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Denton High’s Joseph Dominguez, pictured during a 2022 game, is one of four Denton-area players to be recognized on the Blue Bell/TSWA 5A all-state teams.
Denton High’s Joseph Dominguez, pictured during a 2022 game, is one of four Denton-area players to be recognized on the Blue Bell/TSWA 5A all-state teams.
Four Denton-area baseball players were recognized among the state’s best Thursday when the Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association’s 5A all-state teams were released.
Denton High senior Joseph Dominguez led the way as he tied with Leander Rouse’s Rayner Heinrich for the first-team nod at second base. Argyle earned a trio of honorees after reaching the 5A state title game, including juniors Park Prater (second-team pitcher) and Colton Roquemore (second-team second baseman) and freshman Grady Emerson (third-team first baseman).
Dominguez added the TSWA nod to his list of postseason accolades after also earning THSBCA first- team all-state honors. The Dodge City commit was named the Denton Record-Chronicle’sAll-Area Offensive Player of the Year after hitting .478 with 12 triples, 17 RBIs, 29 runs scored, 20 stolen bases and a .931 fielding percentage.
Roquemore and Prater each earned THSBCA nods, too, after playing integral parts in the Eagles reaching the state title game during their first 5A season. Argyle navigated finishing second in its district and facing elimination numerous times in the playoffs just to reach the state title game, where it came up a run short against Magnolia West.
Roquemore, the All-Area Most Valuable Player and a Dallas Baptist pledge, hit a team-high .401 with 39 RBIs, 24 walks drawn and stole 14 bases while adding a .977 fielding percentage.
Prater, a fellow Dallas Baptist commit and the All-Area Utility Player of the Year, notched 74 strikeouts and a 0.60 ERA in 58 innings pitched along with a .333 batting average, four home runs and 31 RBIs.
One of the most highly regarded freshmen in the nation, Emerson quickly established himself as a cornerstone for Argyle on his way to All-Area Newcomer of the Year honors. The TCU commit hit .336 with a team-best 15 doubles, 35 RBIs, 24 walks drawn and a .992 fielding percentage as a steadfast presence at first.
The trio are all set to be back for Argyle next season, giving the program a solid core to build its latest contender around despite some key senior departures. Those important returners make the Eagles one of the early favorites to be among the best teams in the area and perhaps even the state again next year.
The Blue Bell/TSWA 6A all-state teams will be released Friday, the final in a series of five all-state lists published on the week.
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NEW YORK — Mark Canha had a sacrifice fly immediately after a 97-minute rain delay in the bottom of the eighth inning, lifting the Mets to a 2-1 win over the Washington Nationals on Thursday night.
After the game, the Mets announced they traded closer David Robertson — who was warming up before the rain delay — to the Miami Marlins in exchange for a pair of rookie-ball prospects.
The Mets, who began the season with a $353 million payroll, are 48-54 and seven games behind the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds for the last two wild-card spots.
“It’s a tough blow, but it’s the nature of the business,” said Canha, who like Robertson is an impending free agent. “I think we were all expecting it at some point. Not surprising. Still hurts, though.”
The Mets, who had four warning track outs against Nationals starter Josiah Gray, tied the score by stringing together three straight one-out singles — the last an RBI hit into right field by Daniel Vogelbach — against Mason Thompson (3-4). DJ Stewart was then plunked by a pitch to load the bases and Thompson was removed for Kyle Finnegan moments before umpires motioned the teams off the field.
After play resumed, Canha hit Finnegan’s fifth pitch to deep right field and Pete Alonso beat the throw home.
“I was watching Mark during the rain delay — he was down the runway, we have a little place to stay loose in the cage,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said. “Spent the whole time in there. Not many people I’d rather have up in that situation.”
David Peterson (3-7) allowed three hits in two innings before Brooks Raley notched his second save with a hitless ninth.
Neither Gray nor Mets starter Kodai Senga factored into the decisions following strong six-inning outings. Gray gave up two hits and struck out four while Senga allowed one run on two hits with five strikeouts.
Keibert Ruiz had a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning for the Nationals, who left the bases loaded against Senga in the sixth and stranded eight runners overall. Lane Thomas hit into an inning-ending double play with runners at the corners against Peterson in the seventh.
“We get guys on third base with less than two outs, in games like this, those runs are important,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “We’ve got to have better at-bats. Any way you can to get the ball in the outfield, we’ve got to do a better job of that.”
RAIN COMES CRASHING DOWN
Torrential rains accompanied by heavy winds arrived moments after the teams exited the field at 9:45 p.m. EDT. The tarp came loose along the first base line and the Mets’ grounds crew worked frantically in the downpour to secure it.
OUCH!
Three Mets batters were hit by pitches, increasing their league-leading total to 72. New York set a major league record by being hit by 112 pitches last season.
IT SURE IS A HOT ONE TODAY
SNY’s cameras captured Ruiz changing undershirts during the top of the sixth inning. The first pitch temperature was 90 degrees.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Nationals: RHP Tanner Rainey (Tommy John surgery) and RHP Carl Edwards Jr. (right shoulder) are scheduled to throw simulated games Friday. … RHP Thaddeus Ward (right shoulder) is throwing from 105 feet and is slated for a bullpen session Friday.
Mets: RF Starling Marte (migraines) is eligible to come off the 10-day injured list but isn’t expected to be activated anytime soon. Manager Buck Showalter said Marte is progressing well and indicated a timetable for Marte could become clearer once his partner gives birth to the couple’s child. … RHP Sam Coonrod (right lat), who has been out all season, is expected to pitch next for Triple-A Syracuse after four scoreless appearances with Single-A St. Lucie. … OF Tim Locastro (back) is hitting in the cage and is scheduled to hit outside this weekend.
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LHP MacKenzie Gore (6-7, 4.37 ERA) will start for the Nationals against RHP Max Scherzer (8-4, 4.20 ERA) in the second game of the four-game set on Friday night. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/canhas-sac-fly-after-rain-delay-lifts-mets-over-nationals/ | 2023-07-29T07:13:56 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/canhas-sac-fly-after-rain-delay-lifts-mets-over-nationals/ |
Ryan’s Ty Haywood, pictured during a 2022 game, is now ranked among the top 100 players in his class after rising in 247Sports’ updated rankings that were released on Thursday.
Ryan junior offensive lineman Ty Haywood is now ranked among the top 100 players in his class by 247Sports after the publication’s updated Class of 2025 rankings were released Thursday.
Haywood jumped up 26 slots from 118th to 92nd in the new national rankings and is also ranked 10th among all prospects in Texas and eighth nationally among offensive tackles by the outlet. The 247Sports Composite ranking, which averages out ratings from a variety of recruiting outlets, ranks Haywood 54th in the class, ninth in Texas and eighth at offensive tackle.
Haywood’s recruitment has taken off following his sophomore season with a plethora of high-profile scholarship offers rolling in. Since February, Haywood has been offered by Baylor, Texas, TCU, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, USC, Ohio State and Alabama, among other programs.
Heading into his junior year, the Denton Record-Chronicle has Haywood ranked as the Denton-area’s top returning offensive lineman. Syracuse commit Willie Goodacre (Guyer) and Stanford pledge Hayden Gunter (Denton High) round out the area’s stout top three at the position.
Haywood is set to once again be a key contributor up front for a Ryan offense that is replacing quite a few players across the board.
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By ZOYA TEIRSTEIN, Grist
NEW YORK (AP) — In 2022, doctors recorded the first confirmed case of tick-borne encephalitis virus acquired in the United Kingdom.
It began with a bike ride.
A 50-year-old man was mountain biking in the North Yorkshire Moors, a national park in England known for its vast expanses of woodland and purple heather. At some point on his ride, at least one black-legged tick burrowed into his skin. Five days later, the mountain biker developed symptoms commonly associated with a viral infection — fatigue, muscle pain, fever.
At first, he seemed to be on the mend, but about a week later, he started to lose coordination. An MRI scan revealed he had developed encephalitis, or swelling of the brain. He had been infected with tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, a potentially deadly disease that experts say is spreading into new regions due in large part to global warming.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist exploring the intersection of climate change and infectious diseases.
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For the past 30 years, the U.K. has become roughly 1 degree Celsius warmer (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) on average compared to the historical norm. Studies have shown that several tick-borne illnesses are becoming more prevalent because of climate change. Public health officials are particularly concerned about TBE, which is deadlier than more well-known tick diseases such as Lyme, due to the way it has quickly jumped from country to country.
Gábor Földvári, an expert at the Center for Ecological Research in Hungary, said the effects of climate change on TBE are unmistakable.
“It’s a really common problem which was absent 20 or 30 years ago,” he added.
Ticks can’t survive more than a couple of days in temperatures below zero, but they’re able to persevere in very warm conditions as long as there’s enough humidity in the environment. As Earth warms on average and winters become milder, ticks are becoming active earlier in the year. Climate change affects ticks at every stage of their life cycle — egg, six-legged larva, eight-legged nymph, and adult — by extending the length of time ticks actively feed on humans and animals. Even a fraction of a degree of global warming creates more opportunity for ticks to breed and spread disease.
“The number of overwintering ticks is increasing and in spring there is high activity of ticks,” said Gerhard Dobler, a doctor who works at the German Center for Infection Research. “This may increase the contact between infected ticks and humans and cause more disease.”
Since the virus was first discovered in the 1930s, it has mainly been found in Europe and parts of Asia, including Siberia and the northern regions of China. The same type of tick carries the disease in these areas, but the virus subtype — of which there are several — varies by region. In places where the virus is endemic, tick bites are the leading cause of encephalitis, though the virus can also be acquired by consuming raw milk from tick-infected cattle. TBE has not been found in the United States, though a few Americans have contracted the virus while traveling in Europe.
According to the World Health Organization, there are between 10,000 and 12,000 cases of the disease in Europe and northern Asia each year. The total number of cases worldwide is likely an undercount, as case counts are unreliable in countries where the population has low awareness of the disease and local health departments are not required to report cases to the government. But experts say there has been a clear uptick since the 1990s, especially in countries where the disease used to be uncommon.
“We see an increasing trend of human cases,” Dobler said, citing rising cases in Austria, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, and other European countries.
TBE is not always life-threatening. On average, about 10 percent of infections develop into the severe form of the illness, which often requires hospitalization. Once severe symptoms develop, however, there is no cure for the disease. The death rate among those who develop severe symptoms ranges from 1 to 35 percent, depending on the virus subtype, with the far-eastern subtype being the deadliest. In Europe, for example, 16 deaths were recorded in 2020 out of roughly 3,700 confirmed cases.
Up to half of survivors of severe TBE have lingering neurological problems, such as sleeplessness and aggressiveness. Many infected people are asymptomatic or only develop mild symptoms, Dobler said, so the true caseload could be up to 10 times higher in some regions than reports estimate.
While there are two TBE vaccines in circulation, vaccine uptake is low in regions where the virus is new. Neither vaccine covers all of the three most prevalent sub-types, and a 2020 study called for development of a new vaccine that offers higher protection against the virus. In Austria, for example, the TBE vaccine rate is near 85 percent, Dobler said, and yet the number of human cases continues to trend upward — a sign, in his opinion, of climate change’s influence on the disease.
In central and northern Europe, where for the past decade average annual temperatures have been roughly 2 degrees Celsius above pre industrial times (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), documented cases of the virus have been rising in recent decades — evidence, some experts say, that rising global temperatures are conducive to more active ticks. The parasitic arachnids are also noted to be moving further north and higher in altitude as formerly inhospitable terrain warms to their preferred temperature range. Northern parts of Russia are a prime example of where TBE-infected ticks have moved north. Some previously tick-free mountains in Germany, Bavaria, and Austria are reporting a 20-fold increase in cases over the past 10 years.
The virus’s growing shadow across Europe, Asia, and now parts of the United Kingdom throws the dangers of tick-borne disease into sharp relief. The U.K. bicyclist who was the first domestically acquired case of the disease survived his bout with TBE, but the episode serves as a warning to the region: though the virus is still rare, it may not stay that way for long.
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PHILADELPHIA — Sean Desai is the Eagles’ first-year defensive coordinator, and he didn’t earn a political science degree from Boston University without learning how to outline an appealing idea.
So there he was Friday, in his first public training-camp appearance before microphones, saying what he knew Philadelphia fans have been demanding to hear for generations.
“We want to run,” he said. “We want to hit. We want to impose our will on people. We want to embody the brand of this city and be gritty and be tough. And we’re not going to take anything from anybody.
“We want people to be able to feel us, physically, mentally, emotionally, whatever it takes. We want people to know that we’re on the field, too, and we’re going to dictate how we play the game on defense.”
Desai used to do a little assistant coaching at Temple, so he knows what is expected in a city once roamed by Chuck Bednarik and Reggie White and Brian Dawkins and Bill Bergey. So hit, apparently, the Eagles will.
Desai even made sure to imply the Eagles will not be playing much of the bend-don’t-break defense that invariably leaves Eagles audiences annoyed.
“We have some metrics that we use and then we’re still kind of working through making sure that it fits with everything,” he said. “But the biggest thing is you don’t want to give a big yards of real estate. There’s 100 yards on the field, and that’s the field that you’re defending. Any chunk of real estate that comes – whether it be through penalties, through explosive plays, missed tackles that lead to big chunks of yards – those things are things that we don’t want to play. They’re going to happen, but we want to try to limit those as best we can and get on the positive side of that as much as we can.”
Desai will have to replace five defensive starters from the NFC championship team. But he figures he has the system to make it work.
“We don’t want to get caught in a place of complacency and rely on our past,” said the man who will replace the ever-unpopular Jonathan Gannon. “So that’s the big thing. Whoever we’re bringing in, if it’s 11 guys, we’re trying to find the best 11 to fit this defense and our personnel and our players and our team well.”
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Nothing stays the same in pro sports, but Jordan Mailata, for one, figures the Eagles will miss the veteran presence of Isaac Seumalo on what was recognized as the best line in football. Seumalo signed with the Steelers as a free agent.
“You knew you had a guy who was technique-driven and very accountable,” Mailata said. “It didn’t matter what position you put him in, he was going to execute it to the best of his knowledge. His smarts, man, would always make it easier for us. When he spoke, we listened.”
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Darius Slay once said he had lost all “respect” for Matt Patricia after playing for the former Lions head coach in Detroit. Since Patricia has joined the Eagles as a senior defensive analyst, something had to give.
“We talked about it during the offseason,” Slay said. “They called me and I said, ‘It’s cool with me,’ because I want to do what’s best for the organization.
“We talked man-to-man. We have a great understanding. We both want to win. He is here to help me get better. He wants to get better as a coach. So we’re in good hands right now.”
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NOTES >> The Eagles will put up replicas of their new, Kelly green alternate jerseys for sale Monday at 9 a.m. at their pro shop at the Linc. The shirts will also be available at the Eagles’ pro shops in Lancaster and Cherry Hill, N.J. … The Eagles will be off Saturday. Training camp will resume Sunday morning. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/eagles-notebook-new-defensive-coordinator-sean-desai-aims-for-a-smashing-debut-season/ | 2023-07-29T07:14:08 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/eagles-notebook-new-defensive-coordinator-sean-desai-aims-for-a-smashing-debut-season/ |
BY DREW COSTLEY, JOSEPH B. FREDERICK and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Reyes sought shade under a tree in the Bronx on a day that felt like it was over 100 degrees (38 degrees Celsius) because of the heat and humidity.
“It’s not like when you were younger, you were playing around,” said the 56-year-old who runs a daycare center. “Now it’s like you got the humidity. It makes you kind of not breathe the same way. So when you walk, you get a little more tired, a little more exhausted.”
Reyes was one of nearly 200 million people in the United States, or 60% of the U.S. population, under a heat advisory or flood warning or watch since Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
Dangerous heat engulfed much of the eastern half of the United States Friday as extreme temperatures spread from the Midwest into the Northeast and mid-Atlantic where some residents saw their hottest temperatures of the year.
Although much of the country does not cool much on normal summer nights, night temperatures are forecast to stay hotter than usual, prompting excessive heat warnings from the Plains to the East Coast.
From Thursday to Friday, the number of people under a heat advisory rose from 180 to 184 million and the number of people under a flood warning or watch dropped from 17 to 10 million.
Moisture moved into the Southwest, cooling somewhat the southernmost counties of California and parts of southern Arizona, but excessive heat warnings remain for much of the region.
On top of the heat, severe thunderstorms are forecast for multiple regions of the country. There are forecasts with flash flood warnings for Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, west to the Middle Missouri Valley through Saturday morning. There are severe thunderstorm warnings with a chance of quarter-sized hail Friday night for the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Tornado watches are posted in Wisconsin and New Hampshire, in addition to the heat advisories and potential for severe storms.
The prediction for continued excessive heat comes as the World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service declared July 2023 the hottest month on record this week.
Scientists have long warned that climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, by deforestation and by certain agricultural practices, will lead to more and prolonged bouts of extreme weather.
On Thursday, heat and humidity in major cities along the East Coast, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City, made it feel above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius). Forecasters expect several records may break Friday with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 to 8 degrees Celsius) above average.
The “dangerous” heat wave, as the National Weather Service called it, may begin to subside on Saturday as thunderstorms and a cold front from Canada progress through the region. It seems the hottest temperatures happened on Friday.
“By Sunday, the high temperature is going to be 86,” he said, “so that’s more typical weather you would expect in July.”
The Salvation Army in the Bronx was one of hundreds of cooling centers open in New York City to give people a respite from the scorching heat.
“It’s very hot every year. This year, it started last week, becoming very hot,” said Robert Ciriaco, a corps officer with The Salvation Army. “(It’s) very dangerous for people. Some people die. So that’s why we open to offer people (a place) to come to be comfortable.”
Philadelphia declared a heat health emergency as temperatures soared into the 90s, and city authorities opened cooling centers.
But some residents took the heat in stride. Alexander Roman, who brought his children to play in the fountain at the city’s iconic Love Park, said he is not worried about heat stroke as long as his family can cool down. “A lot of water with ice and it will be O.K,” he said.
In the Southwest and southern Plains, oppressive temperatures have been a blanket for weeks. One meteorologist based in New Mexico called the prolonged period of temperatures over 100 degrees (37.8 Celsius) unprecedented.
Due to the extreme heat, some of the nation’s large power grids and utilities are under stress, which could affect Americans’ ability to cool off.
In New York City, utility Con Edison sent out a text blast asking residents to be frugal with air conditioning to conserve electricity. Overtaxing an electrical grid can mean blackouts, which are not just an inconvenience, but can lead to equipment failures and major pollution as equipment restarts.
The country’s largest power grid, PJM Interconnection, declared a level one energy emergency alert for its 13-state grid on Wednesday, meaning the company had concerns about ability to provide enough electricity.
“PJM currently has enough generation to meet forecast demand, but operators continue to monitor the grid conditions for any changes,” said spokesperson Jeffrey Shields on Thursday.
PJM isn’t the only electrical grid to issue such an alert. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which mostly covers states in the Midwest and Northern Plains, issued a similar one Thursday.
The California Independent System Operator also issued an energy emergency alert for the evening on Wednesday, in part due to excess heat in Southern California, but that expired the same day. Anne Gonzales, a CAISO spokesperson, said they expect to be able to meet demand the next few days.
A spokesperson for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which covers most of Texas, said they expect their grid will operate per usual during this latest blast of extreme weather across the country.
The dangerous heat peaks in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and Midwest Friday and Saturday before a cold front is expected to bring some relief Sunday and into next week.
Heat experts and environmental advocates said that these effects of the high temperatures will not be felt equally.
“The impacts of heat are highly inequitable,” said Ladd Keith, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona who studies heat policy and governance. He explained that people experiencing homelessness feel heat effects more than the housed, and low-income and communities of color are often hotter than more affluent and whiter neighborhoods.
“When we’re talking about how to keep people safe, we not only need to be thinking about the neighborhoods that are disproportionately warmer during these heat waves,” said Jeremy Hoffman, director of climate justice and impact at Groundwork USA, an environmental justice nonprofit. “But (also) the folks that can’t avoid being outside during these heat waves, people that rely on public transportation, people that work outside, and the extremely elderly that may be living in substandard housing without a lot of ventilation and air conditioning.”
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Outdoor adventure and scenic views are often high on the list of vacation priorities. Here are five places that fit the bill:
1. Opt for Banff and Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
For a top-notch opportunity to experience emerald lakes, snow-capped peaks and epic views in every direction, visit this alpine destination tucked within the majestic Canadian Rockies. Explore on foot, paddle, bike or hop in a golf cart to test your skills on the links. Stay at the Fairmont Banff Springs Resort, a caste-like landmark property inside Banff National Park. Offering stunning mountain, valley and winding-river views, the 745-room hotel is a destination in itself. Hiking, rafting, fly-fishing, championship golf, tennis, indoor and outdoor pool-time and horseback riding are all available within minutes. The Willow Stream Spa offers a full range of soothing options within 27 treatment rooms for those seeking a relaxing stay. Choose from more than a dozen on-site dining options, including an afternoon tea service, or wander into town for additional possibilities. Ask about the Kids in the Castle program and other adventure options for the younger set.
For more: https://www.fairmont.com/banff-springs/ ; https://www.banfflakelouise.com
2. Sample Idaho lake life
With a 25-mile-long lake as the centerpiece, the Idaho resort town of Coeur d’Alene lures families with the promise of beach days, a range of water sports, scenic boat rides, fishing and hiking on an assortment of nearby trails. Stay at the Coeur d’Alene Resort for easy access to amenities that include boat and jet ski rentals, spa time, outdoor dining, and a lakeside infinity pool. Play a round on the resort’s golf course that is home to the world’s only floating green. Families traveling with young children will appreciate easy access to multiple play areas and parks within walking distance. For a more laid-back vibe, visit Priest Lake, 90 miles to the north and tucked within the Selkirk Mountain Range. Check in to one of Elkins Resort’s 30 cedar log cabins, on the tree-lined shores of the pristine lake and choose from the sports of the season or claim your Adirondacks on the grassy lawn. Hike through old-growth forests, discover local waterfalls, paddle a canoe, go kayaking or test your balance on a paddleboard.
Contact: www.VisitIdaho.org. www.cdaresort.com www.ElkinsResort.com
3. Explore Bar Harbor, Maine
Located on Mount Desert Island and the gateway to Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor provides opportunities to observe Humpback, Finback and Pilot whales along with puffins, dolphins, and seals during the warmer months. Sample tasty ice cream, stroll through quaint shops to discover locally made watercolors, sweetgrass baskets and gemstone jewelry and crack open a lobster during your stay. Spend the nights at Terramor, an outdoor resort, where you’ll sleep in a luxurious platform tent, stroll through the trees on boardwalks and have the option to consult your onsite outfitter for hiking tips, trail options and even grilling basics.
For more: www.nps.gov/acad/index.htm; https://terramoroutdoorresort.com
4. Take in Traverse City, Mich.
This popular Michigan vacation spot is known for celebrating all things cherry with music, parades, tastings and art during the summer. Throughout the warmer months, family travelers enjoy the local freshwater lakes and streams, where searching for Petoskey stones, swimming, kayaking and paddling are favorite pastimes.
Visit the diverse ecosystem of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, stretching 35 miles along Lake Michigan, for miles of trails, shoreline and forested islands. Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes that encompass 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. Adults might want to arrange time to visit a handful of the more than 50 wineries in the area.
For more: www.traversecity.com.
5. Choose your backcountry
For an outdoor lover’s paradise, establish a pure connection with nature, off the beaten path. Hike, paddle or float into a pristine location where your family can learn or hone their wilderness skills. Choose a destination suitable for the ages and abilities of your crew. Encourage each person to take responsibility for the adventure whether that is early research, carrying a small pack, collecting kindling or serving as master storyteller around the fire. For the youngest set, get started with an overnight in the backyard or a nearby park. That way, should the weather or unforeseen forces create a kink in your plan, warm and dry shelter is nearby.
For more: www.Backcountry.com; www.NPS.gov.; http://www.huts.org
(Lynn O’Rourke Hayes (LOHayes.com) is an author, family travel expert and enthusiastic explorer. Gather more travel intel on Twitter @lohayes, Facebook, or via FamilyTravel.com)
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By Sam Kemmis | NerdWallet
It’s not just you: Shopping for airfare is harder than ever. Choosing between basic economy and regular economy fares and navigating add-on fees makes booking more complicated, and that’s no accident. Airlines are harnessing lessons from a still-emerging academic field known as behavioral economics to nudge customers into spending more.
“Behavioral economics was developed by incorporating ideas from psychology into standard economic theories,” says Cait Lamberton, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. “If you see a deal that is available for only a short amount of time, and you pay more than you usually would, standard economics would say you’ve made an irrational decision. Behavioral economics says that no, what your brain is doing is responding to scarcity.”
These seemingly irrational choices are called “biases,” many of which can affect how we shop.
For example, “loss aversion” makes us hyper-sensitive to losing money and more likely to buy something like trip protection. The “decoy effect” makes us more likely to choose between two suboptimal options when a third, even worse option is presented. For example, airlines may offer a decoy like an expensive premium ticket with fewer amenities, which may make the cheaper premium ticket with more benefits look more appealing.
Airlines are well aware of these tendencies and how they drive our decisions. So to save money on flights, customers need to understand how the airfare shopping experience has been engineered to exploit our biases.
Don’t buy because everyone else is
Airlines will use a technique called “social proof” to upsell certain products, such as trip protection, by suggesting that many other travelers are adding it to their itineraries. Yet these marketing tactics don’t offer much real-world value for consumers, according to experts.
Lamberton explains that those messages during the checkout process, like the number of people who have insured their trip today, shouldn’t sway your decision to purchase because they often lack context. “Is that a lot of people or a few people?,” she says.
Be prepared for add-on fees
Another bias that should ring true for anyone trying to buy an airline ticket: “decision fatigue.” That is, we tend to make worse decisions when we have to make several of them in a row.
This airline or that? Early flight or later? Pay for a window seat? Pay now for a checked bag? Upgrade to premium economy? With each decision, our ability to make ideal choices diminishes.
“Once I’m four or five clicks into purchasing this, the price has changed completely,” Lamberton says, suggesting that airlines will withhold information until later in the process, when consumers are less likely to start over.
Indeed, a 2020 study published in Marketing Science found that customers made suboptimal decisions when prices were “dripped” throughout the checkout process, largely because of their unwillingness to start over.
Overcoming decision fatigue isn’t easy. Realizing a flight is more expensive than you imagined and then starting over takes time and energy, so consider booking flights at a time when you’re not in a rush and you can spend more time doing comparison shopping.
“If you want to overcome these biases, you will have to slow down and give yourself the space to pay attention to these things,” Lamberton suggests.
Know your preferences
Budget airlines like Spirit and Frontier offer rock-bottom fares while charging more for basic add-ons like carry-on bags and seat selection. Skipping the extra fees means forgoing amenities that many travelers consider vital.
The trick is to determine ahead of time what you really need. Otherwise, you could get swayed by the upsell.
“My doctoral advisor gave me a great piece of advice: Know your own utility function,” Lamberton says, referencing an economic term for the satisfaction you gain from a certain product. “You have to know what actually matters to you.”
For example, travelers with small children may be more willing to pay for seat selection to ensure the family sits together. For solo travelers, paying $15 to select a seat might not be worth it.
The same holds for basics like when to fly. An early flight might be cheaper, but how much is a few more hours’ sleep worth? The answer will vary from person to person, and even then, there are unconscious behaviors preventing us from making the best decision.
“We don’t know what we’re going to prefer in the future — we’re terrible forecasters,” Lamberton says. “I always think, ‘I won’t mind taking that 4:30 a.m. flight.’ But of course I do.”
As a general rule, if an airline seems to be pushing an option — whether it’s upgrading your seat or adding a bundle of benefits — go back to your original preferences. Do you need it?
If you take the time to evaluate your own biases and the airline’s incentives, you might realize you don’t need to pay as much to travel.
This article was written by NerdWallet and was originally published by The Associated Press.
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PITTSBURGH — Kyle Schwarber broke out of a slump by hitting a two-run home run and reaching base in all five plate appearances, Zack Wheeler struck out 11 in 6.2 innings, and the visiting Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Friday night.
Schwarber’s blast, his 27th of the season, came off All-Star Mitch Keller in the third inning and carried into the Phillies’ bullpen in center field. Brandon Marsh walked to lead off the inning before Schwarber unloaded with one out.
Schwarber, 1 for 22 in his previous seven games, also doubled and walked three times. Bryson Stott had two hits for Philadelphia.
That was enough offense for Wheeler (8-5), who gave up one run and three hits while walking one after being winless in his previous three starts. He was removed from the game following a 42-minute rain delay in the seventh inning.
Craig Kimbrel worked around a two-out walk in a scoreless ninth for his 17th save as the Phillies won for the fourth time in five games.
Keller (9-7) has lost all three starts since pitching in the All-Star Game on July 11 in Seattle. He lasted 5.2 innings and allowed two runs and six hits with eight strikeouts and three walks.
Ji Man Choi hit a run-scoring double in the fourth to draw the Pirates to 2-1. Pittsburgh had runners on second and third with one out, but Wheeler escaped further trouble.
The Pirates have alternated wins and losses in their last eight games.
TARP TROUBLE
The PNC Park grounds crew had major trouble getting the infield covered during the delay.
It was unable to get the tarp completely unfurled and the first base line was left uncovered. After the rain stopped, workers were forced to apply a drying agent to the uncovered area, significantly lengthening the delay.
PHILLIES FACE DECISION
The Phillies must decide Saturday whether to keep right-hander Noah Song on their major-league roster or place him on waivers.
The 26-year-old Song was taken by the Phillies from Boston in the winter meeting draft in December with hopes he would play after military service.
Song reported to major league spring training on Feb. 23 after the Navy granted his transfer from active duty to the reserves. Song hadn’t pitched in a professional game since Aug. 29, 2019, for Class A Lowell.
Song went 1-0 with a 7.36 ERA in eight games in stints with three of Philadelphia’s minor league teams. Song’s 30-day rehab assignment ended this week, forcing the Phillies to decide whether to add the Rule 5 pick to the active roster or expose him to waivers and offer him back to the Red Sox if he is not claimed.
SUSPENSION REDUCED
Major League Baseball reduced the suspension of Pirates left-handed reliever Angel Perdomo by a game to two games Friday and he will be eligible to pitch Saturday.
Perdomo was ejected from Tuesday’s game when he hit San Diego’s Manny Machado in the back with a pitch immediately after giving up a home run to Juan Soto. MLB suspended Perdomo the next day.
ROSTER MOVE
The Pirates recalled OF Josh Palacios from Triple-A Indianapolis. He takes the roster spot of 1B Carlos Santana, who was traded to Milwaukee on Thursday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes (lower back inflammation) had a full workout for a second straight day Friday. He began a rehab assignment at Triple-A Indianapolis on Tuesday but has been unable to play since then. … INF/OF Ji Hwan Bae (left ankle sprain) is expected to begin a rehab assignment early next week with Indianapolis. … It has yet to be determined if INF Tucupita Marcano (right knee ligament) will need surgery after he was placed on the 60-day IL on Tuesday. … SS Oneil Cruz (fractured left ankle), who has been out since April 10, has progressed to hitting underhand tosses but there is no timetable for his return.
UP NEXT
Phillies RHP Aaron Nola (9-6, 4.25 ERA) faces rookie RHP Quinn Priester (1-1, 9.28) on Saturday night.
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CHICAGO — Ezi Magbegor had 17 points, nine rebounds and five assists, Gabby Williams also scored 17 points and the Seattle Storm snapped a franchise-record 10-game losing streak Friday night with an 83-74 win over the Chicago Sky.
Seattle (5-19) won for the first time in more than a month, dating to a 87-74 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on June 24. The Storm also ended their six-game road losing streak.
Jewell Loyd hit a 3-pointer with 8:29 left in the third quarter that gave the Storm the lead for good, then assisted on a 3 by Williams before Williams hit a pull-up jumper that made it 50-42. Kia Nurse made a basket to give Seattle its biggest lead of the game at 73-55 with 8:33 to play.
Kahleah Copper led Chicago (10-14) with 17 points, grabbed eight rebounds and had four steals. Dana Evans scored 12 points and Alanna Williams and Courtney Williams added 10 points apiece.
Loyd scored 15 points with six rebounds and six assists and Sami Whitcomb scored 12 points and grabbed a career-best 10 rebounds — her first career double-double — for Seattle. | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/magbegor-has-17-points-9-rebounds-and-5-assists-storm-snaps-10-game-skid-with-83-74-win-over-sky/281-85be38ac-fc79-46e1-b0da-ab31a6307405 | 2023-07-29T07:14:38 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/magbegor-has-17-points-9-rebounds-and-5-assists-storm-snaps-10-game-skid-with-83-74-win-over-sky/281-85be38ac-fc79-46e1-b0da-ab31a6307405 |
HUARINA, Bolivia (AP) — A 70-year-old man’s feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there used to be the water of Lake Titicaca. The highest navigable lake in the world has receded to what Bolivian authorities say are critically low levels due to a persistent drought.
“It’s completely dry,” Jaime Mamani said in exasperation while walking along the new shoreline in Huarina, a farming town 70 kilometers (43 miles) west of La Paz where he is a community leader.
The National Service of Naval Hydrography declared an alert this week for the iconic lake after its surface fell 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) below the drought warning stage, or 3,807.8 meters (12492.7 feet) above sea level. But the agency says this is just the beginning of a situation that is worrying Indigenous Aymara communities that rely on the lake for their livelihoods and fear the dry spell could permanently impact the region’s flora and fauna.
The hydrology unit of Bolivia’s navy warned that water levels could reach historically low levels in the coming months. By December, there is a “high probability” Lake Titicaca will be 64 centimeters (more than 25 inches) below the drought alert level, breaking a low water record set in 1998 by 33 centimeters (almost 13 inches).
“In three months, the water has decreased by 30 centimeters (11.8 inches), and considering that radiation is much stronger during this time of the year … we expect it to keep decreasing,” Carlos Carrasco, a hydraulic engineer for the hydrography service said.
The drought is the result of a combination of factors, including natural phenomena like La Niña and El Niño, which arrived unusually early this year and have been particularly strong due in part to climate change, according to Lucía Walper, who heads up the Hydrological Forecasting Unit at Bolivia’s National Meteorology and Hydrology Service.
But the vast lake is vital for this region of the Bolivian highlands, where hundreds of Aymara rural communities have relied on the blue body of water for millennia to practice subsistence farming and raise livestock.
Authorities in the Peruvian city of Puno also issued a warning about the declining water levels and expressed concern about the potential impact on tourism.
“We’re reaching a critical point. There will be a significant loss of water,” said Juan José Ocola, president of the Binational Authority of Lake Titicaca. The lake serves as the border between Bolivia and Peru.
Mateo Vargas, 56, a fisherman who has lived off the Lake Titicaca for 28 years, said he used to catch “lots” of fish daily. Now he considers himself lucky if he can catch six.
Vargas’ wife, Justina Condori, shares his concerns.
“The fish have vanished,” Condori, 58, said, predicting there will be famine if the current conditions persist.
Condori makes a living by renting boats to tourists. She worries fewer people will come to visit the lake, which at an elevation of 3,810 meters above sea level, is the largest body of freshwater in the Andes mountain range.
Evidence of the receding lake is seemingly everywhere. Women who sell fried fish and other snacks by the lake face rising costs for ingredients. Those who make a living transporting people from one side of the lake to the other are altering their routes because their rafts and boats no longer reach their usual docks.
Livestock farmers who rely on the plants that grow on the shores of the Titicaca to feed their animals are also seeing their livelihoods threatened.
The economic hardship is causing many residents of Huarina to migrate to other areas of the country, leaving behind mostly older townspeople, Mamani said. The waters of the Titicaca have always been shallow around the town, so the drought is even more visible there.
“There is a detriment to the economy of the inhabitants of the region,” he said.
Vargas, the fisherman, is also concerned about what the declining water levels will mean for the future.
“It looks like it will continue to decrease, day by day,” he said. “We’re worried because if we continue like this, what’s going to happen to our children?”
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Like many Hamiltonians, I recently received a letter from Mayor Martin with my “estimated” 3rd Quarter Tax Bill. This notice prompts two important notes for all Hamilton residents.
First, despite the Mayor’s best effort at political spin, living in Hamilton continues to get more expensive under his Administration.
Here are the FACTS:
1. The Tax Levy increased by $1.2 million. The Tax levy is the amount taken from taxpayers pockets to directly support the municipal budget. This is a tax increase, plain and simple.
2. Sewer Taxes have increased. Another tax increase on residents.
3. Fire Consolidation has increased taxes, contrary to what Hamiltonians were promised.
4. Recreation fees have increased significantly including pickelball, tennis and field rentals. More money out of Hamiltonian pockets.
5. Business fees and fines have increased, including a new fire inspection fee. Making it more expensive to open and operate a business in Hamilton.
6. More than doubled the price of a dog license
The truth is, Mayor Martin and his team continue to make it harder to live, work, raise a family, and retire in Hamilton.
We deserve better.
Second, why is this tax bill only estimated? That is largely because Mercer County has failed to pass a County budget. Despite having total control of County government, Mercer County Democrats have proven totally inept at financial management. Millions of taxpayer dollars have gone missing and another $4.9 million has been levied by the IRS against the County for failure to pay basic taxes for over 4 years.
Mayor Martin’s response? Nothing. No leadership, no fighting for Hamiltonians, not a single public meeting or statement calling on his political allies to get our financial house in order.
The Mayor needs to fight for our residents, even if that means going against his fellow politicians. Hamilton residents know full well that I will fight for Hamilton and our residents each and every day.
Our team, including Mike Chianese and Gino Melone for Council, will work hard from day one to ensure that all Hamiltonians have a voice in our government and that our tax dollars are respected. Help us stop the corruption and rubber stamping that has wasted our tax dollars.
We are Hamilton and we fight for you!
— Marty Flynn, Candidate for Mayor of Hamilton | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/letter-to-the-editor-mayoral-candidate-marty-flynn-replies-to-hamiltons-estimated-tax-billing/ | 2023-07-29T07:14:38 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/letter-to-the-editor-mayoral-candidate-marty-flynn-replies-to-hamiltons-estimated-tax-billing/ |
PHOENIX — Cal Raleigh and Tom Murphy hit back-to-back, two-run doubles in a four-run first, Logan Gilbert threw 6 1/3 strong innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the skidding Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 on Friday night.
The Mariners have won three straight and are 8-6 since the All-Star break. The Diamondbacks continued their extended slide, falling to 6-15 in July.
Seattle jumped all over D-backs starter Tommy Henry (5-4) in the first, scoring four runs on four hits, including three doubles. Seattle loaded the bases when three of the first four batters reached, then Raleigh and Murphy followed with their doubles that each brought home a pair of runs.
That was more than enough of a cushion for Gilbert (9-5), who navigated through the D-backs' lineup with relative ease. The lanky right-hander gave up two runs on nine hits, striking out five and walking none.
Paul Sewald worked the ninth for his 21st save, which broke his career high of 20 set last season.
Eugenio Suárez had an RBI single in the seventh to push Seattle's advantage to 5-0. Second-year star Julio Rodríguez had two hits, including a double, and added a stolen base.
Henry settled down for the D-backs after his tough start, giving up four runs on six hits over six innings, while walking one and striking out six. Ketel Marte had three hits.
TWO-RUN WILD PITCH
The D-backs cut the Mariners' lead to 5-2 in the seventh when two runs scored on a wild pitch by Matt Brash.
The play started when Brash threw a breaking ball in the dirt that trickled away from Raleigh despite his attempt to block it.
Arizona's Jose Herrera sprinted for home as Raleigh chased down the ball. The catcher then made an errant throw to Brash, who was covering home, and it allowed Geraldo Perdomo to score all the way from second.
UP NEXT
The series continues Saturday night. The D-backs will send RHP Brandon Pfaadt (0-4, 8.81 ERA) to the mound, while the Mariners will counter with RHP Bryan Woo (1-3, 4.91 ERA). | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/mariners-score-4-runs-in-the-1st-cruise-to-a-5-2-win-over-the-sliding-diamondbacks/281-ba0c0802-301d-41e2-926a-53298be85656 | 2023-07-29T07:14:43 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/mariners-score-4-runs-in-the-1st-cruise-to-a-5-2-win-over-the-sliding-diamondbacks/281-ba0c0802-301d-41e2-926a-53298be85656 |
SEATTLE — OL Reign clinched a spot in the 2023 UKG NWSL Challenge Cup semifinals with a 1-0 win over San Diego. Forward Bethany Balcer’s second half penalty kick made the difference for the Reign.
In the 69th minute, Ryanne Brown drew a penalty kick after being fouled just inside the 18-yard box. Balcer stepped up to take the kick and confidently converted to the upper right of the net.
The referee added a minimum of six minutes of stoppage time as the clock ran out and the Reign coolly saw the game through, taking all three points from the match, as well as clinching the top spot in the West division of the Challenge Cup and earning a spot in the Challenge Cup semifinal. | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/ol-reign-clinches-challenge-cup-semifinal-spot-with-win-over-san-diego/281-604c05d5-ff28-4e90-b15d-e0758b3546b0 | 2023-07-29T07:14:44 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/ol-reign-clinches-challenge-cup-semifinal-spot-with-win-over-san-diego/281-604c05d5-ff28-4e90-b15d-e0758b3546b0 |
By Deb Balzer | Mayo Clinic News Network (TNS)
There is a growing body of evidence that shows ultraprocessed foods are not only unhealthy but increase the risk of cancers. The term ultraprocessed food was created as a way to categorize food, known at the NOVA classification. The system allows experts to better understand the health impact of different food categories.
Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Dawn Mussallem talks more about the connection of ultraprocessed food and cancer.
“The average American in the United States consumes at least 63% ultraprocessed foods,” says Dr. Mussallem.
She says vegetables only account for 12% of the average American diet – and half of those vegetables consumed are processed.
“We know that ultraprocessed foods are linked directly to premature mortality or deaths.”
They also are linked to colorectal, ovarian and breast cancer.
“Studies are showing us is that not only do the ultraprocessed foods increase the risk of cancer, but that after a cancer diagnosis such foods increase the risk of dying,” Dr. Mussallem says.
What qualifies as ultraprocessed food?
“Ultraprocessed foods would be things in a package — things like crackers, and pastries and cupcakes and muffins, processed meat,” she says.
They include ingredients you can’t bring into your own kitchen.
“With those ultraprocessed foods, you’re getting chemicals and additives that likely are very risky for cancer survivors,” says Dr. Mussallem.
Add plenty of fruits and vegetables to your diet. Eat whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds for optimal health benefits.
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PHILADELPHIA — Jordan Mailata arrived with the 233rd pick in the 2018 draft, a rugby player from Australia willing to find out how pro football works.
Dallas Goedert became an Eagle 27 picks earlier, a high-mid-major prospect from South Dakota State wandering into what had been established as an assembly line of gifted tight ends, including Brent Celek and Zach Ertz and many, many long before that, not knowing where it all would lead.
DaVonta Smith became an Eagle in 2021, lugging a Heisman Trophy and a Maxwell Award from Alabama, but still in search of a quick pro-football education.
All three well could earn Pro Bowl distinction in the next seven months, or so say the visionaries. That’s how fast it can all go.
“Every year, you learn that the more experience you get, the better you’re going to be,” Smith was saying Friday, after the Eagles’ training-camp practice. “And the more experience you get, the easier things will be. Definitely.”
Smith is 24, and only in his third season. Goedert is 28, Mailata 26. And they help embody the hidden generation that will decide where the Eagles finish in the next two or three years, and where they each will land on the pages of franchise history. There are others; Landon Dickerson, Kenneth Gainwell, Avonte Maddox. All are caught between the still-productive yet increasingly nostalgic remaining contributors to the 2017-18 world championship team (Jason Kelce, Lane Johnson, Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham, et. al.) and the last couple of highly regarded draft classes.
While so many were looking in other directions, this is their time. There are plenty more of roughly their age who arrived too late for the last championship and fell just just short of winning the last one – including Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown, Hasson Reddick and Josh Sweat. All are already accomplished, acknowledged NFL stars. But the players who have reached the fringes of fulfillment either will begin to take control of the operation or watch as it jerks into reverse.
They know what to do.
They know they can.
“For me personally, it’s just continuing to gain knowledge,” Goedert said. “Knowing the playbook. Knowing what the defense is in. Knowing what Kelce is going to point before he points. Having an idea of who to attack on my route.”
Maybe he didn’t know all of that in his first year. He definitely benefited from learning tight-end nuances from Ertz in his second and third. By his fourth, he was established. By his injury-vandalized fifth, he was in a Super Bowl. By this week, he is, in essence, a teacher, commanding a tight-end room five deep in young talent, the way a veteran would.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Goedert said. “I tell them the same thing every day: Take advantage of your plays, don’t get upset, and that if you put good things on tape, you will put wins on tape. That’s what I say and that’s what they are doing. They are putting good things on film.”
Ertz once helped Goedert put good things on film, and that’s how it goes, one day the student, the next in a gown and tasseled cap. It wasn’t that long ago that Mailata barely knew how to line up at tackle at an NFL level. This week, there he is, helping to spread advice to Cam Jurgens, who will have first shot at the right guard spot vacated when Isaac Seumalo took the free-agent highway to Pittsburgh.
“I would tell him about the intensity of practice,” Mailata said. “Before I was running with the ones, I didn’t really understand the speed of it and the intensity of knowing your assignment and executing the techniques. I would say that you’ll see that when you are running with the ones, everything is going to be a just little bit faster. So remember your assignment and get it done quick.”
Jurgens is 23, a second-round, 2022 pick. Someday it should be his turn to lead as much as listen. Such is the natural arc of a satisfying NFL career, but not everyone can successfully go through those stages. Yet when a franchise can seamlessly progress from one leadership core to the next to the next, a mini-dynasty can form. The 2017 Eagles won the Super Bowl. The 2022 Eagles nearly won the Super Bowl. The 2023 Eagles will have a splendid chance to win a Super Bowl. If so, the Pro Bowl nods will follow, and so will the legends. The Eagles have more than a few right on that edge.
“For me, I am just going to come in and get better every day in practice,” Goedert said. “And if everyone does that, we will have a successful season.”
He and some others have reached the point where that is expected. They’ve reached the point where they can guide others in that direction, too. Quietly, seamlessly, it’s how the great franchises work.
Contact Jack McCaffery at jmccaffery@delcotimes.com | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/mccaffery-as-core-of-eagles-title-team-readies-final-bows-another-veteran-core-prepares-to-lead/ | 2023-07-29T07:14:51 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/mccaffery-as-core-of-eagles-title-team-readies-final-bows-another-veteran-core-prepares-to-lead/ |
NEW YORK — The Mets began the process of dismantling the team with the largest payroll of all-time late Thursday night, trading closer David Robertson to the Miami Marlins for two teenage minor leaguers.
The Mets, who began the season with a $353 million payroll, beat the Washington Nationals 2-1 to improve to 48-54. They are seven games behind the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, who are in a virtual tie for the last two NL wild-card spots.
The trade results in a savings of nearly $6.75 million for the Mets. The Marlins pay the $3,548,387 remaining of Robertson’s $10 million salary. New York’s luxury tax bill is reduced by $3.19 million.
“We didn’t have visions of this at the start of the season,” Mets general manager Billy Eppler said.
The Marlins, with the seventh-lowest payroll in the majors at a little more than $91 million, are a half-game behind the Phillies and Reds after going 7-13 this month.
Robertson warmed up in the eighth inning of a tie game before a 97-minute rain delay gave Eppler and Marlins general manager Kim Ng time to complete the trade. Brooks Raley pitched the ninth and earned his second save.
“That was unique,” Eppler said. “But the rain delay provided an opportunity for us to kind of get a final offer from Miami.”
Miami sent a pair of players from its rookie-level Florida Complex League affiliate, Marco Vargas and catcher Ronald Hernandez, to the Mets in exchange for Robertson, who signed a one-year deal in December with the expectations he’d help serve as a late-inning bridge to closer Edwin Diaz.
But Diaz suffered a torn patella tendon during the World Baseball Classic, vaulting the 38-year-old Robertson into the ninth-inning role. Robertson has been the Mets’ most reliable reliever, getting 14 saves and posting a 2.05 ERA for a team that entered Thursday with a 4.22 bullpen ERA — the 10th-worst in the majors.
“I’ve said (it) I don’t know how many times — there’s a ton of talent in this clubhouse, we just weren’t able to put it together,” Robertson said. “When you can’t put it together in time, GMs and owners have to make decisions. And I was one of those decisions and I got moved.”
Eppler said the Mets remain in listening mode. Mark Canha, Tommy Pham and Carlos Carrasco are all due to hit free agency after the season while Omar Narváez, in the first year of a two-year deal, lost the everyday starting catching job to rookie Francisco Álvarez.
Max Scherzer has a $43.3 million player option for next season while fellow former Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander is guaranteed $43.3 million in 2024, the final season of his two-year deal.
“It’s a little different than just declaring it and calling everybody and saying we’re sellers,” Eppler said. “It’s more just looking at it on a case-by-case basis, hearing who clubs kind of covet and hearing what their kind of price point is on players.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/mets-send-closer-robertson-to-marlins-for-two-minor-leaguers/ | 2023-07-29T07:14:57 | 1 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/mets-send-closer-robertson-to-marlins-for-two-minor-leaguers/ |
By FELIPE DANA and JIM HEINTZ (Associated Press)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Friday struck the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro and pounded a key village in the southeast that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing two missiles at southern Russia and wounding 20 people.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, marked Ukraine’s Statehood Day by reaffirming the country’s sovereignty — a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who used his claim that Ukraine didn’t exist as a nation to justify his invasion.
“Now, like more than a thousand years ago, our civilizational choice is unity with the world,” Zelenskyy said in a speech on a square outside St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv. “To be a power in world history. To have the right to its national history -– of its people, its land, its state. And of our children -– all future generations of the Ukrainian people. We will definitely win!”
He also honored servicemen and handed out first passports to young citizens as part of ceremonies. The holiday coincides with commemorations of the adoption of Christianity on lands that later became Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it shot down a Ukrainian missile in the city of Taganrog, about 40 kilometers (about 24 miles) east of the border with Ukraine, and local officials reported 20 people were injured, identifying the epicenter as an art museum.
Debris fell on the city, the ministry added, alleging the missile was part of a “terror attack” by Ukraine.
Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, blamed Russian air defense systems for the explosion.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it downed a second Ukrainian missile near the city of Azov, which like Taganrog is in the Rostov region, and debris fell in an unpopulated location.
Earlier in the day, a Ukrainian drone was shot down outside Moscow, the Defense Ministry said, in the third drone strike or attempt on the capital region this month. The ministry reported no injuries or damage in the latest incident, and it didn’t give an exact location where the drone fell.
Since the war began, Russia has blamed Ukraine for drone, bomb and missile attacks on its territory far from the battlefield’s front line. Ukrainian officials rarely confirm being behind the attacks, which have included drone strikes on the Kremlin that unsettled Russians.
The strikes have hit Russian ammunition and fuel depots, as well as bridges the Russian military uses to supply its forces, and military recruitment stations. The attacks have also included killings of Russian-appointed officials on occupied Ukrainian territory.
Three months ago, a Russian warplane accidentally dropped a bomb on Belgorod, injuring two people, in an incident where Ukraine was initially suspected.
In Dnipro, an apparent Russian missile attack wounded nine people in the area of a newly constructed and as yet unoccupied 12-story apartment building, as well as an unoccupied adjacent Security Service of Ukraine building. “Russian missile terror again,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
Video showed the apartment building’s upper floors in ruins, with gray smoke billowing from them, and flames raging in the night at ground level, where shattered concrete and glass littered a courtyard.
Russia has often struck apartment buildings during the conflict, while denying it intentionally targets civilians.
Meanwhile, the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, Col.-Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, said his troops were pushing forward in parts of eastern Ukraine occupied by Russia and meeting stiff resistance as the war drags into its 18th month.
“The enemy fiercely clings to every centimeter, conducting intense artillery and mortar fire,” he said in a statement.
Recent fighting has taken place at multiple places along the more than 1,000-kilometer (more than 600-mile) front, where Ukraine deployed its recently acquired Western weapons to push out the Kremlin’s forces. However, it is attacking without vital air support and faces a deeply entrenched foe.
A Western official said Thursday that Ukraine had launched a major push in the southeast. Putin acknowledged that fighting has intensified there, but insisted Kyiv’s push has failed.
Zelenskyy posted a video Thursday night in which Ukrainian soldiers said they had taken Staromaiorske in the Donetsk region. Russian military bloggers said artillery fire at the Ukrainian troops had effectively razed the village and reported more barrages Friday.
Capturing the village, which in 2014 had a population of 682, would give Ukraine a platform to push deeper into Russian-held territory, the bloggers noted.
The area has been a focus of Ukraine’s counteroffensive since June, and its troops have previously captured several other villages there as they slowly work their way across extensive Russian minefields.
It was not possible to verify either side’s claims about what is happening in the war zone.
Syrskyi said fighting that targets the enemy’s artillery as well as its command and control structure is a priority as his troops probe Russian lines for weaknesses.
“In these conditions, it is crucial to make timely management decisions in response to the situation at hand and take measures for maneuvering forces and resources, shifting units and troops to areas where success is evident, or withdrawing them from the enemy’s fire,” he said.
Russia is trying to hold on to the territory it controls in the four provinces it illegally annexed in September — Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson and Luhansk.
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Heintz reported from Tallinn, Estonia. Andrew Katell in New York contributed.
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An earlier version corrected that Oleksiy Danilov is Ukraine’s secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, not defense minister.
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BRIDGEWATER — Perhaps no one on the Somerset Patriots was more excited when catcher Ben Rice got called up from High-A to Double-A on July 18 than right-hander Richard Fitts.
Fitts, the Yankees’ No. 8 prospect, threw to Rice for part of last season with Low-A Tampa and knew the story of the underrated minor leaguer.
Rice made his Somerset catching debut on July 29 and was behind the plate for Fitts’ 6.1 innings of three-run ball.
“He’s got a really good demeanor back there,” Fitts said this week. “He’s very calm, he knows what he’s doing when he’s looking at the hitters and that kind of stuff. For me, that’s really important to me just because I’m out there trying to compete. If he’s very calm back there, it kind of calms me down and shows me that I can get this pitch where I want it to.”
Rice says Fitts makes that an easy mindset to have because of their chemistry — they were both 2021 draft picks — and because of how good Fitts has become at this level.
“Fortunately with him, I know how he works, so the more familiar I am with somebody, the calmer I’ll probably be, especially with a guy like him who’s painting the zone up and dotting corners,” Rice said. “But yeah, I’d like to say that I try to just get my pitchers in the zone and be a calm presence, big target back there and just do what I can.”
Fitts is on a path to potentially impact the Yankees sometime next year.
The 23-year-old Auburn product leads the Eastern League in innings (100.2 in 18 starts) and ranks third in strikeouts (108) to pair with a 3.75 ERA and 1.16 WHIP. He also sports an excellent 5.8 percent walk rate, and as far as what is left in the tank for the 2023, he says he feels “maybe the best I’ve felt all season” physically.
“I think the biggest thing is just being a little bit more mature,” Fitts said. “I think I’m starting to learn kind of who Richard Fitts is and who I am as a pitcher and how I can be a starter for many years in the big leagues.”
Arguably most impressive is how Fitts has shaken off early struggles in his first Double-A season. Since sporting a 6.21 ERA on May 18, Fitts has rattled off quality starts in nine of his last 11 outings.
He said getting “punched in the mouth” against Portland on May 10 — a day where he felt his stuff was good but he couldn’t locate pitches — was a turning point as it allowed him to take a step back and work on his mental approach.
“I think just staying consistent and then working on kind of what the Yankees want me to do,” Fitts said when asked what he needs to do to get the call to Triple-A. “I’m trying to add some more velocity, get a little bit better slider, start getting better swing and miss. Really get better at everything that I can and hopefully get the call.”
Fitts is known for the vertical movement on his four-seam fastball, which improved dramatically midway through last season when he met with Yankees coordinators and worked on his spin rate. He has also had a good connection with pitching coach Grayson Crawford, a fellow Alabama native who played with Fitts’ high school head coach.
Fitts’ velocity has also improved through training with a core velocity belt and focusing on lower-body lifts in order to “move better with more weight.”
Now, it’s about putting his four-seamer, two-seamer, slider and changeup all together with sequencing and adjusting to Eastern League teams that he has faced multiple times.
“That’s what it’s gonna be like in the big leagues every single year, so I like having the challenge of playing guys multiple times, getting to know kind of who they are without ever talking to them,” Fitts said. “It’s really cool and a challenge that I definitely accept.”
It’s no secret to Rice why Fitts is arguably one of the three best pitchers in the Yankees’ system.
“The thing that always sticks out to me about Fittsy is his command. I feel like I really don’t have to work very hard back there when he’s pitching because where I’m calling it and where I’m setting up is where he’s gonna throw it,” Rice said. “It’s same way that people say a catcher can make a pitcher look good — a pitcher can make a catcher look good, and that’s what I like to say about Fittsy because he’s just dotting it up, moving it around. He really understands the plan that he has to do to attack hitters. He just has a very, very mature approach to pitching and it’s really fun to catch.”
Rice, meanwhile, has had a breakout season so far in a small sample size.
The 24-year-old started the season with Hudson Valley before having to miss two months with a lower back issue. He played in Tampa for 10 games at the start of the month and has continued his hot start in Somerset, homering three times along with 10 hits and 10 RBI through six games with the Patriots.
In 31 games overall, Rice is flashing a .340/.496/.602 slash line at the plate.
“I think the thing that helps me the most is my bat-to-ball skills,” Rice said. “I make a lot of contact, don’t swing and miss very much. That’s the biggest thing with me, so I know that if I’m smart during my at-bats and work the counts that I’ll get a pitch to hit eventually and I’ll be able to put a barrel on it.”
The dilemma for Rice is that the Yankees have an abundance of catchers in the minors, as he is splitting time in Somerset with Josh Breaux and Anthony Siegler.
He played 15 games at first base last season and says he is open to playing in the outfield as well. But he also wants to establish himself behind the plate.
“We’ve got so many great catchers, and it’s just awesome,” Rice said. “It makes everyone compete that much harder with each other and you just push each other to be better. So it’s nice to have good numbers right now.”
While Fitts was a sixth-round pick in 2021, Rice earned a 12th-round selection despite playing only 30 games in college and missing his final two seasons at Dartmouth because of COVID-19.
Summer ball was crucial for Rice, who was able to play close to home in New England in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League in 2019 and again in 2020 when it was one of the only leagues running during the pandemic.
“That that helped me kind of get on the map because we were the only show in town,” Rice said. “Going into that following spring, a lot of me and my Ivy League teammates, we were anticipating the season could potentially get canceled again. We would organize little scrimmages and workouts at local fields and invite scouts to come, and that was how the Yankees and some other teams were able to see me.”
His goal was to reach Double-A this season, and despite the injury setback, he is now one step closer to the big leagues.
“We’ve got so many great guys in this locker room,” Rice said. “Some guys who I was drafted with, other guys who have been around for a little bit longer, have a little bit more of a veteran feel to it. So it’s just really cool. It’s a really fun group.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/pitcher-richard-fitts-catcher-ben-rice-teaming-up-as-yankees-prospects-to-watch/ | 2023-07-29T07:15:09 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/pitcher-richard-fitts-catcher-ben-rice-teaming-up-as-yankees-prospects-to-watch/ |
PHILADELPHIA — Sean Desai is the Eagles’ first-year defensive coordinator, and he didn’t earn a political science degree from Boston University without learning how to outline an appealing plank.
So there he was Friday, in his first public training-camp appearance before microphones, saying what he knew Philadelphia fans have been demanding to hear for generations.
“We want to run,” he said. “We want to hit. We want to impose our will on people. We want to embody the brand of this city and be gritty and be tough. And we’re not going to take anything from anybody.
“We want people to be able to feel us, physically, mentally, emotionally, whatever it takes. We want people to know that we’re on the field, too, and we’re going to dictate how we play the game on defense.”
Desai used to do a little assistant coaching at Temple, so he knows what is expected in a city once roamed by Chuck Bednarik and Reggie White and Brian Dawkins and Bill Bergey. So hit, apparently, the Eagles will.
Desai even made sure to imply the Eagles will not be playing much of the bend-don’t-break defense that invariably leaves Eagles audiences annoyed.
“We have some metrics that we use and then we’re still kind of working through making sure that it fits with everything,” he said. “But the biggest thing is you don’t want to give a big yards of real estate. There’s 100 yards on the field, and that’s the field that you’re defending. Any chunk of real estate that comes — whether it be through penalties, through explosive plays, missed tackles that lead to big chunks of yards — those things are things that we don’t want to play. They’re going to happen, but we want to try to limit those as best we can and get on the positive side of that as much as we can.”
Desai will have to replace five defensive starters from the NFC championship team. But he figures he has the system to make it work.
“We don’t want to get caught in a place of complacency and rely on our past,” said the man who will replace the ever-unpopular Jonathan Gannon. “So that’s the big thing. Whoever we’re bringing in, if it’s 11 guys, we’re trying to find the best 11 to fit this defense and our personnel and our players and our team well.”
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Nothing stays the same in pro sports, but Jordan Mailata, for one, figures the Eagles will miss the veteran presence of Isaac Seumalo on what was recognized as the best line in football. Seumalo signed with the Steelers as a free agent.
“You knew you had a guy who was technique-driven and very accountable,” Mailata said. “It didn’t matter what position you put him in, he was going to execute it to the best of his knowledge. His smarts, man, would always make it easier for us. When he spoke, we listened.”
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Darius Slay once said he had lost all “respect” for Matt Patricia after playing for the former Lions head coach in Detroit. Since Patricia has joined the Eagles as a senior defensive analyst, something had to give.
“We talked about it during the offseason,” Slay said. “They called me I said, ‘It’s cool with me,’ because I want to do what’s best for the organization.
“We talked man-to-man. We have a great understanding. We both want to win. He is here to help me get better. He wants to get better as a coach. So we’re in good hands right now.”
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The Eagles will make replicas of their new, Kelly green alternate jerseys for sale beginning Monday morning at 9 at their pro shop at the Linc. The shirts will also be available at the Eagles’ pro shops in Lancaster and Cherry Hill, N.J.
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Enter the unlisted suite, the secret accommodation that can be booked only by those who know it exists. Not only does it shun the customary online booking engine, it practically evades public awareness altogether. These suites are wiped from hotel websites and missing from search results—all but phantoms in the highly visible, over-Instagrammed universe of luxury stays.
Pricing is available only by direct inquiry, and you must really dig extremely to see a photograph, even a description, in any published format. In the past year, they’ve sprouted by the dozens.
Take Villa de France, the new Jacques Grange-designed five-bedroom suite at Cheval Blanc in St. Barts. It’s a palatial retreat so discreetly nestled in the resort’s flora, it’s nearly impossible to spot in real life. It’s also virtually impossible to find online. Snoop and scroll the hotel’s accommodations page deeply enough and you might come across a few details that confirm it exists, including mentions of the villa’s private spa and two infinity pools, but prospective guests get nary a clue about securing it for a night.
Those resourceful enough to call or email the hotel directly (+590-590-27-5666) can try their luck with one of Cheval Blanc’s reservation ambassadors. After a vetting process that has distinct parallels to buying unlisted Birkin bags from Hermès, these representatives will determine whether the €30,000-per-night ($33,600) Villa de France is available.
Christelle Hilpron, general manager of Cheval Blanc in St. Barts, confirms the reason for the secrecy: “Complete privacy,” she says. With a chef’s kitchen, a 10-person dining table, private spa and fitness center, and direct access to Flamands Beach, the villa makes it possible to entirely avoid interaction with the resort’s other guests. “It also allows us to fully understand their needs, preferences and expectation,” Hilpron adds.
Other accommodations are even more elusive.
The Newt in Somerset, in Bruton, England, is home to an exquisite collection of rooms and suites filled with Georgian antiques, crackling fireplaces and oversize bathtubs. None is more private than Gate Lodge, a two-bedroom cottage that was quietly added to the 1,000-acre estate’s grounds last year.
It comes with plenty of extras—an open-plan kitchen, a dedicated golf buggy and bicycles—but its secretive status is what’s most tempting to in-the-know guests. The $2,600-per-night accommodation is absent from the hotel’s website, and bookable only by directly calling the Newt’s reservation line.
According to Jack Ezon, founder of the boutique travel firm Embark Beyond, these rumored accommodations carry a cachet equivalent to the unlisted phone numbers of the 1990s. They’re even more tempting than hard-to-get dinner reservations or clubs you can’t get into, given that these hideaways are virtually unknown.
In a world where everything is photographed, posted and reposted ad nauseum, there’s something downright irresistible about going incognito, even if you’re not a celebrity hiding from paparazzi.
“More and more clients want the unattainable,” Ezon says, adding that many of his monied clients are concerned less with privacy and personal safety than going “somewhere that is not already plastered over Instagram—a place that no one has heard of or has access to.”
The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, keeps a secret accommodation that’s like a resort inside a resort inside a resort. It’s part of the little-known Cloud Camp, a cluster of mountaintop rooms and suites roughly 20 minutes from the Broadmoor’s main building. The secluded, all-inclusive Fire Tower Suite is a two-story, one-bedroom cabin that occupies a former fire tower, with a private hot tub set among the treetops. It starts at $1,167 per night and can be booked only by phone, at (800) 634-7711.
The unlisted trend has even hit the high seas: A door marked “Staff Only” aboard Windstar’s Wind Surf sailing cruise ship leads to a clandestine, one-bedroom Officer’s Suite, the only accommodation on the captain’s bridge deck. Rates vary according to sailing itineraries, and bookings can be made exclusively by calling (855) 706-5766.
For Bushcamp Co., a high-end safari operator in Zambia, going unlisted was less about creating the air of luxury and more about beta testing a new idea, says founder Andy Hogg. Last year, he decided to upcycle a pair of large shipping containers that had previously been used for furniture deliveries, refitting them with large windows, spacious, en suite bathrooms, and expansive living quarters.
Now the former industrial containers are private homes at the entrance of South Luangwa National Park. Each comes with a private kitchen, al fresco dining area and accommodations for up to four guests in a more flexible and private safari stay, compared to the stringent—and often communal—camp experience.
Hogg adds that keeping the accommodations hush-hush allows his team to continuously “finesse the offering, test how guests use the space and continue to innovate.” (E-mail to inquire about booking.)
Going unlisted isn’t always the best strategy, as the Mandarin Oriental, New York proved last year when its 3,000-square-foot Suite 5,000, long shrouded in mystery for its secretive status, suddenly appeared on the hotel’s website. It immediately saw a 31% increase in bookings compared with 2019.
Still, says Danielle Choi, the hotel’s director of marketing and commerce, the majority of reservations for the suite continue to come through direct contact, rather than through the site. “In the rare case that a reservation is made online,” she adds, “our guest relations team immediately connects with guests to customize their stay.”
The personal touch was precisely what inspired Amanda Zaslow, co-owner of the Villa at Saugerties in New York’s Hudson Valley, to take her hotel almost entirely offline. None of the property’s guest rooms can be booked without calling or emailing; indeed, the inn’s website is just a splash page with contact information at the bottom.
“People sometimes call and say, ‘Did you know your website isn’t working?’” Zaslow says with a laugh. “And I say, ‘Actually, it’s working exactly as intended.’”
Zaslow’s motives are less about quiet luxury or exclusivity and more about providing a special experience, whether it’s making sure a guest’s preferred refreshments are on hand or surprising them with a favorite bottle of wine—a gesture that can be made only by forging one-on-one relationships.
“A lot of guests think it’s really cool that they have to work a little bit harder to find us,” she says, “but it also gives us an opportunity to create a more curated stay for every single person who walks through our doors.”
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By EILEEN NG (Associated Press)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.
Activists said another execution is planned next week.
Saridewi Djamani, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking about 31 grams (1 ounce) of diamorphine, or pure heroin, the Central Narcotics Bureau said. It said the amount was “sufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week.”
Singapore’s laws mandate the death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams (17.6 ounces) of cannabis and 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of heroin.
Djamani’s execution came two days after that of a Singaporean man, Mohammed Aziz Hussain, 56, for trafficking around 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin.
The narcotics bureau said both prisoners were accorded due process, including appeals of their convictions and sentences and petitions for presidential clemency.
Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offenses and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent. Singapore authorities insist capital punishment is important to halting drug demand and supply.
Human rights groups say it has executed 15 people for drug offenses since it resumed hangings in March 2022, an average of one a month.
Anti-death penalty activists said the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen, also for drug trafficking, in 2004.
Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore group which advocates for the abolishment of capital punishment, said a new execution notice has been issued to another prisoner for Aug, 3, the fifth this year alone.
It said the prisoner is an ethnic Malay citizen who worked as a delivery driver before his arrest in 2016. He was convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin and his appeal was dismissed last year, it said.
The group said the man had maintained in his trial that he believed he was delivering contraband cigarettes for a friend to whom he owed money, and he didn’t verify the contents of the bag as he trusted his friend.
The High Court judge ruled that their ties weren’t close enough to warrant the kind of trust he claimed to have had for his friend. Although the court found he was merely a courier, the man still had to be given the mandatory death penalty because prosecutors didn’t issue him a certificate of having cooperated with them, it said.
“But how could he have cooperated if, as he told the police and the court, he had not even been aware that he was being used to deliver heroin?” the group said on Facebook.
The group said it “condemns, in the strongest terms, the state’s bloodthirsty streak” and reiterated calls for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
Critics say Singapore’s harsh policy punishes low-level traffickers and couriers, who are typically recruited from marginalized groups with vulnerabilities. They say Singapore is also out of step with the trend of more countries moving away from capital punishment. Neighboring Thailand has legalized cannabis while Malaysia ended the mandatory death penalty for serious crimes this year. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/singapore-hangs-first-woman-in-19-years-after-she-was-convicted-of-trafficking-31-grams-of-heroin/ | 2023-07-29T07:15:36 | 1 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/singapore-hangs-first-woman-in-19-years-after-she-was-convicted-of-trafficking-31-grams-of-heroin/ |
By Mayo Clinic News Network (TNS)
You step off a sidewalk curb, land wrong after shooting a basketball or stumble on uneven ground. Your ankle pops, twists or crunches, and now you’re limping and sore. You may just have sprained your ankle.
An ankle sprain typically happens when you roll your ankle inward, which stretches or tears the ligaments supporting the outer part of the joint. An ankle sprain is the most common injury among athletes and active adults, but it can happen to anyone.
What to do immediately following a sprain
While common, if an ankle sprain isn’t treated properly, it can lead to chronic issues, such as ankle instability or pain, limited ability to return to sports and degenerative arthritis. Also, significant tendon or ligament injuries, cartilage damage or even fractures may be missed if a severe sprain isn’t properly evaluated.
If you’ve sprained your ankle, promptly begin following the “RICE” treatment to improve comfort, and minimize the risk of complications and long-term issues:
— Rest: Avoid any activity that causes pain in the ankle. Rest your ankle, and minimize walking for the rest of the day.
— Ice: Apply ice to the sore part of your ankle, typically for 15 minutes on and then 15 minutes off, as much as possible for the rest of the day. Continue with 15 minutes of icing three times a day until the pain and swelling subside. Don’t apply ice directly to your skin, and use a towel or cloth for protection.
— Compression: Using a compression sleeve, elastic bandage wrap or brace on the affected ankle can prevent excessive swelling, protect the area from repeated injuries and provide support. Some inflammation is needed for healing, but too much can be harmful.
— Elevation: Elevate your foot and ankle at or above the level of your heart as often as possible for the rest of the day. This will help control pain and decrease swelling.
Depending on the severity of your symptoms, for the first one to two weeks:
— Continue with RICE, gradually reducing the steps as pain and swelling decrease.
— Take over-the-counter medications, such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen or aspirin, if you can safely take them. To manage pain, consider applying topical medications or patches.
— Start resistance-free, nonweight-bearing, range-of-motion exercises, such as drawing each letter of the alphabet with your foot. Or move your ankle to the compass points: north to south and east to west. Maintaining this range of motion can help prevent long-term stiffness, reduce swelling and help the stretched ligaments heal. Keep motion within your pain-free zone to avoid making the injury worse.
— Gradually return to your normal activities as long as your pain doesn’t increase. At first, this includes walking short distances, such as to the bathroom, then progressing to your normal level of walking.
If there’s little or no improvement after the first week, consider consulting with a health care professional, such as a sports medicine specialist, your primary care provider or a physical therapist.
What to expect for recovery, additional treatment
Once you’ve passed the initial recovery period, further treatment depends on the extent of the injury. If it was a straightforward injury, didn’t require an evaluation and you did not have any setbacks, you can expect symptoms to last for 10 to 12 weeks as the ligament heals.
Once you’ve sprained your ankle, it’s more susceptible to future injury. An ankle sleeve or lace-up brace can provide added support and stability.
If your sprain was significant, especially if it prompted you to see a health care professional, you may experience a slower, longer recovery that could include:
— A brief period of immobilization and nonweight-bearing with crutches or a knee scooter
— One to two weeks of protected weight-bearing in a tall walking boot
— Physical therapy to help increase stability, strength and balance
— Possible ankle surgery
If your health care professional suspects the injury requires surgery, you’ll undergo X-rays and possibly an MRI to determine the extent of the damage. Then you’ll be evaluated by a surgical podiatrist or orthopedic surgeon to discuss your injury and surgical options.
You may need surgery if there is:
— Evidence of a complete rupture of one or more of the lateral ankle ligaments requiring repair
— History of repeated sprains and a determination that ligament reconstruction is needed
— An associated injury, such as a partially or completely torn tendon, a fracture, or damage to cartilage in the ankle joint
While an ankle sprain is relatively common, most of the time it heals, and patients and athletes recover with little intervention. Thoroughly addressing any issues early can help you return to your best activity level.
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Alecia Gende, D.O. , is a sports medicine specialist in La Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin.
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Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office trains local law enforcement for active shooter scenarios
At Grant High school this morning The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office held an active shooter training with the purpose of preparing local law enforcement in case of school emergency
Chief Deputy of the Grant Parish Sheriff’s office, Stacey Roberts, says with growing numbers of active shooters it’s important to be prepared
“The FBI reported in 2022 there were 50 active shooter incidents resulting in 100 people killed and 213 wounded. We all pray that this won’t happen in our community, but if it does, we’ve got to be prepared.”
Chief of Detectives James Watkins says the training involves takeaways from detectives and officers that combated active shooters.
“I’ve actually been fortunate to sit in some debriefings for like Sandy Hook, where these these detectives and police officers come in and they give us ideas of things that they wished they had done or things that they was not prepared for. So, we try to take those and prepare for it here.”
Local law enforcement goes through training that includes simulated scenarios to build teamwork with different first responders says Roberts.
“We’re all first responders are on the same team. And we share a common goal and thus protect the public.”
First responders have to act fast, and Watkins says that’s a core factor of the training.
“Whatever you have on your body is what you’re going to have during this situation. So you better know how to use it and be prepared.”
Getting everyone on the same page and trained properly in advance is done with one intention says Roberts.
“it’s about saving lives. And we’re all one team here. So we work together. It don’t matter the color of the uniform or the shape of the badge. We’re here to protect the public.” | http://klax-tv.com/grant-parish-sheriffs-office-trains-local-law-enforcement-for-active-shooter-scenarios/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grant-parish-sheriffs-office-trains-local-law-enforcement-for-active-shooter-scenarios | 2023-07-29T07:15:51 | 1 | http://klax-tv.com/grant-parish-sheriffs-office-trains-local-law-enforcement-for-active-shooter-scenarios/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grant-parish-sheriffs-office-trains-local-law-enforcement-for-active-shooter-scenarios |
If only because it is the feature debut of co-directors Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash Jr. (singer and director of the band OK Go), it’s surprising how consistently engaging and entertaining “The Beanie Bubble” proves to be.
Already given a limited theatrical release, the comedy-drama built around the wild Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s from Imagine Entertainment debuts this week on Apple TV+.
Penned by Gore (“Saturday Night Live,” “Futurama”), it is based loosely on Zac Bissonnette’s book “The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute,” with significant liberties taken for narrative purposes.
“There are parts of the truth you just can’t make up,” reads text that greets the viewer in the film’s opening seconds. “The rest, we did.”
Of all the fine choices made by Gore and Kulash — high school sweethearts who’ve been married since 2016 — none is finer than the casting of Zach Galifianakis as Ty Warren, the toy salesman largely responsible for creating the little understuffed animals that would become speculative investments for many.
According to the movie’s production notes, the couple saw the film as a vehicle for the hilarious “Hangover” star even before developing it. However, Galifianakis’ Ty is nothing like some over-the-top characters the actor has played in that 2009 hit and other movie and TV projects; he is complex — at times funny and charming and at others greedy and duplicitous and still at others weak and immature.
This portrait of the eventual billionaire is told over two timelines — one beginning in 1983 and another starting 10 years later — and primarily from the points of view of three women. Although based partially on women from Warren’s past, Elizabeth Banks’ Robbie Jones, Sarah Snook’s Sheila Harper and Geraldine Viswanathan’s Maya Kumar have been invented for “The Beanie Bubble.”
Ty first befriends Robbie, who’s frustrated with both her job and marriage, and convinces her to start a business with him. The son of a toy salesman, Ty wants them to sell stuffed Himalayan cats — his innovation being that they stuff them only so much, causing them to feel softer and making them easy to pose.
Eventually, as success comes, a romance blossoms.
In the later timeline, Ty Inc. is doing well, and the company hires college student Maya as a receptionist.
Meanwhile, Ty is hours late for an appointment at his house with Sheila, a lighting designer. When she reads him the riot act, he is immediately smitten and puts the full-court press to convince the mother of two young girls to go out with him.
Ty really takes to the girls, and he values their opinions on his products. In fact, the idea for Beanie Babies comes when one is disappointed one of his stuffed animals is too large to fit in her backpack, making it impractical for show and tell at school.
“Before we knew it,” Sheila says in narration, “we were a family — a funny, weird, happy family.”
Ty never enters into a romantic relationship with Maya, but she becomes indispensable to him at the company — or so it would seem, at least. Among her ideas are creating scarcity to make certain Beanie Babies objects of incredible desire and to create a company website at a time most businesses had yet to do so.
As the popularity of Beanie Babies grows and grows, Maya closely monitors trends, using eBay and other new online resources, and she grasps what is happening with the craze and where it’s all heading far better than Ty. (That he detests Beanie collectors — because they’re making money off his creations, not appreciating that they’re fueling his overall business — is both hilarious and, in its way, tragic.)
“The Beanie Bubble” keeps you invested as it runs along its parallel tracks, even as they draw closer to their inevitable conclusions. Perhaps it’s all a little predictable, but that’s understandable given what we remember about the time when Beanie Babies were all the rage — and then weren’t.
In the hands of Galifianakis (“Due Date,” “Between Two Ferns”), Ty is a compelling figure even when we are meant to loathe him. The strange businessman radiates a unique energy that powers “The Beanie Bubble.”
That said, Banks (“The Hunger Games,” “Love & Mercy”), Snook (“Succession,” “Predestination”) and Viswanathan (“Blockers,” “The Broken Hearts Gallery”) each brings qualities to her character that help make the firm work. You root for all three of them but especially Maya — increasingly underappreciated by Ty — thanks largely to the earnestness Viswanathan infuses in her.
“The Beanie Bubble” feels oddly relevant in the time of cryptocurrencies and NFT, which, admittedly, is an idea the film explicitly offers the viewer. At the end of the day, though, it’s simply a rather sound investment of about two hours.
‘The Beanie Bubble’
Where: Apple TV+.
When: July 28.
Rated: R for language.
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes.
Stars (of four): 3. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/the-beanie-bubble-review-zach-galifianakis-shines-in-engaging-toy-story/ | 2023-07-29T07:15:54 | 1 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/the-beanie-bubble-review-zach-galifianakis-shines-in-engaging-toy-story/ |
EWING — The only way the two Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League teams that play at Fred Walters Field in Frank Moody Park and their owner-general manager Mike Olshin could have been happier Thursday would have been if both squads could have come up with a way to be in Saturday’s ACBL championship game.
Considering the Trenton Generals and South Jersey Kings both play in the Wolff Division, that would be rather difficult.
Instead, they had to settle for squaring off in the Wolff Division final a day after the Kings, who started the year 1-8, had rallied to overtake the Generals and grab first place in the division race.
Trenton, which dropped a doubleheader to South Jersey last Saturday, found its way back to the top by defeating the Kings, 5-0, Thursday in the Wolff Division final.
The Generals (24-12-2 overall) advance to this season’s single-game ACBL championship, which will take place at 4 p.m. Saturday in Staten Island University Hospital Community Park, the home of the Staten Island FerryHawks.
In that game, the Wolff Division winners will play the Atlantic Whitecaps, which defeated the East Coast Sandhogs, 24-9, in Thursday’s Kaiser Division final.
“It’s exciting that we’re hitting our stride right now,” Trenton’s veteran catcher Chris Reeder said. “Even though we lost to them last weekend, the past two games we’ve come alive and played as we should.”
Reeder, who has been one of the Generals’ top hitters (.361 batting average) and run producers (21 runs scored, 12 runs batted in) this summer, got manager Mike Coryell’s team going when he led off the third inning with a single to center field. Aydan McNelly followed with a single to right, then, after a wild pitch, Nick Ferri singled to center to drive in Reeder.
McNally would also score that inning when he hustled home on the throw to second base of an attempted steal by Ferri.
That 2-0 advantage was more than enough for Trenton’s very effective pitching. Tristen Spalter threw the first seven shutout innings, scattering six hits, walking one, hitting one and striking out three. Hightstown High and Rider University product Aaron Winzinger closed out the game with two more scoreless innings in which he struck out three and limited South Jersey to one more hit.
“Tristen was throwing very well, so it’s hard to follow that up,” said Winzinger, who now stands 6-foot-4. “It feels good to win this. We’ve got a good group of guys who have worked hard all season. Yes, they overtook us at the end of the regular season, but we took the next step after that.”
Robbinsville High grad Connor Stachowski, now at Rowan University, had two of the Kings’ first three hits with Aidan Quinn getting three of South Jersey’s final four. But only three runners ever reached scoring position.
“Thank God I was hitting because I’d been going through a rough patch there,” Stachowski said. “It’s been an awesome season from starting out, 1-8, to coming together as a team. Overtaking them in the last week and getting to this game was pretty frickin’ cool!”
For Reeder, who is about to enter his sixth year at The College of New Jersey, this triumphant summer is even cooler. He added a second hit in the sixth inning in which he drove in Allentown High product Mike Doran (2-for-3) with the Generals’ fourth run off South Jersey pitcher Caleb Kemper.
“Tristen’s been good all season for us,” Reeder said of Spalter. “I was happy to get to work with him. It was good to have that connection tonight.”
Trenton added another run in the fifth when Nick Tomasetto singled in McNelly, who had doubled, then one more in the eighth when Dom Patrizi doubled and scored on a two-out error.
And while it was not a great offensive night for the Kings, it was one in which they and the Generals could applaud a fine summer at Moody Park, while one still has a chance at bringing home their owner-general manager an ACBL title Saturday.
TrentonGenerals(24-12-2) 002 011 010 — 5 12 0
S.J. Kings (25-12-1) 000 000 000 — 0 7 2
2B: DiClerico, McNelly, Patrici (TG); RBIs: Reeder, Ferri, Tomasetto (TG).
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Louisiana Author M.L. Tarpley Hosts Interactive Show to Teach Kids about Kindness
The Rapides Parish Library presents a summer program to get kids excited about reading. Every week, they introduce a new author to interact with kids.
ABC 31 News Reporter Keisha Swafford has the story on how a Louisiana author brings a new twist to reading.
Children’s Author M.L. Tarpley hosts an interactive show where kids bring stories to life.
“I just want to inspire the kids to not only, you know, get into the library, but enjoy books, use their imagination, and hopefully in the process, you know, give them a good boost of self-esteem.”
She uses the library’s theme of all together now to promote kindness.
“We told stories about friendship. We talk about ways to be kind, ask the kids if they could think of ways to be kind. We talked about unity. A lot of people, you know, kids don’t know what unity is. So, we talked about how just all gathering together for the summer reading entertainment is an act of unity.”
Tarpley writes about her world travels to introduce kids to different cultures.
“So, the first book is set in England, the second one in Ireland, the third one in Scotland, and then the next book will be set in France. And so, I’ve been to all these countries and I kind of get to teach the kids a little about geography and history and other cultures through the books themselves and creative writing.”
She says her book, Maylie and the Maze, can encourage kids to travel.
“My character, Maylie, she turns ten when the book opens, and she has a dream to be an author. And so, I had a dream to be an author since I was eight or nine years old. And so, I was like, well, maybe there’s other kids like that, too. And so maybe they also want to read about kids following their dreams.”
Her goal is to inspire kids to write their own stories.
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The Trenton Generals will try to bring their third Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League championship in 10 years (nine, if you deduct the lost COVID season of 2020) back to Mercer County when they head to Staten Island, N.Y. Saturday.
The Generals will take on the Atlantic Whitecaps at 4 p.m. at Staten Island University Hospital Community Park, home of the Staten Island FerryHawks, hoping to win their second crown in the last three summers.
Both Trenton and Atlantic finished second in the regular season in their respective divisions, but came back Thursday to beat the top seed in a one-game playoff to advance.
The Generals, who led the Wolff Division until the final day of the regular season, knocked off their Moody Park brethren, South Jersey Kings and the ACBL’s top hitter, Michael Chiaravallo (a Hun School grad who narrowly missed out on a triple crown – .410 batting average, five home runs, 26 runs batted in), 5-0, Thursday to become the Wolff representative in Saturday’s championship game.
The Whitecaps put a hurtin’ on the Kaiser Division regular-season champ East Coast Sandhogs, 24-9, in seven innings, to become the representative from the division named after former St. John’s University coach and athletics director Jack Kaiser.
“These kids really show up. They want to help us win,” said Trenton Generals manager Mike Coryell, who is hoping to follow in the footsteps of former Trenton managers Jeremy Hefele (2021) and Jim Maher (2014) in bringing home the ACBL’s top trophy.
Owner-general manager Mike Olshin put together a 32-member roster Coryell and assistant coach Byron Kou could count on in going 24-12-2 overall this summer.
Veteran catcher Chris Reeder of Allentown High and The College of New Jersey renown leads the Generals with a .364 batting average, including at team-leading 32 hits, plus a pair of home runs and 12 RBIs.
Aydan McNelly and Nick Tomasetto add to the team’s offensive prowess. First baseman McNelly has been batting at a .337 clip with 30 hits and a team-leading 19 RBIs. Shortstop Tomasetto is among the ACBL’s home run leaders with four, plus has hit .312 with 24 hits and 16 RBIs.
Chris Sasso, who also spent time with the Allentown American Legion team this summer, will most likely be Trenton’s starting pitcher Saturday. He posted a 4-0 record with a 1.98 earned run average and 28 strikeouts in ACBL action.
Sasso is among the league leaders in strikeouts with teammates Liam O’Hearen, who spent a postgraduate year at the Lawrenceville School this spring before whiffing 29 this summer to match former Hopewell Valley High and Hopewell Post 339 star Tony St. John for the club lead, plus Max McGrady, who struck out 23, and Tristen Spalter (28 Ks).
Atlantic brings a 20-10 record into the championship game. The team under the direction of field manager Pete Blumenaur and owner-general manager Pete Kritikos has gotten offensive leadership from first baseman Erik Paulsen (.500, 30-for-60, four homers and 21 RBIs), second baseman Joe Pellegrino (.419, 26-for-62, 15 RBIs), outfielder Evan Baschnagel (.347, 25-for-72, 11 RBIs), and catcher Jared Toby (.286, 28 hits, three homers and an ACBL-leading 29 RBIs).
With pitchers like Russell Silverman and Daniel Sohn, who have 29 and 25 strikeouts, respectively, the Whitecaps should make this season’s ACBL title tilt with the Generals one to remember. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/trenton-generals-trying-for-second-acbl-trophy-in-three-summers/ | 2023-07-29T07:16:06 | 1 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/trenton-generals-trying-for-second-acbl-trophy-in-three-summers/ |
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER (AP Economics Writer)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Signs that inflation pressures in the United States are steadily easing emerged Friday in reports that consumer prices rose in June at their slowest pace in more than two years and that wage growth cooled last quarter.
Together, the figures provided the latest signs that the Federal Reserve’s drive to tame inflation may succeed without triggering a recession, an outcome known as a “soft landing.”
A price gauge closely monitored by the Fed rose just 3% in June from a year earlier. That was down from a 3.8% annual increase in May, though still above the Fed’s 2% inflation target. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.2% from May to June, up slightly from 0.1% the previous month.
Last month’s sharp slowdown in year-over-year inflation largely reflected falling gas prices, as well as milder increases in grocery costs. With supply chains having largely healed from post-pandemic disruptions, the costs of new and used cars, furniture and appliances also fell in June.
The cost of some services, though, continued to surge. Average prices of movie tickets rose 0.5% from May to June, and are up 6.2% from a year earlier. Veterinary services, up 0.5% last month, are 10.5% higher than a year ago. And restaurant meal prices increased 0.4% in June; they’re up 7.1% from 12 months earlier.
A measure of “core” prices, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, did remain elevated even though it also eased last month. Economists track core prices because they are considered a better signal of where inflation is headed. Those still-high underlying inflation pressures are a key reason why the Fed raised its short-term interest rate Wednesday to a 22-year high.
Core prices were still 4.1% higher than they were a year ago, well above the Fed’s target, though down from 4.6% in May. From May to June, core inflation was just 0.2%, down from 0.3% the previous month, an encouraging sign.
A separate report Friday from the Labor Department showed that a gauge of wages and salaries grew more slowly in the April-June quarter, suggesting that employers were feeling less pressure to boost pay as the job market cools.
Employee pay, excluding government workers, rose 1%, down from 1.2% in the first three months of 2023. Compared with a year earlier, wages and salaries grew 4.6%, down from 5.1% in the first quarter.
The Fed is closely watching the pay gauge, known as the employment cost index. Smaller wage increases should slow inflation over time, because companies are less likely to need to raise prices to cover their higher labor costs.
Taken together, Friday’s data “will provide further support to the view that the economy is in the midst of a soft landing,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide. The softer wage data, she suggested, “will be welcomed by Fed officials.”
Americans’ average paychecks are still growing briskly, boosting their ability to spend and underscoring the economy’s resiliency. The inflation report that the Commerce Department issued Friday showed that consumer spending jumped in June, despite two years of high inflation and 11 Fed rate hikes over 17 months. From May to June, consumer spending rose 0.5%, up from 0.2% the previous month.
“Better push out those recession forecasts by another quarter,” Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist at investment bank Santander, wrote in a research note.
The inflation gauge that was issued Friday, called the personal consumption expenditures price index, is separate from the better-known consumer price index. Earlier this month, the government reported that the CPI rose 3% in June from 12 months earlier.
The Fed prefers the PCE index because it accounts for changes in how people shop when inflation jumps — when, for example, consumers shift away from pricey national brands in favor of cheaper store brands. And housing costs, which are among the biggest inflation drivers but many economists think aren’t well-measured, carry about half the weight in the PCE than the CPI.
With inflation now steadily cooling, consumers are becoming more optimistic about the economy, a trend that could lead them to keep spending and driving growth.
On Friday, the University of Michigan reported that its consumer sentiment index rose in June to its highest level since October 2021, though it has still recovered only about half of the drop caused by the pandemic. And earlier this week, the Conference Board, a business research group, said its consumer confidence index rose this month to its highest point in two years.
The U.S. economy is in a hopeful but precarious place: A solid job market is bolstering hiring, lifting wages and keeping unemployment near a half-century low. Yet inflation is weakening rather than rising, as it typically does when unemployment is low. That suggests that the Fed may be able to achieve a soft landing.
The Fed’s policymakers, though, are concerned that the steadily growing economy could help perpetuate inflation. This can occur as persistent consumer demand enables more companies to raise prices, thereby keeping inflation above the Fed’s target and potentially causing the central bank to raise rates even higher.
The latest evidence of the economy’s resilience came Thursday, when the government reported that it grew at a 2.4% annual rate in the April-June quarter — faster than analysts had forecast and an acceleration from a 2% growth rate in the first three months of the year.
At a news conference Wednesday, Chair Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate, now at about 5.3%, was high enough to restrain the overall economy and likely tame inflation over time. But Powell added that the Fed would need to see more evidence that inflation has been sustainably subdued before it would consider ending its rate hikes.
Powell declined to offer any signal of the central bank’s likely next moves. In June, Fed officials had forecast two more rate hikes this year, including Wednesday’s.
“I would say it is certainly possible that we would raise (rates) again at the September meeting, if the data warranted,” Powell said Wednesday, “and I would also say it’s possible that we would choose to hold steady at that meeting.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/us-price-and-wage-increases-slow-further-in-the-latest-signs-of-cooling-inflation/ | 2023-07-29T07:16:12 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/us-price-and-wage-increases-slow-further-in-the-latest-signs-of-cooling-inflation/ |
PHOENIX (AP) — 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.
Forecasters expect that by Monday at the latest, people in metro Phoenix will begin seeing high temperatures under 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) for the first time in a month. As of Friday, the high temperature in the desert city had been at or above that mark for 29 consecutive days.
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.wivb.com/news/ap-the-extreme-heat-wave-that-blasted-the-southwest-is-abating-with-late-arriving-monsoon-rains/ | 2023-07-29T07:16:14 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/ap-the-extreme-heat-wave-that-blasted-the-southwest-is-abating-with-late-arriving-monsoon-rains/ |
Man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide in death of Black Lives Matter protester
SEATTLE (AP) — A man who hit two protesters with his car, killing one of them, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020 in Seattle has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies.
Dawit Kelete, 30, pleaded guilty on Thursday to vehicular homicide in the death of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, The Seattle Times reported. He also pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and reckless driving charges. Attorneys as part of the plea deal have agreed to recommend a sentence of more than six years in prison and 18 months of probation. Kelete is set to be sentenced in September.
On July 4, 2020, the Washington State Patrol said Kelete drove the wrong way onto Interstate 5, around a barricade of parked vehicles, and struck Taylor and Diaz Love.
Taylor later died and Love was hospitalized with multiple injuries.
Kelete was arrested shortly afterward and told police he was withdrawing from the narcotic pain medication Percocet and struggled with an “untreated addiction,” court documents said.
Francisco Duarte, Kelete’s attorney, said Kelete asked about the victims from the beginning and has shown remorse. Duarte also claimed authorities were negligent and failed to protect the public and protesters.
An attorney for Taylor’s family, Karen Koehler, on Thursday lamented the years it’s taken for the case to move through the court system, and said the family is focused on remembering Taylor, KING-TV reported.
“While it was a relief to know they wouldn’t have to go to court, there’s a lot of very sad, grieving people still,” Koehler said. “They are... resigned, that this is the best that can be done.”
Love, who suffered a traumatic brain injury, fractures, lacerations, and other physical wounds, is suing the state, city and Kelete. A trial date has been scheduled for next February.
The lawsuit says Kelete was driving negligently and that state and city agencies failed to block all access ramps to I-5 and refused to protect vulnerable protesters. The State Patrol had closed the freeway during the demonstration, which was part of a run of nightly protests over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Family described Taylor as someone who was dedicated to justice. She had been demonstrating and rallying in support of Black Lives Matter nearly every day of the protests.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — It was just 14 months ago that Jovana Sekulic boarded a plan for California for an opportunity that would accelerate her water polo career. When she embarked on that trip, to a USA Water Polo talent identification camp, the Media resident didn’t dream she’d be representing her country internationally the next year at a major competition.
So Sekulic’s hesitance on Tuesday understandably stemmed from a confluence of factors – the shock of the United States, the four-time reigning World Champion, losing its first game at the World Aquatics Championships in nearly a decade, but also from the center of her year-long, personal water polo whirlwind. Exciting as it has been, the journey hasn’t been all roses.
“It’s been scary and daunting, especially after today’s game,” Sekulic said at the Marine Messe Hall B in Fukuoka, after an 8-7 loss to Italy ended a 26-game winning streak for the Americans at Worlds.
“It feels like it’s a mountain in front of me, but I hope that I can start climbing and help out this team to the best of my abilities.”
Sekulic has zoomed up the lower slopes. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, she emigrated to the United States in elementary school. She and her brothers – Matej, who like Jovana plays at Princeton, and Luka, who starts at the United States Naval Academy in the fall – stayed connected to the sport they enjoyed back home. Jovana played at Episcopal Academy and the brothers at Haverford School.
Jovana earned her way to Princeton, where she’s put up 150 goals and 21 assists in two seasons, landing on the third-team All-American as a freshman and second team as a sophomore. She led Princeton to its first NCAA semifinal last year, earning a spot on the all-tournament team.
Internationally, Sekulic has made the most of her chances. After the camp in Long Beach, she traveled with the team to Greece, then took part in a fall staging camp before the U.S. went to Spain for the FINA World Super League Finals, which it won, while she returned to Princeton. She reintegrated with the team last December in an exhibition series with Spain and, fittingly, Italy, then went on a training trip through Australia in January before the start of the spring college season.
Sekulic played in three of the U.S.’s first five games in Fukuoka. The center scored in a 16-4 win over China and added an assist (but six turnovers) in a 9-5 win over Australia in the group stage. She got a limited run in the quarterfinal, not registering a shot and committing a personal foul. She didn’t play in Thursday’s 16-4 demolition of Canada in the fifth-place semifinals.
The Italy loss came as a shock to the U.S., long the global gold standard in water polo. Seven times world champions, including the last four in a row dating to 2015, the U.S. is also the three-time reigning Olympic champ. Sekulic is learning from the experience for herself, but the rare loss is an uncommon opportunity for the entire group to reassess with one year to go before the Paris Olympics.
“Just never stop working,” Sekulic said. “If you fall, maybe like we just did today, we’re going to come back stronger from it.”
Her response to the adversity tracks with her mental approach to the sport. Her family searched high and low for water polo, a wildly popular sport in Serbia and the Balkans broadly, when they moved to the U.S., finally landing with Maverick Water Polo. It has been a grounding entity, a place where all three kids found a sense of home in a new country.
“You could see they were talented, just natural ability, great skills, great fundamentals,” said Kevin Van Such, who founded Maverick and coached the brothers at Haverford School. “I continued to coach them through the years, and it’s been awesome to watch her development. She’s a very self-motivated person.”
Jovana’s first forays into water polo in the States were, because of her advanced skill, against boys. Even then she dominated. When Van Such took a 16-and-under girls team to Junior Olympics in 2016, he brought Jovana, then 13. She would go on to be one of the tournament’s standouts.
It’s been a two-way street between Van Such and the family. In recognizing their talent, he understood the limitations of East Coast water polo to a degree, brokering connections for Jovana to gain more exposure and expertise. He says that he’s learned as much from them about water polo tactics as he’s in turn taught, a nod to their sophistication in reading the game.
Jovana’s willingness to coach younger players and introduce them to the sport stood out from a young age, even as a teen staying late after practice or coming in early to offer pointers.
“Her knowledge of the game is so incredible, in the pool and teaching fundamentals and mechanics,” Van Such said. “She’s been so valuable and always was such a huge help.”
Sekulic keeps her view of polo in the present, and that informs her next steps now. She didn’t think a year ago that she’d be here in Fukuoka. So when asked about how she thinks this achievement portends the next big objective on the calendar – a chance to play in the Olympics next summer in Paris – Sekulic refuses to look too far down the road.
“I think I’m just going to put my head down and work as much as I can and see what happens,” she said. “The decision’s up to the coaches, but I’m not really going to set any goals. I’m going to continue enjoying the game and doing what I love.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/world-aquatics-championships-medias-jovana-sekulic-looking-to-make-a-splash-in-water-polo-competition/ | 2023-07-29T07:16:18 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/world-aquatics-championships-medias-jovana-sekulic-looking-to-make-a-splash-in-water-polo-competition/ |
BRIDGEWATER — Judging by his demeanor and swift deliveries on the mound, Nestor Cortes is nearly ready for a return to the Bronx.
The 28-year-old left-hander had a sharp second rehab outing with the Somerset Patriots on Friday night at TD Bank Ballpark, hurling four scoreless innings against the Bowie Baysox.
Cortes, who landed on the injured list June 8 with a left rotator cuff strain, threw 36 of 49 pitches for strikes including 14 consecutive strikes to open the game. He allowed only two singles and one walk while striking out five batters and inducing 14 swing-and-misses.
“Strike throwing has never been an issue for me. It’s more about the command,” Cortes said. “Obviously these guys we’ve played a bunch in the big leagues, and they have a game plan against me which is swing early because I throw a lot of strikes. But if I’m able to command the pitch to where I want it to go, the outcome would be similar to what it was today. That’s basically what I’m working on is working on command, working on feeling well. Obviously I went on the IL for a shoulder (strain), so coming off here and feeling good is totally a plus.”
He sat between 90 and 92 mph while his fastball while mixing in his off-speed pitches. Both hits were line drives to the outfield, and the Baysox hit only one fly ball.
Cortes’ outing ended when he induced a 5-4-3 double play to work around a one-out single in the top of the fourth. He said he felt he had more energy in the tank, but the plan coming in was for him to throw about 50 pitches.
“I thought 49 pitches was enough for me today to get my work in and feel how I wanted to feel,” Cortes said.
Here was Nestor Cortes’ strikeout on 91ish MPH to lead off the 2nd.
Worked around a walk and a single in that inning. He’s up to 24 pitches and 19 strikes (14 straight to begin the outing) pic.twitter.com/sAvM5mDiwZ
— Greg Johnson (@gregp_j) July 28, 2023
Yankees manager Aaron Boone told New York media Friday that Cortes will likely make one more rehab start before being activated.
“All I know is I have one more. Other than that, I have no idea,” Cortes said. “I think we’re gonna push the pitch count probably eight or nine more before I actually get in a real game, so hopefully pushing 60, and then after that, we’ll see what happens.”
In his first rehab start Sunday in Hartford, Cortes threw 31 of 42 pitches for strikes across 2.1 innings and allowed four hits and one earned run with four strikeouts and no walks.
Coming off of his 2022 breakout campaign featuring an All-Star Game appearance, Cortes struggled out of the gates this season with a 5.16 ERA in 11 starts.
“Not much, honestly,” Cortes said when asked what needs to change. “I thought the whole year while I was pitching, I pitched pretty good. I ran into some innings late in the game where it hurt me a lot, where I gave up a three to five spot in that sixth or seventh inning where it might’ve ballooned the ERA. But other than that, the first five innings were pretty solid throughout. I want to say like the Texas one maybe is the only one that I got hit hard early.”
Cortes, a 36th-round draft pick in 2013, pitched 59.1 innings in Trenton from 2016-18 back when the Thunder were the Yankees’ Double-A affiliate. He appeared in 18 games in 2017 as an under-the-radar prospect who never garnered much attention but continued to develop.
The Cuba native made his MLB debut with the Orioles in April of 2018 after being selected from the Yankees in the 2017 Rule 5 Draft. He returned to the Yankees that same April but didn’t reach the big leagues again until May of 2019, then was traded to the Mariners in November of 2019.
Cortes returned for his third stint with the Yankees on a minor-league deal in December of 2020, finally became a member of the starting rotation midway through the 2021 season, and then made a name for himself in 2022 with a 2.44 ERA in 28 starts — the lowest ERA by a Yankees starter since Ron Guidry in 1978.
“Being able to compete and being able to be relied on,” Cortes when asked for the most rewarding part of his Yankees journey. “When I came back in ’21, I didn’t have a role — I was just in the bullpen — and slowly but surely I started pitching better, one or two innings, and then the opportunity came up where somebody either was on the COVID IL or on the IL. I was given the opportunity and ran with it, so that’s been pretty good.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/yankees-nestor-cortes-throws-four-scoreless-innings-in-second-rehab-start-with-somerset/ | 2023-07-29T07:16:24 | 1 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/yankees-nestor-cortes-throws-four-scoreless-innings-in-second-rehab-start-with-somerset/ |
Attorneys for Lehigh Valley Health Network allege lawyers suing the provider over a cyberattack that exposed patients’ personal information to the dark web improperly downloaded the data from a website run by the hackers.
In a court motion, attorney Phyillis Sumner, of Atlanta, alleges attorneys who filed a class-action lawsuit obtained the stolen data in an attempt to gain a strategic advantage in the case. She asks a judge to issue a protective order that would limit who can see the information.
Patrick Howard, of Philadelphia, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, acknowledged they obtained the information. He vehemently denies the action was improper, noting LVHN also downloaded the data.
“It’s a totally frivolous allegation and likely unethical to lob at counsel who are upstanding members of the bar,” Howard said in an email.
Attempts to reach Sumner for comment were unsuccessful.
The motion is the latest filing in a lawsuit relating to a cyberattack by the Russian ransomware group BlackCat that targeted the Lackawanna County-based Delta Medix Group, which is part of LVHN’s network. LVHN reported in February that hackers posted sensitive photos and information on the dark web after the organization refused to pay the ransom the hackers demanded.
The lawsuit seeks damages for the lead plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe to protect her privacy, and all other patients impacted by the breach. The suit was initially filed in March in Lackawanna County Court, but LVHN transferred the case to federal court. A federal judge recently returned the case to county court.
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In her motion, Sumner criticizes the plaintiffs’ attorneys for downloading the data, alleging they are “furthering BlackCat’s goal in stealing the data.” She says she asked the attorneys to destroy or return the data, but they refused.
The motion seeks a protective order that would classify the information as “highly confidential,” which means it could be shared only with a limited number of people, including attorneys, experts and the court.
“Plaintiff’s position is that they have the right to publicly disseminate any information stolen … simply because her counsel took the extraordinary step of actually acquiring that information from the Russian cyber-criminal organization,” Sumner says in the motion.
In a reply, Howard said LVHN is misstating their position. He said the attorneys agreed to keep the information confidential, but they oppose LVHN’s request because it is overly broad and would forbid them from sharing information with the affected parties.
“LVHN’s counsel is knowingly asserting misleading and false statements to the court,” Howard said in court papers. “To be clear, plaintiffs have no intent, now or ever, of publicly disseminating any of the downloaded data.”
Sumner also filed a separate motion that seeks dismissal of the case, arguing in part that the plaintiffs have failed to identify specific shortcomings in LVHN’s security network that led to the breach.
Howard will have an opportunity to respond to that motion. A county judge will review that motion and the motion seeking a protective order and rule at a later date. | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/attorneys-in-lvhn-data-breach-lawsuit-battle-over-protection-of-data-downloaded-from-dark-web/article_73d9b1f8-5547-590c-ae54-e11e71f9d934.html | 2023-07-29T07:16:44 | 1 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/attorneys-in-lvhn-data-breach-lawsuit-battle-over-protection-of-data-downloaded-from-dark-web/article_73d9b1f8-5547-590c-ae54-e11e71f9d934.html |
CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME STATE OF MIN
CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME STATE OF MINNESOTA Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 333 ASSUMED NAME: Fired Up Hearth & Grill PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS: 5028 MILLER TRUNK HWY HERMANTOWN, MN 55811–1490 USA NAMEHOLDER(S): Name: ASP Mechanical, Inc Address: 5028 MILLER TRUNK HWY, HERMANTOWN, MN 55811 – 1490 By typing my name, I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the applicable chapter of Minnesota Statutes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath. DATE: 07/24/2023 SIGNED BY: Natalie Gustafson MAILING ADDRESS: 5028 MILLER TRUNK HWY, HERMANTOWN, MN 55811 – 1490 EMAIL FOR OFFICIAL NOTICES: None Provided (July 29; Aug 2, 2023) 245417 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/certificate-of-assumed-name-state-of-min-stratica-legals-245417 | 2023-07-29T07:16:52 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/certificate-of-assumed-name-state-of-min-stratica-legals-245417 |
CITY OF RICE LAKE ORDINANCE #56 SNOWMOBI
CITY OF RICE LAKE ORDINANCE #56 SNOWMOBILE AND ATV ORDINANCE The following is a summary of the Snowmobile and ATV Ordinance #56 adopted by the Rice Lake City Council: Article 1: General Provisions Article 2: Definitions Article 3: Snowmobile Regulations – Operation and Restrictions Article 4: ATV Regulations – Operation and Restrictions Article 5: Requirements Article 6: Effective Date Approved by the Rice Lake City Council this 24th day of July, 2023. (July 29, 2023) 245371 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/city-of-rice-lake-ordinance-56-snowmobi-stratica-legals-245371 | 2023-07-29T07:17:03 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/city-of-rice-lake-ordinance-56-snowmobi-stratica-legals-245371 |
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING FOR VARIANCE
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING FOR VARIANCE APPEALS FROM THE ZONING ORDINANCE FOR ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA Notice is hereby given that the St. Louis County Board of Adjustment will conduct a hybrid virtual and in-person public hearing on Thursday, August 10, 2023 beginning at 10:15 AM, at the Government Services Center, 201 South 3rd Avenue West, Virginia, MN, regarding the following: 1. Christopher Soares, appeal for relief from St. Louis County SSTS Ordinance 61 adopted Technical Standards 7080.2150, Subpart 2, Section F, Table VII, to allow a subsurface sewage treatment system installation at a reduced road right-of-way (ROW) setback and a reduced structure setback. That portion of Lot 23 described as follows: Beginning at the Northeasterly corner of said Lot 23, thence running West along the North boundary line of Lot 23 a distance of 100 feet; thence running South a distance of 50 feet; thence running East a distance of 115.57 feet; thence running N17deg17’W a distance of 52.36 feet to the point of beginning, S5, T62N, R16W (Greenwood) - 10:15 AM 2. Bodri Enterprises Inc, appeal for relief from St. Louis County SSTS Ordinance 61 adopted Technical Standards 7080.2150, Subpart 2, Section F, Table VII, to allow a subsurface sewage treatment system installation at a reduced shoreline setback from a Recreational Development lake where a minimum of 75 feet is required. LOT 41 & LOT 42 CLEARWATER PLAT, S27, T62N, R14W (Eagles Nest). - 10:45 AM 3. Melissa Bell, appeal to the Board of Adjustment per St. Louis County Zoning Ordinance 62, Article VIII, Sections 8.1.E and 8.6, and Article X, Section 10.6.B, and Minn. Stat. § 394.27, Subds. 5–6 (2022), concerning the Director’s administrative determinations for the Conditional Use Permit at 6297 Lavaque Road, Duluth MN 55803 NE1/4 OF NE1/4 EX S1/2 OF NE1/4,EX SE1/4 AND E 330 FT OF NW1/4 OF NE1/4 EX S 400 FT AND EX W 175 FT OF N 380 FT OF S 780 FT AND N 920 FT OF W 330 FT OF E 660 FT OF NW1/4 OF NE1/4 AND W 175 FT OF E 330 FT OF N 380 FT OF S 780 FT OF NW1/4 OF NE1/4 AND PART OF NW1/4 OF NE1/4 DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS BEG 920 FT SLY OF NE COR ALONG E LINE OF FORTY THENCE WLY AT RT ANGLES TO E LINE OF FORTY 330 FT THENCE SELY TO A PT ON E LINE 280 FT NLY OF SE COR OF FORTY THENCE NLY ALONG E LINE TO PT OF BEG , S27, T52N, R15W (Fredenberg). - 11:15 AM ***This meeting will be open to the public. *** The meeting will be open to the public and live streamed via WebEx, giving the public the opportunity to watch and listen, and even speak to the Board of Adjustment. Please also have the option to listen to the meeting live via telephone. For more information on how to view or participate in the public hearing, please visit the county website at www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/planning-development/land-use. If you have any questions, please contact Donald Rigney, St. Louis County Interim Planning Manager, at rigneyd@stlouiscountymn.gov. Citizens can submit public comments relating to the public hearing using one of the following methods: 1. Preferred method: Email your comments to landuseinfo@stlouiscountymn.gov. Emails must be received by noon on Monday, August 7, 2023, in order to be presented to the Planning Commission and viewed online. 2. Mail your comments to one of the St. Louis County Government Services addresses (located in Duluth or Virginia). Your comments must be received in the mail by Monday, August 7, 2023 in order to be presented to the Board of Adjustment and viewed online. 3. Provide testimony in person the day of the hearing. It is requested that you contact our office if you anticipate in-person attendance. 4. You will also have the opportunity to raise your “virtual hand” while utilizing the WebEx software during the public hearing. To learn more about WebEx, please visit www.webex.com. (July 29, 2023) 245246 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-a-public-hearing-for-variance-stratica-legals-245246 | 2023-07-29T07:17:13 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-a-public-hearing-for-variance-stratica-legals-245246 |
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING FOR VARIANCE
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING FOR VARIANCE APPEALS FROM THE ZONING ORDINANCE FOR ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA Notice is hereby given that the St. Louis County Board of Adjustment will conduct a hybrid virtual and in-person public hearing on Thursday, August 17, 2023 beginning at 9:00 AM, at the Government Services Center, 201 South 3rd Avenue West, Virginia, MN, regarding the following: 1. Joseph Cybert, appeal for relief from St. Louis County Zoning Ordinance 62, Article III, Section 3.4, and Article IV, Section 4.3 D., to allow a dwelling at a reduced shoreline setback, to exceed allowed structure width facing the water and to exceed allowed height for a structure located between the shore impact zone and the required shoreline setback. Lot: 0095, Soderholm Beach Plat, S36, T63N, R18W (Beatty)- 9:00 AM 2. Ryan Nelson, appeal for relief from St. Louis County Zoning Ordinance 62, Article IV, Section 4.3 D, to allow a nonconforming principal structure to exceed allowed structure width facing the water, and to exceed allowed height for a structure located between the shore impact zone and the required shoreline setback. PART OF LOT 6 BEG 614 FT S AND 5 FT SW OF SE CORNER OF LOT 2 THENCE SWLY 100 FT THENCE SELY 135 FT THENCE NELY 100 FT THENCE NWLY TO POINT OF BEGINNING, S5, T68N, R19W (Unorganized 68-19) - 9:30 AM 3. Thomas Lundquist, appeal for after-the-fact relief from St. Louis County Zoning Ordinance 62, Article IV, Section 4.6 A., to allow an attached deck to a nonconforming principal structure that extends toward the water body to exceed 12 feet in depth. ART OF LOT 2 BEG 611 FT E AND 250 FT N OF SW CORNER RUNNING THENCE N 50 FT THENCE E 155 FT THENCE SLY ALONG THE SHORE OF GRAND LAKE 51 FT THENCE W 144 FT TO TO POINT OF BEGINNINGBEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE SHORE OF SAND LAKE 1343 8/10 FT W AND 523 9/10 FT S OF NE CORNER OF LOT 1 RUNNING THENCE N 73 DEG 54 MIN E 300 FT THENCE S 16 DEG 6 MIN E 126 6/10 FT THENCE S 82 DEG 56 MIN W 320 7/10 FT THENCE N 3 DEG 46 MIN W 78 FT ALONG THE SHORE OF SAND LAKE TO POINT OF BEGINNING, S34, T60N, R18W (Unorganized).- 10:00 AM 4. Amy Heikes, appeal for relief from St. Louis County Zoning Ordinance 62, Article III, Section 3.4, to allow a dwelling at a reduced shoreline setback. SE1/4 of SW1/4 - MN POWER LEASE #12-11 ISLAND LAKE RESERVOIR MP 660-0010-05690, S36, T53N, R15W (Unorganized). - 10:30 AM 5. Ann Chouinard, appeal for after-the-fact relief from St. Louis County Zoning Ordinance 62, Article III, Section 3.4, to allow a dwelling at a reduced shoreline setback. Lots 4 & 5 of Barrs Lake Plat, S22, T53N, R13W (North Star). - 11:00 AM ***This meeting will be open to the public. *** The meeting will be open to the public and live streamed via WebEx, giving the public the opportunity to watch and listen, and even speak to the Board of Adjustment. Please also have the option to listen to the meeting live via telephone. For more information on how to view or participate in the public hearing, please visit the county website at www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/planning-development/land-use. If you have any questions, please contact Donald Rigney, St. Louis County Interim Planning Manager, at rigneyd@stlouiscountymn.gov. Citizens can submit public comments relating to the public hearing using one of the following methods: 1. Preferred method: Email your comments to Donald Rigney, St. Louis County Interim Planning Manager, at rigneyd@stlouiscountymn.gov. Emails must be received by noon on Monday, August 14, 2023, in order to be presented to the Planning Commission and viewed online. 2. Mail your comments to one of the St. Louis County Government Services addresses (located in Duluth or Virginia). Your comments must be received in the mail by Monday, August 14, 2023 in order to be presented to the Board of Adjustment and viewed online. 3. Provide testimony in person the day of the hearing. It is requested that you contact our office if you anticipate in-person attendance. 4. You will also have the opportunity to raise your “virtual hand” while utilizing the WebEx software during the public hearing. To learn more about WebEx, please visit www.webex.com. (July 29, 2023) 245303 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-a-public-hearing-for-variance-stratica-legals-245303 | 2023-07-29T07:17:23 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-a-public-hearing-for-variance-stratica-legals-245303 |
NOTICE OF CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE OF CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC HEARING St. Louis County Board of Commissioners Notice is hereby given that, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Louis County, Minnesota, commenced a public hearing to consider the issuance of an Off-Sale Intoxicating Liquor License to The Hideaway Bar Inc. dba The Hideaway Bar, Unorganized Township 61-13. The public hearing will continue on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. at the Mt. Iron Community Center, 8586 Enterprise Dr., Mt. Iron, Minnesota. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA NANCY J. NILSEN, COUNTY AUDITOR-TREASURER By: Phil Chapman, Clerk of County Board (July 29, 2023) 245356 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-continuation-of-public-hearing-stratica-legals-245356 | 2023-07-29T07:17:34 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-continuation-of-public-hearing-stratica-legals-245356 |
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTI
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: December 27, 2004 ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $84,000.00 MORTGAGOR(S): Brent Wells Unmarried MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank, National Association N.D. DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded: February 04, 2005 St. Louis County Recorder Document Number: 00972442 Transaction Agent: Not Applicable Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: Not Applicable Lender or Broker: U.S. Bank, National Association N.D. Residential Mortgage Servicer: U.S. Bank National Association Mortgage Originator: Not Applicable COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: St. Louis Property Address: 434 N 78th Ave W, Duluth, MN 55807-1721 Tax Parcel ID Number: 010-3510-02610 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lots Four (4) and Five (5), Block Thirteen (13), Norton’s Fairmount Park Division of Duluth, according to the recorded plat thereof AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $73,137.62 THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: December 17, 2019 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns. If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on June 17, 2020, or the next business day if June 17, 2020 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. DATED: October 25, 2019 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Mortgagee 7616 Currell Blvd; Ste 200 Woodbury, MN 55125-2296 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 037607F03 NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for December 17, 2019 at 10:00 AM has been postponed by the mortgagor pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 580.07 Subd. 2 May 18, 2020 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: November 21, 2019 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for May 18, 2020 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to July 21, 2020 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: March 25, 2020 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for July 21, 2020 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to September 10, 2020 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: June 25, 2020 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for September 10, 2020 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to October 13, 2020 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: August 17, 2020 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for October 13, 2020 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to October 14, 2020 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: August 20, 2020 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for October 14, 2020 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to January 13, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: August 31, 2020 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for January 13, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to February 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: November 30, 2020 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for February 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to March 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: January 04, 2021 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for March 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to April 28, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: February 08, 2021 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for April 28, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to July 14, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: March 01, 2021 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for July 14, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to August 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: June 16, 2021 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for August 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to October 13, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: July 13, 2021 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for October 13, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to November 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: September 29, 2021 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for November 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to January 19, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: October 26, 2021 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for January 19, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to March 09, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: January 05, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for March 09, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to April 13, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: February 25, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for April 13, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to May 18, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: April 14, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for May 18, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to June 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: May 02, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for June 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to September 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: June 16, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for September 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to October 26, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: September 15, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for October 26, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to November 30, 2022 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: October 18, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for November 30, 2022 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to January 04, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: November 23, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for January 04, 2023 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to February 08, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: December 20, 2022 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for February 08, 2023 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to March 15, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: January 25, 2023 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for March 15, 2023 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to April 19, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: February 07, 2023 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for April 19, 2023 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to May 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: March 22, 2023 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for May 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to July 26, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: April 27, 2023 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for July 26, 2023 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to August 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: July 18, 2023 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE The above referenced sale scheduled for August 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM has been postponed to October 04, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Process, 100 N 5 Ave W #103, Duluth, MN 55802 in said County and State. DATED: July 25, 2023 MORTGAGEE: U.S. Bank National Association successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND The redemption period shall be 5 weeks from the date of said sale. Wilford, Geske & Cook P.A. Attorneys for Mortgagee 7616 Currell Blvd; Ste 200 Woodbury, MN 55125-2296 (651) 209-3300 File Number: 037607F03 (July 29, 2023) 245508 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-mortgage-foreclosure-sale-noti-stratica-legals-245508 | 2023-07-29T07:17:44 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-mortgage-foreclosure-sale-noti-stratica-legals-245508 |
Art Deco Celebrity Compound Set in the Highly Coveted Oaks
Set in the highly coveted Oaks stands this Art Deco celebrity compound, offering the ultimate private estate experience. Spanning three levels, the estate boasts stunning glass walls that open up to reveal lush park-like grounds, providing a seamless connection between the indoors and outdoors. The main level features a large formal living room with soaring ceilings, exuding elegance and grandeur while opening up to a large patio. The focal point of this room is a period fireplace, adding a touch of classic charm. Additionally, there is a spacious dining room, perfect for hosting memorable dinner parties and gatherings.
Location: 2477 Canyon Oak Drive, Los Feliz 90068
Asking price: $7,500,000
Living area: 4,804 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms
Features: On the upper level, the primary suite is a sanctuary of luxury. It includes a private balcony that overlooks the treetops, providing a serene and picturesque view. The suite also features a walk-in closet and a spacious private bathroom adorned with period tile.
Contact: Carolwood Estates
Alphonso Lascano, DRE#: 01723550
818.800.8848 / alphonsolascano@gmail.com
Bjorn Farrugia, DRE#: 01864250
310.998.7175 / bjorn@bjornfarrugia.com
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Brand-New, Remodeled Two-Bedroom Unit at Coveted IV Seasons Condos
Brand-new, remodeled two-bedroom and den at the coveted IV Seasons Condos located on a tree-lined street in Beverly Hills. Located on the south corner with tree-top views. Beautiful entry with light oak wood flooring throughout, high ceilings, recessed lighting, crown moldings and floor-to-ceiling windows. A large dining and living room with fireplace that leads to a terrace. The kitchen has quartz countertops, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, custom cabinetry, walk-in pantry and a large breakfast area. The large primary suite boasts walk-in closet and bath including double sinks. Second bedroom has a custom closet and bath. Laundry room w/cabinets.
Location: 300 North Swall Drive, #255 Beverly Hills 90211
Asking price: $3,195,000
Year built: 1981
Living area: 2,850 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, den
Features: The building is known for its full-time doormen, valet parking for residents and guests, a heated pool & spa, gym and extra storage. Very close distance to such hot spots as The Ivy, Cecconis, Craigs, Bristol Farms, The Henry, Alfred Coffee and Cedars Sinai.
Contact: Sotheby’s International Realty
Lori Berris
310.880.3061
lori.berris@sothebys.realty
www.loriberris.com
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON A RESOLUTION
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE AMOUNT OF THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FEE TO BE COLLECTED BY SOLID WASTE HAULERS AND ON THE RESOLUTION IMPOSING A SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICE CHARGE TO BE COLLECTED AGAINST REAL PROPERTY AS A FIXED LINE ITEM FEE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (“WLSSD”), will meet on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 4:15 p.m., in the WLSSD Board Room, located at 2626 Courtland Street in Duluth, Minnesota, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing to consider a resolution establishing the amount of the Solid Waste Management Fee to be collected by solid waste haulers and on a resolution imposing a Solid Waste Management Service Charge to be collected against real property (based on a fixed line item fee method rather than ad valorem method) to recover costs incurred by the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District for Solid Waste Management services within the boundaries of the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District. All persons interested may appear and be heard at the time and place set forth above. WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR SANITARY DISTRICT By Marianne Bohren Executive Director (July 29, 2023) 245355 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-public-hearing-on-a-resolution-stratica-legals-245355 | 2023-07-29T07:17:54 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-public-hearing-on-a-resolution-stratica-legals-245355 |
Exceptional Living Experience, Unparalleled Location
Introducing 1940 Bel Air Road, an exquisite estate nestled in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in the world. Set against the picturesque backdrop of the Stone Canyon Reservoir, this home presents captivating views and unparalleled tranquility. Step through the grand entrance and immerse yourself in a world of opulence. Every detail has been meticulously crafted, showcasing the finest quality and craftsmanship throughout. From the soaring ceilings to the carefully curated finishes, this residence exudes elegance and sophistication at every turn. This prestigious Bel Air estate offers not only an exceptional living experience but also an unparalleled location.
Location: 1940 Bel Air Road, Los Angeles 90077
Asking price: $29,950,000
Year built: 2013
Living area: 17,013 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms
Features: Expansive floor plan; formal living room; family room; study; gourmet kitchen; custom cabinetry; private primary suite, spa-like bathroom, walk-in closet; elevator; home theatre; wine cellar; gym; indoor pool; sauna; landscaped grounds; manicured gardens; sparkling pool
Contact: Hilton & Hyland
David Kramer, DRE#: 00996960
310.691.2400 / info@davidkramer.com
Hilton & Hyland
Roya Sklar, DRE#: 02021699
213.713.4456 / royasklar@gmail.com
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE WESTERN
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR SANITARY DISTRICT 2024 CAPITAL BUDGET PROJECTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (“WLSSD”), will meet on Monday, September 11, 2023, at 4:00 p.m., in the WLSSD Board Room, located in the WLSSD offices at 2626 Courtland Street, Duluth, Minnesota, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on those projects involving improvements and betterments to the interceptor system and treatment works operated by WLSSD which are intended to be Capital Budget Projects during 2024. A list of the Capital Budget Projects may be obtained by contacting Brandon Kohlts, Manager of Planning and Technical Services at the WLSSD offices or by telephone at 218-740-4798. The estimated cost of the Capital Budget Projects for 2024 is not to exceed $42,500,000. This amounts includes $17,500,000 to be paid out of state grant funds awarded to design, construct, and rehabilitate four secondary clarifiers in the District’s wastewater treatment system. The remaining cost of the Capital Budget Projects (not to exceed $25,000,000) will be allocated among local government units and industry based on usage of the WLSSD wastewater system. Circumstances may develop during the year which requires WLSSD to add or delete projects involving improvements and betterments to the interceptor system and treatment works operated by WLSSD. All persons interested may appear and be heard at the time and place set forth above. WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR SANITARY DISTRICT By Marianne Bohren Executive Director (July 29, 2023) 245360 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-public-hearing-on-the-western-stratica-legals-245360 | 2023-07-29T07:18:05 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-public-hearing-on-the-western-stratica-legals-245360 |
Located on the Sand in North Hermosa
Located right on the sand in the highly desirable North Hermosa Shakespeare Beach Tract, this stunning home offers unparalleled value with its prime north location and versatile lot. Enjoy breathtaking ocean views from the entry level and the upstairs floor. The bright and sunny entry level includes a living room with fireplace, spacious balcony, bar area, kitchen, dining room, powder room and laundry. The two-car garage, maid’s quarters and outdoor patio complete this level. Upstairs, the primary suite faces the ocean, so you look out past the balcony with glass railings to the ocean.
Location: 3310 The Strand, Hermosa Beach 90254
Asking price: $7,775,000
Year built: 1910
Living area: 2,244 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms
Features: Prime north location; oceanfront; fireplace; 2 balconies; bar; 2-car garage; studio with living area and kitchenette and private patio
Contact: Compass & Chhabria Real Estate Company
Lauren Forbes, DRE#: 01295248
310.901.8512 / Lauren@LaurenForbes.com
www.LaurenForbesGroup.com
Neil Chhabria, DRE#: 01821437
310.902.7227 / Neil@ChhabriaRe.com
www.ChhabriaRe.com
Anand Chhabria, DRE#: 01908741
310.704.1395 / Anand@ChhabriaRE.com
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By SAM MEDNICK (Associated Press)
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — 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.
Niger is seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle jihadists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Africa’s Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence in the fight against extremism. France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with the Nigeriens, and the United States and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
The coup sparked international condemnation and the West African regional group 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 United States 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 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 United States 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 European Union earlier this year launched a 27 million-euro ($30 million) military training mission in Niger.
The United States 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 United States 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.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO BE CONDUCTED
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE ST. LOUIS COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION Notice is hereby given that the St. Louis County Planning Commission will conduct a hybrid virtual and in-person public hearing on Thursday, August 10, 2023, beginning at 9:00 AM at the Government Services Center, 201 South 3rd Avenue West, Virginia, MN, regarding the following: 1. Hannon Road Sand and Gravel LLC, a conditional use permit for a general purpose borrow pit as an Extractive Use Class - II. NW1/4 OF SE1/4 AND SW ¼ OF SE ¼ S15, T59 N, R21 W (Unorganized) – 9:00 AM 2. Elizabeth Chapman, a conditional use permit for 5 animal units, equivalent to 25 dogs, where 1 animal unit, equivalent to 5 dogs, is allowed. THAT PART OF SW1/4 OF SE1/4 ASSUMING W LINE TO BEAR N02DEG58’50”W & FROM SW COR RUN N02DEG58’50”W ALONG W LINE 1261.25 FT TO NW COR THENCE N84DEG34’03”E ALONG N LINE 1225.94 FT TO PT OF BEG THENCE CONT N84DEG34’03”E ALONG N LINE 100 FT TO NE COR THENCE S02DEG 57’29”E ALONG E LINE 692.60 FT TO PT ON CENTERLINE OF CTY RD #781 ON A NON-TANGENTIAL CURVE THE CHORD OF WHICH BEARS N70DEG21’03”W 266.83 FT THENCE NWLY ALONG SAID NON-TANGENTIAL CURVE ON SAID CENTERLINE CENTRAL ANGLE OF 69DEG11’00” RADIUS OF 235 FT A DISTANCE OF 283.76 FT THENCE N35DEG45’33”W ALONG SAID CENTERLINE 295 FT THENCE N39DEG14” 24”E 455.91 FT TO PT OF BEG, S23, T63N, R12W (Morse). – 9:30 AM ***This meeting will be open to the public. *** The meeting will be open to the public and live streamed via WebEx, giving the public the opportunity to watch and listen, and even speak to the Planning Commission. Please also have the option to listen to the meeting live via telephone. For more information on how to view or participate in the public hearing, please visit the county website at www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/planning-development/land-use. If you have any questions, please contact Donald Rigney, St. Louis County Interim Planning Manager, at rigneyd@stlouiscountymn.gov. Citizens can submit public comments relating to the public hearing using one of the following methods: 1. Preferred method: Email your comments to landuseinfo@stlouiscountymn.gov. Emails must be received by noon on Monday, August 7, 2023, in order to be presented to the Planning Commission and viewed online. 2. Mail your comments to one of the St. Louis County Government Services addresses (located in Duluth or Virginia). Your comments must be received in the mail by Monday, August 7, 2023, in order to be presented to the Planning Commission and viewed online. 3. Provide testimony in person the day of the hearing. It is requested that you contact our office if you anticipate in-person attendance. 4. You will also have the opportunity to raise your “virtual hand” while utilizing the WebEx software during the public hearing. To learn more about WebEx, please visit www.webex.com. (July 29, 2023) 245245 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-public-hearing-to-be-conducted-stratica-legals-245245 | 2023-07-29T07:18:15 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-public-hearing-to-be-conducted-stratica-legals-245245 |
Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take
Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice US Storage Centers - Duluth located at 3210 W. Michigan St., Duluth, MN 55806 intends to hold an auction of storage units in default of payment. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 8/16/2023 at 10:00AM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings. Lakeya Oliver; Cassandra Obanner; Victor Ortega; Julie Schulz; Lakeya Davis (2 units); Tracy Clinton; David Gilberg; Kendra Snyder; Joy Wuolu; Kris Catt; Robert Campbell; Matthew Erickson. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details. (July 29; Aug 5, 2023) 245326 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-self-storage-sale-please-take-stratica-legals-245326 | 2023-07-29T07:18:26 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-of-self-storage-sale-please-take-stratica-legals-245326 |
Small Claims Publication Summons And Not
Small Claims Publication Summons And Notice Case No. 2023SC000683 STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY Plaintiff(s): Short Term Financial, L.L.C dba Americash Loans 2400 E. Devon Ave, Suite 300 Des Plaines IL 60018 -vs- Defendant(s): Lori Ryan 10 Piedmont Ave Apt 207 Duluth MN 55806 TO THE PERSON(S) NAMED ABOVE AS DEFENDANT(S): You are being sued by the person(s) named above as Plaintiff(s). A copy of the claim has been sent to you at your address as stated in the caption above. The lawsuit will be heard in the following Small Claims court: Douglas County Courthouse Telephone Number of Clerk of Court: 715-395-1223 1313 Belknap Street Superior, WI 54880 on the following date and time: Date: 8/17/2023 Time: 2:30 p.m. If you do not attend the hearing, the court may enter a judgment against you in favor of the person(s) suing you. A copy of the claim has been sent to you at your address as stated in the caption above. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property. You may have the option to Answer without appearing in court on the court date by filing a written Answer with the clerk of court before the court date. You must send a copy of your Answer to the Plaintiff(s) named above at their address. You may contact the clerk of court at the telephone number above to determine if there are other methods to answer a Small Claims complaint in that county. Electronically Signed by Cynthia A. Duppler Attorney’s State Bar Number 1118906 Date 7/25/2023 Dobberstein Law Firm, LLC 225 S. Executive Dr. Suite 201 Brookfield, WI. 53005 Plaintiff’s/Attorney’s Telephone Number 262.641.3715 (July 29, 2023) 245317 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/small-claims-publication-summons-and-not-stratica-legals-245317 | 2023-07-29T07:18:36 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/small-claims-publication-summons-and-not-stratica-legals-245317 |
STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS I
STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS IN DISTRICT COURT SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case Type: Quiet Title Court File No. 69DU-CV-23-1473 Shawn Ringhofer, Plaintiff, vs. Ringhofer Brothers, a partnership; Alois Mark Ringhofer, a/k/a Alois Ringhofer, Jr., a/k/a Lois Ringhofer; Peter P. Ringhofer; Betsy A. Ringhofer; and all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, estate, interest, or lien in the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Defendants. SUMMONS THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO: DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED. 1.YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you. The Plaintiff’s Complaint against you is on file in the office of the Court Administrator of the above-named Court. Do not throw these papers away. They are official papers that affect your rights. You must respond to this lawsuit even though it may not yet be filed with the Court and there may be no Court File Number on this Summons. 2.YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 21 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You must give or mail to the person who signed this Summons a written response called an Answer within 21 days of the date on which you received this Summons. You must send a copy of your Answer to the person who signed this Summons located at: Gislason & Hunter LLP 2700 South Broadway P. O. Box 458 New Ulm, MN 56073 3.YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in your Answer. 4.YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT SEND A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THE COMPLAINT TO THE PERSON WHO SIGNED THIS SUMMONS. If YOU DO NOT Answer within 21 days, you will lose this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the Complaint. If you do not want to contest the claims stated in the Complaint, you do not need to respond. A default judgment can then be entered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint. 5.LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer. If you do not have a lawyer, the Court Administrator may have information about places where you can get legal assistance. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still provide a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case. 6.ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION. The parties may agree to or be ordered to participate in an alternative dispute resolution process under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice. You must still send your written response to the Complaint even if you expect to use alternative means of resolving this dispute. 7.THIS LAWSUIT MAY AFFECT OR BRING INTO QUESTION TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY located in St. Louis County, State of Minnesota, legally described as follows: The South Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (S½ SW¼ NW¼); and the South Half (S½) of Lot 3; all in Section 17, Township 53 North, Range 19 West of the 4th Principal Meridian, St. Louis County, Minnesota. The object of this action is to quiet title in the name of the Plaintiff. The undersigned hereby acknowledges that sanctions may be awarded pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 549.211. Dated this 26th day of July, 2023. /s/ Reed H. Glawe Reed H. Glawe #175559 rglawe@gislason.com GISLASON & HUNTER LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 2700 South Broadway P. O. Box 458 New Ulm, MN 56073-0458 Phone: 507-354-3111 (July 29, Aug. 5 & 12) 245550 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/state-of-minnesota-county-of-st-louis-i-stratica-legals-245550 | 2023-07-29T07:18:46 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/state-of-minnesota-county-of-st-louis-i-stratica-legals-245550 |
State of Minnesota District Court County
State of Minnesota District Court County of: St. Louis Judicial District: Sixth District Court File Number: 69DU-JV-23-82 Case Type: CHIPS In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child(ren) of: Felicia Martin, Eugene Olson, Jr. and Steven Martin Summons and Notice Child in Need of Protection or Services Matter (CHP-114) NOTICE TO: Felicia Martin, Above-named parent(s) or legal custodian(s). 1. A Child in Need of Protection or Services Petition has been filed in the Juvenile Court alleging that the child(ren) of the above-named parent(s) or legal custodian(s) is/are in need of protection or services. 2. This is your notice that this Child in Need of Protection or Services case is scheduled for a remote hearing before the Juvenile Court located at 100 North 5th Avenue West Duluth Minnesota 55802-1285, on August 28, 2023 at 11:15 am or as soon after as the case can be heard. Please contact court administration to get the remote hearing information. 3. YOU ARE ORDERED to appear before the Juvenile Court at the scheduled time and date. 4. You have a right to be represented by counsel. 5. If you fail to appear at the hearing, the Court may still conduct the hearing and grant appropriate relief, including taking permanent custody of the child(ren) named in the Petition. BY: Dated July 26, 2023 St. Louis County Court Administration 100 North 5th Avenue West Duluth Minnesota 55802-1285 (218) 221-7560 (July 29, 2023) 245374 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/state-of-minnesota-district-court-county-stratica-legals-245374 | 2023-07-29T07:18:57 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/state-of-minnesota-district-court-county-stratica-legals-245374 |
A house in East Brunswick that sold for $911,101 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in East Brunswick in the past week.
In total, 16 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $566,413. The average price per square foot was $287.
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-east-brunswick-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:18:58 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-east-brunswick-july-17-23.html |
A house in Montclair that sold for $3.4 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Montclair in the past week.
In total, 13 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $1.4 million. The average price per square foot was $546.
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-montclair-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:19:04 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-montclair-july-17-23.html |
TOWN OF SOLON SPRINGS LRIP FUNDED PAVING
TOWN OF SOLON SPRINGS LRIP FUNDED PAVING PROJECT The of Solon Springs is accepting sealed Hot Mix Asphalt bids for paving for paving three locations on Ossman Road. Work is to include milling pavement joints, preparing the existing asphalt for overlay, paving a leveling course and surfacing the locations with 1.25 inches of 5MT hot mix asphalt. The project is to bid using unit prices per ton of hot mix asphalt. Contact Scott at the Town garage, 715-378-4198 for specific information about the project. Sealed bids are to be submitted to the Town of Solon Springs, P.O. Box 275, Solon Springs, WI 54873 no later than 4:00 p.m. on August 14, 2023. Bids should be marked “Ossman Road Paving Bid” and will be opened at the regular Town meeting on August 14 at 5:30 p.m. The Town of Solon Springs reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Mick Salmen Town Clerk (July 29, 2023) 245238 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/town-of-solon-springs-lrip-funded-paving-stratica-legals-245238 | 2023-07-29T07:19:07 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/town-of-solon-springs-lrip-funded-paving-stratica-legals-245238 |
A house in Jackson that sold for $2.3 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Jackson area in the past week.
In total, 15 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $675,889. The average price per square foot was $263.
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-jackson-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:19:10 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-jackson-area-july-17-23.html |
Velma Allison married a restaurant owner who worked seven days a week in 1960, a few years after graduating from high school.
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After 63 years of burgers and BBQ, owner of Polar Freeze in Walnut Ridge retires
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At left, Jack Allison tends to smoked hams at the Polar Freeze dairy bar in Walnut Ridge. He died in 2019. At right, a barbecue sandwich and a drink sold by Polar Freeze are placed on a counter at the Walnut Ridge dairy bar. (Photos courtesy of Kellie Allison Yates)
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10 dogs die after air conditioning in truck fails during traffic delay
HOBART, Ind. (WLS) - Ten dogs died in Indiana during a drive from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Michigan.
Authorities said the driver did not know the air conditioning in the truck’s cargo failed.
Police arrived at a Lake Station, Indiana, gas station Thursday night for a report that 19 German shepherds became overheated while being transported to a training facility.
Ten of the dogs died as a result, according to officials.
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The Humane Society of Hobart was called to the scene.
Police in Lake Station say the driver of the van, who picked the dogs up from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was bound for a training facility in Michigan, was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area of the truck failed in the sweltering heat.
“We had cooling vans and animal care and control vehicles ready to transport. And because we were asking for that paperwork, it seemed to make the owner mad and so he said that he would not allow us to help,” Jenny Webber, with the Humane Society of Hobart, said.
Lake Station police posted a narrative of the situation on Facebook, calling it a “freak event” and not a matter of neglect on the part of the truck’s driver.
They went on to write the “scene was chaotic and took an emotional toll on all that were involved in trying to save as many canines as possible.”
The humane society said they believe the dogs were traveling to a Michigan trainer to become police dogs.
“This is truly a sad day for all of us,” Webber added.
Five German shepherds were still being treated in Lake Station and will go into the care of the humane society unless the owner claims the dogs.
The record-breaking temperatures stretching from coast-to-coast sparked heat alerts in multiple states.
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A house in Plainfield that sold for $580,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Plainfield area in the past week.
In total, 11 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $393,468, $257 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-plainfield-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:19:17 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-plainfield-area-july-17-23.html |
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is expanding its efforts to bring agriculture into classrooms through the state's Farm to School program.
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Man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide in death of Black Lives Matter protester
SEATTLE (AP) — A man who hit two protesters with his car, killing one of them, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020 in Seattle has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies.
Dawit Kelete, 30, pleaded guilty on Thursday to vehicular homicide in the death of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, The Seattle Times reported. He also pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and reckless driving charges. Attorneys as part of the plea deal have agreed to recommend a sentence of more than six years in prison and 18 months of probation. Kelete is set to be sentenced in September.
On July 4, 2020, the Washington State Patrol said Kelete drove the wrong way onto Interstate 5, around a barricade of parked vehicles, and struck Taylor and Diaz Love.
Taylor later died and Love was hospitalized with multiple injuries.
Kelete was arrested shortly afterward and told police he was withdrawing from the narcotic pain medication Percocet and struggled with an “untreated addiction,” court documents said.
Francisco Duarte, Kelete’s attorney, said Kelete asked about the victims from the beginning and has shown remorse. Duarte also claimed authorities were negligent and failed to protect the public and protesters.
An attorney for Taylor’s family, Karen Koehler, on Thursday lamented the years it’s taken for the case to move through the court system, and said the family is focused on remembering Taylor, KING-TV reported.
“While it was a relief to know they wouldn’t have to go to court, there’s a lot of very sad, grieving people still,” Koehler said. “They are... resigned, that this is the best that can be done.”
Love, who suffered a traumatic brain injury, fractures, lacerations, and other physical wounds, is suing the state, city and Kelete. A trial date has been scheduled for next February.
The lawsuit says Kelete was driving negligently and that state and city agencies failed to block all access ramps to I-5 and refused to protect vulnerable protesters. The State Patrol had closed the freeway during the demonstration, which was part of a run of nightly protests over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Family described Taylor as someone who was dedicated to justice. She had been demonstrating and rallying in support of Black Lives Matter nearly every day of the protests.
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A house in Hammonton that sold for $530,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Winslow in the past week.
In total, 23 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $294,887. The average price per square foot was $172.
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-winslow-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:19:23 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-winslow-july-17-23.html |
Transportation company ArcBest reported Friday its second-quarter net income dropped 60% and missed analysts' estimates for the period, as the trucking industry continues to struggle in what experts are calling a freight recession.
During a morning conference call with analysts, Judy R. McReynolds, ArcBest chairman, president and chief executive officer, said the company's recent agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters sets up ArcBest to keep and recruit the best workers in the industry. Fort Smith-based ArcBest's subsidiary, ABF Freight, recently signed a new five-year master freight contract with the Teamsters union -- complete with substantial raises and benefits increases for truck drivers.
Executives said ArcBest is working to cut costs and has expanded a training program using experienced teams to train managers and employees in best practices, which helped productivity. They also said the company is working on keeping costs down in its asset-light segment.
"This soft market will end," McReynolds said.
Analysts and executives also discussed potential opportunities as Yellow Corp., the nation's third largest less-than-truckload carrier, teeters on seeking bankruptcy protection. Yellow shares plunged about 40% Thursday on reports the company wasn't taking on new customers and could seek bankruptcy protection soon. Its shares closed Friday at 70 cents, up 24%, and have traded as low as 43 cents and as high as $8.51 over the past year. McReynolds said the effects of Yellow Inc. going under could echo through the industry for years.
In response to emailed questions, Marc A. Scott, assistant professor of practice, Department of Supply Chain Management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, said the potential bankruptcy of Yellow Corp. is dynamic and could have a significant effect on the less-than-truckload landscape.
"In preparation for a bankruptcy filing, it is reported that many of Yellow's core customers have been reducing or halting shipments with the distressed carrier, opting instead to ship with much of the firm's competitors, a base that includes ArcBest," Scott said.
"Indeed, ArcBest has seen an increase of 10% in shipments from core accounts over the past week, a portion of which may be attributable to the Yellow situation; while it is estimated that Yellow, which handled an average of 49,00 shipments per day, as of this week moved between 10,000 to 15,000 shipments."
For the period ending June 30, ArcBest reported net income of $40.4 million, or $1.64 a share, down 60% when compared with $102.5 million, or $4 a share, a year ago. A consensus of eight analysts predicted earnings per share of $2.05 for the quarter, according to Yahoo Finance.
Second-quarter revenue was $1.1 billion, down 15% when compared with $1.32 billion a year ago. Revenue matched analysts' expectations for the quarter.
ArcBest shares closed at $119.41, up 58 cents, or less than 1%, Friday on the Nasdaq. Its shares have traded as low as $68 and as high as $122.86 over the past year.
ArcBest's asset-based business, which consists of ABF Freight, saw revenue of $722 million, down from $806 million a year ago. Operating income was $43.3 million with an operating ratio of 94% compared with $116.7 million with an operating ratio of 85.5%. Billed revenue per hundredweight was down 11% while revenue per hundredweight on the less-than-truckload business, excluding fuel surcharges, was down 1%. The company said it saw a general slowing of order frequency during the quarter from its core customers.
Scott said ArcBest's results didn't hold many surprises but he noted it was clear its costs were climbing as seen in the asset-based business's higher operating ratio. A lower operating ratio is considered good as it shows expenses are a smaller percentage of sales.
"Much of this performance can be attributed, and understandably so, to slow growth in core customer shipment frequencies, relatively smaller shipment sizes driven by reduced economic activity, as well as decreased income from fuel surcharges due to lower diesel prices during the period," Scott said.
The company's asset-light business, which covers logistics, transportation management and household goods moving services and includes brokerage company MoLo, booked revenue of $409.8 million compared with $549.7 million. Operating income was $13.2 million compared with $27.5 million. The company said results were affected by a softer market despite an increase in daily shipments during the quarter.
The American Trucking Associations' For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 2.1% in June after moving up 1.2% in May.
"While the tonnage index increased in both May and June, it remains in recession territory," American Trucking Association Chief Economist Bob Costello said in a release earlier this week. "The index continues to fall from a year earlier and is off 1.9% from its recent peak in September 2022. A multitude of factors have caused a recession in freight, including stagnant consumer spending on goods, lower home construction, falling factory output, and shippers consolidating freight into fewer shipments compared with the frenzy during the goods buying spree at the height of the pandemic. However, the magnitude of the year-over-year declines is improving, perhaps pointing to a bottom in the freight market." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/arcbest-reports-2q-profit-down-60/ | 2023-07-29T07:19:24 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/arcbest-reports-2q-profit-down-60/ |
A house in East Orange that sold for $585,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in East Orange area in the past week.
In total, eight residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $364,200. The average price per square foot was $191.
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/eight-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-east-orange-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:19:29 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/eight-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-east-orange-area-july-17-23.html |
I'm not a cook. We've discussed this. I do, however, love to entertain. Because having guests to my home typically involves feeding them, I try to compensate for my lack of culinary skills with stylish presentation. A little sleight of hand never hurt anyone.
With a few hostess hacks, I can elevate the most humdrum potato salad from the grocery store deli, chicken wings from the hot counter and a plastic tub of watermelon chunks into a sublime picnic. More on that in a minute.
Chef David Tiner, director of the Louisiana Culinary Institute, in Baton Rouge, is not surprised. "We eat with our eyes first," he said. "Then we eat with our nose. I'm a big believer that if looks good and smells good, I'm going to like it."
Presentation may not be everything, but it's at least two thirds.
"As long as the food is out of the box and on your serving pieces, which will reflect your style, guests won't care where it came from," said Sharon Brenner, a caterer in Winter Park, Fla. "Everything tastes better in a pretty bowl, and pizza set out on a cake riser looks instantly nicer."
Whether you are a culinary institute graduate, or you buy take out tacos from a food truck, here are 10 more ways Tiner and Brenner say that home hosts can make their food look better than it is:
1. Use platter power. Anything that comes in a to-go container will instantly look better on a platter. Pick one that's the right size. Too small and the food is hard to serve. Too big makes guests think you don't have enough.
2. Elevate. Height is important when presenting food. Fight the flat. Rather than serve everything at counter level, use risers and cake stands. You can even turn a Dutch oven or a cast iron skillet upside down to create a food stand or set dishes on a wooden wine crate. A tall decorative vase filled with flowers, branches or fresh lemons can also break up the landscape.
3. Use the unexpected. You don't need silver platters and fine china to serve your fare, though use them if you like and you have them. Shop your cupboards for trays and breadboards that can double as platters. Repurpose commonplace containers. Use a piece of crockery or a galvanized bucket lined with a napkin for flatware.
4. Compose your colors. When selecting serving dishes, make sure the colors work with the food. "No one wants to see salmon on an orange platter," Tiner said. But it would work well on a cedar plank. Even better, set the salmon on a bed of steamed spinach, Brenner said. Though she likes to mix wood, glass and ceramic serving pieces, her go to is plain white dishes.
5. Layer don't divide. If foods are meant to go together, like turkey and stuffing, or meatloaf and mashed potatoes, stack them so guests help themselves to both in one scoop.
6. Drizzle don't drown. When a dish has gravy or sauce to go with it, use it as an accent. Artfully drizzle it over the dish; don't drench it. Serve the rest on the side, so guests can add more.
7. Garnish with intention. Adding a garnish, like a lemon slice or an herb sprig, separates the amateur from the pro. It's like putting the right throw pillow on the sofa. But the secret is the garnish must be an ingredient that is or could be in the dish, Tiner said. For example, don't put a rosemary sprig by the lemon squares. Rosemary stands up well next to red meat or certain chicken dishes. And lemon squares would look nice surrounding a mound of fresh whole lemons.
8. Manage the flow. When creating a buffet line, Tiner likes to put the main dish at the end. "By putting all the side dishes up front and the star of the show at the end, your guests will likely try more items. If you put the main dish first, they may take three helpings then exit. Create stations to keep guests circulating and prevent traffic jams. At my home, I often set up a drink station and dessert table apart from the main buffet.
9. Swirl in some swag. Whether a strip of burlap or a linen tablecloth, lengths of fabric nestled and looped under and around dishes on a buffet add texture and interest.
10. Make it yours. "'Semi-homemade' is the term we use when you change a [store-bought] item and make it yours," Tiner said. Take that deli dinner mentioned earlier. Maybe you add a tablespoon of mustard and fresh dill to the potato salad and put it in a pretty bowl, arrange the wings on a wooden platter on top of a bed of arugula, and toss the watermelon chunks with some fresh mint and crumbled feta cheese, and presto. When someone asks, "Did you make this?" You smile and nod.
Marni Jameson is the author of six home and lifestyle books, including "What to Do With Everything You Own to Leave the Legacy You Want." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/at-home-these-10-serving-hacks-make-food-look/ | 2023-07-29T07:19:30 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/at-home-these-10-serving-hacks-make-food-look/ |
A house in Marlboro that sold for $951,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Marlboro in the past week.
In total, seven residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $600,143. The average price per square foot ended up at $304.
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/seven-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-marlboro-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:19:35 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/seven-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-marlboro-july-17-23.html |
ATLANTA -- Ozzie Albies singled in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning, Austin Riley and Matt Olson hit back-to-back home runs in a four-run seventh and the major league-leading Atlanta Braves snapped a two-game skid with a 10-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night.
Ronald Acuna Jr. got the rally started in the fifth with a single and his 49th stolen base, most in the majors. After he scored on Albies' 73rd RBI, Albies went first to third on Riley's single and scored on Olson's sacrifice fly for a 6-4 lead.
Olson has 33 home runs and 82 RBI, second-most in the majors in both categories. He followed Riley's 23rd home run to give the Braves 11 back-to-back long balls this season. Atlanta leads the majors with 191 home runs.
Riley, who has gone back-to-back with Olson five times this year, has gone deep in four consecutive home games and has five home runs over that span.
"Not surprised," Olson said. "He's one of the best third basemen in baseball. He's a very professional hitter. He stays even keel. It's fun to watch right now."
Marcell Ozuna made it 4-all in the fourth with his 19th home run.
The Braves (65-36) were coming off two consecutive losses in Boston and had dropped seven of 10, their worst 10-game stretch of the season. Raisel Iglesias worked a perfect ninth for his 19th save in 21 chances.
Milwaukee (57-47) began the night with a 1 1/2-game lead in the NL Central. The Brewers cut the lead to 10-7 in the eighth on Abraham Toro's three-run home run.
Joey Wiemer's bases-loaded single plated two runs in the fourth for a 4-3 Milwaukee lead and chased starter Yonny Chirinos, who made his Atlanta debut after getting claimed off waivers from Tampa Bay on Sunday.
Atlanta scored three times with two outs in the second to take a 3-2 lead on Orlando Arcia's two-run single and Acuna's single.
The Brewers went up 2-0 in the top of the second on Abraham Toro's RBI groundout and Tyrone Taylor's single.
Adrian Houser (3-3) took the loss after allowing 8 hits and 6 runs in 4 innings.
CUBS 3, CARDINALS 2 Patrick Wisdom homered and Trey Mancini had a tiebreaking RBI single to help Chicago beat St. Louis. Drew Smyly (Little Rock Central, Arkansas Razorbacks) allowed just two hits in 4 1/3 effective innings in relief as the Cubs won their seventh consecutive game.
METS 5, NATIONALS 1 Pete Alonso homered twice to become the second player in Mets history with four 30-home run seasons, leading retooling New York to a victory over Washington.
PHILLIES 2, PIRATES 1 Kyle Schwarber broke out of a slump by hitting a two-run home run and reaching base in all five plate appearances, Zack Wheeler (8-5) struck out 11 in 6 2/3 innings, and Philadelphia beat Pittsburgh.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BLUE JAYS 4, ANGELS 1 Shohei Ohtani hit his major league-leading 39th home run for the Angels, but Toronto slugged three home runs and beat Los Angeles.
RAYS 4, ASTROS 3 Brandon Lowe hit a three-run home run early and Jose Siri doubled and scored the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning in Tampa Bay's victory over Houston The game was tied entering the ninth when Siri, who played for Houston last season, doubled to left field off Ryan Pressly (3-3) and moved to third on a sacrifice fly by Christian Bethancourt. The Rays took a 4-3 lead when Siri scored on a sacrifice fly by Yandy Diaz.
ROYALS 8, TWINS 5 (10) Bobby Witt hit a game-ending grand slam and finished with six RBI as Kansas City beat Minnesota.
WHITE SOX 3, GUARDIANS 0 Luis Robert Jr. and Jake Burger each homered, Touki Toussaint (1-3) pitched five innings for his first win and Chicago beat Cleveland to snap a six-game losing streak.
INTERLEAGUE
ATHLETICS 8, ROCKIES 5 Zack Gelof and Ramon Laureano hit home runs to lead Oakland past Colorado.
MARLINS 6, TIGERS 5 Jon Berti's second hit of the game was a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning, helping Miami to a win over Detroit.
Friday’s games
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1
NY Mets 5, Washington 1
Atlanta 10, Milwaukee 7
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 2
Cincinnati at LA Dodgers, (n)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 0
Toronto 4, LA Angels 1
Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3
Kansas City 8, Minnesota 5 (10)
Baltimore 1, NY Yankees 0
INTERLEAGUE
Miami 6, Detroit 5
Oakland 8, Colorado 5
San Diego 7, Texas 1
Boston 3, San Francisco 2
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FUKUOKA, Japan -- John Mason, the announcer at the swimming world championships, stuck a nickname on Mollie O'Callaghan after the 19-year-old Australian added the 100-meter freestyle title to her gold in the 200 two days earlier.
"The unstoppable Mollie O'Callaghan," Mason called her.
She's the first women to win both the 100 and 200 free at a world championships, and she set a world record in the 200 by taking down the oldest women's mark on the books from the fast-suit era in 2009.
"It's so weird. I'm not going to lie," O'Callaghan said. "It's such a weird feeling. I didn't even know that no woman had done that -- and to be the first is just incredible."
O'Callaghan won in 52.16 seconds, with silver for Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong in 52.49 and bronze to Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands in 52.71.
"Going in to previous meets I was just so nervous all the time and worrying," O'Callaghan said. "And this is the first time I actually felt quite calm and just enjoying every little bit."
Through six of eight days, Australia leads with 10 gold medals, followed by China with five and the United States and France with three. The Americans lead the overall medals table with 25, ahead of Australia with 16 and China with 10.
Not be outdone by O'Callaghan, Qin Haiyang of China set a world record in the men's 200 breaststroke in 2:05.48. He also won the 50 -- which is not an Olympic event -- and the 100.
Zac Stubblety-Cook of Australia, the previous world-record holder and the Olympic champion in the event, took silver in 2:06.40, and Matt Fallon of the United States got bronze in 2:07.74.
Qin was shocked by the record, but not about winning three times.
"Before Fukuoka, the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke gold medals were my goal," he said. "So I achieved them. But the world record for the 200, that was a surprise to me."
Hubert Kos of Hungary surged past American rival Ryan Murphy in the final 35 meters to take gold in the men's 200 backstroke in 1:54.14. Murphy took silver in 1:54.83 and Roman Mityukovf got bronze in 1:55.34.
Murphy won both backstroke races at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, and was the silver medalist in the 200 in Tokyo.
Kos, the son of an American father and Hungarian mother, began training about seven months ago at Arizona State University under Bob Bowman -- Michael Phelps' long-time coach.
Bowman is the coach of the American team at the worlds.
"A year ago I was only swimming the 200 IM in the world championships," Kos said. "I never thought I'd be swimming backstroke, and here I am a world champion.
"I think it's just the Bob Bowman effect," he added. "That's a simple as it is. We have a really good training group and Bob knows a thing or two about swimming."
Bowman is also training Leon Marchand at Arizona State. The Frenchman has won three gold medals at and figures to be the face of next year's Paris Olympics.
Kos said he went to Arizona to work on his IM, but Bowman make the switch. He called Bowman's touch partly "magic."
"The other part is he's just been there for so long and done everything with Michael and now he's doing the same stuff with Leon (Marchand)," Kos said.
Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa won gold in the women's 200 breaststroke in 2:20.80, becoming the first female world champion from her country. Kate Douglass of the United States took silver in 2:21.23 and Tes Schouten of the Netherlands got bronze in 2:21.63. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/australian-teenager-completes-freestyle-sweep/ | 2023-07-29T07:19:42 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/australian-teenager-completes-freestyle-sweep/ |
SPRINGDALE -- The Northwest Arkansas Naturals have struggled at times from a team standpoint this season, but several individuals are still moving up...
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Northwest Arkansas Naturals shortstop Tyler Tolbert (left) leaps to field the throw from the plate Thursday, April 6, 2023, as Midland shortstop Darell Hernaiz slides in safely at second base during the second inning at Arvest Ballpark in Springdale. Visit nwaonline.com/photo for today's photo gallery.
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SOCCER
LR Rangers' season ends in Virginia
The Little Rock Rangers fell 5-3 on penalty kicks to The Villages SC of Florida on Friday night at Newport News, Va., in the third round of the United Soccer League 2 playoffs.
After a scoreless first half, The Villages SC scored in the 76th minute to make the score 1-0.
In the 97th minute of regulation, the Rangers tied the score on Ethan Blake's near-post goal to make the score 1-1.
The match remained 1-1 through 30 minutes of extra time and went to penalties. The Villages SC scored first, but the Rangers missed their first to fall behind.
The Villages SC scored its next four penalties to win and advance to the USL 2 semifinals Sunday.
BASEBALL
Paragould headed to the Mid-South Regional
Paragould will get a chance to make a run at an American Legion World Series title after mounting a pair of huge rallies Thursday against Conway.
A three-run sixth inning allowed Paragould to pull out an 8-6 victory in the deciding game to win the American Legion AAA state tournament title Thursday in Conway at Bear Stadium on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas.
Lane England took home Most Valuable Player honors for Paragould, which beat Conway 6-4 earlier in the day to force the winner-take-all final. It's also the third year in a row that the winner had to win twice on the same day to capture the championship.
Paragould jumped out to a 3-0 in the first game and held on but had to stage a comeback in the nightcap. Conway scored two runs in the top of the sixth inning to grab a 6-5 advantage before pushing across a trio of runs in the bottom half of the inning to take the lead for good.
The victory sends Paragould to next week's American Legion Mid-South Regional Tournament in Pelham, Ala. It'll open up double-elimination play Wednesday against the Missouri state champion at 2:30 p.m.
-- Erick Taylor
BASKETBALL
John Brown signs four
John Brown University women's basketball Jeff Soderquist announced the signing of four newcomers -- three freshman and a transfer -- to complete the Golden Eagle squad.
The signees include freshmen Clare Barger (Harrison), Briley Burns (Ozark), Abbey Sanders (Bentonville) and transfer Ashley Phelan of Bob Jones (S.C.) University.
"We are very excited about this incoming class," Soderquist said. "So much talent, but more importantly, each fit our culture that has been so important to the program over the years."
Barger, a three-sport standout who helped Harrison to state titles in basketball (2021) and girls soccer (2023), averaged 17 points and five rebounds in her senior season with the Lady Goblins. She scored more than 1,000 career points and also won the state long jump title as a junior.
Burns finished as the school's all-time leading scorer at Ozark.
Sanders joins her older sister Emily as John Brown after helping Bentonville to a pair of 6A-West Conference titles. She averaged 19 points per game as a senior.
Phelan averaged 4.4 points in 25 games at Bob Jones.
Drake, Zepeda join Gibson at UAFS
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith men's Coach Zane Gibson has assembled his coaching staff for the upcoming season.
Joining Gibson at UAFS from his staff at Western New Mexico are assistant coach Jared Drake and volunteer assistant coach Jeremy Zepeda, with Brett O'Neil also returning as an assistant coach. Caleb Ligon will serve as a student assistant to the program.
Prior to Western New Mexico, Drake was the head coach at Southeastern Illinois College for two seasons and also had coaching stops at Riley (Ind.) High School, Philander Smith College in Little Rock and Evansville (Ind.) Central High School.
Prior to UAFS, O'Neil was an assistant at Hill (Texas) College for one season and a graduate assistant at Cameron (Okla.) University from 2018-20. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/brief/ | 2023-07-29T07:19:55 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/brief/ |
Peggy Coppom hasn't quite seen it all with the Colorado Buffaloes, but she's seen much more than most, so believe her when she says Thursday was a good day to be a fan.
The 98-year-old has been attending football games since her family moved from the high plains of eastern Colorado to Boulder in 1939 to escape the Dust Bowl, and she's missed only a couple home games since buying season tickets in 1966.
The excitement in her voice was obvious during a phone call minutes after university regents approved the school's return to the Big 12 in 2024.
"I'm so happy to get back to the Big 12 -- or the Big 15 or whatever it ends up being," she said, laughing. "It seems like that's where we belong. We don't belong with the West Coast people."
Of course, the Big 12 isn't the same league it was when the Buffs left for the Pac-12 in 2012. Nebraska and Missouri are gone, and Oklahoma and Texas will be, too. BYU could become a rival, but the Buffs have little in common with Cincinnati, Houston and Central Florida.
"I wish some of those old schools were there, but we'll make the best of it," Coppom said.
The conference change, plus the hiring of Deion Sanders, has her eagerly anticipating watching the Buffs from her seats near the 40-yard line on the west side of Folsom Field -- "God willing, I always have to add," she said.
Coppom, carrying a gold pom-pom, was escorted onto the field by Sanders and performed a ceremonial kickoff during the spring game in April. Coppom said Sanders and the return to the Big 12 has created the most buzz about the team since it won a share of the national championship in 1990.
Former CU fullback Jim Kelleher, who was second in the Big Eight with 15 rushing touchdowns in 1976, said he's in wait-and-see mode about the move.
"I originally wasn't that excited about it, but at the same time, the Pac-12 had let things get to such a point where you had to do something," he said. "The Big 12 signed a good media rights agreement. It's just sad the Pac-12 hasn't been able to get a TV contract."
Kelleher said that while Colorado will get exposure across three time zones, which is a positive, he's sad to see how traditions and geographic rivalries have been sacrificed with realignment in general.
Specific to Colorado, he said, the Buffs seemed to be a good fit in the Pac-12. He said his sentimental attachment to the Big 12 won't be there without Nebraska and other teams he played against in the old Big Eight.
"Whether it's the school or the individual athletes -- with TV and NIL -- it's all money, money, money," he said. "I understand their decision. Hey, I'm part of the Colorado team, so I'm for my team and hope it works out."
Tom Osborne, the College Football Hall of Fame coach at Nebraska and its former athletic director, shepherded the Cornhuskers' move from the Big 12 to Big Ten in 2011. He said he's able to view past, present and future realignment from the perspective of both a fan and administrator.
"You're talking about lost traditions," Osborne said. "I can share the feelings of the fans in that I miss those drives to Manhattan, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Ames, Iowa, and some of those relationships."
Nebraska's move to the Big Ten had as much or more to do with finding stability as it did with finances, Osborne said. In the summer of 2011, Osborne said, Big 12 South teams were negotiating with the Pac-12, Missouri wanted to go to the SEC and Texas A&M also was looking to leave.
"Finances are driving this thing more than anything, and my guess is that the uncertainty about where the Pac-12 stands right now appears to make the Big 12 better for Colorado -- even though the Big 12 has not been a paragon of stability." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/buffs-fans-look-forward-to-moving-back-to-big-12/ | 2023-07-29T07:20:01 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/buffs-fans-look-forward-to-moving-back-to-big-12/ |
DEAR CAR TALK: The owner's manual of my car – an Audi A6 – says to use 91-octane fuel. But the pump near me has 87, 89 or 94. Since then, I've noticed that a lot of cars require 91-octane.
Is this a case of where they sell hot dogs in packs of 10 and hot dog buns in packs of 8? Am I just out of luck? Or can I mix some 89-octane with some 94-octane and drive happily? – Bill
DEAR BILL: Drive happily. You can absolutely mix octanes, and they mix linearly. So, if you could fill half your tank with 89 and the other half with 93, you'll end up with a tank of exactly 91-octane.
If you go with half 89 and half 94, which is what's available near you, you'll end up with 91.5-octane. Which is close enough, Bill.
And the truth is, you don't have to stress about it. The engine has a computer management system that will adjust for lower-than-recommended octane fuel. So, if the computer senses pre-ignition (aka pinging or knocking, which can result from too low an octane), it will adjust the timing to correct for that.
You'll have a little less power – probably not enough of a difference to notice – but your engine will be protected against any damage from fuel that ignites too early.
So rough math is good enough here, Bill. You don't need to go to the Sunoco station with measuring spoons.
DEAR CAR TALK: In a recent column, Phyllis, with a 2015 Camry, wrote that she hears a pop when she drives it. I have the same problem with my 2015 Camry and thought it was something in the suspension.
I took it to the dealer and they said it was a known problem. Evidently it is with the rails for the sliding moon-roof. To fix it, they would have to remove the liner and replace the rails to a tune of $2,300. I will live with it. A bummer since the problem started three months after my warranty expired. – Tom
DEAR TOM: This is a good argument for going to the dealer if you have an unusual or hard to diagnose problem.
Sometimes, the place that works on 2015 Camrys every day will know exactly what it is and save you the time and money you'd spend having someone else figure it out.
It's true, you might end up with an estimate that makes you say, "ah, never mind, I'll live with the pop." But at least you now know that it's not dangerous, Tom. So now you can wait until the sunroof starts leaking or until an anvil falls from a tenth-story window onto the car, and then have the rails fixed at the same time. Thanks for the info, Tom.
DEAR CAR TALK: After five years, I'm finally used to the auto start-stop feature on my 2017 Cadillac XTS. When I brought him (yep, a him) home after a long stay at a body shop (sad story), the auto start-stop didn't engage for two weeks. All of a sudden, it worked ... periodically. Now, it works for a couple of days, then not for a few days.
How could a body shop have changed something like that? They didn't work under the hood – to my knowledge. What's going on?
I love your informative and entertaining column! Thanks! – Toni
DEAR TONI: I don't think they changed anything.
My guess is the car sat for a long time in the body shop without being run. That ran down the battery. By the time they repainted it and extracted all the chocolate chips from the muffin truck you crashed into, perhaps it wouldn't even start, and they had to jump it.
And if the battery is not fully charged, the auto stop-start system won't engage. It'll keep the engine running and the alternator turning at stoplights until the battery charges up completely.
If your battery is also old and weak (like from 2017, for instance), it could require more charging than a newer battery and that would lead to the engine running even more of the time.
The computer also will consider things like the engine temperature – it won't shut off if it's still warming up -- and whether there's a heavy demand on the engine – like if you're running the air conditioner.
So, lots of short trips tend to keep the auto start-stop from engaging because the battery hasn't had time to fully charge, and the engine may not be warm.
I'm guessing that nothing's wrong with your XTS, Toni. But have your battery and charging system checked and replace your battery if it's near the end. And then, as long as you don't get distracted again while a muffin truck is in front of you, you should be all set.
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A young friend told me that the same $12 necklace from Target is only $1 from China.
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The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.05 billion after no one managed to beat the massive odds and match the lottery game’s six numbers drawn Friday night.
The numbers drawn Friday night were: 5, 10, 28, 52, 63 and the gold ball 18.
The lack of a winner of Friday’s $940 million jackpot means there have been 29 straight draws without a winner. The last time someone won a Mega Millions jackpot was April 18.
The $1.05 billion prize up for grabs in the next drawing Tuesday night would be for a sole winner choosing to be paid through an annuity, with annual payments over 30 years. Jackpot winners almost always opt for a lump sum payment, which for Tuesday's drawing would be an estimated $527.9 million.
While no one won the Mega Millions jackpot, it has been less than two weeks since someone in Los Angeles won a $1.08 billion Powerball prize that ranked as the sixth-largest in U.S. history. The winner of the prize is still a mystery.
Lottery jackpots grow so large because the odds of winning are so small. For Mega Millions, the odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million.
Winners also would be subject to federal taxes, and many states also tax lottery winnings.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Benton County
Bella Vista Community Church, 75 E. Lancashire Blvd., an evangelical interdenominational church, has a number of Community Life Groups available for you to choose from. Please contact the church office for locations and details.
The regular Sunday worship service starts at 10 a.m., and we offer Kid's Connect for children as well as a nursery. Prayer Fellowship meets in the Chapel every Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. to pray for individuals and community needs. If you have a prayer request contact the church office or email karen@bvcc.net.
Those interested in singing or being part of a bell choir are welcome to join in practice on Wednesdays. Bell choir meets at 4:30 p.m., and choir practice begins at 5:30 p.m.
The Prayer Shawl Ministry is looking for anyone who enjoys knitting or crocheting to join in at the church. Contact the church for time and date. This group makes prayer shawls, baby blankets, prayer squares, and hats to minister to others. Yarn is provided.
Interested in ping pong? We have a group for you! You are invited to join us on Thursday from 9 to 10 a.m. in Fellowship Hall.
Information: 855-1126 or bvcc.net.
Bella Vista Lutheran Church, 1990 Forest Hills Blvd., will have only one worship service on July 30, at 9:30 a.m. There will be no Sunday School or Adult Bible Class on this Sunday.
On Aug. 6, there will be an 8:30 a.m. service and a 10:45 a.m. a.m. service, with Sunday School for all age children at 9:45 a.m. in the Lower Level.
Three Adult Bible classes will be held every Sunday at 9:45 a.m. Christianity 101 will be led by Pastor Hass in the Library. This is a class where people who are interested in becoming a new member will learn about Bella Vista Lutheran Church.
Financial Peace University is held every Sunday at 9:45 a.m. in the Chapel Meeting Room, teaching from a Biblical standpoint basic home budgeting and how to get out of debt.
Aging in Place is a Bible study led by Chuck Merriman in Fellowship Hall at 9:45 a.m. every Sunday. This is a study about staying in your home as long as possible.
The Sonday Riders will meet at 2 p.m. Aug. 6 in the front parking lot at church. They will be joined by the HOG Chapter. All two-, three- and four-wheel riders are welcome for a fun day of riding in Arkansas.
The Shepherd's Food Pantry is open every Friday from 10 a.m. until noon, providing food to those in the community that are in need.
The Lutheran Hour is broadcast every Sunday afternoon on radio station KURM-AM (790) and KURM-FM (100.3).
Information: 855-0272, bvlutheran.com.
First Presbyterian Church in Bentonville, 901 N.E. J St., worships each Sunday in person and online at 10:15 a.m. Bible study for adults meets Sundays at 9 a.m.
The FPC Food Pantry is open 9 to 11 a.m.Saturday for Benton County residents.
Information: 273-5450, fpcbentonville.org.
Highland Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Bella Vista, 1500 Forest Hills Blvd., is hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 31.
Please register to donate blood at redcrossblood.org, search for Highland Christian Church in Bella Vista.
Information: 855-2780, highlandchristianchurchbv.org.
Knights of Columbus host their semiannual yard sale Aug. 12 at St. Mary Hall, 1998 U.S. 412 in Siloam Springs. The sale opens promptly at 7:30 a.m. and is over by noon. Markdowns are made throughout the morning with a bag sale prior to close.
Information: Email gerry.donner@mail.com.
The Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, 1880 Forest Hills Blvd., invites you to worship each Sunday at 10 a.m. Services are live-streamed on our website, Facebook page and YouTube, and recordings are available to watch at your convenience on our website.
Activities open to the community include The Exercise Group, which meets on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:45 a.m. in Fellowship Hall, and the Busy Hands knit and crochet group, which meets on Fridays at 1 p.m. in the office lobby.
Listen to our podcast "Hearing Matters" on our website.
Information: 855-2390, pcbv.org/visitors.
Washington County
Robinson Avenue Church of Christ in Springdale, 1506 W. Robinson Ave., invites you to attend three of the church's helping ministries:
DivorceCare: There will be sessions every Sunday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. starting Sept. 10. In the middle of pain from divorce or separation, help is here. Come learn how to make progress. Sessions are all taught by a video seminar and group discussion. $20 donation is requested.
Divorce Journey for Teens (DJ4K): Also set for Sundays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. starting Sept. 10, this ministry is designed to help seventh- to 12th-graders heal from the pain of divorce through a group workbook, activities and discussion. $20 donation is requested.
DivorceCare For Kids (DC4K): This ministry, scheduled for the same time frame, is designed to help first- to sixth-graders heal from the pain of divorce through a Bible-based lesson. $20 donation is requested.
With advance notice, babysitting can be provided for infants and little children.
Register at the church office, 751-4887 or online at https://rachurch.life/resources/.
First United Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, 695 E. Calvin St., celebrates Sunday worship at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. For the remainder of the summer, the early service will be held outdoors in the church courtyard, weather permitting. The Sacrament of Holy Communion will also be celebrated at each early service.
A nursery is available for children 5 and younger at both services. (Ushers will be happy to guide you.) The 11 a.m. service is also livestreamed on YouTube.
The summer class for adults and older teens is discussing "Call It Grace" by Serene Jones. It meets in the church library (and on Zoom) at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Children through sixth grade meet in Lower Knox. Please consult the church's website for Zoom instructions.
Information: 442-4411, fupcfay.org.
First Presbyterian Church in Springdale, 100 S. Gutensohn Road, begins Sunday morning services at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Dr. Susan Arnold. Online worship services are available on YouTube and through the church's website, www.fpcspringdale.org. Breakfast Before Church Fellowship is held from 9:45 to 10:20 a.m. each Sunday of the summer in Fellowship Hall.
Church van pickup for Sunday services is available. Call the church office at 751-2040 if you would like a ride.
A nursery is offered for children 5 and younger during Sunday and other church services. We also love having children in worship. A "Children's Table" has been set up in the sanctuary with items to keep hands busy and minds engaged. We encourage children to visit the table after the "Time for Young Disciples" and take a book, activity, color page or fidget back to their seats for the remainder of the service.
A 12-week summer mid-week study based on "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis will be led by the Rev. Arnold Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. through Aug. 30.
Sunday School classes for children and adults will not be meeting for the summer months.
Classes for adults, which are continuing to meet, include Lectionary study at 9 a.m. each Monday. Ladies' Wednesday Morning Zoom Fellowship meets at 7 a.m.
Samaritan Fridays are each week from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the Narthex of the church. This is an outreach program sponsored by the church which provides help for those in need in our community.
Information: 751-2040, fpcspringdale.org.
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Racing will resume at Churchill Downs in September, with no changes being made after a review of surfaces and safety protocols in the wake of 12 horse deaths, including seven in the days leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May.
The Louisville track suspended racing operations on June 7 and moved the rest of its spring meet to Ellis Park in western Kentucky at the recommendation of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, the sport’s national overseer.
Training continued at Churchill Downs during the track’s investigation.
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Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen called the deaths "a series of unfortunate circumstances” and said the review “didn’t find anything fundamentally wrong or different about our track from previous years.”
“That, in a sense, can sometimes be unsatisfying,” he said. “But that’s business, and that’s sports.”
Two of the horse deaths occurred in undercard races on Derby day. Another five died later.
“The takeaway is, the track is very safe,” Carstanjen said Thursday on an earnings call with CDI investors.
"What we needed to do was spend some of this time in the interim, while we ran the rest of the (spring) meet at Ellis to just go soup to nuts through every single thing we do at the racetrack. There was nothing that jumped out as an apparent cause of the injuries, of the breakdowns; and, as we went through and rebuilt our processes from the ground up to check everything that we do to make extra sure, we didn’t find anything material.”
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Man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide in death of Black Lives Matter protester
SEATTLE (AP) — A man who hit two protesters with his car, killing one of them, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020 in Seattle has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies.
Dawit Kelete, 30, pleaded guilty on Thursday to vehicular homicide in the death of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, The Seattle Times reported. He also pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and reckless driving charges. Attorneys as part of the plea deal have agreed to recommend a sentence of more than six years in prison and 18 months of probation. Kelete is set to be sentenced in September.
On July 4, 2020, the Washington State Patrol said Kelete drove the wrong way onto Interstate 5, around a barricade of parked vehicles, and struck Taylor and Diaz Love.
Taylor later died and Love was hospitalized with multiple injuries.
Kelete was arrested shortly afterward and told police he was withdrawing from the narcotic pain medication Percocet and struggled with an “untreated addiction,” court documents said.
Francisco Duarte, Kelete’s attorney, said Kelete asked about the victims from the beginning and has shown remorse. Duarte also claimed authorities were negligent and failed to protect the public and protesters.
An attorney for Taylor’s family, Karen Koehler, on Thursday lamented the years it’s taken for the case to move through the court system, and said the family is focused on remembering Taylor, KING-TV reported.
“While it was a relief to know they wouldn’t have to go to court, there’s a lot of very sad, grieving people still,” Koehler said. “They are... resigned, that this is the best that can be done.”
Love, who suffered a traumatic brain injury, fractures, lacerations, and other physical wounds, is suing the state, city and Kelete. A trial date has been scheduled for next February.
The lawsuit says Kelete was driving negligently and that state and city agencies failed to block all access ramps to I-5 and refused to protect vulnerable protesters. The State Patrol had closed the freeway during the demonstration, which was part of a run of nightly protests over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Family described Taylor as someone who was dedicated to justice. She had been demonstrating and rallying in support of Black Lives Matter nearly every day of the protests.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — United States midfielder Savannah DeMelo can speak some Portuguese and may be able to put it to use in the Women's World Cup.
The U.S. plays Portugal on Tuesday to wrap up the tournament's group stage, and a fter a disappointing 1-1 draw against the Netherlands, the Americans needs a win. At stake is both the top spot in Group E and also a much-needed boost to team confidence.
That's where DeMelo can help.
The 25-year-old's dad, Robert, is from Portugal and had a successful career as a player in that country before becoming a coach. DeMelo has dual citizenship and understands Portuguese.
“I'll definitely be listening for it,” she laughed.
DeMelo made her first international start for the United States against Vietnam in the group opener, a 3-0 victory for the Americans.
Prior to the World Cup, DeMelo had played in only one other match for the United States: she was a substitute in the team’s send-off match against Wales in San Jose in early July. DeMelo, who plays for Racing Louisville FC in the National Women's Soccer League, was the first U.S. player since Shannon Boxx in 2003 and third overall to be named to the World Cup roster without any previous appearances for the national team.
U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski started DeMelo in the both of the American's World Cup matches. She played both opening halves before being subbed off for veteran Rose Lavelle, who has been playing limited minutes for the United States because of a knee injury suffered in April.
The journey from being named to the team to getting a start in the World Cup has “been a crazy roller coaster of emotions," said DeMelo.
“But I think I've had a lot of great people, including the girls on the team, who have been super helpful with getting me acclimated to the team," she said. "And I'm just super grateful to be here."
The United States may need to switch up its tactics against Portugal.
The Americans are tied on points with the Netherlands in Group E and have an advantage over the Dutch on goal difference. The top two teams in the group advance to the knockout round.
But the results haven't been as emphatic as they were in 2019, when the U.S. opened with a 13-0 victory over Thailand and went on to win their second straight World Cup title, and fourth overall.
The United States trailed the Netherlands by a goal in the first half before Lindsey Horan scored a game-tying header in the 62nd minute.
One reason for the less-than-dominant play could be inexperience. DeMelo is among 14 U.S. players appearing in their first World Cup.
Fellow midfielder Andi Sullivan, who is also making her tournament debut, said it takes some adjustment to play together as newcomers.
“That's definitely a challenge that we're going through, is that we just kind of came together,” Sullivan said. "It's not like a team that you're training with all year round, constantly. You're in and out all the time. So I think you're constantly adjusting.
“But the way that you get in sync is we watch a lot of stuff together, we communicate constantly. We're very direct when something's not going the way we want it to go," Sullivan added. "You have to be direct and clear and honest and loud.”
DeMelo is also among six players at the World Cup who play for Racing Louisville. Among the Racing Louisville representatives are Ary Borges, who scored a hat trick for Brazil in its 4-0 victory over Panama to start the tournament.
DeMelo, who said her father never pushed her into soccer growing up, could have played for Portugal at the senior level.
“It could have been an option,” she said, “but I think my heart was always with the United States.”
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Ryan Silverfield would love nothing more than to tell you that he and the coaches at the University of Memphis knew exactly what they had, and what they were doing, with Tony Pollard.
They had an idea. They had plans.
"It's so funny, we always think we know exactly what we had when we had him," Silverfield said Tuesday. "We all think we are geniuses."
Like most coaches, there is more guessing than genius.
"He played a lot of safety in high school, and the original coaching staff (at Memphis) thought about playing him as a full-time safety," Silverfield said. "I really do think he would have been an NFL safety as well.
"He was a freshman All-American at kick returner, and we said, 'OK, what is he?' "
Anything and everything.
On the same day the Dallas Cowboys began training camp in Oxnard, Calif., Silverfield was in Arlington at the Loews Hotel for American Athletic Conference media days.
Silverfield arrived at Memphis as an offensive assistant in 2016, the same year Pollard's career effectively began there. Pollard redshirted in 2015, and he played under Silverfield for the next three years.
For the first time in his career either at Memphis or in the NFL, Pollard will now be a full-time starting running back.
One of the biggest concerns about Pollard this season is whether he can do something he has never been asked to do, and hold up over 17 games. The Cowboys will find out what Memphis never had to.
His college coach expressed zero concerns.
"We knew he would be dynamic. In my heart of hearts, I truly mean that," Silverfield said. "This is no knock on (Pollard's college teammates) because I have respect for all of those guys. This is my eighth year at Memphis, and I coached in the NFL for seven years, and I thought if there was one guy who could last in the league it was him.
"The shelf life for running backs in that league is so short but he's diverse enough. He can do the receiver stuff. I thought his shelf life would be a lot longer than most running backs. A lot of us make big predictions but I have total faith in Tony lasting."
Why wasn't Tony Pollard a starting running back in college?
The Memphis coaches knew Pollard was good enough to be their starter. They knew he was good enough to play safety.
The challenge was they had a load of capable players at running back.
"At the time Tony was with us, we had five NFL (future) running backs on the team," Silverfield said. "It made me a better offensive line coach, that's for sure. We had Darrell Henderson, who averaged 8.9 yards per carry for two straight years."
Henderson played four seasons with the L.A. Rams.
Patrick Taylor Jr. played two seasons with the Green Bay Packers.
Kenny Gainwell is currently with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Antonio Gibson is with Washington.
Pollard was teammates with all of these NFL running backs.
As a result, his statistics in college were never of the outrageous variety. The easiest solution to this problem was to line Pollard out as a wide receiver.
"He has great hands, and he could catch the ball out of the backfield, which is one of the reasons the Cowboys liked him," Silverfield said. "We had so many players who were capable of making plays, who were in the same type of mold as Tony."
The problem Silverfield and the Memphis staff with Pollard is the same one so many coaching staffs have: There is a plan, and a desire to get the ball in that player's hands. Then the game happens.
His career-high in carries was 17, in the final game of Memphis career. That is the only game he rushed for more than 100 yards, and the second time at Memphis he carried the ball 10 times.
"The ebbs and flows of a game, right?" Silverfield said. "Back when Tony was there, we played with a little more tempo. We moved quicker. Sometimes when you slow things down you can say, 'OK, what is the play design to get him the ball?
"But we had a lot of options then that we also wanted to get the ball to. Looking back on it, do you wish you got him the ball more? Sure."
With Ezekiel Elliott no longer with the Cowboys, Pollard will be the focus. This is his chance that he never had in college.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — United States midfielder Savannah DeMelo can speak some Portuguese and may be able to put it to use in the Women's World Cup.
The U.S. plays Portugal on Tuesday to wrap up the tournament's group stage, and a fter a disappointing 1-1 draw against the Netherlands, the Americans needs a win. At stake is both the top spot in Group E and also a much-needed boost to team confidence.
That's where DeMelo can help.
The 25-year-old's dad, Robert, is from Portugal and had a successful career as a player in that country before becoming a coach. DeMelo has dual citizenship and understands Portuguese.
“I'll definitely be listening for it,” she laughed.
DeMelo made her first international start for the United States against Vietnam in the group opener, a 3-0 victory for the Americans.
Prior to the World Cup, DeMelo had played in only one other match for the United States: she was a substitute in the team’s send-off match against Wales in San Jose in early July. DeMelo, who plays for Racing Louisville FC in the National Women's Soccer League, was the first U.S. player since Shannon Boxx in 2003 and third overall to be named to the World Cup roster without any previous appearances for the national team.
U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski started DeMelo in the both of the American's World Cup matches. She played both opening halves before being subbed off for veteran Rose Lavelle, who has been playing limited minutes for the United States because of a knee injury suffered in April.
The journey from being named to the team to getting a start in the World Cup has “been a crazy roller coaster of emotions," said DeMelo.
“But I think I've had a lot of great people, including the girls on the team, who have been super helpful with getting me acclimated to the team," she said. "And I'm just super grateful to be here."
The United States may need to switch up its tactics against Portugal.
The Americans are tied on points with the Netherlands in Group E and have an advantage over the Dutch on goal difference. The top two teams in the group advance to the knockout round.
But the results haven't been as emphatic as they were in 2019, when the U.S. opened with a 13-0 victory over Thailand and went on to win their second straight World Cup title, and fourth overall.
The United States trailed the Netherlands by a goal in the first half before Lindsey Horan scored a game-tying header in the 62nd minute.
One reason for the less-than-dominant play could be inexperience. DeMelo is among 14 U.S. players appearing in their first World Cup.
Fellow midfielder Andi Sullivan, who is also making her tournament debut, said it takes some adjustment to play together as newcomers.
“That's definitely a challenge that we're going through, is that we just kind of came together,” Sullivan said. "It's not like a team that you're training with all year round, constantly. You're in and out all the time. So I think you're constantly adjusting.
“But the way that you get in sync is we watch a lot of stuff together, we communicate constantly. We're very direct when something's not going the way we want it to go," Sullivan added. "You have to be direct and clear and honest and loud.”
DeMelo is also among six players at the World Cup who play for Racing Louisville. Among the Racing Louisville representatives are Ary Borges, who scored a hat trick for Brazil in its 4-0 victory over Panama to start the tournament.
DeMelo, who said her father never pushed her into soccer growing up, could have played for Portugal at the senior level.
“It could have been an option,” she said, “but I think my heart was always with the United States.”
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SYDNEY -- In the end, it was worth the wait.
With a flash of early brilliance, Lauren James ended England's run of more than seven hours without a goal from open play to seal a 1-0 win against Denmark at the Women's World Cup on Friday.
The Chelsea star scored after six minutes of her first start at the tournament to put the Lionesses on course for back-to-back wins in Group D.
"It was a dream and something I've been thinking about, but most importantly I'm happy to help us win," James said. "I kind of had a thought and then as soon as it hit the net, it was just relief."
James, who came off the bench in England's tight opening win over Haiti, made a quick impression when given her chance from the start against Denmark.
Collecting the ball outside the area, she curled a right-foot shot beyond the reach of goalkeeper Lene Christensen to score what turned out to be the winner for European champion England.
"It came too early for us," Denmark Coach Lars Sondergaard said. "It upset us a little bit. We were then on the back foot a little bit and England got confidence through this beautiful goal."
James, the sister of Chelsea and England men's player Reece James, is considered one of the brightest prospects in women's soccer.
She lived up to that billing, being named player of the match against Denmark and bringing a new energy to England's attack, which has lacked cutting edge in the build up to the World Cup.
She was the key difference between an England team that had looked predictable in attack against Haiti and one that threatened to overrun Denmark in the opening half an hour in Sydney.
Not that her Coach Sarina Wiegman wanted to place too much focus on the forward, trying to deflect any question about the player.
James' former Chelsea teammate and Denmark captain Pernille Harder was happier to give praise.
"I've seen her do that so many times in training, I knew that we had to keep an eye on her her right foot," she said. "She does that really well. She's a great player."
For all of James' brilliance, England still required the width of the post to secure another narrow win.
Denmark substitute Amalie Vangsgaard went close to scoring a dramatic late equalizer with a header in the final moments of regulation time.
The forward, who came off the bench to score a 90th-minute winner against China last week, beat England keeper Mary Earps, only to see her effort come back off the woodwork.
Earps had already been called upon to push away Katrine Veje's cross that was heading into the top corner as Denmark finished the stronger.
"We could see that England got a little bit insecure, lost balls, easy balls," Sondergaard said. "I think we put pressure on them in the last part of second half and through that could've deserved an equalizer."
A turning point appeared to be an injury to England midfielder Keira Walsh late in the first half. She needed to leave the field on a stretcher after what appeared to be a knee injury.
"Of course I'm concerned," Wiegman said. "She couldn't walk off the pitch. We don't know yet (how serious it is). Let's wait. We had to find our feet. We really dominated the first half and then Keira went out."
CHINA 1, HAITI 0
Adelaide, Australia -- Despite playing with 10 players for more than an hour, China defied the odds to secure a victory over Haiti.
Forward Wang Shuang scored her first-ever goal at a World Cup in the 74th minute, converting a penalty after VAR ajudged her teammate Zhang Linyan was fouled in the area.
This victory marks the second time in Women's World Cup history that a team has won with 10 players on the field, with the previous occurrence taking place in 2011.
After a relatively uneventful opening 28 minutes, the game changed dramatically when China midfielder Zhang Rui received a red card for a tackle on Sherly Jeudy. Zhang was initially given a yellow card but, after VAR review, the decision was changed to direct red. The Steel Roses were forced to play with 10 players for the remainder of the match.
At a glance
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
FRIDAY'S MATCHES
England 1, Denmark 0
China 1, Haiti 0
TODAY'S MATCHES All times Central
At Wellington, New Zealand
Sweden vs. Italy, 2:30 a.m.
At Brisbane, Australia
Switzerland vs. Norway, 3 a.m.
At Perth, Australia
Panama vs. Jamaica, 7:30 a.m.
At Adelaide, Australia
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PHOENIX (AP) — 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.
Forecasters expect that by Monday at the latest, people in metro Phoenix will begin seeing high temperatures under 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) for the first time in a month. As of Friday, the high temperature in the desert city had been at or above that mark for 29 consecutive days.
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.
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WASHINGTON -- A measure of consumer prices that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve fell last month to its lowest level since March 2021, the latest sign that inflation in the United States is steadily cooling from its once-painful highs.
Prices rose just 3% in June from 12 months earlier, down from a 3.8% annual increase in May, though still above the Fed's 2% inflation target. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.2% from May to June, up slightly from 0.1% the previous month. Last month's sharp slowdown in year-over-year inflation largely reflected falling gasoline prices, as well as milder increases in grocery costs.
Gasoline prices have been rising in July.
A measure of "core" prices, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, remained elevated even though it also eased last month. Those still-high underlying inflation pressures are a key reason why the Fed raised its short-term interest rate Wednesday to a 22-year high.
A separate report Friday from the Labor Department showed that a gauge of wages and salaries grew at a slower pace in the April-June quarter, suggesting that employers were feeling less pressure to boost pay as the job market cools. Employee pay, excluding government workers, rose 1% last quarter, down from 1.2% in the first three months of 2023. Compared with a year ago, wages and salaries grew 4.6%, down from 5.1% in the first quarter.
The Fed is closely watching the pay gauge, known as the employment cost index. Smaller wage increases should slow inflation over time, because companies are less likely to need to raise prices to cover their higher labor costs.
The inflation report that the Commerce Department issued Friday also showed that Americans' willingness to keep spending, despite two years of high inflation and 11 Fed rate increases over 17 months, remains a powerful driver of the economy. Consumer spending rose 0.5% from May to June, up from 0.2% the previous month.
The U.S. economy is in a hopeful but precarious place: A solid job market is bolstering hiring, lifting wages and keeping unemployment near a half-century low. Yet inflation is weakening rather than rising, as it typically does when unemployment is low. That suggests that the Fed may be able to achieve a difficult "soft landing" for the economy, in which inflation falls toward the Fed's 2% target without triggering a deep recession.
The Fed's policymakers, though, are concerned that the steadily growing economy could help perpetuate inflation. This can occur as persistent consumer demand enables more companies to raise prices, thereby keeping inflation above the Fed's target and potentially causing the central bank to raise rates even higher.
The latest evidence of the economy's resilience came Thursday, when the government reported that it grew at a 2.4% annual rate in the April-June quarter -- faster than analysts had forecast and an acceleration from a 2% growth rate in the first three months of the year.
At a news conference Wednesday, Chair Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed's benchmark short-term rate, now at about 5.3%, was high enough to restrain the overall economy and likely tame inflation over time. But Powell added that the Fed would need to see more evidence that inflation has been sustainably subdued before it would consider ending its rate changes.
Powell declined to offer any signal of the central bank's likely next moves. In June, Fed officials had forecast two more rate increases this year, including Wednesday's.
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FAYETTEVILLE -- Christopher Cordeiro, the former West Fork police officer charged with negligent homicide in connection with the death of a man during a traffic stop, was booked into and bonded out of the Washington County Detention Center in about 26 minutes Thursday.
Cordeiro, 34, of Prairie Grove, was brought to the jail by the Arkansas State Police, according to Kelly Cantrell, public information officer for the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Cantrell said Cordeiro had a bondsman waiting for him in the lobby and was processed in the booking area and then released.
Cantrell said that is a common procedure.
Cordeiro was charged Thursday with negligent homicide, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.
The Arkansas State Police was asked to investigate the death of Michael J. Hanna, 49, of West Fork, who died while being taken into custody by Cordeiro, according to information from the State Police.
Police stopped Hanna around 4:15 p.m. Dec. 29 at 6210 U.S. 71 in West Fork, according to a State Police news release. During the traffic stop, a fight began between Hanna and Cordeiro, and Cordeiro used his stun gun on Hanna.
Cordeiro was placed on administrative leave after the incident and resigned in May, according to information from the West Fork police.
The Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training is considering a request made by the West Fork Police Department to revoke Cordeiro's certification, which would prevent him from law enforcement employment in Arkansas, the agency said in a press release Friday.
Cordeiro initiated the traffic stop because Hanna was driving on a suspended driver's license, according to the affidavit for the arrest warrant.
Cordeiro ordered Hanna to get out of the car multiple times. Cordeiro reached into the car, opened the door and removed Hanna. Cordeiro told Hanna he would use his stun gun if Hanna didn't comply, according the the affidavit.
Hanna told Cordeiro he had a heart condition, according to the affidavit. When Hanna didn't put his hands behind his back, Cordeiro used his stun gun multiple times, the affidavit says. A review of Cordeiro's stun gun showed it was deployed nine times, according to the affidavit -- seven times for a total of five seconds each, one time for six seconds and one time for two seconds.
Based on Cordeiro's body camera, the affidavit states, he made no attempts to assist Hanna after he was restrained until the second officer arrived and checked Hanna's pulse.
An autopsy showed Hanna's death was caused by a combination of heart disease, methamphetamine intoxication, along with physical exertion, struggle and restraint. The medical examiner also stated Hanna had injuries consistent with the use of an electro-muscular disruption device such as a stun gun.
Other law enforcement officers in Northwest Arkansas have pleaded guilty to negligent homicide, according to information reported in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Former Bella Vista police officer Coleman "Duke" Brackney pleaded guilty to misdemeanor negligent homicide following the Jan. 20, 2010, shooting death of James Ahern after Ahern led Brackney on a high-speed pursuit that ended near the corner of Harlan Lane and Arkansas 340. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $1,000.
He was fired from the Bella Vista Police Department after an internal investigation determined he violated department policy.
The Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training ruled Brackney could keep his certification after a hearing in April 2012. Brackney was hired as police chief in Sulphur Springs in 2013.
Former Arkansas State Police Trooper Larry Norman pleaded guilty to misdemeanor negligent homicide in 2007 without going to trial for the 2006 death of 21-year-old Joseph Erin Hamley, who had cerebral palsy and a mental disability. Norman believed Hamley was a fugitive searching for a gun, but Hamley had toy balls in his pocket.
Norman was sentenced to 90 days in jail, a $1,000 fine, 12 months' probation and 30 days community service. He retired from the State Police in August 2006.
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AUGUST
We started off July pretty hot and dry.
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DEAR HELOISE: I have a helpful hint for the Ohio reader who constantly returns merchandise via UPS, FedEx or another shipping service: Buy it locally at an actual store. I, too, live in Ohio, and unless you live out on a farm, most of us live fairly close to shopping centers with a wide variety of stores.
So, not only are you supporting the local economy, which employs local people, as well as the local tax base, you also get to try it on and touch it. This eliminates the frequent need to return items once you receive them. In the event you do need to return it, keep the receipt, and they will give you a direct credit, exchange or, at the very least, give you a store credit. If it's a gift, make sure to get a gift receipt so that you save the receiver of that gift the hassle of having to ship it back.
You save yourself the hassle of taking up room with a tote, along with scissors, packing tape, markers, ink pens, box cutters, packing materials and "anything else you might need" to return a purchase (whew.).
I am aware there are those who don't have transportation or are otherwise unable to go to a store, but if you are able, go to a local store, support local businesses, and avoid the aggravation of constantly having to repack and return items. You can take items home immediately without having to wait for delivery. Thank you.
-- J.H. in Ohio
DEAR J.H.: Thank you for the reminder to shop locally whenever you can as it supports your hometown.
-- Heloise
DEAR HELOISE: The reader in Concord, N.H., who has difficulty opening cans with pull tabs, can buy a small device to pop open the tab. I've seen flight attendants use them, and they work very well, while also protecting your hands from injury. I enjoy your column.
-- Barry Juran,
Saugerties, N.Y.
DEAR HELOISE: I've reached the point where I'm tired of accumulating stuff: Clothes, bags, shoes, scarves and so on. Now is the time to be purposeful. I'm unboxing these items, using them and enjoying them.
When I've used the item and it's time to move on, I can donate these items to charity, swap them with friends or resell them online. Feels good to lighten up and use these items sustainably!
--Heather P. in Pennsylvania
Send a money- or time-saving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, Texas 78279-5000; fax to (210) 435-6473; or email
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Happy birthday: 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 master the art of contentment.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Emotions can come over you at seemingly inopportune times, but this is what makes life interesting. Also, a feeling doesn't have to be optimal or even appropriate to be acceptable.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Dorothy had to land in Oz to appreciate those back home. Travel will do the same for you. Get your ticket to a magical place, or anyplace different. Anticipating a trip will begin your appreciation process.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Even the most intellectual problem will benefit from physicalization. Your brain is a body part and needs circulation and hydration. Engaging your body in the process will help you figure everything out.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Because you believe in yourself, the idea your work has flaws is not a threat to your self-worth. Optimism does not preclude you from having a backup strategy. A plan B can give you more confidence.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You can leverage your special connection 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; 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 work they have done. 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, traded for a wheel that spins quietly. Before complaining, 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.
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SAN DIEGO – Rachel Nafis, waist-deep in corncockles, cut the blush-colored flowers growing in her neighbor's yard as her eyes wandered to the front door.
"I hope Tom comes outside to say hello," she said as she placed the cut stems in a bucket of water.
Soon, a smile crept across her face as Tom Weaver opened the door and wheeled himself onto the porch.
"It's so wonderful to see flowers growing outside my window," he said from his wheelchair. "I love seeing them. They smell so good."
For three years, Nafis, a one-woman florist, has grown sunflowers, dahlias and corncockles outside Weaver's home, one of eight neighbors who has donated his yard to Psalter Farm Flowers, a loose collective of cutting gardens that is a draw with San Diego flower shops, event florists and bouquet lovers.
Not surprisingly, the flowers burst out of yards in various states of bloom due to the seasons. Around the corner from her home base, across the street from Webster Elementary School in City Heights, yellow and pink strawflowers and delicate blue scabiosa pincushions grow tall in raised beds.
A quarter mile in the other direction, pink bellflowers and the conclusion of fragrant sweet peas grow in neat rows behind the rent house of Sophie Thompson.
"All of my gardens are in places where people cannot care for their yards the way they would like," said Nafis, 36. She also cultivated the alley behind her 800-square-foot house. "I feel I'm adding value to their homes and our neighborhood."
Thompson agreed. "I don't know much about farming itself, but I'm impressed how Rachel has increased the biodiversity," she said of the neighborhood, which is among San Diego County's poorest. "There is less infrastructure and greenery, fewer markets and more liquor stores here. But she's taught us that all neighborhoods can be beautiful."
Mindful of trends but not beholden to them, Nafis prefers growing seasonal flowers that speak to her. "I like fragrant flowers like roses, sweet peas and scented geraniums," she said of the flowers blooming in her front yard and backyard. Right now, the cool season flowers -- snapdragons, strawflowers, sweet peas and poppies -- are transitioning to ranunculus and anemones and summer annuals like dahlias, zinnias and cosmos. "I try to grow things that don't ship well," she said. "Most florists are getting things imported from out of the country. I like to grow things that would get damaged in shipping or not last that long and florists would like to source locally."
To passersby, the colorful cutting gardens stand out against the lawns, many of which have turned brown after California was asked to cut back on water during the drought.
WATER CONSERVATION
Conserving water is important to Nafis, who subsidizes many of her neighbors' water bills. "We have everything on a drip system and timers," she said. "I also use a lot of mulch, which helps to retain water and take care of my soil."
Although she likes working alone, Nafis' quiet presence resonates throughout the neighborhood. Shortly before Weaver's brother, Don, died in 2021, the family moved his hospital bed next to the window so that he could watch Nafis working in the garden.
"It's extraordinary to be present and so deeply a part of the neighborhood," she said of the neighbors, dog walkers and parents who greet her as she walks from house to house with her flower buckets and shears.
"These have been meaningful life relationships. We've had two people pass away since I started this," she said, her voice breaking. "When you open yourself up to relationships, it can be messy, but I think you can also be amazed by the good things that can happen. My business model is very fragile but not as fragile as you might think. I'm not leasing land with a farm with a five-year commitment. I think that would be ideal, but that's not a possibility. We couldn't afford it, but we are grateful to own our house and be able to make a living through this creative shared-land model."
"All the neighbors know who she is," said Kristen Kellogg, a nurse practitioner who donated her yard. "We have five sisters in the neighborhood who live in three houses, and when their mother passed away, Rachel was able to make arrangements for them. They knew the flowers were from Rachel, which meant a lot to them."
'A GOOD FRIEND'
At a time when many people feel isolated and alone, Nafis dropped a written request in Thompson's mailbox, asking if she could use her yard. "She has become a good friend," Thompson said. "I have been in and out of some hard transitions, and I have texted her late at night and even asked her if she could come over and help me move a king-size mattress."
Nafis, a mother of three young boys, grew up in western Michigan and worked as an ER nurse for 13 years before leaving the profession during the covid-19 pandemic.
"It was tough," she said of working as a discharge nurse during the pandemic. "My kids were all home and my husband's workload increased. The hospital was asking me for more hours. I was burned out. We both worked multiple jobs for many years and decided we couldn't do it anymore. Changing careers was challenging and such an identity shift from nursing to farming. It was like low-wage manual labor at times. But I couldn't have imagined doing anything else when we were at a breaking point. I enjoy what I'm doing now."
Given her small-business success – she has doubled the farm's annual revenue every year since its inception in 2019 – Nafis notes that she and her husband, Chris, a pastor, failed miserably in their previous attempts at farming a small community-supported agriculture farm on a vacant lot in Lemon Grove in 2012 and a 45-acre ranch in Jamul, Calif. in 2013.
RODENTS ATE EVERYTHING
"Everything was eaten by rodents in Jamul," she said. "We lived in a trailer and were both working our day jobs. Anything that was a success was eaten. Even though it was difficult, I think it has been a part of my success."
In 2014, the couple bought their house in City Heights and, when not working, tended to a vegetable garden and chickens (that were leftovers from the Jamul ranch). When she planted a row of dahlia tubers in her vegetable garden, she fell in love with the gorgeous ball-shaped blooms, which when cut, would last a week in water. Soon, she decided to experiment with traditional farming, turn her backyard into a cutting garden, and use her neighbors' yards as satellite farms.
"The model I have created is very relational-based," she said. "Every house is different based on my relationships with my neighbors."
Walking through the neighborhood, the flowers are a touchstone that connects her to neighbors and elevates her mood. "I often experience euphoria working with beautiful flowers all day," Nafis said. "I also appreciate that flowers are appropriate to mark every occasion, from grief and loss to heart-bursting celebration, to long difficult days that drag on forever."
NO CHEMICALS USED
Nafis thinks her business model resonates with her clients because they care about the environment. "I don't use any chemicals," she said. She also utilizes a no-till method that conserves water, feeds the soil and creates a natural habitat for birds and beneficial insects. "Sustainability matters to people," she added.
The other allure of buying locally grown flowers is the exceptional quality of freshly picked flowers. "There is a real vibrancy when flowers are picked 12 to 24 hours before purchase," Nafis said. To illustrate this, she collected a chocolate-scented geranium and invited a sniff. "That's what flowers lose in shipping," she said.
Nafis also can grow flowers her clients can't easily find anywhere else. "You can only get corncockle at a local farm," she said. Other rarities include Iceland poppies, garden roses, foxgloves and lisianthus.
In September when the summer season ends, Nafis will take a break and tend to the soil.
"It's hard for me to manage, even though I get better every year," she said. "Plants are living things, and so many different variables are involved: losses to insects and rodents, succession planting. The cutting of flowers is labor-intensive because they need to be cut twice a week, and that never ends. Even when I'm not selling, I need to deadhead the flowers so they don't go to seed."
The hard work has taught her to create boundaries for herself such as inviting her subscription clients to pick up their bouquets on her front porch instead of driving all over San Diego to deliver them herself. But for her neighbors, the close bonds remain.
"She has made such an impact on the neighborhood," Kellogg said. Flowers may be transient, but friendships can last a lifetime.
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AUBURN, Maine -- President Joe Biden -- buoyed by new signs the economy is continuing on the upswing -- took a swipe on Friday at House Republicans' flirtations with an impeachment inquiry, quipping that Republican lawmakers may decide to impeach him because inflation is cooling down.
Standing in a textile manufacturing facility in Auburn, Biden pointed to inflation statistics that showed the U.S. has the lowest rate of price increases among the world's biggest economies. Though he was careful to say he was not taking a victory lap on the economy, Biden suggested that his Republican opponents in Congress may need to find a fresh line of attack against him because of improving economic circumstances.
"Maybe they'll decide to impeach me because it's coming down," Biden said. "I don't know. I'd love that one."
Earlier this week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made his most direct remarks yet that Republican lawmakers could open an impeachment inquiry into Biden over unproven claims of financial misconduct related to Hunter Biden, the president's son. However, the California Republican has acknowledged privately that it's too soon to know whether the president was aware of -- much less involved in -- his son's financial dealings in a way that would rise to the level of impeachable conduct.
While McCarthy publicly floated the inquiry this week, the White House has engaged little with those efforts, instead focused on promoting "Bidenomics" and the president's domestic agenda. Aides have repeatedly played down any inquiry as a hypothetical and pointed out the hesitation among McCarthy's own ranks about pursuing impeachment against the president.
Biden used the trip to Maine to sign an executive order that would encourage companies to manufacture new inventions in the United States. It was Biden's first trip to the state as president.
"I'm not here to declare victory on the economy. We have more work to do," Biden said. But "we have a plan for turning things around. 'Bidenomics' is just another way of saying restoring the American dream."
The White House outlined the executive order being signed by Biden, which would improve the transparency of federal research and development programs to meet the administration's goals for domestic manufacturing. The order asks agencies to weigh U.S. national security and economic interests when determining if domestic manufacturing requirements should be broadened.
The order also urges federal agencies to consider domestic production when investing in research and development and to use their own legal authorities to encourage manufacturing new technologies in the U.S. But when goods cannot be made in the U.S., the order instructs the Commerce Department to create a clearer and timelier process for receiving a waiver. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/impeachment-talk-draws-jab-by-biden/ | 2023-07-29T07:21:14 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/impeachment-talk-draws-jab-by-biden/ |
Because boxwood grows slowly, it's not unusual to see evidence of winter damage lingering in a shrub in July. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium -- Runaway F1 championship leader Max Verstappen had the fastest time in qualifying for the rain-hit Belgian Grand Prix on Friday, but Charles Leclerc will start the race from pole position because of Verstappen's five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change.
Verstappen will begin Sunday's race in sixth place, but that will hardly bother the two-time reigning Formula One champion considering he won here last year from 14th on the grid.
"This year the car is better. I'm still targeting to win the race for sure," Verstappen said. "I know that I have to drop back on Sunday with the penalty I have, but it was the best I could do today."
He also believes it was the right decision to change his gearbox in Belgium.
"I think it's the best place to do it," said Verstappen, who has won 44 races in his career. "Sunday looks more and more dry."
Verstappen finished qualifying a significant .82 seconds ahead of Leclerc and .88 ahead of Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez, who moved up from third to second on the grid.
Leclerc does not believe his car is fast enough to challenge for a victory.
"It's great to start first, but to say we're targeting the win would be a bit optimistic," he said. "It will be hard to keep these guys (Red Bulls) behind."
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will go from third and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. from fourth ahead of McLaren's Oscar Piastri and Verstappen, who leads the championship by a massive 110 points from second-place Perez.
Lando Norris qualifed seventh for McLaren, with George Russell in eighth for Mercedes ahead of Aston Martin teammates Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.
The qualifying session was delayed for 10 minutes because of heavy rain and started under clearing skies but with the track still soaked.
"In these conditions it's so easy for things to go wrong," Perez said.
With conditions still slippery, Norris went wide into gravel but just managed to bring the car back before it hit the barriers.
AlphaTauri's Daniel Ricciardo, who had his lap time deleted for going off track limits, and Williams driver Alex Albon were among the five drivers eliminated from Q1, the first part of qualifying.
The circuit started drying a bit for Q2, but Alpine's Esteban Ocon damaged his front wing after going over gravel and failed to make it into Q3.
"It's a rare error from me, it was my fault," said Ocon, who crashed out of the Hungarian GP last weekend.
After only just scraping into Q3 in 10th, Verstappen unleashed a rant at his engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, letting fly with a couple of expletives.
Lambiase stood up to him firmly and received an apology afterward from Verstappen, who showed his searing pace on his final lap.
Verstappen will have his eyes on an eighth consecutive victory of a dominant season for a dominant Red Bull which has won all 11 races this season, and a F1 record 12 consecutive victory including the final race of last year.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Have you gotten a letter recently telling you there’s unclaimed cash waiting for you if you just pay a fee?
Surprisingly, this isn’t a scam — but you can avoid the fee if you check and claim your unclaimed property through the California State Controller’s office.
You could actually have unclaimed money without even knowing it.
That’s something Monique Langer from the State Controller’s Office is trying to change.
“All we need to do now is get the word out and let people know it’s there,” she said. “We’re really excited to get some more claims going and get some more people engaged with our database.”
She says some people have enough in unclaimed cash to potentially lessen the financial stress of the upcoming school year beginning, or filling up your gas tank.
Langer says about 1 in 7 people across the county may have some money ready to claim, and that the average in 2022 was about $433 per person. There’s about $11.9 billion sitting unclaimed in just California, according to Langer.
“That’s just an average. I had about $50 in there several years ago before I even came to work for the state controller’s office. That was a tank of gas at the time. That was a lovely bonus that I was not expecting,” she said.
Where does this money come from? The State Controller’s Office website says it’s defined as “any financial asset left inactive by its owner for a period of time, typically three years. California unclaimed property law does not include real estate.”
So back to that letter — the state won’t reach out to notify you about the unclaimed property, but some “asset locators” or investigators might. They’ll send you this letter and offer a charge to get you the money.
“It is a legitimate practice. It is legal, but they aren’t allowed to charge more than 10% for their services,” said Langer.
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NFL players compete all offseason and through training camp to make the active roster of their current team -- or perhaps even elsewhere.
But staying there isn't easy. Especially with injuries a constant factor in such a physical sport.
When the regular season begins, each team can have up to 53 players on its active roster. That comes after a cutdown from the 90-player rosters with which teams open training camp.
Players could end up having other roster designations -- IR, PUP, NFI -- as teams try to upgrade positions or compensate for injuries at certain spots.
But what do they mean -- to the players and teams?
INJURED RESERVE
Officially, it's called the reserve/injured list but is commonly referred to simply as IR. Teams place players on this list when they have a football-related injury and will need to miss at least a few weeks. Players on IR don't count against the active roster.
If a player is placed on this list before the regular season begins, he's forced to miss the entire year.
The same used to be the case if a player went on IR during the regular season, but the rules have been tweaked and amended a few times in recent years. Starting last year, players need to miss a minimum of four games. NFL teams can designate up to eight players to return from IR during the season, and an individual player can be so designated twice.
When a player is cleared to practice, it activates a 21-day window during which the player must be activated to the 53-man roster or be placed on season-ending injured reserve at the conclusion of that three-week period. They could also be released or traded.
PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO PERFORM
Players put on the active/physically unable to perform list -- or PUP -- at the start of training camp have football-related injuries, like those on IR, but count against the active roster.
These players can participate in all team activities other than practice and can be activated at any point during camp when they are medically cleared.
A player can't be placed on the PUP list after he has practiced once or played in a preseason game.
Players on the active/PUP list could be moved to the reserve/PUP list during roster cutdowns. If placed on the reserve/PUP list, a player wouldn't count against the active roster and must sit out the first four games.
NON-FOOTBALL INJURY
Players who are injured outside of football -- perhaps working out on their own in the offseason or doing a recreational activity -- or have a long-term illness not associated with playing, are placed on this list.
Rookies still recovering from injuries suffered in college often are placed on the NFI list to start their careers.
If a player remains on NFI after the final roster cutdowns, he'll have to sit out the first four games.
RESERVE/SUSPENDED
Players who are suspended by the NFL for violating league rules are placed on this list and don't count against the roster limit.
WAIVED AND RELEASED?
Players with less than four seasons of NFL time accrued are waived -- meaning they are subject to waivers and can be claimed by other teams. If they go unclaimed after the 24-hour waiver period, they become a free agent.
A player can accrue a season if they are on a team's 53-man roster for at least six games.
Players with four or more seasons accrued are considered vested veterans and are not subject to waivers, so they become free agents immediately when they are released. This is the case until the NFL trade deadline in October. After that period, all players regardless of their veteran status are subject to waivers.
Players can also be waived/injured, which means the player can be claimed by another team or revert to his original team's IR list after the claiming period. The team can then decide whether it wants to move forward with the player or release him with an injury settlement. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/nfl-roster-moves-all-about-acronyms/ | 2023-07-29T07:21:32 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/nfl-roster-moves-all-about-acronyms/ |
CALIFORNIA, USA — Usually summer break means time away from school and studying, but for some students it means a paid internship working and learning at Kaiser Permanente.
Hundreds of students are getting real world experience in healthcare while earning a paycheck.
"Basically, on a daily basis I work in the ICU. Sometimes I do the isolation audits, making sure we all have those signs up so families know the precautions," said Brooklynne Davis who worked in the Roseville medical center ICU.
They’ve been working in clinical areas, administrative offices, human resources, information technology and other departments throughout Kaiser.
"This is my actual first job, so I've got to see and experience this nine to five stress that people talk about and just how amazingly incredible life is," said Julius James who worked in the Sacramento Medical Center Support and Safety Services Department.
Paid internships are run through the KP launch program at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and aim to give students relevant experience and insights to careers in healthcare and may help to confirm their future career path.
"They have an idea of what they want to do in their career, but that may change. and now they see different opportunities,” said Tony Brandt, Safety Specialist at Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center Safety Operations.
Students work in their assigned departments four days a week and have one professional development day where they learn skills ready for more than just the medical field.
“How to dress, how to speak in a professional fashion, we teach them how to update their resume,” said Tara Sunahara, Care Experience Practice Leader/Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center.
The program is eight weeks long for college interns, and seven weeks long for high school interns.
"I think I'm definitely more confident in myself. At first I was a little more introverted," said Mallak Younis who worked in the Sacramento Medical Center Care Experience /Nursing Administration Department.
This is the 55th year of the program and this year has 187 high school interns and 102 college interns working throughout Kaisers in Northern California.
High school interns are paid minimum wage based on the city they’re working in while college students are paid an hourly rate depending on what year they’re in and ranges between $21 to $25 an hour.
For more information, click HERE. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/education/students-paid-internship-kaiser-permanente/103-bf2c657c-b010-48a4-9dbe-5b83bcbd748e | 2023-07-29T07:21:35 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/education/students-paid-internship-kaiser-permanente/103-bf2c657c-b010-48a4-9dbe-5b83bcbd748e |
There is an unusual graveyard in the middle of London, known colloquially as the "heretics graveyard."
Founded in the 1660s as a burial ground for those who disagreed with church dogma, the official name of this cemetery is Bunhill Fields. I learned about it when I was running a three-day Edgewalker retreat in London.
In my retreats, I always offer participants an exercise called the Edgewalker Quest. This is an opportunity to spend time in nature with an important question, seeking an answer from the spiritual world.
My host, Yochanan Altman, suggested that we take participants to the heretic's graveyard for the Edgewalker Quest. He told me that the poet, artist, and mystic William Blake was buried there, along with other famous heretics, nonconformists, and dissenters such as John Bunyan, author of "The Pilgrim's Progress," and Daniel Defoe, who wrote "Robinson Crusoe."
The burial grounds are very beautiful and the retreat participants were very inspired by visiting the graves of those who refused to conform to the status quo, whose courage and visionary spirit inspired generations who followed them.
According to ChatGPT, "Heretics are individuals who challenge the prevailing paradigm, questioning established beliefs and traditions. In doing so, they become pioneers of thought, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and imagination."
I first heard the term "heretic" in a high school science class where we were taught about physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. He was condemned in 1633 as a heretic by the Catholic Church for teaching that the Earth moved around the sun rather than the biblical interpretation of scripture that the sun moved around the Earth.
Galileo Galilei was imprisoned for his scientific beliefs and teachings. It took more than 300 years before the Church cleared his name of heresy and admitted that he was right. Galileo's courage to challenge the prevailing beliefs of the time helped to pave the way for the scientific method which led to a whole new worldview and to quantum leaps in fields such as education, medicine and our understanding of the cosmos.
Heretics, prophets, and Edgewalkers have always played an important role in society. They are the ones who speak truth to power, and almost always pay a personal price. They are often shunned by mainstream organizations, ridiculed and persecuted. They are often not vindicated or celebrated in their lifetimes, as the heretics graveyard will attest.
To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards truth."
In any system, there is always a tension between stability and evolution. Both are necessary for progress and organizational survival.
Churches, governments, educational systems and businesses that focus primarily on stability, conformity and traditions and practices from the past will stagnate and eventually die. Systems that silence and punish their heretics, prophets and Edgewalkers will not be able to adapt to a changing world.
Survival and evolutionary growth depend on listening to those voices in the wilderness who can see what we may not be able to see. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/opinion-judi-neal-heretics-played-an-important/ | 2023-07-29T07:21:38 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/opinion-judi-neal-heretics-played-an-important/ |
AUBURN, Calif. — Placer County is fighting back to keep a sexually violent predator out of its backyard.
The case of William Stephenson is now forcing county leaders to create a website for the public to voice its opinion about the matter.
“I'm concerned about my community,” said resident Julie Soto. “I do not understand this. I do not understand with his record, why this is happening now in Placer County.”
The Placer County District Attorney’s Office says Stephenson was first convicted of indecent exposure in 1985 in Sacramento County. Then in 1991, he was convicted of sexual violence which resulted in a sentence to 31 years. He was released in 2014, then 3 years later, he was caught with child pornography.
A state health provider, Liberty Healthcare, oversees finding Stephenson a place to live. At the moment, it is looking for him to move into a RV at an undisclosed Placer location.
“My concern is what's going to stop him from reoffending again?” said Soto.
Soto started an online petition to create a movement to keep Stephenson away from the county.
“I'm all for second chances, but he kind of blew that,” said resident Lisa Ensbury.
Ensbury is also hoping to do the same, starting a Facebook group called ‘Release of William Stephenson.’
“I do understand that he served this time, I do understand he is going to be released,” said Ensbury. “I am completely against him being released as a transient because nobody can keep track of that. It puts our entire community at risk.”
The county District Attorney’s office is adamant they do not want him released. Now they have created a website where people can give their feedback on the case.
“I definitely think that they are prioritizing the criminals over the victims, I think it really traumatized the victims when they release people like this, the sexually violent predators,” said Soto.
We reached out to the California Department of State Hospitals (DSH), which is working with the Liberty Healthcare, said they cannot release any information because of state and federal privacy laws.
Placer DA said DSH filed a formal notice Friday ahead of the court date. But the District Attorney’s office says the notice did not provide a specific location where Stephenson will stay or action plan of how Liberty Healthcare will find a location. The DA’s office went onto to say until a plan can be presented, Stephenson’s release should be delayed.
Stephenson's next hearing is set for Sept. 1 in Auburn. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/auburn-grass-valley/placer-county-online-portal-william-stephenson/103-e11907ab-c8d5-4843-824f-b97596d6ad6c | 2023-07-29T07:21:41 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/auburn-grass-valley/placer-county-online-portal-william-stephenson/103-e11907ab-c8d5-4843-824f-b97596d6ad6c |
NEW YORK -- Wall Street's rally got back on track Friday after the release of more encouraging profit reports and the latest signal that inflation is loosening its chokehold on the economy.
The S&P 500 rose 1% to its highest close in more than 15 months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 176 points, or 0.5%, after breaking a 13-day winning streak the day before. The Nasdaq composite jumped 1.9% as Big Tech stocks led the market.
Stocks have been rising recently on hopes high inflation is cooling enough to get the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates. That in turn could allow the economy to continue growing and avoid a long-predicted recession. The S&P 500 closed out its third-straight winning week and its ninth in the last 11.
A report on Friday bolstered those hopes, saying the inflation measure the Fed prefers to use slowed last month by a touch more than expected. Perhaps just as importantly, data also showed that total compensation for workers rose less than expected during the spring. While that's discouraging for workers looking for bigger raises, investors see it adding less upward pressure on inflation.
The hope among traders is that the slowdown in inflation means the Federal Reserve's interest rate increase on Wednesday will be the final one of this cycle. The federal funds rate has leaped to a level between 5.25% and 5.50%, up from virtually zero early last year. High interest rates work to lower inflation by slowing the entire economy and hurting prices for stocks and other investments.
Critics, though, say the stock market's rally may have gone too far, too fast. The full effects of the Fed's rate increases have yet to make their way fully through the system. Other parts of the economy could still crack under the pressure, like the three U.S. bank failures this spring that shook confidence. Plus, inflation remains above the Fed's target level, and the central bank could have to keep the brakes on the economy a while to get it down to target.
"Don't underestimate central bank commitment to 2% inflation," Bank of America economists wrote in a BofA Global Research report.
Still, hopes for a halt to rate increases helped technology stocks and others seen as big beneficiaries from easier rates to rally and lead the market Friday.
Microsoft, Apple and Amazon each rose at least 1.4% and were the three strongest forces pushing upward on the S&P 500.
Companies also continued to deliver stronger profits for the spring than analysts expected. Roughly halfway through the earnings season, more companies than usual are topping profit forecasts, according to FactSet.
Intel shares rose 6.6% Friday after reporting a profit for the latest quarter, when analysts were expecting a loss.
Shares of food giant Mondelez International climbed 3.7% after reporting stronger results for the spring than expected. The company behind Oreo and Ritz also raised its forecasts for financial results for the full year.
On the losing end was Exxon Mobil. The shares fell 1.2% and were the heaviest single weight on the S&P 500. It reported weaker profit for the spring than expected, though its revenue topped forecasts.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 44.82 points to 4,582.23. The Dow added 176.57 to 35,459.29, and the Nasdaq jumped 266.55 to 14,316.66.
Information for this article was contributed by Elaine Kurtenbach of The Associated Press. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/promising-profit-inflation-reports-boost-stocks/ | 2023-07-29T07:21:44 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/promising-profit-inflation-reports-boost-stocks/ |
HENDERSON, Nev. -- The sight of wide receivers Keith Kirkwood and Shaq Davis leaving practice early this week because of heat-related symptoms was nothing new for the New Orleans Saints, with the hot and humid Louisiana weather a test for even the best-conditioned athletes.
The unrelenting, record-breaking heat across the nation this year has made the opening of training camps even more challenging than usual, however, not only for the Saints but teams throughout the NFL.
Scientists have already calculated this will be the hottest July on record, with the Southwest and parts of the South especially hit hard. Most of the Midwest and East also have been affected. That means NFL teams have to be even more mindful than usual about keeping players safe while also getting as much work done as possible before the season begins in September.
Safety has been a centerpiece of the preseason since Minnesota offensive tackle Korey Stringer died on Aug. 1, 2001, after slipping and falling the previous day after a Vikings training camp practice. NFL teams at the time didn't have medical training for heat stroke.
Some teams are taking extra precautions this year, including more water breaks and early practice times.
"I don't know all the science and all that stuff, but I do my best to understand it," Saints quarterback Derek Carr said. "I've seen growth ... from when I first came in the league to what we talk about now. It's definitely a difference on the things we talk about, the way we practice, how long we do something ... how much time you're actually accumulating outside during the week."
Carr is in his first season in New Orleans, so he's acclimating to the wet, muggy conditions. He spent the previous three seasons with the Raiders in Las Vegas, where the air is dry but temperatures are considerably higher.
"It just feels like your skin is going to fall off," Carr said of playing in Las Vegas. "It feels like it's boiling."
For their part, the Raiders have begun practicing at 8:30 a.m. to avoid the hottest parts of the day but still must contend with temperatures in the triple digits by the time they walk off the field.
The Raiders have an indoor facility but usually practice outside because it's more spacious and the fields are grass rather than turf. Cool boxes are set up just off the 50-yard line near one of the three practice fields that players use, and Coach Josh McDaniels said the team met before camp opened to discuss coping with the conditions.
McDaniels said the key was listening to medical professionals.
"They have a very scientific way to measure (weather and safety conditions) that I'm not really qualified to speak intelligently about," McDaniels said. "But I understand when they tell me that we've entered into a zone where it's dangerous to be out there with helmets, pads, etc., then we'll do the right thing."
Two warm weather teams avoid practicing in the heat altogether. The Arizona Cardinals use their indoor facility and the Dallas Cowboys hold camp in moderate Southern California.
Other teams, particularly those in the hottest parts of the country, have to adapt to the weather.
"The health and safety of the players is the most important thing for our team and our organization," Houston Texans General Manager Nick Caserio said. "Whatever we can do to help the players in that respect, that's the most important thing. It's going to be hot wherever you go, but you want to be smart."
Caserio said some players wear hoodies and sweatpants so they can sweat "and let that heat leave your body. If you don't, you can potentially be putting yourself at risk."
For a second consecutive camp, Coach Ron Rivera scheduled Washington Commanders practices for 9 a.m. as one way to try to beat the heat. A stretch of record temperatures last year contributed to several soft-tissue injuries, so the staff is taking further steps this time around, from more water breaks to a cooling tent that players are sent to if they begin to feel the effects.
"We're constantly trying to get them to hydrate and get them focusing on hydrating prior to practice and post-practice," Rivera said.
Other coaches take a different approach, knowing many early season games are played when temperatures are at their highest.
"You look at our first game against Pittsburgh last year here at home," Cincinnati Bengals Coach Zac Taylor said. "On offense, there were over 100 snaps and you played an overtime game. ... We want our guys to be ready for that, and we feel like we will." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/safety-first-nfl-deals-with-heat/ | 2023-07-29T07:21:50 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/safety-first-nfl-deals-with-heat/ |
FAYETTEVILLE -- A federal judge didn't file an expected order Friday in a lawsuit challenging provisions of a new state law criminalizing providing minors with library material deemed to be obscene.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks was asked to issue a preliminary injunction, pending a decision on the merits of the plaintiffs' claims. Attorneys for a coalition of plaintiffs suing to overturn two provisions of Act 372 asked Brooks to block enforcement of contested elements of the law.
Brooks said at the end of a hearing Tuesday he expected to enter an order on the motion before the end of the week.
The law is scheduled to take effect Tuesday.
The group of 17 plaintiffs includes the public libraries of Fayetteville and Eureka Springs, as well as the Little Rock-based Central Arkansas Library System.
They argue if the two provisions are allowed to take effect, the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights could be affected in a variety of ways.
Those include librarians and booksellers facing prosecution for failing to censor constitutionally protected speech; libraries and bookstores struggling to comply with the vague mandates of the law; and bookstore and library patrons being faced with rapid erosion of their access to constitutionally protected material, without procedural protections allowing them to advocate for retention of challenged material.
The lawsuit is challenging two of Act 372's six sections, including a new Class A misdemeanor offense for furnishing a harmful item to a minor. Library personnel and others could face criminal prosecution and up to a year in jail if they "knowingly" lend an item deemed harmful to minors based on existing obscenity law.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs have dubbed that the "availability provision."
"This will necessarily force libraries and bookstores to confine to a secure 'adults only' area -- and so to segregate from their general patrons and customers -- any item that might be deemed harmful to the youngest minor, even if there is no constitutional basis for limiting its availability to older minors or adults," according to the lawsuit.
The previous law had a "safe harbor" or immunity defense for public libraries and schools, but the new law will strip away those protections, the attorneys claim.
The second challenged section establishes procedures for people to challenge the appropriateness of library material made available to the public.
Successful challenges could result in the material being "relocated within the library's collection to an area that is not accessible" to minors, according to the law.
Should library officials refuse to move an item, their decision could be appealed to the local city council in the case of a municipal library, or quorum court in the case of a county library.
Court filings on behalf of the plaintiffs refer to the section as the "challenge procedure." A separate section of the law establishes a similar challenge process for school districts.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the legislation March 30. The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas on June 2. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/sides-still-waiting-for-ruling-in-lawsuit-over/ | 2023-07-29T07:21:56 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/sides-still-waiting-for-ruling-in-lawsuit-over/ |
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