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Wells Fargo commits $850,000 to help launch Healthy Housing ...
Grants, volunteers to help National Center for Healthy Housing, Rebuilding Together effort
SAN FRANCISCO and COLUMBIA, MD ? March 29, 2013 ? (RealEstateRama) ? National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a national nonprofit dedicated to creating safe and healthy homes for children and their families, and Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation has committed up to $850,000 over three years to help launch the ?Healthy Housing Challenge.? This new initiative seeks to bring home improvement help to seniors, veterans and low-income families currently living in homes with potential safety and health threats. Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit dedicated to creating safe and healthy housing for America?s families, will lead the home improvement work on the 1,500 homes.
The Healthy Housing Challenge takes its inspiration from a recent federal government report ? Healthy Homes Strategy for Action ? that estimated more than 30 million homes have potential health threats that contribute to asthma and other respiratory diseases, carbon-monoxide poisoning, lung cancer, falls and burns. The Healthy Housing Challenge seeks to awaken homeowners, health care providers, and policymakers to the many low-cost ways to make homes healthier.
?This funding and volunteers from Wells Fargo will help us reach 1,500 families with life-saving upgrades to their homes,? said Rebecca Morley, National Center for Healthy Housing?s executive director. ?Millions of families across the country have both obvious and hidden hazards in their homes and homeowners often are unaware these problems can be solved through relatively simple fixes. This initiative will help us make repairs and raise awareness about the important connection between our homes and our health.?
?We are honored to work with NCHH and Rebuilding Together in this ground-breaking challenge that will deliver needed housing repairs for seniors, veterans, and families across the U.S.,? said Mike Rizer, Wells Fargo community relations director and a board member of NCHH. ?We hope others will join us in supporting the Healthy Housing Challenge and its efforts to help make safer homes.?
The $850,000 commitment includes a $1 for $1 match up to $250,000 for cash contributions made by other foundations, corporations and individuals to NCHH for the Healthy Housing Challenge. The $250,000 match is effective immediately and extends through September 2013. Funds raised will provide tools, training and technical assistance to launch the Challenge, which will enable 40 Rebuilding Together affiliates to enhance the health and safety of 1,500 low-income households over the next three years. The remaining $600,000 will support repairs on homes in Healthy Housing Challenge cities. Wells Fargo team members will also get involved by volunteering to help Rebuilding Together affiliates complete Healthy Housing Challenge home repairs such as adding hand rails, improving ventilation, correcting moisture problems, and fixing fire and electrical hazards.
The Challenge kicks off initially this Spring with Rebuilding Together affiliates in nine communities: Arlington/Fairfax/Falls Church, VA; Baltimore, MD; Denver, CO; Peninsula and Sacramento, CA; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, PA; Omaha NE; and Triangle, NC. The Challenge then plans to add additional affiliates across the country.
?The Healthy Housing Challenge will help transform our operations by increasing the level of service we can provide to homeowners across the country,? said John White, Rebuilding Together?s chief business officer. ?We know the need is there. With the training and resources provided by the Healthy Housing Challenge, we can ensure that families are safe and healthy in their homes.?
Recent health and safety repairs to a home in Falls Church, Va. eliminated a homeowner?s multiple trips to the emergency room for her grandson?s asthma, according to the National Center for Healthy Housing. The repairs also helped the homeowner save $100 a month on utility bills.
About the National Center for Healthy Housing
The National Center for Healthy Housing is the preeminent national nonprofit dedicated to creating safe and healthy housing for America?s families. It has trained over 35,000 individuals in lead-safe and healthy housing practices since 2005, and its research provides the scientific basis for major federal policies and programs. NCHH develops scientifically valid and practical strategies to make homes safe from hazards and to protect low-income families at highest risk. You can follow NCHH on Twitter @nchh or become a fan on Facebook at Facebook.com/HealthyHousing. To see a video about NCHH visit http://vimeo.com/59202134
About Rebuilding Together
Rebuilding Together is a Safe and Healthy Housing organization that believes Community Starts at Home. Our focus provides critical repairs, accessibility modifications and energy efficient upgrades to low-income homes and community centers at no cost to service recipients. Our impact extends beyond the individuals served to revitalize and stabilize vulnerable neighborhoods and communities across the country. Our nearly 200 local affiliates complete 10,000 rebuild projects a year thanks to the efforts of about 200,000 volunteers from corporate partners, skilled trade professionals and everyday good citizens. Join us ? visit www.RebuildingTogether.org.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.4 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the bank?s customers who conduct business in the global economy. With more than 265,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 26 on Fortune?s 2012 rankings of America?s largest corporations. Wells Fargo?s vision is to satisfy all our customers? financial needs and help them succeed financially. Since its inception in 1993, the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation has stewarded more than $200 million dollars and 4.6 million team member volunteer hours in support of creating affordable housing and community revitalization programs. Wells Fargo Housing Foundation?s Team Member Volunteer Program has mobilized more than 184,000 volunteers to build or refurbish nearly 5,000 homes in low-to-moderate income communities
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
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Mar 26 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $3,787,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,154,500 4. Steve Stricker $1,820,000 5. Phil Mickelson $1,650,260 6. Hunter Mahan $1,553,965 7. John Merrick $1,343,514 8. Dustin Johnson $1,330,507 9. Russell Henley $1,313,280 10. Kevin Streelman $1,310,343 11. Keegan Bradley $1,274,593 12. Charles Howell III $1,256,373 13. Michael Thompson $1,254,669 14. Brian Gay $1,171,721 15. Justin Rose $1,155,550 16. Jason Day $1,115,565 17. Chris Kirk $1,097,053 18. ...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Creighton hangs on to defeat Syracuse 61-56
Creighton's Sammy Jensen (5), Alyssa Kamphaus, and Alexis Akin-Otiko celbrate in the second half of a first-round game against Syracuse in the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Knoxville, Tenn. Creighton won 61-56 to advance. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Creighton's Sammy Jensen (5), Alyssa Kamphaus, and Alexis Akin-Otiko celbrate in the second half of a first-round game against Syracuse in the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Knoxville, Tenn. Creighton won 61-56 to advance. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Creighton guard McKenzie Fujan (11) drives the ball up court against Syracuse guard Elashier Hall (2) in the second half of a first-round game in the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Knoxville, Tenn. Creighton won 61-56 to advance. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Creighton player's celebrate their 61-56 victory over Syracuse in a first-round game at the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Creighton guard McKenzie Fujan (11) racts to hitting a 3-point shot in the first half against Syracuse in a first-round game in the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Knoxville, Tenn. Creighton won 61-56 to advance. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Syracuse guard Brittney Sykes (20) falls over Creighton guard Sammy Jensen (5) as she rebounds the ball in the first half of a first-round game in the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? McKenzie Fujan never feared that she'd have to carry Creighton to its first NCAA tournament victory since 1994 all by herself.
She scored a career-high 24 points, knowing her teammates would come through in a 61-56 first-round win over Syracuse on Saturday. Sure enough, Sarah Nelson had 14 of her 17 points after halftime and Marissa Janning scored all 10 of her points in the second period.
"I wasn't worried," Fujan said. "All year, we've had one person go off and the rest of us kind of caught up. I trust my teammates to get going, and they did."
Fujan shot 8 of 13 overall and 6 of 10 from 3-point range as Creighton (25-7) prevented Syracuse (24-8), the No. 7 seed in the Oklahoma City Regional, from earning its first NCAA tournament win in school history.
Syracuse rallied from a 10-point deficit in the last five minutes, but Elashier Hall's attempt at a game-tying 3-pointer with three seconds left went off the right side of the rim with three seconds left. Nelson added two free throws with three-tenths of a second left.
"Honestly, right now, I'm kind of in shock," said Syracuse center Kayla Alexander, who had 23 points and eight rebounds and ended her career as the Orange's all-time leading scorer. "This isn't the way we thought, planned or imagined this would end. We had such high expectations, and this wasn't how we expected to finish."
Fujan kept Creighton afloat for most of the first half by shooting 6 of 7 overall and 5 of 6 from 3-point range. She scored her team's first 11 points and had 17 by halftime.
The 5-foot-11 guard entered the tournament averaging just 9.3 points, but she had scored a career-high 22 in a Missouri Valley Conference championship game loss to Illinois State and carried that momentum over to the NCAA tournament.
"I think it's just confidence," Fujan said. "My team has done a great job finding me. I don't know. I guess once you hit one, it's easier to hit the next few."
Fujan wasn't getting much help from the other Bluejays early on.
Creighton didn't get a point from someone other than Fujan until Alyssa Kamphaus made a free throw with 6:46 left in the first half. The first Creighton basket from one of Fujan's teammates came when Carli Tritz sank a 3-pointer with 3:31 left in the half. Creighton, which ranks second nationally with 9.3 3-pointers per game, missed its first eight 3-point attempts and 11 of 12 shots overall.
Creighton started out by relying almost entirely on the 3-point shot against Syracuse's zone defense. In the first half, Creighton attempted 24 shots from beyond the arc and only six from two-point range. Somehow, the game was still tied 24-24 at halftime.
"Other than McKenzie, we couldn't throw it in the ocean the first 15 minutes, yet we were still in the game," Creighton coach Jim Flanery said. "I said that's a positive because at some point, somebody else is going to start making baskets."
Creighton finished 11 of 36 from 3-point range.
Syracuse shot 3 of 19 from beyond the arc and only 31 percent (18 of 58) overall. Creighton also outrebounded the taller Syracuse team 43-35.
"That was our No. 1 priority that our coached talked about over and over," Nelson said. "He (said) if we can win the rebounding battle, we'll win the game."
Nelson's 3-pointer gave Creighton a 55-45 lead with only 4:54 remaining, but the Bluejays wouldn't make another basket the rest of the game.
Syracuse got to 57-56 on Carmen Tyson-Thomas' layup with 19 seconds left. Fujan hit both ends of a 1-and-1 to make it 59-56 with 16 seconds remaining. The Orange still had a chance to tie the game until Hall's shot missed the mark.
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Political picks: Obama taps top seeds, McConnell Is a homer
Politicians have unleashed their NCAA picks, and no Final Four has gone unturned for latent political meaning.
President Obama has carved out a niche as the nation's top political NCAA predictor, holding his annual tete-a-tete with ESPN's Andy Katz. But this year it's a Republican, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who's leading the bracketology charge with a set of picks that should probably turn some basketball-knowing heads.
Here are the NCAA brackets of three incredibly powerful people, and one person who influences the lawmakers who do the actual voting.
Marco Rubio
The Florida senator has upsets all over the place. Notre Dame (7) over Ohio State (2). Ole Miss (12) over Wisconsin (5). UNLV (5) in the Elite Eight. VCU (5) over Kansas (1)! In the Final Four, he picks his undergraduate alma mater, Florida (3), over his law school alma mater, Miami (2).
As brackets go, this one's for tournament dreamers. Unless, that is, Rubio planned to enter these picks in an NCAA pool that awards seed differential-in which case he's doing it for the money.
The bracket proves one of two things: Either Rubio is a champion of underdogs, or he's a hardcore gambler at heart.
President Obama
Nothing too exciting here. Obama's Final Four consists of two one-seeds, a two-seed, and a three-seed.
The president knows his basketball, but this bracket is distinctly lacking in verve. We could talk about why he picked Indiana-a red state that's kind of a swing state, etc.-or we could talk about how his biggest upsets are Minnesota (11) over UCLA (6), Belmont (11) over New Mexico (3), and Michigan (4) over Kansas (1). This is the bracket of a man who just wants to keep things going smoothly, not rock the boat, and keep everyone calm while he's in Israel.
In other words, Obama and Rubio have picked nearly opposite brackets. Which makes sense.
Via David Catanese, the blog Sports Grid has broken down the Obama vs. Rubio bracketological divide thusly:
Although their Final Four's look similar, with top seeds in all spots, their Sweet Sixteen's are diametrically opposed to one another (political jargon for opposite-when in Rome). Here's a simple way of looking at it. The combined seedings of Obama's Sweet Sixteen comes out to a paltry 41. That means that he's almost exclusively choosing higher seeded teams to advance. Rubio's Sweet Sixteen, on the other hand, has a total seeding number of 70, meaning he's got low seeds all over the damn place! Go figure, the liberal goes conservative and the conservative goes all whimsical.
Mitch McConnell
There's really only one thing you need to know about the Senate minority leader's bracket, which can be found at WHAS 11: He's got Western Kentucky (16) topping Kansas (1) and Villanova (9) before inexplicably losing to Virginia Commonwealth (5).
He also picked Louisville (1), where he went to college as an undergrad, to go all the way.
McConnell is the ultimate homer.
Grover Norquist
The president of Americans for Tax Reform included a preamble to his bracket, scrawled at the top: "Hey taxpayer, I chose my winners based on the lowest top marginal income tax rate in each team's home state. In case of a tie, I went with the Right to Work state. Good luck with your brackets! -Grover"
Norquist has done something few are willing to do. He's filled out a bracket based on pure ideology.
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