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Thursday, September 30, 2021
Citing Pending Legislation, Gunmaker Smith And Wesson Will Leave Mass. - WBUR
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Retirement eligible Soldiers pending administrative discharge for misconduct may now be considered for retirement at reduced grade - United States Army
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Pending home sales jump--across the country - KABC
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Pending home sales data crushes housing bears - HousingWire
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Records show pending EEO complaint against Ofc. Kotchkoski accused in federal drug case - ABC6OnYourSide.com
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BGE customers reporting thousands of dollars in erroneous pending payments - wmar2news.com
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Pending Home Sales Recover in August - dshort - advisorperspectives.com
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- Pending home sales surged more than expected in August after two months of declines CNBC
- Pending home sales unexpectedly surge higher, as the housing market paves the way for a rebound MarketWatch
- U.S. Pending Home Sales Rebound to a Seven-Month High in August Bloomberg
- Pending home sales rebound, rise 8.1% in August Yahoo Finance
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Pending home sales surged more than expected in August after two months of declines - CNBC
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021
University Nebraska-Lincoln to develop new housing and retail space pending approval - WOWT
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LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced a new $175 million development that will provide much-needed housing and retail space for the area.
KOLN reports that developers believe the space located at 2100 Vine Street can house around 1,000 people in the Unity Commons development.
The space is currently being used as a stationing area for construction projects.
KOLN reports the Unity Commons is expected to house international students and provide senior living with the possibility of providing assisted living or memory care opportunities.
Currently, there are seven Big-10 schools that have a senior living partnership like the one proposed in Lincoln. The development also makes room for retail opportunities.
“Different cultures want different amenities... What we plan on doing is creating unique spaces that will ring to the cultures in the community,” said Woodbury.
KOLN reports the university bought the former Textron lot in 2003 for $5.9 million and that they’re excited to find a use for it, as well as connecting city campus to the Whittier and Prem Paul buildings.
The university told KOLN that close proximity to the core of campus is a cultural amenity that will hopefully draw in renters.
The development plan will head to the Board of Regents for approval which is expected to happen in early 2022.
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South Park creators buy Casa Bonita, pending judge's approval - Denverite
Casa Bonita superfans rejoice!
Casa Bonita is just one signature away from belonging to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated Comedy Central mainstay South Park.
The Colorado natives agreed to buy the iconic Mexican eatery from bankrupt owners Summit Family Restaurants for $3.1 million, according to documents filed Monday in bankruptcy court. Stone and Parker are purchasing Casa Bonita under the name “The Beautiful Opco.”
The agreement, first reported by Westword, still needs a final sign-off from Judge Michael E. Romero. Summit Family Restaurants will also have to pay its landlord $900,000 to settle its debts.
The famous Lakewood destination, known more for its extravagant decor and immersive experience than the Mexican food it serves, closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Just over a year later, its parent company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, leaving the restaurant’s future uncertain. While it was due to reopen for diners this month, the space has only opened up for free tours.
Casa Bonita superfans rejoiced when the South Park creators — who met at the University of Colorado, Boulder — told Governor Jared Polis they intended to buy the property. The restaurant was the setting of a 2003 episode of South Park and has been mentioned in the show several other times.
It’s a dream long in the making. Stone and Parker briefly considered buying the restaurant when it came up for sale in 2012.
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Cause of death pending after Florida college student found dead on South Carolina trip - WPLG Local 10
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Authorities in South Carolina are continuing their investigation into the death of a 21-year Florida college student whose body was found 10 miles from her torched car.
Florence County authorities say Sheridan Wahl’s body was found Sept. 21 behind a fire department training tower at the Hannah-Salem-Friendfield Fire Department in Pamplico.
On Monday, Florence County Coroner Keith von Lutcken confirmed that the results of an autopsy that was conducted Friday at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston were inconclusive, local news outlets reported.
Wahl’s mother said the University of South Florida student had traveled to Myrtle Beach to visit her father.
She reported her daughter missing Sept. 19, the same day Wahl’s burned car was found 55 miles from Myrtle Beach.
Two days later, Wahl’s body was located.
State police have taken over the investigation.
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More arrests made, pending in murder case - Daily Leader - Dailyleader
Additional suspects have been arrested and charged, and one more is sought in connection with the Sept. 19 murder of Tarvauirs Lyons of Brookhaven.
Zayrick Taylor, 23, was arrested Monday, Sept. 20, and charged with murder after a multi-county high-speed chase.
The body of Lyons, 23, was found at the intersection of Vanzie Street and Rance Drive around 4:45 a.m. Sept. 19 and pronounced dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
Chase Anthony Wallis, 28, of Youngsville, Louisiana, has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and intimidating a witness, Brookhaven Police Chief Kenneth Collins said Monday.
Alisia Sims, 28, has also been arrested and charged with hindering prosecution and rendering assistance to a felon, Collins said.
“It was her car Zayrick was fleeing in when he was arrested, and she was with him in the car,” Collins said.
Officers are presently seeking Okeria Combs, 23, of Brookhaven. Combs, described as a black female by Collins, is wanted for electronic harassment amounting to witness intimidation, the chief said.
“I will not let anybody in my city intimidate witnesses or make threats to any family members,” Collins said. “The only way we in Brookhaven are going to keep our town safe is by people coming forward and helping us to keep our community safe. Any time I’m aware of people trying to intimidate witnesses, we are going to get warrants and make arrests.”
This case is ongoing and more arrests are pending, Collins said.
“To the family of Mr. Lyons, my heart, my love goes out to them,” said Collins. “Stay strong and do the best you can and we’re going to do the best we can to keep our city safe.”
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Monday, September 27, 2021
Downtown's Reign to stay dark pending nuisance ruling, liquor control chief says - STLtoday.com
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How Seattle Seahawks have top ten offense by DVOA pending MNF - Field Gulls
The start to the 2021 NFL season has not gone the way many fans of the Seattle Seahawks envisioned. Following a tortuous 33-30 overtime loss to the Tennessee Titans, the Hawks went on the road and were absolutely obliterated by the Minnesota Vikings to fall to 1-2 and a full two games behind the Arizona Cardinals and the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC West standings.
There’s been no shortage of finger pointing at both coordinators, with Shane Waldron’s offense unable to score at all during the third quarter so far in 2021, and just two second half touchdowns through the first three games. On the flip side of the ball it’s a fourth consecutive season of asking how bad a Ken Norton Jr. defense has to be before he is fired.
That all said, as noted there’s been plenty of finger pointing at both sides of the ball, but has that been appropriate? One of the advanced analytics metrics Seahawks took pride in for many years, DVOA, has weighed in on the matter, and the results of that input might be a bit surprising. Specifically, Seattle has a top ten offense in the league by DVOA pending the Monday Night Football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys.
Obviously, just as with any metric, DVOA has its limitations in terms of value. Specifically, because it’s built around offensive and defensive performance on a per play result, DVOA places value in offenses that can generate explosive plays and defenses that prevent such plays. The Legion of Boom era Seahawks teams were fantastic at this on both sides of the ball. The current iteration of the Hawks, however, are much more lacking in their ability to prevent explosive plays.
There will, of course, be many who complain that this looks to place an unfair amount of blame on the defense and to absolve the offense of any wrongdoing, and the offense has certainly had its share of issues early in the season. But to date, with the exception of the impotent Carson Wentz led offense of the Indianapolis Colts in Week 1, the biggest issue for the offense has been the limited number of drives because the defense is unable to get off the field by getting the ball back for the offense, having forced just eight punts so far this year. And of the eight punts the defense has forced this season, half punts came in Week 1 against the Colts. Just for reference on how bad that is, the 2013 Seahawks forced an average of more than five punts per game, including eight punts in just the 23-0 destruction of the New York Giants in Week 15.
So, yes, the offense has issues and needs to start putting some points on the board in the second half, but the bigger issue facing the Seahawks right now is that the defense needs to start getting some actual stops against quarterbacks not named Carson Wentz.
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Sonoma County anticipates pending cannabis impact study - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
On the heels of its decision to enact a 45-day moratorium on one of its cannabis cultivation permit pathways, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is set to discuss what regulation measures to study as it prepares to rework its cannabis ordinance.
Since California voters supported legalizing adult-use marijuana in 2016, Sonoma County has struggled with its policy regulating the local cannabis industry. Its oversight of cannabis farmers has been a particular problem area for county lawmakers and staff.
Cannabis farmers looking to break into the industry have criticized the county for its permitting process which they say is burdensome because of the years it takes to navigate, the many studies required and the high cost.
The cost of pursuing a conditional use permit through the count ranges from $15,000 to $30,000 according to Scott Orr, deputy director of the county’s planning division.
Pushing back on the industry are residents concerned about the impact of farms on nearby neighborhoods, water usage and safety.
In May, the county committed to a full environmental impact evaluating the cannabis industry’s impact and a redevelopment of its current cannabis ordinance.
Tuesday, staff from the county’s building and permitting department Permit Sonoma will move that process forward with an update to the Board of Supervisors recapping input from the public, neighborhood groups and industry groups, and identifying policy options to study through the EIR.
“These are ideas that we are interested in further study and doing our homework with an environmental review to see what the impact of that would be,” said Bradley Dunn, policy manager for the county’s planning and building department.
Among the policy options Permit Sonoma staff will suggest studying is classifying cannabis as agriculture, identifying alternatives to ministerial permits, establishing exclusion zones and allowing small “cottage” cannabis grows in Agricultural Residential (AR) and Rural Residential (RR) zoning districts.
A cottage permit allows just 25 plants on parcels of at least 2 acres for outdoor gardens and a maximum of 500 square feet for indoor cultivation.
Allowing cannabis cultivation in AR and RR districts has long been a controversial topic for the county. In past years residents balked at allowing cannabis in those zones because of concerns over safety and the overall impact to nearby neighborhoods.
Like the other policy options coming before the board Tuesday, the AR and RR option is being proposed as measure to study in the impact report, not adopt, said Crystal Acker, supervising planner with Permit Sonoma.
Tuesday, county staff will ask the board for direction on what policy options to study in the environmental impact review. The results of that study will then be used to determine what to include in the new, revised cannabis ordinance, Acker said.
“We’re going to go where the evidence and data is,” said Dun. “What we’re looking at here is making sure that we do our homework and the environmental analysis.”
The entire process is expected to take three years, said Acker.
You can reach Staff Writer Emma Murphy at 707-521-5228 or emma.murphy@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @MurphReports.
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Pending impact fee decision, School Board tables Colbert Landings agreement and puts hold on... - Palm Coast Observer
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Sunday, September 26, 2021
Pending home sales, CarMax earns, consumer spending - Associated Press
A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week:
HOUSING MARKET BAROMETER
Economists expect that contract signings on U.S. homes slowed in August for the third straight month.
They project the National Association of Realtors’ pending home sales index, due out Wednesday, will show a 0.1% drop from July. Contract signings are a barometer of future home purchases. A lag of a month or two usually exists between a contract and a completed sale.
Pending home sales index, monthly percent change:
March 1.7
April -4.4
May 8.3
June -2.0
July -1.8
Aug. (est.) -0.1
Source: FactSet
HOT WHEELS
Wall Street expects another solid quarterly report card from CarMax.
The used car dealership has benefited as strong demand pushes up prices for previously owned vehicles. The company posted sharply higher profits for the first quarter that ended in May as revenue jumped twofold due to an increase in the number of vehicles sold and higher average prices. CarMax reports its fiscal second-quarter results Thursday.
EYE ON CONSUMERS
The Commerce Department delivers its August snapshot of consumer spending Friday.
Consumer spending has moderated since a 5.2% surge in March. Monthly increases in spending since then haven’t topped 1.1%. Spending rose only 0.3% in July as infections from the delta variant of COVID-19 spread and inflation accelerated to its fastest annual pace in three decades. Americans account for 70% of economic activity, so the more they spend, the more the economy grows.
Consumer spending, monthly percent change, seasonally adjusted:
Feb. -1.1
March 5.2
April 1.0
May 0.1
June 1.1
July 0.3
Source: FactSet
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The National Association of Realtors issues its August tally of pending U.S. home sales Wednesday. Used car dealership CarMax reports quarterly results Thursday. The Commerce Department delivers its monthly snapshot of consumer spending Friday.
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Port Arthur Police release suspect in early Sunday morning homicide pending investigation - 12newsnow.com KBMT-KJAC
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Gary Young: Pending notice | Obituaries | carrollspaper.com - Carroll Daily Times Herald
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Brothers Denied Bail, Pending Trial for Child Molestation Charges - The People’s Vanguard of Davis
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
Pending tax rate change to support coal miners disabled by 'black lung' disease - NorthcentralPa.com
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Teen charged in Heritage High double shooting was facing pending charges in 2020 shooting - Roanoke Times
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Dodgers’ pending free agents, Part V: Max Scherzer - LA Daily News
Editor’s note: This is the Friday, Sept. 24 edition of the Inside the Dodgers newsletter from reporter J.P. Hoornstra. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.
The first, last, and heretofore only time Max Scherzer was a free agent came during the offseason of 2014-15. Andrew Friedman had just taken over as the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations. He had a lot of work to do.
Beyond Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke, the team’s starting pitching depth was nonexistent. This was especially true after the Dodgers traded Dan Haren to the Miami Marlins, part of a three-team trade that brought Howie Kendrick and Austin Barnes to Los Angeles. Hyun-Jin Ryu’s left shoulder labrum was torn, an injury that would ultimately cost him the entire 2015 season. One might argue, in hindsight, that the Dodgers were wise not to put all their eggs in the basket of one innings-eating starter. There were simply too many innings to eat.
Ultimately, Friedman concentrated his spending on veterans Brandon McCarthy and Brett Anderson. At midseason, he traded for Alex Wood and Mat Latos. Mike Bolsinger, acquired in a cash trade with the Diamondbacks, pitched 109-1/3 mostly competent innings. That quintet combined to take down 72 starts and provide 1.9 Wins Above Replacement.
On Jan. 21, 2015, Scherzer signed a heavily backloaded seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals. Depending on how you value the deferred money in the contract, Scherzer will have earned somewhere between $191 million and $210 million by the time he gets his final check. Scherzer will have provided the Nationals and Dodgers approximately 43 Wins Above Replacement and at least one championship.
It’s one of the great what-ifs of the last decade in Dodgers history: what if they had made the winning offer to Scherzer seven years ago? Would they have won a World Series (or two) before 2020? Who would have started behind him, and Kershaw, and Greinke in 2015 other than (checks notes) Carlos Frias?
The Dodgers’ rotation is in a very different place now. It’s a much better place. Considering the difference between having Frias and Tony Gonsolin as your number-5 starter, it’s no wonder the 2015 club won 92 games and this year’s team is on pace to win 104. Now, some stranger-than-usual factors (the CBA negotiation, Trevor Bauer’s status) complicate the cost/benefit analysis of re-signing Scherzer. Bill Plunkett checked off those reasons and more in this piece from Monday, so I won’t rehash all of them here.
I think the concept of atonement is on the minds of many fans (and not just those who observe Yom Kippur) as it applies to the Dodgers’ second chance to sign Scherzer. It’s unfair to draw a straight line from December 2014 to December 2021, but I get it. Scherzer is still elite. The last couple of months – the Dodgers are 10-0 in Scherzer’s starts and still somehow trail the Giants in the standings – have illustrated his value to this team, and really to any team. If you’re a fan, you want the last couple of months to last forever.
Let’s at least dream on it a little bit.
Why Scherzer stays a Dodger
Let’s start with Bauer, actually. I don’t know anything about his criminal investigation that hasn’t been reported already. I think it’s safe to assume that if Bauer is healthy and eligible to pitch, this conversation isn’t happening. Scherzer probably isn’t a Dodger right now and, even if he is, there’s little reason to think Bauer would not be back in uniform in 2022.
There is some reason to believe Bauer won’t be back in 2022. To my knowledge, he hasn’t missed a paycheck yet. However, if Major League Baseball suspends him under its domestic violence policy, the Dodgers will not have to pay Bauer for all or part of next season. They will also be missing the kind of front-of-the-rotation, innings-eating pitcher they wanted when they signed Bauer to a three-year contract last winter. In his absence, Scherzer has played the role like a master thespian. The Dodgers would love to know if Bauer is facing criminal charges, or if he’ll be suspended by MLB, by the time they set their internal budget for next year. If Bauer isn’t a Dodger next season – I’m thinking strictly in baseball terms for now, and we certainly don’t have to forever – the pitching staff will lose a lot of innings. The Dodgers might want Scherzer to pitch those innings.
And hey, Scherzer might not want a seven-year contract this time around. He won’t get one; he’s 37 after all. But the Dodgers might be OK giving him something less than that in terms of years. Andrew Friedman alluded to something in his interview with Plunkett that bears repeating: “part of the added value of making those trades (like the one for Scherzer) is you get to know the player better and they get to know us better” before their contract expires.
Thanks to the last two months, the Dodgers can more intimately know how Scherzer prepares, how he conditions, how he throws – to borrow front-office speak, whether his biomechanics are optimized for long-term health – and whether he deserves to be compensated like a typical 37-year-old or not. For the Dodgers, signing Scherzer after this season is a more educated bet than it would have been seven years ago.
Scherzer has been unusually healthy throughout his career, so who knows. Maybe he’s a biomechanical unicorn, a latter-day Nolan Ryan. On the other hand …
Why Scherzer doesn’t stay a Dodger
Past performance is no predictor of future success or failure. In December 2016, Rich Hill was effectively the same age as Scherzer when the Dodgers gave him a three-year, $48 million contract. The next two seasons were Hill’s healthiest by innings pitched since 2007 (and, remarkably, until this year). The Dodgers’ front office might have a reason to conclude Scherzer isn’t worth the risk, or at least see something in his profile that diminishes his value.
Bauer might prohibit the Dodgers from re-signing Scherzer too, either because he’s still getting paid, still holding down a rotation spot, or both.
The argument against re-signing Scherzer really depends on the unseen or the unknowable – Bauer’s status, the CBA, Scherzer’s medical file, the Dodgers’ internal budget. That’s rare. As I scan Scherzer’s Statcast page for the kind of year-over-year changes that would raise a red flag about his performance, I just don’t see them. (One yellow flag is that his fastball velocity is eroding slightly as the league-average speed rises slightly, but it’s still an incredibly effective pitch by any measure.) Even at age 37, Scherzer has done just about everything he can to show he’s a top-of-the-rotation starter who deserves the kind of contract Scott Boras will demand for his client.
The Dodgers can see that much. So can every other team. Scherzer is a great fit on any pitching staff. In a rotation without Trevor Bauer, he’s a great fit in Los Angeles too. In a rotation with Bauer, there will be teams that need Scherzer more than the Dodgers. That’s not the totality of this equation. But until the Dodgers know what’s up with Bauer, I doubt the equation changes much.
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Editor’s note: This is the Friday, Sept. 24 edition of the Inside the Dodgers newsletter from reporter J.P. Hoornstra. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.
The first, last, and heretofore only time Max Scherzer was a free agent came during the offseason of 2014-15. Andrew Friedman had just taken over as the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations. He had a lot of work to do.
Beyond Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke, the team’s starting pitching depth was nonexistent. This was especially true after the Dodgers traded Dan Haren to the Miami Marlins, part of a three-team trade that brought Howie Kendrick and Austin Barnes to Los Angeles. Hyun-Jin Ryu’s left shoulder labrum was torn, an injury that would ultimately cost him the entire 2015 season. One might argue, in hindsight, that the Dodgers were wise not to put all their eggs in the basket of one innings-eating starter. There were simply too many innings to eat.
Ultimately, Friedman concentrated his spending on veterans Brandon McCarthy and Brett Anderson. At midseason, he traded for Alex Wood and Mat Latos. Mike Bolsinger, acquired in a cash trade with the Diamondbacks, pitched 109-1/3 mostly competent innings. That quintet combined to take down 72 starts and provide 1.9 Wins Above Replacement.
On Jan. 21, 2015, Scherzer signed a heavily backloaded seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals. Depending on how you value the deferred money in the contract, Scherzer will have earned somewhere between $191 million and $210 million by the time he gets his final check. Scherzer will have provided the Nationals and Dodgers approximately 43 Wins Above Replacement and at least one championship.
It’s one of the great what-ifs of the last decade in Dodgers history: what if they had made the winning offer to Scherzer seven years ago? Would they have won a World Series (or two) before 2020? Who would have started behind him, and Kershaw, and Greinke in 2015 other than (checks notes) Carlos Frias?
The Dodgers’ rotation is in a very different place now. It’s a much better place. Considering the difference between having Frias and Tony Gonsolin as your number-5 starter, it’s no wonder the 2015 club won 92 games and this year’s team is on pace to win 104. Now, some stranger-than-usual factors (the CBA negotiation, Trevor Bauer’s status) complicate the cost/benefit analysis of re-signing Scherzer. Bill Plunkett checked off those reasons and more in this piece from Monday, so I won’t rehash all of them here.
I think the concept of atonement is on the minds of many fans (and not just those who observe Yom Kippur) as it applies to the Dodgers’ second chance to sign Scherzer. It’s unfair to draw a straight line from December 2014 to December 2021, but I get it. Scherzer is still elite. The last couple of months – the Dodgers are 10-0 in Scherzer’s starts and still somehow trail the Giants in the standings – have illustrated his value to this team, and really to any team. If you’re a fan, you want the last couple of months to last forever.
Let’s at least dream on it a little bit.
Why Scherzer stays a Dodger
Let’s start with Bauer, actually. I don’t know anything about his criminal investigation that hasn’t been reported already. I think it’s safe to assume that if Bauer is healthy and eligible to pitch, this conversation isn’t happening. Scherzer probably isn’t a Dodger right now and, even if he is, there’s little reason to think Bauer would not be back in uniform in 2022.
There is some reason to believe Bauer won’t be back in 2022. To my knowledge, he hasn’t missed a paycheck yet. However, if Major League Baseball suspends him under its domestic violence policy, the Dodgers will not have to pay Bauer for all or part of next season. They will also be missing the kind of front-of-the-rotation, innings-eating pitcher they wanted when they signed Bauer to a three-year contract last winter. In his absence, Scherzer has played the role like a master thespian. The Dodgers would love to know if Bauer is facing criminal charges, or if he’ll be suspended by MLB, by the time they set their internal budget for next year. If Bauer isn’t a Dodger next season – I’m thinking strictly in baseball terms for now, and we certainly don’t have to forever – the pitching staff will lose a lot of innings. The Dodgers might want Scherzer to pitch those innings.
And hey, Scherzer might not want a seven-year contract this time around. He won’t get one; he’s 37 after all. But the Dodgers might be OK giving him something less than that in terms of years. Andrew Friedman alluded to something in his interview with Plunkett that bears repeating: “part of the added value of making those trades (like the one for Scherzer) is you get to know the player better and they get to know us better” before their contract expires.
Thanks to the last two months, the Dodgers can more intimately know how Scherzer prepares, how he conditions, how he throws – to borrow front-office speak, whether his biomechanics are optimized for long-term health – and whether he deserves to be compensated like a typical 37-year-old or not. For the Dodgers, signing Scherzer after this season is a more educated bet than it would have been seven years ago.
Scherzer has been unusually healthy throughout his career, so who knows. Maybe he’s a biomechanical unicorn, a latter-day Nolan Ryan. On the other hand …
Why Scherzer doesn’t stay a Dodger
Past performance is no predictor of future success or failure. In December 2016, Rich Hill was effectively the same age as Scherzer when the Dodgers gave him a three-year, $48 million contract. The next two seasons were Hill’s healthiest by innings pitched since 2007 (and, remarkably, until this year). The Dodgers’ front office might have a reason to conclude Scherzer isn’t worth the risk, or at least see something in his profile that diminishes his value.
Bauer might prohibit the Dodgers from re-signing Scherzer too, either because he’s still getting paid, still holding down a rotation spot, or both.
The argument against re-signing Scherzer really depends on the unseen or the unknowable – Bauer’s status, the CBA, Scherzer’s medical file, the Dodgers’ internal budget. That’s rare. As I scan Scherzer’s Statcast page for the kind of year-over-year changes that would raise a red flag about his performance, I just don’t see them. (One yellow flag is that his fastball velocity is eroding slightly as the league-average speed rises slightly, but it’s still an incredibly effective pitch by any measure.) Even at age 37, Scherzer has done just about everything he can to show he’s a top-of-the-rotation starter who deserves the kind of contract Scott Boras will demand for his client.
The Dodgers can see that much. So can every other team. Scherzer is a great fit on any pitching staff. In a rotation without Trevor Bauer, he’s a great fit in Los Angeles too. In a rotation with Bauer, there will be teams that need Scherzer more than the Dodgers. That’s not the totality of this equation. But until the Dodgers know what’s up with Bauer, I doubt the equation changes much.
Dodgers pending free agent reports:
Clayton Kershaw | Kenley Jansen | Corey Seager | Chris Taylor
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Friday, September 24, 2021
Mask mandate potentially returning to Butte County pending supervisor approval - KRCRTV.COM
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Teen charged in Heritage High double shooting was facing pending charges in 2020 shooting - Daily Press
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Thursday, September 23, 2021
Dodgers’ pending free agents, Part IV: Clayton Kershaw - OCRegister
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When the media crowded into rooms for press conferences, way back in 2018, I can remember sitting behind a television reporter prior to a postseason game at Dodger Stadium. Clayton Kershaw was five years into his seven-year contract with the Dodgers. Once the postseason ended, Kershaw could exercise an opt-out clause in his contract. This reporter,speaking casually, said Kershaw was going to opt out and sign with his hometown Texas Rangers. He spoke as if it was a done deal, a mere matter of time. Fatalistic fans routinely utter the same thoughts tinged with frustration. This reporter was dropping “knowledge” as if he was ordering brunch.
Three years later, Kershaw is still a Dodger. Now 33, he’s adapted better than most to the rigors of age. His fastball velocity in 2021 (90.7 mph) is unchanged from 2018 (90.8). His slider, long his best pitch, is now the pitch he throws the most. Injuries to his shoulder, elbow and back have kept Kershaw from bearing a full starter’s load since the Dodgers extended his contract, but he’s still managed to throw 352 1/3 innings the last three years — more than all but 40 pitchers, excluding the postseason. Last but not least, Kershaw helped the Dodgers end their 32-year World Series drought in October.
In a way, the Dodgers’ ability to win a championship with Kershaw playing the role of “co-ace” makes it easier to see him re-signing after this season. A front office can justify spending ace money on Kershaw if it already has enough aces to win a championship. Last year, a rotation of Kershaw, Walker Buehler, Julio Urías and a Tony Gonsolin/Dustin May piggyback did the job. Assuming May comes back healthy next season, why shouldn’t that group be given a chance to do it again?
The question of whether or not to re-sign Kershaw defies traditional analysis. No player is bigger than the team, but no pitcher besides Sandy Koufax holds a bigger spot in franchise lore than number 22. I’m not sure how you quantify that. Quantifying value is exactly what teams and players do when they sit down to negotiate. But let’s start with the mushy stuff.
Why Kershaw stays a Dodger
Of the five active players who have been with their original organizations longer than Kershaw, only two — Yadier Molina and Joey Votto — have what I would describe as a “decent” chance of making the Hall of Fame. Kershaw can already start writing his induction speech.
At this point, Kershaw and the Dodgers seem like a couple of bald eagles: they mate for life. Their relationship has persisted through thick and thin. Chairman Mark Walter is certainly able to make Kershaw a Dodger for life; as recently as 2018 he sure sounded willing. The only hang-up to Kershaw signing a longer-term deal then might have been Kershaw himself.
When he last re-signed, Kershaw said, “I would never want to sign anything I couldn’t live up to. We’ll see where we are after three years.” Certainly the Dodgers’ front office is amenable to shorter-term deals. Just look at the unorthodox offers they made to Bryce Harper and Trevor Bauer. Lining up on the years and the money, then, shouldn’t be a problem.
Kershaw said in 2018 that his family loved it in Los Angeles. His wife gave birth to another son in the meantime. Assuming 20-month-old Cooper Kershaw doesn’t object, I imagine both sides will approach this negotiation with optimism.
Why Kershaw doesn’t stay a Dodger
The arguments here are predicated on cold, hard analytics. The Dodgers’ front office built a champion on the strength of cold, hard analytics, so we can’t dismiss their influence on this equation.
There have been two Clayton Kershaws in 2021. The first used a high-spin fastball/slider/curveball combo to hold opponents to a scant .618 OPS in his first 15 starts ofthe season through June 16. In his first 88 1/3 innings, he walked only 15 batters while striking out 104. We admittedly haven’t seen much of the latter Kershaw, but we know his spin rate began to suffer around the time MLB cracked down on pitchers using foreign substances on the mound. Kershaw’s elbow suffered, too.
In five starts since June 16, Kershaw’s ERA has actually fallen from 3.36 to 3.27. His two outings since coming off the injured list have gone well. If the Dodgers view Kershaw’s elbow injury as a “hiccup,” there is certainly room for optimism. It’s also an elbow, which means it might be the most concerning injury in a series that has shortened all but one of Kershaw’s last six seasons — the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign. So even though Kershaw’s latest post-injury performance is promising, we know neither what his medical file says about the past or what it predicts for the future. We only know there’s enough there to possibly give the Dodgers, or another team, pause.
It’s telling that Kershaw picked up, and abandoned, his latest dalliance with a changeup around the time his spin rate dipped in June. Scouts have suggested for years that Kershaw would need a changeup to persist as an elite pitcher. I think the jury’s still out on this; just because Kershaw hasn’t stuck with the changeup doesn’t mean he cannot learn the pitch. Just because he’s still pitching at a high level without one at age 33 doesn’t mean he can continue to do so, either. Again, I can’t tell you what any of this says about Kershaw’s long-term prospects, only that it’s the sort of thing that would typically come up in a long-term contract negotiation.
Three years ago, I might have predicted a wave of younger (and cheaper) pitchers clamoring to take Kershaw’s job would make it hard for the Dodgers’ front office to bring Kershaw back. Now I’m not so sure. Not only have the last three years gone pretty well for Kershaw, that rush of young starting pitchers never fully materialized around baseball. There are more reasons to have confidence in a 34-year-old pitcher maintaining what he had at 33.
Between that, and the established interest in a short-term contract between Kershaw and the Dodgers, I’d expect this negotiation to be less complicated than most. And I don’t think he’ll be leaving for Texas.
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Cenovus announces the Early Tender Results and Increase of its Pending Maximum Tender Offer - Yahoo Finance
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX: CVE) (NYSE: CVE) today announced the early tender results of its previously announced cash tender offer (the “Maximum Tender Offer”) and that it has increased the maximum aggregate purchase price for the Maximum Tender Offer from up to a maximum aggregate purchase price of $1,000,000,000 to up to a maximum aggregate purchase price of $1,250,000,000 (such increased aggregate purchase price, the “Maximum Aggregate Purchase Price”) of its outstanding 3.800% Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”), its outstanding 4.000% Notes due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”), its outstanding 5.375% Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”), its outstanding 4.250% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”) and its outstanding 4.400% Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes” and, together with the 2023 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2027 Notes, the “Maximum Tender Offer Notes”). Cenovus today also announced that it has eliminated the Series Tender Cap (as defined in the Offer to Purchase dated September 9, 2021 (the “Offer to Purchase”)) for the 2025 Notes. The terms and conditions of the Maximum Tender Offer are described in the Offer to Purchase.
References in this news release to "$" are to United States dollars.
The following table sets forth certain information regarding the Maximum Tender Offer Notes and the Maximum Tender Offer, including the aggregate principal amount of each of the 2023 Notes, the 2024 Notes and the 2025 Notes that was validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 22, 2021 (the “Early Tender Date”), as reported by D.F. King & Co., Inc., the tender and information agent for the Maximum Tender Offer.
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$334,712,000 |
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448055AK9/ |
$750,000,000 |
2 |
$481,224,000 |
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5.375% Notes |
15135UAS8/ |
$1,000,000,000 |
3 |
$747,727,000 |
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The applicable total consideration for the Maximum Tender Offer Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Date and accepted for purchase will be determined in the manner described in the Offer to Purchase at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on September 23, 2021, unless extended or earlier terminated.
Because the aggregate principal amount of Maximum Tender Offer Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Date has an aggregate purchase price that exceeds the Maximum Aggregate Purchase Price, Cenovus does not expect to accept for purchase all Maximum Tender Offer Notes that have been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Date. Rather, subject to the Maximum Aggregate Purchase Price and the acceptance priority levels set forth in the table above, in each case as further described in the Offer to Purchase, Cenovus will accept for purchase 2023 Notes, 2024 Notes and 2025 Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn before the Early Tender Date. Cenovus expects to accept for purchase 2025 Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn before the Early Tender Date on a prorated basis using a proration factor to be announced following the determination of the total consideration for the Maximum Tender Offer Notes. Cenovus expects to accept for purchase all of the 2023 Notes and all of the 2024 Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn before the Early Tender Date and does not expect to accept for purchase any 2027 Notes or 2029 Notes. As a result, a holder who validly tenders and does not validly withdraw Maximum Tender Offer Notes pursuant to the Maximum Tender Offer may have all or a portion of its Maximum Tender Offer Notes returned to it.
Holders of Maximum Tender Offer Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Date, if accepted for purchase, will be eligible to receive the total consideration, which includes an Early Tender Payment of $30 per $1,000 principal amount of Maximum Tender Offer Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn by such holders and accepted for purchase by Cenovus. Payments for Maximum Tender Offer Notes accepted for purchase will include accrued and unpaid interest from the last interest payment date applicable to the relevant series of Maximum Tender Offer Notes up to, but excluding, the settlement date for the Maximum Tender Offer Notes that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to or at the Early Tender Date (the “Maximum Tender Early Settlement Date”). It is anticipated that the Maximum Tender Early Settlement Date will be September 24, 2021.
The Maximum Tender Offer will expire at midnight, New York City time, at the end of October 6, 2021 (the “Maximum Tender Expiration Date”), unless extended or earlier terminated. Because the Maximum Tender Offer has been fully subscribed as of the Early Tender Date, holders who tender Maximum Tender Offer Notes after the Early Tender Date will not have any of their Maximum Tender Offer Notes accepted for purchase, unless Cenovus elects to increase or eliminate the Maximum Aggregate Purchase Price. Any Maximum Tender Offer Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date, together with any Maximum Tender Offer Notes tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Date but not accepted for purchase by Cenovus, will be returned to the holders thereof as described in the Offer to Purchase.
The withdrawal deadline for the Maximum Tender Offer was 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 22, 2021 and has not been extended. Accordingly, previously tendered Maximum Tender Offer Notes and Maximum Tender Offer Notes tendered after such withdrawal deadline may not be withdrawn, subject to applicable law.
Cenovus’s obligation to accept for payment and to pay for the Maximum Tender Offer Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Maximum Tender Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of a number of conditions described in the Offer to Purchase. The Maximum Tender Offer may be terminated or withdrawn in whole or terminated or withdrawn with respect to any series of Maximum Tender Offer Notes, subject to applicable law. Cenovus reserves the right, subject to applicable law, to: (i) waive any and all conditions to the Maximum Tender Offer, (ii) extend or terminate the Maximum Tender Offer, (iii) increase, decrease or eliminate the Maximum Aggregate Purchase Price and/or any Series Tender Cap or (iv) otherwise amend the Maximum Tender Offer in any respect.
Cenovus has retained J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BofA Securities and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. as dealer managers (the “Dealer Managers”) for the Maximum Tender Offer. Cenovus has retained D.F. King & Co., Inc. as the tender and information agent for the Maximum Tender Offer. For additional information regarding the terms of the Maximum Tender Offer, please contact: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at (866) 834-4666 (toll free) or (212) 834-3424 (collect); BofA Securities at (980) 387-3907 (collect) or MUFG Securities Americas Inc. at (877) 744-4532 (toll free) or (212) 405-7481 (collect). Requests for documents and questions regarding the tendering of securities may be directed to D.F. King & Co., Inc. by telephone at (212) 269-5550 (for banks and brokers only) or (888) 605-1958 (for all others, toll free), by email at cve@dfking.com or to the Dealer Managers at their respective telephone numbers.
This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy or an offer to purchase or sell any securities. The Maximum Tender Offer is being made only pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and only in such jurisdictions as is permitted under applicable law.
Advisory
Forward-looking Information
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively referred to as “forward-looking information”) within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, about our current expectations, estimates and projections about the future, based on certain assumptions made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends. Although Cenovus believes that the expectations represented by such forward-looking information are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information as actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied. Cenovus undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information except as required by law.
Forward-looking information in this document is identified by words such as “may”, “will”, “expect” or similar expressions and includes suggestions of future outcomes, including statements about: the purchase of the securities; the deadlines, determination dates and settlement dates specified herein in regards to the Maximum Tender Offer; increasing, decreasing or eliminating the Maximum Aggregate Purchase Price and/or any Series Tender Cap; the payment of accrued and unpaid interest; the use of a proration factor in respect of the 2025 Notes; and the series of Maximum Tender Offer Notes to be accepted for purchase pursuant to the Maximum Tender Offer.
Developing forward-looking information involves reliance on a number of assumptions and consideration of certain risks and uncertainties, some of which are specific to Cenovus and others that apply to the industry generally. Material factors or assumptions on which the forward-looking information in this news release is based include: risks related to the acceptance of any tendered Maximum Tender Offer Notes, the expiration and settlement of the Maximum Tender Offer, the satisfaction of conditions to the Maximum Tender Offer, whether the Maximum Tender Offer will be consummated in accordance with the terms set forth in the Offer to Purchase and this news release or at all and the timing of any of the foregoing.
Readers are cautioned that other events or circumstances, although not listed above, could cause Cenovus’s actual results to differ materially from those estimated or projected and expressed in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements. For a full discussion of material risk factors, refer to Risk Management and Risk Factors in Cenovus’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) for the year ended December 31, 2020 and in Cenovus’s MD&A for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and to the risk factors described in other documents Cenovus files from time to time with securities regulatory authorities in Canada, available on SEDAR at sedar.com, and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR at sec.gov, and on its website at cenovus.com.
Cenovus Energy Inc.
Cenovus Energy Inc. is an integrated energy company with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. The company is focused on managing its assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into its business plans. Cenovus common shares and warrants are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges, and the company’s preferred shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. For more information, visit cenovus.com.
Find Cenovus on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram.
Cenovus contacts:
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Funeral arrangements for Gabrielle Petito pending - wflx
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(WWSB) - Funeral arrangements for 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito are still pending as the investigation into her death and disappearance continues.
Moloney Funeral Home in Long Island, NY will be handling the arrangements of the 22-year-old girl who vanished during a cross country road trip with her fiancé Brian Petito. Her remains were discovered in Wyoming after an extensive ground search.
The funeral home lists Gabby’s obituary but the information is delayed and no services have been announced. The coroner classified the death as a homicide but the cause of the cause of death is still unknown.
ABC7 will update this story as more information is received.
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Health leaders unsure if Pfizer’s pending FDA approval for kids 5 to 11 will stop spread - WDTN.com
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Diocese of Puerto Rico to join Province II, pending General Convention approval - Episcopal News Service
Puerto Rico Bishop Rafael Morales and seminarians at a Eucharist for the beginning of classes at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in August 2021. Photo: Diocese of Puerto Rico
[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Puerto Rico is set to switch from Province IX to Province II after Province II’s synod unanimously voted to accept its request on Sept. 9. The change will go before the 80th General Convention in July 2022 for final approval.
The Diocese of Puerto Rico has been in Province IX – which currently consists of seven dioceses in Latin America and the Caribbean – since it was readmitted to The Episcopal Church in 2003. In April, the diocese presented a resolution to the Province IX synod stating its desire to change provinces, which the synod approved unanimously. The diocese then convened a special convention in July to determine which new province it would join, choosing among Provinces II, III and IV, according to Province II Council lay representative Yvonne O’Neal, who represented her province at the convention. Bishops William Klusmeyer of West Virginia and Gregory Brewer of Central Florida represented Provinces III and IV, respectively.
After presentations from the provinces, the diocesan convention voted to join Province II on the sixth ballot. Province II – “the international Atlantic province,” as it calls itself – consists of the dioceses in the states of New York and New Jersey, Haiti, Cuba, the Virgin Islands and the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe.
Before the Province II synod’s September vote to accept the diocese, Acting President Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, bishop of Central New York, invited Puerto Rico Bishop Rafael Morales to address the synod. In his overview of the diocese’s work, Morales “highlighted the diocesan seminary, the funeral and grief counseling program, the new radio station with its many programs … and how this all feeds into social media,” O’Neal wrote. “One of the most notable achievements of the Diocese of Puerto Rico is the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, the biggest on the island, [which] has been in operation for more than 100 years.”
In presenting the resolution, O’Neal noted connections between the Dioceses of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti and the Virgin Islands, including the fact that the Virgin Islands were in the Diocese of Puerto Rico until 1962. O’Neal also told the synod “that Puerto Rico was not coming to Province II seeking financial assistance.”
“The diocese has income-producing enterprises such as the St. Luke’s Health System,” O’Neal wrote. “Eight years ago, the Diocese of Puerto Rico had an endowment of $26 million amassed by the retiring bishop, an endowment that has grown substantially since then.”
The Diocese of Puerto Rico will present a resolution approving the switch at General Convention scheduled to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, next July. The diocese also plans to celebrate 150 years of Anglicanism on the island next year.
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