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“He saw a first-pitch slider that he fouled off, so I felt comfortable going up with a fastball,” Hendriks said. “I didn’t get it quite in enough and this is why he was the All-Star starting catcher this year. The guy hits fastball. The guy does a good job but I trust my fastball to anybody. Today it didn’t work out unfortunately. It just sucks because those guys spent nine, 10 innings out there in this heat, grinding it out to a point where I couldn’t get my job done and it was just frustrating.”

“It’s basic math that if we take those federal dollars, and we use those federal dollars to create full-time positions at high numbers, that within a couple of years, when those federal dollars are gone, we will not have the funds to pay for those positions,” Board President Miguel del Valle said before issuing a warning: “The cliff is going to be there. And so as a board, it’s our obligation to make sure, as I said, that we mitigate it, that we try to lessen the blow that’s inevitable.”

The Fed’s most important inflation measure, Powell stressed, is what it calls “inflation expectations” — what businesses and consumers expect prices to do in the coming months and years. Expectations are important because they can be self-fulfilling: If companies expect their costs to rise, say, 3%, they are likely to raise their own prices by the same amount.

Kubistal was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of marijuana, disobeying a stop sign, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident, state police said. He was also later charged with four counts of felony aggravated driving under the influence resulting in death, Kendall County court records show.