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The Rev. Gloria J. Smallwood, a pastor and educator, died on Friday, July 21, 2023. She was 81.
“She always had your back if she loved you, and she was rooted in love,” her family said in a tribute.
The Rev. Gloria J. Smallwood, a pastor and educator, died on Friday, July 21, 2023. She was 81.
“She always had your back if she loved you, and she was rooted in love,” her family said in a tribute.
She was the daughter of the late Rev. William H. Smallwood and the late Rev. Ruth Smallwood and received her early education in the Philadelphia public school system.
Born on July 3, 1942, she was a graduate of Lower Merion Junior High School and John Bartram High School. She earned a bachelor’s in education from Cheyney University, a master’s in education from Temple University, a master’s in theology from the Pacific School of Religion and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California.
Smallwood taught at every educational level. She taught in Philadelphia, her hometown, at the University of Denver, in various school districts in Oakland and San Francisco, California, and at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkley, California.
She was also a faculty member of the City Wide Interdenominational Christian Training Institute, which was founded by the late Rev. Martha Lang and the late E. Larry Lang in Philadelphia. Its purpose was to train Christian leaders.
While living in Denver and being actively involved in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Smallwood felt a call to ministry and was ultimately ordained an itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church by the late Bishop H. Hartford Brookins in the Fifth Episcopal District in Oakland.
Smallwood pastored churches in Chico, California; Reno, Nevada; and San Francisco. After returning to the East Coast, she assisted in pastoring churches in the Second Episcopal District (Maryland) of the A.M.E. Church and in the First Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia (Allen A.M.E. Church).
During her retirement, she began designing and producing hand-crafted, Scripture-based artwork under the logo W.T.H.O.G. (With the Help of God) as a ministry called “God Graphics.”
“Gloria was adventurous, industrious, artistic, creative and entrepreneurial,” her family said in a tribute. “Gloria’s smile could light up a room. ... She had a ‘bounce back’ spirit that wouldn’t allow adversity to win.”
She is survived by a host of family members and friends.
Services will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Wood Funeral Home, 5537-39 W. Girard Ave.
Service begins at 11 a.m.
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(The Hill) – Carlos De Oliveira was indicted on three criminal charges alongside former President Trump and his longtime aide Walt Nauda in a superseding indictment Thursday, part of the classified document investigation at Trump’s Florida club.
De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago Club’s property manager, allegedly assisted Trump and Nauta in attempting to delete security footage that showed the men moving boxes of classified documents around the property to hide them from federal authorities.
He was charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, destroying evidence and lying to the FBI.
De Oliveira, 56, was hired as the Mar-a-Lago manager in January 2022, previously working there as a valet, according to the indictment.
Federal investigators claim De Oliveira helped Nauta move about 30 boxes of classified documents around Mar-a-Lago, and at one point told the club’s head of IT that “the boss” wants security camera footage deleted.
In October of last year, after federal investigators searched the club and found additional classified documents, De Oliveira allegedly drained one of the club’s pools causing flooding in the server room that contained the security camera footage. This happened not long after Trump told De Oliveira he would get him an attorney, the indictment says.
According to investigators, Nauta attempted to judge De Oliveira’s loyalty before that promise came, with De Oliveira telling him that nothing would get in the way of his relationship with Trump.
Trump now faces a total of 40 charges related to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, with three of those added this week in the superseding indictment. Nauta faces eight charges.
Special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the classified documents probe, is also investigating Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the Capitol.
Smith met with Trump’s defense on Thursday and sent him a target letter earlier this month, raising speculation that he could be indicted again for that separate investigation soon. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/who-is-carlos-de-oliveira-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort-manager/ | 2023-07-29T05:04:24 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/who-is-carlos-de-oliveira-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort-manager/ |
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — When you’re hungry and in a time crunch, sometimes ordering delivery is the way to go, but sometimes it can turn into a delivery dilemma.
In this joint reporting project with the Times Leader, 28/22 News reporter Gianna Galli had the opportunity to stop by many businesses to see how places like door dash can both positively and negatively impact a local business.
Third-party delivery services really became popular during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Many businesses relied on some of the most popular services like Doordash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats to keep their restaurants alive.
Three local restaurants and the Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank shared reasons as to why their business has either benefited from using third-party services or if they are better off without them
For Grotto and Vesuvios in Wilkes-Barre, Doordash and Grubhub provided them with more customers, a larger location reach, and greater advertisement.
As for the Frogpond Pub also located in Wilkes-Barre, having full control of orders, leaving the restaurant, and getting to the customer has left them better off without using third-party systems.
“As we all know, there has been a manpower crunch everywhere and restaurants have been hit harder than anybody. So Grubhub delivery drivers and Doordasher delivery drivers help fill that extra void in helping us with our delivery business which again we have a big in-house delivery business but they help supplement that more so than ever before,” said the Director of Marketing of Grotto Pizza Tony Decosmo.
We will have the full story on Saturday’s edition of 28/22 News, keep an eye out for the Times Leaders coverage of delivery dilemmas in the upcoming paper. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/the-food-delivery-dilemma-and-how-it-affects-local-eateries/ | 2023-07-29T05:04:30 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/the-food-delivery-dilemma-and-how-it-affects-local-eateries/ |
William E. Jordan, a loving father of 10 children, died of a stroke in Colorado on Feb. 21, 2023. He was 85.
He was affectionately known as Michael Jourdan, Miguel Jourdan, Miguel Jourdan-Castillo, Fateh Uthman Abdul-Nur, Victor Archuleta, and Uncle Billy. He was born in Philadelphia on Oct. 13, 1937, to the late Aubrey J. Leandro Dezarie Jordan and Dorothy E. Green.
He is survived by his first, fourth and sixth wives; half-brother, Askia S. Ali (Daniel Cassell Thomas); niece, Karen Johnson; and 10 children, including Aiyanna Rahiyma Looney (nee Nuri) and Elisia A. Nuri, from his first four marriages.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter; sister, Lillian Viola White; nephew, Corey D. White; grandparents, Aubrey and Viola Eugenia Jordan; and his other three wives.
An interment was held on Feb. 28 at the Colorado Burial Preserve in Colorado.
Harwood Cremation and Funeral Services in Colorado handled the arrangements.
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(NEXSTAR) — Is it your lucky day? Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is a massive $940 million, the eighth-largest prize in the game’s history. Winning numbers for the July 28 jackpot are: 52, 28, 5, 63, and 10. The Mega ball number is 18. Friday’s Megaplier is 5X.
The estimated $940 million prize has been building since someone last matched all six numbers and won the jackpot April 18. Since then, there have been 28 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
The $940 million pot on the line Friday night will be that high only if a single player wins and they choose to be paid through an annuity of one immediate payment or 30 annual allotments. But jackpot winners nearly always take the cash in a lump sum, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $472.5 million.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Tickets are $2 and there are a total of nine ways to win a prize. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Tuesdays and Fridays.
USA Mega, which tracks Mega Millions statistics, says the most common Mega Millions numbers are 17, 10, 14, 31 and 4 for the first five numbers. The most common Mega ball number is 22.
The biggest jackpot in Mega Millions history is $1.537 billion back in 2018 and was claimed by one lucky winner in South Carolina.
If no one claims Friday’s jackpot, the next Mega Millions drawing is scheduled to be held Tuesday, August 1. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/mega-millions-here-are-the-winning-numbers-for-940m-jackpot-2/ | 2023-07-29T05:04:36 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/mega-millions-here-are-the-winning-numbers-for-940m-jackpot-2/ |
NIAMEY, Niger — Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that the political crisis could hinder the nation’s fight against jihadists and boost Russia’s influence in West Africa.
Spokesman Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said on state television that the constitution was suspended and Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani was in charge.
Various factions of Niger’s military have reportedly wrangled for control since members of the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected two years ago in Niger’s first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from France.
The coup has sparked international condemnation and the West African regional group known as the (ECOWAS), which includes Niger and has taken the lead in trying to restore democratic rule in the country, scheduled an emergency summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Sunday.
The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned efforts “to unconstitutionally change the legitimate government.” Its statement, agreed to by all 15 members including the U.S. and Russia, called for “the immediate and unconditional release” of Bazoum and expressed concern over the negative effect of coups in the region, the “increase in terrorist activities and the dire socio—economic situation.”
Extremists in Niger have carried out attacks on civilians and military personnel, but the overall security situation is not as dire as in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso — both of which have ousted the French military. Mali has turned to the Russian private military group Wagner, and it’s believed that the mercenaries will soon be in Burkina Faso.
Now there are concerns that Niger could follow suit. Before the coup, Wagner, which has sent mercenaries around the world in support of Russia’s interests, already had its sights set on Niger, in part because it’s a large producer of uranium.
“We can no longer continue with the same approaches proposed so far, at the risk of witnessing the gradual and inevitable demise of our country,” Tchiani, who also goes by Omar Tchiani, said in his address. “That is why we decided to intervene and take responsibility.”
“I ask the technical and financial partners who are friends of Niger to understand the specific situation of our country in order to provide it with all the support necessary to enable it to meet the challenges,” he said.
If the U.S. designates the takeover as a coup, Niger stands to lose millions of dollars of military aid and assistance.
The mutinous soldiers, who call themselves the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, accused some prominent dignitaries of collaborating with foreign embassies to “extract” the deposed leaders. They said it could lead to violence and warned against foreign military intervention.
Bazoum has not resigned and he defiantly tweeted from detention on Thursday that democracy would prevail.
It’s not clear who enjoys majority support, but the streets of the capital of Niamey were calm Friday, with a slight celebratory air. Some cars honked in solidarity at security forces as they drove by — but it was not clear if that meant they backed the coup. Elsewhere, people rested after traditional midday prayers and others sold goods at their shops and hoped for calm.
“We should pray to God to help people come together so that peace comes back to the country. We don’t want a lot of protests in the country, because it is not good ... I hope this administration does a good job,” said Gerard Sassou, a Niamey shopkeeper.
A day earlier, several hundred people gathered in the city chanting support for Wagner while waving Russian flags. “We’re fed up,” said Omar Issaka, one of the protestors. “We are tired of being targeted by the men in the bush. ... We’re going to collaborate with Russia now.”
That’s exactly what many in the West likely fear. Tchiani’s criticism of Bazoum’s approach and of how security partnerships have worked in the past will certainly make the U.S., France and the EU uneasy, said Andrew Lebovich, a research fellow with the Clingendael Institute.
“So that could mark potentially some shifts moving forward in Niger security partnerships,” he said.
Even as Tchiani sought to project control, the situation appeared to be in flux. A delegation from neighboring Nigeria, which holds the ECOWAS presidency and was hoping to mediate, left shortly after arriving, and the president of Benin, nominated as a mediator by ECOWAS, has not arrived.
Earlier, an analyst who had spoken with participants in the talks said the presidential guard was negotiating with the army about who should be in charge. The analyst spoke on the condition they not to be named because of the sensitive situation.
A western military official in Niger who was not authorized to speak to the media also said the military factions were believed to be negotiating, but that the situation remained tense and violence could erupt.
Speaking in Papua New Guinea, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the coup as “completely illegitimate and profoundly dangerous for the Nigeriens, Niger and the whole region.”
The coup threatens to starkly reshape the international community’s engagement with the Sahel region.
On Thursday, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said the country’s “substantial cooperation with the Government of Niger is contingent on Niger’s continued commitment to democratic standards.”
The U.S. in early 2021 said it had provided Niger with more than $500 million in military assistance and training programs since 2012, one of the largest such support programs in sub-Saharan Africa. The EU earlier this year launched a 27 million-euro ($30 million) military training mission in Niger.
The U.S. has more than 1,000 service personnel in the country.
Some military leaders who appear to be involved in the coup have worked closely with the U.S. for years. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, the head of Niger’s special forces, has an especially strong relationship with the U.S., the Western military official said.
While Russia has also condemned the coup, it remains unclear what the junta’s position would be on Wagner.
The acting head of the United Nations in Niger said Friday that humanitarian aid deliveries were continuing, even though the military suspended flights carrying aid.
Nicole Kouassi, the acting U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator, told reporters via video from Niamey that 4.3 million people needed humanitarian aid before this week’s military action and 3.3 million faced “acute food insecurity,” the majority of them women and children.
Jean-Noel Gentile, the U.N. World Food Program director in Niger, said “the humanitarian response continues on the ground.” He said the U.N. is providing cash assistance and food to people in accessible areas and that the agency is continuously assessing the situation to ensure security and access.
This is Niger’s fifth coup and marks the fall of one of the last democratically elected governments in the Sahel.
Its army has always been very powerful and civilian-military relations fraught, though tensions had increased recently, especially with the growing jihadist insurgency, said Karim Manuel, an analyst for the Middle East and Africa with the Economist Intelligence Unit. | https://www.phillytrib.com/soldiers-declare-niger-general-as-head-of-state-after-he-led-a-coup-and-detained/article_134939ce-8c4c-5460-9073-8b12356cf686.html | 2023-07-29T05:04:37 | 1 | https://www.phillytrib.com/soldiers-declare-niger-general-as-head-of-state-after-he-led-a-coup-and-detained/article_134939ce-8c4c-5460-9073-8b12356cf686.html |
DENVER — The case involves almost everything a victim of sexual harassment would be desperate to avoid.
Dozens of emails and multiple requests for follow-up interviews about a traumatizing episode. Bickering over legal fees. Documents with dense legalese and no conclusive answers about the outcome of the three-year-long case.
“At the end of the day, they didn’t even investigate,” the female curler said of her 2020 complaint about sexual harassment at her Colorado curling club filed with the U.S. Center for SafeSport.
Established six years ago to create accountability in the aftermath of sex-abuse scandals in Olympic sports that landed USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar in prison, the SafeSport center’s mandate covers not only the elite facilities molding the nation’s top athletes but also grassroots clubs like the one where the woman trained, which form the backbone of the Olympic system.
The woman’s case, which she shared with The Associated Press on condition she and her sports facility not be named to protect her privacy, was one of five examined by the AP that exposed deep flaws in an overwhelmed agency criticized by athletes, Olympic leaders and investigators with Washington connections.
“What came out of it was feeling that SafeSport is woefully under-equipped for their mission,” said rugby referee Gray Montrose of her own 2021 complaint that she was groped by another referee while driving him to a college tournament in Virginia.
The male referee was given six-months probation, but after Montrose expressed concern about his return to the sport, the center turned around and opened a case against her.
Because of outcomes like this, athletes are often reluctant to criticize SafeSport for “fear of retaliation from the center itself if you have too strong of an opinion,” said Steve McNally, executive director of USA Taekwondo.
Max Cobb, the former president of US Biathlon who was a key leader in U.S. Olympic sports, said the problems go deeper.
“Too often, the investigations take months or years to begin, and in the end are too slow to be effective within the real-life timeframe in which our athletes and sports happen,” Cobb said. “This creates a long period of inaction that in many cases is worse or nearly as bad as the initial offense.”
A congressionally appointed committee charged with investigating the U.S. Olympic system has received numerous complaints about SafeSport. “Over and over again, we’re hearing that athlete safety and the SafeSport process must be a top priority” for reform, said Han Xiao, a retired table tennis player who co-chairs the committee.
Last week, the U.S. Soccer Athletes Council sent a letter to Congress signed by 100 national team players, including the entire U.S. Women’s World Cup team, imploring lawmakers to fix SafeSport.
“SafeSport was created with noble and important intentions, but we believe that as it stands today, SafeSport is failing in what it was meant to achieve,” the letter said.
The Denver-based center has about 1,000 open cases, a quarter of which are more than a year old, SafeSport spokesman Dan Hill said. With only about 60 full-time investigators it gets around 150 new complaints each week.
According to the center’s 2022 annual report, less than 15% of the 12,751 cases it investigated from March 2017 through 2022 ended with a formal resolution. Another nearly 38% were “administratively closed,” meaning SafeSport made no findings, imposed no sanctions and there was no public record of the allegations. The agency declined to pursue virtually all the rest, saying they fell outside its mandate of sexual misconduct in sports.
“We have come a long way but we also get complaints and we also get feedback,” SafeSport CEO Ju’Riese Colon told the AP. “There’s a lot of work for us to do, but all things considered. I think the organization is doing quite well.”
In the wake of the Nassar abuse case, Congress held hearings and authorized studies that led to legislation creating SafeSport. The idea was to form an independently run agency, much like the successful U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, to decide cases without interference from the entities it oversees.
But while the government provides more than half of the anti-doping agency’s $28.5 million budget, in 2022 it gave just $2.3 million to SafeSport, placing the onus for the rest of its $23 million budget on the organizations it regulates — the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the 50-plus individual sports organizations it oversees.
Colon said today’s budget was created when the center was receiving just 2,700 complaints a year, not the 8,000 a year it gets now. “If I was to look into the future about what we really need, we need at least double what we have today,” she said.
Critics say there’s no way SafeSport can be effective if the bulk of its funding comes from those it polices.
“Going to SafeSport is like your local diocese saying ‘Hey, got a problem with a local priest? Call us,’” said attorney Jon Little, who represented USA Badminton in a long-running case involving a teen athlete who, in 2012, accused a coach of forcing her to have sex.
“There’s no way the way it’s set up was ever going to work,” Little said.
On any given day, SafeSport is as likely to receive calls from a member of a local sports training club or the parents of a kid taking taekwondo classes as from an Olympic gymnast or other elite competitor.
Among the conclusions drawn by former U.S. attorney general Sally Yates in a report on abusive behavior and sexual misconduct in U.S. professional soccer was that SafeSport, which covers nearly 11 million athletes, was overwhelmed.
“It does not have the resources necessary to promptly address the volume of complaints it receives,” Yates wrote in her 2022 report.
Colon defended SafeSport’s broad mandate.
“If the center were to only focus on elite athletes, that would leave around 10 million people in a place where they had no recourse,” she said of the vast number of grassroots athletes.
The five cases the AP examined illustrate how the center’s system has led to an overload of work for a staff that often gave contradictory, confusing and incomplete information to complainants that sometimes didn’t even align with the center’s own rules for handling investigations.
The curler’s case involved allegations that a club worker had harassed her in 2017 and 2018, including sending pornographic photos and videos to her cellphone. The woman also expressed concerns others were being harassed.
SafeSport sent the man a “letter of admonishment,” and though he stopped working at the club, he continued to show up as a volunteer. The woman reached out again to SafeSport and was urged to contact leaders at USA Curling, the Olympic committee and SafeSport itself.
“I know your experience has not been ideal,” Colon wrote in response to the woman’s email. “Please know that we continue to make improvements to our process and communications with all those involved.”
The woman also took her case to the Olympic committee’s head of athlete safety, Nicole Deal, who filed her own complaint against the curling club for its failure to report the harassment allegations to SafeSport.
That led to multiple SafeSport interview requests. The woman refused, saying she would not repeat the draining hours of questioning she underwent after filing her first complaint. The woman was never informed about the outcome of Deal’s complaint, though she was billed nearly $4,000 in unexpected legal fees.
SafeSport’s handling of the other cases the AP examined, in rugby, badminton, snowboarding and weightlifting, were filled with contradictions and confusion that led to a lack of trust in the center from the athletes alleging abuse.
— Earlier this year, SafeSport’s former interim CEO, Regis Becker, was placed on temporary suspension and a weightlifting meet director was reprimanded for their handling of a sexual-misconduct complaint. The Pennsylvania meet organizer — who shared details with AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic — asked Becker what to do about a coach seen smacking the behinds of his female athletes at the meet. Becker told the director she should give him a warning to cease the offensive behavior.
Later, photos the coach posted on social media of him spotting female lifters in inappropriate and suggestive positions were turned into SafeSport. The center responded by reprimanding the meet director for not immediately filing a complaint with it. Becker was suspended for six months for “abuse of process” and failing to report the misconduct.
“When you apply rules that way, that arbitrarily, and don’t think about situations individually, it lends itself to these wastes of resources and prosecutions that you see from SafeSport,” Little, the lawyer, said.
— A long-running case in which snowboarding coach Peter Foley was accused of sexual assault and harassment led US Ski & Snowboarding to open its own investigation that led to Foley’s dismissal in March 2022. SafeSport, which was slow to open a case on Foley, complained to Sen. Chuck Grassley, a supporter, that the snowboard federation had meddled in its process. One athlete in the case said she didn’t want to involve SafeSport because of the “extensive and challenging” reporting process.
— The USA Badminton case involved tense exchanges between SafeSport center Vice President Bobby Click and Little, who advocated taking sexual abuse cases to police before going to the center.
“The bottom line is, you should never call SafeSport, you should call the police,” Little said. “Then, if the police say it’s OK, you should call SafeSport. The reason I say that is, it’s the law.”
While the center tries to get a grasp on its massive mission, the stakes involved are hard to miss.
A 2021 survey by the global advocacy group World Players found 13% of 297 athletes surveyed worldwide had reported experiencing sexual abuse at least once as a child in sports.
On its own website, SafeSport referenced a study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center that says one-in-five girls and one-in-20 boys in America become victims of sexual abuse.
Research center director David Finkelhor said most youth-serving organizations – including church groups, Boy and Girl Scouts and sporting organizations — have one thing in common when it comes to preventing abuse.
“They don’t necessarily have the skills that most need to be applied,” he said. “They don’t necessarily have the funds to support the things that need to be done. There aren’t programs and practices that can be adopted from other places that necessarily fit their environment.”
Cobb gave credit to SafeSport for the job it does educating athletes, coaches and administrators about how to keep sports safe.
Ultimately, though, he said SafeSport needs a more collaborative approach “that brings athletes and their families together” with sports leaders and the center to set policy. | https://www.phillytrib.com/sports/formed-to-combat-olympic-sex-abuse-safesport-center-is-struggling-6-years-after-opening/article_39a5252a-61eb-51e1-88b9-31794c7d3bbd.html | 2023-07-29T05:04:43 | 1 | https://www.phillytrib.com/sports/formed-to-combat-olympic-sex-abuse-safesport-center-is-struggling-6-years-after-opening/article_39a5252a-61eb-51e1-88b9-31794c7d3bbd.html |
A federal judge said Tuesday that she’s not changing her decision to let NFL coach Brian Flores put the league and three of its teams on trial over his claims that he and other Black coaches face discrimination.
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NEW YORK — A federal judge said Tuesday that she’s not changing her decision to let NFL coach Brian Flores put the league and three of its teams on trial over his claims that he and other Black coaches face discrimination.
Judge Valerie Caproni’s written ruling in Manhattan federal court came after both sides in the case asked her to reconsider her March decision.
The judge ruled then that claims by two coaches who joined the Flores lawsuit after it was filed early last year must proceed to arbitration, where NFL Commission Roger Goodell will presumably serve as arbitrator.
She said Flores can proceed to trial with his claims against the league and three teams: the Denver Broncos, the New York Giants and the Houston Texans.
In February 2022, Flores sued the league and several teams, saying the league was “rife with racism,” particularly in its hiring and promotion of Black coaches.
When she ruled in March, Caproni wrote that descriptions by the coaches of their experiences of racial discrimination in a league with a “long history of systematic discrimination toward Black players, coaches, and managers — are incredibly troubling.”
“Although the clear majority of professional football players are Black, only a tiny percentage of coaches are Black,” she said.
She said it was “difficult to understand” how there was only one Black head coach at the time Flores filed his lawsuit in a league of 32 teams with Black players making up about 70% of the rosters.
In her ruling Tuesday, Caproni rejected an effort by the NFL to argue that a contract Flores signed last year with the Pittsburgh Steelers prevented him from taking any claim to trial because it contained language that would apply retroactively to claims against any NFL team.
She said the copy of the contract that the NFL submitted to her before she ruled in March contained a signature line for Goodell that was blank and the contract was not “valid and binding” unless signed by all parties.
The judge rejected a signed copy that was submitted after her ruling, saying “a motion for reconsideration is not a means to mend holes in the record with neglected evidence.”
Caproni also rejected arguments by lawyers for Flores who claimed that the arbitration agreements between the NFL and some of its coaches are “unconscionable” because Goodell would be a biased arbitrator.
She said the lawyers must wait until the arbitration occurs to decide whether their fears were warranted and whether Goodell “gave them a fair shake to prove their claims.”
She said the lawyers were asking her “to fashion a specific rule out of whole cloth to protect them from potential arbitrator bias that may never manifest itself.”
Lawyers on both sides, along with a spokesperson for the NFL, did not immediately comment.
Last year after filing his lawsuit, Flores said he believed he was risking the coaching career he loves by suing the NFL, but he said it was worth it for generations to come if he could succeed in challenging systemic racism in the league.
In March, the judge noted that Flores had recently been hired as the new defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings.
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Bronny James, son of NBA superstar LeBron James, was hospitalized after going into cardiac arrest while participating in a practice at Southern California on Monday. —AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File
LeBron James tweeted about his son Bronny James on Thursday for the first time since the 18-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this week, thanking well-wishers for sending his family “love and prayers.”
“We feel you and I’m so grateful. Everyone doing great,” the NBA superstar wrote. “We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love. Will have more to say when we’re ready but I wanted to tell everyone how much your support has meant to all of us! #JamesGang”
Bronny James, an incoming freshman for the University of Southern California men’s basketball team, suffered a cardiac arrest during a practice Monday and was hospitalized, according to a statement Tuesday from a family spokesperson. James was in stable condition, having been taken out of the intensive care unit, the statement said.
Cardiac arrest occurs when electrical disturbances cause the heart to suddenly stop beating. It may be fatal if not immediately treated but can be reversed by CPR and a defibrillator, according to the American Heart Association.
Sudden cardiac arrest among young athletes is rare but not unheard of. A 2011 study that examined NCAA student-athlete sudden deaths between 2004 and 2008 found cardiovascular-related sudden death was the leading cause of death in 45 cases, or about 9 each year.
However, Dr. Jonathan Drezner, who specializes in sports cardiology at the University of Washington Medical Center, told CNN that James “represents the single highest athlete risk group” for sudden cardiac arrest. Drezner’s research shows Black male NCAA athletes who play Division I basketball have a 1 in 2,000 chance of experiencing sudden cardiac arrest each year. The risk in a White male Division I basketball player is 1 in 5,000, according to his research.
“Adolescent male basketball players and college male basketball players, for reasons that we don’t fully understand, are by far our single highest risk group of athletes for sudden cardiac arrest,” Drezner said. “In my opinion, they should all be screened with more robust and intensive cardiac screening than occurs typically.”
James had a cardiac screening several months ago as part of a program for prospective NBA players, according to a source familiar with the matter. The screening included a transthoracic echocardiogram, which looks at blood flow through the heart and heart valves, and an EKG, which is a recording of the heart’s electrical activity, the source said. Both screenings came back with normal results.
The 6-foot-3 combo guard graduated this spring from Sierra Canyon High School in Los Angeles, where he averaged 14.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.7 steals his senior year. He was rated a four-star recruit, and he stood out in the McDonald’s All-American Game in March, featuring some of the country’s top high school basketball players.
Experts say it’s hard to map out exactly what James’ recovery will look like until more is known about the cause of his cardiac arrest and his specific health condition. But the fact that he was treated immediately and is already out of the intensive care unit bodes well for his recovery, Drezner said.
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(NEXSTAR) — Is it your lucky day? Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is a massive $940 million, the eighth-largest prize in the game’s history. Winning numbers for the July 28 jackpot are: 52, 28, 5, 63, and 10. The Mega ball number is 18. Friday’s Megaplier is 5X.
The estimated $940 million prize has been building since someone last matched all six numbers and won the jackpot April 18. Since then, there have been 28 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
The $940 million pot on the line Friday night will be that high only if a single player wins and they choose to be paid through an annuity of one immediate payment or 30 annual allotments. But jackpot winners nearly always take the cash in a lump sum, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $472.5 million.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Tickets are $2 and there are a total of nine ways to win a prize. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Tuesdays and Fridays.
USA Mega, which tracks Mega Millions statistics, says the most common Mega Millions numbers are 17, 10, 14, 31 and 4 for the first five numbers. The most common Mega ball number is 22.
The biggest jackpot in Mega Millions history is $1.537 billion back in 2018 and was claimed by one lucky winner in South Carolina.
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(NEXSTAR) — Is it your lucky day? Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is a massive $940 million, the eighth-largest prize in the game’s history. Winning numbers for the July 28 jackpot are: 52, 28, 5, 63, and 10. The Mega ball number is 18. Friday’s Megaplier is 5X.
The estimated $940 million prize has been building since someone last matched all six numbers and won the jackpot April 18. Since then, there have been 28 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
The $940 million pot on the line Friday night will be that high only if a single player wins and they choose to be paid through an annuity of one immediate payment or 30 annual allotments. But jackpot winners nearly always take the cash in a lump sum, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $472.5 million.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Tickets are $2 and there are a total of nine ways to win a prize. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Tuesdays and Fridays.
USA Mega, which tracks Mega Millions statistics, says the most common Mega Millions numbers are 17, 10, 14, 31 and 4 for the first five numbers. The most common Mega ball number is 22.
The biggest jackpot in Mega Millions history is $1.537 billion back in 2018 and was claimed by one lucky winner in South Carolina.
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UN says it’s forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon — including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa.
He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications. “Those needs continue to grow, those drivers are still there,” he said, “but the funding is drying up. So we’re looking at 2024 (being) even more dire.”
“The largest food and nutrition crisis in history today persists,” Skau said. “This year, 345 million people continue to be acutely food insecure while hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger.”
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress — all during a slowdown in the global economy.
WFP is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency’s traditional donors to “step up and support us through this very difficult time.”
Asked why funding was drying up, Skau said to ask the donors.
“But it’s clear that aid budgets, humanitarian budgets, both in Europe and the United States, (are) not where they were in 2021-2022,” he said.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people — 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said. In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on WFP for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them. In the Palestinian territories, WFP cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force WFP to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly WFP’s seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories, “and so we will have an additional humanitarian emergency on our hands down the road.”
“Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward,” Skau said.
He urged world leaders to prioritize humanitarian funding and invest in long-tern solutions to conflicts, poverty, development and other root causes of the current crisis.
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USC still preparing for European tour as Bronny James recovers at home after cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Bronny James continues to recover after going into cardiac arrest, his Southern California teammates have been at practice to prepare for a 10-day exhibition tour of Greece and Croatia that begins next week.
The tour will run from from Aug. 5-15 and see the Trojans visit Athens and Mykonos, Greece, and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Teams are allowed to go on a foreign tour once every four years under NCAA rules.
James was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Thursday and is resting at home, according to a statement from the hospital. His father, Lakers superstar LeBron James, also posted on social media that his family is “safe and healthy.”
Bronny James will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating, because of a problem with its electrical activity. While uncommon in young people, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes. Some studies have estimated one sudden cardiac death in 50,000 to 80,000 young athletes each year.
No information has been made public about what may have caused Bronny James’ cardiac arrest. But one of the most common causes in young athletes is an underlying problem with the heart’s structure, such as a genetic condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that leads to a thickened heart muscle more prone to irregular electrical activity. A more rare cause is commotio cordis, which occurs when someone receives a sharp blow to the chest during a specific part of the heartbeat’s cycle — what happened to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin earlier this year.
James was the second high-profile USC basketball recruit to go into cardiac arrest in the last year. Vincent Iwuchuwku also was stricken during a workout last July, but the 7-foot-1 center returned to the court six months later and appeared in 14 games.
It’s too soon to know how James’ playing career could be affected, especially without a lot of information being made public. Various experts point to James’ quick move out of intensive care and being released three days later as encouraging.
The upcoming trip is important for the Trojans as James recovers. USC had the nation’s fourth-ranked recruiting class, including the top-rated player in guard Isaiah Collier.
James committed to the Trojans in May after the 6-foot-3 18-year-old became one of the nation’s top prospects as a two-way point guard for Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California.
He is the sixth McDonald’s All-American to come to USC since Andy Enfield became coach in 2013.
With his family fame and huge social media following, Bronny James also has the top name, image and likeness valuation in sports at $6.3 million, as estimated by On3.com. He is the oldest of LeBron and Savannah James’ three children.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Arthur Fils will face Alexander Zverev in the Hamburg European Open semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
In this Semifinal matchup, Zverev is the favorite (-375) against Fils (+270) .
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has a 78.9% chance to win.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fils eliminated No. 4-ranked Casper Ruud, 6-0, 6-4.
- Zverev was victorious 6-3, 6-4 versus Luca van Assche in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In his 29 matches over the past year across all court types, Fils has played an average of 21.4 games (20.7 in best-of-three matches).
- Fils has played 14 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 22.2 games per match (21.2 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 42 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Zverev is averaging 26.0 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) and winning 53.2% of those games.
- Zverev has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 9.7 games per set in 22 matches on clay surfaces in the past 12 months.
- Dating back to 2015, Fils and Zverev have not matched up on the court.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
In the ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023 semifinals on Saturday, Fabio Fognini faces Joris de Loore.
With -175 odds, Fognini is favored over de Loore (+125) for this match.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Match Information
- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennisclub Zug
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Fabio Fognini has a 63.6% chance to win.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Trends and Insights
- Fognini advanced past Jakub Mensik 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, de Loore took down No. 209-ranked Matteo Gigante, winning 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
- Fognini has played 39 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), and 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 16 matches on clay over the past year, Fognini has played an average of 24.8 games (22.0 in best-of-three matches).
- de Loore has played two matches in the past year across all court types, averaging 22.5 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) and winning 42.2% of those games.
- de Loore has averaged 18.0 games per match (18.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.0 games per set in one match on clay courts in the past year.
- This is the first time that Fognini and de Loore have matched up in the last five years.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
On Saturday, Matteo Arnaldi (No. 76 in the world) meets Alexei Popyrin (No. 90) in the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.
Arnaldi is the favorite (-150) in this match, compared to the underdog Popyrin, who is +115.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Prediction and Odds
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Arnaldi advanced past No. 33-ranked Jiri Lehecka, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Popyrin beat No. 287-ranked Dino Prizmic, winning 7-6, 7-5.
- Arnaldi has played 24.5 games per match (23.2 in best-of-three matches) in his 35 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Arnaldi has played 18 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.5 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.2% of games.
- In the past year, Popyrin has competed in 47 total matches (across all court types), winning 49.3% of the games. He averages 28.0 games per match (25.3 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Popyrin has played 16 matches and averaged 26.7 games per match (26.0 in best-of-three matches) and 10.2 games per set.
- Dating back to 2015, Arnaldi and Popyrin have not competed against each other.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Emotions can come over you at seemingly inopportune times, though keep in mind that this is just what makes life interesting. Also, a feeling doesn’t have to be optimal, comfortable or even appropriate to be perfectly acceptable.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Dorothy had to land in Oz to appreciate everyone back home. Travel will do the same for you. Get your ticket to a magical place, or anyplace different really. Anticipating a trip will begin your appreciation process.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Even the most intellectual problem will benefit from some physicalization. Your brain is a body part too and needs circulation and hydration to be at its best. Engaging your body in the thought process will help you figure everything out.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Because you believe in yourself, the idea that your work has flaws is not a threat to your self-worth. Also, optimism does not preclude you from having a backup strategy. A plan B can actually give you more confidence.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You can leverage the special connection you share with your fellow fire signs (Aries and Sagittarius) to tick off an item on your wish list. Getting what you want will have a ripple effect, and others will have what they want too.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Take advantage of calm stretches. What needs doing? Handle the little details you won’t have time for when the action picks up, like sharpening your tools or your skills. Also, the day will show you what you need to learn next.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Instead of listening to people tell you what they can do, observe the work they actually have done. In general, interactions will be lucky when you keep it short and leave them wanting more.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your day has a strange rhythm of fast action then odd lulls. In the blur of a quick pace, it’s easy to overlook basic information like what exactly is expected of you. Keep checking in about that because it will change.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It is said that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but it could also get thrown in the garbage bin, traded out for a wheel that spins quietly. Before complaining you will carefully assess whether you can fix a problem yourself.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Even on days like today when you’re not committed, obligated or in any way pressured to show up any place in particular, your energy and time are still sacred commodities. You’ll spend them well, ever mindful of the good they can do.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Some silences are heavy, and others float, glow, gloat or grow. You read silence very well now and assign accurate meanings to the pauses, which communicate more than words.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Moods happen. People will erroneously assign reasons for them, but the circumstances are not to blame. Mood lifters that work consistently include exercise, sunshine and connecting with others, especially in a helping capacity.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (JULY 29). The year is one long celebration of love in its many forms. Your devotion to an endeavor will define your lifestyle for several months at a time. You’ll stick with things until they bear fruit. More highlights: The universe throws you for a loop intended to better your fortunes. You’ll make a product, attract buyers and cash in. You’ll often master the art of contentment. Capricorn and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 4, 37, 8 and 15. | https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/horoscopes/horoscopes-july-29-2023-20230729.html | 2023-07-29T05:05:51 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/horoscopes/horoscopes-july-29-2023-20230729.html |
USC still preparing for European tour as Bronny James recovers at home after cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Bronny James continues to recover after going into cardiac arrest, his Southern California teammates have been at practice to prepare for a 10-day exhibition tour of Greece and Croatia that begins next week.
The tour will run from from Aug. 5-15 and see the Trojans visit Athens and Mykonos, Greece, and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Teams are allowed to go on a foreign tour once every four years under NCAA rules.
James was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Thursday and is resting at home, according to a statement from the hospital. His father, Lakers superstar LeBron James, also posted on social media that his family is “safe and healthy.”
Bronny James will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating, because of a problem with its electrical activity. While uncommon in young people, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes. Some studies have estimated one sudden cardiac death in 50,000 to 80,000 young athletes each year.
No information has been made public about what may have caused Bronny James’ cardiac arrest. But one of the most common causes in young athletes is an underlying problem with the heart’s structure, such as a genetic condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that leads to a thickened heart muscle more prone to irregular electrical activity. A more rare cause is commotio cordis, which occurs when someone receives a sharp blow to the chest during a specific part of the heartbeat’s cycle — what happened to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin earlier this year.
James was the second high-profile USC basketball recruit to go into cardiac arrest in the last year. Vincent Iwuchuwku also was stricken during a workout last July, but the 7-foot-1 center returned to the court six months later and appeared in 14 games.
It’s too soon to know how James’ playing career could be affected, especially without a lot of information being made public. Various experts point to James’ quick move out of intensive care and being released three days later as encouraging.
The upcoming trip is important for the Trojans as James recovers. USC had the nation’s fourth-ranked recruiting class, including the top-rated player in guard Isaiah Collier.
James committed to the Trojans in May after the 6-foot-3 18-year-old became one of the nation’s top prospects as a two-way point guard for Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California.
He is the sixth McDonald’s All-American to come to USC since Andy Enfield became coach in 2013.
With his family fame and huge social media following, Bronny James also has the top name, image and likeness valuation in sports at $6.3 million, as estimated by On3.com. He is the oldest of LeBron and Savannah James’ three children.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham and AP Health & Science Writer Lauran Neergard contributed to this report.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
In the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Saturday, Stan Wawrinka (ranked No. 72) faces Lorenzo Sonego (No. 43).
In this Semifinal matchup against Sonego (+100), Wawrinka is the favorite with -125 odds.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Stan Wawrinka has a 55.6% chance to win.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Trends and Insights
- Wawrinka is looking to stay on track after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 59-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena in Friday's quarterfinals.
- Sonego advanced to the semifinals by taking down No. 104-ranked Jaume Munar 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.
- Wawrinka has played 27.3 games per match (24.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces).
- On clay, Wawrinka has played 11 matches over the past year, totaling 28.7 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 49.7% of games.
- Sonego has averaged 25.4 games per match (22.7 in best-of-three matches) through his 55 matches played in the past year across all court surfaces, while winning 50.8% of the games.
- Sonego has averaged 27.9 games per match (23.1 in best-of-three matches) and 9.8 games per set in 13 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- Wawrinka and Sonego have not played each other since 2015.
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Dear Abby | PDA by son and girlfriend makes his mom uncomfortable
Their public displays of affection are so over the top it makes me ill.
DEAR ABBY: My son is dating a girl I can’t stand. I’m not too crazy about my son right now, either. I no longer want to be out in public with them because their public displays of affection are so over the top it makes me ill. I cannot imagine spending every holiday, birthday or whatever with them for the rest of my life. He hasn’t told us anything about this person. We don’t even know her last name. Help!
— TURNED-OFF MOM IN INDIANA
DEAR MOM: You didn’t mention your son’s age or how long he has been involved with this young woman. It appears they are both quite young. Romances that burn with this kind of intensity usually cool down fairly quickly. In the meantime, be patient. Say nothing that will cause you to be perceived as the “enemy.”
If you would like more information about the girl, ask her in a nonthreatening way. (“Are you a schoolmate?” “Do you have a last name?” “Does your family live in town?”) Then make sure your son knows how to protect them both from unwanted pregnancy and STDs “should the need arise,” and wait them out.
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DEAR ABBY: I am a 49-year-old mother of 10. I always loved my kids dearly and tried my best. But I wanted to be a friend rather than a disciplinarian, and I always gave in. I assumed that because my husband and I never did bad things around them while they were growing up, and because I always resisted peer pressure when I was a teenager, they would follow in our footsteps, but I was wrong. They are now mean to me, and most of them hate me.
I sometimes feel like I don’t want to go on because I’ll always feel sad and depressed. I can’t remember the last time I was happy and didn’t dread waking up every morning. Please find time to answer and give me some hope again.
— BROKEN IN WEST VIRGINIA
DEAR BROKEN: It’s time you stopped depending on your children to validate you, and began recognizing that, for better or worse, you did the best you could as a parent. Please discuss this with your religious adviser AND your physician. You need more help than I can offer in a letter, but those are the places to start. There are better days ahead.
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DEAR ABBY: I am adopted, and 10 years ago I met my birth mom and her family. I go to their family gatherings and see them for holidays. I am getting married, and I’ve asked my birth mom to be my matron of honor, which my parents are OK with.
After the ceremony, we are going to have a reception at the church and then a dinner with 20 people hours later. I’m not sure if I should invite my birth mom to the dinner or not. My parents said it might be awkward for her and for them. I am just trying to do the right thing. What should I do?
— NERVOUS IN NEW MEXICO
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Arthur Fils will face Alexander Zverev in the Hamburg European Open semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
In this Semifinal matchup, Zverev is the favorite (-375) against Fils (+270) .
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has a 78.9% chance to win.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fils eliminated No. 4-ranked Casper Ruud, 6-0, 6-4.
- Zverev was victorious 6-3, 6-4 versus Luca van Assche in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In his 29 matches over the past year across all court types, Fils has played an average of 21.4 games (20.7 in best-of-three matches).
- Fils has played 14 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 22.2 games per match (21.2 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 42 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Zverev is averaging 26.0 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) and winning 53.2% of those games.
- Zverev has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 9.7 games per set in 22 matches on clay surfaces in the past 12 months.
- Dating back to 2015, Fils and Zverev have not matched up on the court.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
Taylor Fritz (No. 9 ranking) will face Jeffrey John Wolf (No. 46) in the semifinals of the Truist Atlanta Open on Saturday, July 29.
With -250 odds, Fritz is the favorite against Wolf (+190) for this matchup.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Taylor Fritz has a 71.4% chance to win.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fritz beat No. 439-ranked Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.
- Wolf came out on top 6-2, 6-3 versus Dominik Koepfer in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Fritz has played 68 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, and 26.2 games per match (24.1 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 44 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fritz has played an average of 25.8 games (24.3 in best-of-three matches).
- Wolf is averaging 24.5 games per match (22.3 in best-of-three matches) through his 59 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 52.6% of those games.
- Wolf has averaged 24.9 games per match (22.8 in best-of-three matches) and 9.9 games per set in 41 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 52.7% of those games.
- This is the first time that Fritz and Wolf have played in the last five years.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
In the ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023 semifinals on Saturday, Fabio Fognini faces Joris de Loore.
With -175 odds, Fognini is favored over de Loore (+125) for this match.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Match Information
- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennisclub Zug
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Fabio Fognini has a 63.6% chance to win.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Trends and Insights
- Fognini advanced past Jakub Mensik 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, de Loore took down No. 209-ranked Matteo Gigante, winning 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
- Fognini has played 39 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), and 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 16 matches on clay over the past year, Fognini has played an average of 24.8 games (22.0 in best-of-three matches).
- de Loore has played two matches in the past year across all court types, averaging 22.5 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) and winning 42.2% of those games.
- de Loore has averaged 18.0 games per match (18.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.0 games per set in one match on clay courts in the past year.
- This is the first time that Fognini and de Loore have matched up in the last five years.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
On Saturday, Matteo Arnaldi (No. 76 in the world) meets Alexei Popyrin (No. 90) in the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.
Arnaldi is the favorite (-150) in this match, compared to the underdog Popyrin, who is +115.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Matteo Arnaldi has a 60.0% chance to win.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Arnaldi advanced past No. 33-ranked Jiri Lehecka, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Popyrin beat No. 287-ranked Dino Prizmic, winning 7-6, 7-5.
- Arnaldi has played 24.5 games per match (23.2 in best-of-three matches) in his 35 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Arnaldi has played 18 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.5 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.2% of games.
- In the past year, Popyrin has competed in 47 total matches (across all court types), winning 49.3% of the games. He averages 28.0 games per match (25.3 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Popyrin has played 16 matches and averaged 26.7 games per match (26.0 in best-of-three matches) and 10.2 games per set.
- Dating back to 2015, Arnaldi and Popyrin have not competed against each other.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. — The former warden at Perryville prison is defending herself and her team after retiring this week amid concerns of extreme heat inside the prison.
"I don't appreciate that I'm being blasted on the news like this was my fault," Laura Pyle said in an interview with the 12News I-Team Friday. "That the director came and saved Perryville, because that's not the case."
The I-Team first started reporting on concerns over hot cells last week, with claims from inmates and their families that some cell temperatures were hitting the 90s or low 100s.
After the I-Team brought these claims to Department of Corrections Director Ryan Thornell last week, he went to visit Perryville and reportedly checked temperatures for himself.
"There was a cell that was that was pretty hot," Pyle said. "The information that I received after the fact was that that cell had literally just gone down."
She was referring to the cooling system going down, which depending on the unit, could be air conditioning or a swamp cooler. She said these are issues she's experienced throughout her nearly 24 years with the Department of Corrections.
"We have a mitigation plan that we've implemented," Pyle said. "And we implement it every year. And we've already been doing that."
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Records obtained late Friday by the I-Team revealed that some cells in the Lumley Unit, which doesn't have air conditioning, only swamp coolers, hit more than 100 degrees on July 17, which Pyle said could have been due to a cooling system being broken.
She explained that anytime a swamp cooler or air conditioner broke down, maintenance came to fix it.
"Every single time that something went down, I reported it," she said. "And then as soon as it was fixed, a second report. It's fixed now."
After that visit, Thornell made some changes over the weekend, like putting misters in the yard and more shade structures.
"We were doing what we've done all the time, but we've never had an issue" Pyle said, claiming Thornell never asked her team about their heat plans before his visit to Perryville. "I believe that the director probably got overwhelmed. We were on the news several times. And you know, there's always somebody to blame at the end of the day, right?
"Why do you think you're the person that they blame?" asked the I-Team's Erica Stapleton?
"Because I'm the warden," Pyle said. "At the end of the day, as a warden, I'm the one responsible for the facility. But I can tell you that the shades that he put that weekend? That's not something that I could have done. The misters that he put that weekend? That's not something that I could have done. Because our policy is very clear. When it comes to water hoses, we can't have water hoses out there. Those can be used for escape, they can be used for somebody to hang hang themselves."
Pyle said she wasn’t given a chance to explain herself after the director’s visit and when she had a meeting with him on Tuesday, she told him she was retiring.
To her, the heat is nothing new. She said the problem is the old equipment, waiting on air conditioners to replace swamp coolers.
"I was hoping they would be done before this summer," Pyle explained. "Because I knew this was gonna happen."
When the I-Team sat down with Thornell last Wednesday, before he visited Perryville, he said the AC units in question were in the budget for the end of next year, 2024.
"I would say it's not, it's not taking so long," the director said, adding tha supply chain issues, funding and the old building design all played a role in the plan. "The timeline is moving along as we would have expected it to."
The I-Team’s asked repeatedly to do another interview with Thornell after he visited Perryville, but the Department of Corrections declined again on Friday.
"Some inmates did say that they went to the media because they wanted the attention," Pyle said. "And they wanted to make sure that those ACS got put in. They didn't want to go another summer without it."
The Media Relations Team at the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry sent the following email to 12News Friday.
"Director Thornell will not have availability for an interview today or next week.
If you have any new concerns or questions about new issues, please feel free to send them to us in writing.
A vast majority of the input ADCRR has been hearing from families, inmates, and the community has been appreciative of our Department’s efforts to help the incarcerated population stay safe and cool during this hot summer weather. This remains our highest priority as we endure the extreme heat."
The I-Team followed up with written questions and are waiting to hear back. The I-Team also asked Governor Hobbs for an interview multiple times and received a statement from her spokesperson that did not address the heat or Perryville prison specifically:
"Governor Hobbs is proud to be taking action to fix a deeply broken corrections system with problems suffering from years of inaction. She's glad Director Thornell and the Prison Oversight Commission are working to fix our prisons and is committed to partnering with them in their critical work to ensure prisons are safe and humane."
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
In the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Saturday, Stan Wawrinka (ranked No. 72) faces Lorenzo Sonego (No. 43).
In this Semifinal matchup against Sonego (+100), Wawrinka is the favorite with -125 odds.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Stan Wawrinka has a 55.6% chance to win.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Trends and Insights
- Wawrinka is looking to stay on track after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 59-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena in Friday's quarterfinals.
- Sonego advanced to the semifinals by taking down No. 104-ranked Jaume Munar 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.
- Wawrinka has played 27.3 games per match (24.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces).
- On clay, Wawrinka has played 11 matches over the past year, totaling 28.7 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 49.7% of games.
- Sonego has averaged 25.4 games per match (22.7 in best-of-three matches) through his 55 matches played in the past year across all court surfaces, while winning 50.8% of the games.
- Sonego has averaged 27.9 games per match (23.1 in best-of-three matches) and 9.8 games per set in 13 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- Wawrinka and Sonego have not played each other since 2015.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
Taylor Fritz (No. 9 ranking) will face Jeffrey John Wolf (No. 46) in the semifinals of the Truist Atlanta Open on Saturday, July 29.
With -250 odds, Fritz is the favorite against Wolf (+190) for this matchup.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Taylor Fritz has a 71.4% chance to win.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fritz beat No. 439-ranked Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.
- Wolf came out on top 6-2, 6-3 versus Dominik Koepfer in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Fritz has played 68 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, and 26.2 games per match (24.1 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 44 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fritz has played an average of 25.8 games (24.3 in best-of-three matches).
- Wolf is averaging 24.5 games per match (22.3 in best-of-three matches) through his 59 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 52.6% of those games.
- Wolf has averaged 24.9 games per match (22.8 in best-of-three matches) and 9.9 games per set in 41 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 52.7% of those games.
- This is the first time that Fritz and Wolf have played in the last five years.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The city of San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation into a giant "X" sign that was installed Friday on top of the downtown building formerly known as Twitter headquarters as owner Elon Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.
The X appeared after San Francisco police stopped workers on Monday from removing the brand's iconic bird and logo from the side of the building, saying they hadn't taped off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell.
Any replacement letters or symbols would require a permit to ensure "consistency with the historic nature of the building" and to make sure additions are safely attached to the sign, Patrick Hannan, spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspection said earlier this week.
Erecting a sign on top of a building also requires a permit, Hannan said Friday.
"Planning review and approval is also necessary for the installation of this sign. The city is opening a complaint and initiating an investigation," he said in an email.
Musk unveiled a new "X" logo to replace Twitter's famous blue bird as he remakes the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday.
Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla, has long been fascinated with the letter X and had already renamed Twitter's corporate name to X Corp. after he bought it in October. One of his children is called "X." The child's actual name is a collection of letters and symbols.
On Friday afternoon, a worker on a lift machine made adjustments to the sign and then left.
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Manitowoc County's top real estate transfer was for $684,200 in latest listings
Here are the real estate transfers in Manitowoc County for the week of July 17-21, 2023.
MANITOWOC - Here's our weekly list of real estate transfers in Manitowoc County, courtesy of Manitowoc County Register of Deeds Office.
To determine the purchase price of the real estate, divide the transfer fee by 0.003.
For example, the top transfer fee listed here is for $2,052.60. Dividing that fee by 0.003 gives you the purchase price of $684,200.
Similarly, real estate sold at a price of $100,000 would have a transfer fee of $300.
Here are the real estate transfers listed by day of sale.
July 17
Justin R. Bratz and Kaylee K. Fernandez to Ryan and Amanda Brandon, $566.40
Dale R. and Lori A. Koenig to Dean W. and Ashley M. Pretsch, $45
Chad R. and Pamela Kravick to Scott and Sharon McFarren, $1,155
Angela M. Koceja to Hiatt L. and Samantha A. LaPierre, $450
Rachel Schulz to Richard Miley, Sarilynn Pearl Miley and Desirae Miley, $543
July 18
Leland M. Coon by attorney-in-fact to Jacob Brooks, $423
Jon D. Kelly to Andrew G. Lemberger, $300
Derrick Cherney and Cassaundra/Cassie Melotte to Marco and Lauren Morales, $570
Rita F. Lorrigan, Dale Eichhorst, Donald Lorrigan by attorney-in-fact, Mary Tisler, Joan O’Leary by attorney-in-fact, Thomas Lorrigan by attorney-in-fact, Brady M. Lorrigan by attorney-in-fact, Diane Lorrigan by attorney-in-fact and Diane Dirkman by attorney-in-fact to Wayside Dairy LLC, $2,052.60
July 19
Welcome Home of Wisconsin LLC to Alejandra Lopez, $195
Nicolet National Bank to DCole TR LLC, $840
Matthew W. and Courtney Ann Eberhardt to William and Danielle Schuessler, $855
John Eric Christianson to Christopher L. and Amber M. Schmitz, $127.50
July 20
David J. and Sara Hablewitz (Waniger) to Courtney Eberhardt, $675
Richard J. Krueger to Richard Gadzinski, $48
Rhonda L. Hurda (LaRocque) to Bonnie Vangalis, $1,095
Mary Conway to Eli Liermann, $77.70
July 21
Christianne B. Nordstrom Revocable Trust by Trustee and Christianne B. Nordstrom Living Trust by Trustee to Christianne B. Nordstrom Revocable Trust, NA
Joseph A. Giandinoto to Scott W. and Faye B. Henderson, $1,455
Jo-Da Rentals LLC to Leticia Robinson and Richard R. Robinson Sr., $208.50
James R. Jablonowski to Christine Doty, $571.50
Marilyn D. Verick to Christian McLemore and Lance Marriott, $645
Bethany R. and Greg K. Gierke to Matthew J. and Gina M. Zimpelmann, $810
Paul G. and Shannon Noreika to Cortney and Christopher Loeffler, $569.70
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The maker of Oreo and Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate is thanking an increased demand for sweets in the first half of the year for its positive forecast, Mondelez International said in its second quarter earnings call Thursday.
"We feel good about continued consumer confidence," the company said on its earnings call, saying the Chicago-based manufacturer continued to drive robust demand in its core categories of chocolates and biscuits.
It expects a 12% organic net revenue growth compared to an analyst estimate of 10%, driven in part by high demand for its snacks offsetting the high cost of goods.
It's their second quarter in a row of growth. The company increased its net revenue and earnings outlook in the first quarter as well, saying its strong performance was due to demand for its snacks and reducing its coffee equity stakes.
In the second quarter, net revenue increased 17% to $8.51 billion. Analysts predicted revenue of about $8.21 billion.
U.S. grocery prices stayed steady in June after ticking up in May. It's notable there was strong demand for snacks as extreme weather, the war in Ukraine, avian flu and higher costs along the supply chain increased global food prices.
The company lagged in Europe, due to "expected disruption driven by retailer negotiation." But it said Oreo in China, for example, is one of the brand's most important emerging markets.
Mondelez's portfolio includes other household names, such as Ritz, LU, Clif Bar, Tate's Bake Shop, Milka and Toblerone.
Shares of Mondelez rose 1.65% in after hours trading.
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Man arrested in Manitowoc for meth distribution sentenced to 10 years in prison
Court documents state Moises Perez-Ochoa distributed more than 5 pounds of meth in Manitowoc and about 4 pounds of meth in Pierce County.
MANITOWOC – A 40-year-old man who was arrested by the Manitowoc Metro Drug Unit for distributing more than 5 pounds of methamphetamine in Manitowoc between December 2022 and February 2023 has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervision.
A news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Wisconsin said Moises Perez-Ochoa was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach July 28.
According to court documents, Perez-Ochoa distributed more than 5 pounds of methamphetamine in Manitowoc from December 2022 to February 2023.
After his arrest, Manitowoc Metro Drug Unit agents learned Perez-Ochoa also distributed approximately 4 pounds of methamphetamine in Pierce County between October 2022 and November 2022. As a result, Perez-Ochoa was charged and convicted of distribution of 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
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Agents determined that at the time of his offense, Perez-Ochoa was not legally present in the United States and that he had been removed from the country in 2006, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Perez-Ochoa’s criminal record includes two separate convictions for re-entry of a removed alien and a prior conviction for drug distribution.
The Manitowoc Metro Drug Unit investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander E. Duros prosecuted in U.S. District Court.
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The White House is watching rising gas prices "very carefully," as President Joe Biden's top advisers are briefing him regularly on the situation, a senior administration official told CNN.
At present, top advisers to Biden believe the situation is steady, the official said, considering it's the height of air conditioning and driving season and given the strength of the economy, which drives up demand for travel and energy usage.
"The irony is the strength of the economy brings higher prices," the official told CNN. "The better the president (and his agenda) performs, the higher the price is going to go."
The average price of retail gasoline nationally rose two cents per gallon Friday to $3.73, according to AAA, after seeing the biggest one-day spike since June 2022 earlier in the week.
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline climbed to $3.69 on Wednesday, according to AAA, up by 5 cents from Tuesday. That jump came just a day after a 4-cent increase, previously the biggest one-day increase in a year. All told, gas prices have spiked 15 cents in a week.
Analysts blame a combination of mounting supply cuts by OPEC and Russia, extreme heat that has sidelined oil refineries and optimism about the health of the world economy.
Gas prices are still well below where they were last summer – the national average was 54 cents higher a year ago, according to AAA.
If prices rise to a level where the president deems a policy response necessary, the administration may choose to stop buying oil from the open market to refill the country's emergency reserves or seek higher output from the largest global oil producers like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
It remains unclear what price level would trigger such a response.
Within the West Wing, the monthslong reprieve in gas prices has taken the issue off the front-burner for officials, but it's now rising in priority.
During the run-up to peak gas prices around $5 per gallon in June 2022, chief of staff Ron Klain refreshed gas prices multiple times per day, and frequently relayed those prices to the public and the president, whose approval rating was seen as directly linked to the price per gallon.
Klain's successor, Jeff Zients, has been holding regular meetings on the topic but has not obsessed over prices in the same way. Top policy aides like Amos Hochstein – who recently transitioned to the White House from the State Department to advise the president on energy, relations with the Middle East and global infrastructure – have also taken a lead role in crafting the administration's policy response.
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Manitowoc County 100+ Women Who Care will choose next recipient Aug. 8 as total giving tops $100K
The public is invited to drop in and visit during the Aug. 8 meeting before committing to join.
Manitowoc County 100+ Women Who Care will hold its next giving circle Aug. 8 at Sepia Chapel, 1820 Jefferson St., Two Rivers. The public is invited to drop in and visit before committing to join the group.
Registration, social and free appetizers start at 5:30 p.m. The giving circle begins at 6:30 p.m. and concludes by 7:30 p.m.
Twenty-four nonprofits in the county can be considered for funding. Nonprofits can be considered once a current member nominates them. Nonprofits selected for funding can receive up to $15,000.
Before consideration by the membership, MC100+WWC must approve all nominated nonprofits based on 501(c)(3) status and current 990 tax filings. This guarantees each nonprofit is legitimate and that money donated is going for its intended purpose.
Manitowoc County 100+ Women Who Care was started in the middle of a world pandemic. Ironically, the international mask mandate was lifted on the day of its first meeting in May 2021.
Since that day, the group has grown to more than 200 members, giving more than $105,000 to Manitowoc County nonprofits.
Each quarter, the group awards a Manitowoc County nonprofit at least $10,000 and a corporate match could potentially boost that award by as much as $5,000.
Making a difference:Manitowoc group aims to double its nonprofit giving in 2023 after awarding $50K since May 2021
There has never been a better time to join the movement in making a difference in Manitowoc County! Whether a nonprofit, business or individual person, MC100+WWC can enrich the quality of life for all.
Visit 100Womenmc.org for more details or to join. A current list of approved nonprofits from Manitowoc County can also be found on the website. You can nominate your favorite nonprofit to add to the list if you become a member. Also, business owners can consider making a match of their choosing and on their terms.
If you have questions, call me, Susie Brown, at 920-860-6481.
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Moderate Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has been receiving encouragement to consider challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and will travel to New York City next week to discuss the possibility with donors, Phillips confirmed to CNN.
The plans were first reported by Politico.
A source familiar with Phillips' thinking tells CNN the public report of his plans has spurred additional encouragement.
Phillips has said publicly he does not believe Biden should run for reelection, telling a Minnesota radio station last year that the country "would be well served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats to step up."
Some Democrats have privately raised concerns about Biden's advanced age, and Phillips' planned meeting comes with age currently front-and-center on the political stage.
Biden fell in public earlier this summer; the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, froze up at a news conference earlier this week; and Democrats have grappled with the health challenges besetting Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.
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UN says it’s forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon — including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa.
He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications. “Those needs continue to grow, those drivers are still there,” he said, “but the funding is drying up. So we’re looking at 2024 (being) even more dire.”
“The largest food and nutrition crisis in history today persists,” Skau said. “This year, 345 million people continue to be acutely food insecure while hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger.”
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress — all during a slowdown in the global economy.
WFP is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency’s traditional donors to “step up and support us through this very difficult time.”
Asked why funding was drying up, Skau said to ask the donors.
“But it’s clear that aid budgets, humanitarian budgets, both in Europe and the United States, (are) not where they were in 2021-2022,” he said.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people — 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said. In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on WFP for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them. In the Palestinian territories, WFP cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force WFP to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly WFP’s seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories, “and so we will have an additional humanitarian emergency on our hands down the road.”
“Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward,” Skau said.
He urged world leaders to prioritize humanitarian funding and invest in long-tern solutions to conflicts, poverty, development and other root causes of the current crisis.
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USC still preparing for European tour as Bronny James recovers at home after cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Bronny James continues to recover after going into cardiac arrest, his Southern California teammates have been at practice to prepare for a 10-day exhibition tour of Greece and Croatia that begins next week.
The tour will run from from Aug. 5-15 and see the Trojans visit Athens and Mykonos, Greece, and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Teams are allowed to go on a foreign tour once every four years under NCAA rules.
James was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Thursday and is resting at home, according to a statement from the hospital. His father, Lakers superstar LeBron James, also posted on social media that his family is “safe and healthy.”
Bronny James will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating, because of a problem with its electrical activity. While uncommon in young people, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes. Some studies have estimated one sudden cardiac death in 50,000 to 80,000 young athletes each year.
No information has been made public about what may have caused Bronny James’ cardiac arrest. But one of the most common causes in young athletes is an underlying problem with the heart’s structure, such as a genetic condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that leads to a thickened heart muscle more prone to irregular electrical activity. A more rare cause is commotio cordis, which occurs when someone receives a sharp blow to the chest during a specific part of the heartbeat’s cycle — what happened to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin earlier this year.
James was the second high-profile USC basketball recruit to go into cardiac arrest in the last year. Vincent Iwuchuwku also was stricken during a workout last July, but the 7-foot-1 center returned to the court six months later and appeared in 14 games.
It’s too soon to know how James’ playing career could be affected, especially without a lot of information being made public. Various experts point to James’ quick move out of intensive care and being released three days later as encouraging.
The upcoming trip is important for the Trojans as James recovers. USC had the nation’s fourth-ranked recruiting class, including the top-rated player in guard Isaiah Collier.
James committed to the Trojans in May after the 6-foot-3 18-year-old became one of the nation’s top prospects as a two-way point guard for Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California.
He is the sixth McDonald’s All-American to come to USC since Andy Enfield became coach in 2013.
With his family fame and huge social media following, Bronny James also has the top name, image and likeness valuation in sports at $6.3 million, as estimated by On3.com. He is the oldest of LeBron and Savannah James’ three children.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham and AP Health & Science Writer Lauran Neergard contributed to this report.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Arthur Fils will face Alexander Zverev in the Hamburg European Open semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
In this Semifinal matchup, Zverev is the favorite (-375) against Fils (+270) .
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has a 78.9% chance to win.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fils eliminated No. 4-ranked Casper Ruud, 6-0, 6-4.
- Zverev was victorious 6-3, 6-4 versus Luca van Assche in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In his 29 matches over the past year across all court types, Fils has played an average of 21.4 games (20.7 in best-of-three matches).
- Fils has played 14 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 22.2 games per match (21.2 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 42 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Zverev is averaging 26.0 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) and winning 53.2% of those games.
- Zverev has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 9.7 games per set in 22 matches on clay surfaces in the past 12 months.
- Dating back to 2015, Fils and Zverev have not matched up on the court.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
In the ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023 semifinals on Saturday, Fabio Fognini faces Joris de Loore.
With -175 odds, Fognini is favored over de Loore (+125) for this match.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Match Information
- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennisclub Zug
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Fabio Fognini has a 63.6% chance to win.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Trends and Insights
- Fognini advanced past Jakub Mensik 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, de Loore took down No. 209-ranked Matteo Gigante, winning 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
- Fognini has played 39 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), and 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 16 matches on clay over the past year, Fognini has played an average of 24.8 games (22.0 in best-of-three matches).
- de Loore has played two matches in the past year across all court types, averaging 22.5 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) and winning 42.2% of those games.
- de Loore has averaged 18.0 games per match (18.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.0 games per set in one match on clay courts in the past year.
- This is the first time that Fognini and de Loore have matched up in the last five years.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
On Saturday, Matteo Arnaldi (No. 76 in the world) meets Alexei Popyrin (No. 90) in the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.
Arnaldi is the favorite (-150) in this match, compared to the underdog Popyrin, who is +115.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Matteo Arnaldi has a 60.0% chance to win.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Arnaldi advanced past No. 33-ranked Jiri Lehecka, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Popyrin beat No. 287-ranked Dino Prizmic, winning 7-6, 7-5.
- Arnaldi has played 24.5 games per match (23.2 in best-of-three matches) in his 35 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Arnaldi has played 18 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.5 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.2% of games.
- In the past year, Popyrin has competed in 47 total matches (across all court types), winning 49.3% of the games. He averages 28.0 games per match (25.3 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Popyrin has played 16 matches and averaged 26.7 games per match (26.0 in best-of-three matches) and 10.2 games per set.
- Dating back to 2015, Arnaldi and Popyrin have not competed against each other.
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SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Sarasota teen is grateful to be home this weekend, especially because four weeks ago, he didn’t know if he would live or die.
In June, Aaron Hunter III was shot while playing with friends just two blocks away from his home. He was hit in the head and spent two and a half weeks in the hospital.
Now, he’s turning his situation into a call for an end to gun violence.
It may be a simple walk around the house, but Aaron Hunter III considers each footstep a blessing.
“I feel very blessed and I want people to keep praying for me,” Hunter said.
It’s only been one month since his life changed forever. At just 13 years old, he became a victim of gun violence when he was hit by a stray bullet.
“I just don’t want this to happen to anybody else,” Hunter said. “It’s a blessing that I made it because I had God with me.”
Hunter’s mother, Erica Dorsey, has been focused on healing over the past month.
“All you have to do is just believe,” Dorsey said. “The thing with faith is that you have to believe in what you cannot see and that’s just it, and I was believing in what I could not see.”
Especially after her son endured a painful brain surgery in the ICU, now her days of worry have been met with relief.
“It was six to 12 months,” Dorsey said. “That’s what we thought our recovery was going to be.”
From tragedy to triumph, friends quickly rallied around Hunter and his family.
On Saturday they’re hosting a rally to celebrate the strides in Hunter’s recovery and to take a stand against gun violence.
“People don’t realize that with the snap of a finger, life can be taken just like that because somebody got a gun,” said Rhonda Calahan, a friend of the family.
The shooter is still wanted, but the family is focused on healing.
Hunter said he’s thankful to live another day and grateful for the community support to see that happen.
“It’s a miracle that I survived this because some people normally wouldn’t survive being shot in the head,” Hunter said. “I survived so that’s why they call me the miracle baby.”
The event will be Saturday at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park on Cocoanut Avenue in Sarasota. Registration begins at 9 a.m. with the rally and march to follow at 10 a.m.
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Man arrested after breaking into a home and kicking an officer
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 12:12 AM EDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
DUNNELLON, Fla. (WCJB) - A man is behind bars at the Marion County Jail for breaking into a home and kicking a deputy in the chest.
Marion County Sheriff’s deputies say 21-year-old William Molinet entered a home through an unlocked door on the Granada in Dunnellon last night.
He was asked to leave but forced his way back inside the home.
When deputies arrived and detained Molinet, they said he kicked a deputy in the chest multiple times and spit on his face.
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UN says it’s forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon — including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa.
He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications. “Those needs continue to grow, those drivers are still there,” he said, “but the funding is drying up. So we’re looking at 2024 (being) even more dire.”
“The largest food and nutrition crisis in history today persists,” Skau said. “This year, 345 million people continue to be acutely food insecure while hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger.”
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress — all during a slowdown in the global economy.
WFP is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency’s traditional donors to “step up and support us through this very difficult time.”
Asked why funding was drying up, Skau said to ask the donors.
“But it’s clear that aid budgets, humanitarian budgets, both in Europe and the United States, (are) not where they were in 2021-2022,” he said.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people — 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said. In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on WFP for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them. In the Palestinian territories, WFP cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force WFP to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly WFP’s seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories, “and so we will have an additional humanitarian emergency on our hands down the road.”
“Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward,” Skau said.
He urged world leaders to prioritize humanitarian funding and invest in long-tern solutions to conflicts, poverty, development and other root causes of the current crisis.
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Upgrades to A.N.N.E Park have been completed
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 12:12 AM EDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Upgrades to a park in Gainesville have officially been completed.
A.N.N.E Park on NW 28th Terrace received improvements including an accessible pathway through the park, a new swing set, and a new pavilion roof.
The improvements were paid from the City’s Wild Spaces Public Places tax.
The total cost of the improvements project was more than 54 thousand dollars.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
In the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Saturday, Stan Wawrinka (ranked No. 72) faces Lorenzo Sonego (No. 43).
In this Semifinal matchup against Sonego (+100), Wawrinka is the favorite with -125 odds.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Stan Wawrinka has a 55.6% chance to win.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Trends and Insights
- Wawrinka is looking to stay on track after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 59-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena in Friday's quarterfinals.
- Sonego advanced to the semifinals by taking down No. 104-ranked Jaume Munar 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.
- Wawrinka has played 27.3 games per match (24.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces).
- On clay, Wawrinka has played 11 matches over the past year, totaling 28.7 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 49.7% of games.
- Sonego has averaged 25.4 games per match (22.7 in best-of-three matches) through his 55 matches played in the past year across all court surfaces, while winning 50.8% of the games.
- Sonego has averaged 27.9 games per match (23.1 in best-of-three matches) and 9.8 games per set in 13 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- Wawrinka and Sonego have not played each other since 2015.
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USC still preparing for European tour as Bronny James recovers at home after cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Bronny James continues to recover after going into cardiac arrest, his Southern California teammates have been at practice to prepare for a 10-day exhibition tour of Greece and Croatia that begins next week.
The tour will run from from Aug. 5-15 and see the Trojans visit Athens and Mykonos, Greece, and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Teams are allowed to go on a foreign tour once every four years under NCAA rules.
James was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Thursday and is resting at home, according to a statement from the hospital. His father, Lakers superstar LeBron James, also posted on social media that his family is “safe and healthy.”
Bronny James will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating, because of a problem with its electrical activity. While uncommon in young people, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes. Some studies have estimated one sudden cardiac death in 50,000 to 80,000 young athletes each year.
No information has been made public about what may have caused Bronny James’ cardiac arrest. But one of the most common causes in young athletes is an underlying problem with the heart’s structure, such as a genetic condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that leads to a thickened heart muscle more prone to irregular electrical activity. A more rare cause is commotio cordis, which occurs when someone receives a sharp blow to the chest during a specific part of the heartbeat’s cycle — what happened to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin earlier this year.
James was the second high-profile USC basketball recruit to go into cardiac arrest in the last year. Vincent Iwuchuwku also was stricken during a workout last July, but the 7-foot-1 center returned to the court six months later and appeared in 14 games.
It’s too soon to know how James’ playing career could be affected, especially without a lot of information being made public. Various experts point to James’ quick move out of intensive care and being released three days later as encouraging.
The upcoming trip is important for the Trojans as James recovers. USC had the nation’s fourth-ranked recruiting class, including the top-rated player in guard Isaiah Collier.
James committed to the Trojans in May after the 6-foot-3 18-year-old became one of the nation’s top prospects as a two-way point guard for Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California.
He is the sixth McDonald’s All-American to come to USC since Andy Enfield became coach in 2013.
With his family fame and huge social media following, Bronny James also has the top name, image and likeness valuation in sports at $6.3 million, as estimated by On3.com. He is the oldest of LeBron and Savannah James’ three children.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham and AP Health & Science Writer Lauran Neergard contributed to this report.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
Taylor Fritz (No. 9 ranking) will face Jeffrey John Wolf (No. 46) in the semifinals of the Truist Atlanta Open on Saturday, July 29.
With -250 odds, Fritz is the favorite against Wolf (+190) for this matchup.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Taylor Fritz has a 71.4% chance to win.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fritz beat No. 439-ranked Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.
- Wolf came out on top 6-2, 6-3 versus Dominik Koepfer in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Fritz has played 68 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, and 26.2 games per match (24.1 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 44 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fritz has played an average of 25.8 games (24.3 in best-of-three matches).
- Wolf is averaging 24.5 games per match (22.3 in best-of-three matches) through his 59 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 52.6% of those games.
- Wolf has averaged 24.9 games per match (22.8 in best-of-three matches) and 9.9 games per set in 41 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 52.7% of those games.
- This is the first time that Fritz and Wolf have played in the last five years.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Arthur Fils will face Alexander Zverev in the Hamburg European Open semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
In this Semifinal matchup, Zverev is the favorite (-375) against Fils (+270) .
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has a 78.9% chance to win.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fils eliminated No. 4-ranked Casper Ruud, 6-0, 6-4.
- Zverev was victorious 6-3, 6-4 versus Luca van Assche in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In his 29 matches over the past year across all court types, Fils has played an average of 21.4 games (20.7 in best-of-three matches).
- Fils has played 14 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 22.2 games per match (21.2 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 42 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Zverev is averaging 26.0 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) and winning 53.2% of those games.
- Zverev has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 9.7 games per set in 22 matches on clay surfaces in the past 12 months.
- Dating back to 2015, Fils and Zverev have not matched up on the court.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
In the ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023 semifinals on Saturday, Fabio Fognini faces Joris de Loore.
With -175 odds, Fognini is favored over de Loore (+125) for this match.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Match Information
- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennisclub Zug
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Fabio Fognini has a 63.6% chance to win.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Trends and Insights
- Fognini advanced past Jakub Mensik 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, de Loore took down No. 209-ranked Matteo Gigante, winning 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
- Fognini has played 39 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), and 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 16 matches on clay over the past year, Fognini has played an average of 24.8 games (22.0 in best-of-three matches).
- de Loore has played two matches in the past year across all court types, averaging 22.5 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) and winning 42.2% of those games.
- de Loore has averaged 18.0 games per match (18.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.0 games per set in one match on clay courts in the past year.
- This is the first time that Fognini and de Loore have matched up in the last five years.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
On Saturday, Matteo Arnaldi (No. 76 in the world) meets Alexei Popyrin (No. 90) in the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.
Arnaldi is the favorite (-150) in this match, compared to the underdog Popyrin, who is +115.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Matteo Arnaldi has a 60.0% chance to win.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Arnaldi advanced past No. 33-ranked Jiri Lehecka, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Popyrin beat No. 287-ranked Dino Prizmic, winning 7-6, 7-5.
- Arnaldi has played 24.5 games per match (23.2 in best-of-three matches) in his 35 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Arnaldi has played 18 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.5 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.2% of games.
- In the past year, Popyrin has competed in 47 total matches (across all court types), winning 49.3% of the games. He averages 28.0 games per match (25.3 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Popyrin has played 16 matches and averaged 26.7 games per match (26.0 in best-of-three matches) and 10.2 games per set.
- Dating back to 2015, Arnaldi and Popyrin have not competed against each other.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
In the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Saturday, Stan Wawrinka (ranked No. 72) faces Lorenzo Sonego (No. 43).
In this Semifinal matchup against Sonego (+100), Wawrinka is the favorite with -125 odds.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Stan Wawrinka has a 55.6% chance to win.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Trends and Insights
- Wawrinka is looking to stay on track after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 59-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena in Friday's quarterfinals.
- Sonego advanced to the semifinals by taking down No. 104-ranked Jaume Munar 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.
- Wawrinka has played 27.3 games per match (24.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces).
- On clay, Wawrinka has played 11 matches over the past year, totaling 28.7 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 49.7% of games.
- Sonego has averaged 25.4 games per match (22.7 in best-of-three matches) through his 55 matches played in the past year across all court surfaces, while winning 50.8% of the games.
- Sonego has averaged 27.9 games per match (23.1 in best-of-three matches) and 9.8 games per set in 13 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- Wawrinka and Sonego have not played each other since 2015.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
Taylor Fritz (No. 9 ranking) will face Jeffrey John Wolf (No. 46) in the semifinals of the Truist Atlanta Open on Saturday, July 29.
With -250 odds, Fritz is the favorite against Wolf (+190) for this matchup.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Taylor Fritz has a 71.4% chance to win.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fritz beat No. 439-ranked Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.
- Wolf came out on top 6-2, 6-3 versus Dominik Koepfer in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Fritz has played 68 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, and 26.2 games per match (24.1 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 44 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fritz has played an average of 25.8 games (24.3 in best-of-three matches).
- Wolf is averaging 24.5 games per match (22.3 in best-of-three matches) through his 59 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 52.6% of those games.
- Wolf has averaged 24.9 games per match (22.8 in best-of-three matches) and 9.9 games per set in 41 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 52.7% of those games.
- This is the first time that Fritz and Wolf have played in the last five years.
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PAVLIVKA, Ukraine — When four Russian cruise missiles ripped apart a grain storage facility in this southern village last week, shock waves shattered the windows of adjacent homes, sending broken glass everywhere.
“The sound was so foul,” she said. “It felt like the world was ending.”
Like many of the farmers who live near Odessa, one of Ukraine’s major port cities, Lazarova is convinced that Moscow’s attacks on the port and its agriculture sector are aimed at extracting maximum pain following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to terminate a United Nations-brokered deal allowing grain exports from the Black Sea.
“They’re sick! They are doing it on purpose!” she said, nursing a bandage on her arm as she stood among twisted scraps of metal strewn about the nearby homes.
Odessa’s grain industry suffered tens of millions of dollars in damage as a result of the near-nightly Russian airstrikes. The attacks destroyed at least 60,000 tons of grain, enough to feed more than 270,000 people for a year, according to the U.N. World Food Program.
Follow-on attacks Monday targeted grain warehouses along the Danube River — a key alternative route for exports following the collapse of the Black Sea deal — and appeared to be aimed at crippling the country’s entire agricultural industry, which accounted for about 20 percent of Ukraine’s economy before Russia’s invasion.
On Thursday, another Russian missile hit Odessa’s cargo terminal and administrative buildings, killing one employee, Ukraine’s military said.
Russia, one of the world’s largest producers of fertilizer, said it backed out of the Black Sea deal because it was being implemented to benefit only Ukraine and was not resulting in a substantial increase of exports of Russian grain and fertilizer because of Western sanctions — a point fiercely disputed by the United Nations, the United States and international aid agencies.
“Only upon receipt of concrete results, and not promises and assurances, will Russia be ready to consider restoring the deal,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.
U.S. officials reject that Western sanctions are to blame and see Putin executing an explicit strategy. “This is very intentional,” Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, told reporters this week after returning from a visit to Odessa.
Not only is Putin using “food as a weapon of war,” Power said, “but it also appears to be part of an ongoing campaign to decimate Ukraine’s economy.” Many Ukrainian farmers also face the danger of thousands of deadly land mines and other unexploded ordnance now strewn across their fields.
The Black Sea deal, forged by the United Nations and Turkey in July 2022, ended a four-month Russian naval blockade of Ukraine’s ports that had dramatically curtailed Ukraine’s exports, crippling its already war-battered economy. In the year that followed, the deal allowed Ukraine to export 33 million tons of grain and other food products.
Power has made it her goal to salvage Ukraine’s agricultural sector, announcing an additional $250 million to increase the rate of loading and unloading at Danube ports, expand access to financing for farmers who lost business in the war and cannot afford to plant new crops, and streamline Western border checkpoints to increase trade.
The use of the Danube River as an alternative trade route has shown the most promise thus far. In March 2022, the Danube routes moved 55,000 tons of agricultural cargo but have now greatly expanded capacity, with 2.2 million tons moving in May. “That’s almost a 4,000 percent increase,” Power said.
But that amount still falls far short of satisfying export potential in a country that expects to harvest 44 million tons of grain this year — cut nearly in half from a high of 86 million in 2021.
On Thursday, African leaders attending a summit meeting in St. Petersburg urged Putin to halt his blockade and return to the grain deal. They have warned that restrictions on exports will worsen an already critical food crisis in some African nations.
Andrii Dykun, chairman of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council, says the United States has been “crucial for Ukrainian farmers,” underscoring the benefit that loan assistance has provided for farmers whose profit margins have been decimated by increased shipping costs or the inability to get their products to market.
“Without that support we would not survive,” Dykun said.
Other farmers, however, are pessimistic that governments or international institutions will have enough impact to allow their business to survive.
“It’s not economically viable to trade grain to the world right now — at all,” said Oleksandr Chumak, a farmer who employs more than 200 people across 8,000 acres of land.
Chumak, who grows wheat, barley and other crops, said there were several months last year when the Black Sea deal moved exports quickly, but eventually Russia began restricting the movement of ships unpredictably, raising transport costs for farmers.
“The last six months it wasn’t working at all,” he said.
While he has been able to export some products via the Danube, it is too expensive to be profitable, he said.
Other farmers, such as Anatoliy Artemenko, who grows wheat in the Odessa region, said it is still worth it to export his product, but that is easier said than done. “It just stays in storage — this year, next year — it just keeps piling up,” he said.
A key problem is competing for export contracts at a time of pent-up supply. “We were given a contract for 1,000 tons, and that’s what we exported,” Artemenko said.
Russia is not the only problem for Ukrainian farmers. Poland’s government, at the behest of its influential farm lobby, is pushing the European Union to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products — a move some Ukrainian farmers view as a betrayal from an otherwise staunch ally.
“It’s a complete disaster for us,” said Dykun, the head of the agrarian council. “And from a country that always says, ‘You are our brothers and sisters.’”
For Power, restoring Ukraine’s agriculture industry is key to making the war, which shows no signs of ending soon, more sustainable financially for the United States, which has expended tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance.
Gainfully employed farmers are an “important source of tax revenue for the Ukrainian government,” Power said.
“And while the United States and Europe provide very significant direct budget support to the Ukrainian government,” she added, “the goal has been, of course, to decrease that … over time as Ukraine’s own economy recovers.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/29/ukraine-grain-agriculture-russia-attacks/ | 2023-07-29T05:09:22 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/29/ukraine-grain-agriculture-russia-attacks/ |
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Why coach Brian Nix was not on the sideline at Alcoa football's scrimmage, quarterback Cody Pagach injured
Alcoa football had its first scrimmage of the season at home without its coach on the field.
Brian Nix led the Tornadoes in a wheelchair above the stands after he tore his quadricep tendon at football practice on July 25.
“I got rolled up on at practice,” Nix said. “Blocked somebody into me from behind, it was a drill going on behind me and I was coaching some other guys. It was a freak thing.”
Nix was in communication with the team through a headset. Nix had knee surgery on Thursday, the day before his team’s scrimmage.
The second-year coach is currently in between using crutches and a wheelchair and will have to wear a knee brace for six weeks. He started weight-bearing exercises on Friday.
When asked if he will be able to coach on the sidelines in Alcoa’s season opener in three weeks, he jokingly said his wife told him he will be not able to coach from the field between four to six weeks. However, he said he is hopeful he’ll be ready even though there's uncertainty.
“We’ll have to see how I’m healing up and (depending on) what the doctor says, I may end up being in the press box. Hopefully, I can be back on the field sooner rather than later,” Nix said.
Alcoa’s first game is at Ravenwood on Aug. 18.
Another factor in Nix’s ability to be on the field to coach is whether he will be mobile enough to move out of the way if action from the field spills over to the sidelines. He said he will still be on crutches by the time the season starts.
Starting quarterback injured
Nix is not alone in being not at full health. Starting senior quarterback Cody Pagach who transferred from Independence in Thompson's Station, Tennessee, injured his wrist during Alcoa’s scrimmage.
“He dinged up his wrist,” Nix said. “We got an X-Ray just to be precautionary, but hopefully it's just a bruise.”
Nix said the transfer quarterback fell on it after he was tackled. In the time he did spend on the field, Nix and offensive coordinator David Sweetland said Pagach played well in his limited time. They also said back up quarterback Eli Graf did well in the starter's absence.
Pagach is a three-star player ranked No. 50 in the state with offers from Pittsburgh, Western Kentucky, UNLV, UT Martin, etc. Even with this background, he entered Alcoa having to win the starting job, which Nix said he earned.
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“You got to come and show you’re the best (quarterback),” Nix said he told Pagach. “He’s responded to that.”
Outside of Pagach, another transfer player for Alcoa stopped playing in the scrimmage earlier than scrimmage than expected. IMG Academy transfer Brandon Winton Jr., who is committed to South Florida, exited with cramps, Sweetland said. The 6:30 p.m. scrimmage was played with temperatures as high as 91 degrees.
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HURON, Ohio (CNN) — A bank robbery suspect’s escape was thwarted when he fell into a recycling bin – right where police were waiting for him, authorities said.
Police took the man, 27-year-old Tristan Heidl, into custody after he dropped down from the ceiling of a bank’s drive-thru into a recycling ban in Huron, Ohio, during the early hours of Wednesday, authorities said.
Huron police officers responding to an alarm at VacationLand Federal Credit Union around 2 a.m. heard noises coming from inside the roof area over the drive-thru, according to a news release from the Huron Police Department.
They also saw a blue recycling bin in the middle of a drive-thru lane positioned directly under a roof access door.
Police body cam footage shows officers waiting as the roof’s access door opens and a backpack falls to the ground. Police said the bag contained construction tools.
Shortly after, the suspect dropped down from the ceiling into the recycling bin, body cam footage shows. Then officers rush over and arrest him.
Heidl was charged with breaking and entering, possession of criminal tools, and safecracking. He waived his preliminary hearing on Friday and the case was bound over to the grand jury in the Erie County Common Pleas Court in Sandusky Ohio, Huron Police Chief Terry Graham told CNN. Heidl is now out on a $50,000 bond, Graham added.
CNN has sought comment from Heidl’s attorney.
Huron is located at the mouth of the Huron River on Lake Erie.
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UN says it’s forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon — including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa.
He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications. “Those needs continue to grow, those drivers are still there,” he said, “but the funding is drying up. So we’re looking at 2024 (being) even more dire.”
“The largest food and nutrition crisis in history today persists,” Skau said. “This year, 345 million people continue to be acutely food insecure while hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger.”
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress — all during a slowdown in the global economy.
WFP is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency’s traditional donors to “step up and support us through this very difficult time.”
Asked why funding was drying up, Skau said to ask the donors.
“But it’s clear that aid budgets, humanitarian budgets, both in Europe and the United States, (are) not where they were in 2021-2022,” he said.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people — 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said. In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on WFP for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them. In the Palestinian territories, WFP cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force WFP to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly WFP’s seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories, “and so we will have an additional humanitarian emergency on our hands down the road.”
“Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward,” Skau said.
He urged world leaders to prioritize humanitarian funding and invest in long-tern solutions to conflicts, poverty, development and other root causes of the current crisis.
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TUCSON, Arizona — If you follow Ironman competitions, or perhaps just notice the side of the road, you're familiar with Leanda Cave. The Australian born triathlete first moved to Tucson as a young adult.
"This was the ideal location to train here for triathlon," said Cave.
Her career year came in 201, when she won the Ironman 70.3 mile race. A reporter asked her if she could win the annual ultra triathlon world championship in Hawaii the following month in October.
"And, he said, 'Wouldn't it be amazing if you won both,' and I was like, that's never going to happen. And, then I won and it was like, oh my gosh. It took a long time to sink in."
Leanda Cave was the at the top of her sports until injuries hit her hard. She then had a battle with skin cancer.
"It's really tough when you are on top of the world, and you have these amazing results, and then you can't show up the next year and do the same."
After rehabilitating in Florida, Cave came back to win Ironman Sweden in 2014, but her career was sunsetting.
"For me, recovery was probably the one thing I didn't do well as a professional athlete."
That self-reflection led to her second career at Innovative Alternative Clinic. She's licensed to use the latest technology focused on wellness and recover, and the business is used by some of Tucson's top athletes.
"The Tucson community is so encouraging and supportive."
The business she's in is in its first mile.
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"We want to grow and we want to be a business that can open in other locations. So, right now, we are here for the long run to make it happen."
Triathlon star Leanda Cave has moved back to Tucson, to the town that knows her best.
"As soon as I started riding my bike, I bump into people and everyone is like, 'I remember you.' It's feels like I am a Tucson athlete. Retired, but (laughs.)" | https://www.kgun9.com/sports/local-sports/catching-up-with-former-triathlon-champion-leanda-cave | 2023-07-29T05:10:19 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/sports/local-sports/catching-up-with-former-triathlon-champion-leanda-cave |
USC still preparing for European tour as Bronny James recovers at home after cardiac arrest
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Bronny James continues to recover after going into cardiac arrest, his Southern California teammates have been at practice to prepare for a 10-day exhibition tour of Greece and Croatia that begins next week.
The tour will run from from Aug. 5-15 and see the Trojans visit Athens and Mykonos, Greece, and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Teams are allowed to go on a foreign tour once every four years under NCAA rules.
James was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Thursday and is resting at home, according to a statement from the hospital. His father, Lakers superstar LeBron James, also posted on social media that his family is “safe and healthy.”
Bronny James will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating, because of a problem with its electrical activity. While uncommon in young people, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes. Some studies have estimated one sudden cardiac death in 50,000 to 80,000 young athletes each year.
No information has been made public about what may have caused Bronny James’ cardiac arrest. But one of the most common causes in young athletes is an underlying problem with the heart’s structure, such as a genetic condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that leads to a thickened heart muscle more prone to irregular electrical activity. A more rare cause is commotio cordis, which occurs when someone receives a sharp blow to the chest during a specific part of the heartbeat’s cycle — what happened to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin earlier this year.
James was the second high-profile USC basketball recruit to go into cardiac arrest in the last year. Vincent Iwuchuwku also was stricken during a workout last July, but the 7-foot-1 center returned to the court six months later and appeared in 14 games.
It’s too soon to know how James’ playing career could be affected, especially without a lot of information being made public. Various experts point to James’ quick move out of intensive care and being released three days later as encouraging.
The upcoming trip is important for the Trojans as James recovers. USC had the nation’s fourth-ranked recruiting class, including the top-rated player in guard Isaiah Collier.
James committed to the Trojans in May after the 6-foot-3 18-year-old became one of the nation’s top prospects as a two-way point guard for Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California.
He is the sixth McDonald’s All-American to come to USC since Andy Enfield became coach in 2013.
With his family fame and huge social media following, Bronny James also has the top name, image and likeness valuation in sports at $6.3 million, as estimated by On3.com. He is the oldest of LeBron and Savannah James’ three children.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham and AP Health & Science Writer Lauran Neergard contributed to this report.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — We saw severe monsoon storms hit the Tucson metro area Friday evening. More storms could be on the way Saturday afternoon and evening, with good chances for rain across Southern Arizona for the next few days.
We are holding on to the above-average heat this weekend, with forecast highs of 107 in Tucson and 99 in Sierra Vista on Saturday.
However, early next week we'll see a modest cool down, with temperatures falling to near average for this time of year.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Arthur Fils will face Alexander Zverev in the Hamburg European Open semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
In this Semifinal matchup, Zverev is the favorite (-375) against Fils (+270) .
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has a 78.9% chance to win.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fils eliminated No. 4-ranked Casper Ruud, 6-0, 6-4.
- Zverev was victorious 6-3, 6-4 versus Luca van Assche in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In his 29 matches over the past year across all court types, Fils has played an average of 21.4 games (20.7 in best-of-three matches).
- Fils has played 14 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 22.2 games per match (21.2 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 42 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Zverev is averaging 26.0 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) and winning 53.2% of those games.
- Zverev has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 9.7 games per set in 22 matches on clay surfaces in the past 12 months.
- Dating back to 2015, Fils and Zverev have not matched up on the court.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
In the ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023 semifinals on Saturday, Fabio Fognini faces Joris de Loore.
With -175 odds, Fognini is favored over de Loore (+125) for this match.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Match Information
- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennisclub Zug
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Fabio Fognini has a 63.6% chance to win.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Trends and Insights
- Fognini advanced past Jakub Mensik 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, de Loore took down No. 209-ranked Matteo Gigante, winning 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
- Fognini has played 39 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), and 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 16 matches on clay over the past year, Fognini has played an average of 24.8 games (22.0 in best-of-three matches).
- de Loore has played two matches in the past year across all court types, averaging 22.5 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) and winning 42.2% of those games.
- de Loore has averaged 18.0 games per match (18.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.0 games per set in one match on clay courts in the past year.
- This is the first time that Fognini and de Loore have matched up in the last five years.
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MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Firefighters responded to an apartment fire in Mountain City on Friday night.
It happened at the corner of Illinois and South Church streets.
Mountain City police said everyone was able to make it out of the building safely.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/no-injuries-reported-in-mountain-city-apartment-building-fire/ | 2023-07-29T05:10:34 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/no-injuries-reported-in-mountain-city-apartment-building-fire/ |
SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants’ offense appeared to wake up Wednesday, and the club should have been well-rested Friday after a long-awaited day off.
They must have hit the snooze button.
Rookie shortstop Marco Luciano recorded his first hit and scored his first run of his career, and Joc Pederson smashed a late solo shot, but the Giants didn’t manage much else Friday night to back up a bounce-back start from Logan Webb in a 3-2 loss to the Red Sox, who ran their winning streak to five games.
Pederson’s home run in the eighth, his 11th of the season, should have tied the score at 2. But the Red Sox widened their lead to 3-1 in the top half of the inning, after manager Gabe Kapler pulled an ultraefficient Webb with one out in the eighth, and Taylor Rogers surrendered an RBI single to the next batter.
Rebounding from the worst start of his career, Webb mostly silenced a lineup that has been the hottest in the majors since the end of June. He was shown shaking his head on the bench after the run scored, more likely lamenting the base runner he left for Rogers than Kapler’s decision to pull him.
Webb didn’t run a three-ball count until the fifth inning and was at only 88 pitches when Kapler came to get him, with Boston’s lineup turning over for a fourth time and a runner at second after a leadoff single and a sacrifice bunt. Pinch-hitter Rob Refsnyder lined the first pitch from Rogers into left-field, driving home Connor Wong for what proved to be a crucial insurance run.
Limiting a dangerous Boston lineup to three runs on six hits, Webb lowered his ERA to 3.49, including a 2.20 mark in 10 starts at Oracle Park. He struck out four and walked none. It should have been enough to earn the win, but the Giants’ lineup returned to its slumber against Red Sox starter Kutter Crawford.
The Giants managed just one other hit off Crawford besides Luciano’s and the RBI single from Michael Conforto that drove him in. Looking to extend their sixth-inning rally after Crawford was lifted for left-handed reliever Brennan Bernardino, Kapler called on Austin Slater to pinch-hit, and he struck out.
In his second major-league game, Luciano recorded his first career hit with a line drive that glanced off the glove of third baseman Rafael Devers to lead off the sixth. The ball left his bat at 107.1 mph. He took second on a wild pitch, putting him in position to score on a single from Conforto.
The Giants were primed to strike again in the seventh, with leadoff singles from J.D. Davis and Patrick Bailey. But, with the help of a sensational diving stop and flip from second baseman Justin Turner, they came up empty. Turner’s diving stop robbed Blake Sabol of an RBI single, and Luciano was called out on strikes to end the inning, stranding Davis at third as the would-be tying run.
The Red Sox, who improved to an MLB-best 16-5 since June 30, possess six of the top nine batters in the AL in that time span. Consider them the polar opposites of the Giants’ ice-cold group, which has produced three or fewer runs in eight of their past nine games and is batting .204 this month (Boston: .299).
Triston Casas accounted for Boston’s first two runs off Webb with two of their six hits, including his MLB-leading seventh home run since the All-Star break.
Casas traded places with Adam Duvall in the second inning with back-to-back ground rule doubles that put Boston up 1-0. Duvall’s was a line drive down the third-base line that just evaded the glove of J.D. Davis but eventually found the one of the ball guy, automatically awarding Duvall second.
Manager Alex Cora and a Red Sox trainer came out of the dugout to check on Casas in the fifth after he fouled a two-strike changeup off his shin and fell to the ground. It didn’t take long for Casas to prove he was all right, unloading on Webb’s next pitch for a 435-foot home run that landed halfway up the left-field bleachers. | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/28/sf-giants-waste-solid-start-from-webb-lucianos-first-hit-in-loss-to-red-sox/ | 2023-07-29T05:10:38 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/28/sf-giants-waste-solid-start-from-webb-lucianos-first-hit-in-loss-to-red-sox/ |
Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
On Saturday, Matteo Arnaldi (No. 76 in the world) meets Alexei Popyrin (No. 90) in the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.
Arnaldi is the favorite (-150) in this match, compared to the underdog Popyrin, who is +115.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Matteo Arnaldi has a 60.0% chance to win.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Arnaldi advanced past No. 33-ranked Jiri Lehecka, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Popyrin beat No. 287-ranked Dino Prizmic, winning 7-6, 7-5.
- Arnaldi has played 24.5 games per match (23.2 in best-of-three matches) in his 35 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Arnaldi has played 18 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.5 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.2% of games.
- In the past year, Popyrin has competed in 47 total matches (across all court types), winning 49.3% of the games. He averages 28.0 games per match (25.3 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Popyrin has played 16 matches and averaged 26.7 games per match (26.0 in best-of-three matches) and 10.2 games per set.
- Dating back to 2015, Arnaldi and Popyrin have not competed against each other.
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(NEXSTAR) — Is it your lucky day? Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is a massive $940 million, the eighth-largest prize in the game’s history. Winning numbers for the July 28 jackpot are: 52, 28, 5, 63, and 10. The Mega ball number is 18. Friday’s Megaplier is 5X.
The estimated $940 million prize has been building since someone last matched all six numbers and won the jackpot April 18. Since then, there have been 28 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
The $940 million pot on the line Friday night will be that high only if a single player wins and they choose to be paid through an annuity of one immediate payment or 30 annual allotments. But jackpot winners nearly always take the cash in a lump sum, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $472.5 million.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Tickets are $2 and there are a total of nine ways to win a prize. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Tuesdays and Fridays.
USA Mega, which tracks Mega Millions statistics, says the most common Mega Millions numbers are 17, 10, 14, 31 and 4 for the first five numbers. The most common Mega ball number is 22.
The biggest jackpot in Mega Millions history is $1.537 billion back in 2018 and was claimed by one lucky winner in South Carolina.
If no one claims Friday’s jackpot, the next Mega Millions drawing is scheduled to be held Tuesday, August 1. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/mega-millions-here-are-the-winning-numbers-for-940m-jackpot-2/ | 2023-07-29T05:10:40 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/mega-millions-here-are-the-winning-numbers-for-940m-jackpot-2/ |
Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
In the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Saturday, Stan Wawrinka (ranked No. 72) faces Lorenzo Sonego (No. 43).
In this Semifinal matchup against Sonego (+100), Wawrinka is the favorite with -125 odds.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Stan Wawrinka has a 55.6% chance to win.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Trends and Insights
- Wawrinka is looking to stay on track after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 59-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena in Friday's quarterfinals.
- Sonego advanced to the semifinals by taking down No. 104-ranked Jaume Munar 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.
- Wawrinka has played 27.3 games per match (24.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces).
- On clay, Wawrinka has played 11 matches over the past year, totaling 28.7 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 49.7% of games.
- Sonego has averaged 25.4 games per match (22.7 in best-of-three matches) through his 55 matches played in the past year across all court surfaces, while winning 50.8% of the games.
- Sonego has averaged 27.9 games per match (23.1 in best-of-three matches) and 9.8 games per set in 13 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- Wawrinka and Sonego have not played each other since 2015.
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Gray, TN — We continue our high school football reports with a stop at Daniel Boone High school… Last season the Trailblazers shocked everyone by going 12-1 and advancing to the state quarterfinals before losing to eventual state champion Knox West.
Without their starting quarterback Luke Jenkins who was lost for the season with a knee injury the Blazers defense picked up the slack and allowed less than 20 points per game until their season ender.
Nine players off that defense are gone, so right now it’s a work in progress, however Jenkins is back along with their top running back and wide receiver so this season the offense could be the Blazers bell cow.
“Last year’s over. So now this group’s got to have a new identity. And, you know, we’re excited to be in a new league. You know, we don’t have as much back as we’ve had in the past. But that’s exciting, too. You know, it’s young kids and you get a chance to develop them and watch them mature a little bit. But we’ve got some big pieces of the puzzle there as well.”
“We lost kind of our like receivers but obviously Jackson came back exactly as we came back. So but the line looks great. We got Ed in the back with me, obviously. So the office, I think, looks pretty good.”
“Last year we had such a standard of winning, and I feel like we can keep that consistency with the new group we’ve got coming in and just that standard of perfection every single time. I feel like that’s been the biggest emphasis for us.”
The Blazers will open the season on August 18th against Clyde A. Erwin out of North Carolina their first three games will be at home | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/high-school-sports/daniel-boone-offense-will-carry-the-load-after-losing-9-players-on-defense/ | 2023-07-29T05:10:46 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/high-school-sports/daniel-boone-offense-will-carry-the-load-after-losing-9-players-on-defense/ |
Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
Taylor Fritz (No. 9 ranking) will face Jeffrey John Wolf (No. 46) in the semifinals of the Truist Atlanta Open on Saturday, July 29.
With -250 odds, Fritz is the favorite against Wolf (+190) for this matchup.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Taylor Fritz has a 71.4% chance to win.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fritz beat No. 439-ranked Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.
- Wolf came out on top 6-2, 6-3 versus Dominik Koepfer in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Fritz has played 68 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, and 26.2 games per match (24.1 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 44 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fritz has played an average of 25.8 games (24.3 in best-of-three matches).
- Wolf is averaging 24.5 games per match (22.3 in best-of-three matches) through his 59 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 52.6% of those games.
- Wolf has averaged 24.9 games per match (22.8 in best-of-three matches) and 9.9 games per set in 41 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 52.7% of those games.
- This is the first time that Fritz and Wolf have played in the last five years.
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Johnson City, TN — In the Appalachian league the Doughboys were looking for their 16th win in 17 games. Tonight they were hosting the Bristol Stateliners… Already 7-0 Logan Sutter singles on a pop up to second base….Caleb Marmo races home for the score…It was 8-0….
Same inning Braden Spano reaches on a missed catch error by first baseman Dalton Bargo who’s headed to UT, while Danny Infante scores 9-0. Then former Daniel Boone star player Colby Backus singles on a line drive to 3rd base…. Sutter races home for the score….It was 10-0
Finally Andrew Neil slaps a sac fly to left field….Spano tags up from 3rd and scores it was 11-0 at that point. Doughboys won 12-3, they’ll play for the championship next week against either Burlington or Danville | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/local-sports/doughboys-rough-up-stateliners-for-16th-win-in-last-17-games/ | 2023-07-29T05:10:52 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/local-sports/doughboys-rough-up-stateliners-for-16th-win-in-last-17-games/ |
Kingsport, TN — Despite the hot temperatures a strong field teed off this morning in the 73rd Ridgefields Invitational in Kingsport…The defending champion is Lucas Armstrong, who now happens to be the course superintendent.
And there is a look at the defending champion teeing off on hole #12, that would lead to this putt for the birdie…Armstrong would sink it and fire a 71 and is 5 strokes off the lead…
He’s tied for 3rd with Blake Adams, but everyone is trying to catch Brandon Worley not seen in this video…Worley fired a sizzling 66 in the hot sun and is in the clubhouse with the 4 stroke lead over Taylor Kilgore also not seen in this video…
Second round gets underway in the morning around 9:30am | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/local-sports/worley-leads-after-day-one-of-the-73rd-ridgefields-invitational/ | 2023-07-29T05:10:58 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/local-sports/worley-leads-after-day-one-of-the-73rd-ridgefields-invitational/ |
SAN ANTONIO — Kimberly Mata-Rubio – whose 10-year-old daughter, Lexi, was killed at Robb Elementary in May 2022, spurring Kimberly to political action – is taking her activism one step further by running for mayor of Uvalde.
Mata-Rubio announced her intention on Twitter this week, sharing a promise of action. The post was accompanied with a screenshot of a newspaper article announcing her plans to seek the mayor's seat.
"I am still your mom. I will honor your life with action," she wrote. "This is only the beginning."
Mata-Rubio has made several trips to Austin in the wake of the Robb shooting, when 19 kids and two teachers were killed while law enforcement remained in a hallway for more than 70 minutes. When the Legislature failed to advance a bill that would have raised the age to legally purchase semi-automatic rifles, she joined other supporters of the measure in decrying the inaction, holding signs and chanting for the bill to be heard on the floor.
"This isn't over," she said at time. "We will regroup, re-strategize and come back stronger."
In September she met with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to ask him to support a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons--a meeting she later said lasted mere minutes while Cruz countered with other school safety ideas like armed security.
Current Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin announced plans to step down and run for state office, and a special election has been set for November for residents to pick who will fill out the final year of his term. As of Thursday, city officials told KENS 5 said no one had officially filed to run in the race.
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A house in Monroe Township that sold for $1.2 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Monroe in Middlesex County in the past week.
In total, 29 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $566,169. The average price per square foot ended up at $291.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-monroe-in-middlesex-county-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T05:12:43 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-monroe-in-middlesex-county-july-17-23.html |
A house in Ewing that sold for $400,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Trenton area in the past week.
In total, 21 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $186,805, $135 per square foot.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-trenton-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T05:12:49 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-trenton-area-july-17-23.html |
A house in West Orange that sold for $1.2 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in West Orange in the past week.
In total, 10 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $723,687. The average price per square foot ended up at $301.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-west-orange-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T05:12:58 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-west-orange-july-17-23.html |
A house in Hillsborough that sold for $1 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Hillsborough in the past week.
In total, nine residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $629,778. The average price per square foot ended up at $268.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/nine-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-hillsborough-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T05:12:59 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/nine-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-hillsborough-july-17-23.html |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — French President Emmanuel Macron held discussions with his Sri Lankan counterpart Saturday on an open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region in the first-ever visit by a French leader to the Indian Ocean island nation.
Macron arrived in Sri Lanka Friday night, following his trip to the South Pacific region, to mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations, Sri Lanka’s president’s office said.
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe praised France’s significant role in global affairs, particularly in areas such as climate mitigation, global debt restructuring, and matters related to the Indo-Pacific region, the statement said.
“Sri Lanka and France are two Indian Ocean nations that share the same goal: an open, inclusive and prosperous Indo-Pacific. In Colombo we confirmed it: strengthened by 75 years of diplomatic relations, we can open a new era of our partnership,” Macron said in a Twitter message after the meeting. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/29/france-macron-sri-lanka-visit/cebbf6da-2dc7-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T05:13:44 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/29/france-macron-sri-lanka-visit/cebbf6da-2dc7-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
In the sweltering summer heat, nobody tries to cool off by jumping into a hot tub. In parts of Florida, however, that’s what the ocean has felt like.
“It was like there was no difference between humidity of the air and going into the water,” said Chelsea Ward of Fort Myers, Florida.
Triple-digit ocean temperatures are stunning even in Florida, where residents are used to the heat and where many retirees find refuge from cold, northern winters. Several other nearby spots reached the mid-90s (about 35 Celsius). A storm finally came through on Wednesday, helping water temperatures drop back down in to the more temperate 80s (about 29 Celsius).
Humans naturally look to water for a chance to refresh. Every summer, millions grab their swimsuits for a day on the beach and a chance to cool off in the water — a break from everyday work and worry. Pools offer the same relief and a place for friends to gather. But when water temperatures get too high, some of the appeal is lost.
Ward, 47, doesn’t keep her beach bag in her car anymore even though she lives minutes away from the beach in Fort Myers. Lately, the water is just too hot. On Sunday, when her friend asked if she wanted to go to the beach, the two decided against it after discovering the water temperature was around 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius).
When it’s hot, the body cools down by sweating, which evaporates and releases heat. Dipping into the ocean is typically so refreshing because heat efficiently transfers from your body into the water. But as water temperatures climb, that effect diminishes and you lose less heat less quickly, according to Michael Mullins, a Washington University toxicologist and emergency medicine physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
A hot tub — or a stretch of ocean water hotter than body temperature — reverses the transfer of heat into your body. That’s not a pleasant experience on a sizzling, humid, Florida day.
“It would feel,” Mullins said, “like you are swimming in soup.”
People already tend not to swim that much in the Florida waters that were so extremely hot earlier this week. The water can get muddy and there are alligators and crocodiles in the area, too.
But high temperatures anywhere can make swimming less pleasant. Through Friday, Phoenix endured highs above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) every day this month. Pools are warm. About 150 miles (240 kilometers) to the northwest in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Stefanee Lynn Thompson, 50, wanted to keep guests cool for a pool party she hosted Sunday. The heat had raised the pool’s temperature to 96 degrees (36 Celsius).
Her friend recommended she go buy ice blocks. She ran to the grocery store, picked up 40 of them and dumped them in the pool. She set up fans, too. All that hard work dropped the pool’s temperature a grand total of 4 degrees (7 degrees Celsius).
“When it’s 120 out, anything helps,” Thompson said.
Recently, ocean temperatures off the western coast of Florida have been a few degrees above normal, sitting around 88 to 90 degrees (31-32 degrees Celsius). It’s not just humans that suffer when the oceans warm. Sea corals are bleaching. They can be hurt when water temperatures rise above the upper 80s (low 30 degrees Celsius).
July has been so hot that scientists announced a global heat record even before the month ended. Climate change is creating a hotter world, warming oceans and making some storms more destructive. Sea surface temperatures are somewhat above average around Florida, but they are far higher in parts of the North Atlantic near Newfoundland where they are as much as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) hotter than usual.
The extremely high sea surface temperatures recorded earlier this week off Florida’s southern tip were caused by lots of sun, little wind and no storms.
“I’ve never seen temperatures 100 degrees in Florida Bay in the 21 years I’ve been in the Keys,” said Andy Devanas, science officer at the National Weather Service in Key West, Florida.
And there are some questions about how representative Monday’s 101.2-degree reading in Manatee Bay were. Water there is shallow and thus heats up quickly. If there’s lots of sediment, that can raise temperatures, too, according to David Roth, a forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center.
By contrast, stop by the YMCA pools on the North Shore of Massachusetts near Boston and you’ll descend into water that’s around 78 to 80 degrees (26 to 27 degrees Celsius). The ocean nearby is cooler, too. Sea surface temperatures off Cape Cod, for example, barely touched the mid-70s (about 24 degrees Celsius) this week.
When Maria Argueta, 38, has time off from her job at an open-air decorative plant nursery in Homestead, Florida, she’ll go with her family to swim.
“This year, the heat is stronger,” she said.
The hot ocean water doesn’t bother her, but sometimes she takes her 2-year-old son and other members of the family to the Venetian Pool, a public facility in Coral Gables fed by water from an aquifer that’s always in the 70s. The very cool water, she said, is refreshing.
Florida’s humid weather makes it harder for sweat to evaporate and cool the body down. People in south Florida know the ocean doesn’t tend to offer real relief from that suffocating heat.
“You aren’t getting much cooling at all,” Roth said. “Nobody goes into the water in South Florida in the summer really except to swim, because it is comfortable to swim, but it is not refreshing.”
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AP journalist Seth Borenstein contributed reporting from Washington, Dupuy reported from New York and Phillis reported from St. Louis. The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy. The AP is solely responsible for all content. For all of AP’s environmental coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/29/florida-water-heat-wave-ocean-climate/f33d060e-2dca-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T05:13:50 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/29/florida-water-heat-wave-ocean-climate/f33d060e-2dca-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — For a single, unthinkable moment last summer, the Chautauqua Institution was a hostile place for the freedom of expression that has been its hallmark for 150 years: As Salman Rushdie was about to speak, an audience member leapt onto the stage and stabbed the celebrated author more than a dozen times.
By the next day, Chautauqua Institution President Michael Hill recently recounted, the decision had been made not only to resume programming, but to “double down on what Mr. Rushdie stands for, what our speakers and preachers and artists stand for — which is the free exchange of ideas and the belief that society is stronger when we do that.”
A year later, Rushdie, blinded in one eye by the assault, is recovering from the attack. The Chautauqua Institution is recovering, too.
Programming and revenue for the arts and intellectual retreat in the rural southwest corner of New York was disrupted for two seasons by COVID-19. Then the attack further shattered the return to normal that regular visitors had so craved.
With a new nine-week summer season now under way, well-tended gardens are in bloom and rocking chairs are back out on the porches of Victorian- and cottage-style homes.
Security has been strengthened, though the gated compound remains open to anyone who buys a pass to enter.
“We look at the work that we do under a different lens since” the stabbing, Hill said during an interview in his office, which overlooks Bestor Plaza, a lush expanse of greenery anchoring the 750-acre (303-hectare) grounds. “The attack was an attempt at silencing, which underscores the need for institutions like ours to not stay silent.”
As an institution, Chautauqua defies easy explanation.
“NPR camp for grown-ups” is the description preferred by Erica Higbie, who owns a house on the grounds.
Located on the shore of Chautauqua Lake, the institution is a self-contained community with lecture halls, houses of worship, cafes, shops, a library, post office and bookstore, along with private homes, rentals and the Athenaeum Hotel, which served as former President Bill Clinton’s executive mansion for a week in 1996 as he prepared for his debate with Republican challenger Bob Dole.
Aside from boating and golf, the 4,400-seat, open-air amphitheater is a main draw, with a summer entertainment lineup this year offering concerts by Diana Ross and Bonnie Raitt, ballet and theater productions and performances by the house Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
But for Higbie and many others, the primary appeal exists in the institution’s 19th Century beginnings as a summer educational experiment in which daily lectures are curated around weekly explorations of anything from politics to infrastructure and faith to friendship.
“I am a lecture junkie,” Higbie said from her porch as people navigated the grounds on foot, bikes and scooters. The speed limit for the rare vehicle traffic is 12 mph. The retired teacher takes in a daily morning lecture and may hear two more in the afternoon at the amphitheater and the Hall of Philosophy.
Through the decades, Susan B. Anthony advocated for women’s rights at the institution and President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his 1936 “I Hate War” speech in the amphitheater. Former Vice President Al Gore spoke about the climate crisis and Supreme Court Judges Robert H. Jackson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are among countless others who have offered insights.
Rushdie’s appearance came during a week last year exploring home as “a place for human thriving.”
Henry Reese, co-founder of the City of Asylum Pittsburgh, was about to interview “The Satanic Verses” author about violence against writers when Rushdie was attacked as the men sat in armchairs on the amphitheater’s sunken stage.
Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death, was stabbed in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye. Reese suffered bruises and a gash to his forehead.
With alleged assailant Hadi Matar awaiting trial in a nearby courthouse, Reese is scheduled to return to the institution on the anniversary of the attack, Aug. 12. His appearance is expected to kick off a week exploring freedom of expression, imagination and the resilience of democracy. Republican strategist Karl Rove and Democratic strategist David Axelrod are among other invited guests.
It would have been out of character for the institution to do anything but pick up where it left off after the assault, regular guest lecturer Eboo Patel said.
“Not a single artist or speaker canceled,” Patel, founder of Interfaith America in Chicago, said by phone.
“Chautauqua recognizes that it has a responsibility to its own community, honestly to American civilization and the human spirit, and it’s back up in 24 to 48 hours. That’s stunning,” he said.
Property owners differed on how far the institution should go to ensure personal safety, said Higbie, the president of the Chautauqua Property Owners Association.
“Everybody was in shock for a long time,“ Higbie said.
Visitors say they notice more security and protocols at events. Amphitheater patrons can bring only clear bags inside, for example, and may be scanned or asked to walk through a weapons detector.
Even so, “I never hesitated for a minute” to return, said Michael Crawford of Washington, D.C., as he chatted with Mary Pat McFarland of Philadelphia. The two sat on one of the red benches placed around the grounds to invite discussion.
A handful of musicians with violins, guitars and a small harp played an impromptu jam session beneath a tree nearby.
Hill said he sees his role as “teeing up” issues for engagement, so shying away from difficult ones would be a disservice at a time when civic discourse is in short supply.
“It’s about bringing divergent viewpoints for people to digest,” Hill said. “For us to have made the decision to stop bringing speakers who may be controversial in any way would have been for us to stop doing our mission.”
“It would have been,” he said, “to literally stop the reason this place was created.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/29/salman-rushdie-attack-chautauqua-institution/4abbfda2-2dcd-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T05:13:56 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/29/salman-rushdie-attack-chautauqua-institution/4abbfda2-2dcd-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
Registration is open for the Paulding Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2023-24 Leadership in Action program. It is a series of experiences designed to enhance personal and professional leadership qualities within the unique resources of Paulding County. The sessions explore leadership challenges and opportunities, using class time and tours, to provide the participant with a variety of leadership skills to be used in real-world application. Participants meet monthly, September through May. Registration deadline is Aug. 18. Learn more at www.pauldingchamber.com/Leadership-In-Action. | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/business-calendar/article_7334d760-2b5a-11ee-ab7b-7f4d6977bfb3.html | 2023-07-29T05:13:56 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/business-calendar/article_7334d760-2b5a-11ee-ab7b-7f4d6977bfb3.html |
Co-founder Andy Vogel with Indiana Physical Therapy has stepped down from his role after 35 years as an owner of the company. He will continue to serve as a physical therapist within the organization.
Roger Rhodes, former executive director of Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations Inc. and general manager of WFWA-TV, was recently inducted into its IBPS Hall of Fame.
CTB Inc. in Milford recently recognized employee service milestones: 50 years of service, Charles Bird (retired in April); 40 years, Todd Koble; 30 years, Avelino Batista and Craig Curns; 25 years, David Coppes, Cindy Tudor, Jeremy Pressler, Robert Christenson and Matthew Maulsby; 20 years, Ronald Ousley and Berton Kolberg; 15 years, Dan Ricci, Joseph Koss, Lonnie Carter, Dennis Holdeman, Robert Cheatham and Javier Solis Mena; 10 years, Daniel Savage; five years, Todd Hedington, Joe Skaggs, Melissa Dove, Deanne Blankenship, Thomas Harris and Mindy Brooks.
Randy Fisher was appointed director of culinary operations at Thermodyne Foodservice Products.
Nick Staker was No. 1 in purchase units at Academy Mortgage for June.
Mark Jaworski was awarded Outstanding Performance: Shining Star; and Amber Klopfenstein, Outstanding Performance: Over the Moon as second quarter winners for the Above & Beyond program for Fort Wayne Newspapers.
Braxton D. Miller, client service specialist with the Ameriprise Financial Services LLC’s financial advisory office of Reimbold & Miller, recently earned his General Securities Representative Series 7 accreditation.
Jeanie Creekmur joined the Asher Agency as a web project manager.
Justin Gephart joined PBS as a digital content specialist; Rebecca Norberg, development coordinator; Caitlyn Mossburg, corporate development administrative assistant; and Jim Shovlin, corporate development account executive. | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/business-people/business-people-fort-wayne-area-hirings-and-awards/article_7e272724-2b3a-11ee-abe3-d30528f80c95.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:00 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/business-people/business-people-fort-wayne-area-hirings-and-awards/article_7e272724-2b3a-11ee-abe3-d30528f80c95.html |
Contractors and construction crews are cashing in on Allen County building activity that is on pace to exceed last year.
More than $1.1 billion in building permits were issued in the first six months of this year, up from just more than $1 billion in the same period of 2022, according to figures the county’s Building Department provided.
And through July 21, when the data was requested, building permits totaled more than $1.2 billion. For all of 2022, the county issued building permits for projects totaling nearly $1.98 billion.
“It has not slowed down one bit. We are at a steady, full-steam pace,” Joe Hutter, Allen County’s building commissioner, said this week.
New investments may benefit taxpayers in general if new buildings are developed or expansions add value to existing property.
Building permits for commercial projects represent the largest permit value Allen County has seen this year. Permits in the residential category cover single- and dual-family units.
And while dollar volume for permit projects was already up for the first six months of 2023, the activity shows little signs of abating – despite higher interest rates.
Faztek Industrial Solutions, for example, broke ground June 27 for a $9 million new headquarters and production facility near Fort Wayne International Airport. The initial phase of 60,000 square feet will be double the size of Faztek’s current Lincoln Parkway site when completed in spring 2024.
Steel is already at the Bluffton Road construction site, but some building permit details were being worked out this week, Derek Melchi, Faztek’s chief operating officer, said Tuesday.
“Trust me, we’re ready,” he said.
The company had considered expanding before the coronavirus pandemic but held off because of cost considerations, he said. But with no indication that construction costs would soon decline, Melchi said Faztek decided it was time to invest.
CME Corp., a commercial contractor, last week announced plans for a 22,000-square-foot headquarters off Goshen Road near Interstate 69. The groundbreaking for that $5.8 million facility was Wednesday. CME’s current headquarters is on Vicksburg Pike in southwest Fort Wayne.
The new northwest-side site at 2488 Persistence Drive will also double CME’s headquarters space when work is completed next spring.
General Motors’ Fort Wayne Assembly plant is getting a $632 million investment, largely for equipment to prepare for newer truck models, officials announced last month. But Jeffrey Benzing, spokesman for the local plant, said this week building permits won’t be needed.
Multiple organizations, though, have had groundbreakings in recent weeks.
Manchester University had a June 16 ceremony to celebrate a $20 million expansion at its Fort Wayne campus. The university, which also has a campus in North Manchester, said the investments will center on a 32,000-square-foot addition at a building where the focus is health and science.
YWCA Northeast Indiana had a June 20 groundbreaking for a $16.7 million project to convert the old Hall’s Guesthouse Hotel at 1313 W. Washington Center Road. The project will allow the YWCA to consolidate operations from three locations. When upgrades are complete, the YWCA will be able to house up to 100 women at the former hotel.
Humane Fort Wayne had a June 22 groundbreaking for a $13 million facility at 901 Leesburg Road. The new site will be about 25,000 square feet – three times the size of the organization’s existing shelter at 4914 S. Hanna St.
Hutter said the building permit activity is part of a continuing trend. Even during the initial years of COVID-19, which stalled some parts of the economy, there’s wasn’t much slowdown beyond a one-month period where getting concrete was more difficult.
“As far as I know, we never delayed,” said Hutter, who last fall was promoted from assistant building commissioner to the top job in the department. “Material may have been delayed, but we have been nonstop as far as Allen County, the building.”
Once issued, permits for residential projects are good for a year, Hutter said. Commercial permits are good – if the work is continuous – until project completion.
Lori Harvey, executive director of the Building Contractors Association of Northeast Indiana, said the heavy demands for projects are being met. But contractors are still focused on recruitment, particularly for carpenters, plumbers, electricians and other skilled trades professionals to keep pace with retirements.
“The work is getting done,” Harvey said. “It’s been a very strong industry for several years now, and from what I hear, they don’t see that letting up.”
One benefit, she said, is contractors are able to bid on projects they are most interested in. The activity in northeast Indiana sometimes leaves room for newcomers to the market.
“You always have new companies wanting to come in and capitalize on that, and that’s always good for business,” Harvey said.
MSKTD & Associates is long-established in Fort Wayne, starting in 1978 with three architects. But the company and its staff of now more than 70 also have an office in Indianapolis and frequently does architectural, engineering and interior design work across the country.
Architect Gary Voirol, president-treasurer of MSKTD, recalls leaner times in the industry 12 to 15 years ago, after the Great Recession.
“The last 10 years, it has been a pretty steady pace and a lot of rapid growth in the industry,” said Voirol, who is also president of the board of directors for the Building Contractors Association of Northeast Indiana.
The organization has about 275 members, including contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers and material suppliers. Associate members include professionals from insurers, banks or other related companies.
MSKTD has worked with new or expansion projects for clients including Kraft Foods, Purdue University, Trine University and the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, which recently opened an Asian Trek that includes an Indonesian Rain Forest. MSKTD does substantial work in health care, higher education and food and hygienic design projects.
“We’ve continued to see pretty robust opportunities,” Voirol said. “It’s helped us, I think in the long term, become better at what we’re doing.”
For taxpayers, the benefits or potential benefits of building permit activity depends on whether tax abatements were approved, which can slow the full effect of additional revenue to local governing bodies. Another factor is whether new developments require government units to increase their tax levy to provide the support the expansions, new infrastructure and people they may bring, according to Nick Jordan, Allen County auditor.
“More development means more people which has ripple effect in schools, judicial system, infrastructure, etc.,” Jordan said through email.
Similar to tax abatements, tax increment finance districts may also delay the full additional revenue to taxing bodies.
Incentives are occasionally controversial.
But, Jordan said, members of redevelopment commissions often argue that if it weren’t for such districts some businesses or developers may not have made the decision to bring an investment to an area. | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/project-building-activity-in-allen-county-continues-rapid-pace/article_0b5ecc06-280b-11ee-8afb-bf6c28b5b980.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:01 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/project-building-activity-in-allen-county-continues-rapid-pace/article_0b5ecc06-280b-11ee-8afb-bf6c28b5b980.html |
CHICAGO — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout, Katherine Paul. All her tours, including one headlining across North America, were canceled and she feared her ascending music career might be over.
“I feel like if the pandemic hadn’t happened, I probably wouldn’t have made this record,” said KP, who writes the songs, sings and plays guitar in the band that was the only Native American artist at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this month.
“I spent a lot of time outside. I spent a lot more time than normal going on hikes, being part of the land,” she continued. “It’s not like I never do that stuff but it brought me back to a place where this is who I am.”
The new record, which came out in February, helped launch what has probably been the most successful year so far for Black Belt Eagle Scout. The band toured Europe and will go to Australia later this year. Two of her songs, “Soft Stud” from an earlier record and “Salmon Stinta” from her latest, appear this season on the television series “Reservation Dogs.”
Reservation Dogs Music Supervisor Tiffany Anders said she was introduced to the band’s music by the show’s creator, Sterlin Harjo, when they started working on the second season.
“It’s always been important for us on this show to include Native American artists, but beyond representation, Black Belt Eagle Scout’s music is beautiful and emotional, and fits these characters, their world and landscape — and the vibe of the show,’” she said in a statement.
Then there was Pitchfork, a three-day festival that is a significant milestone for indie musicians. The festival is held every year in Chicago’s Union Park and this year’s headliners included Bon Iver, Big Thief and The Smile, which has members of Radiohead.
She admitted stepping on that stage last weekend was nerve-wracking given her high hopes for the show, a feeling compounded by concerns that storms could scuttle their performance. But as she launched into the blistering set of mostly new songs in front of thousands of eager fans, KP found solace in her guitar. She launched several long jams that were punctuated by her twirling her jet-black hair around to the point it obscured her face.
“It was totally a moment,” she said with a laugh.
“I kind of cried after we played because it felt so meaningful,” she added. “Like, I’ve always wanted to play this music festival. I remember trying to play one of the years before the pandemic when I was touring and it didn’t happen. This year, I was just so stoked to play.”
Reaching Pitchfork has been a long journey for the 34-year-old artist, who is a member of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and left her home on the reservation in LaConner, Washington, when she was 17 to attend Lewis & Clark College in Oregon and play rock music.
Growing up on the reservation off the Washington coast on islands in the Salish Sea, she drummed and sang cultural songs. As a teenager, she discovered local Pacific Northwest bands like Mount Eerie and the sounds of the Riot Grrrl movement and played one of her first gigs at a small bar called Department of Safety. She moved to Portland, Oregon, due to its outsized role in the indie scene that featured bands like Sleater-Kinney and quickly immersed herself in the music scene playing drums and guitar.
She joined an all-female outfit whom she met at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland. She went on to play a lot of small, basement shows with bands like Genders — whose wolf tattoo she still has on her left arm.
But she wanted to write her own songs and formed Black Belt Eagle Scout in 2013. Her early music was defined by her ethereal singing about love, friendship and healing — often only accompanied by minimal guitar strumming. But she did rock out on songs like “Soft Stud,” which featured searing solos.
“She is a really an authentic musician and she carries a lot of power on stage with her presence and sound,” Claire Glass, who plays guitar in the band and first saw KP seven years ago.
KP has said her Native American identify has always been present on her records. But her latest music paints a more vivid picture of life on the Swinomish reservation. There are references to chinook salmon, which are traditionally fished, and a powwow dance.
“I started thinking of feeling grateful for the life that I have been given; this place that I’m from; how much the land, the water, the sky means to me — being surrounded by it,” KP said of writing the song ”Don’t Give Up.” “It has so much more meaning because the land, that’s where my people are from.”
Her songs aren’t meant to directly confront issues like the crisis of missing and murdered Native American women or tribes’ forced relocation. It’s not the way she writes songs. Instead, she envisions them connecting with people, drawing more Native Americans to indie rock shows in places like Minneapolis, which has a vibrant Native American community, and inspiring young Native Americans to connect with her after shows.
“Isn’t me like being here existing with my music good enough? Can’t I just be who I am?” she asked, adding she doesn’t need to speak out from stage about these issues because being Native often means she is already wrestling with them. A judge, for example, ruled in March that BNSF Railway intentionally violated the terms of an easement agreement with the tribe by running 100-car trains carrying crude oil over the reservation.
“As a Native person, you know someone who is missing. Your tribe is trying to get your land back. Those are topics that are part of your every day life,” she said. ”I care about those things deeply but there are certain ways in which my music is, maybe not as direct, but it can be healing.”
KP also doesn’t want to be seen just as a rock musician or as a Native artist. “I am a musician who happens to be Native, but I am also a Native musician ... I think I am always both,” she said.
Her latest record aims to show that.
“I kind of had in the back of mind, just kept thinking what would Built to Spill do,” KP said of the guitar-heavy, indie-rock band from the Pacific Northwest. “I’ve gone on tour with them and seen their three guitars at one point playing together and how they overlap and all these other things.”
It’s also a more collaborative effort with more musicians playing on the record— a departure for KP, who is accustomed to doing everything herself. A cellist who played with Nirvana, Lori Goldston, is featured on several songs, as are two violinists, as well as a saxophone and mellotron player.
Takiaya Reed, a first-time producer who is also in a doom metal band, described the experience of working on the record as “beautiful and amazing” and said the two bonded over their love of punk. Reid also brought her classical training and love of “heavier sounds” to the studio.
“We approached it fearlessly. It was wonderful to be expansive in terms of sonic possibilities,” she said.
KP also wanted to find a place for her parents, whom she had grown especially close to during the pandemic, to play on the record. She chose the song “Spaces,” which she described as having a “healing vibe.” Her dad, who is one of the main singers at the tribe’s cultural events, embraced the idea of lending his powerful powwow chant to the song. Her mom sang harmonies.
KP said: “It meant the world to me to have my parents sing because it felt like it was full circle in who I am.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/29/black-belt-eagle-scout-katherine-paul/ddea7306-2dcd-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:02 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/29/black-belt-eagle-scout-katherine-paul/ddea7306-2dcd-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
I was invited by a friend to join his long weekend gambling trip to Biloxi, Mississippi. I had never been there before, so I thought, “Why not?”
We flew direct from Fort Wayne to Biloxi on the ultra-low-cost carrier Sun Country Airlines. The flight was filled with people eager to go into casinos to hear carnival-like sounds, see flashing lights, play table games and pull slot handles. But as I discovered, Biloxi is more than a small city with flashy casinos; it’s filled with enormous charm and history with beautiful beaches.
A little more than 30 years ago, Biloxi jumped on the bandwagon with other struggling cities to legalize gambling in hopes of turning things around. The dream of developing and building out Biloxi’s shoreline was enough to snap the tight Bible Belt that was around this conservative southern city.
The Beau Rivage Resort & Casino parking garage sits next to the Interstate 110 Loop Walk boardwalk entrance. The boardwalk loops under the freeway and then runs along the beach.
I enjoyed my quiet morning walk as I could hear soft waves, smell saltwater and feel the sun’s rays. But I couldn’t turn a blind eye to a man under the overpass in his dirty sleeping bag surrounded by medium-sized plastic bags stuffed with clothes. His moment was broken, yet mine was peaceful. It was a reminder that life is not the same for everyone.
I continued to walk to the Biloxi Lighthouse. It was erected in 1848. It sits sandwiched between two roads, and the interior is open in the morning from 9 to 10 for $5.
Inside the lighthouse, there are marks on the wall that show the water level for each major storm that hit that area since the lighthouse was erected. The years 1852, 1866 and 1893 appear on the bottom line, and the devastating Hurricane Katrina of 2005 appears at the top.
Across the street from the Biloxi Lighthouse is the Biloxi Visitors Center. It’s a large white two-story historic home with a huge second-floor balcony. Inside are artifacts and information about the area’s history.
Next, I walked to the famous Fill-Up with Billups restaurant, where I sat at the last open seat at the bar. Seats are first come, first served and there was a 20-minute wait for a table. I ordered a la carte, and I enjoyed the tasty crispy bacon, ham and sausage. The number of people waiting for seating continued to grow and it became too busy, so I asked for my check when I got my food.
After eating, I walked to downtown Biloxi. During the past couple of decades, Biloxi’s historic downtown has undergone a transformation from a district filled with empty and dilapidated buildings to a revitalized area filled with art shops, small bars and coffee shops.
Gallery 782 Co-Art sits at Jackson and G.E. Ohr streets where an office once stood. On the side of the building, “Local Arts and Gifts” is painted blue with a flower mural below. Inside this lovely art shop, there are rooms filled with reasonably priced pictures, jewelry and sculptures by local artists.
Around the corner is the famous Mary Mahoney’s Old French House Restaurant. It serves fresh seafood and is known for its romantic courtyard.
I took a ride-share service to the Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum. This three-floor museum is filled with exhibits of the area’s history of boat making, seafood industries and major weather events.
I later took a ride-share across Biloxi Bay Bridge to Ocean Springs. I walked the historic downtown and ate at Murky Waters BBQ. I sat outside in its covered patio and enjoyed its famous spicy BBQ smoked wings. I couldn’t tell if my sweat was from the delicious wings or the hot and humid day.
Then I went to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art. I enjoyed seeing pictures of the area’s landscapes and animals. The museum is dedicated to three brothers who captured the area’s beauty in their art.
I had a great time in Biloxi, but I would recommend a longer trip and renting a car in order to see the other nearby popular cities of New Orleans, about a two-hour drive west, and Mobile, Alabama, about an hour drive northeast.
David Placher is a Fort Wayne writer, photographer and world traveler who values experiences over things. He is always searching for cheap-fare flights and inexpensive hotel bookings. When Placher isn’t traveling, he is drafting and reviewing technology and information security contracts for a living. His travel stories will appear on occasion in The Journal Gazette. | https://www.journalgazette.net/living/enjoying-art-history-in-biloxi-mississippi/article_a773b0e6-2a2e-11ee-96c4-bb864c63a9a3.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:02 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/living/enjoying-art-history-in-biloxi-mississippi/article_a773b0e6-2a2e-11ee-96c4-bb864c63a9a3.html |
Once a month, meeting rooms at Allen County Public Library branches transform into spaces filled with music, crafts and reading activities. People passing by can hear adults singing and hear them dancing around.
Rebecca Wolfe, manager for the Grabill branch, has worked for the library for 27 years. A few years ago, she and some other branch managers noticed that agencies helping adults with developmental disabilities would bring groups to the library.
“Sometimes they would just sit and watch movies in our meeting rooms,” Wolfe said. “And we thought, ‘What if we had a program to keep them occupied and engaged while they’re at the library?’”
After that, she came up with the idea for the All Abilities Club – a monthly, hourlong meeting for adults with developmental disabilities. The club has continued to grow, and this summer Wolfe has found more inclusive ways for them to be involved with the library.
One change has been through the SPARK summer reading program, which runs through Monday. Wolfe created a bingo sheet for adults with disabilities with tasks including “read or look at a book for 10 minutes” and “visit any branch of the Allen County Public Library.”
Once someone completed five tasks in a row, they would win a prize. If they completed all the tasks, they would win a book.
“It’s been fun to see some of our participants pick out books they’re interested in,” Wolfe said. “Some are interested in children’s books or comic books or teen-level books … so it’s just a good variety.”
Wolfe said the program has been successful this summer, and she’s enjoyed watching people get involved through bingo. She plans to tweak the program next year because many of the tasks are based on going to the library, and she wants people to be involved with other areas of the community.
“We have heard from staff and parents who are really excited about it, and I think it will just continue to grow,” she said. “Hopefully, it will gain some momentum and grow next year.”
Before Wolfe launched the All Abilities Club, she tried to research other libraries with something similar but couldn’t find many. She did find a couple of webinars that helped her with ideas, and Wolfe continues to come up with a different theme for each meeting.
The next All Abilities event will be Aug. 10 at the Dupont branch, and the theme is Frida Kahlo. Attendees will celebrate with stories and art projects. The library also hosts Movies with Friends for adults with disabilities, where attendees are encouraged to sing, dance and move around.
Cynthia Harter is a former librarian who now volunteers with the All Abilities Club. Harter, a graduate student studying to work with people with disabilities, said she wanted hands-on experience, so she has volunteered with the program since June.
“I got really enthusiastic,” she said, “because it’s just so awesome to see how excited everybody got and how happy they were to be engaged in the program.”
Harter helps Wolfe read stories and oversee movement activities and crafts with attendees. She said the All Abilities Club shows people that the library is welcoming and inviting for everyone.
“This is really near and dear to my heart,” she said. “It feels really good to know that I’m making an impact and doing something that promotes the library.”
Wolfe said hosting the All Abilities Club is one of the best parts of her job, and she thinks it’s important to make everyone feel accepted. She tries to learn the names of regular attendees and is also learning their personalities.
One organization she works with through the program is Maple Seed Farms, a local nonprofit that works with individuals with physical and developmental disabilities.
Jess Koehneke, service coordinator for Maple Seed Farms, said its groups have been going to the monthly meetings for about two years. The outings allow participants to have new experiences in a safe environment – just down the street at the Dupont library branch.
“It’s just fun, and it keeps everybody engaged,” she said. “And then when our individuals come back, they’re hyped and talking about what they just experienced. It’s just a big part of their day.”
Koehneke appreciates how inclusive the activities are. She also enjoys seeing Wolfe interact with Maple Seed Farms’ groups when they attend meetings.
“We just love her,” Koehneke said. “She recognizes our individuals, and she’s been such a positive support. She’s always friendly to our individuals, which is really important.”
Koehneke said Maple Seed Farms sends about 10 individuals and four support staff members each time they attend. She said the support staff likes attending All Abilities meetings as well because staff members help the group participate in activities and thrive in the environment.
Families also enjoy All Abilities Club, Koehneke said, because it’s a way to get more involved with the community.
“Overall, it’s been very positive,” she said. “We don’t have anyone who is concerned about going.”
Carlee Smith, day program coordinator for Maple Seed Farms, schedules when her program’s participants will attend All Abilities meetings. She said meetings are typically the first or last Thursday of the month.
Smith doesn’t regularly attend the meetings, she said, but sometimes she will go in her free time to see what they are doing. She said Maple Seed Farms has a great relationship with the library.
“Even when we’re not doing All Abilities Club, they’re very welcoming,” Smith said. “They have coloring stuff out all the time, and they have toys, and we can rent out meeting rooms so we can take big groups or individuals who can’t go in open spaces.”
Wolfe is great with programming, Smith said, and individuals are always in a good mood after the meetings. Smith thinks a club like this is important for adults with disabilities.
“It’s altered for what they need,” she said. “I feel like it’s just so important to have options like that so they can be more involved in the community.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/allen-county-public-library-hosts-club-for-adults-with-developmental-disabilities/article_cb97cb64-2caa-11ee-a958-b3befb954bf8.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:02 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/allen-county-public-library-hosts-club-for-adults-with-developmental-disabilities/article_cb97cb64-2caa-11ee-a958-b3befb954bf8.html |
Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Arthur Fils will face Alexander Zverev in the Hamburg European Open semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
In this Semifinal matchup, Zverev is the favorite (-375) against Fils (+270) .
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alexander Zverev has a 78.9% chance to win.
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Arthur Fils vs. Alexander Zverev Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fils eliminated No. 4-ranked Casper Ruud, 6-0, 6-4.
- Zverev was victorious 6-3, 6-4 versus Luca van Assche in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In his 29 matches over the past year across all court types, Fils has played an average of 21.4 games (20.7 in best-of-three matches).
- Fils has played 14 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 22.2 games per match (21.2 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 42 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Zverev is averaging 26.0 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) and winning 53.2% of those games.
- Zverev has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.4 in best-of-three matches) and 9.7 games per set in 22 matches on clay surfaces in the past 12 months.
- Dating back to 2015, Fils and Zverev have not matched up on the court.
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When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin regained consciousness after collapsing in the desert, the sun had already set. Tunisian authorities had violently forced him, his wife and their 6-year-old daughter across the border to Libya by foot without water, in the blazing heat, he said. Nyimbilo crumpled to the ground, exhausted and dehydrated, but urged his wife to carry on with little Marie and catch up to dozens of other migrants ahead.
“God willing, we will meet again in Libya,” he told them.
Nyimbilo eventually made it there — only to find out days later that his wife and daughter almost certainly did not.
A graphic photo widely shared on social media shows the lifeless body of a Black woman with braided hair next to a little girl, their faces down in the sand. The child is curled up next to the woman, her bare feet red and swollen, likely from walking on blistering hot sand.
Nyimbilo said he immediately recognized his wife’s yellow dress, pulled up on her body, and his daughter’s black sandals, sitting beside them. He shared recent photographs with The Associated Press showing them in the same clothing. He said he hasn’t heard from his wife, Matyla Dosso, who also went by Fatima, or their daughter since that day in the desert, July 16.
Nyimbilo believes Matyla and Marie are among more than a dozen Black migrants Libyan border guards say they’ve found dead in the desert border area of the North African nations since Tunisian authorities began conducting mass expulsions in early July. Nyimbilo is from Cameroon; his wife, Ivory Coast. They lived for years in Libya but hoped to finally make it to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia.
The Libyan police border guard in al-Assa, near the Tunisian border, found the woman and child in the July 19 photo dead, spokesperson Maj. Shawky al-Masry said. He declined to provide further details or say where the bodies are now.
Different border units have found at least 10 bodies on the Libyan side since last week, including that of another small child.
Black Africans in Tunisia have faced increasing discrimination and violence since President Kais Saied's February remarks that sub-Saharan migrants are part of a plot to alter the country’s identity and demographics. He said “hordes of irregular migrants” bring “violence, crime and unacceptable practices.” The speech to his security council inflamed longstanding tensions throughout the region and country, but particularly between Tunisians and migrants in the port city of Sfax and other eastern coastal towns.
Tunisia has replaced Libya as the main point of departure for people attempting the deadly Mediterranean crossing to Italy, according to United Nations and other figures. Through July 20, more than 15,000 foreign migrants were intercepted by Tunisian authorities — more than double that period last year, Interior Minister Kamel Fekih told Parliament this week. He blasted the influx of sub-Saharan migrants and said Tunisia can’t accept becoming “a transit country.”
Tunisian authorities have responded to rising tensions with a crackdown on Black migrants and refugees, and some have been rounded up from coastal cities and sent to Libya or Algeria — countries with their own long track records of grave human rights violations, abuses against migrants and collective deportations.
Human rights organizations, Libyan authorities and migrants themselves have accused Tunisia of violating international law with the mass expulsions across its borders. Tunisian authorities long skirted a direct response to those accusations, but on Thursday, the Interior Ministry rejected any responsibility about “Africans outside its borders,” a clear reference to those in the desert. The ministry stressed Tunisia’s right to protect borders and insisted it carries out its “humanitarian duty.”
Officials also issued a warning against publication of content from social networks and in news outlets, and made a veiled reference in a recent statement to prison sentences of up to 10 years for anyone circulating information it deems incorrect.
This week, hundreds of people — including pregnant women and children — remain trapped in the border area between Tunisia, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea, while others are stranded on the Algeria side, U.N. agencies said, urging their immediate rescue.
Libyan authorities have stepped up security near Tunisia and found hundreds of migrants stranded in temperatures that surpassed 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). They’ve shared dramatic photos and videos on social media of their desert encounters with exhausted migrants desperate for water, as well as graphic images of the deceased.
Libyan guard Ali Wali said his team has seen through binoculars Tunisian security forcing migrants toward Libya. He said his unit finds more than 100 daily: “Some migrants spent up to three days with no food and water in the desert.”
Without elaborating, Wali said those found are handed to relevant authorities. U.N. agencies and the Libyan Red Crescent say they’ve provided food, water and other assistance.
But according to another security official, migrants were taken to detention centers run by Libya’s Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration, notorious for abuse. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
Despite the growing evidence of abuse against some migrants in Tunisia and issues at the border, European leaders have doubled up their show of support for Saied, offering hundreds of millions of euros to stabilize the country with hopes it will also reduce migration.
That didn’t deter Nyimbilo and his family.
Nyimbilo and his wife had already tried to get to Europe. Their previous five attempts to cross the Mediterranean, from Libya to Italy, all failed. Each time, they were intercepted by EU-equipped Libyan forces and imprisoned. Nyimbilo told AP his wife was raped twice in front of their child in detention.
“We had no more hope,” Nyimbilo said of their time in Libya, where Marie couldn’t even attend school because she’s the child of immigrants. “This country has traumatized us so much.”
So, on July 13, they left the coastal city of Zuwara and trekked through the desert with other migrants, making it to the border in the early hours of July 15. They continued to the town of Ben Guerdane, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) into Tunisia.
The group split up to avoid attracting attention. But they grew desperate for water. Nyimbilo and his family walked to a main road in search of help. That’s when a police car stopped and detained them, he said, and officers found their registration papers.
“When they saw it and realized we had left Libya, they beat us,” Nyimbilo said. The next day, he said, they were loaded onto a truck with other migrants and dropped at the border, without water.
Today, he said, he struggles to cope with his loss and to realize he’ll never see his wife or daughter again. They’d survived so much — failed voyages to Europe, assaults, even the 2019 bombing of the Tajoura detention center. He can hardly accept that Matyla and Marie died in the desert.
“A bottle of water could have saved my family,” he said.
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Brito reported from Barcelona, Spain; Ganley from Paris; and Magdy from Cairo. Sarah El Deeb contributed from Beirut. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/29/migrants-dying-desert-border-libya-tunisia/c52e7f1c-2dcb-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:08 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/29/migrants-dying-desert-border-libya-tunisia/c52e7f1c-2dcb-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
In the ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023 semifinals on Saturday, Fabio Fognini faces Joris de Loore.
With -175 odds, Fognini is favored over de Loore (+125) for this match.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Match Information
- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennisclub Zug
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Fabio Fognini has a 63.6% chance to win.
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Fabio Fognini vs. Joris de Loore Trends and Insights
- Fognini advanced past Jakub Mensik 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, de Loore took down No. 209-ranked Matteo Gigante, winning 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
- Fognini has played 39 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), and 25.3 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 16 matches on clay over the past year, Fognini has played an average of 24.8 games (22.0 in best-of-three matches).
- de Loore has played two matches in the past year across all court types, averaging 22.5 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) and winning 42.2% of those games.
- de Loore has averaged 18.0 games per match (18.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.0 games per set in one match on clay courts in the past year.
- This is the first time that Fognini and de Loore have matched up in the last five years.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico man who confessed to five bank robberies in Albuquerque last year — including one bank he robbed twice as part of what he said were desperate attempts to feed his fentanyl addiction — has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.
Each time, the unarmed Albuquerque man who once served as a confidential informant for the city’s police handed notes to tellers claiming he was a vigilante helping law enforcement and asking that they “please” place bills in an envelope, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
Assistant federal public defender Dennis Candelaria had argued Smeltzer be sentenced to only 18 months in prison partly because he had no adult criminal record, a lengthy work history and was actively involved in many community activities. He said Smeltzer had been suffering from a drug addiction for years trying to ease pain from an injured knee and that he was committed to rehabilitation.
In addition to being a confidential police informant, Candelaria said Smeltzer had participated in the FBI program for cyber security. He didn’t provide any additional details.
“Fentanyl took total control of his life,” Candelaria wrote in a pre-sentencing document.
“In many ways, Mr. Smeltzer is the typical bank robber. He is robbing a bank to buy drugs for his addiction. However, unlike the typical bank robber, we can look past his actions and see an individual that never intended to harm anyone,” Candelaria said.
Smeltzer “committed each of these bank robberies by passing a note and requesting the teller to ‘please’ place money in an envelope,” he said.
From Jan. 20-Feb. 23, 2022, Smeltzer stole a total of $3,856 from the four banks on the city’s northeast side, including just $136 from one. The most was $1,180 the second time he robbed the same credit union on San Mateo Boulevard in mid-February.
Acting on a call to a national tip line, FBI agents and police arrested him leaving his Albuquerque home in a car with his mother hours after the final robbery on Feb. 23.
An FBI agent said in an affidavit that Smeltzer confessed to all of the crimes and told authorities he was using the money to buy drugs for his fentanyl addiction.
“He also advised Agents he wrote the demands notes and he always asked for money politely,” the agent wrote in the affidavit last year.
In one case, the note he handed a teller claimed “I am that vigilante that helps law enforcement take down drug dealers.” Another said he was a vigilante “helping the police catch drug dealers and stop overdoses,” according to court documents.
The latter also said, “Thank you, truly I am grateful. I will repay.”
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Indiana residents owed more than $45 million to the state’s big five investor-owned utilities in March, the most recent month for which complete data is available – with thousands among them cut off from service. Fewer were reconnected.
That’s according to data reported to Indiana’s Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, current as of June 30, under a settlement agreement finalized last October. The five comprise AES Indiana, CenterPoint Energy, Duke Energy, Indiana Michigan Power, and the Northern Indiana Public Service Co., or NIPSCO.
“That sounds like an extraordinary amount of debt,” said Kerwin Olson, executive director of Citizens Action Coalition. The utility customer advocate group wasn’t a party in the settlement.
But the data still doesn’t include everyone.
Olson noted the settlement excludes the state’s next-largest utility company: Citizens Energy Group, a public trust providing natural gas, water and wastewater services to the Indianapolis area. It also leaves out numerous municipal and cooperative providers, as well as all water and wastewater providers.
The excluded utilities are subject to less Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission oversight.
Many in arrears
About 186,000 Hoosier accounts were 60-plus days behind on bills in March – or about 5% of the 3.6 million total accounts. But customers of some utilities fared better than others.
The accounts don’t always equate to individual households, as some utilities providing both electricity and natural gas reported account data for both service types.
The Capital Chronicle made calculations using all the months available in the most recent compilation of filings, which vary by utility – individual time periods are specified.
AES Indiana – which provides electricity to residents in the greater Indianapolis area – reported the highest proportion of indebted customers – 10% – in data running from September 2022 to April. That rose to 38% over that period for low-income customers participating in the federally funded Energy Assistance Program, although AES logged accounts just 30 days behind on bills.
CenterPoint South, which provides gas and electric services to the Indiana’s southwest corner, reported the lowest proportions of customers in debt: just 2% of customers from September through March.
But the lower rate of debt belies a higher average amount of debt: more than $470 owed per indebted CenterPoint South customer from September through March. NIPSCO reported the lowest average amount owed, at $96 per indebted customer from January 2022 through March 2023.
Indiana’s investor-owned utilities are regulated monopolies, meaning they have exclusive service territories, and in exchange, the IURC regulates more aspects of their businesses.
Olson said that while the price of energy is a key factor in how businesses decide to locate, the effects might be subtler for residential utility customers.
Accommodations
Some utilities reported markedly higher proportions of service disconnections to indebted customers, but emphasized their efforts to support struggling consumers.
I&M data, for example, logged about 13,800 shut-offs over March, April and May this year. That’s about 36% of the customers it said were in debt in that period.
NIPSCO, meanwhile, said it disconnected about 18,900 customers from January 2022 to March 2023 – just 1.3% of its indebted customers over that time period. That was the lowest percentage.
But the data can’t tell the whole story, like how long a household went without utility service, Olson noted.
NIPSCO, which reported cutting off the lowest percentage of people, emphasized in a statement that “keeping our customers connected is the focus, and disconnection is a last-resort option.”
Spokeswoman Wendy Lussier said the utility offers bill payment assistance plans, energy assistance programs and energy efficiency solutions – including help programs for low-income seniors and active duty military or veterans.
And NIPSCO has continued what began as a request from regulators to offer a 12-month flexible payment plan to Energy Assistance Plan participants – but it’s available to “all customers, regardless of income,” Lussier wrote.
She added that NIPSCO’s options are “actively” promoted in bill inserts, customer newsletters, in community outreach, on its website and app, on social media and more.
From March through May, about 47% of Duke customers who were more than 60 days behind on bills had payment plans with the utility – the highest rate among the big five. NIPSCO reported the lowest proportion – about 8% – covering January 2022 through March 2023.
But NIPSCO customers on payment plans appeared to owe the most on average: about $756 over its 14-month time period. CenterPoint North customers on payment plans owed the least: about $357.
All five utilities reported reconnecting significant numbers of people. But it’s not possible to calculate a reconnection rate using the data available because the numbers don’t necessarily correspond.
Information limited
Such information on Indiana’s largest utilities wasn’t publicly available until the pandemic severely disrupted Hoosier finances, leading the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and consumer advocate groups, including Olson’s, to push for data reporting.
In May 2020, regulators asked numerous utility companies to report a larger range of data on a monthly basis, nearly all of it backdated to October 2019. They did so through 2021. Advocates asked for another round of data last year. That case ended in a settlement finalized last October and was more limited in who was included.
It required the big five to submit reports to the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor beginning in October that year and continuing through February . Since March, the utilities have been filing quarterly.
A separate settlement includes three smaller natural gas utilities.
That means Hoosiers haven’t had consistent or comprehensive data for long – and advocates such as Olson can’t tell what’s typical, or “acceptable.”
“For decades now, (Citizens Action Coalition) has been talking about the need for the reporting of customer data,” he said. “And it was never reported until COVID hit. We simply don’t have the historic information to sort of compare and say, ‘This is normal,’ [or] ‘This isn’t normal.’ ”
That reporting requirement will end after March 2024, according to the settlement. The agreement prevents the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor from re-asking for data until that point and requires it to file a new request with regulators.
When asked if it planned to continue reporting after the requirement ends, AES Indiana and NIPSCO demurred.
“A decision on whether to continue providing this data has not yet been made by NIPSCO,” Lussier wrote..
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
On Saturday, Matteo Arnaldi (No. 76 in the world) meets Alexei Popyrin (No. 90) in the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.
Arnaldi is the favorite (-150) in this match, compared to the underdog Popyrin, who is +115.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Matteo Arnaldi has a 60.0% chance to win.
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Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Arnaldi advanced past No. 33-ranked Jiri Lehecka, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Popyrin beat No. 287-ranked Dino Prizmic, winning 7-6, 7-5.
- Arnaldi has played 24.5 games per match (23.2 in best-of-three matches) in his 35 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Arnaldi has played 18 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.5 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.2% of games.
- In the past year, Popyrin has competed in 47 total matches (across all court types), winning 49.3% of the games. He averages 28.0 games per match (25.3 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Popyrin has played 16 matches and averaged 26.7 games per match (26.0 in best-of-three matches) and 10.2 games per set.
- Dating back to 2015, Arnaldi and Popyrin have not competed against each other.
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PHOENIX — A historic heat wave that turned the U.S. Southwest into a blast furnace throughout July is beginning to abate with the late arrival of monsoon rains.
Already this week, the overnight low at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport fell under 90 (32.2 C) for the first time in 16 days, finally allowing people some respite from the stifling heat once the sun goes down.
Temperatures are also expected to ease in Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Death Valley, California.
The downward trend started Wednesday night, when Phoenix saw its first major monsoon storm since the traditional start of the season on June 15. While more than half of the greater Phoenix area saw no rainfall from that storm, some eastern suburbs were pummeled by high winds, swirling dust and localized downfalls of up to an inch (2.5 centimeters) of precipitation.
Storms gradually increasing in strength are expected over the weekend.
Scientists calculate that July will prove to be the hottest globally on record and perhaps the warmest human civilization has seen. The extreme heat is now hitting the eastern part of the U.S, as soaring temperatures moved from the Midwest into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, where some places are seeing their warmest days so far this year.
The new heat records being set this summer are just some of the extreme weather being seen around the U.S. this month, such as flash floods in Pennsylvania and parts of the Northeast.
And while relief may be on the way for the Southwest, for now it’s still dangerously hot. Phoenix’s high temperature reached 116 (46.7 C) Friday afternoon, which is far above the average temperature of 106 (41.1 C).
“Anyone can be at risk outside in this record heat,” the fire department in Goodyear, a Phoenix suburb, warned residents on social media while offering ideas to stay safe.
For many people such as older adults, those with health issues and those without access to air conditioning, the heat can be dangerous or even deadly.
Maricopa County, the most populous in Arizona and home to Phoenix, reported this week that its public health department had confirmed 25 heat-associated deaths this year as of July 21, with 249 more under investigation.
Results from toxicological tests that can takes weeks or months after an autopsy is conducted could eventually result in many deaths listed as under investigation as heat associated being changed to confirmed.
Maricopa County confirmed 425 heat-associated deaths last year, and more than half of them occurred in July.
Elsewhere in Arizona next week, the agricultural desert community of Yuma is expecting highs ranging from 104 to 112 (40 C to 44.4 C) and Tucson is looking at highs ranging from 99 to 111 (37.2 C to 43.9 C).
The highs in Las Vegas are forecast to slip as low as 94 (34.4 C) next Tuesday after a long spell of highs above 110 (43.3 C). Death Valley, which hit 128 (53.3 C) in mid-July, will cool as well, though only to a still blistering hot 116 (46.7 C).
In New Mexico, the highs in Albuquerque next week are expected to be in the mid to high 90s (around 35 C), with party cloudy skies. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/29/southwest-extreme-heat-wave/861001e6-2dcd-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:20 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/29/southwest-extreme-heat-wave/861001e6-2dcd-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this year will effectively remove federal protections for most of Indiana’s wetlands – and enable Hoosier lawmakers to repeal already-weakened state protections for those areas.
The high court ruled in May that federal protections for wetlands under the Clean Water Act apply only to wetlands with a continuous surface connection to federally protected waterways that make them “indistinguishable” from those waters.
The ruling will allow states to further strip away regulations that currently keep developers from repurposing wetlands for commercial use.
It’s not yet clear how Indiana lawmakers plan to respond, but the Republican-dominated Legislature has in recent years refused more “restrictive” water regulations. Instead, GOP-led efforts have resulted in rollbacks and removals of protections for certain wetlands.
Some wetlands continue to be protected by city parks or trusts, preventing anyone from building on those areas or turning them into farmland. But most Indiana wetlands relied only on those federal protections that have since been stripped away.
Environmental experts say the decision could lead to lost wildlife and increased flooding across Indiana. Meanwhile, builders see a possible opportunity.
What the decision means
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the EPA in Sackett v. EPA, a decades-old case brought by an Idaho couple who sought to develop land near a lake without a federal permit in 2004.
Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, opined that the existing federal standard – laid out in the Clean Water Act – is too broad, too difficult to enforce and too “precarious” for property owners.
The decision has now severely restricted which waterways across the country can be protected under the Clean Water Act.
“In sum, we hold that the (Clean Water Act) extends to only those ‘wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are “waters of the United States” in their own right,’ so that they are ‘indistinguishable’ from those waters,” Alito wrote in the majority’s opinion.
Indiana is home to more than 800,000 acres of wetlands, equal to about 3.5% of the state’s geography.
Although 80% of Indiana’s wetlands had federal protection, that is expected to drop to 20% after the Supreme Court ruling.
Indra Frank, director of environmental health and water policy for the Hoosier Environmental Council, said the decision will significantly impact flooding and drinking water in Indiana.
The Environmental Council estimates that more than 300,000 acres of wetlands are now in jeopardy.
Environmental experts say that wetlands are vital for soaking up excess nutrients in soil – especially elements including nitrogen and phosphorus, which are common ingredients in fertilizer that can leach from farmland – and preventing them from creating problems elsewhere.
Wetlands also catch and hold excess stormwater, reducing flooding. Additionally, they help cleanse underground aquifers. That’s important, given that about 70% of Indiana residents rely on groundwater for at least part of their drinking water supply, according to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says that wetlands provide a habitat for half of Indiana species with small or declining populations.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, on the other hand, applauded the Supreme Court ruling.
“This is great news for farmers and property owners in our state!” the Republican attorney general said in a May 25 tweet. “The Supreme Court’s ruling will protect Hoosiers’ jobs, property, and freedom from the Biden admin’s excessive regulations.”
Fewer protections in Indiana?
Environmental advocates say they’re now concerned that state-level protections in Indiana – which have already been curtailed by the Indiana General Assembly – could be further eroded.
It’s a different tune from developers, however, who have pressed elected officials to decrease wetlands regulations, which they say limit their construction abilities.
During the most recent legislative session, several Republican lawmakers who also serve as members of the Indiana Builders Association attempted to pass a last-minute amendment that sought to reduce the number of state-protected wetlands even further.
The provision sought to make it harder for a wetland to be considered anything but Class 1 and would eliminate the possibility of any Class 1 or Class 2 wetlands being elevated to the most-protected Class 3 status.
Republican lawmakers claimed the change would “clarify” definitions in the state’s wetlands statute.
Even so, the amendment ran counter to findings from the Indiana Wetlands Task Force – convened by the legislature – which recommended Indiana have a separate state law to regulate wetlands that isn’t bound to federal rules.
The last-minute amendment failed to become law, however.
The failed proposal closely mirrored a 2021 bill that removed all state protections for Class 1 wetlands, which make up more than half of the state’s remaining wetlands. Although considered to be less pristine, those wetlands still help reduce flooding and improve water quality.
Still, the 2021 bill had to be watered down after environmental groups rallied to defeat the legislation. Some state regulatory officials pushed back, too.
Sen. Chris Garten, R-Charlestown, a key author on the 2021 bill, declined to comment on the Supreme Court decision or discuss whether state legislators will file new wetlands-related bills in the 2024 session. Another of the 2021 bill’s authors, Sen. Linda Rogers, R-Granger, also did not comment.
A spokesperson for the builders association told the Indiana Capital Chronicle that the Supreme Court ruling now provides builders and developers “more certainty in the federal permitting process,” and called the decision “a win for commonsense regulations and housing affordability.”
Rick Wajda, the builders association’s CEO, added that the industry group is continuing to urge federal agencies “to strike a balance between protecting our nation’s water resources and providing housing that is affordable.”
It’s possible that federal lawmakers could now step in and make changes to the Clean Water Act. For now, the Hoosier Environmental Council and other state groups say they plan to push the Indiana legislature to take action that ensures better wetland protections at the state level.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
In the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Saturday, Stan Wawrinka (ranked No. 72) faces Lorenzo Sonego (No. 43).
In this Semifinal matchup against Sonego (+100), Wawrinka is the favorite with -125 odds.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Stan Wawrinka has a 55.6% chance to win.
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Stan Wawrinka vs. Lorenzo Sonego Trends and Insights
- Wawrinka is looking to stay on track after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 59-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena in Friday's quarterfinals.
- Sonego advanced to the semifinals by taking down No. 104-ranked Jaume Munar 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.
- Wawrinka has played 27.3 games per match (24.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces).
- On clay, Wawrinka has played 11 matches over the past year, totaling 28.7 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 49.7% of games.
- Sonego has averaged 25.4 games per match (22.7 in best-of-three matches) through his 55 matches played in the past year across all court surfaces, while winning 50.8% of the games.
- Sonego has averaged 27.9 games per match (23.1 in best-of-three matches) and 9.8 games per set in 13 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- Wawrinka and Sonego have not played each other since 2015.
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete, fueling worries about whether Congress will be able to avoid a partial government shutdown this fall.
“We’re going to scare the hell out of the American people before we get this done,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.
Coons’ assessment is widely shared in Congress, reflecting the gulf between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate, which are charting vastly different — and mostly incompatible — paths on spending.
The Senate is adhering mostly to the top-line spending levels that President Joe Biden negotiated with House Republicans in late May as part of the debt-ceiling deal that extended the government’s borrowing authority and avoided an economically devastating default.
That agreement holds discretionary spending generally flat for the coming year while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. On top of that, the Senate is looking to add $13.7 billion in additional emergency appropriations, including $8 billion for defense and $5.7 billion for nondefense.
House Republicans, many of whom opposed the debt-ceiling deal and refused to vote for it, are going a different way.
GOP leaders have teed up bills with far less spending than the agreement allows in an effort to win over members who insist on rolling back spending to fiscal year 2022 levels. They are also adding scores of policy add-ons broadly opposed by Democrats. There are proposals to reduce access to abortion pills, bans on the funding of hormone therapy and certain surgeries for transgender veterans, and a prohibition on training programs promoting diversity in the federal workplace, among many others.
At a press conference at the Capitol this past week, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction within the House GOP, said that voters elected a Republican majority in that chamber to rein in government spending and it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.
“We should not fear a government shutdown,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. “Most of the American people won’t even miss if the government is shut down temporarily.”
Many House Republicans disagree with that assessment. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, called it an oversimplification to say most Americans wouldn’t feel an impact. And he warned Republicans would take the blame for a shutdown.
“We always get blamed for it, no matter what,” Simpson said. ”So it’s bad policy, it’s bad politics.”
But the slim five-seat majority Republicans hold amplifies the power that a small group can wield. Even though the debt ceiling agreement passed with a significant majority of both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives opponents were so unhappy in the aftermath that they shut down House votes for a few days, stalling the entire GOP agenda.
Shortly thereafter, McCarthy argued the numbers he negotiated with the White House amounted to a cap and “you can always do less.” GOP Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, followed that she would seek to limit nondefense spending at 2022 budget levels, saying the debt agreement “set a top-line spending cap — a ceiling, not a floor.”
The decision to cut spending below levels in the the debt ceiling deal helped get the House moving again, but put them on a collision course with the Senate, where the spending bills hew much closer to the agreement.
“What the House has done is they essentially tore up that agreement as soon as it was signed,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “And so we are in for a bumpy ride.”
Even as House Republicans have been moving their spending bills out of committee on party-line votes, the key committee in the Senate has been operating in a bipartisan fashion, drafting spending bills with sometimes unanimous support.
“The way to make this work is do it in a bipartisan way like we are doing in the Senate. If you do it in a partisan way, you’re heading to a shutdown. And I am really worried that that’s where the House Republicans are headed,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters this week.
McCarthy countered that people had the same doubts about whether House Republicans and the White House could reach an agreement to pass a debt ceiling extension and avoid a default.
“We’ve got ‘til Sept. 30. I think we can get this all done,” McCarthy said.
In a subsequent press conference, McCarthy said he had just met with Schumer to talk about the road ahead on an array of bills, including the spending bills.
“I don’t want the government to shut down,” McCarthy said. “I want to find that we can find common ground.”
In all, there are 12 spending bills. The House has passed one so far, and moved others out of committee. The Senate has passed none, though it has advanced all 12 out of committee, something that hasn’t happened since 2018.
Still, the difficulty ahead was evident on the House side, where Republicans gave up until after the recess on trying to pass a spending measure to fund federal agriculture and rural programs and the Food and Drug Administration, amid disagreements over its contents. They began their August recess a day early instead of holding votes Friday.
Simpson said some of his Republican colleagues don’t want to take money approved already outside the appropriations process to cover some of this year’s spending and avoid deeper cuts. For example, the House bills would take almost all of the money approved last year for the Internal Revenue Service in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and use the savings to avoid deeper spending cuts elsewhere.
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn’t vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts “would have just been devastating.”
“That’s the challenge we’re going to have when we get back in September,” he said.
Further complicating things in the House, a few Republicans are opposed to some of the policy riders being included in the spending bills. For example, the agriculture spending bill would reverse the FDA’s decision to allow abortion pills to be dispensed in certified pharmacies, instead of only by prescribers in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.
“I had a problem with abortion being put inside an ag bill,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. “I think that’s ridiculous.”
It’s a strong possibility that Congress will have to pass a stopgap spending bill before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. The Senate can vote first on the measure, which would put the onus on House Republicans to bring it up for a vote or allow for a shutdown. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/29/congress-spending-bills-shutdown/f3fb29a4-2dc5-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:26 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/29/congress-spending-bills-shutdown/f3fb29a4-2dc5-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
When agencies burn Indiana forests, they hope to see oak rise from the ashes. But environmentalists believe the solution for the oak problem is costing the climate, clean water and wildlife.
For decades, Hoosier activists have been fighting what they view as improper forest management plans by government agencies including the U.S. Forest Service and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, even as both agencies and activists claim to be doing what is best for the state’s forests.
The latest controversy involves massive clearing projects in the Hoosier National Forest, fueled by a belief that oak and hickory trees – which dominate Indiana forests and sustain specific species of wildlife – require disturbances such as burning or logging in order to regenerate. The Hoosier National Forest spans more than 200,000 acres in southern Indiana.
Environmental groups including the Indiana Forest Alliance and Heartwood disagree with this idea, arguing the oaks will naturally regenerate if they’re left alone, and maintaining that the proposed projects will do more harm than good.
Complicating the issue is money: federal incentives, budgets and contracts with industries that seek to benefit from specific forest management practices.
“It’s a self-perpetuating machine,” said Andy Mahler, founder of Heartwood.
A decades-long fight
In 1985, a federal Forest Service proposal to clear forests and build more than 100 miles of off-road vehicle trails generated a massive grassroots environmental movement, culminating in the opportunity to direct the future of forest management in the Hoosier National Forest.
According to Mahler, the agency was tasked with developing a plan amendment in 1991 after a successful campaign to oppose the original plan. Environmentalists created two main plans. The Conservationists’ Alternative, thought to be a middle ground, was ultimately chosen. This amendment effectively prohibited timber harvesting on two-thirds of the forest, but Mahler said language was altered to allow certain exceptions.
When the Forest Service revised its management plan in 2006, he said, the agency added additional exceptions that would allow for logging, using words such as “salvage,” “stewardship,” “sanitation” and “restoration.”
“If you see the word ‘restoration,’ it means logging,” he said.
All about oak
Forest management in Indiana is all about oak.
The tree species is critical to wildlife that depend on its acorns, and is dominant across Indiana, making up 61% of forests across the state and 49% of state forests.
But the future of oak is uncertain, according to the federal Forest Service and the state.
They claim the dominant oak-hickory forest types are dying due to age or disease, allowing shade-tolerant beech-maple types such as tulip poplars or sugar maples to dominate oak-hickory saplings that struggle under the dense forest canopy. Oak’s difficulty in the shade is illustrated by the state’s 2005 forest inventory, which showed a much lower number of oak seedlings and saplings than desired. The state’s Department of Natural Resources believes the data suggests a near-certain decline in oak trees if nothing is done.
Although environmentalists urge a more hands-off approach to the issue, the Hoosier National Forest’s district ranger Chris Thornton said it won’t work for this particular forest.
“We don’t have a pristine forest here that hasn’t had human hands interacting with it,” he said.
Thornton said that due to continual human involvement over the centuries, the forest has become less age-diverse, recalling the desolate look of the hills after erosion from agriculture and early European settlement.
“The Hoosier (National Forest) was basically born out of the lands that no one wanted,” he said.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Forest Service reduced erosion by planting pines. The effort worked, but the now-mature pines have made it difficult for plants to grow in the forest’s shade.
The Forest Service’s major projects – the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project and Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration Project – both aim to help oak-hickory seedlings by removing mature pines with dense canopy, either through clear-cutting or burning, and thinning hardwoods to reduce competition for growth.
But the project has potential drawbacks. Houston South was halted this year after a judge determined the Forest Service had not presented sufficient evidence to prove the project would pose no risk to Lake Monroe, a major source of drinking water for 130,000 people. Other concerns include harm to wildlife or risks to archaeological sites, although Thornton reaffirmed the importance of protecting the sites.
Drawing from the letters he gets from concerned residents, Thornton said there is a lot of common ground between the two in that both groups love the Hoosier National Forest. But while the federal Forest Service is focusing on the big picture, Thornton said, it can be jarring for people to see changes to the forest close to them.
“If you live next to a harvest area, it changes immediately,” he said. “And I’ll be the first to admit, you know, pine clear cut is not an aesthetically pleasing site for quite a few years.”
Fire as a tool
In April, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources carried out controlled burns of the Ferdinand State Forest, which is 2 1/2 hours south of Indianapolis. Critics reported bad air quality as the fires burned and harmed animals – turtles, snakes and salamanders.
“They actually were burned alive,” said Evan Robbins, communications director for the Forest Alliance.
Although smoke from Canadian wildfires occupies the minds of Hoosiers when it occasionally blows west, Robbins said poor air quality resulting from purposeful fires is a continuous reality for rural residents living near forests.
When the Ferdinand State Forest burned, air quality measured 169, which is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups and some members of the general public.
Although counterintuitive on its face, controlled burns in forests have become an effective way to prevent forest fires, especially as temperatures increase. These burns are usually applied in specific areas to reduce thin or dying trees and plants that would otherwise easily catch fire or accelerate fires.
But the Forest Alliance says the method is really only useful in the western and southern United States.
“Our forests are so full of moisture here that we don’t have wildfires, and we’ve never had wildfires,” he said.
When asked about its prescribed burn practices, the Department of Natural Resources referenced its website, which lists benefits of controlled burns including increasing plant diversity, reducing the spread of plant diseases and releasing nutrients into the soil. Burns at Ferdinand are part of the agency’s wider goal to sustain oak dominance for its ecological benefits.
The timber factor
Critics of the forest management approach by government agencies believe the logging industry is influencing decision-making.
Although logging practices have become less popular through the decades, timber harvesting in the Hoosier National Forest has increased since 2006.
That year, the forest sold 57,110 board feet of timber, which is a similar output to the previous few decades. Beginning in 2007, the federal Forest Service has sold a range of 2 million to 7 million board feet of timber from the forest per year.
For context, the timber sale peak of 7 million in 2018 would have required about 27,000 trees sized at 20 inches in diameter and standing at 42 feet.
Specific parts of Forest Service’s budget are dedicated to timber harvesting, such as the Timber Sales Pipeline Restoration Fund. Authorized by Congress in the 1990s, the fund directs the agency to prepare timber sales and redeposit profits in the same fund. At the beginning of the fiscal year, this fund was $18 million, with $7 million of it being new appropriations. This fund is only one part of the agency’s budget for timber sales and does not include “forest products” funding, salvage sales or stewardship contracts.
Mahler said in the 1970s, agencies did not sell timber on public land because the timber industry didn’t want the competition. But when the industry cleared too many trees on private lands, they lobbied the government to increase logging on public lands by creating incentives to cut.
He believes the disconnect between the Forest Service and environmental groups is due to this system. Although Mahler thinks the Forest Service wants what is best for the forest, agency heads are focused on sustaining or even maximizing their budget, which Mahler thinks they believe is what is ultimately best for the forest system.
The Hoosier National Forest’s Thornton, however, emphasized timber is not the reason why they’re doing projects. The increase in harvesting is an expected result of a change in their 2006 forest management plan, Thornton said, and although revenue does sometimes come from projects, it is about ecological restoration, not money.
On a state level, Indiana has also been ramping up timber production. From the early 2000s to the early 2010s, the Indiana Division of Forestry went from selling less than 4 million in board feet per year to almost 14 million. In 2013, roughly a third of the Indiana Division of Forestry’s operating budget came from timber sales, according to the same document.
And timber has a strong economic grip on the state overall: wood products have a $10 billion yearly economic impact and provide 70,000 jobs.
In 2019, Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch announced an economic development strategy to promote the hardwood industry. Much of the strategy includes increasing education of forest management and connecting private landowners, who own 84% of Indiana forestry, to logging companies.
The report also reiterates the use of forest management practices to increase the “productivity, quality and value of forests by favoring the growth and regeneration of trees … including production of high-quality timber.”
Climate change
A Purdue study found mixed and uncertain results on the resilience of Indiana forests as the globe warms.
Tulip poplars and sugar maples, which are on the rise in Indiana forests, are less tolerant of drought than oaks. When combined with projected warming in the region, the shift in tree type could reduce forest carbon uptake by up to 17%.
At the same time, changes in climate are expected to benefit some trees while harming others, making it difficult to predict how forests might adapt.
Another study warned against the nationwide campaign to promote early successional habitats, which is the growth that occurs after a disturbance such as a prescribed fire.
Although old growth forests were once dominant across the country, they are now rare.
At the same time, the campaign to clear old growth in exchange for early successional habitats is supported by interest groups who seek to gain from increased game species populations – which thrive in young forest – and profits from timber. The Young Forest Project, a major proponent of this campaign, also lists state and federal agencies as partners, including the Indiana Division of Forestry.
The study argues old-growth forests are better equipped to deal with climate change, saying lands reserved from logging capture carbon at a faster rate, while clearing practices can release carbon stored in soil.
Old-growth forests might even absorb more carbon as the climate warms and are more resilient to climate stress than young forests in general, according to the study. And although timber is often hailed as sustainable because it’s renewable, 76% of carbon stored in durable wood products ends up being released into the atmosphere.
The study, which lists seven researchers with multiple universities and conservation groups, concludes the push for young forests has complicated the path toward resolving climate change by confusing the public and making it difficult for scientists to have an open dialogue.
“All the clearing, all the cutting – all these things are endangering this forest’s ability to sustain itself and provide the moderation of climate change and temperature,” Mahler said.
Mahler, who owns a lodge surrounded by the Hoosier National, spoke fondly of the woods – its natural cooling effect, the mineral-rich freshwater springs he drinks from and the last remnants of the paths the buffalo traveled. Although Mahler has been dedicated to environmental work for several decades, he expressed hope in future generations when it comes to protecting forests.
“Right here in south-central Indiana, we have a gem,” he said.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
Taylor Fritz (No. 9 ranking) will face Jeffrey John Wolf (No. 46) in the semifinals of the Truist Atlanta Open on Saturday, July 29.
With -250 odds, Fritz is the favorite against Wolf (+190) for this matchup.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Taylor Fritz has a 71.4% chance to win.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Jeffrey John Wolf Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Fritz beat No. 439-ranked Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.
- Wolf came out on top 6-2, 6-3 versus Dominik Koepfer in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Fritz has played 68 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, and 26.2 games per match (24.1 in best-of-three matches).
- In his 44 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Fritz has played an average of 25.8 games (24.3 in best-of-three matches).
- Wolf is averaging 24.5 games per match (22.3 in best-of-three matches) through his 59 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 52.6% of those games.
- Wolf has averaged 24.9 games per match (22.8 in best-of-three matches) and 9.9 games per set in 41 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 52.7% of those games.
- This is the first time that Fritz and Wolf have played in the last five years.
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CHICAGO — Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters described Joe Biden as a communist. A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced witchcraft. Doctored images showed dogs urinating on Donald Trump campaign posters.
As the 2024 election approaches, community organizations are preparing for what they expect to be a worsening onslaught of disinformation targeting communities of color and immigrant communities. They say the tailored campaigns challenge assumptions of what kinds of voters are susceptible to election conspiracies and distrust in voting systems.
“They’re getting more complex, more sophisticated and spreading like wildfire,” said Sarah Shah, director of policy and community engagement at the advocacy group Indian American Impact, which runs the fact-checking site Desifacts.org. “ What we saw in 2020, unfortunately, will probably be fairly mild in comparison to what we will see in the months leading up to 2024.”
A growing subset of communities of color, especially immigrants for whom English is not their first language, are questioning the integrity of U.S. voting processes and subscribing to Trump’s lies of a stolen 2020 election, said Jenny Liu, mis/disinformation policy manager at the nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Still, she said these communities are largely left out of conversations about misinformation.
“When you think of the typical consumer of a conspiracy theory, you think of someone who’s older, maybe from a rural area, maybe a white man,” she said. “You don’t think of Chinese Americans scrolling through WeChat. That’s why this narrative glosses over and erases a lot of the disinformation harms that many communities of colors face.”
In addition to general misinformation themes about voting machines and mail-in voting, groups are catering their messaging to communities of color, experts say.
For example, immigrants from authoritarian regimes in countries like Venezuela or who have lived through the Chinese Cultural Revolution may be “more vulnerable to misinformation claiming politicians are wanting to turn the U.S. into a Socialist state,” said Inga Trauthig, head of research for the Propaganda Research Lab at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. People from countries that have not recently had free and fair elections may have a preexisting distrust of elections and authority that may make them vulnerable to misinformation as well, Trauthig said.
Disinformation efforts often hinge on topics most important to each community, whether that is public safety, immigration, abortion, education, inflation or alleged extramarital affairs, said Laura Zommer, co-founder of the Spanish-language fact-checking group Factchequeado.
“It takes advantage of their very real fear and trauma from their experiences in their home countries,” Zommer said.
Other vulnerabilities include language barriers and a lack of knowledge of the U.S. media landscape and how to find credible U.S. news sources, several misinformation experts told The Associated Press. Many immigrants rely on translated content for voting information, leaving space for bad actors to inject misinformation.
“These tactics exploit information vacuums when there’s a lot of uncertainty around how these processes work, especially because a lot of election materials may not be translated in the languages our communities speak or be available in forms they are likely to access,” said Clara Jiménez Cruz, another co-founder of Factchequeado.
Misinformation can also arise from mistranslations. The Brookings Institute, a nonprofit think tank, found examples of mistranslations in Colombian, Cuban and Venezuelan WhatsApp groups, where “progressive” was translated to “progresista,” which carries “far-left connotations that are closer to the Spanish words ‘socialista’ and ‘comunista.’”
Disinformation, often in languages like Spanish, Mandarin or Hindi, flows onto social media apps like WhatsApp and WeChat heavily used by communities of color.
Minority communities that believe their views and perspectives aren’t represented by the mainstream are likely to “retreat into more private spaces” found on messaging apps or groups on social media sites like Facebook, Trauthig said.
“But disinformation also targets them on these platforms, even though it may feel to them to be that safer space,” she said.
Messages on WhatsApp are also encrypted and can’t be easily seen or traced by moderators or fact-checkers.
“As a result, messages on apps like WhatsApp often fly under the radar and are allowed to spread and spread, largely unchecked,” said Randy Abreu, policy counsel for the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which leads the Spanish Language Disinformation Coalition.
Abreu also raised concerns about Spanish YouTube channels and radio shows that are growing in popularity. He said the coalition is tracking more and more YouTube and radio personalities who are spreading misinformation in Spanish.
A 2022 report by the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters tracked 40 Spanish-language YouTube videos spreading misinformation about U.S. elections. Many of these videos remained on the platform, despite violating YouTube election misinformation policy, the report said.
Amid changes in voting policies at state and local levels, advocates are sounding the alarm on how disinformation about voting in 2024 may target communities of color. Many of these efforts have surged as Asian American, Black and Latino communities have grown in political power, said María Teresa Kumar, founding president of the nonprofit advocacy group Voto Latino.
“Disinformation is, at its core, meant to be a sort of voter suppression tactic for communities of color,” she said. “It targets communities of color in a way that feeds into their already justifiable concerns that the system is stacked against them.”
The tactics also feed into a history “as old as the Jim Crow era of attempting to disenfranchise people of color, going back to voter intimidation and suppression efforts after the Civil Rights Act of 1866,” said Atiba Ellis, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
While many of the same recycled claims around alleged fraud in the 2020 and 2022 elections are expected to resurface, experts say disinformation campaigns will likely be more sophisticated and granular in attempts to target specific groups of voters of color.
Trauthig also raised concerns about how layoffs and instability at social media platforms like Twitter may leave them less prepared to tackle misinformation in 2024. It also remains to be seen how new social media platforms like Threads will approach the threat of misinformation. Changes in policies like WhatsApp launching a “Communities” function connecting multiple groups and expanding group chat sizes may also “have big implications for how quickly misinformation will spread on the platform,” she said.
In response to the mounting threat of misinformation, Indian American Impact is ramping up its fact-checking efforts through what the organization says is the first fact-checking website specifically for South Asian Americans. Shah said the group is drawing inspiration from 2022 projects, including a voting toolkit using memes with Bollywood characters and passing out Parle-G crackers with voting information stickers at Indian grocery stores.
Cruz of Factchequeado is paying close attention to misinformation in swing states with significant Latino populations like Nevada and Arizona. And Liu of Asian Americans Advancing Justice is reviewing misinformation trends from previous elections to strategize about how to inoculate Asian American voters against them.
Still, they say there is more work to be done.
Critics are urging social media companies to invest in content moderation and fact-checking in languages other than English. Government and election officials should also make voting information more accessible to non-English speakers, organize media literacy trainings in community spaces and identify “trusted messengers” in communities of color to help approach trends in misinformation narratives, experts said.
“These are not monolithic groups,” Cruz said. “This disinformation is very specifically tailored to each of these communities and their fears. So we also need to be partnering with grassroots organizations in each of these communities to tailor our approaches. If we don’t take the time to do this work, our democracy is at stake.”
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As temperatures soared into the 90s across northeast Indiana this week, the region’s physicians worried that some people weren’t taking health warnings seriously enough.
That attitude, they said, could prove deadly during August’s typically intense heat and humidity.
Heat-related illness is more common than people think, a local cardiologist said Friday.
Dr. Issa Kutkut, who practices with Lutheran Health Physicians, emphasized that heat stroke “can do a lot of damage” to the body because the heart diverts blood flow from major organs to areas beneath the skin in a desperate attempt to increase sweating, the body’s means of cooling itself.
Major organs include the brain, heart, kidneys, stomach, lungs and liver.
“Ultimately, the organs cease to work,” Kutkut said.
More than 600 people in the U.S. die every year from heat-related causes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Tom Gutwein, the medical director of Parkview Regional Medical Center’s emergency department, said nobody expects they will add to that statistic by doing yard work or taking a long run on a 98-degree day if they’ve done it before without a problem.
“Nobody thinks it’s going to happen to them, but it happens to somebody,” he said Friday. “They think they can defy the odds.”
Know the signs
Details matter. High humidity drives up the heat index, which calculates how hot the air feels to the human body. Working or exercising without taking breaks increases the danger. And not drinking sufficient amounts of water can lead to deadly results when temperatures climb.
“By the time they realize they’re in trouble, it’s significant trouble,” Gutwein said of heat stroke and heat exhaustion patients.
When patients enter the emergency room with heat stroke symptoms, for example, they are immediately treated by medical staff.
“Heat stroke is just as serious as regular cardiovascular stroke and can cause damage to the brain,” Gutwein said.
Kutkut explained that the heart pumps a certain amount of blood every minute.
But when a person sweats in extreme heat, the liquid comes from the blood, reducing the amount available to travel through the body. As a result, the heart starts beating faster and faster in a futile attempt to reach its usual volume of blood flow. Normal bodily processes stop working, he said.
At that point, someone is in real trouble.
The doctors said it’s important to be familiar with the symptoms of various heat-related conditions.
Gutwein said anyone showing signs of heat exhaustion – including dizziness, nausea and confusion – should immediately get into an air-conditioned place, drink water and cool off with ice packs or cold towels. If the symptoms don’t disappear within 20 minutes, head to the hospital, he said.
When signs of heat stroke are detected, don’t waste time, he said. Go straight to the nearest emergency room.
Working in the heat
The U.S. Department of Labor is monitoring the heat – and its effect on workers – through its Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
OSHA issued a heat hazard alert this week “to remind employers of their obligation to protect workers against heat illness or injury in outdoor and indoor workplaces,” the Labor Department said in a news release. OSHA uses hazard alerts to provide specific information on safety and health hazards to employers, workers and other stakeholders. An alert describes the hazard and offers recommendations on how hazardous exposures can be eliminated or reduced and what actions employers should take to protect employees.
Federal officials will increase inspections in “high-risk industries” including construction and agriculture to ensure workers’ safety, the release said.
Julie Su, acting Secretary of Labor, commented on the dangers associated with extreme heat.
“Historically high temperatures impact everyone and put our nation’s workers at high risk,” she said in a statement when issuing a heat hazard alert to remind employers of current standards and ensure workers know their rights.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 436 people have died due to workplace heat exposure since 2011.
Doug Parker, assistant secretary for OSHA, said states cannot limit worker protections. And heat-related protections aren’t confined to workers who toil in the outdoors.
“Regardless of their job or where in the nation they work, workers have the right to a safe and healthy workplace. OSHA will use every tool and mechanism at our disposal to enforce those rights and make sure that every employee ends their workday safe and healthy,” he said in a statement.
Locally, spokesman John Perlich said city of Fort Wayne officials make employee safety a top priority.
“Three of our major divisions that conduct a lot of work outdoors, Public Works, City Utilities, and Parks (and Recreation), constantly monitor weather conditions and the well-being of employees,” he said through email. “We also rely on experts at (the Indiana Department of Environmental Management) and the Allen County Department of Health for guidance on whether work should be stopped at outdoor work locations.”
“Earlier this week,” Perlich said, “our Risk Management Department sent out a notice to division and department leaders and employees about safety protocols and things to watch for this week with the hot temperatures.”
Staying safe
For anyone who doesn’t have access to air conditioning, the city of Fort Wayne offers cooling stations on days when temperatures are forecast to reach at least 90 degrees with a heat index in the mid-90s to 100 degrees, city spokesman John Perlich said Friday through email.
City and Salvation Army officials opened cooling stations Wednesday through Friday of this week. Perlich said 20 people used the cooling station at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory the first two days it was open.
The conservatory is downtown at 1100 S. Calhoun St. The Salvation Army’s cooling station is at 2901 N. Clinton St.
Those locations are in addition to The Rescue Mission, 404 E. Washington Blvd., which offers an indoor shelter daily regardless of outside temperature.
Perlich said city officials collaborate with the Salvation Army, St. Joseph Missions Women’s Shelter and Just Neighbors Interfaith Homeless Network for contingency planning. The city and its partners have opened facilities in the past when temperatures – extremely high or low – reached dangerous levels, he added.
“In past events, we’ve not seen shelters fill up, but we do work together” in case that would happen, he said.
For those who don’t choose to use a cooling station, Kutkut and Gutwein offered suggestions to make the heat a little more bearable.
People should wear light-colored, loose-fitting clothing made from breathable fabrics, Kutkut said. They should wear hats, take frequent breaks and cut back on coffee and alcohol, which deplete the body of fluids by causing it to pass more urine. When a person’s urine is dark yellow, that’s a sign of dehydration, he said.
Gutwein said anyone exercising outdoors should do so in the early morning or evening hours, when it’s cooler. And they should cut back on intensity by reducing speed, distance or both.
Anyone planning to spend time outdoors in high heat – for any reason – should increase their water intake for 24 to 48 hours before the activity. That could be split between glasses of water and glasses of a sports drink to boost electrolytes, he said. After coming inside, the person should continue drinking extra amounts of water for another 24 to 48 hours to replenish liquids lost, he said.
“You want to have a bit of a reserve,” Gutwein said. “You don’t want to go (into the heat) with a half-full tank.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/local-doctors-take-extreme-heat-seriously-take-precautions/article_f726298e-2cef-11ee-9887-3762e3d3be5e.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:34 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/local-doctors-take-extreme-heat-seriously-take-precautions/article_f726298e-2cef-11ee-9887-3762e3d3be5e.html |
WASHINGTON — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith's office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
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Cathy Berlin is an X-ray technician but says special optics aren’t needed to see the needs of others.
“People are struggling,” said the Lutheran Health employee and Community Harvest Food Bank volunteer. “There are so many people working two and three jobs just to make ends meet. They’re the working poor.”
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics defines the working poor as individuals who spend more than half the year employed or looking for work, but whose incomes fall below the poverty level. Women and minorities are more likely to be among the working poor.
“When I look at what these families go through, … I thank God it’s not me or my children,” Berlin said.
At Lutheran, the married mom of twin adult daughters performs medical exams, including blood draws and CT scans for patients, while working at least 16 hours a month with Community Harvest.
For a decade, the Fort Wayne native has volunteered for the cause and says she’ll likely increase her efforts at the food bank as retirement approaches.
“It’s just the right thing to do,” the 64-year-old said. “The people coming in for food are good people. They have rent to pay, utilities, day care for their kids. … It’s a lot. It’s very expensive to live.”
State officials seem to agree.
Community Harvest is one of 11 state food banks soon to split a historic $2 million in Indiana State Department of Agriculture funding.
The Fort Wayne nonprofit’s take is $200,000.
Berlin, a New Haven High School alumna, says she’ll continue trying to do her part, and those who know her aren’t the least bit surprised by such dedication. They say Berlin was paying it forward long before it became a popular practice.
“She has a way of making sense of things that are in disarray. She’s really organized,” said Adam Roby, volunteer manager of Community Harvest. “She comes in and does a little bit of everything. She’s basically an honorary employee.”
Berlin works Saturdays at Community Harvest, usually arriving about 6 a.m. to process food items for the 1,000 or so motorists who visit the operation’s Tillman Road location.
Her weekend gig will have Berlin bouncing around from working in the warehouse, transporting, sorting and loading items into waiting vehicles at the food bank’s drive-thru.
“She’s a wonderful person to work with,” said fellow volunteer Dave Brelage, 69, who’s worked with Berlin for a little more than a year. “She’s always dependable and shows up with a smile on her face and has her heart in the right place.”
Beth Stander, the food bank’s north warehouse supervisor, echoed those sentiments.
“Beth is so enthusiastic and organized,” Stander said. “She will step back and assess situations to try to make sure things run smoothly. And she comes in with high energy after working 40 hours a week at her job.”
Still, the last thing Berlin says she wants is to take a bow or get a pat on the back.
“When I look at the families that come through here, you just want to help,” she said. “They’re so appreciative.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/volunteer-spotlight-cathy-berlin-invests-her-time-at-food-bank/article_37a4ca62-225d-11ee-b07e-cbf18f4447e2.html | 2023-07-29T05:14:41 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/volunteer-spotlight-cathy-berlin-invests-her-time-at-food-bank/article_37a4ca62-225d-11ee-b07e-cbf18f4447e2.html |