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US mother, daughter, reported kidnapped in Haiti, people warned not to travel there
(AP) - A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alex chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.”
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Nigeria vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:38 AM EDT|Updated: 34 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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How to Watch the Braves vs. Brewers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
The Atlanta Braves versus Milwaukee Brewers game on Sunday at 1:35 PM ET will feature a pair of hot hitters in Austin Riley and Christian Yelich.
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Braves vs. Brewers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:35 PM ET
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
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Braves Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Atlanta Braves average 1.9 home runs per game and have hit a league-high 195 home runs in total.
- Atlanta is the top slugging team in baseball this season with a .495 slugging percentage.
- The Braves' .270 batting average is second-best in MLB.
- Atlanta has the No. 3 offense in MLB play, scoring 5.6 runs per game (575 total runs).
- The Braves rank second in baseball with an on-base percentage of .339.
- The Braves strike out 8.2 times per game to rank sixth in MLB.
- Atlanta's pitching staff is fifth in MLB with a collective 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Atlanta has a 3.87 team ERA that ranks sixth across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Braves have the 15th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.273).
Braves Probable Starting Pitcher
- AJ Smith-Shawver will start for the Braves, his first of the season.
- The righty will make his MLB debut at 20 years old.
Braves Schedule
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How to Watch the Dream vs. Mystics Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:32 AM CDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
The Washington Mystics (12-12) aim to break a six-game road losing streak at the Atlanta Dream (13-11) on Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET.
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Dream vs. Mystics Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV: Bally Sports
- Arena: Gateway Center Arena
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Key Stats for Dream vs. Mystics
- Atlanta records 85 points per game, only 4.7 more points than the 80.3 Washington gives up.
- Atlanta makes 43.4% of its shots from the field this season, which is 0.1 percentage points higher than Washington has allowed to its opponents (43.3%).
- The Dream are 10-2 when they shoot higher than 43.3% from the field.
- Atlanta is knocking down 35.5% of its three-point shots this season, 2.3% higher than the 33.2% Washington allows opponents to shoot from deep.
- The Dream are 10-6 when they shoot better than 33.2% from distance.
- Atlanta averages 37 rebounds a contest, 4.5 more rebounds per game than Washington's average.
Dream Recent Performance
- The Dream have averaged 85 points per game over their last 10 contests, the same amount they've racked up on average this season.
- Atlanta has been tougher on defense as of late, allowing 78.4 points per game over its past 10 contests compared to the 85.1 points per game its opponents are averaging on the 2023 season.
- Over their past 10 outings, the Dream are making 0.6 more three-pointers per game than their season long average (7.7 compared to 7.1 season-long), while shooting the same percentage from beyond the arc in that span as their season-long average (35.5%).
Dream Injuries
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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: 34 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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KHAR, Pakistan — 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 were 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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Nigeria vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:38 AM CDT|Updated: 33 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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People have asked me what I've learned so far through this series. Have I gotten any clarity on what makes up my own spiritual identity? And the answer is, not really. I'm still in the research phase of this project. I'm still collecting experiences and perspectives and I imagine I'll keep doing that forever, but it's too early to draw any definitive conclusions — except for one.
I believe each and every one of us is capable of making our own meaning. Some of us do that by living according to a set of religious principles. Or by feeling the beauty and sanctity of nature. Or by choosing to see spiritual connections in what others might call mere coincidence.
I don't need anyone to validate those experiences for them to be meaningful to me. But according to Lisa Miller, a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, having a spiritual life is good for your mental health.
Miller is a psychologist and has dedicated most of her career to the study of neuroscience and spirituality. Her newest book is called The Awakened Brain, and in it she makes some really bold claims about how holding spiritual beliefs can decrease our rates of anxiety and depression and generally make us most likely to lead happier lives. I can hear your skepticism already! I get it. I'm a spiritually inclined kind of person but it's still hard for me to understand how, scientifically speaking, believing in something bigger than yourself can make you healthier and happier.
I needed to understand how Miller came to these conclusions. But before she got to the actual science, she told me a story.
It was the mid '90s. Miller was in the early stages of her career and working at a residential mental health facility in New York City. After she'd been there a few months, Yom Kippur rolled around — the day of atonement, considered the most significant of the Jewish religious holidays. One of the older male patients with severe bipolar disorder asked if there were any plans to mark the day. The doctor in charge shrugged his shoulders and said, no — there's no service planned. The patient walked out of the room with his shoulders slumped and Lisa, who is Jewish, saw an opportunity.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Lisa Miller: I approached the unit chief and said, "I'm certainly not a rabbi, but I've been to two-and-a-half decades of Yom Kippur services. I'd be happy to facilitate if that might be OK with you." So I showed up on Yom Kippur and the patients had arrived early to the kitchen, which was to be our sanctuary. The fluorescent lights were quite strong and as we crowded around the linoleum table there was an extraordinary feeling of specialness.
As we started the prayers that we all knew from our childhood, joining together saying in Hebrew the prayers of Yom Kippur, I looked over and noticed that as the gentleman with bipolar was davening, he could not have been further from explosive. He was holding our group in the cadence of the prayers and we were actually following him.
I took a pause and I said, "I feel so grateful to be here today in our Yom Kippur ceremony. Would anyone like to say anything?" We went around the table and the first person to speak was a very otherwise withdrawn woman with recurrent depression. She said, "You know, I always knew on Yom Kippur we could ask for forgiveness. But sitting here now with you all, I'm aware that we can be forgiven. God can forgive us." And she looked liberated.
As I looked around the table at the patients, whatever their symptoms had been yesterday, they were free in that moment. They were free of suffering. They were free of the characteristic patterns that had dragged them down in a way that was equal and opposite to their main symptoms. And so I thought a mental health system minus spirituality made no sense, and that became my life's work, to understand the place of spirituality in renewal, in recovery, in resilience, and to put this in the language of science.
Rachel Martin: What happened when you brought these kinds of questions to your peers, to the other people in your scientific community? Like when you said for the first time, "Hey, I think we need to look at the effect of spirituality on mental health." What did people say to you?
Miller: Well, the vast majority were very respectful, nodded, and didn't pick up the thread. Some of them would say, "That's not psychology, that's not psychiatry." And in fact, I remember early on giving a grand rounds presentation and I opened up saying, "I'm going to speak today about a body of data using nationally representative samples on spirituality and mental health with all the gold standard methods." And about 10 people got up and walked out. It was absolutely not of interest.
Martin: Using the gold standard, what did that mean in terms of the experiments you were running and the studies and the data you were collecting? How did you make sure that it would hold water in the scientific community?
Miller: If I were to characterize the first five years of my investigation, I would say I used the data sets that everyone else knew and trusted. I only asked one new question, which was: "What's the impact of spirituality on the DSM diagnosis of addiction and depression?" The findings were jaw dropping.
The protective benefit of personal spirituality, meaning someone who says their personal spirituality is very important, is 80% against addiction. They have 80% decreased relative risk for the DSM diagnosis of addiction to drugs or alcohol.
Martin: Wait, so someone who self-identifies as having a meaningful spiritual life is 80% less likely to get addicted to drugs or alcohol than someone who says they don't?
Miller: Yes.
Martin: Wow. And how can you prove that it is a spiritual life that is doing that and not some external factor? Because you heard this from other critics, too, some of your peers said you can't attribute that to spirituality, it's gotta be some other social conditioning.
Miller: Well, that's a very important point because in every study we controlled for all of the usual interpretations about this being social support or having resources. So we plugged into our equation every other possible explanation that was generally taken in mental health to explain the road to depression. And nonetheless, it actually turned out that the more high risk we are, the more that there's stress in our lives, the more that we might be genetically at risk for depression, the greater the impact of spirituality as a source of resilience as preventative against major depression.
Martin: What does that look like in the brain?
Miller: One of the most beautiful findings in my 20 years as an investigator was from an MRI study conducted together with our colleagues at Yale Medical School. We looked at people of many different faith traditions and the first finding was that there is one neuro seat of transcendent perception and we share it. Now there's human variability of course, and we can strengthen components.
Martin: How are you actually doing that with people? Are you asking your subjects to pray? What are the spiritual inputs that are going into them so that you can measure it on their brains?
Miller: The very specific prompt was, "Tell us about a time where you felt a deep connection to God, your higher power, the source of life." Everyone had a story like that and as they told their story, we recorded them and it was then played back in their ears while they were inside the scanner.
Martin: Ah, they heard themselves recounting their spiritual experience.
Miller: It was tailor made to their own moment.
Martin: And you saw their brains light up?
Miller: Oh yes. Connecting to these memories, the bonding network comes up online just as when we were held in the arms of our parents or grandparents.
Martin: Wait, when you say the bonding network you mean you can literally see that the brain will respond to spiritual stimuli in the same way that it does to a hug from a family member when you're a baby?
Miller: Precisely.
Martin: Can you tell me how this manifests in the real world? I'm thinking about this anecdote you include in the book about a client of yours. A girl you refer to as Iliana.
Miller: Iliana adored her father, I mean, he was the sun and the moon and the stars to her. They were so close. And one night two men who her father knew, came into his corner store, robbed him and murdered him. And she was devastated. This was a grief that was so deep. She simply could not free herself from the grief that was shackling her heart.
One day, Iliana skips into my office. There's a levity and joy. She plops into the seat and says, "Dr. Miller, you're never gonna believe this. My cousin and my cousin's girlfriend chaperoned me so I could go to a party and I met the most wonderful boy. We talked so long, it must have been 20 minutes. He was so polite and so kind. But here's the best part, his name." Which was the same very unusual name as her father.
She said, "Don't you see? My father sent him. My father is looking out after me." And from that day on she was in the world of the living. What changed everything for Iliana was the awareness that her father walked with her. She maintained a deep transcendent relationship with her father, as most people around the world do.
Iliana trusted her deep inner knowing that this was far too probabilistic to have happened by chance. That this very rare name held both by this new boy and her father could possibly mean nothing.
Martin: Can I ask, what are you thinking as you hear this? I mean, are you thinking that is just a crazy coincidence, but if she needs to believe that this is a sign from God, who am I to tell her otherwise? Because it seems to be working.
Miller: Well, at the time, that was certainly the most common interpretive framework amongst psychologists and psychiatrists. But I could see plain as day that this was a tremendously sacred moment. This was a living miracle. This was a gift.
For me to have treated it like some kind of cultural diversity variable or that it's just the meaning she makes would've actually taken all of the energy and spirit out of that transformative awakening moment. I joined her.
Now I did that authentically because it was my view as well that this is far too nonprobabilistic to have happened by chance, that there are very few people by that very same name and that the first boy she met in a year and a half since her father's passing should have the name of the father. It was a synchronicity. There was a deeper meaning being revealed.
Martin: When you're talking to people who aren't scientists, someone who's skeptical, someone who doesn't have faith, who doesn't have what they define as a spiritual life, what do you want them to take away from your research and your message?
Miller: I've given a number of talks to audiences who, prior to seeing the science, would not necessarily consider themselves spiritual people. And, in fact, I oftentimes hear from people who consider themselves skeptics and very left-brained and when they see the peer reviewed science that says we're naturally spiritual beings, that when we cultivate our spirituality we're 80% less likely to be addicted, 82% less likely to take our lives, it speaks to the left side of their brains long enough that it quiets down the skepticism.
In other words, three cheers for the skeptic. Here is published, peer reviewed science for skeptical audiences to begin to explore, to be curious about our spiritual nature. You know, at the inner table of human knowing we all have an empiricist, a logician, an intuitive, a mystic, and a skeptic. And the skeptic is very welcome, but the skeptic is not the bouncer at the door.
It is not scientific to put a skeptic as a bouncer at the door. It is not more rigorous to toss out an idea before being examined in every way. We are wired to be able to investigate. So I simply say to the biggest skeptic of all, you are most welcome to your own inner table of inquiry, but be sure to invite everyone else.
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“When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money, and the man with the money ends up with the experience.”—Anonymous
While sifting through used books at Goodwill, I found a thin volume entitled “Ethics of the County Fair Midway Carny.” And I quote:
Rule 1. Take their money. So, what if they’re kids? They need to learn sooner or later about games of chance and the people who run them. We are educators. If their parents don’t teach them, then we will.
Rule 2. Rigging the game is an art. Thou shalt rig the game.
Rule 3. Kewpie dolls are overhead. If the game is fair, overhead goes up. If we wanted a business with a lot of overhead, we wouldn’t be working as a carny, we’d be selling auto parts.
Rule 3. Empty their pockets and then run them off. Tears and sobs keep fresh pigeons away.
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Rule 4. Never yawn.
Rule 5. Make at least thrice what you’re paid, or you’ll be working cleanup at the pony ride in Podunk tomorrow night.
Rule 6. Don’t expect anybody to understand our noble calling. We are sustaining a tradition that reaches back to the days of Nero. In addition to being educators, we are purveyors of that mystical quality of life called “luck.” We make it tangible to the yokels who rarely see it in their daily lives. Within the glow of our brightly lit arcades, we conjure an irresistible illusion with the fun house mirrors of personal prowess and good fortune. Give it to them. Hard.
Rule 7. The rube with the fresh-faced young lady on his arm is our bread and butter. Take him for every penny. We’re doing them both a favor. She gets to see how big a fool he is, and he gets to see how big a fool she expects him to be. That is valuable information for a couple in love.
Rule 8. It isn’t cheating; it’s artifice. To the uninitiated, our craft appears crude, deceitful and heartless; we know otherwise. It is esoteric. What we do requires an ability not found in everyone. Nobody is forcing folks to take a chance at the ring toss or the duck shoot. Nobody is promising that the rings fit the bottles, or the gun sights are true. All we’re saying is “You look lucky today, kid. Three tries for a dollar. And lookee here, we got ourselves a winner! Give it another try. Whaddya say?”
Rule 9. Early in the evening, give up one big stuffed bear. While little Missy and her big beau Buddy spend the remainder of the evening at the fair toting around that overstuffed hunk of junk, they’re doing all the advertising you’ll ever need. Rubes will congregate like hatchery trout at feeding time for the chance to win one of those big ol’ stuffed bears for their baby. Smile big and give them a chance. And then give them another. And another.
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KHAR, Pakistan — 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 were 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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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.”
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I get lots of emails from readers expressing sentiments similar to what these guys recently sent me: “Why should rich people get Social Security? I think it’s just morally wrong that wealthy people should be able to collect a Social Security check.” Here is another example: “Why all the fuss about Social Security going broke? We could save the system forever if we just take rich people off the program.”
I always respond to these people by making the following points. Social Security isn’t, and never has been, a welfare program. One of the basic tenets of Social Security is that if you work and pay taxes for a required amount of time, you are going to get a Social Security benefit someday. And you get that benefit if you are poor or if you are rich. In other words, if you pay into the system, you’re going to get something out of the system. It’s as simple as that.
Or to put that yet another way. Social Security has never been means-tested. And if we ever were to do that, by decreeing that certain people are too wealthy to get Social Security, then you start turning Social Security into a welfare program. And I think that is a slippery slope we do not want to descend.
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But if we were to do the unthinkable and means-test the program, especially as part of some package of reforms intended to “save Social Security,” then where do you draw the line? I mean, how rich is too rich to get Social Security? When I ask this question of guys like those who sent me the emails I included above, they will usually quickly say something like: “Billionaires shouldn’t get Social Security.”
Well, if you are doing that as part of a plan to keep Social Security solvent for future generations, it’s a totally worthless gesture. According to a Google search I did, the U.S. is home to about 770 billionaires. So, knocking 770 people off the program, out of the hundreds of millions of current and future beneficiaries, is absolutely meaningless.
And if you want them off the program because you think it is “morally wrong,” then I can only repeat the point I made earlier. These folks worked and paid Social Security taxes just like everyone else, so they should be able to get Social Security benefits just like everyone else.
And speaking of what rich people pay into the system, let me make some points about a related issue. Many people think that one of the Social Security reforms should be a plan to make rich people pay more into the system.
For the entire 86-year history of the program, there has been a cap on the wages subject to Social Security tax. That cap has certainly inched its way up over the years, from $3,000 in 1937 to $160,200 today. But some say the cap should be raised rather steeply, or even eliminated.
But here is what people don’t realize when they float such ideas. Social Security benefits are tied to a person’s taxable wages. In other words, the more you pay into the program, the more you are going to get out of the program. So, if you sharply increase the wage base for wealthier people, you are concurrently going to sharply increase the benefits these wealthy people will someday get in return. And so, a lot of the extra money you think you are pumping into the Social Security pipeline as part of a reform package will simply pour out of the other end of the pipe in future benefits for the well-to-do.
In other words, if you dramatically raise or even eliminate the wage cap to help “save Social Security,” what you’d have to do is place a cap on the benefits paid out of the system to wealthier people to make that kind of reform work. And that would be a hard thing to pull off politically.
And before I wrap up my discussion of wealthy people and Social Security, there is one final point I need to make. Earlier, I said that Social Security is not a welfare program. But having said that, I must point out that there actually are certain “social welfare” characteristics that have been an intrinsic part of Social Security’s makeup from the very beginning. After all, the word “social” isn’t included in the name of the program just because it alliteratively looks good next to the word “security.”
To put that another way, there always have been social goals for American society built into the DNA of Social Security. And one of those goals is to raise the standard of living in retirement for lower-income people.
So how does Social Security achieve that goal? With a benefit formula that is skewed to give lower-income people a better deal out of the system than that offered to wealthier folks. That doesn’t mean that low-income people get higher benefits than better-off people do. Warren Buffett, for example, certainly gets a significantly higher Social Security benefit than the maid who cleans his mansion will get someday when she retires. But as a percentage of what they kicked into the system (in the form of Social Security taxes), that maid will get a much better “rate of return” than Buffett gets.
I don’t have the space here today to get into the intricacies of the Social Security benefit formula, but that maid could potentially end up with a benefit that represents 90% of her pre-retirement income. On the other hand, Warren Buffett’s Social Security benefit might only be about 30% of his Social Security taxable income (and only a teeny-tiny fraction of his actual income).
And in case you’re wondering, the Social Security benefit formula is set up so that most of us (in other words, people with average incomes) end up with a Social Security benefit that is about 42% of our pre-retirement income.
If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has two books with all the answers. One is called “Social Security — Simple and Smart: 10 Easy-to-Understand Fact Sheets That Will Answer All Your Questions About Social Security.” The other is “Social Security: 100 Myths and 100 Facts.” You can find the books at Amazon.com or other book outlets. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns, visit creators.com. | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/social-security-you-yes-rich-people-should-get-social-security/article_dd02941e-15fe-11ee-8640-37f482545311.html | 2023-07-30T14:13:28 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/social-security-you-yes-rich-people-should-get-social-security/article_dd02941e-15fe-11ee-8640-37f482545311.html |
People have asked me what I've learned so far through this series. Have I gotten any clarity on what makes up my own spiritual identity? And the answer is, not really. I'm still in the research phase of this project. I'm still collecting experiences and perspectives and I imagine I'll keep doing that forever, but it's too early to draw any definitive conclusions — except for one.
I believe each and every one of us is capable of making our own meaning. Some of us do that by living according to a set of religious principles. Or by feeling the beauty and sanctity of nature. Or by choosing to see spiritual connections in what others might call mere coincidence.
I don't need anyone to validate those experiences for them to be meaningful to me. But according to Lisa Miller, a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, having a spiritual life is good for your mental health.
Miller is a psychologist and has dedicated most of her career to the study of neuroscience and spirituality. Her newest book is called The Awakened Brain, and in it she makes some really bold claims about how holding spiritual beliefs can decrease our rates of anxiety and depression and generally make us most likely to lead happier lives. I can hear your skepticism already! I get it. I'm a spiritually inclined kind of person but it's still hard for me to understand how, scientifically speaking, believing in something bigger than yourself can make you healthier and happier.
I needed to understand how Miller came to these conclusions. But before she got to the actual science, she told me a story.
It was the mid '90s. Miller was in the early stages of her career and working at a residential mental health facility in New York City. After she'd been there a few months, Yom Kippur rolled around — the day of atonement, considered the most significant of the Jewish religious holidays. One of the older male patients with severe bipolar disorder asked if there were any plans to mark the day. The doctor in charge shrugged his shoulders and said, no — there's no service planned. The patient walked out of the room with his shoulders slumped and Lisa, who is Jewish, saw an opportunity.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Lisa Miller: I approached the unit chief and said, "I'm certainly not a rabbi, but I've been to two-and-a-half decades of Yom Kippur services. I'd be happy to facilitate if that might be OK with you." So I showed up on Yom Kippur and the patients had arrived early to the kitchen, which was to be our sanctuary. The fluorescent lights were quite strong and as we crowded around the linoleum table there was an extraordinary feeling of specialness.
As we started the prayers that we all knew from our childhood, joining together saying in Hebrew the prayers of Yom Kippur, I looked over and noticed that as the gentleman with bipolar was davening, he could not have been further from explosive. He was holding our group in the cadence of the prayers and we were actually following him.
I took a pause and I said, "I feel so grateful to be here today in our Yom Kippur ceremony. Would anyone like to say anything?" We went around the table and the first person to speak was a very otherwise withdrawn woman with recurrent depression. She said, "You know, I always knew on Yom Kippur we could ask for forgiveness. But sitting here now with you all, I'm aware that we can be forgiven. God can forgive us." And she looked liberated.
As I looked around the table at the patients, whatever their symptoms had been yesterday, they were free in that moment. They were free of suffering. They were free of the characteristic patterns that had dragged them down in a way that was equal and opposite to their main symptoms. And so I thought a mental health system minus spirituality made no sense, and that became my life's work, to understand the place of spirituality in renewal, in recovery, in resilience, and to put this in the language of science.
Rachel Martin: What happened when you brought these kinds of questions to your peers, to the other people in your scientific community? Like when you said for the first time, "Hey, I think we need to look at the effect of spirituality on mental health." What did people say to you?
Miller: Well, the vast majority were very respectful, nodded, and didn't pick up the thread. Some of them would say, "That's not psychology, that's not psychiatry." And in fact, I remember early on giving a grand rounds presentation and I opened up saying, "I'm going to speak today about a body of data using nationally representative samples on spirituality and mental health with all the gold standard methods." And about 10 people got up and walked out. It was absolutely not of interest.
Martin: Using the gold standard, what did that mean in terms of the experiments you were running and the studies and the data you were collecting? How did you make sure that it would hold water in the scientific community?
Miller: If I were to characterize the first five years of my investigation, I would say I used the data sets that everyone else knew and trusted. I only asked one new question, which was: "What's the impact of spirituality on the DSM diagnosis of addiction and depression?" The findings were jaw dropping.
The protective benefit of personal spirituality, meaning someone who says their personal spirituality is very important, is 80% against addiction. They have 80% decreased relative risk for the DSM diagnosis of addiction to drugs or alcohol.
Martin: Wait, so someone who self-identifies as having a meaningful spiritual life is 80% less likely to get addicted to drugs or alcohol than someone who says they don't?
Miller: Yes.
Martin: Wow. And how can you prove that it is a spiritual life that is doing that and not some external factor? Because you heard this from other critics, too, some of your peers said you can't attribute that to spirituality, it's gotta be some other social conditioning.
Miller: Well, that's a very important point because in every study we controlled for all of the usual interpretations about this being social support or having resources. So we plugged into our equation every other possible explanation that was generally taken in mental health to explain the road to depression. And nonetheless, it actually turned out that the more high risk we are, the more that there's stress in our lives, the more that we might be genetically at risk for depression, the greater the impact of spirituality as a source of resilience as preventative against major depression.
Martin: What does that look like in the brain?
Miller: One of the most beautiful findings in my 20 years as an investigator was from an MRI study conducted together with our colleagues at Yale Medical School. We looked at people of many different faith traditions and the first finding was that there is one neuro seat of transcendent perception and we share it. Now there's human variability of course, and we can strengthen components.
Martin: How are you actually doing that with people? Are you asking your subjects to pray? What are the spiritual inputs that are going into them so that you can measure it on their brains?
Miller: The very specific prompt was, "Tell us about a time where you felt a deep connection to God, your higher power, the source of life." Everyone had a story like that and as they told their story, we recorded them and it was then played back in their ears while they were inside the scanner.
Martin: Ah, they heard themselves recounting their spiritual experience.
Miller: It was tailor made to their own moment.
Martin: And you saw their brains light up?
Miller: Oh yes. Connecting to these memories, the bonding network comes up online just as when we were held in the arms of our parents or grandparents.
Martin: Wait, when you say the bonding network you mean you can literally see that the brain will respond to spiritual stimuli in the same way that it does to a hug from a family member when you're a baby?
Miller: Precisely.
Martin: Can you tell me how this manifests in the real world? I'm thinking about this anecdote you include in the book about a client of yours. A girl you refer to as Iliana.
Miller: Iliana adored her father, I mean, he was the sun and the moon and the stars to her. They were so close. And one night two men who her father knew, came into his corner store, robbed him and murdered him. And she was devastated. This was a grief that was so deep. She simply could not free herself from the grief that was shackling her heart.
One day, Iliana skips into my office. There's a levity and joy. She plops into the seat and says, "Dr. Miller, you're never gonna believe this. My cousin and my cousin's girlfriend chaperoned me so I could go to a party and I met the most wonderful boy. We talked so long, it must have been 20 minutes. He was so polite and so kind. But here's the best part, his name." Which was the same very unusual name as her father.
She said, "Don't you see? My father sent him. My father is looking out after me." And from that day on she was in the world of the living. What changed everything for Iliana was the awareness that her father walked with her. She maintained a deep transcendent relationship with her father, as most people around the world do.
Iliana trusted her deep inner knowing that this was far too probabilistic to have happened by chance. That this very rare name held both by this new boy and her father could possibly mean nothing.
Martin: Can I ask, what are you thinking as you hear this? I mean, are you thinking that is just a crazy coincidence, but if she needs to believe that this is a sign from God, who am I to tell her otherwise? Because it seems to be working.
Miller: Well, at the time, that was certainly the most common interpretive framework amongst psychologists and psychiatrists. But I could see plain as day that this was a tremendously sacred moment. This was a living miracle. This was a gift.
For me to have treated it like some kind of cultural diversity variable or that it's just the meaning she makes would've actually taken all of the energy and spirit out of that transformative awakening moment. I joined her.
Now I did that authentically because it was my view as well that this is far too nonprobabilistic to have happened by chance, that there are very few people by that very same name and that the first boy she met in a year and a half since her father's passing should have the name of the father. It was a synchronicity. There was a deeper meaning being revealed.
Martin: When you're talking to people who aren't scientists, someone who's skeptical, someone who doesn't have faith, who doesn't have what they define as a spiritual life, what do you want them to take away from your research and your message?
Miller: I've given a number of talks to audiences who, prior to seeing the science, would not necessarily consider themselves spiritual people. And, in fact, I oftentimes hear from people who consider themselves skeptics and very left-brained and when they see the peer reviewed science that says we're naturally spiritual beings, that when we cultivate our spirituality we're 80% less likely to be addicted, 82% less likely to take our lives, it speaks to the left side of their brains long enough that it quiets down the skepticism.
In other words, three cheers for the skeptic. Here is published, peer reviewed science for skeptical audiences to begin to explore, to be curious about our spiritual nature. You know, at the inner table of human knowing we all have an empiricist, a logician, an intuitive, a mystic, and a skeptic. And the skeptic is very welcome, but the skeptic is not the bouncer at the door.
It is not scientific to put a skeptic as a bouncer at the door. It is not more rigorous to toss out an idea before being examined in every way. We are wired to be able to investigate. So I simply say to the biggest skeptic of all, you are most welcome to your own inner table of inquiry, but be sure to invite everyone else.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The U.S. Geological Survey has a morbid request: they want you to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers if you live in one of six states.
According to the USGS, the pilot program hopes to collect specimens that can help “identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.” said USGS.
“There are some questions that can’t effectively be answered without help from a lot of people. It’s what makes citizen science so special and valuable,” said Julie Dietze, USGS scientist-in-charge of the effort. “Collections like this one are important because they have the potential to provide scientists now, and 20 years from now, access to specimens.”
“Citizen scientists” have been submitting their butterflies, moths, and skippers since April, but based on how many specimens have been received, collections may continue through November 2024.
The USGS is hoping to collect these dead insects to establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection and all the specimens collected will be added to the USGS Research Scientific Collections database.
If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas, you can participate in the USGS’s pilot program. These states were selected because they’re relatively close the migration pathway of Monarch butterflies, their proximity to the Corn Belt, and the number of Confined Animal Feeding Operations.
Before you run out to catch butterflies for submission, USGS says it will only accept insects that are already dead that have not been collected alive. The insect must also be larger than two inches.
Additionally, species that are protected by the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act or by state law are not accepted. Within the six participating states, that includes only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, which is found in Alabama.
Once you’ve found your dead bug, the USGS recommends putting it in a resealable plastic bag. Insects that are damaged or not fully intact will be accepted, and bugs can be put into the same bags. If you aren’t able to ship your bugs within three days, you can freeze them.
Specimens should then be placed into a sealed envelope addressed to:
USGS LRC
1217 Biltmore Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
You do not need to include a return address.
Species that are mailed in will be evaluated for the occurrence of antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, and mycotoxins, according to USGS.
Officials say the ‘dead’-line is November 1, 2023. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ | 2023-07-30T14:13:31 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ |
After murder-suicide in Winter Haven, mother makes plea for mental-health treatment
WINTER HAVEN — She happily anticipated becoming a grandmother next month, ready to welcome baby Oliver into her household.
Instead, the Winter Haven woman is now mourning the loss of her son and his partner, along with their unborn child. Yet she is unwilling to hold a funeral, afraid that “haters” would show up to ruin it.
Such is the aftermath of a July 21 murder-suicide in the Inwood area, just outside the boundaries of Winter Haven. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said that Riley Groover, 26, shot and killed his fiancé, Camdyn Rider, 21, who was eight months pregnant, and then fatally shot himself.
Five days later, Groover’s mother stood on the front porch of the home she shared with her son and Rider, staring across the street to a neighbor’s yard, where the shootings occurred.
“I'm in so much shock,” she said. “Pieces of memories are coming back, when people are telling me what happened because I'm just totally devastated.”
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The woman asked to be identified only by her first name, Bonnie, for security reasons and to avoid possible harassment by others unaware of the lifelong struggles with serious mental illness that she said plagued her son. Bonnie is in her early 60s, and she uses a walker, as she is in need of double hip replacement surgery.
During a one-hour conversation, Bonnie gave a detailed history of Groover’s mental illness, talked openly about the couple’s loving but highly volatile relationship and said that Rider identified as a transgender man, a fact confirmed by their Facebook page and comments from friends.
And Bonnie repeatedly emphasized the need for those with psychological issues to pursue treatment.
“People don't realize that mental illness needs to be treated,” she said. “People need counseling. I'm going to be going through grief counseling myself because I'm devastated. I lost my son. I sat by his bed, so many hospital beds, so many times after he tried to overdose and kill himself. But I loved him, no matter what. I love him. You always love your child. I'd rather him have gone to prison than to die.”
A son's troubled childhood
Bonnie said that her son showed signs of mental illness from at least the age of 4. He was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, typified by difficulty managing emotions, with tendencies toward anger, impulsiveness and severe mood swings. Groover also suffered from anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, his mother said, and had been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.
The family has a history of mental illness, Bonnie said, acknowledging that she tried to kill herself at age 22. She said counseling and medication helped her to become more stable.
Bonnie said her son had made multiple suicide attempts, starting at age 8. An undersized child with gaudy ginger hair, he was a target of bullying as a kindergartner and beaten up by a fellow student, she said.
When he was 6, he came home from school with an unexplained injury that turned out to be a broken arm. Bonnie said he suffered “a nervous breakdown” at age 7 while at school, leading to a police call and Groover being handcuffed and taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation under Florida’s Baker Act.
She said her son was wrongly diagnosed with ADHD, his autism not recognized until he was 14.
Groover developed an intense fear of some teachers and desperately resisted going to classes at Inwood Elementary School. One on occasion, he scrambled under her car to avoid being taken to class. On another, he wrapped himself around a flagpole at school and “screamed like a banshee,” Bonnie said.
Groover first drew the attention of law enforcement in 2014, when he was 17. His mother said he had a dispute with a woman who then lived across the street, and he shot out a window of her house with a pellet gun.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office charged Groover with shooting into an occupied dwelling, a felony, along with resisting arrest and battery on a law-enforcement officer. He spent time in a juvenile detention center in Tampa following the arrest. Bonnie said he received training in automotive work and earned a cooking certificate.
Though Bonnie said Groover was never violent toward her, court records show that in 2016 he was arrested on a domestic violence charge following an incident at the family’s home.
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According to the arrest report, Groover broke a bottle on the kitchen floor and used a hatchet to break several doors inside the house. As Groover left the house, a victim (whose name is redacted) saw him approach while holding what they thought was the hatchet. The victim swung at him with a broom in defense, and Groover grabbed their upper arm, causing a 3-inch gash, the report says. He was charged with domestic battery on a person over age 65, a felony, and violation of conditional release.
The State Attorney’s Office for the 10th Judicial Circuit later filed notice that it would not prosecute Groover.
Groover was arrested again in 2018 after an argument with his sister at their home turned violent. At one point, he approached his sister while holding a pocket knife, the arrest report says.
Groover’s mother moved between the two, and Groover's sister ran into the house, taking refuge in a bedroom, the report says. Groover broke in and attempted to stab her with the knife, cutting her on the belly, the report says. He was charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault.
Two years later, the State Attorney’s Office again filed a no-prosecution order. The notice said that Groover’s sister had signed a waiver, stating that she wanted him to continue taking medications and receive treatment. The order said Groover was receiving care in a group home.
Despite all the turmoil, Groover earned a high school diploma from Ridge Technical College in Winter Haven. Bonnie said he had a license as an HVAC technician but was working as a nighttime security guard, a position that did not involve carrying a gun.
Groover talked of working for a fish and wildlife service, and he also aspired to be a professional photographer, his mother said. He created a Facebook page titled Frosty Photos, posting his images of cars drift racing at Sebring International Raceway.
'Deeply in love'
Groover and Rider began dating in early 2021, Bonnie said. At the time, Rider already identified as a transgender man, she said. Rider had stopped using their feminine given name and planned to change their name legally after marrying Groover, she said.
“Cam had told me personally that when he was younger, he was bisexual and had crushes on girls, but then he met somebody online and he identified with him, I guess, when they were talking about transgender and dysphoria and all that,” Bonnie said. “And so Cam decided he was a man and he honestly felt like he was a man. But you know, that's neither here nor there. I accepted him as he was because he loved my son.” (See related story)
Bonnie said that Camryn planned to begin a physical transition after giving birth and finishing breastfeeding. Rider’s parents could not be reached. Bonnie said they lived in the Orlando area.
Not long after Groover and Rider started dating, Bonnie invited Rider to move into her Winter Haven home.
“And I loved Cam,” she said. “Cam called me ‘Mom.’ He never called me by my name.”
Bonnie said that Rider and her son were “deeply in love.” In April 2022, Rider posted a video snippet on Facebook showing the pair singing the line, “We found love right where we are,” from the Ed Sheeran song, “Thinking Out Loud,” followed by a loud smooch.
“Oh, it's just heartbreaking to look at it,” Bonnie said. “But I watch it several times a day.”
In another post from April 2022, Rider wrote to Groover, whom they called “RJ”: “From the second I laid eyes on you I knew that I wanted you in my life. I didn't know as what yet, but I knew I wanted you there. You showed me who I can be and you showed me what love is supposed to feel like. The more we talked and hung out the more I grew to like you. … I'm so happy to say that I'm gonna marry my best friend. Thank you for everything my love. And I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you.”
The couple decided to delay their wedding after Rider became pregnant, Bonnie said. They held a baby shower and gender reveal party in June with a Harry Potter theme, one of Rider’s fixations. The couple disclosed that they planned to name the baby, due Aug. 18, Oliver John Lee.
Rider wanted to be a tattoo artist and owned an ink gun, Bonnie said. She talked of letting Rider turn a back room of the house into a tattoo studio someday.
A fiery relationship
But Bonnie said the relationship also contained a combative strain, one that regularly led to loud arguments and, in some cases, physical fights. She allowed the couple to live rent-free in her 1960s-era block home but expected them to help with bills and housework, and Bonnie said her son criticized Rider for not doing enough.
“They would argue over stupid stuff — stupid stuff,” she said.
Neither Groover nor Rider ever reported violence committed by the other, the PCSO said.
During arguments, Rider would sometimes enter what Bonnie called a “catatonic state,” going silent and rigid, with a vacant stare.
Bonnie said pregnancy increased Rider's sense of gender dysphoria, or discomfort with a female body, and she suspects the hormonal surges of pregnancy worsened Rider's emotional volatility.
Bonnie suspected that Rider had traits of autism, like her son. She said Rider engaged in self-injury through cutting their arms and legs, a practice used to manage emotional pain, according to psychological experts.
“He got my son to start doing it,” Bonnie said. “When I found out my son was doing it, I told them if they didn't stop that s--- they had to leave, that they couldn't stay here. And they stopped.”
Bonnie, a former nurse now on disability, has a heart condition. She warned Groover and Rider that their arguments sometimes caused her to have chest pain.
Bonnie said she urged Rider to seek psychological counseling, but Rider refused. She said Groover had resumed therapy, meeting with a counselor in a park because he didn’t like offices. But Bonnie said her son resisted taking psychiatric medications owing to bad memories of being overmedicated in childhood.
“He didn't want to be drugged up,” she said. “He didn't want to feel nothing.”
An unimaginable horror
Bonnie said she doesn’t know exactly what precipitated the tragedy of July 21, but she expects it was another argument over household chores. She said that around 7 p.m., the dispute moved outside, and at one point Rider drove their car toward Groover in the carport, possibly striking him.
Groover used something — Bonnie doesn’t know what — to break the driver’s-side window. As of Thursday, some broken glass remained under another vehicle in the carport, and the front porch floor bore dark splotches that Bonnie said were Groover's dried blood.
Bonnie had obtained a handgun for protection on nights when Groover and Rider were away, and she kept it hidden in the house. After the clash in the carport, Groover darted into the house. He soon raced out, but Bonnie said she didn’t know he had seized her gun, a .380 pistol small enough to fit in a pants pocket.
As he ran past her, he called out, “I’m not going to jail,” Bonnie said.
Rider had retreated and run away down the long, straight street. Recalling those moments, Bonnie said she wished Rider had continued past the point where the street bends to the right, out of Groover's sight. Instead, Rider turned and came back toward Bonnie’s house.
At that point, Groover chased after Rider, Bonnie said, and Rider ran across the street, seeking refuge in a neighbor’s house. But Groover caught up, “and they got into physically fighting on the ground. And then Cam got up and ran, and Riley shot him in the back several times.”
The Medical Examiner’s Office for the 10th Judicial Circuit has not yet released autopsy reports.
Bonnie could not see her son as he moved behind a large truck parked in the neighbors’ driveway and a tall bush. She went in that direction, moving as fast as she could with her walker. She found Rider dying, with a large wound in their chest.
Her son was on the ground, not far from Rider, his eyes still open. Bonnie asked if he had shot himself, and he said yes, pointing to the left side of his head, though he was right-handed. Bonnie picked up the gun so that Groover could not grab it and shoot himself again.
A neighbor had called 911, and a team of Polk County sheriff’s deputies soon arrived. A medical crew rushed Rider to Winter Haven Hospital, but they and the baby were soon pronounced dead. Groover died a short time later.
Bonnie’s hands trembled as she recalled that horrible evening. She said some of her description came not from her own memories but from what others told her, including the neighbors across the street, whose security cameras recorded video of the shootings.
“I know I'm stuttering because I have so much anxiety,” she said. “I’m just beside myself, just trying not to break out into tears. It just comes in waves.”
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Adding to her distress, the PCSO Animal Control unit took away her dog, Wally, so that deputies could search her house after the shootings. She received the dog back after a few days, but she said Wally was showing signs of being traumatized by his time in the shelter, refusing to put his head in her lap or wag his tail. By Thursday, though, Wally was behaving more normally, she said.
Bonnie also said she has been receiving unwanted offers to buy her house following news reports about the murder-suicide.
'Wasn't in his right mind'
Bonnie has largely avoided social media since July 21, wary of seeing her son denounced by strangers.
“My friends and family are actually, like, ‘Riley was a terrorist’ because of what he did, but he wasn't in his right mind,” she said. “And people do bad things when they're not in their right mind, you know?”
Rider’s parents visited Winter Haven to claim their belongings, and Bonnie said they were understandably upset. They took all the baby items, planning to give them to a relative who is giving birth soon.
Asked about holding a service for her son, Bonnie said, “No, because I don't want haters there taking pictures and stuff. I don't want them because I couldn't mentally handle it.”
Bonnie’s stepdaughter came to stay with her for a few days, and her brother is coming down from Massachusetts. She plans to have Groover cremated, and she will blend his ashes with those of her mother and her stepfather to be placed in a pendant for a necklace.
While acknowledging the inexplicable evil of her son’s final actions, Bonnie emphasized his loving tendencies and his many acts of kindness. She recalled that the night before the tragedy, Groover came in to kiss her good night and mentioned her upcoming appointment with a cardiologist.
“And he said, ‘I love you, Mom. You can't die before me.’ ”
Gary White can be reached at gary.white@theledger.com or 863-802-7518. Follow on Twitter @garywhite13. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/30/mother-urges-mental-health-treatment-after-winter-haven-murder-suicide/70475960007/ | 2023-07-30T14:13:31 | 1 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/30/mother-urges-mental-health-treatment-after-winter-haven-murder-suicide/70475960007/ |
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Today should be partly cloudy and hot, with a high near 110 and winds ranging from 5 to 13 miles per hour. There is a 40 percent chance of showers after 11 a.m.
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Tucson's record high for July 24 is 112 degrees, set in 2018. The record low is 62, set in 1913. | https://tucson.com/news/weather/tucson-weather-june-6/article_bd638588-2e44-11ee-883d-5b9ae0c9d215.html | 2023-07-30T14:13:34 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/weather/tucson-weather-june-6/article_bd638588-2e44-11ee-883d-5b9ae0c9d215.html |
(AP) – A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alix chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ | 2023-07-30T14:13:37 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ |
Winter Haven tragedy draws national attention for victim's status as transgender man
The killing of Camdyn Rider has drawn national publicity, and advocacy groups such as the Human Rights Campaign have criticized the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and media outlets for identifying Rider as a woman soon after the July 21 murder-suicide in Winter Haven.
Rider, who was pregnant, had long identified as a transgender man, according to Groover's mother, Rider's Facebook account and comments from friends.
Such LGBTQ-oriented outlets as Them and the Advocate have reported on Rider's death, emphasizing their status as a transgender man.
Alejandra Caraballo, a civil-rights lawyer, Harvard professor and prominent advocate for transgender rights, accused the PCSO of “intentionally misgendering” Rider. Caraballo also blasted Libs of Tik Tok, a conservative social media platform, for “mocking a trans man after he’s been murdered” by retweeting a news report about the incident with the phrase “pregnant boyfriend” in quotation marks.
PCSO spokesperson Carrie Horstman, who wrote a news release issued the morning after the incident, said she relied on information provided by deputies who responded to the shootings. Groover's mother, her memories of the episode still clouded by shock, said she didn’t know if anyone at the scene told deputies that Rider identified as a transgender man.
Caraballo tweeted that Rider’s death is at least the 15th violent killing of a transgender or gender non-conforming person this year. Groover's mother made clear that Rider's gender identity was not a factor in the killing, saying her son accepted Rider as a transgender man.
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The Sheriff’s Office did not include Rider’s name in the news release, citing a state law that shields crime victims from public identification.
The HRC estimates that 75% of transgender crime victims are misgendered by law enforcement and/or the media.
Gary White can be reached at gary.white@theledger.com or 863-802-7518. Follow on Twitter @garywhite13. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/30/tragedy-gets-national-attention-for-victims-status-as-transgender-man/70488510007/ | 2023-07-30T14:13:37 | 0 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/30/tragedy-gets-national-attention-for-victims-status-as-transgender-man/70488510007/ |
Yes, Arizona’s new universal voucher system is the law of the land.
And under the latest iteration of the oft-expanded program, parents of any of the 1.1 million public-school students in the state may instead use the expanded “empowerment scholarship accounts” to divert the money public schools spend on their children to private schools of their choosing.
But with that right comes some risk, state Attorney General Kris Mayes, a foe of the voucher program, told parents this week.
In a statement Monday, Mayes, a Democrat, warned parents that pulling their children out of public schools to take advantage of the program could leave them vulnerable to bias and discrimination. She said various state and federal laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity may not apply in private and parochial schools. That, she pointed out, could leave parents without legal recourse.
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She also mentioned federal laws that guarantee students with disabilities a free and appropriate education, and laws that guarantee parents access to their children’s educational records, do not apply to private-school students.
“It’s important for Arizona families to be aware of the rights they give up when they leave the public school system,” Mayes said.
Republican backers of the voucher system, most notably state schools boss Tom Horne, immediately and unsurprisingly pushed back.
Horne called Mayes’ warning “nonsense,” and, even while admitting that private schools do not have to admit students with special needs, said that once such students are admitted, the schools are making the commitment to serve their needs. And he added that “parents are the judges of whether a school is doing an appropriate job” and that parents would always be free to move their children to different private schools.
For students without special needs, the situation may be even less clear-cut.
While acknowledging that protections based on a protected class other than disability may be covered, Mayes spokesperson Richie Taylor said parochial schools and other religious organizations may be exempt from such laws.
Horne said the voucher law as written was a “legislative decision,” including a provision that schools accepting vouchers do not have to change their creeds, practices, admissions policies or curricula.
“My job is to implement what the Legislature did,” he said.
To begin with, we heartily support Mayes in her overall opposition to the universal voucher law.
Last week, Gov. Katie Hobbs estimated the law’s cost at $943 million in state education funding during the current school year. That’s $319 million more than was projected in the state budget. This massive boondoggle is officially out of control.
We are reminded of famed anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist (a longtime proponent of vouchers), who famously said, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
Whether that libertarian, if not downright anarchic, goal is the primary goal of the voucher program’s proponents or is merely seen as a desirable side effect, the impact is certain: The state’s ability to deliver quality education to its children will be deeply harmed by this program. As politicians recklessly expand this program to garner votes, Arizona’s schoolchildren will pay the price.
It will make our state a poorer place, less able to train the workforce we’ll need in the future. And it will inevitably limit outcomes and lower ceilings for public school children.
It’s no shock that proponents of vouchers don’t like the flaws of this runaway system to be pointed out to parents. But that doesn’t make the warning any less accurate or any less needed. And Horne’s “I’m just following the Legislature’s orders” is a weak justification.
We believe Mayes was right to raise the alarm about potential negative effects for the children of parents who elect to use the voucher system. And if her words make parents think twice before withdrawing their children from a public education system that desperately needs our collective support, all the better. | https://tucson.com/opinion/column/arizona-daily-star-editorial-mayes-right-to-warn-parents-of-voucher-issues/article_a133c68c-2b58-11ee-876e-57a76408f36a.html | 2023-07-30T14:13:40 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/column/arizona-daily-star-editorial-mayes-right-to-warn-parents-of-voucher-issues/article_a133c68c-2b58-11ee-876e-57a76408f36a.html |
BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Police need your help in identifying a child found wandering alone on Saturday night.
Just after 11:30pm, officers were called to the 4000 block of Fernhill Road to investigate reports of child neglect.
Once there they found a concerned citizen who first noticed the child.
The caller said the child had been running from Granada Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue.
According to police, the caller believed that the child was chasing an unknown black vehicle with temporary tags.
Police say he is 3 to 4-years-old and is nonverbal. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Pediatrics where he was examined by hospital staff.
Child protective services is currently handling the investigation.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Missing Persons detectives at 443-984-7385 or 911. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/baltimore-police-need-help-identifying-young-child-found-wandering-alone | 2023-07-30T14:13:46 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/baltimore-police-need-help-identifying-young-child-found-wandering-alone |
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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Ron DeSantis and Slavery
With reference to Ron DeSantis’ assertion that some enslaved people benefited from the arrangement, you would think that a candidate with two Ivy league degrees might try to impress voters with how smart he is. That he thinks he can win the GOP nomination by posing as an uneducated nitwit tells you all you need to know about today’s Republican party.
Steve Robinson
Oro Valley
Expose hidden donors
Re: the July 26 article “Dark money ban exemptions sought.”
I voted against Proposition 211 as an invasion of privacy and a hindrance to free speech. However, if it forces Cathi Herrod and her organization to disclose their hidden donors, I can live with it.
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Donald Hartman
Northwest side
Elected officials
Re: the July 22 article “An open letter to all elected officials.”
How I wish his comments could/would be sent to all those in Congress, because it is so “right-on.” If only our officials would remember the reason why they are there — to serve their constituents and all those affected by their actions, not to coddle the wealthy.
Also, I believe all Congressional officials should have term limits, so they won’t be sidetracked from their duties by forever running for office.
Mr. Chester’s article is so important, necessary and timely, because our country is flailing with all the divisiveness. It is past time to accomplish the important items on their schedules. Please put aside the “My way or no way” type of thought and get something done!
Marylee Peterson
East side
Supporting strong energy policy
We’re all concerned about rising energy costs, unfortunately many energy policies at the state and federal levels do not take our economy into account. We need common sense energy policies that will grow our economy and protect our environment.
I recently had the opportunity to meet with Congressman Juan Ciscomani (AZ-6) and am encouraged that he is interested in supporting all-of-the-above energy policies. He’s a member of the Conservative Climate Caucus and plays an integral role in securing domestic mineral supply chains, reducing regulatory barriers, and increasing energy security. In fact, Rep. Ciscomani’s work to boost copper production and update carbon capture wells is crucial to meeting energy needs while reducing emissions.
We can develop American-made energy, promote innovation, lower energy prices, and be responsible stewards of our environment. Congressman Ciscomani has shown support for clean energy in our nation’s future, and I know he’ll continue to do so, and put the interests of Arizonans first.
Jaime A. Molera
Downtown
Lowly
Re: the July 19 article “The most powerful people in your company may surprise you.”
The author referred to Airman Jack Teixeira as to “how a lowly Air National Guardsman could be trusted with highly classified information.” I was sworn into the army on my 17th birthday. I was trained in electronic intelligence. I soon arrived in Sinop, Turkey to begin my duties with a top secret, special intelligence, codeword clearance; six weeks before my 18th birthday. Would the author have referred to me as a lowly private first class. No one in a U.S. armed forces uniform is lowly.
Jon Langione, U.S. Army (retired)
Marana
Brush and Bulky
I write fairly often, and when I do, I find myself complaining or disagreeing about something. I’ve wanted to touch on the Brush and Bulky pick up by Tucson but haven’t done it until today.
Twice a year the city picks up outsized items, left in the alley easement, and transports them away. Because of the size of my back alley easement neighbors also use my assigned spot to drop off their oversize items. Whenever I go to my alley trash can I notice the tremendous amount of various items left for pickup. I always whisper under my breath that “they won’t pick up that, it’s too unwieldy.” Every time, without exception, I return to the alley the day after pickup and find everything gone. Not just removed but the dirt bladed to a smoothness that it hasn’t seen in many years. These unsung heroes do an outstanding job. Thanks so much for going above and beyond.
Phil Reinecker
East side
Letters to the editor
Wow! In today’s (July 26) Star, there were seven cogently written arguments by knowledgeable individuals who rebutted or clarified points made in letters and articles previously published. Missives like these clearly validate the need for this section of the newspaper.
There will always be those letters where the writer lists his beliefs as facts and slants his message by ignoring truths that invalidate those beliefs; zanier than the comics, but more sad than humorous. It’s comforting to know that these individuals will always elicit a reasoned response.
My heartfelt “Thanks” to the Star for providing this forum where reason can prevail!
Rick Cohn
West side
Brush & Bulky Rocks!
There is much to love about Tucson, like calling a government office and actually talking to a human being within 30 seconds (if Pima County can do that why can’t my doctor’s office?), not to mention a large contingent of people who actually think it’s our humanitarian responsibility to assist those desperate enough to travel days, months, years, to seek asylum in our country. But one of my personally favorite things about Tucson is the city’s Brush & Bulky pick up! What an enormous service this is to the community. Thank you.
Margaret Zanger
Midtown
Pecan Trees and Recharge Basins
Why not grow pecan trees between our recharge basins?
It seems to me that we could recharge our groundwater and grow a commercial crop at the same time. Our recharge basins appear to be totally exposed to the sun. Wouldn’t shading the basins reduce some of the evaporation?
The pecan tree is not native to Arizona; however, the Arizona black walnut is native and once grew along the Santa Cruz River up to and possibly through Marana. In Marana I have seen some of our lowest elevation remnant black walnut trees growing along irrigation ditches. Black walnut and other riparian trees once present here, like the cottonwood, willow, ash, hackberry, soapberry and elderberry for the most part can no longer be found growing along the Santa Cruz River through Tucson.
Could growing pecan trees be beneficial to our environment and reduce the evaporation from our recharge basins, especially if the recharge basins are located along the Santa Cruz River?
Bill Kendall
Downtown
2020 Election Fraud Investigation
Kudos to Michigan’s Attorney General for pursuing charges against her state’s set of 2020 presidential fake electors. I can only hope that Kris Mayes here in Arizona follows her lead. Lori Osiecki and her merry band of “faithless electors” (the AZ legal term for them) purporting to be “The Sovereign Citizens of the Great State of Arizona” and the “real” Republican electors committed fraud by using the great seal of the state and sending notarized copies of (fake) elector certificates to the National Archives and Congress. I want to know who supervised this effort in Arizona. Who did they get their instructions from? Three years ago, Mark Brnovich established an Election Integrity Unit to ferret out election fraud. It produced little evidence of such. Now let’s redirect it to pursue a real crime, an attempt by the Republican party to steal everyone’s vote in the State.
Emilie Sikora
Green Valley
Redefining ree?
Re: the July 27 letter “Free buses are better than free.”
If something is free, it has no cost. So the concept of “free bus rides” is a fantasy. Buses cost money to purchase and operate and thus, by definition, are not free, i.e., some entity (the taxpayers) are paying for it. This does not deny that it is possibly a good investment by the city; it may be. But please, do not call this free! The rider may not have to pay to board and ride the bus, but someone, somewhere is underwriting the cost.
Dale Knight
Oro Valley
Ciscomani Bi-Partisan or Conservative?
Re: the July 25 article “Ciscomani embraces bipartisan approach.”
The article on the newest Rep. Juan Ciscomani was surprising to say the least. He’s quoted in the article, stating, “I’m a conservative and it’s how I’m governing”; but what he believes is not what his job is, it’s what his constituents want; so not sure how bipartisan that makes Juan; when he only governs as a conservative? He supports a national abortion ban, proof he wants to govern by his beliefs, regardless of what his constituents want. How bi-partisan has he actually voted? Juan obviously is a “party player” and can’t be trusted to vote in line with his constituents. I’m just waiting to see what happens, if the Republicans try to impeach Biden. I’m guessing, Juan will vote to impeach because he has already proven he cannot think for himself and is just a follower. Do we really want him to lead us going forward?
Donna Allen
Green Valley | https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/tucson-speaks-out-july-30-letters-of-the-day/article_b88022e2-2cb9-11ee-a085-570832e7c080.html | 2023-07-30T14:13:46 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/tucson-speaks-out-july-30-letters-of-the-day/article_b88022e2-2cb9-11ee-a085-570832e7c080.html |
Primary talk: Why DeSantis must stay in the race
Now is the time to abandon even talking about the Presidential primaries, wisely and soundly making the argument that “there’s a long way to go” and that “we’ve just gotten started” and that “polls at this point are almost meaningless,” but I’m not here to make that argument – let’s talk and be done.
Without Ron DeSantis, we might as well watch baseball, because before they’ve begun, the primaries may be over.
My fellow pundits and other pompous opinion traders may try to make a deal out of the Democrats, and I wish them well, but seriously. President Joe Biden is an incumbent president, he’s not been indicted or jailed, he has a pulse and is therefore the nominee of his party. The only declared Democratic challengers to Biden are Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Marianne Williamson - both raving dingbats of the first order.
There has really only been one Presidential primary anyway: the Republican “contest.” But this one, too, may fade into irrelevance. The strongest candidate facing Mr. Trump is Florida Governor DeSantis, and he’s mired in scandals over strange videos that offended many of his own donors, a looming mass of crises in his home state, and the resulting sharply dropping poll numbers. He just fired a third and more of his campaign staff and despite an early fundraising lead, is apparently running out of cash.
The DeSantis folks are playing the tired old song of resetting things and then surging on to victory and so on, but it’s likely over. As the candidate sits in a Park City resort wringing his hands as one after another of his remaining crew babble happy talk, I suspect that he’s been looking for an exit.
Those cheering DeSantis’ tumble should look again. If he’s gone, all the energy and any arguments about his positions are also gone. Having DeSantis in the race is a defining factor and forces other GOP candidates to take issue with those ideas. The vacuum created should DeSantis’ precipitous fall prove fatal to his candidacy reduces the primary to a farce that simply anoints Mr. Trump.
As toxic as Governor DeSantis’ positions are to progressives, he’s given voice to sentiments that need to be discussed, drawn into the open, and held up to intense scrutiny. He defended the idea that slavery was somehow beneficial to enslaved people, for example. A horrible idea - but why is it horrible? And where does the rest of the field stand on this?
Some of these items are ideas we’ve not discussed for a century. It’s time to reiterate why they should and must be flatly rejected as the racist twaddle they are. As a country, we are moved forward by the open and public debate of all issues and positions, and DeSantis’s participation is critical to that process. Without him, a lot of what he’s asserted will simply not be part of the conversation.
It’s not holding DeSantis’s feet to the fire that matters. He has been more than transparent about where he stands. It’s that without him in the race it gives a free pass to the rest of that gutless crowd.
I was anticipating showdowns with Mr. Trump, but I’d like to know where the entire field stands on issues like the editing of African American history texts in public schools. A discussion between Gov. DeSantis and Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas on gender-affirming healthcare would be interesting. DeSantis has backed legislation to eliminate it while Hutchinson decisively vetoed a ban on this type of medical practice, as "a vast government overreach."
If the GOP primary is to be worth anything at all, DeSantis needs to stay in. It will bring these positions to the fore and aid in what has to be a redefinition of the Republican Party going into 2024.
… Or we could watch the Rays.
Bruce Anderson is the Dr. Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay Jr. Endowed Chair in American History, Government, and Civics and Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Florida Southern College. He is also a columnist for The Ledger. | https://www.theledger.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/07/30/primary-talk-why-desantis-must-stay-in-the-race/70471552007/ | 2023-07-30T14:13:49 | 0 | https://www.theledger.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/07/30/primary-talk-why-desantis-must-stay-in-the-race/70471552007/ |
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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TV
AUTO RACING
5:55 a.m., ESPN — Formula 1: Belgian Grand Prix
Noon, USA — NASCAR Cup Series: The Cook Out 400
1 p.m., FOX — DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals
BASKETBALL
10 a.m., CBS — Big3 Week 6
1 p.m., ESPN2 — TBT Tournament, quarterfinal
CYCLING
9 a.m., CNBC — Tour de France Femmes, final stage (taped)
GOLF
2:30 a.m., GOLF — LPGA: Evian Championship, final round
5:30 a.m., CNBC — Champions: Senior Open, final round
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9 a.m., NBC — Champions: Senior Open, final round
10 a.m., GOLF — PGA: The 3M Open, final round
Noon, CBS — PGA: The 3M Open, final round
LACROSSE (MEN’S)
Noon, ABC — PLL: Waterdogs vs. Archers
LACROSSE (WOMEN’S)
2 p.m., ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited
4:30 p.m., ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited
MLB
9:05 a.m., NBCPK — LA Angels at Toronto
10:30 a.m., MLBN — Milwaukee-Atlanta OR Philadelphia-Pittsburgh
1 p.m., DBAX — Seattle at Arizona
1:30 p.m., MLBN — Cincinnati at LA Dodgers (JIP)
4 p.m., ESPN — NY Yankees at Baltimore
SOFTBALL
9 a.m., ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited
SOCCER (MEN’S)
4 a.m., CBSSN — Manchester City vs. Atlético Madrid
9 a.m., USA — Aston Villa vs. Brentford
11:30 a.m., NBC — Chelsea vs. Fulham
5:55 p.m., ESPN2 — Borussia Dortmund vs. Manchester United
5:55 p.m., FS1 — Leagues Cup: Monterrey at Seattle
SOCCER (WOMEN’S WORLD CUP)
12 a.m., FOX — Switzerland vs. New Zealand, Group A
12 a.m., FS1 — Norway vs. Philippines, Group A,
2:30 a.m., FS1 — Germany vs. Colombia, Group A
12 a.m., FOX — Japan Vs. Spain, Group C (Mon.)
12 a.m., FS1 — Costa Rica vs. Zambia, Group C (Mon.)
3 a.m., FOX — Canada vs. Australia, Group B (Mon.)
3 a.m., FS1 — Ireland vs. Nigeria, Group B (Mon.)
SWIMMING
2 p.m., NBC — World Swimming Championships (taped)
TENNIS
4 a.m., TEN — Warsaw-WTA, Hamburg-ATP Finals
11 a.m., TEN — Umag-ATP, Atlanta-ATP Finals
WNBA
10 a.m., CBSSN — Minnesota at Connecticut
1 p.m., ESPN — New York at Los Angeles
3 p.m., CBSSN — Dallas at Las Vegas
YOUTH BASEBALL
5 p.m., MLBN — The Hank Aaron Invitational
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MLB
1 p.m., 1490-AM — Seattle at Arizona
4 p.m., 1490-AM — Baltimore at NY Yankees
All events are Tucson times. Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts.
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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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US mother, daughter, reported kidnapped in Haiti, people warned not to travel there
(AP) - A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alex chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.”
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Andy Ibáñez Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:24 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
After batting .258 with a double, a home run, a walk and three RBI in his past 10 games, Andy Ibanez and the Detroit Tigers face the Miami Marlins (who will hand the ball to Jesus Luzardo) at 1:40 PM ET on Sunday.
In his last game, he went 1-for-5 with an RBI against the Marlins.
Andy Ibáñez Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Jesús Luzardo
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
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Andy Ibáñez At The Plate
- Ibanez is hitting .236 with 16 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 10 walks.
- In 39 of 70 games this season (55.7%) Ibanez has picked up a hit, and in 11 of those games he had more than one (15.7%).
- Looking at the 70 games he has played this season, he's homered in seven of them (10.0%), and in 2.9% of his trips to the plate.
- In 16 games this year (22.9%), Ibanez has picked up an RBI, and in three of those games (4.3%) he had more than one. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored a run in 24 games this year, with multiple runs four times.
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Andy Ibáñez Home/Away Batting Splits
Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The Marlins pitching staff ranks fourth in MLB with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Marlins have a 4.12 team ERA that ranks 14th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Marlins pitchers combine to rank 11th in baseball in home runs allowed (116 total, 1.1 per game).
- Luzardo gets the start for the Marlins, his 22nd of the season. He is 8-5 with a 3.22 ERA and 144 strikeouts in 120 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, the lefty tossed seven innings, allowing one earned run while surrendering four hits.
- This season, the 25-year-old ranks 12th in ERA (3.22), 23rd in WHIP (1.147), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers.
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Kerry Carpenter Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
Kerry Carpenter -- with a slugging percentage of .194 in his past 10 games (including no homers) -- will be in action for the Detroit Tigers versus the Miami Marlins, with Jesus Luzardo on the hill, on July 30 at 1:40 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless showing (0-for-4) against the Marlins.
Kerry Carpenter Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Jesús Luzardo
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -149)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +200)
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Kerry Carpenter At The Plate
- Carpenter is hitting .257 with eight doubles, a triple, 11 home runs and 16 walks.
- Carpenter has gotten at least one hit in 54.8% of his games this season (34 of 62), with more than one hit 15 times (24.2%).
- In 10 games this season, he has gone deep (16.1%, and 4.9% of his trips to the plate).
- Carpenter has had at least one RBI in 30.6% of his games this year (19 of 62), with two or more RBI nine times (14.5%). He has also been responsible for three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- He has scored in 19 games this season (30.6%), including multiple runs in four games.
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Kerry Carpenter Home/Away Batting Splits
Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Marlins pitching staff ranks fourth in the league.
- The Marlins have the 14th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.12).
- Marlins pitchers combine to rank 11th in baseball in home runs allowed (116 total, 1.1 per game).
- The Marlins are sending Luzardo (8-5) out for his 22nd start of the season. He is 8-5 with a 3.22 ERA and 144 strikeouts through 120 1/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, when the lefty tossed seven innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up four hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 25-year-old's 3.22 ERA ranks 12th, 1.147 WHIP ranks 23rd, and 10.8 K/9 ranks eighth.
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Matt Vierling Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
The Detroit Tigers, including Matt Vierling (.282 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including zero home run), take on starter Jesus Luzardo and the Miami Marlins at LoanDepot park, Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his last game (1-for-2) against the Marlins.
Matt Vierling Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Jesús Luzardo
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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Matt Vierling At The Plate
- Vierling is batting .269 with 10 doubles, two triples, seven home runs and 24 walks.
- Vierling has gotten at least one hit in 59.3% of his games this year (48 of 81), with more than one hit 20 times (24.7%).
- He has hit a home run in 7.4% of his games this season, and 2.2% of his trips to the dish.
- In 19.8% of his games this year, Vierling has notched at least one RBI. In six of those games (7.4%) he recorded more than one RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 29.6% of his games this season (24 of 81), with two or more runs six times (7.4%).
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Matt Vierling Home/Away Batting Splits
Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Marlins has a collective 9.6 K/9, the fourth-best in the league.
- The Marlins have the 14th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.12).
- Marlins pitchers combine to give up 116 total home runs at a rate of 1.1 per game (to rank 11th in the league).
- Luzardo (8-5 with a 3.22 ERA and 144 strikeouts in 120 1/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Marlins, his 22nd of the season.
- The lefty last pitched on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, when he tossed seven innings, allowing one earned run while giving up four hits.
- The 25-year-old ranks 12th in ERA (3.22), 23rd in WHIP (1.147), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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Miguel Cabrera Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
Miguel Cabrera -- 2-for-4 with a double in his last game -- will be in action for the Detroit Tigers against the Miami Marlins, with Jesus Luzardo on the hill, on July 30 at 1:40 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he racked up two hits (going 2-for-4 with a double) against the Marlins.
Miguel Cabrera Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Jesús Luzardo
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -139)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +875)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +310)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +225)
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Miguel Cabrera At The Plate
- Cabrera has 11 doubles, a home run and 23 walks while hitting .250.
- Cabrera has gotten a hit in 36 of 60 games this year (60.0%), including 10 multi-hit games (16.7%).
- He has homered in only one game this season.
- In 13 games this year (21.7%), Cabrera has picked up an RBI, including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- He has scored in 12 games this year (20.0%), but has had no multi-run games.
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Miguel Cabrera Home/Away Batting Splits
Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Marlins pitching staff ranks fourth in the league.
- The Marlins have the 14th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.12).
- Marlins pitchers combine to rank 11th in baseball in home runs surrendered (116 total, 1.1 per game).
- Luzardo (8-5) gets the starting nod for the Marlins in his 22nd start of the season. He has a 3.22 ERA in 120 1/3 innings pitched, with 144 strikeouts.
- The lefty last pitched on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, when he tossed seven innings, allowing one earned run while giving up four hits.
- The 25-year-old ranks 12th in ERA (3.22), 23rd in WHIP (1.147), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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Riley Greene Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
The Detroit Tigers, including Riley Greene (.400 batting average in his past 10 games), take on starting pitcher Jesus Luzardo and the Miami Marlins at LoanDepot park, Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
He hit a home run while going 1-for-4 in his last game against the Marlins.
Riley Greene Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Jesús Luzardo
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +160)
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Riley Greene At The Plate
- Greene has 12 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 26 walks while batting .308.
- Greene has gotten at least one hit in 75.4% of his games this season (52 of 69), with at least two hits 22 times (31.9%).
- He has homered in 11.6% of his games this year, and 2.7% of his trips to the plate.
- In 20 games this season (29.0%), Greene has picked up an RBI, and in four of those games (5.8%) he had two or more.
- In 49.3% of his games this year, he has scored at least once. And he's had six games with multiple runs (8.7%).
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Riley Greene Home/Away Batting Splits
Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Marlins pitching staff ranks fourth in MLB.
- The Marlins have the 14th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.12).
- The Marlins rank 11th in baseball in home runs surrendered (116 total, 1.1 per game).
- Luzardo (8-5) takes the mound for the Marlins in his 22nd start of the season. He has a 3.22 ERA in 120 1/3 innings pitched, with 144 strikeouts.
- In his last appearance on Sunday, the lefty went seven innings against the Colorado Rockies, allowing one earned run while surrendering four hits.
- The 25-year-old ranks 12th in ERA (3.22), 23rd in WHIP (1.147), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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Sky vs. Mercury: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:36 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Chicago Sky (9-15) will host the Phoenix Mercury (6-17) after losing five home games in a row. The matchup starts at 4:00 PM ET on Sunday, July 30, 2023.
In this article, you can see the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Sky vs. Mercury matchup.
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Sky vs. Mercury Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN3 and AZFamily
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Arena: Wintrust Arena
Sky vs. Mercury Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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Sky vs. Mercury Betting Trends
- The Sky have won 11 games against the spread this season, while failing to cover 12 times.
- The Mercury have put together a 7-15-0 record against the spread this year.
- Phoenix has covered the spread twice when an underdog by 7.5 points or more this season (in seven opportunities).
- A total of 10 out of the Sky's 23 games this season have hit the over.
- The Mercury and their opponents have combined to go over the point total nine out of 22 times this season.
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Spencer Torkelson Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
Spencer Torkelson, with a slugging percentage of .343 in his past 10 games -- including one home run -- will be in action for the Detroit Tigers versus the Miami Marlins, with Jesus Luzardo on the hill, July 30 at 1:40 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless performance (0-for-4) against the Marlins.
Spencer Torkelson Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Jesús Luzardo
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -154)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +160)
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Spencer Torkelson At The Plate
- Torkelson has 90 hits to go with a slugging percentage of .408, both of which lead Detroit hitters this season.
- In 62 of 103 games this season (60.2%) Torkelson has had a hit, and in 24 of those games he had more than one (23.3%).
- He has gone deep in 12.6% of his games in 2023, and 3.4% of his trips to the dish.
- Torkelson has picked up an RBI in 38.8% of his games this year, with more than one RBI in 10.7% of his games. He has also driven in three or more runs in four contests.
- He has scored in 40.8% of his games this season (42 of 103), with two or more runs seven times (6.8%).
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Spencer Torkelson Home/Away Batting Splits
Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The Marlins pitching staff is fourth in the league with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Marlins' 4.12 team ERA ranks 14th across all league pitching staffs.
- Marlins pitchers combine to allow 116 total home runs at a rate of 1.1 per game (to rank 11th in the league).
- Luzardo makes the start for the Marlins, his 22nd of the season. He is 8-5 with a 3.22 ERA and 144 strikeouts through 120 1/3 innings pitched.
- His last appearance was on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, when the left-hander tossed seven innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up four hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 25-year-old's 3.22 ERA ranks 12th, 1.147 WHIP ranks 23rd, and 10.8 K/9 ranks eighth.
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How to Watch the Tigers vs. Marlins Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Luis Arraez and the Miami Marlins take the field against Riley Greene and the Detroit Tigers on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET, in the final of a three-game series at LoanDepot park.
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Tigers vs. Marlins Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
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Tigers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Tigers rank 25th in Major League Baseball with 98 home runs.
- Detroit ranks 29th in MLB with a team slugging percentage of just .367 this season.
- The Tigers have a team batting average of just .231 this season, which ranks 28th among MLB teams.
- Detroit has scored 411 runs (just 3.9 per game) this season, which ranks 28th in MLB.
- The Tigers have an OBP of just .299 this season, which ranks 28th in MLB.
- The Tigers rank 19th with an average of 8.9 strikeouts per game.
- Detroit has an 8.4 K/9 rate this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 21st in the majors.
- Detroit pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.49 ERA this year, which ranks 20th in MLB.
- The Tigers have a combined WHIP of just 1.250 as a pitching staff, which is the ninth-best in baseball this season.
Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tarik Skubal (1-1) will take to the mound for the Tigers and make his fifth start of the season.
- The left-hander did not allow a run in five innings pitched on Monday in his last outing, a matchup with the San Francisco Giants.
- In four starts, Skubal has pitched through or past the fifth inning one time. He has a season average of 4.3 frames per outing.
- He has three appearances with no earned runs allowed in four chances this season.
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Tigers vs. Marlins: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
On Sunday, July 30 at 1:40 PM ET, the Miami Marlins (56-49) host the Detroit Tigers (47-58) at LoanDepot park. Jesus Luzardo will get the call for the Marlins, while Tarik Skubal will take the hill for the Tigers.
Oddsmakers list the Marlins as -150 moneyline favorites, while giving the underdog Tigers +125 moneyline odds. The over/under is 7 runs for this game.
Tigers vs. Marlins Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: BSFL
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Probable Pitchers: Luzardo - MIA (8-5, 3.22 ERA) vs Skubal - DET (1-1, 3.71 ERA)
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Tigers vs. Marlins Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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If you're looking to bet on the Tigers and Marlins matchup but want some help getting started, here's a quick primer. Betting on the moneyline, run line, and total are some of the most common ways to make bets. A moneyline bet means that you think one of the teams -- say, the Tigers (+125) -- will win the game. Pretty simple, right? If you bet $10 with those odds, and they end up winning, you'd get $22.50 back in your pocket.
There are many other ways to bet, too. You can wager on player props (will Spencer Torkelson get a hit?), parlays (combining picks from different games to multiply your potential winnings), and more. For more details on the many ways you can bet, check out the BetMGM app and website.
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Tigers vs. Marlins Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Marlins have been favored 48 times and won 31, or 64.6%, of those games.
- The Marlins have a 21-5 record (winning 80.8% of their games) when they have played as moneyline favorites of -150 or shorter.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 60% chance of a victory for Miami.
- The Marlins have a 2-5 record across the seven games they were favored on the moneyline in their last 10 matchups.
- Over its last 10 outings -- all had a set run total -- Miami and its opponents combined to go over the total four times.
- The Tigers have been underdogs in 84 games this season and have come away with the win 34 times (40.5%) in those contests.
- The Tigers have a mark of 24-29 in contests where oddsmakers favor them by +125 or worse on the moneyline.
- In seven games as underdogs over the last 10 matchups, the Tigers have a record of 2-5.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Detroit and its opponents are 4-5-1 in the last 10 games with a total.
Tigers vs. Marlins Player Props
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Tigers Futures Odds
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Zack Short Player Prop Bets: Tigers vs. Marlins - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
The Detroit Tigers, including Zack Short (.375 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 81 points above season-long percentage), take on starter Jesus Luzardo and the Miami Marlins at LoanDepot park, Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
He reached base in both of his plate appearances in his previous appearance against the Marlins.
Zack Short Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Jesús Luzardo
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: +120)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +775)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +350)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +230)
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Zack Short At The Plate
- Short has six doubles, five home runs and 15 walks while hitting .224.
- In 41.7% of his 60 games this season, Short has picked up at least one hit. He's also had six multi-hit games.
- He has homered in 8.3% of his games in 2023 (five of 60), and 3.1% of his trips to the dish.
- Short has driven home a run in 13 games this season (21.7%), including more than one RBI in 13.3% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on two occasions..
- In 11 of 60 games this year, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Marlins pitching staff ranks fourth in MLB.
- The Marlins' 4.12 team ERA ranks 14th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Marlins rank 11th in baseball in home runs allowed (116 total, 1.1 per game).
- Luzardo makes the start for the Marlins, his 22nd of the season. He is 8-5 with a 3.22 ERA and 144 strikeouts through 120 1/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander's most recent time out came on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, when he tossed seven innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up four hits.
- The 25-year-old ranks 12th in ERA (3.22), 23rd in WHIP (1.147), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season.
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Australia vs. Canada: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:37 AM EDT|Updated: 37 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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Nigeria vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:38 AM EDT|Updated: 37 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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US mother, daughter, reported kidnapped in Haiti, people warned not to travel there
(AP) - A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alex chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.”
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station Saturday night, police said.
Authorities found the victim with a stab wound to the abdomen near the Mobil gas station at 1921 Coney Island Ave. in Midwood at around 11:15 p.m., according to the NYPD. The man was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved.
There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
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The discovery of four dead women in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City was shocking news in 2006.
International media flocked to the seaside gambling resort. More than 100 detectives and prosecutors were assigned to investigate. Casino guests worried about safety, and the victims’ fellow sex workers began carrying hidden knives.
But as the years passed, the public’s attention and fear faded, and the case of the “Eastbound Strangler” – so named for the direction the victims’ heads were facing – remained unsolved.
The arrest earlier this month of a man charged with killing three women whose remains were found on a Long Island beach in 2010 has breathed fresh life into another long-dormant case with obvious parallels; the Gilgo Beach serial killings involve a total of 11 victims, most of whom were young, female sex workers. Yet the recent breakthrough, and the rekindling of public interest, only highlights a painful truth: Many similar cases – like the one in Atlantic City -- remain open.
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The FBI would not say how many killings of sex workers in the U.S. remain unsolved. Media accounts and statements from local authorities show a long trail of open cases, from nine women whose bodies were found along highways in Massachusetts, to 11 found dead in New Mexico, and eight more found amid the crawfish farms and swamps of southern Louisiana. The killings of other sex workers in Chicago, New Haven, Connecticut and Ohio, among other places, also remain mysteries.
From the days of London’s Jack The Ripper in the 1880s, serial killers, particularly those preying on sex workers, have often gotten away with it, in part because their victims were easy targets living on the margins of society.
Gary Ridgway, the so-called Green River killer convicted of 49 killings in Washington state, said at during a 2003 court hearing in which he pleaded guilty that he chose sex workers as victims because he knew they would not be missed quickly, if at all.
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“I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught,” he said.
Two women were out for an afternoon walk near Atlantic City in November 2006 when they found a body in a ditch. They called police, who quickly found three others nearby.
The $15-a-night motel in Egg Harbor Township behind which the four bodies were found is long gone. It was torn down in an attempt to clear a seedy area known for crime, drugs and disturbances – and the murders of Barbara Breidor, 42, Molly Jean Dilts, 20, Kim Raffo, 35, and Tracy Ann Roberts, 23.
Because it is near the ocean, like Gilgo Beach, the location has prompted much speculation by amateur detectives about a single killer, but some other online sleuths have pointed out that oceanside areas are often the remotest locations after hours on the densely packed East Coast. Gilgo Beach is about 3.5 hours drive from Atlantic City.
Gone in New Jersey are the four small wooden crosses someone erected on the site, along with the folded-up paper note bearing a Biblical quote promising justice that someone left there on one of the anniversaries of the discovery of the bodies.
For families left behind, each new day without word in the case of their loved one brings fresh pain.
“I kind of lost hope that anyone was even searching for the killer anymore,” said Joyce Roberts, whose daughter Tracy Ann was one of the four Atlantic City-area victims. “The first six months, the prosecutor did get on the phone with me and told me they were working on it.
“Then it just fell off the radar,” she said. “It was like nobody cared anymore.”
That is a sentiment echoed by Phoenix Calida, a former sex worker from Chicago who now advocates for them through the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
“Police departments often refer to it as an ‘NHI’ case: No humans involved,” she said. ”You feel like the only way you’ll be remembered is when they catch the serial killer who killed you, and then they’ll make five movies about him and no one will remember your name.”
Massachusetts State Police are investigating “nine unsolved homicides possibly committed by the same person,” said David Procopio, a spokesperson for the agency. He said two additional missing persons cases may be homicides related to the other nine.
Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the New Mexico cases remain actively investigated, with “multiple detectives” working them. The 11 victims were all involved in drugs and prostitution, police said.
A reward of $100,000 has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case, which involved two victims who were just 15 years old.
Despite the decade-long efforts of a local, state and federal task force, Louisiana has at least eight unsolved apparent homicide cases involving sex workers between the ages of 17 and 30. Their bodies were found in marshy areas in Jennings, a small town in the area known as Cajun Country, between 2005 and 2009.
Prosecutors in New York's Suffolk County investigating the Gilgo Beach cases have been in touch with multiple law enforcement agencies, but District Attorney Ray Tierney would not say which ones.
“Everything is being examined and looked at, and this is an active investigation,” said Anthony Carter, Suffolk County's deputy police commissioner. He would not say if his agency was investigating any connection between Heuermann and the Atlantic City murders.
Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds said the four cases from the drainage ditch outside Atlantic City remain active, with detectives assigned to them, but would not say how many. He declined comment on the Long Island case “as we are not involved.”
Joyce Roberts, the victim’s mother, said no one from law enforcement has called her since the arrest was made in the Long Island cases.
Police in Las Vegas, where Heuermann owns a time share, said they are investigating whether Heuermann may be involved in cases involving the killings of sex workers there.
In the months immediately after the bodies’ discovery near Atlantic City, the local prosecutor’s office and a dozen other law enforcement agencies had 140 people assigned to the cases, Ted Housel, who was prosecutor at the time, said in 2008. By the first anniversary, the total had fallen to 85, and those investigators were also working other cases.
Calida, the former sex worker from Chicago, said women involved the sex trade are frequently robbed by people who know they’re carrying cash, and are sometimes coerced into sexual activity by police in return for not being arrested.
She said an attacker “knows you can’t or won’t report it. You’re an easy target and they know it.”
Three of her friends who were also sex workers in Chicago also turned up dead.
“You see someone, you become friends with them and then one day they’re suddenly just not there,” she said. “We’d all go out asking around and looking for them, and then a few days later a body would be found. There’s always this specific fear that it’s a serial killer. Sometimes we never even get a body back to bury. And we wonder: Will law enforcement take it seriously because it’s ‘just another sex worker?’”
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AP writers Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque; Steve LeBlanc in Boston; Julie Walker and Robert Bumsted in Suffolk County, New York; Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this story.
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This week, Canada and parts of the United States have confronted unprecedented declines in air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, but people elsewhere in the world have long had to adjust and adapt to living with hazardous pollution levels. In some cases, those levels have improved over time.
NPR correspondents Anthony Kuhn and Eyder Peralta and freelance reporters Shalu Yadav and Kate Bartlett share what it's like in Beijing, Seoul, New Delhi, Mexico City and Johannesburg.
From Beijing to Seoul
I first visited Beijing in 1982, and lived there much of the time between 1992 and 2018.
In most of my years there, the pollution was terrible, especially in winter, although we didn't have ways to measure it. The air had an acrid, sulfurous smell, and soot was everywhere. To me, it was simply the cost of covering — and living — an epic story. People were less aware than they are now of the difference between weather and pollution, fog and smog.
Ahead of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing started to get rid of the coal stoves commonly used in the courtyard dwellings ("siheyuan" in Chinese) of Beijing's old city, and coal-fired heating plants, to help clean up the air ahead of the Games. Factories were moved farther and farther out of the city center. Coal-burning stoves in the courtyards were slowly replaced by electric heat.
While air quality in Beijing has improved in recent years, even now, occasional dust storms blow in from the Gobi desert, turning Beijing's skies yellow in spring and covering everything in gritty dust. AQI readings of 500 or worse are still occasional facts of life.
When I moved to Seoul in 2018, I cheerfully assumed I'd be leaving the air pollution behind. But it has followed me.
In China, we usually spoke of PM2.5, particulate matter that penetrates deep into the lungs. In Seoul, people call it "fine dust."
Much of it blows eastward from northern China over the Korean peninsula. But South Korea's automobiles and heavy industry add their own smog to the miasma — as does, reportedly, North Korea. The pollution is one reason South Koreans were already quite accustomed to wearing face masks, even before COVID.
South Korean and Chinese environmental officials have met numerous times to try to find a joint solution, but with little immediate or visible result. There are plenty of days of AQI over 100 or 150. There's little I can do but cancel outdoor activities, and wait until the air clears.
--Anthony Kuhn, NPR Seoul correspondent
New Delhi
My beloved city is famous for its heritage and Mughlai food — and infamous for its horrid pollution, which reaches AQI levels of 500 to 600 in the winter.
When it's that time of the year, my mornings start with opening my AQI app to check the level of pollution outside. That level decides whether I go for an outdoor run or find a safe indoor space in a gym where air purifiers are showcased as a premium facility.
But some days I don't need my AQI app. It's so bad that my eyes burn as soon as I wake up, I can taste the pollutants in my mouth and my lungs feel like an overworked machine that needs a break!
The pollution is so bad that some studies suggest that breathing it in is as dangerous as smoking about two dozen cigarettes a day.
"Craving a smoke? Come to Delhi!" is an overused joke that circulates in WhatsApp groups here, to share a light moment amid the gloom overcasting the sky and our lives in the city.
Jokes apart, it's a very serious health issue. An estimated 1.7 million Indians died of pollution-related disease in 2019.
It has in fact become a big factor in making my future decisions.
My husband and I have been intently discussing if we should plan our first baby and raise her in this city or move to another city. It's a scary thought — seeing our future kid gasping for breath, and suffering breathing problems like so many other kids in Delhi.
--Shalu Yadav, freelance reporter
Mexico City
Mexico City was once known as the most polluted city in the world.
The air quality here is still bad — on Thursday, the AQI reached 123, which is unhealthy for people with respiratory problems. And you feel it — your eyes get watery, your throat scratchy and the sky looks hazy. But in the 1990s and early 2000s, air quality would routinely hit the 200s. So, how did it get better?
Essentially, the government got tough on pollution with a complex system of countermeasures. Less efficient cars are allowed limited time on the road. And as soon as the air quality gets bad — either too high a concentration of ozone or particulate matter — the government orders even newer, more efficient cars off the streets. They order factories to reduce their output, food vendors are prohibited from using charcoal and road work stops.
If the air quality doesn't improve, the countermeasures get tougher. It often means residents can't drive to work or school, for example, so they have to walk, bike or take public transportation. If it gets bad enough, government offices shut down.
All of this has made a difference. In the 1990s, measures like these were put in place every month. Mexicans used to joke the air was so bad, so often, that birds would die mid-flight. These days, really bad days are rare. We have only a handful of environmental contingencies a year.
--Eyder Peralta, NPR Mexico City correspondent
Johannesburg
Africa is well known for its stunning sunsets and wide open skies – Paul Simon even sung about them in his song "Under African Skies."
So when I moved to Johannesburg as a correspondent, after previously working in heavily polluted Hong Kong, I found the fresh air in my leafy suburb a welcome change.
But in South Africa, one of the world's most unequal countries, air quality depends a lot on where you live.
According to the 2022 World Air Quality Report, the wealthy city of Cape Town had some of the best air quality in the country, while Thabazimbi, an iron mining town in northern Limpopo province had some of the worst.
Such disparities led environmental groups to sue the government last year in a groundbreaking case in which the judge ruled the unsafe levels of air pollution in the coal mining region of Mpumulanga were in breach of residents' constitutional rights to clean air.
Elsewhere on the continent, things are a mixed bag, with countries like Chad, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Egypt all showing high levels of pollution, while Angola and Kenya had relatively low levels.
One of the main impediments to monitoring air quality in Africa is the limited availability of reliable data, according to IQAir, with only 19 countries across the continent monitored.
Chad was found to be the most polluted of those, actually topping the global list as the country with the worst air quality in the world in 2022 – beating New Delhi. IQAir credited the country's regular dust storms as one of the reasons behind the poor levels of air quality.
--Kate Bartlett, freelance reporter
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CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) – The body of a 15-year-old boy is believed to have been recovered after he went missing in the water at Coney Island Beach on Thursday, officials said Sunday.
Authorities said the body was pulled from the water Friday night. Police have not identified the boy.
New York City Councilman Justin Brannan sent his condolences to the family on social media.
“The body of the 15-year-old boy who went missing swimming in Coney Island has been recovered. While their grief won’t end, I hope this will bring the family a modicum of closure. Please keep your prayers with them tonight,” Brannan said in the post.
The boy, identified by his aunt as Markel Aristis, was reported missing near Surf Avenue and West 22nd Street at around 12:38 p.m. Thursday, police said.
Markel was playing with his 14-year-old brother when he went under water and didn’t come back up, witnesses said. Markel’s brother, Aaron, was pulled from the water conscious and alert.
Officials said the portion of the beach the boys were playing in hasn’t been staffed with lifeguards all summer. Flags in the area indicate that swimming is prohibited. | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn/teen-drowns-after-going-missing-in-water-at-coney-island-officials/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:03 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn/teen-drowns-after-going-missing-in-water-at-coney-island-officials/ |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The U.S. Geological Survey has a morbid request: they want you to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers if you live in one of six states.
According to the USGS, the pilot program hopes to collect specimens that can help “identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.” said USGS.
“There are some questions that can’t effectively be answered without help from a lot of people. It’s what makes citizen science so special and valuable,” said Julie Dietze, USGS scientist-in-charge of the effort. “Collections like this one are important because they have the potential to provide scientists now, and 20 years from now, access to specimens.”
“Citizen scientists” have been submitting their butterflies, moths, and skippers since April, but based on how many specimens have been received, collections may continue through November 2024.
The USGS is hoping to collect these dead insects to establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection and all the specimens collected will be added to the USGS Research Scientific Collections database.
If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas, you can participate in the USGS’s pilot program. These states were selected because they’re relatively close the migration pathway of Monarch butterflies, their proximity to the Corn Belt, and the number of Confined Animal Feeding Operations.
Before you run out to catch butterflies for submission, USGS says it will only accept insects that are already dead that have not been collected alive. The insect must also be larger than two inches.
Additionally, species that are protected by the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act or by state law are not accepted. Within the six participating states, that includes only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, which is found in Alabama.
Once you’ve found your dead bug, the USGS recommends putting it in a resealable plastic bag. Insects that are damaged or not fully intact will be accepted, and bugs can be put into the same bags. If you aren’t able to ship your bugs within three days, you can freeze them.
Specimens should then be placed into a sealed envelope addressed to:
USGS LRC
1217 Biltmore Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
You do not need to include a return address.
Species that are mailed in will be evaluated for the occurrence of antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, and mycotoxins, according to USGS.
Officials say the ‘dead’-line is November 1, 2023. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:06 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ |
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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MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A group of good Samaritans helped apprehend a man who attacked a woman in New York City early Sunday, police said.
The 56-year-old woman was walking with her husband near Broadway and West 69th Sreet when the suspect punched her in the face just after midnight, according to the NYPD. The victim’s husband began chasing the assailant while yelling for help, police said.
A group of men saw the chase and stopped the suspect, police said. One of the good Samaritans then allegedly stabbed the suspect during the incident, police said.
The suspect who punched the woman was the only one taken into custody, police said. He was treated at the hospital for his injuries. Chargers were pending.
The woman suffered minor injuries and was not taken to the hospital.
Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/good-samaritans-stop-man-who-punched-woman-in-the-face-in-nyc-nypd/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:09 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/good-samaritans-stop-man-who-punched-woman-in-the-face-in-nyc-nypd/ |
Police in Montgomery County are seeking help from the public to identify a man accused of taking photos up the skirts of unsuspecting female shoppers at a Trader Joe's in Ardmore.
According to police in Lower Merion Township, a man believed to be in his 20s, visited the Trader Joe's store in the Suburban Square Shopping Center along Coulter Avenue in Ardmore, sometime in the afternoon on Friday, July 21, and took photos up the skirts of female shoppers.
Officials said the man had a dark beard and was wearing glasses, a red baseball cap, light blue shorts, a dark t-shirt, and white slides with white socks at the time of the incident.
According to police, he did not make a purchase at the store and fled on foot following the incident.
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If you recognize the man in the surveillance image, please contact the Lower Merion Township Police Department by calling Detective Jim Black at 610-645-6231 or Detective Sergeant Michael Keenan at 610-645-6228. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-seek-man-who-took-upskirt-photos-in-montco-trader-joes/3614518/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:09 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-seek-man-who-took-upskirt-photos-in-montco-trader-joes/3614518/ |
(AP) – A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alix chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:12 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ |
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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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The U.S. Geological Survey has a morbid request: they want you to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers if you live in one of six states.
According to the USGS, the pilot program hopes to collect specimens that can help “identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.” said USGS.
“There are some questions that can’t effectively be answered without help from a lot of people. It’s what makes citizen science so special and valuable,” said Julie Dietze, USGS scientist-in-charge of the effort. “Collections like this one are important because they have the potential to provide scientists now, and 20 years from now, access to specimens.”
“Citizen scientists” have been submitting their butterflies, moths, and skippers since April, but based on how many specimens have been received, collections may continue through November 2024.
The USGS is hoping to collect these dead insects to establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection and all the specimens collected will be added to the USGS Research Scientific Collections database.
If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas, you can participate in the USGS’s pilot program. These states were selected because they’re relatively close the migration pathway of Monarch butterflies, their proximity to the Corn Belt, and the number of Confined Animal Feeding Operations.
Before you run out to catch butterflies for submission, USGS says it will only accept insects that are already dead that have not been collected alive. The insect must also be larger than two inches.
Additionally, species that are protected by the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act or by state law are not accepted. Within the six participating states, that includes only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, which is found in Alabama.
Once you’ve found your dead bug, the USGS recommends putting it in a resealable plastic bag. Insects that are damaged or not fully intact will be accepted, and bugs can be put into the same bags. If you aren’t able to ship your bugs within three days, you can freeze them.
Specimens should then be placed into a sealed envelope addressed to:
USGS LRC
1217 Biltmore Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
You do not need to include a return address.
Species that are mailed in will be evaluated for the occurrence of antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, and mycotoxins, according to USGS.
Officials say the ‘dead’-line is November 1, 2023. | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:15 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ |
After several days of extreme heat, storms swept through parts of the New Jersey causing damage after pelting areas in rain Saturday.
A tornado may have also briefly moved through the area, though, as of 8 a.m. Sunday, that was unconfirmed.
In Woodstown, NJ, several trees were torn down along with power lines leaving some residents without power.
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"We didn't know how bad the damage was until the trees started falling down in our yard and we started getting phone calls that there were outages," a resident in the Woodstown, NJ area to NBC10.
On Sunday, NBC10's Brenna Weick said that, as of 9:30 a.m., the Atlantic City Electric Company had said about 60 customers were still without power in Woodstown, and about 200 were still without power throughout the company's service area.
Over the evening, about 4,000 homes were impacted by power outages and, along Main Street in Woodstown, about 10 electrical poles were taken down by storms.
"It lasted about an hour, and it snapped trees, snapped poles, uprooted trees," another resident said.
Severe Weather Alerts
There were also downed trees in Aston Township, Delaware and Plumstead and Richmond township in Bucks County.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of Delaware and severe thunderstorm warnings for Delaware and New Jersey for Saturday evening.
All warnings were ended before Sunday. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/severe-weather-alerts/locals-cleanup-following-evening-of-storms/3614372/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:15 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/severe-weather-alerts/locals-cleanup-following-evening-of-storms/3614372/ |
US mother, daughter, reported kidnapped in Haiti, people warned not to travel there
(AP) - A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alex chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kttc.com/2023/07/30/us-mother-daughter-reported-kidnapped-haiti-people-warned-not-travel-there/ | 2023-07-30T14:16:20 | 0 | https://www.kttc.com/2023/07/30/us-mother-daughter-reported-kidnapped-haiti-people-warned-not-travel-there/ |
Real estate sales in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties for July 30, 2023
These transactions, recorded the week of July 17, are compiled from information on file with Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties. They represent sales of $78,000 or more.
PEORIA COUNTY
5317 W. Closen Road, Peoria: Michael D. Chasteen II to Sarah M. Wherley, $85,000.
5604 N. Withershin Point, Peoria: Anna Votava Wilcox and Michael A. and Frank J. Votava to Larry Coleman and Amy M. Vachon, $85,000.
5422 N. Hamilton Road, Peoria: Micah J. and Kirianna J. Dryden to Kayla Bragdon, $106,000.
2401 W. Barker Ave., West Peoria: Vicky L. Turner and Paul R. Shane to Valerie L. Wilson, $110,000.
2624 W. Scenic Drive, Peoria: Robert A. Dubisch to Norah I. O'Brien, $113,400.
1911 E. Minnesota St., Peoria: Marc J. Wells to Elyssa Sopiars, $119,900.
127 W. Glen Ave., Peoria: Warren E. Danz to Hunter Bevirt, $125,000.
125 SW Jefferson St., Peoria: Main Street Associates to Mariella, Maria and Michael Saludares, $137,000.
123 SW Jefferson St., Peoria: Wilmer H. Miller and Tracy M. Smithenry to Matthew S. Nelson, $145,000.
5406 N. Sherwood Ave., Peoria: RJ Rose LLC to Jason T. Hullmann and Carrie L. Fish, $150,000.
122 E. Cherry Ridge Road, Peoria: Preston Butner and Brittany K. Eyster to Jenna McMechan, $150,000.
More:Real estate sales in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties for July 23, 2023
4934 N. Glenaire Court, Peoria Heights: Sean and Ashley Williams to Jeffrey McGinty, $153,000.
2307 W. Orlando Court, Peoria: Theresa Bechtel to Matthew and Shakirra Johnson, $155,000.
1106 N. Glenwood Ave., Peoria: Daniel Armich to Raphael and Kathryn Rodolfi, $169,500.
811 N. Elbert Court, Hanna City: Brevyn Yeske to Andy Anderson and Tristin O'Neill, $170,000.
12705 N. Maher Road, Brimfield: Barbara McKown to Rita Kress, $175,000.
3808 N. Melcosta Drive, Peoria: Erin and Dominique Wheeler to Ryan P. Cinotte and Angelique M. Garro, $180,000.
7816 W. Mohawk Trail, Peoria: Karen G. and Troy McKnight to Kelly Stein, $187,000.
11217 N. Oakwood Drive, Unit 60, Peoria: Jamison Shefts and Sue Anne Knapp to Brenton R. Shefts, $187,500.
4609 W. Rose Ave., Bartonville: Eric M. and Kelly J. Beaird to Thad and Katherene Birkett, $189,900.
7038 N. Teakwood Court, Peoria: Micah Bouillon to Crystal A. and Abraham Cazares, $190,000.
6311 N. Robinwood Drive, Peoria: Joseph Campbell and Deziree Vaughn to John F. Huber, $215,000.
18829 N. Old Galena Road, Chillicothe: David F. and Jodie A. Fassino to Jeremy J. Jason, $220,000.
13620 N. Wayne Road, Chillicothe: Patricia S. Edwards to Martin L. Shane and Angelia Dorough, $225,000.
316 W. Cedar Hills Drive, Dunlap: Fenceline Properties LLC to Andrew Turpen, $260,000.
7071 N. Aycliffe Drive, Peoria: Edward A. and Tara R. Valentino to Dominga Lopez Parades, $319,900.
More:Real estate sales in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties for July 16, 2023
11026 N. Woodale Drive, Dunlap: Trail Crossing Developers LLC to Timothy F. Shea, $350,000.
7002 S. Saddlebrook Drive, Mapleton: Keith and Melody Cain to Jeron S. and Sherry J. Sanders, $395,000.
6513 W. Hazel Nut Drive, Edwards: Anthony J. and Jennifer Strickland to Cartus Financial Corporation, $435,000.
6513 W. Hazel Nut Drive, Edwards: Cartus Financial Corporation to Matthew and Bethany Salske, $435,000.
9112 N. Wyndridge Way, Edwards: Norma J. Johnson to Kenneth and Laura K. De Luca, $506,500.
11047 N. Country Ridge Lane, Dunlap: Brent D. Kathleen D. Deener to Daniel C. and Annie C. Lee, $587,500.
11310 N. Copper Creek Point, Dunlap: Armstrong Builders of Peoria Inc. to Cecilia Gallagher and Thomas Borland, $635,500.
11302 N. Onyx Lane, Dunlap: Brian J. and Katherine M. Yureskes to Brooks and Katelyn Rademacher, $690,000.
11228 N. Blackstone Court, Dunlap: Scot G. and Kimerly S. Schaumburg to Cartus Financial Corporation, $749,900.
11228 N. Blackstone Court, Dunlap: Cartus Financial Corporation to Corey and Carly Lynch, $749,900.
2800 W. Cannes Drive, Peoria: Richard J. and Mary A. Monge to Acceleration Ventures LLC, $1,944,000.
TAZEWELL COUNTY
900 & 904 Highland Ave., Pekin: Ronald W. and Todd L. Simpson to Jacob R. Terry, $81,500.
1109 S. 10th St., Pekin: Misty D. Baugh to Michael E. Smith, $87,000.
Parcel Number 10-10-14-405-002, Tazewell County: Gene L. and Tracy Sharp to Ethan H. Moore, $90,000.
201 1st St., South Pekin: Coleen K. Campbell to Austin Clutter, $97,600.
1227 Bacon St., Pekin: Patrick A. Kegley to Alison R. Carpenter, $97,900.
400 N. 14th St., Pekin: Marc J. Wells to Dylan M. Hildebrand, $102,900.
11761 Fuelberth Road, Pekin: Gray L. Allen and Jody R. Halferty to Brian A. and Nena M. Cox, $105,000.
401 Fairlane Ave., Pekin: Dorothy M. Doan and Claire L. Zimmerman to Amanda Hampe and Stefan Ososky, $110,000.
120 N. Mosiman Ave., Morton: Jean Englebrecht, Karen S. Ray and Janet Russell to Nestle USA Inc., $120,000.
344 Highway Blvd., North Pekin: Elijah D. Weakley to Cartus Financial Corporation, $120,000.
344 Highway Blvd., North Pekin: Cartus Financial Corporation to Jonathan and Katherine McCarty, $120,000.
704 Grandview Ave., Pekin: Leslie A. Ripper to Tyler R. Ramsey, $124,000.
310 Grant Road, Marquette Heights: Brooke Franklin to Quentin D. Smith, $125,000.
1311 Howard Court, Pekin: Sidney Ballard to Sunshine R. Hardy and Jonathan A. Omerod, $134,000.
412 Hillman St., Washington: Amy L. and Jackson C. Ford Jr. to Donald L. Philips, $137,500.
4901 Sheridan Road, Groveland: Kyle A. Veech to Braden Fonner, $145,000.
143 Cherry Lane, Washington: Heather and Robert J. McCarty to Darcey Taylor, $153,000.
403 Pecan St., Pekin: Brittany and Corey E. King to Molly Arnold and Drake Mathias, $160,000.
205 Daniel Parkway, Washington: Rubigale Fitzanko to Heather Kupferschmid, $165,000.
109 Wagner St., Washington: Patrick A. and Tara J. Sampo to Paula Potter, $169,900.
315 Roberts St., Groveland: Alex and Megan Birely to Natalie and Paula Clunk, $182,900.
108 Medina Court, East Peoria: Theresa and Zachary Cherry to Amber L. Morgan and Joseph J. Whetstine, $189,900.
209 E. Hazelwood St., Morton: Jacqueline Schwarzentraub to Hannah M. Wagner, $205,250.
113 James Court, East Peoria: Leah Morse to Eddie and Kimberly Ashburn, $215,000.
241 Oklahoma Ave., Morton: Davie and Jennifer Bateman to Katelyn Beckemeyer, $221,000.
122, 124, 130, 132, 134 & 136 Fauber Road, East Peoria: Deborah Moser to KSR Investments LLC, $225,000.
1918 County Fair Drive, Washington: Jennifer L. Lingenfelter to Theresa and Zachary Cherry, $228,000.
332 S. Montana Ave., Morton: Debora L. Pike to Roschelle M. and Ryan T. McCoy, $235,000.
7473 Sparrow Road, Hopedale: Ashley L. and Tyler J. Venovich to Joseph M. and Lauryn J.A. Malinowski, $240,000.
313 Fahey Hollow Road, East Peoria: Gretchen A. and Kenneth L. Koestner to Bradley Sparks, $262,000.
8 & 10 Norfolk Ave., Mackinaw: Carol and Mark R. Streamer to Christopher M. Dunbar, $269,900.
1600 Vista Grande Drive, Pekin: Cathy J. Keefer to Danny Taylor, $270,000.
124 S. Kansas Ave., Morton: Marion C. and Suzanne M. Buchanan to Joseph and Nicole Vogel, $295,000.
617 Country Club Lane, Pekin: Kimberly W. and Mark S. Koppelman to Claude A. and Vicki L. Piraino, $298,500.
283 Norman, Groveland: Datham and Tracey Gerard to Dennis C. and Rhonda Schielein, $316,000.
126, 128, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150 & 152 Fauber Road, East Peoria, and 1058 & 1060 Barbara Lane, East Peoria: Keith A. Moser Jr. to KSR Investments LLC, $375,000.
434 Garnet Drive, Morton: Gregory T. and Megan L. Carter to Krystal and Scott Everett, $400,000.
2 Wildwood Court, Washington: David E. North to Christopher Mullen and Rachelle Robokoff Mullen, $437,000.
WOODFORD COUNTY
1130 Upper Spring Bay Road, East Peoria: Steven W. Bockler to Roy E. Bockler, $85,000.
408 N. Madison St., Washburn: Andrzej Sekulski to Donald and Andrea Hardin, $144,900.
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RECREATION
Here are the qualifying scores and pairings for the 2023 Peoria Men's City golf tournament
Wes Huett
Peoria Journal Star
The 2023 Peoria Men's City begins Monday at Newman Golf Course, with the 94 players from Friday and Saturday qualifying rounds competing in two groups — Championship Flight and A Flight.
The 64 players in Championship Flight begin play Monday, while the 30-player A Flight field begins Tuesday. Below are the qualifying scores and the pairings for the two flights.
Peoria Men's CityHere are the pairings and results for the 2022 tournament
2023 Peoria Men's City qualifying scores
- 66 — Scott Phegley
- 67 — Steve Taylor
- 68 — Drew Cassidy, Rick Lehew
- 69 — Mack Foster
- 70 — Britt Bothast
- 71 — Brice Herbers, Eric Pettengill
- 73 — Tony Proctor, Brad Cunningham, Brien Davis
- 74 — Ryan Brown, Nathan Turner
- 75 — Cole Brown, Pat Greenan, Matt Kwasnik, Tony Jackson
- 76 — Aven Friday, Ethan Westart, Alex Vlachos, Calvin Quinn, Keith Mallow, Andrew Kissel
- 77 — Rich Steinkoenig, Bob Chung, Rich Spengler, Brandon Carlson, Jim Williams
- 78 — Danny Gutzwiller, Caesar Shanine
- 79 — Jeff Martel, Mike Blanco, Gary Sullivan, Luke Markley, Matt Fahel, Quinn Cox
- 80 — Robert Bertsch, Andrew Osing, Caleb Ingles, Jake Schneider, Dean Kinney, Gary Rockow
- 81 — Brian Ralph, Mason Wicks, Adam Lofgren, Don Schumacker, Mark Greskoviak, Curt Leroy, Skeeter Miller, Brock Brown
- 82 — Beau Sutherland, Jacob Corry, Joe Rovleau, John Revallo
- 83 — Reggie Livingston, Kirk Stuaan
- 84 — Nate Gregg, Logan Hinrichs, Rich Bowles
- 85 — Dale Kirtley, Bennett Toews, Greg Brakebill, Roland Brown, Andrew Kenney, Nepos Nyahwihwiri, Eric Roof, Vic Kraft, Louie Meismer
- 86 — Jamie Markley, Ron Remmel, Chris Martin
- 87 — Jack Steinkoenig, Edward O’Connor, Doug Weber, Brandon Ferree
- 88 — Asa Lewis, Perry Tate, Paul Lippens, Andrew Derry, Kevin O’Conner, Mike Weinkauf
- 90 — Carl Whitlatch, Brent Ward
- 91 — Randy Gallion, Tom Winchester, Ben Dotson, Tom Hasenstein
- 93 — Rockie Ziegler
- 94 — Craig Gordon
- 95 — Dylan Reineke
- 96 — Shane Cunningham, Gene Moore
- 98 — Jacob Roof
- 99 — John Trapp
- 102 — Xavier Sneed
- 111 — Harry Gregg
- 113 — Ron England
- DNS — Bill Ott, Tim Daebelliehn
- WD — Tony Case, Tim Walters, Tom Hammerton, Sekar Panchagnula
- NC — Matt Wilson
2023 Peoria Men's City Championship Flight
Monday's first round
- 7 a.m. — 1 Brien Davis vs. 64 Roland Brown
- 7:07 a.m. — 32 Gary Sullivan vs. 33 Luke Markley
- 7:14 a.m. — 16 Tony Jackson vs. 49 Don Schumacher
- 7:21 a.m. — 17 Cole Brown vs. 48 Adam Lofgren
- 7:28 a.m. — 8 Brice Herbers vs. 57 Nathan Gregg
- 7:35 a.m. — 25 Brandon Carlson vs. 40 Caleb Ingles
- 7:42 a.m. — 9 Eric Pettengill vs. 56 Rich Bowles
- 7:49 a.m. — 24 Rich Spengler vs. 41 Dean Kinney
- 7:56 a.m. — 4 Rick Lehew vs. 61 Dale Kirtley
- 8:03 a.m. — 29 Caesar Shanine vs. 36 Gary Rockow
- 8:10 a.m. — 13 Ryan Brown vs. 52 Jacob Corry
- 8:17 a.m. — 20 Keith Mallow vs. 45 Brock Brown
- 8:24 a.m. — 5 Drew Cassidy vs. 60 Louie Meismer
- 8:31 a.m. — 28 Bob Chung vs. 37 Robert Bertsch
- 8:38 a.m. — 12 Nate Turner vs. 53 Joe Rovleau
- 8:45 a.m. — 21 Andrew Kissel vs. 44 Curt Leroy
- 8:52 a.m. — 2 Scott Phegley vs. 63 Greg Brakebill
- 8:59 a.m. — 31 Mike Blanco vs. 34 Matt Fahel
- 9:06 a.m. — 15 Matt Kwasnik vs. 50 John Revallo
- 9:13 a.m. — 18 Alex Vlachos vs. 47 Mason Wicks
- 9:20 a.m. — 7 Britt Bothast vs. 58 Logan Hinrichs
- 9:27 a.m. — 26 Jim William s vs. 39 Jake Schneider
- 9:34 a.m. — 10 Tony Proctor vs. 55 Reggie Livingston
- 9:41 a.m. — 23 Ethan Westart vs. 42 Mark Greskoviak
- 9:48 a.m. — 3 Steve Taylor vs. 62 Bennett Toews
- 9:55 a.m. — 30 Jeff Martel vs. 35 Quinn Cox
- 10:02 a.m. — 14 Pat Greenan vs. 51 Beau Sutherland
- 10:09 a.m. — 19 Calvin Quinn vs. 46 Brian Ralph
- 10:16 a.m. — 6 Mack Foster vs. 59 Nepos Nyahwihwiri
- 10:23 a.m. — 27 Rich Steinkoenig vs. 38 Andrew Osing
- 10:30 a.m. — 11 Brad Cunningham vs. 54 Kirk Stuaan
- 10:37 a.m. — 22 Aven Friday vs. 43 Skeeter Miller
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Peoria Men's City A Flight
Tuesday's first round
- 8:52 a.m. — 1 Andrew Kenney vs. BYE
- 8:59 a.m. — 16 Brent Ward vs. 17 Carl Whitlatch
- 9:06 a.m. — 8 Doug Weber vs. 25 Gene Moore
- 9:13 a.m. — 9 Jack Steinkoenig vs. 24 Shane Cunningham
- 9:20 a.m. — 4 James Markley vs. 29 Ron England
- 9:27 a.m. — 13 Paul Lippens vs. 20 Tom Winchester
- 9:34 a.m. — 5 Ron Remmel vs. 28 Xavier Sneed
- 9:41 a.m. — 12 Perry Tate vs. 21 Rocke Zeigler
- 9:48 a.m. — 2 Eric Roof vs. BYE
- 9:55 a.m. — 15 Kevin O’Connor vs. 18 Ben Dotson
- 10:02 a.m. — 7 Brandon Ferree vs. 26 Jacob Roof
- 10:09 a.m. — 10 Edward O’Connor vs. 23 Dylan Reineke
- 10:16 a.m. — 3 Vic Kraft vs. 30 Harry Gregg
- 10:23 a.m. — 14 Andrew Derry vs. 19 Randy Gallion
- 10:30 a.m. — 6 Chris Martin vs. 27 John Trapp
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Byron Buxton Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 51 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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Carlos Correa Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 51 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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Jorge Polanco Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 51 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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Kyle Farmer Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 51 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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Matt Wallner Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:26 AM CDT|Updated: 50 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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Michael A. Taylor Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:26 AM CDT|Updated: 51 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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Donald Zillman, former University of Maine at Presque Isle president and namesake of the University of Maine art museum in Bangor, died Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to Presque Isle campus officials.
He was 79 years old.
Zillman had a long history of contributions to the University of Maine System, also serving the campuses in Orono and Fort Kent, and his community.
In Presque Isle, he and his wife, Linda, established a research professorship in 2013 and gave the first money to start the Zillman Family Greenhouse for the agricultural science program. But what local leaders remember most is how much he cared about people.
“He was the embodiment of a servant leader. I’ve never had this many people reach out at the loss of somebody,” said Ray Rice, University of Maine at Presque Isle president. “They all say they’ve never known anybody that was as generous as Don Zillman was.”
Zillman led the campus from 2006 to 2012, coming in at a challenging time, Rice said.
Rice was then president of the faculty union, and there were difficult dynamics between instructors and administrators, he said. Zillman had a calming way of making everyone feel comfortable and on equal footing, and spent a lot of time in one-on-one conversations with people, pledging his support to ensure the stability and growth of the university.
He helped bring in teaching staff who were keen about research, but also about working with students. His leadership led to a renaissance of scholarship and research, Rice said.
Though he is in awe of all the scholarly work and writing Zillman did, it is the day-to-day moments Rice will miss most.
“I remember him walking Matisse, the first German shorthair [dog] they had,” Rice said. “I’d be riding my bike super early in the morning, and he’d be walking his dog super early. He was just always somebody that was around on campus.”
Zillman published 80 books and articles, was a Rotarian for decades and served on boards for the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, Leaders Encouraging Aroostook Development and United Way of Aroostook.
An avid runner, he completed more than 1,000 road races, according to Presque Isle campus officials.
Zillman was dean of the University of Maine School of Law from 1991 to 1998, interim provost and academic vice president at the University of Maine from 1999 to 2000, and interim president of the University of Maine at Fort Kent from 2001 to 2002.
He was Edward S. Godfrey Professor of Law at Maine Law from 1990 until his retirement in 2019, campus officials said in a statement.
He and his wife gave $1.3 million in 2020 to expand the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, and the facility was named the Zillman Art Museum in their honor. In 2022, the Zillmans delivered the Presque Isle university’s commencement address and received honorary degrees.
Just after Zillman left Presque Isle, he and his wife created the Donald and Linda Zillman Family Professorship to be awarded every two years to help a Presque Isle faculty member with research and career development.
Chunzeng Wang, professor of earth and environmental studies, was the first recipient in 2013. He found the loss of his colleague and benefactor difficult to believe.
“He influenced me so much, and I’m sure other faculty members and members of the community,” Wang said. “He really cared so much.”
Zillman was a scholar and published numerous books and articles, and wanted the faculty and students to be involved in scholarship, as well, Wang said.
Wang started his geological mapping work with a global positioning system device and a printer. Though the budget didn’t include money for the GPS, Zillman directed the university to buy it, Wang said.
The GIS lab opened in 2009, and Wang still remembers Zillman’s wide smile on that day.
Shortly before he died, Zillman and his wife gave $32,000 to the GIS lab.
“In his last email to me, he said he was happy he could help faculty to help UMPI be more visible to the rest of the world,” Wang said. “If faculty do well, so does the university, and if the university does well, it’s good for the community.”
Both Wang and Rice commended Zillman’s community involvement, much of which happened through his work with Rotary.
Sharon Campbell, past president of the Presque Isle Rotary Club, led the organization when Zillman joined.
“At Rotary, we always try to encourage people to come in and embrace the concept of Rotary: Is it true, is it fair to all concerned, does it build goodwill and better friendships and does it benefit all,” she said. “He came to us living those pillars. It wasn’t Rotary; it was Don.”
Zillman had an infectious smile and projected genuine care for people, which is what Rotary strives for, Campbell said. He was a person to whom people immediately gravitated, and he found joy in simple things as well as the extraordinary.
Though he was an exceptional writer and speaker, Campbell said she has never laughed out loud so much as in one of Zillman’s Rotary speeches. His sense of humor and ability to tell a story really came through, she said.
Even after he left Presque Isle, Zillman kept in touch with Rotary and people in the area, she said.
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Twins vs. Royals Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest between the Minnesota Twins (54-52) and the Kansas City Royals (31-75) at Kauffman Stadium has a good chance to be a close matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 5-3, with the Twins coming out on top. Game time is at 2:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Twins will give the nod to Kenta Maeda (2-5) versus the Royals and Ryan Yarbrough (3-5).
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 won four of those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Minnesota and its opponents have failed to hit the over three times.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Twins' last 10 games.
- This season, the Twins have won 41 out of the 68 games, or 60.3%, in which they've been favored.
- This season Minnesota has won 12 of its 20 games, or 60%, when favored by at least -175 on the moneyline.
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 63.6% chance of a victory for the Twins.
- 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 among all league pitching staffs (3.88).
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Sunday is seeing a similar temperature forecast to what we had for Saturday. We are starting off in the mid to upper 70s with partly cloudy skies and muggy conditions, and high temperatures will reach into the upper 90s with heat index values reaching around 105-108. A heat advisory is in effect from noon to 7 p.m. on Sunday as a result of these hot conditions.
On top of the heat, a cold front moving in from our north will provide a line of showers and thunderstorms in our area during the first half of the day. Later on in the afternoon, we will see more thunderstorms appearing in the southern portion of the viewing area. A few of these storms will pack a punch with heavy rainfall and strong wind gusts being the main threats. Because of this, we are under a level one out of five risk for severe weather today.
We will get a brief break from the heat advisories during the start of our work week. Temperatures will drop into the mid 90s. The air will still be muggy so it will only be slightly less miserable. Isolated showers and thunderstorms will remain a possibility throughout the work week, but we will still see lots of sunshine. This will allow those temperatures to pick back up through the week. Triple digits will be back in the picture by Friday. | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/sunday-is-going-to-see-excessive-heat-and-a-chance-for-storms/article_33a059f2-2ebc-11ee-9cfb-17d5093d25c7.html | 2023-07-30T14:17:19 | 0 | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/sunday-is-going-to-see-excessive-heat-and-a-chance-for-storms/article_33a059f2-2ebc-11ee-9cfb-17d5093d25c7.html |
PORTLAND — Arkatechture CUSO, a technology company dedicated to empowering organizations with a better understanding of their business through data, has formed a partnership with TEG Federal Credit Union, a New York based credit union founded as a teacher’s credit union. Founded in 1969, TEGFCU has experienced significant growth over the past ten years, and this growth has led to a need for a more sophisticated data analytics program.
TEG had previously been working with another data management and analytics vendor, but the platform wasn’t working for them. Senior managers were spending a lot of time creating manual reports every month. They knew they needed to upgrade their data analytics program but didn’t have the internal resources or expertise to do so on their own. The TEGFCU team understood that they were sitting on top of a wealth of performance-enhancing data, but they needed help unlocking it, making it easier to digest into actionable insights, and getting it into the hands of the internal decision-makers. “Since we have many different systems that do not communicate with each other, augmenting the resources of a data analytics company to help us democratize our data was the direction we wanted to pursue.” commented Cory Shapiro, Chief Operating Officer at TEGFCU.
The TEGFCU team was confident in their decision to partner with Arkatechture as all references they got from fellow credit unions were very positive. During the evaluation process, they found Arkatechture to be very transparent, and appreciated their willingness to show the product. “We really like the Arkalytics product and appreciate the support and extensive knowledge the Arkatechture team brings with them. With Arkatechture being a credit-union-focused data analytics system, we knew they would have an understanding of our needs and goals” said Cory Shapiro.
TEGFCU’s partnership with Arkatechture will allow them to serve more members and communities, and they have committed to having Arkalytics be their single source of truth to build a data-driven culture within their credit union. TEGFCU believes that “Together, everyone grows” and they feel that Arkatechture aligns well with this mindset. “We will grow, they will grow, and our members will grow,” said Cory Shapiro. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/29/bdn-maine/teg-federal-credit-union-partners-with-arkatechture/ | 2023-07-30T14:17:24 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/29/bdn-maine/teg-federal-credit-union-partners-with-arkatechture/ |
How to Watch the Twins vs. Royals Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Ryan Yarbrough will be starting for the Kansas City Royals when they take on Carlos Correa and the Minnesota Twins on Sunday 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 are eighth in MLB action with 140 home runs. They average 1.3 per game.
- Minnesota's .413 slugging percentage is 13th in baseball.
- The Twins' .237 batting average ranks 21st in the majors.
- Minnesota has the No. 17 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.4 runs per game (469 total runs).
- The Twins' .315 on-base percentage ranks 20th in baseball.
- Twins batters strike out 10.4 times per game, the most in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Minnesota has a collective 9.7 K/9 to pace the majors.
- Minnesota's 3.88 team ERA ranks seventh across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Twins pitchers combine for the No. 1 WHIP in MLB (1.185).
Twins Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Twins are sending Kenta Maeda (2-5) to the mound for his 11th start of the season. He is 2-5 with a 4.62 ERA and 58 strikeouts in 48 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Monday, the right-hander went 6 1/3 innings against the Seattle Mariners, allowing one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- Maeda is looking for his third straight quality start.
- Maeda will look to extend a three-game streak of lasting five or more innings (he's averaging 4.8 innings per outing).
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in one of his 10 appearances this season.
Twins Schedule
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Twins vs. Royals: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Kansas City Royals (31-75) will square off against the Minnesota Twins (54-52) at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, July 30 at 2:10 PM ET. Currently stuck at 29 steals, Bobby Witt Jr. will be looking to nab his 30th stolen base of the season.
The favored Twins have -175 moneyline odds to win against the underdog Royals, who are listed at +145. The total is 9 runs for this game (with -120 odds to hit the over and +100 odds on the under).
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
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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 a 12-8 record (winning 60% of their games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -175 or shorter.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 63.6% chance of a victory for Minnesota.
- The Twins have a 4-4 record from the eight games they were moneyline favorites over their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups (all 10 of them had set totals), Minnesota and its opponents combined to go over the run total seven times.
- The Royals have been underdogs in 93 games this season and have come away with the win 28 times (30.1%) in those contests.
- The Royals have a mark of 12-34 in contests where sportsbooks favor them by +145 or worse on the moneyline.
- In 10 games as underdogs over the last 10 matchups, the Royals have a record of 3-7.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Kansas City and its opponents are 5-5-0 in the last 10 games with a total.
Twins vs. Royals Player Props
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BATH, Maine — Marine 1st Lt. Harvey “Barney” Barnum jumped to the ground when he came under fire during an ambush in Vietnam that killed his radio operator and commander.
Collecting himself, Barnum realized he was now the highest-ranking officer of a rifle company he’d just joined. He called in artillery and, amid gunfire, dragged the commander to safety, where he died in Barnum’s arms. Then he proceeded to mount a counterattack, oversee evacuation of the wounded and lead the unit’s eventual break out to rejoin the battalion.
The Medal of Honor recipient, now 83, watched Saturday as his wife smashed a bottle of sparkling wine against the bow to christen the future U.S. Navy destroyer that’ll bear the name Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
He said he was speechless when he learned that a warship would bear his name. “As anybody that knows Barney Barnum knows, I’ve never been speechless,” he joked before the event.
The ceremony on Saturday at Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works was a tribute to the Vietnam War hero who during his first firefight was foisted into leadership of Marines who didn’t yet know his name because he’d just joined them a couple of days earlier.
Dignitaries included Maine’s governor and senators, as well as Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, who praised Barnum’s humility and generosity, in addition to being a war hero who inspired fellow Marines.
Gen. Eric Smith, the acting Marine Corps commandant whose nomination to lead the Marine Corps is being blocked by a Republican senator, called Barnum “an icon, a legend, a Marine.”
In an interview, Barnum said the combat was harrowing on that day, Dec. 18, 1965, during Operation Harvest Moon. His unit was outnumbered, caught off guard and separated from the larger battalion outside the village of Ky Phu in Quang Tin Province.
The ship’s namesake said he was scared like everybody else but he tried not to show it. The other Marines were looking to him, an artillery spotter, after their commander died, he said.
To launch a counterattack, he brandished a .45-caliber handgun and told the others to follow him. They did.
“It’s a tough business. But when it gets tough, the tough get going and that’s what Marines do,” he said. “We came together as a team. And, you know, there’s no fury unleashed that’s greater than that of a bunch of Marines that know that their buddies have been shot.”
Barnum later became the first Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam conflict to return for another tour. He retired from the Marine Corps as a colonel after nearly three decades of service and served the secretary of defense as principal director of drug enforcement policy, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for reserve affairs, and acting assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs.
Barnum, of Reston, Virginia, was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, and studied at Saint Anslem College, a Benedictine college in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The school’s abbot, Mark Cooper, delivered the invocation on Saturday.
The event was a family affair for Barnum, who now lives in Virginia.
His wife, Martha Hill, served as the ship’s sponsor. At the event Saturday, she was in a wheelchair; Barnum has been her care provider since she had a stroke more than five years ago. Her daughter; two granddaughters, one of whom sang “God Bless America;” and an 11-year-old great-granddaughter were also participants at the event Saturday. Other family and friends were present.
Displacing 9,500 tons, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is built to simultaneously wage war against submarines, aircraft and missiles, and other warships. The newest versions are being equipped for ballistic missile defense.
The 510-foot guided-missile destroyer was in dry dock for the ceremony as work continues to prepare the ship for delivery to the Navy.
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Willi Castro Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM CDT|Updated: 50 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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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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BELFAST — At the 1849 home of Judy and David Bond in Belfast, hollyhocks, phlox, and daisies are just some of the heirloom plants that evoke the grace and charm of a 19th-century English cottage garden.
The public is invited to tour the Bonds’ garden at 15 Congress St. in Belfast Saturday, Aug. 5, during the Belfast Garden Club’s summer event series, Open Garden Days. Their garden will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. Admission is $5, helping support the club’s public service projects throughout the year. It is the seventh of nine private gardens the club is showcasing on Saturdays through Aug. 19.
The Bonds retired to Belfast from Massachusetts in 2014, bringing their love for cottage gardens with them. David was a real estate appraiser, Judy, a cardiac nurse. Their historic brick home on Congress sits on one-third of an acre with a level and open area for gardening.
The previous owners had created a fenced vegetable garden that was amply fertilized by a flock of chickens. The couple has continued to maintain these successful vegetable plots, adding three circular gardens, planted densely and informally, Judy Bond says, with the “old, old plants” of the cottage-garden style.
In addition to hollyhocks, phlox, and daisies, visitors will also find such heirloom garden classics as coneflowers, clematis, bee balm, sedum and lavender. Along a backyard fence, the Bonds have planted grapes, blueberries and rhubarb.
“We put in what we like,” Judy says, “If it doesn’t work after two years, we try something else.”
To support the Bonds’ substantial gardening habit, their son built them a large, shingled garden shed. There visitors will find seating and refreshments on Aug. 5.
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FARMINGTON — The UMF Art Gallery on the University of Maine at Farmington campus announces a call for artists for the 2024 “Abandoned Industry” exhibition, showcasing art in any medium by artists based in northern New England.
Maine is marked physically and poetically by its working past. This exhibition will explore evidence of industry in any of its definitions to question how visual culture and social texture change as the nature of work itself changes.
Artists are invited to submit or propose work by Oct. 30 to Sarah Maline at maline@maine.edu or share work with her on Google Drive. Please include your last name and “Abandoned Industry submission” in the title of your email or folder. Please email or call with questions: 207-778-1062. Website: artgalleryumf.org
The Abandoned Industry Exhibition will be on display from March 14 to April 28, 2024.
The UMF Art Gallery is dedicated to bringing contemporary art to the campus and regional communities. The gallery is located at 246 Main Street, behind the Admissions Office. Gallery hours are Tuesdays to Sundays 12-4 p.m., and by appointment. Please contact Sarah at maline@maine.edu or 207-778-1062 for more information or to make an appointment. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/bdn-maine/umf-art-gallery-call-for-artists/ | 2023-07-30T14:17:44 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/bdn-maine/umf-art-gallery-call-for-artists/ |
Australia vs. Canada: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:37 AM CDT|Updated: 40 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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MUNCIE, Ind. — Police are investigating after one person was killed and multiple people were shot in Muncie, according to police.
Muncie Police Department officers were dispatched to the area of S. Hackley St. and E. Willard St. around 1:14 a.m. on a report of multiple people shot. When officers arrived, they learned that a large party was hosted at this location.
Upon further investigation, they have determined that a 30-year-old man has died and multiple people are wounded and seeking treatment at an area hospital. Other victims have been airlifted to area facilities.
This is an active investigation being conducted by multiple agencies. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Muncie Police Department Detective Division at 765-747-4867 or Muncie Police Dispatch at 765-747-4838.
More information will be updated to this story as it becomes available. | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/1-person-killed-and-multiple-others-shot-in-muncie/ | 2023-07-30T14:17:45 | 0 | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/1-person-killed-and-multiple-others-shot-in-muncie/ |
UScellular announced its official partnership with Screen Sanity, an international nonprofit dedicated to helping parents and children navigate the digital landscape. Ahead of back-to-school season, the two organizations have released the Smarter Start Toolkit – a free, downloadable kit for families looking for guidance on building better digital habits.
As a wireless company, UScellular’s mission is to connect people to what matters most. But the company also knows that sometimes there are unintended consequences when relationships with technology get out of place.
“We know navigating the digital landscape can be overwhelming, and parents may not know where to start when looking to help their children establish healthy boundaries with technology,” said Brandi McCune, director of sales and operations for UScellular in New England. “Screen Sanity has been encouraging this needed conversation since 2018, and we’re working together to provide families in Maine with resources that can help them have engaging discussions about how everyone in the family uses their technology.”
The Smarter Start Toolkit includes educational and actionable tools and tips for both parents and kids, so everyone can use phones and technology in a thoughtful way. From discussion guides for parents introducing a first phone, to a customizable phone plan and pledge between parent and child, the toolkit helps families tackle what can often be a complicated and challenging conversation, especially heading into back-to-school season.
“We’re the first generation of parents raising digital natives — kids who’d rather text than talk — and knowing how to mentor them in the digital world can feel daunting,” said Tracy Foster, co-founder and executive director of Screen Sanity. “One tip is to have a plan for how devices will be used. And to create that plan with your child. We’re excited to partner with UScellular to launch the Smarter Start Toolkit which can help parents start conversations and set intentions around device use — to maximize the benefits of technology while minimizing unintended side effects.”
For a smarter start to the school year, UScellular is also offering a free basic phone when a new eligible line is added to a family plan*, providing an alternative to a smartphone for children and to help them establish good habits. To learn more about UScellular’s partnership with Screen Sanity, visit http://www.uscellular.com/BuiltForUS.
UScellular has been working to help people of all ages reset and redefine healthy digital connection through its Phones Down for 5 Challenge and US Mode experience, aimed at inspiring people to develop healthier relationships with their technology.
*New line, eligible basic phone purchase via 24-month installment contract, eligible postpaid service plan, credit approval, and paperless billing required. Paid via 24 monthly bill credits. Taxes, fees and add. terms apply.
UScellular is the fourth-largest full-service wireless carrier in the United States, providing national network coverage and industry-leading innovations designed to help customers stay connected to the things that matter most. The Chicago-based carrier provides a strong, reliable network supported by the latest technology and offers a wide range of communication services that enhance consumers’ lives, increase the competitiveness of local businesses and improve the efficiency of government operations. Through its After School Access Project, the company has pledged to provide hotspots and service to help up to 50,000 youth connect to reliable internet. Additionally, UScellular has price protected all of its plans, promising not to increase prices through at least the end of 2024. To learn more about UScellular, visit one of its retail stores or http://www.uscellular.com. To get the latest news, visit newsroom.uscellular.com.
Screen Sanity is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that offers tips, tools and trainings to help families raise happy, healthy kids in an increasingly digital world. The organization’s highly acclaimed resources and education programs encourage parents to consider the role technology plays in their lives and connect with their children in meaningful ways — both offline and online. Screen Sanity also works with community stakeholders to explore opportunities in which they can support and reinforce healthy tech use in their spheres of influence. The mission of Screen Sanity is to create a world where kids are captivated by life, not screens. Learn more at screensanity.org. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/bdn-maine/uscellular-joins-forces-with-screen-sanity-to-guide-the-next-generation-towards-a-healthier-digital-future/ | 2023-07-30T14:17:50 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/bdn-maine/uscellular-joins-forces-with-screen-sanity-to-guide-the-next-generation-towards-a-healthier-digital-future/ |
INDIANAPOLIS – What are Indiana political insiders saying about the latest news from the campaign trail?
In the video above, IN Focus panelists Laura Wilson, Tony Samuel, Terri Austin and Mike Murphy discuss this week’s top stories, including the latest charges brought against former President Donald Trump and former AG Curtis Hill’s campaign for governor.
And in the video below, our panel picks this week’s winners and losers.
Join us again next week – our program airs every Sunday morning at 8:30 on CBS4 and again at 9:30 a.m. on FOX59 in Indianapolis, and on Nexstar stations across the state of Indiana, including WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, WEHT in Evansville and WTWO in Terre Haute. | https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/in-focus-panelists-discuss-trump-charges-hill-campaign/ | 2023-07-30T14:17:51 | 0 | https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/in-focus-panelists-discuss-trump-charges-hill-campaign/ |
Nigeria vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 31
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:38 AM CDT|Updated: 39 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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Parties weigh in on mail-in voting in the Rio Grande Valley
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Some Rio Grande Valley residents are questioning the disability qualification when it comes to mail-in voting.
According to The Texas Election Code, having a sickness or a physical condition that prevents the voter from appearing at the voting place without the likelihood of needing assistance or of injuring their health.
Norma Ramirez, a Hidalgo County Democratic Party chair said the valleys high population of people with pre-existing conditions makes the option a necessity.
“We have people with high blood pressure we have obesity in our community, that definitely makes a difference,” Ramirez said
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Construction in Maine will resume this week on an electricity transmission project bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid despite a half-billion dollar cost increase, the head of Avangrid said Thursday.
CEO Pedro Azagra Blazquez said on an earnings call that the cost of the project, originally estimated at around $1 billion, has grown to $1.5 billion as litigation delayed construction and inflation caused prices to creep upward.
Avangrid, the corporate parent of Central Maine Power, partnered with Hydro-Quebec on the power line project — dubbed the New England Clean Energy Connect — to bring 1,200 megawatts of hydropower to meet green energy goals in Massachusetts. That represents enough electricity for about 1 million homes.
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It received all regulatory approvals but has been plagued by delays and litigation. The developers and Massachusetts utilities are trying to sort out how the cost increases will be shared.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection restored permits for the project in May after a lengthy court battle, but work did not resume immediately because of concerns about the growing costs. The Massachusetts Legislature is advancing legislation allowing transmission service agreements to be renegotiated to recover the cost increases.
The 145-mile power transmission line will stretch from Lewiston to the Canadian border, mostly following existing utility corridors. The permit fight was over a new, 53-mile section in western Maine.
Work will resume Aug. 3 at a substation in Lewiston, Azagra said during an earnings call on Thursday. He didn’t elaborate on the timetable for construction on other parts of the project.
“Once complete, NECEC will benefit all of New England by reducing the region’s dependence on fossil fuels and providing more stable energy prices,” he said. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/business/cmp-corridor-construction-resumes/ | 2023-07-30T14:17:56 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/business/cmp-corridor-construction-resumes/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The U.S. Geological Survey has a morbid request: they want you to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers if you live in one of six states.
According to the USGS, the pilot program hopes to collect specimens that can help “identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.” said USGS.
“There are some questions that can’t effectively be answered without help from a lot of people. It’s what makes citizen science so special and valuable,” said Julie Dietze, USGS scientist-in-charge of the effort. “Collections like this one are important because they have the potential to provide scientists now, and 20 years from now, access to specimens.”
“Citizen scientists” have been submitting their butterflies, moths, and skippers since April, but based on how many specimens have been received, collections may continue through November 2024.
The USGS is hoping to collect these dead insects to establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection and all the specimens collected will be added to the USGS Research Scientific Collections database.
If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas, you can participate in the USGS’s pilot program. These states were selected because they’re relatively close the migration pathway of Monarch butterflies, their proximity to the Corn Belt, and the number of Confined Animal Feeding Operations.
Before you run out to catch butterflies for submission, USGS says it will only accept insects that are already dead that have not been collected alive. The insect must also be larger than two inches.
Additionally, species that are protected by the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act or by state law are not accepted. Within the six participating states, that includes only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, which is found in Alabama.
Once you’ve found your dead bug, the USGS recommends putting it in a resealable plastic bag. Insects that are damaged or not fully intact will be accepted, and bugs can be put into the same bags. If you aren’t able to ship your bugs within three days, you can freeze them.
Specimens should then be placed into a sealed envelope addressed to:
USGS LRC
1217 Biltmore Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
You do not need to include a return address.
Species that are mailed in will be evaluated for the occurrence of antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, and mycotoxins, according to USGS.
Officials say the ‘dead’-line is November 1, 2023. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ | 2023-07-30T14:17:57 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ |
Lindsay Skilling never wants to repeat this February’s Groundhog Day.
That is when the CEO of Gifford’s Ice Cream watched her family’s 43-year-old business burn in Skowhegan. Authorities later deemed the fire accidental. The timing couldn’t have been worse. February is when the factory builds up inventory to meet high summer demand from grocers, restaurants and ice cream stands.
“We had just started building up for the season and had moved to six days of production a week,” Skilling said. “And then the fire happened.”
Production halted. Gifford’s had to pivot quickly to rebuild the damaged factory and meet its goal of restarting it this fall. It also quickly shifted to buying 30 flavors of ice cream from a family-owned Florida ice cream company for restaurant customers and ice cream stands. That company has flavors and quality similar to those of Gifford’s, Skilling said, but no one else sells its ice cream in Maine. It allowed the Maine company to open its four local ice cream stands in Bangor, Waterville, Farmington and Skowhegan on time in mid-March.
fire halts production
In mid-July Gifford’s took another step toward recovery by using co-packers, which are manufacturing Gifford’s ice cream recipes until its own factory is up to speed, to make quarts for sale to grocery stores. The initial flavors are Old Fashioned Vanilla, Peanut Butter Pie, Dough Your Job honoring the New England Patriots and Power Play Fudge nodding to the Boston Bruins. It will roll out more flavors over the next few months.
Even though the 30 flavors from the Florida supplier are about one-third of the assortment Gifford’s usually offers, Michelle Wells was happy Gifford’s could keep operating. Wells, the owner of The Bethel Sugar Shack Restaurant in western Maine, has exclusively bought Gifford’s ice cream for the past six years. But fewer options have left some customers without their favorites.
“As soon as I tell them what happened, they understand,” Wells said.
Gifford’s goal is to have the idle factory up and running again by fall. Right now, the company is finishing demolition and beginning rebuilding there.
Even when production begins again in Skowhegan, Gifford’s won’t initially be able to make all of the flavors. The co-packers will still be used to help fill in production gaps. It should be up to speed with production in 2024, when the goal is to make 3 million gallons annually. That’s up from the 2.8 million gallons it made in 2022, which was up 12 percent from the previous year.
That will mark a long but steady rebound from the February fire, which broke out around 9:30 a.m. in the company’s processing room and was quickly extinguished. The 36 employees working at the time were evacuated safely. Most damage from the fire was to the manufacturing rooms and office spaces above them.
The most severe harm came from smoke damage to walls, including the executive and business offices above the almost 52,000-square-foot factory. Gifford’s has had to strip down walls and insulation in sections to rebuild. Most of the stainless steel equipment was not affected. But it has had to replace some items. That includes the silo tanks that store milk and cream and have been delayed by supply chain shortages.
Skilling would not say how much the fire cost the privately-owned company. She said the fire has been an ordeal for her and her family, many of whom are involved in the business. Support from the community has made a big difference.
“It’s hard to keep a smile on your face when something that you have been involved in since you were born is burning,” she said. “But the weekend after the fire someone showed up on my doorstep with two different kinds of soup for my family to show their support.” | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/business/giffords-ice-cream-fire-recovery-joam40zk0w/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:02 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/business/giffords-ice-cream-fire-recovery-joam40zk0w/ |
At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with their investigations into Biden and his family.
“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. The former president and GOP front-runner said it was time for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.
The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Trump as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and refusing to turn them over to investigators. The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Trump and two staffers sought to delete surveillance at the club in an effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation.
The case is just one of Trump’s mounting legal challenges. His team is currently bracing for additional possible indictments, which could happen as soon as this coming week, related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election brought by prosecutors in both Washington and Georgia. Trump already faces criminal charges in New York over hush money payments made to women who accused him of sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant early figure for the Republican nomination and has only seen his lead grow as the charges have mounted and as his rivals have struggled to respond. Their challenge was on display at a GOP gathering in Iowa Friday night, where they largely declined to go after Trump directly. The only one who did — accusing Trump of “running to stay out of prison” — was booed as he left the stage.
In the meantime, Trump has embraced his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Biden of using the Justice Department to maim his chief political rival. The White House has said repeatedly that the president has had no involvement in the cases.
At rallies — including Saturday’s — Trump has tried to frame the charges, which come with serious threats of jail time, as an attack not just on him, but those who support him.
“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” he told the arena crowd in Erie, adding that, “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor.... Because I’m being indicted for you.”
But the investigations are also sucking up enormous resources that are being diverted from the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The Washington Post first reported Saturday that Trump’s political action committee, Save America, will report Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of 2023 defending Trump and all of the current and former aides whose lawyers it is paying. The total is more than the campaign raised during the second quarter of the year.
“In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment,” said Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung.
At the rally — held in a former Democratic stronghold that Trump flipped in 2016, but Biden won narrowly in 2020 — Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this past week that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry into the president over unproven claims of financial misconduct.
Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, said Saturday that, “The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it.”
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“Any Republican that doesn’t act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaries and get out — out!” he told the crowd to loud applause. “They have to play tough and ... if they’re not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around ... and they’re going to get my endorsement every singe time.”
Trump, during the 2022 midterm elections, made it his mission to punish those who had voted in favor of his second impeachment and succeeded in unseating most who had by backing primary challengers.
At the rally, Trump also called on Republican members of Congress to halt the authorization of additional military support to Ukraine, which has been mired in a war fighting Russia’s invasion, until the Biden administration cooperates with Republican investigations into Biden and his family’s business dealings — words that echoed the call that lead to his first impeachment.
“He’s dragging into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars,” Trump alleged. “In light of this information,” Congress, he said, “should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles ... the weapons stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DOJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings.”
House Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s finances, particularly payments Hunter, the president’s son, received from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that became tangled in the first impeachment of Trump.
An unnamed confidential FBI informant claimed that Burisma company officials in 2015 and 2016 sought to pay the Bidens $5 million each in return for their help ousting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was purportedly investigating the company. But a Justice Department review in 2020, while Trump was president, was closed eight months later with insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump’s first impeachment by the House resulted in charges that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens while threatening to withhold military aid. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw--20230730-ky3mzxxfbnfizhq7wq5gsptuv4-story.html | 2023-07-30T14:18:02 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw--20230730-ky3mzxxfbnfizhq7wq5gsptuv4-story.html |
(AP) – A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alix chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.” | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:03 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ |
From the moment Kimberly Brown brought the 8-week-old Malamute-husky cross named Sig home as a birthday gift for her husband, it was clear the pup had eyes only for her. For the next 12 years the two were inseparable, right up until Sig passed away earlier this month.
When he did, she was ready. Brown had been preparing for a way to keep a piece of Sig with her for years.
A year or so after getting Sig, Brown said she learned about people who would have their dogs’ fur spun into yarn. It got her thinking — why not do the same thing so she would be sure to have a keepsake of her beloved pet after he was no longer with her.
“I had a feeling at some point the fur would be all I had of Sig,” Brown said. “So I started collecting it when he shed out from winter.”
That was 10 years ago. Over that time she collected enough to fill five large kitchen trash bags. Enough for a woven blanket or knitted sweater.
“He had the most beautiful soul,” Brown said. “I don’t know if I will ever have another dog like that.”
While there will never be another Sig, Brown is left with more than memories.
Dog fur, like other animal hair, can be spun into yarn. It’s called chiengora and is an established, albeit uncommon, fiber-making process that dates back to pre-European contact in North America. Back then — in the time before sheep were introduced – dog fur was the main fiber on the continent.
Turning dog hair into yarn transforms the nuance of shedding into a usable product. The yarn can be knitted into sweaters, mittens, hats and scarves. It can also be woven into rugs, blankets or pillow covers.
And these days, it can also be a special reminder of a beloved dog.
Dog fur yarn makes great winter clothing, said Jaye Faucher, a musher who used to live in Maine and still races here. She’s been spinning fur from her Siberian huskies for almost a decade.
“The pros of using chiengora are both warmth and water shedding,” Faucher said. “It’s said to be 80 percent warmer than wooll and sheds water pretty easily.”
That warmth does have a downside, Faucher added.
“I will say it is hot,” she said. “I made myself a hat from [chiengora] and the only time I can wear it is when it’s below zero.”
Still, there are people who have a hard time reconciling turning a beloved pet into yarn.
“A lot of people do have that ‘ewww’ reaction,” said Barbara Ventura, a fiber spinner in Palermo. “But that’s because those people don’t own dogs.”
Ventura is among the vendors who can spin dog fur into yarn. She said when she takes on a dog fur spinning project, she treats it much like any other animal fiber.
“A lot of times there is not much elasticity with dog fur so I mix it with wool from an [animal] with a fair amount of elasticity,” she said. “Yarn needs elasticity so whatever you make keeps its shape.”
At left: For 10 years Kimberly Brown has been saving the shed fur from her beloved Malamute husky to spin into yarn. The dog passed away earlier this month and Brown plans to have a blanket made from the spun fur. Credit: Courtesy of Kimberly Brown; at right: Barbara Ventura turns animal fiber — including dog fur — into yarn that can be made into clothing, rugs or other textile products. Credit: Courtesy of Barbara Ventura
She spins into yarn one of her many spinning wheels — she has lost count of exactly how many she has in her living space and tucked into her attic. Once it is spun into yarn, Ventura washes it to remove any doggy odor and ensure it won’t smell like wet dog if it ever gets wet.
The final product feels much like the dog it came from, no matter how soft the wool it’s blended with, Ventura said.
“If the fur is from a spiky hair dog, it’s not going to change,” she said. “That spiky hair just works it’s way out and says ‘here I am.’”
Ventura is happy to talk to anyone who wants to turn their dog’s fur into yarn. She recommends saving fur loose in a plastic bag, not packed tightly.
Several days ago, Brown dropped the bags of Sig’s fur off at the fiber mill at Underhill Farms in Gorham. In 10 months she will go back for the finished chiengora product.
“My grandmother said she will crochet a blanket out of [Sig’s] yarn for me,” Brown said. “That is really wonderful because it will be a keepsake of both Sig and my grandmother.” | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/homestead/chiengora-dog-hair-yarn-joam40zk0w/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:08 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/homestead/chiengora-dog-hair-yarn-joam40zk0w/ |
Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup earlier this week marched Sunday through the streets of the capital, Niamey, waving Russian flags, chanting the name of the Russian president and forcefully denouncing former colonial power France.
The protesters marched through the city to the French Embassy, where a door was lit on fire, according to someone who was at the embassy when it happened and videos seen by The AP. Black smoke could be seen rising from across the city. The Nigerien army broke up the crowd of the protesters.
Russian mercenary group Wagner is already operating in neighboring Mali, and Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to expand his country’s influence in the region. However, it is unclear yet whether the new junta leaders will move toward Moscow or stick with Niger’s Western partners.
On Sunday at an emergency meeting in Abjua, Nigeria the West African bloc said it was suspending relations with Niger and authorized the use of force if the president was not reinstated within a week.
“In the event the authorities’ demands are not met within one week, take all measures necessary to restore constitutional order in the Republic of Niger. Such measures may include the use of force. To this effect, the chiefs of defense staff of ECOWAS are to meet immediately,” Omar Alieu Touray, president of the ECOWAS commission, said after the meeting.
Days after the coup, uncertainty is mounting about Niger’s future, with some calling out the junta’s reasons for seizing control.
President Mohamed Bazoum was democratically elected two years ago in Niger’s first peaceful transfer of power since independence from France in 1960.
The mutineers said they overthrew him because he wasn’t able to secure the nation against growing jihadi violence.
But some analysts and Nigeriens say that’s just a pretext for a takeover that is more about internal power struggles than securing the nation.
“Everybody is wondering: why this coup? That’s because no one was expecting it. We couldn’t expect a coup in Niger because there’s no social, political or security situation that would justify that the military take the power,” Prof. Amad Hassane Boubacar, who teaches at the University of Niamey, told The Associated Press.
He said Bazoum wanted to replace the head of the presidential guard, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who is now in charge of the country. Tchiani, who also goes by Omar, was loyal to Bazoum’s predecessor and that sparked the problems, Boubacar said. The AP cannot independently verify his assessment.
While Niger’s security situation is dire, it’s not as bad as neighboring Burkina Faso or Mali, which have also been battling an Islamic insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Last year, Niger was the only one of the three to see a decline in violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
Niger had been seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle the jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence. France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with the Nigeriens. The United States and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
Regional bodies, including the West African economic bloc ECOWAS, have denounced the coup. Some taking part in Sunday’s rally warned them to stay away. “I would like also to say to the European Union, African Union and ECOWAS, please, please stay out of our business,” said Oumar Barou Moussa, who was at the demonstration.
“It’s time for us to take our lives, to work for ourselves. It’s time for us to talk about our freedom and liberty. We need to stay together, we need to work together, we need to have our true independence,” he said.
Conflict experts say out of all the countries in the region, Niger has the most at stake if it turns away from the West, given the millions of dollars of military assistance the international community has poured in. On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the continued security and economic arrangements that Niger has with the U.S. hinged on the release of Bazoum — who remains under house arrest — and “the immediate restoration of the democratic order in Niger.”
On Sunday, France’s President, Emmanuel Macron said attacks on France and its interests would not be tolerated. Anyone who attacked French nationals, the army, diplomats and French authorities would see an immediate response, he said.
Macron said he’d spoken to Bazoum and his predecessor as Nigerien President, Mahamadou Issoufou, hours earlier, who both condemned the coup and appealed for calm.
The attack follows France’s move on Saturday to suspend all development and financial aid for Niger.
The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government. ECOWAS is holding an emergency summit Sunday in Abuja, Nigeria.
The 15-nation ECOWAS bloc has unsuccessfully tried to restore democracies in nations where the military took power in recent years. Four nations are run by military regimes in West and Central Africa, where there have been nine successful or attempted coups since 2020.
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If ECOWAS imposes economic sanctions on Niger, which is what normally happens during coups, it could have a deep impact on Nigeriens, who live in the third-poorest country in the world, according to the latest U.N. data.
However, in a televised address Saturday, Col. Major Amadou Abdramane, one of the soldiers who ousted Bazoum, accused the meeting of making a “plan of aggression” against Niger and said the country would defend itself.
Niger experts say it’s too soon to know how things will play out.
“Tensions with the military are still ongoing. There could be another coup after this one, or a stronger intervention from ECOWAS, potentially military force, even if it is difficult to foresee how specifically that may happen and what form that may take,” said Tatiana Smirnova, a researcher in conflict resolution and peace missions at the Centre FrancoPaix.
“Many actors are also trying to negotiate, but the outcome is unclear,” she said.
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Associated Press reporters Angela Charlton in Paris and Chinedu Asadu in Abuja, Nigeria contributed. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nigee-coup-french-embassy-20230730-c23y6mx4hvcuffgvjemk64srwa-story.html | 2023-07-30T14:18:08 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nigee-coup-french-embassy-20230730-c23y6mx4hvcuffgvjemk64srwa-story.html |
It was a mild morning across central Indiana with temperatures in the 60s. To the north where there were mostly clear skies, temperatures fell to the lower 60s. There were still a few scattered clouds lingering overnight to the south, which kept temperatures slightly warmer.
Skies are clearing areawide as a high pressure feature builds into the Midwest. You can expect a seasonal, summer day with humid conditions this afternoon. Highs will peak into the mid-80s. The UV index is high again with sunburn time occurring within 20 minutes without sunscreen!
The clear skies tonight and light northerly breeze will allow for temperatures to fall into the 50s and lower 60s overnight. We have a 60° low temperature set for Indianapolis. However, it will be cooler for outlying communities, especially north/northeast of downtown. It will feel more refreshing, less humid too as temperatures drop into the mid-50s.
We will see a break from high humidity levels and thunderstorms early in the workweek. Dew points and temperatures will climb again midweek as winds shift out of the south/southwest. There is only an isolated storm chance on Wednesday. The shower coverage is going to rise by Thursday and Friday this week. | https://fox59.com/weather/a-beautiful-sunday-for-central-indiana-tracking-a-break-from-storms/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:09 | 1 | https://fox59.com/weather/a-beautiful-sunday-for-central-indiana-tracking-a-break-from-storms/ |
As the sun continued to rise at Navy-Marine Corp Memorial Stadium, fans lined up in the concourse, eager to grab a free t-shirt. The sound of air filling up bounce houses filled the air as children lined up for their turn.
Parents walked around pushing strollers and watched their children play on the turf field. Fans waited in line at different booths on the field, waiting their turn for the mechanical bull ride and cotton candy.
Children ran around fighting with balloon swords and playing catch with footballs. Fans of all ages milled around the field, enjoying the warm summer day as the Navy football season rapidly approaches.
More than 1,000 fans came out to Nav’s annual Fan Fest and Media day event to meet and support the football team on Saturday. First-year head coach Brian Newberry along with his four captains answered questions ahead of the upcoming 2023 season.
The Fan Fest and Media day event hosted by the Naval Academy Athletic Association allows the public to interact with all the Navy football players and coaches in a casual atmosphere.
The concourse is lined with tables set up for fans to walk around and gather autographs from every player on the team. Players sit and chat with fans of all ages and are able to have personal interactions with the fans that support them every Saturday.
“I have my little ones out here and it gives them something to aspire to,” local resident Jamar Martin said. “They look up to the football players and the older generation. It’s definitely good to have.”
Following the autograph session, the players made their way down to the field and participated in events with the fans. Players posed for pictures with kids, tossed footballs around and spent time meeting fans, giving them an opportunity to connect with their community.
Booths and games are set up on the field, allowing parents and their children to participate and have some weekend fun. Games such as cornhole and Tic Tac Toe enabled fans to compete for prizes and memorabilia. Youngsters, and sometimes adults as well, also found fun in the bounce houses and the balloon animal stands — jumping around and having their favorite animal made for them.
Fan Fest also serves as a family event during which parents can experience memorable moments with their children. Parents threw footballs with their kids as they ran around, competed with them in games and posed for group pictures with the players.
The event connects the local community to the team they rally around and builds a connection that fans will remember.
“I think the relationship between the players and the little kids and being able to look up to them creates a sense of something they can look to be when they grow up,” Annapolis resident Stephany Samaras said. “That’s probably the most important thing.”
It all starts with the media portion of the day with Newberry and his captains spending more than a half hour answering questions about the offseason and the upcoming 2023 campaign.
Navy has posted one winning record in the past five years and that led to the firing of head coach Ken Niumatalolo following a 15-year tenure. Newberry was optimistic when asked why he thought the Midshipmen could enjoy a bounce-back season.
“I think number one is we have a really good nucleus of players coming back,” Newberry said. “You look at 16 starters coming back, off a team that did some good things despite our record last year.”
Along with the promotion of Newberry to head coach, the Midshipmen added new offensive coordinator Grant Chesnut. With the addition of Chesnut, the Navy offense can bring a new element of explosiveness to the table.
Navy posted a 4-8 mark in each of the previous two seasons and closed out 2022 with a heartbreaking overtime loss to archrival Army. Newberry hopes to lead the the Midshipmen to their first winning season since 2019.
Many fans are excited for the upcoming season and what the coaching change can bring to the team. Some believe that the Midshipmen will find success on Saturdays in 2023.
“I think change is always difficult but it’s probably needed,” Martin said. “So hopefully instill a little different offense, maybe get the ball moving a bit better. I’m looking forward to it.”
Navy kicks off this season by renewing its historic series with Notre Dame in Dublin, Ireland on August 26. The Midshipmen then have a bye week before welcoming Wagner for the home opener on Sept. 9 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
“I’m really excited,” longtime Navy fan Chris Barron said. “I think it was time for a change. There was a lot of success from Niumatalolo, but I think it was time to move on. I’m excited to see what this year brings.” | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/college/ac-cs-navy-football-fan-fest-20230730-2gq362td6jen5j2nkvaazl334i-story.html | 2023-07-30T14:18:10 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/college/ac-cs-navy-football-fan-fest-20230730-2gq362td6jen5j2nkvaazl334i-story.html |
INDIANAPOLIS – Former Indiana attorney general Curtis Hill appeared on this week’s edition of IN Focus to discuss his campaign for governor, and a new proposal Hill announced to eliminate Indiana’s Office of Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity.
Hill was also asked about the groping allegations he faced in recent years that led Republicans to replace the embattled conservative on the ballot in 2020, after Hill’s license to practice law was temporarily suspended by the Indiana Supreme Court.
Hill’s proposal to eliminate the state agency focused on equity and inclusion was announced in a press release on Monday.
“We need unity and not division through the advancement of true equal opportunity through bold leadership,” Hill said. “It’s true what they say that a rising tide lifts all boats, and if I’m elected governor, Indiana will experience just such a rising tide.”
Gov. Eric Holcomb created the agency in 2020. In the video above, Holcomb was also asked about Hill’s campaign for governor, just a few years after Holcomb called for Hill to step down.
Hill is among a handful of Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for governor, including Sen. Mike Braun and Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch. | https://fox59.com/your-local-election-headquarters/in-focus-curtis-hill-discusses-campaign-for-governor/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:15 | 1 | https://fox59.com/your-local-election-headquarters/in-focus-curtis-hill-discusses-campaign-for-governor/ |
CARIBOU, Maine — When longtime business owners decide to move on, it’s not easy for newcomers to keep the establishment’s character while trying new things.
That’s especially true in a state where 80 percent of businesses are family-owned and younger generations are increasingly choosing not to take over family businesses. Most recently, the well-known Aroostook businesses Hogan Tire and Theriault Equipment were sold to out-of-state companies, but with the new owners vowing to keep the same local family vibes.
In Caribou, the newest merchants say they want to maintain the character of the businesses they acquired, preserving some of the city’s personality.
When Richard and Sandy Bechard decided to leave the restaurant business, they soon realized that their successors were not too far away. In fact, they were Friday night regulars and family members.
John Rossignol and Richard Bechard are first cousins. Rossignol and his wife Rae, who live in Woodland, had contemplated starting a restaurant since moving back to Aroostook 20 years ago, but that never panned out.
Today, the Rossignols own Bechard’s Grille at Caribou’s Skyway Plaza. It’s been quite the busy last three weeks as they transition to new roles, but well worth the tradition they are continuing.
“We knew we would keep the name [Bechard’s] because it’s a family business,” Rae Rossignol said on Tuesday, when the restaurant reopened to the public.
The Rossignols have plans to give Bechard’s their personal touches, including a Saturday morning breakfast menu, adding deejay and band nights, holding paint and sip events and a space for Rae to sell ceramics and other artwork.
But with the Bechards staying on until November, the Rossignols are learning how to prepare the restaurant’s famous pizza, scallops, subs, poutines and other specials while reassuring locals that not much is different.
“People have been glad to see that the menu has not changed. It’s the same Bechard’s they knew and loved three weeks ago,” Rae Rossignol said.
Richard and Sandy Bechard first opened the Caribou Bechard’s in 2019 after relocating their business from Van Buren. They will be “snowbirds” in Florida this winter and are relieved to see their business thrive under familiar owners.
“It’s great to have a family legacy continue,” Sandy Bechard said. “People love this place and now they don’t have to worry about it stopping.”
Not all businesses are passed down between families, but other young entrepreneurs in Caribou are still committed to keeping their businesses’ special characters.
In May, Kevin and Kelly Godin took over Wardwell’s Service on Herschel Street after previous owners Rod and Kim Wardwell retired. The Godins have since renamed the automotive shop Godin’s Service.
Godin’s has a long history in Caribou. The business first opened in the 1980s as Roland’s Service, named after owner Roland St. Peter, who died in 2012. Rod and Kim Wardwell took over in 2007 after St. Peter sold the business.
Kevin Godin has loved fixing cars since he was a child. After graduating from Caribou High School in 2011, he worked for the local Ford dealership and then at Wardwell’s. When the Wardwells retired, he and Kelly jumped at the chance to own the shop.
“We’ve basically kept everything except the name,” Kevin Godin said.
Godin’s has kept the same services as Wardwell’s, including vehicle pick-ups and drop-offs and factory-brand oil filters and synthetics. They will soon put up a new exterior sign bearing their name and upgrade their building’s facade.
Other than that, customers should not expect major changes.
“We have customers who have been coming here since Roland, so we didn’t want to make things more different than they had to be,” Kevin Godin said.
A commitment to local customers also motivates Ben Adams of Houlton, who took over the Plourde & Plourde snowmobile dealership on Laurette Street in Caribou last September.
Adams acquired Plourde & Plourde from previous owner Bob Plourde, who purchased the shop from his father’s business partner, Leo Kieffer, in 1971. Adams, a Caribou native, has owned Houlton PowerSports for 25 years.
Since taking over Plourde & Plourde, which he plans to rename, Adams has expanded the shop’s inventory of snowmobiles, ATVs, parts and services and added side-by-side ATV and snowmobile rental services.
Caribou is one of The County’s most popular regions for snowmobile and ATV riding, Adams said. Eventually he wants to either build or acquire a new shop closer to the trails to better serve locals and visitors.
“It’s a cool opportunity to give back and be involved with the local community,” Adams said. “We’re in the early stages of our growth, but the snowmobile community will be a big part of that.” | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/aroostook/new-owners-caribou-legacy-business-joam40zk0w/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:14 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/aroostook/new-owners-caribou-legacy-business-joam40zk0w/ |
A man drowned Friday afternoon while swimming in Camden.
The 88-year-old man was swimming with his wife at their camp on Beaucaire Avenue on Megunticook Lake about 3:19 p.m. when he went under and didn’t resurface, according to the PenBay Pilot.
Neighbors attempted to rescue the man after hearing his wife’s calls for help, but the water was too deep for anyone to dive and bring him up, the Pilot reported.
A Maine State Police diver later recovered his body in about 10 to 15 feet of water.
The Maine medical examiner’s office in Augusta will determine an official cause of death. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/midcoast/megunticook-lake-drowning/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:22 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/midcoast/megunticook-lake-drowning/ |
One person was killed in an early Sunday morning crash in Dover-Foxcroft.
The crash happened about 12:45 a.m. on Dexter Road, near Gravel Pit Road, according to the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department.
One person was found dead at the scene, while a second person was taken to a local hospital, the department said Sunday.
Dover-Foxcroft police have not released the identities of the victims.
The crash remains under investigation, but alcohol was a factor. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/piscataquis/dover-foxcroft-crash-fatal/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:28 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/piscataquis/dover-foxcroft-crash-fatal/ |
Portland swore in Mark Dubois as its 21st police chief Friday.
Dubois started his career in 1990 at a Massachusetts police department as a dispatcher and part-time officer. Now he’s leading Maine’s largest city department.
“It’s an excellent police department. I think they have a very good reputation. I know there’s a lot of very good, professional police officers that work here,” Dubois said.
Dubois said he’s ready to serve this community and is putting a priority on filling open positions.
“We’re understaffed, and that’s a tough problem to have. You need to have fully staffed personnel to accomplish all those missions you want to accomplish. So I’d say recruitment is going to be a priority,” Dubois said.
He also will focus on homelessness.
“It’s a vulnerable population. A lot of victimization within that population that the police can assist and deal with, so it’s trying to guide them towards social services, trying to help them with the addiction issue, getting into treatment or recovery,” Dubois said.
Mayor Kate Snyder said Dubois’ commitment, deep understanding of the law and work with diverse communities are just some of the reasons he was chosen.
“We need that leadership here in Portland,” Dubois said. “It’s a great opportunity. I think there’s a lot of interesting issues that need to be worked on and this department is tops so I’m excited.”
Dubois’ duties begin on Monday. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/portland/mark-dubois-police-chief/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:34 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/portland/mark-dubois-police-chief/ |
The city of Portland is trying to fill more than 200 vacant positions, with most in the areas of law enforcement, rehab and public works.
City Manager Danielle West said recruitment and retention of staff is a priority and it’s reflected in the budget.
West is trying new strategies to compete in a tight labor market. Post-COVID, she is making jobs remote and offering flexible and alternative work schedules, which city spokesperson Jessica Grondin said is attractive to job seekers.
Increasing salaries is another tactic, with the city boosting police wages by 14 percent to keep officers from going to other communities with better pay. And signing bonuses of $1,500 ti $2,500 are attached to several openings.
Grondin said the city manager strived to increase wages while keeping the tax increase to 6 percent.
“Obviously, as she mentioned in the budget, she fought for salary increases so that we can be competitive and keep people,” she said.
Cost-of-living adjustments for inflation and professional development and leadership training are also in the mix. And Grondin said the city manager is making an effort to communicate more with staff and get their input to keep moving the city forward.
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Officials in Greater Portland are considering a system of rapid transit bus routes for the region.
Under a draft proposal from the Greater Portland Council of Governments, dedicated bus lanes would provide express service through Portland, Westbrook and Gorham more quickly than traditional bus service, with stops along the way.
The preferred route would start at the University of Southern Maine campus in Gorham, travel through downtown Westbrook and stop at the University of Southern Maine campus in Portland before heading down Congress Street and ending near the Eastern Promenade.
The proposal envisions service every 10 minutes between Portland and Westbrook, and 20 minutes between Westbrook and Gorham.
“That’s frequent enough that you’re not relying on a schedule anymore,” said Andrew Clark, transit program manager for council. “You’re no longer planning your day around the bus schedule. You just know you can go out to the station, and the bus will be there in 10 minutes or something like that.”
Clark said service every 10-20 minutes also should lure riders who wouldn’t normally consider taking public transit.
“I think people understand the role that transit can play in making our cities better, its role in reducing congestion, its role in better climate outcomes, better social equity outcomes,” he said.
Greater Portland Metro would operate the proposed route, but the vehicles and stops would have a different look than the service’s existing buses, Clark added.
The proposed routes are still a long way away, Clark said. The cities of Portland, Westbrook and Gorham will need to decide how much road space can be freed up for dedicated bus lanes. The project also will need to secure federal funds for the new bus lanes and battery-powered vehicles.
Officials also eventually envision rapid transit routes to South Portland, Biddeford and Saco, Brunswick and Windham.
The council will host a virtual community meeting to gather more public feedback about the proposal on Thursday.
This article appears through a media partnership with Maine Public. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/portland/portland-westbrook-gorham-rapid-transit-bus/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:45 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/news/portland/portland-westbrook-gorham-rapid-transit-bus/ |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Amit Bhasin of the University of Texas at Austin about constructing roads and railways that can withstand extreme heat.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Amit Bhasin of the University of Texas at Austin about constructing roads and railways that can withstand extreme heat.
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Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 15, 2019.
From black and white swim scenes to the color images of the 2000s, we’re packing in all the aquatic fun you know and love in Maine. Pools, lakes, rivers and beaches: You name it, Maine has it.
Do you have any Maine summer swimming memories yourself? Share them in the comments below.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director D. Smith about her new documentary. "Kokomo City" highlights the experiences of trans sex workers.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director D. Smith about her new documentary. "Kokomo City" highlights the experiences of trans sex workers.
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Brian Frosh is the former attorney general of Maryland. Nancy Kopp is the former treasurer of Maryland. They wrote this column for Bloomberg Opinion.
In the face of fires, record heat, floods and other extreme weather events across the country, House Republicans are using much of July to oppose financial transparency related to climate risks and to attack investor freedoms. Their reckless course endangers not just the planet but also the financial stability of Americans’ retirement savings and pensions. One Republican went so far as to say consideration of climate risk by asset managers is “Satan’s plan.”
On July 12, leaders of the House Financial Services Committee launched hearings to attack environmental, social and governmental (ESG) practices by financial firms. They are also crafting legislation that would outlaw long-standing risk assessment practices. Just as dangerously, House Republicans intend to restrict shareholders’ ability to hold corporate executives accountable by restricting rights to vote proxies and curbing shareholder resolutions related to corporate governance.
It’s hardly surprising that oil companies and other fossil fuel businesses have poured tens of millions of dollars into the campaign coffers of committee members and other anti-ESG politicians across the country.
Money managers use highly disciplined processes to analyze risks and opportunities facing their portfolios. Yet some politicians want to bar them from assessing dangers related to climate change. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts and fires pose huge risks to people, infrastructure and businesses. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, climate-driven disasters cost the U..S economy $165 billion in damage last year.
It is crucial for those managing other peoples’ money, including public pension plans, to factor in climate change. Yet across the country, politicians are putting their conservative views above the common good; as a result, states and municipalities are paying higher interest rates on bonds and getting poorer returns on investments.
In Texas, anti-free market legislation could cost taxpayers up to $532 million in higher interest costs within a year. In Indiana, a bill to limit ESG investing could cut state pension returns by $6.7 billion over the next 10 years. The Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System estimated that it could lose $30 million to $40 million a year in potential investment returns due to a similar law.
Analysis by the economics consultant firm ESI for the Sunrise Project, an advocacy group, found that taxpayers in six states — Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Missouri — could be on the hook for up to $700 million in excess interest payments if restrictions on sustainable investing are implemented.
The irony is that politicians who typically champion the free market have enacted laws that prohibit investment managers from taking into account major risks to their portfolios. State officials have threatened legal action against asset managers who factor basic investment risk into the management of pensions for millions of Americans.
Florida recently passed one of the most restrictive investment bills in the country. According to The Hill, it “obligates state-registered banks to make loans to several industries — including fossil fuels, private prisons or the manufacture and sale of firearms.” It is just one of the many efforts by state and local politicians to put their thumbs on the scale for their contributors and political allies.
Obstruction of responsible investment is starting to bite. A Texas school district was forced to repurchase bonds at a higher interest rate due to the state’s financial institutions blacklist. Florida pensioners — first responders, firefighters and teachers — face potential losses of as much as $10 billion in returns. Oklahoma, which banned state investment funds from working with companies that use ESG policies, lost its bid to land a major Volkswagen battery factory. The automaker is instead building in Canada, which has strong sustainability practices. Stillwater, Oklahoma, is grappling with a $1.2 million interest hike for a loan to upgrade the city’s infrastructure.
Asset managers have a fiduciary duty to their clients. It is irresponsible and dangerous for public officials to dictate which investments they must favor. Financial professionals must be able to factor in the huge risks of extreme weather events, and ordinary Americans cannot afford to have climate deniers gamble with their life savings. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/opinion/opinion-contributor/by-ignoring-climate-risks-gop-politicians-cost-their-states-and-cities-billions/ | 2023-07-30T14:18:57 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/30/opinion/opinion-contributor/by-ignoring-climate-risks-gop-politicians-cost-their-states-and-cities-billions/ |