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Spring may be almost here, but another nor’easter – the fourth this month – is still set to cause travel disruptions across the northeastern United States and New England. Major airlines are issuing change waivers in anticipation.
According to the latest forecast from Accuweather, the slow-moving storm system will bring an extended period of wet snow or wintery mix from the eastern part of the Ohio Valley to the upper part of the Delmarva Peninsula and New Jersey from Tuesday into Wednesday night. From northern Ohio to northern Pennsylvania and into much of the Hudson Valley and central New England, there may be little accumulation of snow despite low temperatures.
Customers on American Airlines scheduled to travel March 20 – 21 can rebook through March 25 between the same city pair in the same cabin (or pay the difference).
On Delta, travelers scheduled March 20 – 21 can rebook through March 25, with the new ticket to be reissued on or before that date.
United Airlines is allowing customers scheduled to fly March 20 – 21 to rebook through March 24 between the same city pair in the originally ticketed cabin (any fare class).
On Southwest Airlines, customers flying March 20 – 22 (depending on the airport) can rebook in the original class of service or travel standby within 14 days of their original date of travel between the original city pair.
Customers flying JetBlue March 20 – 21 can rebook through March 23.
Finally, customers on Frontier Airlines flying March 20 – 21 can rebook through March 30.
PRETORIA – President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended the lifespan of the commission of inquiry probing allegations of impropriety at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC).
In a statement on Saturday, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge Lex Mpati in Pretoria, said Ramaphosa had acceded to the commission’s request for an extension, with the new date of submission of the final report being July 31.
In accordance with its terms of reference, the commission submitted an interim report on February 15, and was scheduled to hand in its final report by April 15.
“In his interim report, submitted to the president on February 15, 2019, the chairperson of the commission, Justice Lex Mpati, requested an extension of three months. The motivation for the request is the extent of the ongoing investigations by the commission’s forensic team into a considerable number of transactions, which must be concluded well in advance of the date of submission of the final report to the president,” the statement said.
The addition came as a result of allegations made before the commission that, in certain instances, the PIC might not have acted in accordance with clients’ mandates.
The public hearings were set to continue as scheduled today. The commission is headed by Mpati, assisted by former South African Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus and veteran asset manager Emmanuel Lediga.
Among the 16 terms of reference the commission must probe is whether any alleged impropriety regarding investment decisions by the PIC as alleged in media reports in 2017 and 2018 contravened any legislation. The commission is probing whether PIC policy or contractual obligations resulted in any undue benefit for any of its directors or employees, or any associate or family member of any director or employee at the time.
In August, La Liga announced it would play one of its 2018-19 matches in the United States. It came as part of a 15-year deal with Relevent, a sports and entertainment group that runs the pre-season International Champions Cup, which has hosted the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid on American soil for the last few summers.
Initially, few of the finer details were unveiled beyond the fact that it was a ploy to promote La Liga in North America, the Spanish league's No. 1 target for selling international TV rights and a market that has jumped in value from €220 million in 2015 to €900 million today.
The news came as a bombshell. Toward the end of August, members of the Spanish Footballers' Association—which included 25 club captains and players, among them Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos and Barcelona's Sergio Busquets—met in Madrid to discuss the proposal. Disgruntled, they have threatened to strike.
Luis Rubiales, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation—one of six international bodies who must sanction the proposal, along the Spanish government's sports department (CSD), Spain's foreign office, the United States Soccer Federation, UEFA and CONCACAF—has denounced the unilateral move by his La Liga counterpart, Javier Tebas.
Rubiales—who made international headlines on the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup by sacking Spain's coach, Julen Lopetegui, because Lopetegui was perceived to have gone behind the back of the federation in securing a post as Real Madrid's manager—described Tebas as "rude" for failing to consult him and the other interested parties and says the plan is meaningless without his federation's say-so.
Money talks, however. Girona and Barcelona, the two clubs earmarked for the fixture on January 26 at Miami's 65,000-seat Hard Rock Stadium, are supportive of the move. Both stand to pocket €4 million. "Barca is in favour of playing a game in a strategic market like the U.S.," Barcelona spokesman Josep Vives said. "Everyone can be enriched—from clubs, players and sponsors."
Girona is predominately owned by Manchester City's parent company, City Football Group, and the Girona Football Group, owned by Pep Guardiola's brother, Pere. The club see the Miami game as a chance to grow their brand globally, only a few years after they nearly disappeared in bankruptcy. Last Thursday, Girona released a statement saying it was working on a proposal with La Liga for the match.
As the "home" team for the fixture, Girona's fans stand to lose the most. From B/R's interviews with the presidents of several of their supporters' clubs, the majority are upset by the decision to lose out on such an alluring tie.
"As a fan and a member of Girona, I would like the match to be played in our stadium, Montilivi," says Joaquim Alegret, president of the Federation of the Supporters' Clubs of Girona. "In general, members think this match shouldn't be played in the United States. It's nothing to do with the United States. If it were going to be played in Norway, it would be the same reaction—it's a different country. We just want to play the game in our stadium.
"Barca is well known everywhere with supporters' clubs all around the world, but we are a small club that is playing in the premier division for only its second season. We are still trying to consolidate our position, so it's very important for us—this match. The most important matches for us are against Barca and Real Madrid, so people are upset because when they paid for their season ticket, nobody told them this could happen."
Girona has released details of a compensation package for its fans who would like to travel to the game in Miami and for those aggrieved by the missed chance to see the game in their 13,500-seat stadium.
The club has offered 1,500 free tickets to the match in Miami, as well as offering to cover the fare for fans' transatlantic flights. For those wishing to stay on in the city for a couple of days of sightseeing, a package will cost each fan €450 for two nights' hotel accommodation. Those who do not wish to travel can get a 40 per cent refund on the cost of their season ticket or get a ticket for Girona's match against Barcelona at the Camp Nou later this month.
"Well, really what I and most of the fans want is this match to be played in Girona, not in Miami. We don't want to go to Miami," says Lluis Bosch, a spokesperson for Penya Gironina, a supporters' club.
"We understand globalisation and what makes people take these kinds of decisions—for money, for marketing and so on. La Liga is looking for more sources of money in the United States, and that's the reason why they take teams like Barca to play in the United States. Girona is a small team and easier to appease than, say, a Spanish team like Sevilla or Real Betis or Valencia. The fact Girona has only 10,000 members makes it easier to compensate with travel costs or with a season ticket refund than a club with more members."
From a practical standpoint, Alegret is sceptical about the impact that playing one match from a yearly schedule of 380 league games can have on the footballing consciousness of a country on a different continent: "Sorry, but do you really think taking a single football match to the United States will benefit the growth and popularity of Spanish league football in the United States?"
"The excitement of the children who follow Girona is to be able to watch Barca playing here in Girona, so they can see players like Luis Suarez and Leo Messi," says Bosch. "The average age of Girona's fans is very young. Twelve years ago Girona was in the third tier; before, everybody in Girona used to support Barca first. If the match goes ahead in Miami, and if Girona gets relegated, those young children might never get to see Messi. That 'ilusion'—that sense of magic—La Liga is taking away from us; we don't like it."
Eyebrows were raised by La Liga's selection of two Catalan clubs to play the overseas fixture, as the region is mired in a separatist struggle with the Spanish government. The hostility erupted onto the TV and smartphone screens of people around the world almost a year ago when police injured hundreds of voters at polling stations around Catalonia during an informal referendum on independence.
La Liga's chief, Tebas, was a youth member of Fuerza Nueva, Spain's defunct version of the British National Party, and has taken a hardline stance against Catalan independence since coming into office in 2013; for example, he refused Barcelona's request to postpone its league match against Las Palmas on the day of the October 2017 referendum violence.
On September 6, he announced that no Catalan symbolism would be allowed in the Hard Rock Stadium on the day of the proposed match, that the Spanish national anthem would be played before kick-off and that 40,000 Spanish flags would be handed out to fans in their seats, which has irked fans from both Catalan clubs.
"It is a really political move for Javier Tebas to choose Girona against Barca for this tie," says Ernest Pujadas, a member of Almogavers, one of Barcelona's most iconic supporters' clubs. "Girona is a city where [exiled Catalan leader] Carles Puigdemont was mayor. Girona is one of the strongholds of Catalan independence. Its population is about 80 percent in favour of independence.
"Last season, the Girona vs. Barcelona match was the last game before October 1. It was a highly political game. Barca-Girona fans were united. We organised before the match about the demonstrations we were going to do. I think Javier Tebas doesn't want to see another occasion like it—that political game in Girona where Barca fans and Girona fans are united for independence.
"Playing in Miami, giving away 40,000 Spanish flags for free to people who go to the stadium. You wouldn't see more than two or three Spanish flags in a regular Barca game at the Camp Nou, but you will see a lot of Esteladas [Catalan flags]. In Girona's stadium, it is the same—it is almost impossible to see a Spanish flag. Javier Tebas is really clever in simply erasing that match for us and instead trying to play that match in Miami with the national anthems of Spain and the United States beforehand. It's a political move by Tebas to tell the world something that is not true."
Tebas has to negotiate on several fronts to get his proposal greenlit, including with the headstrong Rubiales. But a recent precedent was ironically one organised by Rubiales' federation, which saw Barcelona defeat Sevilla 2-1 in the Spanish Super Cup in Tangier, Morocco, in August. On Monday, plans to hold a UEFA Champions League final in New York were mooted by Mediapro chief executive Jaume Roures in an interview with Catalunya Radio (h/t Sport).
Girona's supporters clubs are weighing up their options. Things will become clearer if the fixture is confirmed. There are talks about making a protest at the club's next home game against Celta Vigo on Monday, according to Bosch, but nothing is confirmed yet. Boycotting the Miami game hasn't been ruled out.
"A boycott is possible," says Xavier Torres, who has been a member of Girona for 22 years. "We are cautious and we will wait until it's official. Why? Because you can't live menacing people. If the match is confirmed, fans through La Liga's Federation of Supporters' Clubs could think about a boycott. It's possible. I have the opportunity to go to the match, but I will stage my mini-boycott by not going. I don't like the way the members have been treated.
"If the club had said at the beginning of summer about the possibility of doing this—before we paid for our season tickets—it would have been better, but the way they did it was hurtful. Girona is a city, but it's really like a big village. We're a very sensitive people. This has caused some painful wounds for us."
The last few weeks, and months, have been pretty crazy — news of mailed pipe bombs, an accusation of sexual assault by a Supreme Court nominee and yet another mass shooting driven by anti-Semitism have left many in this country reeling.
Gender. Some of us think about it more than others — one may happen to notice this particular aspect of one’s identity more in certain situations, such as walking home at night in the city.
Our campus, though nestled in the white mountains of New Hampshire, hours away from the hustle and bustle of city life, is a thriving and pulsing center.
The last word. When everything is said and done, what is left? You spent four years here. Twelve terms.
Time flies when you’re having fun. Or in our case, time flies when your term is packed back-to-back with midterms, meetings, lunch dates and midnight cram sessions.
Carolyn: I was disappointed to find out that I was randomly assigned to live in the River — notoriously known as one of the worst dorms because of its distant location from the center of campus.
A growing number of reports accuse the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of tampering with passengers’ electronic devices, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Filed today, the lawsuit alleges the TSA is, perhaps illegally, searching the cell phones and laptops of airline passengers on domestic flights. Now the ACLU is demanding the US Government respond by disclosing its policies for searching mobile devices on (or before) flights.
For international travelers, the problem is a pervasive one. The ACLU and others have raised concerns previously over TSA and US Customs and Border Patrol agents performing invasive searches of international travelers’ phones and devices. According to numerous reports, foreign travelers have been forced to unlock mobile phones and laptops for what seem to be illegal searches.
On domestic flights, however, the problem is relatively new. It also doesn’t seem to follow a pattern of singling out sexes, races, or religious groups. The only similarities reported seem to be that the searches typically happen without warning or explanation. and almost always in a pre-flight security line.
The TSA declined to comment on the lawsuit, but confirmed to TNW that it does not search the contents of electronic devices.
If your device has been searched by the TSA in the past, with or without justification, please reach out to bryan@thenextweb.com.
And Mike Bloomberg is not the only victim in today’s Quinnipiac poll. Council Speaker Christine Quinn is too.
Bloomberg, who had an approval rating in the 70s, has slipped nine points and is in the 60s for the first time in two years (He is exactly at 66, compared to a high of 75).
Quinn, however, is seeing the lowest approval rating of her tenure — at 40 percent. The highest rating she has ever seen was in March of 2007 at 51 percent, according to the poll.
Dara L. Miles reports on how anything involving the New York City schools can spawn a controversy.
The Department of Education is working to change the way breakfast is served in New York City’s public schools in pursuit of a laudable goal — getting more kids to eat that first meal of the day.
New York schools have been offering free breakfast since 2003. Teachers, administrators and advocates agree that a nutritious breakfast improves student concentration and performance, but participation in New York’s program has been low. Only one in five students ate breakfast at school in the 2006-2007 school year, giving the city’s schools one of the lowest participation rates in the country.
A report has emerged on the Times quoting two close confidants of Sen. Hillary Clinton, who say she would take a position in President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet as Secretary of State.
If the Times is correct, pols in New York could be looking for a promotion.
The service provides real time information on road and transit routes via phone or the Web so that you can know what to expect before you leave home.
Users can now call 511, free of charge, and get information on any mode of transportation in the New York City area, including parts of New Jersey and Long Island. (The service is planned to be rolled out statewide by January next year.) Those outside of the service region can call 888-GO-511-NY.
A voice recognition system delivers service updates on highways, bus routes, and number of other options. If the system itself doesn’t have access to the data a user seeks, it will transfer them to the appropriate agency. With 347 transfer options, callers can find information on anything from para-transit to ride sharing.
Updates are available to the public within seconds of an interruption in many cases.
511NY.org offers expanded options, including a trip planner that uses Google maps.
Many users may just use Google Transit. But that service doesn’t account for service interruptions like the 511NY planner. Planned interruptions are also in included.
New York’s 511 is unique in the country as it is the only service to offer regional data that crosses state lines.
“We want to get this fully turned on before the holidays,” says Todd Westhuis, 511 NY’s project director.
Despite widespread community opposition, including charges that the city’s proposal is racist and discriminatory, the City Council is set to approve a rezoning plan for the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The plan would cap building heights at 80 feet and include set asides for affordable housing. In certain areas of the rezoning, which includes more than 110 blocks, affordable housing would make up 20 percent of the building. Both council members that represent the district, Rosie Mendez and Alan Gerson, support the plan.
At a press conference just now, Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the rezoning plan was initiated by the community in an attempt to protect the character of the quickly gentrifying neighborhood. The plan, council members added, preserves the diverse population.
Much of the opposition was from populations in surrounding communities, like Chinatown, who feared gentrification would spill over onto their streets once the Lower East Side had height restrictions. Gerson said the deal with the administration would include funding to protect those communities from developer harassment and fast-track rezonings for their own streets.
This is the latest rezoning of more than 90 that the Bloomberg administration has put forth since taking office.
It was a voila moment for the City Council.
After the director refused to say whether the administration could rescind the rebate on its own sans City Council approval, Weprin flailed an “ah ha” document in the air.
The administration had previously asserted that it did not need the City Council to approve the withdrawal of the property tax rebate, which many members oppose. The municipal bond document, however, was drafted with the help of the Office of Management and Budget and clearly states that the legislature’s approval is a necessity.
“I would suggest you contact (city Corporation Counsel) Michael Cardoza immediately,” said Weprin.
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein got a friendly reception from the city’s school administrators at the annual union’s annual conference Saturday afternoon. But the tone changed after he ducked out and union president Ernest Logan took the podium.
Logan, who heads New York’s Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, tweaked Klein for not wearing a tie and touched on some more substantive disagreements with the administration. These include early childhood education and, above all, the structure the mayor has devised to run the city’s public schools. In announcing the union’s report — “Rethinking Mayoral Control” — Logan said he expects mayor control to continue when it come before the state legislature next spring. “I’m a realist,” he said.
He then went on to list how the union would like to see the system improved.
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When Mayor Michael Bloomberg began discussing his plan to weather the deteriorating fiscal climate, he said he remained committed to important infrastructure projects.
“If you don’t pay for infrastructure, you pay for it many, many times down the road,” the mayor declared.
Nonetheless, one week later a plan for school construction was discretely released which slashed the number of schools to be built nearly in half.
But is there a way for the city to maintain a solid footing in the face of an economic storm and also continue to build infrastructure projects?
Comptroller William Thompson thinks there might be. At a Crain’s breakfast last month, he floated the idea of infrastructure as an investment for the city’s pension funds.
“Such an investment could help further diversify our portfolio and fulfill our fiduciary goals in terms of return on investment, while addressing the urgent need to repair and expand our roads, bridges, power plants, and schools,” he said.
Domestic infrastructure is an area of growth “that will continue to see demand,” he added.
The projects funded would likely not end up within the city, however.
The New York City Council today approved zoning changes that pave the way for two ambitious redevelopment projects in Queens. City officials say the Willets Point redevelopment plan in northeast Queens and the Hunters Point South plan in Long Island City will provide thousands of affordable homes for middle-class and low-income families.
Of the two proposals, the Willetts Point plan has drawn the most criticism, much of it from some of the 200 small businesses, which will be forced to relocate. Most of the businesses — many of them auto-related — operate out of facilities leased from the landowners. The city has reached agreements with some owners to buy more than half the land involved, but may use its rights of eminent domain to acquire the rest.
While Council Speaker Christine Quinn hailed the vote as “a great day for the borough of Queens,” other members expressed concern over the use of eminent domain, but voted for the zoning changes anyway, saying that the benefits — housing, jobs and an environmental clean up — were too important to ignore. Still two members, Anthony Avella and Charles Barron sided with the businesses and voted “no,” and councilmember Letitia James abstained, because she is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the city challenging a previous use of eminent domain.
The Department of Education spent about $135 million on its cherished accountability initiative last year, according to an Independent Budget Office report released today. While such a number — most of it going for central office expenses, not teachers and classes — looms large in an era of cutbacks, at a press conference this morning Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, who requested the report, and her staff seemed more focused on what that figure does not include — and on the reaction from the department — than on the bottom line figure.
The spending, estimated to come in at around $105 million this year, includes progress reports, surveys and money paid as performance bonuses to school and principals. The largest chunk — $29 million last year — was for the schools’ controversial ARIS computer system.
The total includes money to pay the 79 people reportedly working in the accountability office. Although the Department of Education cautions that all jobs are subject to budget constraints, it lists six open positions working on the accountability initiative. The jobs seem notable for their opaque titles (director of knowledge management, KM domain leader for leadership and organizational management, summative assessments product manager) and salaries of up to $170,000.
Oh the endless saga of the New York City press pass. How we loathe thee.
But maybe the wretched ordeal of being denied time and time and time again will finally change in this era of new New York media.

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