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South Chicago shooting: Man fatally shot in the head, woman wounded while in car at intersection
CHICAGO - Two people were shot, one fatally, in South Chicago Tuesday afternoon.
The shooting occurred in the 3200 block of East 87th Street.
At about 2:42 p.m., a 37-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman were in a vehicle at an intersection when another car pulled up alongside them, police said.
An offender inside that vehicle produced a firearm and shot at both victims.
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The man was shot in the head and pronounced dead on scene.
The woman was shot in the left shoulder and was transported to the hospital in good condition, police said.
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Area Two detectives are investigating.
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Gillingham residents have been told to close their windows because of a fire near the M2 in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) says waste paper lorry fire on Hoath Way is creating a large amount of smoke, near junction 4 of the M2.
In a tweet at 12.14am, KFRS said: "Crews are at the scene of a waste paper lorry fire on Hoath Way near the M2 at #Gillingham. People nearby are being asked to keep windows and doors closed due to the smoke being created.
"Please share with people who aren't on social media - thank you."
Scroll down for updates as we get them.
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Teen suspect in south Fort Collins stabbing death will continue to be charged as an adult
A 16-year-old will continue to be charged as an adult in the murder of a homeless man in south Fort Collins last summer.
Todd Stout, 58, was found dead with multiple stab wounds under a bridge near the MAX Transit Station at the intersection of Harmony Road and Mason Street on July 5.
Stout had recently moved to Fort Collins and was temporarily living under the bridge while working to get sober, investigators said. He was stabbed multiple times, according to the coroner’s office, and was likely asleep when he was initially attacked.
Judge Juan Villaseñor ruled this week that it is in the best interest of the community and the teen suspected in Stout's murder for this case to remain in adult court. Villaseñor heard testimony from the teen's family, doctors and investigators during a three-day hearing in March to decide whether the teen should continue to be charged as an adult or if the case should be transferred to juvenile court.
Villaseñor had previously ruled there is enough evidence to continue charging the teen in Stout's murder. Investigators used DNA from blood found at and near the crime scene, footage from traffic and security cameras, and GPS tracking from the family’s vehicle to connect the male teen to Stout’s killing.
The first-degree murder charge, a Class 1 felony, against the teen was filed directly into adult court when he was arrested in August, and the teen’s attorneys later filed a motion to transfer the case to juvenile court.
The differences in sentencing options for adults and juveniles are substantial, Villaseñor said in the ruling.
Juveniles charged as adults with a Class 1 felony face a life sentence in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years if convicted, and would be housed at the Youthful Offender System until they are 18 years old. Adults charged with a Class 1 felony do not get parole.
Juveniles convicted of the same charge in juvenile court can be sentenced up to seven years in the Department of Youth Services with a maximum of 10 years parole, but the department loses jurisdiction when the person turns 21. At 21, the person’s sentence can be transferred to the Department of Corrections, community corrections or parole, or be terminated and the person be released.
During last month's hearing, the teen’s defense attorneys argued his severe mental health conditions require extensive treatment — treatment only the Department of Youth Services can adequately provide. The teen has been held at the Department of Youth Services since his arrest in August, and ongoing treatment has been effective, according to testimony from several doctors who have worked with the teen prior to and after his arrest.
Doctors who had treated and evaluated the teen testified to his severe and persistent mental illness and said his symptoms have improved since being treated while in custody at youth services. The teen's defense attorneys argued that, if convicted, a sentence to youth services would allow him to continue this successful treatment and be rehabilitated.
Rehabilitation is likely, the defense argued, because the teen's brain isn't fully developed. Doctors testified during the hearing that, in general, a person's brain isn't fully developed until they reach their mid-20s. While their brains are still developing, teens are more likely to act impulsively and not think about the consequences of their actions.
The teen’s parents testified to their child's intelligence and curiosity, and said he hoped to attend college abroad and study engineering. They talked about instances where he may not have thought through the potential consequences of his actions, like when he was 13 and stole a neighbor’s car with plans to drive to California and live out of the vehicle while taking classes online, but he forgot about fuel and the car ran out of gas while he was driving through Wyoming.
Prosecutors argued that youth services is not equipped to provide the long-term treatment the teen needs because he would be released from their facility when he turned 21 — before doctors say his brain will be fully developed.
Villaseñor said in his ruling, if the teen is later found guilty and it’s determined his diagnosed mental illness played a part, “treatment’s the best response.” But the Department of Youth Services can’t offer treatment long-term and a seven-year sentence — likely less in this case, Villaseñor said — “simply isn’t enough time to treat defendant given the facts here.”
“It disrespects Mr. Stout and his family,” Villaseñor said.
Stout’s two daughters read statements at the end of last month’s hearing describing how much they’ve struggled since their father was killed. One daughter said she’s struggled at work because she can’t stop thinking about all the things her father will miss about her life, like walking her down the aisle at her wedding.
Another daughter told Villaseñor that since her father’s death she’s been hospitalized, has had hysterical episodes, started taking antidepressants and often struggles to do daily activities. She said she is desperate to connect “to the one thing I can no longer physically feel the presence of ever again.”
“The impact on Mr. Stout’s family is immeasurable,” Villaseñor said in his ruling. “He died a painful, brutal death.”
If the teen, Benjamin Zwahlen, is found guilty and sentenced to the Department of Corrections, he would be “one of thirty to forty minors surrounded by over 10,000 adults” and spend at least 40 years in prison, “likely more,” Villaseñor said in his order.
Villaseñor said that the Department of Corrections does offer some treatment programs, but “the reality is that the chances for rehabilitation in that scenario are slim.” He said he’s “keenly aware” Zwahlen would likely be exposed to more violence if sentenced to prison, “but violence is why we’re here and why Todd Stout isn’t. The Court, as well as the parties, would be remiss to forget that.”
Villaseñor said another possible sentencing option could be commitment to the Department of Human Services for mental health treatment if the defense chooses to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which means a defendant can not be held criminally responsible for their actions because their mental illness prevented them from understanding the crime they committed was wrong, according to Villaseñor.
This plea or argument has not yet been made by the defense in this case.
“If defendant is as mentally ill as he asserts, a successful (not guilty by reason of insanity) plea is a real possibility,” Villaseñor said in the order. “Were he to convince a jury of his insanity, he’d receive long-term treatment at (Department of Human Services) until he isn’t affected by his disorders and he’s able to safely rejoin society.”
Zwahlen is next scheduled to appear in court May 2.
Sady Swanson covers public safety, criminal justice, Larimer County government and more throughout Northern Colorado. You can send your story ideas to her at sswanson@coloradoan.com or on Twitter at @sadyswan. Support her work and that of other Coloradoan journalists by purchasing a digital subscription today.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – A wild fox caused chaos on Capitol Hill this week by running around and biting people, including a reporter and a lawmaker.
“All of the sudden I kinda felt something kinda lunge at the back of my ankle-calf area,” Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., said. “And I kinda lunged around, looked around, thinking it’s going to be a small dog. And it was like – that’s not a dog, that’s a fox!”
It’s definitely not what the California congressman was expecting to see.
“It’s like, did that just happen?” Bera said. “Kinda looked down and there was a clear penetration of my suit leg.”
The same thing happened to reporter Ximena Bustillo on Tuesday.
“A fox nipped me in the ankle,” Bustillo said. “It felt like if a cat or small dog was to nip your ankle.”
Capitol Police spokesman Tim Barber says altogether, about half a dozen people got nipped by the fox. Ultimately, animal control was not outfoxed.
“The fox was safely captured,” Barber said.
Officials believe there was just one fox loose in the area, so the immediate risk should be over. But they say it’s too early to be certain, so it’s a good idea for anyone nearby to keep their eyes open.
“There are other traps around the area just in case there are other foxes,” Barber said.
Animal control plans to put down the aggressive fox. Both Bera and Bustillo are getting rabies shots just in case.
What the fox really left behind was shock.
“Did not think that would happen here,” Bustillo said.
“Lots of bizarre things happen on Capitol Hill. I think that was one of the strangest,” Bera added.
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Johnstown, Timnath, Wellington and Windsor 2022 election results and what to know
It's Election Day in the ring of growing Northern Colorado towns that line Larimer County's Interstate 25 corridor.
Voters in Johnstown, Timnath, Wellington and Windsor will select new municipal leaders and, in some cases, dictate town decisions regarding municipal broadband, elected official term limits and citizen-initiated petitions for future ballot items.
Here at the Coloradoan, our reporting team of Molly Bohannon, Pat Ferrier, Jacy Marmaduke and Sady Swanson will stay on past the 7 p.m. close of polls to bring you the latest results and stories from the elections.
This story will be updated with links to their work and any pertinent information as it becomes available, so return to Coloradoan.com throughout Tuesday night for the latest.
Where can I find election results?
Results will be updated after 7 p.m. at coloradoan.com/elections/results/local/. Most towns expect to release results between 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesday.
Where can I learn more about the races?
Visit our election central page to learn about each of the races and read more about the candidates running in your town. Remember, if you haven't voted, you can still hand-deliver your mail-in ballot to your town clerk's designated drop-off site until 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Coloradoan editor Eric Larsen can be reached at ericlarsen@coloradoan.com or 970-224-7745 (call or text). Support journalism in Fort Collins and subscribe today at offers.coloradoan.com/specialoffer.
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Strong winds batter Colorado, causing overturned vehicles, power outage and road closures
Wind is wreaking havoc on high-profile vehicles and power lines in Northern Colorado, closing roads as the first of three days of extreme wind batters the state.
Wellington Fire Protection District reported an overturned tractor-trailer on southbound Interstate 25 near Owl Canyon before noon.
Photos on social media showed overturned tractor-trailers and a long line of northbound tractor-trailers in the area waiting to exit I-25 and turn around.
The National Weather Service reported gusts of up to 60 mph in the area.
The Colorado Department of Transportation on Twitter said there is a high wind restriction for high profile vehicles and light trailers northbound on I-25 from Owl Canyon Road, 18 miles north of Wellington, to the Wyoming state line.
More:Sick of the wind? Brace yourself because this week could produce hurricane-force gusts
CDOT also issued a high wind restriction for light, empty or high profile vehicles in both directions on U.S. Highway 85 between Weld County Road 98 and the Wyoming state line.
Earlier in the day, Poudre Valley REA reported a power outage for some Severance and Windsor residents, but that power had been restored, according to its Twitter account.
The National Weather Service reported a wind gust of 70 mph along Colorado Highway 14 in the Poudre Canyon, 55 mph at Livermore, 51 mph just north of Fort Collins and around 40 mph in Fort Collins as of late Tuesday morning. The weather service said winds are expected to increase throughout the day.
All of northeastern Colorado, including Fort Collins, is under a red flag warning until 9 p.m. Tuesday and again 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
No burning is allowed outdoors during a red flag warning and people should avoid any outdoor activity that may produce a spark and start a grass fire.
Caitlyn Menseh, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder, said the wind is caused by a strong, slow moving jet stream making its way across the state. She said the wind could persist into Thursday.
In the mountains, blowing snow has caused problems on roads, where some passes have seen 75 mph to 95 mph hour gusts. A 102-mph gust was measured on Breckenridge's Peak 8.
North I-25 Express Lanes project: Prepare for more road closures
Reporter Miles Blumhardt looks for stories that impact your life. Be it news, outdoors, sports — you name it, he wants to report it. Have a story idea? Contact him at milesblumhardt@coloradoan.com or on Twitter @MilesBlumhardt. Support his work and that of other Coloradoan journalists by purchasing a digital subscription today.
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Leylah Fernandez is only 19 years old, yet already understands she will forever be linked to Emma Raducanu and the wildly improbable events of last year’s US Open. Hard to believe, but it’s been only seven months since that all-teenage final. In some ways, it feels like a lot more.
“You are not wrong,” Fernandez said Monday from South Carolina, where she’s playing the Credit One Charleston Open. “It does feel like it was years ago. But I’ve always tried to leave the past results in the past and stay focused on the present.”
This is not only a wise philosophy – it’s a good career move, too. Tennis history is rife with young players who broke through at a major – and never managed to fulfill that promise, fell short of great expectations. If the first three months of 2022 are any indication, Fernandez is living large in the present.
After dropping two of three matches in Australia, the rising Canadian won her first Hologic WTA Tour title of the season in Monterrey, Mexico in early March. And although she never faced a Top 40 player, she won all five matches and displayed a poise and consistency that sometimes eludes teenagers. She even saved five championship points in the final.
“It was a fun week,” Fernandez said. “A good start to the season. Just need to keep improving, keep going up and enjoy my time on the tennis court.”
She’s sitting at No.19 in rankings, matching her career best. The offseason focus was on creating a more complete athlete, building both physical and mental fitness.
“Emotionally, tennis is very hard because you’re on your own on the tennis court,” Fernandez said. “And it’s hard to maybe fight your emotions in some important moments and points. So we’ve always tried to improve and perfect our own routines so that when an important point comes, I’m not in the mental state where I’m in a desperate situation, just hoping that something goes right instead of planning and executing the game plan.”
During the past year, mental health has become an increasingly recognized as an important component to success. Iga Swiatek has been open in describing the contributions made by sports psychologist Daria Abramowicz in her rise to No.1. Fernandez said she draws strength from family – her father Jorge (also coach), mother Irene, sisters Jodeci and Bianca as well as her aunts.
“They definitely helped me to be strong in the difficult moments,” Fernandez said, particularly citing her parents. “Also how to recuperate after I make a mistake or after I lose a match. If I get down on myself too fast, too much, just to bounce back as soon as possible.”
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That’s precisely where she finds herself at the moment. Fernandez lost her first match at the Miami Open, to Karolina Muchova – her last WTA hard-court match for some time. As it turns out, that’s where her training currently is based. After a few days of visiting with Jodeci, she and her team turned to the tricky transition to clay.
The secret sauce of that preparation? Yoga.
“The difficulty is that clay is very slippery,” Fernandez said. “So all of your muscles, your ligaments get stretched out a lot in contrast to a hard court. So we did a lot of stretching, a lot of yoga so that my groin, the muscles in my legs, can be prepared for what’s coming.”
And there’s also an adjustment to the clay-court mindset, i.e. the concept of patience – another concept sometimes lost on the young.
“On a hard court, everything goes faster,” she said. “On a clay court, the balls keep coming back. So you have to hit a few more good shots, a few more winners so that you can win the point. We trained a few hours on clay every day, trying to get used to it.”
She arrived in Charleston on Saturday and marveled at the condition of the courts, the new stadium and players’ lounge. Fernandez, the No.7 seed, faces Magda Linette, who squeezed by Katie Volynets in a third-set-tiebreak. Fernandez’s schedule for the rest of the clay season: Madrid, Rome and the French Open. Last year’s goal was to get as close to a Top 10 ranking as possible. This year, she said, she wants to break into the Top 10.
She has the game and support to meet that goal.
“Since the US Open, life has changed just a little bit,” Fernandez said. “But I have a great team around me, who are able to manage that side of the business. They let me focus on my profession, because tennis is my No.1 focus.”
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Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen sealed the biggest win of her young career to-date on Tuesday at the Credit One Charleston Open by taking out 2016 champion Sloane Stephens 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 in the first round.
Zheng was previous 0-4 in her career against Top 50 opposition, with all four defeats coming this year. Her best previous win in terms of ranking also came on clay, a surface on which she's won four career ITF World Tennis Tour titles: last summer, she beat then-World No.54 Liudmilla Samsonova in Palermo.
Two of those aforementioned defeats came in heart-breaking three-setters over the last two months, as she was beaten in a third-set tiebreak by Leylah Fernandez in Monterrey and failed to convert a 4-1 final-set lead against Angelique Kerber in Indian Wells, but there would be no third against Stephens. Zheng found her best tennis in the third set, losing just nine points, to complete the 2 hour, 2-minute victory.
Getting to Know: A big imagination and a bigger game: Inside the rise of Zheng Qinwen
The match had previously halted in the eighth game of the second set, which Zheng serving at 0-15, for over 30 minutes due to a passing patch of rain.
Bencic comes back from the brink in beating Wang Xiyu
Two points from defeat, No.10 seed Belinda Bencic rallied to beat Wang Xiyu, 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-3. Bencic trailed 5-3 in the second set, and 5-2 in the ensuing tiebreak, before coming back in the 2 hour, 26-minute victory. Wang never reached match point.
Bencic, a semifinalist in Charleston in her 2014 debut, also reached the quarterfinals in 2019, but lost in the second round last year to Paula Badosa. To avoid that fate this year, she'll have to stop surging 16-year-old Linda Fruhvirtova, who triumphed in three sets over Ana Konjuh on Monday.
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2014 semifinalist 🇨🇭 @BelindaBencic digs deep to turn it around against Wang!
Faces Fruhvirtova next at the #CharlestonOpen pic.twitter.com/DLPpAKbIag
More from Charleston: Cornet, Fruhvirtova advance; Kvitova succumbs to injury in Charleston
Bencic wasn't the only player to battle back from the brink in Tuesday's day session. Poland's Magda Linette saved a match point en route to defeating American Katie Voleynets, 4-6, 6-3 7-6(5), and she'll be the first opponent for reigning US Open finalist and No.7 seed Leylah Fernandez this week.
Highlights: Bencic def. Wang Xiyu
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After failing to convert her own match point at 5-3 in the decider, Linette saved one on serve at 6-5 before edging the ensuing tiebreak. It's the 23rd match on the Hologic WTA Tour so far this year in which the winner saved match point.
In photos: Great Escapes 2022: Winning from match point down
Riske to be first opponent for top seed Sabalenka
Top seed Aryna Sabalenka will make her Charleston debut against Alison Riske after Riske overcame Caty McNally in an all-American first round, 7-5, 6-3. From 5-4 down in the first set, Riske won seven of the next eight games to wrestle control of the match.
Riske was one of five Americans who punched their tickets through to the second round in the day session. She was joined by Lauren Davis, CoCo Vandeweghe, Emma Navarro and Hailey Baptiste.
Highlights: Baptiste def. Ruse / Vandeweghe def. Gasanova
Former Top 10 player Vandeweghe, a lucky loser into the draw after the withdrawal of defending champion and expected No.3 seed Veronika Kudermetova, notably scored her first tour-level clay-court win in four years with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory against Anastasia Gasanova.
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Presumably, the Beckham and Peltz households are currently abuzz with excitement as the wedding date of two of its young scions, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz, looms ever closer. Indeed, the couple, who have been dating for four years and have been engaged for two, are reportedly set to tie the knot this weekend during a lavish Palm Beach ceremony.
Everything you need to know about Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz's wedding this weekend
Aspiring chef and photographer, Brooklyn, and model and actress, Nicola, have been vocal about their romance since its initial blossoming. Brooklyn is know for frequently taking to Instagram to share candid comments and sweet gestures towards his future wife - ‘I can’t wait to marry you baby' - a favourite of his passionate exclamations. He has a number of tattoos dedicated to his fiancée, including, most recently, the word 'lover' on his index finger. Although clearly very loved-up, the pair have, according to the Times, signed a prenup, protecting one another's fortunes if ever they (sadly) were to split.
The couple first met at Coachella festival in 2018, although they did not make their relationship public until January 2020, when a picture was shared by Nicola on Instagram of the pair topless in a mirror. Theirs was a relationship that survived and even flourished during the pandemic lockdowns. Sharing extended periods of time with one another clearly confirmed their mutual bond, and the pair became engaged in the summer of 2021. They currently live together in their £7.7 million property in Beverly Hills, although they often fly back to visit Brooklyn's parents home in London. Here is everything you need to know about their upcoming nuptials.
The venue
The young couple are using Nicola's father, Nelson Peltz's £76-million Regency-style estate, which boats 27-bedrooms and an ocean view, in Palm Beach, Florida, for the occasion. Peltz, who will be attending alongside his wife and Nicola's mother, Claudia Heffner Peltz, as well as other members of the Peltz dynasty, is a highly successful American businessman and has an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion.
The couple's parents are renowned for spending lavishly on their children's milestone occasions. Nelson Peltz is reported to have spent between £800,000 and £1.5 million on his twin son's bar mitzahs, whilst Brooklyn's 21st birthday apparently cost David and Victoria £100,000. The upcoming wedding's budget is approximately £3 million, although given that money is no problem for the couple, we assume this may be optimistic.
Due to the high-profile nature of the event, the Sun states that two private security firms have been recruited to ensure the safety of hosts and guests. There will also reportedly be a social media ban, with attendees asked not to take their own pictures.
The wedding party
The wedding party is expected to be a family affair. Nicola's brother Brad Peltz is reportedly acting as Chief Bridesmaid, although the rest of the bridal party is yet to be confirmed. Brooklyn's Best Men are believed to be his teenage brothers, 19-year-old Romeo and 16-year-old Cruz, whilst the boys' father, David Beckham (who is also giving a speech), is to take on the role of Master of Ceremonies.
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The guest list
According to reports, the Spice Girls are expected to have an unofficial reunion at the ceremony, although it is unknown whether they will give an impromptu performance. Among the pop stars will be Californian rapper, Snoop Dog, who is apparently DJing at the reception, and reportedly Miley Cyrus, who had Nicola feature in one of her music videos way back in 2008, is expected at the reception.
Other A-listers presumed to attend include model Gigi Hadid, socialite Nicole Richie and chef Gordon Ramsay with his wife Tana and their children. Although Sir Elton John, who is Godfather to Brooklyn and a great friend of his parents, was invited, the singer will not be attending, due to clashing tour dates, however it is not known if his husband David Furnish (another of Brooklyn's godparents) will be present. Elizabeth Hurley, Brooklyn's godmother, is however, expected to be there.
Eva Longoria, a close friend of Victoria, will also be there. In an interview with PEOPLE (the TV Show!) the actress shared that the designer will ‘of course’ be helping her with her outfit, revealing: ‘I just go into her closet normally and go, “I need a dress”’.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are also rumoured to be invited. Good friends of the Beckhams, the royal couple invited Victoria and David to their own wedding in 2018, to which Victoria wore a navy dress from her spring/summer 2019 collection. The duchess is also a great fan of Victoria's fashion house, and regularly wore her designs whilst attending royal engagements, before her and Harry moved to California.
On Nicole's side of the guest list are her former co-stars, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci and Emma Roberts.
The dress
There has previously been speculation over whether Nicola's soon-to-be mother-in-law would be embarking on the dress design. However, the young bride-to-be recently shared that she has opted for a bespoke Valentino gown, working closely with creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. During the last few months, she has been meeting with her stylist Leslie Fremar, in Rome, for wedding dress fittings, and is, according to ELLE, ‘considering a fairytale-tale like design from the Italian house’. The dress is reported to cost in the excess of £100,000. Later in the evening, Peltz is to change into another Valentino dress for the reception.
The ceremony
The couple confirmed in a video for Vogue that it will be a ‘Jewish wedding’, with Brooklyn revealing: ‘I’m wearing a yarmulke.’ Given this, the pair are likely to follow Jewish traditions such as marrying under a chuppah (wedding canopy), signing a ketubah (marriage contract), and smashing glass following the service.
The eldest of the Beckham brood will be wearing a yarmulke for the ceremony
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Cornwall doesn’t get much more romantic than Port Eliot. The ancestral seat of the Eliot family, the Grade-I listed house and gardens was once a priory for Augustinian monks, and is today renowned for its rich arts and cultural connections; from the house’s stunning collection of works by the likes of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Anthony van Dyck and Robert Lenkiewicz; to the beloved literary and music festival which lit up its grounds each summer from 2003 to 2019.
Historic Port Eliot estate to play host to music legends Sir Tom Jones, Madness and Elbow this summer
While the Port Eliot Festival in its previous incarnation is no more, this year will usher in an exciting fresh chapter for the estate and its relationship with the world of music, thanks to a new collaboration with Tunes Festivals. In June and August, the grounds will play host to Tunes in the Park: a series of three live concerts featuring Sir Tom Jones, Madness and Elbow.
What happens when you cross the alternative American festival with Bridgerton-esque surroundings?
First, on 22 June, Welsh singing legend Jones will take to the al-fresco stage. Then, come 27 August, it will be the turn of Madness, the beloved North London ska band known for ‘70s and ’80s hits such as It Must Be Love and House of Fun. The very next night, on 28 August, rock legend Elbow will round out a bumper musical Bank Holiday weekend.
Lady Eliot told Tatler: ‘We’re very excited to have teamed up with the organisers of Tunes in the Park to host this series of one day events here at Port Eliot. It has been a long couple of years with Covid restrictions, and we feel now is the right time to welcome some great outdoor events on the estate.’
Tom Walker, co-founder of Tunes events, known for its success with the Tunes in the Dunes and Tunes on the Sand beach festivals, is eagerly anticipating the concerts, which look set to be among the musical highlights of the summer. He tells Tatler that a huge outdoor stage will be erected in front of Port Eliot House, with an audience of around 10,000 attendees looking on from the stunning grounds of the estate. There’ll also be stalls from acclaimed food and drinks traders, and potentially a camping option for the Madness and Elbow Bank Holiday Weekend.
Read it, digest it, print it out and stick it on your fridge
Walker reveals that Tunes in the Park could be the first of an exciting, long-running relationship between the festival organisers and the Port Eliot estate, perhaps paving the way for bigger events next summer – featuring as many as a dozen acts, spread across a number of days.
To the delight of music lovers across the country, St Germans station is conveniently located a five-minute walk from the House, with regular Great Western Railway trains on the Exeter/ Penzance line. The village’s charming country pub, The Eliot Arms, is the perfect local base, with fabulous food and drink, regular live music and cosy rooms for overnight guests.
In the meantime, Port Eliot’s bucolic, 100-acre gardens are open to the public from Monday to Sunday, offering visitors a chance to stroll among Humphry Repton’s stunning landscapes – which today include a maze, rhododendron garden, bowling green, orangery and arboretum – and have stunning vistas of the St Germans viaduct. There’s also a café and shop, camping sites and holiday homes on the estate, for the ultimate Cornish escape.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit porteliot.co.uk
After 2021’s iteration of the beloved event took place behind closed doors, racegoers were delighted to return to the stands once again
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The release of the show comes just one month after the release of Lord Ashcroft’s First Lady: Intrigue at the court of Carrie and Boris Johnson - which paints Carrie as a Machiavellian villain and alleges that she pursued Boris, a married man, from the age of 24. After the book was serialised, a spokesperson for Carrie dismissed the accusations, saying, ‘These regurgitated lies regarding Mrs Johnson’s employment record are spiteful and damaging. Carrie left her role to pursue her passion in ocean conservation and later in animal welfare. Yet again Mrs Johnson has been targeted by a brutal briefing campaign against her by enemies of her husband. This is just the latest attempt by bitter ex-officials to discredit her. She is a private individual who plays no role in government.’ Lord Ashcroft maintained that she was a ‘legitimate’ subject for a biography.
Oh how difficult it must be to stand so resolutely behind Boris as he becomes the first Prime Minister in history to be questioned under caution by the police. As the lingering Partygate investigation finally comes to a head. As fines are issued in Westminster and pundits reflect on whether Johnson will resign. But Vaughn is clear: ‘Boris Johnson isn’t James Whitehouse. I clearly don’t think he’s ever assaulted anyone – but when I interviewed him back in November 2004, about his affair with Petronella Wyatt, I was so struck that he had no compunction about lying. It was the first time I’d heard a public figure admit to doing so – and not seem to recognise this was a massive deal.’
The timing is perfect. We all love a scandal. A takedown. ‘Even the lowliest backbencher has some power and status, and the higher they climb, the further they have to fall. Many ambitious MPs are risk-takers, with fairly robust egos. Time and again, it’s their sense of entitlement that makes them assume they can get away with it: they won’t get caught,’ says Vaughn. And so the political wives pick up the pieces, with a glittering smile and a gorgeous camel coat.
Right now, life is reflecting art - and it makes for perfect watching.
Anatomy of a Scandal will air on Netflix from 15 April.
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A bill sponsored by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, that’s meant to help communities prepare for natural disasters passed the U.S. House Tuesday.
It’s called the “Resilient America Act” and it would boost funding for disaster mitigation programs run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It would also create a pilot program to help homeowners pay for improvements that would make their houses more resistant to wildfires.
DeFazio, whose district was ravaged by fires in September of 2020, said that part of the measure hits close to home.
“I wish that this bill and the mitigation investments it authorizes could have been enacted prior to the 2020 fires," he said. "It may have saved some of my constituents from the trauma of losing their home. I am confident that empowering individuals through this program will make families and their homes more resilient, and in the end, save taxpayers money."
The measure passed the House with broad bipartisan support.
"When you can spend dollars up front mitigating...it just saves a lot of extra pain and suffering," said Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican whose northern California district has also been struck by devastating wildfires in recent years.
All five members of Oregon’s House delegation voted in favor of the bill, which now heads to the U.S. Senate.
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Mostly clear and chilly breezy to gusty winds 25-35 mph and lows in the 20s and low 30s. Tomorrow sunshine calms winds and temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s. Thursday and Friday will be really nice with warmer temperatures in the 60s and 70s. A cold front moves in Friday evening, bringing cooler temperatures and a chance of mountain showers temperatures will drop back into the 50s and 60s.
Chilly and Breezy Tonight...Sunshine Tomorrow
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KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. —
The eighth annual Kittitas County Public Health Champion Award is open for nominations through April 29. The award is sponsored by the Kittitas County Board of Health Advisory Committee (BOHAC) and is meant to honor those who have made substantial contributions to health in the county.
Anyone can nominate an individual, group or organization that has positively impacted the health of the Kittitas County community. Self-nomination is allowed.
Nomination forms can be found online or at the Kittitas County Public Health Department. Send your nominations to publichealth@co.kittitas.wa.us or to 507 North Nanum Street, Suite 102, Ellensburg WA 98926.
The BOHAC chooses a recipient after reviewing all nominations. They will be notified by May 16 and will be awarded June 16 at the regular board of health meeting. The award will be between $500 and $1000 for projects that will benefit Kittitas County health.
The award is possible due to a donation from former Kittitas County Health Officer Jim Gale.
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PASCO, Wash. —
The Educational Service District 123 received over $230,000 in grant funds for tobacco and cannabis prevention and education over the next five years. The Youth Cannabis and Commercial Tobacco Prevention Program Hispanic/Latinx Priority Population grant takes effect with the start of the 2022-23 school year.
The funding goes towards educational resources for Hispanic and Latinx students and families regarding cannabis and tobacco prevention. Some resources include education for both parents and youth, media outreach in English and Spanish and the distribution of containers that store products safely by locking.
The program mission cites preventing and reducing cannabis and tobacco use across those ages 12-20, supporting the adults in their lives and reducing substance-use education inequalities.
ESD 123 Student Support Services says it is looking for community outreach programs that work with Hispanic/Latinx populations in Southeastern Washington that may want to partner with ESD 123. Contact Monica Garcia, Marijuana and Tobacco Prevention Professional for distribution or partnership information at mgarcia@esd123.org or 509-544-5743.
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PENDLETON, Ore. —
The annual Buckaroo BBQ Challenge is back for this year’s Pendleton Cattle Barons Weekend, with the BBQ challenge on April 30. Grilling teams will compete in various categories for $5,000 in total prize money, the highest amount to date.
The event will be at the Pendleton Convention Center, with competitors grilling in an area of the parking lot. It will also feature a beer garden through Prodigal Son Brewery.
Categories include chicken, tri-tip and baby back pork ribs. The top three in each will win cash prizes. The overall Reserve Grand Champion will win $750 and the Grand Champion wins $1,025.
Attendees can pay $5 for a People’s choice voting button, where they can sample each contestant’s submission for that category and vote for their favorite. The top three People’s Choice Award recipients will win cash prizes.
“With the purse now doubled from what it was in the past, we hope we’ll get a wide variety of competitors – both local and from around the Northwest – at the event,” said challenge director Kristen Dollarhide. “It’s always a great event, and we’re looking forward to having a big crowd again this year.”
The event funds scholarships through Pendleton Cattle Barons.
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The Benton County Mental Health Court (MCH) announces its 100th graduate.
MHC says its most recent graduate marks the milestone of 100 lives changed by the court.
The 100th graduate stated in the press release from MHC, her bipolar disorder controlled her life, she was living on the streets and abusing drugs.
She says MHC has helped her find and keep a job as well as stay off the streets and stay sober.
The Benton County Mental Health Court started in 2016 and six years later has helped one hundred people.
The BCMHC is funded by the Benton County Public Safety Sales Tax and works with several community partners that contributes to the programs ongoing success.
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One person is recovering in the hospital after a car crash and shooting in Sunnyside late Monday night.
Sunnyside Police Department says the gunshots came from S. 1st St. and South Hill Rd. around 11 p.m. on Monday.
SPD arrived to a crash involving two cars but one car was leaving the area.
Police say 21-year-old Alejandro Salazar from Sunnyside was shot in the head while in the victim car during the crash.
YPD says Salazar was taken to Astria Sunnyside Hospital and is being treated at a higher level trauma center.
YPD continued the investigation and found probable cause for a 15-year-old who is a documented gang member in Zillah.
Yakima County Sheriff's Office checked the 15-year-old's address and arrested him after he tried to run away.
The 15-year-old is booked into the Yakima County Juvenile Detention Center.
SPD says the two cars in the crash are stolen out of Sunnyside and were collected as evidence.
SPD says they recovered three firearms in connection to the investigation.
Sunnyside police is asking anyone with anymore information to give them a call at (509) 836-6200.
This is a developing story, which means information could change. We are working to report timely and accurate information as we get it.
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Racers and fans alike braved blustery conditions for the 53rd running of the Apple Cup Race.
The weekend featured six main events and $10,000 going to the winner of the showcase event, the Apple Cup 125 won by Preston Peltier.
He said, "It's good to be here in Tri-Cities. It's really good to be at this race track. I like this place a lot and it was a good time."
Winner of Saturday's featured race, the Apple Cup 80 Steve Thompson, was especially excited.
"It means a lot to me to win the Apple Cup. This is my home track, even when it was shut down. I drove by it twice a day to and from work. Saw it when it wasn't open. Got to see it last year when they got it up and going and I was pretty jealous."
Both drivers stressed the importance of taking care of their tires as the key to their victories.
The Apple Cup was the first of four races planned for the raceway in 2022 ... the next being during the Fourth of July weekend.
Here is your full list of winners from the weekend.
Travis McKinney won Saturday's Betterall's Hobby Stocks race. Dillon Huffines won Sundays.
Kyle Tellstrom won the Modified race and Brad Rhoads the Mini-Stock race.
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PASCO, Wash. —
The Washington State Department of Transportation is conducting rolling slowdowns in Pasco along I-182 on Wednesday, April 6. The rollouts will occur between 9 and 11 a.m. WSDOT advises planning for additional travel time.
Delays will see delays headed east on I-182 near Road 68, between mileposts 9 and 13. WSDOT says the slowdowns are in order to conduct an investigation.
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El Salvador's president has threatened to stop providing food for imprisoned members of street gangs.
President Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday that if the gangs "unleash a wave of crimes, we are going to cut off food in the prisons." Following a wave of homicides in late March, Bukele has already declared a state of emergency, rounded up thousands of street gang members Bukele also ordered food for gang members held in Salvadoran prisons to be reduced to two meals per day, seized inmates' mattresses and posted a video of prisoners being frog-marched through corridors and down stairs.
“There are rumors that they [gang members] want to start taking revenge on random, honest people,” Bukele said. “If they do that, there won’t even be one meal in prisons. I swear to God they won’t eat a grain of rice, and let’s see how long they last.”
“They should stay calm and let themselves be arrested; at least on the inside they will continue to live and have two meals a day,” Bukele said in a translation reported on by the Associated Press.
“I don’t care what the international organizations say. Let them come here and protect our people,” the president said. “They can take their gang members if they want; we’ll give them all of them.”
United Nations Human Rights spokeswoman Liz Throssell said on Tuesday, “We are deeply concerned by the series of measures recently introduced in El Salvador in response to the rise in gang killings.”
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A Georgia law enforcement agency would have the authority to investigate election crimes under the latest voting regulation approved by the Republican-controlled state Legislature.
The measure was passed on Monday during the last day of the session. It's one of several election changes state lawmakers have approved after former President Donald Trump made false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Over the objections of Democrats, Republicans in the state House voted to give the Georgia Bureau of Investigation authority to look into alleged wrongdoing that could affect the outcome of an election. The secretary of state's office is currently responsible for investigating alleged election violations.
State Rep. Jasmine Clark, a Democrat said, “It will not only be used against your voters but could also be used against organizations and those county election board officials or their workers.”
Clark said, “Again, they already have a hard enough time getting poll workers, and now you want to sic the GBI on them. What are we doing here?”
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The new CEO of Hertz says the company is fixing problems that led to false car-theft charges against some customers.
Stephen Scherr says Hertz didn't properly record transactions when cars thought to be missing were located. Scherr told CNBC that this is one of the first things he's trying to fix since taking over the company.
It's not clear how many people have been affected. Hertz says it's several hundred customers out of Hertz's 15 million annual transactions, but lawyers for customers say the number is more like 8,000.
“This is among the first things that I have started to look to take care of and deal with in the first 30 days I’ve been at the company,” Scherr told CNBC. “It is not acceptable for Hertz to have any customer ... caught up in some of what has happened.”
Some Hertz customers reported that they were arrested and jailed because the company wrongly accused them of stealing cars that they had rented. In some of the reported cases customers alleged they had returned the cars long before they were arrested, the Associated Press reported.
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EWA BEACH, Hawaii (KTIV4) -- Three people were shot inside an illegal game room in an Ewa Beach neighborhood, early Tuesday morning.
The shooting happened at a home in a neighborhood on Hanakahi Street around 1:45 a.m., Honolulu Police (HPD) investigators said. HPD says it has opened an attempted murder investigation due to this incident.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services (EMS) says its paramedics were sent out on an “unknown” call with a “questionable life status.” EMS said that when they arrived they found two men both suffering from gunshot wounds.
One of the victims, only identified as a man in his mid-30s, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, EMS said. The second victim, a 25-year-old man, was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
EMS did not mention a third victim. However, HPD confirmed a 64-year-old woman also suffered serious injuries in the shooting.
Police are still investigating. So far, there has been no word about what led up to the shooting and there has been no word on arrests. Investigators have only said the suspect is a man. No other descriptors were given.
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
As someone who grew up in foster care, the only thing that mattered to me was finding love and belonging. Being able to connect with the community as a reporter in Hawaii is why I do what I do.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii.
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Tiger Woods says "as of right now I feel like I am going to play" in the Masters -- and he thinks he can win it.
"I don't have any qualms about what I can do physically from a golf standpoint," he said Tuesday at a news conference on the 25th anniversary of his historic victory at the 1997 Masters, responding to a question about whether he can win the tournament.
Woods, who has won the tournament five times, is scheduled to tee off for the first round in Augusta, Georgia, at 10:34 a.m. ET Thursday morning.
The 15-time major champion has been away from competitive golf for over a year, having suffered serious leg injuries in a car crash in February 2021.
"As of right now, I feel like I am going to play," Woods said, ending weeks of speculation. "As of right now."
Woods, 46, had played a few practice rounds at Augusta National, including one on Monday, which fueled rumors of a comeback.
"I've worked hard. My team has been unbelievable. I've been lucky to have had great surgeons and great PTs and physios that have worked on me virtually every day. And we've worked hard to get to this point ... It's been a tough, tough year," said Woods, who had multiple surgeries to his right leg after the crash.
Woods is grouped for the first two rounds with South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann of Chile. They're scheduled to tee off the second round at 1:41 p.m. ET on Friday.
His dramatic return comes 25 years after the 1997 Masters, the first of his 15 major championships. Woods was only 21 when he transformed the game -- and his life -- by becoming the first nonwhite golfer to win the sports most storied tournament.
Woods said it is "hard to believe it's been 25 years."
"It's great to be back and be able to feel the energy and the excitement of the patrons again."
"Very, very thankful," Woods said when asked by CNN's Patrick Snell what words would he choose to reflect on the last 14 months.
"Thankful for just everyone's support. Everyone who has been involved in my process of the work I've put in each and every day. The people I work with, my whole team... All the support from the players out here."
Getting this far, he said, was a success in itself.
"Now everything is focused on how do I get myself into the position where I'm on that back nine on Sunday with a chance" to win again, Woods added.
"When I decide to hang it up, when I feel like I can't win anymore, then that will be it," he said. "But I feel like I can still do it, and I feel like I still have the hands to do it, the body's moving good enough."
Woods last won the tournament in 2019, his first victory at one of golf's four majors in 11 years and one that had sportwriters celebrating his comeback from injury. That win followed career-saving spinal fusion surgery -- his fourth back procedure (of now five).
'Everybody needs him'
One of his playing partners seemed certain of what will happen on Thursday.
"It's not shocking because he's the greatest player to ever play," Fred Couples told reporters before Woods' announcement.
"If he can walk around here in 72 holes, he'll contend. He's too good."
And 2021 FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay says Woods' return is the "greatest thing" for golf.
"He's a good example of life's not always perfect, and so it's really exciting to see him on his highs," he told the media.
"And so I hope that he is able to tee it up this week and play well, and obviously that's the greatest thing for our sport. There's definitely a different feel in tournaments that he tees it up in."
In the car crash last year in Los Angeles, Woods suffered comminuted open fractures that affected his right tibia and fibula, which are the two long bones directly under the knee.
He admitted in February this year that he was "frustrated" with his recovery and conceded he won't be able to play a full PGA Tour schedule again. At the time, he said his right leg had been "altered" and that the hard part of tournament golf would be the walking on a course with its undulations.
Someone who knows a thing or two about coming back from serious injuries is four-time major winner Brooks Koepka.
The 31-year-old has had to endure his own share of injury concerns, missing sizable time over recent years due to surgery recovery and rehab.
And Koepka, who comes into the 2022 Masters as one of the favorites for the Green jacket, said he understands what Woods might be going through.
"I was in somewhat of his shoes trying last year two weeks after surgery. This place isn't exactly an easy walk," he told the media. "I understand what he's up against. It'll be difficult. But if anybody can do it, it's him."
Koepka added: "I'm happy he's becoming healthier and able to play golf ... we need him, the game needs him, everybody needs him, the fans need him, all that stuff. But at the end of the day everybody is just out here competing. I'm worried about myself and I'm sure everybody else is worried about themselves."
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — With warmer weather on the way, police say it’s important to protect yourself from potential thieves.
Sioux City police have seen an uptick in car break-ins.
So far this year they said just over 80 cases have been reported, which compares to just 50 cases this time last year.
Officers told us that just taking a few extra steps like parking in a well-lit area can deter a thief from breaking into your car.
“A lot of time what they’ll see is that they won’t break out windows because when they do it makes noises and brings attention to them, and so they’ll just walk down the street and they’ll check door handles and they’ll just enter the vehicles that are unlocked. So first and foremost, absolutely lock your vehicles, roll up all your windows,” said Officer Valerie Rose.
Officer Rose added that it’s never a good idea to keep valuables in your car, even if it is locked and the items are hidden.
If your car has been broken into you can contact, the Sioux City Police Department anytime to file a report. Their number is 712-279-6960.
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By Mary Winston Nicklin
Apr 5, 2022
Courtesy of Épicure
The center is slated to open in early May.
The Cité internationale de la gastronomie et du vin occupies a centuries-old heritage site in the historical capital of Burgundy.
Take an important heritage site in the Dijon city center. Team up with some of the biggest players in the business: Eric Pras, Burgundy’s only Michelin three-star chef, to oversee the restaurants; the Epicure Group to create a 3,000-bottle winetasting cellar; top professional school Ferrandi Paris, to inaugurate a culinary school campus. What do you get? A sprawling, one-stop epicurean venue to excite even the most critical gourmands.
Slated to open on May 6, the Cité internationale de la gastronomie et du vin, or international center for gastronomy and wine, has been a decade in the making at a cost of 250 million euros (US$274 million). A building that was the city’s general hospital from 1204 to 2015 (when it was vacated for modern facilities) has morphed into a 16-acre complex that’s transformative for Dijon, both as a landmark destination for tourism and also in the creation of a new eco-neighborhood, with residential units, including social housing, surrounded by a park.
“Here we are at kilometer 0 for the Burgundy wine route, which is classified by UNESCO,” said Mayor François Rebsamen last winter during an exclusive preview of the site. “Our ambition with this project is to celebrate Dijon as a city of gastronomy, a city of wine, and also tell the story of the French gastronomic meal, [added] in 2010 to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage.”
The entrance to the complex is a striking new contemporary building called the “Canon de lumière” (cannon of light). This elevated edifice of metal and glass will serve as the Cité’s architectural emblem, housing the Ecole Ferrandi, where intensive culinary courses will be taught in English. (There are both four-month professional programs and two-week discovery courses.) “Ferrandi is often described as the Harvard of gastronomy and hôtellerie,” said the school’s director Richard Ginoux at a Paris press conference on March 9, “and we share the same ambitions and values with the Cité internationale, positioned through excellence and with a desire to promote gastronomic heritage and savoir-faire internationally.”
Inside the Cité, visitors will be able to sip the wines that made Burgundy famous; the Cave de la Cité, a soaring three-level space, will offer 250 different wines by the glass. Pair your winetasting with nibbles like charcuterie, cheese, and gourmet tapas—the menu was designed by chef Eric Pras of Maison Lameloise, a Burgundy institution that’s been recognized by Michelin since the publication of its very first guidebook in 1900. Keen to learn more about the terroir of Burgundy and the climats system recognized by UNESCO? Sign up for a winetasting workshop, between 40 minutes and one hour depending on the theme, with the L’Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne.
A series of pavilions, including the beautifully renovated Grand Chapel, will house museum exhibitions dedicated to the food universe. Permanent shows on wine culture and the French gastronomic meal, explaining its inclusion on the UNESCO intangible heritage list, will be complemented by a show kitchen and rotating temporary exhibits. First up? An in-depth look at the world of pâtisserie, explaining the history, craft, and importance of pastry in France.
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Then there’s Le Village Gastronomique, a marketplace with tastings, boutiques, and workshops with local artisans. The Librairie Gourmande, the celebrated Paris culinary bookstore, will open its first outpost inside. Bien sûr, a mustard bar will be on tap; visitors will be able to choose from a variety of gourmet condiments and fill up their own jars at Le Manège à Moutardes. “All the food professions will be concentrated here,” explained Jérémie Penquer, the project manager for the Cité. “The idea is that both tourists and Dijonnais will come here for a real experience.”
There will also be a nine-screen movie theater, a startup incubator, and a four-star hotel, Sainte-Anne Dijon, scheduled to open in 2023 under the auspices of Curio By Hilton. “We anticipate 1 million visitors a year,” said Mayor Rebsamen. “The project is a major boost for Dijon.”
Above all, the Cité reflects Dijon’s mission of valorizing cultural patrimony. The restoration itself was the region’s biggest construction project in 12 years, employing 600 full-time workers to bring new life to a quarter that had been desolated by the hospital’s closure. Four archeological digs took place, one involving a cemetery with victims of the plague. (Important finds will be displayed inside “1204,” a multimedia exhibition space at the heart of the Cité that will tell Dijon’s history.) The project preserved centuries-old trees and remarkable historical treasures. Take, for example, the Chapelle Sainte-Croix de Jerusalem, a bijou-like church that dates from 1459. “The roof was removed tile by tile so that each one could be meticulously restored,” said François Deseille, the adjunct major overseeing the Cité. In the space that will house Eric Pras’s gastronomic restaurant, the workers unearthed enormous timber beams and stone vaults, beautiful historical details now proudly displayed.
This focus on heritage is one of Dijon’s distinctions. With 240 acres of the city center protected by historical monument status, Dijon is home to one of the largest such preserved sectors in France. The historical capital of the Dukes of Burgundy shows off its architecture to masterful effect: the city center is pedestrianized, its cobblestone streets lined by Renaissance mansions and medieval half-timbered houses. Discover a multitude of bell towers and a menagerie of gargoyles on the “Owl’s Trail,” a popular walking circuit developed by the tourist office with 22 stops. (The owl sculpture, carved into the corner of Notre-Dame church on Rue de la Chouette, has been worn thin by the many hands touching it for good luck over the years.)
Climb the 316 steps to the top of the Tour Philippe le Bon, built in the 15th century; there you can take in panoramas over the Dijon rooftops—all the way to Mont Blanc on a clear day. The stone staircase is embellished with sculptures of grapes, a testament to the renown of Dijon’s winemaking in the Middle Ages. Up until 1850, grapevines grew all over Dijon; in recent years, the mayor is on a quest to bring winemaking back into the urban fabric by planting grapevines—the goal is to obtain a distinct A.O.C. for Dijon wines.
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In 2019, the Fine Arts Museum, one of France’s oldest museums (1798), unveiled the results of a 10-year renovation. Housed inside the majestic Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, the museum is free to access. “The renovation ‘desacrilized’ the institution to make it more welcoming and open to the city,” explained curator Sandrine Balan. “We have incredible masterpieces here [including the gilded Champmol altarpiece, the sculpted tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy, François Pompon’s white bear]. The idea of the renovation was to give visitors a real proximity to the works, all of which were also restored during the project.”
The new Cité would be reason enough for food lovers to book a trip to Dijon. But this pleasant second city, just 90 minutes from Paris by high-speed train, is a bastion of rich culinary tradition. Alongside its four Michelin-starred restaurants, including Cibo where all the produce is sourced from within 125 miles, Dijon has convivial bistros and tables d’hôte celebrating classic Burgundy cuisine cooked in a contemporary way. At Le Chat qui Pense, chef Isabelle Sonnet opened the doors to her home—complete with an old stone staircase, fireplace, and garden—to offer a three-course lunch based on the seasonal ingredients she finds at the market. For example, the dish called “Autour du champignon” honors the mushroom in a melange of textures and forest flavors: a veal terrine sits atop sautéed pleurotes and mushroom mousse.
The city’s love of food is on display at Les Halles, the lively covered market. “Gustave Eiffel, who was from Dijon, actually proposed a bid for the project in the 19th century, but it was rejected because of the cost,” explained local guide Alexia Papin. Eiffel, a Dijon native, was snubbed, but the architect who clinched the contract was inspired by some of Eiffel’s ideas. Today local purveyors like Le Gourmet Dijon show off their wares under the soaring metal roof. In May, Les Halles hosts a giant brunch party with a table running the length of the building.
At the wine shop La Source des Vins, owner Hadika Simon offers tastings and workshops with winemakers. “I play an educational role to show that Burgundy is not just for connoisseurs or the rich,” she said. Simon also champions another iconic Burgundy product: crème de cassis, the blackcurrant liqueur used in kir. Her pick? The artisanal bottles from the family-owned domaine Jean-Baptiste Joannet.
Dijon’s gourmet specialities are part of the city’s heritage. Legend has it that Margaret of Flanders carried gingerbread to Dijon when she married Philip the Bold in the 14th century, and pain d’épices has been a staple ever since. Recognized as a “living heritage enterprise,” Mulot & Petitjean has been baking it according to the traditional recipe for more than 225 years. And the namesake mustard? Even though the Dijon mustard name was never copyrighted—and can thus be made all over the world—the real deal made with 100 percent Burgundy ingredients is available at La Moutarderie Edmond Fallot, also named a “living heritage enterprise.”
Like these maisons advocating ancestral culinary techniques, the Cité complex aims to celebrate French gastronomic heritage. “We want to make this historic site come to life!” said Mayor Rebsamen.
Hotel options in Dijon include the historical Grand Hotel La Cloche, a five-star landmark operated under the MGallery brand; the Hostellerie du Chapeau Rouge, a 28-room four-star hotel with a Michelin two-star restaurant; and the Maison Philippe le Bon, which occupies three centuries-old residences, including a former convent.
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Something’s cooking.
At the end of March, it was revealed that Eleven Madison Park chef/owner Daniel Humm was at once hot and heavy with Demi Moore and out cold at 425 Park, the new skyscraper where he’d long planned to have a restaurant.
The events were the latest dramatic plot twists in both the personal and professional life of Humm, who, with former business partner Will Guidara, once stood atop the city’s most acclaimed restaurant empire. In 2017, EMP took the No. 1 spot on the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list. It was the crown jewel in a rapidly expanding hospitality company, Make It Nice, that also included the buzzing NoMad and party-hard pop-ups in the Hamptons and Aspen. But, in 2019, Humm and Guidara abruptly parted ways. In the years since, Humm has confounded the restaurant world with a growing number of high-profile romances, a sudden pivot to veganism and a string of broken business deals.
“After he started getting really famous he started dating all of these celebrities and influencers,” said an insider, who noted that Humm was rumored to have dated Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell and that he earned a reputation for being more about pleasure than business at food festivals in far-flung locales.
In 2019, shortly after it was announced that Humm and Guidara were splitting, it was revealed that Humm and Laurene Powell Jobs — the widow of Steve Jobs and a longtime vegan for the most part — were dating. She’s “allowed me to see myself more clearly, and I get to be more myself by knowing her,” Humm told Vanity Fair of their relationship. “She inspires me every day.”
Perhaps it was her influence that led to a shocking announcement in spring 2021: Humm would be reopening the restaurant with a fully vegan menu. “The current food system is simply not sustainable,”he told the New York Times. The new edict came shortly after the news that EMP would retain the three Michelin stars it’s had for years.
But the pivot to veganism might not be sustainable for Humm’s career. Last October, EMP’s vegan menu received a scathing 0-star review in the New York Times. The review also revealed a tasteless hypocrisy: Those who booked a private dining room could still order meat.
“The mistake we all make is [we think] we’re going to break down the barriers and be successful right away and for chef Humm he’s kind of starting over,” Amanda Cohen, the chef at noted downtown vegetarian restaurant Dirt Candy, told The Post. “It really is sort of a total re-brand. It would be like if I decided to open an all-meat restaurant,” she said. Cohen noted that she’s had an uptick in EMP employees coming in to “check out the competition.” She admires Humm’s bold moves, saying “I’m most impressed that he stuck to his guns.”
But some aren’t so impressed and think it’s a misfire.
“There is a way to eat meat the right way and to actually regenerate the Earth and respect the animal you’re raising,” said Ariane Daguin, founder and CEO of D’Artagnan, who provided natural, organic poultry and free-range meat and foie gras to EMP for years. “I feel let down.”
A second anonymous food world insider also claimed that Humm still eats animal products. (It’s been previously reported that Humm’s diet is 90 percent vegetarian.) Humm did not offer comment on this or other matters.
In late 2021, the five-star London hotel Claridge’s cut ties with Humm over his vegan vision for his restaurant there, Davies and Brook. It is “not a path we wish to follow,” the hotel said in a statement.
On Instagram, Humm said: “Standing behind this mission, and what we believe in, is most important and is unfortunately not something we can compromise on.”
He released a similar statement late last month after news of the broken deal at 425 Park hit.
“It saddens me to have to walk away from this project,” he said on Instagram. “But I knew in my heart that I needed to double down on my values and commit to what I believe is right for our community and our planet.”
The 46-year-old chef also seems to have walked away from Jobs, 58, and given his heart to Moore, 59, though it’s unclear when.
As recently as last September, Vanity Fair was declaring Humm and Jobs “a burgeoning art world power couple.” In June, he’d bought a $14.5 million Greenwich Village condo that certainly fit with that image, as did an ongoing friendship with running buddy Vito Schnabel.
The second insider claims the couple split after Powell Jobs left him for her personal trainer.
Meanwhile, on a recent Tuesday night, the once impossible-to-book EMP was about 70% full. An email sent to potential customers March 31, announcing the reservation book’s openings for May, was filled with cutesy jokes and a hint of desperation.
“There’s a lot of pushback and it’s pretty impressive that he’s given up all these deals to stick to his ideals,” said Cohen. “That’s a lot of money and a lot of resources and a lot of movement for his company that he’s not going to have.”
Those who have and do work with Humm say he’s not one to quit.
“If his heart is in a plant-based future then he’s going to go after it 100%,” said former EMP executive sous chef Bryce Shuman. “He’s not a person who does things really half way.”
But his determination might not be enough to make a $335 plant-based vegan menu hot.
“There’s doubt in the culinary world of whether he can make the kind of food that pops for a mass audience or whether he even f – – king cares at all,” the restaurant world insider said. “A lot of people don’t think he’s really with it in terms of keeping up with how it is that people want to eat.”
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Scoop: Sinema throws cold water on Build Back Better revival
Last year, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) publicly sounded the death knell for President Biden's Build Back Better agenda. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), his fellow holdout, is privately concurring, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: In closed-door conversations, Sinema has told donors a path to revival is unlikely. That's dampened expectations Congress will act on a slimmed-down bill before Memorial Day. It also means any revived BBB legislation faces an arduous route back to the center of the Senate agenda.
- No one's reached out to Sinema about the contours of the slimmed-down deal Manchin has discussed, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
- Instead, Sinema's telling donors most of her focus is on the $10 billion COVID-19 relief bill, the so-called China competition legislation and modifications to the Electoral Reform Act.
- A Sinema spokesperson declined comment to Axios.
The big picture: With an expected vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as a Supreme Court justice this week, the Senate still wants to act on coronavirus relief before leaving town.
- If not, after a two-week recess, senators expect to finalize the new COVID-19 spending and then turn to settling differences with the House over the China bill.
- As a practical matter, those issues will suck up much of the Senate's bandwidth, leaving little room for Build Back Better talks.
Driving the news: Manchin is telling climate activists — as well as reporters — he’s open to raising taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans to pay for roughly $550 billion in new climate-related spending.
- He also wants to bolster America’s energy independence by approving more permits for offshore drilling and domestic pipelines.
- Some progressives are skeptical about Manchin’s seriousness and intentions. Others say they're ready to accept his demands on natural gas in return for the $550 billion to lower carbon emissions, Politico reported.
Go deeper: Last fall, Sinema forced the White House to abandon Biden's plans to increase the corporate tax rate to 26.5% from 21% and raise the top individual rate for the wealthiest Americans from 37% to 39.5%.
- But she did end up agreeing to raise the global minimum and domestic tax rate for corporations to 15%, which would raise about $600 billion over 10 years.
- In all, she agreed to measures that would increase revenues by about $2 trillion — more than enough to offset the $1 trillion in new revenue Manchin has floated to pay for climate provisions and deficit reduction.
Between the lines: After Biden pivoted toward deficit reduction in the State of the Union address, indicating he might be willing to work with Manchin on a smaller package, Sinema said her support for the White House's framework on Build Back Better was unchanged.
- “Any new, narrow proposal — including deficit reduction — already has enough tax reform options to pay for it,” a Sinema spokesperson said in early March.
- “These reforms are supported by the White House, target tax avoidance and ensure corporations pay taxes, while not increasing costs on small businesses or everyday Americans already hurting from inflation.”
The bottom line: The White House has always needed to solve issues not just for Manchin but also for Sinema to get a reconciliation bill passed in a 50-50 Senate.
- If and when she gets engaged, the talks will take on new urgency.
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WEST MICHIGAN — Rain gear is recommended for the rest of the week in West Michigan! A low pressure system is on track to move in overnight Tuesday, bringing widespread rain showers on Wednesday and Thursday. It is not going to rain all day long either of those days, but on-and-off rain showers are likely. Cooler air sweeps into West Michigan on Friday, generating a wintry mix of rain and snow.
The latest FOX 17 Future Track shows the heaviest round of rainfall moving inland after 6 a.m. Wednesday, lasting through the morning hours. A few rumbles of thunder are possible, but severe weather is not likely.
Rain showers gradually push east by the afternoon, with isolated rain showers possible Wednesday evening. Otherwise, there will be moments of sunshine for Wednesday evening. Temperatures will also be warmer, reaching the lower 50s.
Another round of scattered rain showers sweep through on Thursday, which will be very light. Any rain on Thursday will be limited, with a few snow flurries possible in the early morning hours and late at night when temperatures are cooler.
Cooler air sweeps in on Friday, which will create a wintry mix of light rain and snow showers all day. A mix of rain and snow is likely to continue into Saturday morning.
When it comes to the amount of rainfall between Wednesday and Thursday, over half an inch of accumulation is likely widespread. Isolated higher amounts are possible, with up to one inch of rainfall accumulation.
Stay tuned with FOX 17 for your latest forecast updates. Cooler air hangs around for Saturday, with temperatures rebounding for Sunday and Monday.
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Disney Co. vs. Gov. DeSantis: Florida governor threatens Reedy Creek Act after 'Don't Say Gay' bill critiques
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - When you look at the Disney signs outside of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, you may think of Mickey Mouse and fun times with family for friends at one of the resort's four theme parks, but experts say it more resembles that of a large company that has its own town.
"Back in 1967, when (Walt) Disney was first buying land and getting ready to set up shop here in town, the legislature and governor gave Disney the power of self-government," said University of Central Florida political science professor Aubrey Jewett.
That paved the way for the "Reedy Creek Improvement Act," which created the special district.
Reedy Creek, which consists of around 25,000 acres of land carved out from Orange and Osceola counties, has its own city council. Jewett said the district has two municipalities, Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista.
"It’s about Disney having a lot of control, not having to ask Orange County or Orlando permission to do a lot of things. Instead, they basically can decide what they want to do," he said.
Now, Gov. Ron DeSantis has threatened to have that district dissolved, especially after The Walt Disney Company criticized the passage and signing of the Parents Rights in Education Law, or the so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill.
Gov. DeSantis said Disney's executives were trying to inject their "California values" into the more moderate Sunshine State.
The law prohibits Florida educators from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade with a provision that enables parents to sue if they allege schools or instructors have been in violation.
"Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law," reads the statement from Disney. Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts," read a portion of a statement from Disney released on Monday.
Following that, some lawmakers suggested repealing the Reedy Creek Improvement Act.
State House Rep. Spencer Roach, a Fort Meyers-area Republican, tweeted a post about it, with the governor giving it the "thumbs up."
"The legislature can re-evaluate it as a whole, but my view is we should treat everyone equally. We shouldn’t let one company have their own set of rules, compared to everybody else," DeSantis said.
"My initial reaction was, ‘What the heck?’ I was really shocked and surprised," said Jewitt.
The governor has stated that he thinks Reedy Creek has too much power.
"I can tell you I was shocked to see some of the stuff that’s in there. They could do their own nuclear power plant." DeSantis said.
"It has crossed my mind that maybe the Legislature and the governor back in the 1960s went overboard a little bit," Jewett responded.
However, State Sen. Linda Stewart, an Orlando-area Democrat, doubts Reedy Creek will be dissolved.
"Disney’s not going to stand by and let that happen without a fight, so you’re looking at maybe a few years worth of lawsuits," she said.
Jewett said there is a small chance the Reedy Creek Improvement District could be repealed. He said around 50 retired and current Disney employees live there.
No one from Reedy Creek would comment about the possible repeal when reached by FOX 35.
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The Chattanooga City Council voted unanimously to place a moratorium on the acceptance of certain short-term vacation rental applications on Tuesday night.
The city council is halting the acceptance of applications for non-owner, occupied rental properties, which are not the primary residence of the applicant.
The council says the purpose of the application freeze is to allow council members to review and develop additional regulations to address concerns.
The moratorium is effective immediately and could remain in place until January 9, 2023.
The following is the full ordinance approved by the council:
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The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret.
The 101 emails -- exchanged between January 4 and January 7, 2021 -- were released to the committee after Judge David Carter ruled that Eastman had not made a sufficient claim to attorney-client privilege.
One email, a draft memo for Rudy Giuliani, was obtained by the committee because the judge decided it was potentially being used to plan a crime. The memo recommended that then-Vice President Mike Pence reject some states' electors during the January 6 congressional meeting.
"This may have been the first time members of President Trump's team transformed a legal interpretation of the Electoral Count Act into a day-by-day plan of action," Carter wrote.
In the other 100 documents the committee is receiving, the judge described extensive discussions among Eastman and others about using court cases as a political argument to block Congress from certifying the vote.
"In another email thread, Dr. Eastman's colleagues discuss whether to publish a piece supporting his plan, and they touch on state lawsuits only to criticize how they are being handled by the Trump campaign," the judge's ruling last month said. "In a different email thread, Dr. Eastman and a colleague consider how to use a state court ruling to justify Vice President Pence enacting the plan. In another email, a colleague focuses on the 'plan of action' after the January 6 attacks."
The select committee's efforts to obtain Eastman's emails had been closely watched in the legal community because of the panel's bold move to accuse Eastman and Trump of criminal conspiracy. The House said it believed Trump had been trying to obstruct Congress and to defraud the government by blocking his loss of the election and discussing it with Eastman.
Still, neither Trump nor Eastman has been charged with any crimes. Further, despite the House's filings, lawmakers aren't prosecutors and can't bring charges. And there is no public indication that the Justice Department is seriously investigating Eastman and Trump's attempt to subvert the 2020 election.
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Senate Republicans blocked an effort on Tuesday to take up a $10 billion Covid relief deal over demands for votes on amendments -- including one to target the Biden administration's Title 42 immigration decision -- a sign that more aid to deal with the pandemic could be delayed for weeks.
The final vote was 47-52.
The $10 billion deal to provide further aid in response to the pandemic had been announced on Monday and would allow the Biden administration to purchase more vaccines and therapeutics, as well as maintain testing capacity and research. It was announced with bipartisan support, but it is not yet clear when it will be able to pass the Senate.
Republicans are pushing for a vote on an amendment to target the Biden administration's plan to repeal Trump-era pandemic restrictions on the US-Mexico border that effectively blocked migrants from entering the US. Known as Title 42, the order allowed US border officials to turn migrants back to Mexico or their home countries immediately, citing a public health crisis.
A number of Democrats have been wary of the move and are signaling they could also vote for such an amendment.
At a news conference earlier Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, indicated the Covid relief package will need to include an amendment vote related to Title 42 and they'll need to reach a deal to process several other amendments in order for the legislation to move forward.
"I think there'll have to be an amendment on Title 42 in order to move the bill," he said. "There's several other amendments that we're going to want to offer, and so we'll need to enter into some kind of agreement to process these amendments in order to go forward with the bill."
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer expressed frustration after the vote on Tuesday.
"Vaccines, therapeutics and testing were negotiated in good faith ... and they should not be held hostage to extraneous unrelated issues," Schumer said. "This is too important for the health of the American people."
"I want there to be no mistake about what just happened here on the Senate floor. Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill that would provide vaccines, testing and therapeutics for the American people," Schumer said.
The New York Democrat tried to move the process along on the relief package, but the failed procedural vote signals senators have still not yet worked out an agreement to move forward.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas told CNN the vote was going to fail "so we can have a negotiation."
Schumer added in his floor remarks on Tuesday, "There's still some time. I hope my Republican colleagues change their tune, quickly."
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Severe storms and more rain will move into Tallapoosa, Coosa and Elmore Counties Wednesday afternoon into the late evening hours.
The National Weather Service (NWS) forecast shows a cold front moving into Alabama Wednesday, and along with it, showers and strong storms. Storms Wednesday will be capable of producing damaging winds up to 70 mph, quarter sized hail and a few tornadoes.
Coosa and the north half of Tallapoosa County is in the Storm Prediction Center’s “enhanced” risk category, which is a level three out of five risk for the threats previously mentioned. The south half of Tallapoosa County and Elmore County is in the “slight” risk category, which is the standard level two out of five risk.
The Storm Prediction Center has defined an “enhanced” risk for places like Alexander City, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Gadsden, Huntsville and Fort Payne while the rest of the state is in the “slight” risk category.
Once this storm system moves through the area, Thursday and Friday will be dry with temperatures trending downward. The high Thursday will be in the mid 60s, and on Friday most places across the northern half of the state will hover around the 50s.
Lows will drop into the 30-38 degree range early Saturday morning over the northern half of the state, with potential for frost in most places, and a freeze for colder spots. Sunday morning could see a freeze before temperatures climb up to the 70s.
The NWS office in Calera was busy Tuesday while updating forecasts for Wednesday. Severe storms produced several tornado warned storms, including an “observed” tornado warning for Wetumpka and Eclectic. That same storm moved into Tallapoosa County and fizzled out before crossing U.S. Highway 280 just south of Camp Hill. An “observed” tornado warning means a trained spotter or law enforcement member saw a tornado.
Damage reports came from communities in Kent, Eclectic and Wetumpka. Trees were reported down and some slight damage to siding and roofs were also reported.
Early assessment shows there were six possible tornadoes in the storms today, but more details will emerge in the coming days.
“We have several potential tornado tracks from today's storms,” The NWS office in Calera tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “[One] survey crew is already [en route] to Wetumpka. Another crew will head out [Wednesday morning] to survey additional damage locations while we hold our remaining staff back here for the next round of potential severe weather.”
Apart from the likely tornado damage, localized flooding was an issue briefly in Tallapoosa County. Some streets had several inches of water pooling, especially in low-lying areas.
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Foggy this evening followed by scattered showers and thunderstorms late. Areas of dense fog developing. Low 61F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.
Submitted / The Outlook Campers gather Saturday at the main children’s playground at Wind Creek State Park for a prayer vigil for 15 year old Johnson Noble who had an accident in the park Friday and later died at UAB.
A 15 year old Calera boy died following an accident at Wind Creek State Park Friday night.
Information is limited at this time, but according to the Shelby County Coroner’s office, Johnson Noble died from injuries sustained while riding an electric scooter. Alexander City fire chief Reese McAlister said the Alexander City Fire Department assisted in a call of a 15 year old with injuries at the park who was flown to UAB.
“We are beyond devastated,” Johnson’s stepmother Amee Noble said on her Facebook page. “We lost an angel [Friday] night. Our son Johnson had a horrible accident and did not make it.”
Noble characterized her son as “the best boy. So patient. So respectful.”
“Love to make children smile and so mannerly.” Noble said. “[He] excelled in football and track. Everyone that met him loved him.”
Johnson loved the outdoors. Numerous photographs can be found on his family’s social media accounts of him fishing and enjoying nature.
Campers held a prayer vigil Saturday afternoon at the park in Johnson’s memory.
Noble was pleased to see “camping friends” organize the vigil.
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Daylen Maness led off his high school career by getting cut from Benjamin Russell’s baseball team.
Now, he’s the leadoff hitter in the Wildcats’ batting order.
Playing his first and final season at the varsity level, Maness’ high-end work ethic has propelled him to a center field spot with Benjamin Russell’s club, and in the process carved out a special place in the heart of long-time head coach Richy Brooks.
“[Stories like Daylen’s] are my favorite ones to tell,” Brooks said. “The ones where things just kind of fall into place for them, those aren’t quite as fun to tell the story. Because you don’t get everything on your timeframe. Sometimes you have to work for it and appreciate it more. And I think Daylen probably appreciates playing more because he really had to earn it. He truly had to earn his spot.”
Maness missed making either junior varsity or varsity as a freshman.
While he admitted that experience “hurt” him as someone who’d played baseball all his life, it didn’t stop him from accepting a position as a team manager.
“It was fun, I liked being there with everybody, seeing how the team worked together,” Maness said. “Seeing how the coach liked to do things so I could get a better understanding of it.”
That allowed Maness to get some practice time in, and he entered his sophomore year tryout fairly stress free about landing a roster spot. He was “relieved” to finally make the team.
Then his development received a blow when that season was cut off early due to COVID-19.
Most players expect to be a full-on varsity contributor by their junior seasons. But even with all the hours Brooks saw him spend on the field and in the weightroom before the pandemic hit, Maness still didn’t have the reps he needed to crack a particularly deep Benjamin Russell outfield in 2021.
He’d spend one more season on JV.
“We didn’t want him sitting on the bench for varsity, so he played JV,” Brooks said. “He needed experience, in other words. He missed playing in the ninth grade, the 10th grade year was cut short, so he didn’t really get a lot of experience playing. He had half a season [entering his junior year].”
Senior year finally brought about Maness’ varsity opportunity. He spent this past offseason fine-tuning to ensure he made the most of it.
“Just putting in the work,” Maness said. “I just keep working at it.”
Still, the coaching staff’s expectations were below what reality became.
Maness has started nearly every game in center field and batted first in the Wildcats’ lineup in 2022. Brooks said he “would have said no” if you’d have told him that during the summer or fall.
“He made us notice him. And that was commendable for him. It says something about his character,” Brooks said.
Going through those trying times helped the outfielder develop as a leader and person. It’s a mentality Brooks would love to see trickle down to some of the younger players on his team’s roster.
“A lot of kids these days, they can’t fight through being told no,” Brooks said. “They can’t fight through adversity. If they don’t get something immediately — we live in a microwave society where everybody wants it now, and if they don’t get it, they just stop and they quit. And Daylen didn’t.”
Maness will play out the last month or so of his high school baseball career at Benjamin Russell before striking out to make a collegiate baseball tenure for himself, most likely at CACC, he said.
The Wildcats’ program isn’t unaccustomed to producing surprise prospects. Pitcher Blake Allen was cut twice from the team before getting drafted by the Texas Rangers a few years down the road in 2001.
Regardless of whether his career pans out at the next level, though, Maness’ story is an incredible tale of perseverance and the rewards of hard work.
“It’s meant a lot, being able to play ball with the guys that I’ve grown up with,” Maness said. “Then getting into this time of the season where it really counts. Just being able to be there with them, playing.”
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SEAFORD, Del. - Moving companies were working in the rain to unload trucks full of items needed for a new store opening in Western Sussex County. Community members have expressed their excitement for more business coming to the area. People are ready for these abandoned buildings to receive new life.
What once use to be a department store called Gordmans will now be a new clothing store called Label Shopper. Gordmans has been closed for over a year since the pandemic and the building has remained empty ever since.
Whitney Taylor of Seaford noticed the moving trucks and is happy to see a new store coming to the city.
“Gordman's came and went. I never really got to go in there and shop. It's exciting just to see a new store coming. I heard it was a clothing store coming here so that's good. New clothes means that I can come and shop,” says Taylor.
With business coming to the city, that means more job opportunities. People we spoke with say this is a huge benefit for the community.
Milver Diaz is from Georgetown but enjoys visiting Seaford. Diaz says he's looking forward to more shopping options and economic opportunities.
"It's pretty cool. It's really exciting because I think that store has been closed for over a year now because of COVID. It can definitely help the economy here. I know there's a lot of people struggling to make ends meet,” says Diaz.
This new store is coming after the opening of a new Dollar Tree in Seaford and an Amazon Distribution Center. An opening date hasn't been announced for the new Label Shopper in Seaford.
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CRISFIELD, Md. - The mayor and town council are working with an engineering firm to take a closer look at the integrity of the Crisfield City Dock. According to Brian Waller, the Crisfield Director of Operations, the wood under the boards is rotting in some parts of the dock and a further inspection is needed.
“This one is a little more concerning for us, given the fact that this isn't something as simple as it looks like a board was broken or blown off, there is some rot and decay,” Waller said.
Part of the dock, where some boards are loose, is roped off. The other parts of the dock, including the pavilion, are still open to the public. The dock is used daily by boats including the ferries to Smith and Tangier Island. William Bonniwell works at the dock everyday and says the dock plays a key role in Crisfield’s economy.
“I think it would be very important because they thrive on the tourism business and if the tourists come down here and see the dock is all roped off with yellow and they are wondering what's going on and if they go down there and they can't get to the end of it, and they want to do a little fishing or swimming and they are not able too,” Bonniwell said.
According to Waller, inspecting and fixing any issues with the dock is a top priority for the town, especially before the busy tourism season. An inspection could be done in the next few weeks.
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WASHINGTON — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Tuesday to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats.
A day after Democratic and GOP bargainers reached agreement on providing the money for treatments, vaccines and testing, a Democratic move to push the measure past a procedural hurdle failed 52-47. All 50 Republicans opposed the move, leaving Democrats 13 votes short of the 60 they needed to prevail.
Hours earlier, Republicans said they'd withhold crucial support for the measure unless Democrats agreed to votes on an amendment preventing President Joe Biden from lifting Trump-era curbs on migrants entering the U.S. With Biden polling poorly on his handling of immigration and Democrats divided on the issue, Republicans see a focus on migrants as a fertile line of attack.
“I think there will have to be" an amendment preserving the immigration restrictions “in order to move the bill” bolstering federal pandemic efforts, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
At least 10 GOP votes will be needed in the 50-50 Senate for the measure to reach the 60 votes it must have for approval. Republicans could withhold that support until Democrats permit a vote on an immigration amendment.
Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., want Congress to approve the pandemic bill before lawmakers leave in days for a two-week recess. Tuesday's vote suggested that could be hard.
”This is a potentially devastating vote for every single American who was worried about the possibility of a new variant rearing its nasty head within a few months," Schumer said after the vote.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, “Today’s Senate vote is a step backward for our ability to respond to this virus.”
The new omicron variant, BA.2, is expected to spark a fresh increase in U.S. COVID-19 cases. Around 980,000 Americans and over 6 million people worldwide have died from the disease.
The $10 billion pandemic package is far less than the $22.5 billion Biden initially sought. It also lacks $5 billion Biden wanted to battle the pandemic overseas after the two sides couldn't agree on budget savings to pay for it, as Republicans demanded.
At least half the bill would finance research and production of therapeutics to treat COVID-19. Money would also be used to buy vaccines and tests and to research new variants.
The measure is paid for by pulling back unspent pandemic funds provided earlier for protecting aviation manufacturing jobs, closed entertainment venues and other programs.
Administration officials have said the government has run out of money to finance COVID-19 testing and treatments for people without insurance, and is running low on money for boosters, free monoclonal antibody treatments and care for people with immune system weaknesses.
At the 2020 height of the pandemic, President Donald Trump imposed immigration curbs letting authorities immediately expel asylum seekers and migrants for public health reasons. The ban is set to expire May 23, triggering what by all accounts will be a massive increase in people trying to cross the Mexican border into the U.S.
That confronts Democrats with messy choices ahead of fall elections when they’re expected to struggle to retain their hair-breadth House and Senate majorities.
Many of the party’s lawmakers and their liberal supporters want the U.S. to open its doors to more immigrants. But moderates and some Democrats confronting tight November reelections worry about lifting the restrictions and alienating centrist voters.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., who faces a competitive reelection this fall, declined to say whether she would support retaining the Trump-era ban but said more needs to be done.
“I need a plan, we need a plan,” she said in a brief interview. “There’s going to be a surge at the border. There should be a plan and I’ve been calling for it all along.”
Shortly before Tuesday's vote, Schumer showed no taste for exposing his party to a divisive immigration vote.
“This is a bipartisan agreement that does a whole lot of important good for the American people. Vaccines, testing, therapeutics,” he said. “It should not be held hostage for an extraneous issue.”
Jeff Zients, head of White House COVID-19 task force, expressed the same view.
“This should not be included on any funding bill,” he said of immigration. “The decision should be made by the CDC. That’s where it has been, and that’s where it belongs.”
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which initiated the move two years ago, said earlier this month that it would lift the ban next month. The restrictions, known as Title 42, have been harder to justify as pandemic restrictions have eased.
Trump administration officials cast the curb as a way to keep COVID-19 from spreading further in the U.S. Democrats considered that an excuse for Trump, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric was a hallmark of his presidency, to keep migrants from entering the country.
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After a two-year hiatus, the Northwest Jazz Festival in Lewiston will return on Aug. 26 and 27.
The event highlights local, international and North American jazz artists including Sally Terrell, John di Martino, Stacey Kent, Corrine Mammana, Allison Au, Emmet Cohen and Joey DeFrancesco.
The last jazz festival took place in 2019 with a two-year break due to COVID-19 restrictions.
In 2021 there wasn’t a full festival, however, local musicians were hired to perform in Lewiston. This year the board of directors will celebrate the festival’s 20-year anniversary alongside Northwest Bank as the presenting sponsor and an impressive listing of supportive businesses and organizations. The 2022 music line-up is curated by Music Director Tony Zambito.
“The headliners this year are all incredibly shining stars in the jazz world who have demonstrated creative resourcefulness in overcoming the pandemic,” he said. "We are excited to have Grammy nominees and a Juno Award winner on the Main Stage this year."
Musicians with local roots being welcomed back include DeFrancesco whose father, Papa John was a Niagara Falls legend.
Jazz vocalist Terrell, who is also from this area, will be playing as well as jazz pianist di Martino.
The Main Stage lineup:
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• Jazz vocalist/pianist Sally Terrell with acclaimed jazz pianist/arranger John di Martino
• Grammy nominee, jazz vocalist Stacey Kent – A regional debut performance
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• Jazz vocalist Corinne Mammana
• 2018-2019 Juno Award winner, the Allison Au Quartet
• 2019 American Pianist Award winner and “Live from Emmet’s Place,” Emmet Cohen Trio
• Five-time Grammy nominee and Downbeat Critic’s Poll #1 Jazz Organist Joey DeFrancesco.
Each year, the festival relies on the support of donors and sponsors to remain the largest free jazz festival in the region alongside hosting an annual fundraiser in the Spring.
“We are grateful for the overwhelming support we have already received from the generosity of sponsors to make sure a 2022 event takes place,” Carol Calato, chairwoman of the festival board of directors, said. “We are hard at work on the anniversary celebration and plan to give you another two days of spectacular entertainment featuring international stars as well as some of our own local super talents.”
The event will be preceded by a Jazz Fundraiser from 1-5 p.m. May 1st at the Brickyard Brewery featuring music by the Stu Weissman Trio, Saranaide and the Buffalo Dolls. Tickets for the fundraiser are available at the festival website: https://www.lewistonjazz.com/fundraisertickets
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A call for a burglary in progress on Meadowbrooke Lane in Newfane brought Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies to the scene at 1:54 p.m. on April 1.
According to deputies, Damien Speck, 35, was found in the residence of the victim upon their arrival and Sheriff Mike Filicetti said that the victim and Speck knew each other.
“There was a relationship of some sort,” Filicetti said. “I don’t know to what extent. (But we know) They knew each other based on what we’ve learned.”
Filicetti said that the victim’s door was kicked in, knocking the victim to the ground in the process and causing multiple facial lacerations.
Once inside, Filicetti said Speck also “put his hand over her mouth.”
Speck is charged with burglary and assault, as well as criminal obstruction of breathing. He is being held at Niagara County Correctional Facility where he awaits a court appearance in the City of Lockport for a separate incident which he is held on $5,000 cash bail.
There is no court date scheduled in Newfane Court as of yet, but Speck is being held on $25,000 cash bail for those crimes.
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I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read a US&J Mailbag contributor's recommendation for enhancing our national security: making oil from coal. This misguided proposal, which completely ignores the climate crisis, suggests using the dirtiest fossil fuel (coal) to create the next dirtiest fossil fuel (oil).
Instead of short-term fixes like this, what we need is a clean energy future, where homegrown renewable energy, coupled with electrification of our infrastructure and transportation, provides for our energy security.
And I'm tired of propaganda from Big Oil. The American Petroleum Institute is behind ads to rally voters against the clean energy bills before the New York State legislature that would promote building electrification. Governor Hochul needs to signal her strong support for this legislation. Government leadership and policies are essential to regulate industry so we have a healthy and safe environment. Easy examples: requiring catalytic converters to cut tailpipe pollution, regulations to protect our drinking water. Do we want to go back to the days of burning rivers?
Earth's atmosphere is today's burning river. Our atmosphere protects us, and it needs protecting from the fossil fuels that are catastrophically warming the planet. Coal to oil is a non-starter.
JULIE ALMOND, Tonawanda
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The March jobs report shows that President Biden’s and Democrats' approach to the economy is working. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, on April 1, that unemployment was 3.6% and non-farm payroll employment rose by 431,000 jobs in March. Inflation is a problem at 7.9% but inflation is a world-wide problem. In Europe, for example, inflation is running at 7.5%. Issues beyond the administration's control, such as supply chain problems and Russia's war in Ukraine, are driving up prices. But the employment numbers show that the U.S. is coming out of the pandemic-induced recession.
The American Rescue Plan and Democrats' economics are largely responsible for the strong economy. Even farmers are better off under Democrats. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service estimates that farm income in 2021 was the highest since 2013. Furthermore, Montana Farmers Union President Walter Scheitzer noted that under the previous administration farmers were only surviving on government subsidies whereas now prices of corn, soybeans and other commodities are high enough for farmer to profit without government handouts.
An example of the Democrats' approach versus the Republican approach is H.R. 6833. This bill caps out of pocket spending on insulin at $35 a month. Congressman Chris Jacobs voted against lowering the cost of insulin. Repeat, Mr. Jacobs voted against lower insulin prices. The Republicans oppose social safety nets programs like Social Security and Medicare or even fair taxation as a policy.
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SANBORN — Lacrosse may be a game, but it has delivered countless opportunities and joy for the Printup family.
A ball and a stick have created movie roles and worldwide tournaments, but for Aaron and Zan Printup, the most important gift has been connections. Aaron has been coaching with Niagara Wheatfield since 2008, currently as the boys modified coach. Meanwhile, Zan got into coaching in 2020 and is beginning her first season as the girls modified coach for the Falcons.
Through playing and coaching, lacrosse has also brought them friendships and strengthened a binding relationship with relatives. Now it is one of their favorite family activities to share with their three kids.
The Printups have passed their passion for the sport to their children, teaching and coaching them. But sometimes the most fun comes when the family simply tosses the ball around in the backyard, without worry of screaming fans or the pressure of a game. It’s a calm, joyful experience.
“(Lacrosse is) like a way of connecting with people — our community, my friends and new people,” Zan said. “It has just given me so many opportunities.”
A Printup being enthralled by lacrosse would not be a surprise for many, but Aaron is not related to any members of the family that has churned out several standout players.He grew up in the Onondaga Nation despite being Tuscarora, and after his aunt moved to Western New York, he came to visit for a summer during high school.
The same summer, Zan decided to join some of her cousins who were doing traditional indigenous dancing and the two crossed paths. A whirlwind summer turned into love. Zan opted to attend Syracuse University and Aaron played one season of lacrosse at Onondaga Community College.
Although neither of Zan’s parents played lacrosse, she picked up the game from cousins and friends and rarely put down her stick. She scored 270 career goals for Niagara Wheatfield, including a Section VI record 98 in 2007.
Aaron, meanwhile, grew up with the sport and was not only seen as a leisure activity, but also held cultural significance within his community, given the sport was invented by indigenous people as early as 1100.
“Whenever there’s a men’s game, everyone comes out and watches them play against the other Native American communities,” Aaron said. “You get to see your friends and cousins that you don’t get to see all the team. I think a lot of people want to be a part of that as they get older.”
As the Printups grew into adulthood and started a family, lacrosse remained a constant. Both played for local teams and competed on a national scale. Zan played for a First Nations team and also made the Haudenosaunee team in the 2017 World Cup in Canada, playing against a variety of different countries, including the United States.
Aaron also played for the men’s U19 team in 2011 and the Haudenosaunee team the following season. In addition to success on the field, lacrosse also gave Aaron the chance to star in a move.
Following an audition, he was selected as a cast member of the 2012 film Crooked Arrows, starring alongside Niagara Wheatfield players James Bissell and Emmett Printup IV (no relation). The cast also featured future Tewaaraton Trophy, NLL MVP and MLL MVP winner Lyle Thompson.
His budding passion became coaching, first helping an uncle coach at 15 years old and his first real job came at 18 for a high school in Syracuse. Aaron has helped with Niagara Wheatfield, Niagara County Community College and local club teams. He also recently became commissioner for the Niagara Wheatfield Athletic Association lacrosse club.
Niagara Wheatfield girls varsity coach Cory Turner also coaxed Zan into coaching when he started Positive Energy Lacrosse, where both Printups coached their daughter. When the modified position opened at the school — where both are teachers — she jumped at it, allowing her another path to connect with others.
“It’s important for me to give this game back, not only to this community, but the girls in the area,” Zan said. “I hope they find as much joy and love for the game as I did and I hope it inspires them to be awesome in the game and in life.”
Lacrosse may be the preferred sport in the Printup household, the kids are expected or forced to play. In fact, they are encouraged to try other sports that may be of interest. Not only do they believe such thinking procures the virtues of sports, but it also allows the kids to develop a love for sports naturally, just as it came for them.
“We support them in any sport they want,” Aaron said. “A deeper level of sports teaches you about life. You’re going to have to work hard, you’re going to have challenges. You need to stick with it, even if it's not fun. If you like baseball, go try baseball. If you like hockey, go try hockey. … We’re happy our kids like (lacrosse), but we’re not pushing them into it.“
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New maps show contaminated private water wells in Central Jersey
The nonprofit Raritan Headwaters Association (RHA) is making it easier to find out what’s in your drinking water.
Four out of five households in the upper Raritan River watershed in Hunterdon, Somerset and Morris counties get drinking water from a private well on their property, according to RHA, and the only way for well owners to know if their water is safe and healthy is by testing it.
Since 1974, Raritan Headwaters Association has offered well testing at discounted rates through a certified laboratory. But it’s up to homeowners to choose exactly which substances to test for – which can be confusing without knowledge of potential risks.
RHA has just published interactive maps of water quality data from wells tests throughout the watershed, serving as a useful tool for residents considering testing options. By exploring test results in their immediate vicinity, residents are empowered to make more informed decisions around monitoring the health of their drinking water.
“Our goal is to educate residents about common well water pollutants and make testing easy so that everyone in our watershed has access to safe drinking water,” said RHA Well Testing Manager Mara Tippett.
The data generated through RHA’s Community Well Testing program are used to assess the quality of the water from residential wells throughout the watershed.
“We took 10 years of test results – from 2011 through 2020 – and mapped all the data points,” Tippett explained. “Using our new maps, local residents can see what contaminants are most common in their neighborhoods, learn about sources and prevention, and get guidance on testing frequency.”
Common well water contaminants include coliform bacteria, nitrates, arsenic, gross alpha (naturally occurring uranium and radium), radon and volatile organic compounds. Lead is another potential drinking water contaminant in homes built before 1986, where it can lurk in pipes, solder or plumbing fixtures.
The new RHA maps – available at bit.ly/3r1TLiz – divide the 470-square-mile watershed into a grid of square-mile areas. Each hexagon-shaped cell is color-coded to show what level of contamination was detected in well tests. A separate map was created for each common contaminant.
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More:Middlesex Water shuts down contaminated wells, will use alternate sources
“It’s easy for people to zoom into their towns and neighborhoods and see what a decade’s worth of well test results have found,” said Melissa Thomas, RHA’s director of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping. “For example, if the map shows that wells within a mile of your home have high levels of arsenic or volatile organic compounds, you’ll probably also want to test for those.”
The grid mapping system was chosen, Thomas noted, to protect the privacy of homeowners who have had their wells tested through RHA. Exact locations of wells that have been tested are not shown.
How to get your well tested
To test your well, you may either participate in an upcoming Community Well Testing event, in which local municipalities offer convenient pick-up and drop-off points for testing kits or order a water sampling kit online for pick-up at Raritan Headwaters offices in Bedminster or Flemington. Following the instructions on the kits, collect samples of your tap water and bring the samples back to RHA.
Test results will be emailed to you in about two weeks. If contamination is found, the RHA well testing department can provide resources on water treatment options, such as filter systems for the home.
“Approximately 1,600 local households utilize our Well Test program each year to determine their drinking water quality,” said Tippett. “Testing every year is vital to ensuring a safe and secure water supply because conditions can change over time. Changes in water quality and potability may occur due to extreme weather events, structural condition of the well, or impact from nearby septic systems.”
For more information on well testing, go to bit.ly/3NNpuxF or email WellTesting@raritanheadwaters.org.
To find an upcoming Community Well Testing event happening near you, go to bit.ly/35F3ST3.
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North Brunswick to consider plan for massive warehouse on Route 130
NORTH BRUNSWICK – Another warehouse may be coming to the township.
DM Investments of North Brunswick, LLC is seeking preliminary and final major site plan approval, as well as ancillary variances and waivers, to construct a 235,833-square-foot industrial building at 2700 Route 130.
The approximately 21.786 acres of property is located east of Route 130 and north of Davidson's Mill Road in the Commercial Development Zone (C-4), where the proposed use is permitted.
READ:Why has a warehouse plan in Franklin drawn opposition from another town’s mayor?
A hearing on the application is scheduled at the planning board meeting, held remotely, 7:30 p.m. April 12.
Anyone unable to access the information for the application via computer or in need assistance in logging on or using the technology may contact Planning Board Secretary Janice Larkin at 732-247-0922, ext. 201, or email Jlarkin@northbrunswicknj.gov.
Maps, plans, and documents are also on file prior to the meeting in the office of Community Development and on the township's website www.northbrunswicknj.gov.
Email: sloyer@gannettnj.com
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Bridgewater-Raritan hires champion football coach to replace Scott Bray
Rick Mantz, who has 26 years and 113 wins under his belt as a head varsity football coach in New Jersey, including a championship-winning 16-year stint at Hillsborough, was officially approved Tuesday evening as the new head football mentor at Bridgewater-Raritan High School, replacing longtime coach Scott Bray.
Mantz, a former Hillsborough player, who guided his alma mater from 1992-2007, including winning a state title in 2000, also coached at South Brunswick for eight season and spent two years at Passaic. He carries a 113-69 career record. He also served as an assistant offensive line coach at Rutgers University, and once was an assistant football coach at Bridgewater-Raritan High School West.
“We’re really, really excited to have Rick in the position,” Bridgewater-Raritan athletics director John Maggio said. “His background, experience and knowledge make him the perfect person to lead our football program. I’m really looking forward to working with him.”
“Living in Hillsborough and growing up playing against Bridgewater-West and Bridgewater-East, there was always a great amount of respect,” Mantz said. “And then when you put the two teams together, they were a dynamo. It was a classy community, lots of kids, like a college campus. Programs I’ve taken over during the years were struggling and needed to be rebuilt. Here I’m inheriting a solid program that’s had a lot of success. They’ve got a ton of great kids with really good attitudes and I know they’re in shape, so it’s just a question of doing whatever I can to help them get over the hump and to that next level. I’m really, really excited.”
The veteran skipper replaces Bray, who spent the past 14 seasons as the Bridgewater-Raritan football head coach, leading the program back from obscurity. Bray’s teams compiled a 77-65 record, including 10 state-tournament berths and three straight sectional finals from 2015-2017 – the program’s first-ever trips to a state-championship game.
Bray, who had previously served as head coach of the Panthers’ baseball team, has also spent the past five seasons as the head coach of the girls basketball squad.
Bridgewater-Raritan officials have not commented on Bray’s departure from the football program, and he hasn’t coached the girls basketball team since Feb. 5, when an assistant took over for the duration of what ended as a 5-22 campaign.
As the head coach at Hillsborough, Mantz logged an 81-39 record (.675 winning percentage) over 12 years while leading the Raiders to a Group IV sectional championship in 2000, a Group IV sectional final in 1996 and a Group IV sectional semifinal in 2004. He also won two Skyland Conference division championships and was the Courier News Coach of the Year three times.
Mantz went 31-11 at South Brunswick, leading the Vikings to their first Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division title, sharing the crown in 2008, and winning the championship outright three years later. He also ended South Brunswick’s 30-year playoff drought, leading the Vikings to postseason berths in 2008 and 2011. In 2011, South Brunswick opened the year with eight consecutive wins for the first time in school history and finished with a 10-1 record, the program's best mark.
His last head varsity post was from 2014-15 at Passaic.
Read next:Former Manville coach Ned Panfile Sr. dies at 85
A 1985 graduate of Rutgers University, Mantz received a Master's in Education from the state university’s Graduate School of Education in 1992. He served as a graduate assistant coach for the Scarlet Knights under then-Rutgers head football coach Doug Graber.
As a high school player, Mantz's field goal led Hillsborough to a 10-7 victory over Madison Central for the Central Group III title in 1980 at Giants Stadium.
And while taking over a program in April will certainly be a daunting task, with 7-on-7s and other spring football preparation already underway, Mantz’s experience makes him the perfect candidate to take over a football team so late in the offseason.
“With Rick’s background, he knows exactly what needs to be done, and he will hit the ground running and have everything in place right away,” Maggio said. “He’s done it before and done it with a lot of success, so I have no doubt that he’s going to get things moving and make up for lost time almost immediately.”
“I’ve been doing this for 36 years, so I’ve seen a lot of things from a lot of angles,” said Mantz, who is scheduled to meet with the players Wednesday. “Just like we’re going to tell the kids; we’re going to focus on the things we can control, we’re going to do the best with what we have and can’t worry that we’re going to be late for this or that. It’s a great support system. It’s ready to go.”
Simeon Pincus can be reached at SPincus@GannettNJ.com. Follow him on Twitter @SimeonPincus
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Former Manville coach Ned Panfile Sr. dies at 85
Ned Panfile Sr., one of the core blocks of Manville High School’s athletic foundation, died Tuesday morning after a long illness. He was 85.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, daughter Nadine and son, Ned Jr., the athletic director at Mendham High School.
Ned Jr. said Tuesday that when his dad’s first grade teacher in Eynon, Pa., saw his father’s name – Nazzareno – she suggested he simply be known as "Ned."
"His teacher saw his real first name and said, 'That’s too hard,'" Ned Jr. said. '"You’re Ned.' It stuck."
Ned Sr. came to Manville from Eynon in 1959 fresh from graduating from the University of Scranton where he was a defensive end and fullback. He was hired as a sixth grade teacher and was also hired as an assistant football coach. Panfile spent five years in that role – part of it during the Mustangs’ 25-game win streak – before becoming the head football coach in 1966. The Mustangs went 33-19-2 in his tenure with the team’s lone perfect season of 9-0 in 1968.
Panfile was The Plainfield Courier News Football Coach of the Year that season. He was also the newspaper’s Baseball Coach of the Year for the spring of 1968 after his team went 21-2 and won the Central Group 1 and Mountain Valley Conference titles.
He was also Princeton University’s freshman football coach from 1972 to 1992. Among the players he coached were actor Dean Cain and future NFL player and coach Jason Garrett.
But Panfile’s heart would squarely always be in Manville. He was a vice principal, a fill-in athletic director, wrestling coach and Board of Education member. He was part of the recreation committee and he was a volunteer football coach up until a few years ago.
In 1999, the Mustangs’ main athletic field was renamed Ned Panfile Stadium. That honor was renewed in 2010 after the field was renovated.
"The biggest thing is that I had a good relationship with the kids. The people of Manville have been so good to me," Panfile said in 1999. "I really believe that the people in Manville are some of the best people in the world."
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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. MCentee with III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group belays for Marines rappelling during jungle rappelling training at Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, March 23, 2022. The rappelling training was part of an overall Jungle Field Exercise conducted on March 21-25. During the FEX, III MIG Marines practiced their ability to conduct distributed operations in an austere environment. JWTC provides challenging terrain that is found on many of the islands in the Indo-Pacific. Mastery of this terrain contributes to III MIG’s ability to employ multiple modes of low-signature maneuver in a jungle environment; as well as developing and deploying distributed, lethal, networked and persistent capabilities to process and close kill chains. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Sarah E. Taggett)
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U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group conduct jungle casualty evacuation training and utilize U.S. Marine Corps MRZRs during a Jungle Field Exercise at Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, March 22, 2022. The training was part of an overall Jungle Field Exercise conducted on March 21-25. During the FEX, III MIG Marines practiced their ability to conduct distributed operations in an austere environment. JWTC provides challenging terrain that is found on many of the islands in the Indo-Pacific. Mastery of this terrain contributes to III MIG’s ability to employ multiple modes of low-signature maneuver in a jungle environment; as well as developing and deploying distributed, lethal, networked and persistent capabilities to process and close kill chains. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Sarah E. Taggett)
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE:CARR) will release its first quarter 2022 earnings on Thursday, April 28 and host a conference call and webcast at 8:30 a.m. ET.
The webcast and presentation will be available at ir.carrier.com. To listen to the earnings call by phone, dial (877) 742-9091 and an operator will place you on hold until the conference begins. Please allow 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to connect to the teleconference. A recording will be archived later on the site and will be available for replay by phone from 11:30 a.m. ET April 28, 2022 until 11:30 a.m. ET May 5, 2022. For a replay, dial (855) 859-2056. At the prompt for a conference ID number, enter 5684198.
About Carrier
As the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier Global Corporation is committed to making the world safer, sustainable and more comfortable for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit www.Corporate.Carrier.com or follow us on social media at @Carrier.
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A newly rebranded Vacation Ownership program is now available through Hyatt Vacation Club
ORLANDO, Fla., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyatt Vacation Ownership is introducing a newly rebranded Vacation Ownership program called the Platinum Program that includes expanded vacation benefits and a collection of upscale resorts. The refreshed owner program is designed to enable travelers to enjoy a collection of independent resorts and access other vacation accommodations and benefits through the World of Hyatt® loyalty program.
"The last several years have shown us that a good vacation is exactly the therapy humans need to live and thrive in our modern world," said Stephanie Sobeck Butera, SVP and Chief Operating Officer, Hyatt Vacation Ownership. "We celebrate the power of vacations and are excited to offer another distinctive Vacation Ownership program for those who love to vacation and want it to be an ongoing part of their lives."
The upscale resorts (formerly Welk Resorts) in the Platinum Program portfolio are in highly desirable vacation destinations, including California, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. They feature a guest experience designed to inspire feelings of connectedness, togetherness, and happiness, and each resort has a unique set of amenities and special touches that are designed to make the vacation experience even more meaningful, which is core to the Hyatt Vacation Club experience. In addition, the INSPIRED For You™ activities program, a set of customized and always engaging activities at each resort lets Owners make their vacations a true vacation experience with curated tours and activities like kayak adventures, hikes, escape room experiences and more. The resort collection available as part of the Platinum Program includes:
- The Welk — San Diego Area, California – The Welk in Escondido, once the personal vacation place for Lawrence Welk and his family, is now an expansive 714-villa resort.
- One Village Place — Lake Tahoe, California – With 21 luxury vacation villas, One Village Place features a private entrance to the Northstar California Truckee Ski Resort's Big Springs Express gondola.
- Northstar Lodge — Lake Tahoe, California – Northstar Lodge is an all-season, ski-in, ski-out luxury mountain lodge with 104 vacation villas in Lake Tahoe's Northstar Village.
- Desert Oasis — Palm Springs Area, California – Desert Oasis is a classic 162-room Palm Springs resort located in Cathedral City.
- The Ranahan — Breckenridge, Colorado – Located on the scenic Blue River, The Ranahan in Breckenridge is a ranch-inspired resort with 67 vacation villas.
- The Lodges at Timber Ridge — Branson, Missouri – With a 10,000 square foot indoor waterpark and world-class, live-theater entertainment, The Lodges at Timber Ridge feature 159 vacation villas for a retreat in the Ozarks.
- El Corazon de Santa Fe — Santa Fe, New Mexico – This high-end community in the heart of Santa Fe features 16 beautifully appointed vacation villas offering a taste of the best of Southwest culture and life. This resort is not currently available for transient rental on Hyatt.com or a participant in the World of Hyatt® loyalty program.
- Sirena del Mar — Cabo San Lucas, Mexico – This luxurious 7-acre Cabo San Lucas resort is perched atop the cliffs at the tip of the Baja peninsula with views of the Sea of Cortez.
Platinum Program Owners can enjoy the use of these resorts along with other vacation accommodations and ownership benefits, including travel discounts and access to more than 1,100 World of Hyatt hotels, resorts, and all-inclusive experiences in more than 65 countries around the globe. World of Hyatt® Members will be eligible to earn World of Hyatt® points for transient stays and incidental purchases while staying at participating resorts within this collection and are able to redeem World of Hyatt® points for stays at these participating resorts.
To learn more about Hyatt Vacation Club, visit Hyattvacationclub.com or visit @hyattvacayclub on Facebook and Instagram. To explore the participating properties available for transient stays, visit Hyatt.com.
About Hyatt Vacation Ownership (HVO)
Hyatt Vacation Ownership (HVO) develops, markets, and manages shared ownership resort properties and is a business unit of MVW, a leading global vacation company that offers vacation ownership, exchange, rental and resort and property management, along with related businesses, products, and services. MVW, inclusive of the HVO resort collection, has over 120 vacation ownership resorts and approximately 700,000
owner families in a diverse portfolio that includes some of the most iconic vacation ownership brands. MVW also operates exchange networks and membership programs comprised of nearly 3,200 affiliated resorts in over 90 nations, as well as provides management services to over 150 other resorts and lodging properties. As a leader and innovator in the vacation industry, MVW upholds the highest standards of excellence in serving its customers, investors and associates while maintaining exclusive, long-term relationships with Marriott International, Inc. and an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation for the development, sales and marketing of vacation ownership products and services. For more information, please visit mvwc.com.
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(AP) – Alec Baldwin is asking a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by a Wyoming woman who said she received hateful social media messages after the actor shared a photo she took from former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the Washington Monument.
The lawsuit was filed in January by Roice McCollum, whose brother was killed by a suicide bomber at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan in August 2021.
Last year, Baldwin sent McCollum a $5,000 check to help the widow of her brother Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum of Jackson, who was among 13 U.S. soldiers killed in a suicide bombing Aug. 26 at the Kabul airport, according to the lawsuit.
On Jan. 3 of this year, the lawsuit says, the actor privately messaged Roice McCollum on Instagram soon after she posted an almost year-old photo of the Trump rally, asking if she was the same woman who’d taken his donation. The suit says McCollum confirmed she was at the protest and told Baldwin, “Protesting is perfectly legal.”
McCollum’s lawsuit says Baldwin responded by remarking that “her activities resulted in the unlawful destruction of government property, the death of a law enforcement officer, an assault on the certification of the presidential election,” and told McCollum that he’d reposted the photo to his 2.4 million Instagram followers.
After Baldwin shared the photo of the Jan. 6 protest on social media, Roice McCollum got “hundreds upon hundreds of hateful messages,” including one telling her to “get raped and die” and that her brother “got what he deserved,” according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, first reported by the Casper Star-Tribune, alleges invasion of privacy, defamation, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress and seeks $25 million in damages.
His response argues he can’t be sued for sharing his political opinion.
On Oct. 21 last year, Baldwin was involved in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western film “Rust.” Her family is suing him and the movie’s other producers, alleging their “callous” disregard in the face of safety complaints on the set led directly to her death.
At least four other lawsuits have been filed over the shooting. Baldwin, who was to star in the film, was pointing a gun at Hutchins inside a small church during setup for the filming of a scene when it went off, killing Hutchins and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
Late last month, Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, announced the pair are expecting their seventh child.
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The 2022 Academy Awards were last week – and they brought us surprise wins, gut-wrenching losses, and of course… the slap.
But for 1A… there were also a lot of familiar faces.
We’re listening back to excerpts from some of our recent conversations with the eventual winners.
There’s Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur of “CODA” … Ariana DeBose of “West Side Story” … Germaine Franco, Charise Castro Smith and Sebastian Yatra of “Encanto”… and yes, Will Smith with “King Richard.”
All the conversations in this hour are fun-sized versions of much longer shows – which you can find links to above.
Copyright 2022 WAMU 88.5
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HOLLAND, Mich. — Many cities in Michigan started allowing businesses to utilize outdoor seating during the pandemic.
Now, the city of Holland may be charging them to use public space.
Holland's Downtown Development Authority is looking at charging businesses $2,700 for a permit.
If the city signs off on this deal, those companies will have three spaces for several months.
A sign of the changing seasons as tulips are starting to pop up in downtown Holland.
Finding a parking spot is hard if you're driving down 8th street, and soon it could become even more challenging.
"So, it really helped us out a lot. And it was a big draw to the restaurants down here," Hops at 84 East General Manager Stephen Rich said.
The draw is outdoor seating for food and drinks. This year, the city proposes charging businesses that utilize three parking spaces $2,700.
"Whoever wants to do this will apply to the Design Review Board and showed specific plans of how their cafe and parking spaces will be set up," Downtown Development Coordinator Amy Sasamoto said.
The city permit would last from the week after the Tulip Time Festival in May to October.
"A lot of the people that come down here and enjoy shopping and dining and downtown Allen really liked the atmosphere that the extra sidewalk cafe seating would provide dining, expanding into the parking spaces," Sasamoto told FOX17.
Rich, who helps run with Hops at 84 East says he's on board.
"It's all part of doing business. So we'll absorb the cost ourselves," he added.
He says the seating located right outside was a popular spot for many stopping to grab a bite or drink.
"Sometimes, you know, waits would be anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours. It really all depended on the day and the group sizes that wanted to sit," he told FOX17.
Rich says he's looking forward to having a similar setup as before.
"We are blessed to have a lot of regulars and a lot of tourists that come to our establishment," Rich said.
The DDA says the money collected by the permits would go into its general fund.
The plan is moving forward: the DDA board signed off this proposal tonight.
It now goes to the city council for a final vote.
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After recently more than doubling its office footprint, Signature takes an additional 32,927 square feet
NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) announced that Signature Bank, a New York-based full-service commercial bank, has expanded its footprint at 1400 Broadway for the third time. Signature has taken another full, 32,927 square feet for a total of 313,109 square feet.
In January 2022, ESRT announced that Signature expanded by 168,310 square feet to over 280,000 square feet. The company will now take the building's full 16th floor and occupy 11 full floors under a long term lease.
"ESRT continues to benefit from the market flight to quality," said Thomas P. Durels, executive vice president, real estate at Empire State Realty Trust. "Signature, a top financial institution, understands ESRT is an industry leader in energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and healthy buildings and has taken advantage of our value proposition at 1400 Broadway."
Located along the Broadway Pedestrian Plaza, 1400 Broadway provides convenient access to nearby transportation, dining, lodging, and entertainment. Tenants benefit from ESRT's leadership in energy efficiency and premier indoor environmental quality – which includes MERV 13 filters and active bi-polar ionization – as well as a tenants-only lounge and a new "town hall" assembly space to be delivered late 2022, at rents that are a fraction of newer buildings.
Michael Cohen, Andrew Roos, and Howard Kaplowitz of Colliers International NY represented Signature Bank in the lease negotiations. Scott Klau, Erik Harris, Neil Rubin, of Newmark and Ryan Kass of Empire State Realty Trust represented the property owner.
More information about 1400 Broadway, and current availability, can be found online.
About Empire State Realty Trust
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) is a NYC-focused REIT that owns and manages a well-positioned property portfolio of office and retail assets in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area. Owner of the Empire State Building, the World's Most Famous Building, ESRT also owns and operates its iconic, newly reimagined Observatory Experience. The company is a leader in healthy buildings, energy efficiency, and indoor environmental quality, and has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per square foot of any publicly traded REIT portfolio in New York City. As of Dec. 31, 2021, ESRT's portfolio is comprised of 9.4 million rentable square feet of office space, and approximately 700,000 rentable square feet of retail space. More information about Empire State Realty Trust can be found at esrtreit.com and by following ESRT on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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FRANKFURT, Germany, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sovereign borrowing will reach $10.4 trillion in 2022, nearly one-third above the average before the COVID-19 pandemic, says S&P Global Ratings today in its latest global borrowing report published today on RatingsDirect: ("Sovereign Debt 2022: Borrowing Will Stay High On Pandemic And Geopolitical Tensions").
For an interactive version of our global and regional borrowing forecasts see; "Global Sovereign Borrowing Outlook 2022".
"We expect borrowing to stay elevated, owing to high debt-rollover needs, as well as fiscal policy normalization challenges posed by the pandemic, high inflation, and polarized social and political landscapes," said S&P Global Ratings credit analyst Karen Vartapetov.
The global macroeconomic repercussions of the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine will put further upward pressure on government funding needs this year.
Tightening monetary conditions will push up government funding costs. This will pose additional difficulties to sovereigns that have been unable to restart growth, reduce reliance on foreign currency financing, and where interest bills are already critically high.
For advanced economies, borrowing costs this year, while on the rise, will likely remain below the effective interest rate on the existing debt stock, giving time to consolidate budgets and focus on pro-growth reforms.
Other key findings from our projections of 2022 borrowing from commercial sources by the 137 sovereigns we rate:
- The commercial sovereign debt stock will reach a record of $66.5 trillion by year-end, with the U.S. and Japan accounting for over one-half of it.
- The G-7 group of nations will continue to contribute 70% of the total commercial debt stock of all rated sovereigns.
- Investment-grade (rated 'BBB-' and above) sovereign borrowing will account for the majority of total issuance.
The report is available to subscribers of RatingsDirect at www.capitaliq.com. If you are not a RatingsDirect subscriber, you may purchase a copy of the report by calling (1) 212-438-7280 or sending an e-mail to research_request@spglobal.com. Ratings information can also be found on S&P Global Ratings' public website by using the Ratings search box located in the left column at www.standardandpoors.com. Alternatively, call one of the following S&P Global Ratings numbers: Client Support Europe (44) 20-7176-7176; London Press Office (44) 20-7176-3605; Paris (33) 1-4420-6708; Frankfurt (49) 69-33-999-225; or Stockholm (46) 8-440-5914
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — One new house being built on Tallahassee's Southside could save homeowners tens of thousands of dollars in construction costs.
The new housing unit being built near Orange Avenue on Tallahassee's Southside is using foam panels for structure.
With prices of labor and building materials rising because of inflation-- Bill Wilson says building energy efficient homes quickly and cost efficiently is critical.
The project is expected to cost around $370,000 but each unit will sell for under $200,000. According to Graceful Solutions, the average sale price for a home in Leon County is about $270,000.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Construction workers are nearly done clearing the Northwood Centre site.
Meanwhile, developers continue to visualize how to fill the space.
Tallahassee is relocating the police department to the area.
This year, the city held regular community meetings inviting the public to share what they want to see go alongside the police headquarters.
Special Project Coordinator Devan Leavins says now it's all about narrowing the options down.
About 200 people showed up to the first community input session.
Just last week, 60 people showed up to share their thoughts.
Ideas from the community include: green space, retail, housing, and a grocery store.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Some call it transphobic while others claim it is protection for children.
A Florida lawmaker is now explaining his reasoning for proposing a ban on gender assignment treatment for transgender children earlier this week.
In a series of Monday tweets, state Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Bay, said he plans to carry a 2023 bill to "make it illegal to provide drugs or surgery to a minor for 'gender assignment.'"
I've had enough. Next session, I will shepherd legislation to make it illegal to provide drugs or surgery to a minor for “gender assignment." Will make it felony child abuse punishable by prison/loss of medical license. This legislation would not affect mental counseling.
— Rep. Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) April 4, 2022
"I can say I'm a porcupine, but that doesn't make it so," Fine wrote.
The Republican said Tuesday that he won't touch mental counseling. His bill would focus on drug and surgical therapies, making them "felony child abuse" for doctors and parents. Punishment could include loss of license or prison time.
"No parent has the right to abuse their child," Fine said. "And having your 13-year-old daughter's breasts cut off, I think, is child abuse."
Democrats were quick to condemn. Some lawmakers lampooned Fine online for his comments.
That’s awfully prickly of you, Randy. We accept you no matter how you identify. #PorcupineLove https://t.co/7xfI3evQb3 pic.twitter.com/hY6MZHeIk7
— Janet Cruz (@SenJanetCruz) April 4, 2022
Others said his bill would hurt the state's most vulnerable children by taking away parental access to life-saving care.
"There's a lengthy process that folks go through before they access this care," said Brandon Wolf with Equality Florida, an LGBTQ civil rights group. "When they do, it's the thing that makes the difference between whether they make it to tomorrow or not."
Wolf considered the proposal an attack on LGBTQ families. He called it "escalation" after a session that saw controversial policies like the "Parents Rights in Education" a.k.a. the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
The Legislature approved HB 1557 mostly along party lines. It prohibits the instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity in K-3 classrooms or in a manner that is not age-appropriate. Republicans cheered it as a protection of young children and parental rights.
"Rep. Fine has fully exposed this lie that the Republican Party and Republican leadership care about parental rights," Wolf said. "It's not the role of policymakers in Tallahassee to decide which parents' rights matter and at what point in time."
Fine, however, remains committed. He said the idea is more than just rhetoric. The lawmaker planned to follow through.
"I've been trying to answer the question of why do people oppose this idea so much?" asked Fine. "It turns out there is this agenda among this woke radical left to sexualize our children, and this is just one aspect of it."
Fine isn't the first to propose a policy like this. A similar bill in 2020 failed to get traction. It's unclear how the revamped policy will do next year.
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Tyler Clay Morgan is now out of a teaching job. He resigned from his role as a music teacher at West Irvine Intermediate School in Kentucky on Monday after facing controversy over this colorful message of support to his students:
Morgan confirmed that he wrote "You are free to be yourself ... You matter" on the board in his classroom along with multi-colored letters, symbolic of a rainbow.
He said he is not ready to speak on camera but did post this on Facebook:
Estill County Superintendent Jeff Saylor wrote the following statement on the matter:
April 4, 2022
Over the past few days there has been a lot of conversations and misinformation surrounding the incident at West Irvine Intermediate School. A lot of this conversation centered on the statement, “You are free to be yourself”. As superintendent, my issue has not been with this statement because we have to meet the needs of all of our students and families.
The issue at hand is the conversations that took place during class. I firmly believe that students and their parents expect teachers to teach content about their assigned curriculum in a subject area. Of course, there are times that conversations may vary from that day’s lesson plan, but these conversations went far beyond the music curriculum. It is my job to make sure that parents are not surprised by these types of situations. Finally, I believe that all teachers have a responsibility to be supportive of their students, but when students share difficult situations and circumstances with them, the student should be referred to a certified school counselor. Our counselors have been trained to deal with these delicate issues and provide support.
This matter has been addressed and closed. I will not be making any further comment out of respect for everyone involved.
~Jeff Saylor
Kentucky teacher Laura Hartke was asked to give an outside educator's perspective on the comment about discussing topics "far beyond the music curriculum" and she said, "I'm not privy to the conversations that happened, but conversations outside of curriculum happen every day," Hartke said. "Every day. There's no teacher that just reads from a book and just delivers you content. Kids have questions. They have conversations. We are educating whole children. So the thought that the conversation being outside of curriculum is alarming to him, is alarming to me."
Saylor was asked for an on-camera interview and he said he would not be making additional comments. Morgan said he would be ready to make a full statement soon.
Reported threats of violence have been made against him. Parents have also discussed on social media their displeasure with the message being written in the classroom. However, Morgan has also received a great deal of support.
This story was originally published by Kristen Edwards of WLEX in Lexington, Kentucky.
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George Mason University on Tuesday dropped its mask requirement for all campuses and facilities.
In an email to the school community, GMU President Gregory Washington noted that COVID-19 positivity rates are below 1 percent at university facilities and surrounding communities.
"The current low level of COVID-19 means that we can take another step forward. Effective immediately, Mason campuses are mask-optional, except in certain event venues, healthcare settings, on public transit, or childcare settings," Washington wrote. "We are now also COVID test-optional, with the exception of unvaccinated, high-contact students."
The university is still encouraging steps to keep the community healthy, including:
- Urging students, faculty, and staff to continue to complete the Mason COVID Health Check each day prior to coming to a campus, through Spring Commencement on May 20.
- Asking that students and staff get tested when they feel symptomatic, either at Student Health Services or at the Peterson Hall testing site.
- Urging anyone over 50 to get second booster shots, which are free.
"Your dedication and compassion for your fellow Patriots has contributed to our success. Let’s keep going and finish this spring semester healthy and safe," Washington wrote.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — In the last two weeks, Spokane police responded to four different shootings. The department is worried it could get worse if Spokane doesn't take a stand.
Data from SPD shows a total of 40 shootings (18 drive-bys & 22 other) in Spokane from Jan. 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022. This total does not reflect the four recent shootings.
In the same time frame last year, Spokane had 34 total shootings (10 drive-by & 24 other). That's a nearly 18% increase.
Cpl. Nick Briggs said this an alarming trend and SPD needs the community's help to address it.
"We're at 40 already, so at the current pace we will surpass 2021," Briggs said. "That's clearly alarming for everybody and alarming for us."
He said with the increase in shootings, detectives are working continuously to identify those responsible and hold them accountable. Major Crimes Unit handles the most serious crimes including many drive-by shootings. The Safe Streets Task Force also works closely with Major Crimes on gang and drug related crimes.
But, investigators need the community's help to make arrests and solve these crimes.
"We have amazingly talented detectives and investigators, but ultimately, these investigations aren't magic," Briggs said. "We need people to talk to us and provide us information."
According to Briggs, neighbors and witnesses to gang activity or violent crimes are encouraged to do the following:
- Report to Crime Check or the Safe Streets Task Force.
- Share photos and video (including security footage) if it is safe to do so.
"Whatever little piece of information, it's never too small to call in to just make us aware of it," Briggs said. "It might not be something that we can act on right then and there, but it might play a huge part down the road in the investigation."
He acknowledges there are some who reluctant to speak with police out of fear of retaliation. But he said change can only happen if everyone takes a stand against the violence.
"The way that members of the community can show that this can't be tolerated is by giving us the information that we need to solve those things," Briggs said. "It really is about what are we going to tolerate as a community here in Spokane. And we need everybody to pitch in so that we can get these things resolved."
SPD adds most of these shootings are not random and a occur across Spokane. Most of these shootings are not random and are committed by a small group of people with some type of connection- whether that be a drug or gang connection.
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DEER PARK, Wash. —
The January 2021 wind storm gave Deer Park resident Nikki Martin nightmares. The storm caused a tree in her front yard to fall on a truck in her driveway. Martin and her husband called their landlord to remove the tree and others on the property, but they were told the tree was fine and didn't need to be removed.
Monday, that same tree continued to be a problem as it split in half and damaged three cars in Martin's driveway.
Martin was in her home when the tree fell. She said she heard three loud bangs. When she walked out of her house to assess the damages, she was shocked.
“The fact that this happened twice to us is crazy, but the fact that it was the same exact tree, it's very frustrating," Martin said. "We did everything we could. We asked to have it removed, we offered to remove it ourselves after the last storm. We said 'it's clearly a problem, can we get it out of here?' And it happens again. What are we supposed to do? We did everything we could and now we're left with the mess."
With all three vehicles damaged, Martin can't get to work in downtown Spokane. She said she took Tuesday off and likely will again Wednesday while trying to figure out how to clean up the mess. But, with a family of five and finances already being stretched, she said this situation will take a toll.
“I need to get to work some time this week," Martin said. "I don’t want to miss work all week, because that means money’s missing. I’m pretty dedicated to my job, I like doing my job and so it’s a lot of figuring out what next because right now I don’t know.”
Martin said she will need to buy a new car, but the timing isn't great. She said she doesn't think her insurance will cover the damages.
None of Martin's neighbors reported damages, but Martin said trees in her neighborhood bend significantly during high winds.
She said she hopes her situation will remove other potential problem trees around her home.
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From an investment standpoint, the first quarter of 2022 brought confusion more than anything else, markets fell down and bounced back up. The main question to answer right now is whether the bounce is real or just a dead cat. Either way, however, there are going to be opportunities for investors.
As for choosing stocks to buy into, investors will need some clear signal. One popular sign to follow: the corporate insiders. These company officers can leverage their positions with their companies to gain advantages in trading stock – after all, they have an ‘inside’ view of the company workings, putting them in a better position to predict share movements. To keep the field level, the Federal regulators require that they regularly publish their trades; the TipRanks Insiders’ Hot Stocks tool makes it possible to quickly find and track those trades.
And now we come to something unique. There are thousands of companies on the open market, and hundreds in any given niche – but only a limited pool of qualified people to fill the top positions. It’s not uncommon to find one individual wearing multiple hats, with seats on two or more Boards of Directors of public companies. And when such a person starts going big on his trades – to the tune of several million dollars for each – that could be the song that investors want to hear.
Against this backdrop, we’ve used the database at TipRanks to pinpoint two stocks that should spark investor interest. They both trade for under $10 a piece, providing a low entry point with the prospect of at least 100% growth ahead, according to the analyst community. And even better, they shared officer who’s gone big on both. Let’s take a closer look.
Cue Biopharma (CUE)
The first stock we’ll look at, Cue Biopharma, is developing a pipeline of new immunotherapy treatments. The company is working on a new class of biologic medications, to be delivered by injection, that will engage and modulate targeted T cells. T cell therapy has numerous applications, including the treatment of cancers, autoimmune disorders, and some infectious diseases. Cue’s products are the results of work with two proprietary platforms, Immuno-STAT and Neo-STAT; the company also has important partnerships with larger pharmaceutical firms.
Cue’s partnerships brought in ~$8.2 million in revenue during the recently reported 4Q21. This was well above the ~$3 million expected, almost 3x higher than the $2.7 million reported in the previous quarter, and far more than the $475,000 in the year-ago quarter. The company’s partnership program is clearly taking off.
Looking at clinical trials, the ‘main event’ for research-oriented biopharmas, Cue’s main drug candidate, CUE-101, has entered Phase 1 testing. The company has multiple clinical studies underway for CUE-101, both in the treatment of HPV-positive recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. One trial is testing -101 as a monotherapy, and the other in combination with Keytruda. The trials began in September 2019 and February 2021, and data on both is expected later this year.
On the insider front, we find that Aaron G.L. Fletcher, of the company Board, has swung the needle sharply positive on Cue, with a recent informative buy. He spent $3.498 million buying 735,000 shares of CUE stock, and now holds a stake in the company worth $4.989 million.
JMP analyst Reni Benjamin is also bullish on this stock, and lays out a clear case for buying in, as the potential gains clearly outweigh the risks: “With early signs of clinical benefit from the dose expansion study of CUE-101, including an ongoing PR, a combination trial with pembro showcasing tumor regressions, a versatile platform to address multiple targets in oncology and autoimmune disease, and a solid cash position, we believe Cue represents a unique investment opportunity whose shares are attractively priced.”
To this end, Benjamin sets an Outperform (i.e. Buy) rating on CUE, and his $15 price target implies an upside of ~161% for the coming year. (To watch Benjamin’s track record, click here)
Benjamin isn’t the only bull here. The Street has given Cue a total of 7 positive reviews recently, for a unanimous Strong Buy consensus rating. Shares are priced at just $5.75 and their $24.17 average target indicates potential for 320% upside over the next 12 months. (See CUE stock forecast on TipRanks)
TFF Pharmaceuticals (TFFP)
The second stock we’ll look at is TFF Pharmaceuticals. This company gets its name from the technology behind its research program – Thin Film Freezing. The company is using this tech to create safe, precisely-dosed dry powder versions of pharmaceutical agents, for use with inhaler delivery systems. The company is developing the system to counter known drawbacks to traditional delivery systems, such as pills; the TFF offers potential for higher efficacy and lower adverse events.
TFF has two main clinical programs in the pipeline. VORI, or voriconazole, is a new inhaler-based treatment for IPA, or Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis. This is a deadly fungal lung disease, with mortality rates of 90% or worse. The company has used the TFF platform to create a dry powder inhaler version of the anti-fungal drug voriconazole, which is now in Phase 2 study. The new delivery of an established drug has already demonstrated reduced side effects, and greater efficacy than other treatments.
The second main clinical program, also in Phase 2, is TFF-TAC. This is another new dry powder inhalant of an established drug – this time of tacrolimus, an anti-rejection drug used on organ transplant patients. TFF’s inhalant version of this drug is designed to circumvent known problems of toxicity when tacrolimus is used in high doses. Interim data on both of these studies is expected in the second half of this year.
In addition to these two clinical trials, TFF has also been working to expand its footprint and ramp up operations. The company at the beginning of March announced a partnership with the pharma manufacturer Catalent, in a move to increase production of TFF’s products.
In a second major announcement, also in March, TFF revealed that it had entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for the development of dry powder inhalant medications that could deliver countermeasures to biological warfare agents. The program will be carried out in conjunction with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
And now we get to the insider buy here. Aaron Fletcher, referred to above, is a member of TFF’s board, too, and purchased 542,000 shares this week. He spent $3.5 million on the buy, and now controls stock in TFFP worth a total of $4.468 million.
Also bullish here is analyst Michael Okunewitch, of investment firm Maxim Group. He believes that this stock presents a definite opening for investors, writing: “The TFF platform continues to be validated, in our view, through additional government and big pharma partnerships. With interim data approaching in 2H22 that could enable partnering discussions for TAC and VORI, as well as a growing pipeline of partnered programs, we view the company, at a market cap of <$165 million, as undervalued.”
These comments back up his Buy rating on the stock, and his price target of $14 implies a 12-month upside of 100%. (To watch Okunewitch’s track record, click here)
Overall, TFF shares get a unanimous thumbs up, with 3 Buys backing the stock’s Strong Buy consensus rating. Shares sell for $7, and the average price target of $19.67 suggests an upside potential of 181%. (See TFF stock forecast on TipRanks)
To find good ideas for stocks trading at attractive valuations, visit TipRanks’ Best Stocks to Buy, a newly launched tool that unites all of TipRanks’ equity insights.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analysts. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment.
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OSHP investigating fatal crash near Dresden
DRESDEN — The Zanesville Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a one-vehicle crash that led to the driver's death on Tuesday morning.
The incident occurred around 11:15 a.m. when Frazeysburg Police reported they were in pursuit of a vehicle on Raiders Road. Frazeysburg Police reported the 1998 Acura fled from officers as they attempted to stop it for a traffic violation.
Following a short pursuit, the vehicle crashed on Raiders Road near North Dresden Road. According to Sgt. Jeff Jirles, both the male driver and female passenger were ejected from the vehicle.
Both occupants were transported to Genesis Hospital where the driver was pronounced deceased, and the female passenger remains hospitalized.
Sgt. Jirles reported the vehicle sustained heavy damage, and the incident remains under investigation.
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- prior 50.1
Data from earlier this month, the official PMIS both dropped into contraction:
China March PMIs. Manufacturing 49.5 (expected 49.9) & Services 48.4 (expected 53.2)
As did the Caixin manufacturing PMI:
These are painting a very disturbing picture of economic developments in China. Since these surveys were taken case numbers have surged even higher, mainly in China's largest city, and substantial economic powerhouse, Shanghai. The city remains in complete lockdown.
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The ANZ World Commodity Price Index hit a new record in March
- + 3.9%
- In local currency terms, the index gained just 0.5%, as local returns were eroded by a 3.1% gain in the trade weighted index (TWI)
ANZ comments:
Prices are very strong across most commodities, but none of the sub-indices are currently at record levels.
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A Standard Chartered senior cross-asset strategist:
- “We may have seen the worst in Chinese equities this year,”
- “Chinese authorities will continue to ease monetary policy and step up fiscal stimulus in order to hit its ambitious GDP growth target.”
- Chinese stocks likely to outperform global peers over the next 12 months
- Cheap valuations along with further policy easing will support
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I saw also that Goldman Sachs are bullish, looking for +23 to 29% this year
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GOP blocks Senate COVID bill, demands votes on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Tuesday to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats.
A day after Democratic and GOP bargainers reached agreement on providing the money for treatments, vaccines and testing, a Democratic move to push the measure past a procedural hurdle failed 52-47. All 50 Republicans opposed the move, leaving Democrats 13 votes short of the 60 they needed to prevail.
Hours earlier, Republicans said they’d withhold crucial support for the measure unless Democrats agreed to votes on an amendment preventing President Joe Biden from lifting Trump-era curbs on migrants entering the U.S. With Biden polling poorly on his handling of immigration and Democrats divided on the issue, Republicans see a focus on migrants as a fertile line of attack.
“I think there will have to be” an amendment preserving the immigration restrictions “in order to move the bill” bolstering federal pandemic efforts, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
At least 10 GOP votes will be needed in the 50-50 Senate for the measure to reach the 60 votes it must have for approval. Republicans could withhold that support until Democrats permit a vote on an immigration amendment.
Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., want Congress to approve the pandemic bill before lawmakers leave in days for a two-week recess. Tuesday’s vote suggested that could be hard.
“This is a potentially devastating vote for every single American who was worried about the possibility of a new variant rearing its nasty head within a few months,” Schumer said after the vote.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, “Today’s Senate vote is a step backward for our ability to respond to this virus.”
The new omicron variant, BA.2, is expected to spark a fresh increase in U.S. COVID-19 cases. Around 980,000 Americans and over 6 million people worldwide have died from the disease.
The $10 billion pandemic package is far less than the $22.5 billion Biden initially sought. It also lacks $5 billion Biden wanted to battle the pandemic overseas after the two sides couldn’t agree on budget savings to pay for it, as Republicans demanded.
At least half the bill would finance research and production of therapeutics to treat COVID-19. Money would also be used to buy vaccines and tests and to research new variants.
The measure is paid for by pulling back unspent pandemic funds provided earlier for protecting aviation manufacturing jobs, closed entertainment venues and other programs.
Administration officials have said the government has run out of money to finance COVID-19 testing and treatments for people without insurance, and is running low on money for boosters, free monoclonal antibody treatments and care for people with immune system weaknesses.
At the 2020 height of the pandemic, President Donald Trump imposed immigration curbs letting authorities immediately expel asylum seekers and migrants for public health reasons. The ban is set to expire May 23, triggering what by all accounts will be a massive increase in people trying to cross the Mexican border into the U.S.
That confronts Democrats with messy choices ahead of fall elections when they’re expected to struggle to retain their hair-breadth House and Senate majorities.
Many of the party’s lawmakers and their liberal supporters want the U.S. to open its doors to more immigrants. But moderates and some Democrats confronting tight November reelections worry about lifting the restrictions and alienating centrist voters.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., who faces a competitive reelection this fall, declined to say whether she would support retaining the Trump-era ban but said more needs to be done.
“I need a plan, we need a plan,” she said in a brief interview. “There’s going to be a surge at the border. There should be a plan and I’ve been calling for it all along.”
Shortly before Tuesday’s vote, Schumer showed no taste for exposing his party to a divisive immigration vote.
“This is a bipartisan agreement that does a whole lot of important good for the American people. Vaccines, testing, therapeutics,” he said. “It should not be held hostage for an extraneous issue.”
Jeff Zients, head of White House COVID-19 task force, expressed the same view.
“This should not be included on any funding bill,” he said of immigration. “The decision should be made by the CDC. That’s where it has been, and that’s where it belongs.”
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which initiated the move two years ago, said earlier this month that it would lift the ban next month. The restrictions, known as Title 42, have been harder to justify as pandemic restrictions have eased.
Trump administration officials cast the curb as a way to keep COVID-19 from spreading further in the U.S. Democrats considered that an excuse for Trump, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric was a hallmark of his presidency, to keep migrants from entering the country.
Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said she supported terminating Trump’s curb and questioned GOP motives for seeking to reinstate it.
“I find it very ironic for those who haven’t wanted to have a vaccination mandate, for those who did not want to have masks in the classroom, for them to suddenly be very interested in protecting the public,” she said.
But Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he would support a Senate COVID-19 aid bill if it included the GOP effort to retain the Trump immigration restrictions.
“Why wouldn’t I?” he said in a brief interview.
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AP congressional correspondent Lisa Mascaro and reporters Chris Megerian and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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Trial begins for ex-officer charged with storming Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP) — An off-duty police officer stormed the U.S. Capitol because he believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and he wanted to interfere with the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of the Virginia man’s trial.
But a defense attorney told jurors that former Rocky Mount, Virginia, police officer Thomas Robertson only went into the Capitol because he wanted to retrieve a fellow officer who had entered the building before him during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Jacob Fracker, the other off-duty Rocky Mount police officer who entered the Capitol that day, could be a key witness for prosecutors at Robertson’s trial. Robertson was a mentor and a father figure to Fracker, attorneys said during their opening statements.
Two other Capitol riot defendants already have been tried on federal charges arising from the Jan. 6 siege. The first two trials both ended with convictions, although a judge acquitted one of those defendants of a disorderly conduct charge.
Another trial for a Capitol riot case started Tuesday. While jurors heard testimony for Robertson’s trial, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden heard testimony without a jury for the case against Matthew Martin, who has worked for a government contractor at the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Martin, who is accused of remaining inside the Capitol for about 10 minutes, testified that he saw a police officer wave him into the building. He also said he followed the crowd into the building.
“I went with the flow,” said Martin, whose trial is scheduled to resume on Wednesday.
Fracker was set to be tried alongside Robertson this week, but he pleaded guilty last month to a riot-related conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi said Robertson was armed with a large wooden stick and wearing a gas mask when he and Fracker joined the mob that overwhelmed police officers and breached the Capitol.
“His intent was to interfere with the election because it did not have the result that he wanted,” Aloi said.
Defense attorney Camille Wagner said Robertson, whom she called “T.J.,” knew that he had entered restricted areas of the Capitol where he wasn’t supposed to be on Jan. 6. But he isn’t accused of engaging in any violence or property destruction, she noted.
“All T.J. did was enter, retrieve, depart,” Wagner said.
Robertson used a large wooden stick to impede police officers who were trying to hold off the mob, according to prosecutors. Police body camera video captured his interaction with police.
Wagner said Robertson didn’t wield the stick as a weapon. She said the U.S. Army veteran was using it as a walking stick because he still has a limp from getting shot in the right thigh while working as a private contractor for the U.S. Defense Department in Afghanistan in 2011.
Robertson is charged with six counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building while using a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Five of the counts relate to his actions on Jan. 6. The sixth stems from his alleged post-riot destruction of cellphones belonging to him and Fracker.
Fracker pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote.
Aloi said Fracker is ashamed of his conduct at the Capitol and is “not the same person today that he was on Jan. 6.”
Robertson and Fracker both served as police officers in Rocky Mount. The town, which is about 25 miles south of Roanoke and has roughly 5,000 residents, fired both of them after their arrests.
“He held a position of public trust,” Aloi said. “He broke that public trust when he participated in the attack at the Capitol.”
Robertson and Fracker drove with a neighbor to Washington on the morning of Jan. 6. Robertson brought three gas masks for them to use, according to prosecutors.
After listening to speeches near the Washington Monument, Fracker, Robertson and the neighbor walked toward the Capitol, donned the gas masks and joined the growing mob, prosecutors said. Robertson stopped to help his neighbor, who was having trouble breathing. Fracker broke off and entered the building before Robertson, but they reunited inside the Capitol.
Aloi showed jurors some of Robertson’s vitriolic posts on social media before and after the Capitol riot. In a Facebook post on Nov. 7, 2020, Robertson said “being disenfranchised by fraud is my hard line.”
“I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting a counter insurgency. (I’m) about to become part of one, and a very effective one,” he wrote.
Robertson was not “charged for his beliefs,” Aloi said.
“He was charged for his actions,” she told jurors.
Wagner said Robertson should be judged by his actions, not his words.
“We ask you to remember that actions speak louder than words,” she told jurors.
A Capitol police officer was the first witness to testify at Robertson’s trial. Capt. Ronald Ortega said the mob “severely outnumbered” officers who were trying to hold back the crowd.
“It just seemed unreal at the time,” Ortega said.
Robertson has been jailed since U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled in July that he violated the terms of his pretrial release by possessing firearms.
On March 8, a jury decided the first Capitol riot trial by convicting a Texas man, Guy Reffitt, of storming the Capitol with a holstered handgun. In the second trial, the same judge hearing testimony on Tuesday in Martin’s case convicted New Mexico county official Couy Griffin of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct.
Reffitt and Griffin entered restricted areas outside the Capitol but not the building itself.
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ANAHEIM — There’s one sure thing about playing an entire career with one team: It’s easier to compartmentalize the memories because they’re all in the same place.
Ryan Getzlaf reached Anaheim in the autumn of 2005, a big 20-year-old center who quickly found a kindred (if sometimes wicked) spirit in teammate, linemate, agitator and friend Corey Perry. The two helped the Ducks win California’s first Stanley Cup in 2007 as well as two Olympic gold medals for Canada in 2010 and ’14. They were known as “the Twins” by the Ducks’ fan base and were the heart and soul of the franchise through good times and tough times, right up until the Ducks bought out Perry’s contract in 2019.
Getzlaf has stayed until the end, announcing his retirement on Tuesday in the only home arena he’s known in the NHL. He has been durable, consistent and a leader, and maybe his only true flaw was that he didn’t shoot the puck enough. He goes into the final 11 games of his 17-season career, beginning Wednesday night against Calgary, with 282 goals and 731 assists for 1,013 career points.
Ducks TV analyst Brian Hayward noted that 11 other players in NHL history have captained a team for at least 10 seasons and scored 1,000 points. Two besides Getzlaf are still active, Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin. Eight are in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and among them are Wayne Gretzky, Steve Yzerman, Mario Lemieux, Joe Sakic and Jean Béliveau.
In this sport, the captaincy isn’t merely ceremonial, and the “C” on the sweater doesn’t go to just anybody. Getzlaf has worn it with distinction in Anaheim for 12 seasons. Did he show glimpses of captaincy material at the start?
“Oh, I don’t know if you could at that point ever expect the captaincy to be at the forefront,” said his former coach twice over, Randy Carlyle, after Tuesday’s news conference.
But the signs pointing toward a productive career were there. Carlyle recalled seeing Getzlaf on a powerhouse world junior championships team in 2005 alongside Sidney Crosby and Jeff Carter, saying: “He stood out as a player that could compete with those players, and those were elite players.”
Getzlaf was the 19th overall pick in the 2003 draft and Perry was picked 28th overall by the Ducks. Both played an extra year of junior hockey during the 2004-05 NHL lockout that wiped out the season, and both started the 2005-06 season with the Ducks but were sent down to the AHL after a month. It wasn’t performance-based or punitive, then-General Manager Brian Burke said, but it was intended to keep them away from Sergei Federov, who was considered something less than a good influence.
Burke recalled in his 2020 autobiography that he told Getzlaf and Perry as much, adding, “If you go down and go through the motions you’ll be down there all year. If not, I will solve this problem and then I will bring you back.” Burke then traded Federov to Columbus for Francois Beauchemin, recalled Getzlaf and Perry, and they never went back to the minors.
And the Ducks ultimately brought in players who really were good examples.
“We had a lot of guys who had played a long time in the league,” Teemu Selanne said Tuesday. “We had the Niedermayers (Scott and Rob), Todd Marchant, Chris Pronger, myself. I really believe that good examples lead to good things, and I think that’s what happened with Getzy.”
Getzlaf talked Tuesday of his loyalty to the Ducks organization and the loyalty they’ve shown him, and noted that the first time there was indecision on either side was at the 2021 trading deadline, which he called “the hardest two days of my life. … Ultimately the decision to stay here was based on the loyalty that this organization has shown me over the years. It just didn’t seem right (to leave).”
This year at the deadline, when new GM Pat Verbeek traded prospective free agents Hampus Lindholm and Rickard Rakell but stated that Getzlaf would remain a Duck as long as he wanted, that should have been a tipoff. Getzlaf said Tuesday that he “kind of went into this year knowing it was going to be my last year. Everything pointed in that direction.”
That set up the chance to finish where he started, a benefit both in terms of identification with his team and the opportunities to do good work within the community. That includes the “Cure Duchenne” charity organization to fight that form of muscular dystrophy in children, and the Ducks’ own “Learn To Play” initiative, which Getzlaf and Perry championed and which Hayward said has introduced more than 18,000 youngsters to ice or roller hockey in Orange County and the Inland Empire.
Staying in one place for a decade or more is a rarity in a sports era of free agency and enhanced player movement. No Duck has done so before now, and across the 57 Freeway, only Tim Salmon played his entire career with the Angels (14 seasons).
There are beneficiaries to that longevity most of us will never know about.
“Being one place in your whole career gives you the ability to create friendships, really walk around the rink,” Getzlaf said. “I know a lot of people’s names (on staff), not as many as I probably should because of my memory, but I do know everybody’s face around this arena.
“I’ve tried to make a point of thanking them every chance I get. They do a lot of things for us that we don’t see and don’t go into what we do. But it means a lot for the entire organization and players to have them there every day, working and doing their job so that we can do ours.”
The memories and relationships and gratitude might be compartmentalized in one place, but through the years that compartment gets bigger.
But you can symbolize it all with a banner. That will happen the day Getzlaf’s jersey number is raised to the rafters of Honda Center.
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By Katelyn Polantz and Paul LeBlanc | CNN
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret.
The 101 emails — exchanged between January 4 and January 7, 2021 — were released to the committee after Judge David Carter ruled that Eastman had not made a sufficient claim to attorney-client privilege.
One email, a draft memo for Rudy Giuliani, was obtained by the committee because the judge decided it was potentially being used to plan a crime. The memo recommended that then-Vice President Mike Pence reject some states’ electors during the January 6 congressional meeting.
“This may have been the first time members of President Trump’s team transformed a legal interpretation of the Electoral Count Act into a day-by-day plan of action,” Carter wrote.
In the other 100 documents the committee is receiving, the judge described extensive discussions among Eastman and others about using court cases as a political argument to block Congress from certifying the vote.
“In another email thread, Dr. Eastman’s colleagues discuss whether to publish a piece supporting his plan, and they touch on state lawsuits only to criticize how they are being handled by the Trump campaign,” the judge’s ruling last month said. “In a different email thread, Dr. Eastman and a colleague consider how to use a state court ruling to justify Vice President Pence enacting the plan. In another email, a colleague focuses on the ‘plan of action’ after the January 6 attacks.”
The select committee’s efforts to obtain Eastman’s emails had been closely watched in the legal community because of the panel’s bold move to accuse Eastman and Trump of criminal conspiracy. The House said it believed Trump had been trying to obstruct Congress and to defraud the government by blocking his loss of the election and discussing it with Eastman.
Still, neither Trump nor Eastman has been charged with any crimes. Further, despite the House’s filings, lawmakers aren’t prosecutors and can’t bring charges. And there is no public indication that the Justice Department is seriously investigating Eastman and Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election.
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Man identified as ‘I-65 Killer’ died in 2013
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Harry Greenwell, who died in 2013, has been identified as the “I-65 Killer,” responsible for as many as three murders and other assaults across the Midwest in the 1980s and 1990s.
Sgt. Glenn Fifield of Indiana State Police revealed on Tuesday that Greenwell raped and killed three women in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s who worked as motel clerks.
A sophisticated DNA analysis of crime scene samples performed by ISP and the FBI tied Greenwell to the murders of Vicki Heath, who was killed on Feb. 21, 1987, and Mary “Peggy” Gill and Jeanne Gilbert, who were killed in 1989. Heath was sexually assaulted and shot twice in the head, and her body was found behind dumpsters at a Super 8 Motel in Hardin County.
Greenwell died in January 2013. His obituary states he was born in Louisville and is buried at Calvary Cemetery on Newburg Road.
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California is scaling back how often it publicly reports coronavirus case, death, testing and other numbers on the health department website, and some counties are following suit — to mixed reaction from public health experts.
As of this week, California will update those numbers only on Tuesdays and Fridays, rather than every weekday. Twice a week is one of the lowest frequencies of any state in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University, which tracks coronavirus stats from around the world.
Riverside County already has switched to the same Tuesday/Friday schedule. Orange County plans to reduce its frequency as well, probably by next week, Health Care Agency Director of Communications Julie MacDonald said via email.
San Bernardino County is considering doing the same.
“The County could resort to pulling, processing, and vetting raw data from the State database to continue daily updates, but doing so would be labor-intensive, costly to the taxpayers, and seemingly of little value as the numbers are currently changing very little day-to-day,” spokesperson David Wert wrote in an email. “In the event of a sustained caseload surge, the State would likely pivot back to daily updates and the County could easily do so as well.”
Los Angeles County just recently stopped updating on weekends — a change many other counties made long ago — and officials said they have no plans to scale down to less than five days a week.
Why change now?
As a California Department of Public Health spokesperson explained in an email: “We have learned over the course of this pandemic that it is more helpful to look at data trends over time and that public health recommendations should be based on consistent trends rather than day-over day changes.”
Those trends show that the number of cases diagnosed per day, which has been dropping steadily since January, appears to be plateauing at the second-lowest level since the pandemic began; the only lower period was in April-June 2021. Also, COVID-19 hospitalization levels are getting close to the spring 2021 lows.
The state’s change in reporting “dovetails with the state’s SMARTER approach where we use multiple prongs of surveillance to maintain awareness of COVID-19 trends, including wastewater surveillance, which is not as subject to the evolving changes in testing patterns and behaviors,” the spokesperson wrote.
Wendy Hetherington, Riverside County’s chief epidemiologist, noted that the county tried scaling down once before — it switched to weekly reporting in June 2021 when case levels were low and the state was leaving behind its color-coded tiers. Orange County did the same, but by mid-July both were back to five-day-a-week updates as the delta surge began.
This time, Hetherington said, they’re watching the data closely — she said test-positivity rates and hospitalizations tend to be a better indicator than case rates these days — to determine whether the omicron BA.2 subvariant causes another wave. If it does, she said, Riverside County can resume more frequent updates.
In the meantime, she said, not having to put the daily reports together saves her staff a lot of time, allowing them to focus on higher-level analysis of the data.
Mixed reaction
Brandon Brown, who is an associate professor of public health at UC Riverside and has a background in epidemiology, was sympathetic to the decision to scale back.
“Public health departments are absolutely overworked and under-resourced,” he said in an email. He said he could understand not wanting to spend so much time on updates as long as case levels are low.
While Brown said he might have waited a couple more weeks until spring break travel is over, “I think it’s OK to scale back updates since that doesn’t mean that data are no longer collected or that prevention methods come to a halt.”
UC Irvine epidemiologist Andrew Noymer, however, believes the timing is wrong from a messaging standpoint.
“It’s not exactly the hill I want to die on, as long as updates are released regularly and accurately,” he said.
But he’s worried the nation is on the cusp of another wave from the BA.2 variant — cases are rising in the Northeast U.S., and some California counties are showing upticks as well.
“It sends a message that it’s less important than it was before, and I don’t believe it is,” Noymer said.
According to Johns Hopkins University, California joins 12 other states that report COVID-19 case data twice or less per week. Twenty-five states report five days a week, while only seven states are still reporting every day.
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Grocery chain to pay $175K for egg price gouging in pandemic
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Grocery chain Smart & Final has agreed to pay $175,000 in penalties to resolve allegations that the grocer engaged in price gouging of certain organic and cage-free eggs at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, state authorities said Tuesday.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that between March 4, 2020, and June 22, 2020, Smart & Final increased the price of four premium egg products beyond what was allowable during a state of emergency.
An investigation found that Smart & Final sold over 100,000 cartons of eggs that were marked up by more than 10%, violating the law, Bonta said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency, triggering price-gouging protections through August 2020.
The attorney general’s office said that it received many complaints about dramatic increases in the cost of eggs after Newsom’s emergency declaration. Many related specifically to price spikes at Smart & Final stores across California.
“Today’s settlement should serve as a warning to grocers and other sellers of essential supplies, follow state price gouging laws or you will pay the price and be held to account,” Bonta said.
Smart & Final operates more than 250 retail stores throughout the western United States.
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Full of Energy: Bucked Up Energy Drink and its sister products will continue their role as the primary partner of Graf’s No. 07 Ford Mustang this weekend. Richmond (Va.) Raceway is the fifth race of 2022 but is the 36th race overall in a multi-year, multi-race deal with the former ARCA Menards Series winner.
This weekend, Bucked Up will promote its Mango Tango Energy Drink.
Mango Tango tastes like a well-placed double entendre -- two meanings, up to interpretation. Perhaps, it’s a melodic, upbeat fiesta of juicy goodness pulling sultry-sweet dance moves on your tongue. Or we could be using Tango as code, letting you decide the most fitting “T” descriptive word: tantalizing, tangy, tempting, titillating, tempean, or transcendental.
We leave it up to your trustworthy taste buds.
About Bucked Up Energy: Bucked Up started in 2013 when twin brothers Ryan and Jeff Gardner started marketing a product called Deer Antler Spray. After selling thousands of bottles to GNCs nationwide, the company morphed into what is now Bucked Up, a full-fledged vitamins and supplements manufacturer.
The company has gone from its humble beginnings to becoming the No. 1 best-selling pre-workout brand that’s available in over 10,000 stores worldwide.
Plenty Of Bucked Up Energy Options Available: Bucked Up Energy now offers more than 10 quenching options, but two of their popular flavors, Pink Lemonade and Mango Tango now include low-stim options.
Low-stim has the same innovative ingredients that make their OG formula so powerful for focus, mood, motivation and energy. Bucked Up made just one small change and they have been surprised by the resulting epicness.
Boasting a modest of 100mg of caffeine, Bucked Up Low-Stim delivers the same energy, focus, mood, motivation – while reducing the common side effects that come from too much caffeine, jitters, sleeplessness and anxiety.
Settling In: Richmond marks the seventh race that the SS GreenLight Racing with Jeff Lefcourt (SSGLRwJL) team embraces their manufacturer switch from Chevrolet to Ford while incorporating its technical alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing.
SHR will supply the organization with race cars while Roush Yates Engines will provide the legendary Ford horsepower.
In addition to providing race cars to SSGLRwJL, SHR will also provide technical support for the entire 33-race season.
Additionally, Graf will have NASCAR Cup Series and Stewart-Haas Racing drivers Cole Custer and Chase Briscoe as teammates for select events throughout the 2022 season.
Don’t Forget The New Partner Too: SS GreenLight Racing has added Jeff Lefcourt as a new co-owner of the Mooresville, N.C.-based team, as well as director of business development for the organization.
Lefcourt, a native of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. joins SS GreenLight Racing with Jeff Lefcourt (SSGLRwJL) with a long history of racing endeavors including owning Bethel (N.Y.) Motor Speedway in upstate New York, a current-NASCAR sanctioned race track.
The noted philanthropist, entrepreneur and real estate developer has deep ties to grassroots racing and was instrumental in helping secure the Stewart-Haas Racing alliance with SSGLRwJL in 2022.
Joe Graf Jr. Xfinity Series Richmond Raceway Starts: Joe Graf Jr. will make his fifth career start at Richmond Raceway in Saturday afternoon’s race.
In his previous four efforts, Graf has delivered a career-best 14th place effort driving for Richard Childress Racing. Additionally, Graf has managed finishes of 19th, 27th and 31st respectively driving for SSGLRwJL.
Last September as part of a double header weekend, Graf finished 19th and 27th respectively.
Joe Graf Jr. Xfinity Series Short Track Nuggets: At tracks classified as short tracks with a track length of under 1.0-mile, Graf has 11 previous NASCAR Xfinity Series starts.
He holds an average starting position of 25.9 and an improved average result of 21.9 and has been running at the conclusion of 10 of the 11 races.
Circuit of the Americas (COTA) | Pit Boss 250 Race Recap: In the most recent NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, Graf showcased considerable improvement in his road racing craft.
After successfully qualifying into the field based on his qualifying speed, Graf’s surge towards the top-20 was stalled at the end of Stage 1 when he lost two cylinders. For the remainder of the race, Graf would pilot his No. 08 G-Coin Ford Mustang on six of eight cylinders and salvaged a 34th place finish in his Circuit of the Americas debut.
School Back In Session: While juggling a full-time NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule with SS GreenLight Racing with Jeff Lefcourt, college life has resumed for Joe Graf Jr.
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Graf Jr. has resorted to online classes at the University of New York, where he is pursuing a degree in business, media and sports management.
Sneaker Mania: Along with the adrenaline of the Motorsports competition, Joe Graf Jr. also has a vogue for hype sneakers. In his current collection, he owns and wears at least 90 limited edition sneakers – and his collection continues to grow every month.
The current estimated value of his collection tops $100,000.
From the Pit Box: Industry veteran Joe Williams is Joe Graf Jr.’s crew chief.
He will crew chief his 72nd NASCAR Xfinity Series race as crew chief on Saturday and his fourth at the 0.875-mile short track.
In his previous 71 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts, he has collected one win (Auto Club Speedway | February 2022), six top-five and 17 top-10 finishes.
Hello From The Other Side: Graf Jr. has a teammate at SS GreenLight Racing with Jeff Lefcourt. Veteran David Starr will drive the No. 08 TicketSmarter Ford Mustang on Saturday for his second start of the 2022 season.
Starr is set to make his 236th career NASCAR Xfinity Series start and 11th at Richmond Raceway. His best Xfinity track finish occurred in the 2017 ToyotaCare 250, where he finished 17th after starting 22nd for BJ McLeod Motorsports.
For more on SS GreenLight Racing with Jeff Lefcourt, please like them on Facebook (SS GreenLight Racing) and follow them on Instagram (@ssgreenlightracing) and Twitter (@SSGLR0708).
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ST. HELIER, Jersey, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Komainu Holdings Ltd ("the Company"), which operates as a regulated digital asset custody services provider built by institutions for institutions, today announced the establishment of a Singapore-based operating entity, Komainu Singapore Pte. Ltd. ("Komainu Singapore"). The new operating entity marks the next phase of the Company's global expansion, extending its presence into the APAC region.
Building upon its two-year track record of servicing institutions with a secure, transparent and compliant custody solution, Komainu Singapore will provide a foothold within the APAC region to extend its custody solution to Asia-based institutions within the APAC marketplace.
Henson Orser, President of Komainu commented on today's news, "Opening an operating entity within the APAC region is a major milestone for our organization. We see the APAC market as underserved and with institutions globally looking to add digital assets to their portfolios, there is a need for institutional grade custody providers that understand the complex regulatory landscape. We are excited to initiate our operations within the region and work with institutions and the local regulators to provide clients with ease-of-mind when investing in digital assets."
Komainu is actively expanding its headcount in Singapore to promote its local growth as well as its expansion into the wider APAC region. Working collaboratively with Nomura, one of Komainu's founding partners, Komainu Singapore will provide the governance framework for institutions looking to enter into the digital asset space in Asia.
Sebastian Widmann, Head of Strategy at Komainu, explained that "Singapore is quickly becoming the main financial hub for digital assets in the APAC region, driven by proactive regulatory developments, the presence of global institutions and a strong local talent pool, which will further facilitate Komainu's expansion plans in the region."
About Komainu
Komainu is the first hybrid custodian for institutional digital asset investors created by the Japanese investment bank, Nomura, digital asset manager, CoinShares and digital asset security company, Ledger. Komainu is providing decentralized and secure digital asset custody through a single application-based solution for institutions, offering multi-asset support and regulatory compliance. Headquartered in Jersey, Channel Islands, Komainu merges institutional financial services with leading security standards for the next generation of institutional custody.
For more information, please visit https://www.komainu.com
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Peter Padovano
M Group Strategic Communications (For Komainu)
646-859-5953
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20-year-old Brandon Aranda-Garcia from Greensboro has just been awarded a $25,000 scholarship from Chick-fil-A.
Chick-fil-A Awards $24 Million in Scholarships to Restaurant Team Members Nationwide
Royalties from Chick-fil-A® Bottled Sauce retail sales contributed to 2,200 of the scholarships awarded
Chick-fil-A's signature bottled sauces, available at select retailers nationwide, play a pivotal role in helping support the dreams of restaurant Team Members. For every retail store purchase of a 16-oz bottled sauce, 100% of the Chick-fil-A, Inc. royalties go towards the Remarkable Futures™ Scholarships initiative. Since the launch of Chick-fil-A bottled sauce in 2020, retail sales have contributed over $6.4M to the program, making it possible to increase the number of scholarships awarded each year. This year, bottled sauce retail sales enabled 2,200 additional scholarships to be awarded.
“The Chick-fil-A scholarship initiative has been instrumental in our investment in the growth and success of restaurant Team Members,” said Tim Tassopoulos, president of Chick-fil-A, Inc. and a former Remarkable Futures Scholarship recipient. “Our inspiring recipients this year have overcome great obstacles and remain dedicated to pursuing academic and personal success. We recognize their enormous potential and hope to play a small part in furthering their education, providing them with more opportunities to help achieve their goals.”
As part of the Remarkable Futures Scholarship initiative, Chick-fil-A is awarding $24 million in scholarships this year to 12,699 restaurant Team Members across the U.S. and Canada to help further their education. Chick-fil-A’s scholarship initiative is unique in the benefits to its restaurant Team Members, including:
- Up-front payment: Chick-fil-A scholarships are awarded to recipients up front and can be directly applied to tuition, housing and other on-campus expenses, without requiring tuition reimbursement.
- Applicable at any school, college or university: Scholarships can be applied in any area of study at any accredited institution of the Team Member’s choice, including two- or four-year colleges and universities, online programs, or vocational-technical schools.
- Employment requirements: There is no requirement of hours worked or length of service to qualify. Both full-time and part-time employees at a franchised, company-owned and/or affiliated restaurant in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico are eligible.
Chick-fil-A offers two types of Remarkable Futures Scholarships, awarding 12 $25,000 True Inspiration™ Scholarships as well as Leadership Scholarships in the amounts of $1,000 and $2,500, which will be awarded to 12,687 Team Members this year. To celebrate this year’s True Inspiration Scholarship recipients, Chick-fil-A invited these Team Members to its Atlanta Support Center where they were surprised with the news and presented with new personal laptops for continuing their studies.
Since 1970, Chick-fil-A, Inc. has awarded more than $136 million in scholarships to more than 80,000 restaurant Team Members. To be eligible for a scholarship or educational assistance, applicants must be restaurant Team Members employed by an independent, franchised Chick-fil-A restaurant business, a Chick-fil-A, Inc.-operated restaurant, or an S. Truett Cathy (STC) brand restaurant.
About Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, Inc. is a restaurant company known for the Original Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich and signature hospitality. Represented by more than 170,000 Team Members, Operators and Staff, Chick-fil-A® restaurants serve guests freshly prepared food at more than 2,700 restaurants in 47 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Canada. The family-owned and privately held restaurant company was founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy and is committed to serving the local communities in which its franchised restaurants operate.
Known for its leadership and growth opportunities, in 2022 Chick-fil-A was named a Best Employer in America by Forbes and a top company for career opportunities for Black employees by Glassdoor. The company was also awarded the Employee’s Choice by Glassdoor honoring top CEOs and was named a Culture 500 Culture Champion in 2020. A leader in customer service, Chick-fil-A was named QSR magazine’s Drive-Thru Restaurant of the Year in 2021. More information on Chick-fil-A is available at www.chick-fil-a.com and @ChickfilANews.
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The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership is seeking community input with on-line survey as part of the Initial Planning Phase of the “2023 Downtown Winston-Salem Plan Update”
WINSTON-SALEM, NC (April 4, 2022) – The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership and the City/County Planning Board is seeking community input with a new on-line survey.
The survey link - https://www.downtownws.com/2023-downtown-plan-update-initial-survey/
Additional details:
- This survey is the first public input opportunity as part of the Initial Planning Phase of the “2023 Downtown Plan Update”.
- The last Downtown Plan was completed in 2013 and can be viewed by clicking here.
- The purpose of the plan is to gain a consensus on the future vision for downtown for the next 10 years and beyond.
- This is the initial phase of the Downtown Plan Update process. Public meetings in Summer and Fall of 2022, and public other input opportunities will be taking place throughout 2022.
- The plan will be completed and presented to the City/County Planning Board and the City of Winston-Salem for consideration in 2023.
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House Lawmakers Advance Bipartisan Bill Facilitating Clinical Cannabis Research, Allowing Scientists to Access State-Approved Marijuana Products
Washington, DC: Members of the US House of Representatives today approved legislation, HR 5657: The Medical Marijuana Research Act, facilitating clinical cannabis research by establishing a process whereby authorized scientists may access flowers and other products manufactured in accordance with state-approved marijuana programs.
The bill also expedites the timeline during which federal officials must either approve or reject applicants seeking licensure to conduct clinical trials using cannabis products, and it also seeks to increase the total number of federally licensed marijuana growers. For decades, scientists wishing to work with marijuana have complained that it often takes years before their research protocols are approved by the DEA, and that the quality of cannabis provided by the University of Mississippi’s cultivation program is of inferior quality and that it is not representative of the products available in legal state markets.
NORML’s Deputy Director Paul Armentano said: “These common-sense regulatory changes are necessary and long overdue. Currently, the limited variety of cannabis cultivars accessible to federally licensed researchers does not represent the type or quality of cannabis products currently available in legal, statewide markets. The reality that nearly one-half of US adults have legal access to these multitude of cannabis products, but our nation’s top scientists do not, is the height of absurdity and it is an indictment of the current system.”
House lawmakers previously passed a version of the Act in 2020 the final days of the 116th Congress. The bill was never taken up in the Senate.
Last month, Senate lawmakers unanimously approved separate legislation, Senate Bill 253: The Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act, which also seeks to streamline the federal approval process. However, this proposal continues to limit scientists access only to marijuana products produced by those possessing a federal license.
Under current regulations, the US Drug Enforcement Administration is primarily tasked with reviewing and licensing marijuana cultivators, as well as granting Schedule I licenses to scientists wishing to study cannabis in clinical settings. In 2016, the agency announced that it would expand the pool of federally licensed growers beyond just the University of Mississippi (which was initially granted a federal cannabis cultivation license in 1968). In May, the agency for the first time ever announced that it had reached agreements with a handful of third-party applicants to allow them to grow cannabis for use in federally approved clinical trials.
NORML has long advocated for amending federal regulations so that federally-licensed scientists can directly access and assess the wide variety of retail cannabis products available in medical-use and adult-use state markets.
“Rather than compelling scientists to access marijuana products of questionable quality that are manufactured by a limited number of federally licensed producers, NORML believes that federal regulators should allow investigators to access the cannabis that is currently being produced by the multitude of state-sanctioned producers and retailers throughout the country,” NORML’s Deputy Director Paul Armentano said. “Doing so will not only facilitate and expedite clinical cannabis research in the United States, but it will also bring about a long overdue end to decades of DEA stonewalling and interference with respect to the advancement of our scientific understanding of the cannabis plant.”
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NORML advocates for changes in public policy so that the responsible possession and use of marijuana by adults is no longer subject to criminal penalties. NORML further advocates for a regulated commercial cannabis market so that activities involving the for-profit production and retail sale of cannabis and cannabis products are safe, transparent, consumer-friendly, and are subject to state and/or local licensure. Finally, NORML advocates for additional changes in legal and regulatory policies so that those who use marijuana responsibly no longer face either social stigma or workplace discrimination, and so that those with past criminal records for marijuana-related violations have the opportunity to have their records automatically expunged.
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Michele Gillespie to succeed Rogan Kersh as Wake Forest University Provost
Kersh returns to full-time teaching and research after 10 years in administrative role
(Winston-Salem, N.C. – April 5, 2022) – Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente has appointed Michele Gillespie, current Dean of Wake Forest’s College of Arts and Sciences, to succeed Rogan Kersh as University Provost, effective July 1, 2022.
“I am deeply grateful to Dr. Kersh for his service to Wake Forest over the last decade, especially for his kindness and partnership during my first year as president,” Wente said.
Kersh received his B.A. from Wake Forest in 1986 and returned as Provost and Professor of Politics and International Affairs in July 2012.
“Ten years is a good long run in this demanding role,” Kersh said. “I have loved engaging with the incomparable Wake Forest community on and beyond campus every day, with so many colleagues I’ve learned from and am honored to call friends. While I have cherished the opportunity to help advance the core University mission of learning, research and creative work, I am also delighted to return to the classroom and research activity full time.”
Kersh has taught at least one course each semester during his 10 years as provost and has maintained an active program of research, academic talks and publishing.
“Dr. Kersh has been an exceptional chief academic officer,” said Divinity School Dean and Dean of Wait Chapel Jonathan Lee Walton. “People often are amazed at the collaborative and collegial relationships among the deans. Provost Kersh set the tone. Rogan has modeled meaningful collaboration for deans, department chairs and program leaders.”
During Kersh’s tenure, the University broke new academic ground.
- Sponsored research support among Reynolda Campus faculty more than doubled, placing Wake Forest among the national research universities realizing the most significant increases.
- Wake Forest expanded its academic footprint dramatically, opening the Wake Downtown campus and adding robust new programs in Charlotte, Washington, Silicon Valley, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Santiago/Southern Cone, Florence, and multiple locations in China.
- Wake Forest’s full-time faculty ranks expanded by more than 125 teacher-scholars during Kersh’s tenure, helping to accommodate the University’s growth of about 675 undergraduates and almost 500 Reynolda Campus graduate and professional students.
- Kersh chaired academic fundraising efforts during the Wake Will campaign, which raised more than $700 million for scholarships, faculty support, academic and arts programs, and classroom, faculty, laboratory and performance spaces and buildings.
- Working in partnership with Executive Vice President Hof Milam, Kersh helped the University transition to a new budget model, leading to expanded funding for academic initiatives, faculty and staff salaries and support, facilities renewal, and successful management of the fiscal challenges posed by the pandemic.
Jeanne Whitman Bobbitt (’82), University Trustee and Chair of the Academic Committee, praised Kersh’s contributions to the University: “Rogan's extraordinary intellect and his innovative and collaborative leadership enrich Wake Forest's deep academic tradition. He represents the best of Wake Forest – intellect, imagination, superb scholarship and generous heart. The academic committee of the Board of Trustees looked to him as guide, partner and friend in the complex planning and decision making undertaken by the Board in support of academic matters.”
Kersh has been a mainstay of the University’s expanded community-partnership efforts, serving on multiple local boards such as United Way, Leadership Winston-Salem and the River Run Film Festival, and accepting a mayoral appointment to chair an expansive effort to alleviate urban and rural poverty in Forsyth County.
After his sabbatical year, during which time he plans to travel and teach abroad, Kersh will return to Wake Forest to continue his teaching and research at Wake Forest as Distinguished University Professor.
Since arriving at Wake Forest in 1999, Gillespie has established herself as a respected teacher-scholar and administrator. She will return to the Provost’s Office, where she served as associate provost for academic initiatives from 2007 to 2010, to begin her initial two-year term on July 1.
“When considering Dr. Kersh’s successor, I knew Wake Forest would be well served by another leader who embodied the teacher-scholar ideal,” Wente said. “Dr. Gillespie has earned great respect for her ability to balance academic rigor with holistic learning and community engagement.”
Gillespie began her tenure as the Dean of the College in July 2015. She has an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and a B.A. from Rice University, where she majored in History and English. Prior to her time at Wake Forest, Gillespie spent nine years at Agnes Scott College, where she taught U.S. History.
Gillespie was named Kahle Faculty Fellow in 2004. She was honored as a pioneer in the service-learning field with North Carolina’s Robert L. Sigmon Service Learning Award in 2010. Since 2013, she has been the Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History. In 2014, she worked with honors students in the history department and Special Collections and Archives to collect 30 oral histories of parishioners at St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church to celebrate the church’s 75th anniversary. For her work on the project, she received Wake Forest’s Kulynych Omicron Delta Kappa Award, which recognizes faculty who bridge the gap between the classroom and student life.
Gillespie has published two prize-winning books, as well as articles, book chapters, and 10 co-edited books, all focusing on race, gender, class and political economy in the history of the South.
Since her appointment as Dean of the College, she has prioritized department chairs’ leadership development; developed inclusive excellence practices and policies; co-chaired the President’s Committee on the First Year-Experience; completed a major core curriculum review; and facilitated increased interdisciplinary and community-engaged teaching and learning in partnership with the Mellon Foundation and the Humanities Institute. Her priorities this academic year include exploring the creation of an Office of Experiential Education and faculty development for and implementation of faculty-supported core curriculum changes.
“Across the Undergraduate College, Graduate School and our professional schools, Wake Forest faculty, staff and students are second to none,” Gillespie said. “To serve as the University’s next chief academic officer is a tremendous honor.”
Senior Associate Dean Anthony Marsh will serve as Interim Dean of the College, effective July 1, while the University engages in a national search for a new Dean of the College. Marsh came to Wake Forest in August 1996 and has served in a number of administrative leadership roles. In addition to his administrative roles, as professor of health and exercise science, Marsh teaches undergraduate courses in Anatomy and Biomechanics. He is an affiliate faculty member in the VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences and in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.
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Wake Forest University combines the best traditions of a small liberal arts college with the resources of a large research university. Founded in 1834, the school is located in Winston-Salem, N.C. The University’s graduate school of arts and sciences, divinity school, and nationally ranked schools of law, medicine and business enrich our intellectual environment. Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu.
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Betty “The Queen of TV White, with over 80 years in the industry, was the first woman to write, produce and act in a sitcom, Life With Elizabeth. In her lifetime she has won eight Emmys, three Screen Actors’ Guild awards, a Grammy and three American Comedy Awards. Most recently known for her bubble-headed character Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, and hosting Saturday Night Live, White died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 99. Her Carmel-by-the-Sea beach house, which she built with her husband, Allen Ludden, in 1978, is listed at $7.95 million. Allan was also a television star hosting the popular TV game show, Password, which is where they met. He died in 1981.
Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Point Lobos Nature Reserve, Ribera Beach and Monastery Beach, the 3,621-square-foot, three-story home has walls of glass and earthy building materials such as the stone fireplace and light wood walls and ceilings that display the couple’s love of nature, while still keeping it open, light and airy. There are four bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths. In addition to the romantic views, the primary suite also has a fireplace while the ensuite bath has a vanity that was designed by Betty. The versatile dining room can be used informally while open to the kitchen or closed off with the only view being the deck and ocean.
As beautiful as the home’s interior is, the exterior is the big star. Views from the deck include manicured landscaping with grass, shrubs and flowerbeds. Just beyond are craggy shoreline rocks with a glimpse of the white-sand beach to the left, which runs the length of the property below the cliff. In addition to ocean views, there is also a forested hillside rising above the ocean. To top it all off, the oceanside gets colorful evening sunsets.
Betty’s infectious smile and chirpy personality were endearing to her public, but her heavy work schedule could be draining at times. The beach house, with its simplicity and focus on nature, was the perfect place for Betty and Allen to escape the public eye and decompress. After Allen’s death, Betty expressed no desire to remarry, since in her view, she had already had the best. Betty never had children of her own but enjoyed her three stepchildren from Ludden’s former marriage.
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Book festival champions diversity, equity and inclusion - Greensboro Bound Literary Festival working to match the diversity of Greensboro with authors representing Black, indigenous, and people of color
Greensboro, NC – The Greensboro Bound Literary Festival is dedicated to reflecting the demographics of the community it serves. We are thrilled to announce that 55 authors will be joining us May 19-22 at locations in Downtown Greensboro and on the campuses of N.C. A&T State University and UNC Greensboro. Admission is FREE to all events, but advanced RVSP ticketing is highly encouraged.
Over the course of four days, authors from across the country and right here at home will speak, read, and interact with audiences. Of the 55 guest authors, 28 are BIPOC (Black, indigenous, people of color), comprising 51% of the presenters. Among those 28 are the 2021 National Book Award Winner for Fiction and North Carolina native Jason Mott, North Carolina Poet Laureate, and Jaki Shelton Green. Moreover, F.D. Bluford Library has partnered with the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival to bring Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, and Creator of The 1619 Project. She will serve as a joint keynote for F.D. Bluford Library’s “History Of Redlining In East Greensboro: Conversations About Our City's Past And Present” and the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.
Full schedule here: https://greensborobound.com/events/list/?tribe-bar-date=2022-05-01
Full author list here: https://greensborobound.com/2022-authors/
Reading list here: https://greensborobound.com/2022-reading-list/
“In 2018, when we set out to establish a literary festival in Greensboro, ‘promoting inclusivity’ was one of the four tenets in our mission,” said Greensboro Bound Board Chair, Dabney Sanders. “While many literary festivals now embrace diversity, Greensboro Bound is notable for making it integral to its program”
“At first, that meant being inclusive of authors and outreach to participants, but after the death of George Floyd, Greensboro Bound amended its mission commitment to include: promoting inclusivity by providing programs that combat systemic racism and oppression,” said Sanders. “We’re determined to present ideas that promote serious discussions about race relations.”
For 2022, this includes a partnership led by the F.D. Bluford Library at N.C. A&T State University, the largest public HBCU in the U.S. The History of Redlining in East Greensboro: Conversations About Our City’s Past and Present was created by F.D. Bluford librarians Carlos Grooms, Katie Kehoe, Harvey Long, and James Stewart at N.C. A&T State University in collaboration with Dudley High School, Greensboro Bound, and The Greensboro Public Library. Greensboro Bound, F.D. Bluford Library at N.C. A&T State University, and NC Humanities generously supported this project with funds.
The four-part series will conclude on Saturday, May 21, with a keynote presentation at N.C. A&T’s Harrison Auditorium with Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine and Creator of The 1619 Project and Dr. Jelani M. Favors, author of Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism. Their conversation will be a wide-ranging discussion about Professor Hannah-Jones' work to chronicle "the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act" and her latest book, The 1619 Project.
In addition to African American perspectives, the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival will present the work of 55 authors including Asian, Indigenous, Palestinian, Latino, and LGBTQ voices (and more) to the community literary scene. All author presentations over the four-day festival are FREE to the public. Additional keynote events include: Amor Towles (The Lincoln Highway); Jason Mott, (Hell of a Book) and Holly Goddard Jones (Antipodes); two-time Pushcart Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Ann Hood (Fly Girl) and Julia Ridley Smith (The Sum of Trifles.)
In addition to the May 19-22 festival of author talks and readings, Greensboro Bound has a significant “Authors Engaging Students” program and partnership with Guilford County Schools Library Media Services.
“Students want to see themselves in what they read,” notes Guilford County Schools Library Media Services Director and Greensboro Bound Board member, Natalie Strange. “While 70 percent of our students are BIPOC, less than 10 percent of our book inventory is written by BIPOC authors. Our teachers tell us that the diverse authors Greensboro Bound brings to our schools and the books they gift to our libraries really help our students see themselves in what they are reading.”
About Greensboro Bound
The Greensboro Bound Literary Festival was created in 2017 as a project of the 501(c)3 non-profit Greensboro Literary Organization.
Greensboro Bound began as the creative brainchild of Steve Colyer and Scuppernong Books owners Brian Lampkin, Steve Mitchell, and Deb and Dave White with the goal of hosting a festival to bring together readers, writers, students, academics, authors, and volunteers who are passionate about books and literature.
The mission of Greensboro Literary Organization is:
- Bring readers and writers together throughout the year
- Get authors and their books in front of students
- Produce the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
- Promote inclusivity by producing programs that confront systemic racism and oppression, in our community and beyond.
- Greensboro Bound Literary Festival celebrates diverse voices from around the world, honors North Carolina’s long and varied literary traditions, and welcomes an inclusive community of readers from Greensboro and beyond.
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HPU Poll: Presidential Approval at 35%, Governor Approval at 47% in North Carolina
HIGH POINT, N.C., April 5, 2022 – In a new High Point University Poll, North Carolinians gave President Joe Biden a job approval rating of 35%. More than half (53%) of North Carolina residents said they disapprove of the job President Biden is doing.
The HPU Poll asked North Carolinians on their approval of how President Biden is handling several different issues. About one-third of respondents said they approved of his handling of COVID-19 (40%), education (34%), health care in general (33%), the environment in general (31%), foreign policy in general (30%) and climate change (30%). Fewer respondents approved of President Biden’s handling of the war in Ukraine (28%), the economy in general (26%), inflation (19%) and gas prices (18%).
These same respondents gave Gov. Roy Cooper a job approval rating of 47%, while 31% said they disapprove and 23% did not offer an opinion either way. When asked about the U.S. Congress, respondents gave a job approval rating of 26%, while 56% said they disapprove and 17% did not offer an opinion either way.
About three out of five (63%) of North Carolinians said the country is off on the wrong track. Just more than one-quarter (26%) of those same respondents said the country is headed in the right direction.
The HPU Poll also asked North Carolina residents about their choice for U.S. Congress in 2022. When asked how they would vote if the elections for U.S. Congress were held today, North Carolinians are divided, with 41% choosing the Republican candidate and 35% choosing the Democratic candidate.
“Not much has changed in our latest HPU Poll regarding the approval of President Biden and Gov. Cooper,” says Brian McDonald, associate director of the HPU Poll and adjunct instructor. “These ratings give us insight into how North Carolina residents feel their elected leaders are doing their job.”
NC residents - Country Direction (March 2022)
Do you think things in this country are generally going in the right direction or do you feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track?
Right direction – 26%
Wrong track – 63%
Don’t know/refused – 11%
(Telephone and online interviews with North Carolina residents, surveyed Mar. 18 – Mar. 31, 2022, n = 889 and credibility interval is +/- 3.5%)
NC residents - Presidential Job Approval (March 2022)
Do you approve or disapprove of the way that Joe Biden is handling his job as president
Approve – 35%
Disapprove – 53%
Don’t know/refused – 12%
(Telephone and online interviews with North Carolina residents, surveyed Mar. 18 – Mar. 31, 2022, n = 889 and credibility interval is +/- 3.5%)
NC residents - Presidential Issue Handling (March 2022)
Would you say you approve or disapprove of how President Biden is handling each of these issues? (ISSUES PRESENTED IN RANDOMIZED ORDER)
(Telephone and online interviews with North Carolina residents, surveyed Mar. 18 – Mar. 31, 2022, n = 889 and credibility interval is +/- 3.5%)
NC residents - NC Governor Approval (March 2022)
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Roy Cooper is handling his job as Governor of North Carolina?
Approve – 47%
Disapprove – 31%
Don’t know/refused – 23%
(Telephone and online interviews with North Carolina residents, surveyed Mar. 18 – Mar. 31, 2022, n = 889 and credibility interval is +/- 3.5%)
NC residents - US Congress Approval (March 2022)
Do you approve or disapprove of the way that the U.S. Congress is handling its job?
Approve –26%
Disapprove – 56%
Don’t know/refused – 17%
(Telephone and online interviews with North Carolina residents, surveyed Mar. 18 – Mar. 31, 2022, n = 889 and credibility interval is +/- 3.5%)
NC residents – Generic Ballot for Congressional Elections (March 2022)
If the elections for U.S. Congress were being held today, would you vote for the "Republican Party’s candidate” or the "Democratic Party’s candidate” for Congress in your district?
Republican candidate – 41%
Democratic candidate – 35%
Other – 5%
Don’t know/Undecided – 18%
Refused – 1%
(Telephone and online interviews with North Carolina residents, surveyed Mar. 18 – Mar. 31, 2022, n = 889 and credibility interval is +/- 3.5%)
The most recent HPU Poll was fielded by live interviewers at the High Point University Survey Research Center calling on March 18 through March 31, 2022, and an online survey was fielded at the same time. The responses from a sample of all North Carolina counties came from 889 adults interviewed online (803 respondents) as well as landline or cellular telephones (86 respondents). The Survey Research Center contracted with dynata, formerly Research Now SSI, to acquire these samples, and fielded the online survey using the SRC’s Qualtrics platform. This is a combined sample of live phone interviews and online interviews. The online sampling is from a panel of respondents, and their participation does not adhere to usual assumptions associated with random selection. Therefore, it is not appropriate to assign a classic margin of sampling error for the results. In this case, the SRC provides a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points to account for a traditional 95% confidence interval for the estimates (plus or minus 3.3 percentage points) and a design effect of 1.12 (based on the weighting). The data is weighted toward population estimates for age, gender, race/ethnicity, and education based on U.S. Census numbers for North Carolina. The final stage of weighting ensures proper weighting of the online and live interviews. Factors such as question wording and other methodological choices in conducting survey research can introduce additional errors into the findings of opinion polls. Details from this survey are available here.
Further results and methodological details from the most recent survey and past studies can be found at the Survey Research Center website. The materials online include past press releases as well as memos summarizing the findings (including approval ratings) for each poll since 2010.
The HPU Poll reports methodological details in accordance with the standards set out by AAPOR’s Transparency Initiative, and the HPU Survey Research Center is a Charter Member of the Initiative. See more information here.
You can follow the HPU Poll Twitter here.
Dr. Martin Kifer, chair and associate professor of political science, serves as the director of the HPU Poll, and Brian McDonald is the associate director of the HPU Poll.
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Oscar–winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s plagiarism battle has taken a new twist. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Farhadi has been indicted in Iran on charges that he took the idea for his film A Hero from his former film student Azadeh Masihzadeh. The movie was shortlisted for this year’s best-international-feature Oscar.
A Hero won the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix award before hitting theaters and Amazon Prime. It tells the story of Rahim (Amir Jadidi), a floundering man who, despite his own debts, returns a bag of found gold coins to authorities in order to stoke his own public image. Last September, Farhadi told Vanity Fair that he was first attracted to the themes of his film when he read Bertolt Brecht’s play Life of Galileo at university. “It always stayed with me,” he said, but “I never thought that I would write a movie or a play or anything about that concept.”
THR reported that Farhadi was indicted for allegedly lifting the idea for A Hero from All Winners All Losers, a documentary that Masihzadeh developed while at a workshop taught by the Farhadi. This ruling arrived a day after THR reported that the courts had also ruled in Masihzadeh’s favor in a separate defamation suit filed by Farhadi alleging that she had made false accusations against him.
Farhadi admitted that his feature was based on the documentary’s real-life subject matter, but claimed he had researched the story on his own, per THR. A Tehran court found evidence that Farhadi had violated Masihzadeh’s copyright, and, according to THR, the plagiarism case “will now pass to a second judge, whose ruling can then be challenged in an appellate court. The judge can also order the case to be reexamined.”
A previous version of THR’s article wrongly reported that Farhadi had been found guilty in the plagiarism case. According to Deadline, Farhadi’s lawyer, Kaveh Rad, wrote on Instagram on Tuesday that “the decision is not the final verdict of the court and is considered part of the trial process, and in the continuation of the trial process, the case will be reexamined first in the second criminal court and then in the appellate court.” Rad also claimed that the case investigator had denied Masihzadeh’s request for a share of the film’s revenues should there be a guilty verdict.
While promoting A Hero, the director behind Oscar–winners A Separation and The Salesman told V.F. that this is his first film in which “there is nothing hidden” in the narrative. “I never think that I’ve learned filmmaking,” he said, laughing, at the time. “Filmmaking is like driving a car—you can’t ever say that you’re a good driver, [because] you just have to have an accident one time, and then you’re not.”
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James P. Bramini, 72 Apr 5, 2022 49 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save James P. Bramini, 72, of Yakima died Friday, April 1, at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save × Add an entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook. Log in Add an entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Netflix announced Tuesday that writer-director Nancy Meyers—the visionary behind Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, and other glossy romantic comedies—will make a new film for the streamer. What could this secretive project be? We’ve come up with five possibilities.
We’ll Always Have Paris
When famed cookbook editor Delia St. James (Annette Bening) heads to Paris in February of 2020, she thinks it’s just for a short trip to meet with a potential author, Millennial French culinary maverick Angeline Tournay (Titane’s Agathe Rousselle). But when the pandemic halts all travel, Delia is indefinitely stranded. Which leads her to a crazy idea: what if she just stayed in Paris forever? Much to Delia’s surprise, she soon finds herself relying on the company of Angeline and her impossibly chic, and annoyingly young, cadre of international friends: art dealers, fashionistas, and activists who seem to speak an entirely different language—other than French, that is. As the months, and then years, go by, Delia realizes you’re never too old for reinvention, or for romance. Featuring Jean Reno as Léo, an Airbus executive facing an uncertain future of his own; Lauren Weedman as Delia’s sassy younger sister, Marla; Sarita Choudhury as Delia’s best friend from back home who comes for a visit; and a cast of sexy up-and-comers from all over the world, We’ll Always Have Paris is a comedy about shutting down—and then rebooting.
Checking Out
Successful hotel lobby designer Cassie Archer (Angela Bassett) seems to have it all: the perfect Spanish colonial house in West Palm Beach; a doting and recently retired husband, Paul (Laurence Fishburne); and two great kids (Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Zazie Beetz) who have flourishing careers of their own. But then Paul announces that he’s fallen in love with a masseuse, Aylisin (Naomie Harris), whom he met on a fishing trip to the Cayman Islands, and wants a divorce. Paul says he hasn’t been happy for years, and to Cassie’s horror, their kids seem to side with him. Rocked by these sudden life changes and needing some new scenery, Cassie accepts a design job at a tony Aspen resort that’s in the process of rebranding, trading sand for snow with her best friend Marianna (Sonia Braga) in tow. Cassie digs into her work while also meeting cute, or something close to cute, with a faded ski bum, Alan (Pierce Brosnan), who also happens to be the biggest landowner in the area. It’s all making for a perfectly distracting getaway, until Paul and Aylisin and the kids show up to try to smooth things over and prove to Cassie that they can somehow make this newly fractured family work. Checking Out is a winsome romantic comedy about taking a tumble, and then getting right back on your skis.
The Bouquet
Julia Yeung (Michelle Yeoh) is pleased with her organized, methodical life. She’s an in-demand psychoanalyst who treats the neurotic minds of San Francisco—sometimes from her plushly appointed home in Marin County, other times at her earth-toned office in the city. When a former client who’s become her best friend, Claire (Susan Sarandon), invites her for a weekend away at the fabulous Sonoma vineyard Claire owns, Julia readily accepts. A widow, Julia sees her kids every couple of months when they’re in town, but otherwise lives a pretty solitary existence—minus, of course, when she sees her patients. So, she’s happy to spend some time with a dear old pal, drinking the vineyard’s signature Chardonnay.
As it so happens, there’s a wedding happening at the vineyard—between another of Julia’s former clients, zillionaire entrepreneur Jake Frist (Richard Madden), and film actor Alton Scott (Colton Haynes). When Julia is at the tasting room having a nightcap, trying not to interrupt the wedding, she inadvertently catches Alton’s tasteful sage-and-eucalyptus bouquet. Julia knows this doesn’t mean she’ll be the next to get married; such an idea is laughable. But Jake, Alton, and Claire feel differently, appointing themselves her matchmakers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and California wine country. Outwardly embarrassed but secretly intrigued by the idea of destined romance, Julia goes along with their set-up schemes, meeting a host of men from Ken Watanabe’s suave tech investor, Hinata Miyazaki, to Russell Crowe’s Jan Taggart, a Sonoma vintner. Will a full-bodied romance bloom, or will Julia’s dating adventures fail to stimulate her palette? Find out in this delicious comedy, crisp and dry with a few tart notes.
The Primrose Path
Veteran producer Felicia Martin (Emma Thompson) is on top of the world. The renovations on her stunning Primrose Hill home are finally done, the penultimate series of her hit period romance Exley’s Gate has just premiered to rave reviews, and she’s set to finally start work on her lifelong passion project: a wildly ambitious stage adaptation of Middlemarch. But suddenly a scandal involving Jack West (Jacob Elordi), the hunky young American star of Exley’s Gate, sends Felicia reeling. What’s worse is that Jack begs Felicia to let him stay at her house while the tabloid furor dies down. Type-A Felicia and the vain mess that is Jack badly clash at first, but gradually settle into a wary friendship. Until, that is, Jack strikes up a flirtation with Felicia’s daughter, Cambridge student Poppy (Jade Alleyne), while the three are vacationing at Felicia’s Lake District vacation home. Can Felicia help her wayward star become a better man, while keeping that man away from her only daughter? And what’s to be done about Rafe Moore (Jude Law), the tenacious talent agent who seems interested in more than just pitching his clients to Felicia? The Primrose Path is a very British, and a little bawdy, comedy about the parts of life that just can’t be produced, no matter how hard a six-time BAFTA winner tries.
There Once Was a Man
Celebrated exteriors designer Macy Sharp (Amy Adams)—who has a taste for blue hydrangeas and weathered shingle siding—has her life as neatly ordered as one of her beautiful gardens. A contended divorcée, she spends summers in a cottage in Maine with stunning sea views and enjoys leafy autumns and cozy winters in her meticulously restored Beacon Hill townhouse. But when her old college friend, Columbia sex studies professor Nate Wright (Matt Bomer), asks if she’ll do some work on his summer home in Nantucket, she readily accepts a little disruption. Nate has recently been dumped by his husband, British architect Arthur Conrad (Luke Evans), and Macy expects a week of consoling, catching up, and flower bed planting. But after a few too many dark and stormies one night, Nate makes a move on Macy. She’s shocked. Isn’t he gay? Nate explains that he’s recently come to realize that not only is he bisexual, but that he’s had a crush on Macy since their school days. Does Macy feel the same? She’ll try to navigate the muddied waters of modern dating in this sparkling summer comedy, featuring Lily Tomlin as Nate’s wily mother, Cecilia, and Oscar Isaac as handsome (and pansexual) local woodworker Griffin Ashe.
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Why do people go into politics? For some, it’s a calling and a desire to make a difference in their constituents’ lives. For others, it’s to do things like cut taxes for the rich and go to bat for pharmaceutical executives. For freshman representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, it’s to have a platform from which to spout every unhinged thought that comes into her brain, and elicit responses like “Wow, that‘s messed up” and “Hey, maybe this person shouldn’t be allowed near the room where bills are voted on” and “What the hell is wrong with her?”
For example, at a gathering over the weekend, Greene took the time to suggest that women are defined by being property of men. Responding to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s refusal to be dragged into the GOP’s culture war du jour—during her confirmation hearing, Jackson declined to provide a definition of a woman for anti-trans Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn—Greene told the Georgia Republican Assembly, “I’m going to tell you right now what is a woman. We came from Adam’s rib. God created us with his hands. We may be the weaker sex, we are the weaker sex, but we are our partner’s, our husband’s, wife.”
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Then on Monday, she casually asserted that the three Republican lawmakers supporting Jackson approve of pedophilia. Per HuffPost:
The response to Greene’s latest claims have been a mix of horror and head-scratching, given that, as Media Matters’ Matt Gertz pointed out on Tuesday, Republicans have happily embraced people like Donald Trump and Roy Moore. Moore, as you may or may not recall, was accused of sexual assault by two minors (claims he denied) and was reportedly banned from a local mall over attempts to pick up teenagers. As for Donald Trump, setting aside the dozens of adult women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, including rape (which, of course, he denies), the former president has said that if Ivanka Trump wasn‘t his daughter he’d be dating her. By the way, there’s also a sitting member of Congress who is currently under investigation for sex trafficking a minor. (He too has denied the allegations.) And if Republicans like Greene are so worried about pedophilia they should maybe take a look at what’s happening in Republican-controlled Tennessee state legislature:
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Last June, Florida representative Matt Gaetz used his allotted time during a congressional hearing to attack military leadership over the Republican–manufactured claim that the U.S military has become a bastion of wokeism by teaching critical race theory. Unfortunately for Gaetz, the stunt clearly didn’t pan out as he’d hoped, and he essentially had his ass handed to him on live TV. General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told him: “I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers of being, quote, ‘woke,’ or something else, because we’re studying [things like critical race theory] that are out there.… I do think it’s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read…and it is important that we train and we understand.”
You might have thought that after that experience, Gaetz—a member of the party that talks a big game about its respect for “law and order”—would subsequently avoid churlishly attacking military leaders in general, let alone repeat that the armed forces have been infected by “woke” ideology. But you‘d have thought wrong!
On Tuesday, the conservative lawmaker used a House Armed Services Committee hearing about the Defense Department’s 2023 budget to berate Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the military’s supposed failures, which he pinned on the Pentagon’s alleged embrace of “wokeness.”
Referring to a February article in the conservative Washington Free Beacon that reported that Thomas Piketty, an economist whose work focuses on inequality, was slated to give a lecture at the National Defense University titled “Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism,” Gaetz asked Austin why taxpayers should be funding talks that “embrace socialism.” When Austin said he was unaware of the lecture, Gaetz snarkily responded that it was “widely reported,” and asked the defense secretary if he agreed that “embracing socialism” would be an effective strategy. Naturally, as Austin began to reply, Gaetz cut him off, moving on to a line of questioning no doubt tailored specifically to appear in a clip on Fox News hours later.
“While everyone else in the world seems to be developing capabilities and being more strategic, we got time to embrace critical race theory at West Point, to embrace socialism at the National Defense University, to do mandatory pronoun training,” Gaetz said, to which Austin informed him that the U.S. military remains “the most capable” and “the most combat critical” force in the world and “will be so going forward.”
But Gaetz, who loves himself a camera, obviously wasn’t done. Sounding like a bratty teen yelling at his parents, the lawmaker lectured Austin: “You guys said that Russia would overrun Ukraine in 36 days. You said that the Taliban would be kept at bay for months. You totally blew those calls. And maybe we would be better at them if the National Defense University worked a little more on strategy and a little less on wokeism.”
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To this Austin asked him, “Has it occurred to you has Russia has not overrun Ukraine because of what we’ve done? And what our allies have done?” Gaetz, who undoubtedly believes he could lead the military if necessary, shot back: “That was baked into your flawed assessment,” before claiming that the Obama administration “tried to destroy our military by starving it of resources, and it seems the Biden administration is trying to destroy our military by force-feeding it wokeism.”
Austin, who clearly has more class than Gaetz, obviously did not use the time between questions from lawmakers to mutter something under his breath about the congressman being a smug little shit, or something to that effect. But it would’ve been hard to blame him if he had!
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U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk may have bought a hefty stake in Twitter, will join its board of directors, and hinted at “significant improvements” to the social network, but Twitter insists that doesn’t mean that Musk will receive special treatment on the platform—or make daily decisions in his role.
“[Twitter is] committed to impartiality in the development and enforcement of its policies and rules. Our policy decisions are not determined by the Board or shareholders,” Twitter spokesperson Adrian Zamora said in a statement Tuesday, suggesting that Musk will still be subject to suspensions or other penalties if his tweets violate Twitter’s terms of service. Zamora went on to note that while board members like Musk play “an important advisory and feedback role across the entirety of our service”—a role that includes overseeing mergers, acquisitions, and profitability—they are not responsible for the site’s “day to day operations and decisions.” (Musk, who owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter, holds a passive stake in the company, according to an SEC 13G filing, meaning he is a long-term investor who is, per Bloomberg, not angling to wrest more control from Twitter’s other shareholders.)
Still, such assurances may do little to sway Twitter users concerned about Musk’s new involvement with the platform. Musk, who has over 80 million followers on Twitter and now a 9.2% stake in the company according to a regulatory filing on Monday, making him Twitter’s largest shareholder, has seen frequent controversies due to his use of the platform, ranging from SEC violations to troublesome trolling of his critics. In a tweet Musk shared last month, he publicly questioned Twitter’s community conduct rules, which Republican lawmakers have repeatedly claimed are biased against conservative views. “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” Musk wrote in a Twitter poll, adding that the “consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.”
Given Musk’s apparent libertarian bent, some conservatives are already lobbying him to reinstate the Twitter account of Donald Trump, who was banned after inciting the January 6 insurrection. “Now that @ElonMusk is Twitter’s largest shareholder, it’s time to lift the political censorship,” tweeted Representative Lauren Boebert on Monday. “Oh… and BRING BACK TRUMP!” During Tuesday’s edition of Fox & Friends, host and Trump ally Pete Hegseth made a similar appeal, urging Musk to take back Twitter from the “groupthink leftists” that have supposedly taken over the site. "They pushed off Donald Trump. They pushed off a lot of conservatives," Hegseth said. "If [Musk] were to open that up, it opens up the conversation in America.”
On March 26, Musk tweeted that he was giving “serious thought” to launching a new social media platform. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” he added in a separate tweet. “What should be done?” As some conservatives turn to alternative social networks—though perhaps not Trump’s failing Truth Social—the fact that Musk has decided to actually purchase a stake in Twitter has left some questioning his long-term plans in the venture. “Given Twitter’s reach and the way it uses software to connect far-flung users, Musk could see it as the ultimate vehicle to realize a long-held dream of promoting a nongovernmental, global currency,” wrote tech journalist Adam Lashinsky in a Monday Washington Post op-ed. Though, Lashinsky also noted that it is “equally possible Musk isn’t serious about taking over Twitter and that instead he is probing, goofing, needling and otherwise entertaining himself, his fans and his antagonists.”
The New York Times recently compiled more questions: “Will Musk now agitate for Twitter to alter its policy on moderating content in the name of freer speech?” the Times asked. “Will he push for Twitter to open up its algorithm, which the company’s co-founder and former C.E.O. Jack Dorsey appeared to support last week?”
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What is your idea of perfect happiness? I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong. What is your greatest fear? That I will be taken for mad and thrown into a 19th-century-esque insane asylum and never be heard from again.
Which living person do you most admire? Ricky Gervais. I’m saying that so he might read this and cast me in something.
What is your favorite occupation? Working. Eating carbs. Playing bridge. (I wish more people would play, it’s getting harder and harder to find a fourth.)
What or who is the greatest love of your life? Work. I like working more than people, more than relationships. Also New York City, which never disappoints.
What is your greatest regret? When I was 10, I began doing female impersonations. By the time I was 12, I had an entire repertoire. I could do Judy, Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Liza, Shirley Bassey. I regret so much having given that up. Had I continued, I might’ve had a real career as a drag performer.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? I would come back as a smoker who didn’t care about health.
What is your greatest extravagance? My car and driver.
Which talent would you most like to have? I wish I could dance en pointe (and look great in tights).
Which historical figure do you most identify with? Mark Twain. He was sophisticated in an exclusively American way. Also so quotable.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Madame Verdurin from Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. I’m not sure she’s a hero, but I admire her survivalist instincts. Also Adrian Leverkühn from Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus only for his dedication, his desperation to be great, to be relevant.
Who are your heroes in real life? Dr. Fauci. Ricky Gervais. My astrologer.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Loyalty. I credit people for trying, but I think loyalty after a certain point is impossible.
What is it that you most dislike? Cilantro. People who refer to themselves as foodies. The Met ball (that would be sour grapes).
Where would you like to live? I love living on 12th Street. When I first got the apartment my mother said, “If you want to stay young forever, move to the Village.” I would also love to have a place in Rome, if only to feel my age occasionally.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would care less about what people thought of me.
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? I would make them Democrats.
What is your motto? Never boring, never bored!
What is your current state of mind? Hold, please.
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MTSU Board of Trustees approves president's contract extension through 2026
Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees voted Tuesday (April 5) to extend President Sidney A. McPhee’s contract through 2026.
McPhee, who arrived at MTSU in 2001, has led MTSU through an extended period of academic progress and more than $1 billion in capital investment during his two decades of leadership, while developing world-class programs that attract students from around the globe.
The extension means McPhee, now in his 21st year as chief executive officer of the university, can serve until Dec. 10, 2026.
He previously served in leadership roles at the Tennessee Board of Regents, the University of Memphis and the University of Louisville.
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Trustees also approved the appointment of Monica Smith as assistant to the president for community engagement and inclusion and two new academic degrees:
- Bachelor of Science in public writing and rhetoric
- Master of Science in supply chain management
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Swanson sells Gateway Village to focus on new industrial complex in Murfreesboro
Gateway Village will soon transition into a medical-focused plaza, according to Matthews Real Estate Investment firm.
A Denver-based buyer purchased Gateway Village for more than $18.6 million and plans to launch the new acquisition platform in the Tennessee market, a Matthews firm spokesperson confirmed.
Built by the Swanson Companies circa 2011, Gateway Village became the first mixed-use development to open along the Medical Center Parkway corridor.
The multi-building complex features retail, residential and office spaces.
"The upper floors are condominiums and the bottom floors are commercial," explained Joe Swanson Jr., chief executive officer of the Murfreesboro-based Swanson Companies.
The planned unit development is located adjacent to the Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital and near restaurants, retail and recreational opportunities.
“This transaction was very complex with several factors needing to be accounted for including two HOAs, price adjustments, buyer financing, etc.,” said Johnny Blue Craig, regional director for the Matthews firm.
Parkway Place opening
The sale will allow Swanson Companies to focus on a new industrial development near Amazon distribution center off Joe B. Jackson Parkway in Murfreesboro.
The 150-acre complex will be home to warehousing, manufacturing, distribution, retail and office spaces, Swanson said.
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On Tuesday, U.K.-based Woods Air Movement is celebrating the opening of its North American headquarters and will become the first company to open at Parkway Place.
The company has constructed a 25,000-square-foot office and manufacturing facility for industrial ventilation products used in road and rail tunnels, non-residential buildings and underground parking garages.
The facility will also function as a product testing center, which will be accessible to customers.
Woods Air Movement is investing $3.6 million in Rutherford County and creating 27 jobs.
“I am delighted to start this new chapter in our history and establish Woods Air Movement’s brand new, state-of-the-art manufacturing and testing facility here in Rutherford County," said Jamie Slowgrove, president of Wood Air Movement. "We are committed to developing, building and contributing to the local community as we grow as an organization.”
Reach reporter Nancy DeGennaro at degennaro@dnj.com.
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A government watchdog says the U.S. Postal Service's environmental evaluation used for purchases of next-generation delivery vehicles relied on some false assumptions.
Jill Naamane from the Government Accountability Office told a House committee on Tuesday that the analysis used to determine the mix of gas and electric vehicles overstated maintenance costs of electric vehicles.
She said the analysis also relied on gas prices that don't reflect the current reality. Some environmental groups want the Postal Service to buy 100% battery-electric vehicles for up to 165,000 new delivery vehicles. Instead, the Postal Service has proposed a mix of gas and electric vehicles.
As the Associated Press reported, USPS estimated in 2020 that gas would cost $2.21 to $2.36 per gallon, yet the national average in March was at $4.24 per gallon according to AAA Gas Prices.
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There will have been smiling faces in the boardrooms of Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in the last couple of weeks. The CDC removed its travel advice for cruises, bookings have been at record levels, and as a result, stock prices for all three have gone up significantly.
But the good news could just be for the boardrooms and not necessarily for the guests. As costs for cruise lines have gone up, they have started to look at passing costs to guests. Either in the form of increased prices for WIFI packages, drinks packages, or specialty dining.
At the same time, both Norwegian Cruise Line and Carnival have already announced increased gratuity rates to combat inflation that has been hurting many worldwide. So as the demand for cruises surges so does the cost of those cruises.
Biggest Week in History
Carnival Cruise Line said on Monday it had seen the busiest booking week in history between March 28 and April 3. Virgin Voyages announced the same, saying the cruise line saw a huge increase in bookings after the CDC announced the withdrawal of the negative travel notice.
With nearly all ships operational at this point and the final ship returning in May 2022, Carnival Cruise Line is leading the way for a profitable Q3 for Carnival Corporation.
Although Carnival Cruise Line has sold several ships in the last two years, it will be able to carry more passengers than it did in 2019 by lower berth capacity, and Carnival is not alone.
Nearly all cruise lines went through one of the busiest weeks in history, leading to a jump in stock prices that they haven’t seen in years.
Carnival Corporation stock prices went up to $20.32, up $4.80 or 30.88% in the last month. Royal Caribbean stock performed equally well, the stock price now sitting at $83.89, up $20.61 or 32.57% in the past month.
The best performer, by far, seems to be NCLH, their stock trading at $22.31, up $6.93 or 45.06% since early March.
“The excitement of the industry’s restart, our successful return of our entire fleet, the guest reaction to Mardi Gras, our loyal guest response to our 50th birthday this year, the support of our travel advisor partners — and of course, the amazing work of our Carnival team — have all contributed to the strong demand we are seeing, and this record-breaking booking week,” stated Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy.
However, where the cruise lines were doing their best to draw guests in with promotions, flexible booking terms, and easy cancellation options, the tide seems to be turning somewhat. Royal Caribbean and Celebrity already let their Cruise with Confidence program expire at the end of March.
And with gratuities increasing and pre-paid plans costing more, the price of the cruise line’s success seems to be with guests.
Cruises Become More Expensive As Costs Go Up
During March and early April, it became increasingly evident that cruising would become more expensive. Norwegian Cruise Line was the first to announce an increase in gratuities in March starting April 1, while Carnival Cruise Line announced the same on Monday, April 4, for cruises from May 1.
While there will be some understanding from most guests on the gratuity increase, especially considering the record levels of inflation affecting everyone, particularly crew members working for low wages, increases in other areas will not be as welcome.
Read Also: How Much Do Cruise Ship Workers Make?
On Carnival Cruise Line, the Cheers Drink Package will see a 13% increase from May 1, the new pre-purchase price will be $59,95, according to reports online.
The bottomless Bubbles Soda Package will go up 11%, Cucina Del Capitano and JiJi’s Asian Kitchen 17%, and Steakhouse/ Fahrenheit 555 10%.
The increases in pricing can be explained. With oil prices to power the ship on the rise and prices for everyday commodities such as grain, cooking oil, rice, meat, and fish all increasing, the cruise lines need to take action to keep their business profitable.
A higher stock price due to record bookings is excellent, but investors will not be pleased to see record numbers on board ships that are not making money.
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Cruise travelers looking for the most magical oceangoing getaway ever will soon have a new embarkation port to try. Authorities have agreed on a design plan to transform Cruise Terminal 4 of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, into a dedicated Disney Cruise Line terminal.
Disney Cruise Terminal Coming to Port Everglades
Disney Cruise Line has already announced its intention to set sail from Fort Lauderdale in autumn 2023, an agreement that was reached in December 2021. The 15-year agreement with the port ensures Disney Cruise Line a dedicated terminal, with three options for 5-year extensions.
Now, the Broward County Commission approved Bermello, Ajamil & Partners, Inc. for design and consulting services to transform Cruise Terminal 4 into Disney Cruise Line’s new Port Everglades homeport.
“Disney is known for its remarkable creativity worldwide. I’m sure this new terminal will reflect the magical Disney experience for travelers,” said Broward County Mayor Michael Udine.
Undoubtedly the new terminal design will evoke magical moments and the excitement of beginning a Disney cruise, likely with classic elements and logo designs that have become familiar to Disney Cruise Line passengers.
Improvements Planned
The terminal’s transformation will be more than just decoration, however, and a number of logistical improvements are to be expected in order to accommodate the increased passenger traffic, supply deliveries, and crew movements associated with more ships homeporting at Port Everglades.
“Our Seaport Construction staff has been working closely with teams of Imagineers and other creative groups to brainstorm designs and ideas to maximize guest flow and efficiency. I am excited to see the final product,” said Port Everglades Chief Executive and Port Director Jonathan Daniels.
Improvements to Cruise Terminal 4 and the adjacent berth will begin once the interior and exterior designs are complete. The entire project must be completed by fall 2023, when Disney Cruise Line sails for the first time from Port Everglades.
“We continue to make progress on our specially-designed Disney Cruise Line terminal, which will allow us to provide the outstanding experience our guests have come to expect from us, along with that special touch of Disney magic,” said Disney Cruise Line Senior Vice President and General Manager Sharon Siskie.
Further details about port facility improvements have not been announced, but may include work on traffic flow, parking availability, signage, and public transit access.
Which Ships?
Disney Cruise Line has not yet announced which ship will be the first to homeport from Fort Lauderdale. Currently, Disney’s primary homeport is Port Canaveral in central Florida, just an hour from the iconic Walt Disney World resort complex and theme parks.
With Disney Wish debuting in mid-July and two additional Triton-class vessels already ordered and anticipated to set sail in 2024 and 2025, it is logical that Disney Cruise Line would be seeking new permanent home port options.
In addition to the one ship to set sail from Port Everglades in the fall of 2023, the port agreement includes a second, seasonal ship deployment to begin in 2025.
Depending on the season and current ship deployments, the cruise line also sails from PortMiami as well as San Diego, Galveston, New Orleans, New York, San Juan, Vancouver, and Honolulu. Different Disney ships also offer Mediterranean, British Isles, and Northern European itineraries from European homeports.
Local Benefits
The dedication of Cruise Terminal 4 to Disney Cruise Line will do much more than simply benefit the cruise line and eager passengers.
The agreement supports an estimated 1,111 local jobs generating $31.6 million in wages and $12.3 million in state and local taxes, according to a study by nationally recognized maritime research company Martin Associates.
These jobs and income will likely include local hotels, restaurants, and retailers who will serve cruise passengers arriving and departing the port. Port Everglades is already one of the world’s busiest cruise ports, with an estimated 4 million passengers visiting the port annually.
In addition to Disney Cruise Line’s forthcoming partnership, other cruise lines that sail from Port Everglades include Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Holland America Line, and Princess Cruise Line.
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IOWA – The midterm primary elections are two months away and due to election law changes and redistricting, how Iowans vote may look a little different.
After redistricting some counties gained precincts while others lost some. Who your local representative is may have changed as well.
“A lot of your lines have moved so who represents you has also changed in a lot of cases,” Jamie Fitzgerald, Polk County’s Auditor and Election Commissioner said, “so your state representative or state senator and in some rural areas who is your US congressperson.”
Last week was when Iowans could first start requesting absentee ballots for the primary election. Fitzgerald said Polk County has already seen some mistakes on requests like people forgetting to sign their name or using the wrong voter ID number.
Fitzgerald said having a plan is a good way to get ahead of any issues. “We want voters to make a plan. The primary might seem far away in the distance but if you wanna vote early get your request into the local county auditors earlier than later. As we get into that crunch time between May 18th and May 23rd it really makes it hard to correct errors,” said Fitzgerald.
There are many small changes that people may overlook, like election sites closing one hour earlier at 8:00 p.m. rather than 9:00 p.m. These small changes are what voters need to look out for to avoid issues on election day.
The best place to find more information is on the Secretary of State’s website. The website also has a hotline number to call with any questions about filling out voting paperwork.
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