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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monica Hesse: R. Kelly, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK: How pretending to be bad boys helped them get away with being bad men

  08-01-2019 23:54 via sportspyder.com
  The Nantucket courtroom in which Kevin Spacey was arraigned Monday was a real courtroom, not a Hollywood set: Instead of a dramatic mahogony judge’s bench, it had a plastic laminate desk. Instead of a coiffed character in costume, it had a 59-year-old
  
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• Joshua Tree National Park closing over shutdown problems

  08-01-2019 23:44
  Joshua Tree National Park • Destruction of its signature trees and driving off-road during the partial government shutdown have added to problems that will force popular Joshua Tree National Park to temporarily shut down this week.Closure of the vast desert park is set for 8 a.m. Thursday and will allows staff to address sanitation, safety and resource protection issues that have occurred, the National Park Service said in a statement Tuesday."While the vast majority of those who visit Josh
  
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• Monica Hesse: R. Kelly, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK: How pretending to be bad boys helped them get away with being bad men

  08-01-2019 23:29
  The Nantucket courtroom in which Kevin Spacey was arraigned Monday was a real courtroom, not a Hollywood set: Instead of a dramatic mahogony judge’s bench, it had a plastic laminate desk. Instead of a coiffed character in costume, it had a 59-year-old man — puffy and pasty without the benefit of a makeup department — who responded to his given name of Kevin Fowler as he pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a busboy in 2016.The job of a performer, of course, is to perform.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Utah Jazz have issues at the midway point

  08-01-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  The second half of the season should be easier, but this Jazz team is just three games ahead of last year's pace — when Rudy Gobert was out.
  
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• Brad Rock: Utah Jazz have issues at the midway point

  08-01-2019 23:22
  SALT LAKE CITY — Back home on Wednesday to face Orlando, the Jazz will hit the season's midway point under fair to partly cloudy skies. That's not a weather forecast, it's a condition.The Jazz have yet to reveal what they'll be in 2019. But soon there should be some clues. Eight of the next nine games are at home. Of those eight opponents, just three have winning records. Two have 10 or fewer wins.Orlando is in 10th place in the East. The Jazz host the Lakers on Friday, with LeBron James p
  
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• Red Rocks reversed their shaky history on balance beam last year; here’s why they think they’ll be even better this season

  08-01-2019 23:20
  Often times college gymnastics coaches prefer consistency in their lineups with the belief familiarity will lead to better performances.But the Utes are taking a different tact this season, keeping things loose with the hopes competition for lineup spots will keep the athletes pushing themselves.The event where that competition is particularly intense right now is the balance beam. The Utes have had their struggles on the beam in the past, but they had a strong season on the event in 2018 and th
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Ricky Rubio, Thabo Sefolosha out around 2 weeks after hamstring MRIs come back clean

  08-01-2019 23:15 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz were dealt a scare when Ricky Rubio and Thabo Sefolosha both went down with injured hamstrings. That being said, the team was given decent news on Tuesday regarding the two players. According to Shams Charania and Tony Jones of The...
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Two Trump traits that led to the shutdown

  08-01-2019 23:13
  The continuing partial shutdown of the federal government undermines one common criticism of President Donald Trump even as it confirms another.The overstated criticism is that Trump has turned the Republican Party into a cult of personality. He could raise taxes or promote taxpayer-funded abortions, according to this theory, and his supporters would applaud his brilliance and far-sightedness.It’s true that some Trump supporters speak cultishly of him. It’s true, as well, that many R
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Shutdown stalls Trump farm bailout created in response to trade war

  08-01-2019 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The government shutdown has stalled President Donald Trump’s program to send billions of dollars to farmers hurt by the trade war with China as the Agriculture Department office responsible for administering the payouts is closed for...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Red Rocks reversed their shaky history on balance beam last year; here’s why they think they’ll be even better this season

  08-01-2019 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  Often times college gymnastics coaches prefer consistency in their lineups with the belief familiarity will lead to better performances.
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Report: Ricky Rubio, Thabo Sefolosha's MRIs for Hamstring Injuries Return Clean

  08-01-2019 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio and forward Thabo Sefolosha have both had hamstring problems, but their MRI results were each clear Tuesday, according to Shams Charania of Stadium and The Athletic...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Lessie Brown, oldest person in the U.S., dies at 114

  08-01-2019 23:07 via sportspyder.com
  Lessie Brown, a 114-year-old Ohio woman who was believed to be the oldest person in the United States, died Tuesday, her grandson said.
  
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• 🎧| @AlemaHarrington joined The Note to talk fashion, sneakers & second-half success ⤵️ » on.nba.com/2RBCH2o

  08-01-2019 23:04 via twitter.com
  🎧| @AlemaHarrington joined The Note to talk fashion, sneakers & second-half success ⤵️» on.nba.com/2RBCH2o
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Rubio out as Jazz host road-weary Magic

  08-01-2019 22:57 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are looking forward to a long stretch of home games after playing a league-high 25 road games during the first half of their slate. The Orlando Magic would just like to go home. The weary Magic complete a six-game excursion that...
  
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• Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort accused of lying about sharing poll data

  08-01-2019 22:55
  Washington • A new court filing says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied about sharing polling data on the 2016 presidential race with Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate accused of having ties to Russian intelligence.The information is in a redacted court filing Tuesday from Manafort's lawyers. The Associated Press was able to view the redacted material because it wasn't properly blacked out.According to the filing, prosecutors say Manafort lied to investigators about sharing t
  
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• Shutdown stalls Trump farm bailout created in response to trade war

  08-01-2019 22:31
  Washington • The government shutdown has stalled President Donald Trump’s program to send billions of dollars to farmers hurt by the trade war with China as the Agriculture Department office responsible for administering the payouts is closed for lack of funding.On Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that the department has extended the deadline for farmers to apply for bailout payments. The application window was slated to close Jan. 15, but Perdue said Tuesday that
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utes' high volume of 3-point attempts is driving their offensive success.

  08-01-2019 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  Utah's basketball team thrived from 3-point range during the opening week of Pac-12 play, with 52.9-percent shooting in two games. That's probably not sustainable.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Filing: Manafort accused of lying about sharing poll data

  08-01-2019 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • A new court filing says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied about sharing polling data on the 2016 presidential race with Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate accused of having ties to Russian intelligence.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Wayne County’s ‘Deputy Dolittle’ mannequin has quit after watching for speeders for 16 years. (But a new guy may replace him soon.)

  08-01-2019 22:26 via sportspyder.com
  There’s a job opening at the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, one where being a dummy is an advantage.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Utah Jazz first-half awards, with MVP, LVP, Most Improved, Dunk of the Half, Shot of the Half, and more

  08-01-2019 22:26 via sportspyder.com
  Believe it or not, the Jazz’s season is halfway done.
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Report: Blake Griffin asked Clippers to call him if traded, but didn’t answer when they did

  08-01-2019 22:25 via sportspyder.com
  Griffin previously expressed dismay with how Clippers treated him in trade process
  
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• Lessie Brown, oldest person in the U.S., dies at 114

  08-01-2019 22:19
  Lessie Brown, a 114-year-old Ohio woman who was believed to be the oldest person in the United States, died Tuesday, her grandson said.Brown, who had been living with one of her daughters, died at the home in Cleveland Heights, according to Ronald Wilson.Brown said in 2013 it was God's will that she had lived so long. Others in her family attributed her long life to the fact that she ate a sweet potato nearly every day until she was well past 100."Oh I don't know. A lot of them say it's because
  
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• Wayne County’s ‘Deputy Dolittle’ mannequin has quit after watching for speeders for 16 years. (But a new guy may replace him soon.)

  08-01-2019 22:04
  There’s a job opening at the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, one where being a dummy is an advantage.Law enforcement officers in the south-central Utah county, which includes the north entrance to Capitol Reef National Park, are looking for a new mannequin to place in the police cruiser that the sheriff’s office parks at strategic spots to deter speeders.The old mannequin, dubbed “Deputy Parker Bogus Dolittle,” was originally procured by the former sheriff, Kurt Tayl
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - After attacking Mia Love for avoiding them, Rep. Ben McAdams is holding two town hall meetings

  08-01-2019 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  Newly elected Rep. Ben McAdams is keeping a campaign promise: he’s holding two traditional town hall meetings this month, plus an open house in his new district office.
  
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• Utes' high volume of 3-point attempts is driving their offensive success.

  08-01-2019 21:40
  Utah's basketball team thrived from 3-point range during the opening week of Pac-12 play, with 52.9-percent shooting in two games. That's probably not sustainable.Yet coach Larry Krystkowiak plans to keep emphasizing the volume of 3-pointers, compared with his team’s 2-point attempts. The Utes already were in the top 25 nationally in terms of the percentage of 3-pointers among their total shots, and that figure became slightly higher in a win at Arizona State and a loss at Arizona.For the
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Donovan Mitchell adjusting to elevated expectations

  08-01-2019 21:40 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz guard trying to build off promising rookie year
  
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• Filing: Manafort accused of lying about sharing poll data

  08-01-2019 21:40
  Washington • A new court filing says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied about sharing polling data on the 2016 presidential race with Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate accused of having ties to Russian intelligence.The information is in a redacted court filing Tuesday from Manafort's lawyers. The Associated Press was able to view the redacted material because it wasn't properly blacked out.According to the filing, prosecutors say Manafort lied to investigators about sharing t
  
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• After attacking Mia Love for avoiding them, Rep. Ben McAdams is holding two town hall meetings

  08-01-2019 21:18
  Newly elected Rep. Ben McAdams is keeping a campaign promise: he’s holding two traditional town hall meetings this month, plus an open house in his new district office.During the campaign last year, he attacked then-Rep. Mia Love for avoiding town hall meetings where anyone may ask anything.Instead, she held 85 controlled small-group and open office meetings, though she would frequently call them town halls. She said she moved to those limited meetings as a safety measure, amid reported th
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - What air travelers should know about the government shutdown

  08-01-2019 21:03 via sportspyder.com
  Dallas • The partial government shutdown is starting to affect air travel.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: As the Jazz enter the season’s second half, are you optimistic or pessimistic, hopeful or hopeless?

  08-01-2019 21:03 via sportspyder.com
  There are three rather distinct, divergent ways to process and view what the Jazz have achieved to the halfway point of their season, 41 games in, and to figure what it means for the second half.
  
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• Win a pair of 🎟🎟 to tomorrow's game against the @OrlandoMagic‼️ All you have to do is: - Retweet this post - Enter… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-01-2019 21:02 via twitter.com
  Win a pair of 🎟🎟 to tomorrow's game against the @OrlandoMagic‼️All you have to do is: - Retweet this post - Enter… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Furloughed Utah IRS workers to rally calling for end to shutdown

  08-01-2019 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  Ogden • Furloughed Internal Revenue Service workers in Ogden are planning a rally later this week to call for an end to the partial government shutdown.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: It’s time for Naz Mitrou-Long to get an opportunity

  08-01-2019 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are extremely short-handed in the backcourt due to injuries. Two-way player Naz Mitrou-Long is deserving of an opportunity. Currently, third-...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Bucks loss smarts, but Rubio’s injury is the real killer

  08-01-2019 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz dropped to 20-21 on the season after falling to one of the East's best in the Milwaukee Bucks, but the real loss was an injury to Ricky Rubio...
  
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• Monson: As the Jazz enter the season’s second half, are you optimistic or pessimistic, hopeful or hopeless?

  08-01-2019 20:36
  There are three rather distinct, divergent ways to process and view what the Jazz have achieved to the halfway point of their season, 41 games in, and to figure what it means for the second half.Try to determine which group you most snugly fit into:1. Extreme optimists. The Jazz are just getting started, just getting ready to rumble, and start and rumble and finish they will. Even though the Jazz have, at times, shot the ball as though it were a bag of sand, that ball will yet often spin softly
  
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• What air travelers should know about the government shutdown

  08-01-2019 20:18
  Dallas • The partial government shutdown is starting to affect air travel.Over the weekend, some airports had long lines at checkpoints, apparently caused by a rising number of security officers calling in sick as they face the prospect of missing their first paycheck this week.Safety inspectors aren't even on the job. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said Monday that inspectors are being called back to work on a case-by-case basis, with a priority put on inspecting airline fleet
  
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• Furloughed Utah IRS workers to rally calling for end to shutdown

  08-01-2019 20:07
  Ogden • Furloughed Internal Revenue Service workers in Ogden are planning a rally later this week to call for an end to the partial government shutdown.The Standard-Examiner in Ogden reports that about 5,000 people who work at the IRS office in Ogden are struggling without pay checks during an impasse that is in its third week.The rally is scheduled for Thursday at 12 p.m. outside the federal office building in Ogden that houses IRS employees. A similar event is planned in Washington that s
  
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• Utah Jazz: It’s time for Naz Mitrou-Long to get an opportunity

  08-01-2019 20:05
  The Utah Jazz are extremely short-handed in the backcourt due to injuries. Two-way player Naz Mitrou-Long is deserving of an opportunity. Currently, third-string point guard Raul Neto is Utah’s only healthy point guard on the main roster. That says all you need to know about the health of the Utah Jazz’s backcourt. Ricky Rubio injured […]
  Utah Jazz: It’s time for Naz Mitrou-Long to get an opportunity - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opini
  
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• The Utes reached a new benchmark by winning the Pac-12 South this season. The next step is a big one.

  08-01-2019 20:04
  Football coaches Jim Mora, Todd Graham, Rich Rodriguez, Clay Helton (twice) and Mike MacIntyre were in the spot Utah's Kyle Whittingham now occupies, trying to follow through on a Pac-12 South championship in this decade.None of their teams repeated the next season.Whittingham's program is better positioned with returning personnel than those former division winners, but history says that going from a South title to a Pac-12 championship is far from guaranteed.The decisions of defensive linemen
  
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• Utah Jazz: Bucks loss smarts, but Rubio’s injury is the real killer

  08-01-2019 20:00
  The Utah Jazz dropped to 20-21 on the season after falling to one of the East’s best in the Milwaukee Bucks, but the real loss was an injury to Ricky Rubio. Monday night could have been a great one for the Utah Jazz. Playing a squad that may well end up representing the Eastern Conference in […]
  Utah Jazz: Bucks loss smarts, but Rubio’s injury is the real killer - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Utes reached a new benchmark by winning the Pac-12 South this season. The next step is a big one.

  08-01-2019 19:40 via sportspyder.com
  Football coaches Jim Mora, Todd Graham, Rich Rodriguez, Clay Helton (twice) and Mike MacIntyre were in the spot Utah's Kyle Whittingham now occupies, trying to follow through on a Pac-12 South championship in this decade.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Idaho farm income declined in 2018, dairy is struggling

  08-01-2019 19:40 via sportspyder.com
  Pocatello, Idaho • Idaho farm income fell for a second straight year in 2018 largely due to overproduction by dairy farmers, according to a recent economic report.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Skyrocketing cost of insulin causes some desperate diabetics to ration

  08-01-2019 19:27 via sportspyder.com
  At first, it seemed like the stomach flu. Weeks before his 24th birthday in May 2015, Alec Raeshawn Smith was overcome by troubling symptoms. His body ached, his stomach hurt and he wasn’t sleeping well. Laine Lu, a co-worker at his restaurant job,...
  
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• “If it’s the Ricky Rubio man bun, I’ll go with that.” 😂 #OnTheClock | @BaileysMoving https://t.co/JaHPHzIkuk

  08-01-2019 19:24 via twitter.com
  
  “If it’s the Ricky Rubio man bun, I’ll go with that.”😂#OnTheClock | @BaileysMoving https://t.co/JaHPHzIkuk
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Antetokounmpo scores 30 points as Bucks down Jazz 114-102

  08-01-2019 19:22 via sportspyder.com
  After not playing at all in the Milwaukee Bucks' previous game, Thon Maker got a chance to shine in a hard-fought win over the Utah Jazz on Monday night. Maker had a season-high 15 points off the bench for the Bucks, who clamped down on defense in...
  
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• Skyrocketing cost of insulin causes some desperate diabetics to ration

  08-01-2019 19:07
  At first, it seemed like the stomach flu. Weeks before his 24th birthday in May 2015, Alec Raeshawn Smith was overcome by troubling symptoms. His body ached, his stomach hurt and he wasn’t sleeping well. Laine Lu, a co-worker at his restaurant job, urged him to see a doctor. “This is not normal,” she recalls telling him. “Go get checked out.”His mother, Nicole Smith-Holt, worried too. He called her when he decided to go to a health clinic near Minneapolis. He said,
  
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• Idaho farm income declined in 2018, dairy is struggling

  08-01-2019 18:55
  Pocatello, Idaho • Idaho farm income fell for a second straight year in 2018 largely due to overproduction by dairy farmers, according to a recent economic report.The University of Idaho Extension report estimates total net farm income declined 27 percent to $902 million. Total net farm income represents earnings paid to farmers after subtracting expenses.Farm cash receipts, estimated at about $7.2 billion, were relatively flat, the Idaho State Journal reported. Cash receipts relate to cash
  
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• Hale Centre Theatre’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ makes magic that rivals the classic movie. Here are 6 over-the-top moments.

  08-01-2019 18:54
  Sandy • If you’ve seen the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” there’s not much new in Hale Centre Theatre’s production. It’s a faithful adaptation of the film.But this is theater — a different experience — and HCT goes big, with moments that inject magic into the story of Dorothy Gale’s trip over the rainbow to the land of Oz.Thanks to the wizards who built and run the Centre Stage theater at Hale’s location in Sandy, the stage rotates
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Four confusing questions, including Sixers' Jimmy Butler drama and Tom Thibodeau's untimely exit - CBSSports.com

  08-01-2019 18:40 via sportspyder.com
  Also: What's up with the Jazz? How the heck are the Spurs doing this?
  
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