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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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PORT au PRINCE, Haiti -- A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a "do not travel advisory" in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program's director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
"Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family," El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. "Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus."
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is "aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti," adding, "We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners."
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that "kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens."
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti's worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
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A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 40 people and wounds nearly 200
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb ripped through a political rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader on Sunday in the country’s northwestern Bajur district, police and health officials said. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 200 wounded, including children, in one of the worst attacks in recent years.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers’ convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place. AP video showed wounded people being carried from the scene in the chaotic aftermath of the explosion.
Bajur used to be a haven for Islamic militants. It is the former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a militant group that is a close ally of the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The TTP was in recent years evicted from the area as a result of operations by the Pakistani military.
In a statement sent to The Associated Press, the TTP condemned the bombing, saying it was aimed at pitching Islamists against each other. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, also condemned the bombing. “Such crimes cannot be justified in any way,” he said in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Though a separate group, the TTP remains a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021. The takeover emboldened the TTP. They unilaterally ended a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government last November and have since stepped up attacks across the country.
One of the victims, Adam Khan, 45, was hit by splinters in his leg and both hands. He said it was around 4 p.m. when the explosion knocked him to the ground.
“There was dust and smoke around and I was under some injured people from where I could hardly stand up, only to see chaos and some scattered limbs,” he said.
Initially, police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies arrived at a local hospital, bringing the death toll to 40. Feroz Jamal, the provincial information minister, told The Associated Press that so far 40 people had been “martyred” and nearly 200 wounded in the bombing.
The JUI workers’ convention was arranged in a hall close to a market, but later tents were added because of the large number of supporters who turned out. The venue was being guarded by party volunteers with batons. An announcement was being made for the arrival of Abdul Rasheed, a senior leader of the party, when the bomb exploded.
The bombing was one of the four worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people, mostly schoolchildren, were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar. In January, 74 people were killed in a bombing at a mosque in Peshawar. More than 100 people, mostly policemen, died in a bombing at the city’s mosque at police headquarters in February this year.
District health officer Dr. Faisal Khan said 40 bodies from the blast were at Khar’s main hospital. Some of the wounded were in critical condition and were being transferred to a facility in Peshawar and the adjoining district of Dir, including by army helicopters.
Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and President Arif Alvi condemned the attack and asked officials to provide all possible assistance to the wounded and the bereaved families.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman’s party, was among the dead. JUI leaders Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin were also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally.
Rasheed, the regional chief of the party, said the attack was an attempt to remove JUI from the field before parliamentary elections in November, but he said such tactics would not work.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the upcoming elections.
“Many of our fellows lost their lives and many more wounded in this incident. I will ask the federal and provincial administrations to fully investigate this incident and provide due compensation and medical facilities to the affected ones,” Rasheed said.
Mohammad Wali, another attendant at the rally, said he was listening to a speaker address the crowd when the huge explosion temporarily deafened him.
“I was near the water dispenser to fetch a glass of water when the bomb exploded, throwing me to the ground,” he said. “We came to the meeting with enthusiasm but ended up at the hospital seeing crying, wounded people and sobbing relatives taking the bodies of their loved ones.”
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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar. Associated Press writer Munir Ahmad contributed from Islamabad.
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Ukraine again reported bringing war deep into Russia with attacks on Moscow and border region
Ukraine brought the war far from the front line into the heart of Russia again Sunday in drone penetrations that Russian authorities said damaged two office buildings a few miles (kilometers) from the Kremlin and a pig breeding complex on the countries’ border.
The attacks, which Ukraine didn’t acknowledge in keeping with its security policy, reflected a pattern of more frequent and deeper cross-border strikes the Kyiv government has launched since starting a counteroffensive against Russian forces in June. A precursor and the most dramatic of the strikes happenned in May on the Kremlin itself, the seat of power in the capital, Moscow.
Sunday’s was the fourth such strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, showing Moscow’s vulnerability as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry said three drones targeted the city in an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime.” Air defenses shot down one drone in Odintsovo in the surrounding Moscow region, while two others were jammed and crashed into the Moscow City business district.
Photos and video showed that a drone had ripped off part of the facade of a modern skyscraper, IQ-Quarter, located 7.2 kms (4.5 miles) from the Kremlin. When the drone hit, sparks, flames and smoke spewed from the building, with debris falling on the sidewalk and street. Windows were blown out, and metal window frames were mangled. A security guard was injured, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials. Russia’s Ria-Novosti news agency reported the building’s tenants included several government agencies.
Flights were temporarily suspended at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, and the airspace over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed.
President Vladimir Putin, who was in his hometown of St. Petersburg at the time of the attempted attacks for meetings with African leaders and a naval celebration, was briefed, his spokesman said.
Ukrainian officials didn’t acknowledge the attacks but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address: “Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia — to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.”
A Ukrainian air force spokesman also didn’t claim responsibility but said the Russian people were seeing the consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“All of the people who think the war ‘doesn’t concern them’ — it’s already touching them,” spokesperson Yurii Ihnat told journalists Sunday.
“There’s already a certain mood in Russia: that something is flying in, and loudly,” he said. “There’s no discussion of peace or calm in the Russian interior any more. They got what they wanted.”
Ihnat also referenced an early Sunday drone attack on Crimea, Ukrainian territory which Russia occupied and illegally annexed in 2014. The Russian Defense Ministry announced it had shot down 16 Ukrainian drones and neutralized eight others through electronic jamming. No casualties were reported.
Zelenskyy has vowed to take back all land Russian forces have occupied, including Crimea, and his efforts have been strengthened by the receipt and deployment of increasingly advanced Western weapons.
In the earlier attacks on Moscow, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside the city on Friday. Four days earlier, two drones struck the Russian capital, 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 air defenses downed four drones on Moscow’s outskirts and jammed a fifth that was forced down.
Russia has also blamed Ukrainian forces for attacking border areas, and on Sunday, the governor of one such region, Bryansk, said a Ukrainian strike damaged a pig breeding complex and injured three people.
In Ukraine, the air force reported Sunday it had destroyed four Russian drones above the Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Information on the attacks could not be independently verified.
Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike late Saturday killed two people and wounded 20 in the city of Sumy in northeast Ukraine. A four-story vocational college building was hit, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said. Local authorities said that dormitories and teaching buildings were damaged in the blast and a fire that followed.
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Associated Press writer Andrew Katell in New York contributed to this report.
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Tim Tebow launches major new campaign to save and restore human trafficking and child sex victims
The 'unKNOWN' campaign launched by Tebow seeks to find and rescue those living in peril and pain
FIRST ON FOX: Tim Tebow — athlete, humanitarian and founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation (TTF) — has announced a major new campaign to fight human trafficking and rescue child sex victims, given the horrors that are occurring right now to some of the most innocent individuals all around the world.
"This is something that's near and dear to my heart, even though this is about probably some of the worst stuff you could talk about," Tebow told Fox News Digital in an exclusive on-camera interview this week from South Africa. (SEE the video at the top of this article.)
Tebow and his foundation picked Sunday, July 30, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, as the date to announce their new initiative. He's also about to turn 36 — and each year he uses his birthday to help shine a light on the needs of others, as he did last year as well.
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The day is recognized worldwide as a time to raise awareness about the disturbing developments and growth of human trafficking — estimated to be a $150 billion industry, with some 50 million people trapped in bondage, Tebow and his team noted.
Tebow's new "unKNOWN" campaign seeks to identify and rescue the scores of children suffering from sexual abuse and torture — with some of them even victims at the hands of family members.
"It's so important that we talk about these things — some things that are very hard to talk about it, but it's worth it and it's needed," said Tebow.
"We have to create more awareness and more people who are standing on the line against what we believe is one of the biggest evils in the world — and that is this fight against trafficking, child trafficking, and against CSAM, which is very similar. And that is Child Sexual Abuse Materials."
He added, "This is rampant against the world. Boys and girls are not having a childhood."
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He said, "They're being abused. They're being tortured. There are terrible things that are being done to them."
"Every one of these lives is infinitely valuable to God — and they better be to us." — Tim Tebow to Fox News Digital
And "we know that at TTF, that we have been called to this fight. We know that our partners have been called to this fight."
Tebow said his foundation has been engaged in this fight for a decade already, the last three years very publicly. The group said it is "blessed to be a part of 20 safe homes around the world with 22 in progress. Through our partners and teams, we have been able to help rescue more than 1,000 victims."
However, said Tebow, "We're called to do it for a lot longer … This is just something that's so personal to us. Every one of these lives that we know we're called to help is infinitely valuable to God, we believe — and they better be to us."
He said it's critical for "all the boys and girls that we've fallen in love with, that we know their story, that we've hugged them, that we've cared for them and that we've been able to give them long-term restoration and counseling and therapy."
Said Tebow, "You fall in love with them. You fall in love with their smiles and their joy. And they go from such a place of hurt and anguish and pain to smiles and laughter and joy."
The children, once found and rescued and cared for, can then move to becoming involved in the normal everyday interests and cares of kids and young people everything "from basketball or plays or singing or whatever their passions are," said Tebow.
"Every boy and girl is worthy and deserving." — Tim Tebow
"And you get to see what hope and joy can do in a life," said Tebow.
"Every boy and girl is worthy and deserving of having that chance," he said. "And that's why we're so passionate about what we've been called to every day."
Tebow explained why his birthday campaign this year is called "unKNOWN." He said, "It's disappointing that we even have to title it that."
But the reason he's titled it "unKNOWN" is "because of CSAM — Child Sexual Abuse Material. And in just one of the law enforcement databases," added Tebow, "there are at least 50,000 boys and girls whose images of them being abused, tortured, raped — at least 50,000 of these boys and girls are unidentified and their location is unknown."
And "that's why we have called this ‘unKNOWN.’ Because we believe that every single one of those boys and girls are known to God — and it is worth us doing anything and everything possible so that they're known, so that they're located, so that they're cared for and rescued, so that they can have the love that they deserve."
"God loves every single one of these lives more than I will ever love them, more than any one of us will ever love them." — Tim Tebow
Of his very strong faith beliefs, Tebow said, "My faith encourages me on this because so much of it is hard. There's so much evil. And every day we're dealing with so many people in desperation that you want to help and get to as many people as we can."
He said, "There's so much pain and anguish. But the hope that we have is in Jesus — and God loves every single one of these lives more than I will ever love them, more than any one of us will ever love them. And we know that there is a heavenly Father that loves every single one of these lives."
And everyone is "so loved … And I believe they have infinite value and worth."
"Our heavenly Father sent his Son on a rescue mission for all of humanity," said Tebow.
"And I believe that is why Jesus came to us — to rescue us from what we could not rescue ourselves from. And one thing that my pastor says is, ‘Guys, do you know that once you’ve been rescued, you're now on the rescue team?'"
And "that was something that, the first time I heard that, it just pricked my heart," said Tebow.
"And it's true — it's true that as we live out our faith, it's a foundation for us — not just in a spiritual sense, but in a literal sense, for so many people" in "their darkest hour of need."
Tebow said that the mission statement for his foundation is "one of the clearest things I ever wrote."
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And that is, he said, "To bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need."
Tebow said this mission statement could not be more real in 2023 when it comes to victims of human trafficking, of child sex trafficking and of CSAM.
Tebow's goal is to raise $1 million this year so that the TTF and its partners — "a major effort by many amazing groups and people" — can help free others from pain and horror.
"People need faith, hope and love — and they need really to be loved in their darkest hour of need."
He said it is his fervent hope that many others will join him in this "unKNOWN" campaign, to help others in need — "to choose the best interest of another person and act on their behalf."
He said there are numerous ways people can be part of this.
"Number one is prayer," he said — meaning prayer for all those trapped in "horrific situations, in places of terror" — but also prayer for those engaged on the front lines in the fight for others' lives.
He also said more people need to talk about the problems — "we need more awareness of these issues that lead to change."
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And then also, he said, people can give.
His goal is to raise $1 million this year so that the TTF and its partners — "this is a major effort of many amazing groups and people," he said — can help free others from places of pain and horror and get them the help and care they need to be restored.
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There is "power," said Tebow, "when people come together" to do good works.
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Devon Archer has an 'opportunity to be a hero,' says House Oversight Chairman Comer
Hunter Biden associate to testify before House committee on Monday
Kentucky Congressman James Comer, R., joined Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' to discuss the latest in the Biden Family business dealings investigation and former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer's testimony before the House Oversight Committee, telling host Maria Bartiromo that Archer has the 'opportunity' to share the truth and be a 'hero.'
MARIA BARTIRTOMO: What are you expecting to get from Devon Archer tomorrow? Let's talk about that on the record testimony.
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REP. JAMES COMER: … Yeah, well, I don't want to put words in Devon Archer's mouth, but I'll say this. He has an opportunity to come tomorrow to the House Oversight Committee and tell the truth. He has an opportunity to be a hero, like the two whistleblowers were, like the judge in Delaware was, who rejected the sweetheart plea deal from the Department of Justice to Hunter Biden. Devon Archer could be in that category of Americans that just come and tell the truth. That's all we want. We know that Devon Archer was on the board of Burisma with Hunter Biden. We know that Devon Archer has met and communicated many, many times with Joe Biden about Burisma and other things. So this is going to be an opportunity for Devon Archer, just to tell the truth. We have other bank statements that we've obtained that we have questions about pertaining to countries that we believe Archer may have knowledge of.
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… So, you know, my hat's off to Devon Archer when he shows up tomorrow. I know it's tough. I know he's been intimidated by the Biden legal team, but hopefully he saw what happened in that courtroom in Delaware last week. And there are good people in the justice system. And we saw that judge stand up and reject the obvious sweetheart plea deal that the Department of Justice gave the President's son. I know that the President's legal team has been telling our witnesses that they don't need to cooperate with the committee, that nothing's going to happen to the Bidens. I don't think that's true. And I think we saw that play out in the courtroom next week. So we're excited about Devon Archer. and I appreciate his willingness to come.
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Carson Hocevar starts fire at Richmond during victory celebration
Hocevar picked up the third win of his career
Things got a little hot for Carson Hocevar after the 20-year-old picked up the third win of his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career on Saturday night in Richmond.
Hocevar held off Ty Majeski and Zane Smith for the win at the Worldwide Express 250. But his celebration raised the temperatures on an already scorching night in Virginia. Hocevar’s burnout led to the track near the start-finish line catching fire. Hocevar pretended to get warm as the fire raged.
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"I suck at this place and we at Niece Motorsports suck at this place – we’re terrible. My splitter’s gone because I got a flat tire before we even went (green)," Hocevar said after the race, via Motorsport.com.
"We passed every single truck here," Hocevar said after the race, via the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "(Majeski) was the class of the field, but I thought we were second and won with the second-best truck because I have the first-best pit crew and first-best crew chief on the box."
Hocevar led 64 laps on his way to the victory.
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Majeski led 168 laps but ended up finishing a bit behind Hocevar.
"Just didn’t have enough there," he said, via the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "Obviously made a mistake there, speeding on pit road, but we had a chance to win even with the penalty. It’s just so disappointing. I don’t know if I’ve ever had a dominant vehicle that much faster than the field, and to not win with it is so hard."
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish government researchers said Sunday they had identified 357 foreign fighters who went missing during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the conflict that foreshadowed World War II.
Researchers confirmed the names of 212 fighters from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, according to a statement from the government Sunday. Some 102 are of German origin, 70 Austrian and 40 Dutch. It gave no information on how many people of other nationalities had been identified.
The identified combatants fought within the International Brigades, military units set up by the Communist International to fight against General Francisco Franco’s fascist forces. Some 40,000 foreign men and women joined up as volunteers, fighting alongside the forces of the democratic Second Spanish Republic and against the rise of fascism in Europe in late 1930s.
The findings are based on a year of research in records held in documentary archives in Spain and Russia. Researchers combed through the daily lists of casualties and missing soldiers compiled by officers in the International Brigades.
The names of private soldiers were frequently omitted from the lists, making the research process more difficult. These lists are held in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, in Moscow. Researchers also dipped into the main archives on the Spanish Civil War located in Spain.
By cross-referencing documents, researchers were also able to identify the likely area where the soldiers died or were badly wounded. It is an important step toward locating their remains inside mass graves scattered across the country.
This research provides “very valuable information that gives us the opportunity to contact the families of the missing combatants and, in the future, to intervene in the mass graves that have been located,” said Alfons Aragoneses, head of the project.
All those identified were part of the Thälmann Brigade, a Communist unit made up largely of anti-Nazi Germans. The battalion was active on the Ebro River front in northeastern Spain between March and September 1938, the site of the longest and deadliest battle of the war.
The research is ongoing and it is funded by Catalan regional government, with the aim of contributing to the country’s historical memory. The second phase of the project will try to identify missing militiamen from Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States. The final step would require opening the graves in search of bodies.
Historians estimate nearly 10,000 foreign volunteers died in combat on Spanish soil during the war. How many are still unidentified, buried inside graves, remains unknown.
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Wings vs. Aces: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:39 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at Michelob ULTRA Arena, Arike Ogunbowale and the Dallas Wings (14-10) battle A'ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces (22-2), tipping off at 6:00 PM ET on CBS Sports Network and BSSW.
In this article, you will check out odds and spreads for the Wings vs. Aces matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
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Wings vs. Aces Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network and BSSW
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Arena: Michelob ULTRA Arena
Wings vs. Aces Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Check out the odds, spread and over/under for this WNBA matchup available at multiple sportsbooks.
Wings vs. Aces Betting Trends
- The Aces are 12-11-0 ATS this season.
- The Wings have put together a 13-10-0 ATS record so far this season.
- Las Vegas has been favored by 10.5 points or more 19 times this season, and covered the spread in 10 of those matchups.
- Dallas has won its only game this year when playing as at least 10.5-point underdogs.
- A total of 14 out of the Aces' 23 games this season have hit the over.
- In the Wings' 23 chances this season, the combined scoring has gone over the point total 10 times.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — In the sweltering summer heat, nobody tries to cool off by jumping into a hot tub. In parts of Florida, however, that’s what the ocean has felt like.
Earlier this week, sea surface temperatures reached as high as 101.2 degrees Fahrenheit around the state’s southern tip in Manatee Bay, according to the National Weather Service — although scientists said the context for Monday’s reading is complicated.
“It was like there was no difference between humidity of the air and going into the water,” said Chelsea Ward of Fort Myers, Florida.
Triple-digit ocean temperatures are stunning even in Florida, where residents are used to the heat and where many retirees find refuge from cold, northern winters. Several other nearby spots reached the mid-90s. A storm finally came through on Wednesday, helping water temperatures drop back down in to the more temperate 80s.
Humans naturally look to water for a chance to refresh. Every summer, millions grab their swimsuits for a day on the beach and a chance to cool off in the water — a break from everyday work and worry. Pools offer the same relief and a place for friends to gather. But when water temperatures get too high, some of the appeal is lost.
Ward, 47, doesn’t keep her beach bag in her car anymore even though she lives minutes away from the beach in Fort Myers. Lately, the water is just too hot. On Sunday, when her friend asked if she wanted to go to the beach, the two decided against it after discovering the water temperature was around 90 degrees.
When it’s hot, the body cools down by sweating, which evaporates and releases heat. Dipping into the ocean is typically so refreshing because heat efficiently transfers from your body into the water. But as water temperatures climb, that effect diminishes and you lose less heat less quickly, according to Michael Mullins, a Washington University toxicologist and emergency medicine physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
A hot tub — or a stretch of ocean water hotter than body temperature — reverses the transfer of heat into your body. That’s not a pleasant experience on a sizzling, humid, Florida day.
“It would feel,” Mullins said, “like you are swimming in soup.”
Ice blocks for your pool? Why not
People already tend not to swim that much in the Florida waters that were so extremely hot earlier this week. The water can get muddy and there are alligators and crocodiles in the area, too.
But high temperatures anywhere can make swimming less pleasant. Through Friday, Phoenix endured highs above 110 degrees Fahrenheit every day this month. Pools are warm. About 150 miles to the northwest in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Stefanee Lynn Thompson, 50, wanted to keep guests cool for a pool party she hosted Sunday. The heat had raised the pool’s temperature to 96 degrees.
Her friend recommended she go buy ice blocks. She ran to the grocery store, picked up 40 of them and dumped them in the pool. She set up fans, too. All that hard work dropped the pool’s temperature a grand total of 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
“When it’s 120 out, anything helps,” Thompson said.
Recently, ocean temperatures off the western coast of Florida have been a few degrees above normal, sitting around 88 to 90 degrees. It’s not just humans that suffer when the oceans warm. Sea corals are bleaching. They can be hurt when water temperatures rise above the upper 80s.
July has been so hot that scientists announced a global heat record even before the month ended. Climate change is creating a hotter world, warming oceans and making some storms more destructive. Sea surface temperatures are somewhat above average around Florida, but they are far higher in parts of the North Atlantic near Newfoundland where they are as much as 9 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than usual.
The extremely high sea surface temperatures recorded earlier this week off Florida’s southern tip were caused by lots of sun, little wind and no storms.
“I’ve never seen temperatures 100 degrees in Florida Bay in the 21 years I’ve been in the Keys,” said Andy Devanas, science officer at the National Weather Service in Key West, Florida.
Is the water that warm everywhere?
And there are some questions about how representative Monday’s 101.2-degree reading in Manatee Bay were. Water there is shallow and thus heats up quickly. If there’s lots of sediment, that can raise temperatures, too, according to David Roth, a forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center.
By contrast, stop by the YMCA pools on the North Shore of Massachusetts near Boston and you’ll descend into water that’s around 78 to 80 degrees. The ocean nearby is cooler, too. Sea surface temperatures off Cape Cod, for example, barely touched the mid-70s this week.
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When Maria Argueta, 38, has time off from her job at an open-air decorative plant nursery in Homestead, Florida, she’ll go with her family to swim.
“This year, the heat is stronger,” she said.
The hot ocean water doesn’t bother her, but sometimes she takes her 2-year-old son and other members of the family to the Venetian Pool, a public facility in Coral Gables fed by water from an aquifer that’s always in the 70s. The very cool water, she said, is refreshing.
Florida’s humid weather makes it harder for sweat to evaporate and cool the body down. People in south Florida know the ocean doesn’t tend to offer real relief from that suffocating heat.
“You aren’t getting much cooling at all,” Roth said. “Nobody goes into the water in South Florida in the summer really except to swim, because it is comfortable to swim, but it is not refreshing.”
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Man faces multiple charges after 14-year-old missing Byram girl found in Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A man has been taken into custody and faces multiple charges after a missing Byram teenager was found Saturday in Jackson.
An Endangered/Missing Child Alert was issued for 14-year-old Malyiah Crosby, with MBI saying she was last seen getting into a tan 2001 Ford Explorer Trac early Saturday morning.
Authorities say officers were able to locate the Ford in the city limits of Jackson and that Crosby was found “shortly after.”
She was taken to UMMC for evaluation.
Jermaine Bradley Jr., 20, of Byram, was taken into custody and faces multiple charges.
He has been charged with three counts of sexual battery and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
Note: Please be aware that some of the features and technologies mentioned in this press release may currently only be available in the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of certain capabilities and functions may vary depending on your location.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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‘Talk to Me’ directors Danny and Michael Philippou spill the secrets of their horror hit
In A24’s buzzy Gen-Z supernatural horror-thriller “Talk to Me,” an embalmed hand is the gateway to the spirit world for thrill-seeking teens, even if Mia (Sophie Wilde), quietly mourning the anniversary of her mother’s death, is looking for more than just a distraction. Light a candle. Grab the hand. Say the magic words. Just don’t leave the door open too long, or the adrenaline rush will come at a terrible cost.
Not that Aussie YouTubers-turned-filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou, both 30, would turn down the chance to party with the undead. Speaking to The Times during a recent stopover in Los Angeles, the energetic twins lit up explaining their attraction to haunted places and the night they spent looking for ghosts on the Queen Mary.
“They restricted the area that you were allowed to go to, but it’s a huge ship and we lost ourselves on the boat,” Michael says with a grin.
Their morbid curiosity didn’t take a break while shooting their feature debut, “Talk to Me,” in a hospital said to have a haunted wing. “After filming wrapped, the security guard cleared everyone out, and we snuck past and had a slumber party,” says Danny, sporting bleached blond hair, erupting into peals of laughter with his brother. “Even now, we’re obsessed with the paranormal.”
Grief opens a portal between the living and the dead in Danny and Michael Philippou’s slick and often terrifying debut feature.
So if they stumbled across a possessed limb that could open a portal to another realm, there’s no doubt that their younger selves would try it in a heartbeat.
“I would absolutely do that then, and I’d absolutely do it now,” Danny says without hesitation as the duo settles into a suite at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. He marvels at their unlikely journey — from rambunctious kids making mischief and backyard movies, to Sundance breakouts.
“We had two paths we could have gone down,” he says of their childhood in the suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, voraciously consuming pop culture, video games and pro-wrestling inspirations that would shape their hyperkinetic style. “We were delinquents running around the neighborhood. We were interested in being menaces, and filmmaking.”
We never set out to become YouTubers — we always set out to be filmmakers.
— “Talk to Me” co-director Michael Philippou
Thanks to a family friend who nudged them toward creative outlets, filmmaking won out, and they began making their own short projects. With increasingly inventive stunts, effects and DIY daredevil antics, they amassed nearly 7 million YouTube subscribers and more than 1.5 billion views, creating videos like “Harry Potter VS Star Wars” over a decade of viral comedy-horror shorts starring themselves, under the moniker RackaRacka (a riff on their hometown of Pooraka).
Typically it was Danny behind the camera and Michael onscreen, the two trading off in the edit and splitting post duties, learning how to make the most of minimal resources. Among their varied artistic influences, they say, are the genre-defying films of Bong Joon Ho, author R.L. Stine and “Xena: Warrior Princess.” Says Michael, “We never set out to become YouTubers — we always set out to be filmmakers.”
Inspired by an idea from filmmaker friend Daley Pearson about kids getting high on supernatural possession, they poured their own personal themes and experiences into “Talk to Me,” which Danny wrote with longtime collaborator Bill Hinzman. Unlike their playful YouTube videos, it was an opportunity to explore horror storytelling as therapy, examining loss, addiction and the isolation that can come out of profound grief.
“I never felt like I could really personally express myself on the YouTube channel — I was so scared of being vulnerable there,” says Danny. “That was me talking to the audience but not expressing things that I was going through emotionally, or touching on things like mental illness or us losing our grandpa at 13, or suicide being in our family. We couldn’t make content to express that artfully.”
After flirting with several U.S. studios during their two-year journey to get the film off the ground, the duo and producers Causeway Films made “Talk to Me” independently in Adelaide before premiering it at Sundance earlier this year, landing an A24 distribution deal and industry attention with its rollicking pace, gut-twisting scares and sense of youthful, nihilistic doom among the Snapchat set. (Upcoming projects include a new “Street Fighter” movie for Capcom and Legendary Entertainment).
With “Talk to Me” in theaters and racking up critical raves, the filmmakers sat down to spill behind-the-scenes secrets of three key sequences in their debut. (Warning: Anyone hoping to avoid spoilers should float off to their own private spirit zone from here on.)
An epic one-shot through the party from hell
WATCH: Cole (Ari McCarthy) arrives at a house party in search of his brother in the opening tracking sequence of Danny and Michael Philippou’s “Talk to Me.” (Courtesy of A24)
“Talk to Me” hits the ground running with a much-talked-about, one-take, cold-open set piece that follows Cole (Ari McCarthy) as he arrives at a rollicking house party. Concerned, he winds through a crowded backyard and into a kitchen searching for his brother Duckett (Sunny Johnson), who at first seems disoriented, as if he’s done a little too much partying. Although the audience will piece together the details later, Duckett is already under the influence of dark forces, hiding away in a bedroom after partaking in viral séances local teens have been posting to social media.
“We wanted a scene that pulled the audience into our world,” says Danny, citing great “oners” in cinema history, from Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 sci-fi “Children of Men” to Romain Gavras’ recent thriller “Athena.”
The filmmakers enlisted cinematographer Aaron McLisky after watching his work in the single-take short film “Nursery Rhymes” and established rules that their opener would follow: The camera wouldn’t move on its own, but track characters through the hectic scene. Subtle details foreshadowing the story to come would be hidden throughout the shot, and, as in real life, you’d only hear selective dialogue in passing as a thumping party track looped underneath, punctuated by an increasingly uneasy sonic landscape by sound designer Emma Bortignon.
Cole breaks through the bedroom door and tries to guide his brother out of the party, backtracking through the house. But rather than help, the crowd smells a viral social-media moment and pulls out their phones to record. The tension reaches a fever pitch before bursting into shocking violence before the opening credits.
We didn’t finish till 4:30 in the morning... everyone just exploded and started mosh-pitting in the center.
— Michael Philippou
“A big story that inspired ‘Talk to Me’ was this neighbor that we watched grow up,” remembers Michael. “When he was experimenting with drugs and having a negative reaction, all the kids that were with him watched him convulse on the floor, just filming him and laughing. It feels like a weird part of our culture.
“It’s a way to disassociate yourself,” adds Danny. “For kids now, if there’s something horrible happening you pull your phone out because when you watch stuff through the phone, you can watch safely. That might be subconscious: You pull out your phone and record because you’re not really there.”
Because of the choreographical challenge of the sequence and the number of extras present, the opener was the last scene of the shoot. But filming in their hometown had its benefits. The Philippous licensed music from Australian artists including singer Takara, who’d worked on their RackaRacka videos, and Sia, who gave them her global hit “Chandelier” for a reduced fee as a fellow Adelaidian. They put out calls to their followers for background actors to fill the set for the last day of shooting.
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Still, it proved tricky to find the right location, a house with a layout that could reveal new details as the camera tightly followed the actors. And the Philippous had only 10 prop doors for McCarthy to break through, a crucial piece of action that had to go off smoothly midway through the shot. “We had 10 doors, and we went for 10 takes, and we got it on the last one,” says Danny with a relieved laugh.
“We didn’t finish till 4:30 in the morning,” says Michael of the final take, which marked the wrap of filming. “As soon as we called cut and had it, everyone just exploded and started mosh-pitting in the center.”
Adds Danny, “It was such a f— awesome night.”
At least, for everyone working on the movie, notes Michael: “Those poor neighbors!”
Séance shenanigans and a ticking clock
WATCH: Teens party with an embalmed hand that can conjure spirits in “Talk to Me.” (Courtesy of A24)
Before depicting the horrific consequences of reckless possessed-hand use, the directors wanted to show the audience why the spirit world was so alluring to their characters — a gateway drug to hell.
“They’re getting high on this homemade bong and not really understanding that different bodies react differently, and people can have bad trips,” says Danny. “And if you’re in a negative head space, you can have a negative experience.”
This “fun” séance montage, in which Mia, her bestie Jade (Alexandra Jensen), and their friends Daniel (Otis Dhanji), Hayley (Zoe Terakes) and Joss (Chris Alosio) take turns channeling ghosts through the hand, sets a boisterous tone thanks to the 1957 Edith Piaf tune “La Foule,” with its lyrics about connection and joined hands.
“It took a while to find the song,” says Danny. Sifting through hundreds of options, they landed on the thematically apt song, which Wilde performs in French, mid-possession. The directors imagined how real teenagers would react, craving a turn after seeing other kids do it on social media. “People would be like, ‘I watched that video, that’s horrible — how do I do it?’” says Danny.
People would be like, ‘I watched that video, that’s horrible — how do I do it?’
— Co-director and co-writer Danny Philippou
It helped that the cast, directors and producers had gone through an unusual trust exercise of sorts: They all watched one another play out a “possession,” to dissolve any embarrassment when it came to filming. That preparation came in handy when they had just two hours to shoot the entire sequence.
“There were 50 setups for that montage sequence that we wanted to hit,” recalls Danny. “It was the last day we were in that house. Every shot was what we were going to have forever. The first A.D. said to us, ‘This is mathematically impossible.’ And we said, ‘Let us control the set for two hours.’”
Blasting music on a boombox to hype up the mood, they brought each cast member out to a WWE entrance song, including John Cena‘s, and spent the next few hours shouting out directions and improvising while filming on two cameras.
“There was beauty in the chaos and we were just capturing it,” says Danny.
While the Philippous preferred to use “practical” in-camera effects throughout the film, aided by makeup and prosthetics, they did rely on one unexpected bit of movie magic — a blend of CGI and a hand-operated puppet — to achieve a moment in which Otis, under the influence of a spirit, makes out with Jade’s dog.
“He did not kiss the dog,” says Danny, for the record. “That seems illegal.”
Fleshing out the spirit world
WATCH: Mia (Sophie Wilde) is visited by a familiar presence (Alexandria Steffensen) after séances spin out of control in “Talk to Me.” (Courtesy of A24)
The filmmakers wrote a thorough “Talk to Me” bible detailing the mythology, provenance and powers of the mysterious hand, a motif partially inspired by Danny’s own experience after a car accident at the age of 16.
“They thought I might have broken my spine, I was in hospital and I just couldn’t stop shaking,” he says. “The doctors didn’t know why I was so cold. Then our sister sat next to me and held my hand, and the shaking stopped. I thought about how the touch of someone I love brought me out of this state of shock. That moment always struck me, the power of human touch and connection and how scary that is for someone that doesn’t have that, or is losing that.”
Like Duckett at the start of the film, Mia starts feeling the effects of too many conjuring sessions with the hand, spurred to keep reaching into the void for answers that will ease her grief. The hand becomes her vice, and with it comes a specter that appears in the form of her mother.
But the ghouls have reasons for reaching back. The filmmakers mapped out each spirit’s history and true motives, from comically sucking on toes in the middle of the night to more sinister and gruesome ends.
“[Each kid’s] aura and state of mind is attracting certain spirits to them,” adds Michael, speaking to the predators that have their hooks in Mia. “She’s been used by these things and she’s falling victim to them, doing what she thinks is right. Sometimes those negative thoughts can get into your head. You have to really be careful about who you’re letting in emotionally in that time.”
Mia’s fracturing psyche reaches a breaking point in her bedroom, where the demon appearing as her mother, Rhea, preys on her vulnerable state of mind. Elsewhere in the house, we see her father Max (Marcus Johnson) waiting so that they can finally face the truth of Rhea’s death together.
“It’s what I call our ‘All is lost’ moment,” said Michael. “I wanted to try and capture the idea that things aren’t always as bad as you think they are when you’re sitting alone in your head. You can get out of that room.”
But the malevolent spirit has other plans. Tricking a distraught Mia into thinking her father is being impersonated by a spirit that will hurt her, it manipulates her into a desperate act. “Mia is unwinding and being stripped of every ounce of intimacy throughout the film,” says Michael. “And Sophie just portrays that so well.”
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Beyond Mia’s fate, the Philippous say they’ve got enough lore to power 20 more films in the universe. They already have the perfect sequel title ready: “Talk 2 Me.”
And while certain projects are on pause due to the Hollywood strikes, the brothers are eager to direct again. No matter how much fun they seem to be having, they’re quite serious about their long-term filmmaking plans and have another horror script and a genre-blending feature based “loosely” on their childhoods that they describe as “Mad Max on BMX bikes” in their back pocket.
“We’ve wanted to make a film since we were 9, when we started shooting stuff,” says Danny. “That has always been the dream.” The door now seems open to them, and the Philippous aren’t ones to linger on the threshold.
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BURBANK, Calif. — With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip.
Even for a bear.
Police in the city of Burbank responded to a report of a bear sighting in a residential neighborhood and found the animal sitting in a Jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
This #bear is beating the heat in Burbank! Officers are on-scene after the bear was spotted in a hillside neighborhood before taking a dip to cool off. For safety tips regarding bear sightings, visit https://t.co/o5zi9UrjPh pic.twitter.com/aHci8CyMLS
— Burbank Police (@BurbankPD) July 29, 2023
After a short dip, the bear climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the home, police said in a statement Friday.
Police released a video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
Note: Please be aware that some of the features and technologies mentioned in this press release may currently only be available in the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of certain capabilities and functions may vary depending on your location.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A massive deli chain in the U.S. is giving someone the chance to earn free sandwiches for life, at the cost of their name.
Subway announced its nationwide search for the biggest fan, "with the ultimate prize, eating (and being) Subway for life."
Those who want a chance at a lifetime of free food can visit SubwayNameChange.com from Aug. 1-4, to commit to legally change their name.
The lucky winner will be reimbursed for legal and processing costs for the name change.
The contest is Subway's latest efforts to promote its new Subway Deli Heroes menu items and cold cuts.
This isn't the chain's only outlandish contest though. In 2022, one fan camped out for two days to get a footlong tattoo of the Subway Series logo in exchange for free subs for life. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/entertainment-news/subway-offers-free-sandwiches-for-life-with-name-change-subs-food/531-a042e778-5c76-4513-b71e-232a55da5e97 | 2023-07-30T16:36:38 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/entertainment-news/subway-offers-free-sandwiches-for-life-with-name-change-subs-food/531-a042e778-5c76-4513-b71e-232a55da5e97 |
(Inside California Politics) — Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) joins Inside California Politics co-host Nikki Laurenzo to talk about his bill, which targets the Newsom Administration’s plan to ban new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
The bill has advanced past the committee in the House and now awaits a vote on the House floor.
If Obernolte’s bill is approved, it would block states from issuing similar bans. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/california-politics/bill-that-aims-to-block-ca-gas-vehicle-ban-discussed-by-rep-jay-obernolte/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:08 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/california-politics/bill-that-aims-to-block-ca-gas-vehicle-ban-discussed-by-rep-jay-obernolte/ |
(Inside California Politics) — Congressman John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, joined Inside California Politics co-host Nikki Laurenzo to discuss the land purchases surrounding Travis Air Force Base in Solano County.
A group called “Flannery Associates” has invested more than $800 million on almost 54,000 acres of land surrounding the Travis Air Force Base since 2018, zoned for agricultural use, public records show.
“I’m very, very concerned because we cannot find out what’s going on. This is unusual, very unusual.” Said Rep. Garamendi, who represents Travis Air Force Base in Congress.
The Air Force is now investigating the land purchases. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/california-politics/rep-john-garamendi-discusses-unusual-land-purchases-near-travis-air-force-base/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:14 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/california-politics/rep-john-garamendi-discusses-unusual-land-purchases-near-travis-air-force-base/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T16:40:16 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Four people are dead and two are hospitalized after two separate crashes on Saturday. Both incidents are connected to an annual air show in Wisconsin, according to officials.
The first crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. A T-6 Texan aircraft crashed into Lake Winnebago near Oshkosh, where the Experimental Aircraft Association is holding its annual fly-in convention, EAA AirVenture.
Both people aboard the aircraft died, according to EAA officials.
A few hours later, a Rotorway 162F helicopter and ELA 10 Eclipse gyrocopter collided in mid-air at the south end of the EAA AirVenture flight line at Wittman Regional Airport, killing two and injuring two others. Both of the injured are in stable condition, according to EAA.
The Oshkosh Fire Department said one of the aircraft landed on top of a parked plane, but did not clarify which.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating both accidents and has not provided a cause for either.
“Naturally, with the mid-air collision, somebody was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” EAA director of communications Dick Knapinski said. “How that occurred and why that occurred is what the NTSB will investigate and, from then, lessons will be learned as to what aviators can do to keep themselves safer.”
The investigation will likely take months to reach its conclusion.
“NTSB investigations typically take between a full year to 18 months to complete,” Knapinski explained. “They will have a preliminary investigation within the next week or so and then put out those findings. But the probable cause will probably take a year or more to determine by the board.”
The factors the NTSB will examine in its investigations include weather conditions, pilot experience, aircraft condition, flight pattern, and communication between ground and flight operations to determine the cause, which could be pilot error, a mechanical issue, or another reason, according to Knapinski. He described the weather as “mild” and likely not a contributing factor.
“Having accidents like this in the singular is very rare,” he said. “Having two fatal accidents take place on the same day is exceedingly rare.”
These are not the first incidents regarding aircraft at or en route to EAA this week. On Thursday, a single-engine plane bound for EAA AirVenture crash-landed in a cornfield in Green Lake County, hospitalizing two people.
On Tuesday, Knapinski said there was a “forced landing” east of the north/south runway at EAA AirVenture. The pilot was the only person onboard and was not injured.
Last Saturday, a single-engine ERCO Ercoupe headed to EAA AirVenture crashed in Fond du Lac County, injuring the pilot.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/4-killed-in-2-separate-aircraft-crashes-near-wisconsin-air-show/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:20 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/4-killed-in-2-separate-aircraft-crashes-near-wisconsin-air-show/ |
DALLAS COUNTY, Texas — Now that Republican leaders in the state of Texas have formally started the process to leave a multistate effort designed to catch duplicate voter registrations, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said he’s not very confident that voter rolls will be clean before the 2024 primary next March.
“We should be focused on winning over the hearts and minds of new voters, not what the Republicans are doing, which is artificially keeping the voter rolls low so they can win with the same group that they’ve had and not allow the younger, the new transplants, renters who move, to easily register,” Judge Jenkins said on Inside Texas Politics.
The partnership is known as ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center.
As many as 27 states had been using the system, which is designed to check for voters who’ve registered in two different states and may try to vote twice in the same election. ERIC also helps to keep voter rolls clean, alerting elections officials when someone moves, for instance.
At least three Republican-led states have already exited ERIC.
And the Secretary of State says Texas will leave the program in three months.
According to state law passed during the last legislative session, Texas must now either create its own system or find a provider from the private sector, but it can’t cost more than $100,000.
Jenkins says ERIC was extremely effective at keeping rolls clean and he doubts the new program created by Texas Republicans will do the same, instead harming some voters.
“It’s a big deal. We’ll have to see what happens with the state’s new system, but it will, in all likelihood, disenfranchise people and knock people off the voter rolls,” Jenkins said. “And the ones to watch for are young people, minorities and renters who move around.” | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/dallas-county-judge-not-confident-voter-rolls-clean-after-texas-exits-multistate-voter-program/287-cf0b857d-eab0-42d9-88dd-8dadd622d67b | 2023-07-30T16:40:22 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/dallas-county-judge-not-confident-voter-rolls-clean-after-texas-exits-multistate-voter-program/287-cf0b857d-eab0-42d9-88dd-8dadd622d67b |
TEXAS, USA — State Rep. Eddie Morales was the only democratic joint author of the bill that started Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border security plan.
That was back in 2021.
And Morales says at the time, it’s exactly what his constituents needed and were asking for: funding, resources and equipment to address a surge of migrants crossing into Texas.
But now, two years later, Morales says it’s difficult to find any positives in the border operation.
“We did not sign up for what is now taking place. And I think that now there is overreach on the part of the Governor’s office,” the Democrat told us on Inside Texas Politics. “We didn’t sign up for the inhumane treatment that we’re seeing that’s coming out of the DPS.”
The state is investigating allegations of abuse against migrants lodged by a state trooper.
In an email to a supervisor, that DPS medic claimed that troopers working along the border were ordered to push some migrants trying to cross the Rio Grande back into the water, even reportedly ordered to deny them water.
Those allegations originated in HD 74, Morales’ district, and the largest district in Texas that includes more than 750 miles of shared border with Mexico.
Rep. Morales says local landowners are lodging complaints as well.
The Democrat says the owner of a local pecan orchard had his property taken over by state troopers without permission.
And Morales says a specific amendment passed to the original bill stated Operation Lone Star funds could not be used to condemn or take private property.
“I have sent repeated letters to the Governor’s office. I have not spoken directly to the Governor, but I have to some of his leadership. They’re saying they’re going to take a look at it,” Morales said.
Morales also says he has no issue with Texas leaders taking the lead on immigration reform, even encouraging them to do it, though he knows it’s a federal responsibility.
But he says the feds have done nothing to solve any problems for three decades, so Texas should take the lead.
The Democrat has proposed a plan to build a migrant processing center in Eagle Pass, Texas.
And he would charge an initial $2,000 processing fee that would allow someone to work in Texas for three years.
Morales says that would raise more than $3 Million per day for the state and more than $1 Billion annually at this one processing center alone.
The plan didn’t gain any traction during the last legislative session.
But so long as the feds don’t act, Morales says he’ll keep advocating for it.
“I think that Congress should really be leading the efforts on passing effective immigration reform policies that have been needed for over 30 years,” he said. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-representative-operation-lone-star-not-same-program-lawmakers-approved-2021/287-6c89e717-a700-4277-8aa9-ef28792c5841 | 2023-07-30T16:40:22 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-representative-operation-lone-star-not-same-program-lawmakers-approved-2021/287-6c89e717-a700-4277-8aa9-ef28792c5841 |
(NEXSTAR) – Have you ever found yourself at a crosswalk, waiting for the walk sign to appear as traffic buzzes by. And even though you press the crosswalk button – maybe multiple times – it seems to take forever for the light to change in your favor.
While some slow-changing stop lights just need you to tell them you’re there, some crosswalk signals don’t care how many times you press the crosswalk button – it’ll change when it’s ready.
Let’s explain.
It’s not exactly clear when and where the first walk/don’t walk signs were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Records show it likely occurred in the 1930s, and they were much like they are today.
“When it was on, all traffic approaching the intersection stopped so pedestrians could cross the streets in all directions, including diagonally,” the DOT writes. One early system gave pedestrians 20 seconds to cross the street every 100 seconds. Another gave pedestrians the walk signal while traffic moving in the same direction had a green light.
About three decades later, crosswalk buttons began appearing. They were intended to allow vehicle traffic to continue moving smoothly until a pedestrian came along rather than frequently stopping traffic for nobody.
Today, many of those buttons are useless.
In Austin, Texas, for example, most of the downtown intersections have walk indicators that are part of the normal traffic cycle, the city’s Transportation and Public Works Department told Nexstar. This means pedestrians don’t have to push a button at all (however, outside of downtown Austin, almost all signals do have buttons).
In San Francisco, there are 1,286 traffic signals operated by the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency, 610 of which have a version of a pedestrian push button, a spokesperson told Nexstar.
At just 264 of those, pedestrians need to press a button to get a ‘walk’ signal to cross some or all of the streets at the intersection. San Francisco has 490 signals with Accessible Pedestrian Signal buttons – which verbally tell pedestrians what streets they’re on and when to cross – at 143 intersections, those buttons are also used to activate a walk signal at some or all of the crosswalks, a spokesperson explains.
Few work in Boston as well, where city officials told the Boston Globe there is too much vehicular and foot traffic to let one person influence the whole traffic light setup. Only about 100 of the roughly 1,000 pedestrian buttons in New York City work, according to reports. High costs of removing some of the non-working buttons prompted city officials to leave them in place, The New York Times reported, prompting many to find themselves pushing a useless button.
In addition to the impacts the buttons can have on interrupting traffic, some cities have cited their required maintenance when opting to abandon them.
Crosswalk signals that are actuated, meaning they are triggered by a pedestrian hitting the button or loop detectors, generally require more upkeep, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Still, actuated signals could be beneficial “where vehicle and pedestrian volumes vary considerably throughout the day.”
While some cities may leave you confused about whether the crosswalk button actually works, San Francisco has placed signs at intersections that require you to hit the button.
Unless you’re instructed not to push the crosswalk button, it’s likely in your favor to press the button to get the ‘walk’ signal. If you find yourself waiting for an extended period of time, you can cross the street when safe to do so. You can also report a walk signal that should be functioning but isn’t to your city, sometimes by calling 311 if your community uses that number. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:26 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ |
TEXAS, USA — In 2025, the state of Texas is scheduled to review all the history courses taught in public schools.
And at least one member of the Texas Board of Education fears that what started in Florida could find its way to Texas.
In recent weeks, the Florida Board of Education approved new standards for how Black history should be taught in public schools, including teaching how slaves developed some skills they could use for “personal benefit.”
Aicha Davis, a Texas Board member from Dallas, says she’s ready for similar language to try to seep into Texas standards a couple of years from now.
“Very disappointed that history is becoming so distorted, to say something as egregious as that,” Davis told us on Inside Texas Politics. “We do have our standards review for history in 2025, and so I will be anticipating some of that language may be offered up in Texas. But very disappointed and will definitely be on the watch to make sure that doesn’t come to Texas.”
Davis is hoping the Board can instead focus on more productive efforts in the coming years.
And she pointed to the social studies curriculum for African Americans passed unanimously by the board in 2020 as a major success story.
“We have districts everywhere across Texas who are adopting it, thousands of students that are enrolled in the course. And it’s growing every year,” she said.
And she says that program has opened the door for other innovative courses that examine different cultures, helping students see themselves when they learn.
That includes a new Native American social studies program being piloted in Grand Prairie ISD.
As for the upcoming school year scheduled to start in just a couple of weeks in some areas, Davis expects the library book battle to continue.
“Unfortunately books still are under attack,” Davis said. “But you have more people who are coming to defense.” | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-school-board-member-expects-book-battles-continue-new-school-year/287-4824d0dd-258e-40db-8d7f-7771f183f0b9 | 2023-07-30T16:40:28 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-school-board-member-expects-book-battles-continue-new-school-year/287-4824d0dd-258e-40db-8d7f-7771f183f0b9 |
(NEXSTAR) – Facebook users still have a few weeks to claim their piece of a $725 million settlement Meta agreed to pay to resolve a lawsuit. Ex-Facebook users can get in on the action too, as long as they meet a few criteria.
The main requirement is that you had a Facebook account for any time between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. You also need to have been a United States resident during that period of time.
Even people who deleted their Facebook account qualify – they’re just likely to see a smaller payout. How big your check ends up being depends in part on how long your account was active.
People have until Aug. 25, 2023 to file a claim, either online or by mail.
After the deadline passes, a judge will need to give the settlement final approval. That hearing is set for Sept. 7.
If the settlement gets the final OK, it’s not yet clear when the payments will be sent out – but you might not need to wait for a check in the mail. When submitting your claim, you can fill out your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or direct deposit info to get your payment sent straight to your account.
It’s also not clear how much each eligible recipient will get. Legal fees and administrative costs need to be deducted first. The remaining amount will be divvied up among eligible Facebook users, but we don’t know how many people have submitted a claim.
We asked Scott Dodson, a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco and the director of the Center for Litigation and Courts, to help us estimate a figure. He broke down all the factors that go into calculating the size of a class action lawsuit payment, and said that based on similar cases he estimated the higher end of payments might be in the “triple digits.” Many more people will likely receive less than $100, he estimated.
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to settle the lawsuit claiming Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:32 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ |
TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from the hospital Saturday evening.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
Earlier this season, Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner suffered a skull fracture and a concussion after being struck by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. The ball hit Feltner on the back right side of his head, and he fell to the ground. He lay on his stomach as two members of the Rockies athletic training staff aided him. He was able to get on his feet and walked off the field with the assistance of the two trainers.
While it isn’t clear if Feltner will return this season — he was placed on the 60-day injured list after the May incident — he told reporters he does not “want to rule it out.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:38 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ |
(KTLA) – A security guard at a nightclub was killed after being brutally beaten by a large mob in Hollywood early Sunday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Officers responded to the Dragonfly Hollywood nightclub in the 6500 block of Santa Monica Boulevard near Wilcox Avenue around 2 a.m. on reports of a group of 10 people attacking one person, police said.
“The victim was working at this nightclub, and a large group – for unknown reasons – confronted that security guard, causing him to fall into the street,” said LAPD West Bureau Homicide Division Detective Samuel Marullo. “At which time the group advanced and kicked and stomped him to death.”
Police are still investigating whether the fight began inside the club and spilled onto the street or if it began outside entirely.
Video from the scene captured first responders attempting life-saving measures on the security guard, only identified as a male in his 30s, as he was lying in the street.
Dragonfly Hollywood was still open and full of patrons at the time of the security guard’s death. According to the club’s social media, it was hosting its weekly Signature Saturdays event, with Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley headlining the festivities.
The club also hosts an event on Sundays called Sunday Night Fever, but it is unclear whether that event will be postponed following the security guard’s death.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information regarding the attack is urged to contact the LAPD immediately. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:44 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ |
(Green Car Reports) — GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt EV this week—as a future affordable EV product peg for the company’s product plan.
While the timeline is yet to be disclosed for the revamped Bolt EV, the timeline for the current Bolt EV disappearing from dealerships remains confirmed.
In April, GM disclosed that it would discontinue the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV at the end of 2023, as production winds down at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. GM had already committed that plant to produce the Chevrolet Silverado EV and other large electric trucks on its Ultium platform.
“Drawing on various Ultium and Ultifi technological advancements will help GM bring this popular model back to market on an accelerated timeline,” GM said Tuesday, confirming that the future Bolt EV won’t carry over its existing propulsion tech.
Future Bolt EV won’t be all-new
The automaker also suggested that not everything on the Bolt EV will be new. GM noted that it “will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
Ultium is the broad trade term applying to GM battery and electric propulsion families, and Ultifi is the term applying to its EV software, so this simply means that the future Bolt EV won’t carry forward with its present-generation LG Chem cells. Those cells had been the focus of a very costly, large-scale recall that appears to have been worth the effort, leaving customers satisfied and loyal to the brand and nameplate.
GM had no incentive to carry the current Bolt EV’s battery tech forward anyhow.
“We’re already on the road to delivering a 60% cost reduction compared to the Bolt EV with the next generation of Ultium,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021, of tech set to arrive mid-decade, as part of a statement touting the automaker as one of the few to have an EV that’s as affordable as the Bolt family.
Did GM ever actually kill the Chevy Bolt EV?
GM executives had already hinted to Green Car Reports and other outlets that while future electric small cars might be in the works, those vehicles wouldn’t use the same large-format Ultium pouch cells that GM planned to deploy on everything from the Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV on up to big trucks such as the GMC Hummer EV and Chevy Silverado EV.
Likewise, GM and Honda announced in April 2022 that they were working together on a joint architecture for affordable EVs—one that would use “next-generation Ultium battery technology,” according to GM.
At that time, those compact EVs were set to arrive for 2026. It’s hard to imagine GM working on multiple compact EV platforms outside China, so this week’s announcement likely signals that the project has been pulled ahead—perhaps like how the automaker managed to accelerate development of the Cadillac Lyriq.
GM may have provided some of the answer to what comes next. Earlier this year the company clarified that it might include the flexibility of cylindrical cells in future EVs, as part of its Ultium tech but not as part of the Ultium Cells LLC joint venture. That was made clearer this April with the announcement of a joint venture between GM and Samsung SDI that will mass-produce cylindrical cells for GM products starting in 2026.
The lower-profile cells would help answer the dimensional challenges that make those large-format cells harder to package within a small car or beneath the floor of a low-profile vehicle.
Bolt EV’s manufacturing dilemma
While the Bolt EV’s Michigan plant shifts to electric truck production later in the year, the automaker doesn’t have other immediate options for U.S. manufacturing. GM vacated its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that used to assemble compact cars and is located near the Ultium LLC cells facility. It’s now under the ownership of Foxconn, which will likely assemble the $29,900 Fisker Pear urban EV there.
Meanwhile, demand for the Bolt EV surges, and GM will face a gap in its lineup after the end of the year. Of the 36,024 EVs GM delivered in the first half of 2023, just 2,365 were of its new-generation Ultium EVs. The remaining 33,659 were Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
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In its update for investors earlier this week, CEO Barra pointed to the Bolt as one of its most in-demand vehicles, at or under a 10-day supply in dealer inventory.
“Actually, we can’t build enough Bolts right now,” Barra said to Wolfe Research analyst Rod Lache. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/reviews/br/automotive-br/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ | 2023-07-30T16:40:50 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/reviews/br/automotive-br/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ |
Arrests made after SWAT team called in
Published 7:35 am Sunday, July 30, 2023
Albert Lea police arrested three people Saturday morning on College Street after responding to a report of an unwanted person inside an apartment.
According to a news release, police were dispatched at 9:35 a.m. to 406 W. College St.
Officers determined that one of the individuals inside was Donald Maurice McCormick, 27, of Albert Lea, who had two felony warrants.
When officers attempted contact at the residence’s front door, there was no response. An Albert Lea officer outside of the house reportedly saw McCormick stick his head out of a window and go back into the residence.
The release stated the South Central Drug Investigative Unit SWAT team was called in to assist and officers negotiated to have McCormick and others exit safely.
Ultimately, McCormick was taken to the Freeborn County jail on his warrants, with additional charges pending.
Police also arrested Samantha Elise Gunhammer, 34, of Wells, on a Faribault County warrant. Another adult male was also taken into custody but later released without charges.
Assisting Albert Lea police were the South Central Drug Investigative Unit, Albert Lea Fire Rescue, the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office and Mayo Clinic Ambulance. | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/07/arrests-made-after-swat-team-called-ini/ | 2023-07-30T16:41:38 | 0 | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/07/arrests-made-after-swat-team-called-ini/ |
2 killed in Linn County head-on collision
LINN CO., Kan. (KWCH) - Two people were killed in a head-on collision Saturday in Linn County, the Kansas Highway Patrol reports. The crash happened around 5 p.m. Saturday on 200th Road near Mound City.
An SUV driven by 62-year-old Dennis Mayes of Mapleton was westbound and a truck driven by 21-year-old Clinton Barker of Centerville was eastbound at the time of the crash. The two vehicles crossed the center line as they approached each other, the KHP said.
The vehicles struck head on. The SUV spun into the westbound ditch and the truck rolled into the eastbound ditch, the KHP said.
Mayes and his passenger, 59-year-old Elizabeth Mayes of Fort Scott, were killed in the crash. Barker was seriously injured.
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vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
Note: Please be aware that some of the features and technologies mentioned in this press release may currently only be available in the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of certain capabilities and functions may vary depending on your location.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
Stay informed of latest vivo news at https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
Note: Please be aware that some of the features and technologies mentioned in this press release may currently only be available in the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of certain capabilities and functions may vary depending on your location.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
Stay informed of latest vivo news at https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Diamond Fire near Sunflower grows to 5,150 acres, 0% containment
SUNFLOWER, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - The Diamond Fire is continuing to burn in Arizona, growing to around 4,770 acres with still 0% containment.
This comes after a week of evacuations, road closures across State Route 87, and high winds which pushed the fire toward Sunflower. So far, all lines have held around the area. On Saturday morning, operations chief Ken Watkins announced in a report that there was less activity along State Route 87 and that aircrews were still working with ground crews to maintain conditions.
Sunflower, Cross F Ranch, and Diamond Ranch are still under the GO evacuation notice. Click here for updates about the fire. The fire first began on Saturday, July 22, and the cause is still under investigation.
Parts of Tonto National Forest are also closed due to the fire. On Tuesday, Tonto National Forest officials said anyone caught traveling through closed parts of the forest could be punished with a class B misdemeanor, fined up to $10,000, or sent to prison. Click here for a map of the prohibited areas. In addition, the fire has damaged a Sonoran tortoise migration path in Scottsdale. Officials say so far, 300 acres burned are in the preserve at the conservancy. The McDowell Sonoran Conservancy said that more than 300 acres of precious Sonoran desert preserve are set aside for tortoise protection and conservation purposes. Conservancy officials said they are working on plans to reseed the area that was lost.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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Police investigate fatal shooting in Richmond, 2 found dead
RICHMOND, Ky. (WKYT) - Richmond police are investigating a fatal shooting that led to the death of two people on Saturday night.
Police say that the shooting happened at around 10:17 PM in the area of Foxhaven Drive.
According to officials, the shooting happened after a domestic dispute between one of the victims, 24-year-old Makayla Walker, and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Stephon Laroy Baskerville. Officers have determined that the second victim, 33-year-old Warren Bowman, was a witness who may have attempted to intervene. Both of the victims were found dead by police upon arrival.
Officials say that Baskerville left the scene on foot after the shootings. Officers spent several hours searching the area before finding Baskerville and arresting him early on Sunday morning. He has been charged with two counts of murder and tampering with physical evidence.
This investigation is ongoing. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Pig cooling pads and weather forecasts for cows are high-tech ways to make meat in a warming world
CHICAGO (AP) — More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising farm animals. Still, millions of cattle, pigs and other animals get to stay cool in the United States and other parts of the developed world.
Many American farmers have apps to forecast animal comfort in the heat. There are computer-controlled “cooling pads” for sows. Dairy farmers lower barns’ temperatures with misters, air conditioning and giant fans. Special pedometers, the cow version of a Fitbit, measure vital signs that give clues to animals’ health.
More intense summer heat resulting from emissions-driven climate change means animal heat stress that can result in billions of dollars in lost revenue for farmers and ranchers if not properly managed. But technology often insulates livestock in richer countries — another way global warming exacerbates the gap between wealthy and poor nations.
The U.S. is the world’s largest producer and consumer of beef by volume. People have been drinking less milk in the U.S. but eating more cheese, and government programs still support dairies across the country. About 20% of all global greenhouse gas emissions come from animal-based food products, said Atul Jain, a professor in the Department of atmospheric sciences at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies the interactions between climate and human activities like agriculture.
Livestock producers in other parts of the world can’t adopt measures to beat the heat as easily as farmers in the U.S. A 2022 study in the Lancet Planetary Health found that cattle heat stress losses will be far greater in most tropical regions than in temperate regions, due to higher climate impacts and the relatively higher price of measures to adapt to climate change.
Many experts advocate for people in countries like the U.S., where diets are heavy with animal products, to eat less meat and dairy. But big, industrial farms in developed countries are relatively efficient, so to meet global demand with fewer animals, less-developed countries will also need to access the technology that can make them more productive in the face of extreme heat.
“Those innovations bring me a lot of hope,” said Mario Herrero, a professor of food systems and global change at Cornell University who coauthored the Lancet Planetary Health study. “It’s a matter of how do we deploy them.” This winter, the McAllister family of New Vienna, Iowa, installed new fans above the beds where their cows lie, and they’re happy with the updates. Their cows are already showing signs of improved welfare, like chewing more cud, and there’s more heat ahead this summer.
“We’re going to do what’s best by our cows no matter what is or isn’t going on with climate change,” said Megan McAllister, a sixth-generation dairy farmer. Her husband’s family has been farming for five generations. September feels like another August these days, McAllister said. “We want to make the right investments to better our cows, better our businesses that are our dairies, and make sure we’re here for the long haul and that we are thinking about sustainability,” she said.
Making that investment, of course, has a price: more fans for cooling means higher energy bills. That’s something Dr. Michelle Schack, a dairy veterinarian based in Arizona, has noticed as well. She said that the farmers she works with are well-prepared for the blistering heat the state has seen this year, because as research on animal health has improved, they’ve invested in infrastructure.
But it costs a lot. “Fans and misters, let’s not forget, are hugely expensive, not only to install but the amount of electricity they take is insane,” Schack said.
That could be partly addressed with cheaper solar power integrated into agricultural projects. But regardless, “it’s going to be a challenge, a financial challenge” for more farms to adopt heat mitigation strategies, said Gerald Nelson, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a co-author on the Lancet Planetary Health study.
Nelson described how different, heat-tolerant animal species or even something as simple as shade structures and extra water supplies can make a big difference when adapting to heat. Information can help too. A team of USDA and university scientists recently launched a new app called HotHog that uses local weather data to help farmers anticipate conditions that might be uncomfortable for their pigs. And Chip Redmond, a meteorologist at Kansas State University, helped develop a seven-day animal comfort forecast tool for beef farmers that considers temperature and factors like humidity and wind.
As part of his work with Kansas State, Redmond gives presentations to producers and the general public, and he said that climate change has come up in conversations. Both he and Jackie Boerman, an associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Purdue University, said that they recognize that farmers have to deal with the effects of climate change every day.
“We want to cool cows, but we also have to recognize that we want to be environmentally sustainable,” Boerman said. Those two ideas are, she said, “sometimes a little bit at odds with each other.”
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Diamondbacks vs. Mariners Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's game features the Arizona Diamondbacks (56-49) and the Seattle Mariners (53-51) facing off at Chase Field in what should be a competitive matchup, with a projected 5-3 victory for the Diamondbacks according to our computer prediction. Game time is at 4:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Diamondbacks will give the nod to Merrill Kelly (9-4) against the Mariners and Luis Castillo (6-7).
Diamondbacks vs. Mariners Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona
- How to Watch on TV: ARID
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Diamondbacks vs. Mariners Score Prediction
Our pick for this matchup is Diamondbacks 5, Mariners 4.
Total Prediction for Diamondbacks vs. Mariners
- Total Prediction: Under 8 runs
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Diamondbacks Performance Insights
- The Diamondbacks have played as the favorite four times over their past 10 games and lost each of those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Arizona and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Diamondbacks' last 10 games.
- The Diamondbacks have entered the game as favorites 46 times this season and won 28, or 60.9%, of those games.
- Arizona has a record of 30-21 in games when sportsbooks favor them by at least -110 on the moneyline.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 52.4% chance of a victory for the Diamondbacks.
- Arizona has scored 517 runs this season, which ranks seventh in MLB.
- The Diamondbacks' 4.68 team ERA ranks 26th across all MLB pitching staffs.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
Note: Please be aware that some of the features and technologies mentioned in this press release may currently only be available in the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of certain capabilities and functions may vary depending on your location.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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PHOENIX — A man is seriously hurt after a shooting late Saturday night at a dog park in north Phoenix.
Phoenix police say they received a call about a shooting just after 10:20 p.m. near Cave Creek Road and Grovers Avenue.
When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds at a dog park in the area.
He was taken to the hospital for what are considered "life-threatening" injuries.
Police have not released any information about a suspect.
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More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising farm animals, but millions of cattle, pigs and other animals get to stay cool in the United States and other parts of the developed world.
Many American farmers have apps to forecast animal comfort in the heat. There are computer-controlled “ cooling pads ” for sows. Dairy farmers lower barns' temperatures with misters, air conditioning and giant fans. Special pedometers, the cow version of a Fitbit, measure vital signs that give clues to animals' health.
More intense summer heat resulting from emissions-driven climate change means animal heat stress that can result in billions of dollars in lost revenue for farmers and ranchers if not properly managed. But technology often insulates livestock in richer countries — another way global warming exacerbates the gap between wealthy and poor nations.
The U.S. is the world's largest producer and consumer of beef by volume. People have been drinking less milk in the U.S. but eating more cheese, and government programs still support dairies across the country. About 20% of all global greenhouse gas emissions come from animal-based food products, said Atul Jain, a professor in the department of atmospheric sciences at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies the interactions between climate and human activities like agriculture.
Livestock producers in other parts of the world can't adopt measures to beat the heat as easily as farmers in the U.S. A 2022 study in the Lancet Planetary Health found that cattle heat stress losses will be far greater in most tropical regions than in temperate regions, due to higher climate impacts and the relatively higher price of measures to adapt to climate change.
Many experts advocate for people in countries like the U.S., where diets are heavy with animal products, to eat less meat and dairy. But big, industrial farms in developed countries are relatively efficient, so to meet global demand with fewer animals, less-developed countries will also need to access the kind of technology that can make them more productive in the face of extreme heat.
“Those innovations bring me a lot of hope,” said Mario Herrero, a professor of food systems and global change at Cornell University who coauthored the Lancet Planetary Health study. “It’s a matter of how do we deploy them."
This winter, the McAllister family of New Vienna, Iowa, installed new fans above the beds where their cows lie, and they're happy with the updates. Their cows are already showing signs of improved welfare, like chewing more cud, and there's more heat ahead this summer.
“We’re going to do what’s best by our cows no matter what is or isn’t going on with climate change,” said Megan McAllister, a sixth-generation dairy farmer. Her husband's family has been farming for five generations.
September feels like another August these days, McAllister said.
“We want to make the right investments to better our cows, better our businesses that are our dairies, and make sure we’re here for the long haul and that we are thinking about sustainability,” she said.
Making that investment, of course, has a price: more fans for cooling means higher energy bills. That's something Dr. Michelle Schack, a dairy veterinarian based in Arizona, has noticed as well. She said that the farmers she works with are well-prepared for the blistering heat the state has seen this year, because as research on animal health has improved, they've invested in infrastructure.
But it costs a lot.
“Fans and misters, let’s not forget, are hugely expensive, not only to install but the amount of electricity they take is insane,” Schack said.
That could be partly addressed with cheaper solar power integrated into agricultural projects. But regardless, “it's going to be a challenge, a financial challenge” for more farms to adopt heat mitigation strategies, said Gerald Nelson, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a coauthor on the Lancet Planetary Health study.
Nelson described how different, heat-tolerant animal species or even something as simple as shade structures and extra water supplies can make a big difference when adapting to heat.
Information can help too. A team of USDA and university scientists recently launched a new app called HotHog that uses local weather data to help farmers anticipate conditions that might be uncomfortable for their pigs. And Chip Redmond, a meteorologist at Kansas State University, helped develop a seven-day animal comfort forecast tool for beef farmers that takes into account temperature as well as factors like humidity and wind.
As part of his work with Kansas State, Redmond gives presentations to producers and the general public, and he said that climate change has come up in conversations.
Both he and Jackie Boerman, an associate professor in the department of animal sciences at Purdue University, said that they recognize that farmers have to deal with the effects of climate change every day.
"We want to cool cows, but we also have to recognize that we want to also be environmentally sustainable," Boerman said. Those two ideas are, she said, "sometimes a little bit at odds with each other.” | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/pig-cooling-pads-and-weather-forecasts-for-cows-are-high-tech-ways-to-make-meat-in-a-warming-world | 2023-07-30T16:47:16 | 0 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/pig-cooling-pads-and-weather-forecasts-for-cows-are-high-tech-ways-to-make-meat-in-a-warming-world |
Pricey! Sedona home for sale now for $5,750,000
Check out this gorgeous Sedona home for sale now for $5,750,000.
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
$5,750,000 - 330 Camino Del Caballo, Sedona - 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms/ 6,931 square feet - Photos/info from Zillow on 7/27/23Photo by: Zillow
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Rapper Cardi B fought back after an audience member threw their drink at her while she was performing in Las Vegas, the latest in a troubling new habit of concertgoers throwing objects at performers.
The incident appears to have occurred during Cardi B's scheduled performance at Drai’s Beachclub on Saturday. Video posted on social media shows that Cardi B was performing her hit "Bodak Yellow" when someone holding a large cup apparently flings the drink at her, dousing the rapper while she was on stage.
Cardi B first looks shocked, then immediately retaliates by throwing her microphone at the person.
The video, which contains profanities, has more than 6 million views on TikTok.
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Read the full story on NBCNews.com here. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/cardi-b-tosses-microphone-after-concertgoer-throws-drink-at-her-on-stage/4548799/ | 2023-07-30T16:48:26 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/cardi-b-tosses-microphone-after-concertgoer-throws-drink-at-her-on-stage/4548799/ |
(iSeeCars) — The average new car costs $43,528, while the average one-to-five-year-old used car costs $34,291 according to the latest iSeeCars data.
While used cars are significantly cheaper than new cars, both are still a major expense. That’s why it’s important to set a realistic budget and determine how much money you can afford to pay for your new — or new to you — car. We have the answers to help you determine that age-old question: how much car can I afford?
- Determine Your Credit Score
Unless you’re paying for your car in full, you’ll need to secure a car loan. The first step toward getting a car loan and figuring out how much you can afford to pay is determining your credit score. This can also be referred to as your “FICO score” and is a numerical representation of your credit history. The three major credit reporting agencies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – can each provide you with your FICO credit score. Another option is to check with your bank or credit card companies. Many of these institutions also provide a free credit monitoring service that will tell you your credit score.
A credit report, as well as monitoring services, also include a record of your credit history, including any items that are lowering your credit score. The higher your credit score, the better loan term you will be able to secure. Car manufacturers and dealerships will advertise special payment terms like zero-percent financing, but it’s important to remember those terms typically only apply to buyers with favorable, if not top-tier, credit scores.
If your credit score is low, you should try to boost your number before you purchase a car. You should aim for a credit score of 680 or above, but higher is always better. You can start by making sure you make your credit card and loan payments — especially any auto loan payments — on time. Resolve any past-due accounts, and pay down as much of the balance on your loans as you can, especially revolving credit accounts. You should also avoid opening new accounts, as frequent inquiries to the credit bureaus seeking new credit can lower your credit score.
While a good credit score isn’t required to secure a car loan, it will afford you a better annual percentage rate (APR) on the interest you’ll have to pay. The higher interest rate you have, the more you will end up paying in the long run. If you are unable to achieve a favorable credit score, another option is to get a co-signer on your loan. Your co-signer will agree to make loan payments if you default on your loan, which can lower an otherwise high interest rate.
- Determine Your Down Payment
Making a down payment will lower the amount of the loan, or principle, you will need to take out, which will reduce your monthly payment. This also reduces the overall interest you’ll pay on the loan over time. While this can help make a car easier to afford, don’t deplete your savings account. Be sure to keep enough money on hand for whatever surprises might come your way. Dealers and lenders may offer deals for zero down payment financing, but you can still put money down to shorten the length of your loan and reduce your monthly payment.
- Estimate the Value of Your Trade-In
The process of trading in your car begins with determining how much your car is worth. Major factors that impact your car’s value include how many miles it has on the odometer and its overall condition. Having your vehicle professionally detailed can also boost the trade-in value for your current vehicle.
Several websites, including Edmunds (Edmunds.com) and Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com) have valuation tools that will give you a ballpark estimate on the value of your car. Make sure you are as honest as possible in answering any questions about your car’s condition. Some valuation tools offer an estimate specifically for trade-in value, but that’s just what it is – an estimate.
You can also sell your car to a private buyer, which will be more profitable than trading your car into a dealership. In this instance, you can price your car in accordance with its market value, which is higher than your car’s trade-in value. A car’s trade-in value is the amount of money a car dealer will offer you for your vehicle, whereas market value, also referred to as private party value, is the amount of money you would get selling your car directly to a buyer. Because dealerships handle the complex process of selling the vehicle, they offer a lower trade-in value to ensure they make a profit when they sell the car.
There are helpful online tools like the iSeeCars Price My Car Tool, which provide a detailed pricing report to help calculate your used car’s value. Simply enter your vehicle’s VIN or provide its make, model, year, trim, style, and mileage.
Whether you decide to sell your car privately or trade-in at the dealership, you can apply your car’s value toward the purchase price of your next vehicle, along with your down payment if you’re making one.
- Calculate Your Car Budget
Setting a monthly budget will guide your new or used car search. As a general rule of thumb, your car payment should not exceed 10 percent of your monthly income, and your total car expenses (fuel, maintenance, car insurance, registration) should not exceed 15 percent of your monthly take-home pay, which is the amount of money you make each month after taxes. Or, if you’re paying in cash, determine the amount you’re willing to pay for your vehicle. You can use the 15 percent rule as a guide, but if you have other major monthly expenses like student loans, you should determine a monthly payment you can comfortably afford.
- Determine Your Car Loan Amount
After you determine your monthly payment amount, you can determine how much you can borrow from a lender for your car purchase. One way to do this is by obtaining a pre-approval letter from a financial institution, which will review your credit history to determine how much money they will loan you. Keep in mind that you might be pre-approved for more than you can afford, so make sure you stick to your budget. You can also use a car affordability calculator, which is available on many personal finance websites, by entering your credit score, estimated monthly payment, and desired loan term. Remember — the shorter your loan term, the less you will pay in interest over time. Don’t be tempted to stretch out your loan term in order to have a lower monthly payment, because you’ll end up paying more in the long term. For example, if you purchase a $25,000 used car and put $4,000 down with an interest rate of 4.5 percent, your monthly payment on a four-year loan will be roughly $625 and you will pay $1,488 in interest over the duration of the loan. If you spread the loan out over five years with a higher interest rate of 5 percent, you will pay roughly $396 per month and nearly double, $2,778, in total interest. While a smaller monthly payment might seem appealing, it will cost you a lot more in the long run.
It’s important to note that most lenders will not provide a loan on a vehicle that’s more than five years old, so if you are relying on the financing you should consider a later model used vehicle.
- Shop Around for the Best Loan Rates
You should always visit a bank or credit union to get pre-approved for a loan before you go to the dealership. Even if you plan on securing an auto loan through the dealership, having a pre-approval option from a financial institution can help you negotiate against the dealer’s rate. It will also show them that you are a serious buyer, which will give you more bargaining power. Because dealers make more money on vehicles they finance, they will likely try to beat the rates you’ve already secured.
- New Car or Used Car?
When purchasing a vehicle, you have the choice of buying a new or used car. Although they are more expensive, there are perks to buying a new vehicle, including peace of mind, the reduced likelihood of unexpected repair bills, and warranty coverage. New cars also typically come with lower interest rates and financial incentives.
According to an iSeeCars study on off-lease car deals, the average used car loses 39 percent of its value after three years. When you buy a used car, the largest percentage of depreciation has already been absorbed by the original owner, and you get the car at a much lower price. You can even buy a car that is just one year old, which will typically cost 17 percent less than its new version. However, in today’s market, some lightly used cars cost more than their new versions, so be sure to compare the cost of new and lightly used vehicles. You may find that buying a new car is a better financial decision than purchasing a lightly-used one.
If you’re purchasing your used car through a franchise dealer, you will have the option to purchase a certified pre-owned (CPO) car. (Check out our handy guide to learn what does certified pre-owned mean? to better understand the CPO car buying process.) CPO cars are typically used cars that are less than five-years-old and have fewer than 75,000 miles on the odometer. CPO cars typically cost slightly more than non-certified used cars, but they are backed by manufacturer warranties and may also carry special financing. CPO cars combine the best of both the new and used car worlds, by offering added warranty protection on a late-model used car.
- Buying or Leasing?
Another factor to consider is whether you want to buy or lease your vehicle. If you choose to lease, you don’t need to finance because you’re not buying the car. You just need to be able to afford the down payment and the monthly payments. If you don’t want to borrow from a bank and take out a loan, leasing could be your best option. Your lease payments typically cost less money than what you would pay for a monthly car payment if you were buying the vehicle. You can also get a much nicer car for your money and get to drive a new car every few years. Another benefit of leasing is that you don’t have to pay for repairs, as issues with your car that occur during your lease term are usually covered by the car’s factory warranty.
The downside to leasing is that you never own the vehicle. As soon as your leasing term ends, you will begin the cycle again. If you purchase a vehicle, you will likely be able to enjoy several years without a car payment, provided that you don’t take out too long of a loan term. Another drawback is that car leases come with mileage limits, which commonly range from 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year. If you exceed those mileage limits, you will have to pay excessive mileage fees, which can get expensive. Lastly, the upfront cost to lease is usually more than if you were purchasing. You might need to put down a larger down payment due to your credit score, and it’s likely that the dealership will often want the first month’s payment as well.
For more information on leasing vs. buying a car, refer to our guide.
- Be Sure to Factor In Extra Costs
It’s important to make sure you budget for more than the advertised price of the car. While each state has different taxes and associated fees, you can expect to pay an extra 10% on top of the purchase price to cover the total cost of the vehicle. This includes sales tax, which is typically 5 percent to 10 percent depending on your state. There’s also documentation and registration fees, which also vary by state and the amount can be found on your state’s department of motor vehicles website. If you’re financing the vehicle, it’s important to understand you’ll also be paying interest on the financed portion of the vehicle. You should also research the car’s ownership costs to get a better understanding of what you’ll be paying per month. Car insurance is a major added expense, and it will cost more on later-model used vehicles. Be sure to check with your insurance agent before you purchase the vehicle to get an idea of what your new monthly rate will be. Be aware that used car insurance rates are also higher on sports cars and performance vehicles. You can also take the opportunity to shop around with other auto insurance companies to compare insurance quotes to ensure you’re getting the best rate. If you’re purchasing an SUV or a less fuel-efficient vehicle, you should also factor in additional fuel costs to make sure there is room in your budget. (You can refer to our list of Best Gas Mileage Cars to help reduce your fuel costs.)
- Find the Right Car
Once you’ve determined your budget, you can now search for cars within your budget. Helpful car websites and search engines have made it easier and more convenient than ever to find the right car to meet your needs. Car search engines like iSeeCars.com equip buyers with all the information they need to find the right vehicle.
- Beware of Depreciation
The depreciation on a new car means there’s a much greater loss in its value in the first few years after purchase compared to a used car. After all, The average new car loses nearly half its value after five years. If you’re going to keep your new car for the life of your loan, which will likely be between 5 and 7 years, that’s not a concern. But if you decide to switch cars earlier, the vehicle’s depreciation represents a significant ownership cost. If you plan to switch cars every few years you’ll save a lot of money buying cars that are at least 3 years old. Keep in mind that cars depreciate at different rates, so buying a car that best holds its value is a smart purchase decision.
12. Find the Best Price
Now that you’ve selected which models you’re interested in, you can do your research to find the best deal. While this mainly applies to used cars, which vary greatly in pricing, you can also do research to see which dealerships and manufacturers are offering the best new car incentives and finance rates. You may find that you can afford a more expensive vehicle than you anticipated if you spot a good deal.
Used car search engine iSeeCars.com uses data to objectively rank millions of cars and thousands of dealers, providing helpful insights and guidance to car buyers to find a good car at a good price from a trustworthy seller. Used car search engines and research sites allow you to easily compare prices and features like warranties, vehicle histories, and condition. Tools like the iSeeCars free VIN check will provide you with a pre-purchase analysis to ensure you are making the smartest purchase decision possible. It will also alert you to any red flags that could end up costing you money down the road. This includes:
- Pricing Analysis – Calculates the car’s fair value based on the local market and maps similar cars for sale locally.
- Condition – Analysis of mileage on the odometer, positives and negatives about the vehicle’s features and condition, and other resources like theft record, recalls.
- Depreciation – Estimates how much the car will depreciate over 1, 3, and 5 years
- Supply Analysis –Identifies similar vehicles for sale within the local area.
- Best Time to Buy – Analyzes when or what months may get you a better price.
- Vehicle History – Free CARFAX or Autocheck reports when provided by the seller.
Bottom Line
Whether you’re buying or leasing a car, it’s important to understand that you’ll likely keep your vehicle for several years. When taking out an auto loan or signing a lease contract, do your best to anticipate your future financial situation and make sure you’ll be able to make payments for the duration of the payment term. Also, when you determine how much you can afford to pay for a vehicle, you can still shop for cars that cost less than that amount. Just like it’s important to do your research and shop around for a vehicle, the same rule extends to auto loans. Follow our steps and you will find the best car at the best price within your budget.
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One person was killed and two others were injured in a shooting on Tucson's south side early Sunday morning.
Around 2:30 a.m., Pima County Sheriff's deputies were called to the area of Nogales Highway and Aerospace Parkway for a report of street racing, a news release said.
On their way there, deputies learned that someone had been shot. When they arrived, deputies found three people shot, one of whom was dead at the scene.
The other two people were taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Homicide detectives are investigating. No further information was released.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the anonymous tip line, 88-CRIME. | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-courts/pima-county-sheriff-homicide-street-racing/article_0827afe8-2ef1-11ee-8468-4329a2bd6c1b.html | 2023-07-30T16:48:38 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-courts/pima-county-sheriff-homicide-street-racing/article_0827afe8-2ef1-11ee-8468-4329a2bd6c1b.html |
vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
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vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
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Former President Trump’s legal crises are growing more serious this week and show no signs of fading, even as his 2024 bid for the White House barrels forward.
Federal prosecutors filed additional serious charges against Trump on Thursday over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, and anticipation has reached a fever pitch over whether Trump will be charged in Washington, D.C., for his conduct after the 2020 election.
Here are five takeaways from the latest legal developments around Trump.
The new documents case charges are serious
The additional charges filed in Thursday’s superseding indictment point to more serious allegations against Trump that could make his grip on the GOP more tenuous in the months to come.
Prosecutors laid out a new set of allegations that Trump acted with two aides in attempts to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago after prosecutors subpoenaed it in connection with their investigation in June 2022. Trump now faces two new obstruction charges in connection with the allegations.
The indictment also included a new charge over Trump’s retention of a classified document containing secret Pentagon plans to attack Iran. The document is at the center of a recorded conversation mentioned in the original indictment in which Trump is discussing the materials with individuals who did not have security clearances.
The former president has tried to claim that he may not have had the physical document at the time, but the fresh allegations suggest prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to bring charges over the incident.
The nature of the allegations are sure to fuel further charges from Trump’s critics that he is unfit for office.
“I’ve never been indicted and I am not a lawyer, but if you are deleting evidence, it is because you know you are committing a crime,” former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a 2024 presidential candidate, said Thursday night. “And anybody who supports this, anybody who defends this, is complicit in endangering America.”
Trump’s circle is increasingly implicated
The superseding indictment added a third defendant to the case: Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
De Oliveira joins longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta in being charged in connection with the former president’s retention of classified documents and possible obstruction of efforts to get them back.
The indictment alleges De Oliveira, 56, extensively pushed Mar-a-Lago’s director of information technology (IT) — who was not charged or named in the indictment — to delete surveillance footage after prosecutors subpoenaed it in June 2022 in connection with their investigation.
Other Trump associates could still be implicated in the ongoing investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, particularly over a scheme to appoint alternative electors that would flip the Electoral College in Trump’s favor.
“Sadly, I’ve made this statement to many different people … Walt Nauta, run. Carlos [De Oliveira], run,” said Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney who reached a deal with prosecutors in Manhattan and has since turned against the former president.
Volume of legal risks is on the rise
One concern for Trump is that the sheer volume of charges against him is mounting, increasing his legal exposure.
The superseding indictment in the documents case means Trump now faces a total of 40 criminal counts in that case alone, three more than he did previously.
Trump is separately facing 34 felony counts in Manhattan over allegations of a hush money scheme to keep quiet allegations of an affair.
And Trump may face charges elsewhere; he is still under federal investigation in Washington, D.C., and in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Legal experts have noted that the more charges Trump faces, the greater his risk of being convicted on even a single count. “If you had a choice, you wouldn’t want to be indicted in three different jurisdictions,” said one Republican strategist.
Jan. 6 charges loom
Trump attorneys met with special counsel Jack Smith’s office Thursday over the investigation into the former president’s efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
With an indictment seeming imminent, Trump’s lawyers sought to make the case for why their client should not be charged.
A grand jury has typically been meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays, though no indictment was announced this week.
Still, Trump has received a target letter in the case, typically a sign that prosecutors have enough evidence to charge an individual in an investigation.
On top of the anticipation that is building over charges in D.C., the former president is under investigation in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the state’s election results in 2020. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has indicated charges could be announced in August, setting up for yet another cycle of bad legal developments for the former president.
Trump ups pressure on GOP allies
As the legal pressure on Trump mounts, he has turned to some of his Republican allies to ratchet up their defenses.
Trump, in comments to Fox News Digital after the superseding indictment was filed, complained that the charges against him were “ridiculous” and that the Justice Department was abusing its power.
“Hopefully the Republican Party will do something about it,” Trump said.
The former president’s comments may turn up the heat on some of his supporters in the House, and even Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), to back funding cuts to the special counsel’s office. Such measures have been floated by staunch Trump allies such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
The reality for Republicans is they will have to continue to answer questions about Trump’s conduct as the cases against him develop and the charges potentially mount.
Trump, asked if he would end his 2024 campaign even if convicted, told conservative radio host John Fredericks, “not at all.”
“There’s nothing in the Constitution to say that it could. And not at all,” Trump said. “Even the radical left crazies are saying no, that wouldn’t stop. And it wouldn’t stop me either.” | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/5-takeaways-as-trumps-legal-troubles-mount/ | 2023-07-30T16:48:44 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/5-takeaways-as-trumps-legal-troubles-mount/ |
The right of those accused of crimes to remain silent is absolute and can't then be used against them at trial, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.
And, more to the point, it doesn't matter if they pick and choose which questions from police to answer and which to turn away.
In the new ruling, the judge rejected prosecutors' claims that Giovani Melendez, a suspect in the shooting of another man, waived his constitutional rights when he agreed to answer some questions by police. Melendez claimed it was self defense.
What became a legal issue is that while Melendez answered some questions by a detective, he refused to answer others, making comments including, "I still want to hold myself on some things'' and "I'll pass this question.''
At trial, Melendez said he thought the other person was going to attack him.
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The appellate court noted that the prosecutor, questioning Melendez on the stand, specifically and repeatedly asked about those statements to police. And in closing arguments, the prosecutor again mentioned Melendez's decision not to answer certain questions.
The jury sided with the prosecution, finding Melendez guilty of aggravated assault, and a trial judge sentenced him to a presumptive term of 7.5 years in prison.
When Melendez appealed, an attorney for the state argued that he had effectively waived his Fifth Amendment rights because he did not remain completely silent.
Appellate Judge Michael Brown acknowledged that, after being informed of his rights, he voluntarily spoke with the detective. Brown said there was nothing to suggest he was intimidated, coerced or deceived.
But Brown, writing for the three-judge panel, said it is clear Melendez repeatedly told the detective he did not want to talk about the shooting, and that the detective, in her responses to him, affirmed that was his right.
"Nothing in the Miranda warnings informs a suspect that if he relies on his Fifth Amendment right to be silent, completely or partially, his exercise of that right can be used against him at trial,'' the appellate judge wrote.
"Logically, this means a court cannot properly find a suspect has 'waived' that consequence,'' Brown continued. "Instead, a suspect would reasonably presume the opposite — that he can exercise his right to remain silent by refraining from answering all or some questions posed to him.''
What the state is arguing, the judge said, runs contrary to law.
"The warnings required by Miranda would have to be amended to inform a suspect that not only what he says may be used against him, but what he does not say will also be used against him,'' Brown wrote.
"The warnings have not been amended,'' he said. "And allowing the state to penalize a defendant at trial for his earlier silence when he was not informed of that consequence would improperly relieve the state of its burden to prove waiver.''
It also would not be balanced, said Brown, as Miranda warnings emphasize the dangers of choosing to speak but don't warn suspects of "adverse consequences'' of choosing to remain silent.
Moreover, the problems of the state's position are far-reaching, the judge said.
He said allowing a jury to hear about a suspect's silence, whether partial or complete, would make the assertion of that right more costly by, in essence, allowing a suspect to incriminate himself without being aware he was doing so.
Nor was the appellate court convinced that the decision to answer some questions but not others somehow shows that the person being interrogated waived that right.
"In each instance, a suspect is exercising his right not to respond, consistent with what he is told he can do at the outset of the interrogation,'' Brown wrote.
What it comes down to, the appellate court concluded, are "basic principles'' of due process and fundamental fairness.
In overturning the conviction, the appellate court said the prosecutor's improper comments clearly affected the case.
In essence, the judges said, Melendez's claim of self-defense asked the jury to accept his version of events and not those of the other person as advanced by the state. In bringing up his refusal to answer questions, they said, the prosecutor undermined his credibility.
"A reasonable jury would understand these comments (by the prosecutor) to mean that because Melendez failed to timely explain his version of events, it is more likely he was hiding the truth,'' Brown said.
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said at a news conference she has not decided whether to retry the case.
Howard Fischer is a veteran journalist who has been reporting since 1970 and covering state politics and the Legislature since 1982. Follow him on Twitter at @azcapmedia or email azcapmedia@gmail.com. | https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/crime-courts/arizona-appeals-court-rules-the-right-to-remain-silent-is-absolute/article_34196332-2e5e-11ee-95e1-6f8a51e5edac.html | 2023-07-30T16:48:44 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/crime-courts/arizona-appeals-court-rules-the-right-to-remain-silent-is-absolute/article_34196332-2e5e-11ee-95e1-6f8a51e5edac.html |
Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
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Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
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(KRON) — One woman is dead and another is injured after a violent stabbing in Redwood City on Sunday, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office announced.
Deputies responded to a distress call on the 3200 block of Fair Oaks Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Outside of the residence, deputies found a man visibly covered in blood. He was quickly apprehended.
As deputies made their way into the home, they found two women with multiple stab wounds. Deputies aided the woman and arranged for both to be transferred to Stanford Medical Center.
One of the women died. Jose Uriarte-Martinez was identified as the suspect in the incident, and he is in custody. Uriarte-Martinez is being held at the Maguire Correctional Facility without the option of bail.
The sheriff’s office says the incident is isolated, and there is no further threat at this time. No further information was available.
Anyone who knows more about this crime is asked to contact the San Mateo County anonymous tip line at 1-800-547-2700. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/woman-dies-in-domestic-violence-incident-in-san-mateo-county/ | 2023-07-30T16:48:50 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/woman-dies-in-domestic-violence-incident-in-san-mateo-county/ |
Arizona tribal leaders, advocates, community members and organizations are celebrating the 75th anniversary this month of Indigenous people in Arizona earning the right to vote.
“The power of the Native vote is 75 years strong,” said Maria Dadgar, executive director of the Inter-Tribal Council, during a celebration honoring the anniversary of Native voting rights in Arizona held at Gila River Resorts & Casino – Wild Horse Pass in Chandler on July 14.
Dadgar said the celebration was to highlight the Indigenous people who fought long and hard to win the right to vote, and the celebration is to commend all the work that Indigenous people do and continue to do to protect that right.
Arizona has one of the largest Native voting populations in the country, with more than 305,000 of voting age, according to the National Congress of American Indians. Indigenous people make up 6% of Arizona’s overall population.
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“Arizona has been described as ground zero for restrictive voting laws since the last election,” said Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis. Even after gaining the right to vote in 1948, Native voters still face obstacles to casting their ballot, from voter suppression to racial discrimination.
“It’s no accident that these laws targeted our tribal communities,” Lewis said. “Our community members show up on Election Day. We show up because we know that it matters who sits in those state offices.”
Indigenous people in Arizona did not gain the right to vote until July 15, 1948, after the Arizona Supreme Court struck down a ban originally outlined in 1924.
In Arizona, the fight for Native voting rights started when Gila River Indian Community citizens Peter Porter and Rudolf Johnson filed a suit in November 1924, advocating for Indigenous people in Arizona to have the right to vote in state elections.
That attempt failed when the Arizona Supreme Court determined that, although Indigenous people of tribal nations in Arizona were state residents, they could not vote because they were considered under federal guardianship.
For the next 24 years, Indigenous people did not have the right to vote until Fort McDowell Yavapai tribal citizens Frank Harrison and Harry Austin tried to cast their votes in 1948.
Their goal was to vote for Arizona leaders who would support their efforts to provide for senior citizens and families, but the Maricopa County recorder turned them away.
They soon filed a lawsuit in hopes of overturning the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision from 1924, and on July 15, 1948, the state's high court ruled in favor of Harrison and Austin.
“In a democracy, suffrage is the most basic civil right since its exercise is the chief means whereby other rights may be safeguarded,” Arizona Supreme Court Justice Levi Udall wrote in the opinion that established Indigenous people’s right to vote in the state.
“To deny the right to vote, where one is legally entitled to do so, is to do violence to the principles of freedom and equality,” he said.
Dadgar said Indigenous people fought long and hard to win their right to vote in 1948, yet they still face many obstacles and barriers when exercising their rights today.
“It is our hope that by meeting annually to celebrate the Native Right to Vote event, we will continue to stimulate dialogue in Arizona in a positive direction toward improving access to voting for all citizens,” she said.
'We have come so far'
Several tribal leaders, advocates, community organizers, youth and community members gathered to honor the efforts of all 22 tribal nations in Arizona to protect and honor the Native right to vote.
Lewis said it’s important to acknowledge that when Indigenous people gained the right to vote in 1948, they had been considered U.S. citizens for only 24 years, but it would be another 20 years before they gained access to the Bill of Rights.
“Protecting our voting rights doesn’t end once you leave the borders of our sovereign nation,” Lewis said. “Protecting our rights on the reservation is just as important as protecting our rights off the reservation.”
For instance, Lewis said the water rights of the Gila River Indian Community were stolen from them 150 years ago.
“That historic theft occurred at a time when we couldn’t vote,” Lewis said. “When we didn’t have those basic civil rights to be able to advocate and to vote for leaders that would protect our sovereignty and our water rights.”
The fight to gain the right to vote came at a tumultuous time for Indigenous people, Lewis said, because it was during a time that tribal governments, land and culture were all being questioned.
“At a time when we had to fight for our place in the country that formed around us and on our lands,” Lewis said. “In so many ways, we have come so far since that time, but we all know we’re still fighting.”
Lewis said it’s not too early to start organizing and educating Indigenous communities about the 2024 election season. He said the stronger the Native vote becomes, the louder Native voices become.
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Tribal Council Member Mikah Carlos said it’s important for Indigenous communities to unite like this because they have been fighting hard to obtain their basic civil rights.
“Sometimes it feels like we’re not making any progress because we’re continuously having to fight,” Carlos said, which is why “we celebrate to remind ourselves that we do have victories.”
Even though the work is not done and Indigenous communities still have to fight, Carlos said the Native vote is powerful.
“I think if our vote wasn’t powerful, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to take it away,” she added.
The Young River People’s Council from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community also attended the celebration. Youth Advisor Sommer Lopez said she was happy to bring them out because it’s important for them to learn about Native voting rights.
“It’s important to celebrate it for us because it reminds people that it was not that long ago,” Lopez said. “It’s something that we should remember because there was a lot of hard work and sacrifice put into it.”
Lopez said they do a lot of outreach within their community to get more people registered to vote and educate the youth so they’re aware and prepared for voting.
When Lopez learned that Indigenous people in Arizona only gained the right to vote in 1948, she said she was shocked because she knew that her non-Indigenous peers didn’t have the same type of history.
Lopez said for Indigenous people, it’s not even their ancestors; it’s more like their grandparents because it was only 75 years ago.
This article was first published in Arizona Mirror. | https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/arizona-indigenous-voting-rights-history-tribal-nations-elections/article_9e904e8a-2df3-11ee-83dc-0b595bcdbdd9.html | 2023-07-30T16:48:50 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/arizona-indigenous-voting-rights-history-tribal-nations-elections/article_9e904e8a-2df3-11ee-83dc-0b595bcdbdd9.html |
Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Building in Detroit's ex-Chinatown razed; controversy mounts over why it wasn't saved
A roofless shamble of a building in Detroit’s former Chinatown district was demolished Saturday amid a last-minute effort by City Council, preservationists and some members of the Asian American community to save it.
The two-story building at 3143 Cass Ave. was completely torn down Saturday but anger over the city-ordered decision, which overruled a City Council decision to delay the demolition, appears to be mounting.
“I have several friends whose families owned Chinese restaurants in the area and they are greatly upset by the demolition of the community center especially after the City Council voted unanimously to pause demolition until a cultural and historic review is complete,” said Jacob Molewyk, the Midwest representative of the University of Michigan Asian/American and Pacific Islander Alumni club.
The long-vacant building was originally slated to be razed last week because city officials declared it a "dangerous building" in 2018. The city issued a demolition citation in May. The building had a partially collapsed roof and major interior damage, including trees growing inside some of the rooms.
The building has been owned since 2004 by entities linked to Olympia Development of Michigan, the real estate arm of Ilitch Holdings Inc. Olympia Development had agreed to demolish the building and had already hired a private contractor.
When Detroit City Councilwoman Gabriela Santiago-Romero learned of the demolition, she began a last-minute effort to delay it because of the building's historical connection to a 20th-century enclave of businesses and residences catering to the local Chinese community.
The effort resulted in council last week unanimously approving delaying the demolition for one month. The city's historical advisory board was to begin researching whether the building could meet historical designation status, which could have further delayed demolition.
Others joined the effort to save the building, including State Sen. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit.
"I strongly urge the City of Detroit to pause the scheduled demolition to fully consider the historic significance that 3143 Cass Ave. has for Detroit and for the broader community," Chang wrote in a letter to city officials on Wednesday.
"For many Asian Americans in and around the city of Detroit, this building represents where many of their relatives first placed their roots. Located in the center of what is historically known as Chinatown, this property began as a residence in 1883 and was eventually purchased by the Chinese Merchants Association in 1963."
Others who spoke out against the demolition include Roland Hwang, president of American Citizens for Justice, and Curtis Chin, author and filmmaker.
But the reprieve didn't last. Less than 24 hours after council approved the delay, the city's corporation counsel issued an opinion that overruled the council's effort.
"Without proper designation as an historic district, the City must proceed with addressing blight in the interest of public health and safety," Corporation Counsel Conrad Mallett wrote, adding that the council resolution lacks any "legal impact."
The legal opinion meant the building should be demolished immediately, said David Bell, director of the city's Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department, BSEED.
Building owner Olympia Development of Michigan said last week it would comply with the city.
"We wish to remain in good standing with the City of Detroit on this issue and await the City’s direction regarding 3143,'" according to Olympia Development's statement.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Four people are dead and two are hospitalized after two separate crashes on Saturday. Both incidents are connected to an annual air show in Wisconsin, according to officials.
The first crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. A T-6 Texan aircraft crashed into Lake Winnebago near Oshkosh, where the Experimental Aircraft Association is holding its annual fly-in convention, EAA AirVenture.
Both people aboard the aircraft died, according to EAA officials.
A few hours later, a Rotorway 162F helicopter and ELA 10 Eclipse gyrocopter collided in mid-air at the south end of the EAA AirVenture flight line at Wittman Regional Airport, killing two and injuring two others. Both of the injured are in stable condition, according to EAA.
The Oshkosh Fire Department said one of the aircraft landed on top of a parked plane, but did not clarify which.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating both accidents and has not provided a cause for either.
“Naturally, with the mid-air collision, somebody was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” EAA director of communications Dick Knapinski said. “How that occurred and why that occurred is what the NTSB will investigate and, from then, lessons will be learned as to what aviators can do to keep themselves safer.”
The investigation will likely take months to reach its conclusion.
“NTSB investigations typically take between a full year to 18 months to complete,” Knapinski explained. “They will have a preliminary investigation within the next week or so and then put out those findings. But the probable cause will probably take a year or more to determine by the board.”
The factors the NTSB will examine in its investigations include weather conditions, pilot experience, aircraft condition, flight pattern, and communication between ground and flight operations to determine the cause, which could be pilot error, a mechanical issue, or another reason, according to Knapinski. He described the weather as “mild” and likely not a contributing factor.
“Having accidents like this in the singular is very rare,” he said. “Having two fatal accidents take place on the same day is exceedingly rare.”
These are not the first incidents regarding aircraft at or en route to EAA this week. On Thursday, a single-engine plane bound for EAA AirVenture crash-landed in a cornfield in Green Lake County, hospitalizing two people.
On Tuesday, Knapinski said there was a “forced landing” east of the north/south runway at EAA AirVenture. The pilot was the only person onboard and was not injured.
Last Saturday, a single-engine ERCO Ercoupe headed to EAA AirVenture crashed in Fond du Lac County, injuring the pilot.
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The community has heard the chief and me both speak frequently about the homicide spike that began in March of 2020 and persisted through 2022.
We arrived at the start of my term at the Pima County Attorney’s Office in 2021 to face a backlog of 144 homicides in desperate need of resolution going back to 2017. Over the following months, 116 more homicides occurred in 2021, pushing both regional public safety and PCAO workforces to their limits.
We collectively knew that far too many Tucson and Pima County families were being negatively impacted and that reducing violent crime had to be a top priority for our community and local government.
At PCAO, beyond significant organizational restructuring and a focus on prosecuting violent crimes, a deliberative body of the County Attorney and senior prosecutors called the Homicide Panel was re-started. We increased the frequency of the panel, meeting every Monday to hear presentations that helped us resolve homicide cases.
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To combat the rising tide of violent crime, especially the concerning number of homicides, the mayor and council — working with the Tucson Police Department (TPD) — adopted an evidence-based approach to resource allocation. This strategy involves a combination of proactive methods like Problem Oriented Precision Policing (POPP) and Place Network Investigations (PNI), which target high-crime areas with a historical concentration of violent gun offenses.
The results, from last year to this: homicides are down 30%. From two years ago to now, homicides are down 37%. These local trends exceed a national downturn in homicides, and far exceed the decline in Arizona, with the City of Phoenix showing a 10% reduction.
A review of the fine details: TPD has significantly enhanced its investigative capabilities to address crime promptly and effectively. Measures such as the implementation of a Tactical Investigations model for immediate support after crimes like homicides occur, active involvement in the Crime Gun Intelligence Unit, pursuit of Crime Gun Intelligence Center status, and the addition of a second National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) machine have contributed to the remarkable results.
As a result of these initiatives and the addition of agency resources, the YTD homicide case resolution rate stands at an impressive 80%, well above the national average. PCAO handed out 18,463 gun locks last year though out community outreach efforts on nights and weekends, and TPD has removed more than 1,300 guns off city streets year to date.
Perhaps most fascinatingly, the weekly Homicide Panel that was such a difficult strain on time and treasure, led to the creation of a weekly “Think Tank” where the brightest prosecutorial minds paired with the most seasoned homicide detectives meet in organic intel sessions where they discuss and dissect patterns of violent crime in our county.
Our achievements reflect our steadfast commitment to ensuring the safety and security of our community through targeted and effective measures against violent crime, while seeking justice for victims.
The conclusion is clear to all of us: Collaboration works.
Pima County Attorney’s Office continues to show that metro collaboration is both possible and optimal. The reduction in the homicide rate is attributed to so very many: Mayor and Council, County Administration and the Board of Supervisors, Public Health officials, the Sheriff, local police chiefs, and The People’s Office, all in collaboration to resolve cases, to identify needs, and to act in prevention.
We are energized by our progress. Rest assured, we will roll up our sleeves and do even more.
Laura Conover was elected Pima County Attorney in 2020 and began her administration in January 2021, proudly serving her Old Pueblo
Born and raised in Tucson, Chad Kasmar has been a member of the Tucson Police Department for 23 years, appointed as Chief in December 2021. | https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-collaboration-hard-work-has-reduced-violent-crime/article_0c38474c-2cc5-11ee-a64a-139dfbf8720d.html | 2023-07-30T16:48:56 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-collaboration-hard-work-has-reduced-violent-crime/article_0c38474c-2cc5-11ee-a64a-139dfbf8720d.html |
Shooting wounds 5 people in Lansing with 2 victims in critical condition, police say
Lansing – A shooting early Sunday in Lansing wounded five people, including two who were listed in critical condition, police said.
Officers responded to reports of a shooting around 1 a.m., the Lansing Police Department said in a statement.
According to reporting done by WILX News 10, the incident occurred on the 1300 block of West Holmes Road.
Five victims, ranging in the age of 16 to 26-years-old, were taken to a hospital by the Lansing Fire Department, police said.
There was a large crowd at the scene when officers arrived, prompting Lansing police to ask for assistance from other jurisdictions. Several people were detained, and officers found multiple firearms, police said.
In February, a gunman killed three students and injured five others in a shooting at Michigan State University in neighboring East Lansing.
Students sheltered in place for four hours on the campus about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Detroit while hundreds of officers searched for the shooter. Suspect Anthony McRae, 43, killed himself when confronted by police near his home in Lansing. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/30/shooting-wounds-5-people-in-lansing-police-say/70494326007/ | 2023-07-30T16:48:58 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/30/shooting-wounds-5-people-in-lansing-police-say/70494326007/ |
Last chance to catch the Sioux Falls Airshow on Sunday
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:24 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The annual Sioux Falls Airshow saw a great turnout on Saturday and the fun starts up again at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday.
Chuck Nelson with the Sioux Falls Airshow joined Dakota News Now to discuss the importance of the event.
The event is free to attend and you can find a schedule of Sunday’s events at SiouxFallsAirshow.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – Have you ever found yourself at a crosswalk, waiting for the walk sign to appear as traffic buzzes by. And even though you press the crosswalk button – maybe multiple times – it seems to take forever for the light to change in your favor.
While some slow-changing stop lights just need you to tell them you’re there, some crosswalk signals don’t care how many times you press the crosswalk button – it’ll change when it’s ready.
Let’s explain.
It’s not exactly clear when and where the first walk/don’t walk signs were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Records show it likely occurred in the 1930s, and they were much like they are today.
“When it was on, all traffic approaching the intersection stopped so pedestrians could cross the streets in all directions, including diagonally,” the DOT writes. One early system gave pedestrians 20 seconds to cross the street every 100 seconds. Another gave pedestrians the walk signal while traffic moving in the same direction had a green light.
About three decades later, crosswalk buttons began appearing. They were intended to allow vehicle traffic to continue moving smoothly until a pedestrian came along rather than frequently stopping traffic for nobody.
Today, many of those buttons are useless.
In Austin, Texas, for example, most of the downtown intersections have walk indicators that are part of the normal traffic cycle, the city’s Transportation and Public Works Department told Nexstar. This means pedestrians don’t have to push a button at all (however, outside of downtown Austin, almost all signals do have buttons).
In San Francisco, there are 1,286 traffic signals operated by the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency, 610 of which have a version of a pedestrian push button, a spokesperson told Nexstar.
At just 264 of those, pedestrians need to press a button to get a ‘walk’ signal to cross some or all of the streets at the intersection. San Francisco has 490 signals with Accessible Pedestrian Signal buttons – which verbally tell pedestrians what streets they’re on and when to cross – at 143 intersections, those buttons are also used to activate a walk signal at some or all of the crosswalks, a spokesperson explains.
Few work in Boston as well, where city officials told the Boston Globe there is too much vehicular and foot traffic to let one person influence the whole traffic light setup. Only about 100 of the roughly 1,000 pedestrian buttons in New York City work, according to reports. High costs of removing some of the non-working buttons prompted city officials to leave them in place, The New York Times reported, prompting many to find themselves pushing a useless button.
In addition to the impacts the buttons can have on interrupting traffic, some cities have cited their required maintenance when opting to abandon them.
Crosswalk signals that are actuated, meaning they are triggered by a pedestrian hitting the button or loop detectors, generally require more upkeep, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Still, actuated signals could be beneficial “where vehicle and pedestrian volumes vary considerably throughout the day.”
While some cities may leave you confused about whether the crosswalk button actually works, San Francisco has placed signs at intersections that require you to hit the button.
Unless you’re instructed not to push the crosswalk button, it’s likely in your favor to press the button to get the ‘walk’ signal. If you find yourself waiting for an extended period of time, you can cross the street when safe to do so. You can also report a walk signal that should be functioning but isn’t to your city, sometimes by calling 311 if your community uses that number. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons-2/ | 2023-07-30T16:49:02 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons-2/ |
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One of the co-authors was at a Banner Health imaging center recently. Prominently displayed on the receptionist’s counter was a card promoting lines of credit from Curae, a business that provides health care patients with lines of credit of up to $10,000.
He knew Arizona voters just overwhelmingly approved a three percent interest rate limit on medical debt, so he was curious how Curae could make money at that low rate. But first, he asked the receptionist whether many people took advantage of these loans. She said quite a few do. Then she added, especially those with low incomes.
People with low incomes, of course, are those who most need the protection the law provides from high interest rates, which too frequently add financial problems to medical problems.
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However, Curea doesn’t charge 3%. It charges annual interest rates from 9.9% to 36%, according to its website. Additionally, the penalty for a late or missed payment is 29.99%. If this penalty is triggered, interest is accrued from the first day the money was borrowed, and it is charged until at least six consecutive minimum payments are made when due. Moreover, this penalty applies even to no-interest loans if they are not paid off in time.
How can Curae charge these rates under Arizona’s new law? A Policy Paper from the Grand Canyon Institute identifies a loophole that hollows out the law. When patients use a credit card or take out a loan to pay their medical bills, the bills no longer are considered medical debt. Instead, they become credit debt. So that 3% limit no longer applies.
This trend of hospitals, doctors, and dentists to offer third-party credit cards and loans to help people pay their medical bills is the source of significant problems. The Consumer Protection Finance Bureau reported in May that these credit card and loan plans “have largely replaced the low- or no-cost informal plans offered to patients directly by their medical providers.” It reported the interest on these plans can add hundreds or thousands of dollars to medical bills and “rachet up financial strains when patients are most vulnerable.”
Moreover, the complex terms of these loans can result in borrowers quickly facing higher interest rates. An investigation of North Carolina’s UNC Health found that in just two years the proportion of patients paying the highest interest rate went from nine percent to 46%.
Medical debt is a major factor in many people’s lives. An estimated 16% of Arizonans have medical debt, according to an analysis of credit bureaus’ consumer files by the Urban Institute. The analysis put the median amount of medical debt in Arizona at $1,000.
However, the Grand Canyon Institute says that amount understates the full extent of medical debt. The institute suggests that medical debt in Arizona is closer to the $2,500 national average. It’s no surprise medical debt is the leading reason people file for bankruptcy.
The incentives can be great for hospitals, doctors, and dentists to sign patients up for either medical credit cards or installment loans. Curae’s website contends its technology can double patient payments and improve system-wide revenue by 2% to 5%. At the same time, Curae says it can eliminate the need for medical providers to manage accounts receivable and bad debt — both substantial costs. It can do all this, Curae claims, while increasing patient satisfaction.
Arizona’s new law, which was supported overwhelmingly by 72% of voters, is the first statewide ballot measure in the nation to restrict interest rates on medical debt. It was seen as a model for other states to follow. But if so, the other states need to make sure their medical debt interest-rate limits apply to loans and credit cards, too. Otherwise, their efforts may be meaningless.
Kelly Griffith is the executive director for the Center for Economic Integrity.
Jim Kiser, a retired Arizona Daily Star editorial page editor, is a volunteer for the Center for Economic Integrity. | https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-loophole-undercuts-new-medical-debt-limit-law/article_33a80c08-2a55-11ee-9ea1-5f1e58998a37.html | 2023-07-30T16:49:03 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-loophole-undercuts-new-medical-debt-limit-law/article_33a80c08-2a55-11ee-9ea1-5f1e58998a37.html |
U.S. Coast Guard rescues 5 from burning vessel at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued five people off a burning vessel Saturday at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Munising.
During a routine patrol around 7 p.m., a crew from the Marquette station spotted smoke rising from a nearly 30-foot vessel and quickly responded, the station said on Facebook.
"As the flames grew, our crew transferred over all passengers onboard the distressed vessel to our 29’ RBS-II. All 5 passengers were safely transported back to the local marina with no injuries," the station posted.
The crew was not able to extinguish the fire and the vessel became engulfed in flames, said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Yaw.
"No causes known. The people on board did report smelling diesel (fuel) just before seeing any flames," Yaw said. "National Park's service vessel did remain on scene until dusk. They weren't able to secure the vessel to anything because it was against the rocks. ...
"It looks like they were just out enjoying a trip and something went wrong to cause a fire on the vessel," Yaw said.
The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes tweeted that the vessel contained up to 250 gallons of diesel.
Coast Guard pollution responders and the National Park Service are monitoring the area, and the vessel owner is working on a salvage plan with its insurance company, the Coast Guard said.
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Pierre extends fire hydrant parties one more week
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:50 AM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
PIERRE, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Residents in Pierre will have one more chance to enjoy the summertime with their community at Tuesday’s final fire hydrant party at Devine Park.
The City of Pierre and Pierre Volunteer Fire Department originally had three hydrant parties planned, but two were canceled due to weather. The third, successful party was held on July 25.
“I’m really hoping the weather will cooperate, and we can throw one more party for the community this season,” said Recreation Superintendent Torry Zeller.
The party will be free to attend and will feature water balloons, super soakers, fire hose sprinklers, and popsicles, all starting at 6:00 p.m.
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