Pepe

Pepe is a 12-year-old black and white home longhair kitty with a whole lot of love to offer! Regardless of his age and diabetes, Pepe is a pleasant and affectionate kitty. He wants an adopter who can present the mandatory care, together with administering insulin and guaranteeing he maintains a correct eating regimen. Pepe is extremely sociable and enjoys roaming the ground and he makes mates with everybody he meets. He’d be a beautiful addition to any house! He thrives on companionship and will get alongside effectively with each people and different pets. Should you’re in a position to meet his medical wants and are in search of a pleasant kitty, Pepe might be the proper match for you.

All of our cats are neutered or spayed, handled for fleas, vaccinated, and microchipped. Take a look at our web site www.asapcats.org for adoptable cats, adoption functions, and to be taught extra about fostering and volunteer alternatives. You can even e mail information@asapcats.org or name us at 805-683-3368.

Tiger 

It’s onerous to consider, but it surely has been nearly FOUR WEEKS since Tiger arrived at The Montecito Pet Store on the Mesa and he nonetheless wants a house!

Tiger is a good-looking brown tabby boy who if I could say…is gorgeous. Sure, boys may be lovely and he definitely is. Simply have a look at him! 

He’s a candy boy who does like to play, however he additionally likes being massaged! And a again scratch is the best way to his coronary heart…together with some toys, in fact.

Tiger was raised in foster care together with is mother and 5 siblings so he is aware of lots about cats! And being beloved as he was solely three weeks previous when he was rescued. So prepare to like this one with all of your coronary heart…he deserves it, as all of them do.

Tiger had a vet examination and is examined for Felv/FIV. He’s wormed and had his first FVRCP vaccines, And, in fact, he’s neutered and microchipped. Tiger may be adopted by means of RESQCATS at The Montecito Pet Store on the Mesa at 2020 Cliff Drive in Santa Barbara. The quantity for the store is (805)965-6780. Adoption hours are Monday by means of Saturday from 10-5 and Sunday from 10-3.

If potential, please make your adoption donation in money or a verify so we will put all these {dollars} in direction of the cats and never in direction of bank card charges. 

Maisie

Maisie is an extremely candy 5 month previous terrier/poodle combine pet who’s presently engaged on leash coaching and has glorious recall. She is a pleasant and affectionate companion who is raring to be taught and please. 

To be taught extra about Maisie or to donate, please go to www.sparkrescue.org/donations. For extra details about Spark Rescue or turning into a foster, please go to our web site at www.sparkrescue.org or e mail us at sparkadoptions@gmail.com or Spark Rescue Santa Barbara, PO Field 8445, Goleta, CA 93118

This win sees the 21-year-old equal her finest run at Wimbledon and the primary time she’s reached the second week at Grand Slam since her historic run to the 2021 US Open crown.

In a second profession assembly between the pair, Raducanu made it two wins from two towards the Greek star earlier than closing out her second win towards a high 10 participant in 9 days. This comes off the again of a career-best win by rating towards world No.4 Jessica Pegula in Eastbourne final week.

Subsequent up in her path, Raducanu will face qualifier and world No.123 Lulu Solar, who has had a dream run to this point in South West London.

“I actually loved it” she beamed. “I used to be simply telling myself ‘What number of occasions in life are you gonna get the prospect to play in entrance of a full Centre Courtroom? So I’m actually grateful for the help.

“I believe I’m most happy with how I used to be simply so centered, so decided on each single level and in each single second. She’s high 10, so in a manner I got here in with a free swing.

“I knew I needed to battle and battle onerous and I attempted to not let the scoreline have an effect on me. It’s important to play each level as if it’s your final, to not be dramatic.”

Raducanu has actually discovered her stride in the course of the British grass courtroom swing, including an look within the fourth spherical of Wimbledon to her semi-final run on the Rothesay Open Nottingham and the quarter-finals on the Rothesay Worldwide Eastbourne.

Talking on her re-ignited love for tennis, Raducanu added, “Discovering your internal ardour I believe now it’s win, lose, on a regular basis I’m simply attempting to win the day. Totally different days imply various things, typically you’re not having an excellent day nevertheless it’s about getting out on the apply courtroom, giving your finest even when it’s not the highest quality.

“It’s a give and take however so long as you simply give your all each single day.”

Heading into the match, Raducanu would’ve taken loads of confidence from final encounter towards the world No.9, having defeated her 6-1, 6-4 within the US Open semi-final three years in the past.

It was clear Raducanu got here out with nothing to lose as she surged to a 2-0 lead. The Grand Slam champion regarded to play aggressively in entrance of her residence crowd on a packed-out Centre Courtroom – securing the double break with a ravishing backhand lob earlier than taking the primary set.

The British star is but to drop a set this week and was stable behind her serve as soon as once more – successful 71% of factors behind her first serve throughout the match. Whereas Sakkari tried to power herself again into the battle, she struggled to snap the Briton’s momentum throughout the web.

Together with her racket swinging freely, Raducanu discovered an extra two breaks within the second as a forehand launched lengthy by the Greek gifted her the victory on her third match level.

Nevertheless, earlier than she fights for a spot in her maiden Wimbledon quarter-final, Raducanu will now flip her consideration to the blended doubles on Saturday, the place she is about to make her debut alongside three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray. The match might be a must-watch for British tennis followers, with Murray probably making his remaining look in SW19 after he bowed out within the first spherical of the boys’s doubles with brother Jamie Murray.

“I’ll simply take route and comply with his lead. I believe I’ve to do a crash course in doubles tonight. I’kl have enjoyable tomorrow regardless however in fact I’ll cherish the chance as a result of it’s such an honour.”

The announcement implies that Murray has now formally performed his final match at Wimbledon after bowing out of the lads’s doubles with brother Jamie on Thursday.

Raducanu is about to face New Zealand qualifier Lulu Solar within the ladies’s singles for a spot in her first quarter-final at SW19.

“Sadly I awakened with some stiffness in my proper wrist this morning, so due to this fact I’ve determined to make the very powerful resolution to withdraw from the combined doubles tonight,” Raducanu mentioned.

“I’m disenchanted as I used to be actually wanting ahead to taking part in with Andy however obtained to take care.”

Murray acquired a becoming ship off on Centre Courtroom after their match on Thursday night time surrounded by legends of the sport together with Novak Djokovic, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova and offered by Sue Barker.

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On Wednesday, the previous Olympian posted a brief video to her Instagram Tales during which she claimed her current feedback about Group USA had been “misinterpreted.”

“Lots of the stuff that I used to be speaking about wasn’t at all times essentially concerning the present workforce, as a result of I like and assist all the ladies that made it, and I’m so happy with them,” Skinner, 27, defined within the clip. “It was extra about going again into my very own fitness center. Simply, the work ethic is completely different in comparison with once we have been doing gymnastics within the [former team coordinator] Márta [Károlyi] period.”

Skinner described herself as “so pumped” for the members of the present workforce. “I like these women and I’m critically so comfortable for them, so I might by no means do something to make them really feel in any other case,” she stated.

“Sorry if that got here out improper,” she concluded. “That was not my intentions in any respect.”

“In addition to Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply isn’t what it was once,” she stated in a since-deleted YouTube video, parts of which could be discovered right here. “Clearly, quite a lot of women don’t work as exhausting … The ladies simply don’t have the work ethic.”

In a succinct submit on Threads, Biles provided what gave the impression to be a response to Skinner’s feedback.

“Not everybody wants a mic and a platform,” Biles wrote.

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Two weeks earlier than Euro 2024 started, it got here to me like a imaginative and prescient: it was time for a piece sweepstake. So I clicked ship all and hoped that a couple of individual would have an interest. I needn’t have apprehensive. I’ve by no means had so many responses to a bunch e mail.

The enthusiastic reception means I’ve ended up operating two sweepstakes — one with allotted nations and another difficult: involving aim predictions and a feverishly up to date spreadsheet. It has triggered one other facet in me (did I point out the spreadsheet?) and in my colleagues too. One even introduced in a Euro wall chart for the workplace whereas one other ungenerously hailed me as a ladette, which I hope can be quietly retired as a nickname.

The workplace this 12 months has been a microcosm of what the Euros provoke. Even my colleagues who don’t like soccer have been invoking it as bonus snark: Oh, is one thing occurring at present?, one intoned on a latest England match day. The match encourages a unique power in each its followers and dissenters. The inevitable beginning factors for dialog — “How are you” or “how was your weekend”: questions doomed for mundane solutions or hedged responses — have turned to new and realizing half phrases. “Presumably you noticed . . .?” It isn’t that anyone has modified, however {that a} dynamic has opened up.

When Bellingham’s bicycle kick landed the ball firmly at the back of the online, I felt myself as one in all many exclaiming on the TV

With the Euros, there’s an inevitable mutuality. It’s extra healthful than membership soccer, the place my Nottingham Forest scarf will immediate unpredictable reactions once I’m out and about. As a substitute, the times deliver flashes of acknowledgment that we dwell amid many who care and fixate on the identical factor. Typically that’s only a nod from a passer-by once I’m carrying a four-pack earlier than a sport, or small speak with a supply driver. Typically it isn’t even about acknowledging however supposing — it acts as a reminder of our connections: that our evenings may need appeared related, and that the feelings packed inside had been probably shared. It was a recognition, unusually, that I repeatedly had in the course of the pandemic — all of the sudden grouped collectively by a shared expertise and realizing whoever I handed on the road was caught up in the identical international world. 

The Euros is a cheerier equal. When Jude Bellingham’s bicycle kick landed the ball firmly at the back of the online final weekend, I felt myself as one in all many exclaiming on the TV, proven the inconceivable that I had been keen the group to commit. I may see it like a kaleidoscope: one in all thousands and thousands on their couch, on the pub or driving with the radio on, urging one thing to occur — adopted by the thrilling shock when, past all chance, the decision was heard.

These moments change into markers of understanding, later to be repeated: poor outdated Scotland . . . did you see the look on Modrić’s face? . . . what number of occasions will Ronaldo fail to attain earlier than he lastly retires? They change into hints of a bigger query — had been you there? — that hits extra considerably than the actual fact of whether or not you merely watched a sport of soccer. As shared sightings they act like pen strokes, drawing a collective map of what a rustic, collectively and aside, has witnessed. It solely amplifies while you start to think about the followers in different nations, making among the similar marks alongside their very own.

Worldwide soccer tournaments provoke in me a sense that’s normally unfamiliar — one in all collectivity and illustration. For a month, each few years, I style what it’s to be patriotic. Greater than that, it offers me an thought of what a purer patriotism could possibly be. I recognise the irony — English soccer followers hardly have a status for wholesome patriotism. Nevertheless it’s what supporting England does for me.

England is a sophisticated place, with lurking racism and drained concepts of nationality. We’re a wealthy nation but I can barely get a prepare, or a health care provider’s appointment, not to mention a house to name my very own. All these and extra make Englishness and a way of collective id fraught. However for a time, whereas our gamers are within the base camp, one thing within the air agitates and resettles. I can really feel it. It makes me aspire to an Englishness I’m snug with. It’s a long-term sport, one which far outlasts the thrill of a match. Nevertheless it’s a welcome facet impact.

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Even his absence looks like a sort of presence. The cameras proceed to hunt him out. The followers within the stands of their reproduction Manchester United tops screech a bit louder, scowl a bit tougher. The much less he does, the extra vital he turns into. The extra he disappears into this recreation, the heavier it feels, like a black gap sucking every part into its vortex.

And in the end Portugal too. The sabotage is full. Probably the most proficient squads ever assembled at this stage of soccer disappears into that self similar black gap, a Vegas-era Elvis act in the end notable just for its skill to make us gawp and hold gawping. It’s too terrible to look at. It’s too terrible to not watch. The clock ticks into its third hour, the second quarter-final suspended like a sentence that may by no means finish, and but with the data of precisely the way it ends. In the meantime, Gonçalo Ramos and Diogo Jota sit on the bench.

This was not a foul recreation of soccer. No recreation with this many spellbindingly good gamers on the pitch can ever be really tedious. Certainly, the expertise is a sort of protagonist in its personal proper. It was a recreation that felt – for higher and worse – like a closing, each motion and determination dancing on the cusp of instantaneous catastrophe. Soccer with most context: each move and sort out freighted with that means and intent, each shot on objective like a loss of life.

A few of the ending is really terrible. A few of the defending is gladiatorial. Early within the recreation Randal Kolo Muani picks up the ball simply outdoors the world and Pepe simply places him right into a taxi, bundles him apart like a vengeful father. Pepe will finish the sport with 152 touches, greater than anybody else on the pitch. Pepe will dash stride for stride with the substitute Marcus Thuram – a person to whom he’s giving 15 years and 90 minutes within the legs – and put the ball out for a nook. Pepe will block a shot from Kylian Mbappé and have fun it like an Olympic gold medal.

Rúben Dias will make a vital block on Kolo Muani as he goes via on objective. Nuno Mendes will slide in on Mbappé simply as the nice man is about to tug the set off. On the different finish Eduardo Camavinga will make a superb sprawling sort out on a dashing Rafael Leão, a fraction of a second earlier than he shoots from a decent angle. William Saliba will simply be quietly good. This isn’t the stuff of highlights reels and social media gold-dust. However it’s, in its personal means, the very highest type of footballing heroism.

The temptation is to level at this French facet, with their semi-final berth and their zero objectives from open play, and to comment sardonically that Didier Deschamps has lastly managed to create a staff completely in his personal picture. That is, after all, unfair. Deschamps was ruthlessly selfless as a participant, his each motion oriented in the direction of the collective. France, however, have the texture of a staff being held collectively by success alone. Get sufficient expertise in there, and perhaps the teamwork takes care of itself. No surprise they lastly appeared to unencumber when penalties arrived: a collection of straightforward particular person battles, a check of private talent, no techniques, no issues.

And but even Deschamps has the presence to withdraw Mbappé within the 106th minute when it turns into clear that it’s not going to be his night time. He was outrun by João Cancelo, couldn’t convert any of his 5 photographs, and if Mbappé can’t dash and may’t shoot, then frankly all you actually have left is a person in a masks pointing into areas. He sees out the closing minutes sat on the bench, an ice pack pressed to his nostril.

However not less than France know perform with out their captain. Portugal, in contrast, are nonetheless wedded to theirs, the chain-wrapped anvil that may finally deliver all of them down. There may be little level giving him something to chase, or taking part in any move to him longer than about 20 yards. If he peels to the left wing within the 53rd minute, he received’t make it again into the centre till the fifty fifth. He misses terribly from shut vary. He claims one other free-kick from an not possible angle, and by some means manages to hit all three gamers within the wall.

In a means, it’s onerous to not really feel resentful of him: resentful of the best way this grand, galaxy-sized event is in the end lowered to a perform of 1 man’s ego. This might have been an all-time nice quarter-final, and as an alternative part of it was stolen: stolen ball possession, stolen consideration, stolen minutes from higher gamers who truly need to be there, fairly than a pure anachronism trotting out just because nobody has the clout to inform him to not.

Théo Hernandez scores the profitable penalty, and instantly the Portuguese gamers instinctively flood in the direction of the heartbroken João Félix, the one man to overlook his penalty, and collect him of their arms. Mendes runs to him. João Palhinha runs to him. Nelson Semedo runs to him. Pepe units apart his personal unhappiness – this may increasingly properly have been his final recreation – and runs to him. There may be nonetheless a staff right here, and the one unhappiness is that we by no means acquired to see it.

One man doesn’t run to Félix. As an alternative he walks within the different path, off on his personal, pursued solely by the prurient gaze of the digicam. It’s Cristiano Ronaldo.

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MyKayla Skinner is addressing backlash over her feedback about Crew USA.

After sparking controversy with a since-deleted YouTube video, the retired Olympic gymnast issued an apology.

“I really feel like a whole lot of you guys had misinterpreted or misunderstood precisely what I used to be that means or had mentioned,” Skinner shared in a July 3 Instagram Story video. “Loads of the stuff that I used to be speaking about wasn’t at all times essentially in regards to the present crew, as a result of I like and assist all the women that made it and I am so happy with them.”

“It was extra about going again into my very own health club,” the 27-year-old continued, including that the “work ethic is completely different” in comparison with when “we had been doing gymnastics” with former nationwide crew coordinator Márta Károlyi. “And I am not sticking up for Márta or saying what she did was good, I am simply saying it was completely different.”

Skinner went on to notice it wasn’t her intention to harm anybody’s emotions along with her feedback.

“Sorry for something that obtained out of context or appeared hurtful,” the athlete added. “All through the video, I used to be so pumped for the women and it was so enjoyable watching trials and doing a stay with all people.”

“I like these ladies and I am critically so blissful for them,” Skinner mentioned. “I might by no means do something to make them really feel in any other case. So, sorry if that got here out flawed, that was not my intentions in any respect.”

In her YouTube video, Skinner — who stepped in for Simone Biles on the Tokyo Olympics, profitable a silver medal on vault — shared her ideas on the brand new period of gymnasts.

“Apart from Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply is not like what it was once,” she mentioned. “Simply discover like, I imply, clearly a whole lot of ladies do not work as arduous.”

“The women simply do not have the work ethic,” Skinner added. “And it is arduous too due to SafeSport. Like, coaches cannot get on athletes they usually should be actually cautious what they are saying. Which, in some methods is absolutely good, however on the identical time, to get to the place that you must be in gymnastics you do should be, I really feel like, a little bit aggressive and a little bit intense.”

Skinner’s feedback had been shortly met with backlash on social media.

In truth, on July 3, Biles seemingly weighed in on the controversy, posting on Threads, “not everybody wants a mic and a platform.”

England have superior to the Euro 2024 semi-finals nearly by stealth, producing one other detached efficiency for lengthy intervals right here, then going behind once more earlier than digging themselves out of a gap to win.

Southgate was lastly in a position to rejoice victory in his one hundredth sport in cost however solely after one other agonising 120 minutes and an anxious interval when it regarded like England had been going out.

England’s performances in Germany could not have hit excessive requirements however there is no such thing as a doubting their resilience and capability to beat adversity, as they proved once more after Switzerland went in entrance.

It was a very candy second for Liverpool’s Alexander-Arnold to strike the decisive penalty, having been dropped from his experimental midfield function after their second sport, in opposition to Denmark, then being ignored when Southgate determined to make use of wing-backs.

England’s new three-at-the-back technique regarded extra snug for the gamers however in opposition to the well-organised and assured Swiss, lacked risk simply as a lot as Southgate’s earlier plans.

As with Bellingham’s equaliser 86 seconds from the tip of regular time in opposition to Slovakia, Saka’s shot to maintain England alive was their first on track of the match.

England, finally, won’t care because it was a case of job finished however there may be absolutely a restrict to how typically they will make life troublesome for themselves earlier than they get off the hook.

Saka’s purpose was simply reward for a man-of-the-match show, whereas Aston Villa’s Ezri Konsa was impeccable in defence as deputy for suspended Marc Guehi.

Kobbie Mainoo additionally excelled in midfield nevertheless it stays a thriller why an England aspect so full of attacking riches appears to be like so impotent for thus lengthy – one thing Southgate should clear up earlier than their semi-final.

For now, nevertheless, England can rejoice dwelling on their nerves however staying alive at Euro 2024 as Southgate leads them into the final 4 of a serious match as soon as extra.

It’s been a busy pre-season marketing campaign for The New Saints, with eight friendlies performed in 4 completely different nations, that includes golf equipment from 5 nations.

On Tuesday, July 9, although, the rubber hits the 2024/2025 aggressive street, because the champions of Wales welcome their counterparts from Montenegro within the UEFA Champions League.

The primary qualifying spherical first-leg tie is an enormous one for Craig Harrison’s facet, as a result of if the problem of FK Dečić is navigated efficiently, then no less than three extra ties throughout the trio of UEFA membership competitions are assured.

The Blues (Plavi), because the opponent from the Balkans is understood, have performed in all however 4 of the First League (top-flight) campaigns because the league was launched, following Montenegro’s independence in 2006.

Following on from third (twice) and fourth placings within the three earlier campaigns, final  season was their first ever league title.

In a division that’s comprised of ten groups – the place all of them play one another 4 occasions (36 video games) – FK Dečić beat their nearest challengers, Mornar, by six factors.

In contrast, The New Saints ended 2023/2024 with a really wholesome hole of thirty-three factors, forward of Connah’s Quay Nomads.

The Montenegrins gained twenty of their fixtures, drew ten and misplaced six, whereas Craig Harrison noticed his Invincibles win on thirty events, with simply two attracts to mar what would have been an ideal season.

Ever-present on the European stage this century, though The New Saints has performed a number of different nations that had been as soon as a part of  Yugoslavia, this would be the first time towards a Montenegrin opponent.

Particulars will likely be launched on the membership’s social media platforms in the end and becoming a member of us for the commentary is Wales C supervisor, Mark Jones.

Ms Le Pen picked up the identical line of assault on Friday.

“I believe that Mr Mbappé is an excellent soccer participant. However this tendency for actors, soccer gamers and singers to come back ahead and inform the French individuals how they need to vote, and specifically individuals who earn €1,300- €1,400 [£1,099-£1,184] per thirty days, whereas they’re millionaires, even billionaires, who reside overseas, that is beginning to be badly obtained, in our nation.

“These are people who find themselves fortunate sufficient to reside comfortably, very comfortably, who’re protected against insecurity, poverty, unemployment and all the pieces that impacts and makes our compatriots undergo,” she mentioned. “At a time when the inhabitants is making ready to vote, they need to present a little bit of restraint.”

She added: “This election is an election of emancipation, seen as a approach for the French individuals to take again management of their future and vote as they see match.”