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NEW YORK (AP) — With the trade deadline drawing closer, the first-place New York Mets have been busy getting better from the left side of the plate.
New York acquired left-handed-hitting outfielder Tyler Naquin and lefty reliever Phillip Diehl from the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday night in a deal for two teenage minor leaguers.
Cincinnati received outfielder Hector Rodríguez and right-hander Jose Acuña.
It was the second time in seven days the Mets traded for a left-handed hitter with some pop. New York upgraded at DH last week, acquiring Daniel Vogelbach from the Pittsburgh Pirates for rookie reliever Colin Holderman.
Naquin, a first-round draft pick 10 years ago, was batting .246 with seven homers and 33 RBIs in 56 games for the Reds, who are last in the NL Central. He homered and drove in two runs Thursday afternoon in a 7-6 loss to the Miami Marlins.
“Definitely wish him well in his career, and going to a first-place club — that’s great for him,” Reds vice president and general manager Nick Krall said.
As the NL East leaders look to add offense before Tuesday’s trade deadline, Naquin provides depth for an outfield that already includes All-Star right fielder Starling Marte, center fielder Brandon Nimmo and left fielder Mark Canha.
Marte and Canha both bat right-handed. All-Star Jeff McNeil, a left-handed hitter, also plays left field occasionally when he’s not at second base.
The Mets view the 31-year-old Naquin as a good all-around player who can start a couple of times a week against right-handed pitching. They developed interest in him last month and talks intensified when the clubs began exchanging names a few days ago.
“We had several teams that had interest in Tyler, but this was what we felt was the best deal for him and we felt it added two quality players to our pipeline,” Krall said.
The Mets hold a three-game lead in the NL East over Atlanta heading into their series opener at Miami on Friday night.
Cincinnati also is expected to deal away All-Star righty Luis Castillo, perhaps the top starting pitcher on the trade market, and maybe others in the coming days.
“We have to build through our player pipeline,” Krall said. “We need to make sure that we’re continuously stocking that player pipeline.
“We’re working right now to figure out how we can do the best we can to build us for long term and sustainable success.”
Naquin has a $4,025,000 salary and is eligible for free agency after the season. His acquisition pushes New York’s luxury tax payroll above $290 million, the new fourth tax level named after free-spending Mets owner Steve Cohen.
Naquin was drafted 15th overall by Cleveland in 2012 and made his major league debut in 2016, finishing third in AL Rookie of the Year voting after posting an .886 OPS in 116 games.
Beset by injuries throughout his career, he signed with Cincinnati as a free agent in February 2021 and batted .270 last year with career highs of 19 homers, 70 RBIs and 127 games.
He entered Thursday a .269 career hitter with a .774 OPS in 507 games over seven seasons with Cleveland and Cincinnati. He had an .805 career OPS against right-handers, including an .811 mark this year.
The 28-year-old Diehl has an 11.12 ERA in five big league games covering 5 2/3 innings this season. He earns the $700,000 minimum while in the majors.
Diehl, a Cincinnati native, has made 21 career major league appearances. He was 2-1 with a 4.24 ERA and 30 strikeouts over 23 1/3 innings at Triple-A Louisville this year. He was a 27th-round draft pick by the New York Yankees in 2016.
To make room on the roster, New York designated right-hander R.J. Alvarez for assignment.
The 18-year-old Rodriguez hit .356 with three homers and 16 RBIs in 26 games in the rookie-level complex league in Florida. He also appeared in two games with Class A St. Lucie this month, going 1 for 7 with a walk.
He can play all three outfield spots as well as second base and third. The Reds see Rodríguez as a center fielder, and will send him to their rookie-level complex league in Arizona.
“He’s a plus runner, has a chance to have a plus hit tool. We’re really excited about him,” Krall said.
The 19-year-old Acuña is 3-0 with a 2.67 ERA in eight minor league games this year, including five starts. He tossed three scoreless innings in his second start with St. Lucie on Tuesday, and is headed to Class A Daytona with the Reds.
“He’s pitched well, just got promoted to low A,” Krall said. “Has a chance to be a major league starting pitcher, frankly, with three plus major league pitches.”
Neither one was ranked among the Mets’ top 30 prospects by MLB Pipeline.
“We had conversations about some upper-level guys as well, but taking the upside with both these players, first with Hector Rodríguez, having a chance to be a center fielder, have a chance to have a quality hit tool that can run — you just don’t get those players at the upper levels. They become premium prospects for teams to trade,” Krall said.
“Acuna’s the same way. He added 3 mph to his fastball from last year to this year. And you can see him developing and growing. He’s just 19 years old, and he’s got a chance to be a legitimate major league starting pitcher. Those are harder to get as you climb up the levels and maybe you would have got one of those instead of both, but we felt it was the right thing for us in this organization to take a shot on two guys at the lower levels.”
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AP Baseball Writers Ronald Blum and Jay Cohen contributed to this report.
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Brigantine, NJ, Woman Charged With Vehicular Homicide For 2021 Crash
The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office says a Brigantine woman has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection to a fatal crash in June, 2021.
Authorities say around lunchtime on June 26, 2021, 54-year-old Hector Salgado was loading a van on Brigantine Blvd. in Brigantine when he was struck by a Honda Civic being driven by 34-year-old Bao "Joanna" Huynh of Brigantine.
An investigation revealed that Huynh's, "use of numerous drugs caused a state of intoxication and impaired her ability to operate a motor vehicle."
Huynh was taken into custody without incident earlier this week and charged with second-degree vehicular homicide by recklessly operating a motor vehicle causing the death of Salgado in addition to reckless and careless driving.
This crash investigation was a cooperative effort by the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office and the Brigantine Police Department.
The public is reminded that charges are accusations and all persons are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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https://catcountry1073.com/brigantine-nj-woman-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-for-2021-crash/
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Actor Melanie Lynskey is still intimately connected with her inner, awkward teen.
"I wasn't a very light teenager. I was quite sort of depressed a lot of the time," Lynskey says. "If you've ever been shy, if you've ever been awkward, it's almost impossible to stop feeling that way."
Lynskey gets to channel some of that teen angst in the new Showtime series Yellowjackets. Inspired by Lord of the Flies, Yellowjackets tells the story of the members of a girls' high school soccer team who go down in a plane crash in 1996, and have to survive in the wilderness for over a year. Lynskey plays one of the characters who, years later, is still dealing with the consequences of the terrible things she did to stay alive.
Lynskey says she was drawn to the series because of its powerful storytelling and the complexity of the characters. "None of them are sort of stereotypes," she says. "It's not like the brainy one, the slutty one. They're all interesting people who contain multitudes. And that was kind of rare for me to see in the writing of a group of teenage girls."
Lynskey got her start in 1994 playing a different — and also complex — teenage girl in Heavenly Creatures, a dark film based on the true story of two girls whose obsessive friendship leads them to commit murder. She credits that film's director, Peter Jackson, with teaching her the technical aspects of acting.
"They gave me a free day where I got to learn how to hit a mark, how to not look at the camera, how to find your light, just technical things, because they didn't want to hold themselves up waiting for me to learn all this stuff," Lynskey says. "And what a gift. ... I just feel so fortunate to have had that experience. It was pretty incredible."
Interview highlights
On Yellowjackets being inspired by Lord of the Flies
I've heard [the show's creators] tell the story at a panel where they were reading the comments on Deadline or something, and people were like, 'Oh, you can never do an all-female Lord of the Flies because what are they going to do? Compromise to death?' Like all these things about women: about women not being vicious, women not being violent and not being willing to do what it takes to survive. And Ashley [Lyle], who's one of the show creators, was like, "These people have never met a teenage girl!" And then they got inspired to tell this particular story.
On being a shy kid and finding comfort in acting
When I was really little, like 6, I was so painfully shy, I could not hold a conversation. I was just so shy. And I remember I did this thing that was completely out of character for me, and I auditioned for a play. ... I didn't get a very big part in the play. But as I was doing it, my couple of little lines, I felt this freedom; I felt this lightness, and I just was like, "Oh my gosh, I don't have to be me in these moments! I can just do whatever I want. I can be free. I'm in another person's body. I'm speaking as another person." And I got kind of addicted to it. And then I just did everything. I did plays at church, I did plays at school, I did the local theater, and then when I was a teenager, I started to say, "Well, that's what I want to do for a living." And people just thought it was crazy.
On her breakout role in Heavenly Creatures and being in such a dark film
There was a lot going on in my life, in my head. So it was actually an incredible experience to get to go to work and learn how to channel my actual emotions into acting and kind of free [myself] from them. It can be very cathartic going through things in a performance, because your body is going through the emotion, your body's feeling all the anger, your body's releasing tears and it can really help you process things in your own life. And at that stage, I wasn't talking to anybody. There was a lot of stuff that I was kind of holding on to. And so I found it really incredible emotionally. And then, also, [it was] just so fun. ... I remember doing a night shoot in the middle of the night and we're doing the scene and there are huge lights set up. And I was like, It's 3:00 in the morning, and we're shooting a movie. I just couldn't believe my luck the whole time. It felt incredible.
On the frustrating parts of her early career
It was difficult hearing all the things that you weren't — and it would change from job to job, you know. Oh, they're looking for somebody who's skinnier. In the '90s and the early 2000s, nobody had any issues telling you what was wrong with you physically. And that wasn't very fun. It was mostly a feeling of being appraised and falling short again and again that I didn't like. And then some of the stuff I was going out for was just not challenging, not interesting. Some of the stuff my agents were asking me to go and audition for was outright offensive, like "the fat friend." I was like, "I'm not going to do that part. I hate that this part exists. You've got to stop sending me scripts where there's a lonely girl eating a chocolate bar on the outskirts of the group!"
On being told she wasn't thin enough for roles and developing an eating disorder
It was a very common thing in Hollywood, people having eating disorders. Nobody was ever thin enough. It was very frustrating. I was working as hard as I could to be as thin as I could. I was eating 800 calories a day, never anything over, writing down everything I ate. If I did eat anything over that, I would throw it up. Very restrictive. First of all, that's horrible for your body. It's horrible for your brain. It's horrible for your metabolism. Now as a woman in her mid-40s, I'm cursing that person who made those choices, with empathy. Like, I understand why I felt the way I did about myself. But it was very hard to be literally starving and still being told "It's not enough. It's not enough. You're not thin enough." ...
It's a journey that I'm still on. There are still days where I wish I looked different. But having a daughter now, I think it makes it a lot easier for me to model positivity, try to be positive around her, and try to not ever criticize myself in front of her or say anything. I don't think she's heard the word "fat."
On how the industry has improved for women since the '90s and 2000s when she started out
I think there's still a long ways to go in some respects. ... But it also has come a long way. Like, I do feel like casts are a lot more diverse than they used to be. ... And I feel like women who are older ... your mid-40s — when I was starting out, that felt like the end of a career. There were so few people who were working past that point. And now there are TV shows and movies that are centered around women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and there's an audience for them. And, you know, the creators of my show are excited about me being an average-size woman. Nobody's pressuring me to look a different way. They're excited about it, and that's something that I did not think would ever be possible.
On not playing the lead but having dimension to the character
It's hard for me to read a script where the character is just kind of a conduit for somebody else's experience and doesn't really have a personality of their own. I have a hard time with those characters because I don't know what I can bring to them. You find yourself kind of doing tricks and trying to make something interesting when it shouldn't be. And it's a frustrating place to be. ...
In Don't Look Up, I was technically the wife who gets cheated on, but I really felt like there was a lot to the relationship that my character and Leo [DiCaprio]'s character had, and there was a lot to the history. And we got to do a lot of really fun scenes together. So I think on the page, if you read the character description, you'd be like, "Huh?" But then the actual performance of it and the role itself was very, very fun. So yeah, I am drawn to things that have more to them than just sort of a surface level.
Lauren Krenzel and Thea Chaloner produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Natalie Escobar adapted it for the Web.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air.
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(The Hill) – The NAACP on Friday blasted the Supreme Court’s decision overturning nearly 50 years of precedent that allowed women a constitutional right to abortion, saying it will disproportionately affect Black women.
The civil rights organization called the conservative majority court’s 6-3 decision overturning Roe v. Wade an “egregious assault on basic human rights.”
“This Supreme Court is turning back the clock to a dangerous era where basic constitutional rights only exist for a select few,” said Portia White, policy and legislative affairs vice president for the NAACP. “They’ve stripped away our right to vote, and now women have lost their right to their own body. What’s next?”
A study from Duke University published in December suggested that a complete abortion ban could increase Black maternal deaths by 33%.
Several states have already moved to outlaw the procedure following the court’s ruling, though abortion will remain legal in about half of states.
The court’s ruling came hours after the White House outlined its plan to address the high mortality rate in the U.S., in which Black women face some of the worst pregnancy-related health outcomes.
Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications and twice as likely to lose an infant to premature death.
The NAACP is urging voters to hit the polls in November following the court’s ruling. The organization has partnered with Vote.org to register and mobilize voters ahead of the midterms.
“Today’s Supreme Court decision marks a significant regression of our country,” said Janette McCarthy Wallace, NAACP general counsel. “We must all stand up to have our voices heard in order to protect our nation from the further degradation of civil rights protections we have worked so hard to secure.”
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https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/naacp-abortion-ruling-will-disproportionately-impact-black-women/
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New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found the national economy added 528,000 jobs last month. Still, their report also revealed that the number of job openings in the country far surpasses the number of people looking for work.
The owners of Perfetto Caffe in Grover Beach said their staff has been stretched thin during their employee search, forcing them to reconsider their approach to bringing on new workers.
"We are seeing like; in the last six months it has been really hard to find people that want to work." said store owner, Laura Zuffi.
This week their coffee shop posted new job openings online, but so far there has been little interest.
"We mostly need people in the mornings and the weekend, and we are really having a hard time covering all the shifts."
The owners of Ashtie's Beach Shack in Pismo Beach say they have had a bit of better luck.
"We just put the ad in this week." said owner, Cat Wexler. "I actually have an interview later today and another one on Monday, so we are getting a lot of feedback."
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average hourly earnings rose 0.5% from the previous month and were up 5.2% over the past year.
Cat Wexler tells KSBY that offering higher wages helped them draw in more interest for their openings.
"We have always offered a good wage to people, always a few dollars over minimum wage and more for management," Wexler added.
Meanwhile, Perfetto Caffe hopes rearranging their schedule to offer more flexible hours peaks the interest of more applicants.
"Instead of maybe having a few people covering longer shifts, we need to have more people covering shorter shifts," Zuffi told KSBY.
They also say the start of the new school year has decreased the availability of prospective employees.
Despite the slow hiring processes seen in San Luis Obispo County, that same report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found last month's job gains were more than double what was expected, with the most hiring found among jobs in leisure and hospitality.
The report also found a nationwide dip in filling city and county government positions, with industry jobs nearly 600,000 lower than pre-pandemic levels.
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https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/central-coast-businesses-struggle-to-bring-on-new-staff-despite-nationwide-job-growth
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After pleading guilty in April to charges of money laundering and wire fraud, 66-year-old Debra Gean Roeber of Butte was sentenced on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 to one year and a day in prison, according to U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich.
Court documents say Roeber was appointed as guardian and conservator for the victim, identified as Jane Doe, who was unable to care for herself or her financial needs without assistance because she was blind.
Prosecutors alleged that from roughly January 2017 until June 2020, Roeber stole $661,549 from Jane Doe and used the money for, among other things, construction projects on lake property at Canyon Ferry, vehicles, furniture, a pontoon boat, and cash.
None of the expenditures was authorized, and Roeber allegedly admitted to investigators that she lied “a lot” to Doe, who is now deceased.
“Motivated purely by greed, Roeber defrauded the victim and betrayed her trust. This was a truly reprehensible crime aggravated by the fact that the victim was blind,” said Special Agent in Charge Dennis Rice of the Salt Lake City FBI. “Our elderly citizens should be valued, not victimized. The FBI and our law enforcement partners will hold accountable those who prey on society’s vulnerable populations.”
U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen presided and additionally ordered Roeber to pa $661,549.00 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release after her prison term.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan G. Weldon prosecuted the case, which was investigated by the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation.
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https://www.kbzk.com/news/crime-and-courts/butte-woman-sentenced-to-prison-after-pleading-guilty-to-defrauding-blind-elderly-woman-in-her-care
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