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[91news]

England's World Cup journey came to a heartbreaking halt due to dropped catches and key injuries. The absence of captain Heather Knight, who was forced into retirement, severely impacted the team's performance. Despite the valiant efforts of players like Nat Sciver-Brunt and Amy Jones, England's dreams of reaching the semi-finals were shattered. Dive into the highs and lows of England's campaign, and witness how the resilience of our players shone through even in the toughest moments. Like and share this video to support our team!

[sportsgr8]

‘Obviously With A Big Price Tag, There Is A Pressure To Perform’: Nat Sciver-Brunt Ahead Of WPL

T20 World Cup: England women’s team all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt clinched a staggering Rs 3.2 crore in the inaugural Women's Premier League (WPL) auction, a moment both exhilarating and sobering as she grappled with the notion of being "sold" in the cricketing marketplace. Yet, amidst the excitement, there loomed the weight of a T20 World Cup match, a testament to the demands placed on modern-day cricketers. With England's fixtures in New Zealand looming just days after the WPL final, Sciver-Brunt faced a dilemma familiar to many players: choosing between representing her franchise or her national team. Money inevitably played a role in her decision, but she also harbored hopes that such clashes between club and country commitments would diminish in the future, allowing players to prioritize international cricket without compromise. "Yeah, I mean, I would be lying if I said no," Sciver-Brunt told ESPNcricinfo's Powerplay podcast. "Having obviously gone for that much in the first year, yeah, it certainly came into consideration. "Hopefully this weigh-up of club versus country doesn't happen again. I know we've see it happen with the men's side of things and continue to happen for quite a while, and still will. Hopefully these clashes don't happen in the future, which I guess will keep the importance of international cricket and keep that focus for everyone." Jon Lewis, England Women's head coach, grappled with a similar conundrum, highlighting the need for coordinated scheduling to prevent such conflicts in the future. Amidst the uncertainty, players like Heather Knight and Lauren Bell opted to prioritize national duty, while Sciver-Brunt and others balanced their commitments to both teams. As Sciver-Brunt reflected on her decision, she acknowledged the complexities and individual choices that shaped the outcome. Conversations with teammates like Issy Wong and Danni Wyatt underscored the diverse perspectives within the cricketing community. "It is such a hard one, because it's almost like it's a bit of an anomaly, like it'll - well hopefully - will not happen again," Sciver-Brunt said. "With the World Cup coming up, T20 is obviously important as well to our side, but hopefully with the decision that I've made, that will give a chance to some players to have a bit of confidence in themselves in the first three games and be able to show Lewy and Heather what they've got. "I think it will only be better for our team, whether people have decided to go to New Zealand and not go to the WPL in the end, or hopefully people who have done well in India and got to some pressure matches, which will also help their game. So yeah, it was a tricky decision and I guess individuals have made their own their own choices and hopefully we won't be faced with that again." The burgeoning women's franchise scene brought new experiences, including the auction process, which Sciver-Brunt found both intense and surreal. Her third visit to India in 12 months provided valuable exposure to subcontinental conditions, setting the stage for future international competitions. "Ultimately people made their own decisions, which they should be allowed to," Sciver-Brunt said. "It would be an interesting one, obviously when we get to the latter stages of the tournament, if my team's in there, how it'll feel when England are playing and I'm not there." It is part of the growing women's franchise scene that scheduling squeezes are increasing. Another idea that women's players are having to come to terms with is the auction. "The wording of being sold at auction is still a bit baffling," Sciver-Brunt said. "Definitely a new experience that we'd seen before with many editions of the men's IPL. But to be part of it was pretty crazy, intense at times, and also just a weird day with it being during the World Cup. "This year, I actually watched part of the auction, so sort of got an idea about how it would've gone last year. I'm feeling a lot more settled and a bit more sure about what's going to happen, and excited to get back over to India, and start the competition." As a senior player in the England squad, Sciver-Brunt embraced her role as a leader, recognizing the importance of passing on knowledge and supporting her teammates on and off the field. Despite the added pressure of her lucrative deal, she remained focused on delivering performances that would benefit her team. "Being a senior player in the England side, I sort of had a bit of experience of that… making sure I have my own responsibility to be passing on knowledge and be open with everyone so that whole group can improve," she said. "But also that responsibility when we're on the pitch to either speak up if I see something that maybe could make a difference, or also then use my performances to help the side. I feel like I've been playing my cricket like that for the last four or five years, so it doesn't feel too different in that way. "Obviously with a big price tag, that does add another layer to it, but last year I was lucky that I was in quite a good place in my cricket, so I didn't have to think too much about the performance side of it and just naturally let it happen. I've had a good training block this time, so we'll see how it goes." Read the full article

[hafiz-ali-raza]

Heather Knight: Sydney Thunder's Captain for WBBL|09 Revealed

[fundtimes]

Matt Mullenweg fund Bay Lights!

"Matt Mullenweg, a web developer who created WordPress, has pledged $1 million."

Aww! Thank you @photomatt for helping keep the bay area lit up with beautiful art!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/sf-bay-bridge-lights-17700652.php?sid=600cd8a3bc1b563ad4121987&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=sfc_morningfix

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England Women squad for @white_ferns tour @heatherknight55 @tammybeau @natsciver @kbrunt26 @crossy16 @amyjones313 @danniwyatt28 @sophecc19 #icc #Cricket #englandcricket #NewZealand #whiteferns #nzvseng #nzveng #womens #womenscricket #womencricket #women #squad #weareengland #weareenglandcricket #heatherknight #nataliesciver #amyjones #daniellewyatt #katherinebrunt #sophieecclestone #sarahglenn #lovecricket #cricketheart Repost @englandcricket https://www.instagram.com/p/CKAcBazL9n9/?igshid=b1zjachm8q99

[khelpoint]

#OnThisDay in 2017, 💥 England lifted the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 🏆 for the fourth time ❤️ Heather Knight and Co. secured a close nine-run win over India in the final at Lord's. 🏆🏏 #england #india #ENGvIND #worldcup #final #englandcricket #ecb #bcci #heatherknight #icc #womenscricket https://www.instagram.com/p/CDA0mJOg_Fa/?igshid=1b8n8sm63i63s

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IND v/s ENG Women : इंग्लैंड की कप्तान हीथर नाइट ने जीता टॉस, दूसरे वनडे में पहले गेंदबाजी चुनी, भारतीय टीम ने बनाए 6 ओवर में 32 रन, शेफाली वर्मा और मंधाना क्रीज पर मौजूद

IND v/s ENG Women : इंग्लैंड की कप्तान हीथर नाइट ने जीता टॉस, दूसरे वनडे में पहले गेंदबाजी चुनी, भारतीय टीम ने बनाए 6 ओवर में 32 रन, शेफाली वर्मा और मंधाना क्रीज पर मौजूद

स्पोर्ट्स डेस्क। भारतीय महिला क्रिकेट टीम और इंग्लैंड की महिला टीम के बीच आज बुधवार को दूसरा वनडे मैच टॉन्टन में खेला जा रहा है। इंग्लैंड की कप्तान हीथर नाइट ने टॉस जीतकर पहले गेंदबाजी का फैसला किया है। सीरीज में इंग्लैंड 1-0 से आगे हैं। भारतीय टीम पहले बल्लेबाजी कर रही है।    IND W v ENG W: Knight wins toss, opts to field in 2nd ODI Read @ANI Story | https://t.co/gPkjlnuxt5…

[citymaus]

“Mayor London Breed and three supervisors privately decided the Great Highway—now a 17-acre park and one of the few silver linings to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic—will revert to a traffic artery five days a week starting Monday 16 August.

It won’t happen without a fight, though. Advocates for keeping the people-centered promenade are organizing protests on the highway. Also, three city residents on Tuesday planned to file a California Environmental Quality Act appeal in an attempt to block the return of the roadway to vehicles.

The city’s step backward, mirrored in its partial reopening of Twin Peaks Boulevard to cars and the decades-long fight, with no resolution, over JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, belies the need to give pedestrians and bicyclists more access to safe streets.

options for the great highway. twitter/atclmusic

“In a city that has 1,200 miles of roads for cars, devoting a small fraction to pedestrians and bicyclists isn’t too much to ask. If giving 2 miles of the Great Highway to people two days a week is a compromise, as the mayor says, that’s a strange definition.

Other cities are smartly making some roads car-free, in an attempt to combat climate change, improve air quality, promote health and exercise, and make streets safer. Barcelona, Spain, for example, plans to convert 20 miles into pedestrian green spaces. Paris is also expanding its pedestrian zones.

At the start of the pandemic, that kind of lovely future looked promising here, too. On April 3, 2020, San Francisco converted the Great Highway alongside Ocean Beach to a car-free promenade, arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic meant people needed more space for exercising while social distancing.

(Also, the highway was covered with sand, as it often is, and cars couldn’t get through anyway. Public Works spent $346,000 moving Ocean Beach sand around in 2019-20, a problem that isn’t going away just because drivers want the road back.)

“A city study found it was incredibly popular—drawing 126,000 visitors each month, including 3,240 each weekday. Protests, public art and music sprang up. A city survey found 53% of respondents wanted it to remain closed to cars permanently. The city also rightly responded to neighbors’ concerns about increased traffic on their streets, installing stop signs, speed humps and traffic diverters.

Maybe the Great Highway, supporters hoped, would go the way of the Embarcadero Freeway and Central Freeway—both took years of political fighting to dismantle and were transformed into beloved public spaces.

Marta Lindsey, spokesperson for the pedestrian advocacy group Walk SF, said reverting the Great Highway to cars five days a week is shortsighted.

“It’s the wrong move at the wrong time for so many reasons,” she said. “It’s really disappointing that San Francisco isn’t thinking bigger.””

read more: sfchronicle, 10.08.2021.

[sanfranciscoblog]

San Franciscans love griping about their city and arguing with one another about it. Verbally brawling over our biggest crises seems to have become the official city pastime.

We’re sparring over public schools, homelessness, overdoses, crime, transit, whether to keep a few streets closed to cars — even the merits of Ferris wheels.

This list could just keep going.

But a new coalition of politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders, nonprofit leaders, artists and more has found one subject we can surely all agree on: Our streets and sidewalks are filthy and smelly, and too many of our public spaces are ugly and uninspiring. Our geographically stunning city, with all its natural beauty, has frayed like a once-lovely home that’s fallen into disrepair.

Learn more at shineonsf.org

[sfmuniverse]

Incoming SFMTA CEO Jeffrey Tumlin talked with the Chronicle's City Insider podcast about his priorities.

[Every] 15 hours, somebody severely injured in city traffic is taken to San Francisco General Hospital in an ambulance. Tumlin said that, counting less serious injuries, more than 3,000 people are hurt or killed on the streets annually — and the city mostly just shrugs.

“That’s the equivalent of six 747s full of people every year,” he said. “Imagine if at SFO they crashed a 747 every other month. There would be a response. We’ve become inured to traffic violence. We call traffic violence accidents, as if they were an ‘oops!’”

Between improving Muni service and reliability, managing Uber and Lyft, reducing congestion, creating a network of bike lanes, etc. the SFMTA has no shortage of priorities, but “traffic violence” is a rapidly growing crisis despite the City’s Vision Zero program.

So what would help? Dramatically slowing traffic. The human body can withstand impact at 13 mph, Tumlin said, but after that, bones start breaking. The faster the car that hits you, the more likely you are to die. If you’re hit by a car traveling 20 mph, there’s a 10% chance you’ll die. At 40 mph, that goes to 80%.

Tumlin would like to see traffic in the city slowed to 13 mph.

In the interview, Tumblin cited Portland as a successful example where lights have been timed to slow traffic and reduced congestion.

[hackernewsrobot]

45 SF traffic cops issue just 10 citations combined a day

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/sfpd-traffic-tickets-17355651.php Comments

[taylor14firefly]

http://web.archive.org/web/20210424132100/https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/After-death-of-baby-S-F-domestic-violence-16125362.php

That example of the domestic abuser reminded me of a recent case of stalking. The other week a man was arrested trying to break into Taylor Swift’s New York property, and he has done this at least five times over the past six months alone, and he already has a history of stalking women in the public eye, with restraining orders. As was reported, this man “was charged with criminal trespass and released on his own recognizance after a Manhattan criminal court arraignment Sunday night.”

While there are many in prison who shouldn’t be there, leftists in general need to get better about acknowledging and discussing how to address the tangible, physical violence women and children face everyday.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-taylor-swift-attempted-break-in-apartment-tribeca-arrest-20210418-fgxn6xhbejdopmsepxu75lge4i-story.html

Re defund the police i just havent been able to get away from the fundamental issue of police demographic make up!! Like we need a concerted, concentrated campaign to put non-white supremacist males into these positions!!!! But twitter political purity etc does nothing to attract people in2 the profession with a mind for incremental progress. Like could the fed govt make all depts establish a unit or whatever JUST for like traffic stops and domestics and municiple infractions and then have those employees be federal DOJ employees and recruit from the communities?? Idk idk but there is a huge missing step in the imaginations of the hashtag defundthepolice crowd that u & others have pointed out before and im losing my patience w/the lack of actionable solutions they have put forth

For sure.

Even on a personal level, when I was waiting at the H Street Starbucks (the one staffed with deaf people) for my Grande Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew a few weeks ago, a white male cop walked in with his gun hanging out of his holster and I felt this like visceral fear despite the fact I'm probably not the primary target of the police in a public place at 2pm on a Friday afternoon. But, when I walking home, I saw a Black female cop directing traffic due to construction at an intersection, I didn't feel that fear, not least because her gun was tightly secured. Like, I'm not saying that non-white, non-male cops are never violent towards innocent people, but I find it insane that we don't talk about how the profession is like overwhelmingly white and male and their racism and misogyny definitely impacts how they treat women and POC.

I think the military has a lot of the same issues as the police due to the makeup, which is why I'm glad Lloyd Austin is in charge of the DoD and is making it his first priority to weed out the white supremacists. I doubt he'll be successful because the issue runs deeper than a few bad apples, but I respect that he's trying to do it, and I don't have any faith that the leaders of the Fraternal Order of Police will even halfheartedly attempt to do that to their numbers. Don't quote me on this but I think Austin is working with Kirsten Gillibrand as well to address sexual violence within the ranks, which I'm glad for because that's a huge issue women in the military face. (And no, abolishing the military is not a solution to this issue.)

The thing is, we need to enact what changes we can and push for me instead of going "let's abolish the police and if you ask how we're going to address rape and murder, we'll call you a carceral feminist." Also, let's quickly talk about this for a second: the sheer idea that "carceral feminists," who don't want to abolish prisons and the police because they want violent people to not be wandering the streets, are responsible for mass incarceration is ludicrous! I thought the stance of abolitionists was "the majority of people in prison are not rapists and abusers since the police don't prosecute those cases," so it should follow that even if carceral feminists' singular goal in life is to incarcerate innocent people, they're not remotely successful so maybe we should focus our ire on other people like idk, Senator Tom Cotton who's on record saying that the US has an under-incarceration problem.

Anyways, if you need more evidence that abolition in its traditional form does not work, check out the work of progressive San Francisco DA, Chesa Boudin, who let felony domestic violence cases pile up because reasons:

Like I'm sorry but when people with double felony DV convictions in the last year are murdering 7-month-old babies and weren't prosecuted, I'm done with touting rehabilitation and restorative justice as a viable method of addressing all the ills of society, and that's my bottom line.

[citymaus]

“It’s taken more than half a century—a long time even by San Francisco City Hall standards—but a permanently car-free John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park finally appears headed for reality.

Of course, this being overly bureaucratic San Francisco, declaring the 1.5-mile stretch of roadway car-free remains months away. Surveys must be done. Information sessions must be held. Very long meetings in which officials drone on and repeat each other must be convened.

But signs point to the beloved pedestrian and bicyclist paradise remaining in its current state forever—one of the few silver linings of the brutal COVID-19 pandemic to stick around. We just have to wait until early next year for it to be official.

The Recreation and Park Department and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency on Wednesday will release their top three picks for the roadway’s future, after completing their own studies and gathering community input.

“The first (and best) option is keeping the eastern end of JFK Drive between Kezar and Transverse drives permanently car-free with lots of improvements to make the area more accessible for people with disabilities.

The second (and worst) option is reverting to the pre-pandemic rules in which the road was closed to cars Sundays and some Saturdays.

The third option would allow cars to enter JFK Drive on Eighth Avenue, turn right and travel westbound, a divider separating them from pedestrians and bicyclists. That option adds 16 disabled parking spaces, but would create delays for buses and reduce the enjoyment for everyone else.

That one’s billed as the incremental compromise between those who want the road closed to cars and those who want it reverted to a thoroughfare on weekdays, but the real compromise would be keeping a mere 1.5 miles of roadway in the huge park car-free after talking about it for 54 years.”

read more: sfchronicle, 22.09.21.  more info: golden gate park access and safety program, sfmta.  view the online open house “storymap” and take the survey! 

[sanfranciscoblog]

Jeffrey Tumlin has worked in cities around the world — from Los Angeles to New York, from Vancouver to Wichita, Kan. He’s worked in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Moscow, too.

And the executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says San Francisco stands out among them all — for being the most conservative.

The SMFTA CEO recently sat down with the Chronicle's Heather Knight for a conversation about more than just transportation.

He truly believes that supposedly progressive San Francisco makes so little progress that it’s actually among the world’s most conservative cities.

And he’s right.

Though he mostly stuck to discussing transit, the idea holds true on a host of major issues including housing, climate change, small business reform and addressing our drug crisis. The traditional hallmark of conservatism is embracing the status quo, and San Francisco seems nearly incapable of major change.

The interview took place in Golden Gate Park, along the 1.5-mile section of JFK Drives that is currently – and controversially – closed to traffic.

[herringbookshelf]

Some of the game plan has gone into effect — including establishing safe sleeping sites for homeless people where their tents can be safely spaced out. One exists adjacent to the Asian Art Museum on Fulton Street, though that is slated to close by June 30 and its residents moved into hotels or other safe sleeping sites. Forty tents fill the site at Haight and Stanyan streets, and 21 people are sleeping in 16 tents at 180 Jones St. A new site for a few dozen tents will open Monday at Everett Middle School on Church Street.

Haney and other supervisors keep pressing for the city to move more homeless people into hotels rooms, but that’s been slow going. The city currently has 2,102 hotel rooms available, Carroll said, and 1,283 are being used. Most of the people in hotels came from shelters, single-room-occupancy hotel rooms or the streets, including 220 moved from Tenderloin sidewalks.

And meanwhile, one of the city’s main answers to the crisis, Homeward Bound, has ground to a halt, she said. That program pays for homeless people to go home to willing friends or family and helped about 60 people a month leave the city before the pandemic. But Greyhound bus lines have dwindled, and hardly anybody can leave.

Like always, it’s clear the city has one set of rules for the Tenderloin and another set for everywhere else. For example, the city initially said it would stop sweeping tent encampments citywide in accordance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that say homeless people should shelter-in-place in tents.

But that’s not entirely true. The city recently dismantled a tent encampment plagued with drug dealing and violence next to the Safeway in the Marina. And it dismantled a similar encampment in the Haight several days ago. Lt. Bill Toomey of Park Station sent an email to Haight neighbors reading, “If you see someone trying to retake the area, please call. THIS IS A PRIORITY.”

There’s no such priority in the Tenderloin.