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Francisco A. Florig, president of Special Olympics Guam, wrote that since the opening of the Guam Raceway Park, the loss of lives and property have been prevented.
"To race at the Guam Raceway Park, you have to follow safety guidelines. The use of safety equipment such as seat belts, helmets and safety glasses may not encompass all the safety requirements used in professional racing, but it's a good start," Florig wrote.
Former Sen. Larry Kasperbauer,former Vice Speaker Ted Nelson, former Sen. Michael Limtiaco, senatorial candidate Harold Cruz and University of Guam professor Ron McNinch were among those who urged senators to pass Ada's bill.
Many others testified about the families that have grown together racing at the old track and at the new track, and the community efforts to make the raceway what it is now.
Sen. Joe San Agustin asked Simpson about the amount of tax breaks the group will be asking for once the 50-year lease is approved. Ada said the focus is on the lease.
Simpson, in an interview after the hearing, said it's common knowledge the racing federation is planning to ask for $20 million in tax credits.
"That proposed tax credit is $2 million a year for 10 years. So that $2 million is very small percentage of our overall budget over the area to build the track a little, over time," he said. "We don't want to impact government coffers by requesting too much at once."
Acting Speaker Therese Terlaje asked the racing federation to release more details about its plans. She asked Simpson about the $9 million in tax credits granted for the raceway in the late 1990s.
Simpson said about $7.2 in tax credits had already been used.
"We still have about $1.8 million left in tax credits. We want to use that to finish the new drag strip, to do as much as we can right away, and the new request would start in a year or two," he said.
The rapper teases a tour and a new album.
Iggy Azalea has had one helluva year.
The Aussie rapper dominated the charts with her Grammy-nominated hit, “Fancy,” released her debut album, The New Classic, and served up one memorable guest spot on Ariana Grande’s chart-topper, “Problem.” Not to mention, her love life took a major turn for the better with her new beau, NBA player Nick Young.
So, what’s next for the blonde bombshell, you ask? A new tour, of course.
The “Booty” MC took to Twitter Wednesday (December 10) to announce that she’ll be hitting the road in 2015 for The Great Escape Tour. And, by the sound of these tweets, Azaleans also have her second album to look forward to in 2015.
Iggy also took a moment to take stock of the year she's had, reflect on her accomplishments and offer up the lessons she learned during the hard times she endured.
Congratulations on your success, Iggy! And good luck at the Grammys!
The hotel dining room is transformed into the great hall of a 17th-century English manor. Music, comedy and theatrical performances take place throughout the seven-course meal. Each dish is prepared by the world-renowned culinary staff of the Ahwahnee.
The holiday menu features items such as dungeness crab, peacock pie, boars head, baron of beef and, of course, plum pudding and wassail. Tiny bite-size pastries, called Mignardise, conclude the meal. Vegetarian, gluten-free and nut-free menus are available upon request.
Originally the dinner was held only once during the holiday season. But with its increasing popularity, this event is now presented on eight select evenings during the two weeks before Christmas, including Christmas Day.
Dining and lodging packages are available. More information may be found at the website, www.yosemitepark.com, or by calling (801) 559-4884.
• An elegant Victorian Christmas feast awaits guests at the City Hotel Restaurant in Columbia’s historic state park. A five-course meal, fine wines, songs of the season and a dinner theater production fill the evening. This marks the 31st year for the distinguished event.
The gourmet feast includes courses of Blue Point oysters on the half shell, duck and veal paté, Springfield Farm trout and standing rib roast with Yorkshire pudding.
Personalities from a previous era, hotel owner George Morgan and family, will provide entertainment, as well as Mark Twain, Dave Rainwater on the fiddle, the Sincerely Carolers and others.
This event is held for five evenings, Dec. 11-15. The price of the dinner is discounted for guests of the hotel.
Formal attire is appropriate, but period dress is traditional for the occasion.
Call (209) 532-1479 for details or go to www.briggshospitalityllc.com.
• In December, Lamplight Tours also take place in Columbia. Park docents Floyd and Danette Oydegaard will lead visitors on “A Merry Mystery” for the 30th anniversary of the tour. Taking place Dec. 6 and 7, tours begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. The meeting place is Eagle Cottage, next to Fallon H...
Wilkie Collins’ works were used as inspiration for the composition of this year’s script, written by the Oydegaards. Collins was a favorite author during the late 1800s.
For a Gold Rush-era holiday experience, the interactive tour leads participants through town, as they locate clues for solving the mystery. Main Street will be decorated for Christmas and refreshments will be served at the close of the evening.
Proceeds from the event will fund interpretive and educational programs with Friends of Columbia, a nonprofit organization. For more information, call (209) 588-9128 or visit www.visitcolumbiacalifornia.com, and click on "Events."
The cost of delivering physical commodities when the specified futures contract expires.
Delivery Price. InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. http://www.investorguide.com/definition/delivery-price.html (access:April 22, 2019).
Cyclone Lam (left) and Cyclone Marcia (right) are bearing down on Australia.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia tore through parts of Queensland in northeast Australia, as officials urged residents to bunker down. The eye of the storm made landfall Friday morning local time as a Category 5 storm, before beginning to weaken as it moved south down the coast.
Queensland's new Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk warned residents to prepare for a "harrowing and terrifying experience" and implored them to "not go outside under any circumstances," but by Friday afternoon, it appeared Queensland had avoided a catastrophe — with no deaths reported and structural damage isolated to area...
It is the second cyclone to hit Australia in less than 24 hours, with Cyclone Lam making landfall early Friday morning in the Northern Territory. It also weakened as it moved inland.
Cyclone Lam and Marcia shown on a map of Australia.
(Francisco Kjolseth \| The Salt Lake Tribune) Pass game coordinator Aaron Roderick is interviewed by the media as BYU hosts their eighth-annual football media day at the BYU-Broadcasting Building on Friday, June 22, 2018.
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After BYU’s second scrimmage of preseason football camp — a scrimmage that reporters were not allowed to watch — I asked quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator Aaron Roderick if there was a particular team’s offense that BYU’s was patterned after.
Roderick gave me one of those “I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you” responses, but it was obvious that, indeed, he and offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes had looked at some specific offenses when drawing up a plan for the Cougars.
Turns out those teams are LSU (obviously, since Grimes was in the Bayou the past four seasons), 1970s and 1980s BYU and Boise State.
Yes, that Boise State — one of the Cougars’ biggest rivals.
The jet sweep play that BYU ran nine times in the 28-23 win over Arizona and feigned a bunch more times has been a staple of the Broncos’ offense for years. And it was used a lot by LSU last year under offensive coordinator Matt Canada and his running game coordinator, Grimes.
I asked Roderick about it Wednesday after practice as BYU continued preparations for Saturday’s 8:15 p.m MDT home opener against 1-0 California.
The offense still doesn’t have an official name. But it is not easy to learn, Roderick said, and puts a lot of stress on the quarterback to make the right decisions, much like the run-pass option (RPO) plays that are popular around college football right now.
Roderick said that the quarterback has to make the keep-or-hand-off decision most of the time, but there are times when he is supposed to hand it off no matter what.
“There is a lot to it,” he said.
For what it’s worth, Grimes told reporters Wednesday that the plays called against Arizona barely scratched the surface of the offense he installed with the help of Roderick, receivers coach Fesi Sitake, running backs coach AJ Steward and tight ends coach Steve Clark.
A good half-hour after practice had ended Wednesday, a handful of Cougars were still out on the practice field, throwing and catching the football and working on specific pass routes. One of those players was freshman Zach Wilson, the rookie quarterback who lost the starting job to Mangum the last week of preseason cam...
I waited for Wilson to finish his extra work — tight end JJ Nwigwe and receiver Akile Davis also put in additional work — before asking him about just missing out on his chance to be the opening day starter.
“It has been good. I’ve been fine,” he said. “I understand the circumstances and I am just approaching game week as if I am the starter, just to make sure I am always ready. I am just supporting the team and I know coaches are going to make the best decisions for the team. I just go along with everything and make sure ...
Roderick said Wilson has handled the setback like a pro.
It is unfamiliar territory for Wilson, who can’t remember a football game in his entire life (when he was healthy) that he sat out the entire game. Even as a freshman at Jordan High (when Austin Kafentzis was the starting quarterback) he got to dress with the varsity and got in a few plays as a third-string receiver. H...
Wilson said he was far more nervous about playing as a freshman at Jordan than he was as a freshman at BYU.
• BYU’s women’s volleyball team continues to roll. The No. 9-ranked Cougars captured their own Nike-BYU Invitational last weekend, knocking off No. 1-ranked Stanford along the way in a five-set thriller. The Cougars also defeated West Virginia and Wichita State. On Tuesday, senior outside hitter Roni Jones-Perry was na...
• BYU’s women’s soccer team routed Idaho State 10-0 on Saturday night at South Field while the football team was dealing with Arizona, but the schedule gets more difficult for the Cougars this week. They will take on Utah on Friday night in Salt Lake City. Utah is 1-2-1 this season but surely will be fired up to face a...
• It has been known for more than a month that former Gonzaga guard Jesse Wade was transferring to BYU, but on Tuesday the Cougars made it official. Coach Dave Rose announced that the 6-foot-1 Wade, who played locally at Davis High School, has joined the program. Wade played sparingly in his freshman season at Gonzaga ...
BEVERLY — Dan Hughes is a notable alumnus of both Fort Frye High and Muskingum University.
At the latter in New Concord, he was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame last fall.
The 63-year-old Hughes is also the head coach of the WNBA Seattle Storm team, which has tipped off the season with a 5-1 start (as of May 27).
About a week or so ago, Hughes was featured in a story in the “Seattle Times.” Apparently, the 1973 Fort grad is a music lover, especially of rock ‘n’ roll, and has collected records for several years going back to the days when he was a Cadet.
According to the article, Hughes’ favorite albums are “Pet Sounds” by The Beach Boys, “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Band” by The Beatles, “Days of Future Passed” by The Moody Blues, “Buffalo Springfield Again” by Buffalo Springfield, and “The Mission” by Styx.
He seems to lean towards Classic Rock.
Over the years, with all of the traveling Hughes has done in his line of work as a basketball coach, he’s been fortunate enough to meet some of these rock stars, like frontman Roger Daltrey of The Who, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, organist/singer Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals, Justin Hayward and John Lodge of The...
In fact, Furay — who, along with Neil Young and Stephen Stills, helped form The Buffalo Springfield back in the mid-1960s — officiated and sang at Hughes’ daughter Sara’s wedding.
While Hughes doesn’t really golf, he has been on the links with the rock group Rush.
Needless to say, Hughes has come a long ways from Lowell in Washington County, where he was raised.
At Muskingum U, he played both basketball and baseball. Blessed with footspeed, in 1975, he led the Ohio Athletic Conference in stolen bases.
But basketball is his game.
Hughes has coached hoops on the prep, college, and pro levels. His resume reads like a road map with stops in no particular order in Oxford, Toledo, Alliance, Berea, Cleveland, Charlotte, N.C., San Antonio, Tx., and now Seattle in the Pacific Northwest.
At San Antonio, he guided the Stars to six WNBA playoff appearances.
Last year at this time, before being hired as the Seattle Storm boss, Hughes was a TV analyst.
About four years ago, Hughes returned to his prep alma mater and with the help of FFHS social studies teacher John Bostic conducted a Cadet Basketball Clinic at the Fort Frye gym. All of the proceeds went to the Jack Clark Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Hughes no doubt signed autographs at the event.
It’s what a notable alumnus does.
Just as school is drawing to a close, and parents are relishing the thought of a three-month reprieve from educational duties - no band concerts to attend, no homework to check, no spelling words to memorize - sports season rushes in to fill the void.
For my daughters, the sport is softball. On the evening of the first practice, we rush out the door: "Is your homework done? Have you practiced your clarinet? Hurry up, we don't want to be late."
I sit back and watch the practice. The girls tentatively talk with one another as they toss the ball back and forth. They exchange names, ages, schools. Off the field, their parents are doing the same - sharing morsels of their lives, a little at a time, like good chocolate that you can't eat all at once.
And then, suddenly, it's game day. Everything is new: clean uniforms, freshly mown grass. Neat chalk lines clearly mark foul territory. Summer is a promise in the air. Parents sit on metal bleachers, eating hot dogs and cheering for their kids.
The first game is a disappointment. The second is worse: Emily gets hit in the leg with the ball. Sarah strikes out - twice - and cries all the way home. Despite urgent coaching from the parents - "Throw it to first! To first!" - and wild gesticulations, the girls can't quite get it together. The parents sit resigned, ...
We go home. Dusty uniforms; grit between my teeth, in our shoes, in the house.
My husband writes a little "L" next to the game on the schedule on the fridge.
But at the third game, the team comes together. Adrienne hits two line drives. She barrels to first, and only after she's called safe does she meet her father's eyes and grin. Megan gets the ball from third to first in record time. Angela makes a play at second.
Suddenly this group of strangers has become a team. Suddenly, I remember why I love softball season.
I love the crack of the bat against the ball. I love the roar of the parents and the little tears that gather in their eyes as they watch their daughters make their first hit. Best of all, I love the confident smile on a young girl's face as she makes it home.
Like spring flowers, these girls blossom before our eyes, a little at a time, bending their necks up to reach their full height, turning their faces toward the sun.
I watch the girls as the game draws to a close. They march down the field, shaking hands with the other team. The picture is precious: unadorned faces, bright smiles, tanned noses, and skinned knees. Also chewed nails, tousled hair, and complete confidence in themselves.
We head home, the girls chattering a mile a minute in the back seat. My husband writes another little "L" on the schedule on the fridge.
But in my heart, I change it to a "W."
Pictures from the scene showed fire shooting from the partially collapsed building.
Prince George's County fire crews are on the scene of a massive fire in Beltsville, Maryland.
Firefighters were called to the Beltsville Agriculture Research Center on Animal Husbandry Road at about 6:45 a.m. Monday.
Fire Chief Marc Bashoor said the fire started in building #202, a broiler building on the grounds of the research center. Pictures from the scene showed fire shooting from the partially collapsed building.
Stay with News4 on-air and online for more on this developing story.
Lee Sung-kyung and Park Hyung-sik boasted their voice-over skills via Naver’s V app Wednesday.
They showed up while dancing to the main theme song of animated film “Trolls” and introduced their characters. They dubbed the voices for the Korean version of the DreamWorks movie.
Lee immersed herself in her role as optimistic princess Poppy by channeling her inner princess into it.
Park depended on his deep voice to play cranky worrier Branch. “Maybe I should say that Branch and I have a lot in common. When I’m hungry, I also grumble,” Park said.

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