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Chicago Tribune
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Rookie Cade Horton matches Pittsburgh Pirates star Paul Skenes pitch for pitch in Chicago Cubs' 2-1 loss
Cade Horton knew the Chicago Cubs likely would struggle to score runs Friday at Wrigley Field. The quick turnaround from a night game, the wet, misty conditions and, most notably, National League Cy Young Award contender Paul Skenes on the mound for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The matchup didn't faze Horton, who has pitched in big games before, whether in the College World Series with Oklahoma in 2022 or making his MLB debut in New York against a tough Mets lineup. Horton matched Skenes pitch by pitch, inning by inning Friday, tossing 5 2/3 shutout innings while scattering three hits, walking one and striking out four Pirates. The Cubs couldn't get much going either against Skenes — who held them scoreless in five innings — and the Pirates bullpen in a 2-1 loss in 10 innings. 'I'm not scared of the moment, I love the moment,' Horton said. 'Going out there and competing, it's all about one pitch.' 'Iron sharpens iron. Being able to compete against him was really fun and hopefully we're doing it for a lot of years.' Oneil Cruz's fielder's choice off reliever Brad Keller briefly gave the Pirates the lead in the eighth. The Cubs (42-28) responded in the bottom half to tie it on Dansby Swanson's fielder's choice. Isiah Kiner-Falefa's sacrifice fly against lefty Drew Pomeranz in the 10th was enough for the Pirates to hold off the Cubs. Horton continues to impress as he seizes his opportunity. He has allowed three runs or fewer in six of his seven major-league appearances and lowered his ERA to 2.70 in three starts at Wrigley. Cubs fans gave Horton an ovation as he exited in the sixth inning. 'Cade's going to be Cade, it doesn't matter to Cade that Paul Skenes is pitching — and it shouldn't, Cade has got to go out and do his thing,' manager Craig Counsell said before the game. 'If anything, the pitcher feels, 'Hey, it's going to be tough to score for the Cubs today, and I'm going to try to do my best to keep us in it from that perspective, and I've got to be at my best.' Cade's going to be up to that challenge.' Horton's efficiency played a key role in his success versus the Pirates. He didn't allow the leadoff hitter to reach until the sixth, showed a five-pitch mix, featuring a nasty sweeper that on 16 pitches produced five whiffs on nine swings and two called strikes, and stayed around the zone to yield three innings in which he threw 10 pitches or fewer. 'He's a really big time competitor so he's hard on himself, but that's almost like his strength is he expects himself to be great,' said catcher Reese McGuire, who also caught him in Triple A this year. 'And that's what we talk about, just, hey, let's be good over and over, each pitch, win the pitch, win the at-bat and those good things add up, and then you have a great day. He gave us a chance to win today.' Skenes entered Friday with a 1.88 ERA through 14 starts while giving up more than two earned runs in an outing just twice. One of those times came against the Cubs, though, when they hit three home runs to score three runs off Skenes on May 1 in Pittsburgh. The Cubs didn't need a pregame meeting to prepare for Skenes. Friday marked the sixth time they faced the 23-year-old right-hander since he made his MLB debut May 11, 2024 — versus the Cubs, whom Skenes also squared off against in his second big-league start. 'It doesn't become a game planning meeting, it becomes execution for kind of both sides,' Counsell said. 'That's why I always say when you play somebody a lot, it's becomes execution, that's how this works.' Skenes largely executed against the Cubs, though they made him work. A Kyle Tucker 10-pitch at-bat and Matt Shaw getting him to throw 17 pitches between his first two plate appearances helped Skenes climb to 95 pitches by the end of the fifth to end his day. In the last two weeks, the Cubs offense has been tested by some of the best starting pitchers in the majors. The schedule has aligned for the Nationals' MacKenzie Gore, Tigers' Tarik Skubal, Phillies' Zack Wheeler and Jesús Luzardo and Skenes over the previous 10 games, with that group owning a collective 2.69 ERA, which is skewed by Luzardo surrendering 20 total runs in his two starts before facing the Cubs on Wednesday. As much as the Cubs battled in those games, they lost all five, including four by two runs or fewer. 'Winning. What else is there?' Counsell said, when asked what he wants to see from the Cubs against those caliber of starters. 'We can make up a narrative, but if we don't win, it's not going to be a good narrative. I mean, that's what we're trying to do. I can say, let's see a lot of pitches, and then after the game I can say we saw a lot of pitches, but we didn't score. 'Look, we want to have a good process, that's what you can control. But that always involves swinging at balls — the right pitches — so that doesn't change no matter who's pitching, it's always the same.' The challenging stretch has also yielded struggles with runners in scoring position, their .200 average in that span tied for third lowest in the majors. The Cubs stranded nine runners and went 0-for-10 with RISP on Friday. 'The offensive group has been so good all year, it wasn't going to be completely perfect, and you run into a stretch of some tough pitchers, some good staffs and bullpens that makes it difficult,' left fielder Ian Happ said. 'But that just means that we're due for a couple big numbers here, that's coming.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
From heartbreak to hope; suicide loss survivor says 'You are not alone'
FARMERSBURG, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — According to the CDC in 2023, suicide was the second leading cause of death among those ages 10 to 34. Losing a loved one to suicide is a pain that's nearly impossible to put into words. But in Sullivan County, one couple is doing just that—finding the words, sharing their story, and helping others find hope again. It's a mission born out of heartbreak and now, healing. On the county road next to Westlawn Cemetery in Farmersburg, Mike Frey spins the tires against the pavement in the truck he and his son, Cade, once restored together. They call them 'Burnouts for Cade.' A cloud of smoke. A roar of horsepower. A father's way of saying, I love you, I miss you. 'It has helped us grieve'; loved ones share the silver lining of organ donation after loss 'Cade was my son,' Mike said. 'He passed away from suicide, November 24, 2020. He had just graduated from high school at Sullivan. An amazing young man, he was a race car driver at the quarter midget track in Terre Haute, he loved motocross, he loved making people laugh and smile more.' Mike went on to describe his last interactions with his son and talked about the plans he had for the year. 'We did not see this coming,' he said as a silence fell over him. 'No one saw this coming.' Cade Frey took his life the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. 'I remember that day when I found him,' Mike said. 'There was nothing else we could've done for Cade,' Mike said as he was overcome with emotion. 'There was just nothing they could do.' Cade's organs were donated, and he saved five lives. But his absence left a void that Mike and his companion Rebecca are still learning to live with. 'I go by every single morning, by the graveside, and tell my son good morning, and try to go by every single evening and tell him goodnight,' Mike said. Their journey led them to Team of Mercy, a nonprofit based in Terre Haute that helps those left behind after losing a loved one to suicide. Snow angels made to honor life of Sullivan High School student 'We went to our first meeting in Terre Haute and have been going ever since for the last five years, every month,' he said. The couple now leads Team of Mercy's monthly survivor support group in Sullivan. 'It's just a place we can connect with others in Sullivan who are going through the same thing we are,' Mike said. 'Being around people who have experienced what you've gone through and what you've lost is very, very important because then you realize that you aren't alone, that you are sharing this with other people,' Rebecca said. 'I honestly feel if we didn't have Team of Mercy helping us through all of this, I'm not so sure we would get out of bed some days,' she added. Christina Crist knows that pain all too well. She lost her daughter Hannah to suicide in 2013 and became one of the driving forces behind Team of Mercy. 'Hannah, at the time of her death, was 15 years old, a sophomore at South High School. It had rocked our community's world to know that a 15-year-old, let alone thought about suicide, but actually took her life,' Christna said. Christina described Hannah as tears filled her eyes, 'A fun-loving kid. Charismatic, loving, caring,' she said. 'Kids described her as someone who, if they would be having a bad day and Hannah would notice that and do whatever she could to make sure they were going to have a better day.' A decade later, Christina's grief hasn't faded — but it has evolved. And through her pain, she's found a purpose. 'You will never ever, ever get over this,' Christina said. 'You're not supposed to. But what we learn to do is live in it. We learn to thrive in it, we learn to go on, we figure out how to still hold a piece of our loved ones.' For Christina, it's white butterflies. She spotted one when she sat down for this interview. She said the butterflies may have always been there, but it was after her daughter's death that she started noticing them. 'For almost 13 years, my other daughter and I, whenever we see a white butterfly, we say 'Hi Hannah.' Do I really think that's Hannah in that butterfly?' she questioned. 'No. No. But we find ways to bring joy in such absolute gut-wrenching pain. And if it's a white butterfly, 'Hi Hannah, hi.' And with every story shared—every burnout, every butterfly, every meeting—these survivors are making sure that their loved ones' stories never fade. 'I've lost my son, I can't feel any worse than I do,' Mike says as he chokes up. He takes a moment and then continues. 'There is nothing you could do to me to make me feel any worse after losing him. But if I could help one family from feeling that way, another family, that's all I want,' he added. As the white smoke from the burnout rises across the cemetery and over Cade's gravestone, so does Mike's message, 'You are not alone.' If you've lost a loved one to suicide, Team of Mercy wants you to know that you don't have to walk that journey alone. Mike and Rebecca host the Suicide Loss Support Group in Sullivan on the third Monday of each month from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Abundant Grace Church. It's located at 671 W Wolfe St., behind Walmart in Sullivan. The next meeting is happening on Monday, June 16. For more information on Team of Mercy, click here. If you are experiencing mental health-related distress or are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support, contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by clicking here. You can also text or call the hotline by dialing 988. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Otago Daily Times
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Invasion of the red tide
As climate change is the big issue of the day, there is plenty of scope for Dr Octavia Cade's brand of science fiction writing. Rebecca Fox talks to this year's Robert Burns Fellow. A toxic algae bloom is creeping up Otago Harbour, smothering everything in its path. Do you race down to the harbour to see it for yourself or shrug it off as just one of those things? Kerikeri writer Dr Octavia Cade is fascinated by the ways people could react to the scenario and interact with the environment. "So there's this plethora of strange and fascinating possible reactions." So much so the scenario forms the basis for a science fiction novel and a research paper she is writing this year while the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. "They've all gone a bit barmy, my characters. But it's fun. If you're into science fiction as I am, and you've been reading New Zealand science fiction from when you were a kid, there's a surprising amount of it that really looks at what do we do with an invasive species once it gets to New Zealand." Algae blooms are becoming more common in New Zealand summers with warming waters and nitrate run-off impacting waterways. It makes the perfect villain for Cade's preferred "near-future" writing style. "There are some really strange and interesting side effects [from it]." Even Under the Mountain by Cade's favourite author from childhood, Maurice Gee, has its invasive species. "The invasive species there was obviously the Wilberforces. They horrified me as a child, but as I grew up, and I keep reading it, because I do read it on a fairly regular basis, the solution to it is pretty damn horrifying, if you think about it. The solution to ecological invasion in the Wilberforces is for children to commit genocide." Cade grew up in Nelson and used to live across the road from the botanical gardens where Gee's The World Around the Corner is set. "So I would run up, well, I would play on the mountain pretending to be Caroline, who was the hero of that book." Her love of science fiction developed in childhood thanks to her mother who made sure she and her sister watched Star Trek . "So we're both sci-fi fans from way back so when I started writing, it was going to be science ficition rather than anything else." But it took time before Cade embraced writing as she planned to be a scientist. She came to Dunedin to study botany but soon discovered she "really hated" the way scientists were trained to write and the language of scientific papers. "The idea behind this is that the writing is as efficient as possible and can be read by other scientists working in your field. The downside of that is that it blocks everyone else out." As she was finishing her scientific studies, the Centre for Scientific Communication was starting up and gave her hope of another way. "That was the genesis for the shift, the sheer disgust of the scientific paper. I think at the time I remember there was a bit of a kerfuffle, it was one of the national journals in sciences, and it was supposed to be revolutionary that they were moving in their methods from third person to first person. I thought, God, do I really want to be reading and writing this for the rest of my professional life?" The move to science communication (the programme has since been cut) was an excellent move for Cade who has since completed her PhD in science communication and discovered she could turn her "fun" short-story writing hobby into something more. Back then she was writing more generic science fiction featuring vampires and other more usual genre characters. "But I wasn't very good at writing them. It turned out what I was quite good at writing about was plants and animals and how people react with nature and how we talk about science. And so once I started writing, they say write what you know, and eventually I started listening." It turned out to be good advice and her stories began to do well. "So I started writing science fiction as a way to communicate science, basically. And it sort of took off from there. So yes, the scientific paper is responsible for my career writing novels about algal blooms." After helping her marine biologist father as a child she knew marine biology was not as glamorous as it sounded. "It was standing in freezing cold warehouses holding clipboards while he dissected fish. And so I thought, I don't want anything to do with marine biology on any level." But a compulsory marine botany paper turned out to be more interesting than she expected. And down the line it has ended up producing a story about algae blooms. She has discovered a real fascination for the blooms, imagining a bright red harbour and people going slowly "doolally" around it after injesting food affected by it. "With algae, the colour and how toxic it is, how poisonous, how it smothers everything in the harbour. I mean, imagine an albatross trying to float in that or a seal. It sort of kills everything and you can't go swimming. It affects all the water sources, it sort of spreads. It's like this little contagion. "And the fascinating thing about algae blooms is really we have a decent idea how to stop them. You know, we've got to control runoff and all sorts of things, but we often don't." So while she no longer writes purely scientific papers, she continues to read a lot of them — for inspiration. "When I see something particularly weird or disgusting happening in the animal world, I "favourite" the page and then shove it in my story ideas file." Her first novel The Stone Wētā , published in 2020 and expanded from a short story written in 2016, came about after she read how scientists during Donald Trump's first term as United States president were working across borders to store climate data and information as they were concerned about censorship. The short story had been picked up by one of the top international science fiction publications Clarkesworld Magazine . "I was thinking, well, this sounds like something people should be talking about more than they are. And so that's where a lot of my stories come from, actual interesting bits of science. And I was able to include a lot of weird stuff in that book." Still really liking the concept, Cade developed it into an adult novel and it won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novel. Another news article she has bookmarked is of the fishscale gecko, which sheds its scales and "skitters off looking like raw chicken breast". "The pictures of this thing are revolting and fascinating. And I just love that anything weird and disgusting that can be used as colour." Cade believes each writer has their own natural length. Hers is short stories — she has had about 70 published to date around the world — so writing a novel is more of a challenge. "It's one of the advantages of the Burns. You get space to upskill in your creative practice." She sees her short stories as being part of a long historical and cultural tradition of short story writing in New Zealand with New Zealand children growing up on authors like Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Patricia Grace and Owen Marshall's work. "I just love them. I love how short stories require different things from readers and writers. You cannot, because you've got such a limited word count, you can't go explaining everything. You can't really go down sidetracks and wander. You've got to be very economical with your storytelling. And you have to trust that the reader can follow along. And I quite like that. "Whenever I try to write a novel, I often feel like I'm putting in all this waffle. But you can't write a novel like you're writing a short story." Cade remembers her first day in the Robert Burns fellow's office sitting staring at her computer. "For nearly the entire day, I stared sort of frozen in terror at this blank screen because they'd given me the opportunity and I'd been expected to produce something, something good." She gave herself a good talking to that night and the next day began to write. But she still feels slightly intimiated by the list of top New Zealand writers that have gone before her. "I have a bucket list, you see, of writing opportunities that I would like to apply for. And I've been quite lucky in getting them, but it is a luck that has been very much underpinned by a lot of hard work." She has applied for the Burns fellowship and others many times before, seeing each application as practise developing her application skills and learning from the rejections and comments she receives. "I mean, if you are in the creative sector, you have to have a very thick skin when it comes to rejection. A lot of it is luck, but a lot of it is hard work and not taking yourself too seriously. It's never nice having a story rejection or a novel rejection or a residency rejection. But if you are going to work in this industry, you need to learn to suck it up. And it's all part of the learning process, I suppose, in the end." These days her other "hobby", academic writing, has also become more of a focus as she became aware that it is an advantage to have a list of academic papers to her name when applying for residencies. "I don't get paid for academic writing but there is a cachet there and it is an investment." But it is also an excuse for her to indulge some of her passions such as a love of horror movies — a side effect of growing up on science fiction and her love of Under the Mountain . "The terror I spent lying awake at night thinking about the Wilberforces, you know, sludging at the window the way they did to the twins. There was something fascinating about that. So that was my gateway drug for horror." So writing papers about something she has seen in a horror film gives her an excuse to watch more of them. One of the papers she is working on is an academic collection coming out called "Sharksploitation, Shark Horror Films in the 21st Century". She is writing a chapter looking at urban shark films, things like "Under Paris" and "Bait", when sharks come into the cities. She finds urban ecology very interesting, especially the way people react to it when they see wildlife in places they do not expect to see it. "Because these are issues that are happening all around the world. I mean, in Colorado, I've written papers before on animal horror films, you know, giant sharks and crocodiles and so on. And they're kind of problems in wildlife management. "I think there's something very interesting that horror films are contributing to this sort of ongoing discussion. Because they remind us that, you know, we're not just existing outside of a food web." Cade is enjoying being back in Dunedin and revisiting all the places she remembers from her university days. "It's a great place if you want to write books or learn about nature, because you have the albatross and the sea lions and the penguins and Orokonui's just over there. There's so much scope for creativity." She was gutted to learn recently that the Frances Hodgkins and Mozart fellowships had been put on hold for a year given the benefits the fellowships have for creatives of all types.
Reuters
02-06-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Brazil antitrust body oks Petz, Cobasi merger, says local media
SAO PAULO, June 2 (Reuters) - Brazil's antitrust body Cade approved on Monday, without restrictions, the merger of pet product retailers Cobasi and Petz ( opens new tab, local news outlet Folha de Sao Paulo reported. The approval could mark Cade's final green light for the merger, unless an appeal is filed within 15 days. If this happens, the case could be decided by an internal Cade panel.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Metro company says someone has been stealing customers' checks out of the mail
A metro Atlanta small business says customer checks are repeatedly being intercepted in the mail and stolen before ever getting to them. 'We've had over 20 checks and it's over $4,000,' Page Cade, of A&A Exterminators, said. 'We're having customers calling and saying I haven't been serviced. And we say, well, we haven't received your check.' All the stolen A&A checks have been mobile deposited to a Regions Bank account. They were endorsed by individuals who have no relationship to the Cobb County business. '$4,000, that's a lot of money. It's a lot of money for anybody,' Cade said. Channel 2 Action News Investigates has been looking into postal check thefts since 2022. That's when we showed you how a Georgia State University research team was finding stolen checks and postal arrow keys for sale on online marketplaces. Just last month, that GSU professor, David Maimon, posted on LinkedIn that the prices for criminals to buy stolen checks have dropped since 2022. TRENDING STORIES: 'The Wire' actor says his son was 'thrown 300 feet' from their home in Henry County tornado A trip to a GA Burger King's drive-thru led to a high school graduate's dream he never saw coming Grandfather dies saving twin granddaughters from falling tree limb in Dacula He showed a photo full of checks, all for sale for just $100 total. 'Atlanta is one of the worst. Atlanta, Georgia, there is a mail theft epidemic,' said Frank Albergo, a postal service police officer and the president of their union. For five years now, he's been pushing to end a 2020 postal service policy change that prevents postal police from patrolling carrier routes. 'The postal service will not put postal police back out on the street even though we are the most effective tool to stop mail theft,' Albergo said. The FBI released a warning earlier this year alerting people that 'mail theft-related check fraud is on the rise.' Regions Bank tells Gray in this case, the A&A customers should be able to get their money back. Regions spotted the fraud, held the funds, and said A&A customers should reach out to their own banks. 'We're actively working on this matter and, as part of our standard fraud-flagging procedures, we placed security holds on the deposit account several weeks ago to secure funds and prevent recurrence. We remain ready to work with the bank that issued the checks to continue resolving this matter on behalf of the impacted business.'
