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Navratilova plans a year-long retirement party in 1994; Fernandez fell meekly in the fourth round here to the newcomer Lindsay Davenport; Martinez made Kimiko Date a heroine in her homeland by falling to the Japanese in the quarters; Sabatini is, well, Sabatini, and Novotna's best career performance to date involved te... |
"We need her," admitted Sanchez Vicario, referring to Seles. Sanchez Vicario occupied Graf for only 58 minutes in the Australian Open women's final. "She's been a great player, and we need all the great players. But nobody gives you anything for free." |
Graf told the news media here that they know as much about Seles's planned return as she does. "Your guess is as good as mine," she said with a shrug. "I have no idea." |
Twenty-eight of the past 29 Grand Slam finals have featured either Graf or Seles, dating back to the 1987 French Open, while one of the dominant duo have won 23 of those Grand Slam titles. The only glitch in the Seles-Graf finals stranglehold was 1990 Wimbledon, when Navratilova and Zina Garrison-Jackson held court. |
Graf's convincing 6-0, 6-2 victory Down Under was her fourth Australian title but the first since 1990. She dictated play behind the furious pace of her forehand. Sanchez Vicario, who repeatedly shot bewildered glances toward her omnipresent family members, lost the first set in 24 minutes. |
"I had a good feeling today because my practice this morning was so awful," said Graf. "That's usually a good sign." |
With her victory in Melbourne, Graf captured her fourth consecutive Grand Slam title for the second time in her career. She won all four Slam events in 1988 and the Australian Open the following season. The streak ended at the French Open when she was stunned in the finals by Sanchez Vicario, then a little-known 17-yea... |
"The way I'm playing now is a step forward from 1988," said Graf. "My game was limited in 1988. The competition has gotten stronger, so I've gotten stronger." |
The competition, however, was far from National Tennis Center at Flinders Park here. Is Graf looking forward to Seles's return. |
"Yes," she said, with a slight nod of her head. |
ST. LOUIS - One by one, potential jurors were questioned by St. Louis prosecutors and attorneys for Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. |
The process is part of finding a jury who will hear the invasion of privacy case stemming from an affair the governor acknowledged. Greitens has denied any criminal wrongdoing and his attorneys have suggested the prosecution is a political witchhunt. |
Some jurors questioned admitted they would have a difficult time being objective. Several potential jurors said they opposed the governor’s positions regarding organized labor. |
One potential juror was questioned about whether she told co-workers she would “fry” the governor if she were to serve on the jury. She denied having said that. |
Beef vs Broccoli - Fake News? |
Story From Ingles Markets: Beef vs Broccoli - Fake News? |
Recently an infographic appeared on social media showing a cube of cooked meat on the end of a fork next to a small floret of broccoli on the tines of an adjacent fork. The text questioning "Do you really need to eat meat to get protein?" and showing amount of protein in in 100 calories of beef vs 100 calories broccoli... |
1.5 oz of cooked beef =106 calories & 11g protein - this would be the size of a small cube of beef. |
2 cups cooked broccoli =108 calories & 8 grams protein. |
It doesn't have to be battle between broccoli and beef and we don't have to try and fool people with fake information to get them to eat broccoli. Both beef and broccoli have great nutrients beyond protein. |
Beef is good source of iron and zinc. |
Broccoli is a source of fiber, beta carotene (vitamin A) and vitamin C. |
As fast-moving fires invaded neighborhoods across Northern California this week, residents in Napa and Sonoma counties said they were alerted to the approaching disaster by frantic shouts from neighbors, honking horns, blaring smoke alarms and even the noise of an American flag whipping in the intense winds. |
But it's becoming increasingly clear that residents did not receive warnings on their cellphones similar to an Amber Alert. The so-called Wireless Emergency Alert sends loud, screeching alarms or vibrations to all cellphones in a geographic area unless a user specifically opts out. |
Officials are now facing questions about why authorities could not reach more people as the fires barreled toward homes late Sunday night and early Monday. |
Neither Sonoma County nor Napa County sent out warnings through the Wireless Emergency Alert system, officials said. |
Sonoma County officials had contemplated sending out such an alert, but decided against it because of the concern the alert would have pinged "every cellphone connected to a cell tower in Sonoma County," Jennifer Larocque, a county spokeswoman, said Thursday. That could have caused unnecessary gridlock on the streets o... |
Wireless Emergency Alerts, however, can be used in other jurisdictions to target a smaller area. A Federal Communications Commission fact sheet says the system enables officials to target warnings to specific geographic areas, such as lower Manhattan. The city of Los Angeles last year directed such an alert to cellphon... |
Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano said Wednesday that the county sent out warnings through its SoCoAlert service and Nixle, both systems that require residents to register in advance in order to receive messages. The county also sent out reverse 911 calls to landlines in unincorporated areas. Santa Rosa, where block a... |
Sonoma County is among dozens of California jurisdictions that applied for and received authority from the federal government to issue Wireless Emergency Alerts. |
Napa County issued alerts through Nixle, but officials said some residents had trouble receiving the warnings. |
The death toll from the fires rose Thursday to at least 29, with some victims simply unable to outrun the flames. An estimated 3,500 homes, businesses and other structures were burned. |
In the devastated Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, some residents of scorched homes said they were surprised they didn't get an alert on their phones. |
Michael Desmond, 59, a retired Homeland Security investigator, said he was lying in bed Sunday night skimming news stories on his iPad when he heard a commotion outside. Finally, he heard what a firefighter was saying: "Firestorm. Get out of here now! Take nothing! Just go!" |
"So I got my dog. I got my wallet. Got my keys. And left," he said Wednesday, as he walked down the street of his neighborhood carrying a charred mailbox, one of the few things he was able to salvage from his home destroyed by wildfire. |
"I think they were totally unprepared for this," he said. |
A few blocks away, high school teacher Anna Solano, 50, said she also received no phone warning. |
Solano, who on Wednesday sifted through the ashes of her home looking for keys to equipment lockers and classrooms, had smelled smoke earlier Sunday evening but thought there was just a house fire in the area. About 2:30 a.m. Monday, a man knocked on her door and kept banging, waking up Solano's dog, who eventually wok... |
"That gentleman saved our lives. A stranger," she said. "We saw the fire coming. We left here in five minutes." |
The fire — one of the most destructive in California history — moved through northern Santa Rosa swiftly, with winds clocking 50 mph carrying embers that ignited numerous spot fires, burning down entire neighborhoods. |
"The fire came through the night. It was rapidly moving," said Mark Ghilarducci, director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. "Some people were awakened while the fire was actually on their doorstep." |
Sonoma County officials said it will take time to determine the reach of the alerts they tried to issue. |
"I don't know how effective that was," said Giordano, the Sonoma County sheriff. "It's going to take a long time until we understand that." |
The Wireless Emergency Alert system was rolled out in 2012, and California used it to send an Amber Alert for the first time in 2013. The alerts are transmitted on an exclusive frequency that can reach many people at the same time, and Amber Alerts — which notify the public of the case of an abducted child — have prove... |
Alerts such as these have been used to warn New Yorkers about the approach of Hurricane Sandy and tell the people of Moore, Okla., about the arrival of a massive tornado. |
But some local jurisdictions don't use them — or don't know how. |
This year, San Jose officials were roundly chastised for failing to warn the public about destructive floodwaters before they overflowed through densely populated neighborhoods along Coyote Creek amid the winter's heavy rains. |
In July, a withering report concluded that in San Jose, "there was a general lack of institutional knowledge" on how to broadcast alerts on the Wireless Emergency Alert system. San Jose itself at the time was not set up to issue such alerts on its own. Santa Clara County did have the ability to do so, but no one from t... |
For local authorities to use the federal system, municipalities need to apply to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to become an alerting authority. Besides the city of Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco and Sacramento County are among the jurisdictions that have registered to use the wireless alert system. |
Napa County is not listed. Heather Ruiz, a spokeswoman for the Napa County Office of Emergency Services, said her county has not been using the Wireless Emergency Alert system and was not sure if they had the ability to do so. Instead, they issue alerts through Nixle. |
Mark Eggan, the Napa County Sheriff's Office information technology chief, said 1,500 people responded to a Nixle alert Sunday night by clicking on a link to the department's web server, causing it to crash. During the server's crash, people could read the brief message on their phones, but the link to get further info... |
There can be hiccups with Wireless Emergency Alerts. In Los Angeles, a message can be directed to a zone of just a quarter-mile from a single point. But due to the complexities of cellphone communications, a message directed to cellphones around the Port of Los Angeles might inadvertently be picked up by a few cellphon... |
And because Wireless Emergency Alerts offer only 140 characters, the wording of a notice needs to be very carefully worded "to not trigger undue panic and undue evacuations," said Kate Hutton, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department. "You don't want to confuse people." |
So there's a balancing act emergency management officials need to deal with in a crisis. "You never want to unnecessarily scare people or wake them up. But … we have to factor in people's lives," Hutton said. "That might mean alerting people outside the alert area. That's an unfortunate reality with the technology we h... |
This week, Napa County officials said it's possible alerts were hampered by fire damage to cellphone towers. The fragility of the cellphone tower network — highlighted by natural disasters in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico — caused the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, to put the spotlight on... |
Though other cellphone manufacturers equip their phones with FM chips, Apple says its most recent models, the iPhone 7 and 8, do not have them. |
"It is time for Apple to step up to the plate and put the safety of the American people first," Pai said in a statement released last month. |
Pai said he has long urged cellphone manufacturers that had turned off FM chips on their cellphones to reactivate them, so that people can use them to "get vital access to life-saving information." He applauded companies that have done so, and singled out Apple as "the one major phone manufacturer that has resisted doi... |
In a statement, Apple said the company "cares deeply about the safety of our users" and noted that users can dial emergency services and receive Amber Alerts and emergency weather notifications. The company did not respond to questions about whether the company would install FM chips in future models of the iPhone. |
Listed below are the jurisdictions in California, as of Aug. 8, with the authority to issue Wireless Emergency Alerts, which are transmitted through FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). |
These jurisdictions in California, as of Aug. 8, were in the process of obtaining the ability to issue Wireless Emergency Alerts. |
Willon reported from Santa Rosa, Calif., Megerian from Mather, Calif., St. John from Napa, and Lin from Los Angeles. |
5:30 p.m.: This article was updated with a higher death toll in the Northern California fires. |
3:30 p.m.: This article was updated with a quote from a Sonoma County spokeswoman saying the county had decided against sending out a Wireless Emergency Alert. It was also updated with information about how Wireless Emergency Alerts can be used to target smaller areas, and a quote from a spokeswoman from the Los Angele... |
Oct. 12, 7:30 a.m.: This article was updated with a map and an image of an alert. |
This article was originally published at 7:40 p.m. on Oct. 11. |
Interviewed in Monaco, where she has lived for more than 20 years, the former International Olympic Committee (IOC) member and Alpine skier told insidethegames: "The IOC has changed, the candidature process has changed. |
"I think that was a necessity. |
"For me, being a winter athlete, I really would like to see the Games in the heart of where winter sports are usually being practiced. |
"It was a fantastic Games in Pyeongchang; I am sure it is going to be fantastic in Beijing as well, but we need to come back to the roots. |
"That would not have happened with the old system. |
"So I think the IOC made a very good decision when they [adopted] Agenda 2020. |
"Now they help the candidates much more economically because people are more aware of the amount which is being spent at the Olympics. |
"We have to be realistic. |
"The Olympic Movement and the IOC have shown the world now that they can change so let's see." |
The Swedish capital Stockholm is currently in a race for the right to stage the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics against Calgary of Canada and a joint Italian bid from Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo. |
Problems confront all three candidates, however. |
In Stockholm, the Green Party and the centre-right Alliance parties came to an agreement this month to lead the City Council. |
One of the two policies agreed on by the parties is that Stockholm will not host the 2026 Winter Olympics. |
Bid leaders though have pledged to continue. |
Wiberg said: "Of course being a Swedish person, I would love to have the Olympics in my home country. |
"I think all athletes in Sweden would be overwhelmed to welcome the Olympics. |
"Look at it, it is 1912 we last had it. |
"Being a very successful Winter Olympic nation, I would like to see it come to Sweden." |
Stockholm hosted the 1912 Summer Games - and also equestrian competitions when the main event was in Melbourne in 1956. |
Sweden has yet to stage a Winter Olympics, however, despite a number of unsuccessful bids. |
"I think most people remember when Lillehammer got it in 1994," Wiberg recalls. |
"Everyone expected Sweden to get it and then Lillehammer did. |
"But having said that, it was a fabulous Games - oh la la! |
Sweden's Őstersund lost 49-35 to Norway's Lillehammer in the final round of voting, having led in the second round. |
Wiberg won one of her two Olympic gold medals at this event, the other coming at Albertville in 1992. |
Emphasising that she is not working for the bid - "they have asked me, but we haven't decided anything yet" - Wiberg continued: "The politics is really a challenge I would say, but challenges are there to be overcome. |
"As an athlete of course I would say that. |
"Wherever you would hold the Games there will always be challenges." |
If Sweden is given the opportunity to host the 2026 Games, it will be sharing the event with another country, Latvia. |
In June, the Latvian Government gave the green light to the nation hosting sliding events should Stockholm be successful in its bid. |
Politicians approved a resolution which backs a plan to hold bobsleigh, skeleton and luge in Sigulda. |
Clinton Savings Bank ( www.clintonsavings.com), which has branches in six communities, has named Debra Colonna of Ashland as a mortgage underwriter. She has more than 17 years� underwriting experience and previously worked for Marlborough Savings Bank and Enterprise Bank in Lowell. She is a graduate of Bentley Universi... |
Day Kimball Healthcare of Putnam ( www.daykimball.org) has named Carol Howland of Shrewsbury as its vice president of patient services. She will serve as chief nursing officer and operations officer for services including diagnostic imaging, pharmacy and nutrition. She has more than 27 years� nursing experience at a nu... |
Oak Hill Country Club of Fitchburg ( www.oakhillcc.org), a private member-owned club with an 18-hole golf course, has named Bucky Buchanan of Westminster as director of membership. He has been in the golf industry since the early 1990s and previously worked to increase membership at the Sterling National Country Club. ... |
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