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Avs sign another NCAA hockey free agent, Cornell’s Sam Malinski, to deepen prospect pool

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

The Avs are trying to rebuild their farm system.Cornell hockey defenseman Sam Malinski signed a two-year contract with the Avalanche on Thursday morning, the second NCAA free agent to sign with the organization in as many days.Like Western Michigan’s Jason Polin, who signed Wednesday, Malinski was his college team’s captain during the 2022-23 season. He led Cornell to a 2-0-first-round upset of the DU Pioneers in the NCAA Regional this month.The Avalanche’s prospect pool was ranked last in the NHL by The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler in January, a natural toll taken by Colorado’s all-in approach to win the 2022 Stanley Cup championship.A year later, president of hockey operations Joe Sakic and general manager Chris MacFarland are trying to walk the fine line between maintaining the win-now mindset while a championship window remains open and investing in the organization’s future. Former top prospects Bo Byram and Alex Newhook are no longer prospects. ...

California storm: See how much rain fell in your neighborhood

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

Another strong Pacific storm hit Southern California this week, bringing more rain to areas that, in some cases, had already seen over two feet of rainfall since the start of the official water year on Oct. 1.This map provided by the Ventura County Public Works Agency includes data from automated stations across the Los Angeles metropolitan area and is constantly updated.A map of 24-hour rainfall totals. March 30, 2023 (Ventura County Public Works)Here are two-day and season-to-date rainfall totals from locations in L.A., Ventura, Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino counties as of 9:30 a.m. on March 30:Location2-Day Rainfall TotalSeason-to-Date RainfallAltadena.76”40.57”Bel Air1.86”35.61”Burbank.46”27.39”Cajon Pass1,12”40.42”Calabasas1.34”29.09”Downtown Los Angeles1.18”29.03”El Monte.99”27.67”Fullerton.92”19.37”Long Beach1.20”20.31”Malibu2.01”27.56”Moorpark1.19”26.96”Newhall.67”33.58”Northridge1.12”27.48”Oxnard.94”24.04”Pomona.72”26.54”Rancho Palos Verdes1.06”21.96”Santa Ana.37”14....

KTLA launches on YouTube TV

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

YouTube TV subscribers can now watch L.A.’s Very Own KTLA 5 streaming 24/7.KTLA went live on YouTube TV this week after the station’s parent company, Nexstar Media Group, reached a multi-year deal with the streaming service to carry its 59 television stations and Nexstar’s cable news network, NewsNation.KTLA produces 17 hours of local programming each weekday, including 15.5 hours of live news. The station also broadcasts special events including the Rose Parade, the Los Angeles Marathon, telethons and locally hosted red carpet shows from the Academy Awards and Emmys.CW network primetime programming, sports and entertainment will is also available on KTLA’s YouTube TV channel to viewers in the Los Angeles television market.Nexstar is the largest broadcast ownership group in the nation with stations in 116 U.S. markets.

Work-life balance: Yay or nay for unlimited PTO?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

Unlimited PTO (Paid Time Off) has been a hotly debated topic in recent years, with some companies embracing it as a perk for employees, while others remain skeptical. On the one hand, unlimited PTO seems like an attractive benefit for workers who value flexibility and work-life balance. After all, who wouldn’t want the freedom to take as much time off as they need without worrying about running out of vacation days? On the other hand, some experts argue that unlimited PTO can actually be a double-edged sword, leading to burnout and decreased productivity in the long run. In this article, we’ll explore both sides of the unlimited PTO debate and consider whether it’s truly a hurray or a nay for today’s workforce. So, let’s dive in and find out if unlimited PTO is really all it’s cracked up to be.Read the full article on our sister site, the Marina Times, here. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. ...

The Pink Ladies at Mel’s Diner And Hot Stuff For OnlyFans – Here’s What’s Popping Up

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

Starting on Saturday, April 8, the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows will debut its first-ever afternoon high tea service featuring an elegant spread of scones, pastries, and finger sandwiches designed to pair with a selection of freshly brewed Lot 35 loose-leaf teas from Fairmont Miramar’s own luxury tea collection. Service will be on garden-inspired Bernardaud porcelain in the library and ocean terrace every Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. Helmed by FIG Head Chef Damon Gordon, menu highlights include a savory crab roll, cucumber tea sandwich with mint, lemon cream cheese on wheat bread, house smoked salmon tea sandwich with dill, profiteroles with chocolate and sea salt caramel, as well as traditional scones with clotted cream, lemon curd, and house-made preserves. In addition to the two 3 p.m. seatings, there will be seating added during Easter weekend on Saturday, April 8, at noon. Reservations are required via Fairmont Miramar’s website or Resy.Paramount+ will bring its upco...

Boop Oop A Doop — It’s Betty Who

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

Boop Oop A Doop: Rarely has an artist been so perfectly named. “Betty Who” is an appropriate moniker for the Australian synth-pop artist. Not because she’s an anonymous figure in the modern, brutal pop world but because she seems to have been spending the first few years of her career discovering herself, working out what she wants her signature sound to be and, of course, growing up. Hence, her last EP was called Betty, Pt. 1 and her album is called Betty, despite the fact that they’re preceded by two albums and two EPs for RCA Records. She’s an indie artist now, going it alone, and she’s at the beginning of a new chapter. Shea Couleé also plays.We spoke to Who in 2018, and she told us that, “The place that I’m at in my life right now, personally as well as professionally, I’ve gone through a lot of changes. When you’re 20-something, you think, ‘This is my grown-up life now.’ I think most people have experienced that or are going to. This EP, in a lot of ways, is very representativ...

Notorious ‘drunk ranger’ gets 6 years in prison for crashing into California vacationers’ van

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

A Fortuna man who made headlines with a previous drunken incident was sentenced last week to six years in prison for a crash that almost cost a teenage girl her leg.Tyson Randall Young, 41, pleaded guilty last month to two felony counts concerning the injury he caused while driving drunk last summer, the Mendocino County district attorney said.On the evening of Aug. 12, 2022, Young’s Toyota Tundra crossed the center line of Highway 101 in Mendocino County and hit the minivan of an Arcata family returning from a Disneyland trip.A 15-year-old girl in the van suffered a leg injury that doctors described as “partial amputation by trauma.” Her mother was also injured, as was Young.Young’s blood alcohol content was 0.27%, prosecutors said.It was the second arrest in which he had blood alcohol three times the legal limit. In August 2014, a driver in Humboldt Redwoods State Park found Young, then a state parks ranger, passed out in uniform and in his official truck w...

Freediver sues Netflix claiming ‘No Limits’ film depicted him as a murderer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

By Joe Schneider | BloombergA Cuban-American freediver who set 21 world records sued Netflix Inc. for defamation, claiming the media giant wrongly depicted him as a murderer in the 2022 film No Limits.The film is presented as a fictional work, inspired by real events, but Francisco Ferreras Rodriguez claims it’s very similar to what happened in his life, with the exception that the film’s lead character, Pascal Gautier, deliberately killed his wife, a fellow freediver. A picture and the name of Ferraras’s wife, Audrey, who drowned in a record attempt dive, appear at the end of the film.“Many viewers reasonably concluded that Ferreras behaved in real life in the same way that the Gautier character behaves in the film,” Ferreras’s lawyer Alexander Rufus-Isaacs wrote in the complaint, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court. “There was a storm of online abuse directed at him by viewers who believed that he had murdered Audrey.”Netflix’s docudramas have landed the company in court ...

EA Sports announces 6% staffing cut

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

(KRON) -- Redwood City-based sports video games company EA Sports announced a 6 percent staffing cut as it prepares for a company restructure, CEO Andrew Wilson announced in a letter published on the company blog. EA Sports is the division of company Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games."As we drive greater focus across our portfolio, we are moving away from projects that do not contribute to our strategy, reviewing our real estate footprint, and restructuring some of our teams," Wilson said in the letter. Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association charged with importing fentanyl Wilson said where possible, the company is offering opportunities for employees impacted by the layoffs to transition to other projects or offering severance packages to others."It’s through your love of games that we continue to deliver on our mission of inspiring the world to play," Wilson said.EA Sports has developed games around sports leagues including F...

Thieves Rip Off U.S. Weapons as Shadow War in Syria Escalates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:34:37 GMT

Thieves have made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in artillery equipment, unspecified “weapons systems,” and specialized ammunition meant for U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq, according to exclusive documents obtained by The Intercept.The thefts, which occurred on, or in transit to, far-flung U.S. outposts in the region, remain unsolved. They are just the latest evidence of a persistent problem that has allowed enemy forces from ISIS in Iraq to the Taliban in Afghanistan to arm themselves — and even kill Americans and their foreign partners — at U.S. taxpayer expense.The previously unreported thefts illuminate America’s shadow wars in the region, where a U.S. contractor was killed and six other Americans were wounded last week in a suicide drone assault on a U.S. base in northeast Syria. The kamikaze airstrike on the outpost known as RLZ was one of roughly 80 attacks on American bases in Iraq and Syria since January 2021 that the U.S. has blamed on Iranian proxy groups. Presi...