ハンガリーで行われている柔道の 世界選手権は３０日、 女子５７キロ級で芳田司選手が銀メダルを獲得しました。 ２１歳の 芳田選手は決勝でモンゴルの 選手…
ハンガリーで行われている柔道の世界選手権は３０日、女子５７キロ級で芳田司選手が銀メダルを獲得しました。２１歳の芳田選手は決勝でモンゴルの選手に敗れましたが、世界選手権初出場での銀メダルとなりました。
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New York dropped five games behind first-place Boston in the AL East heading into a four-game series against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium starting Thursday night.
NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Bauer and Ryan Merritt shut down the Yankees’ offense, leading the Cleveland Indians to a doubleheader sweep that damaged New York’s chances to win the AL East.
Bauer won his career-best seventh straight decision, Jose Ramirez tied his big league high with four hits and the Indians took advantage of Gary Sanchez’s passed ball in a two-run first inning that stood up for a 2-1 win in Wednesday’s opener.
Yandy Diaz hit a two-run single in a four-run first inning against rookie Jordan Montgomery in the second game, and Edwin Encarnacion, Yan Gomes and Francisco Lindor added home runs in a 9-4 blowout that completed a three-game series sweep and extended the Indians’ winning streak to seven games.
Defending AL champion Cleveland has won 16 of 20, opening a 7 1/2-game lead over second-place Minnesota in the AL Central and moving a season-high 20 games over .500 at 76-56.
New York dropped five games behind first-place Boston in the AL East heading into a four-game series against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium starting Thursday night. While the Baby Bombers lead the wild-card race, eight teams still have realistic chances to make the one-game playoff, and 24 of New York’s remaining 30 games are against those contenders.
Cleveland went ahead for good nine pitches into the first game and 16 pitches into the nightcap, then the Indians took a 9-1 lead into the ninth.
Bauer (14-8) allowed one run, four hits and four walks over six innings on an afternoon that began with a crowd of 39,568 watching in brilliant sunshine and ended with only a few hundred fans staying for the final out.
“It wasn’ t his best stuff, but he fought like crazy, ” Indians manager Terry Francona said.
Bauer is 7-0 in nine starts since a July 16 loss at Oakland.
“It was a struggle, ” he said. “Day games are always kind of weird.”
Cody Allen struck out three of four batters for his 22nd save in 25 chances, combining with Tyler Olson and Bryan Shaw for one-hit relief. Slumping rookie Aaron Judge, held out of the starting lineup for a second consecutive game, pinch hit with two outs in the ninth and struck out. He was 1 for 3 with a walk in the second game.
Jaime Garcia (1-2) gave up two runs, six hits and three walks in five-plus innings.
Sanchez’s 13th passed ball, second-most in the major leagues, caused an unearned run. Lindor singled leading off, stole second, went to third on Ramirez’s single and came home on the passed ball, which also allowed Ramirez to advance.
“That’s kind of where I wanted to throw it, but my stuff sometimes moves, ” Garcia said.
Diaz followed with another run-scoring single. Didi Gregorius had an RBI double in the third for the Yankees.
Both starters were brought up from the minors for the second game, and Merritt (2-0) began 16 of 22 batters with strikes, allowing one run and five hits in 5 1/3 innings. Cleveland sent 10 batters to the plate in the first against Montgomery (7-7) , taking a 2-0 lead on Encarnacion’s RBI single and Carlos Santana’s run-scoring double.
Montgomery needed 43 pitches to get through the first and allowed four runs and six hits in four innings. Greg Bird drove in four runs with an RBI single in the second and a three-run homer in the ninth.
WHIFFING
Yankees RHP Chad Green struck out seven over 2 2/3 innings in the opener, the most strikeouts in a game in big league history by a pitcher who faced eight or fewer batters.
“I absolutely didn’ t know that when I was pitching today, but I guess it’s pretty cool, ” he said.
Green has struck out 86 of 209 hitters this season.
“I’ m just trying to attack the zone, and when it happens it happens, ” he said.
HITTING
Aaron Hicks had four hits in the second game, matching his career high.
TRAINER’ S ROOM
Indians: RHP Danny Salazar (right elbow inflammation) is scheduled to throw a simulated game Friday.… LHP Andrew Miller (right knee patella tendinitis) has begun to throw on flat ground.… 2B Jason Kipnis (right hamstring strain) has started running but is not yet able to sprint.… OF Lonnie Chisenhall went 2 for 4 with Triple-A Columbus and is expected to be activated Friday. However, his father-in-law died and he could miss weekend games while on the bereavement list.
Yankees: LHP Aroldis Chapman underwent an MRI on Sunday to seek the cause of discomfort in his pitching elbow. The Yankees said no issues were found. Chapman, who lost his closer’s job in mid-August following poor performances, says he has a little soreness.
UP NEXT
Indians: After an off day, Cleveland plays another doubleheader Friday at Detroit. RHP Carlos Carrasco (13-6) is scheduled to start the opener and RHP Mike Clevinger (7-5) tentatively is set for the second game.
Yankees: LHP CC Sabathia (10-5) starts Thursday’s opener of a four-game series against Boston, which goes with LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (4-4) . Sabathia will be making his 250th start with the Yankees. He has allowed three runs over 13 innings since returning from the DL.
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Tropical Storm Harvey has brought out the best in people.
People form a human chain to rescue a woman in labor. Two cowboys free a trapped horse. Residents push a stranded driver’s car to safety. A man dives into rushing waters to save a drowning dog.
For all the devastation that Hurricane Harvey has brought to the Gulf Coast, there has also been a considerable deal of hope on display too, some of it captured on video.
When floodwaters began to carry away an elderly man in his SUV, a band of drivers stopped to help. Dozens joined hands and stretched out until they reached the stranded man. One climbed on the roof of the car to help the group pry open the man’s door to pull him out.
When Molly Akers’ neighbor went into labor, the apartment complex quickly strategized to ensure her safety.
“The couple couldn’t reach 911, so a complex wide email was sent out asking for nurses and OB’s, ” Akers wrote on Facebook. “I talked to her husband and a plan was made to move her to the second floor if the water level continued to rise. Suddenly our building was filled with others from our complex showing up to help!”
When firefighters showed up more than a hour later, neighbors formed a human chain so the woman could move from the apartment to the hands of firefighters.
A shivering pit bull that was stranded atop a car outside of a garage was saved by a local CBS News crew. The dog, which had apparently been abandoned, cowered as rescuers got closer.
After the rescue, Chris Rogers, the dog’s owner, came forward to defend himself. He said he agonized over leaving behind the dog – named Blue – and told the local CBS station that he believed rescuers would go back for the dog.
“I just jumped into survival mode, ” he said.
When a dog in Lumberton, Texas, was swept away by floodwater currents, a group of men sprang into action. One, wearing a life jacket and connected to a tether, waded chest-deep into the water. Once he had the dog, the other men pulled the pair out of the water.
The dog, Bandit, was eventually returned to his owners .
Chance Ward shared several posts on Facebook of Texan cowboys saving trapped horses. At least one went viral.
“There is a lot of sad out of this storm, but I look at the positive, ” he wrote in a related post. “I have helped in numerous floods with livestock. We were able to swim in and save four of these horses today.”
“We got you, ” a man off-camera can be heard saying as he and three other men push a woman’s car back to safety.
The video has received ample attention. Many on Twitter have been quick to laud it as an example of people of different races helping one another.
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« Downsizing » has generated jumbo-sized buzz at the Venice Film Festival — not least as viewers debate how to describe it …
VENICE, Italy — « Downsizing » has generated jumbo-sized buzz at the Venice Film Festival — not least as viewers debate how to describe it.
Is it a science fiction film, a romantic comedy, a political parable, an apocalyptic thriller? Alexander Payne’s movie mixes all those elements in its story of a man, played by Matt Damon, who tries to solve his problems by shrinking himself.
Damon and co-stars Kristen Wiig and Hong Chau joined Payne on the red carpet for the film’s Venice premiere Wednesday — the first of 11 days of galas that will bring stars including George Clooney and Jennifer Lawrence to the canal-crossed Italian city.
The Venice opening-night slot has become coveted by filmmakers hoping to make a splash come awards season. Several recent Venice openers, including « Gravity » and « La La Land, » have gone on to win multiple Academy Awards.
« Downsizing » has ingredients that could help it strike a similar chord with audiences and awards voters: a likable, bankable star in Damon; a strong supporting cast that includes Wiig and Christophe Waltz; and an imaginative story laced with compassion and humor.
Payne says despite its sci-fi premise and international canvas, « Downsizing » is not so different to the films he’s best known for — funny-sad stories of middle aged or Midwestern strugglers such as « About Schmidt, » »Sideways » and « Nebraska. »
« It has the same sense of humor and basically the same tone, » Payne told reporters in Venice on Wednesday.
The movie applies Payne’s wry eye for human foibles to a plot that explores the power and limits of science and the threat of environmental catastrophe.
The script by Payne and Jim Taylor opens with a Norwegian scientist making a breakthrough he thinks will save humanity: a technique that can shrink people to 5 inches (12 centimeters) tall. That means they use a tiny fraction of the resources they once did — and need to pay less, allowing people of modest means to grow instantly rich by becoming small.
The movie has fun imagining what the miniaturized world would be like, as Damon goes to live in a luxury micro-city, a sort of retirement community for the tiny.
Then it takes a serious turn to ask whether science could be humanity’s salvation, or whether stubbornly fallible human nature is likely to be our species’ undoing.
Along the way, a movie that started in the familiar Payne territory of Omaha, Nebraska, takes viewers all the way to an underground bunker in a Norwegian fjord.
Many will find the journey unexpected, but reviewers in Venice were mostly happy to be swept along for the ride. The Guardian called the film a « spry, nuanced, winningly digressive movie, » while the Hollywood Reporter said it was « captivating, funny » and « deeply humane. »
Ultimately, the film rests on Payne’s knack for depicting human relationships. Damon’s Paul becomes friends with a louche European neighbor, played by Waltz, and develops feelings for Ngoc Lan, a former Vietnamese political prisoner working as a house cleaner.
Actress Hong Chau (« Treme, » »Inherent Vice ») is already being talked of as a potential awards nominee for her performance as the spirited, complex character.
« This is a character that is normally in the background, that is low-status character in the culture, and not one that you typically see in the forefront of a story, » she said.
« Downsizing » is the latest ordinary-Joe role for Damon, who exudes a likable everyman-under-duress quality whether he’s action hero Jason Bourne or a stranded astronaut in « The Martian. »
Damon said he thinks movies « are the greatest tool for empathy that we have. »
« What I love about this — what I love about a lot of these stories that I get to help tell — is it shows a relatable character whose life is different from our own but who we find common cause with, » he said. « This is a beautiful and optimistic movie. A journalist said to me, which I thought was really great: ‘This is Alexander’s most optimistic movie and it has the apocalypse in it.' »
The film has been in the works for a decade, but in an AP interview, Damon said its environmental theme felt « torn from the headlines. »
« Though the (U. S.) administration wouldn’t say that, » he added. « They’re not acknowledging climate change as a reality. »
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Flash flooding inundated homes and overwhelmed first-responders as residents along the Texas-Louisiana border felt the wrath of Harvey’s second landfall.
A weaker Harvey replicated its devastating roll Wednesday, returning to shore with a deluge of rain that inundated homes and highways and left police and government officials struggling to pluck people from the water.
The Texas-Louisiana border bore the brunt of Harvey’s second coming, this time as a tropical storm before it was downgraded Wednesday night to a tropical depression. It caused a repeat of the flooding endured by Houston, its suburbs and nearby beach towns when it made first landfall last week as a Category 4 hurricane before meandering back to the Gulf of Mexico. It has dumped up to 50 inches of rain in spots, leaving more than 20 dead.
But as Houston got its first glimpses of sunlight in days, areas to the east that had already seen rain were waking up to even more — and to waterlogged homes.
Orange, Texas, resident Mike Henry said he went to bed Tuesday with water only in his yard. He woke up to rain falling so hard it sounded like a « power washer. » And then it quickly started seeping into his house.
« I kept marking it on the wall, every 15 minutes, » Henry said. It leveled off at 1 foot (30 cm) .
A neighbor delivered him, his longtime girlfriend, Rose Marie Carpenter, and her dog, Maggie May, to dry ground — first in a truck, and then in a boat. They were trying to figure out what to do next as they waited along Interstate 10, where ambulances were taking the medically fragile to Louisiana. But many on the freeway didn’t want to head there because they wouldn’t take dogs. Carpenter uses a wheelchair, and Henry said he wasn’t sure where they would go.
Some motorists were stranded along elevated I-10 for nearly 24 hours after they pulled off the freeway, but couldn’t re-enter when the ramps flooded. In Orange, more than two dozen vehicles —including a news truck — clustered around a closed convenience store when they could not return to the freeway.
Erin Gaudet of nearby Beaumont, Texas, said she went home to pick up her kitten, then they spent the night in her SUV. She said she plans to name the kitten Harvey.
Police in Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, were recruiting anyone with boats to help check neighborhoods for potential rescues, with one meeting point for available vessels at a Walmart. Authorities said that instead of calling 911, many people were trying to seek help via social media, adding to the chaos.
But Anna McKay, of Orange, said she tried calling 911 for help, and nobody answered. Neighbors helped bring her and 12 other people who had sought refuge in her home to a Baptist church on higher ground. There, people were planning to cook food they salvaged from their freezers after homeowners shut off their own power to avoid fires.
Florida Wildlife Commission agents and soldiers with the Louisiana Army National Guard evacuated eight residents and three employees from the Golden Years retirement home in Orange. Most of the gray brick structure is one story, although staff took residents to a small second-story area as the water on the ground floor rose to thigh level.
« I was just wondering if it was going to get any higher, » said resident Madison Selph, 87. He said he could tell water had stopped rising by looking at a shed across the parking lot.
Rescuers carried the residents out one-by-one, floating them to high-clearance National Guard trucks on an airboat. Three who were too weak to stand were lifted onto a mattress in the back of a truck. The other five got their pajama bottoms wet as they were helped into a second truck, shivering in the still-gusty wind as they sat on metal benches.
« It’s cold and I don’t know where I’m going, » a female resident said at one point, as the truck growled and jolted along a flooded Texas highway.
The storm came ashore again before dawn Wednesday just west of Cameron, Louisiana, bringing maximum sustained winds near 45 mph (72 kph) , the U. S. National Hurricane Center said. Harvey had dumped rain as it lingered over Texas for days.
Low-lying southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana are far more rural than the 6-million-plus Houston area and are home to many of the nation’s oil refineries, including the biggest in the U. S. in Port Arthur. Motiva Enterprises closed the refinery because of flooding. Port Arthur found itself increasingly isolated as floodwaters swamped most major roads out of the city and spilled into a storm shelter with about 100 people inside.
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press Flying over the Houston area most days is a postcard of America: crisscrossing highways, skyscrapers, hulking shopping plazas, oil…
Flying over the Houston area most days is a postcard of America: crisscrossing highways, skyscrapers, hulking shopping plazas, oil refineries, big houses, cattle pastures. Then there’s the view after Harvey.
« I had an idea, but once you can get up there and actually physically see it, the water is never-ending, » said David Phillip, an Associated Press photographer who has called Houston home for two decades.
Phillip got a bird’s-eye view this week after Harvey dumped more than 50 inches (127 centimeters) of rain in and around the nation’s fourth-largest city. His photographs show rows of suburban streets turned into canals and brownish floodwaters creeping up to rooftops. In one photo, a mansion’s long cul-de-sac driveway resembles a drawbridge over a moat.
Phillip was taken aback by water submerging the Interstate 69 bridge over the San Jacinto River.
« It makes you pause and think about it. This is my home. It has been for 20 years. It’s tough to see your friends and neighbors and people in the community go through that, » he said.
Phillip hasn’t stopped often since Harvey made landfall Friday night. He started in Galveston and by Sunday was driving the wrong way down Houston’s flooded Interstate 610, normally one of the busiest sections of highways in the U. S. Later he was on board a rescue boat when it struck something, flipping him backward and out of the boat.
The propeller got his leg before Phillip was pulled from the water, leaving a bruise. He lost his glasses and ruined a camera lens.
Phillip, who is 51, is no stranger to photographing major storms, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As the water from Harvey recedes he sees familiar devastation. « Everything, generally, 4 feet down is taken out of every house. » Streets in Houston are now becoming lined with couches, hardwood flooring, baseboards and pianos.
He called covering Harvey more personal than previous storm assignments. Phillip said Wednesday was his first day he could travel the roads freely again, and in the neighborhood of Meyerland, he found homeowners tearing out drywall and trying to salvage belongings.
« People have had to break windows of neighbors’ homes to get to their second floor while swimming through floodwaters. Crawled through windows. Swam to be picked up, » Phillip said. « Everybody has a survival story. »
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Don’ t miss out on this special Australian collector’s edition tome – your Xbox One will thank you for it!
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Former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel worked out last week for a Canadian Football League team.
Former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel worked out last week for a Canadian Football League team.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats put Manziel through a series of workouts in Buffalo, N.Y., over two days but the organization decided there were « too many red flags » to sign him now, according to a report from TSN and confirmed by ESPN on Wednesday.
The Tiger-Cats plan to retain their rights to the former Heisman Trophy winner and Cleveland Browns quarterback through a roster mechanism known as a « negotiation list, » in the event the 24-year-old Manziel becomes a more realistic option, according to the report.
The Tiger-Cats have lost their first eight games of the season and hired former Hawaii coach June Jones last week as their head coach. The CFL team intended to hire former embattled Baylor football coach Art Briles as offensive coordinator earlier this week before reversing its decision.
Briles, 61, was dismissed at Baylor last year after a university investigation of its handling of allegations of sexual assaults by students, which included football players. The Tiger-Cats’ hiring of Briles was viewed as a way to get quarterback Robert Griffin III, who is an NFL free agent at the moment, to join Hamilton.
Manziel has not played football since the Browns released him after the 2015 season.
Manziel, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2012 as a redshirt freshman at Texas A&M, had a number of off-field incidents that affected his public image. He also failed to play effectively in limited opportunities with the Browns after being a first-round draft choice (22nd overall) .
Manziel, nicknamed « Johnny Football, » completed 147 of 258 passes for 1,675 yards and seven touchdowns and seven interceptions in 15 games, including eight starts, for the Browns in 2014 and 2015.
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« Downsizing » has generated jumbo-sized buzz at the Venice Film Festival, where it’s screening in the coveted opening-night slot.
« Downsizing » has generated jumbo-sized buzz at the Venice Film Festival — not least as viewers debate how to describe it.
Is it a science fiction film, a romantic comedy, a political parable, an apocalyptic thriller? Alexander Payne’s movie mixes all those elements in its story of a man, played by Matt Damon, who tries to solve his problems by shrinking himself.
Damon and co-stars Kristen Wiig and Hong Chau joined Payne on the red carpet for the film’s Venice premiere Wednesday — the first of 11 days of galas that will bring stars including George Clooney and Jennifer Lawrence to the canal-crossed Italian city.
The Venice opening-night slot has become coveted by filmmakers hoping to make a splash come awards season. Several recent Venice openers, including « Gravity » and « La La Land, » have gone on to win multiple Academy Awards.
« Downsizing » has ingredients that could help it strike a similar chord with audiences and awards voters: a likable, bankable star in Damon; a strong supporting cast that includes Wiig and Christophe Waltz; and an imaginative story laced with compassion and humor.
Payne says despite its sci-fi premise and international canvas, « Downsizing » is not so different to the films he’s best known for — funny-sad stories of middle aged or Midwestern strugglers such as « About Schmidt, » »Sideways » and « Nebraska. »
« It has the same sense of humor and basically the same tone, » Payne told reporters in Venice on Wednesday.
The movie applies Payne’s wry eye for human foibles to a plot that explores the power and limits of science and the threat of environmental catastrophe.
The script by Payne and Jim Taylor opens with a Norwegian scientist making a breakthrough he thinks will save humanity: a technique that can shrink people to 5 inches (12 centimeters) tall. That means they use a tiny fraction of the resources they once did — and need to pay less, allowing people of modest means to grow instantly rich by becoming small.
The movie has fun imagining what the miniaturized world would be like, as Damon goes to live in a luxury micro-city, a sort of retirement community for the tiny.
Then it takes a serious turn to ask whether science could be humanity’s salvation, or whether stubbornly fallible human nature is likely to be our species’ undoing.
Along the way, a movie that started in the familiar Payne territory of Omaha, Nebraska, takes viewers all the way to an underground bunker in a Norwegian fjord.
Many will find the journey unexpected, but reviewers in Venice were mostly happy to be swept along for the ride. The Guardian called the film a « spry, nuanced, winningly digressive movie, » while the Hollywood Reporter said it was « captivating, funny » and « deeply humane. »
Ultimately, the film rests on Payne’s knack for depicting human relationships. Damon’s Paul becomes friends with a louche European neighbor, played by Waltz, and develops feelings for Ngoc Lan, a former Vietnamese political prisoner working as a house cleaner.
Actress Hong Chau (« Treme, » »Inherent Vice ») is already being talked of as a potential awards nominee for her performance as the spirited, complex character.
« This is a character that is normally in the background, that is low-status character in the culture, and not one that you typically see in the forefront of a story, » she said.
« Downsizing » is the latest ordinary-Joe role for Damon, who exudes a likable everyman-under-duress quality whether he’s action hero Jason Bourne or a stranded astronaut in « The Martian. »
Damon said he thinks movies « are the greatest tool for empathy that we have. »
« What I love about this — what I love about a lot of these stories that I get to help tell — is it shows a relatable character whose life is different from our own but who we find common cause with, » he said. « This is a beautiful and optimistic movie. A journalist said to me, which I thought was really great: ‘This is Alexander’s most optimistic movie and it has the apocalypse in it.' »
The film has been in the works for a decade, but in an AP interview, Damon said its environmental theme felt « torn from the headlines. »
« Though the (U. S.) administration wouldn’t say that, » he added. « They’re not acknowledging climate change as a reality. »
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Jim « Mack » McIngvale opened up his huge furniture stores to flood victims.
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Finally tonight, countless acts of humanity on display right here in Texas. Here’s Matt Gutman. Reporter: Jim mcingvale is big in Texas. You want your furniture delivered today? You want it tonight? No problem. Reporter: Over the past five days, Mack as he’s known, got even bigger. Opening his cavernous gallery furniture stores to anyone washed out. We have lots of food and lots of water and you can even bring your animals. Reporter: Hundreds flooded in, invited to lounge on the plush $9000 sofa sets or those nifty adjustable temper-pedics. Did you ever think that you would be sleeping on a $5200 couch when you were evacuated? No, not. It’s been wonderful. My hat is off to the owner. He didn’t have to do this. Thank you so much. Reporter: There are mountains of donations and the grub is good. It’s about helping people. We said to hell with profits and let’s take care of the people. Reporter: As Mack showed me around his warehouse where ruby hays, who lost it all, reached out. My 84th birthday right here. Reporter: You spent your 84th birthday here? Monday. Reporter: And right there Mack does something better than dry off her tears. Call me. My boys will help you and I’ll get you a mattress for your birthday, okay? Thank you. Reporter: Matt Gutman ABC news Houston. Join us tonight for a special edition of « 20/20, » city underwater, catastrophe in Houston. That’s at 10: 00. I’m Tom llamas. You hope to see you right back here tomorrow. Good night.
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