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Trump says he will use military to protect U.S. border Washington President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would use U.S. military forces to protect the nation's southern border with Mexico until there is a border wall and "proper security" in place. "We are going to be doing things militarily," Trump told reporters at the White House, adding he had discussed the idea with U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. "Until we can have a wall and proper security we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.

That’s a big step," he said. "We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way, never showing up for court."

Spotify's recordsetting direct listing makes it a $30B company London/New York Spotify Technology SA shares surged following the largestever direct listing on Tuesday, giving the world's leading streaming music service a market value of nearly $30 billion.Shares opened at $165.90, up nearly 26 percent from a reference price of $132 a share set by the on the New York Stock Exchange late on Monday. Spotify's unusual route to publicly trading its shares via a direct listing rather than a more usual initial public offering will likely be watched by other companies tempted to list without selling new shares, and by bankers that could lose out on millions of dollars in future underwriting fees.

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SPOTLIGHT: COMMUNITY COLLEGES

Schools seek parity in workforce training courses North Carolina community colleges depend on funding from the state legislature for the majority of their revenue. For several programs crucial to employers — in fields such as health care, construction, manufacturing and public safety — training programs are funded at a lower rate than traditional curriculum programs, simply because they award a certificate or credential, instead of a diploma.

In a three-part series, North State Journal will look at the impact of this funding imbalance, and what is currently being done to solve it.

Part 1, April 4: What the funding imbalance means to community colleges in the state, and the results of a one-year pilot program that is increasing the funding for selected workforce training programs.

Part 2, April 11: How employers around the state, who are desperately seeking qualified candidates for many specialized jobs, would benefit from a change in the funding model.

Part 3, April 18: Will the state legislature provide parity in funding for noncredit and curriculum courses?

By Shawn Krest North State Journal WHEN THE North Carolina Community College System set its budget priorities for 2017 to 2019, one of the three primary goals it identified was to “ensure a highly skilled workforce pipeline.”

Quite simply, in many specialized fields around the state, there aren’t enough qualified workers to fill all the open positions.

“Employers are begging us for more certified and credentialed employees,” said David Johnson, president of Johnston Community College.

Part of the reason for this shortfall is that several jobs crucial to the needs of employers around the state — in fields such as construction, health care, manufacturing and public safety — require a certificate or industrial certification, instead of a college diploma,

and the state funds noncredit programs at a lower rate than traditional curriculum programs.

Background North Carolinians pay less for community college than almost anywhere else in the nation. According to figures from CollegeBoard, only California and New Mexico had lower tuition and fees for community college students than North Carolina.

The high level of state funding helps make that possible — North Carolina community colleges get 57 percent of their revenue from the state, according to a 2016 report to the Program Evaluation Oversight Committee.

“The thing that the community college system was built upon is providing access for North Carolinians to higher educational opSee FUNDING, page A2

White House welcomes 30K visitors for Easter tradition First lady Melania Trump takes the reins of the annual event

portunity,” said Maryland mother Angela Williams, there with her children Elizabeth, 7, and James, 4, dressed in matching spring coats. “I just want good pictures, good memories and no

By Donna King meltdowns. We’ve been in line for North State Journal about an hour, but the music and WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the excitement has made it fun.”

More than 30,000 eggs, disMonday, the 140th White House Easter Egg Roll drew near- tributed for rolling and eating, ly 30,000 visitors to the historic were donated by the American Egg Board, which also sponsors South Lawn of the White House.

President Donald Trump and the event each year. Coloring acfirst lady Melania Trump were on tivities, cookie and egg decorathand, along with the Trump chil- ing, and costumed characters entertained the families. dren and grandchilIn keeping with a tradren to take party in the dition started in 1977, Easter Monday Amerithe organization precan tradition. The covsented Melania Trump eted free tickets were Easter Monday with a commemorative distributed by lottery celebrations rhinestone-encrustonline and assigned in ed glass egg that opens two-hour blocks start- on the U.S. to reveal tiny ceramic ing at 7:30 a.m. un- Capitol’s figurines of the presitil after 4:30 p.m. The dent and first lady. This annual event is one of grounds grew year’s commemorative very few that opens the so popular was called “Wings White House grounds that President egg of Prayer” and designed to the public. For those

by Texas artist Deborah who could not attend in Ulysses S. Grassel, who said she person, the entire event Grant signed was inspired by Melawas livestreamed by a bill that nia Trump’s elegance. the White House.

“Easter would not be The crowds turned banned the Easter without eggs,” out in droves despite said Agriculture Secnear-freezing weath- rolling of eggs retary Sonny Perdue. er in the morning and on Capitol “Our nation’s egg farmclimbing no highgrounds. ers — and their increder than 55 degrees by ible eggs — are a fixthe afternoon. The President ture on the South Lawn cold didn’t stop bright Rutherford B. of the White House for smiles and cheerful this time-honored and greetings to each visi- Hayes moved unique American holitor from volunteers and the event to day tradition.” employees of the NaOne of the most tional Park Service, the the White popular activities at organization that helps House in 1878. the South Lawn party run the event. Visitors was the reading nook, waited in lines snakwhere Melania Trump, ing through the ellipse director of National Inin front of the White House, as each went through met- telligence Dan Coats, Transporal detectors and passed Secret tation Secretary Elaine Chao and Service officers with bomb-sniff- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos read spring stories to the children ing canines.

As visitors stood in line with and their parents.

The White House Easter Egg most children dressed in Easter clothes and heavy coats, they also Roll is a premiere event organized walked past large wooden eggs, by the office of the first lady each one for each state, decorated with year, and this year was Melania symbols of their state. N.C.’s egg Trump’s first as a full-time resident was decorated by students at Un- of the White House. Last year, she derwood Elementary in Raleigh.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime op- See EASTER, page A2

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EASTER from page A1 and son Barron were still living in New York until he finished the school year. White House insiders say she took an enthusiastic lead in planning the event this year and saw it as a public display of embracing her role of first lady.

Each first lady over the years has incorporated her own tastes and interests to the event. First lady Lou Hoover had part of the South Lawn roped off for folk dancing. First lady Pat Nixon introduced the traditional egg roll races. First lady Nancy Regan began the tradition of giving a keepsake wooden Easter egg to each visitor in 1981. Melania Trump added lawn bowling to the slate of activities this year.

Making news at the family event this year was the appearance of Donald Trump Jr. with his wife, Vanessa, who filed for divorce last month after 13 years of marriage. The pair were there to celebrate the holiday with their three children, despite a high-profile separation in recent weeks. Onlookers reported that they chatted pleasantly and took a lot of pictures with their children.

According to the White House Historical Association, the egg roll dates back to 1878, under the administration of President Rutherford B. Hayes, but historians believe that the egg roll started informally under Abraham Lincoln.

Hayes started it after a group of children from the D.C. area approached White House guards and asked to use the South Lawn for games on the Monday break from school. Ever since, the annual event has brought larger and larger crowds. In 1939, the Secret Service reportedly shut down a ring of kids sneaking adults into the event. Because of World War I and World War II, there were no egg rolls from 1917 to 1920 and from 1943 to 1945. Food conservation and construction on the White House prevented any celebrations from 1946 to 1952, as well. President Dwight D. Eisenhower reinstated the tradition in 1953.

To enter the lottery for the White House Easter Egg Roll 2019, the National Park Service recommends checking recreation.gov starting in early February.

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Ella Hughes laughs as a baby goat perches on her back as Ava Ostendorff looks on.

Namaste with goats Visitors welcome spring with a round of Goat Yoga

By Donna King North State Journal DURHAM — Down a winding back road in Durham County, Amanda Avery and her husband, Matthew Hux, have turned their love for farming and yoga into a business.

“We started with two goats and found that we loved them, so we added more goats and thought about doing full-scale dairy, but that is really complicated,” said Avery. “In the meantime, I started doing meditation with them. Then we started summer camps and opened it up to the public.”

Amid various pens for the animals, Hux Family Farm offers three to four public yoga classes with goats each weekend in the backyard of their home. Visitors can stretch and pose while communing with baby goats perched on their backs. On a rainy Saturday in March, the class was more squeals and laughing than tranquility, as Girl Scout Troop 14 came to try something new.

“I liked to lay on the goats because they are really warm and calm,” said Ella Hughes, age 11. “I

FUNDING from page A1 portunities,” said Mark Poarch, president of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute. “A big part of that is keeping costs as low as possible. That’s the overarching goal throughout what all of us are trying to do: Provide relevant training in the most cost-effective way as possible, so we can make higher education accessible to those who need it most.”

The bulk of that state money, however, goes to for-credit curriculum programs, in which a student works toward a two-year degree. Noncredit programs, many of which are short-term certificate programs geared at workforce training, earn 34 percent less per student in state funding.

“I think we are real fortunate that we receive any funding for noncredit instruction,” said Johnson. “Not all states provide it.”

In fact, 22 states, including New York, Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee, offer no general funding for noncredit workforce education.

“I think, when it first started, noncredit education wasn’t so much focused on workforce development,” said Johnson. “It may be that it wasn’t seen as valuable as curriculum education.”

That’s not the case anymore, as noncredit workforce training courses now have the same rigor as curriculum classes.

“We have these courses that have the same faculty credentials and the same student learning outcomes as curriculum courses,” said Dr. Heather Hill, vice president of academic affairs at Stanly Community College. “For all intents and purpose, they really are the

Girl Scout Troop 14 leader Laura Duncan enjoys some eye contact with a goat during a yoga class at Hux Family Farm. was so excited to see the goats, and once I got in there my whole mindset changed and it really helped me relax.”

The class definitely isn’t for those squeamish about dirt or farm animals, but the girls got a memorable chance to hold 1-dayold goats while their mother bleated, alarmed by the middle schoolers taking selfies with her babies.

“I liked how they put the goats on your backs and you actually got to play with them,” said Ava Ostendorff, age 11.

The couple also holds reading therapy sessions with the goats.

They invite kids who are having troubling developing their reading skills to come read to the goats.

“I’ve had kids who are like, ‘I hate reading,’ and by the end of the session they refuse to put down their book,” said Avery. “Although the goats do occasionally nibble on the books.”

While both of their families were in farming, Avery and Hux are originally from the cities of Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

same class. If we have the same expectations for those students and faculty members, then they should be funded at the same level.”

well is using $124,000 to support truck driver training. Montgomery CC got $47,000 for training in using drones for search and rescue.

Airframe systems, HVAC, masonry, MRI tech, welding and biowork are some of the other programs around the state seeing a one-year boost in funding.

Johnston was able to add more nurse’s aide classes, which will mean more nurse’s aides available to start work in the very near future. Caldwell, who also provides truck-driver education for several other colleges in central and western North Carolina, was able to expand to a new area — in Forsyth County. The money is also being used to hire more instructors and upgrade equipment.

“I certainly hope they will see that the investment is well worth the return on that investment,” Poarch said. “You think about our truck driving graduates, for example. We graduate about 250 students a year, and each one of those graduates earns an average salary of about $50,000. So if we can expand that and produce additional graduates ... you only have to graduate two and a half additional students to get that return on investment. That’s pretty good.”

Change on the horizon?

There is the possibility that workforce training programs will soon see parity in funding, however. This year, the State Board of Community Colleges, the North Carolina Association of Community College Presidents and the North Carolina Association of Community College Trustees are all petitioning the legislature to fund noncredit and credit programs equally.

“The issue we’re facing is that businesses and industries are relying on us now more than ever before to get people trained in the most efficient way possible and get them into the workforce,” said Poarch. “Having parity funding is critical to that initiative, to getting people in short-term training courses and getting them prepared to take jobs that are available today.”

“Employers I work with around here really don’t care whether its credit or noncredit,” said Johnson.

“They just want skilled employees.”

Full parity would cost an additional $16 million. The legislature is expected to consider options for equalizing funding for both curriculum and noncurriculum courses.

In the meantime, the state funded a $2 million pilot program this year, allowing 36 North Carolina community colleges to fund one noncredit program at a higher rate.

Johnston Community College received more than $65,000 for its nurse’s aide program. Cald-

“I’m not sure there is a good Plan B” If the legislature isn’t as impressed with the results of the pilot plan as the colleges are, it’s not clear what the future holds for noncredit programs.

“Without the additional funding, one alternative would be to add additional fees to students,” said Poarch. “We don’t want to do

They say they bought the Durham County property with the plan to create a self-sustained homestead for their family.

Now, between goat yoga and the Just Kidding Around summer camps, Hux Farm welcomes about 1,000 visitors a year with word of their unique class circulating mostly on social media. They have 30 animals, depending on the season, including horses, rabbits, geese and ducks. Soon they hope to add ponies, pigs and cows to the menagerie.

“We actually want to get more land and turn part of it into a sanctuary for rescued farm animals and the other part will be for therapy,” said Avery.

Agritourism, like Hux Family Farm, is a growing part of N.C.’s $85 billion agriculture industry. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is helping to build it by providing advice for farmers, and listings of field trips, camps and fun experiences for families.

“It not only provides additional revenue for farmers, but also serves as a bridge between the state’s urban and rural communities,” said Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler. “For many North Carolinians, agritourism is the only opportunity they have to learn about farming and where their food comes from.”

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that.”

Another option, which some community colleges have already explored, is offering the same programs as curriculum courses, at the higher funding rate.

That would mean less flexibility in terms of scheduling. In some programs, it would also slow down a student’s progress and impede the flow of qualified employees to businesses that are already waiting.

“For certain programs, you’d be running it as a 16-week semester, versus an eight-week continuing-ed class,” said Poarch. “That could cause some problems.”

Another option would be to maintain the overall budget of course funding while making all courses, regardless of status, funded at the same rate. That option would lower the amount for curriculum courses by 2 to 3 percent and raise the rate for noncurriculum courses. That shift would remove any incentive for community colleges to offer curriculum courses over noncurriculum courses.

That, however, would require cutting funds for core classes.

“I’m not sure there is a good Plan B,” Poarch concluded.

Still, the community college leaders seem confident that the legislature will come through with funding parity.

“They’re beginning to see the value in noncredit instruction, in terms of supporting workforce development,” said Johnson, “and their constituents are banging on their doors saying, ‘We need help.’

“Community colleges need to be appropriately funded, and we never have been,” Johnson continued.

“We certainly are not now. This is a step in the right direction.”

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Tesla tested A Tesla Model 3 sedan, its first car aimed at the mass market, is displayed during its launch in Hawthorne, California in early 2016. Concerns over production timing and available capital have surfaced in recent weeks. Quickly ramping up Model 3 production is crucial for the Silicon Valley electric vehicle maker, whose profitability depends on the cheaper sedan.

Tesla says it has about 500,000 advance reservations from customers for the car, which has a starting price of $35,000.

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Corvid Technologies LLC, which provides physics-based engineering solutions for the defense, automotive, aircraft, and biomedical industries, will locate its headquarters in Iredell County, creating 367 new jobs, Governor Roy Cooper announced last week. The company will invest $28.9 million in Mooresville.

Corvid provides technology-based solutions to a variety of customers in the Department of Defense, including the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, and Special Operations Command, as well as missile defense research projects. Corvid also supports ongoing civilian projects with customers varying from motorsports organizations to U.S. Olympic teams. The engineering firm currently has 145 engineers and scientists with 75 percent holding advanced degrees across a variety of STEM fields. Corvid employs staff at offices across the U.S., including its current office in Mooresville.

“We’re excited to consolidate our headquarters in North Carolina and continue our rapid expansion in the area,” said Dr. David Robinson, CEO at Corvid. “The business-friendly climate at the local, county, and state level combined with access to premier engineering talent coming out of the nearby university systems were all major factors in our decision to locate the company headquarters in the area.”

NC State alum creates app to “Uber-ize” job search Hire Scene, founded at NC State’s Centennial Campus, offers students and local workers a tool to quickly find work and pair with their schedules

By Emily Roberson North State Journal RALEIGH — Mike Youngblood’s first brush with success at NC State came when he formed a start-up business selling shoes out of his dorm room in the late 1970s. “I created my own gig before the term ‘gig economy’ even existed,” he says.

Now CEO of Hire Scene, a mobile hiring app he created and headquartered at NC State’s Centennial Campus, Youngblood finds himself back where his entrepreneurial spirit was first formed.

Youngblood traces his inspiration for Hire Scene back to 2007, the year the iPhone debuted. “It was a big year and it changed a lot of things, specifically with employment, how to work and how to hire in this economy. My wife [also an NC State grad] and I knew that we could figure out how to use this new app technology to shorten the cycle of filling jobs, and it ended up being a chance to “Uber-ize” employment opportunities.” He notes that because their background comes from the employment industry rather than the technology sector, they were able to create a product that more fully addresses each facet of the economic equation for both employer and employee.

The term “gig economy” de-

scribes an environment in which temporary positions are common and organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements.

The trend toward a gig economy has been evident for the past decade, and a study by Intuit predicted that by 2020, 40 percent of American workers would be independent contractors. It has already led to the swift rise of companies like Uber and Lyft, that allow employees to target and take specific short-term jobs based on their schedule.

The Hire Scene app specializes in matching up the supply and demand for a variety of temporary work opportunities – a tool well-suited to college towns and big cities where students, shift workers, or retirees might be looking to supplement income when their schedule allows.

NC State sophomore Shayla Quackenbush has a lot of school friends who work in restaurants, but decided to give Hire Scene a try after talking to some company representatives at a campus event. She says she was impressed with the streamlined process that downloaded her references and background information, and led to an electronic interview and orientation about how Hire Scene works.

Since then, Quackenbush estimates that she has had around 15 or 20 jobs in banquet work for area country clubs and at the convention center. “I’m studying Animal Science, so it’s a really nice break from that. It is a really good option for me because it is so flexible.”

Youngblood says that for now, Hire Scene is centered on the

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hospitality industry, and jobs can go fast: in one recent offering, he says that within 53 seconds of posting a job on the app, five people had applied for one position. Hire Scene offers the advantage of portable membership as well. With employment partners in Raleigh, Wilmington, Fayetteville and Northern South Carolina, Youngblood says that when students travel or go home for the holidays, they can log in and find work.

As business grows, the team’s next area of development will likely focus on hospitals and health care as they head toward a national roll out in the near future. Youngblood predicts that this technology will impact the traditional staffing industry pretty heavily as the Hire Scene app offers “a total online solution” from its user-friendly design to the ease of locating all pre-employment and tax documents in one place.

But Youngblood says that Hire Scene’s broader impact will simply come in clients’ ability to “fill the gap,” reduce their student loans and take some worry out of making ends meet during certain phases of life. “We are absolutely a ‘lifestyle company’ – we want people to have access to real jobs real fast.”

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It’s been said that the minute you set foot in the NC Public Power town of Selma, you feel like you’ve opened an amazing antique time capsule full of charm. Well this Saturday in Selma, you’ll get a chance to pop open some of the amazingly delicious craft beverages created across our great state.

The North Carolina Wine and Beer Festival will be held at The Farm at 95 on Saturday, April 7, from noon to 6 p.m.

The Farm is just one exit down from Smithfield’s Carolina Premium Outlets.

Makers of more than 100 North Carolina wines, brews and spirits will be there, including some from public power communities like Childress Vineyards, D9 Brewing Company, Deep River Brewing Company, Dennis Vineyards, Fiddler’s Vineyard, Southern Charm Winery and Tarboro Brewing Company.

Beverages aren’t the only thing you’ll find at the festival. Great live music, local artisans and vendors, and chef-inspired dishes with ingredients sourced from area farms are all on the agenda. While you’re in town, no one would be upset if you make time for some antiquing in downtown Selma and outlet shopping in Smithfield as well.

For festival details and tickets, visit http://ncwineandbeerfestival.com.

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Fort Bragg (bragg.army.mil) is the Army's only base in North Carolina. Fort Bragg is located near Fayetteville and home to more than 30 different military organizations, including the XVIII Airborne Corps, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 4th brigade JROTC and the Army's Reserve Command. The John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School is also located at Fort Bragg. The center serves as a training center for the Army's Civil Affairs, Military Information Support and Special Forces special operations programs.

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Yancey County When James, a Scottish Highland cow at Happy Hens & Highlands Farm, was born, he was deprived of oxygen, causing several health problems. In order to care for him around the clock, farm owners Emily and Adam Hopson brought him inside the house. While the members of his herd rejected him, the family dogs helped to raise James, cleaning him and curling up with him to sleep. As James gets larger, the family will move him back outside.

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Man rescued after falling from waterfall Polk County A man fell 60 to 70 feet down a waterfall in the Twin Bridges area.

Polk County rescue workers, as well as special high-angle rescue workers brought in from Henderson County, spent several hours on Sunday reaching the man and retrieving him from the water. The unidentified man was eventually taken Mission Hospital.

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DURHAM — Corning is set to announce its new manufacturing facility in Durham, expected to bring 300 jobs to the area, paying on average more than $65,000 annually. The facility will make Corning Valor Glass, a pharmaceutical packaging product designed to ensure safe containment and shipping of medications.

Corning expects to invest about $190 million in the Durham project.

On hand for the announcement press conference on Wednesday morning will be Corning Chairman and CEO Wendell Weeks and Executive Vice President Eric Musser, along with state and local officials.

Corning is a manufacturing company with expertise in glass science, ceramics science and optical physics. It’s a big employer in North Carolina and this announcement adds to its footprint in the state. Wednesday’s announcement is the second of two expansions by the company that were announced in December. The other is a state-ofthe-art warehouse facility slated for Edgecombe County with more than 100 jobs. According to the N.C. Department of Commerce, Corning will invest a total of $275 million between the two sites.

The Coast Guard's Base Support Unit Elizabeth City (uscg.mil) in Elizabeth City is the Coast Guard's sole base in the state. The Coast Guard's Aviation Logistics Center and the Aviation Technical Training Center are both located at the base. Base Support Unit, Elizabeth City, is also home to a Small Boat Station that patrols local waterways and an Air Station that sends units along the Atlantic Coast, from Greenland to the southern Caribbean.

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From deployments to new schools, military children are faced with unique challenges that many youth their age never experience. Their ability to adapt to present and future changes deserves our respect and admiration. In an effort to recognize their hard work and applaud the courage of military children, the Department of Defense (DOD) has deemed April the Month of the Military Child (MOMC).

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Boy seeking kidney for dad gets letter from president

Calf rejected by herd adopted by dogs

Corning announces 300-plus jobs for Durham County

Camp Lejeune (lejeune.usmc.mil), a Marine Corps base in Jacksonville, home to several combat units and support commands, is known as the home of "Expeditionary Forces in Readiness." In addition to hosting its own Marine Corps commands, Camp Lejeune is also the site of a Naval command and hospital. Three Military Operations in Urban Terrain training facilities are located on the base, an area with a broad range of support services and facilities for military members and their families living on base or nearby.

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Parents watch as their kids bounce from station to station during the Month of Military Child Celebration at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., April 29, 2017.

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The Seymour Johnson Air Force Base (seymourjohnson.af.mil), in Goldsboro, North Carolina, is considered a major Air Combat Command base and is home to the 4th Striker Wing, which consists of four separate groups, the maintenance group, the medical group, the mission support group and the operations group. The base is also the home location of the Air Force's 567th Red Horse squadron and the 916th Air Refueling Reserve Unit.

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Sheriff plans to bill people who make bomb threats

Burke County President Donald Trump sent a letter to an 8-year-old boy who wrote seeking a kidney for his father. Fourth-grader Trae Putnam wrote to the president, Ivanka Trump and Santa Claus, asking each to help his father, who suffers from a rare blood disorder and is in renal failure. Trump said he admired Trae’s determination and said that his staff is trying to find a way to help.

Alexander County After several recent bomb threat cases have resulted in dozens of extra hours, deputies in Alexander County plan to begin billing people who make them in the future. People convicted of making a bomb threat will be responsible for the cost to law enforcement agencies.

Following a recent threat made by a parent at East Alexander Middle School, police are attempting to collect $2,000 for the 141 hours of extra work.

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Governor appoints new D.A. for Rockingham Rockingham County Jason Ramey has been named the new district attorney for the county, after being appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper. Ramey will be the third different Rockingham D.A. in the last 13 months. Craig Blizter resigned last March during an SBI investigation.

Tom Keith has been serving as interim district attorney ever since. This is an election year for the position, and Ramey is running against Ron Bradsher in the Republican primary next month. There is no Democratic challenger.

Train derails near Enfield

Bear Grass residents face water outages, boil advisory

Halifax County An Amtrak Auto Train derailed just south of Enfield last Wednesday night, toppling four rail cars carrying automobiles. None of the 394 passengers and crew on board at the time suffered any injuries, and their portion of the train was able to continue its trip. Amtrak is still investigating possible causes of the accident. The accident caused several cancellations and changes to routes.

Martin County Water mains in the town of Bear Grass will undergo repairs during the first week of April, which could cause problems to residents. Everyone in Martin County’s water district two has been advised to boil all water before using it for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, preparing food or washing dishes. There could also be periods of low water pressure and even outages.

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Retired firefighter killed in traffic accident

Birds in Flight exhibit opens at zoo

Caldwell County Longtime Caldwell County fireman Gary Sanders was killed in a car accident on I-40. Sanders retired after spending 30 years in the Lenoir Fire Department and was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle — one of his favorite hobbies — when he crashed into the back of a tractor trailer that was stopped in traffic. The accident occurred in Iredell County, and the traffic jam was caused by another fatal accident involving a truck.

Randolph County The North Carolina Zoo opened a new avian habitat over Easter weekend, featuring exotic birds from around the world. Called “Birds in Flight,” the habitat features free-flying birds which occasionally land on the outstretched arms of visitors. The exhibit will change on a weekly basis, with new birds rotated in throughout the year.

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Inmates get service dogs to work with Caswell County Eyes Ears Nose and Paws, a Carrborobased service dog program, has begun providing dogs to inmates at Caswell County Correctional Center. The program, called At Both Ends of the Leash, teaches inmates how to train service dogs. Inmates must be screened and infraction-free for at least 90 days in order to participate.

Wilson County board commissioner dies

NC Symphony puts on free concert for school kids

Wilson County The county manager’s office reported that board commissioner Bobbie Jones passed away last Wednesday. She had served as a commissioner since 1987 and had been the Wilson County Board of Commissioners chair since 2015.

“She made Wilson County a better place to call home. Her passion for public service will not be forgotten,” said Congressman G.K. Butterfield.

Lenoir County The North Carolina Symphony held a free concert for fifth graders in Lenoir County Public Schools at the Kinston Performing Arts Center last week. The 66-member orchestra covered the costs for the show, which were estimated at about $35,000. The concert helped educate the students on concepts of core musical components.

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The expansion announcements come after Corning was awarded state and county grant money for economic development. Two Job Development Investment Grants (JDIGs) approved by the state’s Economic Investment Committee authorize the potential reimbursement to the company of up to $3,215,250, spread over 12 years. Over the course of the 12-year terms of each grant, the projects are expected to add an estimated $1.157 billion to the state economy.

The state only pays the tax reimbursement after the departments of Commerce and Revenue verify that the company has met its incremental job creation and investment targets.

Dominion to complete Atlantic Coast Pipeline by end 2019 NSJ Staff RALEIGH — Dominion Energy says it is still on track to finish its $5 billion Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to N.C. by late 2019. The response from the company came after the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied Dominion’s March 15 request for more time to cut trees.

“We have a path forward to begin construction this spring and complete the project by the end of 2019,” Aaron Ruby, a spokesman for Dominion, said in an email. Ruby said Dominion has completed tree felling on more than 200 miles of the 600-mile route.

“While that’s less than we planned for this year, we’ll still have a productive construction season,” Ruby said, noting the company would rearrange some of its

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Virginia lifts its tree-clearing restrictions on migrating habitats on Aug. 30 for birds and Sept. 15 for bats, according to a release by the Sierra Club, which opposes construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

FERC’s “decision is a win for the people and communities in the path of this destructive project,” said Kelly Martin, director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign, in a statement.

The pipeline is designed to carry about 1.5 billion cubic feet per day of gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio to customers in Virginia and North Carolina. The 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas is enough to fuel about 7.5 million U.S. homes for a day.

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north STATEment Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor | Troy Kickler, deputy opinion editor

VISUAL VOICES

EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

I, Bowtie*

Freedom is impossible without this faith.

I, BOWTIE, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe. If you become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom we want in America.

Not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me.

This sounds fantastic, doesn’t it?

A bowtie appears simple. There’s cotton or silk, dye, thread, a bit of metal and a printed label.

I, Bowtie begin with a bale of cotton, grown in the South. Think about the tractors and combines used in harvesting and taking the cotton to a nearby gin operation in New London, NC. Think of all the people and numberless skills that went into the fabrication of those magnificent machines: mining ore, making steel and its refinement into complicated machines and motors; farm hands that planted cotton seeds and tilled the soil and looked after the crop all summer long.

American cotton is shipped from the cotton gin to a spinning operation in Thomasville to be spun into usable thread. American cotton thread is shipped to weaving operations in England or Portugal to be woven into fabric that my Southern creators have designed, fabric which might come back to any one of the thousands of people involved in this miraculous journey in the form of bowties, long ties or cummerbunds if they order them on-line.

Thousands of workers transport fabric on ships or by air freight back across the Atlantic to a cut-and-sew operation in Pilot Mountain.

Dozens of seamstresses take turns sewing bowties after this precious fabric has been cut to precise specifications. Then it is shipped to a fulfillment center in Butner where dozens of employees pack and ship bowties to individuals and retail stores across the globe.

No single worker does any of this work because he himself individually wants a bowtie.

There are many among this vast multitude who have never seen a bowtie nor would they know how to tie one if they had it. Each of these thousands of people sees that he can exchange his tiny know-how in the process for the goods and services he needs or wants even if it is not me, a simple Southern bowtie.

There is a fact still more astounding: the absence of a master mind, of anyone dictating or forcibly directing these countless actions which bring a bowtie into being.

Instead, we find the ‘Invisible Hand’ at work.

I, Bowtie, am a complex combination of miracles: cotton, metal, weaving and so on. An even more extraordinary miracle has been added: the configuration of creative human energies — millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and spontaneously in response to human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human masterminding!

Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to create a cotton plant in the first place.

If one is aware that these know-hows will naturally arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand — that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive masterminding — then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people.

Freedom is impossible without this faith.

The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society’s legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can.

Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow. Have faith that free men and women will respond to the “Invisible Hand” of freedom and personal self-interest, integrity and fairness.

This faith will be confirmed. I, Bowtie, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cotton plant and the good earth. *adapted from the classic “I, Pencil” essay by Leonard Read (1898-1983) who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE ) in 1946 and served as its president until his death.

“I, Pencil,” was published in the December 1958 issue of The Freeman.

EDITORIAL | TROY KICKLER

Anti-Federalists had victory in the long run

They were amenable, only if individual liberties were protected by a Bill of Rights.

IN THE HISTORY BOOKS, Anti-Federalists are frequently portrayed as losers. Without them and their political strategy, however, Americans probably would not have the Bill of Rights.

In 1787, the Philadelphia Convention delegates submitted the U.S. Constitution, as outlined in Article 7, to the ratification process. Subsequently, Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated the document’s merits. Both political camps also debated the meanings of various constitutional phrases.

All debate, however, revolved around one key question: Was it advisable to give more “energy” to the “general government”?

With the Revolutionary War experiences fresh in their memories, Anti-Federalists had two answers. One answer was “no.” Another more common answer was “maybe.” They were amenable, only if individual liberties were protected by a Bill of Rights.

North Carolina was the only state that held two ratification conventions. The state initially did not reject or ratify the Constitution. The move was not indecision. It was a tactic.

Willie Jones, Timothy Bloodworth and Samuel Spencer were the leading North Carolina Anti-Federalists. Jones was the reticent mastermind. Bloodworth was the most contentious and inquisitive. Spencer was the most eloquent. Here are some of their concerns, as expressed during the 1788 North Carolina Ratification Convention.

Bloodworth: “This Constitution, if adopted in its present mode, must end in the subversion of our liberties. … I hope the Representatives of North-Carolina will never swallow the Constitution till it is amended.”

Spencer: “It is well known that men in power are apt to abuse it, and extend it if possible. From the ambiguity of this expression, they may put such construction on it as may suit them. I would not have it in such a manner as to endanger the rights of the people.”

Spencer: “It appears to me, that the powers are too extensive, and not sufficiently guarded.

I do not wish that an aristocracy should be instituted. An aristocracy may arise out of this government, though the Members be not hereditary. I would therefore wish that every guard should be placed, in order to prevent it.”

Spencer: “There ought to be a bill of rights, in order that those in power may not step over the boundary between the powers of government and the rights of the people, which they may do, when there is nothing to prevent them.”

Spencer: “I wish to have a bill of rights, to secure those unalienable rights, which are called by some respectable writers the residuum of human rights, which are never to be given up.”

Bloodworth: “Without the most express restrictions, Congress may trample on your rights. Every possible precaution should be

taken when we grant powers. Rulers are always disposed to abuse them.”

Bloodworth: “I hope this Convention never will adopt it till the amendments are actually obtained.”

Jones: “Are we to ratify it at all events?

Have we not an equal right to reject? We do determine by neither rejecting nor adopting.

It is objected we shall be out of the union.

So I wish to be. We are left at liberty to come in at any time. … If I recollect rightly, the Constitution may be ratified either by Conventions or the Legislatures of the states.

In either case, it may take up about 18 months.

For my own part, I would rather be 18 years out of the union than adopt it in its present defective form.”

In 1788, North Carolina neither rejected nor approved the Constitution — “a very awful moment,” according to leading Federalist James Iredell. North Carolina Anti-Federalists were waiting for a Bill of Rights addendum.

Eventually, they approved the Constitution in 1789.

Knowing the tendencies of power, AntiFederalists thought, Americans might one day need those specific protections of individual liberty contained in a Bill of Rights.

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COLUMN | JENNIFER JEANNE BAIER

‘Roseanne’ is a surprise reflection of America

This is the heart of America, where we don’t really care who you sleep with, as long as, you “love your neighbor.”

I WAS NOT A FAN of the original “Roseanne” and had no intention of watching its return, especially after I couldn’t make it through the first 10 minutes of the rebooted “Will and Grace,” but I had turned to ABC to watch my favorite show, “The Middle,” and there it was. I was a few minutes late and got there in time to see Jackie in her “hat.” “Where did I set that remote control?” As I got up off the sofa to retrieve it, I caught Roseanne’s response and I stopped. Is this going to be different? Not 30 minutes of Hollywood telling us how smart they are and how dumb we in “the middle” are?

Being someone who likes the full picture, I started researching what was going on. Are we being pandered to, or is there some sincerity there in the writers’ room?

I stumbled across her Jimmy Kimmel interview (Lord, I do not like that man; he is just not funny, politics aside). Then I found her piece in Vanity Fair.

She realizes that it is OK to be a social liberal and an economic conservative, and understands that people don’t really vote their morals, they vote their wallets. And more importantly, that doesn’t make us bigots. She made sure that the writers’ room contained people from all political backgrounds, not just hers, and not just the ideals of “Hollywood,” so that the discussions on the show fairly and accurately represented conversations that Americans were having at their own dinner tables and with their own friends.

Maybe by seeing how the rest of us around the country have civil discourse about our different thoughts and are still able to maintain our friendships and love our neighbors, perhaps the rest of Hollywood will come to understand the need for civil discourse rather than being preached at by people who are paid to entertain us, not lecture us.

Hollywood has long misunderstood us “normal Americans” — the ones that get up every day and go to work, run the kids to dance and ball practice, come home at night and scramble to get supper on

the table and homework done. Then after the kids are tucked in, pay the mortgage and electric bills and see what’s left that can be invested in our retirement.

This is the heart of America, where we don’t really care who you sleep with, as long as, you “love your neighbor.” Where we still have block parties, Girl Scouts going door to door selling cookies, and kids walking and riding their bikes to school. We care more about job security and making the next car payment than what “Nasty Women” are telling us about what rights they think we might lose. We paid attention in civics class, know what it takes to repeal an amendment, and aren’t worried about the government coming to take away our guns. After all, if the government can’t get 12 million illegal aliens out of the country, how are they ever going to get 300 million guns out of the hands of lawful citizens?

We have bigger things to worry about, like getting the neighbors and local Boy Scouts coordinated to help a single mom, who worked two jobs saving enough to make a down payment, move into her new house. Donald Trump understood this two years ago.

Roseanne Barr understands this clearly and reflects this in her show. Perhaps if the rest of Hollywood could grasp this, the movie industry wouldn’t be in the slump they are in now and more television shows would make it past their freshman season. I had no intention of watching the reboot of “Roseanne” and hoped for it to pass quickly into “Nick at Nite” status.

I now have a OnePass set up and look forward to getting a full hour of shows about middle America on Tuesday nights.

Now if ABC would just bring back Tim Allen.

Jennifer Jeanne Baier is a North Carolinian at heart but currently lives in Iowa. She is an implementation specialist and developer with Providence Consulting Group, a wife, and a mother to three craz y boys. She is currently working on her first book, “This is Why Mommy Drinks.” She loves Jesus, but she does swear a little.

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Actress Roseanne Barr reacts as she arrives at the 75th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif.

COLUMN | MARK MARTIN

Celebrating 200 years of North Carolina’s Supreme Court

I am pleased to share that our first traveling court sessions will be held in May and will take place in Morganton, Hendersonville and Asheville.

THIS YEAR MARKS the beginning of a muchanticipated celebration of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. The Supreme Court will turn 200 next year, and we are pleased to commemorate this bicentennial anniversary by bringing the court to people around the state.

Established in 1819, the court was initially comprised of three justices who served “for periods of good behavior” that essentially became life terms. The court originally met only in Raleigh, a location that proved burdensome to many residents as the state’s population began to push westward in the first half of the 19th century. Prompted by its western constituency, the North Carolina General Assembly enacted legislation requiring the court to hold monthly sessions in Morganton starting in 1847.

During its time in Morganton, the court held arguments in almost 500 cases. Remarkably, more than two-thirds of these cases were argued by either one of two Asheville brothers, John and Nicholas Woodfin. These court sessions continued until 1861, when tensions preceding the Civil War prevented the court from leaving its permanent home in the state capital.

The court has remained in Raleigh since that time but has recently held special sessions of court in

Burke and Chowan counties. Thanks to legislation passed last year by the North Carolina General Assembly, the court will convene several additional sessions of oral argument outside of Raleigh over the next three years as a part of its 200th anniversary celebration. Taking the court on the road will help promote discussion about the role of courts and the importance of the rule of law in a free society.

I am pleased to share that our first traveling court sessions will be held in May and will take place in Morganton, Hendersonville and Asheville. Later this fall, we will hold sessions in Halifax, Greenville and New Bern. Over time, we hope to convene sessions of court in 20 or more North Carolina cities and towns. Each of these visits will be paired with local civics education initiatives to maximize public interaction and provide learning opportunities for North Carolinians of all ages.

Every part of our state is rich in local history, and the court is eager to share our 200th anniversary with all of the more than 10 million people who call North Carolina home. I invite everyone to join us as we celebrate the enduring nature of our state courts and their proud legacy of providing justice for all.

Mark Martin is the chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court.

WALTER E. WILLIAMS

‘Discrimination and Disparities’ I DON’T MIND SAYING that this column represents a grossly understated review of “Discrimination and Disparities,” just published by my longtime friend and colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell. In less than 200 pages, Sowell lays waste to myth after myth not only in the United States but around the globe.

One of those myths is that but for the fact of discrimination, we’d all be proportionately represented in socioeconomic characteristics, such as career, income, education and incarceration.

The fact of business is that there is no evidence anywhere on earth, at any time in human history, that demonstrates that but for discrimination, there would be proportionate representation in anything by race, sex, nationality or any other human characteristic. Sowell shows that socio-economic outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups and nations in ways that cannot be explained by any one factor, whether it’s genetics, discrimination or some kind of exploitation.

A study of National Merit Scholarship finalists shows that firstborns are finalists more often than their multiple siblings combined. Data from the U.S., Germany and Britain show that the average IQ of firstborns is higher than the average IQ of their later siblings. Such outcomes challenge those who believe that heredity or one’s environment is the dominant factor in one’s academic performance. Moreover, the finding shows that if there is not equality among people born to the same parents and living under the same roof, why should equality of outcomes be expected under other conditions?

In Chapter 2, Sowell provides evidence that people won’t take racial discrimination at any cost. The higher its cost the less it will be tolerated, and vice versa. One example is segregated seating on municipal transit in the South. Many companies were privately owned, and their decision-makers understood that they could lose profits by offending their black customers by establishing segregated seating.

Transportation companies fought against laws mandating racially segregated seating, both politically and in the courts, but lost. Companies even chose to ignore the law. Faced with heavy fines, though, they began to comply with the law.

The point is that the difference between the white transportation owners and the white politicians and segregationists was the transportation company owners had to bear the cost of alienating black riders and the politicians and segregationists didn’t. Sowell broadens his analysis to show that regulated companies and organizations — such as public utilities and nonprofit entities, including colleges and government agencies — will be at the forefront when it’s politically popular to discriminate against blacks but also will be at the forefront when it’s politically popular to discriminate in favor of blacks. Why? Because in either case, they don’t bear the burden of forgone profits.

In Sowell’s chapter titled “The World of Numbers,” he points out what I’m going to call out-and-out dishonesty.

In 2000, a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights study pointed out that 44.6 percent of black applicants were turned down for mortgages, while only 22.3 percent of whites were turned down. These and similar statistics led to charges of lending industry discrimination and demands that government do something about it.

While the loan rejection rate for whites was 22.3 percent, that for Asians and native Hawaiians was only 12.4 percent.

Those statistics didn’t see the light of day. Why? They didn’t fit the racial discrimination narrative. It would have been difficult for the race hustlers to convince the nation that lending institutions were discriminating against not only black applicants but white applicants, as well, in favor of Asian and native Hawaiian applicants.

At several points in the book, Sowell points to the tragedies created in the pursuit of social justice. He gives the example of the Gujaratis expelled from Uganda and the Cubans fleeing Cuba.

Many of the Gujaratis arrived in Britain destitute but rose again to prosperity.

It’s the same story with the Cubans who came to the U.S. and prospered.

By losing their most productive people, both Uganda and Cuba became economic basket cases.

The general public, educators and politicians would benefit immensely from reading “Discrimination and Disparities,” if only to avoid being unknowingly duped.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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nation & world

Trump renews call for Congress to pass border legislation Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump on Monday called on Congress to pass immigration legislation, urging lawmakers to, if necessary, eliminate the rule that a bill must pass by 60 votes, rather than a simple majority. One of his tweets referred to a group of 1,500 men, women and children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador who are traveling in a so-called “refugee caravan” organized by Pueblo sin Fronteras, a U.S.based immigration advocacy group. Trump had said he was open to a deal with congressional Democrats but no deal has materialized. The Senate considered several immigration proposals in February, but rejected all of them.

New York moves to offset federal tax changes in $168 billion budget deal New York New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes. Cuomo outlined details of the agreement a few hours before the Senate and Assembly voted to pass the legislation needed to adopt the budget. The new fiscal year began on Sunday.

With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyber attack Atlanta Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyberattack that plunged Georgia’s capital into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert to paper. On an Easter and Passover holiday weekend, city officials labored in preparation for the workweek to come.

Trump to unveil China tariff list this week, targeting tech goods Tension between the world’s largest economies is being closely watched as the White House works to address what it says are unfair trade policies

By David Lawder Reuters WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration this week will unveil the list of Chinese imports targeted for U.S. tariffs to punish Beijing over technology transfer policies.

The list of $50 billion to $60 billion worth of annual imports is expected to target “largely high-technology” products and it may be more than two months before tariffs take effect, administration officials have said.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office needs to unveil the list of products by Friday under President Donald Trump’s China tariff proclamation signed on March 22.

The tariffs are aimed at forcing changes to Chinese government policies that USTR says results in the “uneconomic” transfer of U.S. intellectual property to Chinese companies.

The agency’s “Section 301” investigation authorizing the tariffs alleges China has systematically sought to misappropriate U.S. intellectual property through joint venture requirements, unfair technology licensing rules, purchases of U.S. technology firms with state funding, and outright theft.

China has denied that its laws require technology transfers and has threatened to retaliate against any U.S. tariffs with trade sanctions of its own, with potential targets such as U.S. soybeans, aircraft or heavy equipment.

On Sunday, Beijing slapped extra tariffs of up to 25 percent on 128 U.S. products including frozen pork, as well as wine and certain fruits and nuts in response to steep U.S. tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel announced last month by the Trump administration.

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Several weeks-old pigs stand in a pen inside a barn at Paustian Enterprises in Walcott, Iowa, on Nov. 19, 2014.

Fears have arisen that the two countries will spiral into a trade war that will crush global growth.

U.S. technology industry officials said they expected the Trump administration’s list to target products that benefit from Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” program, which aims to upgrade the country’s domestic manufacturing base with more advanced products.

The state-led program targets 10 strategic industries for replacing imports with Chinese-made products: advanced information technology, robotics, aircraft, shipbuilding and marine engineering, advanced rail equipment, new energy vehicles, electrical generation equipment, agricultural machinery, pharmaceuticals and advanced materials.

“Foreign technology acquisition through various means remains a prime focus under Made in China 2025 because China is still catching up in many of the areas prioritized for development,” USTR said in its report justifying the tariffs.

“I think they’ve set up a high bar for what they need to achieve, in order not to impose these types of tariffs and investment restrictions.”

— Wendy Cutler, a former deputy USTR in charge of Asia negotiations U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said that preserving America’s technological edge is “the future of the U.S. economy.”

Reports that the tariff list may also include consumer goods such as clothing and footwear drew strong protests from U.S. business groups, which argued that it would raise prices for U.S. consumers.

While there have been contacts between senior members of the Trump administration and

their Chinese counterparts since Trump announced his intention to impose tariffs, there has been little evidence of intensive negotiations to forestall them.

“The administration is following the Japan model from the 1980s,” said a tech industry executive. “They’ll publish a Federal Register notice of tariffs on certain products, then try to reach a negotiated settlement over the next 60 days.”

During his first stint at USTR in the Reagan administration, Lighthizer employed similar tactics to win voluntary Japanese export restraints on steel and autos.

Wendy Cutler, a former deputy USTR in charge of Asia negotiations, said that addressing the sweeping intellectual property allegations identified by USTR would require major changes to China’s industrial policy. A 60day settlement may not be realistic in that case.

“I think they’ve set up a high bar for what they need to achieve, in order not to impose these types of tariffs and investment restrictions,” Cutler said.

Baker Hughes, GE sign contract with Iraq to process natural gas at two fields

An attendee holds her new country’s flag and her naturalization papers as she is sworn in during a U.S. citizenship ceremony in Los Angeles in 2017.

Baghdad Baker Hughes and General Electric signed a contract with Iraq’s government on Monday to process natural gas extracted alongside crude oil at two fields in southern Iraq, the oil ministry said. The plan is part of Iraq’s efforts to stop flaring gas associated with oil by 2021. Iraq continues to flare some of this gas because it lacks the facilities to process it into fuel for local consumption or exports. Gas flaring costs nearly $2.5 billion in lost revenue for the government and would be sufficient to meet most of needs for gas‐based power generation, according to the World Bank.

Report: Saudi-led air strike kills 12 civilians, including seven children Hodeidah, Yemen An air strike by the Saudiled coalition fighting in Yemen killed 12 civilians, including seven children, in the coastal city of Hodeidah on Monday.

Medics and a witness who saw the wreckage said the air strike had destroyed a house in alHali district, where displaced civilians from other provinces were settled. The 12 victims were all from the same family, they said. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates intervened in a civil war in Yemen in 2015 against the Houthis to restore the internationally recognized government of President AbdRabbu Mansour Hadi.

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States, cities sue U.S. to block 2020 census citizenship question Reuters NEW YORK — A group of U.S. states and cities on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from asking people filling out 2020 census forms whether they are citizens.

The lawsuit, filed by 17 states, Washington, D.C., and six cities, challenged what it said was an “unconstitutional and arbitrary”

decision announced last month by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau, to add the citizenship question.

The census, authorized by the U.S. Constitution and conducted every 10 years, is used to determine the allocation to states of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in feder-

al funds to local communities.

Critics of the citizenship question say its inclusion might dissuade immigrants, and perhaps many citizens, from being counted, with a disproportionate impact on Democrat-leaning states.

The plaintiffs include many Democrat-controlled or leaning states, major cities including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco, and the U.S. Con-

ference of Mayors.

Supporters of the question, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, say it will help the country enforce the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The question was dropped from the long-form decennial questionnaires starting in 2010. The question had not been included in the short-form survey since 1950.

At a press conference, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called the question a “blatant effort” by the Trump administration, which he said has an “anti-immigrant animus,” to prevent the Census Bureau from “carrying out its clear constitutional mandate.”

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2018

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The Durham Bulls begin the defense of their 2018 Governors’ Cup title and Triple A Championship on Thursday when they host the Charlotte Knights.

the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT

SPORTS

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Report: ECU bringing back Dooley to coach Pirates basketball Greenville It appears East Carolina is bringing back former coach Joe Dooley as their new men’s basketball coach. Dooley, who has spent the past five seasons at Florida Gulf Coast, coached at ECU from 1995-99 — a four-year tenure in which he compiled a 57-52 record. His .523 winning percentage is still the best in school history among coaches in the Division I era.

His hiring ends an extended search that began last Nov. 29 when former coach Jeff Lebo resigned just six games into the 2017-18 season. According to Greenville radio station 94.3 The Game, Dooley and ECU have verbally agreed to contract terms, and he is likely to be formally introduced at a press conference Thursday.

Duke the early favorite in 2019 Las Vegas With another stellar recruiting class set to arrive in Durham, Duke is the early favorite to win the 2019 NCAA basketball championship, according to Las Vegas oddsmakers. Even before Villanova wrapped up its second national title in three years with a 79‑62 rout of Michigan on Monday, Las Vegas turned its attention to next year’s NCAA Tournament.

In odds released Monday by Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, the Blue Devils are on top at 5-1.

Next on the list are Villanova, Kansas and Kentucky, all at 8-1.

North Carolina is next at 12‑1, followed by Michigan State, Virginia and Gonzaga, all at 15-1.

NBA

Former Lakers GM Kupchak reportedly offered Hornets job

Bulls begin title defense with loaded roster Bullpen should be a strength for Triple-A national champs

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

winning three national titles.

State brought home five championships in all during the three-day meet while earning 16 All-America honors, on the way to a fourth-place finish behind perennial national powers Texas, Cal and Indiana.

“We’re probably the best team in the whole country at feeding off emotion and getting ourselves pumped up, ready to swim and go faster,” said senior Ryan Held, an Olympic gold medalist who helped the Wolfpack win two relay titles.

“If someone has a really good swim, that just ignites the team and then all of a sudden it kind of snowballs. This person has a good swim, the next person has a good swim and it just keeps going.”

In this particular case, the ta-

DURHAM — The Durham Bulls enter the season as the defending Triple-A National Champions. However, anyone who thinks that history is important in the International League, even recent history, need only look at the last month and a half.

Heading into spring training, the Bulls looked to have one of the best pitching rotations in team history. Last year’s ace, Brent Honeywell, was penciled in to start the season in Durham, before likely earning a call-up to Tampa at some point in the season. Jose De Leon, the organization’s No. 7 prospect, was also expected to start the year with the Bulls, after missing nearly all of last season with an injury.

Those two budding stars, plus an extra starter likely headed to Durham thanks to the parent Rays choosing to start the season with a fourman starting rotation instead of five, had the Bulls looking unhittable.

In quick succession, however, both De Leon and Honeywell suffered elbow injuries, requiring season-ending Tommy John surgeries. And, with Tampa likely depending heavily on the bullpen, due to the lack of a fifth starter, the Rays chose to keep several potential Bulls starters, including Austin Pruitt, Yonny Chirinos, who won 12 games for the Bulls last season, and Ryan Yarbrough, who led Durham in strikeouts.

The Bulls should still have a solid starting rotation — just not the legendary one that it appeared to be inheriting. Chih-Weh Hu, a versatile pitcher who bounced between the rotation and the bullpen last year, earning a prolonged stint in the majors, is the lone returner. He’ll be joined by free agent pickup Vidal Nuno, a veteran of 138 big league games, and Jose Mujica, who won 13 games at Double-A Montgomery last season. Anthony Banda, who saw Major League time with Arizona last year, is the fourth starter.

The team’s bullpen, however, could be every bit as good as it thought the rotation would be. Ryan Stanek, Adam Kolarek and Hunter Wood all provided relief for last year’s team before getting promoted to Tampa. Jamie Schultz and Jonny Venters also return, as does Diego Castillo, who should threaten triple digits on the stadium’s radar gun.

While much of the Bulls’ roster has turned over, several core players from last year’s champions will return to the lineup. Wily Adames,

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NC State swimmer Anton Ipsen celebrates his national championship in the 1,650 meter freestyle at the NCAA championships in Minneapolis.

Swim by swim, Wolfpack build a winning program NC State men finished in fourth place at the NCAAs for the third straight season, winning five event titles

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal RALEIGH — Swimming is an individual sport in which team scores are kept. But the way they approach it at NC State, meets are like a prolonged relay in which each swimmer builds momentum for the next as they enter the pool for their races.

It’s a mindset that served the Wolfpack men well on the final day of the recent NCAA Championships. The team started strong and kept getting better on the way to

Charlotte Mitch Kupchak is reportedly the Charlotte Hornets’ top choice to be their next general manager, and The New York Times’ Marc Stein says he has been offered the job.

Kupchak has been considered a frontrunner for the job since the team, owned by NBA legend Michael Jordan, dismissed Rich Cho in February. Kupchak, who won three titles as a player, worked in the Lakers from office for more than 30 years, including winning five titles as GM when he took over for Jerry West in 2000.

62 RBI for Bulls returning shortstop Wily Adames last season with Durham.

INSIDE Kevin Harvick has won three of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series’ first six races, and after a week off, the No. 4 team and the rest of stock car racing’s top division resume the season with a trip to Texas. Several drivers are off to fast starts, while others are trying to regain traction before shifting into desperation mode. Who’s been the best? Which rookie has impressed the most? Are the series’ most‑decorated active driver’s best days behind him? Find out all that and more in North State Journal’s look at the best and worst of the Cup season so far. B4 JEROME MIRON | USA TODAY SPORTS

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TRENDING

LeBron James: The NBA superstar’s company sent a letter to the University of Alabama over copyright concerns with a new show that Alabama’s official Twitter account released a preview of last week, according to ESPN. “Shop Talk,” featuring former Tide star wide receiver Julio Jones, too closely resembles a show James has already done on his platform, the letter contends. In the show, Jones, Alabama coach Nick Saban and other football players are seen having a discussion in a barber shop setting. James’ show, “The Shop” features James and others having open conversations while getting their hair cut in a barber shop.

Ryan Suter: The Minnesota Wild defenseman will undergo seasonending surgery to repair a fracture in his right ankle suffered in the team’s 4-1 loss to the Dallas Stars on Saturday night. The 33-year-old top-pair defender had played in 242 consecutive regular-season games before the injury. He had six goals and 45 assists this season, with his career-high-tying 51 points ranking fourth on the team. Suter’s 26:47 of ice time per game ranked second in the league.

Jacoby Ellsbury: The Yankees outfielder suffered a hip injury during his rehab from a right oblique injury and won’t be activated from the disabled list on Thursday when eligible, according to New York manager Aaron Boone.

Boone was unsure which hip Ellsbury injured. Ellsbury missed most of spring training due to the oblique injury.

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Daniel and Henrik Sedin announced their retirement from the NHL after 18 seasons in a letter to Vancouver Canucks fans on Monday. The Swedish twins, who have played together in Vancouver for their entire careers, said they were announcing their decision now so they could share their final three games with fans and family before hanging up their skates. The brothers were selected Nos. 2 and 3 in the 1999 NHL entry draft by Vancouver. Henrik has 240 goals and 828 assists in 1,327 career games, while Daniel has 391 goals and 647 assists in 1,303 games.

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“I mean, I just work at it and practice at it all the time.”

Notre Dame junior guard Arike Ogunbowale after she one-upped her gamewinner against UConn by hitting the deciding 3-pointer with 0.1 second left to lift the Irish to their second national title.

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“I promise you he will punish you if you pass on him.”

Bert Whigham, Saquon Barkley’s trainer, on why the Penn State running back should go No. 1 in the NFL Draft.

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9 World ranking for Greensboro’s John Isner, who is now the highestranked American in men’s tennis after he defeated fifth-ranked Alexander Zverev 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4 to win the Miami Open on Sunday.

The 6-foot-10 Isner jumped eight spots in the world rankings, matching when he reached a career-best No. 9 in April 2012.

The win in Miami gives Isner 13 career titles on tour.

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Ichiro Suzuki was in the starting lineup for the Seattle Mariners last Thursday, returning to the team he joined in 2001. The 44-year old, who played 11 seasons in Seattle before joining the Yankees and Marlins, started in left field on Opening Day. A 10-time Gold Glove winner, Ichiro stole a home run from Cleveland’s Jose Ramirez on Saturday.

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The Charlotte Hornets were eliminated from playoff contention last weekend, the third straight season the team has failed to reach the postseason. Focus now shifts to its GM search, where former Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak has reportedly been offered the position. From there, a decision on Kemba Walker’s future with the team will become a priority.

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Ian Poulter won the Houston Open in a playoff on Sunday, earning the final invitation to The Masters. Poulter was heading to Augusta to work on the tournament for British television, but the 42-year-old Englishman will now be competing instead when the first major championship of the year starts on Thursday.

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Blue Devils using small ball to climb to top of Coastal Old National League style baseball leads to top-10 ranking for Duke

By Shawn Krest North State Journal DURHAM — Duke headed to the ninth inning of its series opener with Notre Dame trailing 4-1 and facing Irish closer Cole Kmet, who is fifth in the ACC in saves.

Ken Taylor and Jimmy Herron led off the inning with singles, and after an out, Zack Kone drove in a run with another single. Another out and another single, this time by Jack Labosky, and the Blue Devils were down to their last out, with the tying and winning runs on base, and catcher Chris Proctor up at the plate.

Proctor chopped a grounder to shortstop that looked like it might end the game, but he was able to beat the throw for an infield hit and a game-tying RBI. A walk and a hit batter ended it in a dramatic four-run ninth inning rally that consisted of nothing more powerful than a single.

“We have a lot of different ways we can apply pressure,” coach Chris Pollard said. “Tonight, it was a chopped ground ball.”

The Blue Devils are putting together one of the most successful seasons in program history, and they’re doing it by using the old National League style — by pecking opponents to death. A single here, a stolen base there, with solid fielding and strong pitching to make sure they hang around in every game.

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Duke’s Jimmy Herron leads the ACC in runs scored. to throw haymakers instead of throwing jabs,” Proctor said. But make no mistake, the pit-a-pat style is where Duke is at its best.

The Blue Devils went on to sweep Notre Dame, putting Duke on top of the ACC Coastal Division with a 24-5 record, 9-3 in the ACC. Duke rose to No. 10 in the Baseball America rankings this week, its highest spot in the 37year history of the poll.

In the finale against the Irish, Duke was at its gnatty best. Twice, Notre Dame jumped on top. Both times, Duke immediately responded in their half of the inning.

The game went to the bottom of

“We have a lot of different ways we can apply pressure.”

— Chris Pollard, Duke coach the eighth inning, tied at four.

Duke then sent 21 batters to the plate, getting a total of six singles, six walks, three stolen bases, a hit batter and two extra base hits in a 51-minute half inning that saw Notre Dame use six different pitchers in an effort to stop the slow bleed.

“I think we sent eight or nine batters to the plate with two outs,” Pollard said. It was actually 10 straight Blue Devils who reached base with two outs.

Duke prides itself on hanging in, battling and coming back.

Pollard proudly pointed out that most of the singles in the four-run rally the first night came after the batters fell behind in the count.

“Every pitch matters,” he said.

“You’re down 4-1, but if all of a sudden, you kind of roll over and say, ‘We can’t figure (their starter) out. What’s the difference in 4-1 or 5-1?’ then you’re not in a position to do that. (Notre Dame) had

the opportunity to stretch that game out. That’s what puts us in a position to be able to do that.”

One of the reasons Duke was able to stay in position was a bullpen that is one of the league’s best.

Ethan DeCaster is among the league leaders with a 0.39 ERA. He has three wins and four saves — fifth most in the ACC but just second on the Blue Devils. Jack Labosky, a two-way player who also starts at third base, has five saves, good for third in the league.

In the game between Duke’s ninth-inning rally and Duke’s eighth-inning explosion, Labosky hit a go-ahead home run to dead center, then pitched a shutdown ninth to record the save.

“If there’s a more complete guy in college baseball, I’d like to see him,” Pollard said.

Bryce Jarvis is allowing opponents to hit just .125 against him, which ranks him among the league leaders. He’s one of a half-dozen Duke relievers with an opponents’ average against below .200. Labosky (.186), DeCaster (.169), Graeme Stinson (.159), Bill Chillari (.180) and Matt Mervis (.130) are the others.

Starter Adam Laskey, who at 5-1 is third in the league in wins, has an opponents’ average against of .199 as well.

At the plate, the Blue Devils rank among the league leaders in runs scored (Herron, first), doubles (Herron, third), triples (Kone, first, and Proctor, fifth) and stolen bases (Herron, seventh), shades of the 1980s St. Louis Cardinals.

And, like the Cardinals, Duke may just Punch-and-Judy its way to a title.

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NC State swimmer Andres Vazaios reacts as he sees the Wolfpack’s NCAA record time in the 400 meter freestyle relay flash on the scoreboard at the national championship meet in Minneapolis last week.

WOLFPACK from page B1 ble-setter turned out to be fellow senior Anton Ipsen. Swimming in the opening event of the day, the native of Denmark swam the team equivalent of the leadoff leg by blowing away the field in the grueling 1,650yard freestyle.

Ipsen, who also represented his country in Rio two summers ago, won the 66-lap marathon by more than five seconds in an effort that had both personal and team implications.

“It was my last collegiate swim ever, and I wanted to set the team up first,” he said. “I knew it could be a special evening and we had a lot of swims that could be contenders.”

State began the final session clinging to a six-point lead on Florida for fourth place, on the strength of national championships by the 200 freestyle relay team and sophomore Coleman Stewart — whose win in the 100 backstroke was the Wolfpack’s first individual title since Cullen Jones in the 50 freestyle in 2006.

Stewart also earned honorable mention All-America in the 200 backstroke by following Ipsen’s big opening swim with a fourth-place result in the “B” final. Held then broke the school and ACC record in the 100 freestyle with a time of 41.08.

Although Held didn’t win the

16 All-America honors earned by the NC State men’s swimming team race, finishing a close second to Florida’s Caeleb Dressel, his performance served as a springboard for Andreas Vazaios in the 200 butterfly.

The junior from Greece got off to a cautious start before surging from fifth place at the halfway point to an NCAA championship. His time of 1:38.60 broke both the school and conference records.

“Throughout the championships we knew we were in a good place to be in the top four, and we really deserved this place,” said Vazaios, who was named the ACC’s Male Swimmer of the Year last week. “We worked hard and knew that every point mattered.”

With that in mind, Held and 100 freestyle relay teammates Stewart, Justin Ress and Jacob Molacek took to the water primed to close the meet out with an exclamation point.

They gave a hint of both their potential and determination in the

preliminaries, with Mark McGlauthlin swimming one of the legs in Stewart’s place.

“Our coach (Braden Holloway) was like, ‘Just get in, make top eight,’” Held said, referring to the qualifying standard for the final.

“He put Justin last and told him if he had the open lane, to just take it easy. Then right before Justin got in, we were well ahead, he was like, ‘I’m going to go for it.’”

Did he ever.

With Ress going all out on the anchor leg, the Wolfpack quartet broke the U.S. Open, American and NCAA records with a time of 2:44.75. Those marks lasted until the final when, with Held getting the team off to a blazing start and Stewart providing the finishing kick, State posted the fastest time in history, 2:44.31.

“After Anton’s and Andres’ swim, it was almost our responsibility to win a national championship,” Held said. “We wanted to win one more.”

As successful as the State’s swimmers were in Minneapolis, their strong showing still wasn’t enough to crack the nation’s top three in the team competition. This marks the third straight year the Wolfpack placed fourth.

But that was hardly a disappointment.

“We cannot control what other universities do,” Ipsen said. “Even though our place was the same, our

performance speaks for itself. It was a really magical night for NC State.”

That night was only the latest memorable moment in a remarkable run of success for Wolfpack athletic teams.

Over the past month, the men’s basketball team made the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years, the women’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA’s Sweet 16 while the wrestling team won an individual national championship while placing fourth nationally, and the baseball team is off to its best start since 1999.

“I feel like each team wants to compete for their spot in the spotlight,” Ipsen said. “But also, it makes you happy to know the other athletes here are also performing. It’s a crazy good culture here now.”

It’s a winning culture Holloway, the ACC’s Coach of the Year, and his swimmers were instrumental in getting started. Their sustained success has made the program a destination for some of the nation’s best swimmers, along with those from six foreign countries.

“When I was a junior in high school, NC State was maybe fifth at the ACCs and 25th at NCAAs,” Held said. “Now we’re here, fourth place in the NCAA three years in a row, five national champions, multiple Olympians and American records.

Now kids are saying, ‘I want to go to NC State. I want to be part of that.’”

Tampa’s No. 2 prospect, will once again play shortstop. He hit .277 with 10 home runs and 62 RBI last year and will likely earn a call-up at some point this season. First baseman/outfielder Jake Bauers, who led the team with 13 homers and was second with 20 steals, also returns. He’s Tampa’s No. 6 prospect and could also earn a look from the big club.

Kean Wong, who hit the championship-winning grand slam in the Triple-A title game, earning game MVP honors, also returns to Durham.

Christian Arroyo, acquired in the trade that sent Evan Longoria to San Francisco last year, will likely start at third base.

He’s the No. 4 prospect in the system.

Two other top prospects will join returning Bull Johnny Field, who had 12 home runs last year, in the outfield. Justin Williams hit .301 at Double-A, with 14 homers and 72 RBI, earning a promotion to Durham for the playoff run. He’s Tampa’s No. 12 prospect. Joe McCarthy, Tampa’s fifth-round pick out of UVA in 2015, continues his fast rise through the minor leagues.

At Montgomery last year, McCarthy joined Williams on the Southern League postseason All-Star team. He’s the No. 22 prospect in the system.

Rounding out the lineup will be several veteran pickups, including utility man Brandon Snyder, who hit 23 home runs at Syracuse last year, catcher Adam Moore, a veteran of 96 MLB games, and outfielder Micah Johnson, who logged 18 games with the Atlanta Braves last year. Another veteran catcher, Curt Casali, took a roundabout route right back to where he’s spent most of the last five years. After hitting .263 with the Bulls last year and earning a call-up to Tampa, Casali signed with the Rangers in the offseason. When Texas cut him in spring training, he returned to Durham, where he’s played 183 games over the last four years, in addition to 161 games with Tampa.

In the dugout, manager Jared Sandberg returns after continuing Durham’s tradition of winning last year. He’ll have an allnew coaching staff, however.

Pitching coach Kyle Snyder and hitting coach Ozzie Timmons both earned promotions to Tampa. Replacing them will be former Tigers pitching coach Rick Knapp and longtime Montgomery hitting coach Dan Dement.

The Bulls should open the season as one of the most talented teams in the league, but as we learned from Durham’s superstar pitching staff that never was, things can change in a hurry.

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Outer Banks teenager wins Drive, Chip and Putt at Augusta National High school freshman Katherine Schuster sunk a 30-foot putt en route to the title

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High Point’s Ryan Blaney (12) ranks third in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series standings heading into Texas, chasing points leader Kyle Busch (18) after six races.

What we’ve learned through six Cup races There are familiar faces — Truex, Busch, Harvick — at the top of heap, but there’s plenty of intrigue early in the season

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal THE MONSTER Energy NASCAR Cup Series took a week off after starting the season with races in six consecutive weeks. The series returns Sunday in Texas with the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 (2 p.m., FS1) for the first of six more races in a row. Here’s a look at how the season has gone so far.

Best driver/team: Kevin Harvick, No. 4, Stewart-Haas Racing Harvick is seventh in the point standings, but he has already collected 11 Playoff points thanks to his three consecutive wins in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Phoenix in the second, third and fourth races of the season. Two finishes near the back of the field (31st at Daytona, 35th at Fontana) have made Harvick’s 2018 campaign an up-anddone one, but he’s already locked into the Playoffs and has shown he and his team can be unstoppable.

Honorable mentions: Kyle Busch, No. 5, Hendrick Motorsports; Martin Truex Jr., No. 78, Furniture Row Racing Busch has only one Playoff point thus far, but he’s collected four top-five finishes and — outside of a 25th-place finish at Daytona — has finished seventh or better in five of six races. That has him eight points in front of the defending champion, Truex. Truex, like Busch, has raced near the front every week since a mediocre finish at Daytona (18th) to open the season. Since then, he’s been in the top five every week and earned his first checkered flag of the year at Fontana after winning a series-best eight times in 2017.

3 Wins by Kevin Harvick through the season’s first six races Top rookie: Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr., No. 43, Richard Petty Motorsports The 24-year-old is the first black driver to earn a full-time ride since Wendell Scott in 1971, an accomplishment in and of itself. On the track, it’s been a tough start for Wallace despite a second-place finish at the season-opening Daytona 500. Charlotte’s William Byron has finished in the top 20 in four of six races and is ahead of Wallace in the points, but he still hasn’t had a breakthrough performance.

Biggest surprise: Clint Bowyer, No. 14, Stewart-Haas Racing Bowyer’s win at Martinsville snapped a personal 190-race span without a win, but the 38-yearold Kansan has done more than just get into Victory Lane once.

Bowyer already has three finishes in the top six (third at Atlanta, sixth at Phoenix) after totaling eight all of last season.

Biggest disappointment: Jamie McMurray, No. 1, Chip Ganassi Racing McMurray is off to arguably the worst start in his Cup career after reaching the Chase/Playoffs in each of the past three seasons.

He has yet to finish in the top 15 through six races and ranks 26th in the point standings. With no wins since 2013, McMurray will either need to snap his drought, collect some stage wins or find a way to climb the standings to get back in the postseason hunt.

Biggest question mark: Jimmie Johnson, No. 48, Hendrick Motorsports Johnson is still sitting on seven Cup titles, tied with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. for the most in series history. Johnson won his last title just two seasons ago in 2016, but he didn’t factor in last season’s Playoffs, and through six races this year has just one top 10 (ninth at Fontana) and is yet to lead a lap in 2018. Are Johnson’s best years behind him? He will be 43 by the end of the season, and only four drivers have been 43 or older and won the title: Dale Jarrett (1999) and Earnhardt (1994) were both 43; and Lee Petty (1959) and Bobby Allison (1983) were both 45.

Carolina contender: Ryan Blaney, No. 12, Team Penske The 24-year-old from High Point has quietly climbed to third in the point standings thanks to four top-10s and no finish worse than 16th (Phoenix). Blaney had a breakthrough last year in his second full Cup season, getting his first win, making the Playoffs and finishing ninth. Fords have won four of six races this season (three by Harvick, one by Bowyer), so the stars might be aligning for Blaney to haven an even bigger year than last season.

on the second putt from 15 feet was all she needed to secure the overall championship.

Schuster was one of two junior players from North Carolina to win titles at this year’s Drive, Chip and Putt compeBy Brett Friedlander tition. Ella Jane Hannant of North State Journal Pikeville in Wayne County, also came up big in the putting porSOMETIME late Sunday af- tion of the event to win the 7-9 ternoon, one of the best golf- girls championship.

“It’s very special and very ers in the world will be standing over a putt on the 18th green at humbling that I got to experiAugusta National with a presti- ence the same exact stage that the pros did in order to win,” gious title on the line.

It’s the kind of pressure few Schuster said. “There was a lot of pressure.” can truly understand.

Ranked fourth But Katherine among junior girls Schuster can. golfers in North CarThe 14-year-old olina, Schuster is no from Kill Devil Hills “Not many stranger to big mofaced just such a sit- people can ments and pressure uation last Sunday putts. during golf’s annual say they In addition to her Drive, Chip and Putt had success earlier Drive, Chip and event. And she han- at Augusta, Putt experience in Audled it like a champion. gusta, she also won the Schuster stared especially NCHSAA 1A/2A indown a 30-foot putt at my age.” dividual state chamthat would make the pionship last fall. As knees of even the most important as that vicseasoned pro knock — Katherine tory might have been, and rolled it in to seSchuster it paled in comparison cure her victory in the to earning a title on 14-15 girls division of one of golf’s most storied stages. the national youth competition.

“Not many people can say “I was really fidgety. I couldn’t stand still while I was waiting they had success at Augusta, for the other people to hit their especially at my age,” Schuster shots,” the freshman at First said. “State titles are amazing Flight High School said. “But and humbling, but it’s Augusta when my time came to play, I got National. To perform there and play there is just amazing. No into a zone and performed.

“It was pretty cool, because words can describe it really.”

Schuster hopes to someday when I made that putt, I couldn’t see the crowd. I just saw the ball. play and win championships on I couldn’t hear anything. After I the LPGA tour. Winning at Auholed the putt, I knew there was gusta gave her a small taste of a roar going on, but I couldn’t what that might be like. So did hear the roar. It was a really cool some of the company she got to keep. feeling.”

Among those with whom she Schuster put herself in position to win with second-place rubbed elbows are LPGA legfinishes in both the driving and ends Annika Sorenstam and chipping portions of the event. Nancy Lopez. She received her She said she was confident in Drive, Chip and Putt championher chances since she considers ship trophy from 2013 Masters putting the most consistent as- winner Adam Scott.

“That was really special,” said pect of her game.

She won the putting competi- Schuster, who stayed in Augustion in her first trip to the Drive, ta with her family for Monday’s Chip and Putt experience two practice round at the Masters. “I years ago. She was only third don’t think many people can say this time, but her successful lag that.”

Top moment so far: Austin Dillon wins at Daytona The Richard Childress Racing No. 3 returned to Victory Lane at Daytona, piloted by Childress’ grandson Austin Dillon. It seemed fitting that Dillon took the checkered flag at Daytona — it is the track that delivered Dale Sr.’s biggest moment and also took his life. Furthermore, it was the first Cup race since longtime fan favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired following the 2017 season. His win honored the legacy of both Dales, but also ushered in a new era of Cup racing without them.

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Katherine Schuster of Kill Devil Hills reacts after her 30-foot putt on the 18th hole at Augusta National goes into the cup Sunday. The First Flight High freshman won the girls 14-15 division of the Drive, Chip and Putt competition.

Everyone happy to see Tiger back at Masters, for now Woods hasn’t won a PGA Tour title since 2013, but he’s still among the favorites this week in Augusta

“I would love to see him play well, just hopefully I can play a little bit better.”

By Steve Keating Reuters AUGUSTA, Ga. — There were smiles everywhere and no shortage of well-wishes and encouragement around Augusta National on Monday almost all of it directed at a fit-again Tiger Woods.

There might not be quite so many happy faces around the place come Sunday if, as some are predicting, the 14-time major winner can cap a fairytale comeback by adding a fifth Green Jacket to his collection.

Back playing at the Masters for the first time in three years, a relaxed Woods hit the driving range and the putting green on Monday to the delight of a massive gallery.

Woods, dogged in recent years by injury and scandal, last triumphed at Augusta 13 years ago, and it appeared as if many of

— Rickie Fowler on Tiger Woods

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Tiger Woods has the golf world abuzz with his return to the Masters. Woods, seemingly recovered from years of ailments, has won the coveted Green Jacket four times. those teeing it up at the year’s first major had forgotten what a ruthless competitor he was back then.

In 1997, he rampaged to a 12-

shot victory to claim his first Masters title and then took virtual ownership of the Green Jacket with three wins from 2001 to

2005.

“It’s fun to see him back healthy enjoying playing the game of golf,” said Rickie Fowler. “Obviously he knows how to win. He’s not scared when he’s in the situation of in contention on the weekends.

“It’s great for the game to have him back. I think you can see the Tiger effect in plenty of the tournaments that he’s been at, from ticket sales to the amount of people viewing on TV. “We’ll see it this week. I would love to see him play well, just hopefully I can play a little bit better.”

Despite being without a PGA Tour title since 2013 and with his last major victory now a decade gone, Woods’ presence at Augus-

ta National is still one that should make his fellow competitors nervous.

He has posted 11 top-five finishes, including four wins, on a course that was once tweaked to “Tiger Proof” the layout. Staring down Woods on a final day was a golfing nightmare and, while his invincible aura may have faded, the thought of a Tiger back-nine charge on Sunday is as much an unpleasant one for his rivals as it is a potential thrill for fans.

“I think when it comes to Tiger ... everyone wants to see him win and play the way he did before,” said former world No. 1 Jason Day. “Everyone’s kind of champing at the bit for him to kind of get here and see how he’s moving and everything. Tiger’s Tiger, but I think the biggest thing for me is I can’t beat myself.

“I think on my good day I’ve got a good chance of beating him.

I honestly believe that. You got to have that self-belief. You can’t come into an event thinking that, ‘Well, Tiger’s going to win, I’m going to play for second place.”

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April 4-8 Pennzoil Auto Fair Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord Experience the thrill of muscle cars, exotic sports cars, hot rods and classic automobiles at Charlotte Motor Speedway where thousands of these vehicles will be on display. Attendees can visit automotive vendors and kids can enjoy the PlayZone. Visit Charlotte Motor Speedway online for event times and ticket information.

April 5-8 21st Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Downtown Durham The Polk House, the former house of Leonidas Polk, is on North Blount Street in downtown Raleigh.

Today, the house operates as a museum.

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farm and fork N.C. agriculture’s past, present and future

By Clay Abernathy For the North State Journal RALEIGH — The legacy of an early agricultural leader is sparking a new conversation about farming and food through a foundation in his name. The Polk House Foundation, named for leader, editor, and first N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Leonidas L. Polk, is partnering with N.C. celebrity chef Vivian Howard and Central Carolina Community College in Sanford to highlight the farm-to-table culinary arts program at the community college and engage N.C. people on topics related to agriculture and food supply.

The Polk House Foundation is continuing the crusade of Polk to build awareness for the agriculture industry and the plight of farmers with a celebratory event on April 19 at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh.

The event, which will be held at the art museum, will offer an educational experience for culinary students from CCCC and a broad, palate-pleasing taste of N.C. for guests, including Howard. Each food station hosted by the culinary students will include North Carolina sourced agricultural products.

The Polk House Foundation operates a museum on Blount Street in Raleigh in the former home of Leonidas Polk who is a distant relative of Pineville, NC born President James K. Polk. Leonidas Polk was born in 1837 in Anson County and had a lengthy and varied career. A graduate of Davidson College, Polk was elected to the N.C. House as a Whig Unionist in 1860 and eventually attained his later moniker of “Colonel Polk” in the state militia. After the war, Polk founded the town of Polkton where he started a weekly newspaper called The Ansonian.

In 1877, Polk was appointed the first North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture and served until 1880. An agricultural collection he established as Commissioner was the basis for what became the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Polk took his journalism and focus on agricultural issues to a new level when he founded “The

See an incredible exhibition of nonfiction cinema at the 21st Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The festival screens nearly 100 films in addition to hosting discussions and panels by filmmakers, professionals and community members. Visit Full Frame Fest online for a schedule of showtimes and locations.

April 6-8 135th USCT Living History Weekend Downtown Goldsboro Commemorate the Civil War soldiers enlisted in 1865 in Goldsboro, N.C., and known as the 135th U.S. Colored Troop. The living history weekend honors these brave men with stories taken from the National Archives and describing their experiences and families. Visit 135th USCT online for event times and locations.

50th Annual Spring Pottery & Glass Festival Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor Discover an artisans’ haven at the 50th Annual Spring Pottery & Glass Festival. The festival features various pottery and glass-blowing demonstrations, kiln openings and firings, live entertainment and raffles. The gallery opens at 10 a.m. and entrance is free.

April 6-7 Left, the first N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Leonidas L. Polk is pictured. Right, Polk founded “The Progressive Farmer,” a publication focused on agriculture, in 1886.

Progressive Farmer” in 1886. According documents from N.C. State University, Polk also became a leading advocate, along with members of the elite Watauga Club in Raleigh, for the creation of N.C. State University. He was one of the first inductees into the N.C. Agricultural Hall of Fame.

While Polk was a strong advocate for the interests of farmers, the Polk House Foundation is seizing on the importance of N.C.’s largest industry to modernize and expand the areas where agriculture is simply culture. Polk once said, “Our farmers buy everything to raise cotton, and raise cotton to buy everything, and, after going through this treadmill business for years, they lie down and die and leave their families penniless.”

But, his namesake foundation is pushing a more sustainable way of life for small farmers who can combine forces with luxe cuisine and the travel economy through the farm-to-table movement.

No chef in N.C. has done more to create awareness of the tie between high-end cuisine and N.C. agriculture than Kinston chef extraordinaire Vivian Howard.

Howard, of Deep Run, was born into a family of tobacco and hog

The Celebration of North Carolina’s Farming Bounty when April 19 where Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh cost $125 how to book polkhouse.org

farmers. After experiencing the culinary scene in New York — and learning both the technical skills and the marketing savvy that drives successful restaurants — Howard started her down east restaurant Chef & the Farmer and also took N.C. food to a new level with her Peabody and Emmy-winning TV show “A Chef’s Life.” Howard will be one of the co-hosts of the Polk House event on April 19. Joining Howard as cohosts of the event are N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, N.C. Farm Bureau President Larry Wooten and the Dean of the NCSU College of Agriculture Rich Linton.

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ty College is also tapping into the movement that puts chefs and consumers in closer contact to the growers of our food supply, much of which is grown here in the Old North State. CCCC hosts a nationally recognized culinary arts program lead by Chef Gregg Hamm.

The college promotes its culinary arts program as a pathway to jobs in a variety of food service settings including full service restaurants, hotels, resorts, clubs, catering operations, contract food service, and health facilities with a sustainable and farm to table focus.

The marriage of the Polk House Foundation, Vivian Howard, and Central Carolina Community College unites the past, present, and future of N.C. food and agriculture. Event organizer Joyce Kohn says attendees should not expect lard-laden fried chicken. Rather, Kohn said, “this culinary experience will focus on simple techniques and ingredient substitutions, which makes food healthier.” In speaking to the broader goal of hosting the event, Kohn said, “our goal for the celebration is to garner much needed funding for the Historic Polk House’s projects beyond minimal maintenance and upkeep costs.”

9th Annual Surry Old-Time Fiddlers Convention Surry Community College, Dobson Whether a contestant or spectator, the annual Surry Old-Time Fiddlers Convention is a don’t-want-to-miss event. The convention features square dancing, cake walks, folk song and band contests, adult and youth individual instrument contests and much more. Events take place in the Surry Community College gym, and a list of rules and regulations is available at Surry Old Time online.

40th Annual Newport Pig Cooking Contest Newport Town Park, Newport Enjoy America’s largest wholehog BBQ cooking contest at the 40th Annual Newport Pig Cooking Contest. This two-day event features not only the best BBQ you’ll ever taste, but also a dedication to the individual who helped start it all, Mayor Derryl Garner. Visit Newport Pig Cooking online for a full schedule of events.

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NeCessities! history marked April 4, 1983 Valvano’s 1983 championship stuff of memories for Wolfpack fans The NC State Wolfpack won the NCAA men’s basketball championship in Albuquerque, N.M. After a series of unlikely and often last-minute wins that began during the ACC Tournament weeks earlier, the “Cardiac Pack,” under the leadership of head coach Jim Valvano, culminated its run with a barn burner over the University of Houston Cougars.

The Cougars were nicknamed “Phi Slama Jama” for their expertise in dunking basketballs over the heads of opponents, so chances were slim that the underdog Wolfpack would pull off the upset. One sports reporter from The Washington Post wrote, “Trees will tap-dance, elephants will drive at Indy and Orson Welles will skip lunch before North Carolina State finds a way to beat Houston.” But find a way they did. Both State’s first and last shots were dunks, and that last shot came just as the buzzer sounded, clinching the victory for the Pack, 54-52. The images of Lorenzo Charles making the basket and Valvano running around the court looking for someone to hug have become iconic in sports culture, and both are fitting tributes to two extraordinary individuals who are no longer with us.

April 5, 1919 Pope Air Force Base gets its name On April 5, 1919, the Camp Bragg Flying Field was renamed in memory of 1st Lt. Harley Halbert Pope, the first officer assigned to the post. Pope had been killed when the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny he was flying crashed into the Cape Fear River earlier that year. In the early years, activity around Pope Field was so slow that pilots were asked to buzz the area to scare away grazing deer before landing. In the 1920s, the primary use of the facility was for observation and balloon and bombing training. A major expansion occurred in the 1930s with a runway extension, installation of lighting and construction of a new headquarters building and two hangars. During World War II, the field was used primarily for troop carrier training. Throughout these years Pope Field remained under the auspices of the Army. After the Army Air Force became a separate branch of the military in 1947, Pope became a base. Troops from Pope have been deployed in many major conflicts including the Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq wars as well as military actions taken in the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama and Somalia. In 2011, Pope Air Force Base was absorbed into Fort Bragg, once again becoming Pope Field.

dig in 3 NC chefs nominated for James Beard honors Katie Button

Ashley Christensen

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owood in St. Helena, CA. and Donald Link of Herbsaint in New Orleans. The Outstanding Chef category celebrates a working chef in America whose career has set national industry standards and who has served as an inspiration to other food professionals. Eligible candidates must have been working as a chef for the past five years.

Chef Katie Button is nominated in the Best Chef in the Southeast region which also includes Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. Button is nominated for her Asheville restaurant Nightbell. Button is nominated along with Mashama Bailey of The Grey in Savannah, Ga., Cassidee Dabney of The Barn at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn., Rodney Scott of Rodney Scott’s BBQ in Charleston, S.C. and Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman of Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in Memphis, Tenn.

Button is the only N.C. nominee in the best chef regional category. However, Viv-

RALEIGH — Three N.C. chefs are still in the running for the nation’s top culinary awards this year. The James Beard Foundation announced the nominees for its annual awards recently and familiar chefs from the Old North State are among the best of the best. Raleigh restaurateur Ashley Christensen is up for the top chef honor as she is nominated under the banner of her flagship restaurant Poole’s Diner.

All three regions in N.C. will be represented in the awards competition as mountain region chef Katie Button is nominated for Best Chef: Southeast and Kinston celebrity chef Vivian Howard will represent eastern N.C. in two food journalism categories.

In the Outstanding Chef category, Christensen will face Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune in New York City, David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, CA., Christopher Kostow of The Restaurant at Mead-

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ian Howard of Chef & The Farmer, Kinston, N.C., Meherwan Irani of Chai Pani, Asheville, N.C., Sam Jones of Sam Jones BBQ, Winterville, N.C., Joe Kindred of Kindred, Davidson, N.C., and Cheetie Kumar of Garland, Raleigh, N.C. were semifinalists for the award nomination.

In the foundation's Broadcast Media Awards, Howard is nominated for both Outstanding Personality or Host and Best Video Webcast in a fixed location. Howard’s nominations arise from her starring role on the PBS show “A Chef’s Life” and her video “Panna Cooking: Black Bean-Glazed Salmon with Ginger Cabbage.” Howard faces Pati Jinish from “Pati’s Mexican Table,” on American Public Television and Ina Garten from “Barefoot Contessa: Cook Like a Pro” on Food Network. In the video webcast category, Howard faces "Andrew in the Kitchen” by Andrew Zimmerman on Travel Channel and “The Breath of a Wok” by Grace Young on YouTube.

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Not in Augusta this week for the Masters?

Enjoy the color and flavor of the crown jewel of golf and prepare yourself for the N.C. Azalea Festival with the Azalea Cocktail.

1 part lime juice 1 part pineapple juice 2 parts gin or vodka* Dash of grenadine to color it pink

Freshly squeeze lime juice.

Fill shaker half way with ice.

Add lime juice, pineapple juice, vodka and grenadine.

Strain into highball glasses or mason jars filled with ice.

Serve each with a wheel lime slice. * For an added N.C. infusion, use Mother Earth Gin from Kinston or Covington Sweet Potato Vodka from Snow Hill to make this classic cocktail.

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UK’s Harry and Meghan pick fashion favorite for wedding flowers London Britain’s Prince Harry and his American fiancée, Meghan Markle, have chosen a London florist beloved of the fashion industry to arrange the flower decorations for their wedding in late spring, Kensington Palace said on Sunday. Philippa Craddock, whose client list includes designer Alexander McQueen and British Vogue magazine, will use seasonal blooms from around Windsor to decorate the ceremony venue, including white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves.

‘Roseanne’ renewed by ABC

By Daniel Holloway Variety LOS ANGELES — ABC has wasted no time securing a second season of its “new” hit comedy.

The broadcaster announced Friday that it has renewed “Roseanne” for what it’s calling the show’s 11th season. The move comes just three days after the multicam revival starring Roseanne Barr debuted to massive ratings that shocked the industry and observers and drove national news.

“We’re thrilled that America has welcomed the Conner family back into their homes,” ABC president Channing Dungey. “The show is as fresh and relevant today as it was when it left the air 21 years ago. We can’t wait to see what the ‘Roseanne’ team has in store for next year.”

Returning to TV this week 21 years after ending its initial nine-season run on ABC, “Roseanne” averaged a 5.1 rating and 18.2 million viewers over an hour with back-to-back episodes. Those numbers outdistanced the ratings for the original season series finale in 1997. They also were the best for any scripted broadcast program this season — with the exception of the episode of NBC’s “This Is Us” that immediately followed the Super Bowl. “Roseanne” well outperformed other freshman comedy debuts this season. NBC’s revival of “Will & Grace” drew a 3.0 and 10.2 million viewers for its premiere, while the launch of “Big

Box office: ‘Ready Player One’ powers to $53 million over holiday weekend

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Roseanne's clash with Darlene over how she's raising her kids reaches a breaking point while Dan tries to help Roseanne with her bad knee by getting her an elevator chair on the second episode of the revival of “Roseanne,” on April 3, on The ABC Television Network.

Bang Theory” prequel “Young Sheldon” drew a 3.8 and 17.2 million viewers.

Produced by Carsey-Werner Television, “Roseanne” reunites the original cast of the long-running sitcom about a working class Illinois family, including Barr, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf. Executive producers are Barr, Gilbert, Tom Werner, Bruce Helford, Whitney

Cummings and Tony Hernandez.

The success of the premiere prompted strong responses on both sides of the country’s political divide, fueled Barr’s personal politics and her decision to portray her matriarchal character as a supporter of President Donald Trump — in contrast to her character’s Hillary Clinton-supporting sister, played by Metcalf. Barr said this week that Trump called

to congratulate her on the ratings.

Speaking at a rally Thursday, Trump told supporters, “Look at her ratings! Look at her ratings!” He added, “They were unbelievable. Over 18 million people. And it was about us! They haven’t figured it out yet; the fake news hasn’t quite figured it out yet. They have not figured it out.

So that was great.”

Steven Bochco, innovative co-creator of ‘NYPD Blue,’ ‘Hill Street Blues,’ dead at 74

By Brian Lowry Reuters LOS ANGELES — Steven Bochco, a producer whose boundary-pushing series such as “Hill Street Blues” and “NYPD Blue” helped define the modern TV drama, has died, according to TMZ. He was 74.

Bochco had been battling a rare form of leukemia for several years. He had a transplant in late 2014 that was credited with prolonging his life. Details of his death were unclear Sunday.

Working with different collaborators, Bochco co-created some of TV’s most popular series for more than 20 years while creating the template for modern hours featuring large ensemble casts, serialized storylines and edgy content.

The recipient of numerous industry awards, including the Humanitas Prize and Peabody honors, Bochco was nominated for an Emmy 30 times in his capac-

ities as producer and writer, winning 10.

On “NYPD Blue,” he consciously set out to expand the parameters of what was acceptable on broadcast television, and he recalled sitting with then-ABC Entertainment chief Robert Iger — who went on to become CEO of the Walt Disney Co. — drawing naked figures, determining exactly how much of the body could be shown.

More recently Bochco co-created mystery crime-drama “Murder in the First,” which began its run on TNT in 2014.

Bochco launched such series as “Hill Street Blues” — a groundbreaking, Emmy-winning cop show — and “L.A. Law” for NBC before entering into a landmark 10-series deal with ABC in the late 1980s. The relationship produced some clear hits (“NYPD Blue,” “Doogie Howser, M.D.”) and notable failures, including the musical police drama “Cop Rock” and the serialized courtroom drama “Murder One,” which followed a

single murder trial over an entire season. As virtual proof the latter was ahead of its time, Bochco essentially revived it in 2014, under the title “Murder in the First,” for TNT. Asked how he could risk gambling on a musical like “Cop Rock” given the richness of his ABC pact, Bochco once joked, “With my deal, how could I not?”

Maintaining a high profile, Bochco wasn’t above engaging in public spats and power struggles, from complaining about his treatment by network executives to tussling with recalcitrant stars.

In one of the highest-profile tiffs, his rift with David Caruso during the first season of “NYPD Blue” led to the actor’s exit, a considerable gamble for a series in its first season. Bochco replaced him with former “L.A. Law” co-star Jimmy Smits, and the program went on to run 11 years.

Although Bochco often consciously pressed against boundaries and seemed to delight in

testing censors, he recalled that the breakthrough storytelling style of “Hill Street” was born more out of necessity than design.

“We had so many characters that we realized we couldn’t service 10 or 11 characters within the confines of a single episode, so the only way that we could really do justice to the size of the world was by creating storylines that spilled over the margins,” he told The New York Times.

The producer had a way of celebrating his failures. When “Cop Rock” came to an end after 11 episodes, what turned out to be the final episode incorporated a musical sequence where a fat lady literally sang, signaling its cancellation.

Bochco also appeared to relish nettling his critics, saying that the pressure campaign waged against “NYPD Blue” — which helped prompt dozens of stations not to air the show when it premiered — ultimately helped promote the series and turning it into a hit.

Los Angeles Steven Spielberg’s latest blockbuster topped the domestic box office over the four-day holiday weekend. Warner Bros.’

“Ready Player One” debuted in line with recent projections of $53 million from 4,324 locations. The film opened Thursday, getting a head start over its fellow weekend releases, “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” and “God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness.”

Schwarzenegger says ‘I’m back’ after recovery from heart surgery Los Angeles Actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent heart surgery to replace a valve that was originally replaced 20 years ago, waking up with the words “I’m back” in a twist on his catchphrase, a spokesman said on Friday. The original replacement pulmonic valve, which Schwarzenegger received in 1997, outlasted its life expectancy, so the former California governor chose to have valve replacement by catheter, spokesman Daniel Ketchell said in a statement on Twitter.

LVMH names Van Assche as new Berluti artistic director Paris LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury goods group, named Kris Van Assche as the new artistic director for its Berluti brand, following the departure of Haider Ackermann.

LVMH said Van Assche would be in charge of shoes, leather goods, ready-to-wear and accessories collections at Berluti, and would present his first collection during the Paris Men’s Fashion Week in January 2019.

TAKE NOTICE RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 46 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Charlotte R. Nolen to Julie Glenn, Trustee(s), dated the 12th day of March, 2009, and recorded in Book RE2121, Page 1063, and Modification in Book 2440, Page 878, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on April 10, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot No. 53 (consisting of 12.428 acres) of Quail Ridge Subdivision, Map 13 as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book 42, Page 10, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina, Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4011 Oak Tree Road, Asheboro, North Carolina.

Parcel # 7646882207 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord,

to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1232037 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: March 28, 2018 and April 4, 2018

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 60 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Christopher L. Smith and Chasity M. Smith to Arthur S. Long III, PA, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of August, 2013, and recorded in Book RE 2352, Page 1495, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on April 17, 2018 and will

sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: LYING and being in Randolph County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 6 on plat for ETHAN DOWNS as shown on plat recorded in Plat Book 117, Page 66 in the Randolph County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4664 Beau Court, Trinity, North Carolina.

BEING the same property conveyed to Christopher L. Smith and wife, Chasity M. Smith dated December 12, 2008 and recorded December 23, 2008 in Book 2109 page 832 Randolph County, North Carolina Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser

is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1203031 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: April 4, 2018 and April 11, 2018

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