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McCrory signs body camera, law enforcement bills

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RALEIGH — Gov. Pat Mc-Crory signed multiple pieces of legislation related to law en-forcement Monday, including a police body camera bill and a bill to establish an alert system to help capture those that harm public safety officials.

House Bill 1044 establishes the Blue Alert System to aid in the apprehension of suspects who kill or inflict serious bodily injury on a law enforcement of-ficer.

“We are helping protect those police,” said McCrory at the bill signing. “[The Blue Alert sys-tem] includes the whole commu-nity wherever one lives in North Carolina.”

In addition, McCrory signed H.B. 972, which establishes pro-cedures for the disclosure of po-lice body camera footage.

Under the new body camera provision, body camera footage will not be public record. Instead it gives police departments dis-cretion in releasing the footage. If a request for footage is denied, an individual may challenge the denial in court with the poten-tial to obtain a court order for

the footage.“This legislation fulfills our

commitment to protect our law enforcement and gain public trust by promoting uniformity, clarity and transparency,” said McCrory. “You know, technol-ogy like dashboard and body cameras can be very helpful, but when used by itself technology can also mislead and misin-form, which causes other issues and problems with in our com-munities.”

The North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liber-ties Union is protesting the law, claiming a lack of transparency.

“Body cameras should be a tool to make law enforcement more transparent and account-able to the communities they serve, but this shameful law will make it nearly impossible to achieve those goals,” said Su-sanna Birdsong, policy counsel for the ACLU of North Caroli-na. “People who are filmed by police body cameras should not have to spend time and money to go to court in order to see that footage. These barriers are sig-nificant and we expect them to drastically reduce any potential

Gov. Pat McCrory (center) shakes hands with Rep. John Faircloth (R-Guilford) after McCrory signed H.B. 972 and H.B. 1044 Monday, July 11 at the Executive Mansion.

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State budget surplus stands at $425 million

NC favorites Cheerwine, Krispy Kreme pair up

Salisbury, N.C.Cheerwine and Krispy Kreme have joined forces to release the Cheerwine Kreme, a soft drink that combines the flavors of two North Carolina brands. The Cheerwine Kreme is available at grocery chains, some convenience stores and at Krispy Kreme locations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Krispy Kreme will be offering free samples of the drink July 23.

VA Delegate to the RNC Convention wins lawsuit

Richmond, Va. A Virginia delegate to the Republican National Convention who does not support Donald Trump is claiming victory after a federal judge ruled that delegates cannot be fined or jailed for not voting for the state’s primary winner. However, the impact of the decision is thought to be limited because Virginia allocates delegates proportionally and it does not free them from proportional obligations. Carroll Correll Jr., who filed the lawsuit last month, is backed by a group of Trump opponents who say they are lobbying the RNC Rules Committee to force a convention vote on whether delegates should be freed from their candidate commitments.

Center opens to employ hundreds

Mebane, N.C.Gov. Pat McCrory

is scheduled to join in the grand opening of a Walmart Distribution Center in Alamance County Wednesday morning.

The facility will employ 450 people and serve 125 stores across the area. It was built after a $100 million investment by Walmart in the project, which also received a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund of up to $1,100,000.

Under the grant program companies receive no money up front and must meet job creation and investment performance standards to qualify for funds. More than 52,000 people work for Walmart across N.C.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders stand together during a campaign rally where Sanders endorsed Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S., July 12.

RALEIGH — President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday at a memo-rial service in Dallas for the five po-lice officer killed by a gunman who was seemingly motivated by the deaths of two black men last week in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Obama returned to the United States from Europe after the gun-man, Micah X. Johnson, opened fire on police during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter pro-test Thursday in Dallas. Johnson killed five officers, wounded sev-en others, and injured two civil-ians before police ended a multi-ple-hour standoff by using a police robot to detonate a bomb and kill Johnson.

“Like police officers across the country, these men and their families showed a commitment to something larger than themselves,” Obama said in honoring the five fallen officers.

Obama’s speech praised the work of law enforcement across the country while not dismissing the distrust that exists in some places between police and the communi-ties they serve.

“Faced with this violence we wonder if the divides of race in America can ever be bridged,” Obama said. “We wonder if an Af-rican-American community that feels unfairly targeted and police departments that feel unfairly ma-ligned for doing their jobs can ever

Police memorial strikes up tough conversations

RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory convened his Council of State for a business meeting on Tuesday, receiving updates from members in their respective agency dealings. The regular meeting is usually a perfunctory affair to keep the governor and Council of State members abreast of developments ranging from North Carolina Department of Agriculture harvest statistics to approving the sale of state properties.

Tuesday’s meeting, however, notably brought good news from the state budget office.

State Budget Director Andrew Heath announced to the council “for the third time this year, the state budget office in concert with the fiscal research division of the General Assembly, has revised revenue figures upward above our initial projections; this time by another $95 million.”

The final expected budget surplus for the fiscal year now stands at $425 million.

“This is driven by higher than anticipated collections of income tax, which is a sign that more people are working and earning

higher wages,” said Heath. “This shouldn’t be taken for granted, particularly when you have Virginia, our neighbor to the north, who just announced a $266 million shortfall.”

Higher than expected income tax collections were also pointed to in the last two upward revenue projections. Despite lowered personal and corporate income tax rates and a shift toward consump-tion based sales taxes, income tax receipts continue to outperform.

“Generally wages are up incrementally, but the number of jobs that have been created is probably what’s driving the higher than expected revenue,” said Heath. “You’re seeing the impact on revenues from all that increased economic activity.

“In particular, North Carolina scored well in access to capital, we’re the second best in the nation in that category,” reported Heath. “And we were recognized for venture capital and small business loans that are helping create jobs.”

In a press release addressing the surplus, McCrory said, “At a time when neighboring states are revealing steep revenue deficits, North Carolina’s economy is firing on all cylinders.”

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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — In an attempt to unite the Democratic Party, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president Tuesday morning in Portsmouth, N.H.

The endorsement comes after the Democratic Party Platform Committee released amendments to the party’s platform. The Sanders campaign called the amendments a victory for his supporters. The amendments will be presented to a 15-member committee, assembled to reflect membership proportionate to primary voting results. Six members were chosen by Clinton, five by Sanders and party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has four members. The committee is tasked with writing the final party platform presented at the Democratic National Convention July 25-28.

“We have made enormous strides,” Sanders said. “Thanks to the millions of people across the country who got involved in the political process — many for the first time — we now have the

most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.”

Clinton last week added some of Sanders’ platform ideas. She proposed expanding mandatory healthcare funding by $40 billion during the next 10 years and vowed to lower the medicare enrollment age to 55. She also announced plans to subsidize 100 percent of tuition for students attending public universities with family incomes under $125,000 per year.

Sanders failed to receive support on blocking the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Congress, and Clinton’s campaign released a statement in disagreement of TPP.

“Hillary Clinton has made clear that she is not interested in tinkering around the margins with TPP and believes we need a new approach to trade that protects American jobs, raises incomes for American workers, and strengthens our national security,” senior policy advisor Maya Harris stated.

The party platform amendments focused on components of Sanders’ campaign messages, such as increasing the minimum wage to $15 per

hour, addressing climate change and criminal justice reform. The amendments did not include anti-fracking, but still, Sanders called it the “most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.” NCGOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse agrees.

“Days after the DNC released their party platform, Hillary Clinton received the endorsement of self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders and embraced his fringe policies,” Woodhouse said. “Bernie Sanders vowed to stay in the race until delegates vote at the convention in Philadelphia. He may have pushed Clinton to the fringe left with the most liberal party platform in history, but it looks like there will be no ‘brotherly love’ from Bernie’s supporters for Hillary Clinton.”

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacted to Sanders’ endorsement on Twitter.

“I am somewhat surprised that Bernie Sanders was not true to himself and his supporters,” Trump tweeted. “They are not happy that he is selling out!”

In his endorsement Tuesday, Sanders emphasized why

he thinks Clinton is the best candidate to take over the White House.

“This campaign is about the needs of the American people and addressing the very serious crises that we face, and there is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that,” Sanders said.

Clinton became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee five weeks ago. Sanders told supporters he would stay in the race through the remainder of the primaries and at the Democratic National Convention.

But two weeks before the convention, the Vermont senator stood beside Clinton to give her his support, saying he would do everything to ensure she will be the next president.

Clinton expressed her gratitude.“I can’t help but reflect on how

much more enjoyable this election will be now that we are on the same side,” Clinton said. “Thank you, Bernie, for your endorsement, but more than that, thank you for your lifetime of fighting injustice.”

Reuters contributed to this report.

Clinton earns Sanders’ endorsement, adopts parts of platform

Passage of a $15 federal minimum wage tied to in�ationLegalize marijuanaAbolish the death penaltyExpand Social SecurityBreak up large �nancial institutionsEstablish a modern Glass-Steagall Act, a measure enacted after the depression to ban commercial banks from participating in investment businessBan private prisonsRequiring an investigation by the Department of Justice into all shootings involving police o�cersRequiring that environmental impact to be a factor in all federal decisions.Calling on Congress to create a fee for carbon and methane and increase spending on wind and solar powerCalling for passage of progressive immigration reform











The Democratic platform amendments approved include:

Passage of a $15 federal minimum wage tied to inflation Legalize marijuana Abolish the death penalty

Expand Social Security

Break up large financial institutions

Establish a modern Glass-Steagall Act

Ban private prisons

Requiring an investigation by the Department of Justice into all shootings involving police officers

Requiring that environmental impact to be a factor in all federal decisions.

Calling on Congress to create a fee for carbon and methane and increase spending on wind and solar power

Calling for passage of progressive immigration reform



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CHARLOTTE — The 37 percent bump Charlotte hotels got from the 2012 Democratic National Convention may not be the same windfall for the Cleveland and Philadelphia party conventions over the next two weeks.

This year’s Republican and Democratic conventions may prove what hotels have long feared: They could lose a consistent money-maker to Airbnb and other home-sharing services.

Normally, hotels would be cashing in on the combined 100,000 people expected to flood Cleveland for the Republican presidential nominating convention next week and Philadelphia for the Democratic gathering July 25-28. Airbnb expects 5,400 rentals for the two political conventions.

But because of what hoteliers call “shadow inventory” from

home-sharing brokers, they may not be able to get the convention-week markups they collected in the past and that could foreshadow a rate-shaving trend as peer-to-peer rentals grow.

Jeremy Adkison, a 28-year-old delegate to the Democratic convention, said he decided to try Airbnb, because he thought a hotel would cost too much.

The Emporia, Kansas, resident paid $442 for a five-night stay at a townhouse near the convention site.

Hotel rooms are still available in Philadelphia, albeit at the higher rates Adkison sought to avoid. The Marriott Courtyard Philadelphia, for example, is advertising rooms for $989 a night, triple its normal rate. Peak demand, typically associated with a nearby event, contributes 25 percent to 30 percent to hotels’ annual profits.

Marriott International representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“Airbnb is hurting the ability of

[hotel] companies to collect on high-priced nights,” said C. Patrick Scholes, managing director of lodging and leisure equity research at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. The impact is difficult to quantify, however, he added.

Research firm TravelClick found hotel rates in Cleveland and Philadelphia had risen 20.7 percent for the 2016 convention month from a year earlier.

Furthermore, the convention bump had been intensifying until this year. In 2008, hotel rates rose by a combined 23.25 percent in host cities St. Paul, Minn., and Denver in 2008, and by 15.75 percent in lodging-rich New York City and Boston in 2004, CBRE said.

The Loews Philadelphia Hotel is 100 percent booked, spokeswoman Jaimi Blackburn said, adding that most others in the city and immediate area are as well.

Philadelphia and Ohio industry associations said both political

parties negotiated rates early for many of their delegates, so the hotels were not getting maximum prices for those rooms.

Analysts soon will be looking beyond the U.S. political conventions to the next big test of hotels’ ability to capitalize on a big event: the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where Airbnb is an official accommodation provider.

Airbnb said 30,000 people had used its service to find places to stay during the Games, while

there are fewer than 60,000 hotel rooms in Rio.

Fear of the Zika virus or global economic weakness could keep travelers away from the Olympics, but the Airbnb effect is “a valid potential overhang” for hotels, said S&P Global Market Intelligence analyst Tuna Amobi. “There is a lot more supply of alternative accommodation,” Amobi said, adding that the 2016 games and conventions mean a new era in event planning.

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A man walks past a logo of Airbnb after a news conference in Tokyo, Japan in 2015.

NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market spent a second day in record setting territory on Tuesday as both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial average breached all-time highs set in May 2015.

Just three and a half weeks ago, investors faced a sudden jolt as the Brexit campaign emerged victorious from the voting booths following a hard fought campaign to leave the European Union. U.S. markets sank 5 percent in the two trading days after the surprise results of the widely anticipated vote as rogue political and economic uncertainties mounted suddenly.

European stock exchanges were hit even harder, down 8 to 10 percent in some cases. Market-makers taking bets leading up to the referendum results had placed a 75 percent chance the United Kingdom would vote to remain.

More jarring than equity markets, currency markets went higher upon the news. The British pound plunged to levels against the U.S. dollar not seen since 1985, while the euro fell in sympathy with further economic disintegration

worries.Moreover, sovereign bonds

soared around the western world in a flight to safety causing bond yields to sink to historic lows. The rate on a 10 year U.S. Treasury note fell to just 1.37 percent while some European bond offerings quickened their unprecedented slide into negative rates of return.

What a difference a few weeks makes.

Since the late June swoon, markets in the U.S. have come roaring back and, at the time of press, the S&P 500 has risen more than 8 percent from its Brexit lows. The quick turnaround was initially fueled by a tactical rally from worldwide oversold conditions in

the wake of the Brexit vote, but the sustained run in the U.S. indices was complemented by positive economic announcements such as personal spending gains and a blow out June jobs report.

Hints of further accommodation from central banks amid the global uncertainty may have also emboldened investors to jump back

in the severely discounted market. After Brexit, investors pushed the next likely Federal Reserve interest rate hike out to 2018. Since raising rates from nearly zero in December 2015 for the first time in eight years, the Federal Reserve has been unable to normalize the emergency policies further.

This week’s all-time highs come after a seven-year bull market extending back to the lows of the financial crisis.

While bond markets historically move opposite the direction of stocks, as they represent a mostly risk-free safe haven in times of economic weakness, bonds have remained at their own all-time highs during the recent equity rebound in an unprecedented divergence from historical patterns.

American listed corporations began releasing second quarter earning results this week. The trend in those earnings and forward guidance may provide clarity in an otherwise perplexing market dichotomy. According to FACTSET, S&P 500 earnings are expected to decline approximately 5 percent over the same quarter last year, marking four quarters of earnings declines.

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RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly wrapped up its 2016 session on July 1, and in the process sent off 22 members between the House and Senate who will not return in January.

Sen. Buck Newton (R-Wilson) and Sen. Josh Stein (D-Wake) both resigned to face each other in a race for N.C. attorney general, while Rep. Dan Bishop (R-Mecklenburg) resigned to run for N.C. Senate. Rep. Ralph Johnson (D-Guilford) passed away in March, on the same day he lost his primary. Rep. Jaqueline Schaffer (R-Mecklenburg) and Sen. Dan Soucek (R-Caldwell) resigned before the short session began and were replaced by their local GOP party. Rep. George Robinson (R-Cauldwell) lost his primary after being appointed to

the post after the resignation of then-Majority Leader Edgar Starnes, who left the House to take a high level post in the N.C. Treasury department. The remaining lawmakers on the list below decided not to run again in 2016.

Seven-term Sen. Tom Apodaca (R-Buncombe), is one of the seven senators not returning in 2017. Phil Berger (R-Guilford), the president pro tempore, bid him farewell on the Senate floor during the final days of the short session.

“I just wanted to spend a minute to talk about Tom Apodaca and thank him for his work, his friendship, and for how he has handled himself since he first came here,” Berger said on July 1 during session. Berger then presented Apodaca with a large gavel as a farewell present.

The House and Senate members not returning in January include:

North Carolina gymnast heads to Rio as alternate

Richmond CountyAshton Locklear of Hamlet is one of three gymnasts heading to Rio as an alternate on the five-member U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team. Locklear was chosen after the U.S. Olympic Trials in San Jose, Calif., over the weekend. She was born in Lumberton and trains at Everest Gymnastics in Huntersville, N.C. She will travel with the team and be ready to jump in if there is an injury or other change in the program. Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian are the gymnasts named to the 2016 U.S. Olympic team.

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Winterville Police warn parents about Pokemon Go, other social media

Pitt CountyWinterville Police took the blazing popularity of Pokemon Go as an opportunity to address parents about the importance of monitoring their children and making sure they’re being safe on not only the new Pokemon phone app but also other forms of social media. “It’s not just the content that’s being put out there, but it’s the safety,” said Winterville Police Cpl. James Brown. “A lot of people don’t understand when you take a picture with a phone, it records the GPS location and with a simple app, I can tell exactly where you took that picture which will give me where you live.” Brown also warns parents about Pokemon Go’s tendency to make people walk around while staring at their phones, urging everyone to be safe and pay attention to not only where they’re at but where they’re walking to avoid accidents and dangerous situations.

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Tiger passes away at Greensboro zoo

Guilford CountyGreensboro Science Center Zoo is mourning the loss of its female tiger over the weekend. Twelve-year-old Kisa was diagnosed with a uterine infection and underwent surgery. She died in recovery. Kisa and her brother Axl were born in Mebane, N.C., at the Conservators Center and joined the zoo when it opened in 2007.

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Mount Holly man stabbed while fixing flat tire on I-85

Gaston CountyGastonia police are currently investigating a stabbing that occurred early Saturday morning on Interstate 85. Eliu Hernandez Pedroza, 39, from Mount Holly, pulled over his car around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning to repair a flat tire when he was robbed and stabbed near Exit 19. The robbery suspect is still unknown. Police reports say the thief allegedly stole Pedroza’s wallet, debit card and $200 cash. Gaston EMS transported Pedroza to CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia where Pedroza was treated for a single stab wound to his lower stomach.

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Davidson County announces plans for $2M in grant funding

Davidson County The North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority distributed $10 million in grants on Thursday, with $2 million slated for use in Davidson County. Funds will be spread in various ways, including $500,000 to Westport Bay to rehabilitate the former Nokomis factory, which will help create 25 jobs over the next two years. The other three areas include businesses in Denton: Kaufman Trailers of North Carolina, Construction Implements Depot Inc., and Thermo Products. These grants are expected to create another 85 jobs.

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Haywood police deputy suspended over Facebook post

Haywood County A Haywood County deputy was suspended over his Facebook post about the Black Lives Matter movement. Deputy Andrew Allen Sutton, 23, responded to a post following the shooting of Dallas police officers, saying “I hope all you ignorant sheep who had so much to say yesterday are happy that so many of my brothers were killed last night in Dallas, only killed for wearing a uniform and a badge. If you support Black Lives Matter you make me sick and I have nothing for you,” he wrote. The Haywood County Sheriff ’s Office said readers should remember everyone, including police, are human and sometimes emotional in a difficult time, but that the officers are there to protect everyone regardless of race.

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Shelby Zaxby’s investigating reported mistreatment of police by employees

Cleveland County The Shelby Star reports that Cleveland County Sherrif ’s deputies went to social media Sunday afternoon saying they were served food unfit to eat and were taunted at a local Zaxby’s restaurant. Capt. Joel Shores posted on Facebook Monday that two of his deputies, who were on duty and in uniform at the restaurant, were taunted by food preparers from the back of the Zaxby’s and that their wings were served with the hottest sauce possible to the point where his food wasn’t “fit to eat.” Neal Glezen, the owner of the Shelby Zaxby’s, said the incident is being investigated and apologized to the officers.

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Jackson Farm expands into petting zoo

Henderson County Edneyville now has a new petting zoo and farm with more than 100 animals. Randy and Rosalie Jackson opened the park on their apple orchard when apple prices dropped and endangered the business that’s been in their family since the 1950s. In addition to farm staples, Jackson Farm and Petting Zoo has peacocks, alpacas, miniature horses, long-haired Scottish Highland cattle, a crane, a kinkajou and a rare albino raccoon. They plan to expand the zoo to include a small water park and a camel and zebra coming this fall.

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Troxler designates counties as sentinel landscape

Jones CountyN.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced Tuesday the federal designation of 33 counties as the North Carolina Sentinel Landscape. It is a voluntary programs of incentives for landowners and local governments to join the U.S. departments of Agriculture, Interior and Defense to strengthen farms, ranches and forests while conserving habitat and natural resources and protecting vital training grounds for military installations.

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YMCA Camp Watia receives $40K donation

Swain CountyThe YMCA of Western North Caro-lina announces a $40,000 donation to YMCA Camp Watia from the Brumit Restaurant Group (BRG) of Asheville. BRG held a month-long fundraiser at its 45 Arby’s franchises throughout North and South Carolina on behalf of YMCA Camp Watia, the Y’s new overnight summer camp located outside of Bryson City, N.C. The funds are the first installment in a five-year, $150,000 commitment to the camp from BRG as part of its support for the community.

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Timbermill Wind energy project nears public hearing phase

Perquimans & Chowan CountiesAnother windmill energy farm is nearing the public hearing phase in Eastern N.C. near Elizabeth City. The Timbermill Wind farm, which aims to provide energy and support the rural farm and timber communities of Perquimans and Chowan counties, is slated for a 17,000-acre span of land just a few miles from where the Amazon Wind Farm is already being constructed. Like the Amazon farm,

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nathan Baskerville (d-granville) dist. 32

dan Bishop (R-mecklenburg) dist. 104, running for n.c. senate

Rayne Brown (R-davidson) dist. 81

Rick catlin (R-new hanover) dist. 20

tricia ann cotham (d-mecklenburg) dist. 100

leo daughtry (R-Johnston) dist. 26

Ralph c. Johnson (d-guilford) dist. 58, deceased

James h. langdon Jr. (R-Johnston) dist. 28

george s. Robinson (R-caldwell) dist. 87, lost primary

Jacqueline michelle shaffer (R-mecklenburg) dist.105, Resigned

paul stam (R-Wake) dist. 37

paul tine (u-Beaufort) dist. 6

Ken Waddell (d-Bladen) dist. 46

Roger West (R-cherokee) dist. 120

chris Whitmire (R-henderson) dist. 113

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tom apodaca (R-Buncombe) dist. 48

stan Bingham (R-davidson) dist. 33

fletcher hartsell (R-cabarrus) dist. 36

Buck newton (R-Johnston) dist. 11, running for n.c. attorney general

Bob Rucho (R-mecklenburg) dist. 39

dan soucek (R-alleghany) dist. 45, resigned

Josh stein (d-Wake) dist. 16 running for n.c., attorney general

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Will vice presidential picks matter more than usual?

Despite incessant meDia chatter, vice presidential selections in a presidential election rarely matter. Of course, the rare exception is when the selection turns out to be a disaster. Bob shrum, a former advisor to George mcGovern during his 1972 race for the White house, called the selection of thomas eagleton “one of the greatest train wrecks of all time.” after 1972, the common rule of thumb has generally been “do no harm.”

eagleton, who was undoubtedly mistreated, resigned 18 days after his selection when it was revealed he had previously undergone electro-shock therapy for depression. the reverberations of that selection continue in politics. strict vetting and background checks of candidates are now the norm.

channeling the eagleton disaster, famed GOp political consultant Lee atwater was able to tar a candidate for congress who was treated for depression as a teenager. atwater claimed tom turnipseed had been “hooked up to jumper cables.” the line stuck and turnipseed lost the race.

this year, hillary clinton and Donald trump are not well liked by large swaths of the voters. their selections of sharp and well-respected candidates might help reset their campaigns and alleviate at least some fears voters may have about clinton’s corruption and trump’s bombastic nature.Donald Trump

a number of names have surfaced as possible running mates for trump. sources speaking to the Washington post have hinted that trump may prefer somebody outside Washington and the political establishment, specifically a former general.

names such as retired army generals michael t. Flynn and stanley mcchrystal have received considerable attention. the two potential running mates certainly possess a wealth of foreign policy and natural security experience. they have deftly attacked Democrats for their failure to take the radical islamic terrorist threat seriously. they could potentially alienate conservatives too, a group trump probably needs to shore up his support.

Flynn, a Democrat, at least for most of his life, clarified recent pro-abortion comments to say he believes laws protecting the unborn should be strengthened. it’s unclear whether he had a legitimate change of heart on the issue or whether he is trying to make himself more palatable to the ticket. mcchrystal has been publicly associated with the fight in supporting gay marriage, but some press reports say he has no interest in the office. Flynn, however, has signaled that he is open to continuing to serve the country.

a retired top military general or admiral could presumably offer greater clarity to how clinton’s email scandal threatens national security. But after the eisenhower presidency, top military brass have largely stayed away from presidential runs. George Wallace named former air Force general curtis Lemay in his independent bid for the Oval Office in 1968. Wallace soon felt Lemay was politically tone deaf and sent him to Vietnam on a fact-finding mission to get him away from the campaign.

Other possible candidates on the political side include Gov. mike pence of indiana, new Jersey governor chris christie, Florida governor rick scott, former house speaker newt Gingrich, and perhaps a dark horse candidate like congresswoman marsha Blackburn from tennessee.

many of the names mentioned are people who have grown close to trump during his campaign. trump, who if anything, understands show business, could surprise pundits and the political class alike with his selection. For trump, the most important dynamic will be showing good judgment in a selection that reinforces seriousness and compliments an anti-establishment transformative style campaign. it may be smart for trump to double down on an unconventional candidate given that conventional political models failed other candidates in the GOp field.Hillary Clinton

in all likelihood, barring a disastrous selection, clinton’s pick should matter less than trump’s. the former first lady and secretary of state will have the entire Democrat party at her disposal as well as a current and former president.

clinton may follow the conventional wisdom and pick a person from the upper south or rust Belt who adds geographic balance to the ticket. still, others have argued for her to check the identity politics box with a selection of a hispanic running mate.

a wise choice for clinton would be retired admiral mike mullen, who could help quell national security worries and her mixed record on foreign policy. Former new York mayor michael Bloomberg reportedly vetted mullen for the vice presidency while he contemplated his own independent run. mullen might take the edge off clinton’s long record of partisanship, adding seriousness to a campaign that many believe is lacking with trump’s candidacy.Conclusion

almost every american votes for the candidate at the top of the ticket, but in recent decades the role of the vice president has grown. it is no longer what John adams complained of when he called it “…the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

trump at least has an opportunity to show that not only does he have good judgment but that he can continue to unite republicans. For clinton, arguably one of the most corrupt politicians running for president in american history, she too has an opportunity to show she can cast a vision beyond a broken federal government that reaches past the entrenched establishment. the selection, in fact, may matter more given that there remain so many questions surrounding the two nominees.

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When people feel they have been treated unfairly and don’t trust the police, the president said, it makes the job harder for “those law enforcement officers who are doing a great job, and are doing the right thing.”

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If ‘all lives matter,’ show that you mean it

I have never been entirely comfortable with the name that the Black Lives Matter movement chose for itself.

I get their point. The group’s founders didn’t mean to imply that other people’s lives don’t matter. Their hashtag #BlackLivesMatter aims to protest how black lives didn’t seem to matter in a growing list of scandalous police killings.

But right-wingers easily pushed back, dismissing the movement with the retort, “all lives matter.”

I used the term “right-wingers,” not conservatives, because true conservatives deplore abuses of state power against individuals. It is the grumpy right-wingers who want those black protesters and their uppity liberal allies to shut up and go away.

To them, “all lives matter” isn’t a slogan or a movement. It is a dismissal. It is an attempt to end dialogue before it has begun.

But the tragic events of recent days should sober all of us americans up to the need to show that all lives really matter and take action to show it.

The first casualty was alton Sterling, who police in Baton rouge busted early Tuesday for selling bootleg CDs. a viral cell phone video shows police forcing him to the ground and restraining him. an officer further away from the camera shouts that the restrained man has a gun. The closer officer draws his weapon and shoots the man on the ground at close range.

Shocking. We might have had better quality video if both officers’ cameras had not fallen off in the scuffle, according to police. What a sorry coincidence.

The following evening, another black man, Philando Castile, 32, was fatally shot by the St. anthony Police Department in Minnesota, apparently during a traffic stop.

his girlfriend, Diamond reynolds, turned on the one tool she had available, her cell phone. Talking to the officer and repeatedly addressing him as “sir,” she feeds video and her agitated narration to her Facebook page. as her boyfriend bleeds to death in the driver’s seat and her 4-year-old daughter cries in the back seat, we can’t see the officer’s face but we can see his gun, still aimed at reynolds as she speaks.

Castile was a licensed gun carrier, according to Diamond, and alerted the officer in advance that he had a gun on his person as he reached for

his wallet. Where, I wonder, is the national rifle association when a gun owner like Castile has his concealed-carry rights violated?

The news turned even more tragic during nationwide protests on Thursday night. a peaceful Dallas protest march turned violent. Sniper fire killed five police officers and wounded seven more, police said. Two civilians also were wounded. Two suspects were taken into custody and a third was killed by police.

Ironically, earlier in the day, President Barack Obama told reporters in Warsaw that the shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota were “symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system.”

he cited statistics that showed that blacks and hispanic americans were far more likely to be arrested and shot by police and, once charged, to receive longer sentences for the same crimes.

When people feel they have been treated unfairly and don’t trust the police, the president said, it makes the job harder for “those law enforcement officers who are doing a great job, and are doing the right thing.”

So, when people say “black lives matter,” he said, “it doesn’t mean ‘blue lives’ don’t matter, it just means all lives matter.”

Indeed, President Obama could have mentioned a recent case that most major media overlooked. video shows Dylan noble, an unarmed 19-year-old Fresno teen, was fatally shot June 25 by police as he was lying on the ground after a traffic stop for speeding, according to the Los angeles Times.

release of the video led to a large protest vigil. Mourners, not too surprisingly, planted protest signs. appropriately, they read, “White Lives Matter.”

Indeed, they do. So do the lives of people of color — and police lives, too. The Dallas massacre of innocent police officers hurts everyone. So do misbehaving cops who make it harder for honest cops to do their jobs properly. Those of us who truly believe that “all lives matter” need to elect leaders who can put some action behind those words.

Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board.

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An arbitration court ruled Tuesday that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea and has breached the Philippines’ sovereign rights with its actions. China boycotted the proceedings.Statement of the foreign ministry of the government of communist China (excerpt)

…(r)egarding territorial issues and maritime delimitation disputes, China does not accept any means of third party dispute settlement

or any solution imposed on China. The Chinese government will continue to abide by international law and basic norms governing international relations as enshrined in the Charter of the United nations, including the principles of respecting state sovereignty and territorial integrity and peaceful settlement of disputes, and continue to work with states directly concerned to resolve the relevant disputes in the South China Sea through negotiations and consultations on the basis of respecting historical facts and in accordance with international law, so as to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.

Statement of Assistant Secretary John Kirby, United States Department of State (excerpt)

When joining the Law of the Sea Convention, parties agree to the Convention’s compulsory dispute settlement process to resolve disputes. In today’s decision and in its decision from October of last year, the Tribunal unanimously found that the Philippines was acting within its rights under the Convention in initiating this arbitration.

as provided in the Convention, the Tribunal’s decision is final and legally binding on both China and the Philippines. The United States expresses its hope and expectation that both parties will comply with their obligations.

In the aftermath of this important decision, we urge all claimants to avoid provocative statements or actions. This decision can and should serve as a new opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime disputes peacefully.

Protesters throw flowers while chanting anti-Chinese slogans during a rally by different activist groups over the South China Sea disputes, along a bay in metro Manila, Philippines July 12.

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IT nOW SeeMS extremely likely that by the middle of January 2017, three of the world’s six

largest economic powers will be led by women.Unless Donald Trump makes significant gains,

the latest reuters Ipsos poll still puts hillary Clinton ahead of her republican rival by 11 points in the race for the White house. German Chancellor angela Merkel already has a strong case for being described as europe’s most powerful woman, with an open argument as to whether she has more or less global influence than russia’s vladimir Putin.

and as the Brexit fallout settled, it swiftly became clear that Britain’s next prime minister would also be female.

The fight to replace Prime Minister David Cameron as leader of the Conservative party had narrowed to two women, until Monday. energy minister andrea Leadsom withdrew from the race, essentially handing Downing Street to home Secretary Theresa May.

With no other challengers, May will now replace Cameron when he steps down later this week.

On the Labour Party side, the favorite to succeed embattled opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is angela eagle. Despite widespread dissatisfaction within the party, she has been the only one willing to put her head above the parapet as a challenger — although with Corbyn clinging on it still promises to be a tough fight.

These women have emerged from the most brutally savage spell in British politics in living memory. none of them owe their positions to tokenism. an entire generation of British male politicians has watched their reputations crash and burn since the June 23 referendum, and the women were the ones left standing.

Former interior minister May could yet prove as divisive a prime minister as Margaret Thatcher. at the home Office, May took a controversially tough line on migration and has now sparked outrage even from diehard “leave” campaigners for a refusal to guarantee that eU citizens currently in Britain will be able to stay.

even her critics, though, concede May is a tough, dogged, no nonsense campaigner and negotiator. It’s not hard to imagine her at the diplomatic top table.

america is hardly alone in never having had a female head of state, however — neither has France, China or russia. (In the latter case, at least not since the reign of the czars.) Putin, France’s François hollande and China’s Xi Jinping may now find themselves balanced, however, by May, Merkel and (probably) Clinton.

In many respects, their achievements are striking given how underrepresented women are in national politics in all three countries. In Germany, only 37 percent of parliamentarians are female. In the UK, it is 29 percent; in the U.S. Congress it is as low as 19 percent. Only two countries, rwanda and Bolivia, are above gender parity in national level political representation, with the United States ranking 96th worldwide.

When it comes to having female heads of government or state, a string of smaller and developing countries have arguably led the way. Sri Lanka became the first country to have a woman prime minister with the election of Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1960. Golda Meir became Israel’s prime minister in 1969. argentina’s Isabel Peron became the world’s first woman president in 1974. There have been female heads of state or government in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Liberia, Turkey, Burundi, Central african republic, Mongolia, and haiti among others.

Women leaders should not be, and are not, defined solely by gender — and it is never the most interesting thing about them. nor do they like being pigeonholed that way. Back in 1995, Clinton famously told a United nations conference in Beijing that human rights were women’s rights and women’s rights were human rights.

But as with whether a country features any women or minorities on its currency, these examples do make a difference. Inevitably, it colors both the realistic aspirations of other women at all levels in the country as well as the way men think about politics, power and agency.

There are stark limits to this. Just as the election of Barack Obama did nothing to stop african-americans from being more likely to be arrested, jailed or shot by police, South asia’s high-profile female leaders did not stop the widespread harassment and assault of women in their countries.

Ironically, the number of female national leaders worldwide has actually been shrinking. according to the website “Women in Leadership,” there are currently 24 female world leaders. That’s the lowest in several years.

That may not matter. With Britain now set for its second female prime minister and Clinton still the favorite for november, 2016 could well be remembered as the most important “Year of the Woman” yet.

Peter Apps is Reuters global affairs columnist, writing on international affairs, globalization, conflict and other issues. He is founder and executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century; PS21, a non-national, non-partisan, non-ideological think tank in London, New York and Washington. Since 2016, he has been a member of the British Army Reserve and the UK Labour Party. The opinions expressed are his own.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. At-torney General Loretta Lynch faced lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday to defend the U.S. Justice Department’s decision not to bring charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Lynch and FBI Director James Comey have faced criticism from Re-publican lawmakers since Comey’s testimony last week recommended no criminal charges to be brought against Clinton because the FBI did not think there was strong enough ev-idence Clinton acted with bad intent.

However, two days later, Comey told a Congressional hearing any of his employees who handled emails the way Clinton did could be subject to dismissal or loss of security clearance.

Lynch was not responsive to ques-tions during Tuesday’s hearing when asked why her department decided not to file charges after the yearlong investigation, keeping her answers short and referring such questions to the FBI instead.

“Lynch has no intention of answer-ing ... even the most basic questions

about the legal elements the govern-ment is obligated to prove in a crimi-nal prosecution,” said House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Good-latte, a Republican, in a statement his staff released one hour into the hear-ing.

Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers on the committee took the opportuni-ty to ask Lynch about a separate range of issues, from tighter gun control in the wake of shootings of clubgoers and police in Orlando and Dallas, as well as ways to reduce fatal shootings of African-Americans by police amid ongoing protests over the issue.

New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler asked Lynch what she thought of the pro-gun rights adage that “the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” in light of the fact the Dallas police of-ficers shot last week were armed.

“The issue, as usual, doesn’t really lend itself well to aphorisms and short statements,” Lynch replied.

Republican lawmakers told Lynch the decision to not prosecute Clinton created the impression the Justice Department has a “double standard” when it comes to seasoned Democrat-ic politicians such as Clinton.

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Activists who traveled to disputed Scarborough Shoal and were blocked by the Chinese coast guard a few months ago celebrate July 12 at a restaurant in Manila, Philippines, after an arbitration court in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines in a dispute over the South China Sea.

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AMSTERDAM/BEIJING — An arbitration court ruled Tuesday that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea and has breached the Philippines’ sovereign rights, infuriating Beijing which dis-missed the case as a farce.

A defiant China, which boycotted the hearings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, vowed to ignore the ruling and said its armed forces would defend its sovereignty. China claims almost 90 percent of the energy-rich waters through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims. The ruling is signif-icant as it is the first time that a legal challenge has been brought in the dis-pute. It reflects the shifting balance of power in the 1.35 million square mile sea, where China has been expand-ing its presence by building artificial islands and dispatching patrol boats that keep Filipino fishing vessels away.

The court said China had inter-

fered with traditional Filipino fishing rights at Scarborough Shoal and had breached the Philippines’ sovereign rights by exploring for oil and gas near the Reed Bank. None of China’s reefs and holdings in the Spratly Islands entitled it to a 200-mile exclusive eco-nomic zone, it added.

China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said shortly before the ruling was announced that a Chinese civilian aircraft had successfully tested two new airports in the disputed Spratly Islands.

China’s Defence Ministry said a new guided missile destroyer was formally commissioned at a naval base on the southern island province of Hainan, which has responsibility for the South China Sea. “China will respond with fury, certainly in terms of rhetoric and possibly through more aggressive ac-tions at sea.”

The United States, which China has accused of fueling tensions and mili-tarizing the regions, urged parties to comply with the legally binding ruling and avoid provocations.

“The decision today by the Tribunal in the Philippines-China arbitration

is an important contribution to the shared goal of a peaceful resolution to disputes in the South China Sea,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.

In a statement shortly before the ruling, China’s Defence Ministry said its armed forces would “firmly safe-guard national sovereignty, security and maritime interests and rights, firmly uphold regional peace and stability, and deal with all kinds of threats and challenges”

The judges acknowledged China’s refusal to participate, but said they sought to take account of China’s po-sition from its statements and diplo-matic correspondence.

“Domestically, Beijing has painted itself into a corner and may find itself compelled to act in a potentially reck-less fashion, if only to demonstrate to its domestic audience that it is not ... an ‘empty cannon’ in the eyes of its own citizens,” said Andrew Mertha, a China specialist at Cornell University

Spreading fast on social media in the Philippines was the use of the term “Chexit” — the public’s desire for Chi-nese vessels to leave the waters.

Tribunal overwhelmingly rejects Beijing’s South China Sea claims

this technology had to make law enforce-ment more accountable to community members.”

However, McCrory stated that the law strikes a balance between transparency and fairness to all involved in release of footage.

“We want to expedite contrasted dis-closure through a fair process, which en-sures transparency for both the general public and our communities, and our public safety officials.” said McCrory. “It’s better to have rules and guidelines with all this technology than to have no rules and guidelines whatsoever.”

McCrory described the shortfalls of holding footage indefinitely as potentially damaging public trust, evidenced by the public backlash in Chicago when footage of a police shooting was held from the public for more than a year.

McCrory also stated that immediate public releases of footage often distort the full picture and unfairly endanger law en-forcement. He cited anti-police sentiment and recent attacks on officers in Dallas as a danger in indiscriminately releasing footage that may not tell the whole story.

Sgt. Gerald Takano, a 25-year veteran of the Raleigh Police Department, agrees with the approach.

“All that has to be taken in context,” said Takano. “And a camera doesn’t tell you what I saw and how I perceived what I saw, and how I’m decision making. ... A camera doesn’t really tell everything. It gives you pictures so you can say, ‘Hey, what were you thinking? What did you see here?’”

Takano believes body-worn cameras in

general will benefit police officers as well as the public.

“Technology-wise, it’s been our experi-ence that with our in-car cameras, when we’ve had complaints, the vast majori-ty of complaints were proven to be false or unfounded by the use of cameras and audio that we have,” said Takano. “So by that experience, the body cameras would also now capture other aspects other than vehicle stops, there’s no reason to believe that it would not do that same thing.”

Takano explained that implementing rules regarding footage is fiscally respon-sible too, noting most of the taxpayer costs associated with the use of cameras come from the terabytes of storage necessary to hold footage indefinitely for public access.

McCrory said he was committed to both transparency for the public and fair-ness to the police.

“We’re gonna walk that fine line and do the right thing,” said McCrory.

The law also authorizes local authori-ties to establish needle exchange programs in an effort to not only reduce spreading of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, but also to protect police and first responders who regularly encounter used needles in the course of frisking suspects.

“Other states who have operated this program have seen HIV transmission among injection drug users drop 80 percent,” said McCrory of the needle ex-change program. “The facts speak for themselves.”

Similar programs have also drastically reduced the spread of hepatitis C and nee-dle injuries to police officers.

More bills still await McCrory’s signa-ture, including the 2016 appropriations bill and technical fixes to H.B. 2.

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understand each other. ... I understand. I understand how Americans are feeling. But I’m here to say: Dallas, we must reject this despair. We are not as divided as we seem.”

Dallas, like Raleigh, has been one of the nation’s examples of effective community policing, making Thursday’s shootings even more alarming.

“The risks are a little higher when you have a little more agitation,” Sgt. Gerald Takano, who was at Cafe Carolina & Bak-ery in Cameron Village Tuesday as part of the Raleigh Police Department’s commu-nity outreach program, said. “What’s scary for me is being able to maintain and grow the relationship we have had in the past and keep it going. There’s no resting on that there.”

Raleigh had community protests after 24-year-old Akiel Denkins was shot and killed Feb. 29 by a Raleigh police officer fol-lowing a pursuit and struggle. A state inves-tigation found the officer, D.C. Twiddy, acted in self-defense and did not charge him with a crime.

Around Baton Rouge, La., where Alton Sterling, 37, was killed by a police officer on July 5, and Falcon Heights, Minn., where 32-year-old Philander Castile was killed by police during a traffic stop, protesters and police have clashed, leading to hundreds of arrests.

“There’s always a better way to do things and we always have to retrain and relearn and constantly update what we can do better and what we must do better,” North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said of the two shootings.

Takano, a 25-year veteran of the Raleigh police, said the solid relationship between

the community and police helped stave off some of the conflict seen in other cities.

“We’ve had protests in Raleigh, which is fine, but they’re not protesting the Raleigh Police Department,” Takano said. “They’re protesting some of the wrongs they see go-ing on [nationally], which there are some wrongs going on. But it’s that relationship that makes everything there. … We didn’t have the riots, the damages, the assaults, the insults other communities have, and that’s because we have a very high degree of a community relationship that’s positive for the most part.”

Takano said the key to having two-way respect between the community and police is about not just having the relationship but actively working to maintain it.

“There are areas where there is a strained relationship and there is a lack of under-standing, both from a police understanding how the public perceives and how the public perceives the police officer and what they’re doing,” Takano said of places where protests have turned violent. “There is a divide. And that’s the main thing that police communi-cations is: eliminating that divide so there is no uncertainty.”

McCrory said that’s what made the at-tack on police in Dallas that much more difficult.

“It’s very tough on a community and es-pecially the fraternity of police officers when you have something like that,” McCrory said. “Especially when police officers are be-ing attacked, targeted, and even while they are protecting those that are protesting the police. That is what is so unique about the law enforcement profession. The officers in Dallas were actually protecting the protest-ers who were protesting the police. That’s called public service.”

@stevekerr: Congrats to Tim Duncan. Probably a top 5 all time player and undoubtedly a top 5 all time teammate. Wow, what a career.

@tomfornelli: Russell Wilson is the Most Nickleodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Quarterback of all time.

@russbengston: Can you even afford to live in the Bay Area on a veteran’s minimum? David West gonna share a studio in Oakland with three roommates.

Tim Duncan, an all-time great, retires

MLBJeter marries longtime beau DavisThe former New York Yankees captain and long-time baseball legend is no longer on the market, marrying his girlfriend Hannah Davis, according to multiple reports.

Soccer christiano ronaldo injuredPortugal striker suffered injury during Euro final against France, taken off the field while crying. Portugal overcame the loss of its star and won 1-0 anyway.

MLB Madison Bumgarner downs Diamondbacks with 14 K’sThe Hickory, N.C., native and Giants pitcher lit up the Diamondbacks on Sunday night, not allowing a hit through seven innings and striking out 14 Arizona batters.

NHL Hurricanes, rask agree to six-year dealThe Carolina Hurricanes took care of their most pressing remaining offseason business Tuesday, signing center Victor Rask to a six-year, $24 million contract. He will earn $4 million each season, the same as his annual salary cap hit.

Rask, who turned 23 in March, had 21 goals and 27 assists last season and finished tied for second on the team in scoring with Jordan Staal. Rask spent much of the season centering a line with Jeff Skinner, who had a bounce-back season on the Swedish center’s wing by scoring 28 goals to lead the Hurricanes.

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1. Andy Murray topples Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 for second Wimbledon victory

2. Serena Williams wins Wimbledon over Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3 for 22nd Grand Slam

3. Portugal tops France 1-0 in extra time for Euro 2016 victory

4. Spurs and Wake Forest basketball great Tim Duncan announces retirement

5. Miami Marlins slugger and former Greensboro Grasshoppers outfielder Giancarlo Stanton wins Home Run Derby

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AFTER 19 brilliant professional seasons, San Antonio Spurs big man Tim Duncan, who played collegiately

at Wake Forest, hung up his sneakers, announcing his retirement Monday morning in a way that was perfectly suited for him.

The news broke just as quietly as Tim Duncan would have said it himself. After 19 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs and five NBA championships, the Big Fundamental announced he was retiring. No goodbye tour. No fanfare. No yearlong tour culminated with a 1966 Pontiac with Snoop Dogg driving floated onto the court at halftime.

No, this was quintessential Timmy D: a quiet fade to black.Few NBA player exemplified the “speak softly, and carry

a big stick” ideology like Duncan, a one-of-a-kind superstar whose career accomplishments were only outshone by the way he carried himself on and off the court.

He was focused, driven and team-oriented. And my word, his achievements were mind-bending.

Duncan was a 15-time All-Star and played in 1,392 career games (No. 7 on the all-time list). He scored 26,496 points (No. 14), recorded 15,091 rebounds (No. 6) and blocked 3,020 shots (No. 5).

His 251 playoff games are second only to Derek Fisher. Kobe Bryant is the only player to spend more with one team (20 seasons). over the course of his run in San Antonio, the Spurs never missed the playoffs and won 50 or more games in all but one season: the lockout shortened season of 1998-99, when they went on to win the first championship in franchise history.

During his 19 professional seasons, Duncan was named to the All-NBA team 15 times, including 10 first-team selec-tions.

His game was ageless, too. Duncan was All-NBA third team as recently as one year ago, when he was also named all-defensive team for the 15th time in his career. His player efficiency rating (PER) of 24.2 ranks No. 13 on the all-time list.

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Serena williams (uSa) poses with her trophy after her match against angelique Kerber (GeR) at the trophy presentation on day 13 of the 2016 The championships wimbledon.

SERENA WilliAMS won her seventh Wimbledon and

record-tying 22nd Grand Slam singles title on Saturday, beating Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3.

The 34-year-old American and top seed matched Steffi Graf’s open Era for majors — on her fourth try — with the victo-ry in the Wimbledon final on Centre Court at the All England Club in london. Margaret Court holds the all-time record with 24 Grand Slam titles. The open Era began in 1968.

After the win, Williams raised two fingers on each hand to show off the magic number.

“Yeah, it’s been incredibly dif-ficult not to think about it. i had a couple of tries this year,” Williams said during the trophy ceremony on matching Graf’s record. “But it

makes the victory even sweeter to know how hard i worked for it.

“i have, yeah, definitely had some sleepless nights, if i’m just honest, with a lot of stuff. Coming so close. Feeling it, not quite able to get there.”

Venus Williams, Serena’s older sister and doubles partner, was watching in her guest box.

“This court definitely feels like home, i have a match later today in the doubles [final on Centre Court], so i’ll be back out,” Sere-na Williams told the BBC. “i don’t know what else to say, i’m so ex-cited.”

Williams hit 13 aces and won 38 of 43 points when the world No. 1 put a first serve in.

“Angelique, i love playing her, she brings out great tennis in me and off court she’s a wonderful

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07.13.16NS J beyond the box score

NBA

1,392Games played by Tim Duncan in his illustrious NBA career. Of that number, a ridiculous 1,389 were all starts by Duncan, an all-time great.

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4Number of billion of dollars UFC sold to WME/IMG, president Dana White announced. The company was bought in 2001 for just $2 million.

Pokemon Go: College football programs are promoting ticket sales with characters in stadiums and the Durham Bulls held a Pokemon event that let fans on field to “catch them all.”

Ben Simmons: No. 1 draft pick drew rave reviews for his play on the Philadelphia 76ers Las Vegas Summer League team.

Johnny Cueto: Giants pitcher held the honor of being the National League starter for the 2016 MLB All-Star Game in San Diego.

Russell Westbrook: Oklahoma City Thunder guard played 1-on-1 basketball against an eighth-grader, who buried a half-court shot against Westbrook.

Max Kellerman: The boxing announcer and former host of ESPN’s SportsNation joins “First Take” show alongside Stephen A. Smith, replacing Skip Bayless.

New England Patriots: An Emory University study of NFL fans determined the Patriots fans passed Cowboys fans for the best fans in the NFL. Raiders and Jaguars were ranked last.

Jordan Spieth: Two-time major winner became the latest golfer to bow out of the Olympics, citing health concerns and calling it the hardest decision of his young career.

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Sunday’s Euro 2016 Final was an up-and-down affair for Portugal striker Christiano Rinaldo. The superstar soccer player suffered a game-ending injury in the first half against France and was forced to watch his teammates go scoreless until an extra time goal gave Portugal a stunning 1-0 victory over the host French team.

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Warriors forward Draymond Green was arrested for assault over the weekend after allegedly slapping/striking a nightclub patron who mocked the NBA star (presumably over the loss in the Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers). No word on how this will affect Green for 2016 or for the 2016 Olympics.

Gabby Douglas earned a spot on the U.S. gymnastics team over the weekend, booking a return to the Olympics. A good week got even better on Monday when Mattel released a Barbie in her honor as part of its “Shero” collection, focusing on female heroes who inspired girls by breaking boundaries.

Former Greensboro Grasshoppers product (then Mike Stanton) turned Miami Marlins superstar slugger (now Giancarlos Stanton) dominated the 2016 Home Run Derby on Monday night, hitting a total of 61 home runs to beat defending champion Todd Frazier in the finals of the bracket contest.

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500+Number of drug tests Ricky Williams, Former Dolphins and Saints running back, claimed to have done during his NFL career.



A look at the 2016 Open ChampionshipCompiled By NSJ Staff | Headshots from USA Today Sports images

THE FAVORITES

Jason DayBest Open Finish:T-4, 2015Odds: 8-1

The British Open betting favorite and world No. 1 has played spectacular golf this season, looks healthy and has three top-10 finishes in his last four events. Everything is going well for the Austral-ian, but if there’s a reason to fade Day at Royal Troon it’s been his Sunday perfor-mance. Day’s lowest final round score in the last two months is a 71, and his 72 on Sunday at the WGC Bridgestone was his highest score of the tournament. Given his recent performances, a bet on Day is a bet he’ll have a comfortable lead heading into the final round of play.

Dustin JohnsonBest Open Finish:T-2, 2011Odds: 9-1

The reigning U.S. Open champion shook the monkey off his back for the first major of his career, winning in thrilling fashion at Oakmont. DJ is as talented as any golf-er on tour and when he gets hot he gets white hot — it wouldn’t be in the least bit surprising to see him reel off a couple of majors in quick fashion. Johnson has five top-five finishes in majors in his last seven starts, but hasn’t secured a top-10 finish at a British Open since 2012. The Royal Troon motto — “as much by skill as by strength” — doesn’t necessarily fit his style. But bet against someone who was 10-under through two rounds last year at your own risk.

Rory McIlroyBest Open Finish: 1st, 2014Odds: 10-1

McIlroy has been hit-and-miss through-out 2016 but might have the best game for winning what could a messy weekend in Scotland. Dustin Johnson’s arrival as one of the world’s best has made the “Big 3” become the “Big 4,” and all the excite-ment about DJ has made it easy to forget that McIlroy has as many major champi-onship victories as the other three golfers combined, including a 2014 Open Cham-pionship victory at Royal Liverpool. McIlroy has put together individually great rounds this season, but outside of a home-court advantage Irish Open win we’re still waiting on the kind of 72-hole greatness we’ve seen in the past.

Jordan SpiethBest Open Finish:T-4, 2015Odds: 10-1

A promising major season for Spieth has since taken a rough turn. Spieth was on cruise crontrol for a second Masters vic-tory before collapsing, and he was mostly a non-factor at the U.S. Open, finishing T-37. Spieth is a borderline sleeper be-cause of the hype surrounding other top golfers in the world, but his accuracy and putting make him a dangerous potential contender. Being looked over will only energize the dangerous ball striker. His fourth-place finish — and just one stroke back — in the 2015 Open Championship at St. Andrews was not that long ago af-ter all. Spieth trailed by one stroke en-tering Sunday and narrowly missed the three-man playoff.

THE SLEEPERS

Sergio GarciaBest Open Finish: 2nd/T-2, 2007/2014Odds: 25-1

The 2016 U.S. Open was the latest close call in Garcia’s major career, after the (now) elderly Spaniard fell short of his first major again. The Open Champion-ship features Garcia’s most narrow losses of all his major attempts, with a whop-ping nine different top-10 finishes for Garcia since 2000. Garcia’s only missed the cut at the Open Championship twice in that stretch, although it’s worth not-ing he did miss in 2004, the last time the major was played at Royal Troon. Despite that, few golfers are as consistently suc-cessful as Sergio in the overseas major.

Louis OosthuizenBest Open Finish: 1st, 2010Odds: 40-1

Oosthuizen finished in the top 30 in each of his last seven major championship starts, including his T-2 finish last year at the Old Course at St. Andrews, the site of his 2010 victory. The fact that he’s a long shot with the oddsmakers is prob-ably a sign of the star-studded field and not Oosty’s chances to contend, because all signs point to continued consistency from the former champion on this stage. The only concern for the South African? The only two times he’s finished in the top-10 of the Open Championship, the major has been hosted at St. Andrews. Oosty missed the cut at Royal Troon in 2004, his first time playing in the British.

Shane LowryBest Open Finish: T-9, 2014Odds: 40-1

The lost storyline from Oakmont, Low-ry was the one who fell apart during Johnson’s charge in the face of an arcane rules issue from the USGA. Lowry does have a top-10 at the Open Champion-ship, however, finishing tied for ninth at Royal Liverpool in 2014. He’ll get a little public pressure early in this year’s major, getting paired with Spieth in the open-ing round. Lowry will get downgraded because of his Sunday at the U.S. Open, but he’s got the game capable of contend-ing at Royal Troon. Lowry bounced back nicely from Oakmont with a T-36 finish at the Bridgestone, but a 6-over effort at the Scottish Open is concerning.

Zach JohnsonBest Open Finish: 1st, 2015Odds: 50-1

The defending champion at this ma-jor, Johnson, 40, doesn’t get grouped in with the younger stars often. And he isn’t getting much respect from the betting houses either. But he jumped both Day and Spieth on the leaderboard with a final round 66 last year before winning the Claret Jug in a playoff against Mark Leishman and Oosthuizen. He won’t overpower a golf course with his drive, but Royal Troon might need more play-making than power, which sets Johnson up well in his title defense. Johnson is an accurate driver and maybe the best short-wedge player on the whole tour, which sets up well for contending for the Open Championship.

The 145th Open Championship begins Thursday on the Old Course at Royal Troon. The links golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, has hosted The Open Championship eight times, last in 2004. Royal Troon’s unique layout along the coast includes the 601-yard par-5 “Turnberry” sixth hole followed by “Postage Stamp,” the 123-yard par-3 eighth hole. Five of the eight Open Championship winners are one-time major winners, but the other three have 19 majors between them. With that in mind, the North State Journal has your guide for picking the right favorites and sleepers in the 2016 field.

Top: A fisheye view of the first hole during a practice round for the 145th Open Championship golf tournament at Royal Troon Golf Club - Old Course.

Bottom: A young piper performs at an event during a practice round for the 145th Open Championship golf tournament at Royal Troon Golf Club - Old Course.

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RALEIGH — Saturday was the fun part of the Carolina Hurricanes’ four-

day prospect development camp, with a day of bounce houses, an equipment sale, autograph sessions and an end-of-the-week scrimmage scheduled to close things out.

Ahead of the scrimmage, there was one final bit of business to complete before 4,000-plus fans at PNC Arena got to see 27 Hurricanes prospects and camp in-vitees hit the ice for some real hockey after a week of testing, conditioning and teach-ing.

Carolina general manager Ron Fran-cis ended his “State of the Canes” Q&A forum with the announcement that both the team’s 2016 first-round picks, Jake Bean and Julien Gauthier, agreed to their entry-level contracts and would be signing them in front of the crowd.

Bean, the 13th overall pick, and Gauth-ier, the 21st overall pick, signed identical three-year contracts that will pay them $832,500 in the NHL or $70,000 in the minors. Each received a $277,500 signing bonus.

“It was a tough week, so it’s kind of good to end it on a fun note,” Bean said of the scrimmage. ”[The contract’s] been in the works, and it’s not something that just pops up and happens. So both sides gotta agree on certain stuff, so I was really hap-py when we came to an agreement.”

Gauthier — who scored the scrim-mage’s first goal by receiving a pass from Bean, storming down the left wing and ripping a shot off the post and in past goal-ie Jeremy Helvig — agreed the four-day camp was a lot of work, but the payoff was worth it.

“I didn’t think it was going to be that fast, but I’m happy,” Gauthier said. “It’s an honor just to sign a contract. It’s a big hon-or and I will not take that for granted. I’ll still work hard and work even harder.”

Coach Bill Peters was pleased to have both under contract before leaving Ra-leigh.

“I heard we might do that, and I think it’s a good decision and I’m excited to have those guys in the fold and fully commit-ted,” Peters said. “They know where they’re going to play. Just two real good assets, again, moving forward.”

Peters said both will get a chance to make an impression and earn an NHL job in the fall. Last year, it was Noah Hanifin signing his entry-level deal ahead of the scrimmage, and he earned a job right out of camp and played the season in Raleigh.

“They should have the mindset that they’re coming here to camp trying to

make the team,” he said. “Then what we’ll do is we’ll evaluate it as it goes, and then we’ll do the right thing for them in their long-term career and we’ll do the right thing for us to make sure that we’re com-petitive when we get out of the gate in the regular season.”

Neither Team Red, led by Hurri-canes assistant coach Steve Smith and video coach Chris Huffine, nor Team White, guided by assistant coach Rod Brind’Amour and director of defensemen development Glen Wesley, scored in the scrimmage’s four-on-four first period, which was highlighted by goalie Callum Booth’s lunging glove save.

Things started to open up in the second period when the format switched to three-on-three. Gauthier’s ice breaker got things going, but Team White’s Spencer Small-man — a fellow QMJHL forward who was taken by Carolina in the fifth round last year — tied it by knocking in a rebound on an Andrew Poturalski chance that he set up.

“We have a high skill level out there, and to be able to snap the puck and around and move into spaces and move the puck quick and make nice plays, it’s really fun,” Smallman said.

Haydn Fleury, a first-rounder in 2014, put Team Red back ahead. Matt Filipe, Carolina’s first of two third-round picks last month, sprung Fleury for the chance, with the 6’3, 221-pound defenseman deking to his backhand and beating Booth for a 2-1 Red lead.

Team White defenseman Roland McKeown closed out the regulation scor-ing by getting the puck past goalie Alex Nedeljkovic, tying the score at 2-2. It was something McKeown and his Kingston teammates couldn’t do in the OHL play-offs when Nedeljkovic and the Niagara IceDogs swept the Frontenacs in four games.

“I was joking with Glen Wesley on the bench, ‘Why didn’t that happen in the playoffs?’” McKeown said.

The final segment was a 10-player shootout, with Team White — led by Ra-leigh-born camp invitee Josh Wilkins’ spin-o-rama goal — converting more at-tempts and finishing the scrimmage with a 6-3 win.

Overall, McKeown was just happy to back on the ice with a chance to kickstart his pro career.

“Over the summer you miss hockey, you miss that competitive atmosphere, es-pecially in months like June and July,” he said. “So it’s very nice to get back out here in a camp and be competitive. And honest-ly you’re trying to impress, that’s no secret. No one in here is at the pro level yet, and that’s where we’re all trying to get to.”

By Cory LavaletteNorth State Journal

Carolina HurricanesHurricanes’ Summerfest closes

with fans, first-round signings

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Hurricanes General Manager Ron Francis, left, offers defenseman Jake Bean, right, a contract with the Hurricanes during the team’s annual Summerfest at PNC Arena on Saturday in Raleigh.

Alex Stickley, of Raleigh, arranges hockey sticks during the equipment sale at the Hurricanes annual Summerfest at PNC Arena. The white team takes the ice during the Hurricanes prospects scrimmage at the team’s annual Summerfest at PNC Arena.

Callum Booth (70) makes a save during the Hurricanes prospects scrimmage at the team’s annual Summerfest.

Left: Ellie Smith, of Greensboro, holds her hat covered in Hurricanes players’ signatures.

Center: Matthew Gray, 3, of Durham, tries on gloves during the equipment sale.

Right: Hockey sticks that were used by Hurricanes center Jay McClement (18) are for sale during the Hurricanes annual Summerfest.



It should be no surprise the Washington Nationals’ rotation,

led by Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer, helped carry the team to first place in the National League East standings heading into the All-Star break.

And there is no reason to be-lieve the first-place Nationals (54-46), six games ahead of the New York Mets, won’t rely on the two standout right-handers to try and capture a third division in the past five years.

But the Nationals have not been without their challenges with the rotation in the first half. their offense has improved, with contact-hitting Daniel Murphy in essence replacing strikeout-happy Ian Desmond in a lineup that has six players with at least 10 homers.

If the Nationals are going to pull away from the Mets and Mi-ami Marlins in the second half, it will most likely be starting pitch-ing that takes them there. Wash-ington is second in wins in the National League to the San Fran-cisco Giants.

tanner Roark (3.01 ERA) has been consistent in the first half as a starter after he spent most of last year in the bullpen. With the All-Star break approaching he was used out of the bullpen for 2 1/3 innings of hitless ball Sunday against the Mets in a 3-2 win.

Veteran Gio Gonzalez went seven starts in a row without a win at one point, but the Nation-alsmay be willing to give some leeway to their only lefty starter in the second half.

Strasburg, who signed a con-tract extension in May, won his first 10 decisions then was on the disabled list from June 26 to July 3 with an upper back strain.

When he came off the DL it was another starter, Joe Ross, who went on the DL with right shoulder inflammation. Ross made his big league debut in June 2015 after he was called up from Double-A Harrisburg.

“We just got our rotation back

baltimore orioles

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THE Baltimore Orioles were one of the bigger surprises in baseball

during the first half of the season. Many experts and pundits picked them to finish in the lower part of the American League East -- some even said the Orioles would end up last.

But the team’s power hitting, solid defense and good bullpen carried the day, and the Orioles ended the first half with a 51-36 record and in first place in the division. they lead both toronto and Boston by two games heading into the All-Star break.

Unless the team’s starting rotation can perform more consistently in the second half, the Orioles could struggle to stay there. Still, there’s a long way to go, something manager Buck Showal-ter and his team certainly realize.

“It doesn’t matter at all [now], right?,” Showalter said. “Just make our guys and fans be able to look at the pa-per or the internet a little more fondly. I might even look at it. Obviously it’s the end game we’re after but reality, it comes back to you that if the season were to end today three teams from the American League East are in.”

the team knew starting pitching might be an issue heading into the sea-son, and that’s exactly what happened. Chris tillman (12-2) turned in a solid first half, and the other starters were good at times, but the Orioles simply have not gotten enough production from this group.

Still, they’re optimistic about the second half and winning two of three versus the Angels to keep the division lead when ending the first half.

“I think there are always things that you can work on, but I like the position that we’re in right now,” first baseman Chris Davis said. “Obviously, finishing off the first half with two wins at home is good to build some momentum going

Orioles surprise as AL East headliner at break

atlanta braves

AtLANtA BRAVES fans are likely to once again pack turner Field for the final two

months of the season.But they’ll likely be coming to get one final

glance at the ballpark, which has served as home for since 1997, before moving off to the new Sun trust Park in the northwest suburbs.

they certainly won’t be coming to see the team.

the Braves enter the break in last place in the National League East (31-58), 16 1/2 games be-hind the division-leading Washington Nation-als. they ended the first half on a positive note, winning three of four in Chicago — one in a makeup game against the Cubs and two of three against the White Sox.

“Everybody feels comfortable and sometimes when you’re playing this well, you don’t want the All-Star break to come,” outfielder Jeff Fran-coeur said. “But I think everybody is looking for-ward to getting some time off.”

Atlanta is the worst offensive team in the Na-tional League, ranking 15th in batting average (.247) and home runs. the Braves have only 55 homers, the fewest in the major leagues, but hit eight in winning two of three against the White Sox.

the lack of support has hindered the pitch-ing, which ranks in the middle of the pack with a 4.32 ERA. But the trio of Julio teheran, Matt Wisler and Mike Foltynewicz has shown to have the makings of a sold long-term rotation.

Depending how aggressively the Braves try to move their veteran players in exchange for pros-pects, the club has at least given itself a chance to avoid a 100-loss season. that hasn’t happened to Atlanta since it went 54-106 in 1988.

the Braves have a favorable schedule to start the second half; their first 16 games are against teams with losing records — seven with Colora-do, three against Cincinnati, two against Min-nesota and three against Philadelphia.

“Anytime you can get away from the field for a few days on a high note, you’re going to take it,” second baseman Jace Peterson said. “Enjoy a few days and come back ready to go.”

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into the second half of the season.”the bullpen will be a huge help in

the second half, especially if set-up man Darren O’Day (right hamstring strain) can return from the injury that’s sidelined him since June 3.

O’Day made the All-Star Game last year, and Brad Brach stepped into that role when he went on the DL and earned a spot this year. Brach is 6-1 with an 0.91 ERA in 40 games and having both of them in front of All-Star closer Zach Britton (27 saves in 27 chances) makes Baltimore tough to beat.

the power also should help as the Orioles lead the majors with 137 hom-ers. All-Star Mark trumbo tops the majors with 28 homers, and has got-ten help from Chris Davis (22), Manny

Machado (19, also an All-Star), Adam Jones (17) plus Jonathan Schoop (14) as the Orioles could wind up with five players hitting at least 20 homers.

But all of those positives could fall down if the starting pitching doesn’t improve. the starting rotation came into Sunday’s game with a 5.21 ERA, and that needs to change.

If the Orioles keep up their offense, good starting could help them pull away from the division.

“We’ve got to throw the ball a little better,” tillman said. “Get the ball to the bullpen with a lead. those guys are good, real good. As long as you set them up the right way, you’ll come out on top most times, I think. We’ve just got to keep playing good baseball.”

Baltimore Orioles designated hitter Mark Trumbo (45) celebrates with first second baseman Jonathan Schoop (6) after his second inning home run off Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Nick Tropeano (not pictured) at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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Nats holding down NL East midway

and Joe went down. We will see how it works in the second half,” said Dusty Baker, the Nationals first-year manager.

Prized rookie Lucas Giolito, also up from Harrisburg, made his big-league debut June 28 as he took Strasburg’s turn in the rota-tion. Giolito threw four scoreless innings, then filled in for Ross on thursday in New York against the Mets, but was hit hard in his sec-ond outing as he couldn’t get out of the fourth and was sent back to triple-A Syracuse on Friday.

Strasburg was one of four Na-tionals to make the original All-Star team, along with right fielder Bryce Harper, second baseman Daniel Murphy and catcher Wil-son Ramos.

Strasburg, a native of San Die-go, was replaced on the active roster on Friday by teammate Scherzer. Strasburg can take part in pre-game activities but won’t pitch in the Midsummer Classic.

“He is elated to be part of the All-Star game,” Baker said of Scherzer. “He is a good represent-ative.”

Strasburg (2.62 ERA) is the first National League pitcher to win at least his first 12 decisions in a season since 1912 after he al-lowed just two hits and one run in seven innings in a 3-1 win on Fri-day over the Mets.

“Boy we needed that,” Baker said.

Scherzer also allowed just one run seven innings in a 6-1 win Saturday over the Mets. Strasburg now hopes to pitch the first game after the break for the Nationals, which is at home Friday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

“How you set up your rotation for the second half is equally im-portant to us,” said Baker, who could have Scherzer ready to pitch against the Pirates even he does throw in the All-Star game.

Baker has taken the San Fran-

cisco Giants, Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds to the playoffs.

Now in his 21st year as a man-ager he will try to do the same with the Nationals, who have nev-er won a postseason series. Wash-ington lost in the playoffs in 2012 and 2014 after winning the East each time.

the Nationals have led the Na-tional League in homers for much of the first half and set a sea-son-high with six homers at home July 3 as the summer humidity settled into the nation’s capital.

“It is a welcome place to play. I have seen a tale of two stadi-ums [at Nationals Park]. When it is cold [the ball] doesn’t travel. When it is hot [the ball] travels like heck,” Baker said.

One interesting second-half development could be how the Nationals use infielder/outfielder trea turner, one of the top posi-tion prospects in the game. He was called up last August and saw

action at short — his normal posi-tion — and second base down the stretch.

turner recently began playing center fielder at triple-A Syracuse before he was called up to the Na-tionals on Friday. Baker may be hesitant to use him in center dur-ing a pennant race, though turner started at second base on Sun-day while Murphy started at first against the Mets.

“trea has done a nice job in his brief time in center field,” ac-cording to Mark Scialabba, the director of player development for the Nationals. “Gary thurman, our outfield and baserunning co-ordinator, worked with trea in Syracuse to ensure he is learning the basic fundamentals of playing center field. He’s a gifted athlete with great aptitude so he made adjustments naturally and quick-ly. He’s able to range well in both directions and close on balls by utilizing his elite speed.”

Washington Nationals left fielder Jayson Werth (28) and second baseman Daniel Murphy (20) celebrate scoring during the first inning against the New York Mets at Citi Field.

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THE Governor’s Cup rolled right along with the Hatteras Grand Slam finishing over the

weekend. And Reel Easy made things look, well, real easy by winning both the Level I and II billfish categories after earning 900 points in the three-day tournament.

After experiencing weather issues in 2015 with the tournament being held outside, the Hatteras Grand Slam was moved to the Hatteras Marlin Club. Tournament director Holli Beth Peele said the re-sponse from return anglers in the tournament made the move to the Hatteras Marlin Club worth it.

“The tournament itself went extremely well,” Peele said. “With it being hosted at the Hatteras Marlin Club, which was the first year we’ve done that, the feedback from the participants was great. After having weather issues last year, we were very happy with the results.”

Reel Easy came out the big winner with a total haul of $7,947.50 in prize money, but several other boats came out with a big payout. Stream Weav-er and Qualifier finished second and third in the billfish categories for a total sum of $4,768.50 and $3,179, respectively.

In the meatfish divisions, the Bite Me crew won with a 38.6-pound dolphin while Builder’s Choice took home the Wahoo category with a 32.2-pound haul. Both boats won a $2,720 payout for their ef-forts, but the Grand Slam jackpot of $30,260 went unpaid due to no boat meeting the minimum re-quirements.

Only 17 boats showed up to the docks for the tour-nament, but it was still considered a huge success as a Governor’s Cup event.

“Obviously we were shooting for more boats,” Peele said. “But what we ended up with was a lot of happy anglers who were excited to take part in an-other Governor’s Cup tournament in Hatteras.”

Peele believes the low boat count for the tour-nament is a direct correlation with the inlet issues. Though the dredging project was completed earlier this year and improvements have been touted by the Dare County Oregon Inlet and Waterways Commis-sion, there are still problems afoot for offshore boats.

“It’s causing issues not just for the tournaments, but for charter boats as well,” Peele said. “We still have tunnel issues with it not being properly dredged. We had some boats going out of the Oregon Inlet rather than our own inlet, which is a hassle for them.

“It’s been an ongoing issue for a few years now. They’re trying to rectify it, but it’s hurting us.”

Despite the inlet problems, the HGS once again made an impact in the community with portions of the proceeds going back to local foundations. Both the Dare County Boat Builders Foundation for Ed-ucation scholarship and the Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation received donations from the tourna-ment.

While there are still high hopes for a larger turn-out in the years to come with improving conditions, Peele is hopeful that more changes will come to raise interest in the tournament.

“The only thing that would make us more success-ful is something that’s completely out of my control,” Peele said. “Every single person at the tournament told me they loved how it’s run. Now we just need to get the tunnel fixed and I think we’ll see a spike in the success of this tournament.”

By R. Cory SmithNorth State Journal

Hatteras Grand Slam successful despite inlet issues

ONE month ago, both Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney were

sitting comfortably as rookies at the Sprint Cup level. Elliott was riding high with six straight top-10 finishes and Blaney was easily inside the Chase Grid.

Saturday night at Kentucky didn’t flip things completely for the young drivers, but it certainly continued a trend of bad luck.

Blaney and Elliott were bunched up in a three-wide sit-uation heading into a turn when the No. 21 car lost control and slid up into wall, collecting the No. 24 in its wake. Both drivers headed straight to the garage for repairs before returning to the race.

“It’s so hard to get into that corner all night with a car close to behind you and outside of you, and no one lifting either,” Blaney said after the wreck. “It’s just an unfortunate spot we got put in and I hate to see two really good cars tore up.”

This is Blaney’s fourth-straight race outside the top 10, and his 35th-place finish dropped him to 19th overall in the points race. After getting off to a strong start, Blaney’s hit a recent lull that could cost him a shot at becoming just the second rookie to make the Chase.

Meanwhile, Elliott is looking to accomplish the same goal, but

has worse results than Blaney lately. Finishing 21st at Sonoma, 32nd at Daytona and 31st at Ken-tucky means the budding Hen-drick superstar now falls further down the Chase Grid heading into New Hampshire.

“That’s racing, I guess,” Elliott said. “We’ll just try to go get ‘em next week. The good news is we had a fast NAPA Chevy, the bad

news is that we’ve had three bad weeks in a row. So, for us, we’ve just got to go back and get the job done, bottom line.”

Elliott returned to the track to collect points after myriad other cars were wrecked due to the new low downforce package wreaking havoc on drivers. Getting back out was critical for his season overall, but Elliott knows he can solidify

a Chase berth with one checkered flag.

“Well, [getting back on the track] is definitely important,” Elliott said. “It’s not as important as winning. That’s the most im-portant thing for us at this point. That’s our goal. Just because we had a bad night tonight doesn’t mean our goal has changed.”

Blaney, who has been friends

with Elliott off the track for years, later shared his thoughts on the incident.

“Last guy I wanna get in an accident with is Chase,” Blaney said. “Unfortunate deal what hap-pened, I’ll take the blame. Sorry to all the 24 fans out there.”

Now both drivers have to pick up the pieces in order to make the Chase. Heading into the final eight races prior to the cutoff, El-liott and Blaney still have a good chance of joining Denny Hamlin as the only rookies to qualify for NASCAR’s postseason.

While Blaney finished 12th in the Brickyard 400 last season, he nearly clinched a victory at the Xfinity Series level at Indianapo-lis. He’ll also get another chance at Pocono and Bristol, where he finished 10th and 11th, respec-tively.

As for Elliott, his best chances at a win might come at Michigan and Pocono over the next two months. The rookie cruised to top fives at both tracks while leading a combined 86 laps in the two rac-es earlier this summer.

Both rookies have long futures ahead of them, and one will win Rookie of the Year, so this stretch of failure will likely serve as a minor speed bump. Expect each driver to make a run at the Chase and at least one to still join Ham-lin in the record books by the time the curtain closes on the regular season.

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WHEN Mitch Harris says, “That’s an interesting story,” there’s

no way of knowing which phase of his life he’s discussing. After all, the righthander for the St. Louis Cardinals had a path to the Major Leagues different from anyone else in baseball.

“I went to high school right outside of Charlotte,” Harris said, “in Belmont, North Carolina.”

Harris split time between marching band and baseball in high school. Al-though he earned All-State accolades in his junior and senior years, he ap-peared destined for a junior college or Division III school.

That’s where things took their first interesting turn.

“That’s a story in and of itself,” Har-ris said. “I happened to be throwing a bullpen one day, and Buddy Green, the defensive coordinator of the Navy Football team happened to stop by the field.”

Green was recruiting a member of Belmont’s South Point High School football team, and he wanted to talk to the player’s position coach, who also happened to coach the South Point

baseball team.“He stopped by while I was throw-

ing and started asking about where I was going,” Harris recalled. “Next thing I know, I was getting phone calls from the baseball coaches there. I went on a visit a couple of weeks later.”

Just like that, Harris was off to the U.S. Naval Academy.

“It was awesome,” he said. “Coming from a small town, I didn’t know much about the military. I had two grandfa-thers that were in World War II, but so did everyone else at my age.”

Not everyone else had one grandfa-ther that fought in the Battle at Midway and another that fought in the Battle of the Bulge, as Harris could boast.

Harris treasured his time at the Na-val Academy. “Just learning that whole ‘country before self’ was something that, at first, you didn’t understand,” Harris said. “Once you got ahold of that, though, it was something that’s just hard to put into words — the brotherhood you get there, with the guys and girls you graduate with, is totally different from any other college in the country, and the honor you get from knowing what you’re doing there is something that we’re all proud of.”

Harris was just as proud of his ac-

complishments on the field. He led the Patriot League in wins, strikeouts and ERA as a sophomore, then set the league record for strikeouts in his jun-ior year. After finishing four years at Navy, Harris was a highly rated pitch-ing prospect with a 95 mph fastball.

The Cardinals drafted him in the 13th round in 2008, and things got in-teresting again.

“I got drafted by the Cardinals, and obviously it was a dream, as it is for any young kid growing up,” Harris said. “So I wanted to do it.”

One problem: with his graduation from the Naval Academy came a mili-tary commitment.

“I wanted to do both,” Harris clari-fied, “and do it the right way.”

Occasionally, athletes with a prom-ising pro career can get waivers that al-low them to postpone or avoid military service, but Harris left school while the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were go-ing on.

“I went on active duty for five years, on two different ships,” Harris said. “I was stationed in Norfolk the whole time. I had three deployments.”

One of them was to the Persian Gulf,

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St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Mitch Harris pitches against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the seventh inning at PNC Park. The Pirates won 8-2.

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person to be around,” Williams said.

Williams became the fourth woman in the Open Era to win seven or more singles titles at a Grand Slam event. Martina Navratilova won nine titles at Wimbledon, Graf won seven at Wimbledon and Chris Evert won seven at the French Open.

Williams won her first major title since Wimbledon last year. Since then, she lost in the U.S. Open semifinals and in the final of the Australian and French Opens.

Kerber, the No. 4 seed from Germany, beat Williams in the Australian Open final for her first Grand Slam title.

“First of all I would like to say congrats to Serena,” Kerber told the BBC. “You really deserve it, you are a great champion, a great person and it is always an honor to play against her.

“It is the best feeling to play here on Centre Court, you guys are amazing. It is an honor to play here on this court and I would like to say thank you to my box you are amazing, I have the best team and sometimes I am not so easy but you always believe in me.”

Serena and Venus Williams later won their sixth doubles championship at the All Eng-land Club and 14th as a pair at all Grand Slam tournaments. They beat fifth-seeded Timea Babos of Hungary and Yarosla-va Shvedova of Russia 6-3, 6-4.

The Williams sisters also won the doubles title at Wim-bledon in 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2012. Each time, one of them also won the singles ti-tle and headed home with two trophies. They are now 14-0 in major doubles finals.

• • •Andy Murray dominated Mi-

los Raonic 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) on Sunday, giving him and his home country a second Wim-bledon title.

Great Britain had to endure a 77-year wait between Wim-bledon men’s champions when Murray won the first time in 2013 at the All England Club in

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rank high on my list of life necessities.

He was still incredibly useful during his final season, too. This last hurrah was the exact oppo-site of a charity case — the future Hall of Famer was the backbone of a legitimate championship contender. Duncan played only 1,536 minutes (a career low) in just 61 games this season. He av-eraged single digit points for just the first time in his career, but he was still one of the most impor-tant players in the league in 2016, nearly 20 years after the Spurs drafted him No. 1 overall out of Wake Forest.

San Antonio was overshad-owed by the 73-win Golden State Warriors during the regular sea-son, but the Spurs still managed to win 67 games behind one of the best defenses the NBA has seen in the last 15 years.

The anchor of that defense? One Tim Duncan. The Spurs al-lowed a team-best .938 points per possession with Duncan on the floor. Opponents shot just 47 per-cent on field goals defended at the rim by Duncan — a top-10 met-ric amongst players who played at least 25 minutes per game and defended at least five field goals per game.

His career ended in Oklahoma City, on the court of a franchise that wouldn’t even exist until 12 years after he entered the league. The Spurs were overrun by Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook

and the rest of the the Thunder, but that night, Duncan emptied the bucket as the Spurs desper-ately tried to claw their way back into the game: 19 points, 7-14 shooting and a net rating of +13.5.

It’s fitting in a circular way — the same man who took the league by storm, winning rookie of the year and being named first team All-NBA in 1998, was his team’s best player on the court in his final contest 19 seasons later.

Father Time remains unde-feated, but Tim Duncan, far more the competitor than his quiet de-meanor would belie, gave him a run for his money. Duncan may have fallen to the eternal sands, but the only reason he got there was with a twisted assist from Mother Nature.

Duncan’s basketball career doesn’t happen, but if not for a natural disaster. In 1989, when Duncan was 13 years old, Hurri-cane Hugo destroyed his home-town St. Croix swimming pool in 1989. Without that, maybe none of this happens.

We won’t ever know, and luck-ily we don’t have to. Duncan’s aspirations of swimming in the Olympics were shelved when a fear of sharks actualized after he was forced to swim in the ocean. Basketball, instead, became his primary sport, and for the next three decades, that was all he wanted to do: shoot hoops.

We will miss you, Big Fella. En-joy retirement. You’ve earned it.

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where he was a weapons officer on the USS Ponce. He also traveled to Russia on the USS Carr, to the Baltic States, and to South Ameri-ca, where the USS Carr broke up a drug smuggling ring off the coast of Columbia.

While his military career was interesting, it made it difficult to stay in shape for the baseball ca-reer Harris hoped would follow his service to his country.

“I tried to stay in the best shape I could, knowing it was going to be a tough situation,” Harris said, “but I made it work out.”

One of the hurdles to staying in baseball shape was the lack of room to throw.

“The biggest thing was I just had to keep my body in shape,”

Harris said. “If I could do that, I knew that once I got back, my arm would come around. But when I had opportunities, I tried to throw. As a matter of fact, on one of my ships, we had a cook who was from the Dominican Re-public. He grew up playing ball, so we’d throw on the flight deck.”

Of course, if a ball got away from Harris’ personal catcher, it tended to go skidding off the edge of the deck and into the ocean. Harris’ father helped out by send-ing him bags of balls from the States to keep him in stock.

Harris had plenty of responsi-bilities on board, so he managed to play catch with the cook about once a week, on average. “There just wasn’t a whole lot of time to throw,” he said.

Finally, five years into his sev-

en-year commitment, the Navy transferred him to the reserves, which allowed him to begin his pro baseball career. The Cardinals assistant general manager at the time was John Abbamondi, a for-mer Navy flight officer who flew 40 missions in Iraq. He kept writ-ing letters to the Navy on Mitch’s behalf, trying to get them to bring him home.

In 2013, five years after grad-uation, the 28-year-old Lt. Harris was ready to begin his baseball career. His return to the sport was interesting, to say the least.

“My first spring, I was throw-ing about 82 mph,” he said. That was 13 mph slower than in college. It’s the difference between a po-tential Major Leaguer and some-one who’d have trouble making a low-level college team.

“It was rough,” Harris said. “I took a solid year and a half to two years to really get everything back.”

While his arm was rounding into form, Harris was moving up the levels of the Cardinals’ farm system. On April 21 of last year, he got the call to join St. Louis. He was a major leaguer.

When he appeared in his first MLB game four days later, strik-ing out the first batter he faced, he became just the second Naval Academy graduate to appear in the major leagues. The first was Nemo Gaines, who appeared in four games for Washington … in 1921.

After the season, Harris was given the Tony Conigliaro Award, given annually by MLB to the player who best “overcomes an

obstacle and adversity through the attributes of spirit, determi-nation, and courage.” Previous winners have included Jim Ab-bott (born with one hand) and Eric Davis (returned to MLB after fighting colon cancer).

This year, Harris faces another obstacle. He has spent the entire season on the disabled list with arm trouble, finally undergoing Tommy John surgery in June.

“It’s going well,” Harris said. “It’s still fresh, but we’re excited to get back on the field, and now I know I’ll be healthy when I get back. I want to make sure I come back stronger than I was before.

“I want to make sure I do it right,” he said.

That’s worked well for Mitch Harris so far, and it’s certainly provided some interesting stories.

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London. Three years ago, he be-came the first British man since 1936 to win the singles title.

The second-seeded Murray broke Raonic’s serve only once in the match on Centre Court. The No. 6 Canadian failed to convert in the tiebreakers.

An emotional Murray wiped away tears with a tournament towel after the match.

“This is the most important tournament for me every year,” Murray said during the trophy ceremony. “I’ve had some great moments here and also some tough losses. The wins feel ex-tra special because of the tough losses. I’m proud to have my hands on the trophy again.

“I played really good stuff to-day. Milos has had a great few weeks on the grass and had some unbelievable wins. His match against Roger (Federer) in the semis was a great, great match. He is one of the hardest workers out there, always trying to im-prove and get better.”

The 29-year-old Murray came into the tournament af-

ter losing to world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the finals of both the Australian Open and French Open this year. Djokovic lost at Wimbledon in the third round to American Sam Querrey, who then was defeated by Raonic in the quarterfinals.

Murray won his third Grand Slam championship overall. He also won the U.S. Open in 2012 after winning the Olympic gold medal at Wimbledon.

Murray was playing in his 11th major final but the first against someone other than Djokovic or Federer.

Raonic, 25, was trying to be-come the first player represent-ing Canada to win a major title. He reached the final by beating seven-time Wimbledon champi-on Federer in the semifinals.

“Congratulations to Andy,” Raonic told the BBC. “This one’s going to sting. It’s been a phe-nomenal two weeks at this tour-nament. I keep plugging away every single day. There’s noth-ing I want more than to be back here.”

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Inside STIR IT UP Whether you're hosting a party or just cooling off by the pool, a great summer cocktail recipe is good to have on hand. We've put together a spread of some of our favorites from across the state with N.C. spirits mixed in a few for good measure. See page C4

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By Liz Moomey North State Journal

NC State student Josh Monahan started 1 in 6 snacks, a potato chip company that gives a portion of its profits to local food banks.

NC State Student Josh Monahan started 1 in 6 snacks, a potato chip com-pany that gives a portion of its profits to local food banks.

a crunch of a Bee Sting Honey Sriracha kettle cooked potato chip will do more than fill your appetite.

Starting 1 in 6 Snacks about a year ago, Josh Mo-nahan, a senior at nC State, used his love for potato chips as a way to support food banks.

“I chose potato chips, because for one, I like them and I knew I wanted to get into snack foods, because my parents did it,” Monahan said. “I just figured that would be a cool line to go into.”

the products are named after the statistic of food disparity in the country, and a portion of the proceeds is donated.

“the name 1 in 6 stands for the one in six people in america that don’t know where their next meal comes from, so for every bag sold we donate a nickel to the food bank,” Monahan said.

Since launching in april, 1 in 6 snacks have given about $400 to the Food Bank of Central and eastern

Giving back with a crunch

SpiffyRaleighA mobile car washing and detailing service that expanded to Charlotte this year.

Tiger Eye SensorClaytonA company that has designed a wearable personal assault deterrent bracelet.

ProctorFreeCharlotteThis company verifies students taking online exams.

VersaMeCharlotteOffers a device called Starling that clips onto children’s clothing to track verbal engagement in order to boost children’s language development.

Tellurvision StudiosRaleighProduces videos and company marketing campaigns.

Horizon PerformanceCaryAn analysis company that uses technology to increase performance and endurance across government, athletic, and commercial markets.

SoloProDurhamAn online marketplace that connects homebuyers and real estate services.

Toof-inger BrushResearch Triangle ParkA more ergonomic toothbrush.

Arrow HaircutsRaleigh & DurhamA chain of barbershops guaranteeing shorter hair.

9 N.C. Veteran-owned businesses to watch

techknowWe can't tell you where to find that hard to catch Pokemon, but we will help you unlock some of the myriad features on your smartphone that have you mystified. See page C2

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Josh Monahan, a rising senior at NC State, showcases his line of potato chips at Liquid State in Raleigh on Monday, July 11. For every bag of chips that is purchased, Monahan donates a nickel to a North Carolina food pantry.

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On your iPhone

Quickly add symbolsInstead of tapping once on

the 123 button, then once on the chosen symbol and then once again on the ABC button to go back to the keyboard layout. You can save time with one tap. Tap and hold the 123 button, slide to select the symbol you want to insert, then release. Once it’s added your keyboard will go back to letters. Just one tap, not three - save time and taps.

Save battery in Low Power Mode.

If you know you’re going to need to use your phone for a long time, then switch to Low Power Mode. Go to Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode. Low Power mode lowers battery consumption, but just remember it does so by turning off some of your iPhone features. So you may need to manually check your mail and social media messages. Overall your phone works normally and lasts much longer.

You can take photos while shooting videos.

Say you’re using your iPhone to film a great moment, and you wish you look around to realize your husband is not capturing it with a photo at the same time. You don’t have to stop recording, you can just tap the camera button that appears on the screen as you film.

On your Android

Control Dozing apps. Doze is a new feature designed

to increase battery life by putting your device to sleep when idle. If there’s an app you want to see notifications from even while in Doze mode, to enable the feature, open Settings and select Battery. Tap on the three dot menu in the top-right corner, select Battery Optimization, and tap Not Optimized before selecting All Apps. You can now select the apps you don’t want optimized for Doze mode.

Sometimes your device might run slow for no reason.

You can tell what apps use the most RAM on your device with the new feature - Memory. Open Settings and select Memory. You can see the average memory used during specific periods of time. You can also narrow to find out which apps are using the most Memory.

Make sure your photos back up automatically.

There’s nothing like breaking or losing a phone only to realize you didn’t have all of your treasured photos backed up. This can be avoided by opening the Google Photos app and following the prompts to enable auto-backup, in the app the default mode is “high quality” and unlimited space, this compresses your photos, but they still look pretty good.

42 & Lawrence RaleighAnother establishment from Larry Larson of Larry’s Bean’s, had their grand opening in downtown Raleigh during Second Saturday’s celebration. Not just another coffee shop addition to the local scene with Larson at the helm, the community is sure to embrace and enjoy this small venue.

Tonya’s Cookies Chapel HillTonya Council of the Mama Dip’s family has opened Tonya’s Cookies right across the street from her family’s famous restaurant at 405 W. Rosemary Street.

Pie Pushers DurhamRumor has it that Pie Pushers will open a brick and mortar above The Pinhook in Downtown Durham by the time the leaves begin to change come fall.

Golden Cow Creamery Charlotte Is bringing their dairy goodness to South End. The company was founded by North Carolina natives Alex and Liz Hannah as a way to share their love of homemade ice cream with friends. The website currently lists now hiring, so hopes are high for an impending opening.

Cakes by Tayleigh GreensboroTaylor Kisselstein, lead cake decorator with Easy Peasy Decadent Desserts, competed on the Food Network television show “Cake Wars” which aired on Monday, July 11. Erik Rankins and his wife Traci own Easy Peasy and as of Monday even they didn’t know if Taylor had won. “We are all getting together to watch the show, regardless of the outcome we are proud of Taylor and her talent—we’re excited to see the show,” said Erik Rankins. “But so happy to have her here as our lead decorator.”

CAMPBELL UNIvERSITY announced the appointment of a new dean of its business school on Monday.

As of July 1, Kevin J. O’Mara is the dean of the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business.

Prior to taking on the new role, O’Mara served as the professor of management and executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Elon University’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

J. Bradley Creed, Campbell’s president, said that O’Mara, a widely-published author, brings the ideal combination of “scholarship, experience and expertise” to the Campbell Business School.

“Dr. O’Mara has a proven track record of establishing and sustaining new and innovative programs, which will be critical to our success in Campbell Business’ continuing development,” Creed said in a statement. “He brings to the deanship an understanding of education within a private university, a profound commitment to teaching, an appreciation for a liberal-arts foundation for a business curriculum, and a warm and engaging personality.”

O’Mara said it is an honor to join the Campbell family.

“Due to the substantial efforts of those individuals, the Campbell Business School is in a position to make great strides for its students and the surrounding community,” he said.

One key draw powering those strides, and a contributing factor to his decision to take on the deanship, is the business school’s size.

“It is large enough to have a full-fledged undergraduate program with a number of majors, yet small enough to offer individual attention for the personal development of their students,” O’Mara said. “In addition, the business school offers multiple offerings at the graduate level with innovative opportunities for dual degrees with other professional graduate programs such as law, pharmacy, divinity, the sciences, and public health, as well as online options.

“It is quite unusual to find a business school possessing all these qualities and reach while retaining the sense of a small, individualized community,” he continued. “It will be a privilege to be a part of the momentum and growth being experienced at the Campbell Business School.”

O’Mara’s journey at Elon began over 25 years ago when he joined the Elon business school’s faculty in 1990, becoming a full professor of management in 2007. In 2011 he became the first LSB faculty member to receive all three of the school’s dean’s awards, including Dean’s Teaching Award (2011), Dean’s Research Award (2007), and Dean’s Service Award (2005).

While he has taught students at all levels and across all majors, O’Mara’s primary teaching responsibilities are in strategy and innovation. His research focuses on innovation, strategic management, and business education. In addition to developing new courses for business and non-business students alike, he has also led study abroad courses to London, vietnam, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Australia, Singapore, Beijing, Scotland, Cayman Islands and Cuba.

O’Mara earned his doctorate degree in technology management from NC State University, a master’s in business administration with a concentration in accounting from the University of Houston, and his undergraduate degrees in engineering and business from the University of Texas at Austin. While also being a certified management accountant (CMA), he also completed graduate work in strategic management from the UNC Chapel Hill.

Mark L. Hammond, Campbell’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, said O’Mara’s scholarly accomplishments and entrepreneurial mindset are only rivaled by his warm demeanor.

“His wide range of academic accomplishments and program development at the undergraduate and graduate levels qualify him uniquely for this role,” Hammond said. “He will be a welcome member of the Deans’ Council and our campus community.”

Kevin O'Mara named new Dean of the Campbell University Lundy-Fetterman School of Business.

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stir it upbehind the bar | North CarolinaAs summer heats up, enjoying a porch cocktail on a late summer evening is a long-standing North Carolina tradition. Whether you like sweet or savory, a sipper or a strong one, here are some of our favorite refreshers to try out this weekend.

The Tourmaline

“Morehead City is a little fishing town on the North Carolina coast. The Arendell Room is a shotgun-style bar, kind of like what you’d see in San Francisco or New York, but we’ve incorporated backlit Ball jars behind all our bottles to give an underwater look. We use only fresh-squeezed juices, and of course, fresh fruit and herbs. The inspiration for this drink came from Bogue Sound watermelon. Being on the coast, we have sandy soil, which I think is responsible for making it so good and sweet. It’s the best watermelon you’ll ever have. The Tourmaline is a summertime favorite — it’s become a classic at the bar.”

— Denny Shrock, The Arendell Room, Morehead City

3 one-inch pieces fresh watermelon

1½ ounces Cruzan gold rum¾ ounce fresh lime juice½ ounce simple syrupTonic water

In a mixing glass, muddle watermelon, rum, lime juice, and simple syrup. Add ice, shake, then strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Top with tonic water, and garnish with a thinly sliced watermelon rind.

Star Flower

“This is a drink that has evolved over the years. It started as a Hendrick’s gin and tonic with cucumber and cilantro. Then I added St-Germain and substituted Mother Earth gin from Kinston, North Carolina, and liked it a whole lot better. The gin plays very well with herbs, and I like what Mother Earth is doing — the distillery uses solar power to heat the water that goes into the still. I grow a lot of herbs myself, and when I’ve got cilantro coming out of my ears — like I do right now — I make this drink a lot. The Boutiliers, who own Starlight Cafe, have a farm with a big vegetable and herb garden. Chef Toby Boutilier and I like to go there eat and drink and bounce ideas off each other. Depending on the season, I’m using figs, strawberries, peaches, pears, or wild mulberries and honeysuckle behind the bar.”

— Jimmy Ingenito, Starlight Cafe, Greenville

8 cilantro leaves, plus 1 cilantro sprig for garnish

2 slices seedless cucumber2 ounces Mother Earth gin¾ ounce St-Germain

elderflower liqueur¾ ounce Jack Rudy Cocktail

Co. Small Batch Tonicseltzer water

Twist cilantro leaves and drop in a highball or Collins glass. Top with a cucumber slice. Bruise cucumber slightly with a muddler. Fill glass with ice. Top with gin, St-Germain, tonic, and seltzer, then stir. Garnish with a cucumber slice and a sprig of cilantro.

Appalachian Caipirinha

“A caipirinha is a traditional cocktail from Brazil. It’s straightforward and simple: cachaça, sugar, and lime. Cachaça is kind of like Brazilian hooch, so it was natural to think about moonshine when trying to do a North Carolina take on the drink. The ginger is a natural complement to lime that adds a great little aromatic bite. The bitters—with wonderful notes of anise, cherry, and wood—adds some dimension. It’s fun to express a local spirit that we in the South have been enjoying for generations in a cocktail that’s known around the world.”

— John Parra, Fox Liquor Bar, Raleigh

1 small lime, cut into 8 wedges1 pinch kosher salt4 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters½ ounce honey syrup*2 ounces Troy & Sons Platinum

MoonshineBlenheim Old #3 Hot - Red Cap

Ginger Ale1 large slice fresh ginger root*Make honey syrup by heating

and stirring 3 parts honey and 1 part water until combined.

Muddle lime wedges and salt in a cocktail shaker. Add bitters, honey syrup, and moonshine. Add ice and shake aggressively for 5-7 seconds. Pour in an ice-filled double rocks glass, top with ginger ale, and garnish with a slice of fresh ginger root.

Hiram’s Hour

“Scot Sanborn, the owner of Sutler’s Spirit Co. in Winston-Salem, came in with his gin when he was first getting it into the market. As our conversation evolved, we determined that we both used to hang out at the Blue Hour, one of Greensboro’s first real cocktail bars, which is sadly no longer around. There was a great bartender there named Hiram. When it came time to name the cocktail, I decided to tip my hat to them both. The gin, charred grapefruit tonic, and orange bitters give the drink some nice citrus notes, while the ruby port adds texture and complexity, plus rich, dried-fruit flavors.”

— Niels Larsen, Print Works Bistro, Greensboro

2 ounces Sutler’s Gin¾ ounce Bittermilk

Charred Grapefruit Tonic Syrup

½ ounce Shelton Vineyards Yadkin Valley Port

2 dashes Crude “Sycophant” Orange & Fig Bitters

1 sprig rosemary

Combine all ingredients except rosemary in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, shake, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with rosemary sprig.

I wanna say just a few words about North Carolina — my home state — possibly the finest state in this entire union.We got industry of all kinds—pretty county, raise corn, cotton, tobacco, peaches, peanuts, all like that. Got

colleges all over the state — fine quality, pretty girls, and run off the finest white lightning made anywhere.”

— Andy Griffith, North Carolina, My Home State June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012


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North Carolina.“We just made our second donation,” Mo-

nahan said. “We’re up to 2,000 meals that we have given them. It is cool.”

He added the food bank was very supportive when he told him his idea of giving back with each sale.

“I went and met with them, and they were pretty excited,” Monahan said. “Whatever help they can get they know they can help other people.”

The potato chips sell for $1.50 generally at 38 businesses across the state.

“I sell them all to them at the same price, and I tell them whatever you think you can sell it at scale it to that,” he said.

Monahan grew up in the snack industry — his parents own The Peanut Roaster in Hen-derson. The company was founded in 1949 by

his grandfather and was passed to his father John.

“I knew I wanted to do something in snack foods, because I grew up around it,” he said

He added that his parents were excited about his venturing on his own to create 1 in 6 Snacks.

“They like it,” he said. “They knew they could help me through contacts and advice.”

Although Mohanan has had some help along the way, he is generally a one-man team. He enlisted friends to help him taste-test when de-ciding the 12 flavors and then narrowed it down to six.

“I told the spice company what we wanted, and they sent us some flavor samples and we would test them out and then say ‘it needs to be more this or more this’ and they would cri-tique it and send it back to us,” he said. “I knew I wanted to do unique flavors.”

The flavors include Bee Sting Honey Sriracha, Southern Twang Salt & Balsamic Vinegar, The

“Mama Gin” Dill Pickle, Down East Carolina BBQ, Low Country Crab Boil, and Cozumel Jalapeño Queso. Everyone has a favorite, and his is the salt and balsamic vinegar.

“It’s different than the regular salt and vin-egar, and I like balsamic,” he said. “Also, the fla-vors are flavors that I like.”

Monahan said they will soon unveil a salt po-tato chip and an 8-ounce bag, which he said he hopes will be sold at grocery stores.

He also wants to expand the 1 in 6 Snacks to pretzels, popcorn, and possibly peanuts. Cur-rently, the chips are being produced by Carolina Kettle.

“I eventually want to do other snack foods,” Monahan said. “Once I get this established and get out of school, I want to. I have someone making them for me now, so once I graduate I will make them myself.”

The chips are also available for purchase on-line and are sold by the case of 24 bags.

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CREATIVITy BEGETS creativity, at least that was the idea when a group of business leaders came together to found HQ Raleigh back in 2012.

Among the original visionaries were Jason Widen, COO of Forward Impact, Christopher Gergen, CEO of Forward Impact, Brooks Bell, founder and CEO of Brooks Bell, Inc., and Jesse Lipson, founder of ShareFile, which you may remember as the forerunner of Citrix — he sold to them in 2011 and now serves as the VP & GM of Data Sharing. With entre-preneurial pedigrees like that, the fishbowl of powerful thinking built in downtown Raleigh has turned out business startups ranging from nonprofits, raw juice companies and hammock makers, to the No. 1 photo and video app for weddings.

The reach and power of business startups being under one roof, sharing ideas, devel-oping leadership and collaborating spread to Greensboro in 2014 when Andy Zimmerman of AZ Development opened HQ Greensboro in

10,000 square feet of co-working space.The expansion continued in February 2015

to a third North Carolina city when HQ Raleigh partnered with Packard Place to announce the opening of HQ Charlotte in uptown Charlotte.

“This partnership will enable us to provide even greater value to our network of members and sponsors,” Widen said at the opening of the Charlotte expansion. “We’re creating state-wide connectivity, energy, and opportunity for our entrepreneurial members and their sup-porters.”

Statewide, the HQ footprint is currently running at just more than 123,000 square feet combined in the Triangle, Triad, and Charlotte area, and you can add another 43,000 square feet to that when HQ Raleigh completes its new building and expansion in 2017.

“I call HQ home. HQ is all about commu-nity,” Marie Lunney, operations manager of online dyslexia therapy company Lexercise and an HQ Raleigh member. “I have taken full advantage of networking events such as

happy hours, office hours and special events. As a result, I have made lifetime friends, but have also progressed myself professionally, have expanded my career options, and have in-tegrated ideas and connections made through HQ into my past and current work. The expan-sion of HQ to Greensboro, Charlotte and now Charleston will mean an even bigger commu-nity to connect with.”

By building community, consistently inno-vating, and offering programs that engage their range of entrepreneurs, the growth potential seems limitless for the HQ concept, and the growth itself is all in response to the demand for office space and co-working environments. All are indicative of the strength of the North Carolina entrepreneurial community.

This week, HQ Raleigh will host the North Carolina General Assembly for a roundtable conversation. Legislators, state representatives and entrepreneurs will meet to discuss what startups need in order to best build business in the state together.

6 flavors to choose from:

Down East Carolina BBQ

The “Mama Gin” Dill Pickle

The Bee Sting Honey Sriracha

Southern Twang Salt & Balsamic Vinegar

Cozumel Jalepeño Queso

Low Country Crab Boil

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HQ Raleigh, established in 2012, is a shared workspace for entrepreneurs. Photographed Monday, July 11.

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If you lIve in one of North Carolina’s busy metropolitan areas, you’re likely aware of the jungle that can be found at the grocery store parking lot at many of our state’s shopping op-tions. fortunately, if you’re living in the Char-

lotte or Triangle areas of the state, a wealth of 21st century options could eliminate your need to go to the grocery store at all: grocery delivery services.

for those uninitiated, companies such as Shipt, Postmates and Instacart via a smartphone applica-tion or online service, will take your grocery list and fetch it for you. for a nominal fee, of course. If you’ve ever used a grocery store’s pickup service, think of it as the next level in technological innovation, as you don’t even have to leave your house.

If you’ve ever shopped at Whole foods Market, food lion, Costco, Petco, BJ’s Wholesale or Total Wine & More, their official grocery delivery relation-ship in more than 30 zip codes in Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham is with Instacart.

Alex Moriconi, the communications manager at Instacart, provided a personal example of the types of folks grocery delivery services are best for.

“If you can’t physically get to the grocery store, Instacart provides a solution,” Moriconi said. “for example, my dad has Alzheimer’s and can no longer drive, so we order Instacart to the house for him. In general, Instacart is a strong option for anybody that wants to get time back in their day. We believe that every minute counts, and we want customers to have more time to do what they love.”

So exactly how much is a service like this going to run you? Well, it’s going to vary, as these companies operate on a variety of business models. for exam-ple, Shipt, which operates in the Charlotte metro

and Triangle areas and expands into more rural ar-eas, is a membership-based service that will deliver unlimited free grocery deliveries for orders over $35 for a $99 per year or $14 per month membership fee.

A representative from Shipt said its members, on average, pay $5 more on a $35 order through the ap-plication than if they would if they had shopped for the order themselves. She says they regularly hear from their members that they actually save money by not having to go to the store.

“We work to make our app easy to use for mem-bers to experience a seamless ordering process,” she

said. “The app is set up much like the aisles of a gro-cery store, for dairy, pantry staples, etc., or you can use the search feature to find exactly what you are looking for. If you cannot find a product, simply use the special request feature and your Shipt Shopper will locate the item for you.”

Shipt will even pick up bakery or deli items for you. In Charlotte, they deliver from local Publix stores, and in the Triangle, they deliver from local Harris Teeter stores.

The next time the urge to avoid the parking lot hits now you know you have options.


Harley moves to keep premium status, attract younger riders

July 8 — After the shares of Harley-Davidson Inc took a wild ride last week on unconfirmed buyout rumors, the motorcycle maker’s man-agement is back to dealing with more basic problems, starting with pricing pressure in the u.S. market, and a stagnant share price.

Getting more people to walk into one of 600 u.S. Harley dealerships and ride out on a new motorcycle remains a challenge for the Mil-waukee company, and that has weighed on its share price for much of the year.

The motorcycle maker, intent on maintain-ing its premium status amid pricing pressures, has invested $70 million in marketing and product development for 2016 to attract new, younger riders, reverse sluggish sales, and boost u.S. demand for motorcycles.

Harley extended into this month a summer sale that was supposed to end in June. Deals include a no down payment, $99 a month of-fer on the new $6,849 Street model, which is aimed at younger buyers.

“Typically Harley-Davidson does not have summer promotions like this,” said Brian Rapi-er, sales manager at fox River Harley-Davidson in St. Charles, Illinois. “It is definitely unexpect-ed, but it is definitely welcomed. It is helping us sell more bikes.”

Harley executives declined to comment,

citing the “quiet period” ahead of the com-pany’s second-quarter earnings report, due to be released on July 28. earlier this year,

Harley executives said they were counting on the strength of the company’s brand to avoid having to match price cuts by rivals.

“We are competing against wider price gaps, and we’re not going to compete by discounting,” Harley’s chief financial officer, John olin, said during an April call with analysts.

The extended summer sale illustrates the competitive pressure on Harley’s premium pricing strategy. Defending that strategy has other costs, including Harley’s $70 million ef-fort to reach new riders and produce new mod-els.

“We believe we need the $70 million to grow the business despite wider price gaps that we expect to compete with into the future,” olin said.

When Harley reports results later this month, analysts will be looking for evidence that the new spending is paying off. A rumor on July 1 that Harley could receive a takeover of-fer from Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts sent the company’s shares up 16 percent, but when no confirmation of a bid emerged, the share price this week gave up nearly all the gains.

losing Ground in a Declining MarketHarley is facing declining demand for motor-

cycles in its biggest market, the united States. from 2005 to 2015 overall u.S. motorcycle

sales fell 48 percent, according to data from the Motorcycle Industry Council.

Japanese rivals Honda, yamaha Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp, have used the favorable yen-dollar exchange rate to cut prices and offer low-interest financing to attract younger riders.

Harley’s larger bikes, such as the $21,899 Street Glide, also face new competition from brands such as Indian, a venerable u.S. mo-torcycle name revived by Polaris Industries . Indian now has nine models arrayed against Harley’s top of the line bikes.

“our core customer is the same,” said Steve Menneto, Polaris president of motorcycles. “As we ramp up, we are able to compete with Har-ley-Davidson.”

Getting Butts on BikesHarley has struggled for years to expand its

appeal beyond u.S. baby boomers, a generation whose oldest members are celebrating 70th birthdays this year.

As part of its new marketing efforts, Harley is working with dealers to get “butts on bikes,” by offering learn-to-ride academies at show-rooms. The programs are free to veterans and first responders, and some dealers said classes were already full through the fall.

“Brands are struggling to attract to the mil-lennials,” or riders in their 20s and 30s, said Arum Kumar, consultant at AlixPartners. “They grew up in the Great Recession, they are a bit more price conscious.”

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