In a playoffs game today a commentator mentioned the iPitch, a pitch machine that emulates the speed, sinks and slides of actual pitchers. Apparently 23 teams use it, but they don’t disclose which ones. Does anyone know if the Angels use them?
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The Daily Beast
Trump’s Overrated Peace Plan Helped Enable the Horrors in Israel and Gaza
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyNo American president caused Hamas’ surprise assault across the Gaza border that killed over 900 Israelis—mostly in deliberate, brutal attacks on civilians, including 260 at a music festival—and kidnapping about 150 more. But U.S. policy, especially the Trump administration’s, contributed to the unsustainable situation that made an outbreak of violence more likely.Claims that “Trump brought peace to the Middle East” are almost an inve
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Bloomberg
Xi’s Reply to Hamas Attack Shows China’s Limit as Peacemaker
(Bloomberg) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping spent the first part of this year seeking to play global peacemaker, proposing a cease-fire in Ukraine and helping long-time rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran reach a diplomatic truce.Most Read from BloombergIsrael Latest: US Wants Qatar to Be an Intermediary With HamasIsrael Latest: Top US General Warns Iran to Stay Out of ConflictHamas Got Around Israel’s Surveillance Prowess by Going DarkSchumer Confronts Xi on Israel-Hamas Stance in Rare MeetingStocks Rise
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CBC
Ontario woman wants mandatory signs on private beaches after husband drowned in Lake Erie
The end of summer for Patricia Mason-Levasseur means another season has come and gone without the changes she’d like to see at private beaches in Ontario.Mason-Levasseur’s husband, Patrick Keith, drowned at a beach on Lake Erie in 2016. Since then, she says she falls apart each time she hears about someone drowning or getting into difficulty in the water.The St. Catharines resident said that’s exactly what happened to her when she read a CBC News article about a 50-year-old Milton man who drowne
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