little Rock and the rest of the team South cast were on hand July 19 for a VIP chef dinner and watch party at Ben E. Keith in North Little Rock.
The five chefs spent the day in the kitchen preparing the three-course meal with wine pairing which included BBQ shrimp served on corn succotash and herb salad. The entree was filet mignon with a chimichurri sauce, glazed carrots and garlic mashed potatoes -- the same dinner made in the episode watched later that evening. Maune's apple spice cake with cream cheese icing and caramel drizzle, a family recipe, was served for dessert. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits provided the wine paired with each course from the California winery Harvey and Harriet.
During the dinner and watch party cast members took turns talking about their experience on the show including their favorite Gordon Ramsay moments. Maune noted that he was "a very kind and endearing person with high expectations."
This was the first stop of the MasterChef South on Tour. The stop gave Maune's friends and family and other guests a chance to watch the Arkansas contestant in the kitchen in person.
The episode watched was "Trial by Fire: Field Challenge." Maune headed up Team Red -- made up of members of the south and midwest teams -- which won that episode's challenge.
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DEAR ABBY: About 10 years ago, I visited my oldest and dearest friend, who I see a few times a year. The last time, her husband, who I've also known for years and who I thought was a friend, started teasing me. I can take a joke, but the teasing got mean. Eventually he stopped, and I continued my visit.
I was really angry at him, but because I didn't want to involve my friend, I sent him an email. I told him I thought his teasing went too far and to please not do it again. He never replied. Now when I visit my friend, her husband is never there. He stays away. I haven't seen him in years.
My friend makes silly excuses why he isn't at home when I visit. In fact, the last time I went I saw him driving away when I drove up! I don't hold a grudge against the guy. I think it's sad that he has to run away. Should I say something?
-- Perplexed in California
DEAR PERPLEXED: No. You dealt with your friend's husband appropriately without involving his wife. Enjoy your visits with her, and do not drag her into this. I see no reason to raise the subject. Your problem is solved.
DEAR ABBY: I'm a gentleman who would like to date more than I do. I want to ask a woman in my church choir out for coffee or lunch on a Sunday afternoon. But I get so nervous I get knots in my stomach. I know dating is one of the things I need to leave in God's hands and have His help in getting over the nerves.
I like my friend in the choir a lot. I think she's a wonderful and caring person. I want to get to know her better because, even though we've said "Hi" and "Bye" and exchanged glances during choir practice on Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings, I don't know her heart and what makes her tick. Can you offer some advice?
-- Painfully Shy
in Missouri
DEAR PAINFULLY SHY: Start treating the woman as you would a friend rather than a love interest. Asking a fellow choir member to join you for coffee afterward or for a lunch could be a healthy, nonthreatening beginning of a relationship. (Notice I didn't use the word "romance.") Because you want to get to know her better, summon your courage and let her get to know you better. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
DEAR ABBY: I have a friend I occasionally meet for breakfast. She always stops someplace en route and brings takeout coffee into the restaurant. I am often kept waiting because she's in a drive-thru getting that drink. I find it embarrassing that she joins me with drink in hand from elsewhere. How should I handle this?
-- Embarrassed
in the East
DEAR EMBARRASSED: Ask your friend why she does it. It's possible she simply doesn't like the coffee that restaurant serves, although she does enjoy their food and your company. I don't think you should tell her it embarrasses you, because it is really no reflection on you.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/old-friends-teasing-spouse-ducks-out-during-her/ | 2023-07-30T08:26:03 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/old-friends-teasing-spouse-ducks-out-during-her/ |
The economy President Joe Biden likes to brag about is powered by Republican states.
Economic warning signs abound. Inflation is cooling off, but remains elevated. Our massive national debt means inflation won't retreat permanently into the night. Credit card debt has hit a record, nearing $1 trillion. Banks are tightening lending standards, which is likely to put a damper on future economic growth.
But running for re-election demands economic happy talk. After all, "Vote for me, I wrecked the economy" won't win much support. So Mr. Biden is left looking for data points to convince you things are humming along.
One such statistic is earnings, which jumped an average of 5.4 percent between the first quarters of last year and this year. Mr. Biden wants to claim credit for this improvement. But Bidenomics is just liberalism on steroids.
As The Wall Street Journal editorial board recently noted, wages grew by just 2.6 percent in New York and 2.9 percent in California. Democrats also control most of the other states, such as Connecticut and Rhode Island, with slow wage growth. Indiana was a red-state exception.
Contrast that with Florida, which had a 9.1 percent increase, and Texas, a 7.7 percent increase. Other red states, such as North Dakota and Nebraska, also topped the list. Hawaii, a very blue state, did well, with an 8 percent increase. But that's largely attributable to tourism rebounding after prolonged coronavirus restrictions. Nevada, which is a lean blue state, saw a 9.1 percent increase, in part for a similar reason.
Results by individual sectors of the economy offer a more vivid contrast. Florida and Texas both outperformed California and New York in manufacturing, finance, information, retail and professional services. Unsurprisingly, both red states significantly outpaced their blue counterparts in construction. In debates about economic policies, the most meaningful votes are the ones people cast with their feet.
If he wants to oversee a vibrant economy, Mr. Biden should recognize that California and other blue states offer a cautionary tale to avoid, not an example to follow. Florida and Texas offer the opposite. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/others-say-red-states-are-powering-bidens-economy/ | 2023-07-30T08:26:09 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/others-say-red-states-are-powering-bidens-economy/ |
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Raven Leigh-Anna Walton and Patrick Thomas Tarmey exchanged marriage vows Friday, July 21, in the Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs. Trevor O'Conner of Denver officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Stacy and Michael Sawyer of DeValls Bluff. Her grandparents are June and Joseph Griffin, also of DeValls Bluff, and Shirley and Thomas Sawyer of Hamburg.
Parents of the groom are Kathy Bryant of Chestertown, Md., and the late William Tarmey of Newburyport, Mass.
Vows were exchanged in the Crystal Ballroom at a full moon gate arch decorated with purple lisianthus, lavender roses, purple stock and hydrangeas. The aisle was lined with matching wedding flowers.
The bride wore an ivory lace fit-and-flare gown embellished with floral beading and pearls. The bodice had a sweetheart neckline and lace sleeves and the skirt extended to a chapel-length train. She carried an asymmetrical bouquet of orchids, purple lisianthus, lavender roses, purple stock and hydrangeas.
The bride's honor attendants were Christian Earl of Dallas and Kristen Miller of Denver.
Bridesmaids were Dusty Arietta of Seattle; Jamie Santos of Redmond, Ore.; Abbi Ross of Washington; and Riley Tarmey of Amesbury, Mass., daughter of the groom. They wore light blue tulle dresses with sweetheart necklines and carried a smaller version of the bridal bouquet.
The flower groomsman was Harvey Arias of Miami and serving as ring bearer was the groom's dog Kobus.
Trevor O'Connor served as best man. Groomsmen were Zak Holman of Los Angeles, Antone Santos of Redmond, and Michael Sawyer of DeValls Bluff.
A reception, also in the Crystal Ballroom, followed the ceremony. Arrangements of lavender colored wedding flowers decorated guest tables. Music was by D. Derrick Dansby.
Event painter Heather Wolfe painted live during the reception.
The bride studied dance through various dance courses and dance intensives including at Ballet Magnificat in Jackson, Miss. She was a competitor in the reality television show "Big Brother 19." She is a co-producer and a videographer on the groom's bounty hunting show "Southland Bounty Hunters" and all his film projects. She also competes in professional ballroom dancing and teaches choreography to elite competition dancers in south Florida.
The groom is CEO and owner of Internetainer Corporation and is known as Patty Mayo on his YouTube show "Southland Bounty Hunters."
The couple will live in Summerland Key and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and plan a wedding trip to Bora Bora. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/raven-leigh-anna-walton-patrick-thomas-tarmey/ | 2023-07-30T08:26:22 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/raven-leigh-anna-walton-patrick-thomas-tarmey/ |
Everywhere we turn, we're over-taxed.
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Spring Valley's Best Living, LLC; J & R Park Place of Little Rock, LLC; JDGN Investors Little Rock, LLC to EPH 40, LLC; EPH 25, LLC, 8701 Interstate 30 Frontage Road, Little Rock. Pt SW NE & Pt SE NE 36-1N-13W, $12,800,000.
Wab Ventures, Inc. to Swami Hotel Properties, LLC, L3, Chenal/Kanis, $3,900,000.
Double Vision Management, Co. to Pratt Road Storage (AR), LLC, Pt NW SE 22-1S-12W, $3,490,000.
Oakwood Properties, Inc. to Oak And Cedar, LLC, L6 B3, Oakwood Place; Pt SW 32-2N-12W, $1,357,885.
Han Y. Cho to 12106 Sardis Xspress, LLC, 12106 Sardis Road, Mabelvale. Pt NE NW 15-1S-13W, $1,100,000.
Highway 10 Corner, LLC to Foxden Capital, LLC, L1RA, Chenal Valley Commercial Phase 2, $1,013,108.
Robert M. Betchley; Kathleen M. Betchley to Philip S. Clifford; Miriam L. Clifford, 45 Falstone Drive, Little Rock. L19 B136, Chenal Valley, $1,000,000.
Ernest J. Peters; Donna M. Peters to Michael Keith Moore; Michael Keith Moore Trust, 43 Vigne Blvd., Little Rock. L23 B83, Chenal Valley, $925,000.
HBH Builders, Inc. to Gregory William Albert; Denise Lynn Albert, 6530 Hawthorne Road, Little Rock. L24 B2, Hollywood, $925,000.
David C. Perry; Ellen K. Perry to Tara Hendrickson Rahmlow; Adam Rahmlow, 9905 Ark. 161 South, Scott. Tract 6, Cottonwood Estates Unrecorded, $915,000.
Bryan C. Sanders; Sarah H. Sanders to Evan A. Amaya; Sharai C. Amaya, 187 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. L20 B33, Pleasant Valley, $815,000.
Dtof AR, LLC to Meadows Timber, LLC, Pt Sections 19 & 30 2S-11W, $789,711.
Byron Wilkes; Allison Wilkes to Evan Newbolt; Erin Newbolt, 2 Broadview Terrace, Little Rock. L2, Broadview Terrace, $730,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Central Arkansas Water, Pt NE SE & Pt N/2 SE SE 24-3N-16W, $727,200.
Rachel Jones; David Backstedt to Nathan Thomas Falls, 5120 R St., Little Rock. L19 B1, McGehee, $720,000.
Village at BX, LLC to Eckart Real Estate Holdings, LLC, L5, Village at Brodie Creek, $705,672.
Smith Family Revocable Trust to Sidney Leasure Branson; Ryan Brandon, 8 Glenridge Road, Little Rock. L88, Robinwood, $680,000.
Larry Kyle Behnke to Stanton Mobile Home Park, LLC, 8485 Stanton Road, Little Rock. Pt NW SE 31-1N-12W, $625,000.
Daniel E. Eldridge; Elizabeth B. A. Eldridge to Nicholas G. Patterson; Shelby M. Patterson, 306 Linwood Court, Little Rock. L14 B1, Crystal Court, $620,000.
Nicolas Moore; Laura Dillon to Shelby R. Smith; Brandon L. Smith, 15125 Szymanski Road, North Little Rock. Pt NE SE 13-3N-13W, $580,000.
ASBE Real Estate, LLC to D&J Commercial, LLC, 1805 West 37th St., North Little Rock. L4, Shilcott's Commercial Annex, $545,000.
Jim Byrd; The Dennis C. Belden Revocable Trust to James Barnhart; Junae Barnhart, 315 Commentry Way, Little Rock. L2 B81, Chenal Valley, $540,000.
Jason Pickering; Kara Pickering to Jignesh Modi; Niketa Modi, 2007 Wellington Plantation Drive, Little Rock. L3 B15, The Villages of Wellington, $537,000.
Anchor Acquisitions, LLC to David Finnie, L54R, Osage Terrace, $535,000.
Danish Abbaso; Hani Mannan to Ahmad J. Yousaf, L18 B18, The Villages of Wellington, $500,000.
Sunita Rehmatullah; Rehim Rehmatullah to Logan Clark 68 Tournay Circle, Little Rock. L37 B68, Chenal Valley $499,000.
Melvin Motal; Marcia Motal to Dylan Lee Trujillo; Kathryn June Trujillo, 411 Sienna Lake Drive, Little Rock. L6 B6, Sienna Lake, $485,000.
John Wright Construction Co., Inc. to Van Buren Wesley; Alma M Partman-Wesley, 102 Corniche Lane, Maumelle. L1748, The Country Club of Arkansas Phase 24B, $480,000.
Mohammad Pakravan; Hashemi Atosa to Keith Liesmann, 12 Tournay Circle, Little Rock. L6 B68, Chenal Valley, $480,000.
Arkansas Specialty Woods, LLC to Snow Leopard, LLC, Pt SE SE 2-1N-12W, $465,000.
Kevin L. Wells; Karin W. Smith; The Gail N. Wells Revocable Trust to Marlo Parker; Jordan Parker, 3721 Foxcroft Road, Little Rock. L254, Foxcroft 5th, $452,500.
Michael H. Regauld; Sherron E. Regauld; The Regauld Family Trust to Noah Drake Moudy; Natalie Means Moudy; The NNM Trust, L20 B48, Chenal Valley, $441,000.
Sidney L. Branson; Sidney Leasure; Ryan Branson to Marion R. Grant, 21 Mockingbird Lane, Little Rock. L530, Kingwood Place, $440,000.
Iman J. Boston to Jainil J. Shah, 4 Copper Circle, Little Rock. L86 B2, Copper Run Phase I, $439,900.
Vernice Waktins; Estate of Doris Nichols (dec'd) to Vernice Watkins; Margaret Bell Shannon; Joyce M. Deloney; Angela Foster; Glynis Lawson; Vonder Stewart, L703, River Market Tower HPR, $430,000.
Graham Smith Construction, LLC to Chandra Abirami Balasubramaniapandian; Ramkumar Sundar, 31 Saffron Circle, Little Rock. L29 B2, Parkside at Wildwood, $425,000.
David J. Trigg; Laura B. Trigg to Conor H. Smith, 6 Cobblestone Way, Little Rock. L19, The Ranch, $425,000.
Shelby R. Smith; Shelby R. Mohs; Brandon L. Smith to Richard Garretson; Tiffany Garretson, 6119 W. Partridge Lane, North Little Rock. Pt NW 30-3N-12W, $420,000.
Coburn Construction, LLC to Christine Marie Abbeduto; Kate Dolan, 214 Copper Way, Little Rock. L21 B4, Copper Run Phase II, $410,000.
Benjamin A. Buchanan; Kathryn R. Buchanan to Randi McLemore, 7 Fox Chapel Court, Little Rock. L56, Pulaski Heights Phase I, $410,000.
Blake Babbs; Noelle Babbs to Wesley Aaron Hymer; Julia Beth Hymer, 32 Chatel Drive, Little Rock. L49 B19, Chenal Valley, $405,000.
Randy James Construction Company, Inc. to Jaimie M. Flor, 131 Woodlands Park Drive, Little Rock. L33 B1, Woodlands Park, $402,500.
Bruce Engel Construction, Inc. to Rogina H. Doiron; Donald Ry Doiron, 9880 Meadow Creek Drive, Sherwood. L5, Millers Glen Phase 8, $390,000.
Copestone Investments, Inc., to LaMonica Dailey, 13550 Smarty Jones Drive, Scott. L184, Ashley Downs Phase I, $366,500.
Dwayne Maynard; Crystal Maynard to Susej Krisann Thompson 6 Cove Drive, Maumelle. L16, Edgewater Phase II, $355,000.
Mark A. Blaylock; Terri L. Blaylock to Sara Wyatt, L174, Edgewater Phase II, $348,000.
Donny Randle, Jr. to Amy Brotman, 221 East 16th St., Little Rock. L12 B18, Kitchens Replat, $342,500.
Lily Vinson to Taiana Puntarelli; Carlo Gregorio Puntarelli, 315 Rock St., Unit 1109, Little Rock. Unit 1109, River Market Tower HPR, $337,500.
Diane L. Tait to Lynn B. Mayhan; R & B Trust, Apt. 6, Sheraton Court HPR, $335,000.
Jack Richard McCollum; The Jack Richard McCollum Trust to Lorie A. Johnson; The Lorie A. Johnson Revocable Trust, L19 B3, Lakewood Northeast, $330,000.
Frank Herring; Ashley Herring to David Rice, 5804 Hummingbird Lane, Jacksonville. L20, Northlake Phase XIII-A, $321,000.
Scott B. Knox; Susan D. Knox; Susan D. Flake; Ralph And Shirley Knox Joint Trust to JoAnn Prince, 7901 Austin Gardens Court, Sherwood. L22, Austin Gardens, $315,000.
Lindsey Childress; Aaron Childress to Undra Richardson, 8 Ozark Drive, Maumelle. L199, Edgewater Phase II, $310,000.
RHT Holdings, LLC to Julia Carol Benafield, 132 Cambridge Place Drive, Little Rock. Apt. 132, Cambridge Place HPR, $306,000.
Marvin D. Jeter; Charlotte M. Copeland to Donald O. Law; Linda S. Law, L111, Waterside Replat, $300,000.
David J. Jacobs; Rachel Jacobs to Hunter Duain Sims; Mariella P. Booth, 509 Avery Drive, North Little Rock. L59, Village East, $295,000.
Gary P. Thornton; Mary K. Thornton (dec'd) to Adara A. Newsome; David A. Newsome, 3513 McCord Drive, North Little Rock. L15 B54, Lakewood, $295,000.
Zachary Reinhart to Jeffrey Arthur Mosley; Jolie Giroir Mosley, L181, Silver Creek Phase V, $293,000.
Brady Home Demonstration Club of Pulaski County to The Apostolic Sanctuary of Little Rock, 201 S. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock. L2, Brady Home Demonstration Club Replat, $290,000.
Donald Ray Doiron; Rogina H. Doiron to Boise E. Spaight; Margaret Spaight, L79 B2, Gap Creek, $288,000.
Staging By Anne, LLC to Matthew Bennett, 322 Fairfax Drive, Little Rock. L5 B7, Midland Hills, $284,000.
Willie J. Randall; Tina Randall-Sobbins to Michael Snell, 108 Granite Cove, Sherwood. L21 B9, Stonehill Phase II, $283,000.
David Lee Blessinger to Yitzchak Ben Avraham; Parisa Tamanaic, L39 B2, Gap Creek, $280,000.
Charles Anderson Homes, LLC to Christine Ruth Gunther, L5G, Northlake Gardens, $279,000.
Teiraney Lasha Ousley; Gregory Hampton, Jr. to Benjamin Criswell; Isabella Criswell, 4100 Sam Peck Road, Little Rock. L408, Pleasant View Phase IV-C, $277,000.
Barrett James Burger to Chase Green; Elizabeth Baker, 301 Ash St., Little Rock. L7 B3, Glendale, $275,000.
Peter Louis Biagioni; Biagioni Joint Revocable Trust to Sateesh Jayappa, 15 Varennes Court, Little Rock. L4 B98, Chenal Valley, $265,000.
Michael Callahan to Ashley Crockett; Hunter Crockett, 38 Garden Oaks Drive, Maumelle. L22 Garden Oaks, $261,500.
Francisco Quijano, Jr; Abijah Kratochvil to Ryan Watson 12516 Woodbury Drive, Little Rock. L34 B7, Cherry Creek, $261,000.
Mark Allen Vandyne; Catherine Ann Vandyne to Hannah E. Owens; Gavin L. Hurst, 1902 Hasbrook Court, North Little Rock. L7 B5, Summerwood, $261,000.
Cory Townley; Mara Townley; Daun Davidson; Thomas A. Ray to Svetla Dimotrova; John Tyler Fox, 512 N. Beverly Ave., Sherwood. L8 B10, Country Club Park, $260,000.
Trent Crow; Katherine Crow to Boaz Tjhin; Ester Ng; Gia Revocable Trust, 12816 Misty Creek Drive, Little Rock. L24 B8, Cherry Creek, $260,000.
Wanda S. Paes; Ronald Skaggs to Shelby Marie Ancira; Alexander Ray Ancira, 7416 Toltec Drive, North Little Rock. L5 B63, Indian Hills, $259,900.
Cartus Financial Corp to Callie S. Clement, 6906 Carrilon Road, Little Rock. L176, Briarwood, $255,000.
Jacob Tyler Blockburger; Ashley Lauren Blockburger to Cartus Financial Corp., 6906 Carrilon Road, Little Rock. L176, Briarwood, $255,000.
Carla Baskin Hudson; The Carl Edward Baskin Revocable Family Trust Indenture to Bobbi Roberts; David Roberts, 1524 Alberta Drive, Little Rock. L103, Leawood Manor 2nd, $252,000.
Estate of Charles B. Kirspek, Jr. (dec'd); Kenneth Allen Kirspel to Tommy Moore; Debra Moore, L96 B48, Chenal Valley, $250,000.
Muriel Thomas to Linda Harris, 18 Chateaus Lane, Little Rock. L5, Chateaus On Stagecoach Neighborhood, $249,500.
Carla A. Jurgensmeyer to Noah Andrew Ambos; Caitlyn Ambos, 617 N. Coolidge St., Little Rock. L11 B25, Success, $245,000.
Letha M. Baker; Letha M. Haymes to Linda Dawn Yarbrough, 6509 Countrywood Cove, North Little Rock. L2 B4, Countryside, $245,000.
John Mark Morgan; Margaret Ann Morgan Revocable Trust to Lindsay Scott, Townhouse 22, Timber Creek Townhomes HPR, $240,000.
REI Nation, LLC to Marcella Hicks, 4917 Arlington Drive, North Little Rock. L33 B12, Lakewood, $240,000.
Gregory A. Hurst; Stephanie D. Hurst to Debra Jankowski, L4, Riverland, $239,000.
Deborah K. Blanks to L. E. Piepenbrok; 4306 Longtree Cove Family Trust, 4306 Longtree Cove, Little Rock. L40, Longlea Manor, $235,000.
Rausch Coleman Homes Little Rock, LLC to Roderick K. Jefferson, 10601 Darla Lane, North Little Rock. L64, White Oak Crossing, $228,205.
Marilyn A. Kellogg to Ronald West McNulty; Jamie S. McNulty, Apt. 52, Kingsbridge Townhomes HPR, $224,000.
William Joseph Snyder; Janae Laceila Snyder to Karen Delgado, 1908 Madden Road, Jacksonville. L274, Foxwood Phase VI-B, $215,000.
Richard Glen Anderson to Suzanne Alford; Anthony Murillo, 109 Concord Circle, Jacksonville. L89, Stonewall Phase I-B, $212,000.
Deana Joyce Davis to Renee Bresaw; Wynter Hesson-Bresaw, 200 East I Ave., North Little Rock. L3 B62, Park Hill NLR, $210,000.
Dogwood & Roses, LLC; Dogwood And Roses, LLC to Henry O. Fisbeck, L17 B222, Park Hill NLR, $205,000.
Spencer Tosi; Nicole Tosi to Ida Robinson Hunter, 1008 Dyson Drive, Sherwood. L11 B1, Dyson, $205,000.
Kingdom Properties, LLC to Edward Nelson; Khariana Hobbs, 3900 Weldon Ave., Little Rock. L5 B1, West Heights Place, $200,000.
Eric Doud; Shawn Doud; Nancy Doud to Mary Catherine Scott; Elizabeth Scott, 2618 Grist Mill Road, Little Rock. L352, Ludington Heights, $195,000.
Rebecca Lyn Wadley; Estate of Beverly Elaine Fortson (dec'd) to Michelle Lyn Greer, 7520 M St., Little Rock. L16 B16, Riffel & Rhoton's Forest Park Highlands, $192,000.
Darin Fuhrman; Dana Alberson; The Duane Fuhrman Living Trust to Nicole McKenna; Hailee McKenna, 31 Del Tara Drive, Jacksonville. L16, Tara Mount, $190,000.
Maggie Smith; Julia Ann Baldridge to Alexander Palmer; Kathryn Palmer, 311 Rosetta St,, Little Rock. L21 B6, CS Stifft $177,500.
Ronaldo Martinez Mayorga to SKMM Enterprises, LLC, Pt SW SW 1S-12W, $177,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Nxt Gen Homes, LLC, L27 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $166,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to HA Custom Homes, LLC, L26 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $165,000.
Geinah Gail Ginger to Joanna McKenzie, 506 Charbett Drive, Little Rock. Blk 14, Oak Park Annex, $165,000.
Memphis CashFlow, GP to Rishi Kumar Singh, 414 Sierra Madre Drive, North Little Rock. L73, High Sierra, $164,900.
James Richard White, Jr; Jimmie White Living Trust to Kerry Sharp, L165, Indianhead Lake Estates Section B Replat No. 2, $163,450.
Sheila Leslie to Irene Brocious, 12102 Pleasant Forest Drive, Little Rock. L38, Pleasant Forest Phase I, $162,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Steven R. Winchester; Stephanie Winchester, L25 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $160,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Hartness Construction Company, Inc., L24 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $160,000.
Tracy Watson to Richard Allen Mete, 102 Heritage St., Jacksonville. L49, Heritage Park, $158,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Jim Pace Homes, LLC, 34 Mereville Place, Little Rock. L15 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $156,000.
James Dorsey Williamson to Samuel Chung, Ls1-2 B6, Gibralter Heights, $152,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Michael Allen Seymour; Nacretia Ann Summerhill Seymour; The Seymour Family Trust Number One, L20 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $150,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Dillon Homes & Real Estate, Inc., L19 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $150,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Graham Smith Construction, LLC, L22 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $150,000.
PotlatchDeltic Real Estate, LLC to Willmark Homes, Inc., L23 Tract 9, Chenal Valley- Mereville Place, $150,000.
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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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Frequent airline travelers develop a routine in preparation for departure.
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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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Scott Christie already had a place in Martha Fish's heart, but he waited for just the right time to reserve a seat in her car.
They had gone to Southwood Elementary together since Scott and his family moved to Pine Bluff in 1965. Martha's mother had gone to Hendrix College in Conway with Scott's father, who was the new high school principal. Scott's mother taught first grade at Southwood.
Martha remembers first seeing Scott at school.
"He was so big I thought he must be in sixth grade," she says. "I was only in fourth."
A year later she noticed he was still at Southwood, which only went through sixth grade.
"I thought, 'I don't think he would have failed. Maybe he's only one year older than me,'" she says. "It wasn't until later that year when I realized, 'Oh, he's a year younger.'"
He is only a few months younger, actually, but he was a grade behind her.
The Fishes and the Christies went to church together, and Martha started paying closer attention to Scott.
She saw him in Sunday School classes, at United Methodist Youth functions and at Vacation Bible School.
"We just started seeing each other more and more," she says, "and I remember in the summer of 1972, we had UMY that Sunday night before school was to start, and that night I got a phone call from Scott Christie. He asked if he could have a ride to school."
Scott's house was conveniently located between Martha's house and their school. Martha was 16 and had her license, while he was still 15.
"I had my eye on her," he says. "It was kind of a ploy. I just kept putting off that phone call because if I gave her enough time to plan and think she might think of some other way for me to get to school."
Martha picked Scott up each morning.
"But if he wanted to ride the next day, guess what he had to do?" she says.
"I had to call and ask her out again," Scott answers. "This went on for quite some time."
That Halloween, the Fishes had a party.
"Scott's mom dropped Scott and his best friend off with the understanding that I would take them home," she says.
Martha dropped them off at Scott's friend's house later that evening.
"Just as he was getting out of the car he reached over, kissed me and then he ran into the house," she says. "It was Oct. 31, 1972, when we transitioned from just being friends and getting rides -- and continued getting rides forever."
She waited for him to ask her to the homecoming dance that year, but the date was fast-approaching and when someone else asked first she gave up and said yes.
"He asked me like a day later, and I'm sure I just burst into tears," she says.
They dated throughout high school, and then Martha went to Hendrix a year earlier than Scott. She graduated in three years and taught in Greenbrier while Scott completed his junior year for a bachelor of arts in physics.
Through Hendrix's combined plan with Columbia University in New York, he was to be going there for another year and another degree, a bachelor of science and engineering.
On Good Friday in 1977, Scott's mother called Martha.
"She said, 'He's running late but whatever you do, do not be mad at him when he gets there,'" Martha says. "He walked in and tossed a yellow grass-filled Easter egg in my lap and said, 'Happy Easter,' and I opened it up and there was my engagement ring."
They were married on Aug. 6, 1977, at Lakeside United Methodist Church in Pine Bluff.
"We moved off to New York City, two little kids from Pine Bluff," Martha says. "We had to sell our car to pay for the U-Haul -- we had no money -- and we crossed the George Washington Bridge and I thought, 'Man, I feel like I've left the United States.'"
They had fun seeing the tourist sites in New York that year, and after that they went to Nashville, Tenn., where Scott completed a master of business administration at Vanderbilt University. Martha was hired as an assistant director of admissions.
From there the Christies moved to Little Rock where Scott got a job with what was then known as Systematics, which sent him to San Diego then Oklahoma City and to New Jersey's Pinelands. They moved back to Little Rock before spending six years in Australia, and then back to Little Rock again. They have lived in 13 houses.
Martha retired last year as middle school counselor at Forest Heights STEM Academy. Scott is co-owner of Mid-South Realty.
This year Martha and Scott will celebrate their anniversary with an Alaskan cruise.
Martha was 15 when her dad died; Scott was 13 when his dad died.
"For our 50th wedding anniversary," Martha says, "the kids -- hopefully all of them -- and the grandkids and the two of us are heading out to Yosemite. We're feeling especially blessed to get this time and we're trying to spend a lot of time planning fun adventures."
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SAN FRANCISCO -- When Twitter opened its gleaming headquarters in a rough patch of downtown nearly a decade ago, the company's blue bird logo symbolized a new era for a city struggling with urban blight, homelessness and 10 percent unemployment.
"It is critical that companies like Twitter be convinced they can stay here and that they are welcome, and we welcome them," said then-Mayor Ed Lee, who championed the so-called "Twitter tax break" to dissuade the growing company from leaving town.
But as Twitter has evolved under owner Elon Musk -- most recently into something called "X" -- its relationship with San Francisco has become increasingly fraught.
Since Musk took ownership last October, the company formerly known as Twitter has been sued for failing to pay millions in rent and investigated for illegally converting offices into bunk rooms after Musk said he was sleeping on a couch on the seventh floor. Amid an exodus of tech employees from the city, Twitter has shed more than 80% of its workforce -- essentially hollowing out its headquarters.
The most recent indignity came last week, when the company brought in a crane to pluck the Twitter logo off the building's facade, disrupting two lanes of traffic at a busy intersection and prompting a 911 call.
Meanwhile, Musk has hardly been a gracious neighbor. In viral tweets, he has derided San Francisco as a "derelict zombie apocalypse" and erroneously attributed the slaying of a tech executive on a downtown street to rampant "violent crime in SF."
"Even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately," Musk griped after the April slaying, for which an acquaintance of the dead man now faces trial. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins blasted Musk's comments as "reckless" and spreading "misinformation."
"There are business leaders in the city who want to engage in solutions, and the mayor wants to work with them," said Jeff Cretan, a spokesperson for San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat. "But to have one person who has a megaphone, who creates all this tumult, it creates this perception of chaos."
Twitter and Musk did not respond to requests for comment.
The world's richest man has long been known for his brash, shoot-from-the hip style. Musk has had many other run-ins with government officials, including as chief executive of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, which has come under scrutiny from federal regulators as new technologies such as "Full Self-Driving" are tested on public roads.
In the early days of the pandemic, Musk publicly defied local officials by reopening his Tesla factory in the Bay Area. He later unleashed an expletive-laden tirade on a quarterly earnings call, calling California's strict quarantine policies "fascist," and made good on a threat to move Tesla's headquarters to Texas.
"California used to be the land of opportunity," Musk told the conservative satirical site Babylon Bee. "Now it has become and is becoming more so the land of overregulation, overlitigation, overtaxation and scorn."
Since acquiring Twitter for $44 billion last fall, Musk has made major changes -- reducing the workforce, increasing the number of subscription services and appointing a new chief executive. His recent decision to change the site's name to X has generated additional controversy, spurring bewilderment among users while raising questions about brand management and copyright (rival Meta holds a registered trademark for "X" in relation to online social networking services).
It's a far cry from the days when Twitter founder Jack Dorsey ran the company with Zen-like calm. Eager to keep Dorsey's firm from moving south to Silicon Valley, where taxes were lower and other major tech companies were setting up shop, San Francisco officials offered in 2011 to waive the city's 1.5% payroll tax for businesses that moved to the Mid-Market neighborhood, then struggling with high vacancies and visible homelessness.
The Twitter tax break was designed to bring new jobs and retail to the area as well as reduce crime. Twitter was seen as an anchor tenant. But while the tax break spurred a boom in tech companies in the area, results were mixed when the tax break ended, after eight years, in 2019.
The city's budget had doubled and the unemployment rate had fallen from 9% to 2.6%. But Twitter and other beneficiaries of the tax break were blamed for many of the woes plaguing the city today, including sky-high rents and gentrification.
Meanwhile, promises by the companies to help their low-income neighbors in exchange for lower taxes have done little to improve the city's vexing homelessness crisis. The neighborhood -- just a few blocks from City Hall -- still struggles with vacant office space and empty storefronts.
To some, Musk's apparent disdain for the city feels like salt in the wound.
"There's never been any real ... responsibility taken for policy decisions that may have contributed to today's street conditions," said Sara Shortt, a longtime local activist who works with the city's homeless and opposed the tax break at the time. "Years later, it's only insult to injury to have this ultrarich egomaniac land here, bad-mouth us and steamroll over us."
As San Francisco struggles to rebound from the pandemic -- working to retain and attract companies and lure workers back downtown -- city leaders are treading a fine line with Musk.
"I want to be supportive of (Twitter)," said Matt Dorsey, who serves on the Board of Supervisors and whose district includes the company's headquarters. "If they are bringing people to work, and employing people, I want them in my district. I don't want to be a city that is running people out of town."
But Musk's antics, his disregard for rules and his gloom-and-doom tweets are frustrating. Cretan said the mayor has been meeting with business leaders to talk about how the city can work with them to stay in the city. For example, he said, Breed recently met with executives at Visa who said they were committed to San Francisco and expressed interest in being more involved in its future.
"Those are the conversations we want to be having with business leaders," Cretan said.
Last week, the commotion over removal of the Twitter logo was resolved relatively swiftly. According to a statement from police and reports on social media, police received a call around 1 p.m. regarding a "possible unpermitted street closure." Twitter's crane left by midafternoon, leaving the logo removal haphazardly unfinished. The blue bird that has loomed over the Mid-Market neighborhood for the past decade remains, alongside the "er" and the outline of the now-missing "twitt."
Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the city's Department of Building Inspection, said no permit is required to remove letters or symbols from the sign. But, he said, any letters or symbols intended to replace them "would require a permit to ensure consistency with the historic nature of the building and to ensure the new additions are safely attached to the sign." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/san-francisco-ties-to-twitter-under-strain/ | 2023-07-30T08:26:52 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/san-francisco-ties-to-twitter-under-strain/ |
There are more Arkansans working today than ever before, sparking a continued decline in statewide unemployment that is being driven by job gains...
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Well, if you are like me, the existance of a Climate Clock was a surprise.
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Q I have always been interested in dressing well and knowing how to choose business clothes that look good. But I am now in an independent living retirement community where no one wears a suit. What do you suggest for day-to-day wear that makes sense?
A Some of the same rules apply for casual clothes that look good, just as they do for the business trio of suit, shirt and tie. The most important element is the choice of color. Since it has such strong visual and emotional impact, color makes a tremendous difference in how you look. Using it well is an easy and effective way to look good.
If you notice someone who is especially well-dressed, you may turn to see what he has done to catch your eye. Almost always he will be wearing only two colors, where the color of one garment is repeated in another. With a suit, it might be a classic example, such as a navy suit, pale yellow shirt, and a blue-and-yellow patterned tie. With a blazer, it could be a navy blazer, gray trousers, a white shirt, and navy-and-gray sweater vest. This reliable two-color way of dressing is a sophisticated look.
The same concept also works for a more casual approach to dressing. These days, when you are not likely to wear a tie, you must introduce items that make the colors you wear appear intentional, rather than merely an accident. Quite honestly, in your casual setting, this is not so easy to do without a tie. Even so, if you follow the concept of limiting yourself to two (or, at most, three) colors and repeating them in more than one item you are wearing, you will find it soon becomes an easy-to-follow habit. One versatile way to do this is with well-tailored khaki pants and a cotton or linen shirt in a handsome pastel-and-khaki plaid. The khaki color in the plaid repeats the color of the pants and the pastel hue adds the second color. Wearing a brown belt and tie further repeats the brown color family.
Which items are the expected basics in a casual wardrobe? Dress trousers, khakis/chinos, button-down collar shirts in solids, stripes and patterns, sport shirts, knit polos, socks, slip-on shoes, sandals and sneakers. Accessories such as belts, hats, sweaters and jackets should not be an extra non-matching color; you need to keep in mind the two-color rule for everything you have on.
Some items on the dressier side are logical and can make sense in an at-home wardrobe, if they fit your lifestyle. After all, there still are special holiday gatherings (and church) that call for a jacket (and maybe a tie). These might conceivably involve a navy blazer or a tweed sport jacket, and a silk or cotton breast-pocket handkerchief. Much less dressy and more likely to be worn on a regular basis are every manner of wool and cotton sweater. These range from turtlenecks, V-necks and crewnecks in pullovers, cardigans, sleeveless vests and zip-fronts in varying colors and patterns. Shirts, too, range widely from solid-colors, stripes and plaids, to knit rugby shirts, polos, sweat shirts and even a few non-message T-shirts. Don't overlook the newer athleisure garments that will take you through the day from exercise times to dinner. Shorts also work, especially when they are not too short and are color coordinated with the top.
If you put together an outfit that your mirror tells you does not quite make it, check to see how many colors you are wearing. Generally, you will have added a heavy dose of an extra color. Not that you can never have a third color in a plaid or a small pattern, but in effect your eye should see two colors.
Of course, color is not the only element for you to consider. All your clothes should fit you well and should be in good condition. And never overlook or underestimate the importance of meticulous grooming from the top (a good haircut) to the bottom (clean shoes in good condition). I can assure you that the man who pays attention to how he looks, will be noticed!
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WELCH, W.Va.-- Months after Missy Nester ended The Welch News' 100-year run, she can barely stand to walk through the office doors of the newspaper her mother taught her to read with growing up in West Virginia's southern coalfields.
It's too painful.
The Welch News owner and publisher's desk is covered with unpaid bills and her own paychecks -- a year's worth -- she never cashed. Phones that used to ring throughout the day are silent. Tables covered with typewriters, awards and a century's worth of other long-abandoned artifacts are reminders that her beloved paper has become an artifact, too.
Wiping away tears, Nester said she wishes people understood why she fought so hard to protect her county's last remaining news outlet, and why it feels like communities left behind by the journalism industry are often the ones who need it most.
"Our people here have nothing," said Nester, 57. "Like, can any of y'all hear us out here screaming?"
In March, the McDowell County weekly became another of the thousands of U.S. newspapers shuttered since 2005, a crisis Nester called "terrifying for democracy" and one that disproportionately affects rural Americans.
Residents suddenly have no way of knowing what's happening at public meetings. Local crises, like the desperately needed upgrade of water and sewer systems, are going unreported. And there is no one to keep disinformation in check, like when the newspaper published a series of stories dispelling rumors of election tampering at local precincts during last year's May primaries.
"It was like a heartbeat, like a thread that ran through the community," said World War II veteran Howard Wade, a retired professor specializing in Black history.
Sitting on a rocking chair in his home at the base of lush, green hills, 97-year-old Wade is worried about the county history the newspaper chronicled. He was born three years after it opened in 1923.
The decline of American newspapers is well documented. Those most affected tend to be older, low-income and less likely to have graduated high school or college than people in well-covered communities.
For McDowell residents, the news was a shock. Many said they didn't realize how much they depended on the paper.
Sarah Hall, McDowell County's first Black prosecutor elected in the 1980s, said it's tragic when any community loses its newspaper. But for communities like hers, it's detrimental.
The 535-square-mile county is dominated by rugged mountain terrain. Residents live miles apart in hollers connected by winding roads and no interstate access. Cell and internet service is inconsistent -- or nonexistent. There are no local radio or television stations.
"We're in a unique situation because our community is unique," she said. "We have no other substantial way of communicating."
It bothers Hall not knowing what decisions county commissioners are making with taxpayer money. With the school year approaching, she's worried families won't know about an upcoming ministry program providing free school supplies.
Sprawling across Appalachia's Cumberland Mountains, McDowell County was once the world's leading coal producer, attracting European immigrants and Black families fleeing the Jim Crow South seeking work. In 1950, its population was nearly 100,000. A quarter of residents were Black, unconventional in a predominately white state.
Today, 80% of the 17,850 remaining residents are white, still making it one of West Virginia's most diverse counties. It's also the poorest, with some of the lowest graduation and life expectancy rates in the nation.
Over the years, the county lost big box stores, schools, thousands of jobs and people. But it had its newspaper -- one that tracked government spending and published election, spelling bee and basketball game results and spreads with photos and biographies of every member of the graduating class.
"Now when people die, a lot of people don't even realize they're dead," said Deputy Magistrate Court Clerk Virginia Dickerson, 79, who relied on the paper for its obituaries.
Dickerson said losing the paper was like "losing a family member."
Paulina Breeden, who works at the sole gas station in neighboring Maybeury, said people still come in and ask about the paper. When she informs them it's closed, they're often incredulous.
Although the county is now without a local news source, its residents are no strangers to news coverage -- often by national outlets focused on the poverty rate, opioid use, infrastructure woes and the declining coal industry.
Local pharmacy owner Shawn Jenkins said national coverage of McDowell County is overly "political, unfair and often negative." But he never felt that way about the local newspaper.
"I never saw anything that really raised my hackles. I thought they were pretty much center line, which is the exception these days," he said, adding that he advertised in the paper. "I wanted them to survive."
Before Nester took over in 2018, the paper ran summaries of local government meetings written by county employees. That changed when 32-year-old Derek Tyson, the paper's single reporter and editor, began covering meetings. The attention seemed to bother some local officials, who called to grumble about stories. The city of Welch declined to comment on the newspaper's closure.
One story the paper followed for years was the work of the McDowell Public Service District upgrading aging water infrastructure in coal communities. For decades, some county residents have relied on polluted mountain streams because of disintegrating -- or completely absent -- systems.
Now, long-awaited federal support is expected to reach communities with the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure act. But the paper won't be there to cover it.
When Nester was a single mother of three in the 1990s and 2000s, the county's older residents stopped by her house on surprise visits with meals and cash they'd tape to her front door.
During her time at The Welch News, delivery drivers would sometimes drop off bread, milk and other essentials with the paper.
"I saw keeping the paper going as a way to repay them -- or to try to -- for everything they did to take care of me," she said. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/w-virginia-county-loses-paper/ | 2023-07-30T08:27:24 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/w-virginia-county-loses-paper/ |
Because northwest Arkansas is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, Arkansans read daily about exciting developments in Washington and Benton counties. To the south, the old manufacturing city of Fort Smith has lived in that shadow.
Fort Smith, however, now appears to be on the verge of a new golden era. Though the city hasn't attracted the attention the northwest corner receives, recent developments bode well for the Arkansas River Valley.
In March, the official announcement that business and civic leaders had been waiting on came from the U.S. Air Force: Fort Smith will be the training location for jet fighter crews from around the world. What's known as the Foreign Military Sales Program is a security assistance initiative authorized by the Arms Export Control Act.
The act allows the United States to sell defense equipment, conduct training and provide services to foreign countries if the president deems that doing so will strengthen national security and promote world peace.
It has been estimated that the annual economic impact on the Fort Smith area will be $1 billion. That's the equivalent of a major automobile assembly plant.
"I think it will be well above that," says a military source. "With increased tensions with China and Russia, more of our allies will be ordering fighters and will need training for their crews. Not only will this be a big mission, it also will be a long-term mission."
There have been fighter missions in Fort Smith before, and residents don't seem bothered by the noise. They call it "the sound of freedom."
Work already is taking place to prepare Ebbing Air National Guard Base at Fort Smith Regional Airport to host crews. It was announced in 2021 that Fort Smith was the preferred location for training for countries participating in the program, but environmental studies and public hearings had to take place. It was thought that the Singapore Air Force would be the first to arrive, moving 12 F-16s from a base in Arizona.
Since then, U.S. Air Force officials have said they expect Polish crews will be the first to arrive late next year. Poland is purchasing 32 F-35 Lightning II aircraft from Lockheed Martin at an estimated cost of $4.6 billion. It's the 14th nation to add the jet to its air force.
Singapore's crews should arrive next with F-16 Fighting Falcons from General Dynamics. Singapore is expected to have a long-term presence. Meanwhile, crews and planes from other allies will rotate in and out. Jets and crews from Finland, Germany, Switzerland and other U.S. allies eventually will find their way to Fort Smith.
Finland is buying 64 F-35s for $9.4 billion. Germany is buying 35 of the jets for $8 billion, and Switzerland is buying 36 jets for $6.25 billion.
According to Lockheed Martin, there are more than 875 F-35s in service worldwide with about 1,845 pilots and 13,350 maintainers. The U.S. Air Force expects to replace all of its F-16s and A-10s with F-35s, which first flew in 2006.
The Singapore squadron will consist of 250 to 300 personnel. Hundreds of additional personnel from countries doing F-35 training will be on the base at the same time. Add in an estimated 600 U.S. military and civilian personnel, and that's a lot of new families in this part of west Arkansas.
Fort Smith could see 12 F-16s and 24 F-35s in the air on a regular basis within the next few years. At the time the announcement was made, a member of the Fort Smith Board of Directors called it "the biggest thing that's happened in Fort Smith" in at least the past 25 years. Fort Smith Mayor George McGill says the mission will "pay dividends for decades to come."
Before the planes and their crews arrive, there will be a construction boom. The Arkansas Economic Development Commission has made what it calls a conservative estimate of $765 million that will be spent to create the training center.
That doesn't include $22 million--$5 million from the city of Fort Smith and $17 million from the state--being spent to extend the main runway at Fort Smith Regional Airport.
The estimated $765 million will be spent on everything from flight simulators to highly secure training spaces. Ebbing had manned aircraft missions from 1953 until June 2014. In 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission replaced F-16s at the base with A-10s. The first A-10 arrived in April 2007. In 2012, it was announced that the 188th Wing's mission would change to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Less than four months after this spring's Ebbing announcement, the long-awaited opening of the U.S. Marshals Museum occurred along the banks of the Arkansas River in Fort Smith. The U.S. Marshals Service revealed that Fort Smith would be the site of the museum in January 2007; it took 16 years to raise the $50 million needed for the facility.
The museum, which opened to the public July 1, is expected to draw visitors from across the country.
The U.S. Marshals Museum is the first facility in what will be a cultural and educational corridor along the riverfront. On one side of the Marshals Museum, crews are completing work on the Community School of the Arts' Center for the Creative Arts.
The 40,000-square-foot facility will have after-school and weekend arts classes and programs for those from age 3 to adults. There will be a 350-seat performance hall, a black-box theater, culinary labs, dance studios, film and digital animation labs, a recording studio, art galleries and classrooms.
Those associated with the center are hoping to add a charter school to the mix. There will be a School of Art & Design, School of Dramatic Arts, School of Dance, School of Music, School of Culinary Arts and School of Cinematic Arts.
On the other side of the Marshals Museum, the Westphal family of Fort Smith has donated 5.6 acres for the 29,000-square-foot Fort Kids Children's Museum. It is expected to cover 20,000 square feet.
"Taking care of children is the most important part of contributing to a brighter future in Fort Smith and the surrounding area," says Bennie Westphal.
The nonprofit Fort Kids Children's Museum has hired museum planning company Haizlip Studio of Memphis to develop a master plan. Museum officials will work with the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education's physical therapy and occupational therapy programs to ensure the museum serves all children.
"We will have it designed in a way that encompasses all children regardless of ability," Sarah Strom, who is leading the effort, told Talk Business & Politics. "We will be mindful in the design that exhibits are accessible. It was always a big dream of the board for Fort Kids to be located on the riverfront next to the U.S. Marshals Museum. We had no idea this dream would become a reality one year later. It's a dream come true.
"Fort Kids has come a long way in the past year. We've partnered with ACHE, hosted focus groups within our community to gain valuable feedback and visited 19 elementary schools to find out what children want in their museum. There's so much more to come."
Several miles away on Rogers Avenue, the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. A citizen-led effort to provide art exhibitions and classes began in 1948. The museum now has more than 500 pieces in its permanent collection and hosts traveling exhibits.
By 1951, what was then known as Associated Artists of Fort Smith was holding art classes and exhibitions in various locations across town. The Vaughn-Schaap House was purchased in 1960 to house the museum. In 1968, the Fort Smith Art Center was incorporated. In January 2009, Arvest Bank donated a 16,000-square-foot building to the museum. Arvest obtained the building following its $211 million buyout of Superior Federal Bank.
In January 2013, the name was changed to Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, an institution usually referred to as RAM by area residents.
Thus Fort Smith appears to be undergoing an economic and cultural renaissance at the same time.
"We had to compete with bases across the country to get that fighter mission," a longtime city leader told me on a visit this spring. "We also had to compete with cities across the country to get the U.S. Marshals Museum. The fact that we won both times tells you a great deal about Fort Smith."
Fort Smith saw its population soar from 36,584 in the 1940 census to 80,268 in the 2000 census. What was then the state's second-largest city (it's now third behind Little Rock and Fayetteville) was on a roll.
"Fort Smith's population grew, and its manufacturing base deepened," Ben Boulden writes for the Central Arkansas Library System's Encyclopedia of Arkansas. "St. Edward Mercy Medical Center (renamed Mercy Fort Smith in 2012) opened a hospital on what was then the eastern edge of town in 1975. Central Mall, one of the largest indoor shopping malls in Arkansas, opened about 20 blocks to the west along Rogers Avenue."
There were those who gave up on Fort Smith, however, as U.S. manufacturing declined and Whirlpool ended what had been a huge presence in the city.
"As recently as 2004, Whirlpool employed 4,600 people," Boulden writes. "Subsequent layoffs highlighted threats to the city's investment in its manufacturing base. By 2011, the company employed about 1,000 people. ... In October 2011, Whirlpool announced that it would be closing its plant in mid-2012 and relocating production to Mexico and other sites in North America."
Fort Smith leaders came up with a different vision for the city. One such leader is Steve Clark, who founded Propak Corp., which provides logistical services. Clark moved company headquarters to a restored building downtown and helped create 64.6 Downtown, a nonprofit group charged with revitalizing the neighborhood.
Clark also started The Unexpected, a festival that brought artists from around the world to create works of art on the walls of downtown buildings.
"When Whirlpool left, we sat around for a while thinking that maybe that wasn't what was really going on, that maybe we had just fallen asleep, that it was a bad dream and that it would all take care of itself," Clark once told the Fort Smith Downtown Business Association. "Once you cross the bridge intellectually that there is no cavalry coming to save us economically, you're going to have to fight a little harder and do the things for yourself that maybe historically you waited on others--the city, civic leaders, whatever--to do for you."
Of the downtown art created by The Unexpected, Clark said: "That is the kind of city I want to live in. If you want to live in a city that has trails, that celebrates the arts or music or anything that makes the city rich in culture--if you're waiting on someone to do that, stop. Find a way to get engaged. Plug in."
Clark told the publication Block Street & Building earlier this year: "Anything we can do to make it easy for people to live, work and play, and then make it desirable for developers ... to develop should be top of mind for those of us working on downtown. I graduated from Roland High School (in nearby Oklahoma) and have had a bit of a romantic relationship with Fort Smith.
"You leave Roland, and you drive through the bottoms where it was agriculture. Then you would get to the Arkansas River where you would cross the bridge. Coming off the bridge, you would be coming into this really picturesque downtown. There was kind of this transition from rural agricultural to urban downtown. I was always captivated by it whether it was lit up for Christmas or just bustling with activity."
After Whirlpool left, Clark says the city "went through maybe a 10-year stretch where I'm not sure we really knew what to do. Fort Smith is a city with fantastic bones. But it was a very strong manufacturing city. When Whirlpool went away, I think we were focused on trying to do what we had always done."
Now the city finds itself focused on fighters, tourism opportunities and the arts. No longer does Fort Smith live in the shadow of Washington and Benton counties to the north. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/wheels-up/ | 2023-07-30T08:27:30 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/wheels-up/ |
Isolated Sunday storms are possible
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Rain was disappointing in Bradenton and Sarasota again Saturday. Lakewood Ranch got buckets of rain, measuring 0.81″ on the south side, 0.96″ on the west side. Today storm chances are lower, once again most likely east of I-75. Rain chances for the work week fluctuate up and down, but even the “up” days will be widely scattered, not the widespread rain we really need. We’re likely to end July more than 6″ below average rainfall.
In the tropics, a tropical wave is moving northwest in the Atlantic. This wave has a 70% chance of development over the next 7 days. But all indications are that the track of the storm will stay out in the middle of the Atlantic, far away from the United States.
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CHENGDU, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the beginning of the grand opening ceremony of the 31st World University Games in Chengdu on Friday night, Jihao Youguo, a girl hailing from the mountainous Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, led representatives of the 56 ethnic groups of China to sing "Beautiful National Flag" and "Ode to the Motherland."
Youguo firstly became known to the public in February 2018 when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited her family, a poverty-stricken household in Sanhe village, while on an inspection tour to learn about the progress of poverty eradication in the village.
To welcome Xi's visit at the family's dilapidated abode, the then 10-year-old Youguo sang the same song "Beautiful National Flag" and won the applause from Xi.
One year later, all the 29 Sanhe households, including Youguo's family, were relocated to a newly built tile-roofed and brick-walled building which includes a series of apartments measuring about 100 square meters each, thanks to the local poverty eradication program. Youguo said in 2019 that she wished President Xi would come back and visit her new spacious house.
Youguo's father told the media that they opened a grocery store in one extra room of their new house. The store spared the villagers' 30-minute trip to the township for grocery shopping. The store itself brought the family an income of 3,000 yuan ($419) a month, roughly covering the monthly expenses of their three kids attending a boarding school in Liangshan. Youguo's father also keeps some livestock and 30 beehives, making a total income of about 60,000 yuan a year.
Wang Liyuan, an organizer for the opening ceremony of the Chengdu Games, told media that they contacted the Liangshan education authorities and invited Youguo and five other children in the region to sing at the event. "The children are always smiling and enthusiastic, giving a true feeling of sincerity."
Dream of becoming music teacher
With the help of a private education service provider, Youguo, her sister and brother were enrolled into the Liangshan Xichang Tianli School in 2020. Thanks to a dedicated charity fund, they were able to attend the school tuition-free.
Zhang Tao, Youguo's lead teacher, told the Global Times that Youguo has developed good habits living in the school and has made great academic progress since her enrollment.
"She is humble, friendly and gets along well with her classmates. Her English has improved a lot since coming to the school. Her favorite subjects are standard Chinese, English and music," said Zhang.
Youguo is athletic and loves to take part in extra-curricular activities including singing, basketball and running. She is also the champion shot-putter of the school, Zhang said.
"Once during a talk after school, she told me that she dreamed of becoming a music teacher in the future," Zhang told the Global Times. "It's a great way to realize her potential. I encourage her to pursue her dream and give back to the community."
Regarding her progress at school, Youguo said that she has become more confident and open-minded. "I used to be nervous when singing on stage. But I've learned a lot from my classmates and I've grown confident," she said.
Part of big story
The experience of Youguo's family is part of the story of the country's historic achievement in poverty eradication.
Liangshan is home to the largest ethnic Yi community in China and is about 2,000 kilometers from Beijing. When President Xi visited Sanhe village in February 2018, it was one of the most destitute villages in Liangshan. Deep in the Daliang Mountains, local people lived in dark mud huts, suffering from limited transportation and low crop yields caused by the harsh natural conditions. Most villagers grew corn and potatoes for a living.
Given the difficulty of building roads in the mountainous area, the local government opted to relocate the villagers out of the mountain. By September 2020, 353,200 people from 74,400 households in Liangshan had been relocated and started their new lives in their new homes.
Local villagers also came up with innovative ways to improve their living. In Zhaojue county, where Sanhe village is located, locals developed plantations of strawberries. After a year of development, the plantation covered an area of 1,800 mu (120 hectares). Thanks to this new business, in a five-month period in 2019, more than 20,000 local workers were employed, each earning 9,000 yuan on average. From then on, some 165 modern plantations have mushroomed in Liangshan.
After years of national and local efforts, Liangshan witnessed the eradication of poverty, with more than 1.05 million people lifted out of absolute poverty and 11 counties and 2,072 villages removed from the list of impoverished areas.
Sanhe village has established a unique development model that combines breeding, plantation and rural tourism to increase the villagers' income. Currently, the villager's net income per capita has reached over 18,000 yuan, which is more than 10 times higher than the amount before the anti-poverty campaign, Sichuan Daily reported.
In February 2021, China announced victory in its fight against poverty, eradicating absolute poverty in the country.
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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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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_world | 2023-07-30T08:28:44 | 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_world |
African leaders leave Russia summit without grain deal or a path to end the war in Ukraine
By CARA ANNA
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show in response to their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a way to end the war there. During a press conference Saturday, Putin said terminating the grain deal this month caused a rise in grain prices that benefits Russian companies, and Moscow would share some of those revenues with the “poorest nations.” Putin also said Russia would analyze the African leaders’ peace proposal for Ukraine. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ | 2023-07-30T08:29:44 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/african-leaders-leave-russia-summit-without-grain-deal-or-a-path-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ |
CHENGDU, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the beginning of the grand opening ceremony of the 31st World University Games in Chengdu on Friday night, Jihao Youguo, a girl hailing from the mountainous Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, led representatives of the 56 ethnic groups of China to sing "Beautiful National Flag" and "Ode to the Motherland."
Youguo firstly became known to the public in February 2018 when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited her family, a poverty-stricken household in Sanhe village, while on an inspection tour to learn about the progress of poverty eradication in the village.
To welcome Xi's visit at the family's dilapidated abode, the then 10-year-old Youguo sang the same song "Beautiful National Flag" and won the applause from Xi.
One year later, all the 29 Sanhe households, including Youguo's family, were relocated to a newly built tile-roofed and brick-walled building which includes a series of apartments measuring about 100 square meters each, thanks to the local poverty eradication program. Youguo said in 2019 that she wished President Xi would come back and visit her new spacious house.
Youguo's father told the media that they opened a grocery store in one extra room of their new house. The store spared the villagers' 30-minute trip to the township for grocery shopping. The store itself brought the family an income of 3,000 yuan ($419) a month, roughly covering the monthly expenses of their three kids attending a boarding school in Liangshan. Youguo's father also keeps some livestock and 30 beehives, making a total income of about 60,000 yuan a year.
Wang Liyuan, an organizer for the opening ceremony of the Chengdu Games, told media that they contacted the Liangshan education authorities and invited Youguo and five other children in the region to sing at the event. "The children are always smiling and enthusiastic, giving a true feeling of sincerity."
Dream of becoming music teacher
With the help of a private education service provider, Youguo, her sister and brother were enrolled into the Liangshan Xichang Tianli School in 2020. Thanks to a dedicated charity fund, they were able to attend the school tuition-free.
Zhang Tao, Youguo's lead teacher, told the Global Times that Youguo has developed good habits living in the school and has made great academic progress since her enrollment.
"She is humble, friendly and gets along well with her classmates. Her English has improved a lot since coming to the school. Her favorite subjects are standard Chinese, English and music," said Zhang.
Youguo is athletic and loves to take part in extra-curricular activities including singing, basketball and running. She is also the champion shot-putter of the school, Zhang said.
"Once during a talk after school, she told me that she dreamed of becoming a music teacher in the future," Zhang told the Global Times. "It's a great way to realize her potential. I encourage her to pursue her dream and give back to the community."
Regarding her progress at school, Youguo said that she has become more confident and open-minded. "I used to be nervous when singing on stage. But I've learned a lot from my classmates and I've grown confident," she said.
Part of big story
The experience of Youguo's family is part of the story of the country's historic achievement in poverty eradication.
Liangshan is home to the largest ethnic Yi community in China and is about 2,000 kilometers from Beijing. When President Xi visited Sanhe village in February 2018, it was one of the most destitute villages in Liangshan. Deep in the Daliang Mountains, local people lived in dark mud huts, suffering from limited transportation and low crop yields caused by the harsh natural conditions. Most villagers grew corn and potatoes for a living.
Given the difficulty of building roads in the mountainous area, the local government opted to relocate the villagers out of the mountain. By September 2020, 353,200 people from 74,400 households in Liangshan had been relocated and started their new lives in their new homes.
Local villagers also came up with innovative ways to improve their living. In Zhaojue county, where Sanhe village is located, locals developed plantations of strawberries. After a year of development, the plantation covered an area of 1,800 mu (120 hectares). Thanks to this new business, in a five-month period in 2019, more than 20,000 local workers were employed, each earning 9,000 yuan on average. From then on, some 165 modern plantations have mushroomed in Liangshan.
After years of national and local efforts, Liangshan witnessed the eradication of poverty, with more than 1.05 million people lifted out of absolute poverty and 11 counties and 2,072 villages removed from the list of impoverished areas.
Sanhe village has established a unique development model that combines breeding, plantation and rural tourism to increase the villagers' income. Currently, the villager's net income per capita has reached over 18,000 yuan, which is more than 10 times higher than the amount before the anti-poverty campaign, Sichuan Daily reported.
In February 2021, China announced victory in its fight against poverty, eradicating absolute poverty in the country.
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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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Spain vs. Japan: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 3:45 AM EDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
Spain will meet Japan in Wellington, New Zealand, in the last round of group-stage games at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
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How to Watch Spain vs. Japan
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 3:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
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Spain Group Stage Schedule
Spain's Recent Performance
- Spain played Zambia in its last game and was victorious by a final score of 5-0. The victorious Spain side took 16 shots, outshooting by 12.
- Spain were led by Jennifer Hermoso and Alba Redondo, who scored two goals each, in that match against .
- Hermoso's statline through two Women's World Cup appearances includes two goals and one assist for Spain.
- Redondo has tallied two goals for Spain in Women's World Cup so far.
- During Women's World Cup play, Eva Navarro has picked up two assists (but no goals).
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Spain's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Misa Rodriguez #1
- Ona Batlle #2
- Teresa Abilleira Duenas #3
- Irene Paredes #4
- Ivana Andres #5
- Aitana Bonmati #6
- Irene Guerrero #7
- Mariona #8
- Esther Gonzalez #9
- Jennifer Hermoso #10
- Alexia Putellas #11
- Oihane Hernandez #12
- Enith Salon #13
- Laia Codina #14
- Eva Navarro #15
- Maria Perez #16
- Alba Redondo #17
- Salma Paralluelo #18
- Olga Carmona #19
- Rocio Galvez #20
- Claudia Zornoza Sanchez #21
- Athenea Del Castillo #22
- Cata Coll #23
Japan Group Stage Schedule
Japan's Recent Performance
- In its last outing on July 26, Japan claimed a 2-0 win against Costa Rica. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- For Japan, Aoba Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto both scored a goal.
- Mina Tanaka has one goal and three assists so far for Japan in Women's World Cup (two matches).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Jun Endo has one goal and one assist.
- Hinata Miyazawa has recorded two goals for Japan so far in Women's World Cup.
Japan's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Ayaka Yamashita #1
- Risa Shimizu #2
- Moeka Minami #3
- Saki Kumagai #4
- Shiori Miyake #5
- Hina Sugita #6
- Hinata Miyazawa #7
- Hikaru Naomoto #8
- Riko Ueki #9
- Fuka Nagano #10
- Mina Tanaka #11
- Hana Takahashi #12
- Jun Endo #13
- Yui Hasegawa #14
- Aoba Fujino #15
- Honoka Hayashi #16
- Kiko Seike #17
- Momoko Tanaka #18
- Miyabi Moriya #19
- Maika Hamano #20
- Chika Hirao #21
- Remina Chiba #22
- Rion Ishikawa #23
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Atlanta Dream vs. Washington Mystics: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits
Allisha Gray's Atlanta Dream (13-11) play at home against Natasha Cloud and the Washington Mystics (12-12) at Gateway Center Arena on Sunday, July 30. The game tips off at 3:00 PM ET.
Atlanta fell to New York 95-84 in its last game. Gray led the way with 25 points, eight rebounds and six assists, followed by Aari McDonald with 18 points and five assists. Washington enters this matchup having lost to Dallas in their last game 90-62. They were led by Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (14 PTS, 50 FG%, 2-4 from 3PT) and Brittney Sykes (12 PTS, 5 STL, 33.3 FG%).
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Dream vs. Mystics Game Time and Info
- Who's the favorite?: Dream (-250 to win)
- Who's the underdog?: Mystics (+200 to win)
- What's the spread?: Dream (-6.5)
- What's the over/under?: 164.5
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET
- Where: Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia
- TV: ESPN3, NBCS-DC, Monumental, and BSSO
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Dream Season Stats
- So far this year, the Dream are posting 85 points per game (fourth-ranked in WNBA) and giving up 85.1 points per contest (ninth-ranked).
- Atlanta ranks third-best in the WNBA with 37 rebounds per game. On the other hand, it ranks third-worst in the league with 35.9 rebounds allowed per contest.
- The Dream rank ninth in the WNBA with 18.7 dimes per contest.
- While Atlanta ranks in the bottom five in the WNBA in turnovers per game with 14.3 (second-worst), it ranks sixth in the league with 13.2 forced turnovers per game.
- The Dream are sinking 7.1 treys per game (seventh-ranked in league). They have a 35.5% shooting percentage (fourth-ranked) from downtown.
- Atlanta is allowing 7.5 threes per game (seventh-ranked in WNBA) this year, while allowing a 32.7% three-point percentage (fourth-ranked).
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Dream Home/Away Splits
- The Dream have scored at a higher clip at home than away from home in the 2023 season (85.5 at home versus 84.4 on the road), and have also given up more points in home games than away from home (85.3 opponent points per home game versus 84.8 on the road).
- At home, Atlanta averages 0.6 fewer rebounds per game than on the road (36.7 at home, 37.3 on the road), while it lets its opponents grab 1.3 more boards in home games than in road games (36.6 at home, 35.3 on the road). The Dream average 17.7 assists per home contest, two less than their average on the road in 2023 (19.7).
- The 2023 WNBA campaign has seen Atlanta turn the ball over more at home (14.6 per game) than on the road (14). It has forced fewer turnovers at home (13.2 per game) than on the road (13.3).
- In 2023 the Dream average 7.4 made three-pointers at home and 6.8 away, making 37.6% from distance at home compared to 33.5% away.
- Atlanta gives up 0.1999999999999993 more three-pointers when playing at home (7.6 per game) than on the road (7.4). It also allows a higher three-point shooting percentage at home (32.9% in home games compared to 32.6% on the road).
Dream Moneyline and ATS Records
- The Dream have gone 5-2 in games they were favored on the moneyline (winning 71.4% of those games).
- The Dream have gone 3-1 in games they have played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -250 or shorter (75%).
- Atlanta has beaten the spread 13 times in 23 games.
- Against the spread as 6.5-point favorites or more, Atlanta is 3-1.
- Based on this matchup's moneyline, the Dream's implied win probability is 71.4%.
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Spain vs. Japan: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 3:45 AM EDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
Spain will meet Japan in Wellington, New Zealand, in the last round of group-stage games at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 3:00 AM ET.
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How to Watch Spain vs. Japan
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 3:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue: Westpac Stadium
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Spain Group Stage Schedule
Spain's Recent Performance
- Spain played Zambia in its last game and was victorious by a final score of 5-0. The victorious Spain side took 16 shots, outshooting by 12.
- Spain were led by Jennifer Hermoso and Alba Redondo, who scored two goals each, in that match against .
- Hermoso's statline through two Women's World Cup appearances includes two goals and one assist for Spain.
- Redondo has tallied two goals for Spain in Women's World Cup so far.
- During Women's World Cup play, Eva Navarro has picked up two assists (but no goals).
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Spain's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Misa Rodriguez #1
- Ona Batlle #2
- Teresa Abilleira Duenas #3
- Irene Paredes #4
- Ivana Andres #5
- Aitana Bonmati #6
- Irene Guerrero #7
- Mariona #8
- Esther Gonzalez #9
- Jennifer Hermoso #10
- Alexia Putellas #11
- Oihane Hernandez #12
- Enith Salon #13
- Laia Codina #14
- Eva Navarro #15
- Maria Perez #16
- Alba Redondo #17
- Salma Paralluelo #18
- Olga Carmona #19
- Rocio Galvez #20
- Claudia Zornoza Sanchez #21
- Athenea Del Castillo #22
- Cata Coll #23
Japan Group Stage Schedule
Japan's Recent Performance
- In its last outing on July 26, Japan claimed a 2-0 win against Costa Rica. Japan outshot Costa Rica 23 to six.
- For Japan, Aoba Fujino and Hikaru Naomoto both scored a goal.
- Mina Tanaka has one goal and three assists so far for Japan in Women's World Cup (two matches).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Jun Endo has one goal and one assist.
- Hinata Miyazawa has recorded two goals for Japan so far in Women's World Cup.
Japan's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Ayaka Yamashita #1
- Risa Shimizu #2
- Moeka Minami #3
- Saki Kumagai #4
- Shiori Miyake #5
- Hina Sugita #6
- Hinata Miyazawa #7
- Hikaru Naomoto #8
- Riko Ueki #9
- Fuka Nagano #10
- Mina Tanaka #11
- Hana Takahashi #12
- Jun Endo #13
- Yui Hasegawa #14
- Aoba Fujino #15
- Honoka Hayashi #16
- Kiko Seike #17
- Momoko Tanaka #18
- Miyabi Moriya #19
- Maika Hamano #20
- Chika Hirao #21
- Remina Chiba #22
- Rion Ishikawa #23
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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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CHENGDU, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the beginning of the grand opening ceremony of the 31st World University Games in Chengdu on Friday night, Jihao Youguo, a girl hailing from the mountainous Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, led representatives of the 56 ethnic groups of China to sing "Beautiful National Flag" and "Ode to the Motherland."
Youguo firstly became known to the public in February 2018 when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited her family, a poverty-stricken household in Sanhe village, while on an inspection tour to learn about the progress of poverty eradication in the village.
To welcome Xi's visit at the family's dilapidated abode, the then 10-year-old Youguo sang the same song "Beautiful National Flag" and won the applause from Xi.
One year later, all the 29 Sanhe households, including Youguo's family, were relocated to a newly built tile-roofed and brick-walled building which includes a series of apartments measuring about 100 square meters each, thanks to the local poverty eradication program. Youguo said in 2019 that she wished President Xi would come back and visit her new spacious house.
Youguo's father told the media that they opened a grocery store in one extra room of their new house. The store spared the villagers' 30-minute trip to the township for grocery shopping. The store itself brought the family an income of 3,000 yuan ($419) a month, roughly covering the monthly expenses of their three kids attending a boarding school in Liangshan. Youguo's father also keeps some livestock and 30 beehives, making a total income of about 60,000 yuan a year.
Wang Liyuan, an organizer for the opening ceremony of the Chengdu Games, told media that they contacted the Liangshan education authorities and invited Youguo and five other children in the region to sing at the event. "The children are always smiling and enthusiastic, giving a true feeling of sincerity."
Dream of becoming music teacher
With the help of a private education service provider, Youguo, her sister and brother were enrolled into the Liangshan Xichang Tianli School in 2020. Thanks to a dedicated charity fund, they were able to attend the school tuition-free.
Zhang Tao, Youguo's lead teacher, told the Global Times that Youguo has developed good habits living in the school and has made great academic progress since her enrollment.
"She is humble, friendly and gets along well with her classmates. Her English has improved a lot since coming to the school. Her favorite subjects are standard Chinese, English and music," said Zhang.
Youguo is athletic and loves to take part in extra-curricular activities including singing, basketball and running. She is also the champion shot-putter of the school, Zhang said.
"Once during a talk after school, she told me that she dreamed of becoming a music teacher in the future," Zhang told the Global Times. "It's a great way to realize her potential. I encourage her to pursue her dream and give back to the community."
Regarding her progress at school, Youguo said that she has become more confident and open-minded. "I used to be nervous when singing on stage. But I've learned a lot from my classmates and I've grown confident," she said.
Part of big story
The experience of Youguo's family is part of the story of the country's historic achievement in poverty eradication.
Liangshan is home to the largest ethnic Yi community in China and is about 2,000 kilometers from Beijing. When President Xi visited Sanhe village in February 2018, it was one of the most destitute villages in Liangshan. Deep in the Daliang Mountains, local people lived in dark mud huts, suffering from limited transportation and low crop yields caused by the harsh natural conditions. Most villagers grew corn and potatoes for a living.
Given the difficulty of building roads in the mountainous area, the local government opted to relocate the villagers out of the mountain. By September 2020, 353,200 people from 74,400 households in Liangshan had been relocated and started their new lives in their new homes.
Local villagers also came up with innovative ways to improve their living. In Zhaojue county, where Sanhe village is located, locals developed plantations of strawberries. After a year of development, the plantation covered an area of 1,800 mu (120 hectares). Thanks to this new business, in a five-month period in 2019, more than 20,000 local workers were employed, each earning 9,000 yuan on average. From then on, some 165 modern plantations have mushroomed in Liangshan.
After years of national and local efforts, Liangshan witnessed the eradication of poverty, with more than 1.05 million people lifted out of absolute poverty and 11 counties and 2,072 villages removed from the list of impoverished areas.
Sanhe village has established a unique development model that combines breeding, plantation and rural tourism to increase the villagers' income. Currently, the villager's net income per capita has reached over 18,000 yuan, which is more than 10 times higher than the amount before the anti-poverty campaign, Sichuan Daily reported.
In February 2021, China announced victory in its fight against poverty, eradicating absolute poverty in the country.
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