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TBT Round of 16 Recap: La Familia, Carmen's Crew eliminated
The Elam Ending is the gift that keeps giving. Basketball fans have been treated to numerous breathtaking finishes so far in the 2025 version of The Basketball Tournament, and it was the same story on Tuesday. A total of five games were played on Tuesday, and all but one of them were decided by single-digits. Here is a recap of Tuesday's TBT action! Eberlein Drive 71, La Familia 70 La Familia saw their chance at $1 million go down the drain as Eberlein Drive's Anthony Clemmons drained a 3-pointer to reach the target score of 71 and deliver his team a 71-70 victory. Terry Taylor had a game-high 20 points, connecting on four three-pointers for Eberlein Drive. Gabe York (15) and Junathaen Watson (14) were the only other players in double-digits. La Familia had four players in double-digits, but one point too short. Archie Goodwin led the way in scoring with 19 to go with six assists and five rebounds. Kahlil Whitney finished with 18 off the bench. Willie Cauley-Stein poured in 12 points, going 6-of-6 from the field, and Andrew Harrison had 10 points. Eberlein Drive moves on to face the winner between Sideline Cancer and La Ignite. Shell Shock 68, NXT ERA Elite 62 Ronald March scored a game-high 21 points and Kevon Voyles added 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the field to lead Shell Shock to an impressive 68-62 win over NXT ERA Elite. Former Maryland standout Melo Trimble did not play in the game, but that didn't stop Shell Shock's offense, which shot 42% from the field and 43% from 3-point range. Sage Tolbert led NXT ERA Elite with 13 points, while Bruce Massey Jr. and Jordan Dingle each chipped in 10 points in the loss. With the victory, Shell Shock will advance to play Best Virginia at 6 p.m. ET July 28 on FS1. Best Virginia 79, Elite Nation 68 Best Virginia pulled away late with a strong fourth quarter and earned an impressive 79-68 win over Elite Nation. Best Virginia was fueled by a monster night from James Reese V, who finished with 24 points, five 3s, and a dagger step-back jumper to push the lead to double-digits late in the Elam Ending. Kedrian Johnson also delivered a key momentum-swinging play in the second quarter, picking off a cross-court pass and finishing with a two-handed slam that ignited the Charleston crowd. Rashad Vaughn led the charge for Elite Nation with 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting, including a scorching 6-of-8 from 3-point range. One of his biggest moments came midway through the third quarter, when he drilled back-to-back deep 3s from NBA range to cut the deficit to single-digits and force a Best Virginia timeout. AJ English chipped in 15 points and six rebounds in the loss. Best Virginia will move on to play Shell Shock at 6 p.m. ET July 28 on FS1. Fail Harder 68, Carmen's Crew 62 Carmen's Crew's quest to repeat as champions came to an end as the top-seeded team in the Indianapolis regional fell to Fail Harder, 68-62. Despite cutting the lead to four during the Elam Ending after trailing by 19 points at halftime, Carmen's Crew couldn't complete the comeback. Darius Adams sealed the win for Fail Harder with a baseline jumper. Adams finished with a team-high 19 points in the victory. The loss continues a rough trend for No. 1 seeds in this year's TBT, with six already eliminated. Aftershocks 66, Forever Coogs 63 Marcus Keene punched the Aftershocks' ticket to the next round with a game-winning 3-pointer in his team's 66-63 win over the Forever Coogs. Keene carried the offensive load for the Aftershocks, scoring a game-high 17 points. Ironically, Keene is not an alumnus of Wichita State like many of his teammates. Thanks to TBT's new Home Court Advantage rule, the Aftershocks will continue to host at Charles Koch Arena. If the Aftershocks keep winning, they will host every remaining game — including the championship — on their home floor. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily! Get more from the The Basketball Tournament Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
Forbes
24-06-2025
- Automotive
- Forbes
Coherix Launches Program To Tackle Sticky Manufacturing Issue
Coherix 3D adhesive dispensings system inspection station. The company has launched Coherix CARES to ... More customers for maintenance, training and other technical support. A manufacturing technology company has launched a program to help auto factories avoid facing a sticky situation. Where many parts and components were once primarily welded together by robots, those same robots are now using high-performance adhesives to do the job and they don't always get it right. In the case of cars and trucks, if the adhesives aren't applied correctly, occupants' safety could be at risk. 'The urethane on glass--that's all that's holding that glass in there is the glue. So that's a very critical application,' said Dwight Carlson, chairman and CEO of Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Coherix, in an interview. He also pointed to the critical role adhesives and sealants play in the myriad electronic systems in today's vehicles. Terry Taylor leads a dispensing-system engineering team at Coherix that will provide training and ... More service support for Coherix Cares customers. That's why Coherix has launched Coherix Cares, a subscription-based program to help ensure robots are applying adhesives and sealants correctly along with providing expert support at factories already equipped with the company's 3-D laser-based inspection systems. 'The idea was to create a program to help our customers bring things up to a certain level and help them maintain those using our systems as a tool to provide process feedback and make sure that their process is delivering the best capability that it can,' explained Jared Rogers, Coherix applications engineering manager. But don't lay all the blame on the robots if things go awry on the production line, warns Carlson. Coherix Cares is a backstop for the growing threat of human error. Coherix 3D inline inspection tracks the dispensing path comparing the shape, the continuity, the ... More volume and location to manufacturer specs 'The technology going into these plants is increasing all the time, and at the same time, they're trying to reduce costs anywhere they can,' said Carlson. 'As a result, there's less skilled people in these plants. At the same time, high technology like ours is going in. So there a big need for somebody to fill that gap.' It all begs the question of how hard is it to correctly apply glue? For a human with a brain and fine motor skills, it's not a big trick to adjust to different parts and conditions. It's a lot different for a robot, says manufacturing expert and principal at Autotech Ventures, Ivy Nguyen. Ivy Nguyen, a principal at venture capital company Autotech Ventures. 'Humans know how to adjust to that on the fly, whereas a machine may have to be trained on thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, millions of examples of what do you do,' said Nguyen. 'AI has made it possible to make those micro adjustments on the fly, I think, much more successfully than a machine designed in the 1980s might be able to do, but at the same time, if you need to make larger changes and how the glue is applied, you probably have to come in and rewrite some of the programs a bit, retrain the models a bit, in order to get it to work successfully.' Nguyen also points out today's factories may include equipment and systems from many different vendors making maintenance a bigger challenge. Coherix Cares subscriptions run for a year at a time on a sliding scale on a per sensor rate and how much support the customer desires, according to Rogers. ' So when I kind of came up with the ballpark numbers for this, it looks like the low end, about $3,000 per system. The high end, about $5,000 per system,' Rogers said. After putting out feelers for Coherix Cares around six months ago, within the last month the company landed a major Japanese automaker in the United States to adopt the program last month for powertrain assembly lines. Carlson declined to name the company citing confidentiality considerations. He's confident the roster of subscribers will grow given the company has more than 5,000 3D laser-based inspection systems worldwide systems installed at 51 auto manufacturers and 75 tier one suppliers. Indeed, the company says it expects to enroll more than 15% of its customer base to Coherix Cares subscriptions over the next several years.
San Francisco Chronicle
21-05-2025
- San Francisco Chronicle
Exclusive footage: Deadly Palisades Fire may have grown from this Jan. 1 blaze
A newly released video that captures the ignition of the Palisades Fire on Jan. 7 provides further evidence the disastrous Los Angeles County blaze was possibly the rekindling of a fire from days earlier, according to four wildfire investigation experts who reviewed the footage. The footage, obtained by the Chronicle and made public here for the first time, shows that the two wildfires broke out in very close proximity: the small Lachman Fire on New Year's Day and, six days later, the Palisades, which killed a dozen people and destroyed more than 6,800 structures in Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Topanga. 'You could see from the terrain it was in the same area,' said Tom Pierce, a certified fire investigator who has conducted more than 2,000 fire investigations, after reviewing the new video at the Chronicle's request. Federal and local investigators collected the footage as evidence in ongoing investigations; the Chronicle received it through a records request. A witness to the Lachman Fire told the Chronicle he heard and saw what seemed like illegal fireworks — a boom and a flash of light — and minutes later saw the orange glow of flames growing on a hillside. The videos also show flashes of light minutes before the blaze erupts, potentially supporting the belief that fireworks were the original cause. The new footage, captured by two UC San Diego wildfire cameras, provides a fresh view of the fires, buttressing the rekindle theory, said Terry Taylor, a retired wildland fire investigator who now works as an instructor. 'It falls under the category of a rekindle because you probably have an undiscovered ignition outside the border of the fire,' Taylor said. 'In effect, you already had another fire going, it just didn't go anywhere until the winds kicked up.' Fire investigators have not determined the cause of either fire. The Los Angeles Fire Department originally reported the Jan. 1 fire as contained around four hours after it started, and a spokesperson said the department left crews at the site for most of the day to mop up. LAFD brought the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in to lead the investigation into the Palisades Fire. Nicole Lozano, spokesperson at the ATF, declined to comment on the agency's investigation because it is still ongoing and involves 'copious amounts of data.' That includes information agents collected last month during a controlled fire that the LAFD lit near the Palisades Fire's suspected origin to test how fire traveled in the hillside park. The LAFD didn't respond to multiple requests for comment Monday. Some of the worst wildfires in U.S. history began with festering embers, including the 1991 Oakland hills fire, which killed 25 people, and the 2023 Maui firestorm that leveled the town of Lahaina. Embers can smolder out of sight even when a fire appears extinguished on the surface, often burning in the roots underground. In the Oakland firestorm, crews believed they had fully extinguished a 5-acre grass fire — but the flames rekindled the next morning, fueled by gusting winds. Experts told the Chronicle that while it would be unusual for smoldering embers to survive for six days, it is possible. And conditions in Southern California were far from normal. The Los Angeles area was unusually parched when the Lachman and Palisades fires broke out. It was the driest winter since recordkeeping began in 1944 at the nearby Los Angeles International Airport, with only 0.03 inches of rain since Oct. 1. And on Jan. 7, the National Weather Service warned Southern California that a 'life-threatening, destructive and widespread windstorm' could batter the tinder-dry region. Any spark, the agency said, could lead to 'extreme fire behavior.' Having two fires break out so close in proximity and time is too much of a coincidence, Pierce said. 'It's like lightning striking twice,' he said. Ed Norskog, who investigated more than 200 wildfires and co-authored the book 'Arson Investigation in the Wildlands,' also reviewed the footage and said it supported the rekindle theory. 'These videos show the fires starting basically in the same spot, give or take a few hundred yards,' Norskog said. 'That's pretty compelling. '(A rekindle) is entirely possible. The winds were extraordinary,' Norskog said. 'It could rekindle a fire even seven days later. … Any wildland fire investigator will tell you it happens all the time.' Alan Carlson, a retired Cal Fire deputy chief who worked more than 50 years as a wildland fire investigator, reviewed still photos obtained by the Chronicle in January and immediately became suspicious of a possible rekindle. At the Chronicle's request, Carlson reviewed the new videos this week, and felt they supported his earlier contention. 'If anything, it made me more sure that that theory needed to be explored,' Carlson said of a rekindle igniting Palisades. The first arriving firefighters on Jan. 7 noted the close proximity of both blazes. 'Started just below the old burn scar' from the Lachman Fire, an LAFD helicopter pilot reported to incident commanders at 10:49 a.m., according to audio reviewed by the Chronicle. Six minutes later, a firefighter with eyes on the advancing flames reported to supervisors: 'The foot of the fire started real close to where the last fire was on New Year's Eve.' On Jan. 11, just days after the Palisades Fire started, the Chronicle first reported the possibility that the New Year's fire had rekindled. Neighbors shared photos of both fire origins demonstrating the proximity of the conflagrations. Witnesses also told the Chronicle they saw and heard fireworks in the area in the moments before the Jan. 1 broke out just after midnight. Neighbors had long complained about illegal fireworks in Pacific Palisades. The Washington Post used satellite imagery to show that the initial phases of the Jan. 7 fire overlapped the Jan. 1 burn scar. The newspaper also spoke to neighbors who witnessed fireworks activity in the area before the flames erupted on New Year's Day. While fire officials in January downplayed any connection to the New Year's blaze, nearby residents say they have since been questioned by investigators. Don Griffin lives along Piedra Morada Road, south of the fire's origin, and snapped photos depicting the starts of both fires. 'ATF interviewed me and I gave them my photos,' he texted the Chronicle. Ari Sallus, who spoke with the Chronicle in January and again this week, said he thought he heard fireworks while walking on a trail to an overlook in Topanga State Park behind his family's Pacific Palisades home around midnight on New Year's Eve as fireworks exploded all over Los Angeles County. The night was foggy and the view limited, but he noticed an orange light on a nearby hill. It was a fire, he realized, coming from the direction where he thought he had heard fireworks. LAFD told the Chronicle the agency was alerted to the Lachman blaze at 12:17 a.m. Sallus said he stayed up most of the night watching. He returned to the area on Jan. 2 to walk around the burn scar, which was 'still smoldering,' said Sallus, who remembered that it 'still smelled like smoke.' He noticed that areas around the burned dirt remained thick with tinder-dry brush after about eight months with hardly any rain. He wondered why firefighters hadn't remained at the scene while it seemed so risky — and why no firefighters returned Jan. 7 when the Santa Ana winds battered the Los Angeles hills. 'You knew the winds were coming — that wasn't a surprise,' Sallus said. 'There could have been a fire truck there.' Carlson, the retired Cal Fire investigator, reviewed Sallus' photos and said they showed evidence of 'heavy water use' by firefighters and also some concerning spots where burned material was not scattered to prevent hot materials from nesting. The fire department told the Chronicle in January that crews used hoses to 'blast' water into the dirt and stir it up to extinguish any embers burning under the surface. After working on the site most of the day, the last LAFD units left the area at 4:14 p.m. on Jan. 1, a spokesperson said. Sallus said a Los Angeles city fire investigator reached out to him in February to ask about the location of the Jan. 1 fire's origin. Sallus, currently a student in London, spoke with the city investigator on Zoom and said he was surprised that the later Palisades Fire was not mentioned as part of the inquiry. He sent the investigator a series of photos that he'd taken that night. 'That was it,' Sallus said. 'That was the whole conversation.' In January, UC San Diego, which operates the AlertCalifornia statewide system of wildfire cameras, denied the Chronicle's public records request for footage of the Jan. 1 and Jan. 7 fire starts, saying that 'interest in not disrupting ongoing investigations is greater than the interest of the public.' The Chronicle fought the ruling and UCSD released the footage last week. The only redactions in the video are pixelations to residential and 'developed areas,' the university explained. All the videos are recorded from trailhead cameras affixed to a water tank just above the Summit neighborhood on the northern border of Pacific Palisades. The two cameras are part of the AlertCalifornia network of 1,150 cameras across the state. One maintained a single view, while the second operated in 'patrol mode,' in which the camera rotates 360 degrees, completing one orbit every two minutes. In each orbit, the camera snaps a dozen images. Because of the rotations, the initial images of the Jan. 1 fire show the key angle in time-lapse, each frame jumping two minutes from the previous. Approximately 22 minutes before midnight on Dec. 31, a flash of light is shown near the trailhead, lighting up a nearby palm tree. The experts told the Chronicle it could be the launching of a firework, or something entirely innocuous, like a headlight of a car. Because the video frames are two minutes apart, it's hard to discern, they said. 'There's some type of human activity going on at that spot,' Pierce said. Six minutes later, the footage captures a flash of light midway up the hillside among a thicket of tall chaparral bushes, potentially from a firework ember cast, two experts said. Sallus also indicated this was the general location where he spotted the flash of fireworks on Jan. 1. The first flash of flames came to life in the video 13 minutes after midnight. The camera — equipped with technology to detect wildfires — noticed the unusual activity, stopped its rotation and homed in on the fire growing larger with homes nearby. Firefighters stopped that blaze, but the same wouldn't be true six days later. On Jan. 7, billowing smoke triggered the camera to halt its 360-degree vigilance and focus on signs of fire on the brush-covered hillside. The smoke rose higher as clouds raced across a blue sky. Soon the whole hillside was ablaze.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Yahoo
Officers find 25 grams of meth, fentanyl in Franklin apartment; Resident arrested
A Franklin man is now in jail after officers found 25 grams of suspected methamphetamine and fentanyl in his apartment. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Early Tuesday morning, Franklin Police Officers served a search warrant in the Franklin Commons Apartment Complex, according to a Facebook post from the Department. TRENDING STORIES: Student dies after accidentally falling from balcony during senior class trip 2 people injured after car crashes into porches of multiple houses Man throws baggie of meth out window during traffic stop, deputies say During the search, officers seized 21 grams of suspected methamphetamine and 4 grams of suspected fentanyl. They also seized $2,000 in cash, according to the post. The tenant, 64-year-old Terry Taylor, was taken into custody and booked into Warren County Jail. Taylor is charged with a second-degree felony possession of drugs and a fourth-degree misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Further charges are pending, according to the post. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
