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Thank you from the Glen Lake Women’s Club
The Glen Lake Women’s Club’s July 19 Art Fair was a huge success, thanks to the generous support of our local businesses and community members.
With such beautiful weather, hundreds of visitors shopped through the fair to find that perfect treasure. The annual, juried Art Fair includes artists who represent a wide variety of one-of-a-kind art pieces, including pottery, painting, textiles, woodworking and jewelry.
Proceeds from the Art Fair provide scholarships for Glen Lake Community School students attending Northwestern Michigan College. Since 1980, the Glen Lake Woman’s Club has awarded more than $325,000 to 245 students.
The Glen Lake Women’s Club, a 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 1937 with the goal of fostering social, civil and education projects. The charter members adopted as their slogan: "If you wish to live in a better place, better the place in which you live."
For more information about the Glen Lake Women’s Club, the Art Fair or scholarship program, visit the Art Fair Facebook page or the Glen Arbor Chamber of Commerce website at https://www.visitglenarbor.com.
Kathy Cole
Glen Lake Woman’s Club president
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After nearly five years, the Big Peanut statue has returned to Ashburn, Ga. The original roadside attraction went down during Hurricane Michael. The new one is stronger and locally crafted.
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After nearly five years, the Big Peanut statue has returned to Ashburn, Ga. The original roadside attraction went down during Hurricane Michael. The new one is stronger and locally crafted.
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By Kirk Chase
My lab does a variety of analyses for point-of-sale mortgages where we analyze for nitrate/nitrite most of the time.
Since 2009, I changed the method used so that it allowed me to see sulfate too, even when it was not asked for.
Gradually, over the years, I noticed high sulfate levels that had come from addresses within the Antrim Shale formation.
At first, it was a rare occurrence because the amount of mortgage samples, compared to today, was very low. As of 2023, the number of mortgage samples has increased substantially, including samples from southeastern Michigan and north middle Ohio. Sure enough, addresses within the Antrim Shale formation there had elevated sulfate.
So what’s going on in the Antrim Shale formation?
This formation is unique from its neighbors; it contains a large amount of pyrite (iron disulfide). When this comes into contact with water, the dissolved oxygen in the water turns it to hematite, or similar iron oxides, and releases sulfate. The amount of sulfate is varied over the formation.
There are obviously spots that are void of pyrite and/or lack of dissolved oxygen. Much more data is needed to pinpoint the hot spots’ boundaries.
Samples from the boundary of the formation are elevated, but under the MCL (Maximum Contaminate Level) of 250 ppm.
How bad is it? According to the EPA, elevated sulfate above the MCL of 250 ppm can cause diarrhea — that’s it.
But higher levels of sulfate mean higher levels of sulfuric acid, making the water acidic and dissolving heavy metals out of pipes.
Sulfate is naturally occurring in a certain geological formation that rings the state of Michigan. But sulfate at these higher levels is like diluted battery acid.
What can be done to treat this water?
Various Google searches suggest adding lime to neutralize the acid and filter, but within an industrial plant. Salt-water softeners will not stop sulfate from coming out. These only take out cations; sulfate is an anion. Commercial home filters will most likely fail quickly because there is too much sulfate. So there’s no good answer.
I am raising awareness about this. Even though I have been monitoring this for years, I did not have enough data until now to provide disclosure of it.
But I feel the general public, and those with wells in this area, should be informed.
About the author: Kirk Chase is an analytical chemist and part owner of Grand Traverse Analytical. He obtained a bachelor of science degree in chemistry/mathematics from Central Michigan University in 1984. He has 39 years of experience at a variety of environmental/drinking water labs. | https://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/opinion-about-sulfate-in-the-antrim-shale-geological-formation/article_a846e9ae-2aea-11ee-8ae7-cb2f9f9c48c5.html | 2023-07-30T13:43:14 | 0 | https://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/opinion-about-sulfate-in-the-antrim-shale-geological-formation/article_a846e9ae-2aea-11ee-8ae7-cb2f9f9c48c5.html |
The House Republicans who craft the conference’s government funding bills are showing signs of frustration as hard-line conservatives pressure leadership for further cuts to spending that some worry could be too aggressive.
Some of the 12 Appropriations subcommittee chairs — the so-called cardinals — told reporters that they are struggling to see where those additional cuts could come from, as September’s shutdown deadline looms.
“I just don’t see the wisdom in trying to further cut to strengthen our hand. I don’t know how that strengthens our hand,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), a House Appropriations subcommittee chairman, said of conservatives’ push to further cut the already-scaled-back spending bills.
“I do think it puts some of our members in a very difficult spot, particularly those in tough districts, because they’re going to be taking some votes that become problematic,” he added.
The House left Washington for a long summer recess Thursday after being forced to punt a bill to fund agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
Conservatives are dug in on their demand for steeper spending cuts, to the chagrin of moderates who are wary of slashing funding even more. The chamber has passed just one appropriations bill, funding military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The internal divisions are gripping the party as time is running out: The House has just 12 days in September to move the remaining 11 appropriations measures and hash out their disagreements with the Senate, which is marking up its spending bills at higher levels, setting the scene for a hectic fall that could bring the U.S. to the brink of a shutdown.
Those dynamics are putting GOP appropriators in a bind, leaving them searching for ways to appease conservative requests without gutting their spending bills.
“We’ve done a lot of cuts, a lot of cuts,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) told The Hill this week. “And so if it’s cuts just for cut’s sake, I don’t agree with it. But if it’s something that we can do without, that’s fine.”
‘Not a lot of wiggle room left’
Republican appropriators in the House announced earlier this year that they would mark up their bills for fiscal 2024 at fiscal 2022 levels, as leaders sought to placate conservatives who thought the debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) earlier this year didn’t do enough to curb spending.
The Senate is crafting its bills more in line with the budget caps agreed to in the deal, but House Republicans are already fuming about a bipartisan deal in the upper chamber that would allow for more than $13 billion in additional emergency spending on top of those levels.
House GOP negotiators also said they would pursue clawing back more than $100 billion in old funding that was allocated for Democratic priorities without GOP support in the previous Congress.
While that move drew support from hard-line conservatives, the right flank was far from pleased when it heard appropriators planned to repurpose that old funding — known as rescissions — to plus-up the spending bills.
In a letter to McCarthy earlier this month, a group of hard-line conservatives called for all 12 appropriations bills to be in line with fiscal 2022 spending levels “without the use of reallocated rescissions to increase discretionary spending above that top-line.”
Otherwise, the 21 lawmakers threatened, they would vote against the measures. But that request could prove difficult for GOP appropriators to fulfill.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), chairman of the panel that proposes funding for the Department of State and foreign operations, said that appropriators are already “dramatically reducing spending,” suggesting that there are not too many remaining areas to trim from.
“My bill is below the 2016 levels,” he said, later adding, “When you’re below the 2016 level — and we’re still confronting China — I think there’s not a lot of wiggle room left.”
“It’s a challenge, but I think we’ll get through it. I really do,” he added.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who heads the subcommittee that oversees funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, scoffed at the idea of even steeper cuts to his bill.
“Then you just drop it on the floor and stomp on it. What else do you do with it?” he told reporters. “You can’t make logical cuts in there.”
Republicans appropriators are voicing optimism that the conference will be able to sort out its differences on spending, but some also hope their levels will stick — even though they include rescissions.
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) — whose panel handles funding for the Department of Energy, which is proposing offsetting billions of dollars in spending with clawbacks — said it would be “extremely difficult” to craft his bill without the rescinded funds.
“And given our priorities in my bill, national defense with the nuclear weapons portfolio, nuclear cleanup, Army Corps including, all the community-directed fundings, I feel good about my bill, and I hope my numbers hold,” he said.
“Because it’s gonna have to be in negotiations with the Senate and the White House as well,” he added.
Womack — whose subcommittee crafts funding for the IRS and the Treasury Department — said he doesn’t think “moving the goalposts on these numbers is helpful in strengthening our ability to negotiate with the Senate.”
August preparations for a busy September
Frustrations among appropriators are bubbling up as Congress inches closer to the fall, when lawmakers are facing a Sept. 30 deadline to approve funding or risk a government shutdown.
With time running out, some House lawmakers say conversations may continue over the long August recess to try to hash out remaining differences.
“We’ll have to see,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when asked about potential plans for talks between leaders and House Freedom Caucus members over the break. “I mean, we got a lot of work to do.”
“I think a lot of work [has] got to be done behind the scenes,” he said. “If not, you know, here — You gotta beg the question about whether we should be gone for six weeks. We should be getting our job done.”
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) echoed that sentiment, saying “I would think so” when asked if lawmakers will have conversations over the break.
Adding to the August workload, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) suggested earlier this week that bicameral negotiations could take place over the weeks-long recess as lawmakers stare down the shutdown deadline.
Not all Republicans, however, are viewing a shutdown as a risk.
During a House Freedom Caucus press conference this week, Good said “we should not fear a government shutdown,” claiming that “most of what we do up here is bad anyway; most of what we do up here hurts the American people.”
But that perspective does not jive with the view of McCarthy, who declared Thursday: “I don’t want the government to shut down.”
Multiple Republicans are ultimately expecting Congress to eventually pass what’s known as a continuing resolution (CR), or a measure that temporarily allows the government to be funded at the previous fiscal year’s levels, to prevent a lapse at the end of September.
But they also understand the task could be difficult in the GOP-led chamber, where Republicans aren’t happy about the idea of continuing funding at the current levels — which were last set when Democrats held control of Congress.
“I think there’s a very good chance that we’ll see a CR, but I know there’s a lot of work to get a CR done,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), another appropriator, said Thursday, noting there are “a lot of members that don’t want CRs that are tired of them.”
But Aderholt suggested a CR could notch sufficient GOP backing if there’s a larger plan in sight that the party can support.
“The Speaker’s been very good about having a plan,” he said, adding, “I think that’s what he’s good at, and I’m optimistic that he can come up with something.”
Emily Brooks contributed. | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/frustration-emerges-among-gop-spending-cardinals-as-conservatives-push-for-cuts/ | 2023-07-30T13:43:15 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/frustration-emerges-among-gop-spending-cardinals-as-conservatives-push-for-cuts/ |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of California, Berkeley, digital forensics expert Hany Farid about a recent political ad that used an AI-cloned vocal clip.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of California, Berkeley, digital forensics expert Hany Farid about a recent political ad that used an AI-cloned vocal clip.
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MAPLE CITY — Ruby Hogan was a rock star in her four years at Glen Lake.
During her senior season, the mega-talented, multi-sport athlete helped the No. 1-ranked Division 4 Glen Lake girls basketball team to the program’s first state championship since 1978 while surpassing 1,000 career points.
Hogan immediately transitioned her energy to soccer and track and field — and dominated in both. It’s no shock to her coaches that she was her best in all three sports.
“We call her the energizer bunny,” former Glen Lake girls basketball coach Jason Bradford said. “Her defense and tenacity are all over the place, and she is always giving 110 percent on the floor.”
For her hard work on and off the playing field, Hogan has been named the Record-Eagle Female Athlete of the Year for the 2022-23 school year. What better way to find out the news than with a call from a family figure like coach Bradford?
“I forgot about the award for a second,” Hogan said, laughing. “It’s been a goal of mine since sophomore year, so it was cool to hear, especially from coach Bradford because he was just as excited as I was.
“I think the Female Athlete of the Year award is cooler than all the other awards because it’s based on how well you’ve excelled in multiple sports, and that’s what I wanted to do during my time at Glen Lake.”
Hogan not only excelled, but dominated, in all three sports.
“That’s just how I’ve always been,” Hogan said. “A driven person, especially in athletics. I like to do things, but if I am going to commit to something, I’m putting my best foot forward.”
The Lakers have been on the brink of a title for the past three years, but have always fallen short — until this season. In the last 15 years, Glen Lake made five Final Four appearances, including this year’s Division 4 state title run.
Hogan’s final basketball season was one for the history books.
The first-team all-state honoree was a rebound shy of a triple-double in the state semifinals game against Adrian Lenawee Christian, but she got subbed out with under a minute remaining.
Hogan didn’t realize until after the game that she was so close to that accomplishment, but that didn’t matter much to the team-first player.
After winning the state title at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Hogan was named the Division 4 Associated Press Girls Basketball Player of the Year.
“Every single game, she was performing at the top of her game, and the whole tournament run was something special — from her defense to passing — all of them are special,” Bradford said.
Bradford has known Hogan since she was little because of his daughters, Grace and Maddie Bradford, who are good friends with Hogan. Bradford said watching Hogan grow and get to where she is today was cool to witness.
Hogan is two years younger than her older brother, Finn, and she recalled watching him get better at what he loves giving her motivation. Ruby was able to watch her brother for two seasons before he graduated.
“I’ve learned a lot from my parents and brother with sports,” Hogan said. “My brother has a big work ethic and is a hard worker, and I observed that from him. You have to put in the work if you want to succeed, so you can’t just sit back and wait.”
Hogan’s dad helped kickstart the “energizer bunny” by telling her never to quit, no matter how tired she may be, and when she gets tired, don’t show it because it can give the opponents the upper hand.
“I do get tired, but I also have good stamina,” Hogan said. “My dad always tells me everyone else around you is tired. So, if you can beat a person who has more energy, that’s how you excel in sports.”
During the championship run in basketball, there were games that left Hogan’s entire face red after games from leaving everything on the floor for her team.
In the regional final game against Gaylord St. Mary, the Lakers needed to pull themselves out of the 10-point deficit heading into halftime.
Hogan stepped off Traverse City West’s gym floor exhausted after scoring 14 points with eight assists, six rebounds and five steals while playing for 32 minutes to help the Lakers get back to the D4 state quarterfinals for the second straight season. Hogan said after the game that her adrenaline kept her engaged.
Glen Lake girls soccer coach Eric Luthardt noted that Hogans’ work ethic is something future athletes in the area can adapt if they want to strive to be the best.
“There are two things about Ruby; she takes care of herself physically and mentally, so she is prepared, and she knows what she can do,” Luthardt said. “She never has an off game and is doing every drill at practice even if it’s simple. She does it over and over until it’s perfect.”
The Kalamazoo College commit has been a three-sport athlete since her sophomore year. She joined cross country her sophomore year before switching to track and field her junior year.
Hogan often practices by herself because soccer and track practice are almost at the same time.
“There’s a difference between a good player and a great player,” Luthardt said. “A good player does all the stuff at practice and does all the required stuff, a great player goes above and beyond.”
When she is done at track practice, she’ll warm up for soccer practice by getting more laps around the track — not because she has to, but because she knows doing that can set standards for others to follow.
Soccer came into Hogan’s life when she was 5 years old and was part of a club team that her dad coached before joining the North Stars in seventh grade. Just like her North Star teammate, Elk Rapids’ Lauren Bingham, Hogan tore up the soccer field.
“I love playing with (Lauren) because she has a lot of energy and is fast, too,” Hogan said.
Hogan scored 23 goals and 15 assists in 13 games this season. She had a game against Charlevoix in which she scored four goals and later had a five-assist effort against Kingsley.
Hogan recalled another game during her sophomore where she had a quadruple goal-scoring game.
Glen Lake girls soccer only had nine players on the team but their record this season doesn’t reflect that.
Hogan said coming off the championship run in basketball was a bit of a challenge to jump right into soccer, because of how well everything was going, but she wanted to make an impact on the field.
“I said, ‘What can I do to make this season the best for me and my teammates, even though we are down players and aren’t highlighted as much in the school?’” Hogan said.
The Lakers finished the season 10-2-1 overall record with a Northwest Conference title before falling short against Charlevoix in the district semifinals.
Many girls on the soccer team have been around each other for years, so making the best of the season wasn’t a challenge.
“I have a good group of girls that I have played with, so working with them every season is why we were able to make our team successful with just nine players,” Hogan said. “It was going to be a hard season, but our coaches helped make things work for us.”
When she wasn’t scoring goals and making things happen, she was putting in work on the track. Hogan has many memories that stick out during her two seasons on the track team, but she said breaking her 800-meter personal record this year at the Division 4 state finals is her favorite.
“I’ve worked with Ruby for several years, and she is an amazing athlete,” Glen Lake track and field coach Donna King said. “She works hard and is willing to put in the extra work and go that extra mile.”
Just like her favorite artists — Post Malone and Morgan Wallen — they wouldn’t have gotten to where they are today without their supporters. Hogan credits her family, friends, teammates and coaches for getting her to where she is today.
“I believe that everyone has something to teach you,” Hogan said. “Any teammates and coaches I’ve ever had, I’ve learned from.” | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/yours-truly-ruby-hogan-three-sport-athlete-glen-lake-star-ruby-hogan-captures-2023-record/article_270bdf26-0b95-11ee-8817-93f26d70d803.html | 2023-07-30T13:43:20 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/yours-truly-ruby-hogan-three-sport-athlete-glen-lake-star-ruby-hogan-captures-2023-record/article_270bdf26-0b95-11ee-8817-93f26d70d803.html |
Members of the mid-Columbia River tribes set off on an annual intertribal canoe journey after a three-year hiatus due to COVID. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 28, 2023.)
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Members of the mid-Columbia River tribes set off on an annual intertribal canoe journey after a three-year hiatus due to COVID. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 28, 2023.)
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More than 1,100 people have already been charged for their actions around Jan. 6 and many of them invoked Former President Donald Trump, who may also be indicted.
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More than 1,100 people have already been charged for their actions around Jan. 6 and many of them invoked Former President Donald Trump, who may also be indicted.
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The new charges against former Pres. Trump in the classified documents case are in a different legal league and there are hints he is also not politically immune from them either.
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The new charges against former Pres. Trump in the classified documents case are in a different legal league and there are hints he is also not politically immune from them either.
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The U.S. auto industry is experiencing unanticipated stumbles and challenges as it pivots to producing more electric vehicles, even as it makes large profits.
After nearly five years, the Big Peanut statue has returned to Ashburn, Ga. The original roadside attraction went down during Hurricane Michael. The new one is stronger and locally crafted. | https://www.wunc.org/2023-07-30/the-irs-will-no-longer-knock-on-doors-unannounced | 2023-07-30T13:43:50 | 0 | https://www.wunc.org/2023-07-30/the-irs-will-no-longer-knock-on-doors-unannounced |
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety is helping the Austin Police Department investigate at least one illegal street takeover event that happened in Austin late Saturday night.
Multiple takeover events were reported across town Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Twitter user CenTexScanner reported car meetup and takeover events at 8601 Research Blvd., 9900 S. IH-35 and at the intersection of Barton Springs Road and South Lamar Boulevard.
Texas DPS confirmed to KVUE that troopers were called to help investigate the incident on Research Boulevard Saturday night. Around 9:30 p.m., Texas DPS received reports from APD of approximately 100 cars gathered in a parking lot nearby. As troopers arrived, they observed a vehicle leaving and attempted to stop it. According to DPS, that driver took off and crashed into another vehicle. All three people who were in those two vehicles were taken to a local hospital.
Austin Police confirmed to KVUE that investigators were keeping an eye on the situation in South Austin Saturday night but have not provided any additional details about these incidents.
In recent months, local investigators have stepped up efforts to crack down on takeovers illegal street racing events. Similar incidents in February led to more than two dozen arrests by APD and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Governor Greg Abbott announced the creation of a statewide Street Takeover Task Force shortly after.
After the end of the regular legislative session, Governor Abbott also signed two bills into law that aim to help law enforcement crack down on takeovers. House Bill 1442 provides law enforcement and prosecutors more tools to pursue organized street racing and takeover events in Texas. House Bill 2899 allows for the immediate removal and impoundment of a vehicle involved in a takeover event.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/multiple-street-takeover-events-reported-in-austin-overnight/269-4501acbc-0275-451c-a023-3c1bc2e01cc1 | 2023-07-30T13:44:35 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/multiple-street-takeover-events-reported-in-austin-overnight/269-4501acbc-0275-451c-a023-3c1bc2e01cc1 |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T13:44:41 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
RYE, N.Y. -- Guests at an amusement park were left traumatized after a ride malfunctioned and would not stop spinning.
The incident happened at Rye Playland, an amusement park located just outside of New York City, on July 23.
Video obtained by Eyewitness News shows the Music Express ride carrying children and adults spinning in reverse. The ride reportedly continued to spin backwards for as long as 10 minutes.
Ride operators tried an emergency stop, but that didn't work. Maintenance crews had to be called to disconnect the power.
One rider said those 10 minutes felt like an eternity.
Park officials said the endless spinning was caused by an electrical malfunction. No injuries were reported.
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Shooting wounds 5 people in Michigan with 2 victims in critical condition, police say
Jul 30, 2023, 4:22 AM
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An early morning shooting Sunday in Michigan wounded five people, including two who were listed in critical condition, police said.
Officers responded to reports of a shooting around 1 a.m., the Lansing Police Department said in a statement.
The five victims who were transported to a hospital by the Lansing Fire Department ranged in age from 16 to 26 years old, police said.
There was a large crowd at the scene when officers arrived, prompting Lansing police to ask for assistance from other jurisdictions. Several people were detained, and officers found multiple firearms, police said.
In February, a gunman killed three students and injured five others in a shooting at Michigan State University in neighboring East Lansing. Students sheltered in place for four hours on the campus about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Detroit while hundreds of officers searched for the shooter. Suspect Anthony McRae, 43, killed himself when confronted by police near his home in Lansing. | https://mynorthwest.com/3914913/shooting-wounds-5-people-in-michigan-with-2-victims-in-critical-condition-police-say/ | 2023-07-30T13:45:18 | 1 | https://mynorthwest.com/3914913/shooting-wounds-5-people-in-michigan-with-2-victims-in-critical-condition-police-say/ |
A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Twins vs. Royals Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest that pits the Minnesota Twins (54-52) versus the Kansas City Royals (31-75) at Kauffman Stadium has a good chance to be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-3 in favor of the Twins. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Twins will give the nod to Kenta Maeda (2-5, 4.62 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 3 on the season, and the Royals will turn to Ryan Yarbrough (3-5, 4.70 ERA).
Twins vs. Royals Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 2:10 PM ET
- Where: Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri
- How to Watch on TV: BSKC
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Twins vs. Royals Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Twins 5, Royals 4.
Total Prediction for Twins vs. Royals
- Total Prediction: Under 9 runs
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Twins Performance Insights
- The Twins have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and have gone 4-4 in those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Minnesota and its opponents are 7-3-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Twins' last 10 games.
- The Twins have been favorites in 68 games this season and won 41 (60.3%) of those contests.
- Minnesota has entered 20 games this season favored by -175 or more and is 12-8 in those contests.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Twins have a 63.6% chance to win.
- Minnesota has scored the 17th-most runs in the majors this season with 469 (4.4 per game).
- The Twins have the seventh-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (3.88).
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How to Watch the Twins vs. Royals Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Kenta Maeda takes the mound for the Minnesota Twins on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium against Michael Massey and the Kansas City Royals. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET.
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Twins vs. Royals Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
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Twins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Twins rank eighth in MLB play with 140 home runs. They average 1.3 per game.
- Minnesota is 13th in MLB with a .413 slugging percentage.
- The Twins have the 21st-ranked batting average in the majors (.237).
- Minnesota ranks 17th in runs scored with 469 (4.4 per game).
- The Twins rank 20th in baseball with a .315 on-base percentage.
- Twins hitters strike out 10.4 times per game, the most in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Minnesota has a collective 9.7 K/9, the first-best in MLB.
- Minnesota's 3.88 team ERA ranks seventh across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Twins have the lowest WHIP in the majors (1.185).
Twins Probable Starting Pitcher
- Maeda (2-5 with a 4.62 ERA and 58 strikeouts in 48 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Twins, his 11th of the season.
- His last appearance was on Monday against the Seattle Mariners, when the right-hander tossed 6 1/3 innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing six hits.
- Maeda is seeking his third quality start in a row.
- Maeda will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.8 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearance this season in which he did not surrender an earned run.
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Twins vs. Royals: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Kansas City Royals (31-75) will play the Minnesota Twins (54-52) at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, July 30 at 2:10 PM ET. Currently sitting at 29 steals, Bobby Witt Jr. will be looking to swipe his 30th stolen base of the year.
The favored Twins have -185 moneyline odds against the underdog Royals, who are listed at +150. A 9-run total is set for the matchup.
Twins vs. Royals Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
- Probable Pitchers: Kenta Maeda - MIN (2-5, 4.62 ERA) vs Ryan Yarbrough - KC (3-5, 4.70 ERA)
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Twins vs. Royals Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
Here's a look at the odds, run line and over/under for this matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
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Twins vs. Royals Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Twins have been favored 68 times and won 41, or 60.3%, of those games.
- The Twins have an 11-7 record (winning 61.1% of their games) when they have played as moneyline favorites of -185 or shorter.
- The implied probability of a win from Minnesota, based on the moneyline, is 64.9%.
- The Twins were the moneyline favorite for eight of their last 10 games, and they went 4-4 in those matchups.
- Over its last 10 outings, Minnesota and its opponents combined to go over the run total seven times (all 10 of the games had set totals).
- The Royals have been chosen as underdogs in 93 games this year and have walked away with the win 28 times (30.1%) in those games.
- This year, the Royals have won 11 of 42 games when listed as at least +150 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Royals have played as underdogs in 10 of their past 10 games and won three of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Kansas City and its opponents are 5-5-0 in the last 10 games with a total.
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Life is like a playbook for Peoria Fire Chief and avid hockey player Gary Bernard.
Before officially taking the title of fire chief last May, Bernard spent 31 years serving, protecting the city of Peoria. For Bernard, infernos, soot-covered boots, and unbearable heat were all part of his regular life. But so were ice rinks, sharp-bladed skates, and bitter cold.
Play 1: A successful beginning
Growing up in Ontario, Canada, Bernard began playing hockey at the age of 5. After more than a decade, Bernard was still playing hockey, and as it turns out, he had gotten pretty good at it.
At the age of 19, Bernard was offered a scholarship to play Division 1 Hockey in San Diego. He was recruited by the United States International University Gulls. After college Bernard went through various pro tryouts, including one with the Minnesota North Stars, who were then coached by Herb Brooks.
A series of cuts eventually led Bernard to a triumphant yes when he found himself in North Carolina playing for the Carolina Thunderbirds.
Play 2: A change of pace
Following his brief stint in the minors, Bernard decided to settle down as he started a real job at Smitty's grocery store in Peoria.
While he was working at Smitty’s, Bernard decided to give hockey another shot. This time, he would try out for the Phoenix Roadrunners.
In preparation for tryouts, Bernard ran into a firefighter from Station 191 at the hockey rink. Before this moment the hockey player hadn't thought much about firefighting, yet just two years later he was hired on at the station in Peoria, the beginning of an era.
Play 3: Fire and ice
While firefighting is a dangerous career, Bernard found the transition to be, well, relatable. The now-chief says fighting blazing fires reminds him a lot of skating in chilly arenas.
Though of course, Bernard was not referring to the extreme differences in temperature, which can range from 60 F in an ice rink to 600 F in a fire, he rather noted the similarities amongst each environment's intensity.
“I grew up playing hockey, and it (firefighting) seemed like it related a lot to hockey to me,” Bernard said.
The comparison is one Bernard shares often, according to Edward Georgevich, a fellow hockey player.
Georgevich, who now leads alongside Bernard as the head hockey coach at Mountain Ridge High School, shared that "Gary brings hockey and firefighting together."
"Although one might not immediately draw a line between playing hockey and fighting fires, our players are able to see a direct connection between the two experiences," Georgevich said.
Play 4: Part of a team
“I think the hockey mirrors the fire department pretty close,” Bernard emphasized.
He described the concept like this: In both hockey and a fire department, there is a group of individuals with a mission. There are five people on the ice at a time. There are four, sometimes five, people in the fire truck at a time.
“Everybody on the ice has a job to do. Everybody in the fire truck has a job to do.”
In order to complete the mission, you have to understand everyone else’s roles, whether that be to assist your teammate in getting the puck across the red line or standing by waiting for your engineer to release the water.
“If they miss something," Bernard started, "then you know what they're supposed to get and you’re able to back them up and just complete the mission."
Both in hockey and firefighting, a person can’t complete their mission without having a sort of mental strength, yet another similarity Bernard noted between the two seemingly polar opposites.
“The mental aspect of how fast you have to make decisions when you are playing hockey is the same thing as on the fire ground,” Bernard said. “In hockey we have plays. In the fire department we have plays.”
While the standard operating procedures of firefighting are inherently a little different than the typical plays within a hockey match, both are executed in a quick manner that is intended to result in a nearly immediate game- or life-saving outcome.
Bernard set up an example of getting a call to attend to a house fire.
“There’s certain things that have to get done out of the playbook,” he said.
As the firefighters start getting closer to that call, their play tends to change based on the information they have now as compared with what was provided initially. Though, they have to act quickly to stay safe and protect those involved.
In hockey, you are always wondering where the puck is going to go, and who it will get to next. In a fire, you have to consider where the fire is going to spread and anticipate where it will end up.
Another similarity Bernard noted was the process of moving up in the ranks. In hockey, for instance, players join the team and often keep quiet; then the longer they are with the team, they begin to take on more of a leadership role.
Play 5: The chief
The same has proven true for Bernard and his career with the Peoria Fire Department. In his third year, Bernard was promoted to engineer, in his fifth year captain, in his twenty-fourth year deputy chief, and now fire chief.
The chief shared an analogy that suggested that growing up in any organization comes with varying levels of protection. When you first enter the organization, you have no protection, no one knows who you are. But, “as you do things right,” the chief explained, “you get a little piece of armor.”
“Then after 30 years, hopefully you get so much armor that you do something that isn't quite right, you don’t get injured.”
After almost 32 years of service, the chief is covered in armor, including, of course, his hockey helmet.
While he no longer physically fights fires, Bernard sits tucked into a corner office with a Wayne Gretzky jersey hanging over his desk. And though he rarely slides into his worn bunker boots, he still frequently laces up his ice skates.
“I play pickup every Friday,” Bernard shared.
Pickup is a sort of informal hockey game, where the rules and regulations are less strict as opposed to those in league match.
And when it’s not Friday, Bernard can be found at the rink on most Sundays as he plays in a local men's league.
“We call it the NHL,” he paused. “The night hockey league, as opposed to the National Hockey League where we all wanted to go.”
The hockey does not stop there for Bernard, as he has spent the past 13 years as a volunteer coach for the Mountain Ridge High School hockey team.
"Gary shares his experiences and talks with our players to show that playing hockey is all about learning to work together as a team, and as a firefighter, relying on your team is key," Coach Georgevich said.
While no day is the same for the chief, he finds comfort in playing by the book.
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Phoenix to spend $39M on police bodycams as it settles $1M police shooting with mother
Phoenix approved a new $39 million contract for police body-worn cameras this summer, expanding the use of these cameras and the technology used to share footage from them.
Since the cameras came into widespread use in Phoenix five years ago, footage from the body-worn cameras has redefined what is normal in criminal justice circles. But their impact on police shootings and police complaints remains contentious, and how to best use the pricey technology remains unclear.
Today more than 90% of the largest U.S. law enforcement departments with 500 or more officers use body-worn cameras. Phoenix has been a forerunner in the use of body cameras since officers started testing the technology in 2013, according to Arizona State University criminologist Michael White.
Phoenix increased its use of cameras in 2019, after a record high number of police shootings in 2018 and a resulting barrage of calls for reform.
The flurry of deadly police shootings and the backlash against the arrests of protestors prompted the U.S. Justice Department to launch a wide-ranging investigation of the Phoenix Police Department, and for the city to hire Interim Chief Michael Sullivan.
Under Sullivan, who came from the Baltimore Police Department as a reformer under a similar probe, Phoenix will expand the use of bodycam technology in the name of transparency. The new contract was approved in June.
In October 2020, bodycam-wearing Phoenix police answered a domestic violence call at the home of Lillian Cocreham in central Phoenix.
The call ended with police shooting and killing George and Emmett Cocreham, the adult sons of Lillian. The majority of the call was caught on body camera video, which played a part in an internal review of the shooting, but it did little to settle what happened that night.
Phoenix was an early adopter of bodycams
In 2013 the Phoenix Police Department gave cameras to 56 officers patrolling Maryvale.
The Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University published a study in 2014 that tracked some of the most significant impacts of those cameras. According to the study, the number of community complaints that were filed declined for the 56 officers, while complaints increased with other officers in the same precinct.
Arrests by those same 56 officers went up.
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The study also noted that the most common types of calls recorded involved domestic violence reports. The recorded domestic violence cases lead to prosecutors being 10% more likely to charge a crime and 3% more likely to get a guilty verdict, according to the study.
However, the study flagged the need for more officer compliance in turning the cameras on.
“Fewer than 50 percent of incidents were recorded by officers who had been assigned a body camera,” the study found.
The study concluded that the cameras had benefited the department and the community.
A decade later, some of those early findings still hold true; others do not.
On Oct. 20, 2020, Lillian Cocreham called a nonemergency line to get help with her son Emmett Cocreham, who was having an angry outburst due to a lapse in medication.
She told The Arizona Republic in an interview that she waited on the phone for 45 minutes trying to get a crisis counselor before having to call 911.
On a recording of the call, she is heard telling the operator that she was scared her son would hurt her and kill her.
A man in the background of her call sounds menacing, cursing at Lillian, and telling her to “tell them to come over,” and “we’re ready, come on, bring it on.”
A pair of officers arrive at the house at about 8:45 p.m. The officers turn on their body cameras.
Charging criminal cases
The new city contract includes upgraded cameras and an improved system for storing and sharing the video evidence they record.
The new contract will come with unlimited cloud storage and a management system that makes sharing that footage easier with other agencies. Something that prosecutors in the 2014 ASU study complained took too long.
Even with the footage issues, the number of days it took to dismiss domestic violence cases dropped by about 30 days and getting guilty pleas dropped by 90 days, the 2014 study showed.
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell told The Arizona Republic that the initial problems with sharing footage were no longer an issue.
The process has been streamlined. What remains a broader problem is having staff go through each piece of footage to redact victim or witness information before entering it as evidence or discovery.
The office doubled its staff for this work to 24 this year.
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Mitchell explained that the usefulness of the footage still remains limited.
Most crimes don’t happen on camera, and when the camera captures some of the crime, prosecutors have to deal with narrow fields of vision and mixed recording quality, she said.
Mitchell added that educating a jury about what footage can and can’t offer has become a part of the prosecutor's job.
She said most people, and most juries, don't understand the camera limitations and need to be guided through footage used in court.
Still, MCAO's policy remains: If the crime is caught on video, "every effort should be made to view that video, if at all possible, prior to charging it," Mitchell said.
In some of the crimes that are captured on camera, including domestic violence calls, assaults against police or DUI stops, the footage helps capture what can’t be expressed in a report or in testimony, according to Mitchell.
“It just takes the emotion of the moment, the stress of the moment out of the equation and, understanding the limitations of cameras, we can see with our own eyes what happened,” she said.
As more footage becomes available, her office will continue to see its further use in court.
The bodycam footage from the Cocreham shooting starts when officers begin talking to Lillian outside her home. In the video, she tells the officer that her son Emmett wants to kill her.
This footage was edited down, narrated and published online by Phoenix police through a Critical Incident Briefing.
On the tape, Lillian sounds panicked as she tells police that Emmett and George are in the house. The video shows her blurred-out face talking to one of the officers. It’s dark, and what is most clear is the house windows from which light pours out.
She warns the officers that they shouldn’t go into the house because they might get attacked.
The police ask if there were any weapons in the house. She says she doesn't know.
Lillian goes back into the house to try and get Emmett to come out and talk to the officers, but this sets George off, and he starts yelling at her.
One officer reports that one of the brothers is looking through the windows with a flashlight and a handgun. The officer calls for backup.
It later turned out that the handgun was a BB gun that looked real, but police also found a rifle in the house.
After a cut, the video resumes in the back of the house with officers who are carrying rifles.
The officers shout at Emmett and George, who are at the back of the house. Officers keep yelling at them to get closer. There is some discussion about one of the brothers holding what might be a gun, but guns are never clearly visible in the video.
After one of the brothers yells back at the police that he can’t hear what they are commanding, both brothers walk back into the house.
Minutes later, Emmett walks from the side of the house toward the back door. Then one police officer shouts, “He’s got a …” as George opens the back door.
“Oh, oh!” one officer shouts. He fires his gun. Both brothers are seen falling.
The Maricopa County Attorney's office closed the criminal investigation into the case in April 2022, without filing charges.
But that didn't end the legal saga.
Complaints
National studies show that agencies that adopt body-worn cameras have seen a decrease in community complaints, much like the 2014 study in Phoenix reported a drop in complaints with the officers wearing cameras.
White explained that the reasons behind the drops are not immediately obvious.
It could be because people are less likely to make frivolous complaints against officers with cameras, or it could be that officers are less likely to act inappropriately knowing that a camera is on, White said.
The department said that a big part of its commitment to transparency and accountability comes from a review of the footage.
”Videos are routinely reviewed by first line supervisors, Quality Assurance supervisors, the Compliance and Oversite Bureau, the Professional Standards Bureau, the Body Worn Camera unit and Executive Staff members,” Phoenix Police Sergeant Phil Krynsky wrote in an email to the Arizona Republic.
The department reviews both successful and “challenging” interactions and applies what they learn to evolve training, Krynsky explained.
Lillian Cocreham filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city in September 2021. In her complaint, she details what happened that night and a list of reasons she believed that the shooting could have been prevented.
Most notably, the complaint said, there was no “objective evidence, photo or video that proved that George was holding a gun” when police opened fire on both sons.
Effect on police shootings
Nationally, one of the most commonly researched impacts of body-worn cameras has been their effects on police shootings.
But studies are divided on what effects, if any, cameras have on the rate of police shootings.
A study conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago between 2015 and 2019 found that implementing cameras had no significant effect on the use of force in the 800 law enforcement agencies that participated in the study.
But White has been persuaded that cameras have had a positive effect, based on other studies.
“Just over half of the 30 studies have found reductions in use of force,” he said.
It’s not an overwhelming number, but he believes analyzing the conflicting reports will reveal more about how each police department is affected by the use of cameras.
Since the widespread introduction of cameras in Phoenix, the rate of police shootings per 100,000 people has climbed from 0.9 in 2019 to 1.4 in 2022, according to data pulled from Phoenix and the Census Bureau.
Since 2017, criminal charges against police officers for murder or manslaughter have been increasing nationally year over year. The highest number of charges came in 2021 with 21 charges, according to a study by Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
The number of fatal police shootings has also increased year over year for the last five years. In 2022 there were 1,242 people killed in police shootings in the U.S., according to a database managed by Mapping Police Violence.
Jesse Showalter is a local attorney who represents families of police shooting victims and deaths in custody. He said he isn't sure if the number of civil cases against police has gone up, but camera footage has increased the ability to have a successful outcome in the cases, whether via settlement or courtroom win.
He said that camera footage has also played a significant role in deciding if he can take a case to trial.
“I routinely turn down cases because I review the body-worn camera, and I’m able to see from that body-worn camera that, legally, there is not a strong case to be brought,” Showalter said.
Cameras have changed our expectations in the short time they have been incorporated. Everyone expects officers to have a bodycam at this point, and so do juries, he said.
Mitchell explained that the prosecutor's office does something similar when reviewing cases against officers in criminal court.
When it comes to shootings involving police, her office reviews each piece of footage extensively.
“I absolutely think it has a significant impact on either the decision to charge or not charge,” she said.
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While the footage may not be the definitive evidence in these cases, they add something, whether it’s audio or visual, she said.
“One thing that it really conveys to people is just how quickly these things happen and how quickly we are asking our law enforcement to make these very, very split-second decisions,” she said.
Ben Laughlin of Poder in Action, a community organization that works with families whose loved ones have been shot by police, is upset at how police departments use bodycam footage.
He said it is often first presented through Critical Incident Briefings, in which police use the footage to justify their actions rather than hold themselves accountable.
Critical Incident Briefings, like the one in the Cocreham case, are narrated by police public affairs officers by providing information pulled from police reports and offering an interpretation of what took place based on the initial investigation.
These briefing videos are made for every police-involved shooting in Phoenix within 14 days of the incident.
But there have been times when those narratives fall flat, as new information comes to light, according to Showalter.
“I think body cameras have resulted in some acknowledgment that police should not necessarily be taken at their word,” he said.
Two years and seven months after her sons' shooting, Lillian Cocreham walked past the bullet holes in her home and complained about two things: police didn’t tell her immediately that her sons had been killed, and they had initially told her that one son had shot another.
In the Critical Incident Briefing, the officer narrating said that “evidence suggested” that George had fired a rifle.
About a month after their deaths, detectives came to Lillian and admitted that officers had killed both sons, she said.
The two officers who had fired at the brothers were Officer Adrian Juarez and Officer Laker Dohan, according to court records.
The city decided to settle the case, and in June the City Council approved a $1 million payment to the family.
The Police Department’s Professional Standards Bureau started an internal investigation that remains open.
Bodycam footage offers mixed value
After other shootings, the footage, as presented now, does more harm than good, Laughlin said, suggesting that maybe we shouldn’t be pouring more money into the program, especially when there are so many other needs our communities have.
Roger Smith of Phoenix's Office of Accountability and Transparency said his department had made good use of the footage.
His office monitors the quality of investigations conducted over police shootings and other complaints against police conduct.
Monitors in his office use the footage to determine if the questions investigators asked were sufficient and if the witnesses they interviewed were the right ones.
Camera footage lets them see who was there and determine if investigators talked to the most relevant people.
They can catch anything investigators missed using camera footage, he said.
“You see a lot of things in terms of the officers' behavior, the civilians' behavior and the circumstances of the incident that need to be asked about in the course of the investigation. You get to ask better questions, because you're seeing those body cameras,” he said.
Smith explained that cameras have been doing what people expected from them, but it is the response to the footage where people are falling behind.
“This is the situation that sort of bugs me constantly, is the situation where you look at a body camera footage, or a piece of body camera footage, and everybody can agree, what we just looked at. And somehow the response is deficient,” he said.
Smith said he hopes to see more policy change and public outcry from what footage does reveal.
Laughlin agrees that the response needs to be improved.
He said that he has never seen the city take the available footage and do a comprehensive investigation.
He thinks the ongoing U.S. Department of Justice investigation could potentially be the first time Phoenix footage gets investigated on a large scale.
The Police Department turned over 19,800 body-worn camera videos to the Department of Justice as it continued its investigation into the department.
According to White, 95% of all the footage recorded by law enforcement agencies goes unseen.
The next step for agencies is figuring out how to use the unseen footage best.
Under the new contract, police will increase the capacity to upload an unlimited amount of footage from the cameras and store it on a cloud service.
Expectations and doubts
Phoenix police’s biggest assets remain to be the men and women who routinely demonstrate hard work, determination, dedication, and resolve to bring justice to victims, according to Krynsky.
The new $39 million technology will help officers work more efficiently, he said.
Krynsky points out that “the increased level of efficiency equates to savings in both investigative time, administrative costs, and an increased availability of department staff and resources.”
For Laughlin and the families of some police shooting victims, the cost of this technology doesn’t make up for the limited accountability they feel is provided.
They believe that exposure to violent policing comes more often from community members using their phone cameras than from body cameras.
Just look at what happened in George Floyd’s case, Laughlin said.
Showalter said that even in cases where video is available, people will more readily believe the story they tell themselves about what happened than what they see.
He singled out the Philip Brailsford case, where Brailsford, a Mesa police officer, was charged with the second-degree murder of Daniel Shaver in 2016 after he shot Shaver in the hallway of a motel. Brailsford was found not guilty, but footage of what happened was captured on police body cameras.
“People look at that video and can still become just convinced that it shows a certain thing and then another half of people will be convinced it shows the exact opposite,” he explained.
He said that his concern with cameras is the need for more audio in some of the footage.
The cameras that Phoenix uses have a 30-second advance recording from the point that an officer turns the camera on. But that 30 seconds is soundless.
Sometimes that little bit of audio tells more of the story than what is seen, according to Showalter.
Smith believes that the expectations society places on technology like cameras will never be met if people don’t use the footage to make the changes they wish to see.
“Why are we not responding properly and consistently to what we see in the body cameras? Why are we ignoring certain things that we see in the body cameras? Why are we not properly training the things that we can clearly identify are improper, that we see in body camera footage?” he asked.
Even though it was used in her lawsuit, Lillian Cocreham cannot bring herself to watch the footage from the night her sons died.
She listened to the audio during the depositions in her civil case, she said.
"I had to listen to the tape, but I can't watch the video." She said. She could hear her son asking the police to back up because he couldn't hear what they wanted from him.
She had hoped the video might have led to criminal charges, and even though there is an internal review still going on, she has lost faith in the process. She said that the lawsuit was the only thing she could think to do to expose what she saw as a faulty system.
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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In his three decades at ESPN, Karl Ravech has seen Major League Baseball go through many phases.
Ravech, the play-by-play announcer for the network’s “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast, said the sport’s current era favors the Orioles.
“It’s a young man’s game,” Ravech said. “There’s no doubt about it. Athleticism plays, and the Orioles have showed it.”
Baltimore has spent the past week as the best team in the American League, and Sunday’s game against the New York Yankees is a result of that success. The young Orioles — led by Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson and a cadre of other current or former top prospects — are hosting ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” for the first time in nearly five years.
The last time Camden Yards hosted the national broadcast was Aug. 26, 2018, when the last-place Orioles played the Yankees, a game Baltimore dropped en route to a 115-loss season. The circumstances will be much different Sunday night when Ravech commentators Eduardo Pérez, a 13-year MLB veteran, and David Cone, a former pitcher for the Yankees, announce the game from Oriole Park.
In conversations with The Baltimore Sun, Ravech, Pérez and Cone discussed the Orioles’ success, the trade deadline and whether Baltimore has what it takes to win the World Series this year. Questions and answers have been edited for brevity and clarity.
Obviously, the Orioles have been one of the majors’ best teams this season. What stands out to you about how they’re playing of late and how they’ve played all year?
Ravech: Well, you could kind of see it coming last year sort of towards July. I think all the teams in the American League East were above .500 at that point. Obviously, there was fading going on, but I think when [general manager] Mike Elias got hired there, I really do think the drafting of Rutschman, I’ve seen Adley play a lot of different levels, especially at the College World Series. I knew there was something very unique about his ability to put bat to ball, to play on a big stage and succeed on a big stage and certainly to bring a great deal of confidence to a pitching staff through his ability to call a game and, maybe more important, his reactions and interactions with the players.
We’ve obviously been at ESPN for a long time and have seen some catchers who have just been difference-makers, from Jason Varitek with the World Series in Boston to Buster Posey in San Francisco to [the Kansas City Royals’] Salvador Perez, most of those teams that have prolonged success have that guy behind the plate, and I think Rutschman changed the entire to a stratosphere that the Orioles are going to live in for several years.
Pérez: They’re beating the good teams. They’re beating the teams that are above .500, and they’re doing it in different ways. It’s not just one guy. Also what stands out is you’ve got the [second-lowest] payroll in the game but big-time talent. When you have players that believe in each other and you have the leadership of Adley behind the plate, you can tell that he’s been doing the work with pitching. That plays in a major way. This is a team that is hungry, it has a lot of talent at the minor league level, it’s got a lot of talent at the major league level. They’re not afraid to bring [the prospects] up. They brought him up and put him in positions to succeed.
Cone: I think the thing that stands out more than anything is there’s kind of this energy from their youth movement there that makes them really fun to watch. They have a good aura, a good energy about them. I think everybody has just taken note of the back of their bullpen. [Félix] Bautista is just so good, historically good. He just jumps right out at you when you look at the numbers, when you watch them play, when they get a lead. Other teams know it. The good teams I played on all had that. We had Mariano Rivera at the back end of our bullpen. You saw if you got a lead, you’re going to win, and I think the Orioles have that feeling now.
Have you been surprised at all about how good they’ve been this season and how quickly they’ve been able to go from the worst team in the majors two years ago to having the best record in the AL?
Ravech: It doesn’t happen a lot. I will say I think one of the valuable lessons we’ve learned through baseball the last few years is if you spend a lot of money it just about assures that you will be in a race — just about assures, it doesn’t guarantee it. And when you don’t spend a lot, it almost guarantees that you’re not. In the end, if you have the ability like Mike Elias and his staff have done and you draft players that are really good and you hit on them, prior to them demanding a lot of money and the system affording them the opportunity to make a lot of money, you have a chance to win.
They’re not all 21 or 22 [years old], some of them are, but Ryan O’Hearn has figured it out, and some organizations have unique abilities to take one one of these guys who had all the talent in the world, but it was almost like you were digging for oil and until you strike the right vein, you’re kind of flailing. They struck the right vein. He’s 30 years old, and he’s been a huge part of this.
Pérez: I’m not, and the reason I’m not is because I do know Mike Elias and Sig [Mejdal] really well. I was with them with the [Houston] Astros the year we lost 111 games, I was the bench coach. It was about the process, it was about identifying, it was about bringing in quality players, it was about bringing in a specific type of player. And all of a sudden, Baltimore was able to pluck those outliers and put them as the general manager and the assistant general manager and start the process. It would be ugly at the beginning, but if you look at the years, it’s pretty much almost mirrored at how success has happened in Baltimore and how it happened in Houston from the time that Jeff Luhnow took over and Sig and Mike were a part of their player development side of it.
When I look at it, they are actually right on point now. What the skeptics were wondering was whether in the American League East, can that play? Can that same recipe happen? I think there are a couple things that came into play in a major way. One was “Walltimore” that changed dramatically the way that pitchers are perceived there and the way guys approach their hitting, and the way that they’ve drafted and signed international players and [developed pitchers]. The other part is also the schedule. I think having a balanced schedule has played in their favor, even though, yes, they have beat a lot of teams that are above .500, they don’t have to go out and play 18 to 19 times against the same teams within the division.
Cone: I think the surprise was more last year. We kind of saw this coming after last year a little bit. We did the [Little League Classic], and I got a chance to talk to Brandon Hyde a little bit. You could just sense that he was excited about what they had there and what was coming. To me, it’s nice to see Brandon hang around for the good times because he went through the bad times. A lot of managers don’t get the chance to hang around for the turnaround after a rebuild. To me, he’s one of the most deserving managers around for what he’s done there and what he’s been through.
The trade deadline is two days away. Executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said the Orioles are operating as buyers with an eye on pitching. What do you think Baltimore should do at the deadline?
Ravech: I think every team that is currently in a race could use bullpen help. I don’t think it’s a surprise that the [Atlanta] Braves last year went out and got bullpen help late. I don’t think it’s a surprise that the Braves this year went out already and got two relievers. The Red Sox traded Kiké Hernández for two relievers.
As you know, teams approach the postseason differently. You will see a starter come out of the bullpen, we see it all the time, but as many arms as you can get would help. I don’t know what the Orioles get from John Means, if he’s anything, but it’s a nice name to have come back [from Tommy John elbow reconstruction] if he can be anything. If you really want to make a splash and the [New York] Mets are selling, I’m doing everything I can to bring [Justin] Verlander back to that Virginia area. It gives you a horse, it gives you experience, it’s a staff that could certainly use somebody like that.
Pérez: Look, they have the funds for it, right? With a $61 million payroll, they do definitely have the funds for it. The thing with this is that people sometimes don’t understand is they look at what they need now. But if you know that you have a really good shot in the postseason, it’s about making sure that you have the flexibility for your postseason roster. You have to protect yourself from any type of injury that happens in the next two months.
When you look at the Orioles, you have to look at the depth. They brought in Aaron Hicks, I think it played huge for them. But you still need those arms. You can never have enough of them. You have the top three arms in the bullpen, and they just added [Shintaro Fujinami] to it, you have him and [Yennier] Cano and Bautista. Those two guys have done great in the regular season with little to no experience in the postseason. So maybe look at the roster and say, ‘OK, do I need a veteran presence?’ I know those conversations are going to be had. The good thing is, Mike and Sig have experienced the postseason, so they know also how to build a postseason roster.
Cone: I guess the short answer is yes. I’ve seen what a front-line starter can do. You know the back end of the game is secure with Bautista and Cano. It’s a balance of power changer. Verlander from the [Detroit] Tigers to Houston in 2017. History is sort of littered with examples of that. A front-line start can be a difference-maker for them.
The Orioles are overachieving for the second straight year. Do you think they have what it takes to win a World Series this season?
Ravech: You have to look around, and when you look at the Houston Astros, who have a Framber Valdez, and you look at the Atlanta Braves, who have Spencer Strider and Max Fried, and you wonder if the Orioles are equipped to go up against those teams. And the answer to that question is you likely lose those games. You don’t necessarily have that ace, and I do think you need those power pitchers to win a World Series.
Pérez: They have the best record in the American League, don’t they? All you have to do is get your foot in the door. Sometimes it’s names that you expect to get hot. October is where heroes are made. You saw it with [Tampa Bay Rays left fielder Randy] Arozarena a couple years ago, we saw it with Kiké Hernández when he got hot, and I think we’ll continue to see it throughout the history of the game. Of course they have a chance, and so do the other [five] that get in in the American League.
Cone: Anything can happen, obviously. I know that’s kind of a cop-out answer. I don’t think anybody who watches the Orioles feel like they’re a finished product by any means. We know there are more prospects on the way, and we know there’s more to be done. This is really their first crack at being really serious contenders at the trade deadline to be able to add or have the wherewithal to add or be in a position to add. They’re not a finished product, but they can make some noise right now, absolutely.
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
The company says in documents posted by government safety regulators Friday that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the rear axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake without action from the driver, increasing the risk of a crash.
Drivers may see a parking brake warning light and a warning message on the dashboard.
Ford says in documents that it has 918 warranty claims and three field reports of wire chafing in North America. Of these, 299 indicated unexpected parking brake activation, and 19 of these happened while the trucks were being driven.
The company says it doesn’t know of any crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
Dealers will inspect the rear wiring harness. If protective tape is worn through, the harness will be replaced. If the tape isn’t worn, dealers will install a protective tie strap and tape wrap.
Owners will be notified by letter starting Sept. 11.
Owners with questions can call Ford customer service at (866) 436-7332. | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/ford-recalls-thousands-of-f-150-trucks-over-parking-break-issue.html | 2023-07-30T13:49:16 | 1 | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/ford-recalls-thousands-of-f-150-trucks-over-parking-break-issue.html |
DIY air conditioner: How to make yours with household items
Air conditioners can cause electricity bills to skyrocket in the summer. In fact, every degree lower an air conditioner is set translates to a 3% increase on cooling costs.
As a heat wave continues to scorch many parts of the U.S. this summer, here is something you can try to save money by building this simple, DIY homemade device to cool off.
Air conditioners can cause electricity bills to skyrocket in the summer. According to FOX Weather meteorologist Amy Freeze, every degree lower an air conditioner is set translates to a 3% increase on cooling costs.
By using a few items often found around the house, homeowners can create a thrifty "air conditioner" of sorts.
Here is how:
1. Gather your supplies.
You will need the following items:
- A Styrofoam cooler.
- A dryer vent.
- An electric fan.
- A knife with a jagged edge.
- Tape.
- Ice, frozen water bottles or anything that is cold.
2. Cut holes in the cooler.
On the lid of the cooler, carefully cut a hole roughly the size of the fan. On one side of the main cooler body, carefully cut another hole that is the size of your dryer vent. If your fan is large, you may cut out a second hole for a second dryer vent.
Once your holes are cut, use tape to affix the fan and vent onto their respective holes.
3. Place cold items in the cooler.
Pour your ice or place your frozen water bottles into the cooler. If you don’t have these items, feel free to use other items that are cold, such as frozen ice packs. These items will help create cool air.
4. Place lid onto the cooler and turn on fan
With all items in place, place the lid with the fan on it onto the cooler. Turn on the fan, and then enjoy the cool air that comes out of the vent. Our device measured the output of cool air at 57 degrees.
How a DIY air conditioner works
Your homemade air conditioner is able to produce cool air by way of a couple simple processes going on inside the cooler.
As the fan blows air onto the frozen items, it helps the water from the frozen items evaporate, according to FOX Weather meteorologist Aaron Barker. This evaporation is then blown through the vent as cool air.
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In contrast, a true or mechanical air conditioner creates cool air by stripping the humidity from the air and then blowing this "conditioned" air throughout a home. | https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/how-to-make-diy-air-conditioner-with-household-items | 2023-07-30T13:49:16 | 1 | https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/how-to-make-diy-air-conditioner-with-household-items |
A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Triple-digit temperatures bake over 40 million Sunday as heat wave lingers in the South, Southeast this week
Heat alerts remain in effect for more than 73 million Americans from the southern Plains to the Southeast as forecast high and “feels-like" temperatures reach the triple digits.
Relief from extreme temperatures in the Northeast and New England is on the way with the arrival of a cold front expected to sweep across the region this week, but hot weather is expected to remain across the southern half of the U.S. for at least the next several days.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, an area of high pressure that had been centered over the Southwest and south-central U.S. will reposition itself eastward as we get into the middle of the week, allowing temperatures in the Desert Southwest to finally ease and return to normal.
High temperatures will remain above 100 degrees, but there will be minor relief compared to the deadly heat that has been baking the region for weeks.
But the brutal heat and humidity remain for millions across the southern U.S..
Heat alerts remain across the South
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Heat alerts remain in effect for more than 73 million Americans from the southern Plains to the Southeast as forecast high and "feels-like" temperatures reach the triple digits.
There are areas under Excessive Heat Warnings, including southern Kansas and a portion of the Florida Panhandle. Heat Advisories encompass a much wider area from Texas and the southern Plains through the Deep South, Gulf Coast and into Florida.
Dallas and Houston are included in the Heat Advisories, as are New Orleans, Orlando, and Miami.
Hot weather remains across the South
The end of the weekend will remain extremely hot across the southern U.S., with more than 122 million Americans expected to see temperatures above average.
High temperatures in the upper 90s to around 100 degrees will be felt from Texas into the Mississippi Valley. However, the humidity will make it feel much warmer.
The feels-like temperatures will be well above 100 degrees across the South and Southeast.
Jacksonville, Florida and Tampa will feel like it's between 105-110 degrees on Sunday.
New workweek stays hot
Monday starts the new workweek. However, there’s nothing new about the temperatures in the South. Heat and humidity will make it feel extremely uncomfortable, with millions of people seeing a forecast high temperatures above 100 degrees across Texas and into portions of Oklahoma and along the Gulf Coast.
The feels-like temperatures will also be well above 100 degrees, and some areas will feel like it’s above 110 degrees, like in Corpus Christi, Texas and New Orleans.
Dallas and Tulsa will also feel like it’s near 110 degrees on Monday.
Cold front ushers in severe weather, cool temperatures in the Northeast
Tens of millions of people in the Northeast and New England will be getting some much-needed relief from the heat and humidity that has backed the region for several days.
A cold front swept across the region on Saturday, leading to powerful storms from New England to the mid-Atlantic.
Severe thunderstorms packing wind gusts up to 80 mph were reported in the Washington D.C. area, and power was knocked out to more than 250,000 utility customers across the region.
Some injuries were also reported, and authorities in Virginia are investigating the death of a person in Prince William County after a tree fell onto a home. Police said in a Facebook post that the death is "possibly related to storms."
Another cold front is expected to push into the Northeast and New England this week, and that will allow for much cooler temperatures that will bring a brief taste of fall to the region. Some areas of northern New England woke up to temperatures in the 50s on Sunday. | https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/south-southeast-heat-wave-july-2023 | 2023-07-30T13:49:22 | 0 | https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/south-southeast-heat-wave-july-2023 |
Thirteen years ago, the city of Huntsville agreed to invest $76 million in an idea.
Thirteen years later, that investment built the infrastructure for a mixed-use office park that is Redstone Gateway with more than 2 million square feet of occupied space and room for that square footage to more than double.
With the ratification by the city council Thursday, the city of Huntsville has completed its obligated work at Redstone Gateway. The work at the development, however, is far from over.
Related: Why Redstone Gateway appears to be slow-moving project
“This finishes the city’s portion of this, but there is still 2.7 million square feet of office space, retail, hotel space that will be built there,” Mayor Tommy Battle said. “And the Redstone development company, owned by (Corporate Office Properties Trust), will be finishing out the rest of the development. The city was able to help facilitate this. But we were very careful to make sure that we did it at no risk to the citizens.”
The project, launched in 2010 with an expected $1 billion in investment, is a complex financial arrangement between the city and LW Redstone, the Army’s hand-picked developer for Redstone Gateway – which functions as a key research and development hub just outside the main gate of Redstone Arsenal. In addition to office space, the development has one hotel and another one under construction as well as restaurant and retail offerings.
“It’s been super successful,” said Shane Davis, the city’s director of urban and economic development.
LW Redstone is a partnership between Maryland-based Corporate Office Properties Trust, a major developer of office space for the federal government, and Montgomery-based Jim Wilson & Associates – the developers of the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover.
The project began with LW Redstone agreeing to loan the city up to $76 million to build the infrastructure – which included roads, sidewalks and a sewer system as well as relocating an electric substation. The city is paying back that $76 million in a tax increment financing district with property and sales taxes collected from the project. Finance Director Penny Smith said that debt is projected to be paid off by 2045.
Davis told the council that Huntsville taxpayers are protected because the project, financially speaking, is self-contained. The money the city borrowed to build the infrastructure comes from within Redstone Gateway and the funds to repay that money -- via tax revenues -- comes from within Redstone Gateway.
The city ultimately borrowed about $73.7 million for the Redstone Gateway infrastructure but the city council voted Thursday to reinvest the remaining $2.3 million available in infrastructure for a smaller portion of Redstone Gateway located behind the arsenal’s gates.
According to Redstone Gateway’s website, 16 buildings have been completed outside the arsenal gates with one completed behind the gates. The development includes Boeing’s hub of operations in Alabama. Another four buildings are under development.
Davis said Redstone Gateway, along with Cummings Research Park, gives Huntsville the “best of both worlds.” Cummings is the second-largest research park in the country, the fourth largest in the world and is home to HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin and the University of Alabama in Huntsville as well as more than 300 other companies.
Cummings tenants typically purchase the land for their sites and, as a result, the park’s buildings are more spread out.
At Redstone Gateway, office space is typically leased and the master plan is much more compact.
Whether leasing space or buying land, Davis said, Huntsville has offerings for both.
“The density of it is kind of the magic of it,” Battle said of Redstone Gateway. “It makes it into a real park and it has much more density than we would have in (Cummings) Research Park itself. This extends the life of research park probably 10 or 12 more years. So that research park will still be able to be for those who want a broad campus, a large campus and building on four acres of land. That’s still available. But it is available (at Redstone Gateway) here to lease property in an office park setting.” | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/how-huntsvilles-76-million-office-park-investment-is-paying-off.html | 2023-07-30T13:49:25 | 1 | https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/how-huntsvilles-76-million-office-park-investment-is-paying-off.html |
BetMGM bonus code INQUIRERMGM earns you first bet offer up to $1,000 Sunday
A first bet offer worth up to $1,000 is up for grabs Sunday when you use the BetMGM bonus code INQUIRERMGM.
New customers signing up with BetMGM Sportsbook can utilize the BetMGM bonus code INQUIRERMGM and earn a first-bet offer worth up to a maximum amount of $1,000.
If you’re not familiar with a first-bet offer, it means you’ll receive your first bet’s stake back in the form of bonus bets if you don’t win.
Depending on how much your first bet is will determine how your bonus bets are paid out, with those specific details being laid out below.
Details surrounding your BetMGM bonus code
The specifics for how BetMGM pays out your bonus bets is as followed. It starts by determining how much money you’re looking to wager on, with $50 being the amount to keep in mind.
If your first bet totals $50 or less and you don’t win, one single bonus bet of how much you wagered will come back to you. But if you wager more than $50, you’ll get five bonus bets equal to 20% of how much you wagered.
For example, if you wagered an even $100 on the Phillies to beat the Pirates and don’t win, you’ll earn five $20 bonus bets.
Signing up with BetMGM isn’t difficult, as you can click on either offer module in this piece and begin signing up.
BetMGM is one of the best sports betting sites and is home to the most competitive futures odds out there, including the 2023 World Series futures odds, which are led by the Atlanta Braves.
Steps to redeem your BetMGM bonus code at sign-up
Click the offer module directly above so you can begin entering and verifying your personal information with BetMGM
After entering and verifying your information, use the BetMGM bonus code INQUIRERMGM
Deposit $10 or more into your BetMGM account after reading your offer’s terms and conditions
Place your first wager on any betting market up to a maximum amount of $1,000
If your first bet doesn’t go your way, BetMGM will pay whatever your stake was back to you in bonus bets
If you wagered less than $50, you’ll earn that amount in the form of one single bonus bet
If you wagered more than $50, you’ll receive five bonus bets equal to 20% of your first bet’s stake
Bonus bets are unable to be withdrawn as cash and have seven days to be used before expiring
How you can use your BetMGM bonus code Sunday
15 MLB games make up the majority of what sports bettors on BetMGM will be paying attention to Sunday.
Among the games most intriguing featuring the best teams include the Yankees vs. Orioles, Reds vs. Dodgers, Rays vs. Astros, Brewers vs. Braves, and Phillies vs. Pirates.
That list of games doesn’t even include some other noteworthy games taking place such as the Angels vs. Blue Jays and Red Sox vs. Giants.
With the MLB trade deadline being Aug. 1, Sunday might mark the last day you can watch certain players on certain teams.
As mentioned earlier, you can also bet on plenty of futures bets revolving around MLB such as who the winner of the 2023 World Series will be.
But outside of that, you can also bet on the winner of each division, the Cy Young winner, rookie of the year, and so much more.
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Olympic boxer convicted of kidnapping, killing pregnant lover who allegedly refused to get an abortion
Félix Verdejo-Sánchez, who boxed for Puerto Rico in 2012, found guilty of killing pregnant lover and unborn child
A former Olympic boxer was convicted of kidnapping and killing his pregnant lover by tossing her off a bridge into a lagoon in Puerto Rico, allegedly after she refused to get an abortion.
Félix Verdejo-Sánchez, 30, was found guilty on Friday of kidnapping resulting in death and intentionally killing an unborn child following a three-month trial in the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico. The jury of three women and nine men deliberated for three days but could not reach a unanimous consensus on the charges of carjacking resulting in death and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. The trial centered around federal crimes that arose from the disappearance and death of 27-year-old Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz on April 29, 2021.
Prosecutors reportedly relied on testimony from more than 30 witnesses, including Verdejo-Sánchez's codefendant, Luis Antonio Cádiz-Martínez,
Cádiz-Martínez testified that Verdejo-Sánchez had pressured Rodríguez Ortiz to get an abortion, the Associated Press reported. The victim's parents told the newspaper El Nuevo Día that she had kept in touch with Verdejo-Sánchez since the two first met in middle school, but the former boxer reportedly lived with another woman.
GRAND JURY INDICTS PUERTO RICO BOXER IN LOVER'S DEATH
Federal prosecutors said Verdejo-Sánchez teamed up with Cádiz-Martínez on the morning of the murder before heading to a meeting point, where the former Olympian lured Rodríguez Ortiz out of her Kia Forte and into his Dodge Durango. Cádiz-Martínez testified that's where the victim presented Verdejo-Sánchez with a positive pregnancy test, the Washington Post reported.
He further testified that Verdejo-Sánchez then punched Rodríguez Ortiz and injected her with a substance that Cádiz-Martínez believed to be heroin.
He said they both then tied her limbs to a cement block and threw her off the busy Teodoro Moscoso bridge into the San José Lagoon in broad daylight.
Federal prosecutors said Verdejo-Sánchez "later jumped into the lagoon in order to finish murdering both victims."
"May he live the rest of his life thinking about what he did to my daughter," Rodríguez Ortiz’s father, Tony Rodríguez, told Telemundo Puerto Rico outside the courthouse.
"We stand firmly with the family of Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz and all those in the community who sought justice for this senseless, cruel, and heinous act of premeditated and cold-blooded violence against Keishla and her unborn child," U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow said in a statement. "I also commend the hard work, dedication, and relentless pursuit of justice by federal and local law enforcement, including the FBI, the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, the Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety, the Puerto Rico Forensic Science Institute, and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice, as well as the prosecutors and professional staff in the U.S. Attorney’s Office."
BOXER FÉLIX VERDEJO INDICTED FOR MURDER OF PREGNANT LOVER
"There are damages which cannot ever be repaired, not even by a just verdict," FBI San Juan Special Agent in Charge, Joseph González, added. "In cases such as these, all we can do is give our all in the pursuit of justice. Today, I can say that my team did exactly that, and I am proud of their dedication. I would like to thank the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the amazing work and the jury for their service. We did what we do and justice was served."
A pathologist testified that Rodríguez Ortiz was still alive when she was thrown into the lagoon below the bridge.
An autopsy determined she had fentanyl and xylazine, a sedative used for horses and other animals, in her system.
Cádiz-Martínez said he made an anonymous 911 call days later to provide the location of the body. Cádiz-Martínez, who prosecutors said the former boxer hired to help carry out the premeditated attack, pleaded guilty last year to carjacking resulting in the death of a person and an unborn child and is due to be sentenced in August.
Verdejo-Sánchez represented Puerto Rico at the 2012 Olympics and became a professional boxer that year. He finished his career in the lightweight division with a 27-2 record, with 17 knockouts. Prosecutors said he faces a mandatory life sentence for each conviction, and his sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 3.
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The slaying of the pregnant woman and unborn child outraged many in Puerto Rico who keep demanding that authorities do a better job of protecting domestic violence victims.
In 2021, Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluis declared a state of emergency on the island, a U.S. territory, due to gender violence.
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Top Player Prop Bets for Rangers vs. Padres on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Juan Soto, Marcus Semien and others are available in the San Diego Padres-Texas Rangers matchup at PETCO Park on Sunday, starting at 4:10 PM ET.
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Rangers vs. Padres Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: PETCO Park in San Diego, California
- How to Watch on TV: SDPA
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: Texas Rangers
Marcus Semien Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -204)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +205)
Semien Stats
- Semien has put up 120 hits with 27 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs and 46 walks. He has driven in 64 runs with nine stolen bases.
- He has a .275/.344/.450 slash line so far this season.
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Adolis García Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -149)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +130)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Garcia Stats
- Adolis Garcia has collected 101 hits with 22 doubles, 25 home runs and 40 walks. He has driven in 84 runs with six stolen bases.
- He has a slash line of .259/.331/.508 on the year.
- Garcia takes a four-game streak with at least one hit into this matchup. In his last five games he is batting .222 with a home run and four RBI.
Garcia Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: San Diego Padres
Blake Snell Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 7.5 (Over Odds: -141)
Snell Stats
- Blake Snell (7-8) will take the mound for the Padres, his 22nd start of the season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 11 quality starts.
- Snell has 12 starts in a row of five innings or more.
- He has finished seven appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
- The 30-year-old ranks second in ERA (2.68), 42nd in WHIP (1.272), and third in K/9 (11.6) among qualified pitchers in the majors this season.
Snell Recent Games
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Juan Soto Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -204)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +380)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +170)
Soto Stats
- Soto has 95 hits with 24 doubles, 20 home runs, 96 walks and 63 RBI. He's also stolen five bases.
- He's slashed .265/.418/.500 so far this year.
- Soto has picked up at least one hit in two straight games. During his last five outings he is hitting .286 with a home run, three walks and three RBI.
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A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 35 people and wounds more than 100
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, police and health officials said. At least 35 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place.
Initially, police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies were moved to a hospital bringing the death toll to 35. He said some of the wounded were taken to the city’s main hospital in critical condition and the death toll could increase.
Azam Khan, head of the emergency room at Khar’s main hospital, said 35 bodies were brought to the hospital and some wre taken back by relatives while the number of wounded was now more than 100 as those who earlier went to near small clinics for medical aid consequently brought to the main government hospital.
Government administrator Mohibullah Khan Yousufzai also said death toll rose to 35 and the number of wounded was well over 100. He said the serious wounded people were being airlifted to provincial capital, Peshawar, for better medical care.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but the Islamic State group operates across the border in Afghanistan.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman’s party, was among the dead. Senator Abdur Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin was also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not in the rally.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. It is not known whether Rehman was present. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the coming elections.
Bajur, once used to be a tribal region but now a district, has been a safe haven for Islamic militants until recent years when Pakistani military carried out massive operations to eliminate militancy from the tribal region. Militants still strike attacking security forces and civilians often.
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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Top Player Prop Bets for Mariners vs. Diamondbacks on July 30, 2023
Sportsbooks have listed player props for Corbin Carroll, Julio Rodriguez and others when the Arizona Diamondbacks host the Seattle Mariners at Chase Field on Sunday at 4:10 PM ET.
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Mariners vs. Diamondbacks Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona
- How to Watch on TV: ARID
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MLB Props Today: Seattle Mariners
Julio Rodríguez Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +165)
Rodríguez Stats
- Rodriguez has put up 106 hits with 21 doubles, a triple, 17 home runs and 33 walks. He has driven in 55 runs with 24 stolen bases.
- He's slashed .252/.317/.428 on the season.
- Rodriguez will look for his eighth straight game with a hit in this contest. During his last 10 outings he is batting .286 with three doubles, four home runs, two walks and five RBI.
Rodríguez Recent Games
J.P. Crawford Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -196)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +850)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +225)
Crawford Stats
- J.P. Crawford has 24 doubles, eight home runs, 59 walks and 35 RBI (91 total hits). He has swiped one base.
- He's slashing .261/.371/.399 so far this year.
- Crawford brings a four-game streak with at least one hit into this contest. During his last five outings he is hitting .263 with three doubles and four walks.
Crawford Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: Arizona Diamondbacks
Merrill Kelly Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 6.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Kelly Stats
- The Diamondbacks will hand the ball to Merrill Kelly (9-4) for his 18th start of the season.
- He has started 17 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in 11 of them.
- Kelly has pitched five or more innings in 16 straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has made 17 appearances and finished one of them without allowing an earned run.
Kelly Recent Games
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Corbin Carroll Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -200)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +175)
Carroll Stats
- Carroll has 21 doubles, five triples, 21 home runs, 39 walks and 57 RBI (103 total hits). He has swiped 31 bases.
- He's slashing .288/.367/.550 so far this year.
Carroll Recent Games
Ketel Marte Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -222)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +195)
Marte Stats
- Ketel Marte has 18 doubles, seven triples, 17 home runs, 45 walks and 55 RBI (112 total hits). He has swiped six bases.
- He's slashed .296/.376/.516 so far this year.
- Marte has picked up a hit in two straight games. During his last five outings he is batting .400 with a triple and three walks.
Marte Recent Games
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Australia vs. Canada: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 7:37 AM MDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
Australia will meet Canada in Melbourne, Australia, in the last round of group-stage matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Go to FOX US to watch Australia take on Canada.
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How to Watch Australia vs. Canada
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
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Australia Group Stage Schedule
Australia's Recent Performance
- Australia lost on July 27 against Nigeria by a final score of 3-2. It took 17 more shots in the contest, 27 to 10.
- Emily van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the only goals for their side in the match versus .
- Kyra Cooney-Cross has not scored a goal, but has recorded one assist for Australia in Women's World Cup play (two games).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Caitlin Foord has not scored a goal but has one assist.
- During Women's World Cup play, van Egmond has scored one goal (but has no assists).
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Australia's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Lydia Williams #1
- Courtney Nevin #2
- Aivi Luik #3
- Clare Polkinghorne #4
- Cortnee Vine #5
- Clare Wheeler #6
- Steph Catley #7
- Alexandra Chidiac #8
- Caitlin Foord #9
- Emily van Egmond #10
- Mary Fowler #11
- Teagan Micah #12
- Tameka Yallop #13
- Alanna Kennedy #14
- Clare Hunt #15
- Hayley Raso #16
- Kyah Simon #17
- Mackenzie Arnold #18
- Katrina Gorry #19
- Sam Kerr #20
- Ellie Carpenter #21
- Charlotte Grant #22
- Kyra Cooney-Cross #23
Canada Group Stage Schedule
Canada's Recent Performance
- In its last game on July 26, Canada claimed a 2-1 victory against Ireland, outshooting Ireland 16 to 13.
- Adriana Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada in the game.
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Leon has one goal (12th in the 2023 Women's World Cup).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored, but does have one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
Canada's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Kailen Sheridan #1
- Allysha Chapman #2
- Kadeisha Buchanan #3
- Shelina Zadorsky #4
- Quinn #5
- Deanne Rose #6
- Julia Grosso #7
- Jayde Riviere #8
- Jordyn Huitema #9
- Ashley Lawrence #10
- Evelyne Viens #11
- Christine Sinclair #12
- Sophie Schmidt #13
- Vanessa Gilles #14
- Nichelle Prince #15
- Gabrielle Carle #16
- Jessie Fleming #17
- Sabrina D'Angelo #18
- Adriana Leon #19
- Cloe Lacasse #20
- Simi Awujo #21
- Lysianne Proulx #22
- Olivia Smith #23
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Caviar, Champagne…cardamom? While it may not be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about culinary delicacies, the latter certainly carries its weight in the luxury category. Prices for green cardamom are known to rise up to $90 per kilo, ranking it No. 3 on the list of the most expensive spices in the world, following saffron and vanilla.
For those who are new to the spice, you can find its sweet, citrus-like flavor peeking through many Indian and Middle Eastern dishes both sweet and savory. It’s grown in tropical regions which include India and Costa Rica, and is a member of the ginger family. It’s available in both black and green varieties and can either be used in its pod form or as a ground powder derived from the seeds of the pod. Green cardamom — the focus of this article — is significantly more expensive than black cardamom and is also more difficult to find.
So why is green cardamom so expensive, exactly?
How Green Cardamom is Harvested and Grown
To understand why it can fetch such high prices in the market, we have to dig deeper into its inception from start to finish. As with many expensive ingredients, a lengthy and involved production process is behind green cardamom’s high price tag.
After farmers plant the cardamom seeds, they need to wait a grand total of three years before the crop is mature. After plants mature, the harvesting window lasts from July to February, which is relatively long. Despite the advantage of a long harvesting cycle, not all cardamon pods mature at exactly the same time, and only highly-skilled harvesters can determine which pods are ready to be picked at peak ripeness.
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To reach this level of skill, harvesters must train for six months with farmers so they can discern which pods are ripe or raw. And even after all that work, only a total of approximately 10 pods can be harvested from each plant. To make matters more stressful, the stakes are quite high if mistakes are made. If the pods are collected too early, they won’t be aromatic and fetch a fair price in the market. If they are collected too late, they simply go to waste.
Weather conditions may also affect how much cardamom costs. If production is impacted negatively by rain or inclement weather, crops may be destroyed, which limits availability and drives up prices overall.
The Post-Harvest Process
Within 24 hours of harvesting, the perfectly ripe cardamom pods are ushered into a space where they must sit to dry for 18 hours. (And if they sit any longer than a day after being harvested, they risk decay.)
The drying process also impacts the green color of the pods, which is an important factor in determining their price in the marketplace. The machines that dry the pods use heat, and if the heat isn’t released perfectly it can negatively affect their color.
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After drying comes sorting. A team of workers is tasked with the arduous job of sorting the smaller pods from the larger pods (which are more valuable) by hand. Ultimately, after it’s all said and done, only one-sixth of the pods harvested can be marketed as good-quality cardamom.
It’s because of all this extensive labor and attention to detail that some companies can charge a premium of $90 per kilogram of green cardamom.
The Economic Sustainability of Cardamom Production
While cardamom can sell for a lot in the marketplace, not all of that money is going directly into the pockets of its producers. Farming cardamom can be a costly endeavor, and up to 10% to 15% of the profits end up being re-invested in each acre on fertilizer alone. Add to that the losses due to weather, and producers may sometimes end up investing their own money out of pocket to keep production up.
Luckily, things are looking up for the industry, as it is projected to increase by $1,690,000 by 2025. The hope here is that farmers can keep up with demand and continue to supply the world with the spice.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 7:38 AM MDT|Updated: 12 minutes ago
In the final round of Group B matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria will play Ireland in Brisbane, Australia.
You should head to Fox Sports 1 in order to watch this matchup.
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How to Watch Nigeria vs. Ireland
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
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Nigeria Group Stage Schedule
Nigeria's Recent Performance
- Nigeria met Australia in its previous game and was victorious by a final score of 3-2. The Nigeria side won despite being outshot by 17 in the match, 27 to 10.
- Nigeria got its three goals from Osinachi Ohale, Asisat Oshoala and Uchenna Kanu in that match versus .
- Oshoala's Women's World Cup statline through two appearances for Nigeria includes one goal.
- Ohale has scored one goal for Nigeria in Women's World Cup so far.
- In Women's World Cup action, Kanu has scored one goal (but has no assists).
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Nigeria's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Tochukwu Oluehi #1
- Ashleigh Plumptre #2
- Osinachi Ohale #3
- Glory Ogbonna #4
- Onome Ebi #5
- Ifeoma Onumonu #6
- Toni Payne #7
- Asisat Oshoala #8
- Desire Oparanozie #9
- Christy Ucheibe #10
- Gift Monday #11
- Uchenna Kanu #12
- Deborah Abiodun #13
- Oluwatosin Demehin #14
- Rasheedat Ajibade #15
- Chiamaka Nnadozie #16
- Francisca Ordega #17
- Halimatu Ayinde #18
- Onyi Echegini #19
- Rofiat Imuran #20
- Esther Okoronkwo #21
- Michelle Alozie #22
- Yewande Balogun #23
Ireland Group Stage Schedule
Ireland's Recent Performance
- In its last game on July 26, Ireland fell 2-1 to Canada. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Katie McCabe scored the lone goal for Ireland on three shots.
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Ireland, McCabe has one goal (12th in the 2023 Women's World Cup).
Ireland's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Courtney Brosnan #1
- Claire O'Riordan #2
- Chloe Mustaki #3
- Louise Quinn #4
- Niamh Fahey #5
- Megan Connolly #6
- Diane Caldwell #7
- Ruesha Littlejohn #8
- Amber Barrett #9
- Denise O'Sullivan #10
- Katie McCabe #11
- Lily Agg #12
- Aine O'Gorman #13
- Heather Payne #14
- Lucy Quinn #15
- Grace Moloney #16
- Sinead Farrelly #17
- Kyra Carusa #18
- Abbie Larkin #19
- Marissa Sheva #20
- Ciara Grant #21
- Isibeal Atkinson #22
- Megan Walsh #23
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After nearly five years, the Big Peanut statue has returned to Ashburn, Ga. The original roadside attraction went down during Hurricane Michael. The new one is stronger and locally crafted.
Copyright 2023 NPR
After nearly five years, the Big Peanut statue has returned to Ashburn, Ga. The original roadside attraction went down during Hurricane Michael. The new one is stronger and locally crafted.
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Adrienne Kessler
Chief Executive Officer
Speech and Language Development Center Doheny Eye Institute
Adrienne Kessler is an exceptional leader who has transformed the Speech and Language Development Center into a leading provider of innovative education and therapies for individuals with disabilities and special needs. Since joining in 2016, she has focused on quality services and cutting-edge research, driving growth, and expanding the center’s reach in Southern California. Under her leadership, the center has experienced significant success including the opening of a new facility in Temecula to address the urgent need for disability services in the area.
Kessler’s strategic thinking and sustainable business practices have helped the center thrive. She has also established partnerships with universities, conducted original research, and shaped policy and practices for special education statewide. Her dedication to developing and providing leading-edge disability services is remarkable and her impact on the field of special education is far-reaching, making her an outstanding leader and an inspiration to all. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/adrienne-kessler | 2023-07-30T13:51:52 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/adrienne-kessler |
A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 35 people and wounds more than 100
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, police and health officials said. At least 35 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place.
Initially, police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies were moved to a hospital bringing the death toll to 35. He said some of the wounded were taken to the city’s main hospital in critical condition and the death toll could increase.
Azam Khan, head of the emergency room at Khar’s main hospital, said 35 bodies were brought to the hospital and some wre taken back by relatives while the number of wounded was now more than 100 as those who earlier went to near small clinics for medical aid consequently brought to the main government hospital.
Government administrator Mohibullah Khan Yousufzai also said death toll rose to 35 and the number of wounded was well over 100. He said the serious wounded people were being airlifted to provincial capital, Peshawar, for better medical care.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but the Islamic State group operates across the border in Afghanistan.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman’s party, was among the dead. Senator Abdur Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin was also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not in the rally.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. It is not known whether Rehman was present. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the coming elections.
Bajur, once used to be a tribal region but now a district, has been a safe haven for Islamic militants until recent years when Pakistani military carried out massive operations to eliminate militancy from the tribal region. Militants still strike attacking security forces and civilians often.
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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Andreas Lips
President & CEO
Shell Recharge Solutions
Andreas Lips is an esteemed entrepreneur and leading executive in the electric vehicle (EV) industry. As the driving force behind Shell Recharge Solutions, he has created over 200 green and skilled jobs in the EV sector. He has secured support from Shell for increased investments and partnerships with notable customers like the City of Los Angeles, Amazon, Ford, and Penske Trucks.
His influence extends to prestigious conferences and board positions in industry coalitions, showcasing his expertise and commitment to shaping the future of clean transportation. Furthermore, Lips supports diversity and inclusivity in the green tech industry through his involvement with organizations like the Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator. As CEO he exemplifies effective leadership and fosters a diverse and exceptional team. His remarkable track record and dedication to advancing clean energy solutions have earned him respect in the industry. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/andreas-lips | 2023-07-30T13:51:58 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/andreas-lips |
Byron Buxton Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
After going 3-for-3 with three doubles and two RBI in his last game, Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins face the Kansas City Royals (who will start Ryan Yarbrough) at 2:10 PM ET on Sunday.
In his previous game, he reached base in all four of his plate appearances (3-for-3 with three doubles and two RBI) against the Royals.
Byron Buxton Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Ryan Yarbrough
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +280)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +125)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Byron Buxton At The Plate
- Buxton has 61 hits, which is best among Minnesota hitters this season, while batting .206 with 33 extra-base hits.
- Buxton has had a hit in 42 of 83 games this season (50.6%), including multiple hits 17 times (20.5%).
- He has hit a home run in 18.1% of his games this season, and 5% of his trips to the dish.
- Buxton has picked up an RBI in 24 games this year (28.9%), with more than one RBI in 12 of them (14.5%).
- In 44.6% of his games this season (37 of 83), he has scored, and in 11 of those games (13.3%) he has scored more than once.
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Byron Buxton Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The Royals pitching staff is 25th in MLB with a collective 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Royals have a 5.21 team ERA that ranks 28th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Royals pitchers combine to allow 127 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 19th in the league).
- Yarbrough gets the start for the Royals, his seventh of the season. He is 3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts through 44 2/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander last pitched on Monday against the Cleveland Guardians, when he went six innings, allowing one earned run while giving up six hits.
- In 13 games this season, the 31-year-old has an ERA of 4.70, with 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .266 against him.
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Andy Mooney
Chief Executive Officer
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC)
Andy Mooney is a seasoned executive with nearly 40 years of experience in driving growth and transformation in prominent companies. He played a pivotal role in Nike’s success, serving as CFO, CMO, and leading key divisions. At Disney, he spearheaded the launch of the highly successful Disney Princess franchise as chairman of Disney Consumer Products.
Since joining Fender in 2015, Mooney has revitalized the brand as a consumer-first company. Under his leadership, Fender expanded its reach, hired its first CMO, and achieved pre-pandemic success. His recent initiatives include the establishment of the Fender Play Foundation, democratizing access to music education, advocating for Prop 28 to fund arts education in public schools, entering the recording and software space through the acquisition of PreSonus, and investing in direct-to-consumer strategies to engage new players in the music industry. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/andy-mooney | 2023-07-30T13:52:04 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/andy-mooney |
Carlos Correa Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
Carlos Correa, with a slugging percentage of .333 in his past 10 games -- including one home run -- will be in action for the Minnesota Twins versus the Kansas City Royals, with Ryan Yarbrough on the hill, July 30 at 2:10 PM ET.
In his last game he had a one-hit performance (1-for-5) against the Royals.
Carlos Correa Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Ryan Yarbrough
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +145)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -118)
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Carlos Correa At The Plate
- Correa leads Minnesota in OBP (.304), slugging percentage (.399) and OPS (.704) this season.
- Correa has gotten at least one hit in 66.7% of his games this year (62 of 93), with at least two hits 18 times (19.4%).
- Looking at the 93 games he has played this year, he's went deep in 12 of them (12.9%), and in 2.9% of his trips to the plate.
- In 31.2% of his games this season, Correa has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 11.8% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- In 35.5% of his games this season (33 of 93), he has scored, and in five of those games (5.4%) he has scored more than once.
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Carlos Correa Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The Royals pitching staff ranks 25th in MLB with a collective 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Royals' 5.21 team ERA ranks 28th among all league pitching staffs.
- The Royals rank 19th in baseball in home runs allowed (127 total, 1.2 per game).
- The Royals will send Yarbrough (3-5) to make his seventh start of the season. He is 3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Monday, the lefty threw six innings against the Cleveland Guardians, allowing one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- The 31-year-old has put up an ERA of 4.70, with 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings, in 13 games this season. Opponents have a .266 batting average against him.
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Bobby Kotick
Chief Executive Officer
Activision Blizzard
Bobby Kotick has been the CEO of Activision Blizzard since 1991, leading the company to become the largest and most profitable interactive entertainment software publisher globally. With notable franchises such as Candy Crush, Overwatch, and Call of Duty, Activision Blizzard holds leading market positions in the rapidly growing industry.
Under Kotick’s vision and commitment to excellence, the company has cultivated a culture of inspired creativity and has been recognized as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” In 2022 the company achieved pay equity, increased representation of women and non-binary individuals, and made progress on sustainability goals. Kotick is also the co-founder of the Call of Duty Endowment, a nonprofit that helps veterans find meaningful careers. Recognized for his contributions, he has been featured on Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment List” and Harvard Business Review’s “Best Performing CEOs in the World.” | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/bobby-kotick | 2023-07-30T13:52:10 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/bobby-kotick |
A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 35 people and wounds more than 100
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, police and health officials said. At least 35 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place.
Initially, police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies were moved to a hospital bringing the death toll to 35. He said some of the wounded were taken to the city’s main hospital in critical condition and the death toll could increase.
Azam Khan, head of the emergency room at Khar’s main hospital, said 35 bodies were brought to the hospital and some wre taken back by relatives while the number of wounded was now more than 100 as those who earlier went to near small clinics for medical aid consequently brought to the main government hospital.
Government administrator Mohibullah Khan Yousufzai also said death toll rose to 35 and the number of wounded was well over 100. He said the serious wounded people were being airlifted to provincial capital, Peshawar, for better medical care.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but the Islamic State group operates across the border in Afghanistan.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman’s party, was among the dead. Senator Abdur Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin was also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not in the rally.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. It is not known whether Rehman was present. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the coming elections.
Bajur, once used to be a tribal region but now a district, has been a safe haven for Islamic militants until recent years when Pakistani military carried out massive operations to eliminate militancy from the tribal region. Militants still strike attacking security forces and civilians often.
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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Celine Martin
Group Chairman
Johnson & Johnson, Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions Group
Celine Martin, a Johnson & Johnson veteran, played a pivotal role in accelerating the global adoption of minimally invasive surgery during her tenure at Ethicon. With extensive involvement in growing various subsidiaries, including Biosense Webster, a leader in heart rhythm disorder diagnosis and treatment, she has become renowned for driving business transformations and top performance across financials, innovation, and talent advancement. Her dedication to growing emerging start-ups into billion-dollar companies has positively impacted the lives of millions of patients worldwide.
Martin’s exceptional contributions were recognized through accolades such as the Octane OC High Tech Awards and being named one of Fierce Biotech’s 2022 Fiercest Women in Life Sciences. As a prominent female leader within the world’s largest healthcare company, she passionately advocates for women in STEM and uses her platform to inspire the next generation of female leaders. Martin actively shapes leadership and sets industry standards contributing to an inclusive environment. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/celine-martin | 2023-07-30T13:52:17 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/celine-martin |
Jake Fraley Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:27 AM EDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds, including Jake Fraley (.257 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 89 points below season-long percentage), take on starter Michael Grove and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Sunday at 4:10 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-2) against the Dodgers.
Jake Fraley Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Michael Grove
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Jake Fraley At The Plate
- Fraley is hitting .262 with 13 doubles, 15 home runs and 32 walks.
- Fraley has gotten a hit in 53 of 86 games this year (61.6%), with multiple hits on 18 occasions (20.9%).
- He has gone deep in 16.3% of his games in 2023 (14 of 86), and 4.8% of his trips to the plate.
- Fraley has driven in a run in 38 games this year (44.2%), including 16 games with more than one RBI (18.6%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in five contests.
- In 32.6% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had seven games with multiple runs (8.1%).
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Jake Fraley Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The Dodgers pitching staff is 17th in MLB with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Dodgers' 4.49 team ERA ranks 20th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Dodgers surrender the seventh-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- The Dodgers are sending Grove (2-2) to the mound for his 11th start of the season. He is 2-2 with a 6.19 ERA and 53 strikeouts through 56 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Tuesday, the righty went 4 2/3 innings against the Toronto Blue Jays, allowing two earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 26-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.19, with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 13 games this season. Opposing hitters have a .307 batting average against him.
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Chad Lefteris
Chief Executive Officer
UCI Health
Chad Lefteris, as CEO of UCI Health, demonstrates exceptional leadership in advancing clinical care and spearheading transformative initiatives. He has led Orange County’s sole academic medical center, which provides advanced healthcare services, clinical trials, and plans for a second medical center to enhance specialty services. His leadership has resulted in the establishment of innovative sites like the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute and the introduction of life-saving treatments such as left ventricular assist devices and adult bone marrow transplants.
Under Lefteris’ guidance UCI Health prioritizes innovation, leading to groundbreaking technologies like the thulium fiber laser for kidney stones and the ocular/corneal disease stem cell transplant program. He addresses healthcare disparities through the launch of Federally Qualified Health Centers, providing comprehensive services to underserved populations. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/chad-lefteris | 2023-07-30T13:52:23 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/chad-lefteris |
Joey Votto Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:26 AM EDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds, including Joey Votto (.250 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 56 points below season-long percentage), battle starter Michael Grove and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Sunday at 4:10 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless performance (0-for-2) against the Dodgers.
Joey Votto Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Michael Grove
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +240)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +130)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +100)
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Joey Votto At The Plate
- Votto is batting .184 with three doubles, eight home runs and 14 walks.
- In 38.7% of his games this season (12 of 31), Votto has picked up at least one hit, and in six of those games (19.4%) he recorded at least two.
- In 22.6% of his games this season, he has hit a home run, and 6.6% of his trips to the plate.
- Votto has picked up an RBI in 11 games this year (35.5%), with more than one RBI in six of those contests (19.4%).
- In nine games this season (29.0%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Joey Votto Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Dodgers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers' 4.49 team ERA ranks 20th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Dodgers pitchers combine to give up 114 home runs (1.1 per game), the seventh-fewest in the league.
- Grove makes the start for the Dodgers, his 11th of the season. He is 2-2 with a 6.19 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 56 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander's last time out came on Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when he threw 4 2/3 innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing eight hits.
- The 26-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.19, with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 13 games this season. Opponents have a .307 batting average against him.
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Jorge Polanco Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
Jorge Polanco -- with an on-base percentage of .205 in his past 10 games, 87 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Minnesota Twins versus the Kansas City Royals, with Ryan Yarbrough on the hill, on July 30 at 2:10 PM ET.
In his previous appearance, he went 1-for-5 with an RBI against the Royals.
Jorge Polanco Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Ryan Yarbrough
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +190)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +100)
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Jorge Polanco At The Plate
- Polanco is hitting .248 with 10 doubles, five home runs and seven walks.
- Polanco has gotten at least one hit in 75.0% of his games this season (24 of 32), with more than one hit six times (18.8%).
- Looking at the 32 games he has played this year, he's hit a home run in five of them (15.6%), and in 3.6% of his trips to the dish.
- Polanco has driven in a run in 11 games this season (34.4%), including six games with more than one RBI (18.8%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 10 of 32 games this season, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Jorge Polanco Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The Royals pitching staff ranks 25th in the league with a collective 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Royals have the 28th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (5.21).
- The Royals rank 19th in baseball in home runs surrendered (127 total, 1.2 per game).
- Yarbrough (3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Royals, his seventh of the season.
- In his most recent time out on Monday against the Cleveland Guardians, the lefty threw six innings, giving up one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- In 13 games this season, the 31-year-old has an ERA of 4.70, with 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .266 against him.
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Christiane Maertens
Founder & CEO
DoGoodery LLC & Valor Bebidas
Christiane Maertens is founder and CEO of Do- Goodery and Valor Bebidas. The consulting agency partners with brands committed to creating positive change, developing initiatives that enhance lives, and addressing inequality through empathy, collaboration, and research. With years of experience in social impact strategies, she discovered the importance of integrating impact into the core business model from the start. To validate this approach, she merged her expertise in social impact strategies with her love for tequila and family agricultural heritage, leading to the launch of Valor Bebidas in 2022, with product release scheduled for this summer.
Previously, Maertens served as deputy director at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), overseeing a diverse network engaged in environmental education on a global scale. Additionally, she played a key role in designing the first corporate social responsibility portfolio at The Walt Disney Company, mobilizing millions of young individuals worldwide to take positive action. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/christiane-maertens | 2023-07-30T13:52:29 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/christiane-maertens |
Spencer Steer Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:26 AM EDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds and Spencer Steer (.410 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, including one homer), take on starter Michael Grove and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Sunday at 4:10 PM ET.
In his last game, he went 1-for-4 with an RBI against the Dodgers.
Spencer Steer Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Michael Grove
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +525)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Spencer Steer At The Plate
- Steer leads Cincinnati with 103 hits and an OBP of .361, plus a team-best slugging percentage of .461.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB, he ranks 35th in batting average, 27th in on-base percentage, and 48th in slugging.
- Steer has picked up a hit in 65 of 101 games this season, with multiple hits 29 times.
- He has gone deep in 15 games this season (14.9%), homering in 3.5% of his trips to the dish.
- Steer has had an RBI in 39 games this year (38.6%), including 15 multi-RBI outings (14.9%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored in 44 games this year (43.6%), including six multi-run games (5.9%).
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Spencer Steer Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The Dodgers pitching staff ranks 17th in MLB with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Dodgers have a 4.49 team ERA that ranks 20th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Dodgers pitchers combine to give up the seventh-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- The Dodgers are sending Grove (2-2) to the mound to make his 11th start of the season. He is 2-2 with a 6.19 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 56 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last pitched on Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when he threw 4 2/3 innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up eight hits.
- The 26-year-old has a 6.19 ERA and 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings across 13 games this season, while giving up a batting average of .307 to his opponents.
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Kyle Farmer Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
The Minnesota Twins, including Kyle Farmer and his .520 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, take on starting pitcher Ryan Yarbrough and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium, Sunday at 2:10 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he reached base in his only plate appearance against the Royals.
Kyle Farmer Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Ryan Yarbrough
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +625)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +130)
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Kyle Farmer At The Plate
- Farmer is hitting .258 with eight doubles, two triples, six home runs and 14 walks.
- Farmer has gotten a hit in 39 of 71 games this year (54.9%), including 11 multi-hit games (15.5%).
- In six games this season, he has gone deep (8.5%, and 2.6% of his trips to the plate).
- Farmer has driven home a run in 17 games this year (23.9%), including more than one RBI in 5.6% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on three occasions..
- He has scored in 39.4% of his games this season (28 of 71), with two or more runs three times (4.2%).
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Kyle Farmer Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Royals pitching staff ranks 25th in the league.
- The Royals' 5.21 team ERA ranks 28th across all league pitching staffs.
- The Royals rank 19th in baseball in home runs given up (127 total, 1.2 per game).
- The Royals will send Yarbrough (3-5) to make his seventh start of the season. He is 3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander last appeared on Monday against the Cleveland Guardians, when he tossed six innings, allowing one earned run while giving up six hits.
- In 13 games this season, the 31-year-old has a 4.70 ERA and 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .266 to opposing batters.
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Claudia Bonilla Keller
Chief Executive Officer
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County
Claudia Bonilla Keller is the CEO of Second Harvest, a leading food bank in Orange County. With over two decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, she oversees outreach efforts to donors, community partners, and volunteers to address food insecurity. Under her leadership, Second Harvest adapted its business model during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategically purchasing nutritious food to meet the increased demand. She also spearheaded the establishment of Harvest Solutions Farm, a 45-acre farm in Irvine that produces over 50,000 pounds of fresh produce weekly for distribution to those in need.
Prior to her role at Second Harvest, Keller held senior positions at organizations like LA Promise Fund and the American Heart Association, where she led impactful programs in education and health. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in public administration. She actively contributes to various boards and organizations focused on community health and education. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/claudia-bonilla-keller | 2023-07-30T13:52:35 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/claudia-bonilla-keller |
TJ Friedl Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:27 AM EDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds, including TJ Friedl (.282 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 68 points below season-long percentage), take on starting pitcher Michael Grove and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Sunday at 4:10 PM ET.
In his last game, he went 1-for-4 against the Dodgers.
TJ Friedl Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Michael Grove
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +185)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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TJ Friedl At The Plate
- Friedl is batting .280 with 16 doubles, three triples, seven home runs and 26 walks.
- Among qualifying hitters in MLB, his batting average ranks 27th, his on-base percentage ranks 37th, and he is 81st in the league in slugging.
- Friedl has gotten a hit in 52 of 83 games this season (62.7%), with more than one hit on 26 occasions (31.3%).
- He has hit a long ball in 8.4% of his games in 2023 (seven of 83), and 2.1% of his trips to the dish.
- Friedl has an RBI in 22 of 83 games this season, with multiple RBI in seven of them. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- He has scored in 30 games this season (36.1%), including multiple runs in eight games.
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TJ Friedl Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Dodgers pitching staff ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers have the 20th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.49).
- Dodgers pitchers combine to give up the seventh-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- Grove makes the start for the Dodgers, his 11th of the season. He is 2-2 with a 6.19 ERA and 53 strikeouts through 56 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent time out came on Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when the righty tossed 4 2/3 innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing eight hits.
- The 26-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.19, with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 13 games this season. Opponents have a .307 batting average against him.
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Matt Wallner Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:26 AM CDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
Matt Wallner -- with an on-base percentage of .310 in his past 10 games, 70 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Minnesota Twins versus the Kansas City Royals, with Ryan Yarbrough on the mound, on July 30 at 2:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his last game (0-for-3) against the Royals.
Matt Wallner Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Ryan Yarbrough
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Matt Wallner At The Plate
- Wallner has two doubles, four home runs and seven walks while hitting .254.
- Wallner has picked up a hit in eight of 21 games this year, with multiple hits five times.
- In 14.3% of his games this year, he has homered, and 5.6% of his trips to the dish.
- Wallner has picked up an RBI in 19.0% of his games this year, with two or more RBI in 14.3% of his games. He has also plated three or more runs in one contest.
- In nine of 21 games this year, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Matt Wallner Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Royals has a collective 8.1 K/9, which ranks 25th in MLB.
- The Royals have a 5.21 team ERA that ranks 28th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Royals rank 19th in baseball in home runs allowed (127 total, 1.2 per game).
- Yarbrough (3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Royals, his seventh of the season.
- In his last outing on Monday against the Cleveland Guardians, the lefty tossed six innings, allowing one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- The 31-year-old has an ERA of 4.70, with 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings, in 13 games this season. Opponents are hitting .266 against him.
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Cristol Barrett O’Loughlin
Founder & CEO
Cristol Barrett O’Loughlin, founder and CEO of ANGEL AID CARES, is dedicated to providing relief for families affected by rare genetic diseases. ANGEL AID funds rare disease research and offers mental health support to caregivers, patients, and professionals. With a team of Health Wellness Practitioners, she leads weekly support groups and transformative wellness retreats.
Under O’Loughlin’s guidance, ANGEL AID has grown from supporting 7 Rare Mothers(tm) to over 7,000 families since 2019, aiming to reach 3.5 million in the rare disease community. The organization has expanded globally, partnering with companies like Microsoft and NORD. ANGEL AID’s commitment to growth and multilingual training ensures continued support for more families worldwide. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/cristol-barrett-oloughlin | 2023-07-30T13:52:42 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/cristol-barrett-oloughlin |
Tyler Stephenson Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:27 AM EDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
Tyler Stephenson -- with a slugging percentage of .296 in his past 10 games (including zero home runs) -- will be in action for the Cincinnati Reds versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, with Michael Grove on the hill, on July 30 at 4:10 PM ET.
In his last game, he reached base in his only plate appearance against the Dodgers.
Tyler Stephenson Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Michael Grove
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +250)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +165)
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Tyler Stephenson At The Plate
- Stephenson is hitting .255 with 14 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 37 walks.
- Stephenson has picked up a hit in 62.5% of his 96 games this year, with at least two hits in 22.9% of them.
- He has hit a long ball in 7.3% of his games in 2023, and 1.9% of his trips to the plate.
- Stephenson has had at least one RBI in 31.3% of his games this season (30 of 96), with more than one RBI seven times (7.3%).
- In 39.6% of his games this season (38 of 96), he has scored, and in seven of those games (7.3%) he has scored more than once.
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Tyler Stephenson Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Dodgers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers have the 20th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.49).
- The Dodgers surrender the seventh-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- Grove gets the start for the Dodgers, his 11th of the season. He is 2-2 with a 6.19 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 56 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when the right-hander went 4 2/3 innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing eight hits.
- The 26-year-old has an ERA of 6.19, with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 13 games this season. Opponents are hitting .307 against him.
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Michael A. Taylor Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:26 AM CDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
Michael A. Taylor is available when the Minnesota Twins take on Ryan Yarbrough and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium Sunday at 2:10 PM ET.
In his most recent action (on July 25 against the Mariners) he went 1-for-1 with a home run and an RBI.
Michael A. Taylor Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Ryan Yarbrough
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -167)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +240)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Michael A. Taylor At The Plate
- Taylor is hitting .218 with 13 doubles, 12 home runs and 14 walks.
- Taylor has picked up a hit in 50.0% of his 86 games this season, with at least two hits in 11.6% of those games.
- In 12.8% of his games this year, he has homered, and 4.5% of his trips to the dish.
- Taylor has an RBI in 20 of 86 games this year, with multiple RBI in eight of them. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 25 of 86 games this year, and more than once 4 times.
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Michael A. Taylor Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The Royals pitching staff ranks 25th in MLB with a collective 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Royals' 5.21 team ERA ranks 28th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Royals rank 19th in baseball in home runs surrendered (127 total, 1.2 per game).
- Yarbrough gets the start for the Royals, his seventh of the season. He is 3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last outing on Monday against the Cleveland Guardians, the lefty went six innings, allowing one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- In 13 games this season, the 31-year-old has a 4.70 ERA and 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .266 to his opponents.
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Danielle Judd
Founder & CEO
FarmHouse Rescue
After a life-threatening illness during pregnancy, Danielle Judd’s perspective on life shifted dramatically. Determined to make a positive impact, she founded the nonprofit Farmhouse Rescue. Overcoming memory loss and depression, she adopted an off-the-track racehorse named Lovey, who inspired her to help others. Since then, Judd has rescued over 70 mistreated animals, providing hope to individuals facing various challenges, including those on the brink of suicide and those reintegrating into society after prison. She established a live feed for children in cancer wards to connect with the farm animals and organizes farm visits for families in need, granting end-of-life wishes. Judd’s selfless dedication has transformed lives, fostering emotional connections between people and animals. She tirelessly works without compensation driven solely by her passion for the cause. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/danielle-judd | 2023-07-30T13:52:48 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/danielle-judd |
Will Benson Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds, including Will Benson and his .679 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, battle starting pitcher Michael Grove and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Sunday at 4:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his previous game (0-for-2) against the Dodgers.
Will Benson Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Michael Grove
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -128)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +525)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +240)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Will Benson At The Plate
- Benson is batting .275 with seven doubles, four triples, seven home runs and 26 walks.
- Benson has picked up a hit in 50.0% of his 56 games this year, with at least two hits in 16.1% of those games.
- In seven games this season, he has hit a long ball (12.5%, and 3.9% of his trips to the plate).
- In 21.4% of his games this year, Benson has tallied at least one RBI. In six of those games (10.7%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 37.5% of his games this year (21 of 56), with two or more runs four times (7.1%).
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Will Benson Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The Dodgers pitching staff is 17th in the league with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Dodgers have a 4.49 team ERA that ranks 20th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Dodgers pitchers combine to surrender 114 home runs (1.1 per game), the seventh-fewest in the league.
- Grove (2-2) gets the starting nod for the Dodgers in his 11th start of the season. He's put together a 6.19 ERA in 56 2/3 innings pitched, with 53 strikeouts.
- His last time out came on Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when the righty went 4 2/3 innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing eight hits.
- The 26-year-old has amassed a 6.19 ERA and 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings in 13 games this season, while giving up a batting average of .307 to opposing hitters.
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Willi Castro Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
On Sunday, Willi Castro (coming off going 1-for-2 with an RBI) and the Minnesota Twins face the Kansas City Royals, whose starting pitcher will be Ryan Yarbrough. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he went 1-for-2 with an RBI against the Royals.
Willi Castro Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Ryan Yarbrough
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Willi Castro At The Plate
- Castro is batting .243 with 11 doubles, two triples, five home runs and 22 walks.
- In 54.5% of his 77 games this season, Castro has picked up at least one hit. He's also had 14 multi-hit games.
- He has gone deep in 5.2% of his games in 2023, and 1.8% of his trips to the plate.
- In 24.7% of his games this year, Castro has notched at least one RBI. In three of those games (3.9%) he recorded two or more RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 29 games this year (37.7%), including multiple runs in five games.
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Willi Castro Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Royals has a collective 8.1 K/9, which ranks 25th in the league.
- The Royals' 5.21 team ERA ranks 28th among all league pitching staffs.
- The Royals rank 19th in baseball in home runs surrendered (127 total, 1.2 per game).
- The Royals are sending Yarbrough (3-5) out to make his seventh start of the season. He is 3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Monday, the lefty threw six innings against the Cleveland Guardians, allowing one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- In 13 games this season, the 31-year-old has amassed an ERA of 4.70, with 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are batting .266 against him.
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Isaac Larian
Founder, President, & CEO
MGA Entertainment, Inc.
Isaac Larian, founder, president, and CEO of MGA Entertainment, Inc., is a remarkable example of an immigrant who rose from humble beginnings to become a billionaire and the driving force behind a leading global toy and entertainment company. With a meager $753 upon arriving in the U.S.,he has spent over four decades revolutionizing the industry through iconic brands such as Bratz(tm), L.O.L Surprise!(tm), and Little Tikes®, delivering innovation and inspiration.
Despite his immense achievements, Larian remains grounded and deeply committed to philanthropy. Motivated by his own childhood experiences and a genuine desire to bring joy to underprivileged children, he actively supports noteworthy causes like Toys For Tots and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Moreover, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he founded MGA Cares, an initiative that provides relief to children affected by disasters worldwide. This endeavor involves distributing essential protective gear, donating toys to displaced children, and providing blankets to earthquake victims. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/isaac-larian | 2023-07-30T13:52:54 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/isaac-larian |
Australia vs. Canada: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:37 AM EDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
Australia will meet Canada in Melbourne, Australia, in the last round of group-stage matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Go to FOX US to watch Australia take on Canada.
Watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup on Fubo! Sign up for a free trial and start watching live sports without cable today!
How to Watch Australia vs. Canada
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Sign up for a Fubo free trial now to watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and more live sports!
Australia Group Stage Schedule
Australia's Recent Performance
- Australia lost on July 27 against Nigeria by a final score of 3-2. It took 17 more shots in the contest, 27 to 10.
- Emily van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the only goals for their side in the match versus .
- Kyra Cooney-Cross has not scored a goal, but has recorded one assist for Australia in Women's World Cup play (two games).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Caitlin Foord has not scored a goal but has one assist.
- During Women's World Cup play, van Egmond has scored one goal (but has no assists).
Get your 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup gear at Fanatics!
Australia's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Lydia Williams #1
- Courtney Nevin #2
- Aivi Luik #3
- Clare Polkinghorne #4
- Cortnee Vine #5
- Clare Wheeler #6
- Steph Catley #7
- Alexandra Chidiac #8
- Caitlin Foord #9
- Emily van Egmond #10
- Mary Fowler #11
- Teagan Micah #12
- Tameka Yallop #13
- Alanna Kennedy #14
- Clare Hunt #15
- Hayley Raso #16
- Kyah Simon #17
- Mackenzie Arnold #18
- Katrina Gorry #19
- Sam Kerr #20
- Ellie Carpenter #21
- Charlotte Grant #22
- Kyra Cooney-Cross #23
Canada Group Stage Schedule
Canada's Recent Performance
- In its last game on July 26, Canada claimed a 2-1 victory against Ireland, outshooting Ireland 16 to 13.
- Adriana Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada in the game.
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Leon has one goal (12th in the 2023 Women's World Cup).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored, but does have one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
Canada's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Kailen Sheridan #1
- Allysha Chapman #2
- Kadeisha Buchanan #3
- Shelina Zadorsky #4
- Quinn #5
- Deanne Rose #6
- Julia Grosso #7
- Jayde Riviere #8
- Jordyn Huitema #9
- Ashley Lawrence #10
- Evelyne Viens #11
- Christine Sinclair #12
- Sophie Schmidt #13
- Vanessa Gilles #14
- Nichelle Prince #15
- Gabrielle Carle #16
- Jessie Fleming #17
- Sabrina D'Angelo #18
- Adriana Leon #19
- Cloe Lacasse #20
- Simi Awujo #21
- Lysianne Proulx #22
- Olivia Smith #23
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Australia vs. Canada: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:37 AM CDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
Australia will meet Canada in Melbourne, Australia, in the last round of group-stage matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Go to FOX US to watch Australia take on Canada.
Watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup on Fubo! Sign up for a free trial and start watching live sports without cable today!
How to Watch Australia vs. Canada
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Sign up for a Fubo free trial now to watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and more live sports!
Australia Group Stage Schedule
Australia's Recent Performance
- Australia lost on July 27 against Nigeria by a final score of 3-2. It took 17 more shots in the contest, 27 to 10.
- Emily van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the only goals for their side in the match versus .
- Kyra Cooney-Cross has not scored a goal, but has recorded one assist for Australia in Women's World Cup play (two games).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Caitlin Foord has not scored a goal but has one assist.
- During Women's World Cup play, van Egmond has scored one goal (but has no assists).
Get your 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup gear at Fanatics!
Australia's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Lydia Williams #1
- Courtney Nevin #2
- Aivi Luik #3
- Clare Polkinghorne #4
- Cortnee Vine #5
- Clare Wheeler #6
- Steph Catley #7
- Alexandra Chidiac #8
- Caitlin Foord #9
- Emily van Egmond #10
- Mary Fowler #11
- Teagan Micah #12
- Tameka Yallop #13
- Alanna Kennedy #14
- Clare Hunt #15
- Hayley Raso #16
- Kyah Simon #17
- Mackenzie Arnold #18
- Katrina Gorry #19
- Sam Kerr #20
- Ellie Carpenter #21
- Charlotte Grant #22
- Kyra Cooney-Cross #23
Canada Group Stage Schedule
Canada's Recent Performance
- In its last game on July 26, Canada claimed a 2-1 victory against Ireland, outshooting Ireland 16 to 13.
- Adriana Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada in the game.
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Leon has one goal (12th in the 2023 Women's World Cup).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored, but does have one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
Canada's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Kailen Sheridan #1
- Allysha Chapman #2
- Kadeisha Buchanan #3
- Shelina Zadorsky #4
- Quinn #5
- Deanne Rose #6
- Julia Grosso #7
- Jayde Riviere #8
- Jordyn Huitema #9
- Ashley Lawrence #10
- Evelyne Viens #11
- Christine Sinclair #12
- Sophie Schmidt #13
- Vanessa Gilles #14
- Nichelle Prince #15
- Gabrielle Carle #16
- Jessie Fleming #17
- Sabrina D'Angelo #18
- Adriana Leon #19
- Cloe Lacasse #20
- Simi Awujo #21
- Lysianne Proulx #22
- Olivia Smith #23
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John Kao
Founder & CEO
Alignment Health
John Kao, an experienced leader in the healthcare industry, founded Alignment Health in 2013 to address the challenges he witnessed firsthand while helping his mother recover from a heart attack. Alignment Health is a unique healthcare company focused on delivering cohesive and personalized care for seniors, particularly those who are chronically ill and frail, through its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. These plans offer superior benefits at lower costs aiming to elevate the level of health care for seniors. With a projected increase in the number of Medicare enrollees to over 73 million by 2030, Kao recognizes the urgency of closing the existing gaps in care. Alignment Health currently serves nearly 110,000 members in six states guided by a team of over 1,000 dedicated professionals who share a commitment to enhancing the lives of seniors. With extensive experience in the industry and a passion for improving health care, he has made it his mission to serve seniors and advocate for their needs. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/john-kao | 2023-07-30T13:53:00 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/john-kao |
Nigeria vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:38 AM EDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
In the final round of Group B matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria will play Ireland in Brisbane, Australia.
You should head to Fox Sports 1 in order to watch this matchup.
Watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup on Fubo! Sign up for a free trial and start watching live sports without cable today!
How to Watch Nigeria vs. Ireland
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
Sign up for a Fubo free trial now to watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and more live sports!
Nigeria Group Stage Schedule
Nigeria's Recent Performance
- Nigeria met Australia in its previous game and was victorious by a final score of 3-2. The Nigeria side won despite being outshot by 17 in the match, 27 to 10.
- Nigeria got its three goals from Osinachi Ohale, Asisat Oshoala and Uchenna Kanu in that match versus .
- Oshoala's Women's World Cup statline through two appearances for Nigeria includes one goal.
- Ohale has scored one goal for Nigeria in Women's World Cup so far.
- In Women's World Cup action, Kanu has scored one goal (but has no assists).
Get your 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup gear at Fanatics!
Nigeria's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Tochukwu Oluehi #1
- Ashleigh Plumptre #2
- Osinachi Ohale #3
- Glory Ogbonna #4
- Onome Ebi #5
- Ifeoma Onumonu #6
- Toni Payne #7
- Asisat Oshoala #8
- Desire Oparanozie #9
- Christy Ucheibe #10
- Gift Monday #11
- Uchenna Kanu #12
- Deborah Abiodun #13
- Oluwatosin Demehin #14
- Rasheedat Ajibade #15
- Chiamaka Nnadozie #16
- Francisca Ordega #17
- Halimatu Ayinde #18
- Onyi Echegini #19
- Rofiat Imuran #20
- Esther Okoronkwo #21
- Michelle Alozie #22
- Yewande Balogun #23
Ireland Group Stage Schedule
Ireland's Recent Performance
- In its last game on July 26, Ireland fell 2-1 to Canada. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Katie McCabe scored the lone goal for Ireland on three shots.
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Ireland, McCabe has one goal (12th in the 2023 Women's World Cup).
Ireland's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Courtney Brosnan #1
- Claire O'Riordan #2
- Chloe Mustaki #3
- Louise Quinn #4
- Niamh Fahey #5
- Megan Connolly #6
- Diane Caldwell #7
- Ruesha Littlejohn #8
- Amber Barrett #9
- Denise O'Sullivan #10
- Katie McCabe #11
- Lily Agg #12
- Aine O'Gorman #13
- Heather Payne #14
- Lucy Quinn #15
- Grace Moloney #16
- Sinead Farrelly #17
- Kyra Carusa #18
- Abbie Larkin #19
- Marissa Sheva #20
- Ciara Grant #21
- Isibeal Atkinson #22
- Megan Walsh #23
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Nigeria vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:38 AM CDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
In the final round of Group B matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria will play Ireland in Brisbane, Australia.
You should head to Fox Sports 1 in order to watch this matchup.
Watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup on Fubo! Sign up for a free trial and start watching live sports without cable today!
How to Watch Nigeria vs. Ireland
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
Sign up for a Fubo free trial now to watch the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and more live sports!
Nigeria Group Stage Schedule
Nigeria's Recent Performance
- Nigeria met Australia in its previous game and was victorious by a final score of 3-2. The Nigeria side won despite being outshot by 17 in the match, 27 to 10.
- Nigeria got its three goals from Osinachi Ohale, Asisat Oshoala and Uchenna Kanu in that match versus .
- Oshoala's Women's World Cup statline through two appearances for Nigeria includes one goal.
- Ohale has scored one goal for Nigeria in Women's World Cup so far.
- In Women's World Cup action, Kanu has scored one goal (but has no assists).
Get your 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup gear at Fanatics!
Nigeria's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Tochukwu Oluehi #1
- Ashleigh Plumptre #2
- Osinachi Ohale #3
- Glory Ogbonna #4
- Onome Ebi #5
- Ifeoma Onumonu #6
- Toni Payne #7
- Asisat Oshoala #8
- Desire Oparanozie #9
- Christy Ucheibe #10
- Gift Monday #11
- Uchenna Kanu #12
- Deborah Abiodun #13
- Oluwatosin Demehin #14
- Rasheedat Ajibade #15
- Chiamaka Nnadozie #16
- Francisca Ordega #17
- Halimatu Ayinde #18
- Onyi Echegini #19
- Rofiat Imuran #20
- Esther Okoronkwo #21
- Michelle Alozie #22
- Yewande Balogun #23
Ireland Group Stage Schedule
Ireland's Recent Performance
- In its last game on July 26, Ireland fell 2-1 to Canada. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Katie McCabe scored the lone goal for Ireland on three shots.
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Ireland, McCabe has one goal (12th in the 2023 Women's World Cup).
Ireland's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Courtney Brosnan #1
- Claire O'Riordan #2
- Chloe Mustaki #3
- Louise Quinn #4
- Niamh Fahey #5
- Megan Connolly #6
- Diane Caldwell #7
- Ruesha Littlejohn #8
- Amber Barrett #9
- Denise O'Sullivan #10
- Katie McCabe #11
- Lily Agg #12
- Aine O'Gorman #13
- Heather Payne #14
- Lucy Quinn #15
- Grace Moloney #16
- Sinead Farrelly #17
- Kyra Carusa #18
- Abbie Larkin #19
- Marissa Sheva #20
- Ciara Grant #21
- Isibeal Atkinson #22
- Megan Walsh #23
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John Keisler
Chief Executive Officer
Sunstone Management
John Keisler is the CEO and managing partner of Sunstone Management Inc., a diversified private capital firm in Southern California. Sunstone invests in early-stage technology startups and fosters economic growth through public-private partnerships across government, education, and private sectors.
Previously, Keisler served as the economic development director for the City of Long Beach, where he spearheaded transformative initiatives. Under his leadership, the city experienced a surge in private sector investment and implemented programs like the Everyone In Plan and the Long Beach Recovery Act to create an equitable and inclusive economy. His commitment to economic opportunities extends beyond Long Beach as he actively participates in organizations throughout California. Additionally, as part of Sunstone’s charitable arm, the Sunstone Community Fund, Keisler has allocated $1 million over five years to support early-stage entrepreneurship and economic development initiatives, benefiting university startup incubators and diverse founders. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/john-keisler | 2023-07-30T13:53:06 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/john-keisler |
Lindsay Ann Oglesby
Chief Executive Officer
Tax Relief Advocates
Lindsay Ann Oglesby’s career journey is marked by her exceptional rise in the education and tax industries. With a solid foundation in operations and sales, she joined TRA in 2019, playing a pivotal role in its transformation as chief operating officer. Her leadership abilities combined with her dedication to helping individuals fueled TRA’s unprecedented growth from 20 to 360 employees in four years. TRA’s accomplishments under her guidance include being recognized as the #1 Fastest Growing Company in the Pacific Region by Inc 5000 and receiving the Business of the Year Award in 2022. Oglesby’s commitment to ethics earned TRA the Torch Award for Ethics and the Great Places to Work Certification. Beyond her professional achievements, she actively gives back to the community and participates in causes she believes in. As the first female CEO of a tax resolution firm, Oglesby’s transformative leadership continues to drive TRA’s success. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/lindsay-ann-oglesby | 2023-07-30T13:53:13 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/lindsay-ann-oglesby |
Manna Kadar
Founder & CEO
Manna Kadar Beauty
Manna Kadar is the visionary entrepreneur behind the rapidly growing Manna Kadar Beauty family of brands, encompassing cosmetics, skincare, pet products, and more. With her award-winning “7 Minute Face” system, she simplifies beauty routines for busy moms. Committed to giving back, she serves on the boards of Goodwill and USC’s Women in Business, donating 10% of her company’s profits to philanthropic causes.
Raised by a resilient Asian single mother, Kadar experienced the challenges of her neighborhood firsthand, using education and entrepreneurship as her escape. From owning her first cosmetics store at 16 to expanding her mall-based chain to seven stores, she later ventured into tanning salons, eventually establishing the successful Manna Kadar Beauty empire. By understanding her customers’ needs, she creates versatile and high-quality products that empower individuals to embrace their unique beauty. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/manna-kadar | 2023-07-30T13:53:19 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/manna-kadar |
Nicole Mather
CEO & Founder
House of Sillage
Nicole Mather is the CEO and founder of House of Sillage, an haute parfumerie redefining luxury in the fragrance industry. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and cutting-edge technology, House of Sillage creates extraordinary fragrances showcased in breathtaking bottles that embody her creative expression and innovation.
Guided by Nicole’s vision, House of Sillage has garnered global recognition and numerous awards. Crafted by a team of skilled noses, artists, and designers in France, each fragrance represents the perfect fusion of rare and exotic ingredients and meticulously designed jeweled caps. Mather’s visionary spirit has brought a new level of presence and genuine luxury to the world of perfumery. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/nicole-mather | 2023-07-30T13:53:25 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/nicole-mather |
Pardis Nasseri
CEO & President
Palm Tree LLC
Pardis Nasseri is the founder and driving force behind Palm Tree LLC, a leading modern M&A advisor offering integrated investment banking and financial services. With a successful career spanning M&A deals, business operations, and investments exceeding $30 billion, he has a proven track record of success.
Nasseri started his journey as an entrepreneur while still in school, eventually working in M&A at PwC and Jefferies, and later as an investor at Platinum Equity. In 2010 he founded Palm Tree as an independent sponsor, which evolved into a nationwide enterprise providing comprehensive financial services. He is recognized as one of the most influential private equity advisors, actively engages in leadership communities, and contributes to academia as a guest lecturer. He and his wife are dedicated to philanthropy, particularly focused on improving the health and well-being of children and families. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/pardis-nasseri | 2023-07-30T13:53:31 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/pardis-nasseri |
Perkins Miller
Chief Executive Officer
Fandom
Perkins Miller is the CEO of Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform with 350 million monthly unique visitors, 250,000 fan-powered communities, and 45 million pages of content generating 30 billion annual page views. With a background in digital, sports, and entertainment sectors, he has positioned Fandom as a leader in consumer entertainment. Under his leadership, Fandom has experienced four consecutive years of growth, achieved profitability, and undergone successful M&A activities.
The platform’s immersive first-party data known as “FanDNA” enables partnerships with major studios, gaming companies, and advertisers, providing unparalleled insights and targeting capabilities. Miller’s strategic approach has transformed Fandom into an entertainment tech company, delivering personalized experiences, targeted advertising, and in-depth fan insights. Notably, he led the $146.3 million sale of D&D Beyond, allowing Fandom to invest in technology and data sectors. Its gaming division driven by Miller now engages over 150 million passionate gaming fans and hosts 100,000 gaming communities. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/perkins-miller | 2023-07-30T13:53:32 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/perkins-miller |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T13:53:37 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
Precious Velvet Mayes
Chief Executive Officer
Pacifica Hospital of the Valley
Precious Mayes has been instrumental in the success of sustaining operations for Pacifica Hospital of the Valley (PHV). She has been able to develop and maintain positive relations with local and state legislators, who now support any efforts by the hospital due to her coordination and communication to meet standards and expectations. As CEO, Mayes implemented positive change in all areas of clinical care, medical staffing, specialized programs, customer service, and meeting the care needs of the community. Her work has led to an increase in accounts receivable by $25 million.
Mayes worked closely with the state and federal governing bodies to launch a new program in partnership with the Department of Mental Health to provide 26 beds for acute-level patients who have behavioral health issues as their primary medical diagnosis. Referrals for this patient population continue to increase, and with their collaborative efforts with the Department of Mental Health, the program has been highly successful in meeting the needs of mental health patients. The facility is located in Sylmar. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/precious-velvet-mayes | 2023-07-30T13:53:38 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/precious-velvet-mayes |
DALLAS COUNTY, Texas — Now that Republican leaders in the state of Texas have formally started the process to leave a multistate effort designed to catch duplicate voter registrations, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said he’s not very confident that voter rolls will be clean before the 2024 primary next March.
“We should be focused on winning over the hearts and minds of new voters, not what the Republicans are doing, which is artificially keeping the voter rolls low so they can win with the same group that they’ve had and not allow the younger, the new transplants, renters who move, to easily register,” Judge Jenkins said on Inside Texas Politics.
The partnership is known as ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center.
As many as 27 states had been using the system, which is designed to check for voters who’ve registered in two different states and may try to vote twice in the same election. ERIC also helps to keep voter rolls clean, alerting elections officials when someone moves, for instance.
At least three Republican-led states have already exited ERIC.
And the Secretary of State says Texas will leave the program in three months.
According to state law passed during the last legislative session, Texas must now either create its own system or find a provider from the private sector, but it can’t cost more than $100,000.
Jenkins says ERIC was extremely effective at keeping rolls clean and he doubts the new program created by Texas Republicans will do the same, instead harming some voters.
“It’s a big deal. We’ll have to see what happens with the state’s new system, but it will, in all likelihood, disenfranchise people and knock people off the voter rolls,” Jenkins said. “And the ones to watch for are young people, minorities and renters who move around.” | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/dallas-county-judge-not-confident-voter-rolls-clean-after-texas-exits-multistate-voter-program/287-cf0b857d-eab0-42d9-88dd-8dadd622d67b | 2023-07-30T13:53:43 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/dallas-county-judge-not-confident-voter-rolls-clean-after-texas-exits-multistate-voter-program/287-cf0b857d-eab0-42d9-88dd-8dadd622d67b |
Ronnetta Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Waymakers
Ronnetta Johnson is an esteemed nonprofit professional with over 35 years of experience in leadership roles. Since becoming CEO of Waymakers in 2015, she has driven the agency’s mission to support vulnerable children, individuals, and families facing challenging circumstances. Under her visionary leadership, Waymakers has grown into a robust organization with a budget over $30 million, over 350 staff members, and hundreds of volunteers.
Johnson is known for her authentic and inclusive leadership style, prioritizing open communication and empowering her team. She has spearheaded strategic initiatives, including a successful rebranding effort and expanding grants and contracts, resulting in nearly doubling the agency’s revenue. She is dedicated to mentoring and professional development, both within Waymakers and in various statewide leadership roles. Johnson’s impact extends beyond the agency as she serves on advisory boards and foundations. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/ronnetta-johnson | 2023-07-30T13:53:44 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/ronnetta-johnson |
Steve O’Connell
President & CEO
California Credit Union
Steve O’Connell is the accomplished president and CEO of California Credit Union, overseeing its impressive growth and member service enhancements. Under his guidance, the credit union achieved exceptional financial performance, increasing assets by $140 million to reach $4.5 billion with a net worth ratio of 9.66% and net income of $24 million in 2022. Member satisfaction reached an impressive 96.6%, driven by a member-centric approach and industry-leading technologies.
Additionally, he ensured the credit union’s active community involvement by investing $2 million over the last five years, forming partnerships, supporting education initiatives, and providing humanitarian aid. O’Connell’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion led to the credit union’s certification as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), enabling increased access to financial services for underserved populations. Through innovative programs and financial literacy resources, he and the credit union continue to make a positive impact on the communities they serve. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/steve-oconnell | 2023-07-30T13:53:51 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/steve-oconnell |
Steven Malony
Chief Executive Officer
Belkin International
Steven Malony, CEO of Belkin International, has excelled during his nearly 20-year tenure, starting as a sales representative and ascending to the role of global leader. His unwavering commitment to customers and tireless drive align with Belkin’s core values. Before becoming CEO, Malony held various positions in sales and management, overseeing strategic direction, performance, and international operations. He adeptly managed the separation of Linksys and integration of the Phyn brand while maintaining strong financial results. His resilience was evident during challenging times as he prioritized critical aspects of Belkin’s operations.
Under Malony’s guidance, Belkin achieved remarkable growth with revenue, gross profit, and operating profit increasing significantly. By leveraging the company’s internal capabilities such as design, manufacture, and sales through FIT, he has positioned Belkin for ongoing success. He has also fostered a vibrant corporate culture and community by empowering the team and establishing voluntary employee groups called VIBEs. | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/steven-malony | 2023-07-30T13:53:52 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/2023-c-suite-trends-updates-and-the-cfo-leadership-awards-recap/steven-malony |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor’s unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter and this year promises to be worse after the city closed an arena that housed 500 people during the winter months. Bickering between the city’s liberal assembly and its conservative mayor about how to address the crisis, and a lack of state funding, have further stymied efforts to find a solution.
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it’s “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
About 43% of Anchorage’s more than 3,000 unsheltered residents are Alaska Natives, and Bronson’s proposal also drew harsh criticism from those who called it culturally insensitive.
“The reality is there is no place to send these people because this is their land. Any policy that we make has to pay credence to that simple fact. This is Dena’ina land, this is Native land,” said Christopher Constant, chair of the Anchorage Assembly. “And so we cannot be supporting policies that would take people and displace them from their home, even if their home is not what you or I would call home.”
Bronson’s airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the U.S. West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
In May, the city shut down the 500-bed homeless shelter in the city’s arena so it could once more be used for concerts and hockey games after neighbors complained about open drug use, trespassing, violence and litter. A plan to build a large shelter and navigation center fell through when Bronson approved a contract without approval from the Anchorage Assembly.
That leaves a gaping hole in the city’s ability to house the thousands of homeless people who have to contend with temperatures well below zero for days at a time and unrelenting winds blasting off Cook Inlet. At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no vacancies.
New tent cities have sprung up across Anchorage this summer: on a slope facing the city’s historic railroad depot, on a busy road near the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and near soup kitchens and shelters downtown.
Assembly members are slated to consider a winter stop-gap option in August falling far short of the need: a large, warmed, tent-like structure for 150 people.
Summer brings its own challenges: hungry bears last year roamed a city-owned campground where homeless people were resettled after the arena closed. Wildlife officials killed four bears after they broke into tents.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
It’s not clear if his proposal will move forward. There is not yet a plan or a funding source.
Dr. Ted Mala, an Inupiaq who in 1990 became the first Alaska Native to serve as the state’s health commissioner, said Anchorage should be working with social workers and law enforcement to discover people’s individual reasons for homelessness and connect them with resources.
Buying the unsheltered a ticket to another city is a political game that’s been around for years. A number of U.S. cities struggling with homelessness, including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, have also offered bus or plane tickets to homeless residents.
“People are not pawns, they’re human beings,” Mala said.
The mayor’s proposal, while focused on warmer cities, also would fund tickets to other Alaska locations for those who want them.
Clarita Clark became homeless after her medical team wanted her to move from Point Hope to Anchorage for cancer treatment because Anchorage is warmer. The medical facility wouldn’t allow her husband to stay with her, so they pitched a tent in a sprawling camp to stay together.
Having recently found the body of a dead teenager who overdosed in a portable toilet, Clark yearns to return to the Chukchi Sea coastal village of Point Hope, where her three grandchildren live.
“I got a family that loves me,” she said, adding she would use the ticket and seek treatment closer to home.
Danny Parish also is leaving Alaska, but for another reason: He’s fed up.
Parish is selling his home of 29 years because it sits directly across the street from Sullivan Arena. Bad acts by some homeless people — including harassment, throwing vodka bottles in his yard, poisoning his dog and using his driveway as a toilet — made his life “a holy hell,” he said.
Parish is convinced the arena will be used again this winter since there isn’t another plan.
He, too, hopes to move to the contiguous U.S. — Oregon, for starters — but not before asking Anchorage leaders for his own plane ticket out.
“If they’re going to give them to everybody else,” Parish said, “then they need to give me one.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/community/health-minute/ap-anchorage-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/ | 2023-07-30T13:54:17 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/community/health-minute/ap-anchorage-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/ |
An extensive overhaul of Wood Avenue in Easton is officially a go, after the city council on Wednesday approved a $1.8 million contract for the work.
Grace Industries Inc. won the contract among five bids that were opened July 14 and ranged as high as $2.5 million, said city Public Works Director David Hopkins, who is also acting city administrator during the absence of Administrator Luis Campos. | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/2023/07/see-whats-in-the-18m-overhaul-of-this-easton-connector-route.html | 2023-07-30T13:54:18 | 0 | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/2023/07/see-whats-in-the-18m-overhaul-of-this-easton-connector-route.html |
On a recent hot, sticky July morning, the 100-foot American Star sightseeing vessel embarked from its dock just north of the bridge into historic Cape May as a few dozen people milled about on deck.
Some scrolled through phones as the boat, operated by the Cape May Whale Watch & Research Center, motored past the U.S. Coast Guard training facility. Others watched as the Atlantic Ocean’s waves ebbed and flowed in a ceaseless rhythm. | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2023/07/jersey-shores-delightful-dolphins-a-deep-dive.html | 2023-07-30T13:54:24 | 0 | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2023/07/jersey-shores-delightful-dolphins-a-deep-dive.html |
Nearly two years after 10 people were crushed to death during the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival, no charges have been filed — even though some people, including event workers, expressed safety concerns.
Pinpointing “who exactly caused those deaths is not an easy question to answer,” said Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
“It’s a very difficult thing to say, unless you have some kind of clear evidence that somebody in charge, whose job it was to ensure safety and who should have known better, failed to take action,” she said.
A nearly 1,300-page report on the investigation into the tragedy released by Houston police Friday said contract worker Reece Wheeler told authorities that he saw a crush of people and warned an event organizer that people could die, shortly before rapper Travis Scott went onstage.
In the report, investigators wrote that Scott said he did see one person near the stage getting medical attention, but said that overall, the crowd seemed to enjoy the show. He said he did not see any signs of serious problems, nor did he hear anyone tell him to stop the show.
Hip-hop artist Drake, who also performed, told police it was difficult to see from the stage what was going on in the crowd and that he didn’t hear anyone call for the show to stop.
Despite no charges being filed, more than 500 lawsuits have been filed over the deaths and injuries at the concert, including many against concert promoter Live Nation and Scott. Some of those suits have since been settled.
Those who were killed ranged in age from 9 to 27, and all 10 people died due to compression asphyxia, according to medical examiners.
In June, a Texas grand jury declined to indict six people in the case, including Scott. Prosecutors said, then, that the circumstances of the deaths limited what charges they were able to present, eliminating potential counts such as murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Thompson said the sheer number of people involved in putting on the event, the large scale of it, and the high bar for proving criminal negligence or recklessness are challenges for prosecutors in cases like this.
“It goes back to, who knows what’s going on, is that being communicated?” she said. “Were they being told that people have died, and they still wanted the concert to go on? Or, were they being told that ‘Hey, some people are getting hurt, which might not be that unusual at an event like that?”
Assistant Harris County District Attorney Alycia Harvey said after the grand jury declined to issue indictments that prosecutors were left with only possible counts of endangering a child in connection with the deaths of the two youngest concertgoers, ages 9 and 14.
Scott’s lawyer, Kent Schaffer, has said that the performer was not responsible for the tragedy.
“He never encouraged people to do anything that resulted in other people being hurt,” Schaffer said.
Scott has previously said he was unaware of the deaths until after the show. He has since created what he called Project HEAL, a $5 million initiative that includes funding for an effort to address safety challenges for festivals and large-scale events.
The police report said Scott told investigators that around the time Drake came onstage he was told to end the show after the performance, but that no one told him of an emergency.
Following the tragedy, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott formed a task force to study concert safety, and to recommend crowd control and security measures during mass gathering.
The task force in April 2022 reported that people without tickets entered the outdoor festival area hours before the performances began, overwhelming staff and leading to a variety of injuries. It also concluded that the process for issuing permits for mass gatherings is inconsistent statewide.
The task force recommended creating a command center that is authorized to pause or cancel a show in response to safety concerns.
“Sometimes, sadly, industries learn safety practices following disasters,” said Thompson, the law professor. “The standards for live concerts like this, I would imagine, are going to change.”
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Miller reported from Oklahoma City, Willingham reported from Charleston, West Virginia. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/entertainment-news/ap-10-people-died-at-the-astroworld-music-festival-two-years-ago-what-happens-now/ | 2023-07-30T13:54:23 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/entertainment-news/ap-10-people-died-at-the-astroworld-music-festival-two-years-ago-what-happens-now/ |
Do you know someone who left Pennsylvania – or is considering doing so – to find greener pastures? You’re not alone. Nearly half of Pennsylvanians flirt with moving out of state, according to a recent survey commissioned by the Commonwealth Foundation.
Younger respondents show a higher propensity to look elsewhere. More than half of 18- to 44-year-olds have pondered leaving the Keystone State. That’s a lot of prime working-age people looking to get out.
Why are young people so determined to jump ship? Answers vary but highlight some critical trends for policymakers to understand. Desire for a lower cost of living and lower taxes were the leading responses, as stated by 49% and 44% of respondents, respectively.
Many have already left. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, Pennsylvania lost about 40,000 residents between July 2021 and July 2022. Only seven states suffered larger out-migrations during the same period.
The out-migration from Pennsylvania is part of a broader southward migration in the United States, as people flee northern blue states in favor of southern red states. Bloomberg recently reported on a massive movement of Americans – lured by “warmer weather, lower taxes, looser regulation, and cheaper housing” – to Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. These six states, dubbed the “New New South,” now contribute more to the national gross domestic product (GDP) than the Northeast.
Of this region’s major cities, Philadelphia is suffering one of the worst exoduses. Between July 2021 and July 2022, Philadelphia lost about 22,000 residents – a 1.4% drop and the largest one-year decline since 1977, according to Census data.
This mass departure hurts Philadelphia’s economy. Based on Internal Revenue Service data, Philadelphia lost $3.8 billion in adjusted gross income from outmigration taking place in 2020ؘ–21.
But Philadelphia has one thing going for itself: at least it’s not New York City. The pandemic was particularly hard on the Big Apple. In 2021 and 2022, New York City lost the most people (more than 400,000 total, or 4.6%); Philadelphia ranked third on this measure in 2022.
New York lost more jobs, too. From February 2020 to April 2021, New York City suffered a 12% decline in jobs – roughly three times the national average. (Comparatively, Philadelphia lost 9%.) New York City has recouped fewer than half of the jobs it lost during the pandemic, leaving the city with a deficit of half a million jobs.
Pennsylvania has a unique opportunity to avoid New York’s pitfalls. But only if lawmakers get serious about making the Keystone State more business-friendly.
Pennsylvania’s business environment has long had a bad reputation. Considering 27 business-relevant metrics, from small-business growth and five-year business survival rate to GDP growth and venture capital per capita, WalletHub ranked Pennsylvania 44th among the states for starting a business.
This unfriendly environment has been a focal point for Gov. Josh Shapiro. Both on the campaign trail and in office, Shapiro has insisted that “Pennsylvania is open for business,” promising to accelerate corporate tax reductions, reform permitting, increase energy production, provide more educational options, and reduce the overwhelming regulatory burden that strangles local economies.
There is no shortage of red tape for Shapiro and Pennsylvania lawmakers to cut. Pennsylvania enforces 166,219 regulatory restrictions, 22% more than the national average.
Shapiro recently demonstrated his willingness to tackle regulations while rebuilding the I-95 bridge. Patting himself on the back for “speeding up bureaucracy,” Shapiro bragged in the Washington Post about how his administration “fast-tracked the permitting process to avoid delays” and “waived (some bureaucratic requirements) completely.”
The bridge collapse was a unique challenge. But if we can fast-track regulations for a highway, why not for the rest of the economy?
If Shapiro and Pennsylvania lawmakers truly want the commonwealth to open for business, they must act quickly to stop hemorrhaging our workforce. They can start by reducing the punishing tax and regulatory burdens that inspire people and businesses to leave.
Otherwise, more Pennsylvanians will use the newly reopened I-95 only to tow their U-Haul trailers out of state.
Nathan Benefield is the senior vice president of the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s free-market think tank. This column first appeared on RealClear Pennsylvania. | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/2023/07/if-pa-is-truly-open-for-business-why-are-so-many-in-the-workforce-leaving-opinion.html | 2023-07-30T13:54:30 | 0 | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/2023/07/if-pa-is-truly-open-for-business-why-are-so-many-in-the-workforce-leaving-opinion.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/entertainment-news/ap-consumer-demand-for-speed-and-convenience-drives-labor-unrest-among-workers-in-hollywood-and-at-ups/ | 2023-07-30T13:54:31 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/entertainment-news/ap-consumer-demand-for-speed-and-convenience-drives-labor-unrest-among-workers-in-hollywood-and-at-ups/ |
A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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It appeared all hope was lost, but once again, the great Sylvia Hanover overcame adversity to win a 12th straight start Saturday night, scoring in one of two divisions of the Tompkins-Geers for 3-year-old pacing fillies at The Meadowlands. Purses in excess of $30,000 were offered on the four T-G events on the card.
It shouldn’t have come as a big surprise that the daughter of Always B Miki-Shyaway came through. After all, she went a nightmare trip in The Big M’s Mistletoe Shalee two weeks ago and prevailed in 1:48.4. | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/2023/07/meadowlands-recap-sylvia-hanover-makes-it-an-even-dozen.html | 2023-07-30T13:54:37 | 0 | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/2023/07/meadowlands-recap-sylvia-hanover-makes-it-an-even-dozen.html |
Consumer demand for speed and convenience drives labor unrest among workers in Hollywood and at UPS
NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single-digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and television shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single-digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles.
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TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.
On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: “It’s a miracle.”
The flag, known as “Yosegaki Hinomaru,” or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier’s name, Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, and the signatures of his relatives, friends and neighbors wishing him luck. It was given to him before he was drafted by the Army. His family was later told he died in Saipan, but his remains were never returned.
The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Its meaning was not known until it was identified by the family earlier this year, said museum director Steve Banta, who brought the flag to Tokyo.
Banta said he learned the story behind the flag earlier this year when he was contacted by the Obon Society, a nonprofit organization that has returned about 500 similar flags as non-biological remains, to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.
The search for the flag’s original owner started in April when a museum visitor took a photo and asked an expert about the description that it had belonged to a “kamikaze” suicide pilot. When Shigeyoshi Mutsuda’s grandson saw the photo, he sought help from the Obon Society, group co-founder Keiko Ziak said.
“When we learned all of this, and that the family would like to have the flag, we knew immediately that the flag did not belong to us,” Banta said at the handover ceremony. “We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.”
The soldier’s eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when Banta, wearing white gloves, gently placed the neatly folded flag into his hands. Two of his younger siblings, both in their 80s, stood by and looked on silently. The three children, all wearing cotton gloves so they wouldn’t damage the decades-old flag, carefully unfolded it to show to the audience.
“After receiving the flag today, I earnestly felt that the war like that should never be fought again and that I do not wish anyone else to go through this sadness (of separation),” Toshihiro Mutsuda said.
The soldier’s daughter, Misako Matsukuchi, touched the flag with both hands and prayed. “After nearly 80 years, the spirit of our father returned to us. I hope he can finally rest in peace,” Matsukuchi said later.
Toshihiro Mutsuda said his memory of his father was foggy. However, he clearly remembers his mother, Masae Mutsuda, who died five years ago at age 102, used to make the long-distance bus trip almost every year from the farming town in Gifu, central Japan, to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are enshrined, to pay tribute to her husband’s spirit.
The shrine is controversial, as it includes convicted war criminals among those commemorated. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japanese militarism. However, for the Mutsuda family, it’s a place to remember the loss of a father and husband.
“It’s like an old love story across the ages coming together … It doesn’t matter where,” Banta said, referring to the Yasukuni controversy. “The important thing is this flag goes to the family.”
That’s why Toshihiro Mutsuda and his siblings chose to receive the flag at Yasukuni and brought the framed photos of their parents.
“My mother missed him and wanted to see him so much and that’s why she used to pray here,” he said. “Today her wish finally came true, and she was able to be reunited.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete, fueling worries about whether Congress will be able to avoid a partial government shutdown this fall.
Congress has until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to act on government funding. They could pass spending bills to fund government agencies into next year, or simply pass a stopgap measure that keeps agencies running until they strike a longer-term agreement. No matter which route they take, it won’t be easy.
“We’re going to scare the hell out of the American people before we get this done,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.
Coons’ assessment is widely shared in Congress, reflecting the gulf between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate, which are charting vastly different — and mostly incompatible — paths on spending.
The Senate is adhering mostly to the top-line spending levels that President Joe Biden negotiated with House Republicans in late May as part of the debt-ceiling deal that extended the government’s borrowing authority and avoided an economically devastating default.
That agreement holds discretionary spending generally flat for the coming year while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. On top of that, the Senate is looking to add $13.7 billion in additional emergency appropriations, including $8 billion for defense and $5.7 billion for nondefense.
House Republicans, many of whom opposed the debt-ceiling deal and refused to vote for it, are going a different way.
GOP leaders have teed up bills with far less spending than the agreement allows in an effort to win over members who insist on rolling back spending to fiscal year 2022 levels. They are also adding scores of policy add-ons broadly opposed by Democrats. There are proposals to reduce access to abortion pills, bans on the funding of hormone therapy and certain surgeries for transgender veterans, and a prohibition on training programs promoting diversity in the federal workplace, among many others.
At a press conference at the Capitol this past week, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction within the House GOP, said that voters elected a Republican majority in that chamber to rein in government spending and it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.
“We should not fear a government shutdown,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. “Most of the American people won’t even miss if the government is shut down temporarily.”
Many House Republicans disagree with that assessment. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, called it an oversimplification to say most Americans wouldn’t feel an impact. And he warned Republicans would take the blame for a shutdown.
“We always get blamed for it, no matter what,” Simpson said. ”So it’s bad policy, it’s bad politics.”
But the slim five-seat majority Republicans hold amplifies the power that a small group can wield. Even though the debt ceiling agreement passed with a significant majority of both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives opponents were so unhappy in the aftermath that they shut down House votes for a few days, stalling the entire GOP agenda.
Shortly thereafter, McCarthy argued the numbers he negotiated with the White House amounted to a cap and “you can always do less.” GOP Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, followed that she would seek to limit nondefense spending at 2022 budget levels, saying the debt agreement “set a top-line spending cap — a ceiling, not a floor.”
The decision to cut spending below levels in the the debt ceiling deal helped get the House moving again, but put them on a collision course with the Senate, where the spending bills hew much closer to the agreement.
“What the House has done is they essentially tore up that agreement as soon as it was signed,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “And so we are in for a bumpy ride.”
Even as House Republicans have been moving their spending bills out of committee on party-line votes, the key committee in the Senate has been operating in a bipartisan fashion, drafting spending bills with sometimes unanimous support.
“The way to make this work is do it in a bipartisan way like we are doing in the Senate. If you do it in a partisan way, you’re heading to a shutdown. And I am really worried that that’s where the House Republicans are headed,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters this week.
McCarthy countered that people had the same doubts about whether House Republicans and the White House could reach an agreement to pass a debt ceiling extension and avoid a default.
“We’ve got ’til Sept. 30. I think we can get this all done,” McCarthy said.
In a subsequent press conference, McCarthy said he had just met with Schumer to talk about the road ahead on an array of bills, including the spending bills.
“I don’t want the government to shut down,” McCarthy said. “I want to find that we can find common ground.”
In all, there are 12 spending bills. The House has passed one so far, and moved others out of committee. The Senate has passed none, though it has advanced all 12 out of committee, something that hasn’t happened since 2018.
Still, the difficulty ahead was evident on the House side, where Republicans gave up until after the recess on trying to pass a spending measure to fund federal agriculture and rural programs and the Food and Drug Administration, amid disagreements over its contents. They began their August recess a day early instead of holding votes Friday.
Simpson said some of his Republican colleagues don’t want to take money approved already outside the appropriations process to cover some of this year’s spending and avoid deeper cuts. For example, the House bills would take almost all of the money approved last year for the Internal Revenue Service in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and use the savings to avoid deeper spending cuts elsewhere.
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn’t vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts “would have just been devastating.”
“That’s the challenge we’re going to have when we get back in September,” he said.
Further complicating things in the House, a few Republicans are opposed to some of the policy riders being included in the spending bills. For example, the agriculture spending bill would reverse the FDA’s decision to allow abortion pills to be dispensed in certified pharmacies, instead of only by prescribers in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.
“I had a problem with abortion being put inside an ag bill,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. “I think that’s ridiculous.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Chatter on one of Prabha Rao’s WhatsApp groups exploded last week when India announced that it was severely curtailing some rice exports to the rest of the world, triggering worry among the Indian diaspora in the United States that access to a food staple from home might soon be cut off.
As in any crisis situation — think bottled water and toilet paper— some rushed to supermarkets to stock up, stacking carts with bags and bags of rice. In some places, lines formed outside some stores as panic buying ensued.
But Rao, who lives near Syracuse, New York, was reassured when the proprietor of her Indian market sent out an email to customers to let them know there was no need to worry: There was an ample supply of rice.
At least for now.
An earlier than expected El Niño brought drier, warmer weather in some parts of Asia and is expected to harm rice production. But in some parts of India, where the monsoon season was especially brutal, flooding destroyed some crops, adding to production woes and rising prices.
Hoping to stave off inflationary pressures on a diet staple, the Indian government earlier this month imposed export bans on non-Basmati white rice varieties, prompting hoarding in some parts of the world.
The move was taken “to ensure adequate availability” and “to allay the rise in prices in the domestic market,” India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution announced July 20. Over the past year, prices have increased by more than 11%, and by 3% over the past month, the government said.
Non-Basmati white rice constitutes about a fourth of the rice exported by India.
“On WhatsApp, I got a lot of messages saying that rice was not going to be available. I think there was a lot of confusion in the beginning because, as you know, rice is very important for us,” Rao said.
“When we first heard the news, there was just mild confusion and people started panic buying because they thought that it may not be available,” she said.
There are scores of different varieties of rice, with people having their preference depending on taste and texture. India’s export ban does not apply to Basmati rice, a long-grain variety that is more aromatic.
The ban applies to short-grain rice that is starchier and has a relatively neutral flavor — which Rao says is preferable in some dishes or favored in specific regions of India, especially in southern areas of the country.
At Little India, a grocery store in New York City’s Curry Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, there was no shortage of Basmati rice and other varieties.
That wasn’t the case at other Indian groceries.
On its Facebook page, India Bazaar, an Indian grocery chain in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, told customers not to panic. “We are working hard to meet all our shoppers’ demands,” the post said.
Customers cleared shelves and waited in long lines to stockpile bags of rice, reported NBC Dallas affiliate KXAS.
“They really wanted to purchase ten, 12, 15 bags,” India Bazaar’s president, Anand Pabari, told the station. “It was a really crazy situation.”
India’s move came days after Russia backed out of a deal to allow Ukrainian wheat safe passage through the Black Sea, prompting warnings that the action could lead to surging prices.
Some economists say the ban might further hurt food supplies around the world, and some governments have urged the Indian government to reconsider the export ban.
At least in the United States, the supply of imported rice from India may not yet be a problem — despite the panic buying — but a long-term ban would certainly deplete that stock.
Roa says she and others will just have to adapt by purchasing rice grown in the United States or imported from other countries.
“I might have to substitute Basmati rice,” she said, “but it doesn’t taste that good, especially with South Indian dishes.”
A U.S. resident for three decades, Rao said she is accustomed to improvising.
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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government just as the coup leaders met with senior civil servants to discuss how they would run the country and as the U.S. and the European Union threatened sanctions against the regime.
Brig. Gen. Mohamed Toumba, one of the soldiers who ousted President Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday, told state television that the junta met with civil servants on Friday and asked them to continue their work as usual following the suspension of the constitution. “The message given was not to stop the processes underway, to keep on with things,” said Brig. Gen. Toumba.
“Everything that must be done will be done,” he said, signaling the intention of the regime led by Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who also goes by Omar, to remain in power.
After its meeting on Friday, the African Union Peace and Security Council said it was concerned by the “alarming resurgence” of coups that undermine democracy and stability on the continent. It asked the soldiers to “return immediately and unconditionally to their barracks and restore constitutional authority, within a maximum of fifteen (15) days.”
Bazoum, whose condition and that of his officials remains unknown since the government was overthrown, should also be released immediately and unconditionally, the AU said. Failure to do so would compel the bloc to take “necessary action, including punitive measures against the perpetrators.”
On the streets of the Nigerien capital Niamey on Saturday, things appeared to be returning to normal, though many in the international community were still on lockdown with hotels full of foreigners, many given instructions not to leave.
Locals say they’re waiting to see what unfolds, with many still in support of Bazoum who has not yet resigned. “I’m with him, he does a good work. (But) what can we do?” said Mohamed Cisse, a street seller. “This is (the new leader’s) time, Bazoum’s time is over,” he said.
Tchiani, the junta leader and commander of Niger’s presidential guard, is close to former Nigerien president Mahamadou Issoufou, who stepped down in 2021 after a decade in office. Tchiani’s takeover of power will reinforce speculation that Issoufou is behind the coup, said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German think tank and consultancy.
The U.S. threatened to halt its economic support to Niger while the European Union announced the immediate indefinite suspension of budgetary support and security assistance.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is in Australia as part of a Pacific tour, estimated America’s economic and security partnership with Niger at hundreds of millions of dollars and said its continuity depends on “the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order.”
“So that assistance, that support, is in clear jeopardy as a result of these actions, which is another reason why they need to be immediately reversed,” Blinken said.
While there are no signs of the junta backing down amid growing international pressure, analysts called for synergy in the interventions of the international community and continental organizations such as the AU and the regional bloc of ECOWAS, which is scheduled to meet over the coup on Sunday.
A successful coup in Niger and the sanctions in the aftermath could cause more hardship for millions of poor and hungry people in West Africa and could further threaten international relations with the region, which is seeing a resurgence of coups in recent years, according to Idayat Hassan, senior Africa program fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“A non-reversal of the coup also means that we are defining a new world order in West Africa in particular as you are pitching the west and other countries against few military regimes which may be backed by Russia,” said Hassan.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people’s taxpayer money the … Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait,” the statement said.
China’s People’s Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan’s ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
While Taiwan has purchased $19 billion worth of weaponry, much of it has yet to be delivered to Taiwan. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles to Taiwan. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ | 2023-07-30T13:55:08 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ |
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, police and health officials said. At least 35 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place.
Initially police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies were moved to a hospital bringing the death toll to 35. He said some of the wounded were taken to the city’s main hospital in critical condition and the death toll could increase.
Azam Khan, head of the emergency room at Khar's main hospital, said 35 bodies were brought to the hospital and some wre taken back by relatives while the number of wounded was now more than 100 as those who earlier went to near small clinics for medical aid consequently brought to the main government hospital.
Government administrator Mohibullah Khan Yousufzai also said death toll rose to 35 and the number of wounded was well over 100. He said the serious wounded people were being airlifted to provincial capital, Peshawar, for better medical care.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but the Islamic State group operates across the border in Afghanistan.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman's party, was among the dead. Senator Abdur Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin was also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not in the rally.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. It is not known whether Rehman was present. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the coming elections.
Bajur, once used to be a tribal region but now a district, has been a safe haven for Islamic militants until recent years when Pakistani military carried out massive operations to eliminate militancy from the tribal region. Militants still strike attacking security forces and civilians often.
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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.
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SANTA MARIA DE JESUS, Guatemala (AP) — Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo stood before a few hundred residents of this small Indigenous community on the slopes of the Agua Volcano and told them they could be the seeds of a brighter, more corruption-free spring in Guatemala.
The metaphor fits neatly with his political party, the Seed Movement, and allows the 64-year-old academic and former diplomat to riff on themes of renewal and growth.
But it also alludes to Guatemala’s “democratic spring,” considered a more inclusive period in the country’s history during the presidency in the 1940s and early 1950s of his late father, Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in the presidential election’s first round June 25, but it was enough to give him the surprise second slot in the Aug. 20 runoff ballot. He will face Sandra Torres, a conservative and former first lady who was the leading vote-getter in the first round and is making her third bid for the presidency.
Arévalo’s recent speech in Santa Maria de Jesus was similar to those he has given in Guatemala’s capital, but the imagery could be especially important in rural Indigenous communities as he seeks to rapidly expand his largely urban, youthful base before the runoff.
He won in Guatemala City and other important cities, including Sacatepequez and Quetzaltenango. It remains to be seen whether he can convince people in rural communities that he can address their daily problems.
The delayed certification of the first round results shortened the already small window that Arévalo has to reintroduce himself to much of the country as his opponents rush to paint their own negative picture.
“Do you feel what is happening?” Arévalo told the crowd in Santa Maria de Jesus. “The new spring is arriving, that’s what you feel, and you all are the seeds of that new spring.”
“A new spring that is going to bring us well-being, the water we lack, the education they owe us, the health that they have denied us thanks to those corrupt contracts that serve few,” Arévalo said, standing in front of an old, damaged Roman Catholic church, in a wide-brimmed hat and untucked shirt against the tropical heat.
Among those listening was Juana Orón, a 67-year-old homemaker of the Kaqchikel people. She is one of the older voters who remember hearing about Arévalo’s father, one of only two leftist presidents in Guatemala’s democratic era.
The elder Arévalo, who governed from 1945 to 1951, is credited with establishing key social programs that remain in place today, including Guatemala’s labor code and social security. Guatemala’s democratic spring was cut short in 1954 by the CIA-backed overthrow of his successor, President Jacobo Arbenz.
Under Juan José Arévalo, the state advocated for rights for Indigenous peoples and others beyond the country’s small elite.
“I remember I was little and (my parents) said he had done good things,” said Orón whose first language as a child was Kaqchikel. If his father was good, Arévalo could be a good president, too, she said.
Opponents have tried to frame Arévalo’s candidacy as a step toward some of the region’s more notorious leftist regimes, such as Cuba and Nicaragua. They warn that the progressive candidate will bring expropriations, abortion and same-sex marriage to the conservative country.
Arévalo has been the election’s surprise.
In the days before the June 25 vote, he was polling below 3% and trailing at least seven of the other 21 candidates. But his anti-corruption message resonated in the country where gains against corruption have been erased and the justice system reoriented to pursue the prosecutors and judges who formerly led that fight.
In the month since that initial result, the Attorney General’s Office announced an investigation into his party and had a judge suspend its legal status until the Constitutional Court stepped in to block that move.
In Santa Maria de Jesus, people wanted to compare Arévalo in person to what they were hearing about him. Some handed him flowers, posed for photos or reached out to touch him as he made his way through the throng.
Arévalo pushed back against attempts to frame him as a left-wing radical — he has said private property rights are not up for discussion — and pounded the issue of corruption.
“Let us work, let us get ahead on our own effort, let’s get rid of the corrupt once and for all,” he said.
For Francisco Jiménez, a political scientist at Rafael Landivar University, Arévalo will need concrete proposals to make inroads with the base of Torres, who has spent two decades assembling it.
“He will have to make governing proposals with a social agenda, where the people see that he is going to have an impact on their lives and communities,” Jiménez said. “The other part is continuing to present himself as the different model. That has been his success, someone totally different from the other candidates.”
Evangelical churches in Guatemala have painted Arévalo as an existential threat to the family.
Gladys Sunun, a 35-year-old Kaqchikel vendor from an evangelical family, said she came to hear Arévalo for herself. She said she had heard that Arévalo would convert Guatemala into another Cuba or Nicaragua, but left feeling that might not be true, though she wants to investigate more.
“He came to tell us not to worry,” she said. “It sounds real, but we don’t know.”
Her sister July Sunun said she wanted to hear more about Arévalo’s positions on gender ideology. “As a mother I’m afraid, because we’ve grown up with a Christian background. I don’t want to marry my daughter with another woman,” she said.
July Sunun acknowledged that Arévalo said he would respect the identities and decisions of the people, “but what he hasn’t said is that he won’t allow (same-sex marriage) to happen here.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-guatemala-presidential-candidate-rushes-to-expand-base-beyond-urban-youth/ | 2023-07-30T13:55:15 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-guatemala-presidential-candidate-rushes-to-expand-base-beyond-urban-youth/ |