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Sprawl Repair
Galina Tachieva
Sprawl Repair Manual
Mall Retrofit
Can anything stop the retail apocalypse?
Author: Richard Vines, Neil Callanan, and Will Mathis
Outlet: Bloomberg
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With restaurants and bars now occupying upwards of 25 percent of space, mall owners are struggling to identify new opportunities to stem their decline. There is growing recognition that to compete with vibrant downtowns and online shopping, malls will also need to add hotels, apartments, and entertainment to create attractive mixed-use neighborhoods.
Transformation of the mall from a retail-only destination into a vibrant, mixed-use, urban center – University Mall, Orem, Utah
Repair and Prepare Our Suburbs for the 21st Century
Charlotte, North CarolinaEvent Type: Conference, LectureParent Event: Retrofit Conference 2018Organizer: Retrofit MagazineEvent Website
Galina's opening keynote presentation positioned Sprawl Repair as a comprehensive and practical method to transform auto-dependent, single-use places into more complete, economically viable communities. It demonstrated how design, regulatory and implementation techniques derived from the "trenches" at all development scales: regional, community, block, building.
Strategies were identified to create economic and social value out of stranded real-estate assets as the demise of the industry that produced sprawl continues: Malls and office parks are dying; golf courses are closing; McMansions are losing their appeal to Millennials. The presentation not only highlighted why we should retrofit sprawl, but also showed a practical How, Who and When step-by-step path of action forward to a better burb.
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Editors Notes: Retrofit Magazine held its second-annual one-day conference in October 2018 in Charlotte north Carolina. The conference brought together focused on retrofitting commercial, industrial and institutional buildings.
Troubled Malls Finding New Owners And New Life
Author: Brian J. Rogal
Outlet: GlobeSt
Independence Center in Independence, MO, is a classic 1970s-era property.
More developers are finding new opportunities in underutilized malls and empty storefronts with mall retrofits.
"Tearing down these properties often makes less sense than finding new uses appropriate for an era when consumers shop so much online.
"A lot of these projects are at Main and Main streets," says Najla Kayyem of Pacific Retail Capital Partners, "and great locations don't go out of style." Pacific Retail Capital Partners recently decided to step in as the operator of Independence Center, an iconic lifestyle shopping center in Independence, MO, just outside of Kansas City.
"We want people in the area to be proud of their center," Kayyem says. She echoes the thoughts of many people currently developing or renovating retail centers in that these spaces need to provide experiences "that really create a community environment."
Sears had a miserable, miserable Christmas
Author: Chris Isidore
Outlet: CNNMoney
Sears Reuters-Mike Blake
"CEO Eddie Lampert said that its lenders and vendors must have a better outlook about the company's future… and that negative outlook is putting Sears at a competitive disadvantage.
Lampert again insisted that the company is on course to turn a profit in 2018. But he also ominously warned that the company's board will "consider all other options to maximize the value of Sears Holdings' assets" if the company can't refinance its debt.
Sears (SHLD) closed hundreds of stores last year, leaving it with just over 1,100. Last week it announced plans to close another 103 Kmart and Sears stores by April."
Consider retrofitting the stores and malls through Sprawl Repair to save jobs, create livable communities and boost the investment returns.
Jobs everywhere! Except at stores
The retail meltdown is having the worst impact on the young, elderly, women and minorities hardest. According to the December Jobs Report:
"General merchandise stores, the segment that includes department stores, were hit the hardest, losing 90,300 jobs.
These job losses tend to hit the young, elderly, women and minorities the hardest. About 60% of department store employees are female, compared to 47% of workers overall. Minorities, the elderly and teenagers are also far more likely to find jobs in department and discount stores than they are elsewhere. Teenagers hold 8% of department store jobs, compared to 3% of jobs overall.
In 2017, 7,000 store closings were announced, a record that was more than triple 2016's number. And the trend will undoubtedly continue in 2018. Sears Holdings (SHLD), owner of both Sears and Kmart, said Thursday it plans to close more than 100 additional stores."
It is more important than ever to diversify our economy and opportunities through sprawl retrofits and mall repair that supports all of our citizens.
Here's what could happen to America's hundreds of dead malls
Author: Leanna Garfield
Outlet: Business Insider / Flipboard
A Sears store inside the Woodbridge Center Mall in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Business Insider/Sarah Jacobs
It appears that the mall as we know it may be dead. Long live the retrofitted mall! New uses, new infill, new life for the king of the American consumerism. Read more about retrofit options that can boost an entire community from Leanna Garfield of the Business insider:
"More than 6,400 store locations have announced closures this year. In a recent report, analysts from Credit Suisse predicted that 20% to 25% of malls — about 220 to 275 shopping centers — would shutter over the next five years, largely because of store closures.
Malls of the future have an opportunity to fulfill other community needs besides commerce, June Williamson, an architecture professor at the City College of New
"The development climate of malls were driven less by demand and more by opportunity," Williamson said. "As new centers get built, anchor stores are lured away, and a cannibalization process begins. … Only so many consumers are going to malls, and they will flock to newer ones. If developers build a new mall, they are inevitably undercutting another property. So older properties have to get repositioned every decade, or they will die."
Closed department stores will most likely become other businesses that could benefit from the large square footage, such as fitness centers, churches, offices, public libraries, and even medical clinics, Williamson says.
Since most food courts have a lot of natural light, they could be used as gathering spaces for community groups or daycare centers if they closed down, Williamson says. Some food courts, however, are redeveloping into clusters of higher-priced restaurants.
Mall atriums are wide open spaces that can allow for events like concerts or fashion shows, or serve as car showrooms — all of which generate revenue, Williamson says.
Many dead retail spaces, Williamson says, will most likely morph into businesses that have community functions, such as apartments, public libraries, indoor farms, and refrigerated spaces for processing food for local restaurants or grocery stores.
Malls may increasingly turn their surface parking lots into space that emphasizes walking rather than driving.
Williamson describes ethnic malls as shopping centers that target a specific ethnic demographic in a community. She says this type of customized mall can thrive more than a traditional mall because it better meets local shoppers' needs.
To subsidize regular retail shops, destination malls, also called super regional malls or lifestyle centers, use experiential attractions like movie theaters, bars, casinos, restaurants, rock climbing walls, laser tag, and even roller coasters."
Learn more about Mall Retrofits in the Sprawl Repair Manual.
The Great Retail Retrofit
Author: Richard Florida
Outlet: CITYLAB
The abandoned Randall Park Mall in North Randall, Ohio Joshua Gunter/AP
Richard Florida describes how the "retail apocalypse" presents an opportunity to re-think and re-energize our communities in the wake of ongoing bankruptcies of chain stores, high-end retailers, suburban malls and metropolitan flagships. With hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, and more to come, Sprawl Repair presents a series of strategies for retrofitting communities at any scale.
"WeWork's takeover of Lord & Taylor could be a good portent for urban economies. Work, not shopping, is the key to urban productivity and growth. … higher urban rents… are a function of higher urban productivity.
As talented people and high-paying jobs move back to cities, there is demand for more office space. But smaller companies and gig-economy workers need flexible coworking spaces that companies such as WeWork provide, and they need affordable living spaces as well. Both of these can be built in the shell of former retail spaces.
Educational and healthcare facilities, two land use types that are growing as retail shrinks, are a logical fit for these large, boxy spaces.
Mall retrofits can also help with resilience and sustainability efforts. Dunham-Jones and Williamson estimate that 10 such projects have been transformed into green infrastructure or parks.
Some of the most ambitious mall redevelopments are becoming mixed-use neighborhoods.
The Villa Italia Mall in Lakewood, Colorado, outside Denver, was almost completely demolished to make way for a new street grid lined with offices, arts facilities, parks, and residences, as well as new stores. The project is already generating four times the tax revenues that the old mall did.
Dunham-Jones and Williamson estimate that there as many as 650 mall retrofits in some phase of development across the country. From megachurches to indoor paintball parks, former malls and retail spaces are being converted to all manner of uses that better reflect the way we live."
Westfield: Lowy family sells shopping centre empire to French property giant for $32 billion
Author: By Elysse Morgan and business editor Ian Verrender
Outlet: ABC News
The giant retail mall operator, Westfield, is being purchased by French property giant Unibail-Rodamco, to remain resilient in the face of the changing retail market. High-end markets remain their target. Agility and diversity will be key for retailers and their employees who continue to bear the burden of the changing retail climate. Communities that promote mixed-use mall repairs may have a chance to combat the sliding economy.
"The acquisition of Westfield is a natural extension of Unibail-Rodamco's strategy of concentration, differentiation and innovation. It adds a number of new attractive retail markets in London and the wealthiest catchment areas in the United States."
The Lowy family will retain control of Westfield's retail technology platform, OneMarket, which will be spun off into a new company on the ASX, with Steven Lowy remaining as chairman.
Westfield Corporation runs 45 shopping centres and airport retail precincts in the US, UK and Italy, including the retail space in the new World Trade Centre in New York.
Retailers across the United States are in what appears to be terminal decline as shoppers abandon traditional bricks and mortar while the digital revolution lays waste to traditional shopping.
That, in turn, has begun to harm shopping malls as retailers have struggled to pay rents with many closing down their outlets.
Thousands of mall-based stores have shut their doors across the US this year, including stalwarts such as JC Penney, Macy's, Sears and K-Mart reducing their physical footprint.
That, in turn, has begun to affect employment. Until as recently as two years ago, shopping malls were providing America with 200,000 extra jobs a year, but that trend has now suddenly reversed.
According to the latest Bureau of Labour Statistics, the retail industry has lost an average of 9,000 jobs a month this year. This time last year, malls provided jobs growth of around 17,000 a month.
Longtime Retail Pariah Now A Mall-Industry Darling
Author: Lara O'Keefe
Outlet: Bisnow National
For years, gym tenants were unwanted by mall landlords as they were believed to provide little value, attracting visitors who were unlikely to spend money at any of the shops in the vicinity.
As the Retail Meltdown continues to rage, mall operators are rethinking their tenant mix to capitalize on increasing trends toward fitness and gym memberships to bring foot traffic to languishing stores. Lara O'Keefe describes the new attraction:
"Now, gyms are a valued addition to the tenant mix. Americans' focus on health and fitness has grown to such an extent that athletic apparel has become an acceptable form of attire, increasing people's willingness to shop after working out, the Wall Street Journal reports.
While many retailers have shuttered their doors due to e-commerce competition and declining foot traffic, fitness centers are on the other end of the spectrum as gym memberships skyrocket across the country.
This dynamic has made gyms attractive to landlords, especially as they look to reinvent themselves as entertainment destinations that offer a variety of activities aimed to draw shoppers."
The Triumph of the Latin American Mall
Author: Nolan Gray
Suddenly it's 1990: Oakland Mall in Guatemala City, where the mall culture is in full bloom. (Nolan Gray/CityLab)
As American malls are failing, Latin American malls seem to be thriving. Social and economic factors appear to be the key. The good news for American retailers is that those who retrofit based on the resurgent Main Street model will be best positioned to capitalize on changing trends.
"…fear of violent crime and a relative lack of high-quality urban environments are also factors in the Latin American mall boom … malls provide a safe place to shop, and mall managers invest heavily in security. Combine this with the lack of reliable mail and home delivery service that hampers the e-commerce sector and there isn't much competition for Latin America's rising middle-class shoppers.
In most U.S. cities, on the other hand, violent crime has fallen dramatically over the last 25 years, and walkable urban neighborhoods that boast restaurants, bars, salons, and "experiential retail" are thriving. In this sense, the decline of the North American mall reflects a positive trend: The Main Streets that malls once menaced are coming back. Such amenity-laden neighborhoods are also in a better position than suburban malls to fend off the threat of online shopping.
In the U.S. and Canada, malls are still overwhelmingly anchored by major retailers like Sears, JC Penney, and Macy's. And as the fortunes of these department stores have declined, they've dragged the malls they're attached to with them. In Latin America, on the other hand, a whole variety of businesses act as anchors. Grocery stores are common in Latin American malls and are often situated at the end of long corridors lined with smaller shops, creating a steady flow of foot traffic.
When we feel nostalgia for malls, maybe what we're really feeling is nostalgia a time when incomes were rising and the quality of life of average people was improving."
Why shopping is about to become all about the experience
Author: Katie Beck
Outlet: BBC Capital
Katie Beck writes about the increasing online competition for retailers in Europe and North America, and its effect on the bottom lines of brick-and-mortar shops. Mall repair and sprawl repair techniques can enrich the overall community experience, while creating jobs and housing, and boosting the bottom line.
"In years to come, the Black Friday spectacle of throngs of shoppers scrambling past each other to ransack shelves of flat screen TVs might look very different.
Shopping may be about to undergo a dramatic transformation. Within the next decade it could change into an activity driven entirely by experiences and interactive technology rather than the act of buying. Think pop-up shops on steroids; places where you try things on or test products in person but don't actually make any purchases.
But this increasingly digital shopping experience means brands have fewer opportunities to meet their customers face-to-face and are getting desperate to connect. It is leading them to seek out new ways of reaching consumers.
Exactly what will fill these spaces remains to be seen, but with digital retail technology likely to continue disrupting the shopping experience, it is safe to assume that Black Friday could become more of an experience than a bargain hunt."
How a mall-turned-public park saved downtown Columbus
Author: Marielle Segarra
Outlet: Marketplace
Columbus Commons hosts more than 200 events a year, including a Harvest Fair on September 30, 2017. Marielle Segarra, Marketplace
When mall repair is not economically or structurally feasible, sometimes re-greening a dead mall site in the form of a park or urban agriculture is the best option. The City Center mall in Columbus, Ohio has been reincarnated as a downtown park called Columbus Commons, and it's driving the resurgence of activity and property value.
"Capitol South, a nonprofit development corporation created by the city, took over the property and started looking at redevelopment plans. The group considered turning the mall into an office building or a medical-research center. "Each one of the plans that we looked at either financially didn't pencil out, or from a constructability point of view, it simply couldn't be done," said Guy Worley, CEO of Capitol South.
Instead, Capitol South decided to knock down the mall and build a park. The group was inspired by similar projects, like Bryant Park in New York City.
A big lesson, said Worley, is that on its own, creating a green space isn't enough. You needed to bring people there. So Columbus Commons has an outdoor stage and a café, and it hosts more than 200 events a year — many of them free — like yoga classes and concerts.
Developers are offering vacant malls to Amazon in HQ bidding war
Author: Staff
Outlet: The Real Deal
Communities and owners of dying malls are teaming on the bid to attract Amazon's new headquarters. It's a smart idea that would be even smarter if some housing was thrown into the mix to create a complete community in the process.
"As Amazon's deadline for bids on where to build its second headquarters approaches, developers are offering up derelict malls as potential sites.
Pittsburgh's Parkway Center Mall is exhibit A for the nationwide trend with the owner, Kossman Development, changing up their new plans to rebuild the former mall to suit the needs of Amazon.
The old mall's 35-acre site would become a 5.4 million-square-foot office space surrounded by bike paths and green spaces with 680,000 square feet of retail spread throughout the would-be office campus. The developer's president Curtis Kossman submitted the revised plans to the Pittsburgh committee handling the Amazon bid last week."
Read the original story by The Chicago Tribune's E.K. Hudson
Now that Amazon's a thing, malls have to get creative to survive
Author: Patrick Kulp
Outlet: Mashable
A Gold's gym at a mall in West Covina, California. Source: Mashable
The malls that will survive into the future will be the ones that offer more than just retail. It will be crucial for mall operators to provide a variety of experiences and places that foster socialization. These malls, or lifestyle centers, can be achieved by reintegrating living, working, learning, playing – not only within the mall structures – but also through activation of the underutilized parking. Patrick Kulp of Mashable writes:
"Desperate to plug empty retail holes, mall owners are turning to less traditional businesses like gyms, grocery stores, and high-end restaurants to keep foot traffic flowing.
Some have even transformed parts of the buildings into office parks, medical facilities, or homes.
The new trend raises the question: What even is a mall anymore?
According to CBL & Associates, modern malls need to be "vibrant town centers," replete with lifestyle and entertainment options beyond simple retail. The property group announced a rebrand of its own 113 spaces to this effect on Thursday.
The idea is to preserve the function that malls once served as a suburban social institution for a generation that may not even know what a "mall rat" is."
Read more about reenergizing malls through Sprawl Repair.
When Lincoln Square was iconic
Author: Andrew Dunham
Outlet: Smile Politely
In 1964, when nine square blocks of historic homes and businesses were demolished for the construction of the shopping center and accompanying parking lot, Urbana was optimistic about the shopping center, hoping that it would revitalize its downtown area.
The Champaign-Urbana community is facing many challenges while seeking an elusive solution for the "dead" Lincoln Square Mall in Downtown Urbana. Designed in 1964 by Victor Gruen, and now designated historic and protected from demolition, few options are available. The solution lies in adaptive reuse that should aim for a variety of uses designed to spur innovation, excitement and foot traffic.
"In 2004, a plan to reintegrate Lincoln Square back into the downtown and redevelop the building with apartments, open space, and offices fell through. That same year it and the adjoining hotel were listed on the National Register of Historic Places, preventing its demolition and forcing Urbana to work around it when trying to revitalize its downtown. Thirteen years later, its future is still up in the air as Carle and Health Alliance recently announce that they are leaving the complex. Various plans to introduce apartments and modern retail space to the area have been proposed, but none have come close to fruition."
Singapore needs to reinvent retail scene
Author: Wendy Low, Caleb Hong
Outlet: The Business Times
The retail meltdown due to online competition and an overabundance of physical stores is now being experience world-wide. Retailers intent on survival will need to be lean, flexible and creative to stay competitive. But it will require more than just department store chains to participate in finding solutions for failing malls.
"STB assistant chief executive Lynette Pang once said: "In today's fast-changing tourism and consumer landscape, we cannot stay still." It is therefore crucial for landlords, retailers and relevant government agencies to think "out of the box" to allow new brands and exciting concepts to flourish and take shape.
Increasingly, the experiential factor is key in making a difference to Singapore's retail scene. Shopping malls can reinvent themselves with unique experiential retail spaces that set them apart from the mainstream. For example, the opening of Jewel Changi Airport in early 2019 will distinguish itself as home to Singapore's largest indoor garden and the world's largest indoor waterfall, featuring a light and sound show every night to enable visitors to shop, dine and play in one place. The new Funan DigitaLife Mall, set to open by end-2019, will be the first commercial building in Singapore to allow cycling through the building, and have rooftop farms that offer visitors a rest from the urban crowd.
With such unique and activity-based retail zones, landlords are better able to make their retail spaces break out of the homogeneity among retail malls.
Nordstrom Tries On a New Look: Stores Without Merchandise
Author: Suzanne Kapner
Outlet: The Wall Street Journal
Retail of the future may be more about experience than consumption. According to Suzanne Kapner of The Wall Street Journal, some stores will not even carry clothing:
Nordstrom Local, scheduled to open Oct. 3 in West Hollywood, Calif., will span 3,000 square feet, far less than the 140,000 square feet of one of Nordstrom's standard department stores.
"Shopping today may not always mean going to a store and looking at a vast amount of inventory," said Shea Jensen, Nordstrom's senior vice president of customer experience. "It can mean trusting an expert to pick out a selection of items."
According to Doug Stephens, founder of the consulting firm Retail Prophet, "Wall Street measures success by sales per square foot and other metrics that are becoming outdated in a world where shoppers still visit stores but increasingly make their purchases online. The economic model has to change"
Outdated malls and shopping centers will need to adapt to the changing retail climate. For additional information on Mall Retrofit concepts, check out this link to the Sprawl Repair Manual by Galina Tachieva.
Mall owners take a pay cut amid brick-and-mortar struggles
Author: Daphne Howland
Outlet: Retail Dive
Daphne Howland discusses a Wall Street Journal article by Peter Grant on declining compensation for mall owners due to a correction to the over-built retail environment and a result of the shift to e-commerce.
The Great Recession helped accelerate a natural correction, experts say. Last year, retail analyst Jan Kniffen, CEO of J. Rogers Kniffen Worldwide Enterprises, said that while America at the time had about 1,100 enclosed malls, that number should be around 700 — meaning that roughly a third are destined to close.
Those remaining will likely be robust, according to Nick Egelanian, president of retail development consultants SiteWorks International. "In a strange twist, however, the smaller number of malls that remain operating when the dust settles will become virtually indestructible by offering only best-in-class higher end merchandise in exclusive collections. We already know who the winners will be, and the vast majority are owned and operated by four REITs: Simon, Westfield, Macerich and GGP."
Incremental mall retrofits and sprawl repair can be the key to which malls succed.
Grocery Stores Move In On Suburban Locations
Author: Laura Hillen
Outlet: AndNowUKnow
The interior of Natick Mall, MA, the upcoming location of a new Wegmans store
Laura Hillen writes that grocery retailers are finding new homes as mall anchors in suburbia.
Due to declining foot traffic, many retailers are now preparing to close a large number of their stores. These closures are leaving empty mall spaces in their wake.
Food retail is one thing helping struggling malls survive," June Williamson, an architecture professor at the City College of New York, and Co-Author of Retrofitting Suburbia.
Williamson also stated that losing an anchor store and its lease payment can make it difficult for a mall's survival. However, malls are starting to focus on answering consumer needs apart from just clothing. As the consumer shopping experience continues to change, malls could prove a successful financial hub by offering food-related business.
Retrofits of existing malls can capitalize on proximity to infrastructure, housing, parking and public transportation. Grocers and other non-traditional mall uses, such as offices and health care, can benefit the entire region without the need to build from the ground up.
Why the Death of Malls Is About More Than Shopping
Author: Josh Sanburn
Outlet: Time
Josh Sanburn offers an historic perspective on American malls, and a glimpse into the future for malls and communities willing to invest in sprawl repair and place-making. Learn more about Sprawl Repair Manual by Galina Tachieva.
Local jobs are a major casualty of what analysts are calling, with only a hint of hyperbole, the retail apocalypse. By 2022, analysts estimate that 1 out of every 4 malls in the U.S. could be out of business, victims of changing tastes, a widening wealth gap and the embrace of online shopping for everything from socks to swing sets.
Local jobs are a major casualty of what analysts are calling, with only a hint of hyperbole, the retail apocalypse.
In the 61 years since the first enclosed one opened in suburban Minneapolis, the shopping mall has been where a huge swath of middle-class America went for far more than shopping. But for better or worse, the mall has been America's public square for the last 60 years.
Some of the great mall die-off is what economists refer to as a market correction. "We are over-retailed," says Ronald Friedman, a partner at Marcum LLP, which researches consumer trends. There is an estimated 26 sq. ft. of retail for every person in the U.S., compared with about 2.5 sq. ft. per capita in Europe. Roughly 60% of Macy's stores slated to close are within 10 miles of another Macy's.
Some ailing malls have already moved on to a second life. Austin Community College in Texas purchased Highland Mall in 2012 and converted part of it into a tech-driven learning lab and library. In Nashville, Vanderbilt University Medical Center moved into the second floor of the 100 Oaks Mall a few miles from downtown. The Southland Christian Church in Lexington, Ky., bought their nearby mall and transformed part of it into an auditorium.
It also turns out that not everyone wants to spend their leisure time inside. Many of the new, millennial-focused malls are indoor/outdoor complexes designed as one cog of a suburban town center that includes apartments and office space … a magnet for millennials who are leaving downtowns for the suburbs but still want to live in a dense, walkable community.
There are still about 1,100 malls in the U.S. today, but a quarter of them are at risk of closing over the next five years, according to estimates from Credit Suisse.
Sears to close 43 more stores to cut costs
Outlet: Reuters, Business
A Sears department store is pictured in La Jolla, California, U.S., March 22, 2017.
REUTERS/MIKE BLAKE
"Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD.O) is closing eight of its namesake department stores and 35 Kmart locations to cut costs and square footage in an effort to return to profitability, Chief Executive Officer Eddie Lampert said on Friday. The store closings are in addition to 150 the company announced in January.
"This is part of a strategy both to address losses from unprofitable stores and to reduce the square footage of other stores because many of them are simply too big for our current needs."
As anchor tenants like Sears retreat, smaller adjacent retailers will suffer from reduced foot traffic. Where possible, increasing density utilizing Sprawl Repair techniques can return jobs and tax revenue to communities.
What to do with dead malls?
Author: Anson Burtch
Outlet: Renaissance Planning
Anson Burtch writes about the escalating "retail apocalypse", and successful options for the failing model of enclosed retail space surrounded by acres of parking.
"From a land-use perspective, dead malls are full of possibility. They occupy large swaths of often valuable land at crossroads or central locations with access to public transit and highways. When they were originally built, the land was frequently at the growing edges of suburbia but has since grown considerably in value by virtue of surrounding development and transportation improvements. This makes even dead malls valuable "land banking" assets for their owners. In addition, the considerable volume of unencumbered raw space that is found in a typical anchor store makes them quite flexible for adaptive reuse. The desire and attention to revitalizing these areas has become a top priority and focus for local governments."
"Luckily there are many options for revitalizing these properties. Remodeling as mixed-use developments has proven successful in many instances, and even more so when tied into transit systems. Other times finding unique tenants such as local governments, hospital systems, or libraries makes profitable and efficient use of the space. With a little creativity and a lot of willpower, communities can turn a potential unproductive eyesore into opportunity."
Find tools for mall retrofits and more, in the Sprawl Repair Manual.
Brick & mortar vs. Amazon: Mall stores getting Amazonned into deep doo-doo
Author: Don Bauder
Outlet: San Diego Reader - City Lights
Horton Plaza. Important retailers started deserting it not long after it opened. A huge part of it has been ripped down.
The need to retrofit failing malls is becoming ever more urgent:
"On May 31, the big bank Credit Suisse predicted that 25 percent of malls would be gone in the next five years. Earlier forecasts had also been dire, and results prove them to have been accurate. Malls used to be anchored by big department stores — Sears, JCPenney, Macy's, and the like.
All are now in deep doo-doo and closing stores, upsetting the malls that relied upon them as consumer draws and sources of revenue. The smaller mall stores, which pay higher rent per square foot than the anchors, are having trouble, further biting into mall revenue and traffic."
Commentary: The mall is dead — long live the mall
Author: Michael Joe Murphy, Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board
Outlet: Orlando Sentinel
Jun 20, 2017: Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board spoke to Joshua Harris, director of the Dr. P. Phillips Institute for Research and Education in Real Estate at the University of Central Florida, to ask about malls:
"Q: Did shopping malls ever serve a purpose in society, beyond retailing? What changed, if anything?
A: Shopping malls became the de facto "town square" during the suburban development boom of the '70s and '80s. They were the place to go, hang out and be seen. Thus, the urban resurgence that began in the late '90s, and really intensified in the past 10 years, has taken the "town square" back to the more natural walkable, urban environment. Places like Winter Park, Winter Garden, Thornton Park and now even Baldwin Park (close to 95 percent leased after suffering massive problems during the recession) are all the "hot" places to go on a Friday or Saturday. In reality, history will show that the suburban mall was the aberration, driven by urban decay and rising crime. With urban renewal and major declines in crime, the mall does not fit as well as it did for those few decades. There will be life for existing malls, but likely after being repurposed and designed to feel more like town centers."
Where logical transportation and community infrastructure already exists, sprawl repair techniques can be used to add residential, office, entertainment, and public open space to spur an entire region with new, walkable Town Centers.
The Mall of the Future Will Have No Stores
Author: Esther Fung
PHOTO: FORD LAND At Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Mich., Starwood Capital brought in Ford, which converted a former department store into a workspace for its engineering and purchasing staff.
Shopping-center landlords are rethinking the traditional mall model—and shops aren't necessarily part of the equation.
As retailers close bricks-and-mortar stores at an accelerating pace, shopping-center landlords like Starwood Capital are facing a vexing question: What to do with all this empty space?
Some landlords plug empty spaces with churches, for-profit schools and random enterprises while they figure out a long-term plan. Others see a future in mixed-use real estate, converting malls into streetscapes with restaurants, offices and housing. And some are razing properties altogether and turning them into entertainment or industrial parks.
'Many mall owners are trying to liven up the experience, bringing more dining and entertainment tenants and eschewing the traditional mix.'
Can Australia avoid the death of local malls?
Author: Jason Murphy
Outlet: News.com.au
Abandoned Malls by Seph Lawless-Source-Supplied
As Amazon nears offering service to Australia, Economist Jason Murphy hopes Australian malls can avoid the current American syndrome of dying malls. He offers the following suggestions that can also offer hope for our American malls through Sprawl Repair and Retrofit:
"Number one is probably to reduce their reliance on risky "anchor tenants". Coles, Woolies, Target and Big W are shopping centre stalwarts, but none of them is certain to still be succeeding in a decade's time. One or all of them could find the going a lot tougher in a world where Amazon is trying to win over our wallets.
The next big idea for shopping centres is to offer experiences not just goods. Amazon sells stuff you can get delivered to your door. But experiences — haircuts, manicures and massages; meals, coffees and movies — are still things people want to meet in person for."
By increasing density and diversifying uses, dying malls can become innovative employment and social hubs that enrich the surrounding neighborhoods.
Regency's retrofit: A model for Chesterfield?
Author: RICH GRISET STAFF WRITER
Outlet: Chesterfield Observer
Regency Square Mall in Richmond, Virginia is undergoing what's called a suburban retrofit, a term used for taking aging malls, office parks and other suburban properties and transforming them into more sustainable, urban and mixed-use developments.
Both Regency Square and Chesterfield Towne Center opened in 1975 (back then the latter was the Chesterfield Mall), and the rejuvenation of Regency Square may offer a blueprint for Chesterfield Towne Center in the years to come.
Robert Gibbs, president of Gibbs Planning Group and author of the book "Principles of Urban Retail Planning and Development," says Regency Square's strategy may prove successful.
"I have seen those kinds of conversions work," Gibbs says. "It's when they turn the mall inside out and put the internal stores on the street."
As department stores like Macy's and Sears continue to struggle, Gibbs says the future is grim for the majority of America's suburban malls.
"There's about 2,000 of them, and we estimate that about 1,500 of them will close in the next five years, and that's because they're depending on department stores to stay open," Gibbs says. "Without the department stores, it's really hard to get people to go inside the mall."
That said, Gibbs says malls in good locations can "right-size," reducing their retail square footage and bringing in housing, entertainment and office space to create a walkable development where people can live, work and enjoy themselves.
Regency Square Mall, which opened in 1975 in Richmond, Virginia, is undergoing what's called a suburban retrofit, a term used for taking aging malls, office parks and other suburban properties and transforming them into more sustainable, urban and mixed-use developments.
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A recent mediation about russian cuisine took me further than I expected.
Yes, because Russia is so diverse that it felt totally natural to just leap from Blinis, Kasha and Beef à la Stroganov to stranger food like Mampar, Shakarob and Samarkand's Plov.
In fact, every foreigner who has spent some time in Russia has included a visit to a Georgian restaurant in his or her exciting few days.
I recall exchanging tips with other fellow visitors to the country about the best places to enjoy a Khachapuri, Pkhali or eggplant rolls, only to end up daring more, exploring the riches of Armenian and Azerbaijani food.
Most of these cuisines have common traits, like the preponderance of meat or certain spices, some of their recipes have become so common in Russian diet that you may well enjoy shashlyk, skewered meat, anywhere in Russia, especially in summer barbecues, without the cook being too proud for cooking something out of the ordinary.
Our journey will begin with Uzbek cuisine which we got to know a little, we will crave some of Armenia's culinary treasures, we will eventually jump into the world of Georgian fine dining.


Being a parent advocate for any child is an important part of the world of parenting. Then, add into the mix, being an autism advocate each and every day while living in the moment. This is my world, and while I would never change a thing, it can be challenging and overwhelming at times. Over the last year, I have learned how to use my voice to more effectively communicate with the individuals that work with my son. The team that works with him listens to me and knows that I will back them up and be as patient as possible.
Before I knew it, I was pulling out my ears, sharing a photo, and debating this.
For ten minutes, I debated what to do. Then I felt the tension in the house as we left toward school and put my ears on. First, I wanted to see if the boys would notice. They did, mostly because my depth perception getting into the car with said sparkle ears was a bit off. Ooops!
As we walked into school, I was smiling and less nervous. The kids and I had fun seeing the reactions of a parent in New York walking into a school with Minnie Mouse ears.
The best part was keeping a straight face and acting like I was doing nothing out of the ordinary. Seriously, it was therapeutic. Yes, my Minnie ears gave me laughs and brought me smiles as I was heading into a meeting.
When asked why I was wearing them, I admitted it was to make me laugh so I wouldn't cry. The reality was this little bit of Disney sparkle and magic helped me through this autism moment. You see, Disney reminds me of a place where I know my son can be who he is without the stresses of every day life. He can be happy, we can all be kids at heart with less worries, and most people do not judge. That is magic and sometimes you just have to bring that little bit of Disney home with you and use it when you need it.
Oh and a special little thank you to Emily, your post yesterday made me think of wearing my ears today.
I'm so glad you did choose to wear the ears! I hope it helped you!


Do they ask for money?
If they ask for money then you should exercise extreme caution. Who would ask for money from a stranger? Think about it!
Are they in another country?
This may not be a problem. But sometimes it can be a sign of a scam if you are contacted first.
Maybe you send them letters and emails asking them questions. Do they answer your questions or do their replies seem to be generalised?
Guys: does she look like a model?
If your potential suitor looks like a model the chances are that a scammer is using a stolen photo and contacting you.
Ladies: did he fall in love with you amazingly quickly?
If the man seems to be falling in love very quickly and you haven't even met in real life then this is a red flag.
Just because you've been exchanging letters back and forth for 1 or 2 months doesn't mean that you're not corresponding with a scammer. These people do this for a living and time doesn't matter to them.


As part of The Schoolhouse Review Crew I received Teaching the Classics from Institute for Excellence in Writing to review.
The Institute for Excellence in Write (IEW) offers literature, writing, spelling and grammar products for students of all ages.
Teaching the Classics A Socratic Method for Literary Education is a literature seminar for parents and teachers. You can view video excerpts, and sample pages on the website. Teaching the Classics educates the teacher in how to teach literary analysis to their students. Students can work through the seminar at the same time as the teachers, if the teacher chooses to do it that way. I watched the videos, and worked in the workbook myself.
Teaching the Classics is amazing! No literature courses that I ever took taught how to analyze characters, plots, and themes like Teaching the Classics did. The DVDs show the instructor, Adam Andrews, in an actual seminar. So he is standing at a podium and whiteboard the whole time. He ask questions of those attending the seminar, and they ask him questions, also. Many times, someone in the seminar would ask a question that I had, also. So even though your watching the seminar on dvd, it's like you are there, too.
As he is talking, and showing examples on the white board, you can follow along in the workbook. Poems are included in the lessons in the workbook. You will have to purchase the books to use them with the course. I already have most of the books used in the course. Or better yet, just use the library! All of the books used are common books that should be available in all libraries.
The seminar starts with the Five Elements of Fiction: Setting, Characters, Theme, Plot, and Conflict. Literary Style is then covered, including terms such as imagery, allusion, metaphor, simile, and foreshadowing. The instructor actually takes you through analyzing several poems and books during the seminar. Once you learn the Teaching the Classics method for studying literature, you can apply the techniques to any books you and your students read, from children's books to novels, and anything in between.
Some of the books, poems, and authors covered are Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride, Peter Rabbit, Tom Sawyer, and Casey at Bat. There is a daily lesson plan guideline to help you get started using Teaching the Classics with your students. As well as, book lists, printable story charts, and more. There is a Scope & Sequence included, which lists 10 weekly lessons Also included in the back of the workbook is The Socratic List. The Socratic List is a list of 21 questions that can be used with any book you are reading. Each one of these 21 questions has additional questions under it, some with as many as 17 questions. For example, the first question is Where does the story take place? There are then 10 questions below that question to be answered covering everything from the country, city, atmosphere, economic class, and any historical events that have taken place there. This is a very thorough list of questions that will take some time to get through for each book. These are not simple comprehension questions, but questions designed to help the reader get inside the characters and story.
I was very impressed with Teaching the Classics. Now that I have learned the techniques, I plan on using them with my students.
Teaching the Classics 4 DVD Seminar & Workbook sells for $89. on the IEW website. Extra workbooks are available for $29. There are also many free resources on the website.


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Yahoo proposes new Internet anti-spam structure: Good thing this is Yahoo!, because it's going to take a big company to pull this off. They're apparently going to open-source it.
Under Yahoo's new architecture, a system sending an e-mail message would embed a secure, private key in a message header. The receiving system would check the Internet's Domain Name System for the public key registered to the sending domain.
If the public key is able to decrypt the private key embedded in the message, then the e-mail is considered authentic and can be delivered. If not, then the message is assumed not to be an authentic one from the sender and is blocked.


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Con l'espressione processo alle streghe di Triora si intende un procedimento giudiziario svoltosi nell'omonima località ligure tra il 1587 e il 1589 in cui alcune donne vennero accusate di essere artefici di una carestia perdurante .

In memoria di questi avvenimenti è stata istituita una festa dedicata alla stregoneria chiamata Strigora che si svolge nell'antico borgo di Triora ogni anno la prima domenica dopo Ferragosto.

Il processo
All'epoca dei fatti, Triora era un borgo fortificato al centro di intensi traffici commerciali tra il Piemonte, la costa e la vicinissima Francia. Politicamente dipendeva dalla Repubblica di Genova, di cui era podesteria, difesa da ben cinque fortezze. Da circa due anni, il comune soffriva a causa di una terribile carestia: ma probabilmente quel periodo di magra era stato in parte determinato da una manovra economica dei proprietari terrieri: Il popolo tuttavia individuò quale capro espiatorio alcune donne del villaggio.

Nell'ottobre del 1587 il Parlamento locale, durante una seduta, chiese alle autorità civili e religiose di intervenire contro le presunte streghe; arrivarono così il vicario dell'Inquisitore di Genova e il vicario dell'inquisitore di Albenga, il sacerdote Girolamo del Pozzo, che sosteneva fermamente la presenza del maligno. Durante la celebrazione della messa, al momento della predica, il sacerdote chiese ai parrocchiani di denunciare le streghe. Vennero così arrestate venti donne che, a causa delle denunce estorte con torture, divennero presto trenta. Tra di loro tredici donne, quattro ragazze e un fanciullo si dichiararono rei confessi. Alcune case private furono trasformate in carceri, la più famosa delle quali fu casa del Megia, oggi nominata Ca' de baggiure (Casa delle streghe). In pochissimo tempo avvennero le prime morti: Isotta Stella, una sessantenne di nobile famiglia, morì per le torture subite, un'altra donna invece si gettò dalla finestra.

A seguito di queste tragedie e del clima di terrore che si era venuto a creare, al processo intervenne anche il Consiglio degli Anziani, che il 13 gennaio 1588 chiese agli Inquisitori di procedere con maggior cautela; vi erano tra le trenta donne infatti alcune persone nobili e influenti nella comunità. Dopo alcune indagini si convenne che la morte di Isotta Stella fu determinata dalle torture subite, ma il fatto della donna gettatasi dalla finestra fu spiegato come atto del maligno: "...una notte tentata dal diavolo procurò la fuga con guastore una sua veste che aveva indisso et accomodarla a guisa di benda, ma non l'essendo cascò subito che fu fuori dalla finestra" e la richiesta del Consiglio di una revisione del modo di procedere restò inascoltata dal Parlamento.

Dopo breve tempo il governo genovese si mise in moto e nei primi giorni di maggio del 1588 arrivò l'Inquisitore Capo il quale visitò le carceri, ma dispose la scarcerazione di una sola ragazzina di tredici anni. Un mese dopo, in giugno, Genova mandò un commissario di nome Giulio Scribani o De Scribani che inasprì il clima di terrore trasferendo le donne incarcerate a Genova e facendo di tutto per trovare altre nuove streghe. Le accuse rivolte alle sospettate furono: reato contro Dio, commercio con il demonio, omicidio di donne e bambini. Cominciarono nuovi interrogatori e supplizi, cui erano sottoposti sempre degli innocenti. Questa persecuzione si estese anche ai paesi vicini come Castel Vittorio e Sanremo, ove ebbero inizio altre cacce alle streghe.

De Scribani chiese il supplizio del rogo per quattro donne, il governo però tentennò e domandò aiuto a Serafino Petrozzi; quest'ultimo affermò che la confessione non avallava l'accusa. Così obbligarono il De Scribani a produrre altre prove e questi rispose che avrebbe avuto bisogno di tempo per le indagini, dato che i delitti erano avvenuti molto tempo prima e ormai era difficile accertarli. Rifece comunque i processi e il 30 agosto confermò la condanna a morte per stregoneria. Ad affiancare Petrozzi arrivarono altri due giudici: Pietro Alaria Caracciolo e Giuseppe Torre e tutti e tre confermarono la condanna a morte sul rogo. Tra i condannati vi furono Pierina di Badalucco e Gentile di Castel Vittorio.

Poco prima dell'esecuzione della condanna arrivò il Padre Inquisitore di Genova, unico rappresentante dell'Inquisizione di Roma e solo con il potere di giudicare i fatti e i crimini inerenti alla stregoneria, dopo il suo intervento nell'ottobre del 1588, le condannate vennero inviate a Genova dove già si trovavano rinchiuse le prime tredici streghe. Poco dopo il doge genovese Davide Vacca inoltrò al Santo Uffizio due richieste di mettere fine al processo. Finalmente, al 23 aprile del 1589 il tragico processo alle streghe venne terminato. Non si sa esattamente che fine abbiano fatto le donne incarcerate a Genova ma è probabile che - come sostenuto da alcuni storici - furono lasciate libere.

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Voci correlate
 Museo regionale etnografico e della stregoneria (Triora)

Bibliografia

 "Cronaca del processo alle streghe del 1587", di Ippolito Edmondo Ferraio, da I segreti di Triora, Mursia Editore, 2010, Milano.
 "I luoghi delle streghe a Triora", di Ippolito Edmondo Ferraio, da I segreti di Triora, Mursia Editore, 2010, Milano.
 "La Causa delle Streghe di Triora - I documenti dei processi 1587 – 1618", di AA.VV., Pro Triora Editore

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Decision 2020: 14 Southern U.S. Senate seats on November ballot, with 4 possible flips
September 11, 2020 4:13 pm / Leave a comment
Races in North Carolina, Alabama on national radar; Lindsey Graham faces stiff challenge in South Carolina
Fourteen Southern U.S. Senate seats will be on the ballot in November, putting half of the South's seats in play with control of the chamber very much up for grabs.
Of these seats, one presents a likely pickup opportunity for Republicans, while three Republican incumbents are facing stiff challenges. Three other seats are somewhat competitive but with incumbents still favored, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's race in Kentucky.
Five senators — four Republicans and one Democrat — are cruising toward re-election, with Republicans also likely to keep an open seat in Tennessee. A special election in Georgia with candidates from both parties running in the same race is a wild card that will be difficult to predict — and could potentially decide which part controls the Senate when the dust clears.
Here is your guide to the 2020 Southern Senate races.
Possible Flips
1. Alabama: U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D) vs. Tommy Tuberville (R)
Jones has had a target on his back since he won a special election in 2017 over Republican Roy Moore, whose candidacy imploded in a sex scandal. Jones was the first Democrat elected to a Senate seat in the Yellowhammer State since 1992; his vote to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial has put his continued tenure in jeopardy. Tuberville, the former head football coach at Auburn University, is making his political debut, impressively taking out a field of prominent Republicans in the primary, including Jeff Sessions, who held this seat for 20 years before leaving to join the Trump administration. If Jones somehow manages to hang on, it will be perhaps the biggest surprise on election night.
2. North Carolina: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R) vs. Cal Cunningham (D)
Cunningham, an attorney who served a single term in the legislature 20 years ago and made an unsuccessful Senate bid in 2010, was recruited by Democratic leaders in Washington to run against Tillis, who is seeking a second term after ousting former Democratic Senator Kay Hagin in 2014. This seat was once held by Jesse Helms, and no one has managed to win a second term since he gave it up in 2002. Cunningham has raised $15 million, slightly more than Tillis, and has led consistently in polls. The outcome of the presidential race in this battleground state may be key here. If Donald Trump wins, Tillis is likely to keep his seat as well; if he doesn't, Cunningham will be in the driver's seat.
3. South Carolina: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R) vs. Jaime Harrison (D)
Over the past four years, Graham has become one of Trump's biggest cheerleaders, after spending much of the 2016 campaign trashing him. That about-face spared him from the kind of primary challenge he had to beat back in 2014, but Harrison, a former state Democratic party chair, is hoping Graham's association with the president will turn off enough Palmetto State voters to put him over the top. Harrison has raised a staggering $30 million — an unheard of sum for a Democrat in South Carolina — to stay even with the incumbent in the money chase. While polling shows the race is competitive, Trump is expected to carry the state, and the universe of Trump-Harrison voters may be too small to flip this seat.
4. Georgia: U.S Senator David Perdue (R) vs. Jon Ossoff (D)
It's been a long time since Georgia has been competitive in a presidential or senatorial contest, but polling has shown Ossoff within striking distance of Perdue, who is seeking a second term. Ossoff built a national profile by raising more than $30 million for a special U.S. House election in 2017 that he narrowly lost. He hasn't raised anywhere near that kind of money this time around, and Perdue enjoys a 2-to-1 fundraising advantage. Democrats insist that the Peach State's changing demographics and an influx of newly energized, newly registered Democratic voters will lead to victory for Ossoff and Democratic nominee Joe Biden; Republicans scoff at such a scenario as delusional. If Biden makes a serious play for Georgia, it could help Ossoff; if Biden wins, Perdue will need to run ahead of Trump to survive.
Less Competitive
1. Texas: U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R) vs. MJ Hegar (D)
Democrats had high hopes for flipping this seat, particularly after Beto O'Rourke nearly took out Ted Cruz in 2018. But O'Rourke passed on the Senate race to make a quixotic bid for president, and Hegar, a former military chopper pilot and Afghan war veteran who lost a House race in 2018, had to spend time and money fighting her way through a primary runoff. Cornyn entered the fall campaign with the benefit of incumbency and a huge financial advantage, in a state that hasn't sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1988. This could turn out to be a might-have-been race for Democrats — what might have been if O'Rouke had run instead.
2. Kentucky: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) vs. Amy McGrath (D)
Democratic leaders recruited McGrath for this race, enthused by her prodigious fundraising during an unsuccessful House race in 2018. But running against McConnell in Kentucky is a tall order, and she has not always seemed up to the task. Her campaign had an unsteady launch when she flipped positions on confirming Brett Kavanaugh, and she very nearly lost the Democratic primary after mishandling her response to racial justice protests that have roiled Louisville. After an uneven campaign, she decided change campaign managers in August, which is never a good sign. There's a reason Mitch McConnell has been a senator since 1985 — he is perhaps the wiliest politician of his generation. His tenure in Washington seems likely to endure.
3. Mississippi: U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) vs. former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy (D)
This race is a rematch of 2018, when Hyde-Smith beat Espy by 8 points in a special election runoff, running nearly 10 points behind what Trump did in 2016. Espy was encouraged enough by his showing to try to take her down again, hoping that the energy unleashed by social justice protests will galvanize black voters, who make up 37percent of the state's electorate, the highest percentage in the country. However, if he couldn't beat Hyde-Smith in a lower turnout midterm election, beating her with the presidential election on the ballot, in a very pro-Trump state, is likely to be a tall order.
Georgia: U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler (R) vs. U.S. Rep. Doug Collins (R), Raphael Warnock (D) and Matt Lieberman (D)
In this special election to fill the seat vacated by Johnny Isakson, candidates from all parties run in the same race, with the top two vote-getters advancing to a December runoff. Loeffler is trying to keep this seat after being appointed to the post by Gov. Brian Kemp, who opted to pick the political newcomer instead of Collins, one of Trump's biggest champions in the House. Collins defied the governor to run against Loeffler, splitting Peach State Republicans into two camps.
On the Democratic side, Warnock, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, has drawn support from the party establishment who see him as the best option to win the seat. But Lieberman, the son of former Connecticut U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, has resisted pressure to leave the race in favor of Warnock, and polls have shown him remaining competitive. If Warnock and Lieberman split the Democratic vote, it could clear the way for both Loeffler and Collins to meet in an all-GOP second round. If one Republican and one Democrat get through, the outcome of the race is likely to depend on who those two candidates are.
Shoo-Ins
Arkansas: U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R) faces no Democratic competition after the lone Democrat who qualified abruptly left the race. The only person standing between Cotton and re-election is Libertarian Ricky Harrington.
Tennessee: Republican Bill Hagerty, the former U.S. ambassador to Japan, has a much easier path to Washington after the Democrat recruited and financed by party leaders to challenge for the seat lost his primary. He will now face Marquita Bradshaw, an environmental activist from Memphis who harnessed grassroots support to win the primary.
West Virginia: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R) is not expected to have much trouble against Democrat Paula Jean Swearengin, an environmental activist who gained national exposure when her 2018 race against the state's other U.S. senator, Joe Manchin, was featured in the Netflix documentary "Knock Down The House."
Oklahoma: If U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R), as expected, wins a fifth full term over Democrat Abby Broyles, he will be 92 when this term ends in 2026. Broyles, a former TV reporter in Oklahoma City, has run a spirited campaign in which she's needled the senator for refusing to debate her.
Virginia: Giving the Old Dominion's increasingly Democratic tilt, U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D) is a clear favorite over Republican Daniel Gade, a former Army officer who was wounded in Iraq and now teaches at American University in Washington.
Louisiana: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R) is competing in a jungle primary in November and will face a runoff in December if he doesn't clear 50%. He avoided any major Republican opposition; the biggest Democratic name in the race is Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins.
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Decision '18: U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith wins special election runoff in Mississippi
November 28, 2018 7:43 pm / Leave a comment
Hyde-Smith, appointed to the seat in April, defeats Democrat Mike Espy
JACKSON, Mississippi (CFP) — After a racially charged three-week runoff campaign, Republican U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has held on to her seat in Mississippi, defeating Democrat Mike Espy in the nation's last remaining Senate contest.
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith
With Hyde-Smith's win, Republicans will hold 53 seats in the next Senate, to 45 for Democrats and two independents who caucus with the Democrats.
Hyde-Smith took 54 percent in the November 27 vote to 46 percent for Espy, a former congressman who was trying to make a return to politics after a 20-year absence. She is the first woman ever elected to the Senate from the Magnolia State.
"The reason we won is because Mississippians know me and they know my heart," Hyde-Smith told supporters in Jackson. "This victory, it's about our conservative values."
In his concession speech at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Espy told supports that his showing — the best by a Democrat in a Senate race in the state in 30 years — was "the beginning, not the end" of efforts to change Mississippi's politics.
"When this many people show up, when this many people stand up, when this many people speak up, it is not a loss. It is a moment," he said.
Hyde-Smith and Espy were facing in a special election to fill the remaining two years of the term of Republican Thad Cochran, the Mississippi icon who resigned in April due to ill health. She was appointed by Governor Phil Bryant to serve in the Senate temporarily until voters picked a permanent replacement in the special election.
During both the primary and special election, Hyde-Smith enjoyed the support of President Donald Trump, who tweeted on her behalf and made two appearances in the state on the day before the runoff vote.
Hyde-Smith, 59, from Brookhaven, was Mississippi's agriculture commissioner until being appointed to the Senate. She was originally elected to the state Senate in 2000 as a Democrat but switched parties in 2010.
Espy, 64, from Jackson, served three terms in the U.S. House before being picked by President Bill Clinton as agriculture secretary in 1993.
During the first round of voting November 6, Hyde-Smith and Espy tied at 41 percent, with another Republican in the race, State Senator Chris McDaniel, coming in third.
Given the state's overwhelming Republican tilt, Hyde-Smith was seen as a prohibitive favorite in the runoff. Indeed, McDaniel, who nearly beat Cochran in 2014, was seen as the biggest hurdle to her continued tenure in the Senate. However, she became ensnared in a series of controversies during the runoff campaign that gave Democrats hope for an upset.
Five days after the first election, a video surfaced in which Hyde-Smith is heard telling a supporter that if he invited her to a public hanging, she would be in the front row. She insisted the remark was a joke, but her critics charged it was a racially insensitive remark to make in a state with a history of lynchings of African-Americans.
During their only campaign debate, Hyde-Smith apologized "to anyone who was offended by my comments," insisting there was "no ill will" and that her record as senator and agriculture commissioner shows she harbors no racial animus.
"This comment was twisted, and it was turned into a weapon to be used against me — a political weapon used for nothing but personal, political gain by my opponent," she said.
Another video surfaced November 15 in which Hyde-Smith says it would be a "great idea" to make it more difficult for liberals to vote, which her campaign insisted was a joke made to supporters and not advocacy of voter suppression.
Then a week before the runoff, news organizations began reporting on a photo posted in 2014 on Hyde-Smith's Facebook account, where she is seen donning a Confederate cap and carrying a rifle while visiting Jefferson Davis's home in Biloxi.
The Jackson Free Press also reported that Hyde-Smith had attended a high school in the 1970s originally founded to allow white parents to avoid sending their children to segregated schools.
Hyde-Smith's campaign accused news organizations of practicing "gotcha" journalism in an attempt to paint her as a racist. But the controversies put race front and center in the campaign, in the state with the largest African-American population in the country.
The election results illustrated those racial divisions. Espy easily carried Jackson and the majority African-American counties in the Mississippi Delta; Hyde-Smith won lopsided victories in majority white areas — up to 80 percent in some counties in the northeastern and southeastern corners of the state.
With Hyde-Smith's victory, Republicans will hold 24 out of the 28 Senate seats in the South, to just four Democrats — Mark Warner and Tim Kaine in Virginia, Joe Manchin in West Virginia, and Doug Jones in Alabama.
Only one Senate seat changed hands in 2018 — in Florida, where Republican Governor Rick Scott defeated the Democratic incumbent, Bill Nelson.
Decision 18: Final U.S. Senate race will be decided in Mississippi Tuesday
Republican U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith tries to withstand controversies dogging her during the runoff with Democrat Mike Espy
JACKSON, Mississippi (CFP) — In the three weeks since the first round of voting in Mississippi's special U.S. Senate election, Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith has faced a barrage of negative headlines in the national media and apologized for making a joke about attending a public hanging.
Cindy Hyde-Smith in 2014 Facebook photo at Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis's home
And in a world where nothing on the internet ever goes away, a Facebook photo surfaced of Hyde-Smith — during a visit to the home of Jefferson Davis — wearing a Confederate cap, holding a rifle and calling the tableau "Mississippi history at its best."
All of this was too much for Wal-Mart, which asked for its campaign contribution back.
But the question to be answered in Tuesday's runoff is, will any of that be enough to allow her Democratic African-American opponent, Mike Espy, to defeat her in a bright red state where a Democrat hasn't won a Senate race in 36 years?
Or to overcome very visible support from President Donald Trump, who is making visits to Tupelo and Biloxi on election eve to rally the base for Hyde-Smith?
Hyde-Smith is facing Espy in a special election to fill the remaining two years of the term of Republican Thad Cochran, the Mississippi icon who resigned in April due to ill health. She was appointed by Governor Phil Bryant to serve in the Senate temporarily until voters pick a permanent replacement in the special election.
Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy
Espy, 64, from Jackson, served three terms in the U.S. House before being picked by President Bill Clinton as agriculture secretary in 1993. He resigned in 1994 amid allegations that he had received improper gifts. He was later acquitted of federal corruption charges.
Given the overwhelming Republican tilt of the Magnolia State, Hyde-Smith was seen as a prohibitive favorite in the runoff. Indeed, McDaniel, who nearly beat Cochran in 2014, was seen as the biggest hurdle to her continued tenure in the Senate.
However, a series of controversies that have dogged her since the first round of voting have given Democrats hope that they might replicate the success they had in Alabama in 2017, when Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore amid allegations of sexual impropriety.
First, five days after the election, a video surfaced in which Hyde-Smith is heard telling a supporter that if he invited her to a public hanging, she would be in the front row. She insisted the remark was a joke, but her critics charged it was a racially insensitive remark to make in a state with a history of lynchings of African-Americans.
Then a week before the runoff, news organizations began reporting a photo posted in 2014 on Hyde-Smith's Facebook account, where she is donning a Confederate cap and carrying a rifle at Davis's home in Biloxi.
The caption read: "I enjoyed my tour of Beauvoir. The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library located in Biloxi. This is a must see. Currently on display are artifacts connected to the daily life of the Confederate Soldier including weapons. Mississippi history at its best!"
Her campaign did not offer any comment in the photo. But a spokeswoman pushed back hard when the Jackson Free Press reported that Hyde-Smith had attended a high school in the 1970s originally founded to allow white parents to avoid sending their children to segregated schools. The story included photos of a teenage Hyde-Smith posing with her cheerleading pom-poms.
"In their latest attempt to help Mike Espy, the gotcha liberal media has taken leave of their senses," said spokeswoman Melissa Scallan. "They have stooped to a new low, attacking her entire family and trying to destroy her personally instead of focusing on the clear differences on the issues between Cindy Hyde-Smith and her far-left opponent."
What won't be clear until Tuesday is how much any of these controversies will affect the outcome of this race. Many white Mississippians of Hyde-Smith's generation attended so-called "segregation academies" when they were young. And wearing a Confederate cap has a different connotation in a place where the state flag still contains the Confederate battle emblem than it does in media and political circles in Washington or New York.
Also, none of the controversies dogging Hyde-Smith comes anywhere close to the situation in Alabama, where Moore was accused of sexual misconduct with underage girls, which he denied.
Mississippi has the largest percentage of African-American residents of any state, 37 percent. So the result of the runoff will likely hinge on the turnout among African-American voters, who are expected to go Democratic in large numbers.
If African-Americans make up 30 percent of the electorate Tuesday, as they did in the first round of voting, Espy would need about a third of the white vote to get to a majority. If they make up 35 percent, he would need about a quarter of the white vote.
Decision '18: Democrats fail to make major breakthrough in the South
November 7, 2018 2:45 am / Leave a comment
Republicans sweep U.S. Senate and governor's races; Democrats make a net gain of at least 9 seats in the U.S. House
(CFP) — The big, blue wave that Democrats hoped would carry them to a breakthrough in the South crashed into the Republican's big, red wall in Tuesday's midterm elections.
Republicans won the high-profile governor's race in Florida and held a lead in Georgia, easily defended U.S. Senate seats in Texas and Tennessee and appear to have ousted Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson in Florida.
Joe Manchin
The lone bright spot for Democrats in statewide races was in West Virginia, where U.S. Senator Joe Manchin held his seat.
Democrats did flip at least nine Republican-held U.S. House seats, ousting three incumbents in Virginia and winning a seat in South Carolina and another in Oklahoma that they had not won in more than 40 years. Three seats are still too close to call, with Republicans leading in two of them.
However, Republicans carried two-thirds of the 30 seats that Democrats had targeted across the region, including seven seats in Florida and Kentucky's 6th District, where Democrat Amy McGrath failed to oust U.S. Rep. Andy Barr despite spending $7.8 million dollars.
Ron DeSantis
Republicans won all nine of the governor's races in the South, including Florida, where Republican former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis defeated Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, and Georgia, where Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp was leading former State Rep. Stacey Abrams by 60,000 votes with some mail-in ballots left to be counted.
Abrams has refused to concede.
"Votes remain to be counted. Voices waiting to be heard," she told supporters early Wednesday morning. "We are going to make sure that every vote is counted because in a civilized nation, the machinery of democracy should work everywhere for everyone."
Gillum and Abrams were hoping to become the first African-American governor in their respective states and end 20-year droughts in the governor's office.
In addition to victories in Florida and Georgia, Republican governors were re-elected in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama and South Carolina, and GOP candidates kept open seats in Tennessee and Oklahoma.
Of the seven U.S. Southern Senate races, Republicans won four and the Democrats two, with one race in Mississippi heading to a November runoff, which amounts to a net gain of one seat for the GOP.
The most high-profile race was in Texas, where Democratic U.S. Senator Beto O'Rourke ran a spirited race to try to oust Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. But in the end, Cruz won 51 percent of the vote to 48 percent for O'Rourke.
In Florida, Republican Governor Rick Scott defeated Nelson, who was trying for his fourth term. Scott's win means that Florida will have two Republican senators for the first time in 100 years.
Republicans also defended a seat in Mississippi, where U.S. Senator Roger Wicker won easily, and in Tennessee, where Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn defeated Democratic former Governor Phil Bredesen by an surprisingly large 55 percent to 44 percent margin.
In Virginia, Democratic U.S. Senator Tim Kaine won 57 percent to 41 percent for Republican Corey Stewart.
In a special election in Mississippi to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, Cochran's temporary replacement in the Senate, advanced to a November 27 runoff against Democrat Mike Espy, a former congressman who served as agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration.
Hyde-Smith and Smith both came in at 41 percent,short of the majority they needed to avoid a runoff. Republican State Senator Chris McDaniel came in third at 17 percent.
In the U.S. House races, the most high-profile casualty was 11-term Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, who lost his Dallas-area House seat to Colin Allred, an attorney and former NFL player.
Other Republican U.S. House losers were Dave Brat in the suburbs of Richmond; John Culberson in Houston; Barbara Comstock in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.; Carols Curbelo in Miami; and Scott Taylor, in the Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia.
In Miami, Democrat Donna Shalala, who served as health secretary in Bill Clinton's administration, won an open seat that had been held for 30 years by retiring U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Two of the night's biggest surprises came in Oklahoma City, where Republican Steve Russell was defeated by Democratic newcomer Kendra Horn, and in the Low Country of South Carolina, Democrat Joe Cunningham held a slender lead over Republican State Rep. Katie Arrington, who had ousted the incumbent, U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, in the Republican primary.
Republican incumbent Rob Woodall led by 4,000 votes in the Atlanta suburbs, and in the Charlotte area, Republican Mark Harris held a small lead over Democrat Dan McCready.
The news was not as good for Karen Handel in suburban Atlanta, who trailed her Democratic challenger, Lucy McBath, by 2,100 votes after all of the precincts had reported.
Handel won that seat just last year in a special election that became the most expensive House race in U.S. history, in which more than $50 million was spent.
Election Preview: Four Southern U.S. Senate races are key in battle for control
November 4, 2018 11:57 pm / Leave a comment
Republicans are defending seats in Texas and Tennessee; Democrats in Florida and West Virginia
(CFP) — With the balance of power in the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance, voters in four Southern states will decide hotly contested races in Tuesday's midterm elections.
Republicans are defending seats in Texas and Tennessee that have turned out to be much more competitive than expected in two very Republican states. Meanwhile, Democratic incumbents are defending turf in Florida and West Virginia, states which President Donald Trump carried in 2016.
Another Senate seat is up in Virginia, where Democratic U.S. Senator Tim Kaine is favored to win re-election. Both seats are up this year in Mississippi, and Republican candidates are favored to hold both.
In Texas, Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is seeking a second term against Democratic U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a race in which the challenger has sparked the imagination of Democratic activists around the country.
Cruz, who came in second to Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, was heavily favored for re-election at the beginning of 2018. But O'Rourke — trying to take advantage of a changing political electorate in fast-growing Texas, including more younger and Latino voters — has made the race competitive, even though Texas hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate in 30 years.
O'Rouke has raised more than $70 million for the race, the largest haul of any Senate candidate this cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records. Cruz has raised $40 million.
Despite Cruz's often contentious relationship with Trump during the 2016 presidential primaries, which famously included Trump dubbing him "Lyin' Ted," the president has gone all out for Cruz in this race, even traveling to Houston for a campaign rally.
In Tennessee, Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is vying with former Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen for a seat which opened after the retirement of U.S. Senator Bob Corker, one of Trump's strongest critics in Congress.
After first rebuffing calls for him to run after Corker announced he was leaving the Senate, Bredesen changed course last December and jumped into the race, giving Volunteer State Democrats a shot at capturing the seat behind the candidacy of a popular two-term moderate.
But Blackburn has fought back by trying to tie Bredesen to national Democratic leaders who are unpopular in Tennessee, in particular Hillary Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Republicans currently have a slim one-vote majority in the Senate. However, because Democrats are defending more seats this cycle than Republicans, it is unlikely they can capture a Senate majority — and depose Kentucky's Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader — without winning in either Texas and Tennessee.
In Florida, Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson is facing off against Republican Governor Rick Scott, who has served as the Sunshine State's chief executive for the past eight years.
Nelson, who first arrived in Congress during the Carter administration, is a proven vote-getter seeking his fourth term. Scott's two wins for governor were narrow, although his approval ratings have ticked up during the final year of his administration.
Florida is more evenly divided than either Texas or Tennessee, generally sending one senator from each party to Washington since the 1980s. Trump's win in Florida in 2016 was by a single point, compared to a 9-point win in Texas and a 26-point win in Tennessee.
In West Virginia, Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin was seen as particularly vulnerable given Trump's 40-point win in the Mountaineer State. But Machin kept himself in contention by avoiding criticism of the president and supporting him on a number of high-profile issues, including both of Trump's Supreme Court picks.
Manchin may have also benefited from the Republicans' selection of a standard-bearer — State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who grew up in New Jersey, has only lived in West Virginia since 2006 and spent nearly a decade as a Washington lobbyist.
The folksy Manchin, a West Virginia native who served as governor before being elected to the Senate, has made much of that contrast. Morrisey has responded much the way Blackburn has in Tennessee — by trying to tie the incumbent to liberal establishment Democrats.
In Mississippi, both Senate seats are up this year due to the retirement of former U.S. Senator Thad Cochran. One race is a special election to fill the remainder of Cochran's term; the other is for the seat occupied by Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker.
While Wicker is heavily favored over his Democratic challenger, State House Minority Leader David Baria, the special election features a three-way race in which candidates from all parties will compete and a runoff held between the top two vote-getters if no one captures a majority.
The special election is a three-way contest between Republican U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Cochran's temporary replacement; Republican State Senator Chris McDaniel, who lost a bitter primary against Cochran in 2014; and Democrat Mike Espy, a former congressman who served as secretary of agriculture in the Clinton administration.
Depending on how evenly the Republican vote is divided, the top GOP candidate could face Espy in a November 27 runoff. But polls have showed Hyde-Smith with a wide lead over McDaniel, which could be enough for her to win the seat outright on Tuesday.
Although McDaniel was a vocal supporter of Trump in 2016, the president snubbed McDaniel and endorsed Hyde-Smith, who had been a Democrat until 2010. McDaniel has charged that Trump was "forced" into making the endorsement by Senate Republican leaders.
In Virginia, Kaine is facing Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, who served as Trump's Virginia coordinator in 2016.
When he kicked off his campaign in July 2017, Stewart vowed to "run the most vicious, ruthless campaign" that he could against Kaine. However, public polling in the race has shown that strategy has failed to gain traction, and Kaine enjoys a wide lead.
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Live in the Reno/Sparks area or visiting for the weekend? Want to meet some Libertarians? Come on down! This event's topic will be on Alternative Sentencing - we will be joined by a guest speaker who will describe how 2013's SB101 has affected prosecutorial discretion and what you can do about it.


Flies are one of the most commonly encountered pests around the globe. Nuisance pests in most situations, flies can also represent a serious health threat as they are capable of transmitting numerous communicable diseases. Flies vary greatly in size. Tabanids can be up to 1 inch long, while drosophilid flies are only 1/8 – inch long. Flies are identified by only having one pair of wings. Their hind wings are shrunken and modified into small, knobbed structures called halters, which function as stabilizers during flight. Flies undergo complete metamorphosis: egg, larvae, pupae and adult. Most flies associate themselves with decaying organic material.
Your goal when handling a pest problem in homes is the same as your livestock pest management goal - to maintain the health of the environment, people and animals.


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Actress Annabelle Stephenson is dating a photographer.
Updated On December 18, 2022 | Published By: Alisha Ghram
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Relationship Facts of Annabelle Stephenson
Annabelle Stephenson is having an affair.
What is the relationship of Annabelle Stephenson?
Annabelle Stephenson is in a relationship with Johny Vision. Johny is a photographer.
They are together for a long time and are also seen together arriving in different ceremonies, parties, and functions.
Who is Annabelle Stephenson?
1 Who is Annabelle Stephenson?
2 Annabelle Stephenson: Age, Parent, Ethnicity
2.1 Education
3 Annabelle Stephenson: Career, Professional life
4 Annabelle Stephenson: Salary, Net Worth
5 Annabelle Stephenson: Rumors, Controversy
6 Body Measurements: Height, Weight
Annabelle Stephenson is a British film and TV actress. She is well known for her role as Sara Munello in ABC's Revenge and previously as Miriam Kent in H2O: Just Add Water.
Annabelle Stephenson: Age, Parent, Ethnicity
Annabelle was born on April 12, 1988, in London, England. As of 2021, she is 33 years old. She grew up on the Gold Coast, Brisbane. Her family moved to Australia when she was just an infant.
She has a younger brother. Annabelle can speak Italian, German, and English fluently. This actress is of British nationality and her ethnicity is English.
She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a bachelor of arts in acting.
Annabelle Stephenson: Career, Professional life
Annabelle Stephenson was just 17 years old when she made her debut in a small supporting role in the series, My Embarrassing Parents.
After completing her education, she started her career in TV, film, and theatre.
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Her first professional job was in 2006 when she landed the role of 'Miriam Kent' in the hit children's TV show "H20: Just Add Water". Then she appeared in Reef Doctors in the year, 2013 and Pray For Rain in 2017.
Annabelle has also built her career in TV when she appears in the television movie, "Hot Mess" in the main role. She has also performed in the drama 'Home and Away".
Annabelle Stephenson: Salary, Net Worth
Her net worth is said to be $1.5 million. since working in this field for a long period, she has managed to collect good money and build her lifestyle.
Her average earning is said to be around $35,000.
Annabelle Stephenson: Rumors, Controversy
To date, she has not been in any sort of rumors and controversies.
Body Measurements: Height, Weight
Annabelle Stephenson being an actress has a well-maintained slim body with a charming face. She has a height of 5 ft 5 inches weighing 54 kg.
She has brown colored hair and greenish eyes. Her body measurement is 33-23-34 inches.
She is active on Instagram with around 24.3K followers and on Twitter with over 886 followers. She doesn't seem to have an account on Facebook.
Also, get to know Kym Johnson, Jennifer Arnold, Shely Young, and Lynn Chen.
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James Franco to appear in multi-episode arc & reteam with Jill Farren Phelps on Nick at Nite's new soap, Hollywood Heights!
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Motion picture star James Franco, who has made no bones about how he admirers and loves working with former General Hospital executive producer, Jill Farren Phelps has signed on to appear in a multi-episode arc on Nick at Nite's upcoming primetime soap, Hollywood Heights!
The shocking announcement to some, came today at the cable network's upfront presentations. Heights premieres in June and will air five nights a week, telenovela style, but it's not clear yet when Franco's arc starts or what his role entails. Vulture.com made a suggestion for the new soapy role for Franco stating, "If there's a God in TV heaven, though, it's someone incredibly sage and hilarious."
So, how do you feel about Franco going to another soap after his recurring guest-stints on General Hospital as "killer" Franco? What do you think would be a good role for James in this new soap about a shy girl who becomes a pop star after winning a songwriting competition, and who along the way, befriends a mega-rock-star — who is of course her celebrity crush? Do let us know!
Related Topics:General HospitalHollywood Heightsjames francojill farren phelpsNick At Nite
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i think he has no idea what to do so he does anything, this is just silly of him now, if he only knew what damage phelps had on GH. but oh well, who cares, good for the show i guess? we won't really know till it airs.
I am happy as long as his tenure on GH is over.
As long as he is a distant memory of GH, I don't care what he does.
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when I first read this my first thought was, Noooooooooooooooooooo please dont come back to general hospital,well I still feel that way,no more finger painting ever in port charles.I forgot her real name but stay away from starrs best friend lanston she going to be in that new soap to.I dont know what kind of character he should be because I hated franco and really didnt see him acting I thought he sucked ,right from the beginning when they showed his so called painting the story never interested me I think abc soaps in depth asked what the fans thought… Read more »
Oh sounds like a great show, love Brittany and James!!! I hope that I get a chance to see it. JF, well since she is a singer on the show and not actor.. I was going to suggest acting teacher. But then again she might need a coach. So I say and acting coach.. who is sort of creepy!
Nick at Night is doing a soap opera?? don't they know it should be OLTL?? hey why have to think of a whole new show when there is a great one waiting for a new station! arg!
I don't really care about James Franco unless he's brought back to life on Spiderman!
I had no idea of the dislike of him. And so we move on.
He can stay on her new show forever, as long as he is not available to return to GH…
I feel the same way,he helped hurt general hospital and bring the ratings down,Did you ever see him act?I didnt.
I just don't know what happened to James Franco. He had so much promise when he had the lead in SONNY. Then he made some poor choices such as PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. He was good in FREAKS AND GEEKS and I have always liked him. I just don't understand him. And apparently his and Anne Hathaway's hosting last year's Oscars will go down in history as one of the worst. Something is not right. I know this does not answer the question. When he was on GH it was when I was not watching. I think I just missed him when… Read more »
Franco's haircut above reminds me of GH's Jason Morgan. Maybe Franco's obsession for Jason was more real than we knew.
Just keep him off of GH.
agree,there is nothing special about that guy other then he helped abc/disney kill general hospital.
On this Friday's, January 21st episode of ABC's General Hospital, look for Port Charles to bid farewell to the iconic character of Luke Spencer (Tony Geary).
In story, after his sudden passing, Luke's loved ones gather – along with some surprise guests – to memorialize him at the Haunted Star, where things don't go entirely as planned. As the town says goodbye to Luke, an exciting new mystery unfolds. Meanwhile, life continues to unravel for the rest of Port Charles as a beloved couple comes to a fork in the road of their relationship.
ABC released this new photo of those gathered to pay their respects to Luke including cast members: Kristina Wagner (Felicia), Finola Hughes (Anna), Donnell Turner (Curtis), Tristan Rogers (Robert), Dominic Zamprogna (Dante), Laura Wright (Carly), Maurice Benard (Sonny), Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Spencer), Marcus Coloma (Nikolas), Maura West (Ava), Jackie Zeman (Bobbie), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), Genie Francis (Laura) and Jane Elliot (Tracy).
Looking forward to this emotional episode of General Hospital? Share your thoughts on what you think will happen via the comment section below.


Agent that identified the "Mystery Man" in Mexico City as Juriy (Yuri) Maskelov.
Nov. 1971: Agency learned from DGI defector SLIPSTREAM that Guillermo Alonso Pujol was a Cuban intelligence agent. As of 5/21/63, Alonso was active with the Cuban Committee for Liberation (CCL).
Memo from Christine Hopkins, Latin American division: In 1970, (AMCALL-1, Reynal) Gonzalez' wife negotiated with Pujols in an unsuccessful attempt to have her husband released from prison. Pujols "turned out to be Cuban agent".
March 1977: A former member of DGI was asked to identify the Mystery Man. He identified him as Yuri, a KGB officer, who he had met in Moscow in 1964. "He said that Yuri, a fluent English and Spanish speaker, was acting as a troubleshooter for the Cuban group, about 15, attending (an intelligence) course...Yuri lived (in the same building as the Cubans). Anytime that the Cubans had a problem Yuri would solve it for them...Yuri did not attend classes with the Cuban group. He was only entrusted with their welfare."
April 1977:"Subject, Theory re Moskalev, Yuriy Ivanovich and Unidentified Man. That Yuriy Ivanovich Moskalev might be identifiable with the 'unidentified man' going into and coming out of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in October 1963. The 'unidentified man' was recently identified by SLIPSTREAM as a KGB type by name of 'Yuri' whom he knew in Moscow in 1964."


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Woman dies in suspected New Zealand shark attack
By NDT Bureau January 8, 2021 January 8, 2021
A woman has died in what appears to be New Zealand's first fatal shark attack in eight years, police said on Friday.
Emergency services responded late Thursday afternoon to reports of a woman "injured in the water," at Waihi Beach, a popular tourist spot 153 kilometers (95 miles) drive southeast of Auckland, a police statement said.
"Indications are that she had been injured by a shark," Police Inspector Dean Anderson said.
She was dragged from the water with leg wounds and attempts to resuscitate her on the beach failed, media reported.
A vacationing doctor joined paramedics, lifeguards and emergency services personnel in attempting to save the woman, Anderson said.
The woman, whose identify has not been made public, was scheduled to undergo an autopsy on Friday, Anderson said.
The last fatal shark attack in New Zealand was in February 2013 when a 46-year-old swimmer was mauled at Muriwai Beach, 41 kilometers (25 miles) west of Auckland.
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