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15 hours ago
- Sport
Tennessee dominates Florida 11-3 in Women's College World Series elimination game
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Alannah Leach had two hits and knocked in four runs, and Tennessee rolled past Florida 11-3 in a Women's College World Series elimination game on Friday night. Tennessee (46-16) pounded out 12 hits and set a record for its highest run total in a World Series game. The seventh-seeded Volunteers advanced to play the loser of Saturday's Texas Tech vs. UCLA game in an elimination game on Sunday. Third-seeded Florida (48-17), a national semifinalist last year, was knocked out in two games. Tennessee lost its World Series opener to Oklahoma on a walk-off home run by Ella Parker on Thursday. Tennessee coach Karen Weekly said her team responded well after the disappointing loss. 'This morning when I walked into breakfast, it was all laughter and noise and joking and smiles, and you never would have known what happened last night,' Weekly said. 'And that's the way you want your team to be.' The Volunteers rallied to support ace pitcher Karlyn Pickens, who gave up the walk-off. 'Obviously an emotional night, but these guys said two things in the locker room last night,' Weekly said. 'Number one, they said, Karlyn, it's not your fault; and, number two, Karlyn, we got your back.' They meant it. Pickens started against Florida, and the Volunteers supported her with seven runs on seven hits in the first inning. Alannah Leach's twin sister, Gabby Leach, got it started with a triple, and she scored on a single by Taylor Pannell. A double by Alannah Leach knocked in three runs. Tennessee struck again in the second when back-to-back solo shots by Sophia Nugent and McKenna Gibson pushed the lead to 9-0 and chased reliever Ava Brown. Florida's first hit of the game was a two-run homer by Reagan Walsh in the fourth. Korbe Otis followed with a solo shot to make it 10-3. The Volunteers' early lead allowed them to rest Pickens. She started and threw one hitless inning with two strikeouts. Erin Nuwer got the win in two innings of relief. The Gators did not play ace Keagan Rothrock. All four batters Florida starter Kara Hammock faced scored, and she was pulled without registering an out. Florida coach Tim Walton said Rothrock had a blister that had popped previously, and it was being managed. 'Ultimately, she could have pitched today, and being good or not good, we don't know what that would have been,' he said. 'But got a long road to go, and you blow her out in the first inning of this game, and then what? I know we're done now, but the decision was really to just try to go as much as we can with everyone else given the circumstances.'
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Denver metro 911, non-emergency lines go down; Douglas Co. Sheriff wants answers
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A number of local dispatches experienced impacts Tuesday, with 911 and non-emergency lines down for hours. Some areas continued to deal with problems Wednesday. They are the numbers to call when something is wrong: 911 or your local non-emergency line. However, something went wrong with some regional dispatches Tuesday. Douglas County's sheriff tells us they got an alert from one of the state-contracted network vendors. 'We were notified by Lumen that they were getting alarms that our 911 system might be down,' Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly said. 'Whenever that happens, we want to always alert the public that there is a potential if they're on a wireless phone, that for some reason the call may not go through.' Free on Your TV • New FOX31+ App for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV Weekly says the sheriff's office sent out alerts on social media to the public, but there is an automatic system in place to make sure 911 calls still get answered in an outage. 'Through no human intervention, an automatic switch happens when our system goes down,' Sheriff Weekly said. 'It'll go to Arapahoe County. If Arapahoe County goes down, it goes to the Aurora Police Department. It Aurora goes down, it goes to Denver. So, somebody is answering those calls for service. My concern as the sheriff is Arapahoe County Sheriff's office, in their dispatch center, they already have a high call volume. We're adding on to their call volume. So, it's concerning that this is happening and it seems to be happening on a more frequent basis.' The Denver Department of Public Safety tells FOX31 an outage on their non-emergency line yesterday was related to the City and County of Denver's citywide network outage, not the outages at other 911 centers in other jurisdictions. We received the following statement from the Technology Services team: 'Yesterday around 11 a.m. the City and County of Denver experienced a failure in our virtual server environment which affected multiple applications and technology systems, including some limited interruptions to public services. The Denver Police Department's 911 line was never impacted. DPD's non-emergency line, however, was impacted, and we instructed community members to call 311, where their call was answered and then routed to DPD's non-emergency line. This outage was not related to the 911 issues jurisdictions across the state were experiencing yesterday. 'Our Technology Services team worked diligently with our vendor to fix the outage, and we were able to restore our systems shortly before 9 p.m. Our team continued to monitor our systems overnight into today and our vendor will continue to analyze data that was extracted after the restoration to determine the root cause of the failure.' FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox As of Wednesday afternoon, Parker Police Department is still experiencing impacts. A spokesperson shared the following statement with FOX31: 'The Parker Police Department is aware of a regional 9-1-1 outage and the disruption in emergency services that it may cause our community. Parker Police is actively working with our telephone provider to restore all 9-1-1 lines as soon as possible. We are continuing to work with Douglas and Arapahoe County Communication Centers to receive our 9-1-1's and provide us with timely information so we can provide emergency services to our community. The complexity of the 9-1-1 system and advancing communication technology is not unique to the Parker Police Department and in this time of outage we will do everything we can to continue to serve our citizens in their time of need while working with our partners to restore this valuable communication system.' 'A lot of these technology companies, they're just typically doing this whenever there's a problem,' Sheriff Weekly said as he pointed his fingers. 'That's why there's an official investigation that takes place afterwards that's overseen by the Public Utilities Commission to identify what exactly happened. Was there a particular company that was at fault or was it a hardware that was a fault? What was the issue?' Those are answers Weekly hopes can help as soon as possible. 'This seems to be happening more and more,' Weekly said. 'And my concern also is, if our system goes down and there is a major event, whether it be a natural disaster or a manmade disaster in another jurisdiction, it's just compounding the problem for that dispatch center. So we need to get to the bottom of it, figure out what's going on and fix it.' FOX31 reached out the the PUC. We received the following statement: 'By Commission rules, the PUC will conduct an investigation of any 9-1-1 center outage lasting longer than four hours. If this was a network issue, the PUC will do a full investigation, which the results will be made public. If this was a problem with the phone system, that is not in PUC oversight. We are currently waiting to hear the cause of the outages so that we can determine next steps.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Winnipeg Free Press
4 days ago
- General
- Winnipeg Free Press
Chelsea Chop is the catchy new name for a classic gardening technique
What's the deal with the Chelsea Chop? Are you gardeners familiar with it? After hearing about it recently, I did a bit of research. The earliest reference I could find dates back to the early 2000s, so it might appear I'm late to the party, but I'm not — and you might not be, either. After all, the pruning method, named for the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, which is held every May in the U.K., is one I've been practicing and advocating for all along, without the garden show tie-in. But things with catchy names tend to take on a life of their own, as the Chelsea Chop has on social media. And that's a good thing because it popularizes a useful technique. What's involved in the chop The method involves pruning certain perennials — those with clumping roots, like coneflower (Echinacea), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), goldenrod (Solidago), sneezeweed (Helenium), Salvia and yarrow (Achillea) — by cutting each stem back by one-third to one-half its height in spring. Cuts should be made on the diagonal, just above a leaf node. The 'chop' forces plants to produce bushier growth, resulting in sturdier, tighter and fuller plants that aren't as likely to grow leggy, require staking or flop over by the end of the season. It also delays blooming, which can benefit the late-summer garden. You might get creative and prune only alternate stems so that some bloom earlier and others later — or prune only half of your plants — to extend the blooming season. Do not attempt this with one-time bloomers, single-stemmed plants or those with woody stems; the amputations would be homicidal to the current season's flowers. When should you chop? Gardeners should consider their climate and prune when their plants have grown to half their expected seasonal height, whenever that may be. (The Chelsea Chop is done at different times in different places, depending on plant emergence and growth.) A variation for late-summer and fall bloomers To take things a step further, some late-summer and fall bloomers, like Joe Pye weed, chrysanthemum and aster, would benefit from three annual chops. In my zone 7, suburban New York garden, that means cutting them back by one-third each in the beginning of June, middle of June and middle of July. Customize the schedule for your garden by shifting one or two weeks earlier per warmer zone and later per cooler zone, taking the season's growth and size of your plants into account. Make the first cuts when plants reach half their expected size, the second two weeks later and the third about a month after that. I'd like this fall-plant pruning tip to catch on as well as the Chelsea Chop has. Maybe I should call it the Damiano Downsize and see what happens. ___ Jessica Damiano writes weekly gardening columns for the AP and publishes the award-winning Weekly Dirt Newsletter. You can sign up here for weekly gardening tips and advice. ___ For more AP gardening stories, go to
Associated Press
4 days ago
- General
- Associated Press
Chelsea Chop is the catchy new name for a classic gardening technique
What's the deal with the Chelsea Chop? Are you gardeners familiar with it? After hearing about it recently, I did a bit of research. The earliest reference I could find dates back to the early 2000s, so it might appear I'm late to the party, but I'm not — and you might not be, either. After all, the pruning method, named for the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, which is held every May in the U.K., is one I've been practicing and advocating for all along, without the garden show tie-in. But things with catchy names tend to take on a life of their own, as the Chelsea Chop has on social media. And that's a good thing because it popularizes a useful technique. What's involved in the chopThe method involves pruning certain perennials — those with clumping roots, like coneflower (Echinacea), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), goldenrod (Solidago), sneezeweed (Helenium), Salvia and yarrow (Achillea) -- by cutting each stem back by one-third to one-half its height in spring. Cuts should be made on the diagonal, just above a leaf node. The 'chop' forces plants to produce bushier growth, resulting in sturdier, tighter and fuller plants that aren't as likely to grow leggy, require staking or flop over by the end of the season. It also delays blooming, which can benefit the late-summer garden. You might get creative and prune only alternate stems so that some bloom earlier and others later — or prune only half of your plants — to extend the blooming season. Do not attempt this with one-time bloomers, single-stemmed plants or those with woody stems; the amputations would be homicidal to the current season's flowers. When should you chop?Gardeners should consider their climate and prune when their plants have grown to half their expected seasonal height, whenever that may be. (The Chelsea Chop is done at different times in different places, depending on plant emergence and growth.) A variation for late-summer and fall bloomersTo take things a step further, some late-summer and fall bloomers, like Joe Pye weed, chrysanthemum and aster, would benefit from three annual chops. In my zone 7, suburban New York garden, that means cutting them back by one-third each in the beginning of June, middle of June and middle of July. Customize the schedule for your garden by shifting one or two weeks earlier per warmer zone and later per cooler zone, taking the season's growth and size of your plants into account. Make the first cuts when plants reach half their expected size, the second two weeks later and the third about a month after that. I'd like this fall-plant pruning tip to catch on as well as the Chelsea Chop has. Maybe I should call it the Damiano Downsize and see what happens. ___ Jessica Damiano writes weekly gardening columns for the AP and publishes the award-winning Weekly Dirt Newsletter. You can sign up here for weekly gardening tips and advice. ___ For more AP gardening stories, go to
Daily Mirror
5 days ago
- General
- Daily Mirror
Gardeners urged to slice open UK supermarket kiwis but issued crucial warning
A gardening expert and best-selling author has shared a comprehensive guide to growing kiwis in your own back garden, all you'll need is a store-bought kiwi to start A gardening expert has shared a guide on how to grow kiwis in your own yard with a single store-bought kiwi. In a TikTok video, the expert shares step-by-step instructions on how to plant and grow your new fruit-bearing plant. The TikTok video comes from the account, simonakeroydgardener, which has over 800,000 followers and regularly shares gardening tips and tricks. The account is run by the gardening expert and author, Simon Akeroyd, whose latest book 'Grow Your Groceries: 40 Hacks for Growing Plants from Your Weekly Shop' is a Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller. In the caption for the TikTok video, Akeroyd advises: ' Kiwis (in some countries they are called kiwi fruit) are climbing plants, so you will need a structure for them to grow up.' He also says there's another key component that is necessary for your kiwis to throve and that is a pollinator. Akeroyd writes that 'both male and female plants need to be grown if you want to produce fruit'. Thus, he advises that you trying growing a few seedlings to increase your chances of a successful crop. But Akeroyd confirms that kiwis are 'easy to grow' and you can do so by starting with a few kiwis purchases from the supermarket. But, anyone hoping to see fruit crops this summer may be disappointed - as the flowers can take years to produce fruit. Step 1: 'Cut a kiwi in half to reveal their seeds' Kiwi seeds are black in colour, rounded and edible. Step 2: 'Remove some of the seeds' As shown in the video, this can be done using the tip of a knife. Simply dig out a few of the seeds and place them on a dry paper towel. Step 3: 'Leave to dry for a few days' Drying seeds before planting them can increase the rate of germination. Step 4: 'Sprinkle the seeds over compost' As shown in the video, you can start off with a small pot for the initial stages. Step 5: 'Take a freezer bag and place it over the [planted] seeds' This acts as a mini- greenhouse, trapping humidity and speeding up the germination process. Step 6: 'Leave on a windowsill' Make sure your seeds get plenty of sunlight. According to Akeroyd, you should be able to see baby kiwi plants grow in a matter of a few weeks. Step 7: 'Prick out when they produce true leaves and [re-pot] to increase their size' Carefully, remove the full leaves - including stem - from your plant and put them in a larger pot. According to Akeroyd, you do need to wait a while before they produce fruit. He warned: 'It can take a few years for [the planted leaves] to produce fruit, but in the meantime they make beautiful ornamental climbing plants with large, attractive foliage.'
