AMHERST, N.Y. Amherst drivers need to beware of some construction happening this weekend.

The New York State Department of Transportation announced that lanes will be restricted on I-290 in Amherst over I-990 on Saturday.

Lanes will be reduced down to one on eastbound I-290 from Niagara Falls Boulevard (US Route 62) to Millersport Highway (NY Route 263) for bridge deck repair work.

Lane closures will start at 8 a.m. and are scheduled to end at 4:30 p.m.

Drivers should expect some delays and allow for extra time.

The deck repair is weather sensitive and could be delayed for the weather.

Drivers are reminded to slow down in work zones and remember that fines double in these areas.

For up-to-date travel information, call 511, visit http://www.511NY.org or download the free 511NY mobile app.

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The consistent fall of rain in Baltimore perhaps offered some cover, but the first pitch of Tuesday nights Orioles game and six others that followed made it clear: Summer has arrived early at Camden Yards.

After Chicago Cubs leadoff hitter Christopher Morel hammered Kyle Bradishs first pitch over Oriole Parks new left field wall to begin the night, the Orioles answered with five home runs of their own including a second-decker from Austin Hays to beat Chicago, 9-3, in the first half of a two-game interleague set.

It took two pitches for Baltimore (24-33) to even the score with Cedric Mullins going deep, marking the first time an Orioles game featured both teams hitting leadoff home runs since Houstons George Springer paired with Adam Jones in 2016. Trey Mancini sent Cubs starter Keegan Thompsons next pitch into the bullpen in left-center, marking the first time the Orioles first two at-bats resulted in homers since Seth Smith and Manny Machado did it in 2017. The consecutive solo shots doubled the Orioles total of first-inning home runs this season.

The Orioles broke the game open an inning later when Jorge Mateo hit a three-run home run beyond the new wall. It was Baltimores 11th three-run home run of the season, a total that entered the day as the most in baseball and surpassing their 2021 mark. They pushed two more runs across in the third, with Hays doubling in a run then narrowly beating the throw to the plate on Ryan Mountcastles sacrifice fly.

We havent been real good at scoring early in the game, manager Brandon Hyde said. We havent done that a whole lot this year, really in the past few years. I just thought we came out swinging aggressively. Maybe a little contagious.

The Cubs chased Bradish from the game in the fifth. The rookie right-hander took the mound having thrown 88 pitches, just three beneath his season high, but Willson Contreras sent No. 89 over the left field wall. A two-out walk ended Bradishs night after 105 pitches, but the Orioles got that run back in emphatic fashion.

With two outs in the inning, Hays launched a 2-1 changeup from Alec Mills down the left field line, with the drive becoming only the seventh home run in Camden Yards 30-year history to reach the ballparks second deck. At a projected 464 feet, it was the fourth-longest home run at Camden Yards since Statcast began tracking in 2015, coming a foot shy of a Machado solo shot in 2017 for the longest at home by an Oriole in that time.

Asked whether hes ever hit a ball to that area in batting practice, Hays immediately responded, No.

Ive never sniffed the second deck before, Hays said. I dont know if there was a gust of wind or what happened on that one, but all the stars aligned for me to get one up there.

Having battled injuries for much of his major league career, Hays is batting .292 with an .826 OPS, playing in 52 of the Orioles 57 games. That includes a .341/.399/.543 slashline against right-handed pitchers after he had a .684 OPS against same-handed throwers in 2021. Hyde credited the success to health, with Hays saying the consistent at-bats that come with it are playing the largest role.

Hes just hitting the ball hard, Hyde said. I think youre seeing what kind of player he can be when he stays healthy and he plays every day.

Hays blast was the fourth home run of the night over the deeper left field wall and seventh in six June games after there were eight in Baltimores first 24 home games.

For good measure, Ramn Uras homered in the sixth, making Tuesday the first time since August 2017 that five Orioles all homered in the same game. Mancini was part of both quintets.

I think we kind of noticed it in the Seattle series; I felt like balls were carrying a little bit more, Hyde said. Thought the ball was really carrying tonight. Not to take anything away from the homers, but there was a lot of deep flyouts. ... I think weve seen it here before. Balls carry here, but we had five tonight, and it was good to see.

As hes managed his way through some long days in Baltimore, Hyde has often fallen back on his experience on the Cubs coaching staff, watching a rebuilding process unfurl and result in a championship.

Tuesday marked the first time hes managed opposite his former team, for whom he was the first base coach on their 2016 World Series title club among what he called seven pretty magical years there.

He acknowledged it was a little strange to be managing against them, though Chicago has endured many changes since Hydes tenure there. Cubs manager David Ross was a catcher on the roster during Hydes coaching stint. Before Tuesdays game, he chuckled thinking of a photo of he and Hyde missing on a high-five attempt after a Cubs walk-off victory.

I think I sat next to Brandon as he stood on the steps at Wrigley every day of my tenure in Chicago when I was a player, and hes a real old-school baseball-minded person. I think hes got a lot of experience and I value him for his baseball opinion. I call him for opinions, managerial opinions, people opinions, baseball opinions, spring training opinions, all the time.

It was a special group. Hes a special man. Outside of us winning, hes a great human being, great baseball man that I had a lot of good baseball conversations with. Learned a ton from him.

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>> Before the game, the Orioles reinstated infielder Chris Owings from the bereavement list, claimed right-hander Austin Voth from the Washington Nationals and designated right-hander Cody Sedlock, a first-round draft pick in 2016, for assignment. Voth, 29, has a 5.70 career ERA across five major league seasons and has pitched mostly in relief the past two years.

>> Rookie catcher Adley Rutschman singled in the eighth inning to snap an 0-for-20 skid. Through 14 major league games, the top prospect in baseball is batting .145.

>> Terrin Vavra rejoined Triple-A Norfolk after a rehab assignment with High-A Aberdeen, though the Tides game in Nashville was rained out.

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Wizards of the Coast has finally unveiled the first Warhammer 40,000-themed cards for Magic: The Gathering. Announced in February 2021, the Universes Beyond product line will include four standard Commander decks and four collectors edition Commander decks, which are all scheduled to be released on Aug. 12. In addition, the collaboration with Games Workshop will also feature three Secret Lair drops. The announcement, made Thursday on Twitch, also included a handful of preview cards.

These new Commander decks will contain a combination of new cards and reprints of classic cards featuring new 40K-themed art. Decks include Necron Dynasties (black), Forces of the Imperium (white, blue, and black), Tyranid Swarm (green, blue, and red), and The Ruinous Powers (blue, black, and red). The only Legendary Creature revealed was Abaddon the Despoiler, a 5/5 monster with trample. That card includes the new Mark of Chaos Ascendant ability, which adds cascade to cards based on the amount of life that your opponents have lost this turn. That should allow plenty of additional spells to get triggered as a result.

The concept of collectors edition Commander decks is a first for Wizards. Presenters said Thursday that the decks will be fully foiled and will include a new surge foil treatment on certain cards. Photos and videos of the never-before-seen treatment are on the way.

Another new ability mentioned during the presentation is called Squad. It was included on the only Ultramarine-themed card shown during the presentation, and it allows players to field copies of a newly summoned creature for the cost of two additional mana of any color.

The 40-minute presentation also includes details on Double Masters 2022 (coming July 8) and Dominaria United (coming Sept. 9). For more details, you can find the entire archive on Twitch.

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The creators behind the Aya Neo gaming console have officially announced a successor to the popular gaming handheld called the Aya Neo 2. The new console features a host of upgrades over its predecessor, the largest of which includes an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (Rembrandt) APU with RDNA 2 graphics. The CPU upgrade makes the Aya Neo 2 one of the world's first handheld gaming consoles to leverage RDNA 2 graphics outside of Valve's Steam Deck.

The processor upgrade alone will give the Aya Neo 2 a serious performance upgrade over the original Aya Neo's Ryzen 5 4500U running on the older Zen 2 architecture and much slower Vega graphics. The AMD's Ryzen 7 6800U running in the Aya Neo 2 has two more cores and runs on the much more efficient and powerful Zen 3+ microarchitecture.

With this type of performance in mind, the Aya Neo 2 has the potential to outperform Valve's Steam Deck as well, and not just the older version of the Aya Neo. The Aya Neo 2 has superior APU specifications across the board, with a faster Zen 3+ CPU featuring more cores and a higher frequency RDNA 2 GPU that features more cores than the Steam Deck.

The Steam Deck's Aerith APU (a custom chip based on Van Gogh) wields four Zen 2 cores with a 2.4 GHz base clock and 3.5 GHz boost clock, whereas the Aya Neo 2's Ryzen 7 6800U flaunts eight Zen 3+ cores at a 2.7 GHz base clock and 4.7 GHz boost clock.

But the Aya Neo 2's most significant upgrade comes in the Radeon 680M RDNA 2 iGPU paired to the Ryzen 7 6800U, which is AMD's most potent iGPU to date. According to AMD, the Radeon 680M performs just under that of the entry-level discrete Nvidia GPUs such as the GTX 1650 Max-Q, making it a serious option for PC gaming at resolutions up to 1080P. In addition, the Radeon 680M has 12 RDNA 2 CUs at 2,200 MHz; meanwhile, Aerith sports eight RDNA 2 CUs that max out at 1.6 GHz.

The Aya Neo 2 is also receiving several other upgrades besides the SoC. Including support for LPDDR5-6400 memory, PCIe 4.0 SSD storage, and USB 4.0 ports, to name a few. The improvements should put the Aya Neo 2 at feature parity with other modern gaming handhelds, including the Steam Deck. Unfortunately, all we know about the new Aya Neo 2 is in terms of specifications. Other specs such as screen size, type, and resolution are still unknown.

Besides upgrades, the Aya Neo 2's also got a massive makeover in aesthetics. The console no longer features the boxy look of the original Aya Neo or the green and black finishes on the buttons. Instead, the Neo 2 features a far more rounded design, with grips that look very similar to the Steam Deck -- ironically, and the color theme has transitioned to a grey-on-white theme -- identical to that of Nintendo's Wii consoles and controllers. It gives the Aya Neo 2 a more mature look than the original Neo.

The only unfortunate news is that we don't have any data about a release schedule or pricing. However, if the new console has broken cover, we should know more information very soon.

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Two and a half months after our Steam Deck review, Valve has finally provided the drivers youll need for audio if you choose to install Windows on the gaming portable. Before today, you would have had to pair Bluetooth headphones or plug in USB-C earbuds or a dongle to get any kind of audio on Windows at all. Both the speakers and 3.5mm jack did nothing on Windows before today, and it blamed AMD for the delay.

But now, this pair of new drivers should enable both of the missing audio features. It took a while for AMD and Valve to bring out the initial set of graphics, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and SD card drivers for Windows, too.

Is it time to install Windows on your Deck? Nope, I definitely wouldnt say that. While Valve keeps squashing bugs and adding neat features on the Linux side of things, Windows was even more of a mess to start, and Valves been clear youre largely on your own if you go that direction. I had all sorts of issues with Windows 10 some weeks back and while the Deck now has proper TPM support in the BIOS so you can install Windows 11, I cant tell you if itd be any better.

Personally, I would wait for Valves upcoming dual-boot wizard so you can add Windows without wiping the Steam Decks existing SteamOS installation first. (You can simply swap out the M.2 NVMe drive instead and keep the two OS separate that way, but be careful.)

For me, the bigger deal is that Windows simply doesnt have the same console-like trappings that make the Deck so good to begin with, particularly how you can get an instant window into your performance and battery life and fine-tune all of that on the fly.

If you want Windows, Id probably look into a dedicated Windows portable instead, particularly once rivals react to the Deck with more powerful chips and / or lower prices.

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Rounds are shrinking and valuations are waning, but supply chains remain challenged. The problem may be shifting from inventory shortage to inventory glut, but the pressure to keep service up and costs down is still high as ever.

2021 was a banner year for supply chain tech. Startups across supply chain management, freight tech, warehouse tech, and last-mile delivery raked in $64 billion, according to Pitchbook. As of May 9 this year, supply chain tech has raised $17 billion roughly 27% of last year's funding total and 35% of the way through 2022.

That means supply chain tech venture funding in 2022 is currently pacing to land somewhere above 2020's $38 billion, but below 2021's $64 billion.

Charley Dehoney vice president of Xebox, a tech accelerator founded by the CEO of ocean shipping giant CMA CGM, told Insider business-to-business tech is maintaining investor confidence better than consumer tech.

"I'm definitely seeing that rounds are still coming together mostly the premium startups that have high quality growth numbers and really good adoption. They're still getting funded at valuations 65% what they were three or four months ago," Dehoney said.

Supply chain-related startups told Insider that investors have increasingly focused on unit economics toward the second half of last year especially for companies actually moving goods.

"Investors care a lot right now about unit economics for businesses like this, where historically there's been there have been companies that have raised a lot of money that haven't necessarily built a sustainable business model," Eric Wimer, founder and CEO of reverse logistics startup Returnmates told Insider in January.

Returns pickup, which Wimer champions, may be under increased scrutiny due to a spotty history. But even last mile delivery startups, which have traditionally received more funding than any other segment of supply chain tech, are on alert.

Veho founder Itamur Zur told Insider in February that the company's unit economics were as important to investors in its $170 million Series B round as its expansive vision for the future of e-commerce. Last-mile startups continue to draw the most backing from venture investors, but their share of total supply chain investment is dwindling.

Here are five pitch decks supply chain tech startups used to win over investors in the last year.

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The biggest strength of this deck is that the combo only takes up eight slots. The rest of the deck can be used to help execute Greasefangs plan. Portable Hole and Thoughtseize can deal with any hate that might start seeing play against this deck while milling creatures like Stitchers Supplier help find your combo pieces and prepare you to bring them back.

Another deck that had a decent Winota matchup, Omnath Adventures is by far the spiciest take on this list. This deck was so powerful in pre-Innistrad standard that it single-handedly added two cards to the standard ban list. Adventure lists excel when they can interact with their opponents and outvalue them by turning each card in the deck into three or four different spells with Lucky Clover. This deck has the tools to deal with everything else on this list and can do so rather easily.

Like the Yorion Fires deck, Omnath was being taken out by cards intended to deal with Winota. The meta will likely shift away from Redcap Melee now that Winota is gone, making Omnath harder to kill. Ray of Enfeeblement will be a card that this deck continues to watch out for.

The biggest appeal for this deck is the Mono Blue matchup. Adventures was created in a time when Flash and Control strategies excelled in standard. Tempo synergies that rely on counterspells to keep tempo do not deal well with a deck that copies each of their spells multiple times.

To make things even more exciting, this deck has some fringe success in Pioneer too. That version is rather different, focusing on Possibility Storm and Enter the Infinite, but if it can hang in Pioneer, it can hang in Explorer.

Strategies that scare this deck come from tempo swings that the deck cant keep up with like Nissa, who Shakes the World or things they cant interact with like Lotus Field. Those cards dont have a big impact in Explorer yet, so now is this decks time to shine! I recommend playing some copies of Yasharn, Implacable Earth in the sideboard to help deal with sacrifice.

There are other powerful strategies that are very viable in Explorer, but these are some of the best. There is now a big, but temporary, difference between Explorer and Pioneers ban lists. Is that going to affect the communitys opinion of Explorer? Hopefully, it really is temporary, and the formats become one and the same sooner than we think.

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Bringing in the big bucks? Over the years, the Below Deck franchise cast has played coy about their earnings only offering small glimpses about the money they bring home.

The hit Bravo series, which debuted in 2013 and has spanned several spinoffs, follows the lives of crew members who work and live on super yachts during charter season. The cast earns money working on the boat, which is supplemented by tips from guests and their involvement in the reality series.

In May 2022, Eddie Lucas sparked a conversation about paychecks when he revealed that he wont be coming back for season 10 of Below Deck after appearing in six seasons.

I was not invited back to do another season, the first officer told the New York Post in May 2022. I actually didnt even get a phone call from them saying they hired someone else which kind of goes to show what the production entails. Everyone on Below Deck is expendable.

The Maryland native also called out the ups and downs that come with working on deck and having to film at the same time. There is somebody monetizing off of the show, but its definitely not us, he noted. Below Deck regardless of it being the most popular show on Bravo we are the lowest-paid cast members.

For the Bravo personality, it was difficult to grasp why his paycheck didnt reflect the hard work that he put into each season. While we do get paid better than a normal yachtie, of course, we are still not getting paid what people like the Housewives are making, which is a little frustrating, because theyre not really working theyre just going out to dinner and fighting, he added at the time.

After a Below Deck fan page reposted Lucas quotes on Instagram, several former franchise stars weighed in on the confession.

Below Deck Mediterranean alum Jessica More replied, Yep I see all facts in his statements. Meanwhile, Below Deck Sailing Yacht stew Dani Soares added, .

Ciara Duggan, who appeared in season 1 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht, also claimed that Lucas is not wrong when it comes to how much the cast has been paid. Fellow alum Tiffany Copeland pointed out in the comments section, Would be nice to get residuals when reruns air at least!

Executive producer Jill Goslicky, who works on Below Deck Sailing Yacht, previously revealed that the crew members dont earn money from one direct source. They get paid in a few different ways, Goslicky wrote via Reddit in March 2021. They do get a salary for being hired as part of the yacht crew, they do get to keep their tips, and they do get a production fee.

Goslicky also noted that guests are actually paying for their vacations, even though it has been confirmed that there is a discount for people who agree to film their time on the boat for Below Deck.

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Now this yacht news rocks. Below Deck will return for Season 10 and Below Deck Mediterraneanwill also return, Bravo announced on Thursday, May 12.

Below Deck, which first premiered in 2013, follows all the drama that goes down above and below deck during a superyacht crew's charter season. Below Deck's most recent season, Season 9, previously ended with a reunion that aired in February 2022.

It was also confirmed that Below DeckMediterraneanwill return for Season 7. The series first premiered in 2016 and Season 6 wrapped with a reunion that aired in October 2021.

But that's not the only new Below Deck on the horizon. The previously announced Below Deck Adventure is slated to premiere in Fall 2022. The new series follows charter guests in the glacial fjords of Norway, where they will get into such thrilling activities as dog sledding, heli skiing, cold-water plunging, and fishing in the Scandinavian waters. The mega-yacht crew will be pushed like we've never seen before on Below Deck as they cater to ultra-wealthy clients, on top of dealing with the physical demands of cold-water adventures.

Below Deck was just one of the series Bravo confirmed new season orders of this week. New seasons of Vanderpump Rules, Project Runway, Top Chef, Married to Medicine, Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Summer House, Winter House, Family Karma, The Real Housewives of Orange County, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, The Real Housewives of New York City, The Real Housewives of Potomac, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City were also announced. Recent premieres include The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and Love Match Atlanta as well as new seasons of the critically acclaimed late-night talk show, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.

You can now stream all new episodes of all Bravo shows next-day on Peacock for the first time ever, with subscribers to Peacock's premium tier able to enjoy the latest Bravo hits along with complete access to past seasons.

In other exciting Bravo news, BravoCon will be returning to New York City October 14-16 with more than 100 Bravolebrities expected to attend.

Below Deck is streaming on Peacock and available on the Bravo app.

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