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NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles. | https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/ap-consumer-demand-for-speed-and-convenience-drives-labor-unrest-among-workers-in-hollywood-and-at-ups/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:07 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/ap-consumer-demand-for-speed-and-convenience-drives-labor-unrest-among-workers-in-hollywood-and-at-ups/ |
A Truck Fire Temporarily Shut Down the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge – What’s Happening to PA Roadways??
Here's a story that's become a little too familiar in the greater Philadelphia area this year...
A truck fire broke out underneath the Tacony-Palmyra bridge in Philadelphia just before 5 pm. on Sunday evening. According to officials, the fire broke out around 4:40, forcing the the bridge to close in both directions.
Alarming captured video shows the black, billowing smoke rising above the bridge, as you can see down below.
Fortunately, first responders were able to place the blaze under control, and the bridge was reopened for traffic right around 8pm. No injuries were reported, but as of Sunday evening, it's still unclear how the fire erupted.
So we can breathe a sigh of relief, especially given the crazier complications we've dealt with on Pennsylvania roads this year.
Are Pennsylvnia roadways cursed this year?
This incident begs the questions.... What is going on with Pennsylvania roadways??
We needn't bring up what happened to I-95 earlier this summer. Similarly, but not as severely as Tacony-Palmyra, a truck fire erupted under the I-95 overpass in June, collapsing the bridge. The truck driver tragically died, and the closure of the I-95 section had to close. Miraculously, it was reopened after only 12 days.
Then on July 10, a portion of Route 202 in King of Prussia was forced to closed after a sinkhole collapsed. After it was repaired and reopened, it was forced to close again on July 16, just days later, when the pavement began to sink.
Fingers crossed it's smooth sailing - or smooth driving, from this point on! At least for the rest of the year! | https://nj1015.com/ixp/942/p/tacony-palmyra-bridge-fire/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:07 | 0 | https://nj1015.com/ixp/942/p/tacony-palmyra-bridge-fire/ |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor’s unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter and this year promises to be worse after the city closed an arena that housed 500 people during the winter months. Bickering between the city’s liberal assembly and its conservative mayor about how to address the crisis, and a lack of state funding, have further stymied efforts to find a solution.
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it’s “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
About 43% of Anchorage’s more than 3,000 unsheltered residents are Alaska Natives, and Bronson’s proposal also drew harsh criticism from those who called it culturally insensitive.
“The reality is there is no place to send these people because this is their land. Any policy that we make has to pay credence to that simple fact. This is Dena’ina land, this is Native land,” said Christopher Constant, chair of the Anchorage Assembly. “And so we cannot be supporting policies that would take people and displace them from their home, even if their home is not what you or I would call home.”
Bronson’s airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the U.S. West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
In May, the city shut down the 500-bed homeless shelter in the city’s arena so it could once more be used for concerts and hockey games after neighbors complained about open drug use, trespassing, violence and litter. A plan to build a large shelter and navigation center fell through when Bronson approved a contract without approval from the Anchorage Assembly.
That leaves a gaping hole in the city’s ability to house the thousands of homeless people who have to contend with temperatures well below zero for days at a time and unrelenting winds blasting off Cook Inlet. At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no vacancies.
New tent cities have sprung up across Anchorage this summer: on a slope facing the city’s historic railroad depot, on a busy road near the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and near soup kitchens and shelters downtown.
Assembly members are slated to consider a winter stop-gap option in August falling far short of the need: a large, warmed, tent-like structure for 150 people.
Summer brings its own challenges: hungry bears last year roamed a city-owned campground where homeless people were resettled after the arena closed. Wildlife officials killed four bears after they broke into tents.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
It’s not clear if his proposal will move forward. There is not yet a plan or a funding source.
Dr. Ted Mala, an Inupiaq who in 1990 became the first Alaska Native to serve as the state’s health commissioner, said Anchorage should be working with social workers and law enforcement to discover people’s individual reasons for homelessness and connect them with resources.
Buying the unsheltered a ticket to another city is a political game that’s been around for years. A number of U.S. cities struggling with homelessness, including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, have also offered bus or plane tickets to homeless residents.
“People are not pawns, they’re human beings,” Mala said.
The mayor’s proposal, while focused on warmer cities, also would fund tickets to other Alaska locations for those who want them.
Clarita Clark became homeless after her medical team wanted her to move from Point Hope to Anchorage for cancer treatment because Anchorage is warmer. The medical facility wouldn’t allow her husband to stay with her, so they pitched a tent in a sprawling camp to stay together.
Having recently found the body of a dead teenager who overdosed in a portable toilet, Clark yearns to return to the Chukchi Sea coastal village of Point Hope, where her three grandchildren live.
“I got a family that loves me,” she said, adding she would use the ticket and seek treatment closer to home.
Danny Parish also is leaving Alaska, but for another reason: He’s fed up.
Parish is selling his home of 29 years because it sits directly across the street from Sullivan Arena. Bad acts by some homeless people — including harassment, throwing vodka bottles in his yard, poisoning his dog and using his driveway as a toilet — made his life “a holy hell,” he said.
Parish is convinced the arena will be used again this winter since there isn’t another plan.
He, too, hopes to move to the contiguous U.S. — Oregon, for starters — but not before asking Anchorage leaders for his own plane ticket out.
“If they’re going to give them to everybody else,” Parish said, “then they need to give me one.” | https://www.koin.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-anchorage-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:13 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-anchorage-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people’s taxpayer money the … Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait,” the statement said.
China’s People’s Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan’s ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
While Taiwan has purchased $19 billion worth of weaponry, much of it has yet to be delivered to Taiwan. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles to Taiwan. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:21 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ |
At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age.
“People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, said of Biden’s support among young voters. Rodriguez pointed specifically to federal COVID-19 relief payments and government spending increases on infrastructure and other social programs.
Voters like him were a key piece of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition, which included majorities of young people as well as college graduates, women, urban and suburban voters and Black Americans. Maintaining their support will be critical in closely contested states such as Nevada, where even small declines could prove consequential to Biden’s reelection bid.
His 2024 campaign plans to emphasize messages that could especially resonate with young people in the coming weeks as the anniversary of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act approaches in mid-August. That legislation includes provisions that the White House will embrace to argue that Biden has done more than any other president to combat climate change.
Such efforts, however, could collide with Biden’s personal reality — like when he recalled that, while attending a St. Patrick’s Day parade at age 14, he appeared in a photo with President Harry S. Truman.
“Purely by accident — I assume it was an accident — the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman,” Biden said to chuckles last week at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington.
In 2020, 61% of voters under age 30 — and 55% of those between 30 and 44 — supported Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of the electorate.
It’s an age group with which Republicans hope to make inroads. Former President Donald Trump, who is the early front-runner in the GOP presidential primary and is only 3 1/2 years younger than Biden, said Friday, “We are hitting the young person’s market like nobody’s ever seen before.”
Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign, referred to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement in arguing that “young people are acutely impacted by the issues front and center in this election, driven by the extreme MAGA agenda.” He said that included inaction on climate change, gun violence and student debt.
“We will meet younger Americans where they are and turn their energy into action,” Munoz said in a statement.
That might not defuse questions about age, though, when it comes to Biden or Trump.
“There’s a frustration and exhaustion that they feel with the rematch,” Terrance Woodbury, co-founder & CEO of the Democratic polling firm HIT Strategies, said of young voters.
“That’s more of a problem than either of those two candidates individually, is that a system can just keep reproducing,” Woodbury added. “And I think a lot of people just find that untenable.”
An April poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 25% of Democrats under 45 said they would definitely support Biden in a general election, compared with 56% of older Democrats. A majority of Democrats across age groups said they would probably support him as the party’s nominee, however.
Biden’s campaign is relying heavily on the Democratic National Committee, which during last year’s midterms, hired campus organizers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states and offered weekly youth coordinating meetings to encourage in-class contacts and “dormstorms.” The DNC sees young people as some of the most critical voters it will need to reach in 2024 and promises “significant investments” to mobilize them. Plans are underway to expand on its work last cycle, including trainings it held on how best to turn out voters.
The Republican National Committee is trying to use Biden’s age against him, posting online videos of Biden seeming frail or making verbal gaffes, such as when he declared in June “God save the queen,” nearly nine months after the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Rodriguez shrugged off online attacks, “People can make all the hit pieces and memes and TikToks all they want.”
A starker contrast might be between the president and rising Democrats such as 46-year-old California Rep. Ro Khanna and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 41, one of Biden’s primary rivals in 2020. Neither seriously entertained running for the White House in 2024 and have backed Biden’s reelection.
“The only thing that really matters is your ability to do the job,” Buttigieg, who was 37 when he launched his 2020 presidential bid, said recently on CNN. Khanna told Fox News Channel that age will “obviously” be a 2024 factor, but suggested that Biden’s staff “overprotects” him and “the more he’s out there, the better.”
Other top young Democrats have lined up to back Biden. Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, who was elected to Congress last year at 26, is on the Biden campaign’s advisory board, as is Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 44. New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, 33, recently endorsed Biden.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive who says strong turnout among young voters helped him win a runoff election this spring, said Biden’s policies transcend his age. Johnson noted that the president’s work “around climate justice speaks not just to this generation, but generations to come.”
“The excitement that I believe that we’re going to have is going to speak to the incredible work and organizing that we are committed to doing as a party,” said Johnson, 47. “And we’re looking forward to working with the president over the course of his next four years.”
Still, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, acknowledged that even the president’s supporters understand how demanding the White House can be.
“People worry about Joe Biden. They worry like you would worry about a beloved father or grandfather,” said Weingarten, 65. “What you normally hear from Democrats is this sense of, ‘OK, I just want him to be OK.’ And you’re hearing just the consternation of, ’This is a hard job.’”
Biden said he “took a hard look” at his age while deciding to seek a second term. But he’s also tried to suggest his age and experience are assets rather than liabilities by joking repeatedly about them. That’s a departure from 2020, when Biden called himself a “transition candidate” and pledged to be a “bridge” to younger Democrats.
Santiago Mayer, the founder of Voters of Tomorrow, which has 20-plus chapters nationwide and works to increase political engagement among young voters, argues that Biden is not defying his past promise by running for reelection, but keeping it.
“He just needs more time,” said Mayer, who graduated from California State University at Long Beach in May. “I think the second term is a very important part of that pledge. He’s building a progressive future for young people and he can’t actually pass the baton until that’s done.”
One key policy piece of Biden’s efforts to appeal to young voters, providing student debt relief, was recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The White House has launched a new effort, but it will take longer.
“Of course it’s going to dampen some of that because people are disappointed,” Weingarten said of the ruling’s effect on enthusiasm for Biden. But she said the decision could also motivate young Biden supporters anxious show their support for the president’s alternative plan.
“It is also about the fight,” Weingarten said “not just about the results.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/joe-biden-the-oldest-sitting-president-needs-young-voters-will-his-age-matter/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:22 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/joe-biden-the-oldest-sitting-president-needs-young-voters-will-his-age-matter/ |
(NewsNation) — While questions remain about a mystery company buying 52,000 acres of land near an Air Force base, a congressman says farmers in the area are being targeted in a lawsuit.
Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., has been speaking out over the past five years about the $800 million in land acquisitions by Flannery Associates near Travis Air Force Base in Northern California.
In an interview with NewsNation, Garamendi said he’s been in contact with the families of farmers who handed over their land to Flannery. He said they didn’t want to sell in the first place.
Since no California laws require them to sell, the land was bargained for by both parties at a much higher price. But now, Flannery is suing those families for $510 million, accusing them of conspiring together to inflate the value of the land.
“It’s a suit designed to force the farmers to lawyer up, spend tens of thousands of dollars on lawyering and maybe at the end of the day, bankrupt themselves,” Garamendi said. “In fact, that has happened to at least one family that I know of and I’ve heard rumors that another family simply said we can’t afford the lawyers.”
NewsNation reviewed a copy of the lawsuit. Attorneys for Flannery said they believe “this is a simple case about a group of wealthy landowners who saw an opportunity to conspire, collude, price fix and illegally overcharge Flannery.”
But Garamendi said there was no viable economic reason to justify spending several times more than what the land is worth in the first place.
The suit comes as companies with ties to China have been ramping up efforts to buy American farmland in recent years.
Public records show “Flannery Associates” has invested more than $800 million on more than 50,000 acres of land surrounding the Travis Air Force Base since 2018.
Legal representation for Flannery said the group is controlled by U.S. citizens, with 97% of its capital coming from U.S.-based investors. But after eight months of investigation, federal officials can’t confirm or deny this to be true and have not been able to determine exactly who is backing the company.
The Air Force’s Foreign Investment Risk Review office is currently investigating Flannery Associates. Garamendi said there are valid concerns that Flannery’s land acquisitions could be tied to foreign enemies.
“The fact they chose to buy all three sides of the Travis Air Force Base even raises immediate questions about national security,” Garamendi said. “So, is this Chinese money? We don’t know, but we do know that the Chinese money was being used in North Dakota and we have a very deep suspicion, given the amount of money, given the lack of attention to values, that they simply want to acquire all of this land.”
NewsNation investigated the now thwarted deal with a Chinese-owned company in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Last year, 300 acres of farmland were purchased near the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota by Chinese-owned Fufeng – a deal that raised red flags about potential spying.
After pushback from the community, the city council ultimately voted to end the project, citing national security risks.
Garamendi said local residents near Travis Air Force Base are riled up, just like the residents in Grand Forks, due to how critical the area is for the U.S. military.
“Travis Air Force Base is absolutely essential. It is the gateway to the Pacific,” Garamendi said, later adding, “A good deal of the munitions that are going to Ukraine also passed through Travis Air Force Base.”
China has been buying up American farmland for years. Nearly 384,000 acres of agricultural land in the U.S. is controlled by China, and the rate at which they are purchasing land is growing, the USDA reports.
Chinese ownership of American farmland has increased 55% in the past five years, with almost 75% of it located in the South and about 16% on the West Coast. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/mystery-group-buying-land-near-air-force-base-is-suing-farmers-congressman-says/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:29 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/mystery-group-buying-land-near-air-force-base-is-suing-farmers-congressman-says/ |
BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade surpluses.
Bruno Le Maire also defended Paris’s controls on foreign access to technology after authorities said two Chinese citizens are under investigation for what news reports say is possible smuggling of French-made processor chips with military uses to China and Russia.
Le Maire met Saturday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing’s top envoy on economic issues. He followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited Beijing on July 9-10 as part of U.S. efforts to revive frosty relations with China.
Chinese officials gave Le Maire and Yellen a warm welcome as part of efforts to reverse an economic slump by reviving foreign investor interest. But Beijing has given no indication of possible changes in technology and other policies that its trading partners say violate Chinese market-opening commitments.
Officials of the 27-nation European Union are trying to narrow a trade deficit with China that swelled to 396 billion euros ($432 billion) last year. Le Maire cited cosmetics, aerospace and agriculture as possible areas for more French exports.
“There is a need to improve access to the Chinese market. I think that it was at the core of our discussions,” Le Maire said in an interview at the French Embassy. “We want to have a stronger economic relationship between Europe and China, between France and China, which means to get access for all European goods.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government has looked to Europe as an alternative market and source of technology since Washington tightened controls on access to U.S. processor chips and other high-tech goods and hiked tariffs on imports from China in a feud over its industry development ambitions.
Le Maire and Chinese officials pledged to cooperate on climate change, financing for developing countries and nuclear power. They announced plans to set up a group to settle a dispute over access to China’s market for cosmetics, a major French export.
Le Maire also lobbied for investment from China’s fast-growing electric car industry. He was due to fly to the southern city of Shenzhen to meet Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD Auto, one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle producers. BYD Auto and other Chinese brands are starting to sell in developed markets including Europe and Japan. Chinese battery supplier CATL has set up a factory in Germany to supply automaker BMW.
“We want China to make investments in France in electric vehicles,” Le Maire said. “In the climate transition, there is a place for Chinese investment in France, which allows us to reinforce our economic relations and also speed up action against global warming.”
The talks were overshadowed by Russia’s war against Ukraine and complaints China might be helping Moscow evade Western sanctions, but Le Maire said he didn’t discuss the war with Chinese officials. However, he said it was in Beijing’s interest to end the 17-month-old war. President Emmanuel Macron’s security adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, said this month China was delivering “military equipment” to Russia but gave no details.
“I want to make very clear that we want this war to go to an end as soon as possible,” Le Maire said. “Indeed, (it is) in the interest of China, it is in the interests of the global growth to have peace as soon as possible.”
Le Maire also defended French controls on technology exports and foreign investment in high-tech industry. French authorities are investigating two Chinese citizens associated with chip producer Ommic who the newspaper Le Parisien said face possible charges of exporting chips to a Chinese armaments maker using forged documents.
French counter-espionage officials believe a Chinese investor who bought control of Ommic in 2018 was trying to transfer chip manufacturing technology to China, according to the newspaper. The ruling Communist Party is trying to develop its own chip industry, but Washington has blocked access to advanced manufacturing tools and persuaded allies Japan and the Netherlands to impose their own restrictions.
Chinese authorities complain their companies are unfairly targeted by restrictions on access to foreign technology. They have warned curbs on access to semiconductors will disrupt smartphone and other industries.
“Everybody can understand that France wants to protect its key technologies,” Le Maire said. “We don’t want any foreign country to get access to those French sovereign technologies.” | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:28 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-frances-le-maire-presses-china-on-market-access-and-lobbies-for-electric-car-investment/ |
SANTA MARIA DE JESUS, Guatemala (AP) — Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo stood before a few hundred residents of this small Indigenous community on the slopes of the Agua Volcano and told them they could be the seeds of a brighter, more corruption-free spring in Guatemala.
The metaphor fits neatly with his political party, the Seed Movement, and allows the 64-year-old academic and former diplomat to riff on themes of renewal and growth.
But it also alludes to Guatemala’s “democratic spring,” considered a more inclusive period in the country’s history during the presidency in the 1940s and early 1950s of his late father, Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in the presidential election’s first round June 25, but it was enough to give him the surprise second slot in the Aug. 20 runoff ballot. He will face Sandra Torres, a conservative and former first lady who was the leading vote-getter in the first round and is making her third bid for the presidency.
Arévalo’s recent speech in Santa Maria de Jesus was similar to those he has given in Guatemala’s capital, but the imagery could be especially important in rural Indigenous communities as he seeks to rapidly expand his largely urban, youthful base before the runoff.
He won in Guatemala City and other important cities, including Sacatepequez and Quetzaltenango. It remains to be seen whether he can convince people in rural communities that he can address their daily problems.
The delayed certification of the first round results shortened the already small window that Arévalo has to reintroduce himself to much of the country as his opponents rush to paint their own negative picture.
“Do you feel what is happening?” Arévalo told the crowd in Santa Maria de Jesus. “The new spring is arriving, that’s what you feel, and you all are the seeds of that new spring.”
“A new spring that is going to bring us well-being, the water we lack, the education they owe us, the health that they have denied us thanks to those corrupt contracts that serve few,” Arévalo said, standing in front of an old, damaged Roman Catholic church, in a wide-brimmed hat and untucked shirt against the tropical heat.
Among those listening was Juana Orón, a 67-year-old homemaker of the Kaqchikel people. She is one of the older voters who remember hearing about Arévalo’s father, one of only two leftist presidents in Guatemala’s democratic era.
The elder Arévalo, who governed from 1945 to 1951, is credited with establishing key social programs that remain in place today, including Guatemala’s labor code and social security. Guatemala’s democratic spring was cut short in 1954 by the CIA-backed overthrow of his successor, President Jacobo Arbenz.
Under Juan José Arévalo, the state advocated for rights for Indigenous peoples and others beyond the country’s small elite.
“I remember I was little and (my parents) said he had done good things,” said Orón whose first language as a child was Kaqchikel. If his father was good, Arévalo could be a good president, too, she said.
Opponents have tried to frame Arévalo’s candidacy as a step toward some of the region’s more notorious leftist regimes, such as Cuba and Nicaragua. They warn that the progressive candidate will bring expropriations, abortion and same-sex marriage to the conservative country.
Arévalo has been the election’s surprise.
In the days before the June 25 vote, he was polling below 3% and trailing at least seven of the other 21 candidates. But his anti-corruption message resonated in the country where gains against corruption have been erased and the justice system reoriented to pursue the prosecutors and judges who formerly led that fight.
In the month since that initial result, the Attorney General’s Office announced an investigation into his party and had a judge suspend its legal status until the Constitutional Court stepped in to block that move.
In Santa Maria de Jesus, people wanted to compare Arévalo in person to what they were hearing about him. Some handed him flowers, posed for photos or reached out to touch him as he made his way through the throng.
Arévalo pushed back against attempts to frame him as a left-wing radical — he has said private property rights are not up for discussion — and pounded the issue of corruption.
“Let us work, let us get ahead on our own effort, let’s get rid of the corrupt once and for all,” he said.
For Francisco Jiménez, a political scientist at Rafael Landivar University, Arévalo will need concrete proposals to make inroads with the base of Torres, who has spent two decades assembling it.
“He will have to make governing proposals with a social agenda, where the people see that he is going to have an impact on their lives and communities,” Jiménez said. “The other part is continuing to present himself as the different model. That has been his success, someone totally different from the other candidates.”
Evangelical churches in Guatemala have painted Arévalo as an existential threat to the family.
Gladys Sunun, a 35-year-old Kaqchikel vendor from an evangelical family, said she came to hear Arévalo for herself. She said she had heard that Arévalo would convert Guatemala into another Cuba or Nicaragua, but left feeling that might not be true, though she wants to investigate more.
“He came to tell us not to worry,” she said. “It sounds real, but we don’t know.”
Her sister July Sunun said she wanted to hear more about Arévalo’s positions on gender ideology. “As a mother I’m afraid, because we’ve grown up with a Christian background. I don’t want to marry my daughter with another woman,” she said.
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PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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WHEELING, W.V. (WSYR-TV) –
Boeheim’s Army ran into a Herd That buzzsaw in the second half, falling to the Marshall based alumni squad 88-71 in the TBT quarterfinals.
Former Marshall player Deandre Kane helped to give Boeheim’s Army a 38-33 halftime lead. Kane scored 13 of his team-high 15 points in the first two quarters.
Herd That broke the game open in the third, going on a 17-0 run. Boeheim’s Army could never recover, getting outscored 55-33 in the second half.
Grant Riller, who scored 76 points in the first three games for Boeheim’s Army tied for team-high honors with 15 points.
Herd That put four players in double figures, lead by a game-high 20 points from Rob Gray. Jon Elmore chipped in 17 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in the win.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fight itself didn’t match the hype, but Terence Crawford’s performance exceeded it.
He knocked down Errol Spence Jr. three times Saturday night before finally ending the fight at 2:32 of the ninth round on a technical knockout to cement himself as one of the greatest welterweights in history.
The fight, the most-anticipated boxing match in several years, made Crawford the first undisputed champion in the 147-pound division in the four-belt era that began in 2004.
Crawford (40-0, 31 knockouts) already owned the WBO belt, and took the WBC, WBA and IBF titles from Spence (28-1). Crawford also ran his KO streak to 11 matches, the second-longest active stretch.
Crawford, 35, has won titles at super lightweight and lightweight in addition to welterweight, capturing the latter after moving up in 2018. The Omaha, Nebraska, fighter became the first male boxer to become the undisputed champion in two divisions in the four-belt era.
“I only dreamed of being a world champion,” Crawford said. “I’m an over-achiever. Nobody believed in me when I was coming up, but I made everybody a believer. I want to thank Spence and his team because without him none of this would have been possible.”
A big fight night on the Strip still brings out the stars, with recording artist Andre 3000 of Outkast, NBA star Damian Lillard and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at T-Mobile Arena. They were among the celebrities that also included former boxing champions such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Eminem introduced Crawford and his song “Lose Yourself” played as he walked into the ring before a sellout crowd of 19,990 at T-Mobile Arena.
Spence was the aggressor early on, but Crawford sent him to the floor with a right hand with 20 seconds left in the second round. Then Crawford went after Spence, but time ran out before he could finish him off.
Crawford, a minus-154 favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, then took control of the fight, landing several major blows, often on counters. But Crawford also picked his spots to go after Spence, his punching power taking a heavy toll.
“He was just better tonight,” Spence said. “I make no excuses. He was throwing a harder jab. He was timing with his jab, and he had his timing down on point.”
In the seventh round, Crawford knocked down Spence twice — with a short right at 1:02 and with another right with just a second left.
The fight was essentially over at that point, though Crawford backed off in the eighth round. He came roaring back in the ninth to end it for sure.
Crawford didn’t waste the chance to gloat afterward, directly responding to his critics.
“They said I wasn’t good enough and I couldn’t beat these welterweights,” Crawford said. “I just kept my head to the sky and kept praying to God that I would get the opportunity to show the world how great Terence Crawford is. Tonight, I believe I showed how great I am.”
Spence, however, said he would be up for a rematch, but wants to move up to the 154-pound division.
“We’ve got to do it again,” Spence said. “I would be a lot better.”
Crawford said he would have no problem moving up a weight class.
“I’m in the hurt business,” Crawford said. “Forty-seven is kind of hard for me, too. I was already talking about moving up in weight and challenging (champion Jermell) Charlo.”
The 33-year-old Spence, who lives in DeSoto, Texas, won the IBF title in 2017, claimed the WBC championship in 2019 and took the WBA championship last year.
In the co-main event, Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (25-2-1) of Mexico beat Chicago resident Giovanni Cabrera (21-1) by split decision in a WBC and WBA lightweight match. Judges Benoit Roussel (114-113) and Don Trella (115-112) scored the fight in favor of Cruz, and Glenn Feldman gave Cabrera the fight by a 114-113 score. Cruz had a point deducted because of a head butt.
Also, Alexandro Santiago (28-3-5) of Mexico won the vacant WBC bantamweight title with a 115-113, 116-112, 116-12 decision over Nonito Donaire (42-8), who lives in Las Vegas.
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ALLENTOWN, P.A. (SYRACUSE METS) –
The Syracuse Mets took an early lead but ultimately fell to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, 3-2, on Sunday afternoon at Coca-Cola Park. Despite the loss, the Mets still split the six-game series against the IronPigs.
Syracuse (42-58, 9-17) jumped on top in the top of the second inning. With one out, Jonathan Araúz singled. Two batters later, with two outs, Carlos Cortes walked. Tomás Nido followed with a single to right field that scored Araúz from second base to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.
Lehigh Valley (52-47, 16-10) struck back in the bottom of the second inning. Dustin Peterson led off the frame with an opposite-field home run to right field, tying the game up, 1-1.
The IronPigs took their first lead in the third, utilizing the long ball again. Cal Stevenson led off with a home run that gave Lehigh Valley a 2-1 advantage.
Those were the only two runs allowed by Mets starting pitcher Denyi Reyes. The right-hander allowed seven hits but only two walks in six innings pitched. In two starts this series, Reyes combined for 11 and one-third innings pitched with five runs allowed, all coming on solo home runs, four walks, and six strikeouts.
The Mets retied the game in the sixth. Luke Ritter worked a two-out walk to extend the frame. Then, Cortes hammered a ball of the wall in right-center field to score Ritter and tie the game, 2-2.
Lehigh Valley regained the lead in the seventh. Darick Hall worked a one-out walk and moved to second on a Peterson groundout. Kody Clemens then hit a ball to right-center field that scored Hall and give the IronPigs a 3-2 edge, which was the game’s final score.
Syracuse returns home to begin a six-game series against the Worcester Red Sox on Tuesday. Right-hander José Butto is scheduled to start for the Mets against Red Sox Major League rehabber and left-hander Chris Sale. First pitch is slated for 6:35 p.m. | https://www.localsyr.com/local-sports/syracuse-mets-drop-series-finale-to-lehigh-valley/ | 2023-07-31T04:04:53 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/local-sports/syracuse-mets-drop-series-finale-to-lehigh-valley/ |
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Justin Gaethje knocked out Dustin Poirier with a head kick one minute into the second round to win the main event lightweight bout at UFC 291 on Saturday night.
The third-ranked Gaethje (26-4) celebrated his victory by climbing to the top of the Octagon fence and doing a backflip off it. His perfectly timed headshot helped him avenge a loss to Poirier in 2018 when he suffered a fourth-round technical knockout via strikes.
“This chance at redemption was amazing,” Gaethje said. “It drove me to work harder to be ready.”
It was Gaethje’s 20th win by knockout or TKO and his seventh victory in his last nine fights. He also scored his first knockout win since UFC 249 in 2020.
“I was surprised by myself and how good I fought,” Gaethje said.
Second-ranked Poirier (29-8) entered the rematch between the two former interim lightweight champions as a minus-152 favorite according to FanDuel. He matched Gaethje blow for blow in the first round – earning a 10-9 advantage on two of three scorecards – before being quickly dispatched in the second.
The decisive high kick from one former champ caught the other by surprise because it wasn’t a move that he expected to see from Gaethje.
“I thought I had four more rounds,” Poirier said. “I didn’t know I had two more minutes.”
With the victory, Gaethje earned a BMF belt – the second UFC fighter to be awarded that belt.
Beating Poirier opens the door for Gaethje to have a potential title bout against the winner of Islam Makhachev and Charles Oliveira, who are set to square off at UFC 294 in October.
Gaethje’s BMF win over Poirier headlined five main card bouts.
Alex Pereira defeated Jan Blachowicz by split decision in a light heavyweight bout billed as the co-main event for his eighth win in his last nine fights.
Pereira (8-2), ranked second as a middleweight, made his debut in the light heavyweight division at UFC 291 after losing the middleweight title belt via knockout to Israel Adesanya at UFC 287 in April. Blachowicz (29-10-1) did not make the transition in weight class a smooth one for the former champion.
He weathered early takedowns in the first two rounds and rallied in the third round.
Derrick Lewis earned a record 14th knockout win over Marcos Rogerio de Lima just 33 seconds into the first round of the heavyweight bout. The No.10-ranked Lewis (27-11) scored an immediate takedown with a flying knee and pummeled 15th-ranked Rogerio de Lima (21-10-1) with repeated punches to score the early finish. He celebrated snapping a three-fight slide by stripping off his shorts and dancing around the Octagon.
“The win means a lot to me,” Lewis said. “I had a lot of pressure on me coming into this fight and I just wanted to prove to everyone I’m still one of the best fighters in the world.”
Bobby Green beat Tony Ferguson by submission via choke with six seconds left in the third round of the lightweight bout. Green (30-14-1) dominated the final two rounds to earn his second career submission, scoring takedowns in both rounds while raining repeated blows that left his opponent battered. He denied Ferguson (26-9) a shot at earning his first UFC victory since 2019, sending the 39-year-old fighter home with his sixth straight loss.
Kevin Holland made quick work of Michael Chiesa to win the welterweight bout. Holland (25-9) beat the 12th-ranked Chiesa — fighting for the first time following a two-year hiatus — by submission at 2:39 in the first round. He used his length and striking abilities to trap Chiesa (18-7) in a D’arce choke, forcing a quick tap out.
Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith, Jazz coach Will Hardy, and former Jazz stars Deron Williams and Karl Malone were among those in attendance at the second UFC pay-per-view event in 11 months in the Beehive State.
UFC reported a live gate of $6.5 million, breaking the previous venue record set at UFC 278 in August 2022. A sellout crowd of 18,467 was in attendance.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Megan Rapinoe is adjusting to her new role at the Women’s World Cup, even if it means she’s not on the field as much as she’d like to be.
The outspoken 38-year-old known for her eclectic hair colors and the iconic victory pose she struck at the 2019 World Cup is the oldest player on the team. She already announced that her fourth World Cup would be her last.
“Ultimately, we’re at the World Cup. This is where everybody wants to be, whether you’re playing 90 minutes, whether you’re a game changer, whatever,” she said Sunday. “I think it’s a lot similar to what I thought it would be — bringing all the experience that I can, all the experience that I have, and ultimately being ready whenever my number is called up.”
Rapinoe has played limited minutes so far, coming in as a substitute in the 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the tournament opener, which was her 200th career appearance for the team.
She was available but didn’t play in the disappointing 1-1 draw with the Netherlands on Thursday in Wellington. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski made just one substitution in the match, bringing in midfielder Rose Lavelle after the first half.
“I think all of us on the bench, it’s like we think we should be on the field as much as the players on the field believe that they should be on the field,” Rapinoe said. “Every player on the field that starts the game thinks that they should play 90 minutes, and every player who doesn’t, who is a sub, thinks that they should be on at some point.”
The United States has won the last two World Cups, but the players find themselves in a more precarious position as they chase an unprecedented third consecutive title. The Americans need at least a draw going into the final group match against Portugal on Tuesday at Eden Park in Auckland.
The Americans top Group E, even on points with the Netherlands, but hold the edge because of goal difference. Portugal, which beat Vietnam, could send the United States home early with a win over the Americans.
“We’re unsatisfied with the way we played, but we know there are areas that we can be better and I think there’s some really simple fixes we can do to put ourselves in a better position to have more joy on the ball, especially in the final third,” Rapinoe said. “I think everybody’s looking at this like `Let’s go.’”
At the 2019 World Cup in France, Rapinoe scored six goals over the course of the tournament, including a penalty in a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands in the final. She also finished with three assists and claimed both the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball for the best overall player.
Rapinoe, who is engaged to former WNBA star Sue Bird, has been a leader on and off the field.
She made headlines during the 2019 tournament when she said she wouldn’t visit the White House if the United States won. Her decision was based on her disdain for then-President Donald Trump, and the team did not go to the White House after winning its second World Cup.
And in the midst of a dispute with U.S. Soccer over equal pay with the men’s national team, Rapinoe helped the women hold firm on their position.
“I just think back to 2019 in particular. We didn’t really talk about it a lot as a group but we were like, `Well, we have to win. This is kind of like a must-win World Cup for us.’ And I think it did give us confidence,” she said. “It pressured us, but I think we also knew that we could handle it and it was almost a mandatory upping of our level to be able to match everything that we were saying off the field. I think in so many ways we were betting on ourselves.”
Rapinoe has won two Women’s World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal with the United States. She also took home the Ballon d’Or and the Best FIFA Women’s Player awards — the game’s top individual honors — for her play in 2019.
As a fierce advocate for social justice issues, including gender equity and LGBTQ rights, she was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Joe Biden last year.
The team also won a new contract that pays the players the same as their male counterparts.
“I’ve always tried to use whatever platform we have, and this platform was built long before I got here. We just continue to add to to it, to grow the game, to make the world a better place, to use our voices, to advocate for more,” she said.
At this World Cup, she’s passing that legacy on to younger generation. Fourteen of the U.S. players are playing in their first World Cup. In 2019, Carli Lloyd was in a similar role of a player who was also something of a coach who led by example.
Rapinoe is doing that now.
“Still every day in training I’m like, `I’m gonna try to bust your ass,’ and that makes them better, that makes me better,” she said. “That makes the whole team better. So I think it’s been really rewarding. And I think ultimately, and I think that this gets lost, but I get to play in another World Cup.”
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SYDNEY (AP) — Some of the biggest names in soccer have yet to show up at the Women’s World Cup.
That’s literally been the case of Australian star Sam Kerr, who missed the first two games with a calf injury.
Kerr has recovered in time to play for Australia in a crucial final Group B game against Canada on Monday. The Matildas need to beat the Canadians to ensure they advance to the knockout round, and the Chelsea striker’s return to the lineup brings needed energy to the team.
“Mentally, it’s massive. It brings so much to our team and obviously also a lot to the opposition knowing that we have Sam available for this game,” Australia defender Ellie Carpenter said.
Kerr’s injury on the eve of Australia’s opening game against Ireland set the tone for a tournament that hasn’t been kind to some of its biggest stars. She was the face of co-host Australia’s preparations for the tournament, which is also being staged in New Zealand.
She dominated the covers of magazines across newsstands, while the autobiography she released late last year chronicled her rise to become arguably the best player in the women’s game right now. Kerr’s popularity transcends women’s soccer and she is considered a national icon.
So the disappointment was palpable when news broke about an hour before the opening match that Kerr was going to be sidelined at least two games in this tournament.
Kerr’s absence was felt in the 3-2 loss to Nigeria in Australia’s second game, a loss that put the Matildas in danger of elimination. It is not known what her role will be against Canada, but Australia needs Kerr to deliver in the final game of group play.
“I’m definitely going to be available, but how we decide to use that is not to be given to the opposition,” said Kerr.
The World Cup is supposed to be a showcase for the finest talent and biggest names, but injuries have always robbed the tournament of some its star players.
Norway forward Ada Hegerberg has had her playing time curtailed. Often referred to as “the Lionel Messi of women’s soccer,” Hederberg was part of a Norway’s 1-0 upset loss to New Zealand in the opening game of the World Cup.
It got worse for the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner when she suffered a groin injury in the warm-up ahead of Norway’s game against Switzerland, and she’s been ruled out of the final Group A game against the Philippines.
Keira Walsh of England suffered a knee injury against Denmark that will sidenline her for the Lionesses’ final Group D game against China. Described as irreplaceable, it is not known how much she will be able to play.
Even for some stars who have seen plenty of playing time, it has been difficult to make an impact.
American icon Alex Morgan has underwhelmed so far at her fourth World Cup, where she is hoping to help the United States to an unprecedented third consecutive title.
Morgan, the co-leading scorer at the last World Cup, has yet to score at this year’s event and missed a penalty in the 3-0 win against Vietnam. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said Morgan was adapting to playing in a forward line with Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman.
“I think it’s not hard to realize that Alex’s role is slightly different than the Alex that we’re used to maybe in the past,” Andonovski said. “She does set up the other two forwards a lot more. It’s not that she’s not capable of scoring goals or getting behind crosses, but we can also see her playing balls to Trinity and Soph, but also getting crosses for them as well.”
Morgan, at 34, is now one of the older players at the tournament.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is also searching for first goal of the tournament. Sinclair is highest scorer in international soccer — men or women — with 190 goals.
Like Morgan, she also missed a penalty, in a 0-0 draw with Nigeria that could still prove costly. She was benched for Canada’s second game against Ireland before coming in as a substitute at halftime as the gold medalist from the Tokyo Olympics logged a come-from-behind 2-1 win.
At 40 years old, Sinclair is having to accept a more limited role for Canada.
Brazil great Marta, at 37, has also been used sparingly in her sixth World Cup.
Her teammate, Debinha, who is also an iconic figure to Brazil fans, has been one of the standout players for her country so far. But she wasn’t able to stop a 2-1 loss to France on Saturday despite scoring in that match.
The gap appears to be closing in the women’s game, with underdogs proving more of a test for the more established nations. That’s one reason some of the big name stars have yet to impress in tournament.
One of the few standouts who has not disappointed so far has been Alexandra Popp, who scored twice in Germany’s 6-0 rout of Morocco.
Major tournaments are traditionally a mix of rising talents coming to the surface, while established stars have the chance to confirm their status among the greats.
Linda Caicedo of Colombia, Lauren James of England and Melchie Dumornay of Haiti have proven their worth as some of the brightest prospects in the game. But as the second round of games nears its completion, it feels like the tournament is still waiting for many of its big hitters to make an impact.
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Brandon Nakashima 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his most recent tournament (knocked out by Christopher Eubanks), Brandon Nakashima will begin the Citi Open against Aleksandar Vukic (in the round of 64). Nakashima currently has +2000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Nakashima at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Nakashima's Next Match
Nakashima will open up at the Citi Open by matching up with Vukic in the round of 64 on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET).
Nakashima has current moneyline odds of -250 to win his next matchup against Vukic. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
Brandon Nakashima Grand Slam Odds
- US Open odds to win: +6600
- Citi Open odds to win: +2000
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Nakashima Stats
- In his last match, Nakashima lost 7-6, 4-6, 5-7 versus Eubanks in the Round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open.
- Nakashima is 26-21 over the past year, with two tournament wins.
- Nakashima is 22-14 on hard courts over the past 12 months, with two tournament titles.
- Over the past year (across all court surfaces), Nakashima has played 47 matches and 25.9 games per match.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Nakashima has averaged 24.1 games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 82.6% of his games on serve, and 19.7% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 83.5% of his games on serve and 20.4% on return.
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Danielle Collins 2023 Citi Open Odds
Danielle Collins will begin the Citi Open in Washington, District of Columbia versus Liudmila Samsonova in the round of 32. She was knocked off by Belinda Bencic in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon (her most recent tournament). Collins has +2800 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Collins at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Collins' Next Match
In her opening match at the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 12:00 PM ET) in the round of 32, Collins will face Samsonova.
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Collins Stats
- Collins is coming off a loss in the Round of 64 at the Wimbledon, at the hands of No. 14-ranked Bencic, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7.
- Collins has not won any of her 14 tournaments over the past 12 months, with an overall record of 18-14.
- Collins has a match record of 17-11 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Through 32 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Collins has played 23.5 games per match. She won 51.8% of them.
- In her 28 matches on hard courts over the past year, Collins has played 23.3 games per match.
- Collins, over the past 12 months, has won 71.0% of her service games and 32.6% of her return games.
- Collins has claimed 71.2% of her service games on hard courts and 34.3% of her return games over the past 12 months.
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TAMPA, Fla. — The countdown continues to the new school year, and that also means making sure your kids are on the right routine and sleep schedule to start the year off strong.
Summer means family time, fun, and some much-needed rest.
"Of course, they're going to friend's houses and doing all the things, so it's the sleeping later that's the problem. It's not the staying up later,” said parent Jessica Markun.
Markun is going to be sending two kids back to school in just a matter of days.
"Starting this week, we'll start going back into making sure they're getting ready for bed at a decent time. That involves making sure that they're active during the day, so that they actually are tired at night,” said Markun.
Students have been out of school for weeks, so getting into the routine of things again might take some time.
"A rested kid is a happy kid,” said Abby Morris, a certified infant and child sleep consultant.
Morris says the time to get kids on the right sleep schedule is now.
"Don't wait until the day before or even the weekend before. Start shifting, so every night, move bedtime up by 10, 15 minutes,” said Morris.
That also means the whole schedule is shifted, so waking up at a consistent time in the morning too.
"I see it all the time: kids are crashing, they're having tantrums from when they're getting picked up from school, just meltdowns because they're exhausted, all the stimulation, and they're not able to unwind,” said Morris. “They're just a mess, so if you start now, you can get ahead of all of this, and it really makes a big difference in their learning."
Some other suggestions include using blackout curtains, creating bedtime checklists, and cutting screen time out at least an hour before bed.
"Also starting to get into the what does it look like when you're picking out your clothes, when you're getting up in the morning, when you're getting ready, do you have chores you have to do at night, so just making sure that they understand that there is a routine and what it looks like, and as much as you can do to prepare them the night before, that's going to help them in the morning,” said Markun. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/back-to-school/experts-share-tips-on-getting-kids-back-on-sleep-schedule-before-new-school-year | 2023-07-31T04:05:24 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/back-to-school/experts-share-tips-on-getting-kids-back-on-sleep-schedule-before-new-school-year |
Brainerd’s Crossing Arts Alliance, Lakes Area Skatepark Association Team Up for Skate Deck Auction
Last Friday, downtown Brainerd saw the work of two dedicated organizations on display for the community as a whole to enjoy with the closing reception of the Across the Board Skate Deck Auction.
“There are 19 beautiful hand-painted skateboards that local artists have done, and they are on display through July 29th and the auction goes through July 30th,” explained Lakes Area Skatepark Association president Jake Rennaker.
This exhibit serves as a joint project between the Crossing Arts Alliance and the Lakes Area Skatepark Association and features work from a wide variety of artists in the area, all utilizing skate decks as their mediums.
“It’s always fun to see people come through the doors and enjoy the work on exhibition here in the gallery. This show especially, showing work created by so many different local artists, so many unique pieces with so many different talents on display,” said Crossing Arts Alliance Interim Executive Director Jennifer Jacquot-DeVries.
The proceeds for the exhibit and the community auction itself will be split between the two organizations, with the Lakes Area Skatepark Association hoping to create a skatepark in the area with the funds.
“We kind of collaborated on the whole idea, and we decided that it would be an awesome idea to come together and create an exhibit where we can do skateboard decks, have art and put that all together,” said Rennaker.
“I just think it’s wonderful. We’re very happy to work with them and support their efforts to get this done,” added Jacquot-DeVries.
The reception also saw a special skateboard painted by several community members given away via raffle. The auction can be found here.
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Lauren Davis 2023 Citi Open Odds
Lauren Davis has a match versus Sloane Stephens coming up next in the Citi Open round of 32. Davis is +6600 to win at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Davis at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Davis' Next Match
After defeating Ashlyn Krueger 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the qualification final, Davis will meet Stephens in the round of 32 on Monday, July 31 at 2:40 PM ET.
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Davis Stats
- In the qualifying round on Sunday, Davis beat No. 123-ranked Krueger, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5.
- Davis has won one of her 20 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 26-19.
- Davis has won one tournament over the past 12 months on hard courts, with a match record of 20-11 on that surface.
- Davis has played 21.4 games per match in her 45 matches over the past year across all court types.
- On hard courts, Davis has played 31 matches over the past 12 months, and 21.2 games per match.
- Davis has won 33.9% of her return games and 62.1% of her service games over the past year.
- On hard courts, Davis, over the past year, has claimed 66.1% of her service games and 35.0% of her return games.
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In Focus: Abbeya Foundation Aims to Bring Zen Meditation to Bemidji
A new non-profit in Bemidji is aiming to bring another community to the area, one that centers around Zen Buddhism and the practice of meditation.
The Abbeya Foundation focuses on cultural practices to benefit not only people’s lives, but the communities they live in as well. They held their first public talk on Friday at the Rail River Folk School and their first retreat over the weekend.
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Marcos Giron 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon in his previous tournament (eliminated by Marton Fucsovics), Marcos Giron will begin the Citi Open versus Radu Albot (in the round of 64). Giron's odds are +4000 to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Giron at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Giron's Next Match
In his opener at the Citi Open, Giron will face Albot on Monday, July 31 at 3:55 PM ET in the round of 64.
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Giron Stats
- Giron came up short in his most recent match, 6-7, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6 versus Fucsovics in the Round of 64 of the Wimbledon on July 6, 2023.
- In 27 tournaments over the past year, Giron has yet to win a title, and his record is 29-27.
- Giron has a match record of 19-17 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Giron has played 24.4 games per match in his 56 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Giron has averaged 23.7 games.
- Giron has won 22.0% of his return games and 78.2% of his service games over the past year.
- On hard courts over the past 12 months, Giron has been victorious in 19.7% of his return games and 77.7% of his service games.
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Maxime Cressy 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his last tournament (eliminated by Jeffrey John Wolf), Maxime Cressy will open the Citi Open versus Alexander Shevchenko (in the round of 64). Cressy has +4000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Cressy at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Cressy's Next Match
In the round of 64 of the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 1:15 PM ET), Cressy will meet Shevchenko.
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Cressy Stats
- In his previous tournament, the Truist Atlanta Open, Cressy was beaten in the Round of 16 by No. 46-ranked Wolf, 6-7, 3-6.
- Cressy is 16-30 over the past year, with no tournament victories.
- Cressy is 15-20 on hard courts over the past year.
- Cressy, over the past 12 months, has played 46 matches across all court types, and 26.9 games per match.
- On hard courts, Cressy has played 35 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 26.2 games per match while winning 49.9% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Cressy has won 83.4% of his games on serve, and 12.8% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past year, Cressy has won 85.6% of his games on serve and 13.5% on return.
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Sloane Stephens 2023 Citi Open Odds
After exiting in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon in her last tournament (knocked out by Donna Vekic), Sloane Stephens will begin the Citi Open against Lauren Davis (in the round of 32). Stephens' odds are +2800 to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Stephens at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Stephens' Next Match
In her opener at the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 2:40 PM ET) in the round of 32, Stephens will meet Davis.
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Stephens Stats
- Stephens last played on July 6, 2023, a 6-4, 5-7, 4-6 defeat by No. 21-ranked Vekic in the Round of 64 of the Wimbledon.
- The 30-year-old Stephens is 20-19 over the past year and is still looking for her first tournament win.
- Stephens has a match record of 11-13 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Stephens has played 21.3 games per match in her 39 matches over the past 12 months across all court types.
- In her 24 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Stephens has played 20.8 games per match.
- Over the past year, Stephens has won 64.4% of her service games, and she has won 37.7% of her return games.
- Stephens has won 35.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, she has claimed 62.3% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Zachary Svajda 2023 Citi Open Odds
The Citi Open continues in Washington, District of Columbia, with Zachary Svajda in the round of 64 versus Max Purcell. Svajda has +10000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Svajda at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Svajda's Next Match
Svajda will play Purcell in the round of 64 on Tuesday, August 1 at 12:00 PM ET, after getting past Brandon Holt 7-6, 3-0 in the qualification final.
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Svajda Stats
- Svajda advanced over Holt 7-6, 3-0 on Sunday to make the .
- In nine tournaments over the past 12 months, Svajda is 10-8 and has yet to win a title.
- In six tournaments on hard courts over the past 12 months, Svajda has gone 9-5.
- Svajda has played 22.9 games per match in his 18 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- On hard courts, Svajda has played 14 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 22.8 games per match while winning 53.6% of games.
- Svajda has won 23.5% of his return games and 69.0% of his service games over the past year.
- On hard courts, Svajda, over the past year, has claimed 62.5% of his service games and 26.1% of his return games.
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In a sign of further escalating tensions, the Indianapolis Colts are reportedly considering placing running back Jonathan Taylor on the non-football injury list, a move that would allow them to withhold his entire 2023 salary.
Colts insider Mike Chappell reported the news on Sunday, adding that Taylor is dealing with a back injury from working out in Arizona during the offseason. ESPN's Stephen Holder reported that Taylor has complained of back pain that the team deems pre-existing from prior to training camp.
Taylor is recovering from offseason ankle surgery and is already on the physically unable to play (PUP) list. Per Holder, the team wasn't aware of any back issues until Taylor reported to training camp last Tuesday.
Players on the PUP list are due their salary. Players on the NFI list are not, though teams can negotiate to pay players if they choose.
Taylor denied on Twitter Sunday evening that he'd experienced or reported any back pain.
1.) Never had a back pain.
— Jonathan Taylor (@JayT23) July 31, 2023
2.) Never reported back pain.
Not sure who “sources” are, but find new ones 🤔
Taylor — a 2021 All-Pro and NFL rushing champion — is due $4.3 million this season on the final year of his four-year rookie contract. He's seeking a long-term extension that would pay him considerably more annually. The Colts have declined to offer him an extension. At worst if he's healthy, he projects to secure a one-year franchise tag tender next season that would more than double his 2023 salary.
The 2023 franchise tag tender for running backs is $10.1 million. But if he lands on the NFI list and remains there all season, his $4.3 million 2023 salary would toll for next year.
Taylor's been vocal this offseason about running back pay and his desire for a new contract, leading to a contentious public back-and-forth involving his agent Malki Kawa and Colts owner Jim Irsay. Taylor joined a chorus of disgruntled high-profile running backs lamenting the state of the position's pay after Saquon Barkley, Josh Jacobs and Tony Pollard failed to secure long-term extensions this offseason.
On Wednesday, Irsay tweeted that running backs seeking new negotiations are doing so in "bad faith" at the advice of their agents.
NFL Running Back situation- We have negotiated a CBA,that took years of effort and hard work and compromise in good faith by both sides..to say now that a specific Player category wants another negotiation after the fact,is inappropriate. Some Agents are selling ‘bad faith’..
— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) July 26, 2023
Kawa fired back on Twitter that Irsay is not paying the Colts "top offensive player."
Bad faith is not paying your top offensive player https://t.co/ZYvrLhxygG
— malki kawa (@malkikawa) July 27, 2023
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago Bears didn't plan to lead the league in rushing last season any more than they planned to trail the league in passing.
But adjusting to the first year in a new offensive system, with a collection of personnel that most around the league would not describe as top-end, prompted a heavy skew to the ground game as quarterback Justin Fields showcased his electric athleticism and play-making ability.
The Bears demonstrated one route to offensive production last season. That film might not reflect the Bears’ chosen route in 2023. Because increasing familiarity with offensive coordinator Luke Getsy’s system and a series of offseason moves have shifted the possibilities.
Consider this less a change in philosophy and more a change in execution of the system.
“Letting the guys take ownership of it, putting their own flavor on stuff makes it more natural and more organic, which usually means better,” Getsy told Yahoo Sports on Friday in a sitdown interview. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. We’re just trying to give these guys more tools on the tool belt.”
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The tools at Fields' disposal this season should allow him to better attack and protect. The Bears acquired veteran receiver D.J. Moore, who’s averaged more than 1,000 yards per season in his five-year pro career, as part of their trade of the 2023 first overall pick to the Carolina Panthers.
Compare that to last years’ Bears, none of whom compiled even 500 receiving yards or four touchdowns. Chicago’s leading pass-catcher was tight end Cole Kmet, whose 544 yards still trailed Moore.
The Bears also fortified the right side of its offensive line this spring, signing four-year Tennessee Titans starting guard Nate Davis and selecting tackle Darnell Wright in the first round of the draft, 10th overall.
The hope: More of a passing game will naturally emerge for Fields, who was often left scrambling last year because he either didn’t have time to let a play develop or didn’t have the right target for completing the pass. He ultimately completed 60.4% of his passes, throwing for 2,242 yards, 17 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 15 games. Fields scored eight touchdowns by ground while rushing for 1,143 yards — seventh-most in the league, running backs included. This was the result more than the plan.
“I’m not thinking before a play breaks down. ‘Oh, I’m going to run this play or pass this play,’” Fields said. “I don't make the decision beforehand.”
With his surrounding cast last year, he couldn’t.
How will this year’s talent collection jive with offensive familiarity in Fields’ first pro season without a new offensive system?
“Not having to learn a new offense, new protections, new language…has definitely been easier for me in terms of diving deeper into the playbook and a better understanding of it,” Fields said. “I’ve definitely felt way more comfortable this offseason.”
Even before padded practices ramp up, Getsy could see that in meetings and film sessions. Fields discussed adjusting protections and choosing between run plays at the line of scrimmage with a different level of command in OTAs this year than last, Getsy told Yahoo Sports. He described responses to defensive alignments more clearly, conveying not just what should be done but also the why. Visualizations of plays look different than a year ago.
“It’s more about the control that he can have,” Getsy said. “The ideas that hit his brain in the heat of the battle rather than just kind of doing what the piece of paper said.”
NFL history suggests the rebound from last year’s 3-14 campaign will still take the Bears more than one year, their pair of 2024 first-round draft selections another indicator of a multi-year plan. And yet: It doesn’t hurt that four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers is no longer in their division or even conference, after Rodgers won 24 of 29 games against Chicago. Getsy is also cognizant of the margin in a smattering of losses last year. The Bears fell seven times in one-possession games; five times, that deficit was five points or fewer.
Learning to finish games, cliché as it might sound, may be as important as learning to produce. Understanding the ethos under Matt Eberflus, one of a minority of NFL head coaches to emerge from defensive ranks, could influence the rhythm of when to run and when to pass.
“What we do a really good job of here is we play as a full team,” Getsy said. “So we're gonna play the game, what's best for our defense, what's best for our special teams and what's best for our offense too.
“I know it's not always the prettiest thing that people want to see if people want to see passing yards and points, right? You know, so do we. But we want to win, more importantly.
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LINCOLNTON, N.C. — Six migrant workers in North Carolina were injured on Sunday after they were struck by a motorist driving an SUV at a Walmart, authorities said.
According to the Lincolnton Police Department, the motorist intentionally struck the workers at the Walmart located at North Generals Boulevard in Lincolnton at about 1:17 p.m. EDT, WSOC-TV reported.
According to a Facebook post by the police department, the vehicle is an older model, mid-size black SUV with a luggage rack.
The six victims were transported to six were transported to Atrium Health Lincoln in Lincolnton with various injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening, police wrote.
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Madonna went on social media Sunday to thank family and friends for the support they have shown since she was hospitalized last month.
The Material Girl continued her online updates, writing in an Instagram post that “love from family and friends is the best medicine.”
“As a Mother you can really get caught up In the needs Of your children and the seemingly endless giving,” the 64-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer wrote. “But when the chips were down my children really showed up for me. I saw a side to them I had never seen before. It made all the difference.”
Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, announced on June 24 in a statement that the singer was in an intensive care unit after she had been diagnosed with a “serious bacterial infection.”
At the time, Oseary said that Madonna was expected to make a full recovery, but that her Celebration World Tour would be postponed, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Madonna ended her Sunday post by thanking “all my angels who protected me and let me Stay to finish doing my work!”
Three days earlier, Madonna marked the 40th anniversary of her 1983 debut album and “Lucky Star,” the breakout hit that rocketed her to worldwide prominence. She dances on camera and pulls down her sunglasses to wink at the camera in her Instagram post. The effect is enhanced by a digital star that sparkles in her left eye, Billboard reported.
“To be able to move my body and dance just a little bit makes me feel like the Luckiest Star in the world!” Madonna wrote. “Thank you to all of my fans and friends! You must be my lucky stars too! And Happy 40th Birthday to my very. First Album.”
Madonna had hip replacement surgery in late 2020, People reported. That came 11 months after she was injured and forced to cancel several shows on the North American leg of her Madame X tour, according to the magazine.
According to Billboard, Madonna has had 12 hits reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart, with 38 songs reaching the top 10. The tour was set to net her more than $100 million, the music website reported.
According to Billboard Boxscore, Madonna has grossed a reported $1.376 billion and has sold 11.7 million tickets at 575 shows. She is the most successful female act in Boxscore history, Billboard reported.
Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
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MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — A man was attacked by a shark on Sunday near a beach off the west-central coast of Florida, authorities said.
According to the West Manatee Fire Rescue District, the man was attacked on the north end of Anna Maria Island, WFLA-TV reported.
Anna Maria Island is in Manatee County, about 55 miles south of downtown Tampa.
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The man, who is in his 20s, was bitten in his lower leg near Bean Point on Anna Maria Island, WWSB-TV reported.
The victim was taken to the Kingfish Boat ramp and was transported as a trauma alert, according to the television station.
The man’s condition is unknown, WFLA reported. The circumstances leading up to the attack are unclear, according to the television station.
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Six migrant workers were struck Sunday afternoon by an SUV in a Walmart parking lot in North Carolina from what police are calling "an intentional assault with a vehicle."
"All six were transported to Atrium Health – Lincoln with various injuries. None of the injuries appear to be life threatening," the Lincolnton Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Police say they're still looking for the vehicle and driver involved in the incident, which they said took place at 1:17 pm ET. In the Facebook post, they describe the vehicle as an older model SUV with a luggage rack, and the driver as an older white male.
The motive for the attack is also still under investigation. Police told NPR via telephone late Sunday there is no further information.
Lincolnton is a small city of some 11,800 people located about an hour outside of Charlotte.
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Six migrant workers were struck Sunday afternoon by an SUV in a Walmart parking lot in North Carolina from what police are calling "an intentional assault with a vehicle."
"All six were transported to Atrium Health – Lincoln with various injuries. None of the injuries appear to be life threatening," the Lincolnton Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Police say they're still looking for the vehicle and driver involved in the incident, which they said took place at 1:17 pm ET. In the Facebook post, they describe the vehicle as an older model SUV with a luggage rack, and the driver as an older white male.
The motive for the attack is also still under investigation. Police told NPR via telephone late Sunday there is no further information.
Lincolnton is a small city of some 11,800 people located about an hour outside of Charlotte.
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BEIJING (AP) — The Fangbiaogan Real Estate Agency in the southern city of Nanning is still waiting for China’s post-COVID rebound.
Home sales are 30-40% below last year’s depressed level after the economy barely grew in the latest quarter, according to the owner, who would give only his surname, Cai. He has cut staff by 80% to 40 employees. Their income from sales commissions has fallen as much as 90%.
“People are worried,” said Cai. “They feel safer holding onto their savings instead of spending them.”
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government is making ambitious promises to drag the economy out of that crisis of confidence aggravated by tension with Washington, wilting exports, job losses and anxiety among foreign companies about an expanded anti-spying law.
Its most striking pledge: To support entrepreneurs who generate jobs and wealth but have felt under attack over the past decade as the ruling Communist Party built up state-owned industry, tightened control over business and pressured them to pay for its technology and industrial ambitions.
China has an “urgent need” to “boost confidence in the outlook for the private economy,” the Cabinet said in a July 19 announcement.
Entrepreneurs and investors are waiting to see what tax, spending or other steps the ruling party might take — and whether it will rein in state companies that dominate banking, energy and other industries and that economists say are stifling growth.
The ruling party took action after the economy grew by just 0.8% in the three months ending in June from the previous quarter, down from 2.2% growth in January-March. That is equal to a 3.2% annual rate, among China’s weakest in decades.
With households anxious about possible job losses, retail sales growth slid to 3.1% in June from the previous month’s 12.7%.
“Policymakers have underestimated the difficulty in boosting the confidence of households and private companies,” Macquarie economists Larry Hu and Yuxiao Zhang said in a report. China needs a “reset in macro and regulatory policies to make them more pro-growth and pro-business,” they said.
The ruling party’s Politburo followed up on July 24 with a statement promising to shore up economic growth and support real estate, which has struggled since Beijing clamped down on debt levels in China’s biggest industry. Stock markets in Hong Kong and China surged on the news but fell back as investors waited to see what Beijing might do.
“I’ve seen lots of policies like this, but none were carried out,” said Cai, the real estate broker.
China’s leaders want the prosperity generated by free enterprise but also are requiring businesses to invest in political initiatives that include developing computer chips and narrowing the wealth gap between China’s elite and the poor majority. Regulators shut down an internet-based tutoring industry and imposed limits on children playing online games.
Skeptical businesspeople and economists expect little more than fine-tuning.
“We doubt this marks a fundamental shift in the way that the leadership views the role of private firms,” Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics said in a report.
The country’s No. 2 leader, Premier Li Qiang, and Cabinet ministers spent the first half of this year meeting visiting CEOs including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook and Elon Musk of Tesla Ltd. in a charm offensive aimed at reviving investor interest.
Despite that, foreign companies are on edge following unexplained raids on two consulting firms and a due diligence firm. The expansion of an anti-spying law and a push for self-reliance in technology also are seen as risks. Foreign investment into China fell 2.7% from a year earlier in the first half of 2023, according to official data.
A survey by the British Chamber of Commerce in China found 70% of foreign companies want “greater clarity” before making new investments. The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said its members are shifting investments to Southeast Asia and other targets.
Exports in June fell 12.% from a year earlier after interest rate hikes to cool inflation dampened U.S. and European consumer demand.
A furniture dealer in the central city of Taiyuan said her sales were down 20-30% compared with during the pandemic. The merchant, who would give only her family name, Ma, said her customers are salaried urban workers who still were recovering from anti-virus measures that shut down companies.
“We have lost money so far this year,” said Ma, who was unaware of the ruling party’s promise of support.
An official survey found unemployment among young people in cities spiked to a record 21.3% in June.
A researcher at Peking University, Zhang Dandan, wrote in the business news magazine Caixin the true rate might be almost 50% if young people who are paid by parents to work around the house while they try to find other jobs or have given up looking are included.
The party’s decision to reverse one of its signature policies and ease controls imposed in 2020 to rein in surging debt in real estate reflect the urgency of the problem. Those curbs triggered a wave of hundreds of bankruptcies among developers and dragged on business activity.
Still, the property industry’s problems persist. Developers have renegotiated payments to banks and bondholders, but financial analysts say they face another cash crunch if sales fail to pick up. The biggest, Evergrande Group, still is trying to resolve more than $300 billion in debt.
Tech tycoon Ma Huateng, the publicity-shy co-founder of games and social media giant Tencent Holding, broke his media silence and issued a statement praising the July 19 announcement as a “clear and in-depth understanding” of challenges for entrepreneurs.
Tencent, operator of the popular WeChat message service, is a target of anti-monopoly and data security crackdowns launched by Beijing in 2020 to tighten control over tech industries. Its share price has fallen by half, wiping out more than $400 billion in stock market value.
The statement “raised earnest expectations for high-quality development of private enterprises,” Ma wrote on a state TV blog.
The party has tried to shift money to the public by pressuring successful companies including e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to raise wages and reduce charges. But the party has avoided giving money straight to households through Western-style social welfare programs.
The chief economist of state-owned Bank of China International Ltd. suggested a politically sensitive alternative: Hand ownership of state-owned companies that are the core of the ruling party’s strategic plans to the Chinese public.
Their dividends would “create wealth effects for residents, stimulating increased income and consumption,” Xu Gao wrote in a commentary published by a Beijing think tank, the Center for China and Globalization.
The party has given no sign it might consider that. It has not clarified the status of law and consulting firms and other companies under the anti-spying rules, which have left many uncertain about whether gathering information on business conditions is prohibited.
Another risk factor: More abrupt policy changes as Xi, China’s most powerful leader in decades, pursues his economic, social and strategic ambitions.
“There is little to prevent private firms from being targeted again down the road,” said Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics.
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CHENGDU, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 29, in the Men's Nanquan of Wushu tournament, China's athlete Cao Maoyuan won the first gold medal at the 31st FISU World University Games with a score of 9.770.
Cao Maoyuan stood on the podium, showcasing his glory to the world. The medal around his neck, accompanied by a radiant medal ribbon, caught everyone's attention. But what makes this seemingly ordinary medal ribbon so remarkable? It's the embodiment of Chengdu's cultural charm. According to Hu Guangjun, the director of the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute, the medal ribbon for this edition of the Games has ingeniously incorporated the millennia-old weaving techniques of Shu brocade. Adorned with iconic symbols of Chengdu's historical and cultural significance, such as hibiscus flowers and sun birds, the ribbon exudes a captivating luster. This transforms China's intangible cultural heritage into a tangible "Rongguang" (the brilliance of Chengdu) that can be truly appreciated.
Shu brocade weaving skills are China's national intangible cultural heritage. Dating back to the Han Dynasty, Shu brocade has been a vital "protagonist" in trade along the Silk Road, earning its place as a cultural emblem of Chengdu and a symbol of cultural exchange between the East and West. With the unveiling of the first medal of the Games, Chengdu proudly showcases this cherished cultural business card to the world once again.
This outstanding cultural business card was produced in the workshop of Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute in Shuangliu District. According to Hu Guangjun, the location of the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute in Shuangliu stems from its long history of silk culture. During the Three Kingdoms period, renowned strategist Zhuge Liang resided in Gemo Village, Shuangliu, where he emphasized the significance of Shu brocade by stating, "In the current circumstances of impoverishment and an empty treasury, we rely solely on Shu brocade for the necessary materials to confront our enemies." This highlights the historical importance of Shu brocade at that time. Moreover, a piece of Shu brocade known as "Lianzhu Loong Pattern Brocade" was excavated from the 226th tomb of Astana in Turpan, Xinjiang in the last century. The relic clearly records its origin in Shuangliu, bearing witness to the flourishing and prosperous Shu brocade industry in the Shuangliu region during the Tang Dynasty.
To infuse traditional Shu brocade with a fashionable touch, Hu Guangjun collaborated with a design team composed of Ma Liwa, a teacher, and students from the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts at Chengdu University. Together, they tirelessly refined and revised the design, from pattern creation to machine production. This meticulous process took nearly six months to complete. Moreover, the transformation of mulberry silk into the medal ribbons required over 70 intricate steps.
Apart from the medal ribbons, the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute has introduced a range of Games-related merchandise crafted from Shu brocade fabrics, including mirrors and bucket hats. These products seamlessly blend traditional culture with contemporary fashion elements, showcasing the progressive charm of Shu brocade. As a result, they have captured the attention of many young individuals who are now eager to explore and appreciate the beauty of Shu brocade.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital medicines stands to benefit from new protective standards.
But conservationists who have been trying for years to save a declining bird species — the red knot — that depends on horseshoe crabs fear the protections still don’t go far enough.
Drug and medical device makers are dependent on the valuable blue blood of the crabs — helmet-shaped invertebrates that have scuttled in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years — to test for potentially dangerous impurities. The animals are drained of some of their blood and returned to the environment, but many die from the bleeding.
Recent revisions to guidelines for handling the animals should keep more alive through the process, regulators said. The animals — not really true crabs but rather more closely related to land-dwelling invertebrates such as spiders and scorpions — are declining in some of their East Coast range.
“They were here before the dinosaurs,” said Glenn Gauvry, president of Ecological Research & Development Group, a Delaware-based nonprofit that advocates for horseshoe crab conservation. “And they’re having problems because the new kids on the block, us, haven’t learned to appreciate the elders.”
The harvest of horseshoe crabs, which are also caught for bait in the commercial fishing industry, has emerged as a critical issue for conservationists in recent years because of the creature’s role in coastal ecosystems. The crabs’ eggs are vitally important food for a declining subspecies of a bird called the red knot — a rust-colored, migratory shorebird listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
The birds, which migrate some 19,000 miles (30,577 kilometers) roundtrip from South America to Canada and must stop to eat along the way, need stronger protection of horseshoe crabs to survive, said Bethany Kraft, senior director for coastal conservation with the Audubon Society. Kraft and other wildlife advocates said the fact the guidelines for handling crabs are voluntary and not mandatory leaves the red knot at risk.
“Making sure there is enough to fuel these birds on this massive, insanely long flight is just critical,” Kraft said. “There’s very clear linkage between horseshoe crabs and the survival of the red knot in the coming decades.”
The horseshoe crabs are valuable because their blood can be manufactured into limulus amebocyte lysate, or LAL, that is used to detect pathogens in indispensable medicines such as injectable antibiotics. The crabs are collected by fishermen by hand or via trawlers for use by biomedical companies, then their blood is separated and proteins within their white blood cells are processed. It takes dozens of the crabs to produce enough blood to fill a single glass tube with its blood, which contains immune cells sensitive to bacteria.
There are only five federally licensed manufacturers on the East Coast that process horseshoe crab blood. The blood is often described by activist groups as worth $15,000 a quart (liter), though some members of the industry say that figure is impossible to verify.
Regulators estimate about 15% of the crabs die in the bleeding process. In 2021, that meant about 112,000 crabs died, said Caitlin Starks, a senior fishery management plan coordinator with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. The bait fishery for horseshoe crabs, which are used as bait for eels and sea snails, killed more than six times that, she said.
Still, the fisheries commission in May approved new best management practices for the biomedical industry’s harvesting and handling of the crabs. Those include minimizing exposure to sunlight and keeping crabs cool and moist, Starks said.
“The goal is to give the crabs that are bled a better chance of surviving and contributing to the ecosystem after they are released,” she said.
That’s exactly what the new guidelines will do, said Nora Blair, quality operations manager with Charles River Laboratories, one of the companies that manufactures LAL from horseshoe crab blood. Blair was a member of a working group that crafted the updated guidelines alongside other industry members, conservationists, fishery managers, fishermen and others.
Blair said the industry is working toward a synthetic alternative — an outcome conservationists have been pushing for years. However, for now the wild harvest of horseshoe crabs remains critically important to drug safety, Blair said.
“The critical role of horseshoe crab in the biopharmaceutical supply chain and coastal ecosystem makes their conservation imperative,” he said.
The Atlantic horseshoe crab, the species harvested on the East Coast, ranges from the Gulf of Maine to Florida. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as being “vulnerable” based on a 2016 assessment.
One of the most important ecosystems for horseshoe crabs is the Delaware Bay, an estuary of the Delaware River between Delaware and New Jersey. The bay is where the crabs breed and the red knots feed.
The density of horseshoe crab eggs in the bay is nowhere near what it was in the 1990s, said Lawrence Niles, an independent wildlife biologist who once headed New Jersey’s state endangered species program. Meanwhile, the population of the rufa red knot, the threatened subspecies, has declined by 75% since the 1980s, according to the National Park Service.
The birds need meaningful protection of horseshoe crab eggs to be able to recover, Niles said. He tracks the health of red knots and horseshoe crabs and has organized a group called Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition to advocate for conservation measures.
Niles and volunteers he organizes have been counting the horseshoe crab eggs since the 1980s and tagging birds since the 1990s. In mid-June, as he was wrapping up this year’s tracking in southern New Jersey, he described the eggs as “good and consistent” through the month.
“What we want is the harvest to stop, the killing to stop, and let the stock rebuild to its carrying capacity,” Niles said.
The horseshoe crabs have been harvested for use as bait and medicine from Florida to Maine over the years, though the largest harvests are in Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts and Virginia. According to federal fishery statistics, the crabs were worth about $1.1 million in total at the docks in 2021.
That figure is dwarfed by seafood species such as lobsters and scallops, which are routinely worth hundreds of millions of dollars. However, horseshoe crab fishers are dedicated stewards of a fishery that supplies a vital product, said George Topping, a Maryland fisherman.
“Everything you do in life comes from horseshoe crab blood. Vaccines, antibiotics,” he said. “The horseshoe crab stocks are healthy.”
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Associated Press photographer Matt Rourke in Pickering Beach, Delaware, and video journalist Rodrique Ngowi in Middle Township, N.J., contributed to this report.
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With TCL's latest intelligent algorithm, the enhanced picture quality elevates the experience of movie watching, game play and more
HONG KONG, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL, a leading consumer electronics brand and the world's top two TV brand, is reiterating its display advancement to drive more immersive entertainment experiences for users around the world.
On the successful launches of TCL's all-new QD-Mini LED TVs and QLED TVs, a superior line up of 4K TV's delivering high and precise contrast, stunning brightness, vivid colours and better uniformity, TCL is committed to the development of its AiPQ Processor 3.0, offering next-level picture performance.
AiPQ Processor 3.0 Enhances the Viewing Experience for Movie and TV Lovers
For true film buffs, any time of day is the perfect time to lose yourself in an engrossing, feature-length production. Whether indulging by staying up late or unwinding on a lazy sunny afternoon, the AiPQ Processor 3.0's Ai-Contrast feature intelligently reproduces reality by dynamically optimizing the contrast ratio, analyzing brightness and darkness levels to perfectly balance light and shadows – ensuring the intensity of a scene is upheld whether watching during the day or night. To ensure you never miss a detail of the drama unfolding on your screen, Ai-Clarity analyses the image according to its original resolution, reproducing the final image with precise noise reduction for crystal clear visuals, meaning every detail of an intense film scene is captured. For fans of the fantasy genre, where out-of-this-world colour palettes really bring the story to life, Ai-Colour transforms and strengthens the screen colour gamut, independently rendering different colours to ensure expression is optimized for a truly immersive experience.
For those who prefer to unwind by transporting themselves to other worlds via nature documentaries, Ai-Colour perceives images in the same way the naked eye does by recreating micro colour details seen in the real world. It achieves this by automatically tuning, correcting and enhancing multiple specs including colour temperature, saturation and contrast, to deliver a life-like rendered image with a natural, artistic touch. Thanks to this precise algorithm, wildlife shows have never looked so good, making the viewer feel truly surrounded by nature. What's more, Ai-HDR intelligently decodes multiple HDR formats from HDR 10, to HDR10+ and more, allowing you to TV content exactly as the director intended, with enhanced organic colours and a wider range of brightness and darkness highlights.
Keeping up to Speed – The Benefits of Ai for Sports Viewing and Gaming
For those who never want to miss a moment of the action, Ai-Motion elevates the experience of watching sports by intuitively detecting fast moving objects according to their size and position on the screen, calculating motion in terms of refresh rate and frame number. Be the first to spot the foul or notice if the ball was out thanks to Ai-Clarity's crystal-clear visuals that allow you to enjoy up to 4K experience with content of lower resolutions, so you can capture every pivotal moment.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was holding talks with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Monday in a sign of improving ties after a stormy period between the EU and his predecessor over human rights.
Von der Leyen arrived in Manila Sunday night for the first such top-level visit in nearly six decades of relations with the Philippines. Her visit is aimed at strengthening diplomatic, trade, security and overall relations, European and Philippine officials said, adding that she came at Marcos’s invitation.
The talks between von der Leyen and her delegation with Filipino officials were also expected to cover the Philippines’ chances of retaining special trade incentives depending on its adherence to international conventions on human and labor rights and good governance.
In February, a group of European parliamentarians said Manila’s chances of retaining those incentives, including slashed tariffs for a wide array of products, would increase if a long-detained opposition leader is freed and the Philippines rejoins the International Criminal Court.
The European Union trade incentives under the so-called Generalized Scheme of Preferences, or GSP Plus, for the Philippines and seven other developing countries are anchored on their adherence to more than two dozen international conventions on human and labor rights, environmental protection and good governance.
The trading incentives, which the Philippines started to enjoy in 2014, would end in December and the government could reapply within a two-year period to retain them, the European lawmakers said then.
But the Philippines came under intense EU criticism during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year term, mainly because of the bloody anti-drugs crackdown he oversaw that left more than 6,000 mostly petty suspects dead. Marcos succeeded Duterte in June last year.
The killings sparked an International Criminal Court investigation as a possible crime against humanity. Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC in 2018, but its prosecutor has proceeded to investigate the widespread deaths that occurred in the years when the country was still part of the court based in The Hague.
Duterte then often lashed at the EU’s criticisms of his brutal anti-drugs crackdown with profanity-laced outbursts.
European parliamentarians have also repeatedly demanded the release of opposition leader and former senator Leila de Lima, Duterte’s most vocal critic who was arrested and detained in 2017 on drug charges she said were fabricated by Duterte and his officials to stop her from investigating the killings.
Hannah Neumann, who led the European delegation in a visit to the Philippines in February, told a news conference then that rights conditions under the Marcos administration were “better than it was under Pres. Duterte” in reply to a question. “There are a lot of announcements that could indeed improve things if they’re implemented.”
The delegates then welcomed Marcos’ “commitment to change the focus of the ‘war on drugs’ away from a punitive approach towards prevention and rehabilitation.”
But they said extrajudicial killings have reportedly persisted and underscored the need for all the killings to be investigated and the perpetrators held to account to fight impunity.
Asked if a decision to release de Lima and rejoin the ICC would boost the Philippines’ chances of continuing to enjoy the EU trading incentives, Neumann said that would be “a strong sign in which direction the country wants to move.”
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SEATTLE, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Monport Laser has been at the forefront of laser engraving innovation, spearheading the development of cutting-edge laser engravers and cutters. Building upon its world-leading expertise in the laser engraving industry, the company is now ready to captivate the market with its latest breakthroughs. In August, Monport Laser is scheduled to announce a range of new laser engraving machines, specifically engineered to handle various materials.
After six months of relentless effort from Monport's development technical team, their eagerly anticipated product will finally be revealed to all laser creators in early August of this year. The development of this innovative machine began with thousands of customer survey questionnaires for laser marking machines, rigorous testing, and product designer assessments. Engineers conducted over a dozen rounds of machine sample screening and in the final design stage, they took the unusual step of bringing in external senior personnel and engraving novices to carry out engraving tests for an entire month. This dedication to improvement and openness to feedback ensures a professional and user-friendly final fiber laser.
Monport GP Fiber Laser Series is not only Lightweight but Compact
Laser engraving machines have long faced difficulties when it comes to laser focusing, causing technical support headaches. Monport's latest innovation in marking machine can answer all these troubles. The new product boasts an electric and manual double lifting focus method, designed to make laser focusing seamless and improve the final engraving result. With this cutting-edge technology, users can operate without any barriers, and achieve the perfect, professional engraving effect.The electric lifting focus is suitable for beginners while the manual focus is the best for experienced users. This new integrated fiber laser is truly versatile in achieving any special engraving effects needed.
Breaking away from the conventional split type designs flooding the market, Monport introduces a game-changing one-piece design for their latest marking machine. This ingenious development not only saves valuable space but also ensures portability becomes a breeze. Bella, a senior developer at Monport Laser, proudly declared, "Our exceptional team of female developers has personally experienced the convenience of this machine. They effortlessly moved it from one studio to another, adjusting the base's height for easy handling right off the table. The commitment to a user-friendly experience is not just a mere claim."
In striking comparison to other conventional 33kg machines, Monport GP Series Fiber Series introduces their groundbreaking 20-22 kg all-in-one machine, setting a new industry standard for its exceptional lightness. The machine boasts rounded leading corners, diligently crafted to prevent unwanted bumps and damage during handling and transportation. Monport's thoughtful consideration extends further with the addition of a dustproof board, ensuring optimal performance and longevity. Endowed with an exceptional user-friendly experience and multifunctional capabilities, this machine embodies Monport Laser's unwavering dedication to continuous upgrades, always keeping the user at the forefront.
Monport GI Series MOPA Lasers Redefine Color Fast Marking
Monport's exciting product launch not only includes the highly anticipated new additions to the GP Series but also showcases the cutting-edge GI Series color engraving fiber machine. This JPT MOPA fiber laser is built to last, offering precision, durability, and longevity that surpasses expectations. With its remarkable laser cutting capability, it can effortlessly cut up to 0.05 mm with each pass, achieving an astonishing accuracy of ±0.1 microns.
Extensive Support and Remarkable Fiber Accessories
Complementing the multitude of advantages offered by their cutting-edge machine, Monport Laser goes above and beyond by providing customers with comprehensive support and unparalleled expandability. The new fiber series from Monport introduces a range of accessories designed to elevate the engraving experience. One notable addition is the safety shells, embedded with radiation protection and noise reduction functions, creating a secure and tranquil environment for users.
As a testament to their commitment to customer satisfaction, Monport Laser also includes 10 different test materials, ranging from metal rings to key chains and cards made from various metal materials, enabling users to explore and experiment with ease.
By empowering businesses and industries, expanding the creative landscape for maker spaces, unleashing innovation, and creating opportunities for growth, Monport Laser is at the forefront of revolutionizing the laser engraving field.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have given outside linebacker Danielle Hunter a hefty pay raise, paving the way for the team’s best pass rusher to participate in practice after a months-long contract stalemate.
The Vikings announced Sunday on their website that they reached a new deal with Hunter, the three-time Pro Bowl pick with 71 sacks who will turn 29 in three months.
Hunter reported to training camp last week on schedule after skipping the offseason program and mandatory minicamp, but he has yet to join his teammates on the field. Head coach Kevin O’Connell said Saturday that Hunter has been “in the building” and that they’ve been in “daily dialogue” about his physical and mental preparation.
“Danielle Hunter is a very special player, and as soon as we can get him out here, you guys will see him out here,” O’Connell said.
Hunter’s previous contract called for a $4.9 million base salary. According to NFL Network, he’ll make $17 million guaranteed this year with an opportunity to earn an additional $3 million in incentives. Hunter will still hit the free agent market after the season, unless he and the team strike a deal on an extension in the meantime.
Hunter’s presence will be vital for a Vikings defense that has been one of the NFL’s worst over the past three years. They allowed the second-most yards and the fourth-most points in the league in 2022, despite decent production by their primary edge rushers. Hunter had 10 1/2 sacks, Za’Darius Smith had 10 sacks and backups D.J. Wonnum and Patrick Jones had four sacks apiece.
Smith was since traded to Cleveland in a cost-cutting move, leaving Hunter as the only proven pass rusher on the roster. Marcus Davenport was signed as a free agent to push for a starting spot, but this remains one of the biggest questions surrounding the team this season.
“I think Danielle’s a phenomenal player,” said defensive coordinator Brian Flores, who was hired to replace the fired Ed Donatell. “I look forward to working with him.”
Under Donatell, Hunter often found himself as a standup rusher in a three-point stance. The Vikings with Flores are aiming to get back to turning Hunter loose with his hand in the ground more often.
“Veteran players, they’ve seen a lot of defense, coverages, fronts, stunts. I think terminology will probably be the one thing that’s a little bit different, maybe, but some of it, there’s some crossover from some things he’s heard in the past so I don’t think it’ll take long for him to get up to speed,” Flores said. “At the end of the day, we’re telling him to go get the quarterback. There’s really not much to that. So I think he’ll be just fine.”
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Partnership adds cryptocurrency as a payment option for merchants using Optty's universal payment platform
SINGAPORE, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Optty, the world's first universal payments platform, today announced a new partnership with Triple-A, a licensed crypto payment gateway, to add cryptocurrency as a payment option on the platform. As the central hub connecting and streamlining a robust global network of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) providers, this milestone marks the launch of Optty's sixth payment architecture, further expanding viable payment options for merchants and convenience for their end customers.
Sign-up and integration with Optty is free. To get started, please visit: https://www.optty.com/merchant-account
"As the world's first true universal payments platform, Optty is agnostic and supportive of payments inclusion, a unique position that is designed to help retailers offer more choice than ever at checkout," said Natasha Zurnamer, CEO and founder of Optty. "With one simplified integration, not only can retailers access over 90 BNPLs and local payment methods in over 120 countries — they can now switch on crypto payments, a natural progression in our aim to simplify payments for retailers all over the world."
The first crypto payment gateway to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Triple-A is also licensed in Europe, through Banque de France's ACPR, and registered with the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Through the collaboration with Triple-A's white label crypto payment gateway, Optty enables retailers and merchants to offer a wide range of payment methods. This allows them to test and learn which payment types best resonate with their customers.
Tapping into diverse consumer payment preferences
With Optty's vast global network of gateways that license the company's unique payment stacks, merchants and retailers can now leverage Triple-A's gateway to accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), and USD Coin (USDC). Triple-A's crypto payment gateway is compatible with all crypto wallets, allowing customers to make hassle-free payments using their preferred wallet.
Through real-time crypto-to-fiat conversions facilitated by Triple-A, retailers can receive payments in cryptocurrencies without the need to manage them on their balance sheets and constantly monitor fluctuating exchange rates. Retailers enjoy next-day local currency bank settlements in 50+ currencies, enabling quick access to funds in their preferred currency. Additionally, businesses have the option to offer their customers the convenience of paying through Binance Pay.
Optty already offers Buy Now Pay Later, Debit and Credit, Digital Wallets, Peer to Peer payments, and bank transfer options, and the addition of crypto enables merchants to tap into the spending power of 420 million crypto owners worldwide. Optty plans to further expand payment architectures to a total of nine by the end of 2023.
"We are excited to partner with Optty and bring crypto payments to their merchants," said Eric Barbier, CEO of Triple-A. "This collaboration will help merchants take advantage of the growing demand for cryptocurrency payments, without the hassle of managing crypto assets on their balance sheets."
Disruption through simplification
Previously, retailers and merchants would need to spend a great deal of time and money on complex, one-by-one payment integration processes. Optty changed all this by eliminating it, revolutionizing the way merchants access payments methods globally. Available across ecommerce, IVR, and in-store, it is a true PaaS that offers retailers a simplified integration while providing a seamless and direct commercial partnership channel, enabling an application process with every payment provider in the solution.
About Optty
As a PaaS, Optty is the world's first true universal payments platform that integrates over 90 installment (BNPL) brands — more than any other existing single integration solution globally — and offers six payment architectures, soon to be nine by the end of 2023. Its payments-, partner- and channel-agnostic approach delivers wide payments connectivity globally to schemes, acquirers, gateways and retailers alike and offers a full white-label, customisable interface with hierarchy built in for network expansion ease.
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About Triple-A
Triple-A is a licensed crypto payment gateway that helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts, giving them access to the spending power of the fast-growing 420m+ cryptocurrency users.
Triple-A's white label crypto payments solutions allow businesses from all industries to leverage the benefits of the growing crypto market without being exposed to volatility risk or having to handle or convert digital currencies. Their solutions are compatible with all wallets, easy to integrate and offer instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rates and chargeback protection.
Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and trusted by over 15,000 businesses, Triple-A makes accepting crypto payments simple for businesses across the globe.
For more information, please visit https://triple-a.io/.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Matt Olson says it’s no mystery why he’s leading the majors in RBIs.
In Atlanta’s powerful lineup, Olson is often hitting with runners on base.
Olson drove in five runs with two homers, including a two-run shot in the eighth, and the Braves beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-6 on Sunday to cap their sweep of the high-scoring series.
Olson has 35 homers, tops in the NL, and 88 RBIs. The Braves scored 29 runs in the three-game sweep in the matchup of NL contenders.
“There’s always dudes on base,” Olson said. “I feel like I’m rarely taking at-bats with the bases empty.”
The only player in the majors with more homers than Olson is Shohei Ohtani, with 39. Ohtani will bring the Los Angeles Angels into Atlanta for a series beginning Monday night.
With the sweep, the Braves won five of six against the Brewers in the last two weeks, including two of three in Milwaukee on July 21-23.
“You know you’re probably not shutting them out,” said Brewers left fielder Christian Yelich, who homered and drove in two runs.
Yelich said a “back-and-forth game” is likely against Atlanta. Sure enough, the Brewers lost despite holding leads of 1-0, 3-2 and 6-5.
“To keep roaring back, it’s a testament to how tough these guys are,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said.
Atlanta (67-36) leads the NL East by 11 1/2 games over Miami. Milwaukee’s loss coupled with Cincinnati’s win at the Dodgers dropped the Brewers (57-49) into second in the NL Central.
Orlando Arcia led off the eighth with a double to left against Milwaukee’s Joel Payamps (4-2). With one out, Olson’s tiebreaking 35th homer landed in the Atlanta bullpen in right-center.
Payamps entered with a string of 17 consecutive scoreless appearances. He had allowed just seven hits in his last 18 innings.
Kirby Yates (5-0) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win. Raisel Iglesias earned his 20th save by striking out the side in the ninth.
Olson’s three-run homer lifted the Braves to a 5-3 lead in the third. He drove in Ronald Acuña Jr., who singled and stole second, and Austin Riley, who walked.
Collin McHugh blew the 5-3 lead by giving up three runs in the sixth. William Contreras doubled in two runs for Milwaukee.
Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna tied the game at 6 with his homer off Hoby Milner.
Riley continued his power surge for Atlanta by hitting his eighth homer in the last 11 games in the first, giving him 24 on the year. The two-run shot off Colin Rea carried 463 feet to left-center.
Rea allowed five runs in five innings.
Carlos Santana, acquired from Pittsburgh on Saturday, hit his first homer with the Brewers in the third. The liner over the right-field wall gave Milwaukee a 3-2 lead. Yelich led off the third with his 16th homer.
TRADE
Atlanta added veteran infielder Nicky Lopez in a trade with the Kansas City Royals. The Braves sent left-hander Taylor Hearn to Kansas City for the 28-year-old Lopez, who can play shortstop, second base and third.
ROOKIE RETURNS
Atlanta rookie AJ Smith-Shawver, recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett before the game, allowed three runs and four hits in five innings.
“He’s got a great way about him,” Snitker said of the 20-year-old right-hander. “There’s no panic in him. … There’s tremendous upside for him as he figures things out.”
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Thanks to Riley’s homer, the Braves have scored 109 first-inning runs, the most in the majors by any team in any inning. The Texas Rangers’ 90 fourth-inning runs are second on the list.
“We come in ready to swing and ready to do damage,” Ozuna said.
TRAINING ROOM
Brewers: LHP Wade Miley (left elbow) will come off the 15-day injured list to start Wednesday night at Washington. … RHP Brandon Woodruff (right shoulder) will pitch for Triple-A Nashville on Tuesday. … RHP Julio Teheran (right hip impingement) was placed on the 15-day IL. RHP Peter Strzelecki was recalled from Nashville.
UP NEXT
Brewers: RHP Corbin Burnes (9-6, 3.46 ERA) is scheduled to pitch Monday night’s opener of a three-game series at Washington against RHP Jake Irvin (3-5, 4.96 ERA).
Braves: Atlanta opens an interleague series against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night. Braves RHP Charlie Morton (10-8, 3.57 ERA) faces RHP Griffin Canning (6-4, 4.46 ERA). Morton is 4-1 with a 3.83 ERA in 10 career starts against the Angels.
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Bernarda Pera 2023 Citi Open Odds
Bernarda Pera will open play in the Citi Open versus Leylah Annie Fernandez (in the round of 32). In her last match she was beaten by Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals to end a good performance at the Hamburg. Pera has +5000 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Pera at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Pera's Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Pera will meet Fernandez.
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Pera Stats
- In her previous tournament, the Hamburg, Pera was defeated in the quarterfinals by No. 101-ranked Shnaider, 1-6, 6-2, 4-6.
- Pera is 24-24 over the past year, with zero tournament victories.
- In 14 tournaments on hard courts over the past 12 months, Pera has gone 13-14.
- Through 48 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Pera has played 22.5 games per match. She won 49.2% of them.
- On hard courts, Pera has played 27 matches over the past year, and she has totaled 22.5 games per match while winning 49.0% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Pera has won 64.5% of her games on serve, and 33.7% on return.
- Pera has won 29.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, she has claimed 67.7% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Bernarda Pera 2023 Citi Open Odds
Bernarda Pera will open play in the Citi Open versus Leylah Annie Fernandez (in the round of 32). In her last match she was beaten by Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals to end a good performance at the Hamburg. Pera has +5000 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Pera at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Pera's Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Pera will meet Fernandez.
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Pera Stats
- In her previous tournament, the Hamburg, Pera was defeated in the quarterfinals by No. 101-ranked Shnaider, 1-6, 6-2, 4-6.
- Pera is 24-24 over the past year, with zero tournament victories.
- In 14 tournaments on hard courts over the past 12 months, Pera has gone 13-14.
- Through 48 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Pera has played 22.5 games per match. She won 49.2% of them.
- On hard courts, Pera has played 27 matches over the past year, and she has totaled 22.5 games per match while winning 49.0% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Pera has won 64.5% of her games on serve, and 33.7% on return.
- Pera has won 29.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, she has claimed 67.7% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Bjorn Fratangelo 2023 Citi Open Odds
Bjorn Fratangelo has a match against Gael Monfils coming up next in the Citi Open round of 64. Fratangelo is +10000 to win at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Fratangelo at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
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- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Fratangelo's Next Match
Fratangelo will play in the Citi Open round of 64 after getting past Alexis Galarneau 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, and now matches up against Monfils on Monday, July 31 at 8:15 PM ET.
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Fratangelo Stats
- Fratangelo is coming off a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory over No. 162-ranked Galarneau in the qualifying round on Sunday.
- Fratangelo is 1-1 over the past year, with zero tournament wins.
- In one hard-court tournaments over the past year, Fratangelo is 1-1 in matches.
- In his two matches over the past year, across all court types, Fratangelo has averaged 33.5 games.
- On hard courts, Fratangelo has played two matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 33.5 games per match while winning 47.8% of games.
- Over the past 12 months, Fratangelo has been victorious in 14.7% of his return games and 81.8% of his service games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fratangelo has won 81.8% of his games on serve and 14.7% on return.
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Bjorn Fratangelo 2023 Citi Open Odds
Bjorn Fratangelo has a match against Gael Monfils coming up next in the Citi Open round of 64. Fratangelo is +10000 to win at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Fratangelo at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Fratangelo's Next Match
Fratangelo will play in the Citi Open round of 64 after getting past Alexis Galarneau 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, and now matches up against Monfils on Monday, July 31 at 8:15 PM ET.
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Fratangelo Stats
- Fratangelo is coming off a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory over No. 162-ranked Galarneau in the qualifying round on Sunday.
- Fratangelo is 1-1 over the past year, with zero tournament wins.
- In one hard-court tournaments over the past year, Fratangelo is 1-1 in matches.
- In his two matches over the past year, across all court types, Fratangelo has averaged 33.5 games.
- On hard courts, Fratangelo has played two matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 33.5 games per match while winning 47.8% of games.
- Over the past 12 months, Fratangelo has been victorious in 14.7% of his return games and 81.8% of his service games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fratangelo has won 81.8% of his games on serve and 14.7% on return.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sparked by the young guy and the old man, the Cincinnati Reds took over sole possession of first place in the NL Central.
Elly De La Cruz, the 21-year-old sensation, and Joey Votto, who turns 40 in September, helped the Reds rout the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-0 on Sunday. They won home and road series against the NL West-leading Dodgers this season.
“It’s big-time for us,” winning pitcher Graham Ashcraft said. “It keeps us going and gives us that edge to keep fighting.”
De La Cruz hit a two-run homer and went 4 for 5 in his third game of the season with four hits. He also scored twice as the Reds rapped out 14 hits in handing the Dodgers their worst loss since a 15-0 defeat to San Francisco on June 17.
De La Cruz broke out of the struggles he’s had since the All-Star break, while Votto shook off his offensive funk with a two-run shot. Votto went 2 for 5 with three RBIs.
“He knows how to come out of those slumps. He gives us ideas and tips on how we can get out of there too,” De La Cruz said. “He helps me and if there’s something I can help him out with, I’ll tell him, too.”
Votto respects the equanimity shown by his much younger teammates.
“During the rough spells, these guys have been the exact same people every day,” he said. “It’s a very young team. The energy is consistent. That’s the really charming part about it. Every single day from spring training, the optimism has been there.”
Ashcraft (6-7) scattered five hits over six innings and struck out two.
The Dodgers hit into three double plays on Friday and three more Sunday. They managed just two hits in a 3-2 loss Saturday. They didn’t get a runner past second base over the final five innings in the finale.
Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas made his first career pitching appearance in the ninth. He nearly hit Votto before the designated hitter answered with an RBI double that made it 9-0. Rojas then hit Christian Encarnacion-Strand.
Dodgers starter Michael Grove (2-3) got hit hard over the first three innings. Three pitches into the game, the Reds led 1-0 on TJ Friedl’s RBI double. Friedl scored on a throwing error by center fielder James Outman, and Matt McLain hustled home on Spencer Steer’s groundout to third.
“Too many pitches to hit with guys on base. I got to shore that up,” Grove said. “My attack plan wasn’t great early and I just got put on defense to start with and had to adjust. I got punished cause I was leaving pitches over the plate.”
De La Cruz’s solo shot traveled 411 feet into the right-field pavilion with two outs in the second. It was De La Cruz’s seventh homer.
McLain hit his 11th homer into the Dodgers bullpen in left leading off the third. Votto’s 418-foot shot into the Reds bullpen in right field scored Jake Fraley, who singled, and extended the lead to 7-0.
Votto was robbed of a potential second homer on Outman’s leaping catch at the top of the wall in right-center in the fifth.
The Reds led 8-0 on Friedl’s RBI double with two outs in the sixth.
Grove gave up eight runs and 10 hits in six innings. The rookie right-hander struck out a career-best 10 and walked one on a career-high 96 pitches.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: INF Jonathan India went on the IL with left heel pain.
Dodgers: DH J.D. Martinez left after the first inning with left hamstring tightness. … C Will Smith left the game in the top of the fourth with a left elbow contusion after getting hit by a pitch. X-rays were negative. … OF Mookie Betts (right ankle soreness) was out of the lineup for the second straight day. He got hurt in the batter’s box trying to avoid a pitch on Friday, but is expected back Tuesday. … LHP Julio Urías is having his next start pushed back a couple days while he deals with a nail issue. … LHP Clayton Kershaw (shoulder) played catch.
UP NEXT
Reds: LHP Andrew Abbott (6-2, 1.90 ERA) starts Monday night in the opener of a four-game series at the Chicago Cubs.
Dodgers: RHP Lance Lynn (6-9, 6.47 ERA) makes his Dodgers debut Tuesday in an interleague series opener against Oakland.
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Brandon Nakashima 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his most recent tournament (knocked out by Christopher Eubanks), Brandon Nakashima will begin the Citi Open against Aleksandar Vukic (in the round of 64). Nakashima currently has +2000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Nakashima at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Nakashima's Next Match
Nakashima will open up at the Citi Open by matching up with Vukic in the round of 64 on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET).
Nakashima has current moneyline odds of -250 to win his next matchup against Vukic. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
Brandon Nakashima Grand Slam Odds
- US Open odds to win: +6600
- Citi Open odds to win: +2000
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Nakashima Stats
- In his last match, Nakashima lost 7-6, 4-6, 5-7 versus Eubanks in the Round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open.
- Nakashima is 26-21 over the past year, with two tournament wins.
- Nakashima is 22-14 on hard courts over the past 12 months, with two tournament titles.
- Over the past year (across all court surfaces), Nakashima has played 47 matches and 25.9 games per match.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Nakashima has averaged 24.1 games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 82.6% of his games on serve, and 19.7% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 83.5% of his games on serve and 20.4% on return.
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Brandon Nakashima 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his most recent tournament (knocked out by Christopher Eubanks), Brandon Nakashima will begin the Citi Open against Aleksandar Vukic (in the round of 64). Nakashima currently has +2000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Nakashima at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Nakashima's Next Match
Nakashima will open up at the Citi Open by matching up with Vukic in the round of 64 on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET).
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Brandon Nakashima Grand Slam Odds
- US Open odds to win: +6600
- Citi Open odds to win: +2000
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Nakashima Stats
- In his last match, Nakashima lost 7-6, 4-6, 5-7 versus Eubanks in the Round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open.
- Nakashima is 26-21 over the past year, with two tournament wins.
- Nakashima is 22-14 on hard courts over the past 12 months, with two tournament titles.
- Over the past year (across all court surfaces), Nakashima has played 47 matches and 25.9 games per match.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Nakashima has averaged 24.1 games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 82.6% of his games on serve, and 19.7% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 83.5% of his games on serve and 20.4% on return.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Linda Caicedo is fast-becoming the biggest story of the biggest Women’s World Cup to date.
Her stunning goal to set up Colombia’s shock 2-1 win on Sunday over Germany, one of the tournament favorites, was the latest magical moment from the 18-year-old Real Madrid forward.
But her performances on the field have been dimmed for some by concerns about her health.
The goal against Germany was even more remarkable considering there were doubts Caicedo, who recovered after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 15, would be able to play after an episode in training earlier in the week.
In a video released by Colombian media outlet DSPORT, she was seen holding her chest and then voluntarily going to the ground.
Head coach Nelson Abadía said it was a culmination of stress and fatigue, adding there was “no problem.” There was a similar explanation on Sunday after another incident involving Caicedo.
There’d been no signs of lingering effects when she stepped around two German defenders in the 52nd minute and lashed a shot into the top corner for one of the goals of the tournament so far.
But then, in the 83rd, she dropped to her knees behind the play before lying face down on the grass as Colombia’s medical staff went to her aid.
Scenes like this are extremely rare in soccer’s top flight.
And given the World Cup is being held during the winter months in Australia and New Zealand, excessively high temperatures cannot be blamed. The evening temperatures in Sydney have been around 57 degrees Fahrenheit (14 Celsius).
Again, Colombia’s staff dismissed concerns about the teenager’s health.
“We know that Linda had some problems in the past, but nothing to be worried about,” assistant coach Angelo Marsiglia said. “She was very tired of course. She had a bit of acceleration in her heart, but this wasn’t a problem.”
Caicedo continued to play after receiving on-field assistance on Sunday night before being substituted off in stoppage time, with Marsiglia saying she was “exhausted.”
With a goal in each of her opening two games at the tournament, Caicedo is rising to expectations at her first World Cup. She is showing no signs of being weighed down by her billing as one of the brightest talents in women’s soccer.
With more eyes than ever on the tournament, there will be greater scrutiny on her health as the competition progresses.
Any more obvious episodes of fatigue or exhaustion are likely to raise welfare concerns.
Player health and injury recovery at the Women’s World Cup ultimately comes down to the medical staff of each national team.
While FIFA has its own medical team at the World Cup to offer advice as needed, soccer’s world governing body said each team’s doctor has autonomy and ultimate responsibility for their players.
Caicedo once feared she’d never play high-level soccer again after her cancer diagnosis. At that point she had already made her debut for the senior national team and pro team América de Cali.
But she recovered and joined Real Madrid in February. Last year she led Colombia’s Under-17 squad, who were runners-up at the U-17 Women’s World Cup, and also appeared for the Under-20 squad.
In her debut at the senior World Cup, Caicedo also scored in Colombia’s 2-0 win over South Korea.
Colombia’s second win all but secured the team a spot in the knockout stage. Las Cafeteras will advance unless they lose to Morocco by at least four goals on Thursday and Germany draws or beats South Korea the same day.
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Zeke Palermo, a student at the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute, contributed to this report from Sydney.
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Danielle Collins 2023 Citi Open Odds
Danielle Collins will begin the Citi Open in Washington, District of Columbia versus Liudmila Samsonova in the round of 32. She was knocked off by Belinda Bencic in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon (her most recent tournament). Collins has +2800 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Collins at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Collins' Next Match
In her opening match at the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 12:00 PM ET) in the round of 32, Collins will face Samsonova.
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Collins Stats
- Collins is coming off a loss in the Round of 64 at the Wimbledon, at the hands of No. 14-ranked Bencic, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7.
- Collins has not won any of her 14 tournaments over the past 12 months, with an overall record of 18-14.
- Collins has a match record of 17-11 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Through 32 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Collins has played 23.5 games per match. She won 51.8% of them.
- In her 28 matches on hard courts over the past year, Collins has played 23.3 games per match.
- Collins, over the past 12 months, has won 71.0% of her service games and 32.6% of her return games.
- Collins has claimed 71.2% of her service games on hard courts and 34.3% of her return games over the past 12 months.
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Danielle Collins 2023 Citi Open Odds
Danielle Collins will begin the Citi Open in Washington, District of Columbia versus Liudmila Samsonova in the round of 32. She was knocked off by Belinda Bencic in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon (her most recent tournament). Collins has +2800 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Collins at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Collins' Next Match
In her opening match at the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 12:00 PM ET) in the round of 32, Collins will face Samsonova.
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Collins Stats
- Collins is coming off a loss in the Round of 64 at the Wimbledon, at the hands of No. 14-ranked Bencic, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7.
- Collins has not won any of her 14 tournaments over the past 12 months, with an overall record of 18-14.
- Collins has a match record of 17-11 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Through 32 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Collins has played 23.5 games per match. She won 51.8% of them.
- In her 28 matches on hard courts over the past year, Collins has played 23.3 games per match.
- Collins, over the past 12 months, has won 71.0% of her service games and 32.6% of her return games.
- Collins has claimed 71.2% of her service games on hard courts and 34.3% of her return games over the past 12 months.
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — Hanging on the edge of the stunning South Island, in one the world’s more remote countries, sat a scenic, minor-league sized city founded by Scottish immigrants.
Then, a few weeks ago, one of the world’s biggest sporting events came to town, bringing in thousands of visitors.
Reporter, in a cab: “So, is Dunedin excited for the Women’s World Cup?”
Cab driver: “Yes – and no.”
Welcome to Dunedin, which at a latitude of 45.88 degrees South is the southernmost city to ever host a match in a soccer World Cup, men’s or women’s.
It may also be among the quirkiest spots, a place of contradictions. Locals have been excited to host the Women’s World Cup, but not necessarily to go see a game.
With the city about to host its last game of the Women’s World Cup on Tuesday, Netherlands vs. Vietnam with first place in Group E on the line for the Dutch, it’s time for a little tour of what soccer at the bottom of the world has looked like.
QUIET FANDOM
During Dunedin’s time in the soccer spotlight, there’s been the usual hum of life here: People returning home from work and University of Otago students enjoying beers in the octagonal heart of downtown, fittingly named the Octagon.
“New Zealanders have their own way of showing interest or passion,” said 78-year-old Ron Palenski, historian and a renowned New Zealand sports writer. “Their support is more low-key.”
People here don’t need to deck themselves out in team apparel to be considered fans, it’s all about what’s in the heart.
“When it’s a New Zealand team, I am just a devoted fan,” Dunedin resident and retired neuroscience professor Ruth Napper said. “It doesn’t matter what it is. I think it’s about being a small country at the bottom of the world that, you know, we’ve got to stand up and be noticed. And I think on a sports field, we punch above our weight.”
Dunedin’s six matches have all taken place in the covered Forsyth Barr Stadium, nicknamed the Glasshouse, and also known as Dunedin Stadium. Not unlike the cab driver’s “yes and no” answer, while it provides shelter from rain and wind, the stadium has open sides and provides little insulation from the cold.
And while tickets for New Zealand’s match against Switzerland sold out, filling the stadium’s 25,947 seats, attendance at the other matches has ranged from just under 7,000 to about 13,700.
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
Southern hospitality isn’t just in the United States. Dunedin is known for its welcoming vibe. People are approachable here, the style is casual and many stay because they love it.
“I came down here on a trip and basically never left,” said Dan Hendra, Dunedin City Council’s events team leader, who arrived 20 years ago and is originally from Auckland, on New Zealand’s North Island. “I fell in love with the place and how friendly everyone was. The hospitality and friendliness and welcoming of the locals is awesome. That’s why I live here.”
Certainly, it’s a place to get away from it all.
The city of about 130,000 residents is roughly 2,650 miles (4,265 kilometers) from Antarctica, around the distance from New York City to Los Angeles. Souvenir shops sell items that read, “Dunedin: the Riviera of the Antarctic” and “Dunedin: Bottom of the World.”
Founded in 1848, it’s often called the Edinburgh of the South, as its name originates from “Dun Eideann,” the Scots-Gaelic word for Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh. Like Scotland, there’s a wildness to the area, and nature is a big draw.
On non-game days, Women’s World Cup tourists have explored the Otago Peninsula’s rolling green hills, grassy cliffs and deep turquoise waters, where they watched blue penguins emerge from the surf each night to nest along the beach.
Blue penguins, or kororā in the Māori language, are the world’s smallest penguins, averaging about 10 to 12 inches (25-30 centimeters) tall and weighing two or three pounds (about 1 kilogram). The area also is home to seals, sea lions, albatross and other native birds.
“It’s great to show off what we have down here and what we are as a city,” Hendra said. “Given that we are the wildlife capital of the country, that’s something that we are really proud of and love to showcase.”
GAME DAY
The sports scene in Dunedin is influenced by the University of Otago, which was founded in 1869 and now boasts 21,000 students. The Glasshouse, which often hosts rugby matches and other sporting events, has a university student section known as “the Zoo,” which “creates a buzzing atmosphere,” according to 22-year-old Barnaby Kelly.
Mostly, what those students watch is rugby – the most popular sport in this area and New Zealand by a long way. Dunedin was a host city for the Rugby World Cup in 2011.
Nestled in a quiet upstairs space at the Dunedin Railway Station is the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, opened in 1990.
Prominently displayed are photos and memorabilia from revered athletes in rugby, cycling, golf, tennis and more. But soccer? There’s only one display — a 6-by-3 glass case.
Even 13-year-old Izabella Christofoletti, who plays soccer for her school and a club team, and has been a ball girl for several Women’s World Cup matches, can talk about how soccer lags behind rugby in interest. Soccer “is not a well-known sport amongst different areas, so it’s good (the tournament) is here because it creates knowledge of it,” she said.
Nonetheless, when New Zealand played its last match against Switzerland on Sunday, a painful 0-0 tie that knocked the Football Ferns out of the tournament, the fans finally turned out and made noise, stomping their feet and cheering at every chance on goal for the Ferns.
Even though the result wasn’t what they wanted, New Zealand players were proud of their fans.
“I think there’s nothing better than Kiwis and especially in Dunedin and a sold-out crowd,” New Zealand midfielder Malia Steinmetz said. “You could hear it, you could feel it. I think they pushed us through a lot in that game.”
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Ellen McIntyre is a student in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.
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Hailey Baptiste 2023 Citi Open Odds
Play progresses at the Citi Open, with Hailey Baptiste in the round of 32 against Karolina Pliskova. Baptiste's odds are +8000 to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Baptiste at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Baptiste's Next Match
Baptiste will be in the Citi Open round of 32 after beating Peyton Stearns 7-6, 6-2, and now matches up against Pliskova on Tuesday, August 1 at 12:00 PM ET.
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Baptiste Stats
- Baptiste beat No. 59-ranked Stearns 7-6, 6-2 on Sunday to make the .
- The 21-year-old Baptiste is 3-8 over the past 12 months and is still seeking her first tournament victory.
- Baptiste is 0-6 on hard courts over the past year.
- Baptiste, over the past year, has played 11 matches across all court surfaces, and 18.5 games per match.
- On hard courts, Baptiste has played six matches over the past 12 months, and she has totaled 18.5 games per match while winning 32.4% of games.
- Baptiste, over the past year, has won 58.2% of her service games and 19.6% of her return games.
- Baptiste has been victorious in 51.3% of her service games on hard courts and 20.5% of her return games over the past year.
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Hailey Baptiste 2023 Citi Open Odds
Play progresses at the Citi Open, with Hailey Baptiste in the round of 32 against Karolina Pliskova. Baptiste's odds are +8000 to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Baptiste at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Baptiste's Next Match
Baptiste will be in the Citi Open round of 32 after beating Peyton Stearns 7-6, 6-2, and now matches up against Pliskova on Tuesday, August 1 at 12:00 PM ET.
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Baptiste Stats
- Baptiste beat No. 59-ranked Stearns 7-6, 6-2 on Sunday to make the .
- The 21-year-old Baptiste is 3-8 over the past 12 months and is still seeking her first tournament victory.
- Baptiste is 0-6 on hard courts over the past year.
- Baptiste, over the past year, has played 11 matches across all court surfaces, and 18.5 games per match.
- On hard courts, Baptiste has played six matches over the past 12 months, and she has totaled 18.5 games per match while winning 32.4% of games.
- Baptiste, over the past year, has won 58.2% of her service games and 19.6% of her return games.
- Baptiste has been victorious in 51.3% of her service games on hard courts and 20.5% of her return games over the past year.
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Delirium filled Lumen Field before the players could break a sweat.
The Sounders needed a minimum three-goal win Sunday in order to advance in the Leagues Cup tournament. Two were pocketed before the 10-minute mark.
Hats, arms, flags, babies and beers were flung into the air in pure jubilation with the Sounders on the turf. C.F. Monterrey, the Liga MX powerhouse that’s won five CONCACAF Champions League titles, was equally shocked because the scenario is a rarity in soccer.
Everything was truly possible and not some fantastical buzz words teams spout about getting started on the front foot. No, after heading home the second goal in the sixth minute, Sounders forward Jordan Morris dug the ball out of the back of the net and jogged to center circle for the restart — his emphatic placement seemingly being the true start of the match.
As the delirium from the majority of the 33,508 in attendance settled, Los Rayados gained their footing in the match. By halftime the Sounders were back where they started — needing three goals to advance in the Leagues Cup tournament.
But there wasn’t a second dose of chaos. The Sounders were eliminated after a 4-2 loss. Monterrey (2-0) and Real Salt Lake (1-1) clinched the West 2 group seeds.
The Sounders (0-2) have a 20-day layoff before they resume MLS competition with a match against Atlanta United on Aug. 20 at Lumen Field. They (10-8-6) are fourth in Western Conference standings and have 10 league matches remaining.
Defender Hector Moreno got the party started for Sounders fans Sunday. The Liga MX star was shown a yellow card in the opening minute for a hard foul against Sounders striker Raul Ruidiaz. Teammate Nico Lodeiro lined up for the free kick just outside the box and curled the shot over the wall and into goal with his powerful left foot in the second minute. Moreno was the last defender who couldn’t head the ball away
A brisk five minutes later, winger Leo Chu split two Monterrey players to take possession of the ball on the left flank, then blitzed past them to get a cross to Morris, who headed it home.
Los Rayados killed the vibe in the 31st minute. Striker German Berterame collected the rebound of a Stefan Cleveland block and got it past the keeper for the side’s opening goal.
In the 45th minute, Chu made a questionable backward pass to midfielder Albert Rusnak in their own box, Rusnak clipping Moreno. An immediate penalty was called. Berterame lined up at the spot and notched his brace.
The Argentine opened the second half showing off his passing skills. His service at the edge of the box to midfielder Jordi Cortizo for a right-footed goal put Monterrey up 3-2 in the 48th minute.
Fantasy returned as the goal count needed for Seattle to advance increased to four.
The only magic was Berterame pocketing a hat trick in the 63rd minute with Cleveland off his line. Berterame also moved into the Leagues Cup Golden Boot race with five total goals in the tournament.
Now the Sounders needed five goals in the waning 27 minutes.
It didn’t happen.
Monterrey coach Fernando Ortiz, who took over the club in May, had a short turnaround to prepare for the Sounders. His team defeated Real Salt Lake 3-0 on the road last week.
Ortiz made two changes to his starting lineup and three subs at the break. He put his academy players in the match in the 69th minute.
Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer made three lineup changes for Sunday’s must-win match. Two were forced in midfielder Cristian Roldan (concussion) and keeper Stefan Frei (finger) being unavailable due to injuries.
Morris and Cleveland replaced them in the starting lineup while midfielder Obed Vargas was swapped for Lodeiro. But the latter didn’t return to the field as captain as the Uruguayan has been for at least the past five years, when able to start. Sounders midfielder Joao Paulo was instead given the captain’s armband.
Lodeiro missed the Real Salt Lake loss due to an adductor injury.
Schmetzer made his in-game substitutions in the 69th minute, putting in forward Heber (Rusnak) and midfielder Reed Baker-Whiting (Alex Roldan). Former academy players Josh Atencio (Joao Paulo) and Cody Baker (Nouhou) entered in the 78th minute.
Sounders defender Yeimar Gomez Andrade was shown a red card for an elbow in the 88th minute. He briefly wore the captain’s armband and it switched to Ruidiaz. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sounders/despite-strong-start-sounders-eliminated-from-leagues-cup-by-monterrey/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-31T04:09:24 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sounders/despite-strong-start-sounders-eliminated-from-leagues-cup-by-monterrey/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Man dead after 2-vehicle crash on U.S. 36
GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — A man is dead a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 36, police say.
At 4:25pm Sunday, members of the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department, McCordsville Police Department, and Fortville Police Department were called to the area of U.S. 36 and County Road 400 West between McCordsville and Fortville. Deputies arrived on the scene and called for the Hancock County Fatal Accident Crash Team to respond due to the severity of the crash.
The crash involved a 2006 Kawasaki Motorcycle and a 2014 Chevy Silverado Pickup. The Kawasaki was driven by one male who died at the scene. The Chevy Silverado was occupied by one male driver, who had no reported injuries.
The Kawasaki was traveling east on US-36 towards Fortville. Witnesses stated the driver of the Kawasaki was traveling at a very high rate of speed and passed several vehicles in a no-passing area. The driver was identified as Robert Siuzdak, 30, of Avon, Indiana. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His family has been notified. He was wearing a helmet.
The Silverado was crossing both lanes of U.S. 36 to continue north on County Road 400 West. From the evidence on scene, Investigators believe the Silverado had crossed the eastbound lane, and was crossing the westbound lane of US-36. At that time, the Kawasaki was traveling at a high rate of speed and crossed over into the westbound lane to pass other vehicles. The Kawasaki struck the side of the Silverado.
The driver of the Silverado was wearing his seatbelt during the crash and had no injuries. He was identified as Bradley Adkins, 39, of Greenfield, Indiana. Mr. Adkins has cooperated with the investigation, and has provided his statement. At this time, police say drugs and alcohol are not suspected.
U.S. 36 was closed for approximately two hours while Hancock County Fatal Accident Crash Team officers conducted their on-scene investigation. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/man-dead-after-2-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-36/ | 2023-07-31T04:09:28 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/man-dead-after-2-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-36/ |
Lauren Davis 2023 Citi Open Odds
Lauren Davis has a match versus Sloane Stephens coming up next in the Citi Open round of 32. Davis is +6600 to win at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Davis at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Davis' Next Match
After defeating Ashlyn Krueger 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the qualification final, Davis will meet Stephens in the round of 32 on Monday, July 31 at 2:40 PM ET.
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Davis Stats
- In the qualifying round on Sunday, Davis beat No. 123-ranked Krueger, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5.
- Davis has won one of her 20 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 26-19.
- Davis has won one tournament over the past 12 months on hard courts, with a match record of 20-11 on that surface.
- Davis has played 21.4 games per match in her 45 matches over the past year across all court types.
- On hard courts, Davis has played 31 matches over the past 12 months, and 21.2 games per match.
- Davis has won 33.9% of her return games and 62.1% of her service games over the past year.
- On hard courts, Davis, over the past year, has claimed 66.1% of her service games and 35.0% of her return games.
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Lauren Davis 2023 Citi Open Odds
Lauren Davis has a match versus Sloane Stephens coming up next in the Citi Open round of 32. Davis is +6600 to win at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Davis at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Davis' Next Match
After defeating Ashlyn Krueger 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the qualification final, Davis will meet Stephens in the round of 32 on Monday, July 31 at 2:40 PM ET.
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Davis Stats
- In the qualifying round on Sunday, Davis beat No. 123-ranked Krueger, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5.
- Davis has won one of her 20 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 26-19.
- Davis has won one tournament over the past 12 months on hard courts, with a match record of 20-11 on that surface.
- Davis has played 21.4 games per match in her 45 matches over the past year across all court types.
- On hard courts, Davis has played 31 matches over the past 12 months, and 21.2 games per match.
- Davis has won 33.9% of her return games and 62.1% of her service games over the past year.
- On hard courts, Davis, over the past year, has claimed 66.1% of her service games and 35.0% of her return games.
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Muncie man killed, 19 others injured in block party mass shooting
MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — A man is dead and at least 19 others were injured after a mass shooting at a community block party in Muncie.
Witnesses say multiple people fired shots into the crowd. Police are still looking for leads.
The intersection of Hackley and Willard switched from community fun to community tragedy. A small memorial has been placed here. Although the reason for this shooting isn’t clear, community members say this senseless violence has to stop.
Shots rang out into the night. Witnesses say many of the bullets had no clear target, but 19 people were hit, and one man was killed.
“Being that my nephew was the victim, and that really touched home. When I get to thinking about how I feel about the violence in our community. It’s a terrible thing because of the way our youth is now,” said Johnny Strong.
He says he’s a community activist, and says the community has seen a lot of loss, but never like this. He says the man who died is his nephew, 30-year-old Joseph Barner. He’s known as Joe Smooth, and while police are still investigating, strong is also hoping to get answers.
“A lot of crying. A lot of crying. A lot of agitated people. A lot of people that were real angry,” he said.
“When tragedy like this happens, there’s not much you can do but work towards a more peaceful and loving community.”
“It’s sad that people don’t think about others when they do stupid things like that,” said community member Vinny Lane. “I just feel like we need to be more worried about just sticking together and stopping the violence.”
And pray.
“We bind the enemy that comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but he says that we come so that we may have life,” said one community member during an impromptu prayer.
All week, the city had been celebrating it’s “Back2Muncie” celebration. Although the block party where the shooting happened was not connected to the celebrations, everyone can feel it’s impact.
A gospel celebration at McCulloch Park was cancelled but those who came help an impromptu prayer session. While police work to figure out what happened, Strong says it’ll take a bit longer to solve the problem.
“The more we pour off into our youth, the more we get back. We can’t give up on our streets.” | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/muncie-man-killed-19-others-injured-in-block-party-mass-shooting/ | 2023-07-31T04:09:34 | 0 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/muncie-man-killed-19-others-injured-in-block-party-mass-shooting/ |
Mackenzie McDonald 2023 Citi Open Odds
After reaching the quarterfinals at the Hall of Fame Open (before being knocked out by Alex Michelsen in his last match), Mackenzie McDonald will begin play in the Citi Open versus Diego Schwartzman in the round of 64. McDonald is +3300 to win it all at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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McDonald at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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McDonald's Next Match
In his opening match at the Citi Open, McDonald will face Schwartzman on Monday, July 31 at 4:00 PM ET in the round of 64.
McDonald is listed at -190 to win his next matchup against Schwartzman. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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McDonald Stats
- McDonald is coming off a defeat in the quarterfinals at the Hall of Fame Open, at the hands of No. 190-ranked Michelsen, 3-6, 3-6.
- The 28-year-old McDonald is 31-29 over the past year and is still seeking his first tournament victory.
- McDonald is 23-19 on hard courts over the past year.
- McDonald has played 24.1 games per match in his 60 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- In his 42 matches on hard courts over the past year, McDonald has played 23.8 games per match.
- McDonald, over the past year, has won 76.3% of his service games and 26.0% of his return games.
- McDonald has been victorious in 78.0% of his service games on hard courts and 27.1% of his return games over the past 12 months.
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Mackenzie McDonald 2023 Citi Open Odds
After reaching the quarterfinals at the Hall of Fame Open (before being knocked out by Alex Michelsen in his last match), Mackenzie McDonald will begin play in the Citi Open versus Diego Schwartzman in the round of 64. McDonald is +3300 to win it all at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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McDonald at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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McDonald's Next Match
In his opening match at the Citi Open, McDonald will face Schwartzman on Monday, July 31 at 4:00 PM ET in the round of 64.
McDonald is listed at -190 to win his next matchup against Schwartzman. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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McDonald Stats
- McDonald is coming off a defeat in the quarterfinals at the Hall of Fame Open, at the hands of No. 190-ranked Michelsen, 3-6, 3-6.
- The 28-year-old McDonald is 31-29 over the past year and is still seeking his first tournament victory.
- McDonald is 23-19 on hard courts over the past year.
- McDonald has played 24.1 games per match in his 60 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- In his 42 matches on hard courts over the past year, McDonald has played 23.8 games per match.
- McDonald, over the past year, has won 76.3% of his service games and 26.0% of his return games.
- McDonald has been victorious in 78.0% of his service games on hard courts and 27.1% of his return games over the past 12 months.
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Tennessee man in serious condition after crash on I-65
COLUMBUS, Ind. (WISH) — A Tennessee man was seriously injured after being struck by a motorcycle while trying to provide aid to a second motorcyclist who had been involved in a previous crash on I-65 in southern Bartholomew County.
Investigators believe that a bicycle had possibly fallen from a vehicle traveling southbound on I-65 near the 59-mile marker. The bicycle was lying in the far left lane of I-65 Southbound when it was struck by at least two southbound passenger vehicles. Both vehicles, one of which was driven by Jonathan Brown, age 27, Lebanon, TN, pulled to the shoulder of I-65 due to receiving damage from striking the bicycle.
A group of motorcyclists, who were traveling together, then approached the bicycle that was still in the roadway. One of the motorcyclists, Leslie D. Spillman, age 62, of Lexington, KY, struck the bicycle and crashed his 2008 Kawasaki motorcycle, sustaining non-life-threatening injuries. Brown then left his vehicle on foot to assist Spillman.
A 2004 Honda motorcycle, being operated by Darrell Brooks, age 39, of Lexington, KY, had passed the bicycle prior to Spillman’s crash. After seeing that Spillman had crashed, Brooks then turned around and began traveling northbound on the southbound shoulder to respond to his crash.
Brooks’ motorcycle then struck Brown while he walked towards Spillman. Brown sustained serious injuries in the collision. He was flown by medical helicopter to a Louisville, KY hospital for treatment of his injuries that are not believed to be life threatening.
The investigation remains ongoing at this time. Alcohol and drugs are not believed to be factors in the collision. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/tennessee-man-in-serious-condition-after-crash-on-i-65/ | 2023-07-31T04:09:40 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/tennessee-man-in-serious-condition-after-crash-on-i-65/ |
Madison Keys 2023 Citi Open Odds
Madison Keys faces Qinwen Zheng to open play in the Citi Open in Washington, District of Columbia (in the round of 32). In the Wimbledon (her last tournament), she reached the quarterfinals before falling to Aryna Sabalenka. Keys' monyeline odds to win the tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center are +900, the No. 3 odds in the field.
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Keys at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Keys' Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Keys will meet Zheng.
Keys is listed at -160 to win her next matchup versus Zheng. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Keys Stats
- In her previous tournament, the Wimbledon, Keys was eliminated in the quarterfinals by No. 2-ranked Sabalenka, 2-6, 4-6.
- In 18 tournaments over the past year, Keys has gone 32-17 and has won one title.
- Keys is 17-13 on hard courts over the past 12 months.
- Keys has played 20.8 games per match in her 49 matches over the past 12 months across all court types.
- In her 30 matches on a hard surface over the past year, Keys has averaged 21.1 games.
- Keys has won 37.1% of her return games and 71.5% of her service games over the past year.
- Keys has won 34.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past year. Meanwhile, she has been victorious in 69.3% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Madison Keys 2023 Citi Open Odds
Madison Keys faces Qinwen Zheng to open play in the Citi Open in Washington, District of Columbia (in the round of 32). In the Wimbledon (her last tournament), she reached the quarterfinals before falling to Aryna Sabalenka. Keys' monyeline odds to win the tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center are +900, the No. 3 odds in the field.
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Keys at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Keys' Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Keys will meet Zheng.
Keys is listed at -160 to win her next matchup versus Zheng. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Keys Stats
- In her previous tournament, the Wimbledon, Keys was eliminated in the quarterfinals by No. 2-ranked Sabalenka, 2-6, 4-6.
- In 18 tournaments over the past year, Keys has gone 32-17 and has won one title.
- Keys is 17-13 on hard courts over the past 12 months.
- Keys has played 20.8 games per match in her 49 matches over the past 12 months across all court types.
- In her 30 matches on a hard surface over the past year, Keys has averaged 21.1 games.
- Keys has won 37.1% of her return games and 71.5% of her service games over the past year.
- Keys has won 34.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past year. Meanwhile, she has been victorious in 69.3% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Sewa International focuses on serving humanity
Sewa International is a Hindu faith-based, nonprofit service organization committed to humanitarian efforts.
Established in 2003, Sewa International is part of a global movement that originated in India in 1989 and now operates in twenty countries. The organization’s fundamental principle is to serve humanity without discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or nationality.
Sewa’s primary focus lies in disaster relief and rehabilitation, providing crucial aid during times of crisis. Additionally, Sewa International runs various development programs aimed at family services, child, tribal, and refugee welfare, women’s empowerment, healthcare, and education. Notably, the organization also engages in development projects across countries such as Colombia, Guyana, India, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. | https://www.wishtv.com/podcast-episode/sewa-international-focuses-on-serving-humanity/ | 2023-07-31T04:09:46 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/podcast-episode/sewa-international-focuses-on-serving-humanity/ |
Marcos Giron 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon in his previous tournament (eliminated by Marton Fucsovics), Marcos Giron will begin the Citi Open versus Radu Albot (in the round of 64). Giron's odds are +4000 to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Giron at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Giron's Next Match
In his opener at the Citi Open, Giron will face Albot on Monday, July 31 at 3:55 PM ET in the round of 64.
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Giron Stats
- Giron came up short in his most recent match, 6-7, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6 versus Fucsovics in the Round of 64 of the Wimbledon on July 6, 2023.
- In 27 tournaments over the past year, Giron has yet to win a title, and his record is 29-27.
- Giron has a match record of 19-17 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Giron has played 24.4 games per match in his 56 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Giron has averaged 23.7 games.
- Giron has won 22.0% of his return games and 78.2% of his service games over the past year.
- On hard courts over the past 12 months, Giron has been victorious in 19.7% of his return games and 77.7% of his service games.
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Marcos Giron 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon in his previous tournament (eliminated by Marton Fucsovics), Marcos Giron will begin the Citi Open versus Radu Albot (in the round of 64). Giron's odds are +4000 to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Giron at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Giron's Next Match
In his opener at the Citi Open, Giron will face Albot on Monday, July 31 at 3:55 PM ET in the round of 64.
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Giron Stats
- Giron came up short in his most recent match, 6-7, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6 versus Fucsovics in the Round of 64 of the Wimbledon on July 6, 2023.
- In 27 tournaments over the past year, Giron has yet to win a title, and his record is 29-27.
- Giron has a match record of 19-17 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Giron has played 24.4 games per match in his 56 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Giron has averaged 23.7 games.
- Giron has won 22.0% of his return games and 78.2% of his service games over the past year.
- On hard courts over the past 12 months, Giron has been victorious in 19.7% of his return games and 77.7% of his service games.
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Maxime Cressy 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his last tournament (eliminated by Jeffrey John Wolf), Maxime Cressy will open the Citi Open versus Alexander Shevchenko (in the round of 64). Cressy has +4000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Cressy at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Cressy's Next Match
In the round of 64 of the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 1:15 PM ET), Cressy will meet Shevchenko.
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Cressy Stats
- In his previous tournament, the Truist Atlanta Open, Cressy was beaten in the Round of 16 by No. 46-ranked Wolf, 6-7, 3-6.
- Cressy is 16-30 over the past year, with no tournament victories.
- Cressy is 15-20 on hard courts over the past year.
- Cressy, over the past 12 months, has played 46 matches across all court types, and 26.9 games per match.
- On hard courts, Cressy has played 35 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 26.2 games per match while winning 49.9% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Cressy has won 83.4% of his games on serve, and 12.8% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past year, Cressy has won 85.6% of his games on serve and 13.5% on return.
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Maxime Cressy 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his last tournament (eliminated by Jeffrey John Wolf), Maxime Cressy will open the Citi Open versus Alexander Shevchenko (in the round of 64). Cressy has +4000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Cressy at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Cressy's Next Match
In the round of 64 of the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 1:15 PM ET), Cressy will meet Shevchenko.
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Cressy Stats
- In his previous tournament, the Truist Atlanta Open, Cressy was beaten in the Round of 16 by No. 46-ranked Wolf, 6-7, 3-6.
- Cressy is 16-30 over the past year, with no tournament victories.
- Cressy is 15-20 on hard courts over the past year.
- Cressy, over the past 12 months, has played 46 matches across all court types, and 26.9 games per match.
- On hard courts, Cressy has played 35 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 26.2 games per match while winning 49.9% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Cressy has won 83.4% of his games on serve, and 12.8% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past year, Cressy has won 85.6% of his games on serve and 13.5% on return.
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Michael Mmoh 2023 Citi Open Odds
Michael Mmoh begins the Citi Open after his Truist Atlanta Open came to a close with a defeat to Lloyd Harris in the qualification final. Mmoh's first opponent is Bradley Klahn (in the round of 64). Mmoh is +8000 to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Mmoh at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Mmoh's Next Match
In his opener at the Citi Open, Mmoh will play Klahn on Monday, July 31 at 1:20 PM ET in the round of 64.
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Mmoh Stats
- In his last tournament, the Truist Atlanta Open, Mmoh was eliminated in the qualifying round by No. 202-ranked Harris, 2-6, 7-6, 6-7.
- Mmoh has not won any of his 11 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 13-13.
- Mmoh has a match record of 10-10 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Mmoh, over the past year, has played 26 matches across all court surfaces, and 27.4 games per match.
- Mmoh, in 20 matches over the past year on hard courts, has played 25.2 games per match and won 51.5% of them.
- Over the past 12 months, Mmoh has been victorious in 25.5% of his return games and 75.4% of his service games.
- Mmoh has claimed 74.5% of his service games on hard courts and 29.6% of his return games over the past 12 months.
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Michael Mmoh 2023 Citi Open Odds
Michael Mmoh begins the Citi Open after his Truist Atlanta Open came to a close with a defeat to Lloyd Harris in the qualification final. Mmoh's first opponent is Bradley Klahn (in the round of 64). Mmoh is +8000 to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Mmoh at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Mmoh's Next Match
In his opener at the Citi Open, Mmoh will play Klahn on Monday, July 31 at 1:20 PM ET in the round of 64.
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Mmoh Stats
- In his last tournament, the Truist Atlanta Open, Mmoh was eliminated in the qualifying round by No. 202-ranked Harris, 2-6, 7-6, 6-7.
- Mmoh has not won any of his 11 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 13-13.
- Mmoh has a match record of 10-10 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Mmoh, over the past year, has played 26 matches across all court surfaces, and 27.4 games per match.
- Mmoh, in 20 matches over the past year on hard courts, has played 25.2 games per match and won 51.5% of them.
- Over the past 12 months, Mmoh has been victorious in 25.5% of his return games and 75.4% of his service games.
- Mmoh has claimed 74.5% of his service games on hard courts and 29.6% of his return games over the past 12 months.
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Sloane Stephens 2023 Citi Open Odds
After exiting in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon in her last tournament (knocked out by Donna Vekic), Sloane Stephens will begin the Citi Open against Lauren Davis (in the round of 32). Stephens' odds are +2800 to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Stephens at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Stephens' Next Match
In her opener at the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 2:40 PM ET) in the round of 32, Stephens will meet Davis.
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Stephens Stats
- Stephens last played on July 6, 2023, a 6-4, 5-7, 4-6 defeat by No. 21-ranked Vekic in the Round of 64 of the Wimbledon.
- The 30-year-old Stephens is 20-19 over the past year and is still looking for her first tournament win.
- Stephens has a match record of 11-13 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Stephens has played 21.3 games per match in her 39 matches over the past 12 months across all court types.
- In her 24 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Stephens has played 20.8 games per match.
- Over the past year, Stephens has won 64.4% of her service games, and she has won 37.7% of her return games.
- Stephens has won 35.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, she has claimed 62.3% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Sloane Stephens 2023 Citi Open Odds
After exiting in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon in her last tournament (knocked out by Donna Vekic), Sloane Stephens will begin the Citi Open against Lauren Davis (in the round of 32). Stephens' odds are +2800 to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Stephens at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Stephens' Next Match
In her opener at the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 2:40 PM ET) in the round of 32, Stephens will meet Davis.
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Stephens Stats
- Stephens last played on July 6, 2023, a 6-4, 5-7, 4-6 defeat by No. 21-ranked Vekic in the Round of 64 of the Wimbledon.
- The 30-year-old Stephens is 20-19 over the past year and is still looking for her first tournament win.
- Stephens has a match record of 11-13 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Stephens has played 21.3 games per match in her 39 matches over the past 12 months across all court types.
- In her 24 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Stephens has played 20.8 games per match.
- Over the past year, Stephens has won 64.4% of her service games, and she has won 37.7% of her return games.
- Stephens has won 35.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, she has claimed 62.3% of her service games during that timeframe.
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CHENGDU, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 29, in the Men's Nanquan of Wushu tournament, China's athlete Cao Maoyuan won the first gold medal at the 31st FISU World University Games with a score of 9.770.
Cao Maoyuan stood on the podium, showcasing his glory to the world. The medal around his neck, accompanied by a radiant medal ribbon, caught everyone's attention. But what makes this seemingly ordinary medal ribbon so remarkable? It's the embodiment of Chengdu's cultural charm. According to Hu Guangjun, the director of the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute, the medal ribbon for this edition of the Games has ingeniously incorporated the millennia-old weaving techniques of Shu brocade. Adorned with iconic symbols of Chengdu's historical and cultural significance, such as hibiscus flowers and sun birds, the ribbon exudes a captivating luster. This transforms China's intangible cultural heritage into a tangible "Rongguang" (the brilliance of Chengdu) that can be truly appreciated.
Shu brocade weaving skills are China's national intangible cultural heritage. Dating back to the Han Dynasty, Shu brocade has been a vital "protagonist" in trade along the Silk Road, earning its place as a cultural emblem of Chengdu and a symbol of cultural exchange between the East and West. With the unveiling of the first medal of the Games, Chengdu proudly showcases this cherished cultural business card to the world once again.
This outstanding cultural business card was produced in the workshop of Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute in Shuangliu District. According to Hu Guangjun, the location of the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute in Shuangliu stems from its long history of silk culture. During the Three Kingdoms period, renowned strategist Zhuge Liang resided in Gemo Village, Shuangliu, where he emphasized the significance of Shu brocade by stating, "In the current circumstances of impoverishment and an empty treasury, we rely solely on Shu brocade for the necessary materials to confront our enemies." This highlights the historical importance of Shu brocade at that time. Moreover, a piece of Shu brocade known as "Lianzhu Loong Pattern Brocade" was excavated from the 226th tomb of Astana in Turpan, Xinjiang in the last century. The relic clearly records its origin in Shuangliu, bearing witness to the flourishing and prosperous Shu brocade industry in the Shuangliu region during the Tang Dynasty.
To infuse traditional Shu brocade with a fashionable touch, Hu Guangjun collaborated with a design team composed of Ma Liwa, a teacher, and students from the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts at Chengdu University. Together, they tirelessly refined and revised the design, from pattern creation to machine production. This meticulous process took nearly six months to complete. Moreover, the transformation of mulberry silk into the medal ribbons required over 70 intricate steps.
Apart from the medal ribbons, the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute has introduced a range of Games-related merchandise crafted from Shu brocade fabrics, including mirrors and bucket hats. These products seamlessly blend traditional culture with contemporary fashion elements, showcasing the progressive charm of Shu brocade. As a result, they have captured the attention of many young individuals who are now eager to explore and appreciate the beauty of Shu brocade.
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Sofia Kenin 2023 Citi Open Odds
Sofia Kenin begins the Citi Open after her Wimbledon finished with a loss to Elina Svitolina in the round of 32. Kenin's opener is versus Magdalena Frech (in the round of 32). Kenin currently has +3300 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Kenin at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Kenin's Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Kenin will play Frech.
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Kenin Stats
- In her most recent match, Kenin came up short 6-7, 2-6 against Svitolina in the Round of 32 of the Wimbledon.
- The 24-year-old Kenin is 18-21 over the past year and is still looking for her first tournament title.
- Kenin has a record of 10-15 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Through 39 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces), Kenin has played 21.1 games per match. She won 50.5% of them.
- On hard courts, Kenin has played 25 matches over the past 12 months, and she has totaled 21.4 games per match while winning 49.6% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past year, Kenin has won 70.0% of her games on serve, and 31.1% on return.
- Kenin has won 28.9% of her return games on hard courts over the past year. Meanwhile, she has claimed 69.7% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Sofia Kenin 2023 Citi Open Odds
Sofia Kenin begins the Citi Open after her Wimbledon finished with a loss to Elina Svitolina in the round of 32. Kenin's opener is versus Magdalena Frech (in the round of 32). Kenin currently has +3300 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Kenin at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Kenin's Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Kenin will play Frech.
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Kenin Stats
- In her most recent match, Kenin came up short 6-7, 2-6 against Svitolina in the Round of 32 of the Wimbledon.
- The 24-year-old Kenin is 18-21 over the past year and is still looking for her first tournament title.
- Kenin has a record of 10-15 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Through 39 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces), Kenin has played 21.1 games per match. She won 50.5% of them.
- On hard courts, Kenin has played 25 matches over the past 12 months, and she has totaled 21.4 games per match while winning 49.6% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past year, Kenin has won 70.0% of her games on serve, and 31.1% on return.
- Kenin has won 28.9% of her return games on hard courts over the past year. Meanwhile, she has claimed 69.7% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Zachary Svajda 2023 Citi Open Odds
The Citi Open continues in Washington, District of Columbia, with Zachary Svajda in the round of 64 versus Max Purcell. Svajda has +10000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Svajda at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Svajda's Next Match
Svajda will play Purcell in the round of 64 on Tuesday, August 1 at 12:00 PM ET, after getting past Brandon Holt 7-6, 3-0 in the qualification final.
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Svajda Stats
- Svajda advanced over Holt 7-6, 3-0 on Sunday to make the .
- In nine tournaments over the past 12 months, Svajda is 10-8 and has yet to win a title.
- In six tournaments on hard courts over the past 12 months, Svajda has gone 9-5.
- Svajda has played 22.9 games per match in his 18 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- On hard courts, Svajda has played 14 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 22.8 games per match while winning 53.6% of games.
- Svajda has won 23.5% of his return games and 69.0% of his service games over the past year.
- On hard courts, Svajda, over the past year, has claimed 62.5% of his service games and 26.1% of his return games.
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Zachary Svajda 2023 Citi Open Odds
The Citi Open continues in Washington, District of Columbia, with Zachary Svajda in the round of 64 versus Max Purcell. Svajda has +10000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Svajda at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Svajda's Next Match
Svajda will play Purcell in the round of 64 on Tuesday, August 1 at 12:00 PM ET, after getting past Brandon Holt 7-6, 3-0 in the qualification final.
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Svajda Stats
- Svajda advanced over Holt 7-6, 3-0 on Sunday to make the .
- In nine tournaments over the past 12 months, Svajda is 10-8 and has yet to win a title.
- In six tournaments on hard courts over the past 12 months, Svajda has gone 9-5.
- Svajda has played 22.9 games per match in his 18 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- On hard courts, Svajda has played 14 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 22.8 games per match while winning 53.6% of games.
- Svajda has won 23.5% of his return games and 69.0% of his service games over the past year.
- On hard courts, Svajda, over the past year, has claimed 62.5% of his service games and 26.1% of his return games.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix sizzled through its 31st consecutive day of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) and other parts of the country grappled Sunday with record temperatures after a week that saw significant portions of the U.S. population subject to extreme heat.
The National Weather Service said Phoenix climbed to a high of 111 F (43.8 Celsius) before the day was through.
July has been so steamy thus far that scientists calculate it will be the hottest month ever recorded and likely the warmest human civilization has seen. The World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service on Thursday proclaimed July beyond record-smashing.
The historic heat began blasting the lower Southwest U.S. in late June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California’s desert.
On Sunday, a massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve spread rapidly amid erratic winds, while firefighters reported progress against another major blaze to the south that prompted evacuations.
The York Fire that erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the preserve sent up a huge plume of smoke visible nearly 100 miles (160 kilometers) away across the state line in Nevada.
Flames 20 feet (6 meters) high in some spots have charred more than 110 square miles (284 square kilometers) of desert scrub, juniper and Joshua tree woodland, according to a Sunday update.
“The dry fuel acts as a ready ignition source, and when paired with those weather conditions it resulted in long-distance fire run and high flames, leading to extreme fire behavior,” authorities said. No structures were threatened, but there was also no containment.
To the southwest, the Bonny Fire was holding steady at about 3.4 square miles (8.8 square kilometers) in rugged hills of Riverside County. More than 1,300 people were ordered to evacuate their homes Saturday near the remote community of Aguanga, California.
Triple-digit heat was expected in parts of the central San Joaquin Valley through Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
And in Burbank, California, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, the summer heat may have been responsible for some unusual behavior in the animal kingdom: Police in the city 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.
As climate change brings hotter and longer heat waves, record temperatures across the U.S. have killed dozens of people, and the poorest Americans suffer the most. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.”
It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metro areas.
Back in Phoenix, slight relief may be on the way as expected seasonal thunderstorms could drop temperatures Monday and Tuesday.
“It should be around 108 degrees, so we break that 110 streak,” meteorologist Tom Frieders said. “Increasing cloud cover will put temperatures in a downward trend.”
The relief could be short-lived, however. Highs are expected to creep back to 110 F (43.3 C) Wednesday with temperatures reaching 115 F (46.1 C) by the end of the week.
Phoenix has also sweated through a record 16 consecutive nights when the lows temperature didn’t dip below 90 F (32.2 C), making it hard for people to cool off after sunset.
Meanwhile, Las Vegas continues to flirt with its hottest July ever. The city is closing in on its 2010 record for the average of the high and low each day for July, which stands at 96.2 F (35.5 C).
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Inglenook neighborhood celebrates first responders, offers support after firefighter’s death
First responders can be a lifeline for the communities they serve, and one Birmingham neighborhood wants to make sure they know how appreciated
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The 25th annual community carnival in Inglenook aimed at empowering the Inglenook community while also connecting them with the areas first responders.
The event started with a parade that included several firefighters and police officers from around the community.
It’s put on by the H.O.P.E. church, and after that parade they held a festival that allowed people in the community to get to know the people who are often first on the scene to help.
The Birmingham area is still coming to grips with the death of Firefighter Jordan Melton, who was shot on duty at Fire Station 9.
Inglenooks Fire Station 23 is actually hosting Station 9 as their building remains closed. They say it’s more important now than ever to lift up a community still dealing with such a great loss.
“We’re hopeful that even they will be encouraged through what we’re doing here, to know that they’re not alone, that there are people that support them,” says pastor JaWanda Jackson, who helped put the event on. “And for them to know that the life of Firefighter Melton was not in vain.”
Another goal of the first responder celebrations is to help the community understand what it is firefighters and police officers do, and help first responders better understand how they can help serve the neighborhood.
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CHENGDU, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 29, in the Men's Nanquan of Wushu tournament, China's athlete Cao Maoyuan won the first gold medal at the 31st FISU World University Games with a score of 9.770.
Cao Maoyuan stood on the podium, showcasing his glory to the world. The medal around his neck, accompanied by a radiant medal ribbon, caught everyone's attention. But what makes this seemingly ordinary medal ribbon so remarkable? It's the embodiment of Chengdu's cultural charm. According to Hu Guangjun, the director of the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute, the medal ribbon for this edition of the Games has ingeniously incorporated the millennia-old weaving techniques of Shu brocade. Adorned with iconic symbols of Chengdu's historical and cultural significance, such as hibiscus flowers and sun birds, the ribbon exudes a captivating luster. This transforms China's intangible cultural heritage into a tangible "Rongguang" (the brilliance of Chengdu) that can be truly appreciated.
Shu brocade weaving skills are China's national intangible cultural heritage. Dating back to the Han Dynasty, Shu brocade has been a vital "protagonist" in trade along the Silk Road, earning its place as a cultural emblem of Chengdu and a symbol of cultural exchange between the East and West. With the unveiling of the first medal of the Games, Chengdu proudly showcases this cherished cultural business card to the world once again.
This outstanding cultural business card was produced in the workshop of Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute in Shuangliu District. According to Hu Guangjun, the location of the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute in Shuangliu stems from its long history of silk culture. During the Three Kingdoms period, renowned strategist Zhuge Liang resided in Gemo Village, Shuangliu, where he emphasized the significance of Shu brocade by stating, "In the current circumstances of impoverishment and an empty treasury, we rely solely on Shu brocade for the necessary materials to confront our enemies." This highlights the historical importance of Shu brocade at that time. Moreover, a piece of Shu brocade known as "Lianzhu Loong Pattern Brocade" was excavated from the 226th tomb of Astana in Turpan, Xinjiang in the last century. The relic clearly records its origin in Shuangliu, bearing witness to the flourishing and prosperous Shu brocade industry in the Shuangliu region during the Tang Dynasty.
To infuse traditional Shu brocade with a fashionable touch, Hu Guangjun collaborated with a design team composed of Ma Liwa, a teacher, and students from the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts at Chengdu University. Together, they tirelessly refined and revised the design, from pattern creation to machine production. This meticulous process took nearly six months to complete. Moreover, the transformation of mulberry silk into the medal ribbons required over 70 intricate steps.
Apart from the medal ribbons, the Chengdu Shu Brocade Research Institute has introduced a range of Games-related merchandise crafted from Shu brocade fabrics, including mirrors and bucket hats. These products seamlessly blend traditional culture with contemporary fashion elements, showcasing the progressive charm of Shu brocade. As a result, they have captured the attention of many young individuals who are now eager to explore and appreciate the beauty of Shu brocade.
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With TCL's latest intelligent algorithm, the enhanced picture quality elevates the experience of movie watching, game play and more
HONG KONG, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL, a leading consumer electronics brand and the world's top two TV brand, is reiterating its display advancement to drive more immersive entertainment experiences for users around the world.
On the successful launches of TCL's all-new QD-Mini LED TVs and QLED TVs, a superior line up of 4K TV's delivering high and precise contrast, stunning brightness, vivid colours and better uniformity, TCL is committed to the development of its AiPQ Processor 3.0, offering next-level picture performance.
AiPQ Processor 3.0 Enhances the Viewing Experience for Movie and TV Lovers
For true film buffs, any time of day is the perfect time to lose yourself in an engrossing, feature-length production. Whether indulging by staying up late or unwinding on a lazy sunny afternoon, the AiPQ Processor 3.0's Ai-Contrast feature intelligently reproduces reality by dynamically optimizing the contrast ratio, analyzing brightness and darkness levels to perfectly balance light and shadows – ensuring the intensity of a scene is upheld whether watching during the day or night. To ensure you never miss a detail of the drama unfolding on your screen, Ai-Clarity analyses the image according to its original resolution, reproducing the final image with precise noise reduction for crystal clear visuals, meaning every detail of an intense film scene is captured. For fans of the fantasy genre, where out-of-this-world colour palettes really bring the story to life, Ai-Colour transforms and strengthens the screen colour gamut, independently rendering different colours to ensure expression is optimized for a truly immersive experience.
For those who prefer to unwind by transporting themselves to other worlds via nature documentaries, Ai-Colour perceives images in the same way the naked eye does by recreating micro colour details seen in the real world. It achieves this by automatically tuning, correcting and enhancing multiple specs including colour temperature, saturation and contrast, to deliver a life-like rendered image with a natural, artistic touch. Thanks to this precise algorithm, wildlife shows have never looked so good, making the viewer feel truly surrounded by nature. What's more, Ai-HDR intelligently decodes multiple HDR formats from HDR 10, to HDR10+ and more, allowing you to TV content exactly as the director intended, with enhanced organic colours and a wider range of brightness and darkness highlights.
Keeping up to Speed – The Benefits of Ai for Sports Viewing and Gaming
For those who never want to miss a moment of the action, Ai-Motion elevates the experience of watching sports by intuitively detecting fast moving objects according to their size and position on the screen, calculating motion in terms of refresh rate and frame number. Be the first to spot the foul or notice if the ball was out thanks to Ai-Clarity's crystal-clear visuals that allow you to enjoy up to 4K experience with content of lower resolutions, so you can capture every pivotal moment.
Gamers will also appreciate Ai-Motion's ability to convert low frame images to high frames, restoring silky-smooth visuals without any blurring or tearing for uninterrupted game play. Further enhancing the gaming experience, Ai-Contrast helps you see more in the dark, unveiling enemies hidden in the shadows during game play.
The outstanding AiPQ Processor 3.0 can be found in the latest select TCL QD-Mini LED TVs now available to purchase across global markets, allowing customers all over the world to discover the benefits of intelligent multi-dimensional optimization.
About TCL Electronics
TCL Electronics (1070.HK) is a fast-growing consumer electronics company and a leader in the global television industry. Founded in 1981, it now operates in more than 160 markets around the world. TCL specializes in the research, development, and manufacturing of consumer electronics products ranging from TVs, audio, and smart home appliances. Visit the TCL website at https://www.tcl.com.
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With TCL's latest intelligent algorithm, the enhanced picture quality elevates the experience of movie watching, game play and more
HONG KONG, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL, a leading consumer electronics brand and the world's top two TV brand, is reiterating its display advancement to drive more immersive entertainment experiences for users around the world.
On the successful launches of TCL's all-new QD-Mini LED TVs and QLED TVs, a superior line up of 4K TV's delivering high and precise contrast, stunning brightness, vivid colours and better uniformity, TCL is committed to the development of its AiPQ Processor 3.0, offering next-level picture performance.
AiPQ Processor 3.0 Enhances the Viewing Experience for Movie and TV Lovers
For true film buffs, any time of day is the perfect time to lose yourself in an engrossing, feature-length production. Whether indulging by staying up late or unwinding on a lazy sunny afternoon, the AiPQ Processor 3.0's Ai-Contrast feature intelligently reproduces reality by dynamically optimizing the contrast ratio, analyzing brightness and darkness levels to perfectly balance light and shadows – ensuring the intensity of a scene is upheld whether watching during the day or night. To ensure you never miss a detail of the drama unfolding on your screen, Ai-Clarity analyses the image according to its original resolution, reproducing the final image with precise noise reduction for crystal clear visuals, meaning every detail of an intense film scene is captured. For fans of the fantasy genre, where out-of-this-world colour palettes really bring the story to life, Ai-Colour transforms and strengthens the screen colour gamut, independently rendering different colours to ensure expression is optimized for a truly immersive experience.
For those who prefer to unwind by transporting themselves to other worlds via nature documentaries, Ai-Colour perceives images in the same way the naked eye does by recreating micro colour details seen in the real world. It achieves this by automatically tuning, correcting and enhancing multiple specs including colour temperature, saturation and contrast, to deliver a life-like rendered image with a natural, artistic touch. Thanks to this precise algorithm, wildlife shows have never looked so good, making the viewer feel truly surrounded by nature. What's more, Ai-HDR intelligently decodes multiple HDR formats from HDR 10, to HDR10+ and more, allowing you to TV content exactly as the director intended, with enhanced organic colours and a wider range of brightness and darkness highlights.
Keeping up to Speed – The Benefits of Ai for Sports Viewing and Gaming
For those who never want to miss a moment of the action, Ai-Motion elevates the experience of watching sports by intuitively detecting fast moving objects according to their size and position on the screen, calculating motion in terms of refresh rate and frame number. Be the first to spot the foul or notice if the ball was out thanks to Ai-Clarity's crystal-clear visuals that allow you to enjoy up to 4K experience with content of lower resolutions, so you can capture every pivotal moment.
Gamers will also appreciate Ai-Motion's ability to convert low frame images to high frames, restoring silky-smooth visuals without any blurring or tearing for uninterrupted game play. Further enhancing the gaming experience, Ai-Contrast helps you see more in the dark, unveiling enemies hidden in the shadows during game play.
The outstanding AiPQ Processor 3.0 can be found in the latest select TCL QD-Mini LED TVs now available to purchase across global markets, allowing customers all over the world to discover the benefits of intelligent multi-dimensional optimization.
About TCL Electronics
TCL Electronics (1070.HK) is a fast-growing consumer electronics company and a leader in the global television industry. Founded in 1981, it now operates in more than 160 markets around the world. TCL specializes in the research, development, and manufacturing of consumer electronics products ranging from TVs, audio, and smart home appliances. Visit the TCL website at https://www.tcl.com.
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NEW YORK, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Last Fortress: Underground, a grounding-breaking game set in an apocalyptic bunker, has announced a new and exciting collaboration with the hugely successful superhero TV series, The Boys. This collaboration is set to commence on July 31, offering players a chance to immerse themselves in an action-packed journey alongside these unforgettable heroes.
In this unique collaboration, players will team up with Butcher, Hughie, and Starlight, delving into uncharted territories, unlocking captivating storylines, and battling the relentless zombie horde side by side! Unleash their powers and prepare to explore the outer world with The Boys, as they strive to uncover the truth behind the mysterious zombie surge.
As players embark on this exhilarating quest, exciting rewards await! Take part in the electrifying collaboration to seize exclusive decorations, including the highly coveted "Forerunner Motorcycle" Army Skin, The Boys Emotes, Avatar Frame, Message Frame, Medal, and Nameplate. Furthermore, brace themselves for the unprecedented release of the collab hero skin and the collab fortress skin, adding a touch of uniqueness to their Last Fortress experience.
Whether people are returning players or someone new to the game, now is the perfect time to check out Last Fortress: Underground. Prepare themselves for an unparalleled gaming experience. Don't miss out on the chance to be part of this epic collaboration!
Download Last Fortress now from the App Store or Google Play, and gear up to face the zombie apocalypse hand in hand with the legendary characters of The Boys.
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SEATTLE, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Monport Laser has been at the forefront of laser engraving innovation, spearheading the development of cutting-edge laser engravers and cutters. Building upon its world-leading expertise in the laser engraving industry, the company is now ready to captivate the market with its latest breakthroughs. In August, Monport Laser is scheduled to announce a range of new laser engraving machines, specifically engineered to handle various materials.
After six months of relentless effort from Monport's development technical team, their eagerly anticipated product will finally be revealed to all laser creators in early August of this year. The development of this innovative machine began with thousands of customer survey questionnaires for laser marking machines, rigorous testing, and product designer assessments. Engineers conducted over a dozen rounds of machine sample screening and in the final design stage, they took the unusual step of bringing in external senior personnel and engraving novices to carry out engraving tests for an entire month. This dedication to improvement and openness to feedback ensures a professional and user-friendly final fiber laser.
Monport GP Fiber Laser Series is not only Lightweight but Compact
Laser engraving machines have long faced difficulties when it comes to laser focusing, causing technical support headaches. Monport's latest innovation in marking machine can answer all these troubles. The new product boasts an electric and manual double lifting focus method, designed to make laser focusing seamless and improve the final engraving result. With this cutting-edge technology, users can operate without any barriers, and achieve the perfect, professional engraving effect.The electric lifting focus is suitable for beginners while the manual focus is the best for experienced users. This new integrated fiber laser is truly versatile in achieving any special engraving effects needed.
Breaking away from the conventional split type designs flooding the market, Monport introduces a game-changing one-piece design for their latest marking machine. This ingenious development not only saves valuable space but also ensures portability becomes a breeze. Bella, a senior developer at Monport Laser, proudly declared, "Our exceptional team of female developers has personally experienced the convenience of this machine. They effortlessly moved it from one studio to another, adjusting the base's height for easy handling right off the table. The commitment to a user-friendly experience is not just a mere claim."
In striking comparison to other conventional 33kg machines, Monport GP Series Fiber Series introduces their groundbreaking 20-22 kg all-in-one machine, setting a new industry standard for its exceptional lightness. The machine boasts rounded leading corners, diligently crafted to prevent unwanted bumps and damage during handling and transportation. Monport's thoughtful consideration extends further with the addition of a dustproof board, ensuring optimal performance and longevity. Endowed with an exceptional user-friendly experience and multifunctional capabilities, this machine embodies Monport Laser's unwavering dedication to continuous upgrades, always keeping the user at the forefront.
Monport GI Series MOPA Lasers Redefine Color Fast Marking
Monport's exciting product launch not only includes the highly anticipated new additions to the GP Series but also showcases the cutting-edge GI Series color engraving fiber machine. This JPT MOPA fiber laser is built to last, offering precision, durability, and longevity that surpasses expectations. With its remarkable laser cutting capability, it can effortlessly cut up to 0.05 mm with each pass, achieving an astonishing accuracy of ±0.1 microns.
Extensive Support and Remarkable Fiber Accessories
Complementing the multitude of advantages offered by their cutting-edge machine, Monport Laser goes above and beyond by providing customers with comprehensive support and unparalleled expandability. The new fiber series from Monport introduces a range of accessories designed to elevate the engraving experience. One notable addition is the safety shells, embedded with radiation protection and noise reduction functions, creating a secure and tranquil environment for users.
As a testament to their commitment to customer satisfaction, Monport Laser also includes 10 different test materials, ranging from metal rings to key chains and cards made from various metal materials, enabling users to explore and experiment with ease.
By empowering businesses and industries, expanding the creative landscape for maker spaces, unleashing innovation, and creating opportunities for growth, Monport Laser is at the forefront of revolutionizing the laser engraving field.
Company: Monport Laser
Contact email: official@monportlaser.com
Pre-sales Phone: (+1)332-251-1208
Monport Laser Website: https://monportlaser.com/
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SEATTLE, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Monport Laser has been at the forefront of laser engraving innovation, spearheading the development of cutting-edge laser engravers and cutters. Building upon its world-leading expertise in the laser engraving industry, the company is now ready to captivate the market with its latest breakthroughs. In August, Monport Laser is scheduled to announce a range of new laser engraving machines, specifically engineered to handle various materials.
After six months of relentless effort from Monport's development technical team, their eagerly anticipated product will finally be revealed to all laser creators in early August of this year. The development of this innovative machine began with thousands of customer survey questionnaires for laser marking machines, rigorous testing, and product designer assessments. Engineers conducted over a dozen rounds of machine sample screening and in the final design stage, they took the unusual step of bringing in external senior personnel and engraving novices to carry out engraving tests for an entire month. This dedication to improvement and openness to feedback ensures a professional and user-friendly final fiber laser.
Monport GP Fiber Laser Series is not only Lightweight but Compact
Laser engraving machines have long faced difficulties when it comes to laser focusing, causing technical support headaches. Monport's latest innovation in marking machine can answer all these troubles. The new product boasts an electric and manual double lifting focus method, designed to make laser focusing seamless and improve the final engraving result. With this cutting-edge technology, users can operate without any barriers, and achieve the perfect, professional engraving effect.The electric lifting focus is suitable for beginners while the manual focus is the best for experienced users. This new integrated fiber laser is truly versatile in achieving any special engraving effects needed.
Breaking away from the conventional split type designs flooding the market, Monport introduces a game-changing one-piece design for their latest marking machine. This ingenious development not only saves valuable space but also ensures portability becomes a breeze. Bella, a senior developer at Monport Laser, proudly declared, "Our exceptional team of female developers has personally experienced the convenience of this machine. They effortlessly moved it from one studio to another, adjusting the base's height for easy handling right off the table. The commitment to a user-friendly experience is not just a mere claim."
In striking comparison to other conventional 33kg machines, Monport GP Series Fiber Series introduces their groundbreaking 20-22 kg all-in-one machine, setting a new industry standard for its exceptional lightness. The machine boasts rounded leading corners, diligently crafted to prevent unwanted bumps and damage during handling and transportation. Monport's thoughtful consideration extends further with the addition of a dustproof board, ensuring optimal performance and longevity. Endowed with an exceptional user-friendly experience and multifunctional capabilities, this machine embodies Monport Laser's unwavering dedication to continuous upgrades, always keeping the user at the forefront.
Monport GI Series MOPA Lasers Redefine Color Fast Marking
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Partnership adds cryptocurrency as a payment option for merchants using Optty's universal payment platform
SINGAPORE, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Optty, the world's first universal payments platform, today announced a new partnership with Triple-A, a licensed crypto payment gateway, to add cryptocurrency as a payment option on the platform. As the central hub connecting and streamlining a robust global network of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) providers, this milestone marks the launch of Optty's sixth payment architecture, further expanding viable payment options for merchants and convenience for their end customers.
Sign-up and integration with Optty is free. To get started, please visit: https://www.optty.com/merchant-account
"As the world's first true universal payments platform, Optty is agnostic and supportive of payments inclusion, a unique position that is designed to help retailers offer more choice than ever at checkout," said Natasha Zurnamer, CEO and founder of Optty. "With one simplified integration, not only can retailers access over 90 BNPLs and local payment methods in over 120 countries — they can now switch on crypto payments, a natural progression in our aim to simplify payments for retailers all over the world."
The first crypto payment gateway to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Triple-A is also licensed in Europe, through Banque de France's ACPR, and registered with the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Through the collaboration with Triple-A's white label crypto payment gateway, Optty enables retailers and merchants to offer a wide range of payment methods. This allows them to test and learn which payment types best resonate with their customers.
Tapping into diverse consumer payment preferences
With Optty's vast global network of gateways that license the company's unique payment stacks, merchants and retailers can now leverage Triple-A's gateway to accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), and USD Coin (USDC). Triple-A's crypto payment gateway is compatible with all crypto wallets, allowing customers to make hassle-free payments using their preferred wallet.
Through real-time crypto-to-fiat conversions facilitated by Triple-A, retailers can receive payments in cryptocurrencies without the need to manage them on their balance sheets and constantly monitor fluctuating exchange rates. Retailers enjoy next-day local currency bank settlements in 50+ currencies, enabling quick access to funds in their preferred currency. Additionally, businesses have the option to offer their customers the convenience of paying through Binance Pay.
Optty already offers Buy Now Pay Later, Debit and Credit, Digital Wallets, Peer to Peer payments, and bank transfer options, and the addition of crypto enables merchants to tap into the spending power of 420 million crypto owners worldwide. Optty plans to further expand payment architectures to a total of nine by the end of 2023.
"We are excited to partner with Optty and bring crypto payments to their merchants," said Eric Barbier, CEO of Triple-A. "This collaboration will help merchants take advantage of the growing demand for cryptocurrency payments, without the hassle of managing crypto assets on their balance sheets."
Disruption through simplification
Previously, retailers and merchants would need to spend a great deal of time and money on complex, one-by-one payment integration processes. Optty changed all this by eliminating it, revolutionizing the way merchants access payments methods globally. Available across ecommerce, IVR, and in-store, it is a true PaaS that offers retailers a simplified integration while providing a seamless and direct commercial partnership channel, enabling an application process with every payment provider in the solution.
About Optty
As a PaaS, Optty is the world's first true universal payments platform that integrates over 90 installment (BNPL) brands — more than any other existing single integration solution globally — and offers six payment architectures, soon to be nine by the end of 2023. Its payments-, partner- and channel-agnostic approach delivers wide payments connectivity globally to schemes, acquirers, gateways and retailers alike and offers a full white-label, customisable interface with hierarchy built in for network expansion ease.
For more information, please visit: https://www.optty.com/
About Triple-A
Triple-A is a licensed crypto payment gateway that helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts, giving them access to the spending power of the fast-growing 420m+ cryptocurrency users.
Triple-A's white label crypto payments solutions allow businesses from all industries to leverage the benefits of the growing crypto market without being exposed to volatility risk or having to handle or convert digital currencies. Their solutions are compatible with all wallets, easy to integrate and offer instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rates and chargeback protection.
Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and trusted by over 15,000 businesses, Triple-A makes accepting crypto payments simple for businesses across the globe.
For more information, please visit https://triple-a.io/.
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Partnership adds cryptocurrency as a payment option for merchants using Optty's universal payment platform
SINGAPORE, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Optty, the world's first universal payments platform, today announced a new partnership with Triple-A, a licensed crypto payment gateway, to add cryptocurrency as a payment option on the platform. As the central hub connecting and streamlining a robust global network of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) providers, this milestone marks the launch of Optty's sixth payment architecture, further expanding viable payment options for merchants and convenience for their end customers.
Sign-up and integration with Optty is free. To get started, please visit: https://www.optty.com/merchant-account
"As the world's first true universal payments platform, Optty is agnostic and supportive of payments inclusion, a unique position that is designed to help retailers offer more choice than ever at checkout," said Natasha Zurnamer, CEO and founder of Optty. "With one simplified integration, not only can retailers access over 90 BNPLs and local payment methods in over 120 countries — they can now switch on crypto payments, a natural progression in our aim to simplify payments for retailers all over the world."
The first crypto payment gateway to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Triple-A is also licensed in Europe, through Banque de France's ACPR, and registered with the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Through the collaboration with Triple-A's white label crypto payment gateway, Optty enables retailers and merchants to offer a wide range of payment methods. This allows them to test and learn which payment types best resonate with their customers.
Tapping into diverse consumer payment preferences
With Optty's vast global network of gateways that license the company's unique payment stacks, merchants and retailers can now leverage Triple-A's gateway to accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), and USD Coin (USDC). Triple-A's crypto payment gateway is compatible with all crypto wallets, allowing customers to make hassle-free payments using their preferred wallet.
Through real-time crypto-to-fiat conversions facilitated by Triple-A, retailers can receive payments in cryptocurrencies without the need to manage them on their balance sheets and constantly monitor fluctuating exchange rates. Retailers enjoy next-day local currency bank settlements in 50+ currencies, enabling quick access to funds in their preferred currency. Additionally, businesses have the option to offer their customers the convenience of paying through Binance Pay.
Optty already offers Buy Now Pay Later, Debit and Credit, Digital Wallets, Peer to Peer payments, and bank transfer options, and the addition of crypto enables merchants to tap into the spending power of 420 million crypto owners worldwide. Optty plans to further expand payment architectures to a total of nine by the end of 2023.
"We are excited to partner with Optty and bring crypto payments to their merchants," said Eric Barbier, CEO of Triple-A. "This collaboration will help merchants take advantage of the growing demand for cryptocurrency payments, without the hassle of managing crypto assets on their balance sheets."
Disruption through simplification
Previously, retailers and merchants would need to spend a great deal of time and money on complex, one-by-one payment integration processes. Optty changed all this by eliminating it, revolutionizing the way merchants access payments methods globally. Available across ecommerce, IVR, and in-store, it is a true PaaS that offers retailers a simplified integration while providing a seamless and direct commercial partnership channel, enabling an application process with every payment provider in the solution.
About Optty
As a PaaS, Optty is the world's first true universal payments platform that integrates over 90 installment (BNPL) brands — more than any other existing single integration solution globally — and offers six payment architectures, soon to be nine by the end of 2023. Its payments-, partner- and channel-agnostic approach delivers wide payments connectivity globally to schemes, acquirers, gateways and retailers alike and offers a full white-label, customisable interface with hierarchy built in for network expansion ease.
For more information, please visit: https://www.optty.com/
About Triple-A
Triple-A is a licensed crypto payment gateway that helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts, giving them access to the spending power of the fast-growing 420m+ cryptocurrency users.
Triple-A's white label crypto payments solutions allow businesses from all industries to leverage the benefits of the growing crypto market without being exposed to volatility risk or having to handle or convert digital currencies. Their solutions are compatible with all wallets, easy to integrate and offer instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rates and chargeback protection.
Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and trusted by over 15,000 businesses, Triple-A makes accepting crypto payments simple for businesses across the globe.
For more information, please visit https://triple-a.io/.
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Bernarda Pera 2023 Citi Open Odds
Bernarda Pera will open play in the Citi Open versus Leylah Annie Fernandez (in the round of 32). In her last match she was beaten by Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals to end a good performance at the Hamburg. Pera has +5000 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Pera at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Pera's Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Pera will meet Fernandez.
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Pera Stats
- In her previous tournament, the Hamburg, Pera was defeated in the quarterfinals by No. 101-ranked Shnaider, 1-6, 6-2, 4-6.
- Pera is 24-24 over the past year, with zero tournament victories.
- In 14 tournaments on hard courts over the past 12 months, Pera has gone 13-14.
- Through 48 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Pera has played 22.5 games per match. She won 49.2% of them.
- On hard courts, Pera has played 27 matches over the past year, and she has totaled 22.5 games per match while winning 49.0% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Pera has won 64.5% of her games on serve, and 33.7% on return.
- Pera has won 29.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, she has claimed 67.7% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Migrant workers injured in apparent intentional hit-and-run, police say
July 30, 2023 11:12PM EDT
Six migrant workers were injured in what appeared to be an intentional hit-and-run in Lincolnton, North Carolina, police said Sunday.
The migrants were hit by a black SUV outside a Walmart around 1:17 p.m. Sunday, the Lincolnton Police Department said. They were taken to a local hospital and none of their injuries appeared to be life-threatening, according to police.
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Bjorn Fratangelo 2023 Citi Open Odds
Bjorn Fratangelo has a match against Gael Monfils coming up next in the Citi Open round of 64. Fratangelo is +10000 to win at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Fratangelo at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Fratangelo's Next Match
Fratangelo will play in the Citi Open round of 64 after getting past Alexis Galarneau 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, and now matches up against Monfils on Monday, July 31 at 8:15 PM ET.
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Fratangelo Stats
- Fratangelo is coming off a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory over No. 162-ranked Galarneau in the qualifying round on Sunday.
- Fratangelo is 1-1 over the past year, with zero tournament wins.
- In one hard-court tournaments over the past year, Fratangelo is 1-1 in matches.
- In his two matches over the past year, across all court types, Fratangelo has averaged 33.5 games.
- On hard courts, Fratangelo has played two matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 33.5 games per match while winning 47.8% of games.
- Over the past 12 months, Fratangelo has been victorious in 14.7% of his return games and 81.8% of his service games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fratangelo has won 81.8% of his games on serve and 14.7% on return.
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Brandon Nakashima 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his most recent tournament (knocked out by Christopher Eubanks), Brandon Nakashima will begin the Citi Open against Aleksandar Vukic (in the round of 64). Nakashima currently has +2000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Nakashima at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Nakashima's Next Match
Nakashima will open up at the Citi Open by matching up with Vukic in the round of 64 on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET).
Nakashima has current moneyline odds of -250 to win his next matchup against Vukic. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
Brandon Nakashima Grand Slam Odds
- US Open odds to win: +6600
- Citi Open odds to win: +2000
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Nakashima Stats
- In his last match, Nakashima lost 7-6, 4-6, 5-7 versus Eubanks in the Round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open.
- Nakashima is 26-21 over the past year, with two tournament wins.
- Nakashima is 22-14 on hard courts over the past 12 months, with two tournament titles.
- Over the past year (across all court surfaces), Nakashima has played 47 matches and 25.9 games per match.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Nakashima has averaged 24.1 games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 82.6% of his games on serve, and 19.7% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past 12 months, Nakashima has won 83.5% of his games on serve and 20.4% on return.
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Danielle Collins 2023 Citi Open Odds
Danielle Collins will begin the Citi Open in Washington, District of Columbia versus Liudmila Samsonova in the round of 32. She was knocked off by Belinda Bencic in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon (her most recent tournament). Collins has +2800 odds to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Collins at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Collins' Next Match
In her opening match at the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 12:00 PM ET) in the round of 32, Collins will face Samsonova.
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Collins Stats
- Collins is coming off a loss in the Round of 64 at the Wimbledon, at the hands of No. 14-ranked Bencic, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7.
- Collins has not won any of her 14 tournaments over the past 12 months, with an overall record of 18-14.
- Collins has a match record of 17-11 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Through 32 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Collins has played 23.5 games per match. She won 51.8% of them.
- In her 28 matches on hard courts over the past year, Collins has played 23.3 games per match.
- Collins, over the past 12 months, has won 71.0% of her service games and 32.6% of her return games.
- Collins has claimed 71.2% of her service games on hard courts and 34.3% of her return games over the past 12 months.
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Hailey Baptiste 2023 Citi Open Odds
Play progresses at the Citi Open, with Hailey Baptiste in the round of 32 against Karolina Pliskova. Baptiste's odds are +8000 to win this tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Baptiste at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Baptiste's Next Match
Baptiste will be in the Citi Open round of 32 after beating Peyton Stearns 7-6, 6-2, and now matches up against Pliskova on Tuesday, August 1 at 12:00 PM ET.
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Baptiste Stats
- Baptiste beat No. 59-ranked Stearns 7-6, 6-2 on Sunday to make the .
- The 21-year-old Baptiste is 3-8 over the past 12 months and is still seeking her first tournament victory.
- Baptiste is 0-6 on hard courts over the past year.
- Baptiste, over the past year, has played 11 matches across all court surfaces, and 18.5 games per match.
- On hard courts, Baptiste has played six matches over the past 12 months, and she has totaled 18.5 games per match while winning 32.4% of games.
- Baptiste, over the past year, has won 58.2% of her service games and 19.6% of her return games.
- Baptiste has been victorious in 51.3% of her service games on hard courts and 20.5% of her return games over the past year.
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Lauren Davis 2023 Citi Open Odds
Lauren Davis has a match versus Sloane Stephens coming up next in the Citi Open round of 32. Davis is +6600 to win at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
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Davis at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Davis' Next Match
After defeating Ashlyn Krueger 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the qualification final, Davis will meet Stephens in the round of 32 on Monday, July 31 at 2:40 PM ET.
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Davis Stats
- In the qualifying round on Sunday, Davis beat No. 123-ranked Krueger, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5.
- Davis has won one of her 20 tournaments over the past year, with an overall record of 26-19.
- Davis has won one tournament over the past 12 months on hard courts, with a match record of 20-11 on that surface.
- Davis has played 21.4 games per match in her 45 matches over the past year across all court types.
- On hard courts, Davis has played 31 matches over the past 12 months, and 21.2 games per match.
- Davis has won 33.9% of her return games and 62.1% of her service games over the past year.
- On hard courts, Davis, over the past year, has claimed 66.1% of her service games and 35.0% of her return games.
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Mackenzie McDonald 2023 Citi Open Odds
After reaching the quarterfinals at the Hall of Fame Open (before being knocked out by Alex Michelsen in his last match), Mackenzie McDonald will begin play in the Citi Open versus Diego Schwartzman in the round of 64. McDonald is +3300 to win it all at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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McDonald at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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McDonald's Next Match
In his opening match at the Citi Open, McDonald will face Schwartzman on Monday, July 31 at 4:00 PM ET in the round of 64.
McDonald is listed at -190 to win his next matchup against Schwartzman. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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McDonald Stats
- McDonald is coming off a defeat in the quarterfinals at the Hall of Fame Open, at the hands of No. 190-ranked Michelsen, 3-6, 3-6.
- The 28-year-old McDonald is 31-29 over the past year and is still seeking his first tournament victory.
- McDonald is 23-19 on hard courts over the past year.
- McDonald has played 24.1 games per match in his 60 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- In his 42 matches on hard courts over the past year, McDonald has played 23.8 games per match.
- McDonald, over the past year, has won 76.3% of his service games and 26.0% of his return games.
- McDonald has been victorious in 78.0% of his service games on hard courts and 27.1% of his return games over the past 12 months.
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Madison Keys 2023 Citi Open Odds
Madison Keys faces Qinwen Zheng to open play in the Citi Open in Washington, District of Columbia (in the round of 32). In the Wimbledon (her last tournament), she reached the quarterfinals before falling to Aryna Sabalenka. Keys' monyeline odds to win the tournament at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center are +900, the No. 3 odds in the field.
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Keys at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Keys' Next Match
In the round of 32 of the Citi Open, on Tuesday, August 1 (at 12:00 PM ET), Keys will meet Zheng.
Keys is listed at -160 to win her next matchup versus Zheng. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Keys Stats
- In her previous tournament, the Wimbledon, Keys was eliminated in the quarterfinals by No. 2-ranked Sabalenka, 2-6, 4-6.
- In 18 tournaments over the past year, Keys has gone 32-17 and has won one title.
- Keys is 17-13 on hard courts over the past 12 months.
- Keys has played 20.8 games per match in her 49 matches over the past 12 months across all court types.
- In her 30 matches on a hard surface over the past year, Keys has averaged 21.1 games.
- Keys has won 37.1% of her return games and 71.5% of her service games over the past year.
- Keys has won 34.1% of her return games on hard courts over the past year. Meanwhile, she has been victorious in 69.3% of her service games during that timeframe.
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Marcos Giron 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 64 of the Wimbledon in his previous tournament (eliminated by Marton Fucsovics), Marcos Giron will begin the Citi Open versus Radu Albot (in the round of 64). Giron's odds are +4000 to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Giron at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Giron's Next Match
In his opener at the Citi Open, Giron will face Albot on Monday, July 31 at 3:55 PM ET in the round of 64.
Giron is listed at -250 to win his next matchup against Albot. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Giron Stats
- Giron came up short in his most recent match, 6-7, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6 versus Fucsovics in the Round of 64 of the Wimbledon on July 6, 2023.
- In 27 tournaments over the past year, Giron has yet to win a title, and his record is 29-27.
- Giron has a match record of 19-17 on hard courts over the last 12 months.
- Giron has played 24.4 games per match in his 56 matches over the past year across all court surfaces.
- In his 36 matches on a hard surface over the past 12 months, Giron has averaged 23.7 games.
- Giron has won 22.0% of his return games and 78.2% of his service games over the past year.
- On hard courts over the past 12 months, Giron has been victorious in 19.7% of his return games and 77.7% of his service games.
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Maxime Cressy 2023 Citi Open Odds
After bowing out in the round of 16 of the Truist Atlanta Open in his last tournament (eliminated by Jeffrey John Wolf), Maxime Cressy will open the Citi Open versus Alexander Shevchenko (in the round of 64). Cressy has +4000 odds to win this tournament at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.
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Cressy at the 2023 Citi Open
- Next Round: Round of 64
- Tournament Dates: July 28 - August 7
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Cressy's Next Match
In the round of 64 of the Citi Open, on Monday, July 31 (at 1:15 PM ET), Cressy will meet Shevchenko.
Cressy is listed at -200 to win his next contest versus Shevchenko. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Cressy Stats
- In his previous tournament, the Truist Atlanta Open, Cressy was beaten in the Round of 16 by No. 46-ranked Wolf, 6-7, 3-6.
- Cressy is 16-30 over the past year, with no tournament victories.
- Cressy is 15-20 on hard courts over the past year.
- Cressy, over the past 12 months, has played 46 matches across all court types, and 26.9 games per match.
- On hard courts, Cressy has played 35 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 26.2 games per match while winning 49.9% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Cressy has won 83.4% of his games on serve, and 12.8% on return.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages on hard courts over the past year, Cressy has won 85.6% of his games on serve and 13.5% on return.
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