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Posted on September 19, 2011 January 30, 2017 by Rob Jones
Sam & Dave Perform "You Don't Know What You Mean To Me"
Listen to this track by two-in-one soulmen and Stax/Atlantic "double dynamite" recording giants Sam & Dave (Sam Moore, and Dave Prater, that is). It's "You Don't Know What You Mean To Me", as co-written by Eddie Floyd (who is name-checked in this version) and Stax house band Booker T & The MGs guitarist Steve Cropper. The song appears on the duo's 1968 album I Thank You, their first, and last, LP on the Atlantic label.
After being signed to Atlantic in 1964, it was decided that to keep their gritty, Southern soul sound, they would do well to work with Jim Stewart, founder of Stax records based in Memphis, a label that Atlantic served as a distributor. They would also work with writing team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter, who penned most of their hits even after they were once again released on Atlantic.
This song, "You Don't Know What You Mean To Me", would be among the last top twenty hits Sam & Dave would enjoy on the last album of their career together that enjoyed top forty chart placement before their first split by the early '70s. What would cause the well to run dry, after such a fantastic run of singles, including this one, known to be a favourite of the duo themselves?
This is one of my favourite songs by Sam & Dave, full of joie d'vivre and gospel fire, the contrast between Sam's keening tenor voice and Dave's rough-hewn baritone never more effective than here. This song, like many of their hits, is touched with holy tongues of flame, which is perhaps the product of their gospel music backgrounds. But, in this song, you get everything you need to get with soul music: a blurry line between the erotic and the spiritual, the sweat that you can practically smell coming out of the performance, and of course the literally horny sound of the call-and-response arrangement.
In many ways, the mid-to-late 60s was a golden age of independently created soul music like this. Sam & Dave were certainly right in the centre of it all at the right time, showing that this environment was fertile ground for making hit records. It helped that they were dynamic performers, unparalleled showman, and of course, energetic singers of exciting soul music at a time when a young, black audience were looking for anthems to represent them, of which a song like "Soul Man" would provide. They would also enjoy crossover pop success on that chart, too. But, by the time this single was released, it was the end of their classic run.
The duo would release a number of singles from 1969 up until 1972, without denting the charts. After a breakup during this period, they would work with a number of luminaries to get them back where they'd been when they'd been a hot ticket on Stax from the mid-60s: Jerry Wexler, Tom O'Dowd, Steve Cropper, Jaco Pastorius, Jimmy Cliff, Allen Toussaint, and others. But, their purple patch was over – times and audience expectations had changed. The strained relationship between the two men had reached a breaking point, too. Soon, by 1981, so had their working relationship, which was never that stable to begin with.
Even if Sam & Dave's hit-making days were effectively over after this song was released, their influence on the next generation of songwriters was not. Elvis Costello, who's Get Happy!! album plays tribute to the Stax sound that Sam & Dave typify, would come to write a song for Sam's solo career – "Why Can't a Man Stand Alone?". ZZ Top would enjoy a 1979 hit with the title track of this LP, "I Thank You" on the pop charts, and Bonnie Raitt would also record that song that year. Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi would cover "Soul Man" as the Blues Brothers, and score a hit with it in the charts, and on the screen. The spirit of their friendly, optimistic soul sound would be found in the work of Graham Parker, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Winwood, Van Morrison, and many others.
This song, and others in the Sam & Dave catalogue of hit singles, proves that the joy of life born in pop music often is the result of hard labour, and toil from those who bring it into the world. But the wonder of that birth is something to be celebrated long after.
Dave Prater died in 1988. Sam Moore is an active performer today.
Check out Sam Moore's official website.
Posted in music, R&BTagged 60s music, Classic Soul, Classic Soul Music, R&B, Sam & Dave, Sam Moore, Soul Music
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2 thoughts on "Sam & Dave Perform "You Don't Know What You Mean To Me""
Leslie Robinson says:
I first saw Sam and Dave when I was 14 and they were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live. Quite the eye-opener for an adolescent girl – I was mesmerized! Still love them.
Sam & Dave are almost solely (soul-ly?) responsible for my interest and eventual passion for vintage soul music, and also for my belief that it is the song, and not the album, that is the prime musical pop music unit. They seem to pour all of their sweat into their songs, which to me is at least partially the reason they made such an impact – every one of them counted. This may be because, much like punk, soul music is a single-based genre, largely. Well, it was until Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Curtis Mayfield came along to change the landscape a bit on that front. But, the result is that the 1969 singles compilation (much like Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady) is an essential purchase.
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Bow Wow and Erica Mena Release Engagement Photos, Bow Wow Gushes About His Bride-to-Be
February 18th, 2015 by K104
Many were shocked when CSI: Cyber actor Shad "Bow Wow" Moss proposed to Erica Mena after less than six months of dating. Bow Wow recently told People magazine exactly what attracted him to the feisty reality star.
"I've known Erica for a long, long time," the rapper said. "We noticed we had a lot in common and just took it day by day. You know how it goes, you text one day, then start texting every day."
"She's very smart, silly, knows how to hustle. And she's electrifying. Anytime you have all of that in a woman, what more could you want?" Bow Wow added.
Bow Wow also said he was ready to stop being a bachelor. "The player life is cool, but I don't want it to define me," he explained. "I've done it all, but being on the road, the groupies, you get burnt out."
People magazine published the couple's engagement photos, which show the two dressed in formal attire in a desert in Apple Valley, California. Bow was dressed in a tuxedo, sans jacket, with a bow tie, while Erica wore an off-white lace dress with a sweetheart neckline.
"I let her spearhead the engagement pictures," Bow Wow said. "They say it's best to just say 'yea' to everything!"
The two, who reunited after Erica made an appearance on BET's 106 & Park last February, plan to walk down the aisle in April.
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First Goal Makes All The Difference
By Joe Bouley@JoeBou15 Apr 22, 2015, 10:51am CDT
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Hockey is a sport of momentum. You know this, we know this, everyone knows this. No more where is this apparent in the two wins for the Wild in the Western Conference Quarterfinal series against the St. Louis Blues. Each game has been riveting and the crowds in each building have been superb. The goals in the series has been fairly even as well, as the Wild have out-scored the Blues by a 8-6 margin. Minnesota also has the lead in shots per game, edging the Blues 26-21 shots. The fact that this series led by Minnesota 2-1 isn't surprising.
What is surprising is that we have had the winner decided by the team who scores first. The Wild jumped out to an early lead less than three minutes into Game 1 on a goal by Jason Zucker, and Scottrade Center went silent, essentially taking the wind out of the Blues' sails. Now, the Blues did score to make it interesting in the third period of that game, but with the Wild playing from a point of strength, and with the open net at the other end, the Blues could not come all the way back.
Likewise in Game 2. The Blues got the first goal of the game by Vladimir Tarasenko. They were able to hold off the Wild in the third period with a Patrik Berglund goal off a line rush to extend the lead and finally and empty netter to seal the win. Then we all know what happened in Game 3 as the Wild dominated puck possession metrics for all of the game, but after a scoreless first period, people were getting worried that the Blues were going to stay in the game long enough to maybe steal it. That mindset changed, of course after Pominville's slam dunk put the Wild ahead for good.
In all three games the team that has scored the first goal of the game has won. In fact, the first goal has meant everything for these two teams all season long. The Blues and Wild rank 4th and 5th respectively in the league for win percentage when scoring first.
Team Win Loss OT Win%
Blues 36 6 4 .783
Wild 35 6 4 .778
These two teams are so solid defensively when playing with the lead, that it is tough for teams to comeback and win against them. This series has been no different.
However, things change when you look at winning percentage after giving up the first goal.
Blues 15 18 3 .417
Wild 11 22 4 .297
That winning percentage seems putrid for the Wild, but it is only a difference of four games. Either way you look at it though, the two teams don't win very often when they trail first. And, as we've seen through the first three games of this series, the Blues tend to lose their composure when they play from behind as they attempt to goad other teams into taking stupid penalties.
The Wild need to come out and play the same exact game as they did Monday night. That's obviously easier said than done, but you can see that if they can score early, chances are the Wild will take a 3-1 lead in the series.


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Himmler's wartime diaries were found in Russia at a defense ministry archive in Podolsk in 2013. They were written by assistants of Heinrich Himmler and contain Himmler's daily schedule in 1937–1938, the year of the Kristallnacht, and also the critical year between 1943 and 1944. The diaries were confiscated by the Red Army after the war with other documents seized from German military installations around Berlin. There is also another diary from 1941–1942 that was found in 1990.

Content

They show the contrast of Himmler's mundane daily life of having lunch and placing calls to family with the historical events he was involved in, in one instance issuing an order to place new dogs at Auschwitz capable of ripping prisoners to "shreds", in another taking a tour of the Sonderkommando at Majdanek after lunch. One entry reads: "9–10 pm: Orders all ten officers to be executed and their families sent to concentration camps before going to bed" after some police officers in Poland refused to cooperate with the Nazis.

One entry provides details of a trip to Lublin on February 12, 1943. He eats at the airport hotel, then goes to the city of Chełm in eastern Poland for a tour of the SS Sonderkommando. The  Sonderkommando were prisoners who disposed of the bodies in the gas chambers. During the tour, the efficiency of the camps gas vans is demonstrated for Himmler. There was no Jewish transport scheduled for the day of Himmler's visit so four hundred young Jewish women and girls were brought to the camp from the Lublin Ghetto for the demonstration, and afterwards he attended a dinner. Ada Lichtman, one of the few to survive that particular camp, recalls that day: "There was a huge banquet given in his honour. I had to decorate the tables."

On the entry for October 4 the first of the Posen speeches is recorded simply as "17:30: speech to SS officers". This speech, where Himmler describes the mission of the SS as "the extermination of the Jewish race", is considered the clearest public statement Himmler made about the Holocaust.

On the day of Operation Valkyrie, the entry records that he is set to meet with Hitler at the Wolf's Lair at 13:45, then lunch with Wilhelm Keitel. Himmler returns to Berlin that evening, ordering the execution of Claus von Stauffenberg and his three co-conspirators, who had been arrested earlier that day. In the early hours of the following morning, at 4:08 AM, he bans the use of the word "Valkyrie" in German lands.

The entries record his daily meals. One lunch at Dachau on March 9, 1943 is described as "comradely". During a visit to Buchenwald, the diary records that Himmler "Took a snack in the cafe at the SS casino".

According to the entries Himmler's hobbies included stargazing, saunas and card games.

Significance
Historians have described the diaries as "of shudderingly outstanding historical significance".
The diaries have been compared with the diaries of Joseph Goebbels in significance, who is the only other major Nazi Party leader with a similarly detailed diary.

See also
Sobibor extermination camp
Heinrich Himmler papers, a collection that includes Himmler's early diaries

References

Germany in World War II
Diaries
Heinrich Himmler

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Q: assembleDebug also generating release assets My goal is to have different google-services.json for each buildType. I'm using fastlane to manage the different builds. When i now execute my fastlane dev command, it fails because i don't have any google-services.json file in the release folder.
This is my fastlane script for building the debug build:
  desc "Clean, build development release"
  lane :dev do |options|
    if options[:clean]
      clean_android
    end
    rntest
    test
    gradle(
      task: "assemble",
      build_type: "debug",
      project_dir: "./")
  end

when i execute fastlane dev, i get following error:

Execution failed for task ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices'.

File google-services.json is missing. The Google Services Plugin cannot function without it.     Searched Location:
    /Users/appfoundry/Documents/GitHub/afst18gv/DigitalReceptionist/android/app/src/release/google-services.json
    /Users/appfoundry/Documents/GitHub/afst18gv/DigitalReceptionist/android/app/google-services.json

As you can see it is looking for google-services.json in the release folder. The weird thing is, that in my log output i can see that it already parsed the google-services.json in the debug folder correctly. it somehow also triggers all the release generaters after debug:

:app:prepareDebugDependencies :app:compileDebugAidl UP-TO-DATE
  :app:compileDebugRenderscript UP-TO-DATE :app:generateDebugBuildConfig
  UP-TO-DATE :app:mergeDebugShaders UP-TO-DATE :app:compileDebugShaders
  UP-TO-DATE :app:generateDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE :app:mergeDebugAssets
  UP-TO-DATE :app:processDebugGoogleServices Parsing json file:
  /Users/appfoundry/Documents/GitHub/afst18gv/DigitalReceptionist/android/app/src/debug/google-services.json
  :app:processDebugManifest UP-TO-DATE :app:fabricGenerateResourcesDebug
  :app:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE :app:generateDebugResources
  :app:mergeDebugResources :app:bundleDebugJsAndAssets Scanning folders
  for symlinks in
  /Users/appfoundry/Documents/GitHub/afst18gv/DigitalReceptionist/node_modules
  (23ms) Scanning folders for symlinks in
  /Users/appfoundry/Documents/GitHub/afst18gv/DigitalReceptionist/node_modules
  (21ms) Loading dependency graph, done. warning: the transform cache
  was reset. bundle: start bundle: finish bundle: Writing bundle output
  to:
  /Users/appfoundry/Documents/GitHub/afst18gv/DigitalReceptionist/android/app/build/intermediates/assets/debug/index.android.bundle
  bundle: Done writing bundle output bundle: Copying 8 asset files
  bundle: Done copying assets :app:processDebugResources
  :app:generateDebugSources
  :app:incrementalDebugJavaCompilationSafeguard
  :app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac :app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac - is not
  incremental (e.g. outputs have changed, no previous execution, etc.).
  :app:incrementalDebugUnitTestJavaCompilationSafeguard UP-TO-DATE
  :app:preDebugUnitTestBuild UP-TO-DATE
  :app:prepareDebugUnitTestDependencies
  :app:compileDebugUnitTestJavaWithJavac UP-TO-DATE
  :app:processDebugJavaRes UP-TO-DATE :app:processDebugUnitTestJavaRes
  UP-TO-DATE :app:compileDebugUnitTestSources UP-TO-DATE
  :app:mockableAndroidJar UP-TO-DATE :app:assembleDebugUnitTest
  UP-TO-DATE :app:testDebugUnitTest UP-TO-DATE :app:checkReleaseManifest
  :app:prepareReleaseDependencies :app:compileReleaseAidl UP-TO-DATE
  :app:compileReleaseRenderscript UP-TO-DATE
  :app:generateReleaseBuildConfig UP-TO-DATE :app:mergeReleaseShaders
  UP-TO-DATE :app:compileReleaseShaders UP-TO-DATE
  :app:generateReleaseAssets UP-TO-DATE :app:mergeReleaseAssets
  UP-TO-DATE :app:processReleaseGoogleServices FAILED

As you can see here, it does all kind of release things after debug is done.
This is my build.gradle file
apply plugin: "com.android.application"

apply plugin: 'io.fabric'

repositories {
    maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
}

import com.android.build.OutputFile

project.ext.react = [
    entryFile: "index.js",
    bundleInRelease: true,
    bundleInDebug: false,
    bundleInStaging: true,
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"

def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false

/**
 * Run Proguard to shrink the Java bytecode in release builds.
 */
def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

android {
    compileSdkVersion 25
    buildToolsVersion "25.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "be.appfoundry.digitalreceptionist"
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 22
        versionCode 1
        def env = System.getenv()
        versionName "1.0.0." + env['BUILD_NUMBER']
        ndk {
            abiFilters "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
        }
    }
    signingConfigs {
        release {
            storeFile file(MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_FILE)
            storePassword "afst18gv"
            keyAlias MYAPP_RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS
            keyPassword "afst18gv"
        }
    }
    splits {
        abi {
            reset()
            enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
            universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
            include "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
        }
    }
    buildTypes {
        staging {
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
            applicationIdSuffix ".staging"
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        }
        release {
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        }
        debug {
            applicationIdSuffix ".debug"
        }
    }
    dexOptions {
        jumboMode true
    }
    // applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
            // http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/apk-splits
            def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a":1, "x86":2]
            def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
            if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
                output.versionCodeOverride =
                        versionCodes.get(abi) * 1048576 + defaultConfig.versionCode
            }
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile project(':react-native-splash-screen')
    compile(project(':react-native-firebase')) {
        transitive = false
    }
    compile project(':react-native-push-notification')
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1'
    compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'
    compile project(':react-native-maps')
    compile project(':react-native-navigation')
    // From node_modules
    compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.1@aar') {
        transitive = true
    }
    compile(project(':react-native-maps')){
        exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms', module: 'play-services-base'
        exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms', module: 'play-services-maps'
    }
    // Firebase dependencies
    compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:11.8.0"
    compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:11.8.0"
    compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.8.0"
    compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore:11.8.0"

    compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:11.8.0"

}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
// puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {
    from configurations.compile
    into 'libs'
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

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Duggal has won many awards throughout its 55 years of operation; in 2016 alone, Duggal won 2 HP Inkspiration awards, a CODA/X award, Wide-Format Imaging Top Shop, and IIDA (International Interior Design Association) designers as Best of Competition and Best in Booth Design at Global Shop 2016 in Las Vegas.
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Investing in the latest technology while not forgetting our artistic roots has been the guiding principle for the company and Chief Executive Officer Michael Duggal. He joined Duggal Visual Solutions in 1995 and took over operations in 2002 as CEO. He had been set about building the logistics and scale to bring what the company learned serving the world's top artists and museums to premium retail stores, design firms and corporate clients who want to stand apart from their competition.
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Duggal is a certified 100% minority-owned business. The company is an equal opportunity employer with a diverse staff and management of 340+ experienced professionals and technicians dedicated to providing the highest level of service for our customers. Duggal has achieved every major Green accreditation available including being FSC certified, Rain Forest Alliance Certified, Sustainable Green Printer Certified (SGP), and is proud to have the only LEED GOLD visual production facility in the United States. Our LEED building features solar and wind power, rainwater collection, LED lighting and sustainable building materials.
Duggal Visual Solutions is headquartered in New York City, with facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island, Portland Oregon, and Los Angeles California which total over 250,000 square feet of production space.
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Trump responds to deadly terror attack in NYC
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Last Updated Oct 31, 2017 7:27 PM EDT
President Trump responded via Twitter to the attack in New York City Tuesday afternoon in which a motorist struck and killed several people after driving onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center memorial before being shot by police.
"In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!" the president tweeted.
In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!
Mr. Trump followed up with two more tweets.
"We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!" he tweeted. He also tweeted "God and your country are with you!"
We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!
My thoughts, condolences and prayers to the victims and families of the New York City terrorist attack. God and your country are with you!
In a longer statement, the White House said the Trump administration will "provide its full support to the New York City Police Department, including through a joint investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Eight people were killed and 11 are being treated for injuries for what New York City officials described as a terrorist attack.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the attack appeared to be "lone wolf" incident with no immediately obvious connection to a terrorist organization. Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the suspect, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, yelled "Allah Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, before exiting the vehicle and being shot by police.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr. Trump has been briefed on the incident by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and "will be continually updated as more details are known."
"Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected," she added.
Attorney General Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray have also been briefed on the attack.
First Lady Melania Trump also tweeted about the incident, writing her "heart breaks for NYC."
My heart breaks for #NYC today. Thoughts & prayers as we monitor the situation.
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) October 31, 2017
Ivanka Trump tweeted a similar sentiment, posting there is "heartbreaking news coming out of NYC."
Heartbreaking news coming out of NYC. Praying for the victims.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) October 31, 2017
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Glazers 'taken the money out' of Manchester United, says club's former director
Greg Dyke tells Sky News that all United fans will be "pleased to see the back" of the Glazers who are considering selling the Premier League outfit.
Monday 28 November 2022 06:03, UK
'World Cup should not be in Qatar'
The owners of Manchester United have "taken the money" out of the club rather than investing in Old Trafford, a former director has told Sky News.
In a wide-ranging interview with Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Greg Dyke also said all United fans will be "pleased to see the back" of the Glazers who are considering selling the Premier League outfit.
The billionaire US family has not spent enough money on the club, according to Mr Dyke, echoing the comments of recently departed star player Cristiano Ronaldo, who had hit out at the lack of investment in the Carrington training ground.
Image: Manchester United fans have protested over the Glazer family's ownership of the club
Mr Dyke, a former United director, told Ridge: "There is no doubt the money has not been invested. Old Trafford used to be a ground ahead of its time, it's no longer like that.
"The training ground is no longer like that, the world catches up and you have to spend capital and they haven't spent it, they've taken the money out."
Read more: How 'scavenger' Glazers bought Man Utd - and left Old Trafford in a 'mess'
Mr Dyke, a former FA chairman, also said that England and Wales should have carried out their plan for captains to wear rainbow armbands in a protest during the Qatar World Cup.
Seven European football associations abandoned a gesture of solidarity with the LGBT+ community when told their players, including Harry Kane and Gareth Bale, faced an instant yellow card and potentially a ban from matches if they wore OneLove armbands.
A joint statement from the FAs of England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland said: "FIFA has been very clear that it will impose sporting sanctions if our captains wear the armbands on the field of play."
But Mr Dyke told Ridge that if those FAs "had all felt so strongly about it, they could have said to FIFA (football's world governing body), we're doing this and if you don't like it, we're all out of here".
If they "had got together and said look, this is what we are doing, FIFA would have had to have backed down", he claimed.
Homosexuality in Qatar is illegal and having same-sex relations is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
'Ridiculous' to hold World Cup in Qatar
Mr Dyke also said it was a "ridiculous" and "corrupt" decision to hold the tournament in Qatar.
He told Ridge: "We have to accept that most of the people who voted for Qatar, the executive who voted for it, most of them were driven out of football for corruption.
"It was a bad decision, FIFA's own safety committee recommended strongly against it, which is why, in the end, it had to be moved from the summer to the winter."
Mr Dyke suggested FIFA must be "hoping for the Qatar World Cup to end to get back to normal".
The 75-year-old added that he believed England were in the top four countries to win the competition.
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Backing manager Gareth Southgate's men to be "in with a chance", he said: "When I was chairman of the FA, I set England the target of winning in Qatar, I do not think that's impossible although I think the French look pretty dangerous and Brazil look pretty good.
"England had a very good game and a very average second game but that's alright, everyone has an average game, they didn't lose.
"I think the manager is very good and they are in with a chance, I think they are one of four teams that could win it."
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England face Wales next
England currently top Group B, with four points from two games, and next face Wales in their third World Cup game on Tuesday.
Wales have just one point after drawing with the USA and losing 2-0 to Iran.
Southgate and his England players will know that even defeat to the Welsh would likely see them progress to the last 16, by virtue of their significantly better goal difference (England's +4 to Wales' -2).
Wales would need to win 4-0 to finish above England.
The USA (on two points) play Iran (three points) in the other group match.
Gregg Berhalter's side know that a win against the Iranians will secure them a place in the knockout stages.


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Carlin West Signs World of Tanks
Posted by Rebecca Ash | Jan 11, 2023 | News |
Carlin West Agency (CWA) has signed licensing rights to the massively popular online video game World of Tanks. World of Tanks is enjoyed by players worldwide and currently has over more than 160 million registered users. The game boasts many accolades including two Guinness World Records, a game of the year award and four Golden Joystick awards. The game continues to regularly add new content and updates, maintaining such a large and loyal fanbase. CWA will represent WOT in North America for licensing and product opportunities including TV and animation, collectibles, apparel, accessories, publishing, gifts, toys, and novelties.
"World of Tanks is an incredibly popular game globally. We are excited to bring this property to the licensing community, said Carlin West CEO of CWA. The game boasts a vast array of stunning visuals that will translate magnificently to a great program of licensed collectables, apparel, and accessories for its millions of fans to enjoy, she said."
"We are pleased to be working with CWA on the licensing of World of Tanks said Yuliya Arlova Business Development Manager World of Tanks PC, Americas. They have a history and knowledge of building licensing programs for brands like ours that have a widespread portfolio of licensable content."
World of Tanks is a massive multiplayer vehicular combat game that features historically and technologically accurate tanks from all eras pre-Korean war. WOT is a free-to-play player vs player video game where players strategize and compete against each other to complete objectives and earn rewards. This exciting and addictive game offers more than 600+ armored vehicles to choose from! Each style of tank has its own strengths and weaknesses that factor into what strategies players use to dominate the battlefield.
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Kim Kardashian Subtly Supports Sister Khloe Kardashian Amid Tristan Thompson's Paternity Scandal
Family first! Kim Kardashian stood by Khloé Kardashian's side after Tristan Thompson apologized to her younger sister for his messy paternity scandal.
Kim, 41, shared a sweet family photo of the two sisters posing for the camera at a Sing 2 event on Tuesday, January 4. The beauty mogul was joined by her son Saint, 6, and daughter Chicago, 3, in the shot while Khloé, 37, held her 3-year-old daughter, True, in her arms. Kim's daughter North, 8, made an appearance in another snap as well.
The Skims founder, who also shares 2-year-old Psalm with estranged husband Kanye West, added the infinity symbol as the caption, which Khloé added in her response to the post. Kim's subtle supportive message comes one day after Thompson, 30, revealed that he is the father of Maralee Nichols' son.
"Today, paternity test results reveal that I fathered a child with Maralee Nichols. I take full responsibility for my actions," he wrote via Instagram Stories on Monday, January 3. "Now that paternity has been established I look forward to amicably raising our son."
After the genetic test came back positive, the professional basketball player offered an apology to the reality star for the situation, saying, "Khloé, you don't deserve this. You don't deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you. You don't deserve the way I have treated you over the years. My actions certainly have not lined up with the way I view you. I have the utmost respect and love for you. Regardless of what you may think. Again, I am so incredibly sorry."
The Sacramento Kings player was originally sued by Nichols, 31, in July 2021 for child support when the fitness model claimed that he was the father of her child. The Canada native, for his part, acknowledged that he previously hooked up with Nichols and requested genetic testing in response to the original court filing.
As Thompson's legal issues made headlines months later, Us Weekly broke the news in December 2021 that Nichols gave birth to a baby boy. At the time, a source exclusively told Us that Khloé found out about the paternity lawsuit through Thompson, noting, "He knew it was inevitable [and] that he would no longer be able to keep it from her."
Another insider revealed that Khloé had her famous family's full support amid the news, noting, "[They] have been very supportive to her. Even though Khloé is hurt, she's staying strong and trying to move forward."
According to court documents, Nichols claimed that she knew Thompson since 2020. The NBA star, who also shares a 5-year-old son with ex Jordan Craig, was dating Khloé at the time when his interactions with Nichols occurred.
Nichols, for her part, addressed Thompson's public statement, saying "There was never any doubt that Tristan Thompson was the father."
The Texas native continued via a publicist: "Tristan made numerous false and defamatory statements and declarations about Maralee over the past few months, and she is taking his contrite statement today in the context of all of those statements."
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One of the reasons why we bonk during our runs—and why we hit The Wall during the marathon—is because we don't understand this little process. We think that burning sugars anaerobically just means that we get out of breath and that we produce lactate. But what it also means is that we can only get one-sixth of the total energy out of that sugar molecule.
Let's just say that isn't the best way to slog through a marathon.
But to see how to change that we have to go inside the cell.
Inside of the cell, the glucose that is supplied by the bloodstream gets converted into the cell's main energy source, adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. When there's no oxygen to be had, the cell gets 5 ATP out of the glucose molecule, and out comes a highly acidic substance called lactate. By making our body more acidic, lactate threatens our survival.
So, after a few seconds of exercising anaerobically, the brain sends signals forcing the body to stop working: if not, the cells will begin falling apart. So the body has to figure out a way to get the lactate out. And it does that by converting it into a molecule called pyruvate, but it can only do that in the presence of oxygen. This conversion process costs the cell 2 ATP.
However, instead of converting glucose to lactate, and then lactate to pyruvate, there is a shortcut: use oxygen to break down the glucose molecule, and you go straight to pyruvate. In the human body, when there's a solid oxygen presence, the body prefers to convert fats to sugars, and use those as energy. In other words, the body's long-term energy sources activate when there's oxygen.
Pyruvate, as opposed to lactate, can go through the Krebs Cycle, a process also known as aerobic respiration. Pyruvate gets paired with oxygen inside of the mitochondria—the little aerobic energy factories inside the cell—and generates 25 more ATP, for a total of 30. That's 6 times as much energy immediately available, than if glucose would have gone through anaerobic respiration.
The by-product of the Krebs Cycle, of course, is CO2. Having turned lactate into CO2, the acid is now in a form that the body can expel (through the lungs) and bring its pH back up to a manageable level. It's important to mention that the initial reason anaerobic exercise stops isn't due to a lack of oxygen; it's because of the lowering pH. Although a lack of oxygen will kill us if the body continues to acidify at that rate, we'll be incapacitated long before our oxygen runs out.
But the reason that we turn glucose into lactate instead of pyruvate is because we go too hard.
You can think of anaerobic respiration as sort of the body's emergency system. Because it's far more dangerous to use it (but also it doesn't need oxygen to produce energy), the body only shifts gears and begins doing mostly anaerobic respiration when it feels that there's a crisis. So, if you, at any point during your run, would describe the feeling as going hard, you're probably doing a significant amount of anaerobic respiration.
There's another tidbit of wisdom hidden here: because anaerobic respiration is a crisis-response mechanism, it is deeply tied into the stress response. That means that if you're stressed, your body will be doing an increased amount of anaerobic respiration, even when you're completely still. Your body will be needlessly acidifying—and all of your tissues will be that much weaker for it.
But even that may not be enough for the competitive or busy athlete: in order to get the most out of those long, slow runs, it's important to remain unstressed. If you're stressed, even those "aerobic" runs will be a lot more anaerobic than you intended them to be. This, by the way, is the first stage of overtraining.
Slowing down for our long runs isn't selling ourselves short. Taking rest days doesn't amount to "missing" a workout. There are a lot of different parts of the body that we have to learn to manage, and unless we want our athletic ability to have a shorter shelf-life, we'll need to train with a little bit more humility, and a little bit more vision.
It's no coincidence that the pun "training for the long run" works so well here. It's a telling symmetry of the system that the long run itself reduces stress and prolongs our well-being. Let's take heed of that.
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Injury Notes: Sawamura, Tigers, Chirinos
By Darragh McDonald | October 22, 2021 at 5:24pm CDT
In pregame scrum before tonight's ALCS game six, Red Sox manager Alex Cora told reporters that reliever Hirokazu Sawamura is dealing with a hamstring injury was potentially going to be removed from the roster. (Twitter links from Chris Cotillo of MassLive and Alex Speier of the Boston Globe.) However, Ian Browne of MLB.com later relayed word from Cora that Sawamura will be sticking around.
The Red Sox have their backs against the wall, as they are down 3-2 in the ALCS and will have to win in Houston tonight and tomorrow in order to survive. The health and effectiveness of every pitcher on the staff will be integral to their success in that regard. News of this hamstring issue is certainly concerning, though the fact that Sawamura has held his roster spot implies that the club still feels he's a better option than bringing in a fresh arm, such as Matt Barnes. Sawamura has been a solid contributor out of the pen this year, as he had an ERA of 3.06 over 53 innings in the regular season, with a strikeout rate of 26.2% and 13.7% walk rate. He wasn't on the team roster for the ALDS but has appeared three times in the ALCS so far, logging two innings in total.
Other injury notes…
Chris McCosky of The Detroit News relays some updates on a few Tigers prospects from the Arizona Fall League. Infielders Spencer Torkelson and Ryan Kreidler will both miss the remainder of the league due to an ankle injury and calf injury, respectively. Meanwhile, outfielder Riley Greene has completed his concussion protocol. It had already been announced last week that Greene would miss the AFL because of a concussion sustained at the end of the Triple-A season. For a Tigers club that has been rebuilding in recent seasons, their prospects are incredibly important to turning the corner into being competitive, and that includes these three. MLB Pipeline has Torkelson, Greene and Kreidler as the club's first-, second- and tenth-best prospects. Baseball America has the same 1-2 punch at the top but has Kreidler at 12th. FanGraphs also starts out with Torkelson and Greene at the top but has Kreidler at 25th. All three players reached Triple-A this season for at least 40 games, meaning they are right on the doorstep and knocking on the door of the majors.
Rays' righty Yonny Chirinos won't be ready for next year's opening day, according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. Chirinos has been out of action for more than year after undergoing Tommy John surgery in August of 2020, but has suffered a setback that will keep him out even longer. Topkin's report says that the hurler fractured his elbow last month and that the best case scenario for his recovery would be for him to be on a rehab assignment in April or May. Before this extended absence, Chirinos was looking like he could be a foundational piece for the Rays. From 2018 to 2020, he threw 234 1/3 innings with an ERA of 3.65. Even without Chirinos, the rotation should be in decent shape, with the presence of arms such as Shane McClanahan, Drew Rasmussen, Ryan Yarbrough, Luis Patino, Shane Baz, Josh Fleming, Brendan McKay and Dietrich Enns. The Rays have never had an opening day payroll higher than $77MM, per Cot's Baseball Contracts, and Jason Martinez of Roster Resource estimates their payroll for next year to already be above $70MM. That doesn't leave a lot of room for reinforcements, though they will surely non-tender a few of their arbitration-eligible players and bring that down a tad. The Rays are also always a candidate to figure out a way to move some money around, such as the contract of Kevin Kiermaier, whose name has been floated in trade talks for years and is entering the final guaranteed year of his contract, valued just over $12MM.
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AL East Notes: Benintendi, Kluber, Rays
By Mark Polishuk | January 17, 2021 at 6:37pm CDT
Despite all of the trade speculation swirling around Andrew Benintendi, the Red Sox haven't "reached a point of no return in trade talks," The Boston Globe's Alex Speier writes, and "there's a solid chance, though not a guarantee" that Benintendi won't be moved. One of the obstacles preventing a deal is the number of quality left field options remaining in free agency, so a team in need at the position might prefer to just sign a longer-term answer, rather than swing a trade with the Sox for a player who is only under team control for two more seasons. Speier notes that the Red Sox themselves could be such a team looking for a longer-term outfielder, and could explore the free agent market themselves if Benintendi is indeed dealt.
More from around the AL East…
Since over half the league sent scouts to watch Corey Kluber's showcase event, it isn't surprising that there was some significant money on offer for the veteran righty, who ended up signing with the Yankees on a one-year, $11MM deal. Several teams made eight-figure offers, according to SNY.tv's Andy Martino, and the Yankees' offer wasn't the most expensive contract on the table.
Kluber drew plenty of interest from elsewhere in the AL East, as Martino writes that the Blue Jays were one of the clubs "bidding aggressively." Speier sheds a bit more light on Kluber's situation, noting that he "seemed most interested in a clean one-year deal" rather than a one-year contract with a 2022 option attached — a structure that would have perhaps been more appealing to the Red Sox, another team with legitimate interest in Kluber's services.
The Rays also "made a very strong run" at Kluber, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports. With Kluber now off the board, Chris Archer is still under consideration as the Rays continue to look for veteran rotation help.
Also from Topkin, he provides health updates on Yonny Chirinos (Tommy John surgery) and Brendan McKay (shoulder surgery). Chirinos has started to play catch, despite only undergoing his TJ procedure back in August. While the early progress is a good sign, it would still be a surprise if Chirinos was able to pitch at all in 2021 given the usual timeline for Tommy John recovery. McKay's timeline isn't as clear, as it was estimated last August that his labrum issue would keep him sidelined through at least the start of the spring. However, Topkin reports that McKay is expected to "soon" start playing catch, which could give both the star prospect and the Rays a better idea of when McKay will be ready for the 2021 season.
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Players Avoiding Arbitration: 1/15/21
By Steve Adams and Connor Byrne | January 15, 2021 at 10:51am CDT
The deadline to exchange arbitration figures is today at 1pm ET. As of this morning, there were 125 arbitration-eligible players who'd yet to agree to terms on their contract for the upcoming 2021 season. Arbitration is muddier than ever before thanks to the shortened 2020 schedule, which most believe will lead to record number of arb hearings this winter. Be that as it may, it's still reasonable to expect dozens of contractual agreements to filter in over the next couple of hours.
We'll highlight some of the more high-profile cases in separate posts with more in-depth breakdowns, but the majority of today's dealings will be smaller-scale increases that don't radically alter a team's payroll or a player's trade candidacy. As such, we'll just run through most of today's agreements in this post.
I've embedded MLBTR's 2021 Arbitration Tracker in the post (those in the mobile app or viewing on mobile web will want to turn their phones sideways). Our tracker can be sorted by team, by service time and/or by Super Two status, allowing users to check the status on whichever groups of players they like. You can also check out Matt Swartz's projected arbitration salaries for this year's class, and we'll do a quick sentence on each player's agreement at the bottom of this post as well, with the most recent agreements sitting atop the list.
Today's Agreements (chronologically, newest to oldest)
Rockies outfielder Raimel Tapia avoided arbitration with a $1.95MM deal, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. The team also reached an agreement for $805K with reliever Robert Stephenson, per Joel Sherman of the New York Post.
The Tigers have deals with infielder Jeimer Candelario ($2.85MM), outfielder JaCoby Jones ($2.65MM) and righty Jose Cisnero ($970K), Chris McCosky of the Detroit News relays.
The Yankees and reliever Chad Green settled for $2.15MM, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reports.
The Marlins and lefty Richard Bleier have a deal for $1.425MM, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com tweets.
The Dodgers reached a $3.6MM settlement with lefty Julio Urias, Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times reports.
The Angels announced a deal with righty Dylan Bundy for $8.325MM.
The Tigers and southpaw Matthew Boyd have settled for $6.5MM, Chris McCosky of the Detroit News tweets.
The Yankees have deals with catcher Gary Sanchez ($6.35MM), first baseman Luke Voit ($4.7MM), third baseman Gio Urshela ($4.65MM), shortstop Gleyber Torres ($4MM) and outfielder Clint Frazier ($2.1MM), per Jon Heyman of MLB Network and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post.
The Rays and outfielder Manuel Margot avoided arbitration with a $3.4MM agreement, per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times.
The Padres and outfielder Tommy Pham have a deal for $8.9MM, according to Robert Murray of FanSided. Reliever Dan Altavilla settled for $850K, AJ Cassavell of MLB.com tweets.
The Angels and righty Felix Pena have come to terms for $1.1MM, Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times reports.
The Red Sox and third baseman Rafael Devers have reached a $4.575MM agreement, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network.
The Mets and outfielder Brandon Nimmo have come to a $4.7MM agreement, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com tweets.
The Reds and righty Luis Castillo have settled for $4.2MM, Robert Murray of FanSided relays.
The Rays reached a $2.25MM agreement with infielder Joey Wendle and a $1.175MM settlement with righty Yonny Chirinos, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times tweets.
The Cardinals and flamethrowing reliever Jordan Hicks have an agreement for $862,500, according to Heyman.
The White Sox and ace Lucas Giolito avoided arbitration with a $4.15MM agreement, James Fegan of The Athletic reports.
The Pirates and righty Joe Musgrove have reached an agreement for $4.45MM, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. They also made deals with second/baseman outfielder Adam Frazier ($4.3MM), third baseman Colin Moran ($2.8MM) righty Chad Kuhl ($2.13MM) and lefty Steven Brault ($2.05MM), per reports from Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Adam Berry of MLB.com.
Hard-throwing right-hander Reyes Moronta agreed to a $695K deal with the Giants after missing the 2020 season due to shoulder surgery, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
The Tigers agreed to a $2.1MM deal with infielder Niko Goodrum, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided. They also inked lefty Daniel Norris for a $3.475MM salary, tweets Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press.
The Pirates agreed to a $1.3MM deal with catcher Jacob Stallings and a $1.1MM deal with righty Chris Stratton, per Robert Murray of Fansided (Twitter links).
Athletics right-hander Lou Trivino agreed to a $912,500 salary for the 2021 season, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
Right-hander Richard Rodriguez and the Pirates agreed to a $1.7MM deal, tweets Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Catcher Jorge Alfaro and the Marlins agreed to a $2.05MM deal, tweets Craig Mish of SportsGrid.
The Reds agreed to a $2.2MM deal with right-hander Tyler Mahle, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray. Cincinnati also signed lefty Amir Garrett for $1.5MM, tweets Mark Feinsand of MLB.com.
The Indians agreed to a $2.4MM deal with newly acquired shortstop Amed Rosario and a $975K deal with righty Phil Maton, tweets Zack Meisel of The Athletic.
The Tigers and righty Buck Farmer settled at $1.85MM, tweets Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press.
The Marlins agreed to a $1.9MM deal with right-handed reliever Yimi Garcia, tweets MLB Network's Jon Heyman.
The Mariners confirmed their deal with Crawford and announced that catcher Tom Murphy and righty Rafael Montero also agreed to one-year deals. Terms weren't disclosed, though MLB Network's Jon Heyman tweets that Montero will be paid $2.25MM.
The Phillies and first baseman Rhys Hoskins are in agreement on a $4.8MM salary for the 2021 season, tweets Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia.
The Royals got deals done with shortstop Adalberto Mondesi and right-hander Brad Keller, tweets Alec Lewis of the The Athletic. Mondesi will earn $2.525MM, while Keller gets $3.35MM.
The Padres agreed to a $4.2MM deal with breakout starter Dinelson Lamet, tweets Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Brewers announced that they've agreed to one-year deals with starter Brandon Woodruff and closer Josh Hader. Hader's deal pays him $6.675MM, per MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. Woodruff will earn $3.275MM, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
The Rockies and reliever Carlos Estevez agreed to a $1.45MM deal, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
The D-backs avoided arb with all three of their eligible players, per The Athletic's Zach Buchanan (Twitter link). They have deals with catcher Carson Kelly, lefty Caleb Smith ($1.465MM) and righty Luke Weaver ($1.950MM).
The A's have agreed to a $6.925MM deal with first baseman/outfielder Mark Canha, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray. They also signed right-hander Frankie Montas at $1.8MM, Murray adds.
Rangers shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa agreed to a $2MM deal for the 2021 season, tweets Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News.
Righty Kyle Crick will earn $800K next season with the Pirates, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
The Tigers agreed to a $1.5MM deal with right-handed reliever Joe Jimenez, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray.
The Angels settled at $6.75MM with left-hander Andrew Heaney, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray. The Halos also inked catcher Max Stassi at $1.6MM, per Murray.
The Braves and lefty A.J. Minter agreed to a $1.3MM deal for 2021, tweets David O'Brien of The Athletic. Lefty Max Fried also inked a $3.5MM deal, tweets O'Brien.
The Phillies and newly acquired southpaw Jose Alvarado settled at $1MM, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
The Indians avoided arbitration with catcher Austin Hedges on a $3.28MM deal, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
The Athletics and third baseman Matt Chapman agreed at $6.49MM, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
Marlins third baseman Brian Anderson agreed to a $3.8MM salary, tweets SportsGrid's Craig Mish.
Astros righty Lance McCullers Jr. will earn $6.5MM in 2021, tweets Brian McTaggart of MLB.com.
The Athletics agreed to a $5.95MM deal with lefty Sean Manaea, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
Cardinals center fielder Harrison Bader agreed to a $2MM deal, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
The Rangers and slugger Joey Gallo settled on a $6.2MM salary, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
Athletics righty Chris Bassitt has agreed to a $4.9MM salary for the 2021 season, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
The Rockies and infielder Ryan McMahon settled at $2.375MM, tweets Mark Feinsand of MLB.com.
The Orioles and Trey Mancini avoided arb by agreeing to a $4.75MM salary, tweets MASNsports.com's Roch Kubatko.
The Rays and ace Tyler Glasnow have agreed to a $4MM salary for the 2021 season, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
Right-hander Reynaldo Lopez and the White Sox agreed to a $2.1MM salary, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray.
The Reds and outfielder Jesse Winker are in agreement on a $3.15MM deal for the 2021 season, tweets the Cincinnati Enquirer's Bobby Nightengale.
Left-hander Kyle Freeland and the Rockies agreed to a one-year deal worth $5.025MM, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
The Padres and newly acquired catcher Victor Caratini settled at $1.3MM, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray.
The Reds and right-hander/center fielder Michael Lorenzen settled at $4.4375MM, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
The Blue Jays inked right-hander Ross Stripling to a $3MM deal, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
Righty Alex Reyes and the Cardinals agreed at $900K, tweets Robert Murray of Fansided.
The Astros agreed to a one-year, $3MM deal with utilityman Aledmys Diaz, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray.
Rockies right-hander Jon Gray has agreed to a $6MM contract, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
The Blue Jays and outfielder Teoscar Hernandez agreed to a $4.325MM salary for 2021, tweets Fansided's Robert Murray.
The Padres and right-handed reliever Emilio Pagan settled at $1.57MM, tweets MLB Network's Jon Heyman.
Shortstop J.P. Crawford agreed to a $2.05MM contract with the Mariners, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
The Angels and right-hander Mike Mayers settled on a one-year, $1.2MM salary, tweets Mark Feinsand of MLB.com.
Right-hander Vince Velasquez and the Phillies have agreed to a one-year, $4MM contract, tweets Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia.
The Mets signed righty Robert Gsellman to a one-year, $1.3MM contract to avoid arb, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post.
The Reds agreed to a one-year, $1.175MM deal with right-hander Noe Ramirez, tweets MLB Network's Jon Heyman.
The Mets and first baseman/outfielder Dominic Smith are in agreement on a one-year, $2.55MM contract, tweets USA Today's Bob Nightengale.s
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40-Man Roster Additions: 11/1/20
By Anthony Franco | November 1, 2020 at 9:58pm CDT
With the offseason kicking off, most teams are bringing some inactive players back onto their rosters. Here's the latest:
The Rockies announced they've activated outfielder Ian Desmond from the restricted list. Outfielder David Dahl and right-handers Peter Lambert and Scott Oberg are back from the 60-day injured list, putting Colorado's 40-man roster tally at 38. Desmond opted out of the 2020 season due to COVID-19 concerns and is entering his final year under contract. Dahl underwent shoulder surgery in September, capping a miserable season. Lambert, meanwhile, underwent Tommy John surgery in July. Oberg unfortunately also had to go under the knife, undergoing thoracic outlet surgery to alleviate blood clots in September.
The Indians reinstated right-hander Jefry Rodríguez from the 45-day injured list (via Tribeinsider). While working at Cleveland's alternate training site, the 27-year-old went down with a strain in his throwing shoulder in early September. Rodríguez worked 98.2 innings of 5.20 ERA ball with the Nationals and Indians between 2018-19 but didn't pitch in the majors in 2020. Cleveland's 40-man roster now sports 35 players.
The Rays activated pitchers Jalen Beeks, Yonny Chirinos, Colin Poche and Cody Reed from the 45-day injured list (via Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times). Each of Beeks, Chirinos and Poche has undergone Tommy John surgery over the past few months, meaning none will be ready (or even particularly close) at the start of next season. Reed suffered an injury to his left pinky finger shortly after being acquired from the Reds. He's expected to be a full-go for spring training, Topkin notes.
The Mariners have brought outfielder Mitch Haniger, catcher Tom Murphy and right-hander Andres Muñoz off the 45-day injured list, per Greg Johns of MLB.com. Haniger has dealt with a series of brutal injuries since emerging as one of the sport's quieter stars, but he's finally expected to be healthy next spring. Like Haniger, Murphy missed the entire 2020 season; the backstop broke a bone in his foot on the heels of a breakout 2019. Muñoz underwent Tommy John surgery while part of the Padres' system in March. Still, the Mariners acquired the fireballing 21-year-old before the trade deadline as part of the return for Austin Nola, Austin Adams and Dan Altavilla. Seattle now has 35 players on the 40-man roster.
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Yonny Chirinos Undergoes Tommy John Surgery
By Steve Adams | August 25, 2020 at 4:01pm CDT
AUG. 25: Chirinos underwent successful surgery Tuesday, Juan Toribio of MLB.com tweets.
AUG. 21, 2:22pm: Rays skipper Kevin Cash confirmed to reporters that Chirinos will require Tommy John surgery and likely miss all of the 2021 season as well (Twitter links via Topkin).
1:10pm: Rays right-hander Yonny Chirinos landed on the IL this week due to an elbow strain, and Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times now reports (via Twitter) that the right-hander's injury is not only a season-ender but will likely require Tommy John surgery. It's a tough blow to the same first-place Rays pitching staff that just lost Brendan McKay to shoulder surgery and has been without Charlie Morton for two weeks due to shoulder inflammation. Longtime top prospect Brent Honeywell recently underwent another surgery as well.
Chirinos has quietly emerged as an important contributor for the Rays in recent seasons, pitching to a combined 3.65 ERA with 7.6 K/9, 2.2 BB/9, 1.23 HR/9 and a 42.8 percent ground-ball rate. That showing was expected to cement him as a member of the Rays' starting rotation in 2020, but he's been limited to 11 1/3 innings by a pair of IL placements due to elbow troubles.
Given the timing of the injury, it's quite possible that Chirinos will miss the entirety of the 2021 season as well. Tommy John surgery typically requires a minimum of 12 months to recover — quite often closer to 14 months. Perhaps with a speedy recovery, he'll emerge as a bullpen option for the Rays late next year, but getting any contribution from him at all in '21 would be a bonus and should not be considered a given.
Fortunately for the Rays, they have their typical brand of enviable starting pitching depth from which they can draw. Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Ryan Yarbrough and Trevor Richards are currently making starts with Chirinos, Morton and McKay on the shelf, the the team has several other potential options to which they can turn. Former top prospect Anthony Banda is back from his own Tommy John procedure and working in long relief at the moment. Either he or fellow southpaw Jalen Beeks could conceivably be stretched out to help patch things over. At the alternate training site, well-regarded prospects Shane Baz and Shane McClanahan loom as options as well.
Of course, with the Rays in first place and the Aug. 31 trade deadline looming, the possibility off augmenting the staff with someone not currently in the organization can't be ruled out. The Rays are considered to have the best minor league system in baseball, so they should have no trouble putting together an alluring package for any of the names that figure to be available. Speculatively speaking, that list could include the likes of Lance Lynn, Dylan Bundy, Taijuan Walker and Kevin Gausman, among numerous others.
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Rays Place Yonny Chirinos On Injured List
By Connor Byrne | August 19, 2020 at 5:42pm CDT
The Rays have placed right-hander Yonny Chirinos on the injured list with strain in his pitching elbow, per Juan Toribio of MLB.com. The team recalled righty Aaron Slegers from its taxi squad to take Chirinos' place.
It's always troubling when a pitcher goes down with an arm injury, especially considering Chirinos just came from an IL stint by a triceps issue. Chirinos spent the minimum amount of time on the shelf then, but it's unclear how long he'll need to return from this injury.
Chirinos was a productive swingman for the Rays from 2018-19, a 44-appearance, 25-start span in which he combined for a 3.71 ERA/4.07 FIP with 7.63 K/9 and 2.14 BB/9 in 223 innings. He has only been able to throw 11 frames in three starts this year, but the bottom-line production (2.38 ERA, 7.94 K/9 and 3.18 BB/9) has been palatable again.
Including Chirinos, the Rays – known for thinking outside the box – have already used eight different pitchers to start games this season. The 15-9 club could get one of its "traditional" starters, the injured Charlie Morton, back this weekend.
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By Connor Byrne | August 6, 2020 at 8:07pm CDT
The Rays have placed starter Yonny Chirinos on the injured list, retroactive to Aug. 3, with right triceps inflammation, Juan Toribio of MLB.com tweets. The team recalled fellow righty Trevor Richards from its alternate training site to take Chirinos' place.
Fortunately, expectations are that Chirinos will not be on the IL for long, per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. While Charlie Morton, Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow overshadow him in the Rays' rotation, Chirinos has been an effective swingman for the club since he debuted in 2018. The 26-year-old has logged a 3.61 ERA/4.09 FIP with 7.61 K/9 and 2.21 BB/9 during his 231 2/3-inning career. He totaled 8 2/3 frames of one-earned run ball in two starts this season before landing on the IL.
Chirinos had been scheduled to start Saturday versus the Yankees, but it's now unclear who will take the ball for the Rays then. Richards may be a candidate, though, as he combined for 48 starts as a Marlin and Ray from 2018-19. Although Richards was a passable starter in those seasons, he began this year in rough fashion. After Richards allowed six earned runs on 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings in two appearances, the Rays optioned him earlier this week.
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Health Notes: Mallex, Chirinos, Lourdes, Lowrie, Smith
By Anthony Franco | July 19, 2020 at 11:20am CDT
Some health updates from around the league with the regular season just four days away:
Mariners center fielder Mallex Smith made his Summer Camp debut Saturday, notes Greg Johns of MLB.com. The speedster had not been previously been available for undisclosed reasons. Nevertheless, manager Scott Servais says he's "pretty confident" Smith will be ready to go for the season opener, per Johns. This could be something of a make-or-break year for Smith, who fell flat in his first season in Seattle. He figures to take the bulk of the center field playing time, presumably flanked most days by Kyle Lewis and Jake Fraley.
Rays right-hander Yonny Chirinos made his first Summer Camp appearance today, per various reporters (including Juan Toribio of MLB.com). Chirinos confirmed he'd tested positive for COVID-19 last month, experiencing mild symptoms, adds Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times (Twitter link). Fortunately, he's now feeling better, and apparently cleared all MLB protocols for a return. The 24-year-old expressed an expectation he'll be ready for Opening Day (via Toribio). Given the lack of ramp-up time, Chirinos' innings will certainly be closely monitored in the early going. Nevertheless, it's encouraging the 26-year-old is healthy again and in the process of getting back up to speed.
Blue Jays left fielder Lourdes Gurriel, Jr. was held out of activities yesterday with left side discomfort, Shi Davidi of Sportsnet was among those to relay. It doesn't seem there's huge cause for concern at the moment, but even a brief absence would threaten his availability for Opening Day. Gurriel repeating his strong 2019 effort (.277/.327/.541 with 20 home runs in 343 plate appearances) would go a long way if the Jays are to make a surprising push for the postseason in the shortened campaign.
Mets infielder Jed Lowrie continues to be plagued by left leg issues, notes Tim Healey of Newsday. He won't participate in today's Summer Camp matchup with the Yankees. As Mike Puma of the New York Post points out, that doesn't bode particularly well for Lowrie's chances of being ready for Opening Day. It's the latest setback for the well-respected veteran in a Mets' tenure unfortunately marred by them. Injuries held Lowrie to just eight plate appearances in the first season of a two-year, $20MM deal.
Orioles outfielder Dwight Smith, Jr. was cleared to participate in camp Friday. The 27-year-old acknowledged that a positive COVID-19 test was the reason he'd been delayed, per Rich Dubroff of Baltimore Baseball. Fortunately, he's obviously now managed to clear the protocols for a return and hopes to be ready for Opening Day. Smith hit just .241/.297/.412 (83 wRC+) with 13 home runs in 392 plate appearances last season.
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Rays Activate Yonny Chirinos
By George Miller | September 21, 2019 at 12:28pm CDT
The Rays have activated right-hander Yonny Chirinos from the 10-day injured list, according to Juan Toribio of MLB.com. He's been on the shelf since early August, when inflammation to his middle finger forced him to the injured list.
Chirinos has enjoyed a nice sophomore season, blossoming into a full-time starter for the Rays. He was able to provide nice insurance against the injury to Tyler Glasnow and has been a reliable part of the Rays pitching staff.
In his age-25 season, Chirinos has given the Rays 126 2/3 quality innings, tallying a 3.62 ERA and a 4.16 FIP, striking out 7.8 batters per nine innings while averaging 2.0 walks. He's settled nicely into a role as a regular starter, a change of pace after serving as a "follower" in his rookie year and for the first few outings of 2019.
However, there hasn't yet been any indication whether Chirinos will return as a starter or reliever. He offers some flexibility, so it could go either way, but don't expect him to offer the same length that he provided prior to the injury. As fellow starters Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell likewise work their way back from injuries, they have been strictly limited in their workloads, meaning that Chirinos could serve as a solid multi-inning option behind that pairing.
While Chirinos hasn't posted the most promising peripheral numbers, his results have been nonetheless impressive, and the Rays will certainly welcome all the help they can get as they aim for a Wild Card berth.
AL East Notes: Torres, Jays, Rays, Red Sox
By Connor Byrne and Steve Adams | September 20, 2019 at 8:58pm CDT
Another day, another alarming health situation for the Yankees. Second baseman Gleyber Torres left the team's game against Toronto on Friday after slipping on the outfield grass and potentially suffering an injury to his right knee (video via MLB.com). Torres initially stayed in the game in the wake of his fourth-inning fall, but the Yankees removed him after the sixth. Injuries to stars has been one of the main themes of the Yankees' season, but they've weathered all of them en route to 100 wins and an American League East championship. The Yankees are still playing for homefield advantage throughout the postseason, though, and will obviously aim for a World Series title once the playoffs arrive. With that in mind, New York can ill afford to lose one of the best middle infielders in baseball in the 22-year-old Torres. [UPDATE: Torres "felt a little weak in his lower legs," manager Aaron Boone told Bryan Hoch of MLB.com and other reporters. He'll get checked out Saturday.]
Here's more from the division…
Rob Longley of the Toronto Sun profiles Justin Smoak's evolution into a clubhouse leader and mentor for the Blue Jays' wave of upstart talents. Cavan Biggio and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. are among the teammates who effuse praise for Smoak and the impact he's already had on their young careers. "He's a guy who has a relationship with every single guy in this locker room, no matter if they're an up-and-down guy or if they're playing every day," Biggio says of Smoak. "It just shows how much he emphasizes being a good teammate and it just shows the kind of person he is overall." Smoak fondly reminisces of the 2015-16 playoff runs and discusses how he and his family have come to consider Toronto a second home, though he also sounds like a veteran who recognizes the writing on the wall. MLBTR examined the pending free agent's 2019 season earlier Friday.
The Rays are likely to activate right-hander Yonny Chirinos from the injured list Sunday, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times tweets. Chirinos has been a starter for most of the year (a solid one at that), but he'll work as a reliever for at the least the initial part of his return, according to Topkin. The Rays have been without Chirinos since they placed him on the IL on Aug. 5 with an inflamed middle finger on his pitching hand.
The Red Sox are "likely" to shut injured infielder Michael Chavis down for the season, per Steve Hewitt of the Boston Herald. Chavis will next take the field during winter ball in Puerto Rico, Hewitt adds. An oblique strain has kept the 22-year-old Chavis out of action since Aug. 11, and it appears his rookie campaign will end with a .254/.322/.444 line and 18 home runs in 382 plate appearances.
Blue Jays minor league righty Luis Quinones received an 80-game suspension after testing positive for the performance-enhancing drugs Nandrolone, John Lott of The Athletic reports. The ban will take effect at the beginning of the 2020 season. The 21-year-old Quinones was a 34th-round pick of the Jays this past June who produced stellar results in 36 2/3 innings between the rookie and low-A levels. He wrapped up his first professional season with a 2.95 ERA and 14.0 K/9 and 4.7 BB/9.
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An Amber Alert issued yesterday afternoon by the Edmonton Police was cancelled this morning.
Noah Ducharme, age 8, was found safe early this morning with his mother, who police say allegedly kidnapped the boy from the Waverley Elementary School in the area of 68 Street and 89 Avenue yesterday at 2:50 p.m.
The mother Brianne Hjalte, age 31, and the boy were located in Calgary.
An off duty Calgary Police Service member spotted Noah with his mother, thanks to the Amber Alert. RCMP members from Okotoks responded and took the mother into custody.
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Memorabilia from Knott's Berry Farm sold for almost $800,000
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Memorabilia from Knott's Berry Farm, America's first theme park, has sold for almost $800,000 at auction in California.
To celebrate the 75 anniversary of the park's famous Ghost Town attraction, historic items from the Knott's Berry Farm archive were offered to nostalgic collectors by Heritage Auctions.
The sale, which featured everything from theme park props and antique vehicles, to original artwork and vintage signs, was expected to fetch in the region of $500,000 – but ended up achieving a grand total of $788,892.
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"Fans around the world turned out to celebrate the rich history of America's first theme park," said Jim Lentz, Consignment Director for Heritage Auctions. "It was an impressively large live audience for the sale and that only speaks to the enduring memories people have of this important, historical archive."
Topping the auction was an 1898 painting entitled 'Baldwin Wagon Train Under Attack' by Henry H. Cross, a renowned western artist who also worked for Buffalo Bill Cody and P. T. Barnum's circus.
Having been acquired by park owner Walter Knott in the 1940s, the large artwork had been displayed prominently in the Ghost Town attraction ever since, and sold for $71,700, setting a new artist auction record for the artist.
Amongst the leading lots were several vehicles exhibited at the park over the years, such as a 1940 Jennie KI steam-powered locomotive which sold for $40,630; a 1919 Model T car which sold for $37,045; a 1940s Seagrave-type Fire Engine which realized $31,070; and a historic 1800s antique covered wagon which sold for $9,560.
There were also notable prices achieved by a selection of antique coin-op machines, including a 1904 Caille Brothers Double Slot Machine which sold for $38,249, and a 'Voodoo Dance' Coin-Op Arcade Machine which sold for $10,456.
"The value of this extremely rare grouping of antiques and then tying it to Knott's? World class!" said Mike F. Harrah, an art collector and floor bidder at the auction. "It was not only fun but rewarding and adds value to a tremendous collection of American history."
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Františkov nad Ploučnicí () is a municipality and village in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants. It lies on the Ploučnice River.

Františkov nad Ploučnicí lies approximately  south-east of Děčín,  east of Ústí nad Labem, and  north of Prague.

Administrative parts
The hamlet of Mlatce is an administrative part of Františkov nad Ploučnicí.

References

Villages in Děčín District