According to local authorities and media reports, firefighters are fighting wildfires for the second day in Izmir, in Turkiye’s western province.
Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli reported on Monday that the fire in the Kuyucak and Doganbey areas of Izmir was sparked by overnight winds of 40 to 50 kilometers per hour (25 to 30 kilometers per hour). Four villages and two neighbourhoods were evacuated as a result.
He told Izmir’s reporters that more than 1, 000 people were attempting to extinguish the fires with helicopters, fire-extinguishing aircraft, and other vehicles.
As he prepared to face Scotland on Saturday, Toulon scrum-half Ben White admits, “I haven’t stopped shaking.” He was called up as a replacement for the British and Irish Lions due to his injuries.
After Wales’ Tomos Williams was forced off the field with a hamstring injury in the 54-7 win over Western Force on Saturday, the 27-year-old received a call from Lions head coach Andy Farrell.
White was notified of the news while he was training for the Scottish All Blacks, Fiji, and Samoa national team at the Scotland training camp in Whangarei, New Zealand.
He called me this morning, about an hour ago, and I haven’t shook since. It’s a truly incredible honor. I’m very excited.
White acknowledged that it was challenging to “watch the first Lions squad be announced because he was not selected.
He said, “But it was a memory I can keep in the locker.” I was already aware that I had to do everything in my power to succeed at Toulon.
“I was very excited to be playing for Scotland’s amazing, and I was focused on that.”
Someone must be watching over me upstairs, I suppose. It’s “falling on my feet.”
White immediately called his parents to deliver the news.
He said, “I don’t think they could quite believe it.” They were obviously just extremely proud. It was a fantastic phone call.
You have a dream about it, but you never actually believe you will do it.
After Zander Fagerson was forced to withdraw due to injury, White brings Scotland’s Lions’ 38-man roster back to eight.
It’ll be great to see the Scottish boys and meet the players I don’t know too well, he said, “of course there are a fair few Scottish boys in the squad.”
White was informed that he had been booked on a noon flight to Australia shortly after Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend extended his congratulations.
Without his 25-times capped first-choice scrum-half, Townsend now needs to get ready for Saturday’s game against the Maori All Blacks.
“It was a great honor to be called up to play for Scotland, and being here in New Zealand was amazing,” White continued.
Thomas Sweeney’s first incentive to become a line judge was the offer of a free sandwich.
The main recompense for her work was taking annual leave of absence, for Pauline Eyre, who had been playing tennis for 16 years.
The best officials today could make up to £200 per day plus expenses.
But line judging has never been about the money for those who spend hours leaning forward, hands resting on knees, staring intently at a line of chalk to determine in a split second on which side of it the yellow ball has bounced.
For Eyre, having been so close to Jana Novotna on Centre Court that she could see her foot swaying in the Wimbledon final first point or being “psyched out” by John McEnroe was priceless.
The outfits followed, too.
“There’s nothing quite like walking out on to the iconic grass courts at SW19, wearing the uniform of what many consider the best-dressed officials in all of sport”, Malgorzata Grzyb, chair of the Association of British Tennis Officials (ABTO), told BBC Sport.
However, times have changed. With the introduction of electronic line calling, Wimbledon will have no longer have line judges for the first time in its 148-year history.
Players and umpires have already got used to the new set-up as it has been at other tournaments for a while, but on the green grass at Wimbledon, where advertising logos are muted and the players are dressed in white, the emptier courts may feel that bit more noticeable.
Eyre said, “It’s all the tradition of Wimbledon, with the people and the funny uniforms,” and that’s lost some of the personality. “I believe it’s all those little things that made Wimbledon Wimbledon,” she said.
Traditionalists will miss them, but technology fans will point to progress.
Challenges are “out.”
“Mr Djokovic is challenging the call on the right baseline, the ball was called out”.
When the umpire indicated that a line judge’s decision would be re-aired on video, there was frequently a buzz of excitement.
The rhythmic “ooooooh” followed when the human eye’s judgment was revealed to a packed arena and millions of viewers. The rhythmic “clap-clap-clap-clapping built up to the moment being shown on the big screen.
More than 14, 000 pairs of eyes on Centre Court could bore into the line judge who had been wrong by less than the width of a blade of grass. However, when the official was proven to be accurate, they had to resist the urge to appear even mildly arrogant.
Fans will gasp over the depiction of a “close call” rather than a verdict on human instinct versus technology, even though players can still request a replay this year. And, if recent tournaments are anything to go by, their laughs may be at the delayed reaction for some of the “out” calls.
The challenge system had probably “had its day” with fans, according to Paul Hawkins, the creator of the Hawk-Eye technology, which was first used at Wimbledon in 2007.
People “kind of got into it” when it was new, he said.
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Some line judges are still “in” with the judges.
The absence of line judges now gives players fewer people to take out their frustrations on, with Eyre remembering being “yelled at” by players and being hit by many balls.
Andrey Rublev was defaulted in Dubai last year for screaming in the face of a judge, while Djokovic was disqualified from the 2020 US Open for hitting a ball accidentally.
About 80 of the 300 line judges who have been cut will no longer be employed at Wimbledon, serving as “match assistants” who are on hand if the technology fails. They will also take on duties like escorting players who need to leave the court.
But their opportunities to work at big tournaments are dwindling, with the French Open now the only one of the four Grand Slams not using electronic line calling.
This year, the technology was introduced by the men’s ATP Tour and the combined ATP/WTA competitions, and only WTA-only competitions are doing so.
Eyre worries that this will affect the standard of umpiring in the future because line judging is a way to become a chair umpire.
“Why would you go to call the lines at Finchley Tennis Club under-12s if you haven’t got that carrot of ‘ maybe one day I can get to call lines at Wimbledon'”? Eyre, who contested the lines in 12 Wimbledon finals in the 1990s and 2000s while currently touring as a comedian, described her line-jumping career.
Grzyb points out that line judges are still used at many events below the top level of tennis and that the development process for officials has changed.
“Instead of starting solely as line umpires, new officials now receive training in both line and chair umpiring from the outset, enabling them to progress more rapidly to chair umpire roles”, the ABTO chair said.
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‘ Out… You can’t be serious, I believe!
Being a line judge typically requires being able to stand for a long time and, crucially, to bellow the call in a way that makes it clear what is happening.
As British number one Jack Draper found out at Queen’s, the automated calls cannot always be heard over a raucous crowd.
No one in the crowd was sure whether there had been an “out” call, so Draper’s attempt to take his semi-final to a decider was met with confusion.
The voices used at the grass-court tournament, according to Eyre, were not loud enough for the players because they were also unable to rely on the line judges’ arm gestures to indicate whether the ball was out.
“They have used very calm voices – it sort of sounds like the voice isn’t sure”, she said.
“Sort of like it says “out,” I believe. It’s a little awkward, I think. That’s very different psychologically, not hearing something sharp”.
And while some prefer the technology, some are unsure, as Briton Heather Watson recently remarked about how bad it had been with Birmingham’s line judges’ calls.
Sonay Kartal, a compatriot, claimed she struggled at the Australian Open because she could hear automated calls coming from other courts, which created confusion and even caused players to pause while imagining the call was coming from their court.
It is not yet known what the voices of the Wimbledon calls will sound like, with the tournament using the voices of some of its behind-the-scenes staff and tour guides. To avoid confusion between neighboring courts, The All England Club will use various voices on various courts.
Eyre suggests that it would have been great if McEnroe himself had a booming voice among the others.
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A stopwatch, paper, and a pencil were all first. Then came an electronic scoring system and next Hawk-Eye.
The need for human intervention decreases as technology improves.
What will happen next, then? Chair umpires?
McEnroe, a seven-time Grand Slam champion known for his verbal outbursts, has previously suggested eliminating the umpires and using technology as a substitute.
Sweeney, the man behind the free sandwich, is now the chair umpire for the 2023 French Open final.
He has overseen numerous matches on Wimbledon’s Centre Court and cannot imagine time being called on umpires in top-level tennis any time soon.
At the end of any situation where technology has its limitations, there will always be a need for a human to assist, Sweeney said.
There are circumstances in life that cannot be anticipated, and you need that person to be able to handle pressure, provide opportunities for understanding and empathy for a player, and be able to advise and direct the operation of the court itself.
But with nine fewer people on court during matches, Sweeney said it “can feel a bit lonely out there” after the “tradition of living the match together and encouraging each other to stay focused”.
One review official monitors the line technology while one ball kid and match officials are still available to help with tasks like getting towels for players or facilitating bathroom breaks.
The device simply plugs into any TV, streamed in HD 4K, and downloads hundreds of movies and shows.
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Shoppers can snap up the streaming stick for less(Image: Roku)
Through hundreds of channels and apps, including Disney+ and Netflix, streaming sticks give users access to an incredible number of TV shows and movies. The Amazon Fire Stick is undoubtedly the preferred option, but there is a second streaming stick available for less that can be purchased, making it less expensive than Amazon’s gadget.
The Roku Streaming StickLink opens in a new tab.” tabindex=”0″>Roku Streaming Stick retails for $ 49.99 at Roku and Currys, and typically costs the same at Argos. However, thanks to TopCashback’s £15 cashback offer, new customers can purchase the device for $ 34.37 after cashback. It will cost you slightly more, at £34.57, for current customers.
The streaming stick offers “breath-taking” picture quality with Dolby Vision and HDR10+, which offers “sharp resolution and vivid color.” The device offers hundreds of free, live, and paid-for channels, including the free Roku Originals on The Roku Channel, as well as streaming apps.
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For quick and straightforward setup, the slim Roku Streaming Stick 4K comes with an HDMI cable and is compact enough to fit inside the TV. The included voice remote control allows users to turn on and off the Roku device, and users can browse the available content quickly using the remote control.
The most recent generation of Amazon Fire Stick costs $9.99 and enables users to watch movies and TV shows in full HD. An Alexa-enabled remote control that can control the device is included.
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The Roku Streaming Stick 4K has received a 4.7 out of 5 rating from more than 280 Argos customers. Our Chromecast stopped working, according to a delighted customer who purchased the item. We will never be short of entertainment thanks to the amazing picture and abundance of channels that it has transformed our TV. There is no casting involved, but it can if desired. one of our top purchases.
Another satisfied customer gushed, “Absolutely amazing.” It’s fantastic, even though I only bought it a month ago. You can find everything you need on it, it’s bright colors, and it doesn’t freeze at all. The best method for quickly and cost-effectively transforming your average TV into a smart one.
The Roku Streaming Stick simply plugs into any TV(Image: Roku)
Unfortunately, one Argos customer was unsatisfied with the Roku Streaming Stick 4K, saying that “setting up my profile was simple and straightforward.” Unfortunately, I started to notice the incredibly annoying audio lag once I started watching. It’s still lagging despite my best efforts to fix it. It’s now completely unplugged and in a drawer, depressing me.
Another user compared “Great streamer, far better than Firestick.” faster and with better picture quality. Highly recommended.
Another customer remarked, “Super impressed with this device. The improved options and interface for the price were absolutely fantastic, but I was concerned about switching to a different one. I have no words for it that I can highly recommend.
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Just in time for the festival season or your next travel abroad, Fenty Beauty has restocked their popular best-selling body lava illuminator in three new shades.
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Just in time for all your summertime events, Body Lava from Fenty Beauty is back in high demand. This Body Illuminiser is touted as providing that “post-vacay glow in a bottle” all year round, whether you’re heading abroad for some sun or doing evenings. It’s back in stock, and there are also three new colors to choose from.
This Rihanna-favorite body luminizer leaves skin with a gorgeous, high-shine finish. It can be used anywhere and does exactly to your body what highlighter does to your cheekbones. This Fenty Beauty staple is only available for a limited time, so you might want to act quickly since it will undoubtedly be your go-to for beach parties, summer weddings, or festivals this year.
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This Body Lava Body Luminizer is now available in four different shades(Image: Fenty Beauty)
This ultimate body luminizer promises to give you a radiantly dewy, high-shine finish that leaves you looking like you just flew off a plane to the Maldives. This body luminizer is available in four different color variations, from shimmering pearl to radiant rose gold, to fit any skin type and occasion.
You can now achieve that sun-kissed, glowing look all year long thanks to this smooth, gel-based body luminizer, which glides on and leaves skin looking dewy. This sheer shade of color, which promises to give the skin a radiant, high-shine effect, highlights all skin tones for a silky, sun-soaked sheen any time of the year.
available on Fenty Beauty’s website, Sephora, Cult Beauty, and Lookfantastic, for just £46. Despite this, you’ll want to act sooner rather than later if you want a Rihanna-approved glow in a bottle because it has returned in time for this summer.
As five-star reviews pour in, many people are obsessed with this Fenty cult classic. On Fenty’s website, a fan wrote insatiably, “I’m SO glad they brought this back!” The best body luminzer available, hands down. You’re just pure glitter, to be honest. In the best way, the scent transports me to a lipsmacker from the late 1990s and early 2000s. When they ran out of stock, which is still in high demand, I was able to get a few bottles. I’m very excited to see Oyster Pearlz in its new shade; I’ll have to get some”!
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This Sephora customer exclaims, “I’m thrilled this is back!” My dry skin is benefited by the thick texture and gorgeous shine. Just like before, spritzy and enticing. Wish it was available for testing, but “absolutely worth buying year-round”!
When the new Oasis tour debuts and Aldi has unveiled a rebrand in a store prior to that time, Liam and Noel Gallagher will be performing on stage again later this week.
Aldi has announced a rebrand at one of its stores ahead of the Oasis reunion tour(Image: Dave Phillips/PinPep)
A tribute to Oasis has been unveiled at a supermarket in Greater Manchester ahead of Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher performing at Heaton Park. The band are set to play the venue on the Oasis Live ’25 Tour next month.
Liam, 52, and Noel, 58, will kick off their reunion tour in Cardiff on Friday before returning to Manchester next week. Oasis are scheduled to perform five gigs at Heaton Park, with the shows taking place between July 11 and 20.
Ahead of the tour, supermarket chain Aldi has announced that it has paid tribute by having changed the name of its Bury New Road store in Prestwich. The store, which is just a few miles from Heaton Park, has been renamed ‘Aldeh’.
Aldi has announced that its changed the name of its store near Heaton Park to ‘Aldeh’ ahead of Oasis performing at the venue(Image: Dave Phillips/PinPep)
The retailer claims that the temporary rebrand embraces the retailer’s Mancunian name. The store’s renaming was described as in honor of the Gallagher brothers and Manchester’s musical heritage, according to the article.
The sign will be on display at the store throughout Oasis’ eagerly awaited comeback period in the city, according to Aldi. Fans of the band have already waited outside the store to take pictures of the new tribute, it’s been made fun of.
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With the Oasis reunion, we wanted to honor Manchester, which has a rich musical history, in line with the statement of Julie Ashfield, COO of Aldi UK. We’re honoring both the local dialect and the legendary band that have entertained fans all over the world by temporarily changing the name of our Bury New Road store to “Aldeh.”
Additionally, Aldi has made it known that a new line of Aldimania Bucket Hats will be available during its Oasis celebrations. The hats, which retail for £4.99 each, will go on sale in stores nationwide starting this week on Thursday.
It comes ahead of Noel Gallagher (left) and Liam Gallagher (right) launching their reunion tour later this week(Image: Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
It comes following the news that Aldi would be launching other limited edition products in tribute to Oasis, as reported by the Manchester Evening News. A new Supernova Champagne bottle will launch at Aldi’s Bury store from July 7, whilst Wonderwall Premium Lager launched nationwide last month.
Oasis’ reunion tour begins at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Friday night, with a Saturday-only set for a second performance. Next Friday, the band will play five shows there before moving to Heaton Park in Manchester.
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After their home performances, the tour continues at London’s Wembley Stadium. Following performances at Glasgow’s Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium and Croke Park in Dublin, the tour’s UK and Ireland leg includes dates in both the UK and Ireland.
