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The original Wintonaire was pretty cool — literally. When it opened in the mid-1940s at 628 N. Winton Road, it was one of the first local taverns to offer air conditioning. Hence “air” being part of the name.
In the decades since, it’s blown through a number of owners and even sat vacant for eight years in the 2000s.
The latest iteration shut down in October. But in early August, the place will reopen — only as something entirely new, says building owner Mike Calabrese, the man behind Java’s Café on Gibbs Street and a co-owner of Good Luck Restaurant on Anderson Avenue.
Calabrese is partnering on the project with two major players on the Rochester restaurant scene — Chuck Cerankosky, also a co-owner of Good Luck and of Cure at the Rochester Public Market, and Dan Martello, chef at Good Luck and Cure.
The restaurant’s menu hasn’t been hammered out yet. “We’ll work on that together,” he said.
Also, parking will be expanded. Currently there is a small lot next to The Wintonaire, but Calabrese recently bought a building on Browncroft Boulevard behind The Wintonaire, and that building's parking lot will be available for restaurant customers. He estimated that the two parking lots combined will offer around 42 spaces.
Perhaps the biggest change of all will be letting go of longstanding Wintonaire moniker.
(CNN) -- Sinclair Broadcast Group announced Tuesday its television stations won't run in its entirety a documentary attacking Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and said reports that it had planned to do so were incorrect.
The announcement from the Maryland-based company followed two weeks of intense criticism from Democrats and from its own Washington bureau chief, who was fired Monday after he told The Baltimore Sun the decision to air the 45-minute film as a news program was "biased political propaganda."
The film, "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," features former American prisoners of war blasting Kerry's Vietnam-era antiwar activism, particularly his 1971 testimony before a Senate committee in which the decorated Navy officer recounted allegations of atrocities by U.S. troops.
Sinclair said Tuesday it will air a special news program, called "A POW Story," that will include the documentary's allegations against Kerry in a "broader discussion." The company said 40 of its 62 stations will air the program, including stations in the presidential swing states of Ohio, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin.
"Contrary to numerous inaccurate political and press accounts, the Sinclair stations will not be airing the documentary 'Stolen Honor' in its entirety," the company said in a written statement. "At no time did Sinclair ever publicly announce that it intended to do so."
The film, by journalist Carlton Sherwood, is backed by the anti-Kerry veterans group Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth. The group has accused Kerry of lying about his Vietnam combat record and harming U.S. prisoners as an antiwar activist by recounting allegations of war crimes by U.S. troops to a Senate committee.
Sinclair had ordered its television stations to pre-empt regular programming to air the program based on "Stolen Honor." But it said Tuesday that it had prominently noted throughout the controversy that "the exact format of this unscripted event has not been finalized."
"The news special will focus in part on the use of documentaries and other media to influence voting, which emerged during the 2004 political campaigns, as well as on the content of certain of these documentaries," a corporate statement said. "The program will also examine the role of the media in filtering the information contained in these documentaries, allegations of media bias by media organizations that ignore or filter legitimate news and the attempts by candidates and other organizations to influence media coverage."
Jon Leiberman, the Sinclair reporter fired for publicly criticizing the company's handling of the documentary, said Sinclair executives told its news staff Sunday that they planned to run a "significant chunk" of the film, "but they refused to put a time on it." He said he objected when the company told reporters to develop news stories around the film.
"They were going to have the news department take an active role in framing this documentary as a news item," Leiberman said.
Leiberman, who said he has seen "Stolen Honor," called the film "very inflammatory."
"It's a presentation of some of what a number of POWs have to say about how they were tortured because of what John Kerry said in 1971, and they make a direct link between the treatment and torture they received and John Kerry's statements. It wouldn't be considered objective by any means."
He said his objections stemmed from Sinclair's efforts to build a news program around the movie, which he warned would damage the company's journalistic credibility.
"It seems like they're backing off, but we won't know until we see what's on the air on Friday," Leiberman said. "If they do back off, I honestly believe it's because of all the pressure."
Sinclair's stations reach about a quarter of U.S. households. Its top executives have donated at least $58,000 to President Bush's re-election campaign or the Republican National Committee for the 2004 election. Democrats said Sinclair would have been making an illegal campaign contribution to Bush's re-election effort by airing the film. Some stockholders have raised questions about the decision as well, and some Wall Street analysts have blamed the controversy for recent declines in the company's stock value.
Leiberman was dismissed for violating company policy when he repeated his complaints to The Sun. Company spokesman Mark Hyman, whose conservative commentaries are included in news programming Sinclair produces for its stations, said Leiberman was breaking silence because of his "political views."
"We have no further comment on the actions of a disgruntled employee or an ongoing personnel matter," Hyman said in a statement to CNN Monday night. "Viewers can grade Leiberman's opinion versus the reality when the finished product is aired."
People who are visual impaired are much more likely to feel depressed and isolated.
Some 13% of Israelis ages 20 and above – 15% of women and 12% of men, or about 710,000 people – are visually impaired, according to a survey by the Central Bureau of Statistics released ahead of Israel’s National Blind Day, observed this year on June 6.
Of those, some 570,000 or 11% have mild visual impairment, while approximately 140,000 or 2.5%, suffer severe visual impairments, including total blindness, according to the findings.
Unsurprisingly, the percentage of visually impairment rises with age, with 44% of those aged 75 and above having some sort of visual impairment, of which 30% is mild and 14% is severe.
The rate of severe visual impairment is higher among those with less educational background; among those who are 20 through 64 years old without a matriculation certificate, the rate of visual impairment is 1.5 times greater than it is in the rest of the population.
Similarly, the rate of employment among those in the same age group with severe visual impairments is 57%, compared to 76% among those without such impairments.
The report also found that 68% of severely visually impaired people who are employed are satisfied with their jobs and 52% are satisfied with their income. That compares to 87% and 59% respectively among the rest of population.
The report revealed some troublesome findings, mainly that one in four people with a severe visual impairment feel isolated and alone and 24% often feel depressed, compared to 6% among the rest of the population.
Furthermore, the findings indicated that 73% of people with a severe visual impairment were satisfied with their lives and 32% believe their lives will improve in the future, compared to 89% and 55% respectively among the general population.
EA has announced all three Mass Effect games will be available for the price of one when EA releases the Mass Effect Trilogy compilation on November 6th, 2012 for Xbox 360 and PC. The collection marks the first time that the original Mass Effect—which was released as an Xbox 360 exclusive—will be playable on the PlayStation 3. According to EA's press release, the PS3 version will be out at a later date.
"NBC Nightly News" hosts Brian Williams and Lester Holt performed an impressive rendition of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" on "The Tonight Show" on Wednesday.
Of course, they didn't actually rap the song, nor were they in the studio, but this mashup of old news clips is just as good. Kathy Lee Gifford even makes a quick cameo in the hilarious music video.
This isn't the first time that late night TV host Jimmy Fallon has featured Williams in a mashup. The news anchor has also "rapped" Warren G's "Regulate" and Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang."
(Reuters) - Dell Technologies Inc will ask holders of “tracking stock” tied to its software company VMware Inc to vote on its $21.7 billion cash-and-stock offer to buy it back from them on Dec. 11, according to people familiar with the matter.
The move sets Dell on a collision course with some investors opposing the offer, including billionaire Carl Icahn, who owns 8.3 percent of the tracking stock. Icahn argued in an open letter to other investors this week that the deal would unfairly give $11 billion in value to Dell’s controlling shareholders, founder Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake.
The security “tracks,” or depends on, the financial performance of VMware, and has been trading at a discount of more than 35 percent to VMware’s stock, which is steeper than what investment bankers advised Dell it initially would be. This has emboldened investors such as Icahn to argue that Dell’s offer undervalues the tracking stock.
Dell needs a majority of the holders of the tracking stock to approve the deal. An Oct. 18 record date has been set, by which time investors needed to hold the tracking stock to be eligible to vote, according to the sources.
The acquisition of the publicly-traded tracking stock would result in Dell becoming a publicly listed company without an initial public offering (IPO). Dell disclosed on Oct. 3 that it had met with investment banks to explore an IPO as a contingency.
Dell will explore the IPO further only if the tracking stock owners vote down the offer in December, the sources said, asking not to be identified because the decision to set a vote has not yet been announced. A Dell spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Dell is offering $109 in cash for each tracking share, up to $9 billion in total, with the remainder payable with 1.3665 shares of Dell’s Class C common stock for each tracking share. That is equivalent to a 41/59 cash-stock split.
Following the deal, investors who owned the tracking stock would collectively account for between 20.8 percent and 31 percent of Dell’s ownership.
Icahn said this week that, based on his calculations, the tracking stock should be worth about $144 per share, and that Dell’s offer is actually worth only $94 per share, because, in his view, Dell is inflating the value of its own privately held shares. The tracking stock ended trading on Thursday at $94.49.
Dell has argued that its growth justifies a pre-transaction equity value for the company of $48.4 billion.
Dell has also cited its regulatory filings that show the deal was the outcome of months-long negotiations between Dell and a special board committee representing the interests of tracking stock owners.
Dell can force investors to convert their tracking stock into common stock at a 20-percent premium in the first year following an IPO, 15 percent in the second year, and 10 percent from the third year on. It has argued that tracking stock investors are better off accepting its offer now, which carries a 29 percent premium to the price of the tracking stock on June 29, before Dell announced the transaction.
Shareholder advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS) said earlier this month that Dell should renegotiate the tracking stock deal. ISS said it was reserving its final opinion until Dell files its definitive proxy statement, but added there were questions on whether the bid was worth as much as Dell claimed and whether it represented a fair premium.
The tracking stock battle has echoes of the $24.9 billion deal that Dell and Silver Lake clinched to take the company private in 2013, a transaction that Icahn also opposed, though he managed to secure a slight bump in the buyout offer.
Other investors that have opposed the tracking stock deal include P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LP, which earlier this month asked Dell to raise its offer by 20 percent. Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp is also not satisfied with Dell’s offer, sources have said.
If the deal goes through, Michael Dell would own 47 percent to 54 percent of the combined company and Silver Lake would own between 16 percent and 18 percent. Going public would give Michael Dell and Silver Lake the ability to eventually sell down their stakes, even though they have said they have no plans to do so.
As a public company, Dell could also more easily use its stock as currency for acquisitions. While its debt has dropped from $57.3 billion following the EMC deal to $50.3 billion, it remains heavily indebted. The company continues to pay down debt and has told investors it aims for an investment-grade rating sometime next year.
Passengers and crew were evacuated from a plane that requested to land at Paphos airport on Tuesday night due to an emergency.
According to the Hermes Airports spokesman Adamos Aspris, the airport was put on guard at approximately 8:50pm when a passenger plane which was in Cyprus’ airspace heading for Egypt requested to land.
“All the necessary procedures were followed and the plane securely landed, ten minutes after 9pm,” he added.
A total of 143 passengers were evacuated along with six crew members, and the necessary checks were being conducted on the aircraft, which came from Belgrade.
Earlier, police had said that the plane requested to land due to a fire alarm that had been raised on the aircraft.
WOOLWORTHS has done a major backflip on its plastic bag ban and will now hand out free reusable bags to shoppers for the next 10 days.
The supermarket giant has responded to outrage by customers just one week after they dumped single-use plastic bags in all their stores in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and WA.
Irate customers have complained about having to pay for bags at the checkout while some shoppers have not had enough of their own bags to take away all their own groceries in.
Others annoyed customers who had simply forgotten to bring their own bags have also voiced their frustration at having to pay for their own shopping bags.
Woolworths has dumped single-use plastic bags in all its stores nationally.
Woolworths managing director of supermarkets Claire Peters said they have responded to customer feedback and shoppers will now be able to get free 15 cent reusable bags until Sunday, July 8.
"Since we have phased out single-use plastic bags nationwide on the 20th of June some customers have told us that getting into the habit of bringing their own reusable bags has been a challenge,'' she said.
"While some customers have forgotten their reusable bags altogether many have done the right thing and brought their own only to end up one or two reusable bags short."
The bags are made from 80 per cent of recycled plastics.
Customers will be able to get as many bags as they need at no charge so they can take away their groceries.
Many Woolworths customers have been outraged that they have to pay for their own bags.
However, this will not apply to locations outside of the four states where the ban has been implemented this month.
Woolworths has taken more than 50 million grey plastic bags - often reused by customers as bin liners - out of circulation since the plastic bag ban came into effect on June 20.
Rival supermarket giant Coles will also be dumping single-use plastic bags in all its stores including Coles Express and Shell service stations in Vic, NSW, Qld and WA from this Sunday.
The move by the big two supermarkets to dump plastic bags is to help reduce the environmental impact of single-use bags.
Concerns have swirled around the use of single-use plastic bags because they are not biodegradable and can have detrimental impacts on marine wildlife and birds.
Single-use plastic bags will be dumped from Coles supermarkets from July 1.
Ms Peters said many Woolworths customers "want a little extra help" to get through the transaction to bring their own bags or buying reusable bags at 15 cents or fordable bags at 99 cents.
"This will not only help support customers as they work to form new habits but also ensure they'll have reusable bags available for shopping at Woolworths,'' she said.
Online shoppers at Woolworths have also voiced their frustrations at being slugged for having their groceries delivered to their homes of the costs involved.
This includes having groceries delivered in reusable plastic bags at $1 per delivery or pay for them to be delivered in a crate to bench service at $3.50 per order.
These charges will remain in place.
Charlotte lawyer Jeremy Stephenson, a conservative Republican and 2015 school board candidate – but not a Trump voter – said a friend sent him the post, which he recirculated on Facebook.
Ford, in response, noted that the comment was from his personal Twitter account. But he didn’t back away from what he wrote, which he said referred specifically to voters in Appalachia.
Ford said the continuing discussions of opportunity in Charlotte will require frank talk across racial and social lines. He views the willingness of residents to bridge differences of opinion as a test of the city’s commitment to change.
Michael Marsicano, president and CEO of the Foundation for the Carolinas, noted Ford’s accomplishments as teacher of the year and being named Charlottean of the Year by Charlotte Magazine in 2014. The foundation helped fund the task force.
“James Ford was appointed to co-chair the implementation task force because of his strong professional credentials in a key subject area of the report, namely education, and his close ties to constituent groups impacted by the task force report,” Marsicano said in a statement. He did not directly address the tweet.
The last few years have been a whirlwind for James Ford, 34, who went from being a teacher at Garinger High teacher and winner of CMS Teacher of the Year to North Carolina Teacher of the Year in 2014-15.
Ford, a former Garinger High history teacher and Illinois native, won the state’s top-teacher award in 2014.
The following year he left teaching to join the Public School Forum of North Carolina, an education research and advocacy group, where he works with new teachers and on policies to turn around the state’s chronically struggling schools.
Forum President Keith Poston has said Ford is equally at ease with students, teachers, politicians and corporate leaders. “It’s a rare talent in a polarized political environment to navigate and circulate the way he has,” Poston said in 2015.
Ford began posting on racial issues on social media more often after the police shooting and unrest in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Opportunity Task Force formed in May 2015 in response to a 2014 study from Harvard University and UC-Berkeley that found poor children in Charlotte less likely to escape poverty compared to their peers in America’s 50 largest cities.
Violent protests that rocked Charlotte in September, following the fatal Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, added urgency to the task. Some residents pointed to the city’s underlying economic inequality as a root cause of the protests.
Trump badly lost Mecklenburg County to Democrat Hillary Clinton in November’s presidential election but still received 155,000 votes.
Stephenson said he found much of the Opportunity Task Force report “very exciting,” particularly for not avoiding sensitive topics such as increased access to birth control. He doesn’t think Ford should be removed from his new post.
Feb 13 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Masters champion Sergio Garcia has apologised for his disqualification from the Saudi International earlier this month and said he let his emotions get the better of him.
Garcia was disqualified when he intentionally damaged the greens at the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in the third round.
“I’m sorry to my fans and fellow competitors. What happened is not an example I want to set, and it’s not who I truly am,” Garcia said on Instagram.
“I am an emotional player and while I believe that’s one of my biggest strengths, it’s also one of my biggest flaws.

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