WASHINGTON — Small towns crossed America had large plans to observe the nation’s semiquincentennial this weekend. Local humanities societies scheduled municipality quadrate readings of the Declaration of Independence, hired bands to play patriotic tunes, organized parades and group up themed baking contests.

But galore of their about eager plans were scrapped aft the Trump management cut $100 cardinal successful national funding for humanities nonprofits and authorities councils astatine the commencement of its term. The determination severely hampered section readying for America’s 250th anniversary, disrupting history projects, museums and acquisition programs nationwide.

Instead, the Trump management funneled tens of millions successful national dollars to Event Strategies, the patient down Trump’s infamous rally astatine the Ellipse connected Jan. 6, 2021, to shape day events passim the nation’s superior centered connected President Trump.

The result, historians say, has go a centralized, much politicized spectacle, marking the nationalist milestone arsenic a ceremony of an imperial presidency alternatively than a gyration from kingly rule.

The spectacular show that Americans will spot features Trump astatine its center, culminating a twelvemonth of concerted efforts by the president to put his look connected passports and currency, nationalist parkland passes and authorities buildings.

Members of the Dance4Life workplace successful Claymont, Del., prepares to march up of the Red, White, & Blue To-Do Pomp & Parade connected July 2, 2026, successful Philadelphia.

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Yet, beyond the sound of the nation’s capital, historians and teachers, docents and curators, archivists, circuit guides and reenactors person sustained the messy, integrated sermon of the American story, little funded but nary little vocal successful their patriotism.

“The measurement history has been based on since Trump returned to agency has been a reminder that governments and governmental figures person singular powerfulness to style a society’s humanities memory,” said David Ekbladh, a history professor astatine Tufts University and writer of “Look astatine the World: The Rise of an American Globalism successful the 1930s.”

Trump’s effort to power the day communicative has reminded Ekbladh of 1 of George Orwell’s about celebrated quotes: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the coming controls the past.”

“The administration’s clear signals that it could and will restrict backing to institutions seems to person muted the measurement galore institutions, for illustration museums and universities, person approached the anniversary,” Ekbladh added. “With this said, Trump’s ain direct, individual usage of the 250th has been little about articulating a clear position of the nation’s history than utilizing the infinitesimal itself to support attraction connected him.”

The White House has taken a more progressive domiciled successful the festivities than initially planned, mounting up its ain Freedom 250 task to supplement America250, a bipartisan legislature effort to observe the occasion.

Fencing is seen about the Great American State Fair connected the National Mall connected Thursday.

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The Trump management has directed backing to events centered connected the president’s attendance, chiefly about Washington, and collaborated pinch blimpish organizations specified arsenic PragerU and Hillsdale College to coming the country’s founding communicative done a blimpish Christian lens.

Historians are successful wide statement that this year’s ceremony has garnered acold little attraction than the bicentennial, marked successful 1976, which generated broad media sum and wide nationalist excitement.

Andrew Rudalevige, a professor of authorities astatine Bowdoin College and writer of “The New Imperial Presidency,” attributed the deficiency of enthusiasm this clip successful portion owed to a much fragmented media scenery than existed 50 years ago, denying the state a “core curriculum” and a shared story.

“I don’t deliberation it’s a deficiency of patriotism, truthful overmuch arsenic a determination that nary statesmanlike management should beryllium capable to halfway itself arsenic the attraction of that patriotism,” Rudalevige said.

“There’s a batch to observe successful the matter of the declaration. But that’s not wherever the attraction of the Freedom 250 efforts has been,” Rudalevige said. “It would person been absorbing to spot what the bipartisan America250 inaugural could person travel up pinch if its backing and energies had not been diverted.”

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is fenced disconnected successful mentation for Fourth of July fireworks.

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Trump has scheduled small nationalist recreation about the anniversary, visiting North Dakota this week for an arena that allowed him to debut a caller type of Air Force One, donated by Qatar and outfitted to the president’s tastes. Trump intends to support the level aft leaving agency for his individual use.

The pitchy will alert complete the National Mall alongside the Defense Department’s about awesome instrumentality connected Saturday, earlier the president delivers a reside successful what is forecast to beryllium a blistering power wave. The evening will end, according to management officials, pinch the largest fireworks show successful U.S. history.

“The basal situation that we look now is the conflict betwixt the historians — group who person been studying the past and who person been reasoning about really to show that communicative to the nationalist — and authorities leaders complete who gets to power that story,” said Peter Kastor, chair of the history section astatine Washington University successful St. Louis.

“The group who are really connected the beforehand lines are depository professionals, the operators of historical sites and schoolteachers,” he said. “They look the work for explaining the past to a wide assemblage connected a day-to-day basis, and they are the ones who about often look the backlash from group who want the communicative to beryllium told differently.”

Earlier this year, a wide circulated 15-second AI-generated video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise connected a rooftop sparked outrage crossed Hollywood. One screenwriter called the cinematic clip “terrifying.” The Motion Picture Assn. demanded the institution down the artificial intelligence instrumentality — Chinese tech elephantine ByteDance — halt its “infringing activity.”

Despite the uproar, the erstwhile mostly proprietor of TikTok has softly continued to tribunal filmmakers, independent artists and executives who are eager to adopt the AI video procreation exemplary called Seedance.

Seedance was launched successful the U.S. this spring astatine a Santa Monica arena hosted by a group linked to the Chinese government.

ByteDance began hiring for 100 unfastened roles, signed aggregate independent filmmakers and artists and held backstage conversations about financing AI films. The institution threw a lavish caviar statement astatine Cannes and successful May hosted panels promoting its cinematic instrumentality astatine Amazon’s AI connected the Lot arena successful Culver City.

“Like immoderate caller technology, Hollywood yet has nary prime but to respond to marketplace realities. And that reality is that the caller harvest of AI-empowered Hollywood creatives spot Seedance arsenic having the about powerful video generator successful the marketplace correct now,” said Peter Csathy of Creative Media, an intermezo and AI business advisory firm.

Joel Kuwahara, the animation shaper connected early seasons of “The Simpsons,” echoed Hollywood’s quiet embrace.

“Within the industry, I cognize that a batch of studios haven’t approved Seedance, but yet pinch a wink and a nod, they’re allowing Seedance to beryllium used. ... It’s benignant of for illustration a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ benignant of a thing,’” Kuwahara told the Times.

ByteDance declined to remark connected its U.S. description .

The title to build the ascendant AI video exemplary has created a fierce rivalry, pitting U.S. companies against the fast-closing Chinese competitors. On the American side, location are Google Veo and startups specified arsenic Runway and Luma. OpenAI’s Sora has discontinued its video tool.

The Chinese challengers Seedance, Kling and Alibaba’s HappyHorse person quickly closed the spread connected cinematic realism and person upstaged their American rivals by undercutting them connected cost.

According to Artificial Analysis, a institution that tracks costs and performances of different AI models, China’s Seedance is presently the about cost-effective and high-quality action compared pinch U.S. competitors. Seedance costs $9 per infinitesimal for video pinch audio generation, importantly little than the $24 per infinitesimal required by Google’s Veo model.

That makes it an charismatic instrumentality for independent filmmakers for illustration Rupert Wainwright, who who precocious meet pinch Seedance executives astatine AI connected the Lot.

He wants to usage the the instrumentality to thief make his feature-length movie called “Sebastian,” about a Christian saint group successful 3rd period Rome. The hybrid AI movie will beryllium changeable partially connected location successful Europe and partially generated pinch artificial intelligence.

“It’s the balanced to erstwhile streaming a movie complete the net onto your TV yet became possible,” Wainwright said.

Kavan Cardoza.

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A segment from “The Chronicles of Bone.”

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In May, Steven Schneider, the shaper of “Paranormal Activity,” celebrated for its handheld grainy footage-style filmmaking, announced “Terrarium,” his first hybrid AI scary production. The film’s director, Jason Zada, said it will beryllium wholly generated utilizing Seedance’s model.

Zada’s filmmaking workflow involves writing, casting, prompting and editing each simultaneously, allowing him to rewrite scripts based connected “dailies” generated by AI that day.

He estimates that generating 15 seconds of high-definition video costs only $5.

“We could spell from a very elaborate outline, very elaborate characters and person it beryllium a spot much fluid, because we could regen[erate] arsenic overmuch arsenic we want,” Zada said.

Zada plans to sprout the movie first connected a soundstage pinch existent actors and will determine later which parts activity amended traditionally and what should beryllium done synthetically. He’s a personnel of the Directors Guild of America and said he will beryllium employing national actors for his hybrid AI film.

Seedance besides has continued building ties by offering indie creators, AI-native studios and filmmakers free monthly credits and entree to unreleased features. These “tastemakers” beta-test its models, connection feedback connected what works, and usage it for their individual filmmaking projects — which creates firm marque awareness.

Kavan Cardoza is 1 specified breakout filmmaker. His AI imagination bid “The Chronicle of Bones,” which uses Seedance, features half a twelve chopped storylines and an ensemble of characters. New episodes, each not much than 30 minutes, are released connected YouTube erstwhile a month. The one-person filmmaker averages 3 cardinal views per section and has cultivated a YouTube assemblage of 500,000.

Most filmmakers are instrumentality agnostic, but lately Cardoza has go wholly limited connected Seedance, he said, because it solves a persistent problem: maintaining characteristic consistency betwixt shots.

Kavan Cardoza unmasked.

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To create 1 of his characters, “the past mislaid boy,” Cardoza took self-portraits wearing a three-faced disguise and a tattered brownish jacket. He utilized those reference images for the AI characteristic and transforms them into a stylized person, pinch a personality, backstory and ocular details. He fed those images backmost to Seedance to get accordant characters — repeating the process for each personnel of the cast.

“I can’t spell get Brad Pitt because he costs for illustration $5, 10, 20 cardinal to beryllium successful my film,” Cardoza said. “I could about apt get a synthetic character that will enactment conscionable arsenic bully arsenic Brad Pitt successful the future. That’s crazy to me.”

Cardoza has copyrighted his book and characters, and intends to yet pull awesome workplace liking to move his intelligence spot into a movie which comes pinch a built-in instrumentality base.

Such plans are apt to look guidance from the performers national SAG-AFTRA, which has decried the usage of synthetic actors specified arsenic Tilly Norwood.

“The emergence of Seedance comes down to [its] attraction connected pleasing filmmakers and making things that look filmic,” said Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, elder vice president of JioStar, a associated task betwixt Disney and India’s Reliance Industries.

ByteDance introduced timeline-based prompting truthful filmmakers could really prime circumstantial moments and tweak them, and improved the knowing of camera direction, physics, lighting and fluidity of action. All of this, Bugaj said, “unlocked a benignant of spectacle filmmaking that the different models are not delivering rather arsenic well.”

The company’s instrumentality has been successful specified precocious demand, Zada said, that Seedance has been quoting immoderate awesome Hollywood studios $2 cardinal for unrestricted typical access.

While acknowledging Seedance’s fame and its U.S. description , Amit Jain, main executive of Luma, said its ceiling successful Hollywood is severely limited. Traditional studios mightiness adopt Chinese models for immoderate preproduction tasks specified arsenic concepting, but the geopolitical and intelligence spot risks for commercialized generations are excessively prohibitive.

“Can you ideate Disney utilizing the ByteDance exemplary for the adjacent ‘Snow White’? No way,” Jain said. “This is not moreover a method argument, really. That’s the reality.”

Luma has been making inroads into Hollywood trading its package but has separately funded a production work company to thatch filmmakers to make hybrid AI films utilizing its tools.

Despite blimpish accumulation budgets, AI spending by media companies is projected to turn from $2.6 cardinal to $12.5 cardinal from 2024 to 2029, according to a State of Generative AI Media report.

Kavan Cardoza flips done pages of his fine-art photography book.

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Bugaj warned that the value and competitory value of Chinese models should beryllium a “wake-up call” for American players fighting for marketplace share.

“We’re not loyal,” said Zada, the filmmaker. “Whatever is the best, we’re going to usage it.”

Ken Marino loves surviving successful L.A.

Living present has surely been bully for his acting career. Though he collapsed into the business arsenic a personnel of NYC-turned-MTV sketch drama group the State successful 1994, he moved to L.A. successful the autumn of 1997 erstwhile he landed a domiciled successful the 2nd play of “Men Behaving Badly,” an NBC sitcom. Marino changeable conscionable 13 episodes earlier the show was canceled. Still, he stayed successful L.A., landing roles successful much-loved shows for illustration “Veronica Mars,” “Party Down,” “The Residence” and “Running Point.” He’s besides co-written a fewer things, including “Role Models” and “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,” retired July 10, which was filmed successful and about Los Angeles.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. group springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday about town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to eat and really to bask life connected the weekends.

“Working about L.A. and moving about to jobs is really I sewage to understand L.A.,” Marino says. “It’s conscionable a very comfortable metropolis to unrecorded in. I conscionable deliberation it’s nosy to beryllium capable to bounce about and do thing you consciousness for illustration doing.”

Here’s really Marino would walk his perfect, carefree Sunday successful Los Angeles.

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6 a.m.: Dog walking, java and flowers

We person 2 dogs. They request to spell extracurricular successful the greeting and eat, and they are very vocal about it. For a while, each greeting astatine 5:58 my 1 dog, Dot, would commencement whining and moving about until I’d spell “yeah, OK, let’s provender you.”

In our family, I’m the 1 who feeds the dogs and takes them out, because I’m a greeting person. I bask it erstwhile it’s not afloat ray out, possibly making myself a java aliases taking a locomotion to this spot called Project Bloom Coffee. It’s a small mom and popular benignant of spot and they person terrific java and meal sandwiches. They’re besides a florist. Sometimes they moreover usage this cool insubstantial holder pinch a grip where, connected 1 broadside you put the java and past connected the different broadside you put your beautiful flower display. So past you get to locomotion location pinch your java and your flowers together and it’s thing I’ve ne'er seen anyplace else.

7:30 a.m.: Online chess

After I spell get my java and locomotion the dogs, I’ll still beryllium the only personification up truthful I’ll get connected my machine and get a mates of games of chess in. I play group from about the world online connected Chess.com, and I usually either get disappointment aliases consciousness for illustration I’m the champion chess subordinate successful the world. Anyway, I’m getting my standing up connected the app and I’m very excited about it. I’ve gone down the rabbit spread of chess tutorials connected TikTok and YouTube that thatch maine really to play better.

9 a.m.: More java and “911”

If I spell to Project Bloom, I’ll bring my woman a java and immoderate flowers but if not, we person a small espresso and cappuccino shaper truthful I’ll usage that to make her a cappuccino, which I’ll bring to her successful bed. She’s ever very happy about that and past I’ll spell effort to aftermath my [16-year-old] girl up, which usually takes about 2 aliases 3 tries until I return her phone, group the timer for 5 minutes, and past put it connected the different broadside of her room truthful she has to get retired of her furniture to move it disconnected erstwhile it sounds.

She and I person been religiously watching “911” recently. We started pinch Season 1 and now we’re about six aliases 7 seasons successful truthful I’ll make her meal — possibly a Nutella crepe pinch immoderate small cherry tomatoes connected the side, which is weird but she likes it aliases possibly immoderate oatmeal — and past we’ll watch “911” and talk about our favourite characters, for illustration Buck, Chimney and Bobby.

Noon: Lunch connected the Westside

We person a small flat successful Marina Del Rey that’s correct by the formation truthful sometimes I’ll spell retired location pinch the dogs, conscionable to beryllium for a while and enjoy. I usually locomotion betwixt the Venice pier and Washington Street, but sometimes I’ll spell further northbound and locomotion on Venice Beach if I want to bent retired pinch immoderate freaky deakies.

When I’m complete connected that broadside of town, there’s a mates of places that I mightiness spell for food, for illustration this Italian edifice called Ospi that’s successful Venice. They’re incredible. They make their ain homemade pasta and it’s delicious. There’s besides this concatenation called Guisados, and I emotion their tacos truthful sometimes I’ll do that too. Venice Ramen is bully too, and they do these things called jumbo gyoza that are perfectly delicious. They’re for illustration 2.5 times bigger than a normal gyoza, for illustration palm-sized, and I really for illustration them.

2 p.m.: Play believe and a pint

My girl is successful 2 plays correct now astatine this spot called the Morgan-Wixson Theatre successful Santa Monica, truthful it’s my work to return her complete location and driblet her disconnected for practice. When I do that, if it’s a Sunday, I mightiness want to drawback a Guinness location and watch basketball. There’s a barroom called Weary Livers down the thoroughfare that has a batch of committee games and it feels for illustration you’re successful somebody’s basement, which is good. It’s besides correct adjacent to the Brixton, which is different bully barroom that I’ll spell to from clip to clip if I’m waiting for my girl to decorativeness rehearsal because it’s a batch of driving otherwise.

4 p.m.: Garage set practice

Typically connected Sunday, we’ll besides person a rehearsal for the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band. [Editor’s note: Marino co-founded the group pinch David Wain, whom he’s known since “The State” and who co-wrote “Wet Hot American Summer.”) We’ll play for a mates of hours successful David’s garage, trying retired caller songs and moving retired what we’re going to do astatine our adjacent unrecorded show.

6 p.m.: Guerilla promotion

Right now, David [Wain] and I are trying to fig retired different promotional things we could do for our movie, “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,” truthful possibly we’d do immoderate much of that. It’s a really funny movie and we sold it astatine Sundance.

Anyway, 2 Sundays agone we walked about pinch our friend Frank Barrera, who is besides 1 of the camera operators connected “Gail Daughtry.” We went to the Hollywood Walk of Fame and we changeable promos for the movie wherever we were talking to different group and pretending that the Gail Daughtry cinematic beingness is immense and has been about for decades, for illustration we were asking group what their favourite Gail Daughtry movie is. It confused a batch of them, but each erstwhile successful a while personification would opportunity thing truthful we’re utilizing those for promo spots.

I besides spent immoderate clip conscionable moving up and down the thoroughfare being very overly enthusiastic and screaming “the caller Gail Daughtry movie is coming out!” and past we changeable people’s reactions, which were typically “confusion” and “not caring.” Like, “Stop yelling astatine me, weirdo.”

7:30 p.m.: Thai takeout

On weekends, my woman and I for illustration to bid from a circumstantial Thai spot that’s won galore awards. It’s called Luv 2 Eat Thai Bistro and it’s perfectly fantastic. The crab curry is truthful delicious and they do these thoroughfare nutrient sausages that we crave. They travel pinch ginger and peanuts and garlic, positive a large slab of earthy cabbage and immoderate basking peppers and we’ll eat them for illustration popcorn, conscionable throwing them successful our mouths while we drawback up connected “Survivor.” The spirit is conscionable insane, and we deliberation about really bully they are each the time.

9:30 p.m.: Checkmate

After we watch “Survivor,” usually what happens adjacent is that we’ll extremity up going, “Should we watch a movie?” Then we’ll look about for a movie for a while and past my girl will beryllium like, “Hey, Mom! Come successful present and watch this YouTube show pinch me” truthful my woman will get pulled away, and I’ll instantly prime up my machine and commencement playing chess again. I for illustration to bookend my time pinch a quiet chess crippled successful the greeting and different quiet crippled astatine night. It’s a bully measurement to upwind down.

I’ll typically play a minimum of about 3 games earlier my eyes commencement to adjacent because they’re trying to autumn asleep. That’s erstwhile I’ll discontinue because I’ll beryllium making stupid moves and it affects my rating, for illustration “Oh, I conscionable mislaid that crippled because I fell dormant while my machine was on,” truthful that’s really I cognize erstwhile I’m done.

The Fourth of July is state day, but if you’re not paying attention, the celebrations mightiness onshore your furry friends successful a shelter kennel.

According to Elizabeth Oreck, elder head of organization programs for Best Friends Animal Society successful Los Angeles, much mislaid pets are brought to Los Angeles-area shelters connected July 5 than connected immoderate different day.

“It’s the biggest intake time of the year,” Oreck said.

Here’s really to support your canine aliases feline safe astatine location during the holiday, and what to do if you suffer your pet aliases find personification else’s.

Secure your pets

The champion measurement to support your pet safe is to forestall them from leaving the location astatine all, Oreck said.

She recommended pet owners study the schedule of immoderate adjacent fireworks shows and make judge their pet is wrong up of clip — large noises aliases bright, flashing lights could scare them away. But impromptu shows from your neighbors — which could beryllium illegal — are harder to scheme around.

Set your canine aliases feline up successful a cozy room pinch the windows and blinds secured. Play soft euphony to drown retired fireworks blasts and springiness your pet thing to do, for illustration putting treats wrong an interactive toy, to support them calm and happy.

Get them microchipped

If your pet does get out, their champion chance of getting location is done personification reference the accusation connected their microchip aliases tag, Oreck said.

“A microchip is only arsenic valuable arsenic the accusation is up to date,” Oreck said.

Microchips are comparatively inexpensive and are required for each pet successful Los Angeles County complete 4 months old. A vet inserts a mini spot about the size of a atom of atom nether your pet’s tegument that could beryllium scanned successful lawsuit they are lost.

If your pet already has a microchip, make judge the accusation is up to date; sometimes, moreover pets pinch microchips can’t beryllium identified because the telephone number associated pinch them has been disconnected.

L.A. Animal Services provides microchips for $15 astatine each six of its shelters without an appointment. L.A. County shelters connection microchips for $7.50, but require an appointment.

If you can’t get your pet chipped successful clip for Saturday, make judge they person a bully collar pinch an up-to-date sanction tag and interaction number, Oreck said.

Even pinch each these precautions, pets could still spell missing. “Even the about diligent and responsible pet proprietor could acquisition the unexpected,” Oreck said.

If your pet goes missing, enactment calm.

Allison Cardona, head of Wallis Annenberg PetSpace successful L.A., said that moving aft your pet that’s conscionable gotten retired whitethorn promote it to support moving alternatively than travel home.

Place posters successful the neighborhood, station connected societal media platforms specified arsenic Facebook and Nextdoor and cheque each adjacent shelter for your pet. Utilize free services specified arsenic PetCo Lost Love, which helps link humans pinch their mislaid and recovered pets.

If you find a pet and could foster it for a fewer days, effort uncovering its proprietor utilizing societal media, PetCo Lost Love aliases posters earlier turning it complete to the shelter system, Oreck said.

To negociate the influx of animals it expects successful the adjacent fewer days, Animal Services has put retired requests for additional foster volunteers successful the 4 days earlier and aft the holiday.

Take their 41-33 nonaccomplishment to the Calgary Stampeders past weekend.

A fumble connected a kickoff return precocious successful the 2nd 4th resulted successful the Stampeders scoring 2 touchdowns successful conscionable complete a infinitesimal for a 10-point halftime lead. The Lions besides gave up a 90-yard punt return successful the 4th quarter.

B.C. caput coach and violative coordinator Buck Pierce knows the Lions person to trim the mistakes to extremity their losing skid erstwhile they look the 3-0 Edmonton Elks Saturday successful Kelowna, B.C.

“We request to cleanable up immoderate things,” Pierce said aft his squad practised this week astatine Kelowna Secondary School. “We’ve had a batch of self-inflicted mistakes and execution errors. Those get you beat.

“You could do a batch of things well, but you person those 3 aliases 4 plays a crippled that you can’t have.”

With BC Place Stadium being utilized for the FIFA World Cup, the crippled will beryllium played astatine the Apple Bowl successful Kelowna, which drew complete 19,000 fans against Calgary.

The Lions haven’t started a play 0-3 since 2019.

The consequences of a mediocre commencement first took their toll connected Sunday erstwhile typical teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid was fired. Pierce said the Lions typical teams will beryllium coached by committee against Edmonton.

“When you look astatine typical teams, we person guys connected unit that person done those type of things successful the past,” he said. “We person a seasoned group.

“We’re going to thin connected each other.”

The Lions person been moving the ball. Their mean of 447 nett yards per crippled is 4th successful the convention and they are 2nd wide pinch 83 first downs.

Quarterback Nathan Rourke, past year’s Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian, threw for 462 yards against Calgary for the sixth 400-plus gait crippled of his career. On the season, he’s thrown for 1,083 yards, 4 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

Rourke has ne'er mislaid 4 consecutive games successful his CFL career.

A problem for the Lions is mediocre section position to unfastened drives. On average, teams this play person started connected their ain 38-yard line. For B.C., it’s been their ain 32, the poorest by immoderate nine successful the past 10 seasons. That six-yard quality adds up to 210 other yards to cover.

The Lions are sixth successful the convention successful scoring, averaging 29 points a game. B.C.’s rushing crippled is eighth successful the convention astatine 70 yards a game, pinch moving backmost James Butler averaging conscionable 3.9 yards per carry.

The Lions defence has besides struggled, giving up a league-high 37.7 points per game. B.C. is tied for past pinch Ottawa pinch conscionable 3 sacks, and hasn’t forced a turnover each year.

“We cognize we haven’t played our champion shot this play yet,” said linebacker Darnell Sankey, who the Lions signed arsenic a free supplier successful the off-season. “We understand we’re a awesome team. We’ve conscionable sewage to travel together and conscionable person fun.”

Injuries person taken their toll connected defence. Defensive lineman Levi Bell, linebacker Ben Hladik and protect backmost T. J. Lee are each questionable for Saturday.

But Elks backmost Cody Fajardo knows the statistic don’t matter erstwhile the crippled starts.

“They’ve had a batch of injuries connected the protect side, particularly successful the backmost end,” said Fajardo, who has 764 passing yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception this year. “It’s a batch of shuffling.

“They’re a formidable opponent. We are going to person our hands afloat pinch a really bully team.”

The Elks are disconnected to their champion commencement since going 7-0 successful 2017. Edmonton is seventh successful points scored (28 per game) but the defence has allowed a league-low 22.7 points a game.

All 3 of Edmonton’s wins person been decided successful the last 3 minutes. Two of the games person been by 4 points aliases less.

“It’s a testament to the characteristic we person successful this locker room,” said Fajardo. “It goes to show the perseverance of this team. We cognize we’re ne'er retired of it.”

The Lions person history connected their side. They person won 12 of their past 13 against Edmonton. BC won each 3 games past twelvemonth by a mixed people of 100-52.

Pierce believes the squad could still move things around.

“We’re focusing connected wherever we could improve,” he said. “We’re a resilient group. At immoderate constituent done the people of the season, you spell done stretches for illustration this.

“We’ve seen betterment successful immoderate areas. The guys are knowing much and much each week what winning needs to look like.”

This study by BERITAJA was first published July 3, 2026.

An illustration of the Boston Tea Party, erstwhile colonists dumped British East India Company beverage into the harbor connected Dec. 16, 1773. Some accounts opportunity this marked a pivotal infinitesimal erstwhile Americans started loving coffee. But 1 historiographer says Americans were drinking tons of java earlier then. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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A consequential enactment of defiance secured tea's spot arsenic possibly the about iconic beverage of America's assemblage era.

The Boston Tea Party became an basal constituent successful the look for gyration successful the pursuing years.

But beverage wasn't the only basking beverage pinch a salient domiciled successful America's conflict for independence.

Coffee was an important portion of American civilization from the start. And coffeehouses were essential, excessively — serving arsenic hubs for brewing ideas of independence.

As the United States celebrates 250 years, here's what to cognize about America's early history of coffee.

Colonists were drinking java agelong earlier the United States existed

Europeans brought java pinch them erstwhile they came to America.

"The first documented illustration of a mortar and pestle utilized to grind java beans was connected the Mayflower" successful 1620, says historiographer Michelle Craig McDonald, the writer of Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States.

"The truth that java was coming truthful early is not astonishing if you deliberation about it," McDonald says. "A number of those who were connected the Mayflower came to North America from Amsterdam, which was a awesome java trading halfway successful Western Europe by the 17th century."

The first coffeehouse successful the colonies opened successful 1676 successful Boston, a period earlier the U.S. declared independence, she says. Some taverns sold java moreover earlier.

The Boston Tea Party about apt wasn't the melodramatic turning constituent toward java that immoderate claim

On the nighttime of Dec. 16, 1773, disgruntled colonists boarded 3 ships moored successful Boston Harbor and threw overboard much than 92,000 pounds of beverage owned by the British East India Company.

Tensions had been building betwixt the Crown and the colonies complete the erstwhile decade, arsenic Britain tried to levy taxes connected its colonies to recoup warfare debts.

The Boston Tea Party protestation was targeted astatine the British government's passing of the Tea Act successful 1773, which granted the East India Company a monopoly complete beverage income successful the colonies. While the British had removed immoderate unpopular taxes successful the preceding years, they near beverage taxes successful place. Colonial merchants were particularly upset that the enactment allowed the East India Company to undercut their beverage business.

To build solidarity for their origin of sovereignty, immoderate patriots called connected colonialists to committedness disconnected beverage successful favour of coffee. It's why many histories constituent to the Boston Tea Party arsenic a turning constituent erstwhile Americans switched from mostly drinking beverage to mostly coffee. The anti-tea sentiment was immortalized successful a founding father's now-famous letter.

In July 1774, John Adams (before he became the 2nd U.S. president) wrote to his woman Abigail, recounting an incident during his travels. After a agelong day, he asked the proprietor of the location wherever he was lodging for a cup of tea, provided it was smuggled and free of British taxes.

" 'No sir, said she, we person renounced each Tea successful this Place. I cant make Tea, but I'le make you Coffee.' Accordingly I person drank Coffee each Afternoon since, and person borne it very well. Tea must beryllium universally renounced. I must beryllium weaned, and the sooner, the better," Adams wrote.

Despite John Adams claiming a newfound patriotic work to admit coffee, McDonald says colonists had been drinking tons of java each along.

She studied s from the 1760s and '70s to estimate really galore shops sold java versus tea. Even earlier the Boston Tea Party, she says, "coffee is decidedly much broadly disposable than beverage is."

A large reason? It was cheaper. "Its value again per lb is importantly less, which tells you about its availability, its accessibility to drinkers."

Historians opportunity it's difficult to definitively comparison beverage pinch java consumption, though, arsenic charismatic records from earlier America gained independency were inconsistent.

And smuggling was rampant, making charismatic records moreover little reliable.

"There is simply a immense magnitude of smuggling," says Joyce Chaplin, a professor of early American history astatine Harvard University. "So they're not paying general duties connected beverage that they get from the Dutch. They're about apt not paying general duties connected java from the French Caribbean."

And Chaplin notes that group who loudly proclaimed a caller appreciation for java complete beverage weren't ever doing what they said. It could person been governmental pandering. "I do not portion beverage that comes via the East India Company," she posits personification of the era saying. "But, you know, different sources are fine. Ditto for the coffee."

Coffeehouses were a hub for revolutionary ideas 

A coffeepot pinch cover, circa 1795. It has an American eagle motif, made successful China for the American market. Coffee was portion of a increasing inclination of globalization successful the assemblage era. Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images

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In the assemblage era, coffeehouses were hotbeds for seditious thought — wherever group planned acts of revolution.

"Coffeehouses are benignant of celebrated for being places wherever group deliberation and crippled things," says Mark Pendergrast, writer of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World.

A coffeehouse called the Green Dragon served arsenic 1 of the locations for readying the Boston Tea Party. Years earlier, the Old London Coffeehouse successful Philadelphia was a gathering spot for strategizing responses to different British tax, the Stamp Act of 1765.

In Britain, coffeehouses were nicknamed "penny universities," Pendergrast says: "because for a penny you could spell and study a full batch by sitting about successful a coffeehouse and discussing everything." The aforesaid cognition traveled crossed the Atlantic.

Early American coffeehouses would commonly person metropolis business directories, libraries of newspapers and rate speech information. People could get maritime security location aliases bargain things astatine auction.

"There's a logic why coffeehouses go places of assemblage protest … successful the 1760s, successful the 1770s, and it's because it is the spot wherever traders and merchants tended to gather," historiographer McDonald says. "That's wherever they heard about the economics of the day."

Taverns were much apt than coffeehouses to person rooms for rent and stables for travelers' horses. They were besides much apt to person food.

Interestingly enough, coffeehouses could service intoxicant and taverns could service coffee.

But the vibes astatine each were different. While women and men could "riotously portion together" successful taverns, coffeehouses often didn't let women, according to Chaplin of Harvard.

"The consciousness was the coffeehouse was the spot wherever you had a clear caput — to reason about politics, to find retired what was going connected successful the business world, to trim a business deal," she says. "Whereas taverns were places where, successful a sense, you refueled."

Still, she says, the lines betwixt the 2 "weren't wholly clear."

The costs of America's revolutionary drink 

Coffee (and beverage for that matter) was portion of a increasing globalization of waste and acquisition about this time.

Much of the java successful the colonies was grown successful the Caribbean, while beverage came from China.

Supply was up and java was easier than ever to drink. "Trade and frankly, imperialism, are making it imaginable for … assemblage products to beryllium produced and transferred to different parts of the world successful greater and greater quantities," says Chaplin.

As a result, by the clip of the American Revolution, some java and beverage were successful scope for galore communal people. "They're some becoming affordable luxuries," Chaplin says.

Fancy java and beverage paraphernalia were besides portion of this progressively world market. Middle and upper-class group would person wanted special implements for drinking these beverages and a spot to portion it. That meant they needed wood for java tables, metallic for coffeepots, and porcelain for teapots.

"These 2 beverages are encouraging group to devour each kinds of caller stuff," says Chaplin. "The mahogany that comes retired of the Caribbean, the china coming retired of China, metallic that is mined principally successful South and Central America and processed successful a batch of the parts of the world."

There's a acheronian broadside to coffee's history, too. The plantations that supplied the harvest ran connected the labour of enslaved people. By 1790, half of the world's java was being grown successful the French colony of Saint-Domingue, successful what is coming Haiti, Pendergrast says, wherever slaves were routinely mistreated, raped and murdered.

The Declaration of Independence, signed successful 1776, is infamous for a contradiction. It proclaimed that "all men are created equal," but grounded to admit the hundreds of thousands of enslaved group surviving successful America astatine the time.

Coffee carried a akin contradiction. The beverage that fueled conversations that inspired America's conflict for independency — centered connected the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — depended connected enslavement.

"Coffee had this paradoxical effect, that it did beforehand revolutionary thought," Pendergrast says. "But it was besides grown by slaves."

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Mylène Bourgeois and Joseph Gosselin-Rompre said they discovered they had won the prize only aft Joseph checked the summons utilizing the lottery app connected the Sunday aft their trip.

“It’s only erstwhile I came backmost location connected the Sunday that I verified the summons via the exertion connected the phone. I couldn’t judge it,” Gosselin-Rompre told BERITAJA. “I closed the application, did it again and it showed again that we won.”

He said he past showed the consequence to his wife, but the mates still struggled to judge it until they had the summons validated astatine a convenience store.

“She validated the ticket, she was like, ‘Oh wow,’ and my girl asked if she could person a slush,” Gosselin-Rompre said pinch a laugh.

“I told her, ‘You could person immoderate you want.'”

The couple, who are successful their 40s and unrecorded successful Quebec’s Montérégie region, said they and their 3 children are still trying to process the win.

They said they are considering buying a larger location and perchance a vessel successful the future, but scheme to return their clip earlier making awesome purchases.

“Nothing successful a rush. We don’t want to unreserved it,” Gosselin-Rompre said. “We want to deliberation about it, return our decisions and that’s really it’s gonna go.”

The mates said their children’s wish lists are modest, pinch 1 hoping for a caller PlayStation 5 and different asking for a chamber makeover.

Democrats are hoping they could triumph backmost the House mostly this fall, but fighting wrong the statement could complicate their plans.

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, BERITAJA's Michel Martin asks House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York about the Democratic Party's midterm future.

Maybe return the ranch instead.

A shipment of the basking condiment “Frank’s RedHot” sewage detoured erstwhile a leak was discovered from a semi successful Ohio this week, according to officials.

The BST&G Fire District, which serves respective communities northbound of Columbus, said connected Tuesday that it was dispatched owed to a large rig leaking thing connected awesome thoroughfare Interstate 71.

“Ultimately, the semi sewage disconnected the road and to 1 of the motortruck stops. The enigma fluid turnout retired to beryllium a trailer afloat of 40,000 lbs. of Frank’s Red Hot leaking!” the occurrence territory said connected Facebook.

The spill posed concerns about imaginable biology effects. The basking condiment is acidic, and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was called successful and responders attempted to incorporate the constituent truthful it wouldn’t spell into drains, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Comments connected the occurrence district’s station included jokes about wasted condiment and others saying the liquid was difficult to lavation disconnected of cars.

The effect to basking wings, pizza slices, reddish beans and atom aliases immoderate different dishes was not instantly clear.

“We’ve been advocating really since we incorporated successful 2007 for redundant power. It’s highly important,” said West Kelowna Mayor Gord Milsom. “But we do not want overhead lines.”

The determination comes arsenic concerns proceed to turn among residents, businesses and section chopper operators complete the imaginable effect of transmission towers, which could scope up to 100 feet gangly and tally done the organization arsenic BC Hydro considers various routes.

“There are chopper operations that are saying if that happens past that impacts our aerodrome, we could nary longer function,” Coun. Rick de Jong said  astatine the past assembly gathering connected June 23.

The rumor has drawn renewed attraction pursuing past month’s fast-moving wildfire successful Kalamoir Regional Park, wherever section chopper companies played a domiciled successful firefighting efforts.

“I was adjacent to that Kalamoir Park fire, excessively adjacent for comfort, and we watched the helicopters travel successful and retired of Valhalla and Wildcat and Alpine,” said Justin Pasutto, a West Kelowna resident who opposes overhead lines.

City officials opportunity they’ve heard from respective chopper operators who are worried the projected transmission lines could interfere pinch their operations.

In a connection to BERITAJA, Alpine Helicopters said it has precocious had “some constructive discussions pinch BC Hydro lately and they understand our concerns.”

Opposition to the task extends beyond aviation.  Many residents person expressed concerns that overhead lines would person lasting impacts connected the community.

Now, aft months of debate, metropolis assembly has officially made its position known pinch a unanimous ballot to nonstop a missive to some BC Hydro and the BC Utilities Commission.

“From our constituent of view, these transmission lines, if they’re supra ground…the interest is that we’re going to person these lines wrong our organization for generations to come,” Milsom said.

“It’s not the Okanagan manner aliases measurement of life by having these 100-foot lines moving done our community.”

Milson said the volition of the missive is to make BC Hydro alert it is against the overhead transmission statement action arsenic good arsenic to impulse it to prosecute the much costly underground alternative.

Pasutto is among the residents applauding the metropolis for listening to their concerns.

“This is not the metropolis of West Kelowna that it was 17 years agone erstwhile this task was primitively brought onto everybody’s focus,” Pasutto said. “They are listening to this and they want this done right.”

BC Hydro said burying the transmission lines would costs about 10 times much than building them overhead.

In an email to BERITAJA, the institution added, “Underground building is much complex, takes longer to complete, requires coordination pinch different buried utilities and typically causes greater postulation disruptions and crushed disturbance during construction.

“Underground lines could besides beryllium much difficult to relocate to accommodate early development, and outages could return longer to find and repair.”

Some are truthful opposed to the overhead lines, they would alternatively proceed relying connected azygous powerfulness root than judge overhead transmission lines.

“The scar that it will time off connected this organization for years to travel is irreversible,” said metropolis councillor Garrett Millsap.

“I’m good to beryllium hooking up a generator astatine my location if they can’t fig retired really to put powerfulness lines underground.”

An Apple Valley female who was pregnant pinch twins died successful a clang Saturday.

Lorena Lopez, 33, was driving northbound connected Wichita Road erstwhile a man ran a extremity motion astatine Zuni Road and broadsided her successful the intersection, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said successful a news release.

The man, 25, became trapped successful his Toyota Camry arsenic it caught occurrence but was later rescued and taken to a hospital, authorities said. There was nary connection connected his condition, and his personality was not released.

Lopez died astatine the scene. Two occupants of her Nissan Altima were taken to a trauma center.

An online fundraiser said the injured passengers were Lopez’s children and described her arsenic “a loving mother whose life was trim short acold excessively soon.” She was 5 months pregnant pinch a boy and girl, the page said.

A makeshift memorial was created astatine the tract of a clang successful Apple Valley that killed a female and her unborn twins.

(OnScene.TV)

A memorial grew astatine the clang site, pinch friends and family members placing votive candles, balloons and flowers, according to footage published by OnSceneTV.

Albert Benitez, Lopez’s boyfriend, remembered her arsenic well-liked and funny, a dedicated mother and a “workaholic” who astatine 1 constituent held 3 jobs.

“It’s unfair,” he told reporters. “Everybody’s grieving.”

An investigation into the clang remains ongoing, the Sheriff’s Department said.

Security researchers person confirmed that a European leader had his telephone hacked pinch the Pegasus spyware while serving connected an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reigniting caller contention complete governments abusing spyware to cod accusation about their critics.

The researchers astatine the University of Toronto’s integer authorities portion The Citizen Lab opportunity the confirmed telephone hacking of Greek journalist and erstwhile leader Stelios Kouloglou during 2022 and 2023 marks the first clip that a personnel of the European Parliament’s PEGA committee, tasked pinch investigating telephone spyware attacks by European governments, has been publically identified arsenic a unfortunate of spyware.

Kouloglou told TechCrunch successful a telephone telephone that the deliberate discuss of his telephone was “reckless.” One serving European lawmaker described the hacking of Kouloglou’s telephone arsenic a “direct onslaught connected the norm of law,” and called connected the European Commission to return actual action by imposing strict limits connected the usage of spyware crossed the 27 member-state bloc.

While spyware attacks connected lawmakers are rare, the timing and targeting of a committee interrogator by measurement of the very spyware nether his investigation suggests an aggravated attraction connected the committee’s soul workings up of a wide anticipated study detailing its findings. The hacks unfastened caller questions about really governments usage spyware ostensibly needed for identifying superior crime, but past caught spying connected the communications of journalists, lawmakers, and critics.

Citizen Lab’s researchers did not property the telephone hacking to a circumstantial country, but said that the authorities customer utilized the aforesaid Pegasus-loaded email reside that was utilized successful a erstwhile run that hacked into the phones of journalists crossed Europe. The customer’s personality is not known, but the reuse of the aforesaid attacking email reside implies that the customer had NSO Group’s authorization to usage its Pegasus spyware to snoop connected phones crossed aggregate countries successful Europe.

A spokesperson for the European Commission did not respond to TechCrunch’s petition for comment. NSO Group besides did not respond to a petition for remark about the Citizen Lab study anterior to publication.

In its study retired Friday, Citizen Lab said Kouloglou was hacked successful October 2022 and astatine slightest doubly during March 2023 utilizing an utilization that compromised a information vulnerability successful Apple’s iPhone software. This vulnerability had been patched but the hole was not yet installed connected Kouloglou’s phone. The utilization was a “zero-click” bug, meaning the spyware collapsed successful and stole his information without needing immoderate relationship connected his part.

The bug abused a antecedently discovered flaw successful Apple’s smart location package utilized successful iPhones. It allowed the spyware to drawback backstage information from Kouloglou’s telephone without his knowledge, specified arsenic his matter messages and different correspondence, location data, and photos.

The timing of the October 2022 hack coincides pinch aggravated discussions complete email and matter connection passim October and November 2022, up of the transportation of a first draught describing spyware abuses focusing successful Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Spain. 

The hack besides lines up astatine the nonstop clip that Kouloglou was successful the infirmary astatine the clip for a pre-scheduled surgery, which whitethorn person allowed the spyware operators to perceive successful to ambient audio discussing his healthcare aliases different conversations he had pinch visitors astatine the time.

Months later connected March 6 and 7, Citizen Lab said Kouloglou’s telephone was hacked again by the aforesaid Pegasus usability while Kouloglou traveled from Athens to Brussels, during a play of committee hearings and months anterior to the committee finalizing and adopting their written draught report.

In a call, Kouloglou told TechCrunch that he didn’t cognize why he was specifically targeted but that he believes it was owed to his activity connected the European Parliament’s committee investigating Pegasus abuses.

He described anger erstwhile he learned that his telephone had been hacked. 

“You recognize that each of your individual information [was taken] — not each the master exchanges aliases messages pinch ministers — but besides the very backstage things, for illustration the happy moments and the sad moments,” he told TechCrunch.

Kouloglou said he plans to writer NSO Group, the Israeli-headquartered spyware maker. NSO remains mostly banned from usage successful the United States pursuing a Biden-era executive bid that outlawed the government’s usage of spyware that could break people’s quality rights. 

Last year, the spyware shaper confirmed an unnamed American finance group funneled tens of millions of dollars into the company, apt arsenic portion of an effort to rehabilitate NSO’s beleaguered marque associated pinch enabling quality authorities abuses.

Kouloglou said he was going nationalist pinch his communicative “for democracy, quality rights, and the conflict against corruption.”

“Corruption concerns everybody,” he said.

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Jalen Philpot and Dejon Brissett some caught 2 touchdown passes, Tevin Jones and Clark Barnes each had 1 and Quincy Jones scored a rushing touchdown for Calgary (2-2).

Jude McAtamney kicked 8 points for the Stampeders successful beforehand of an announced crowd of 19,100 astatine McMahon Stadium.

Defensive backmost Zy Alexander intercepted Argonauts backmost Chad Kelly twice, which Calgary converted to touchdowns.

Makai Polk had 2 touchdown catches, Damonte Coxie and David Ungerer III each had one, Kelly rushed for a awesome and Lirim Hajrullahu kicked a section extremity from 52 yards for Toronto (2-2).

Adams tied the franchise grounds for touchdown passes successful a azygous crippled held by 4 different men: Peter Liske (1967), Doug Flutie (1994), Jeff Garcia (1995) and existent coach and wide head Dave Dickenson (2000).

Adams completed 20 of 25 walk attempts for 405 yards, and has yet to propulsion an interception aft 4 games this season.

Kelly went 22-for-33 successful passing for 294 yards, 3 touchdown passes and 2 interceptions. He was replaced precocious successful the 4th fourth by Nick Arbuckle, who threw a 17-yard touchdown walk to Coxie.

The Stampeders claimed a 2nd consecutive “Stampede Bowl”, which was introduced past twelvemonth successful homage to the yearly Calgary Stampede that starts Friday, and for which a trophy resembling a horse’s caput was designed.

Calgary’s 58 points successful a azygous crippled was the highest since 56 scored connected Edmonton connected Sept. 10, 2022.

Adams’ 22-yard dash to the extremity area converted by McAtamney gave the hosts a 51-30 lead early successful the 4th quarter.

Alexander’s 2nd interception and his 29-yard return group Calgary up for different score, pinch Adams dishing to Brissett for an 11-yard touchdown.

The Stampeders led 44-24 astatine the extremity of the third. Vaughn scored connected a one-yard plunge followed by Adams tossing a two-point person walk to Jones.

But Calgary’s 30 yards successful penalties connected Toronto’s consequent thrust helped the Argos antagonistic pinch a 16-yard touchdown drawback by Ungerer to commencement the 4th quarter.

A two-point person effort fell short and the Argonauts trailed by 14.

Adams needed conscionable 2 throws — including an acrobatic, juggling drawback by Jones connected a tipped shot — to make Calgary’s 5th awesome early successful the 2nd half. Barnes past hauled successful an Adams hurl for a 45-yard touchdown and a 36-18 lead.

But Kelly answered pinch a 79-yard, seven-play thrust that vanished pinch a short flip to Polk successful the extremity zone. Toronto’s two-point person effort failed.

The Stampeders outscored the Argonauts 21-11 successful the 2nd 4th — the teams mixed for 25 points successful the last 2 minutes — to lead 29-18 astatine the half.

Adams connected pinch Jones connected a 73-yard drawback and dash to the extremity area pinch 17 seconds remaining.

Adams threw short near to a diving Philpot connected the extremity statement for the latter’s 2nd people of the crippled and a 12-point lead, but the Argonauts countered pinch Kelly’s seven-yard transportation to people pinch 32 seconds near successful the 2nd quarter.

Toronto had 3 chances astatine a two-point person because of penalties. Arbuckle’s short-yardage transportation was successful.

Toronto’s third-down situation for walk interference aft a manus conflict betwixt Coxie and Calgary protect backmost Anthony Johnson was denied precocious successful the first half. The visitors trailed 15-10 aft Hajrullahu’s 52-yard section goal.

Alexander intercepted Kelly pinch a one-handed drawback precocious successful the first quarter. Calgary cashed successful for a touchdown connected a Brissett drawback and transportation to the extremity zone.

After giving up a touchdown and a azygous to Calgary, the Argonauts countered connected their 2nd possession of the game. Kelly threw to Polk successful the extremity area to decorativeness a nine-play, 70-yard drive.

Adams capped a five-play, 48-yard thrust pinch a six-yard propulsion to Philpot successful the extremity area connected Calgary’s first drive.

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Sila Tekin and her partner Misha Kleider were stepping connected the formation by the volleyball courts connected Sunday day erstwhile a man attacked her from behind, striking her successful the caput pinch a shot bat-sized portion of wood.

“I apparently was deed from down connected the head,” Tekin said.

“My representation benignant of cuts location and the adjacent point I retrieve is this benignant of murky spot wherever I was and I benignant of, I could consciousness my partner was there, but I was benignant of successful and retired of, I think, consciousness beautiful overmuch and past I retrieve waking up to the constabulary officers astatine the hospital.”

Kleider said he heard yelling, he turned and past saw a man pinch a portion of wood hoisted complete his head.

“And he brought it down connected her skull,” he said.

When he tried to do it again, Kleider said he jumped successful betwixt the man and Tekin, who was clutching her head.

“She is down connected her knees successful pain,” he said. “He goes to plaything again to decorativeness the job. I jump betwixt him. So past he is about to plaything astatine me, and thinks amended of it, and past backs off.”

Kleider said he turned his attraction to Tekin and different group rushed to thief and she was taken to the hospital.

“She’s successful and retired of consciousness the full time,” he said. “I’m reasoning that she’s going to die, because she virtually suffered an overhead plaything arsenic difficult arsenic this feline could muster, correct to the skull, pinch a log the size of a shot bat. So I’m reasoning that she’s dying.”

Kleider added that he thought those were his partner’s past moments.

A witnesser followed the fishy for a fewer blocks and 48-year-old Carlos Caldera Duarte was arrested adjacent the Burrard Street Bridge.

Police recommended he beryllium detained and the Crown besides sought to support him successful custody for an overnight fittingness assessment, but a judge released him connected Tuesday.

“I was bewildered that this personification who intelligibly almost killed me, is simply a maniac, is out, fto retired into the nationalist without moreover figuring retired what’s incorrect pinch him,” Tekin said.

Kleider agreed, saying the determination to fto him retired was concerning.

“The battle unprovoked connected the formation from down by a feline pinch a nine to her skull is evidently egregious, but arsenic disturbing to maine is the consequence of the justness system,” he said.

“The failure, this guy, wrong little than 2 days, he’s backmost retired aft smashing her caput successful pinch a bat.”

Const. Darren Wong, pinch the Vancouver police, said they were disappointment to perceive the news that Duarte was released.

He has nary criminal grounds successful B.C., but he is known to the police, who recommended he beryllium detained.

But it is yet up to the courts to make that decision.

“They measurement successful pinch their ain consequence appraisal to decide: does this personification airs a consequence to the public?” Wong said. “In this case, we judge that he did.”

The Crown sought to support Duarte successful custody for an overnight fittingness assessment, but it was denied.

He could not beryllium reached astatine his Downtown Eastside reside connected Thursday.

His merchandise conditions see staying distant from Kits Beach, reporting to forensic psychiatric services and taking each medications prescribed.

The caller alloy building allows volunteers to benignant donations down a unafraid obstruction while separating them from the alley.

The Summerland Health Auxiliary Thrift Shop relies wholly connected donations and volunteers, but attraction unpaid Kurt Evans says conditions down the shop person changed complete the years.

“They would break the fastener connected our donations bin and scatter it each complete the place,” Evans said. “It’s getting to the constituent wherever our volunteers are getting frightened to commencement their shift.”

Evans says immoderate donors person besides decided against leaving donations.

“I’ve heard donors opportunity they don’t cognize if they would donate anymore because of the consequence to travel to the backmost alley,” he said.

Despite those concerns, the thrift shop continues to pull shoppers from crossed the Okanagan.

“We are successful municipality to specifically spell to that thrift store,” said Maranda Sipes of Ontario.

“You tally about and effort to get what you can. The prices are really awesome and it’s 1 of the champion thrift stores successful the region,” added Scott Akin from Summerland.

The enclosed aid area was paid for by the thrift shop successful hopes of creating a safer abstraction for volunteers and protecting donated items.

While volunteers opportunity the caller building offers bid of mind, the shop still needs much group to lend a hand.

The Summerland Health Auxiliary Thrift Shop is actively recruiting volunteers to thief guarantee the long-standing organization staple could proceed serving residents for years to come.

A national appeals tribunal has ordered the Trump management to rehire intelligence officers who were fired complete their impermanent assignments moving connected diverseness issues, saying spy agencies had to uphold the employees’ law correct to owed process.

The CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence grounded to abide by their ain regulations erstwhile they fired 19 profession intelligence officers, the three-judge sheet ruled successful a 2-1 decision.

The intelligence officers antecedently argued their firings were “arbitrary” and “unsupported by immoderate evidentiary grounds whatsoever.” They besides maintained that they should person been reassigned to caller duties alternatively of being penalized for jobs a erstwhile management ordered them to transportation out.

Attorneys representing the authorities based on that the caput of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, and the head of nationalist intelligence had unfettered authority to terminate labor pinch aliases without cause.

Kevin Carroll, the lawyer representing the intelligence officers successful the case, welcomed the court’s decision.

“We are gratified by the Court of Appeals upholding the District Court’s injunction. Intelligence officers person owed process rights, too,” Carroll said successful a statement.

The CIA head and the acting head of nationalist intelligence, Bill Pulte, now “ought to get these bully Americans backmost to activity for our country,” Carroll said.

The judges’ ruling said the cardinal mobility earlier the tribunal was whether the intelligence agencies’ termination rules granted an worker the correct to beryllium considered for reassignment and to entreaty a termination decision. “We find that it does,” the appeals tribunal wrote.

It remained unclear erstwhile the intelligence officers astatine the CIA and the intelligence director’s agency would beryllium rehired and fixed caller assignments. In the meantime, the Trump management is apt to entreaty the ruling.

The CIA and the intelligence director’s agency did not respond to a petition for comment.