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The day before I saw the Hypocrites' loose adaptation of all 32 surviving Greek tragedies, I flew back to Chicago from a vacation in Austria. The flight lasted nine hours, the show 12. But although it took significantly more time to get through than it takes to cross the Atlantic, All Our Tragic was no slog—and not jus...
Addison Trail's Robert Rinaldi, center, celebrates after defeating Lake Zurich in the Class 7A football playoff opener on Saturday, November 1, 2014.
Week 11 football rankings, from @mhelfgot's keyboard to your screen.
Bolingbrook eased into the second round of the Class 8A playoffs with a 35-0 victory Saturday against Bloom.
Now the Raiders will attempt to get past the second round for the first time since winning the 8A state title in 2011.
The microcosm of Mount Carmel's season started with a holding call, included penalties on three straight plays later in the possession, was resuscitated by a personal foul and ended with the go-ahead score.
On the verge: Lemont 10-0, Lincoln-Way West 9-1, Oswego 9-1, Phillips 9-1, St. Rita 7-3.
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After a weekend of number crunching we’re almost ready to announce the shortlist for this year’s Shockwaves NME Awards.
With the open voting closing on Friday, we’ve totted up who is leading the way in this year’s poll, and the 2008 nominations will be live on NME.COM from midnight tonight (January 28).
So make sure you head to NME.COM/Awards later to see if your favourite acts have a chance of clearing up come the ceremony on February 28.
In the meantime, if you want to get involved with this year’s awards yourself, you can join us at the O2 Arena just after the ceremony for the first ever Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig.
Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Klaxons and The Cribs playing and many of the bands who attend the awards are sure to attend.
To get your tickets, head to NME.COM/Biggig now.
Teenage centre-back De Ligt struck midway through the second period, though, to seal a 3-2 aggregate win and set up a last-four clash with either Manchester City or Tottenham Hotspur.
The young Dutch side had already eliminated three-time defending champions Real Madrid en route to the quarters, overturning a 2-1 home defeat against the Spanish side with a memorable 4-1 victory at the Bernabeu.
"It's an incredible evening for Ajax and its players and also for Dutch football," said manager Erik ten Hag.
The 34-year-old Portuguese, was signed for €100 million (Dh415m) last summer from Real Madrid in a bid to win the European trophy for the first time since 1996, when they beat Ajax in the final.
"Ajax deserved to qualify," said Juve manager Massimiliano Allegri.
It was the Portugal striker's 126th Champions League goal and sixth of this campaign, having now scored in his past six European games against Ajax, netting nine goals in total.
But Van de Beek soon silenced the cheers of the home crowd when he controlled a wayward Hakim Ziyech shot six minutes later, rolling the ball past Wojciech Szczesny to cancel out Juventus' away goal and make it 2-2 on aggregate.
But Ten Hag's side's incessant pressure paid off with 19-year-old captain De Ligt towering above Alex Sandro and Daniele Rugani to head home Lasse Schone's corner on 67 minutes.
"Ronaldo had a good match, he scored. He's disappointed like all of us," said Allegri. "Saturday we have to close out the Scudetto."
Above: The women's dorm is seen in Oceanside's Bread of Life emergency winter shelter, Nov. 30, 2017.
This year, three of the four emergency homeless housing shelters in North County are open year-round. And the lone seasonal winter shelter would like to be open year-round, too.
More than 2,000 people in North County experience homelessness on any one night: that’s according to the 2017 “Point In Time Count" by San Diego’s Regional Taskforce on the Homeless. The number of unsheltered homeless people rose in last year’s count.
The Bread of Life Emergency Winter Shelter in Oceanside opened in November, a month early this year, thanks to a grant from the city of Oceanside. Bread of Life has two dormitories, with just 50 beds altogether for individual men and women. They are full and there is a waiting list.
Pastor Alan Lauer runs Bread of Life. He said even though it’s not as cold in San Diego as it is in Chicago, it is still dangerous for people, especially people in poor health, to be homeless in winter.
Lauer is hoping to get funding to stay open year-round, and he would like to focus on people coming out of the hospital who have nowhere to go home to.
Together with the three year-round “bricks and mortar “ shelters in North County, Haven House in Escondido, Operation Hope in Vista and La Posada in Carlsbad, the shelter network has about 200 beds.
Greg Anglea is head of Interfaith Community Services in Escondido and president of Alliance for Regional Solutions, a network of North County agencies that work with the homeless. He said by going year-round, the shelters are able to help twice the number of people.
“This last year, three of the winter shelters began operating year-round, so we went from serving 538 individuals to serving on 1,031 over the course of a year,” he said. “As a region, this last year in North County, we successfully ended homelessness for 546, which is more people than the entire system even served the...
Anglea said the network received about $200,000 from North County cities, and the shelter programs costs $1.5 million a year to operate.
The year-round shelters help people deal with barriers to finding permanent housing and try to get them into a home of their own in 60 days. About half of those who go through the program ended up in permanent housing at the end of it, Anglea said.
Of the individuals and families that Interfaith Community Services has helped to get back into permanent housing over the past couple of years, 90 percent are still there, Anglea said. He is pushing for more community help to raise the first and last month’s rent for families that can meet monthly expenses but can't ha...
The report on the shelter network shows at least 20 percent of those who went through the shelter program returned to somewhere like a car or a canyon. Anglea said on any night, more than 1,000 people in North County are sleeping in cars, canyons, friend’s couches, or on the street.
▪ The Fort Mill Housing Authority received a $50,000 grant from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
▪ Luther G. Patterson, Fort Mill Mayor from 1934 to 1952 and 1954 to 1965, a longtime merchant and one of Fort Mill’s most prominent citizens, died unexpectedly at his home.
▪ Vereen Barron, sponsor for John Blackwell, was crowned Fort Mill High School Homecoming Queen for 1977 at halftime of Fort Mill’s victory over the Buford Yellow Jackets.
▪ Miss Shirley Roxanne Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olin Wilson, was crowned Miss Carrousel Princess at Indian Land High School.
▪ Peggy J. Marlow, assigned to Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, was promoted to Staff Sergeant in the United States Air Force. Sgt. Marlow was a 1970 graduate of Fort Mill High School.
▪ Fort Mill’s worst fire in a decade destroyed Main Street’s biggest building, McKibben’s Furniture and Appliance, located at 214 Main Street. Fort Mill City Hall and Ackerman’s Department Store were heavily damaged.
▪ Award winners at the annual Fort Mill High School football banquet were Larry Caskey, MVP; Calvin Price, Best tackler; Johnny Meyers, Best blocker and Carroll Kidd, Best team spirit.
▪ Incumbent Mayor Luther G. Patterson was re-elected without opposition. J. B. Withers, O. T. Culp, C. L. Still, W. H. Cook, C. D. Turner and George C. Starnes won seats on city council.
▪ A statewide crackdown on unlicensed motor vehicles was started by the South Carolina Highway Department.
▪ The first clash between American and German troops on the French Front resulted in three Americans killed, five wounded and 12 taken prisoner.
▪ The past weekend witnessed a shortage of sugar among the town’s merchants, causing much concern.
One of the economic issues that you’re going to vote on is the Hollywood film tax credit. What do you think of that?
I’ve run my own Hollywood film tax credit bill. It hasn’t gotten nearly as much coverage as the other one. But mine is actually modeled on Georgia, and it’s extremely aggressive because we have lost an industry…. I think we should lift the cap because what would we have to lose? If we show we’re serious and we bring ba...
You talk about more certainty for employers. Does that relate to immigration reform?
We need a major overhaul of our immigration policy in this state. Not hand over amnesty to everyone who wants to come to our state illegally, but I think we should do an overhaul. Let’s get the government out of the way of everyone who wants to come here and become an American, especially if they want to come here and ...
How do you distinguish yourself from Neel Kashkari?
Republicans, when they hear he voted for Obama, don’t want to vote for him – including moderates … I think the clear distinction is he believes that big government can work. I believe big government is the biggest threat to our future.
Your American flag pin is of the colonies. Why do you wear that?
Because it represents the banner of the first revolution, which was for liberty. And right now I believe that government control is the greatest threat to our future. It’s the greatest threat to the right to pursue happiness.
I believe in freedom, and I believe in liberty. I also believe that there is a role for a certain amount of regulation within in a society and that society has to have that discussion. I don’t think I have the answer to everything.
You voted for Obama in ’08. Why did you do that?
I paid very close attention to what both candidates were saying. When you’re in the middle of an issue as complicated as this (financial crisis) and you see somebody speaking with great nuance, and one person really understands this – what’s at stake is the American economy collapsing into the Great Depression. I cast ...
At some point you changed?
I did. I changed. I also believed then-Sen. Barack Obama when he said he was going to work to heal the partisan divide. ... I have since seen that President Obama is a partisan warrior not genuinely in interested in working across party lines. Every prior president in my lifetime, or since I’ve been old enough to pay a...
There is a bill to increase the film tax credit. What do you think of that?
I don’t like the idea of Hollywood leaving California. But I know that other states are subsidizing movies now up to 30 percent the cost of a movie, which is silly economic policy. That’s why my plan is more agnostic. My plan says if a factory picks up and moves to California, it pays no state taxes for 10 years on the...
And generally factories stick around for a while. Movie production? Six months.
Where do you stand on immigration reform?
We need to reform our laws so we’re prioritizing the workers that our economy needs. You travel around the Central Valley, all I hear is water and workers. They need labor to work the farms, and you go through the Silicon Valley and they need more engineers and scientists. ... No. 2, of course, we need to enforce the l...
For 12 million here who are undocumented, what I say to everybody, what I say to conservative Republicans, I say, even if you want to deport them, they’re not going anywhere. It’s never going to happen. So stop talking about it. I want everyone who’s here paying their fair share – paying their taxes, contributing to ou...
But there needs to be a path somewhere, so let’s get on it.
The company also plans to move its headquarters and research and development work to a 150,000-square-foot office in Lexington that is expected to open in early 2018. That office ultimately would have projected employment of 110.
The company’s total investment in Kentucky would be more than $400 million.
The project was a lightning bolt of good news in Pike County and the area, where the economy has been sapped by a sharp downturn in coal jobs.
More than 250 people packed the room at the Pikeville Expo Center for the announcement, and officials used words like historic and revolutionary to describe the project.
Many compared the potential for the plan to the economic impact Toyota has had in Central Kentucky with its Georgetown manufacturing plant.
“It’s a game-changer not only for Pikeville and Pike County, but for the entire region,” said state Sen. Ray Jones, a Pikeville Democrat who was at the announcement.
In the third quarter of 2011, there were 14,301 coal jobs in Eastern Kentucky. That number had plummeted to 3,896 in the third quarter of this year, according to the state Energy and Environment Cabinet.
The EnerBlu project could put many of the laid-off miners back to work and spark jobs at supplier plants, officials said.
Supporters also noted the potential for other benefits, including boosting the tax base; making it possible for people who have left the area for work to move back; and creating demand for housing.
“I think we’re just at the front end of something truly transformative for Eastern Kentucky,” said Republican Gov. Matt Bevin.
“We’ve dreamed about this day,” U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, a Republican who represents Eastern and Southern Kentucky, said at the announcement.
Economic development projects don’t always go as planned, but officials said they think EnerBlu has the ability to deliver on its promises.
Executives and scientists from American Electric Power took a hard look at EnerBlu and its technology and came away convinced to invest in the company, said Matt Satterwhite, president and chief operating officer of Kentucky Power, which is part of AEP.
AEP, which has operations in 33 states and 167,000 customers in Eastern Kentucky, will invest about $5 million, Satterwhite said.
Satterwhite said if anyone can be successful with the project, it is Michael Weber, EnerBlu’s executive chairman, and Daniel Elliott, president and CEO.
“We don’t invest lightly,” he said.
Bevin’s office said the product the Pikeville plant would make is a rechargeable battery that recharges faster than other lithium-ion batteries.
More than 70 percent of the world’s production of the battery is in China, at a plant where Elliott used to work, according to Bevin and his office.
The EnerBlu plant in Pikeville would be the first in the U.S. to make the battery.
The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority recently approved a total of $30 million in tax incentives for the Pikeville and Lexington EnerBlu projects.
Kentucky almost missed out on the project.
EnerBlu looked at sites across the country for the factory and was close to choosing South Carolina.
But earlier this year, Jonathan Webb, who is working to develop a massive greenhouse project in Pike County, ran into EnerBlu executives at a conference in Idaho and told them they should consider Kentucky.
Jared Arnett, executive director of the Shaping Our Appalachian Region initiative, said Webb contacted him and then worked through Lexington businessman Jim Host, who is on the SOAR board, and Terry R. Gill, head of the state Economic Development Cabinet, to ask Bevin to call EnerBlu executives.
Elliott said Bevin called at 2:30 a.m., and later met with EnerBlu officials in Aspen, Colo.
It took the efforts of elected officials at every level, business interests and the community to land the plant, those at Friday’s announcement said.
Weber said no place worked harder to welcome the company.
Bevin’s office said the factors EnerBlu cited in picking Kentucky included the state’s advantage of being within a day’s drive of 65 percent of the U.S. population, the availability of a trained workforce and low costs for industrial electricity.
“They did fall in love with the work ethic and the people, and just the friendliness of people and the ease of operation,” Bevin said.
EnerBlu was established in 2015 through a collaboration between BRAC Global Automotive and Symblu.
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has stocked the Cumberland River with 38,000 cutthroat trout, the first time the fish has been stocked in Kentucky.

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